1949
From John Mcllwraith out in Evanston comes the advice that Jim Fowler is in New York City, investment banking with Smith, Barney and Co. He is living in the City and doing a great deal of traveling both in this country and abroad. He says, "I am in the corporate finance department and concern myself with raising long-term capital for corporations through arranging public issues or private placements of stocks and bonds."
Big news of the month is the infiltration of the Dartmouth administration by another '49. Joining McGean, Weber, and Seymour is Jack McCurdy in the post of assistant director of the Office of Financial Aid. He succeeds Harland Hoisington '48.
He previously had been a divisional merchandise manager and a director of McCurdy and Co., Inc., a retail department store in Rochester where he was employed from '51 to '61. Jack recently was associated with Vermont Treeforms, Inc., making tables, in Groton, Vt. At Dartmouth he will help administer a financial-aid program that provides some $900,000 in scholarships, $300,000 in loans and $100,000 in employment opportunities for undergraduates each year. Before joining McCurdy and Co., he taught English at Culver Military Academy and was on the staff of a Colorado daily newspaper. He attended Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English for two summers.
Jack and his wife, the former Joan Clayton of Bowness-on-Windermere, England, live in Thetford, Vt. They have a daughter and twin sons. So if your boy needs a handout, see Jack.
From Osaka, Japan, comes hello by the new Manager of the Bank of America outpost, Lou Mulkern. "Dorothy, Beth, our Lebanese French poodle, etc., have been transferred to Japan from Beirut, Lebanon.'
Bud Hughes deposes and says, "Since 1949 I have happily accumulated eleven years of investment and sales experience with Lord, Abbett and Co. representing Affiliated Fund to investment dealers in the East, Middle West, and on the West Coast. I have also managed to accumulate one spouse and two and one-third children. Needless to say, this all did not do wonders for my golf game! I am currently endeavoring, between do-it-yourself jobs on the house here in Bronxville, to rectify an entirely unsatisfactory handicap. Living here in New York, my contact with Forty-niners is quite a bit greater than it was when I was touring the country's environs."
Bob Reid (we have three Robert Reed-Reids in this class, an unfair strain on our powers of organization. They are, severally, an oil tycoon who bosses the sales of Tidewater Oil out of Los Angeles; a surgeon who was last pinned down in Pittsburgh but is by now undoubtedly somewhere else; and an academic administrator, the note which follows referring to the last in this illustrious list) has become engaged to Miss Isabel Goff of Darien, Conn., and Smith College.
One of our important foreign operators, Master David R. Raynolds, is speaking up a storm. Back in the States for a brief Washington stint, after a tour as economic officer of the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, Dave has been doing the creamed chicken circuit in hometown Newtown (Conn.). "U.S. Foreign Economic Policy" and "The Proposed Trade Agreements Act" are titles of talks respectively to the Rotary and the League of Women Voters. Sometime soon Dave will take off for Paris and a post with the International Secretariat of NATO.
Connie Pensavalle is still making football news:
CONRAD PENSAVALLE, a top Ivy back at Dartmouth, is still quarterbacking at an admitted 33 years of age. He's player-coach of the Providence Steamrollers. Lately there has been increasing emphasis on the "player" phase of the combination.
"I can still run with the young fellows, and I've had some luck with my passing," said Pensavalle. "Why shouldn't I play?"
The Boston Panthers, 26 to 0 victims of the Steamrollers this week, could find a substitute for the term "luck." Pensavalle connected on eight out of nine passes vs. the Panthers.
"I stayed active. I've never let up." That's how Pensavalle explains his physical condition. He weighs 160, same as he weighed at Dartmouth. He can do 50 yards under six seconds.
Being a player-coach is only one Pensavalle outlet. He's also a teacher of social studies at Foxboro High and operator of a full-fledged auto driving school in North Attleboro.
"Yes, I do some of the teaching myself, and all the scheduling," he said. "I have a staff of seven instructors, some of whom work full time, the others part time. We keep busy.
"The 'we' includes my wife," he added. "She's a tremendous help." (Connie married a beauty queen, Betty Taylor, who later became Mrs. Massachusetts.)
The Steamrollers sport a 6-2 record, have won most of their games by big margins.
Pensavalle coached six years at North Attleboro High, was backfield coach two years at U.R.I. He played several seasons for the Attleboro Jewelers, was on the last Providence Steamroller team that functioned as a pro team. The revived Rollers are operating in their second season. They had a 10-2 record in 1960.
"Oh yes, I have another sideline," Connie said. "I coach the North Attleboro Backyard Rinkydinks."
Quarterback for the N.A.B. Rinkydinks is Conrad Pensavalle Jr., age 7.
"A born operator," said his dad. "He's designing plays on the tablecloth already."
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