1913

Stephen K. Perry and Alice have new grandchildren. Number Eight is Caroline Cone Perry on September 13 in Ann Arbor, Mich., Peter's first child; and Number Nine, Kristyn Kate Perry, on November 27, Nathaniel and Gail Perry's in White River Junction. Gus says the total is four boys and five girls.

Retirement came in late January for Robert W. Mungall, the first and only Planning Director Anaheim, Calif., has ever had. Bob has served in a dual capacity, as both Planning Director and Secretary to the Planning Commission, in recent years. In practice, he was actually the steward of the city's planning during the entire decade of the explosive fifties, when Anaheim rocketed from a small town of 14,000 to a city of 100,000. Appointed to the Planning Commission in November, 1946, Bob was then still president of the Essex Wire Corp., of California, handling much of the manufacturing and design of the plant. In 1948 he severed connections with Essex and accepted the job of Planning Engineer, the city's planning at that time still being done in the engineer's office. Shortly afterward he was made Director of Planning.

By 1953 the modest-sized Planning Department was feeling the impact of the population book, and has since been expanded to consist of an assistant planning director, planning technician, planning aide, engineering aide and two secretaries. Growth of the city called for a complete modernization of procedures on zoning, building restrictions, annexations, traffic flow, and scores of other technical matters, in order to provide for the city which experts said would soon be one of the largest in California. This responsibility fell on the shoulders of the Planning Commission and the Planning Department, both of which depended in large measure upon Bob's leadership.

By 1959 the planning staff had virtually completed the work on the General Plan, a guide to the future development of the city. The staff's other great accomplishment was the completion of the Zoning Ordinance, after several years of technical preparation and innumerable hearings before the Planning Commission and the City Council.

Robert W. Mungall was born in Fall River, Mass., and grew up in Manchester, N. H. In 1913 he went to work for Western Electric Co., in Chicago. In 1920 he returned to New England to work for General Electric as a wire and insulating engineer.

General Electric "loaned" him to International G.E. in 1931 for several years of engineering work in Russia. Returning to the United States in 1934, he rejoined the parent company in Lynn, and later in Schenectady, N. Y. He left General Electric in 1943 to take over the Anaheim plant of Essex Wire Corp.

Bob and his wife, Mildred, live at 405 N. Janss Street. They have one daughter, Mrs. Jack Goodell, also living in Anaheim.

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