1946

Dear Gang - By the time that you read this the summer will be over and the Big Green will be on the gridiron again. We hope you all had good summer months but fall does sort of take us "back to business" and the mail bag is full, so here goes.

Hats off to Mai Johnson who has been appointed editor-in-chief, engineering and science, of the McGrawHill Book Company of New York City. Mai has been a member of the McGraw-Hill college division since 1949 when he joined the firm as a traveler (salesman). In recent years he has created and established several new series of books dealing with missiles and space technology, structural engineering and mechanics, hydro-science and engineering, and transportation engineering and management. Mai was made editor of engineering and science in 1956 and a senior editor in 1960.

In the news - the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago recently announced the appointment of Bill Howell as assistant cashier. Bill started with Harris in 1949 and worked in the investment, business development and credit departments before joining a loan division last year. After college Bill also attended Northwestern University and took courses at the American Institute of Banking. Bill, his wife and two daughters are living at 1083 Ash Street in Winnetka. . . . Dr. Ken Hamilton has been named an associate in the Department of Urology by the Hunterdon Medical Center in greater Philadelphia. Ken obtained his M.D. at Albany Medical College and served his internship at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and he was also an assistant resident in medicine at Lenox Hill until 1956. . . . Up in Westport, Conn., Colin Gunn has been named general chairman of the 1961 Westport-Weston United Youth Fund drive. Member organizations of the UYF in that area include the YMCA, the Boy and Girl Scouts and the Westport Little League.... A year or so back we told you that CharlieDuncan might very possibly be appointed assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and we're happy to tell you that it did happen. Charlie will be in charge of the appellate section of the U. S. Attorney's office in Washington. You can address our former class treasurer at 1812 Upshur Street, NW, Washington. Congratulations officially now, Charlie. .. . FredSzopa and his family recently visited his home town of Manchester, N. H., on a vacation. This was quite a visit as Fred and family are now living in Houston, Tex., where Fred is an auditor for the Shell Oil Company's Chemical Plant there. Fred finished up after Dartmouth at the University of Utah and has been with Shell ever since. . . . Dr. Earle Staples is a dentist in Keene, N. H., and recently was elected president of the Keene Lions Club. Earle attended both Dartmouth and Harvard and received his dental degree at Tufts Dental School in 1950. He is married to the former Norma Lorandeau of Keene and they have two children Earle, III and Cynthia.

Another bank promotion press release tells us that Ed Lane-Reticker was appointed assistant secretary of the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company in Hartford. He has been with the bank since May 1960 when he joined the trust department as a member of the legal staff. Ed is a graduate of Harvard Law and before joining the bank was director of research with the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council and from 1952 to 1956 was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina. He's commanding officer of the Hartford Naval Reserve Division - we hope he won't have that uniform on again. ... Lots of press stories in greater Boston newspapers recently about Stan Feldberg's Zayre Corp., which we have told you about in previous issues. The most recent big Zayre department store, the eleventh to be opened in Massachusetts, was opened in Saugus in the new Saugus Shopping Center recently. Stan and his company were featured in a recent article in the Modern Retailer. Obviously Stan and his firm are doing a terrific job in shopping center department stores.

Our own Rev. George Magoon is now the chaplain of St. Mary's-in-the-Mountains (Episcopal School For Girls) near Littleton, N. H. George has been an Episcopal rector for some time and served as vicar of St. Luke's church in Woodsville and the Church of the Epiphany in Lisbon since July 1957. In his new duties George, among other things, will be chaplain of the students and an instructor of Sacred Studies and Ancient and European History. ... Up in Bridgeport Dune Gibson has been engaged to teach social studies at Long Lots Junior High School. Dune taught at Penn State and in the New York state schools and from 1954 to 1961 he was promotion manager for the New England district of ALCOA - evidently he just couldn't get teaching out of his blood. Dune lives at 10 Merrill Road, Norwalk, Conn. . . . John Barker is moving up the ladder fast —he was recently named assistant director of sales for Wallace Silversmiths. John has been with Wallace sales since 1948 in various assignments - the most recent being in the Rocky Mountain states. Lancaster, Penna., is the location of Wallace Silversmiths' sales offices and John and his wife and two children will reside in the Pennsylvania town. . . .

Stan Waterman continues to present and narrate his latest underwater film entitled "3,000 Years Under the Sea." The movie shows the discovery and salvage of an an- cient cargo ship which met disaster off the Asia Minor coast and sank 3,000 years ago in more than 100 feet of water. Stan and his wife now make their home in Princeton, N. J. . . . From September 10 to December 8 the Harvard Business School will hold its 40th session of the Advanced Management Program. In that school will be our own Ted Walter, who is an assistant vice-president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The school is by invitation only and there are only 150 students in each session. You can address Ted at 2652 Acorn Avenue, NW, Atlanta.

We've told you about John Wolfe and his achievements in the field of sales consulting. Now John comes out with a new book called "Sell Like An Ace - Live Like a King." John flies his Piper Comanche 250 all over the country logging about 5,000 miles a year and averaging about a flight a week to address various sales meetings and conventions. John has addressed many top U. S. companies in his travels and built his achievements around his flair for showmanship. If you'll remember, John used to do magic shows in college and obviously this gave him some background for his present day activities. John and his wife and daughter Jann have lived in Port Washington, N. Y., for some time and John's offices are on Lexington Ave., N.Y.C.... Chuck Yancey has been appointed to the staff of the United States Department of Agriculture, Commodity Stabilization Service out in Kansas City. The Kansas City office handles the price support program for farmers in the five-state area of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming.

In Gettysburg, Penna., back in July our own Kimball Jones put the wedding ring on Ileana V. Zagars of Gettysburg. Kimball will take his bride back to greater Boston and they will live in Dedham. Ileana is a research assistant in nuclear physics at Tufts and Kim is on the faculty of Noble and Greenough school. ... A nice letter from Dan Smith who is on the staff of nearby Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., doing developmental research in programmed selfinstruction through new educational media, including teaching machines. Dan, his wife and two children have just moved into a new home in Richmond.

Late Flash! As we were going to press A. B. ("Abie") Hinman gave us a phone call - he was traveling through here representing Rome Strip Steel of Rome, N. Y. Abie is married and has three children back home - sorry we didn't get to see you, Abie.

That's it - '46 up!

"Gus"

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

Treasurer, 25 Mountain Ave., Maplewood, N. J.