1943

This is the month for new vice presidents. In alphabetical order: Maury Dampier, vice president for the ladies sportswear division of Catalina, Inc.; Bud Hall, vice president of Young and Rubicam, Inc., advertising agency; George Munroe, vice president of Phelps Dodge Corp., copper producer and wire manufacturer. Well wishing friends have sent me at least twenty notices of these excellent promotions. Bud Hall, an lowa boy who came East for the harvest, beams from the Times as befits a Madison Ave. man while George Munroe looks somber, as befits a Wall Streeter. Anyway, sincere congratulations to all three in their rise through the jungle of big business.

Tom Gerber at forty becomes the youngest member of the board of the Mechanics National Bank, Concord, N. H. As previously reported here, Tom is the general manager of the Concord Daily Monitor.

All these years we have reported new additions to the family, but to the best of my knowledge the record for the first grandfather belongs to Rad Hibben, whose grandson was born October 11, 1961. Rad says it is great fun to be a grandfather and expects his grandson to be enrolled with the class of 1979. A sobering thought! Rad offers to tell me his new concept of enjoying life despite having to work at a job, and next time I get to Washington I'll call him. Maybe I'll let you know his secret.

From the West Coast Al Holzhauer joins forces with three other legal stalwarts to form Morgan, Holzhauer, Burrows, and Wenzel, specializing in negligence, criminal defense, and domestic relations at 1541 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

Bill Millmore commanded a semi-mobile Nike Hercules missile battalion for a year until early in August, 1961 when he departed for temporary additional duty en route overseas. This duty included attendance at the Army's Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he graduated last December and currently a military comptroller course at Fort Ben Harrison, Ind. By this time Bill is probably en route to the U.S. Army Headquarters on Okinawa as a Lt. Col., Artillery.

The candidates for the Millburn, N. J., school board are impressively qualified; one is a second vice president of Prudential and the other a vice president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., our own Bob McQueen. Millburn must have an excellent school board. At Dartmouth Bob was a Senior Fellow, summa cum laude. Phi Bete, and a Rufus Choate Scholar. His splendid career in insurance included duty with Equitable Life and Union Central and now with Mutual Benefit in Newark, where he is in charge of the entire group insurance operation with twelve national sales offices and seventy home office employees. He and Donna have four children, all attending Millburn public schools, and somewhere Bob finds time for Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and Little League activities.

"Who the hell is Ernie Sauls?" asks Herb Harrigan, the Philadelphia Inquirer's outstanding editorial writer. "Your inclusion of his screed led me to look him up in: 1. the Dartmouth Directory; 2. the '43 Aegis, and 3. (after considerable searching in the attic) our Freshman Greenbook.... He ain't in any of 'em, that I can see - either as a member of the class who finished or dropped out or ever heard of us. ... So - what gives? Figment of your imagination? Drawing card for sympathetic mail? Wanta start a controversy (good newspaper ed page tactic that)?" Herb says he hasn't recently seen Butch Coningswood, Farmer Mead or Graham Conklin. If they write to him care of the Inquirer, they may end up in the letters to the editor column.

Next time you're resting in your favorite barber's chair, check the name on it. Chances are it's a Paidar and made by Emil J. Paidar Co. of Chicago, whose Vice President for Sales and Secretary is our John Paidar. In addition to directing sales of professional furniture and equipment for barber shops, beauty salons, the medical and veterinary fields, John has had an active hand in civic activities in Hinsdale and LaGrange, Ill., including school and hospital boards. He is a director and one of the organizers of the Bank of Clarendon Hills Ill., front-paged in the January 6 Chicago-Sun Times with a $69,500 heist by an armed trio. John is one mid-westerner doing things for his community and it's nice to be brought up to date. Other kudos include an M.B.A. from Northwestern in Industrial Management. His wife Pat and he have three children, Peter Roberts, John Gordon, and Meredith Lee; they sadly lost their oldest daughter, Laura Sue, last summer.

John O'Donnell, forsaking Sarasota for Auburn, Me., has formed John E. O'Donnell and Associates in Lewiston-Auburn, a municipal consulting service providing information, representation, investigation and reports to towns, cities, counties, state departments, and other municipal units. With a Master of Forestry degree from Yale, John has had a forester-engineer career specializing in aerial photography and mapping in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts for Wright and Pierce before starting on his own. His wife Jacqueline and he have three children, Margaret Ann, John, and Michael. Best of luck, John, on your new venture. I know there must be a large market for your services.

The Short Hills Country Day School opened at its new site on forty acres complete with playing fields and three large classroom clusters for the lower, middle, and upper schools. This has been the dream of Bud Kast, its headmaster since 1949. Bud now has enrolled 260 pupils from pre-kindergarten through 9th grade with the new school capable of accommodating 325 pupils. Bud has future plans for an auditorium, swimming pool, and additional classrooms for a high school with a future enrollment of 450 pupils. Congratulations to Bud on this wonderful achievement. We can understand the planning and effort that went into it. Bud is also chairman of the Independent Schools Education Board, Elementary Schools Committee, President of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and Chairman of the Education Committee of St. David's School in New York City.

Very nice letter from Earl Harris with a kind invitation to visit him in Orange. We may take you up, Earl! Earl sees Pres andClark Moore on his travels. . . . Bailey Walten and crew won the national Mobjack championships last September in Annapolis. This '43 group has many good sailors in it.

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.

Trecisurer, 159 Willow St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.