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The class was rather active over the summer, despite the heat. Many job changes: Tom Connor moved to Santa Barbara and is in the real estate business; he recommends California “for the young, tired businessman of Eastern extraction.” Pete Stevens moved his security analysis tools (two sharp pencils and a divining rod) to Fahnestock & Co. in the Wall Street area; he specializes in various industries, including miscellaneous. HarryGuenther is visiting associate professor of finance at the University of Minnesota School of Business Administration, after three years at the American University of Beirut, where he was chairman of the De- partment of Business Administration and also Dean of the Beirut Management Col- lege; he has two Beirut-born Guenthers, Chris, a boy, and Kimberly Lynn, born last January 24.
OTHER SHIFTS: Marty Friedman, after a year as an English instructor at Trinity College in Hartford, is returning to Paris as a member of the faculty of the Institut d’etudes anglaises at americaines at the Sor- bonne. His wife, Adele, conveniently goes along as a Fulbright fellow in Renaissance literature. Marty received his Ph.D. in com- parative literature from Yale in June. How- ard Zeiikow, a CPA, was named controller of Kratter Corp., New York, a real estate investment company. John Callahan, for- merly a fund raiser for the University of Chicago, is now using his skills on behalf of Amherst, where he’s associate director of development. Tom McGreevey joined the Dewey and Almy Chemical Division of W. R. Grace & Cos.; he’s a market research analyst in Cambridge, living in Waltham.
FORGING FORWARD: Bill Wilbur moved up from product manager of Col- gate-Palmolive’s Wildroot hair preparation line to the company’s senior product man- ager. Gordie Russell is now in charge of transistor sales in New England and New York for Sprague Electric. Allen Palmquist became business manager of the Creative Radio-Television Department of D’Arcy Ad- vertising Cos., St. Louis; he’s also chairman and president of the St. Louis Junior Adver- tising Club. John Bassette was named man- ager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Cos. office in Burlington, Vt,, moving from the com- pany’s store in Claremont, N. H. Lynmar Brock has been elected president of Brock and Company, a Philadelphia- based employee food service firm, succeed- ing his father who be- comes chairman of the board. Lyn, who earned his master’s de- gree at Tuck School, has been associated with the company for nearly fifteen years and has trained in every department. He also served as a Navy officer after graduation from the College and recently was returned to destroyer duty for a period during the Berlin crisis.
Ted Daiis is secretary and a member of the board and the executive committee of the Cleveland Junior Chamber of Com- merce. A 1 Van Huyck shifted from director of urban renewal to director of planning for Herbert H. Smith Associates, a city planning consulting firm in West Trenton, N. J. DanAnzel was one of 25 hospital and public health executives selected to attend the fifth annual Hospital Administrators Develop- ment Program at Cornell University during the summer; he’s administrative assistant at the Jewish Hospital of Saint Louis. JimHail completed, his residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota and is beginning private practice in Redwood City, Calif.
Bill and Shirleyann Gavitt, after three years and three children in Germany, are at Schilling Air Force Base in Salina, Kan. Shirleyann, one of our most faithful cor- respondents, writes that Bill had six months of Atlas missile training last year and was promoted to captain last October. John Rocray, a state’s attorney in Brattleboro, Vt„ formed a law partnership, Rocray & Gibson. Show magazine, of which Bob Wool is associate publisher and editor-in-chief, in- corporates the short-lived USA 1 maga- zine this month; last spring Show absorbed its arch competitor, Show Business Illus- trated. Skip Mackey was part of a ten-man engineering team from the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration which masterminded the three-stage Thor-Delta rocket used to launch the Telstar communi- cations satellite.
Formerly real estate director of The Hertz Corporation, Charlie Greenebaum has been elected a vice president of the auto- renting firm. Until his recent change of du- ties, he was also vice president and general manager of Hertz Re- alty Corporation, a wholly owned subsidi- ary. He joined Hertz in 1955 as a truck lease sales engineer and later served in sales and operational capacities with the corporation. Charlie lives in New York City with his wife, Barbara, and their three children, Ellen, Jimmy, and Andrew.
Jim Cavanaugh last month became assist- ant minister of the Community Presbyterian Church, Clarendon Hill, 111. Dave Wang in- forms us he’s teaching English at the Uni- versity of Hawaii and is “still writing,” including recent appearances in The Minne- sota Review, Coastlines and Trace. Northern Trust Cos., Chicago, assigned Don Hummel to call on banks in Wisconsin. The Con- necticut Bar Journal carried an article by Bill DeLana, a lawyer in Hartford, on part- nership income taxation.
NUPTIAL NEWS: Alan Uris married Felicitas Wetter last October; he’s practicing law in Flushing, N. Y. John Johnson wed Mary Doeppers of LaPorte, Ind., at Petos- key, Mich., March 25; John is owner-man- ager of a resort hotel in Petoskey, and he and his bride are living in Conway, Mich. Paul Merriken writes that on June 16 his status changed to “that of a happy married”; Erleen Schubert, a New Orleans school teacher, is the gal, and they’re living in Baton Rouge, where Paul sells tubular steel for National Tube Division of U. S. Steel Corp.
Mark Ginsberg said his vows with Susan Cole in Harrison, N. Y., June 10; she’s a graduate of Finch College, and Mark is president of Mark Ginsberg Stainless, Inc., a steel processing firm in Glendale, Queens. Will Stratton, now assistant corporation counsel in Washington, D. C., married Janet Barfield in Asheville, N. C., June 23; she’s a graduate of Hood College and is with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Ralph Miller and Pamela Gundersen of Hanover were wed at Hancock Point, Me., July 7; she graduated magna cum laude from Smith in 1960, and Ralph has begun physiology research at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington under a National Institutes of Health grant. A 1 Brookes took the hand of Gretchen Yocom at Red Bank, N. J., July 7; she’s an alumna of Denison Univer- sity and Al, a Navy career man, is at the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
Still lots of action on the academic front: Chuck Cowrie received a master of forestry degree from Yale in June and is a junior forester with the U.S. Forest Service at For- esthill, Calif., working in Tahoe National Forest. Frank Davidson is studying gastro- enterology at Cincinnati General Hospital under a National Institutes of Health fellow- ship. Dick Brief, teaching at New York Uni- versity, hopes to complete a Columbia Ph.D. in economics this year. Cy Muromcew is spending this year at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton.
Jim Heifer achieved rather commendable distinction by earning a summa cum laude Ph.D. from Princeton. The degree is in the history and philosophy of religion, and Jim’s dissertation dealt with religious mysti- cism. He joins the Oberlin College faculty this fall. Charlie Williams graduated from Cornell Law School in June. Bob Keane, English instructor at Hofstra College, is completing his doctoral dissertation with the help of a $3OOO Columbia University Presi- dent’s Fellowship. Dick Du Boff, instructor and Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Pennsylvania, received a fel- lowship from Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, D. C., to aid him in his disser- tation.
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