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By way of lending confidence to your selection of class treasurer, you will be interested to know that Wall Streeter Bill McElnea was just elected to the board of directors of Atlas Sewing Centers, Inc. A partner in Van Alstyne Noel Company, Bill is also vice president and director of Dorian Investments Co., a director and member of the executive committee of Waterman Pen Co. Inc., and director of L. E. Waterman Pen Co., Ltd., Montrose Chemical Co., New Idria Mining and Chemical Co., and Kin-Ark Oil Co. In addition, Willie is a member of the Lawyers Club and the University Club in New York and the Rocky Point Club in Old Greenwich, Conn. So rest assured your funds are in capable hands.
Elsewhere in the investment world, Bob Myers was recently elected vice president of Raffensperger, Hughes & Co., Indianapolis investment banking firm. The. Commercial and Financial Chronicle ran a piece making this announcement and grabbed the wrong portrait out of the morgue to accompany the article. Either that or Bob has gone through the greatest transfiguration in the history of mankind.
Fritz and Joanie Hier's home in Cornish Flats, N.H., is perfectly situated on a mountain top, affording the reportedly finest panoramic view of the Granite State possible ... but, I understand it is a precarious undertaking for the transient week-end skier to attempt in a late model gasoline buggy. Fritz circumvents by insisting that all callers leave their fin-tailed vehicles in the lowlands, and calls for them in his four-wheel-drive jeep. So, before making any unannounced calls, hit the Ameche.
I see where Harry Davis has just moved up to Windmill Farms in Armonk. That's about as nice an area in Westchester County as you can find, and the place we had our hearts set on before moving out to Ohio. And speaking about nice places in which to live, it's hard to beat Chevy Chase, Md., where Jeremy Hodson now resides. Perhaps I'm just testy about our impossible weather here in Cincinnati and the rest of the country looks good, but I envy my namesake, Bob "F" Miller in Tucson and Max Edwards in Hobbs, N.M.... or even Dr. Sterling Suddarth now settling down in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Did you read the article "African Safari" in Sports Illustrated this week? If not, you should. Excellently done. Just a year ago I was in New York with Jack Grimm and Maicolm McLoud, and went with them to a rock tail party given by Jack's brother, Bob Grimm '42. Bob's gifted and attractive bride, Virginia, was winding up affairs at home before making the migration from mid-town Manhattan to the wilds of Kenya for their first safari. Virginia authored the piece referred to and, in reading it, I have no doubt that the adventure was ten times more thrilling and profitable than they with their imaginative Madison Avenue pals could conceive. Both Bob and Virginia are accomplished native sportsmen, but I don't think they really expected to bag the complete menagerie from elephants to rhinos to lions all the way down to game birds.
Bob Cummins, with Milgrim, Inc., has a new home in Detroit. Army Capt. Jim Elliot is down in Atlanta. Freddy Page is treasurer of The Page Steel & Flagg Co. in New Haven ... and that just about winds up this vast edition of timely news.
I must say it was a pleasure to pick up the Chicago Times this week and see headlined, "Dartmouth, Cincinnati win NCAA berths." With the great affection I've developed for the Big "O" I shall certainly be torn asunder emotionally if the Big D and the Big O clash in the finals at Louisville.
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