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Maybe he never sang it, but can't you imagine Jose Himayoinaise humming, "Hingle bells, hingle bells, hingle all the way"? That should serve to jar you into an awareness that Saint Nick will soon be picked up as a UFO on some DEW Line 'scope and there are only X days' shopping left. Oooops, just recalled Aunt Tillie's request for peanut brittle. Read on while we dash over to Fannie Farmer on that one.

DIAPER DIGEST

Sherm and Sue Clough celebrated Columbus Day with the arrival of Miss Carolyn Neale Clough. If we'd paid a little more attention to our own transcriptions we could verify the total population in that household now, as well as Sherm's present occupation with G.E.

Congrats, kiddies!

GRAPEVINE REPORTS

Sure as you try to save an item so several more can drift in and appear as a major category of this report, the teachers or the writers or the salesmen or whatever hibernate for an eon. Exasperated, we brew a potpourri of this and that, which follows, certain that each kind of career or area of the country will deluge us next month. Take accountants, for example. Cal Bauer was made a partner at Arthur Anderson's Dallas office. But do we have other CPA's to report about? Of course not. At least we did say hi to Cal in person as each of us sought errant luggage in the Big D (Dallas, not Dartmouth) Airport in early October.

Luckily medicine is a field that consistently generates newsworthy items for us. Russ Neale brought us up to date between tricks and treats around Hallowe'en. Status is quo, though not for long. Russ is still in Salt Lake City, got his doctorate last spring, works as a clinical psychologist with the community mental health center to support a wife and two daughters. Tax exemptions to increase by at least one this month.... Over the summer changes of address revealed that Dr. Dick Peach is in the pathology department at St. Luke's Hospital, Milwaukee, and that Dr. Bob D. Wilson has assumed the post of director in the radiology department of the Cape May, N. J., hospital.

Jim Harms is a special representative for Companhia De Patroleo California in Rio de Janeiro. . . . On the domestic scene, JohnRogers is district sales representative-merchandise for Texaco in the Denver area. ... Keeping the Sinclair Refining people on the straight and narrow, Dave "Stretch" Pendleton went on their legal staff earlier this year. . . . And quite recently we heard that Larry Starlight had joined Continental Oil Co. as senior economist in Houston.

Fun in funds? Besides mutual funds? There must be judging by the many classmates whose names grace their local herald's columns during the fall. Pat Brewster, associate counsel for the Central Maine Power Co. near Augusta less than a year if memory serves, took on the task of vice chairmanship in soliciting clubs, organizations, and unions in the Valley Community Chest drive. He's a member of Kiwanis, the Augusta-Gardiner Area Community Council, and prexy of the Manchester (Me.) PTA. He and Mrs. B. have three children. ... Down the coast in Cohasset, Mass., BobKilmarx headed up the Advance Special Gifts Committee for their United Fund. A partner in the Beantown law firm of Shelburne, Powers and Needham, Killie is a director of the White Mountain Ski Runners. He and Mary have two boys, John (5) and Peter (2).... Going west, young man, we come upon Joel Leavitt who was renamed general chairman of the Springfield (Mass.) Israel Bond Committee. Joel is ad and promotion manager for Springfield Sugar & Products Co. . . . Dick Dale headed up the industrial division of the United Fund of West Essex, N. J. Dick is veep of manufacturing for Resistofiex Corp. in Roseland and has been very active in the Fund for many years. Besides two daughters, Dick enjoys Rotary (he's past president in Caldwell) and being a member of the National Ski Patrol. He's also on the board of directors of the Employers Association of New Jersey.

SALES TALES

Had a good note from Fred Klett recently which said in part he'd left a realty firm after seven years and now is an associate broker with Robert E. Newman, Inc. in Westfield, N. J. Says you can call collect for all the info you'd want on towns and types of houses (phone 201-232-5800). He and Floss live nearby in a bi-level tepee in Berkeley Heights where three young sons seem bent on total destruction of the hogan. Transferees take note!

Dave Pittinger has moved from the hawk-eye regions back to Chatham, N. J. Pitt is a sales rep for the Independent Nail Corp. . . . Bill Schneider, eastern sales manager for Walter Maguire Co. in N.Y.C., has moved to Old Greenwich. .. . Ben Shaver is now with Johnson & Higgins on Wall Street as senior account exec and living in Middletown, N. J.

ATTAIN AND ACCLAIM

Warned you this was going to be an active heading in the monthly column. Should have picked this item up sooner, so apologies to Jim Stevens for not telling you before this that he's left Inland Steel to become director of planning and project administration for Eleazar's Seminary. He, Katy, and kiddies have bought the baronial castle guarding the upper reaches of the Connecticut River (8 Occum Ridge) and the job, created by the Trustees, sounds challenging. Jim is ideally suited to it!

Dave Beeman, formerly with Perkins Goodwin as vice president in charge of operations for Sanitary Paper Mills Inc., joined Smith-Lee Co., Inc., Oneida, N. Y., in September as director of marketing development.

Bob Funkhouser, one of the account group heads on U.S. Steel, has been named a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. He will continue to work out of the agency's Pittsburgh office. Before joining BBDO in 1957, Bob had previous experience with Ketchum MacLeod & Grove, McCann Erickson, and the Johns Manville Corp. He and Margaret and their three children live in Pittsburgh. Bob is also a group head on the agency's American Iron and Steel Institute account.

In late October Stu Sayre left Brunswick to join Haskins and Sells in Chicago as an associate in their management consulting operations. Stu and Nancy live in Winnetka.

In case you somehow avoided the reminders to yourself to "do it now," Si Morand would like to have your dues. Just a fiver. Why not beat the Christmas rush to the post office?

Finished already? No brittle for Tillie. She's big for bonbons, though. Bottled in bond bonbons. Have a Happy ... see you more in '64!

President Dickey and Williams Prof. James MacGregor Burns (r) spoke to the HonorsConvocation at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfeld, Mass. Tom O'Connell '5O(center), President of the Community College, was former assistant to Mr. Dickey.

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