1946

Dayton Visitors - While calmly watching the old TV one night last week, our phone jangled and I was delighted to find on the other end Russ Chase '45 and my old Beta buddy Jud Hannigan. They are both with International Paper and were in Dayton doing some work at our McCall Corp. (publishers of Newsweek, McCall's, etc.). Russ is in sales with headquarters in New York City and Jud is Assistant Plant Manager of the Hudson River Mill at Corinth, N. Y. Both seemed to be prospering and it was good to hear from them both.... Mack Grove "hit town" the other day and coincidentally we ran into one another at a local restaurant here. The next day Dick Scharrer and I had lunch with Mack and he brought us up-to-date on his activities. After freshman year, he left Hanover and went into the Service, spending a good amount of that time in the Navy in California. About the same time his folks moved to that "sunny state" and upon discharge Mack stayed out there and enrolled at San Diego State College, graduating in 1949 with a Business Administration degree. After spending a year in the life insurance business with the Lincoln National, he went with Convair Aviation in 1951 in procurement and is still with the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. He lives in La Mesa, Calif., and is married to the former Beverly Carter of San Diego and they have two girls, ages 8 and 5. Mack brought us up-to-date on a couple of his old buddies - Bob Bogart, his high school buddy from Toledo, is back in that city in sales work and is married to the former Sally Straw, sister of Pete Straw '49 - Gene Lucey is in the wholesale hardware business on Long Island and the firm he partially owns, does a lot of business with the Air Force. Mack was here in Dayton on business for his company at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and it was good to see him.

Up the Ladder - Our beloved Reg Pierce, Class Chairman and predecessor of yours truly as Secretary of the Class and conductor of this column, has been made a Vice President (Veep, that is!) of his firm - Kenyon and Eckhardt, large New York advertising agency - Congrats, Reg! .z . . Frank Gaylord has been named Home Office training supervisor for Equitable Life of lowa in Des Moines. Frank started in the insurance business in the Spokane, Wash., agency of Equitable Life in 1947 and in 1950 was recalled to active Naval duty. He returned in 1952 and was appointed regional agent of that agency in 1953. In 1955 he was named Home Office Field Assistant assigned to the West Coast with headquarters in Oakland, Calif., and was there until his most recent appointment. ... Herm "Obie" Obermayer, one of our eminent journalists, has been elected to the board of governors of the Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N. J. In addition to running his own newspaper, Obie has been very active in the civic affairs of his community as he is a director of the Monmouth County Council of the Boy Scouts and the Long Branch Chamber of Commerce and is president of the Long Branch Growth Committee, Inc. - keep up the good work, Obie. . . . The Rev. George Razee, curate of Christ Episcopal Church in Stratford, Conn., has been appointed the new rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Waterbury as of December 1, 1958. We have written about George in recent issues and we're glad to see this further appointment. George and the former Nancy Foote Griggs of Waterbury have one child, Caroline, born last June - Nancy is a former grade school teacher having graduated from Wheelock College in Boston and taught in the Evanston, Ill., school system before marriage.... Hugh Bennett has been named District Manager for the Ayerst Co. in Atlanta. Hugh started with the company as a salesman in 1950 in the Los Angeles area and in 1956 was named a Clinical Research Associate and transferred to Philadelphia before his recent appointment. Hugh is married to the former Barbara Alice Bennett and they have three girls and one boy to move to the southern city of Atlanta.... Ashley W. "Bill" Burner is a Vice President of a new public relations agency called Creative PR, Inc. This firm has been organized as a subsidiary of Anderson & Cairns Advertising Agency; Bill has been with that firm for five years as director of public relations. The firm will handle public relations programs of companies having their advertising placed with other agencies and Bill is a member of the board of directors of the new company. Prior to going with Anderson and Cairns, Bill was an editor at Fairchild Publications, Inc. for five years, coming to them from newspaper reporting posts on the Passaic, N. J., Herald-News and the Plainfield, N. J., Courier-News. I remember seeing Bill when he was in Plainfield and I was with the National Newark & Essex Bank in Newark. Nice work and keep up the good work, Bill!

In the News - It's wedding bells for Graham Brush as he placed the wedding ring on Miss Katherine Van Renesselaer Ulman of Lloyd Neck, L. I. - they were married in New York on December 27. Katherine is a graduate of St. Timothy's School and Vassar College - Congrats to them both!... Andy Bullis, director of municipal affairs of the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs recently addressed the Berks County Boroughs Association at its bi-monthly meeting. Andy has been with the State Government of Pennsylvania since 1957 having served in similar work for the Connecticut State Government. He started in this field as a budget examiner in 1949 under Chester Bowles, then governor of Connecticut. After college, Andy was a teaching fellow at Wesleyan University and during '49 and '50 did some graduate work at Syracuse University and taught political science at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.... Stan Waterman continues his skin diving activities and has been making a number of personal appearances on the lecture circuit. He recently spoke in Portland, Ore., and showed colored movies of some of his underwater work in the Bahamas. Stan is achieving quite a reputation for his work in underwater photography and skin diving. ... Len Ackerman is a motion picture producer with Allied Artists in Hollywood.... Bill Beaven is practicing medicine and is associated with Doctors Hospital in Washington, D. C.... Johnny Condit is a sales representative for Ditto in Chicago and living in Evanston.... Jerry D'Amore is a civilian with the Department of the Army and is stationed at Perlacher Forst, near Munich, Germany.

... Dick Esperon is with Kodak Portugesa, Ltd. in Lisbon, Portugal.... Jim Kelley is with the America Fore Ins. Group in Chicago .... Dick Leary is an administrator for the National Health Association in New York City and living out on Long Island in Hicksville ....Bob Pensmith is also in the Big City as an accountant for Standard Oil and living in Wyckoff, N. J.... Ignatius "Iggy" Tikelis is an M.D., practicing in Wilmington, Del....

Dr. Thorndike Toops is "psychiatrist in charge of female service" (wow!) at Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. ... Mike Ward is a sales representative for the Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. in Hoopeston, Ill., and El Van Etten is a Plant Accountant for Corning Glass in Harrodsburg, Ky. (that's the home of the famous Beaumont 1nn).... That's it gang — see you next month!

Art Young '46 holding his first godchild, Betsy Ann Bogardus, daughter of Shirley and Peter Bogardus '51 of San Francisco.

Secretary, N.E. Mut'l Life Ins. Co. 505 Third National Bldg. Dayton 2, Ohio

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