1932

Our treasurer, Bill Lieson, has recently been appointed to the Municipal Hospital Board of Trustees by the mayor of Springfield, Mass. As you may recall, Bill is executive vice president of Valley Bank and Trust Co., and has long been prominent in Springfield's civic affairs. He is vice president of Springfield Symphony Orchestra, a director and past president of Child and Family Service, past president of the Chamber of Commerce, past president of Wesson Maternity Hospital, past president of the Dartmouth Club, a member of the Williams College School of Banking faculty, and a former instructor in the Springfield branch of Northeastern University.

A tribute to our new assistant secretary of the Navy for research and development, Jim Wakelin, is contained in a recent issue of the Institute Membership News of the Textile Research Institute, with which Jim was formerly associated. Written by one of Jim's former colleagues, the article speaks glowingly of his extremely broad scientific knowledge and interests and his great natural ability as an administrator. Of particular interest is the writer's reference to Jim's active service and continued association with the Navy Department, his participation in the planning and activation of the Office of Naval Research, and the recognition of his services on two occasions by citations from the Secretary of the Navy. In fact, the writer concludes, Jim's fine record with the Navy obviously had much to do with his selection as assistant secretary.

In Baltimore our golfing expert Don McPhail has been named district sales manager of a new office of the Standard Lime and Cement Co., a subsidiary of American Marietta and a major supplier of masonry cement, finishing lime and Portland cement in that area. Don has been highway and general contract representative for the company for the past few years.

In Chicago Tom Kiddoo, vice president of Uarco Incorporated, has been elected to the Margan Park Academy Board of Trustees. Tom is himself an alumnus of the Academy, from which he entered Dartmouth. He is also a director of the Beverly Bank and the Stewart Mowry Co. and a member of the Union League Club and the Flossmoor Country Club. He and wife June, with their three children, live in Flossmoor.

Speaking of Charlie Mayo (as we did last month), the Alumni Records Office has sent us an interesting news interview which appeared recently in the Boston Herald. Charlie is quoted as saying that after graduation he started to go into writing and teaching, but the boat seemed a more desirable kind of existence. Today he has over $25,000 invested in his new blue-hulled Chantey III. Equipped with twin diesels, his boat ranges as far as forty miles off Provincetown to chase the sometimes elusive tuna. At one time he tried running two boats, but in sport fishing every one wants to go with the owner, and since the second boat just about broke even, he dropped it. He says that he's never thought of his work as business — if he did, he'd get out. According to Charlie, it doesn't make you rich, but there's something in the independence of the life that gets you.

Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.

Treasurer, Valley Bank and Trust Co., 1351 Main St. Springfield 3, Mass.