1946

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

Class Agent, 2 Old Chimney Rd., Upper Saddle River, N.J.

Dear Gang - Lots of '46s in the news this month, so let's go. First of all, up in Hartford Jackie Sayers has been named manager of an enlarged mutual fund department of Coburn and Middlebrook, Inc. Jack had previously been associated with the National Securities and Research Corporation, one of the country's largest mutual fund management and distribution organizations. Jackie and Anona live in Hamden with their one child. Congrats, Jack.... Ralph Hersey one of our '46 bankers has recently been conducting a lecture course on trust department organization at the Boston Chapter of the American Insitute of Banking. Ralph, who is a trust officer for the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, has been in the banking business for a number of years and after Dartmouth, attended the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers.

Our own Charley Duncan is being boomed by Washington politicos as Principal Assistant United States Attorney (which means second in command of the prosecutor's office). The job is highly sought after and the appointment is subject to approval by the Justice Department and the White House, in addition to the Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy. If Charley is appointed, this will be the highest office in that department ever to be held by one of his race. Our former skier and Class Treasurer has done an outstanding job in law in Washington where he is partner of Democratic National Committeeman Frank D. Reeves. After graduation from Harvard Law School, Charley practiced law in New York with Franklin Roosevelt's old firm. He and his wife and their twelve-year-old son live in Washington, and Charley has taught at Howard University Law School in Washington since 1954.

Over in Somerville, N.J., Art Sharr directed the Somerville High School Drama club in their presentation of "A Young Man's Fancy." Art is school librarian and has his M.A. in Education and Dramatic Arts from N.Y.U. Art has been in Somerville for the last two years.... Another of our '46 Bankers, Knox Phagan, has been elected assistant vice president of the Sernritv Trust Company in Rochester. Knox is in charge of the bank's business development and sales training programs. He has been with other banking firms for some years.... On the political scene Will Wyeth is seeking a spot on the Shrewsbury (Mass.) School Board, and was up for election in March. Will is with the Massachusetts Projective Association and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester, and he and his wife live in Shrewsbury with their four children.... Another would-be politician is Fred Robbins who is a candidate for Town Selectman in Concord. Fred is an attorney and a member of the Board of Appeals and has practiced law in that city since 1954. Fred is married and has two children Nearby in Harwich Port, Mass., Steve Weekes has announced his candidacy for re-election as Selectman and Assessor. Steve has been active in politics in his community for some years. Good luck to all of them!!

Over in "Poor Little Rhode Island," Leon McKenzie been named an assistant secretary of the Providence Washington Insurance Company. "Mac," who has been with the firm since 1947, has served as assistant manager of the Inland Marine Department and since 1959 has been production manager for the Southeastern States.... Ed Lane Reticker was a speaker recently to the Kent (Conn.) League of Women Voters. His subject was "State Finance to Education." Ed practices law in West Hartford The Cleveland Press and News recently carried a personality column on Milt Fromson. Milt started as an Agent for the Travelers in Cleveland in 1950 and has now expanded into his own agency where he is representing Travelers and other companies on all lines. Milt was the first Travelers Agent in the Cleveland area to sell a "million dollars of life insurance" in one year, and that particular year he totaled more than a quarter of a million in premiums in fire and casualty insurance. He ranks among the upper five percent of Cleveland insurance men in total volume. Milt evidently is doing a big job and we'd like to compare notes with him some time.

Sandy Treat is back stateside as New York District Sales Manager for Aluminium Limited Sales, Inc. Sandy has been down in Caracas, Venezuela the last three years as head of Alcan de Venezuela (the Aluminium Limited subsidiary down there). Sandy and his family will live in Riverside, N. Y....My old buddy here in Dayton, Nort Virgien, has left the radio business in Hartford to enter the real estate field - Nort and Blanche looked well when I saw them last fall at the Harvard game and we wish him luck on this new venture.... Arch Gernert has joined the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company as supervising underwriter for workmen's compensation and public liability lines for New York. Arch is a CPCU (Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter) and has been with a number of companies his most recent being as assistant vice president for a large and well known brokerage firm. Arch continues his association with the Naval Reserve where he is a Lt. Commander, and lives in Noroton Heights, Conn....Jim Kelley, also in the insurance field, has been appointed to head the Inland Marine Department of the Loyalty Group down in Newark with the title of Assistant Secretary. Jim has been in the insurance business since 1948 and joined the America Fore Companies in 1952....We understand that Stan Waterman's film, "Water World," which he is traveling around the country showing, is a big hit and has been well accepted in most of the large cities in the East.... Bobby Clifton is practicing dentistry in Andover, Mass., and recently built a new house to fit the needs of his four daughters. He writes that he is also busy taking care of a large golden retriever and a great deal of yard work.... I talked to Jean and Jack Whitman in Boston awhile back and "the Growler" is pushing that mutual fund (Dreyfuss Fund) real well.

'Round the Girdled Earth - Dick Agnos is clear out in Moses Lake, Wash.... Dick Flicker is president of Custom Chemicals in East Rutherford, N. J., and Paul Whitescarver is living in Orange in the "Garden State." Evidently "Gentleman Jim" Kennedy got a promotion because he has moved to Dogwood Drive up on Lookout Mountain and believe me, that is "the suburb" of Chattanooga - seriously, Jim is secretary-treasurer of Cherokee Warehouses in the southern city.... In the State Department, Bill Whipple is a member of the American Consulate in Elizabethville in the Congo and Bill Carlson's Dad told me recently that his Bill is still in Mexico City at our Embassy there but hopes to be returning to the States before long.... While in Boston recently, among other things I picked up a newspaper to see Billy Riley was an official at the Yale-Dartmouth hockey game and heard later that he is considered one of the finest hockey officials in the East - you probably all saw him or read about him at the Winter Olympics last year at Squaw Valley.... A friend of mine recently filled me in on Chuck Fendrich. He is living and working in Princeton, N. J., with a management consulting firm and has three little ones.... Don't forget your check to the Alumni Fund!!

That's it - '46 up!

"Gus"