1946

Time to be an author again and with an over-abundance of news (what a wonderful way to start the job) let's get right on with it.

Thanks to Gene Bokor's wonderful first edition of the Tomahawk you have heard about our performance in the recent Alumni Fund - sickening wasn't it. If we'd tried real hard we might have come in dead last but we weren't even good enough for that distinction. Wow! What's the answer? You might think we're a class of clunkheads but with the superb reports I'm getting of the success of some of you characters I know that isn't true. Whatever it is, we can't do much worse than 64th out of 70, so we got no place to go but up. And it's about time we started up, isn't it.

Anyway Gene, your tomahawk was really great and we hope to see many more of the same from now on. Adding to the news you reported are these recent announcements of business advances. BobOwens has been appointed budget director for the First National City Bank in New York City. Bob was named to the newly created senior position at the bank after having worked with the General Electric Company in Schenectady as a financial analyst. Bill Graulty has been promoted to vice-president of the Connecticut Bank & Trust Company, having served with its trust department since 1956. Ralph Hersey has recently been appointed to the Educational Committee of the American Institute of Banking, Boston Chapter. Ralph, who lives in Norwood, Mass., is a Senior Trust Officer at the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. And still in banking circles, TedWalter, assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, has begun a term of duty with the bank's New Orleans branch. Seems to me that should be a nice duty.

Swinging into industry we note that JudHannigan has been appointed assistant northern division manager by International Paper Company. Jud has risen steadily in this large corporation, his last position having been manager of the company's Hudson River Mill. Ben Moats has moved again - this time to the famous toy maker, A. C. Gilbert Co. — as Vice President, Marketing. Ben quite recently had gone with Itek Corporation in the same capacity but the call to Gilbert was stronger. I must say that Ben manages to travel at the right level. Incidentally, he and Marjorie hosted a fine '46 gathering at their home in September — not large but great fun. This will be reported in a forthcoming issue of the Tomahawk.

DeWitt Baker has joined Western Publishing Company as vice-president of Artists and Writers Press, Inc., Westerns creative book division. In this capacity he will be concerned with the publication and distribution of various Golden Book lines. Out in Toledo, Ed Kosmo, a management engineer for City Auto Stamping Company, has been elected vice-president. Ed was previously with Helmick & Associates, management consultants. Dick Young has been named assistant director of research at the Polaroid Company.

In the insurance field Francis Donahue of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has been cited by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company as one of its top salesmen in the United States, having received the Liberty Leaders' Award! a high honor in this field. And in Spokane! Wash., Frank Gaylord has been named agency manager of this city for Equitable. Frank earned the coveted CLU designation last year, which as I understand it, puts him in the ranks of the real pros.

On and on they go. '46 is on the move, all over the country, and for that matter all over the world. Judging from the lists of address changes which keep pouring in - too numerous to print - we're on the move literally as well as figuratively. The constant turnover in jobs and residences is amazing, but I am sure it is helping to keep this old world spinning - maybe I should say - moving ahead. Incidentally, speaking of addresses, a new one recently came across my desk and until a better one comes along I hereby confer the title of Most Distinctive Address on that of Ralph Smith who lives in Locust Valley, N. Y. His address is Skunks Misery Road, and if that isn't a great conversation piece, I've never seen one. Can anyone top it?

Now to a social note from our recently retired secretary Gus Gillaugh. On a trip south this summer, Gus, Al, and daughter Ginger stopped in Chattanooga and spent the weekend with two '46's, Jim Kennedy and Joe Davenport who were grand hosts and treated their old buddy royally. Joe is executive vice president of the Volunteer State Life Insurance Company and Jim is president of Cherokee Warehouses, Inc., a large southern warehouse center for many national firms. Joe and Alice with seven children and Jim and Dottie with three are living at the top of Lookout Mountain, and judging from the' enclosed picture, a fine time was had by all. Thanks, Gus, for sending in the picture - we sure would welcome similar stories and pictures from the rest of you troops.

A New Englander of long standing has ventured into New York State to further his career. Larry Bartnick is the new principal of the Goshen, N. Y., high school, having left a vice-principal's post at Natick High School in Massachusetts to accept the bigger challenge. Larry has been studying at Boston University for his doctorate and previously had been a mathematics professor at Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, N. H. A rather old, but informative news bulletin indicates that Dr. Nick Vorys manages to keep himself pretty busy. This article reported that Nick, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University's College of Medicine, was the featured speaker at a medical meeting in Lima, Ohio. The good doctor also belongs to a host of other medical organizations, too numerous to mention. Keep up the good work Nick - as the father of four children I appreciate your importance to the community.

Well, that about talks us out of space so we'll close for now. Still more news to report but the above took a big bite out of the material, so how about some reports from those who have had something interesting happen to them or their family. Sure enjoy hearing from you so don't hold back.

See you next month.

Looking out at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.,are '46ers Joe Davenport, Tom Gillaugh,and Jim Kennedy. Tom was visiting therelast summer; Joe and Jim are residents.

Secretary, 12 Keniston Rd. Lynnfield Center, Mass.

Treasurer, 66 Argyll Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.