1942

Sputnik, Explorer, Atlas, Lunik! When I want to find out what is going on in outer-space, or how far it is to the moon or sun and how long it would take to reach there with today's know-how, I call in the same expert that everyone does - the young son who thinks nothing of jets at 2000 mph and rockets to the moon (incidentally, I don't think much of them either, although I must admit it's fantastically fascinating). I'm not intending at this point to tell you of the 42er just back from a winter vacation on Venus but from this point on I know you wouldn't be a bit surprised with any such report.

Slowing down to the speed of my typewriter, let's swing leisurely around the country to relate news of '42s doings, both solicited and otherwise. Kent Barclay was recently appointed as the Ford Division's marketing services manager of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich. Kent had joined Ford in 1949, after several years with Carrier Corp., as a financial analyst in the product planning department. In 1952 he moved into the sales department where he rose to manager of Ford Division's market representation department prior to his current appointment.

Just a short step to the West in Chicago, we note the election of Jim Ingersoll as president of Reflectal Corp., a subsidiary of Borg-Warner Corp. As you might suspect, Jim has been covering a lot of ground in the past several years as he learns the details of the very diversified Borg-Warner industrial enterprise. I believe he started with Ingersoll Steel, of which he became president, prior to operating Ingersoll Products, both divisions of Borg-Warner.

Leaving the mid-west for the West coast, we follow Dr. Mel Figley who, "after years of pleasurable and productive life in Ann Arbor, Mich.," has moved to Seattle. Here, as professor and executive officer of the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington, Mel has also enjoyed association with the new University Hospital nearing completion in which he has designed equipment and had the "good fortune" to stalf the Radiology Department. Margaret and their three sons are as delighted with the Northwest as is Mel. He's a gardener by choice and still able to poke a good drive down the fairway although he allows as how other interests have forced golf to take a back seat.

About the same time that Mel arrived in Seattle, Randy Gilpatric left to go to Anaheim, Calif., where Union Oil moved him into distribution from his former work in market research and sales forecasting. Despite the many problems which plagued them on their move, Marge and Randy with their three sons are rapidly assimilating themselves into southern California, where Union Oil has its home office in Los Angeles. And while we are here, Ernie Friez, the genial resident manager of the La Playa Hotel in Carmel has moved on to a new challenge. (Incidentally, last July Bill Dorrance from Wayne, Pa., and his son Rickey visited Esther and Ernie on his way home to his pediatrician practice from the A.M.A. convention in San Francisco.) Ernie's move takes him to the Mission Valley Country Club in San Diego where the Stardust Motor Hotel, a unit of the Handlery Hotels, is under construction. As manager, Ernie says they will have something for everyone - a 27-hole championship golf course, two swimming pools, stables, night club, etc. (anyone for tennis?) It will open in March so you had best make your reservations now.

Swinging back through the South, we stop to congratulate Bill (Colonel) Lain, who 22 years ago was office boy for the Galveston, Texas, Chamber of Commerce and last November became the second youngest man of at least the last half-century to become president of this organization. Jim has been a life long resident of Galveston and in 1945, following Army service, joined the investment firm of Rotan & Mosel & Co. where today he is the resident partner. Active participation in the Chamber is nothing new to Jim for he has always taken a keen interest in civic and welfare movements and has been a staunch supporter of Chamber policies although he has not previously held an elective office in the organization.

At this point we leave the typewriter and return to the East, via the moon rocket, where the slow mail accumulates.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the January issue, the obituary of Arthur Charles Hunt erroneously appeared under the 1942 heading when it should have been for the Class of 1925.

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