1944

Normally I fret and worry about meeting the September deadline for these notes like a school kid does in the weeks preceding his dread-line. But this year John Eaton extended a reprieve by asking us to share a week with him sailing up the Sound to Martha's Vineyard in his new vessel.. . which we did ... and today, on arriving home I remembered to worry, which I'm now happily sharing with the typing.

Blueduck has a fast, comfortable boat; one he commands with a firm and masterful hand and has thoughtfully equipped with everything except those two little steel balls to rub together. Although bedeviled with fog which prevented reaching our destination, we had a marvelous time.

This summer brought about some interesting advancements for your tired old friends. Malcolm Smith, who joined General American Investors Co. in 1948 and plodded up to Secretary in '56, V.P. in '58, has now been appointed a director. John Downs, who started with the Boston Insurance Group in '46, has just been appointed regional director for all New England. And Monarch Life Insurance Co. recently promoted high-producing, 13-year veteran Ben Jones from Regional Manager (out of Shaker Heights) to one of the two newly created posts of Regional Sales Vice Presidents. The Procter and Gamble Co., whose Overseas Division has met with phenomenal success in the last four years, recently named Don Hinkley General Manager of their German operations.

And the good old Ford Motor Co., recognizing talent, brought New Englander DickRanger to the General Sales Office in Detroit. Dick and Carol bought a home in Birming-ham, Mich., only to find themselves about a mile away from Boog and Lydia McLoud.Sam Coombs is another neighbor. However, only instances like helping Carol sweat out the stork, find Dick at home; otherwise he's in his Seven League Boots getting the regional managers to get your dealer to sell you more parts.

Here's a self-made promotion that seems to make sense. I'll try not to make it a shaggy dog story, but Bob Colwell ran into a friend who lives in Patchogue and asked him if he knew Don Pfeiffle. Yes, he did, and, in fact, was going to attend a Don Pfeiffle Testimonial Dinner that night at the Patchogue Kiwanis and (to get that shaggy dog out of the way) reported that Don had decided to give up the woes of heading up industry for the joys of master-minding a ski resort in Maine, where he now is, up in Kingsfield. Bob, incidentally, received an honor himself when he was recently elected V.P. of the Westchester County Association of Insurance Agents, a fine recognition when you consider a membership in excess of 450.

Attorney Jim Donnelly was honored last spring when he was awarded a Berlin Plaque of the Holy Cross Institute for distinguished service in the promotion of sound labor-management relations. And Bob Kendall was recently appointed to the newly created post of engineering manager of United States Borax and Chemical Corp. He started with the company studying the feasibility of openpit mining for boron, then became assistant mine superintendent as success attended his recommendations, until his recent appointment.

John Connor has been named assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Arizona at Phoenix. Prior to joining the bank in 1956, he served as secretary-manager of the Pacific Coast AberdeenAngus Association and was field editor of Pacific Stockman. During the past four years, John has served as assistant manager of the bank's offices at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and at the Paradise Valley office in Scottsdale. In 1957-58 he was president of the Dartmouth Club of Phoenix.

In the world of education, Bill Harrison was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of civil engineering at Clarkson College of Technology. Bill took last year off to attend Purdue where he received an M.S. in civil engineering with a major in soil mechanics and a minor in geology. He was one of sixty college and university teachers in the nation who were awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowships. Businessman Bill Benoit (with Illinois Bell Telephone) has been named to head Chicago's North Shore Country Day School's $250,000 development program. Don Campbell was recently appointed director of Middlebury College's teacher training program. In addition', Don, who had formerly been a member of the faculty at Classical High School, is assistant professor of American literature. At Beloit College, Warner Mills has been named chairman of the government department.

01' Bird Partridge must have liked the name when he elected to move to Hanover, Mass. But I can't think of a reasonable explanation for Max Edwards to forsake Arizona for Washington, D. C. When we were speaking about education before I failed to mention that Don Dunbar, with the Dept. of Psychology at Simmons College in Boston, now has a Hanover, N. H., mailing address. And those New Canaan people complaining about commuting! Ye Gods! I suppose it's poor taste to question where a man elects to live (especially living in Milford, Ohio) but why would Dick Reed pick Sept lies, P. Q„ Canada? Straying a bit over to the '45s BullHinman pulled stakes in Greenwich for the move to Barrington, Ill., where he's got a full hour's commute to his International Paper Co-, office in Chicago and Bill Portman is coming back to Cincinnati in glory as president of two companies, both bearing his name.

It's exactly a year since I reported through Bill Gatlin's high sense of honor that he rooked somebody at the reunion auction. If the proper party hasn't contacted Bill yet, the odds are the money has been spent, but there's consolation in knowing that Dr. Gatlin is proficient on the speaking platform (he was principal speaker at Commencement of the Middlesex Hospital School of Nursing) and you might get him at reduced rates for your next sales meeting.

At your next party, stock up on a lot of beer and advertise it. A few weeks ago we gave one, a sit-down business, of 40 people or an ex-Cincinnatian, now in Switzerland. (Incidentally, he knows Fritz Hier.) Well, we thought it would be appropriate to have stems at the tables, so I called Lou Schott, V.P. of Bavarians Beer who came through splendidly, but in addition gave us an attractive, electric sign about Bavarians. I hung this over the area where the beer was iced and had the standard bar located apart from it. The bar was stocked adequately and proportionately for forty people on a hot August night. Lo and behold, before the evening was out we ordered more beer and wound up the next day with enough assorted booze to last 'til the Yule. That should please TackHaffenreffer!

With that thought, I'll retire, hoping to hear some news from you for the November issue.

Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.

Treasurer, River Road, Cos Cob, Conn.