1950

The customary comment at this juncture, of course, is one of wild glee that no more deadlines will arrive for Alumag notes until three months hence. Why should we be an exception? We shouldn't, so ... WHEEE!

Lest you get the wrong idea, it has been another good year of receiving glad tidings and welcome news from many of you, especially some seventy-odd who have responded to the questionnaires which were sent out to about a fourth of the Class during the winter. For those which have not yet found their way to Evanston, there's plenty of time between now and next fall to make the next issue!

One commercial before the finale comes on, and it concerns the continuing need for your substantial financial support through the Alumni Fund. Whatever your particular reasons may be, there are a host of other important justifications for contributing. Why not let some of those be your excuse for an increased gift this year?

LEGAL EAGLES

Bill Hill... Jim and Charlie Wilkes...Lud Truscott... Bill Reid ...Don Hannigan ... San Pooler

Bill Hill garnered his LL.B. from Georgetown in '53 and has been an attorney with Ames, Hill & Ames since 1955 in Washington, specializing in Interstate Commerce Commission work. Bill runs into brother barristers Jim and Charlie Wilkes and Lud Truscott in the nation's capital.

Bill Reid was elected an Assistant Secretary for The Glidden Company in Cleveland and keeps on with his attorney actions despite this December promotion. Bill and Jean, together with another Bill of a small denomination and sister Karen, live in Hudson.

In January, Don Hannigan was boosted to a post of associate counsel in the law department of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Springfield. He's been with the outfit since graduation having begun as a trainee and in 1951 in New York as a claims rep. He went on to become supervisor of group claims and then to district service manager before going to the home office in 1958. Don got his law degree from St. John's and passed the New York and Massachusetts bar exams. He and Marita have three youngsters.

San Pooler joined Brickley, Sears & Cole, Boston law firm, in 1959. He spent 1951-56 as a claims adjustor with Liberty Mutual Insurance in Springfield, Boston and Providence before taking up the life of a student again at B. U. for three years. He and Caroline have two midgets, Sanford Jr. who is five-and-a-half, and Lauren, seventeen months old.

Finally, late word from Cincinnati advises that Gordon Hood and two associates have formed a law partnership under the name of Kasfir, Heckerman & Hood.

THE CLOTH

It is probably high time that we devoted a few lines to the many men of the cloth in our ranks. One of the about-to-be pastors is Bob Foster who enrolled at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., in January to study for his master's in sacred theology. Bob had been an insurance agent since graduation and, naturally enough, quite active in his church. During almost eight years of heading up the Fitchburg, Mass., Red Cross Blood Bank, he helped collect over 10,000 pints of blood. Bob and Constance, with children Marsha, Brenda, and Steven, have moved to the Hoosier State.

Another Congregationalist is Rev. LarryHuntley who has been Dean of Students at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf since February, 1961, and assistant pastor at a Providence church. Since graduating from Andover Newton Theological School in 1954 with a B.D., Larry has been in Wilton, N. H., and Pawtucket churches. Boston University awarded Larry the S.T.M. degree in 1960.

The Claremont, N. H., paper reported that St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Charlestown and Union Episcopal Church in West Claremont have a new rector in the person of Rev. Ed Nutt. He had been serving the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hamburg, N. J., and St. Thomas in Vernon, N. J. In addition to the pastoral activities one might expect, Ed is a spelunker. That's a modern Freddie Flintstone, bud. He and Barbara have two children, Jonathan, eight, and Sarah Elizabeth, six.

MARKETING MATTERS

An editorial blue pencil kept this item out of the otherwise full April MAGAZINE, so apologies are due to John Schalles for not getting his impressive promotion recorded earlier. He's been boosted to become assistant to the veep of sales at L. E. Carpenter & Co., manufacturers of Victrex, a decorative coated fabric. Short Schalleses John, three, and Edward, one-and-a-half, now live at 12 Claremont Drive, Short Hills, N. J.

John Greeley has already had a "career" with Continental Can, starting as a salesman in 1952 and progressing to assistant to division sales manager in 1954, national accounts sales representative in 1956, and assistant district sales manager in 1959. In February 1961, Jack was made district sales manager for Long Island, Westchester, and southern Connecticut. He and Rosemary have a "five-year plan" that produced John in 1948, Kathy in 1953, and Andrea in '58. Says Jack, "Enjoying the new club at The Commodore ... but where are all the 50's?"

Mike Mitchell is a venerable veteran at Alcoa having begun with that company in 1950. After both Alcoa and Army training, he became unit sales administrator in Chicago, branch sales administrative manager in Peoria, and, in 1959, assistant to the product manager, sheet and plate sales, in Pittsburgh. Thetis and Mike hope to make the fifteenth reunion if Katherine, nine, Robert, six, and Mary, two, concur.

Jay Wilcox again made the Magabuck Roundtable with Mass. Mutual. We've lost count, but it must be near ten years running.

Bob L. Wilson has had an interesting and varied succession of jobs since hanging up his ... uh, sneakers with the Tuck U Terrors. After purchasing and production control stints with Sylvania, he taught marketing for a year at Norwich University. Bob went to Nowland & Co., marketing consultants and then spent nearly five years in the Cryovac division of W. R. Grace & Co. as easte and district sales manager. Last March he switched to American Can Co. as product development manager in the Canco division. He and Jeanette have an apartment on East 34th St., N.Y.C.

A good letter from Jim Melville reveals that the firm he founded in 1959 is prospering with two salesmen and an excellent service department. Material handling equipment users in Pittsburgh take note! Maggie and Jim's brood includes George 2nd, J. Graham 2nd, and Nancy Shaw, four, two and one respectively. Stew Young and Tom Richmond have been visitors and Jim sees local injuns Bob Funkhouser, Al LeClair '51, Rem Drury '48, Ralph Lynch '52, and Carll Tracy '49.

Jolly Cholly Abbe finds Manchester, N. H., still to the likings of himself and Dodie, Steve (nine), Jeff (seven), and Chris (five). Since 1957 Charlie has been with Kalwall Corp., producers of translucent building panels, as sales manager. Prior to that he worked for Connecticut General Life and Blyth & Co. Transients call Chaz for permission to fish his trout stream.

SALES TALES

Another of the selling profession is BobThomson whose packaging specialization with Lily Tulip Cup sent him to Philadelphia in October, 1960. He and Dodie (gads, another Dodie) tally a trio, daughter Robin, born January 28, 1954, sons Christopher, May 6, '55, and Cary, a Halloween present in 1957. From 1955 to 1960 Bob was a plastic packaging salesman for R. B. Van Houten Co. in New York and handled cardboard and plastic containers for Robert Gair for three years before that.

For variety, you can't beat the list DonCoddington has! He started with Bemis Bros. Bag Co. and went to General Mills in 1952 selling Wheaties, Kix, Bisquick, and box tops. In 1957 he joined McGraw-Hill Publishing as a district manager and in August, 1960, took on the assignment of assistant manager, distributor sales, for Masoneilan division of Worthington Corp. Now he hustles up and down the Atlantic Coast covering seventeen states with their pressure valves. Offspring for Don and Virginia Lee are D. Mitchell Jr., nigh on seven, and David who'll be five this fall.

Tor Arneberg has been promoted to the position of product manager by the Kordite Co. of Macedon, N. Y., and is in charge of the heavy duty division with responsibility chiefly for marketing the company's new heavy duty plastic bag for chemical and agricultural use. Tor previously was sales manager and assistant product manager and before that was, sales manager of a firm in Norway. He attended Harvard Business School after graduating from Dartmouth, and now resides at 2 Colonial Drive, Penfield, N. Y.

Al Wrisley is president and general manager of Food Merchandisers, Inc., a brokerage business he helped found in 1956 which now employs twenty people. Goodies Al can get you include General Foods, Ocean Spray, Pepperidge Farm, Metrecal, and Realemon (sans Jose Melis) among others. He and Pat have a girl and three boys.

The heavy flavor of sales personnel in this column might make it appropriate to close shop for the summer with a bit of good advice plagiarized from the Chicago monthly sales exec news. It reports the practice one member has of keeping a list with him of his top hundred accounts and phoning at least three every day. Maybe you, too, ought to maintain your personal contacts. Our number in Evanston is DAvis 8-1709, Chicago business phone DEarborn 2-2484. Area code 312. Call us!

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