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The Fulbright Commission finally approved Bob Blood's application to spend sabbatical 1958-59 in research on the changing relationship between Japanese husbands and wives and so in August the family left Ann Arbor, Mich., on a round-about trip to Seattle, Wash., from where they sailed for Tokyo in September. Since arriving in Japan, Bob writes of orientation programs at the International House of Japan and moving into a Japanese-style house and sleeping on the floor. This is what I would call applied research with a capital J.
Returning to New York in March after four years in Colombia and Argentina as Director of United Nations Information Centres at Bogota and Buenos Aires was Luis Zalamea. In June he went to Europe to attend some seminars on teaching about the United Nations and returned in August to take charge of the Education Section of the United Nations Dept. of Public Information. This assignment, he presumes, will be a brief one and that he will either return to the Colombian Foreign Service or accept a new overseas assignment with the UN, possible in the Middle East or Southeast Asia.
On a new venture is Carroll Woods Jr. who was appointed Consul to British Guiana this September by President Eisenhower. This is Carroll's first assignment as a Consul following a number of years in government service which began after the war with a position in the Office of Price Administration. While in Washington, he studied Russian and was soon selected to serve with the Diplomatic Service, which took him on assignments to France and later to Russia as a Professional Economist.
By way of clarification on Dick King's top sales development position with Matson Navigation, he is Director of Sales and Advertising. As such, he will direct the promotion programs of Matson's passenger and freight ship services, Matson Hotels and Matson Terminals, with emphasis on long-range planning. And from out in Honolulu, which Matson serves, Merrill McLane writes about a lot of swimming, surfing and gardening as a background to his work with the Federal Government which brought him to the Islands a year ago last summer. He also is Chairman, Public Relations Committee of the First Unitarian Church.
Although at this writing, I do not know the outcome of the November elections, we have, as in the past, several able '42s running for office. In Michigan is Bob Waldron rounding out four years as a State Representative and running for re-election on the Republican ticket, representing Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods. Initiating his first campaign for elective office is Jim Erwin of York, Me., where he is a candidate for the State Senate, as he rounds out his second term as chairman of the York Republican Committee. Jim is particularly concerned with the problems of industrial development, education and highway improvement. We will bring you the results of these and other elections involving '42s when they are available.
Oil November 3, Murray Latz became Assistant to the Treasurer of Allied Stores Corp., a large department store chain. Before assuming his present position, Murray had been in the capacity of supervisor with the public accounting firm of Touche, Niven, Bailey and Smart which organization he had joined in 1952. Of equal importance to Murray was the addition last year of a second son, Ronald, to the Latz family.
Joe Nason, Assistant Counsel with State Mutual Life in Worcester is not quite as busy as before now that he has been superceded as President of the Worcester County Dartmouth Club. This, I assume, is only a change in title and that Joe is active as ever in the Club's work. Reminiscent of Army's lonesome end is John Tiernan's "don't see many 42's up here in the woods - Ed Butcher was the last one." John, you will recall, is President of a Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Presque Isle, Me., where business is good and his family of four boys range from high school to under one year. And speaking of good business, Al Priddy rounded out his first summer as owner of "Bass River's best Boat yard and MarinaShip Shops, Inc." He goes on to say that if not one of the Cape's best summers it had been its wettest and fishlessest (that's Al's word for it). Since there seemed to be no lack of 42's around the Cape, Al, perhaps you could send some sailing up to Presque Isle.
In one sentence or more: Ward Jenkins, formerly a Fellow in Medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Boston, is now associated, permanently he hopes, with Wallace Morton at the Toledo Clinic in Toledo, Ohio, in the field of Internal Medicine and Allergy — Art Stukey with Thompson Products has broken into print with an article "How to Hit Your Indirect Costs" in the current issue of Factory Management and Maintenance Magazine - Back from a two-week trip and "boondoggle" to Europe this summer with his wife, ByHinton, legal representative in Washington, D. C., for Sinclair Refining Co. finds he is up to his knees in litigation which I assume is not new for a lawyer in Washington — As a geologist for New Jersey Zinc Co., Fred Main has moved in from the field (formerly located in Morristown, Tenn.) to act as Assistant Manager for Exploration, Eastern Division with offices in New York City — Dr. HankWoodworth, until recently doing research at Yale University in Microbiology, is now at the Communicable Disease Center, U.S. Public Health Service Laboratory in Chamblee, Ga.
As this is the last month of the year, it reminds me of the tired father on that certain night of the year who said to the jolly stranger "I don't care what your name is, Fat Boy, just get your reindeer off my roof." A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR to each and every one of you and your families.
Frank W. Hartmann '43 of Huntington,N.Y., has joined Chemstrand Corp., makersof chemical textile fibers, as merchandisingspecialist. He was formerly with the AcrilanCarpet Division of Cabin Crafts, Inc.
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