1942

With the rate at which scientific knowledge is accumulating today, nothing should surprise one in the way of new theories so when I read that Chan Thomas, an engineer with General Electric, had presented historical, geographic and scientific evidence that the earth has taken a tumble from time to time changing the position of its north and south poles, I concluded that here was one reason I hadn't thought of to explain post-party navigational problems. Chan explained the theory at a joint meeting of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the latter in which he has a senior membership, at Maxwell AFB Officers Club last August. Also, in the scientific field, Dick Lawton, who had been an associate professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School, has been employed during the last year as manager of the Bio-astronautics Operation, Missile and Space Vehicle Department for General Electric in Philadelphia. Here he has been working on the problems of man and animals in space, a subject on which I am sure we will hear a great deal more.

As industrial relations manager of Sylvania's Electronic Systems Division of General Telephone, Ed Doty travels the Buffalo-Williamsport-San Francisco circuit with great regularity out of the Boston area. In late August he commented on a trip in from Los Angeles with Charlie Brown on a jet at 765 mph in which the plane was still an hour late. At that speed I would think it difficult to make up any lost time since there is so little time initially involved from coast to coast. Earlier in the summer, Ed had visited with Ted Dunn, who was in Boston from his job in New Mexico at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories where he has been working as assistant personnel director.

Joe Nagler, who had been an associate of Mitchell, Hunt and Joiner, consulting engineers, has recently opened his own firm of Kirk and Nagler in Dallas, Texas. The organization will specialize in structural and civil design services. On the home front, Mary is busy bringing up young John, their first child, born last year. While mentioning births, another of the remaining few to be convinced that marriage is here to stay, has finally succumbed. John Stewart was married in June to Marion Clark of Upland, Calif., and I assume they will set up residence in or near San Francisco where John has been working for the California Research and Development Co.

Rod Bolin, who went with Automatic Spring Coil Co. in Chicago shortly after the war, celebrated his first anniversary last August as president of the company. At the same time, his twin boys, Rod and Scott, were getting ready to head for college with Scott going east to Colby College and Rod going west to Stanford University. The two daughters, Carol and Susan, are seniors and juniors respectively at Ferry Hall.

A brief note from Ralph Falk, vice-president of Baxter Laboratories in Morton Grove, Ill., says he has "traded apartment living for a house and instead of sleeping to the soft murmur of Northwestern trains, I now lie awake listening to the earthshaking roar of growing grass in Libertyville, Ill."

Bill Bullock, formerly with the industrial relations department of Merck & Co., is now associated with Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. in New York City as supervisor of wage and salary administration. With his home in Princeton, N. J., he has taken on as a fall "hobby" the job of statistician with the Princeton football team. This might be called sticking your head in the Tiger's mouth but we can use the information this month, Bill.

For those of you who are interested in the unique, Art Carpenter has had a round house designed as his home in Bolinas, Calif., to which he had moved his wood working business last year. He has been planning the interior of this home for some time and it would be reasonable to assume that he will devise some interesting effects with the rare woods he imports from about every sector of the globe. Imagine the striking interiors, each well lighted inasmuch as every room's major dimension will be on the circle's circumference. How about a picture when completed, Art?

In Danbury, Conn., the management of Barden Corp. announced in September the appointment of Doug Stowell to the newly created position of personnel manager. Until recently, Doug was a divisional personnel manager of the Surgical Products division of American Cyanamid. In Holyoke, Mass., the Stop and Shop Supermarket now has Dick O'Brien as resident supervisor following his experience in a similar capacity in Thompsonville, Conn., and more recently his supervisory work in opening new stores for the chain.

Turning to my files for what might be called "what ever happened to Joe" material, we find a few names for now such as: Lou Hopkins of Billerica, Mass., who recently received the designation of chartered life underwriter. He is associated with the Bay Colony general office of the New York Life Ins. Co. in Boston. Fred Wells is a chemical engineer with the Columbia-Southern Chemical Co. in Barberton, Ohio - Hal Comfort is an engineer with the Cayuga Rock Salt Co. in Myers, N. Y. - John Craig is president of the John J. Craig Co. and Candora Marble Co. in Knoxville, Tenn., and so it goes.

Luis J. Zalamea '42 (r), of the United Nations Office of Public Information, delivering opening remarks to delegates of the eleventh regional conference of the Latin American Non-Governmental Organizations on United Nations Public Information, held in Bogota, Colombia early last June.

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