1932

Perhaps the biggest single investment of the '60s will be the New York World's Fair scheduled for 1964-5 with exhibits alone costing more than a half-billion dollars. On the finance committee of this huge enterprise is Bill Morton of W. H. Morton and Co. Already the committee has raised S40 million in six per cent notes maturing in 1966 to get construction underway, and the power shovels and bulldozers have begun their excavation work in the old Flushing Meadows. Some 65 foreign nations, including Russia and satellites, have accepted invitations to exhibit, and of course the U. S. will have a pavilion and a large number of States will be represented. Estimated attendance during the two-year exposition is in the order of 70 million.

Art Mayes, of Upper Montclair, N. J., has joined the American Foreign Insurance Association as executive vice president. He was formerly vice president of Marsh and McLennan and vice president and director of their international division. Art's insurance career began in 1934 with Pendleton and Pendleton, a general agency in Brooklyn, N. Y. He joined the America Fore Group in 1939 and served in their Buffalo and Memphis offices. In 1941 he was appointed New York manager of the Continental Casualty and remained in that post until 1951 during which time he served two years with the Air Corps. Art joined Marsh and McLennan in 1951 and in 1954 he established Marsh and McLennan International with a number of overseas branch and correspondent offices.

Recently we learned that Ken Todd, whose home is in Phoenix, Ariz., had suffered a severe coronary last October. Happily, the doctors say that his attack was of a type from which recovery can be complete, rence. His recovery progress is reported as excellent „to date and he has already returned to work on a part-time schedule with the Valley National Bank, in Phoenix. All of us are pulling for him to make a complete comeback.

News from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company reports the recent promotion of CharlieMeyers to manager of the group claim division of that organization. He has been with Massachusetts Mutual since 1957. Prior to that he was with a Brooklyn linen supply company and the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Hartford. The Meyers family resides at 65 Belmont Avenue in Springfield. Mrs. Meyers is the former Liz Kaps of Longmeadow.

Region 1 of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency has a new supervising attorney advisor in the person of MiltWheeler, practicing attorney in Portland, Me. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a Democrat, Milt was enforcement attorney for the Office of Price Administration during World War II and enforcement director and acting director of the Office of Price Stabilization in the early '50s. Region 1, comprising New England and New York State, has headquarters in New York City. Milt will supervise a legal staff concerned with federal urban renewal projects.

Frank McGuire, of New London, Conn., has been appointed general counsel for the Connecticut Co. of New Haven, which operates the city's buses. A graduate of Yale Law School, Frank has been in general practice in New London since his admission to the Connecticut Bar in 1935.

Forthcoming local elections in Massachusetts have turned up the names of a couple of classmates not previously heard from. In Dalton, Al Childs has announced his candidacy for reelection to the Central Berkshire Regional School District Committee. Al is supervisor of buildings and grounds for the Pittsfield GE plant. He is a registered civil engineer and land surveyor. Austy Whitcomb has announced his candidacy for the South Hadley Board of Health in the annual town election. Austy received his M.D. degree from Columbia in 1937. He is on the surgical staff of two Holyoke hospitals, medical director of the South Hadley Civil Defense organization and a member of national, state and local medical societies. His wife, Sally, was formerly on the nursing staff at St. John's Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., where Austy served his internship, they have four children, the youngest only six years old.

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