1949

On Easter Day 1961 Charlie Fay laid an Easter egg and wrote us, "Just returned from the Orient after fifteen months with the Third Marine Division. Just in time. Laos is not on my Must-See-Someday list." Charlie holds some high officer's rank in the aforesaid outfit. I think they are sending him to Cuba.

Al Quirk, our agent at the University of New Hampshire, becomes a double threat: to his original important bailiwick of Admissions (he is assistant director) he adds Director of University Extension. Al was on the faculty of Manchester High School before moving up to UNH at Durham.

Dick Hanselman is up, up, up at RCA Sales. His latest title is Manager of Product Line Development for Radio and Victrola. Exactly what this means is not crystal clear, but the fact that it is a step up from his former post of District Sales Manager of a district covering five important midwest states (Dick and Beverly and their son Charles were last seen living in Cincinnati) seems to indicate it's fairly good.

Another climber is Bob Hartkemeier, who is a banker. Bankers seem to have lots of steps on their ladders, all with important sounding names. Bob has been made Assistant Vice-President (from asst. investment counsel) in the Marine Midland Trust Co. of Central New York, which has headquarters in Syracuse. Hartkemeier, you will see, left Hanselman behind in Cincinnati, where the former was running another bank and left for our fancier territory of Upper N. Y.

Dr. Nathan Gottschalk, by now an important instrumentalist, conductor, and educator in the music business, made the headlines recently with his leading of a wing ding in West Springfield, Mass. Assistant to the President, Chairman of the String Department, and Dean of the Faculty at Hartt College of Music of the University of Hartford, Nathan presided over the concert presented by the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra at the annual Massachusetts Music Educators' conference. He came to Hartt College from Oberlin, where he was assistant professor of violin and ensemble. Working backward, we find him at Boston University, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts and was the first recipient of the Albert Spalding Memorial Fellowship for string study at B.U. He has had a host of famous violin teachers. In addition to graduating with us at Dartmouth for a B.A., he has had stints at Juilliard, and at Yale. He has been a key man in several significant string quartets and is now a visiting lecturer in music at Dartmouth. Other present posts include conducting orchestras at Greenwood Music Camp, Hartt College, and Greenfield (the Pioneer Valley Symphony) and musically directing the Amherst Opera Company.

Bob Castle, one of New York's busiest advertising executives, has been elected a senior vice president of Ted Bates & Co., a New York agency. With the Bates firm since 1957, Bob was made a vice president in 1959. Before that he was employed as an account executive with J. Walter Thompson Co. Last year Bob and Mary moved to a new address in Darien, Conn., 175 Brookside Road. In recent years, he has been active in local government, serving on a panel of alternates for the Darien Zoning Board of Appeals.

The smiling face of Bert Rodman pops out of a column in the Boston Jewish Advocate, over an announcement that our boy is cochairman of the Insurance Division in the 1961 Appeal of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. A veteran of these campaigns, Bert has had such positions in it as Chairman of the District of Newton.

As far as i know our only actuarial type, Chuck Yardley, is humming along on the ladder of the New England Life Insurance Co., where he has just been made Associate Actuary. He was Assistant Actuary, so you see we are dealing in subtleties again. Apparently this new position qualifies as that of an officer of the -corporation. Well, maybe the old one did also. I wonder what actuaries do. Imagine they read all the obituary columns and figure our odds for lasting out the day. Chuck and Phillis live with their four, Stephen, Janet, Susan and Mary, in Needham Heights.

Gene Smith is still handing out the free tips on the world of finance through the columns of the New York Times. His specialty is mutual funds, and it is on this subject that he recently discoursed before a group of moneyed types in Naugatuck, Conn. Educated in la journalisme at Columbia on a Pulitzer Fellowship, our man has also worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Trib. Gene and Jayne live in Orangeburg (N. Y.) with their son Eric.

Jim Zafris has been named Assistant Branch Manager of the First National Bank of Boston. Joyce keeps house for Jim and their three, James, Joel, and Peter, in Newbury.

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