1949

We'll start off with a sweet note: HowieWellman is affiliated with the research affiliate of the Nestle Company, out in Marysville, Ohio. Apparently cooking up tempting new sweetmeats to make us all fat and happy. Howie and Caroline have acquired, since the above intelligence report, a new child, in addition to the sweet young things Pam five and Martha four and the unruly young thing, a cocker spaniel dog who is driving the family nuts because he can't run loose around Marysville like his wolfhound forebears.

Low level academic note from Bob Rooke, in Morristown, N. J., where he and Natalie keep house a short distance from Manhattan, the site of father's investment research work. The three Rooke sons and one Rooke daughter are apparently enrolled in one of these post-Sputnik gung ho elementary schools that assign acres of homework from first grade on. Bob announcing that he has four cases of reading, writing, and arithmetic going at once.

Chicago success type note. Bruce Benner has been named second vice president at the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust. As I recall from Illinois days, they have a great deal of money, and vice presidenting it should be a pretty responsible job. I understand that large interest free loans are available for members of this class.

Bob Evans. Represented by a library trustee type note. Up in Hamilton, Mass., our boy is bucking for the above job in the library of the above community. You may with a little of my ever loving help think that Bob went sort of university happy after Dartmouth, attending in succession that of New Hampshire, where he received a master's degree, and those of McGill, in Canada, Zurich, in Switzerland, and Marburg, in Germany. What he got from the last three is not disclosed. He is now a teacher in the Shore Country Day School in Beverly, yes, Mass. He and Fran have two: Eric twelve and Anne ten. Bob reports that he has been running a ski school, serving as chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Independent Schools Association of Mass. (purpose: to accredit private schools), learning to do the eskimo roll in his kayak, and coaching an undefeated football team.

Distinguished medical note. Note of distinguished medicine man is better. Bob Berg has, actually some months ago, emigrated from New York City, where he was Associa te at the Public Health Research Institute of NYC and also a professor at NYU Medical School, to Boston and two important posts: Pediatrician-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital and Associate in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Robert served his internship at Beth Israel, after Dartmouth and Harvard medical schools. In between his appearances at Beth Israel, Bob was in London, in the Army, and around other Boston children's wards.

P.S. on recent Jeff Mansfield note, wherein we advised that our. boy is all over Lowell, Mass., on civic service projects. The addendum is notice of his election by the Lowell Junior Chamber of Commerce as Outstanding Young Man of the Year, with attendant public fetes and recognition.

Off to R. I. for a note on Jack Martin's latest action. He has moved two of his three enterprises: the Wismar Corp., which makes metal boxes for the jewelry trade, and the Plastic Packing Corp., which makes, well, probably plastic packing, he's moved these plants from Providence to the town of Central Falls, R. I. There's this picture of old Jack sitting in the center of a whole mob of important attentive dealers, mayors, and so on. He's sort of giving the town a big boost job-wise.

Bollie Bollenbach is going on sabbatical. Back to school. That is by this time he has just finished a term in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, having not studied these matters hard enough when he was at Tuck. Bollie is Assistant to the President of Edward E. Johnson, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., firm.

Ray Grinold. "Still at Wallingford Steel (Wallingford, Conn.) as Manager of Product ion Control and enoying my job very much. The family consists of Cary six and Lisa three. Recently moved into a new home." The above relayed by Ray Bankert, who additionally advised: "I'm at General Electric in Schenectady as the Manager of General Accounting and Budgets for the Machinery Apparatus, Operation. Pat and I live in Scotia, outside Schenectady, and have five children: Jim eight, Ray six, Steve four, Beth Ann three, and Susan Marie one."

Congratulations are in order for Herm Stein who has been advanced by Bell and Howell to the position of treasurer of the corporation. He continues as executive Assistant to Charles Percy, chairman of the board. Herm joined Bell and Howell in 1951 and has been climbing the executive in 1957. After graduating from Dartmouth he earned an M.B.A. degree at the University of Michigan.

Jim Mytton, geologizing out in Colorado, forwarded a card from Bill Kerr in Rome. What he is doing over there is not revealed in the travelogue which occupies the card, but I thought someone might need an agent there and want to make use of Bill. The card is from the Roman Amphitheater; write him there. Jim goes on to say that he has transferred allegiance from the U.S. Geological Survey to a small geologic consulting firm. Last summer he took a little float down the Colorado River, including forty miles of "treacherous rapids the area of the Cataract Canyon, one of the most isolated areas of the Colorado Plateau. Some of the rapids had waves fifteen feet high. The party ahead of us lost two of its men. Brightly colored canyons towering above you. Quite an experience." Jim has been skiing in powder snow up to his knees at Aspen, says the skiing is only surpassed by the social life. Ralph Melville, you may recall, runs a little spot in Aspen called the Mountain Chalet. It sounds to me like old Mytton is employed by the Aspen C. of C.

The first one-man exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Richard Kamm'49 was recently held in New York. Sincegraduation he studied at the Art StudentsLeague of New York, went to Europeon a Fulbright grant in 1955, and haslived in Rome since that time.

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