1922

Good news this month and now that it looks as though the West is here to stay, the column chiefly concerns classmates across the Connecticut.

Congratulations to Walt Aschenbach, famed football coach at New Trier High School. The Chicago press named Walt as the Illinois coach of 1962. Hitting one of many peaks in his durable and successful career, he took a team, which never had all its first stringers together in any game, and won the championship of the powerful Chicago Suburban League. New Trier's victory over Evanston was the most spectacular upset of many a moon. Turning out teams consistently among the best in Illinois, Walt has been coaching at the Winnetka school for 37 years. A patient, expert teacher, he is now coaching sons of his former stars and if he stays at it much longer he'll be teaching their grandsons. "I'm not thinking of giving up," Walt says. "What else would I do if I quit coaching now?" With Walt's reputation and his fine record, those Winnetka grandsons are going to be fortunate lads.

Modie Spiegel's progressive policies in guiding the ship of Spiegel, Inc., make news in the rapidly changing art of business administration. Time Magazine, Business Automation, Business Week, and other periodicals frequently report what's going on at Spiegel, Inc. Business Week, for example, during 1962 ran a three-page article on another innovation by Modie. Excerpts:

In just a little more than a year Spiegel, Inc., third largest of the mail order giants, has spent $3. million on equipment and methods to cut its distribution costs. With its $3 million, Spiegel first replaced its older data processing equipment with a $1 million IBM 7070 computer. Then the company completed a 12-story soft-goods warehouse that includes automatic materials handling methods as part of a unique $500,000 merchandising processing system. And early this year (1962), the first unit of a new $1.5 million electronic order-writing system went into operation. All three steps had common goals - to save money and to improve customer service.

For the time being, the lead seems to belong to Spiegel (among the large mail order businesses making or considering similar innovations). M. G. Spiegel, president and chairman of Spiegel, sees his firms rush into sophisticated automation as part of a long-range program to automate and mechanize merchandise handling operations wherever practical.

Spiegel spent eight years in developing its electronic data processing system. One (of Spiegel's) problems stems from rapid growth — up 225% from a 1947-1949 base, against about a 60% gain for the catalogue sales industry as a whole.

And more recently, Business Week reported: "Spiegel, Inc. plans to experiment with a mail order business in the European Common Market by the end of this year (1962)."

Classmates can't help concern - are you sure you're getting enough sleep, Modie?

When Bunny and Gladys Bunnell had Stan and Catherine Miner as dinner guests at Atherton, Calif., the conversational mileage about Dartmouth and '22 would have worn out a tape recorder. And good reason, it had been a long time since these Twoters were together. Bunny also had Stan as his guest on the Stanford golf course but no score was mentioned. Bet they spent the time talking some more. What could be better? The Miners spent late autumn and early winter in California before returning to Vermont in time for maple sugar'n.

Olie Olsen, back from Omaha where he joined his mother on her centennial birthday, reports good news. He had pleasant visits with Pete Kiewit in Omaha and BobTurnbull in Detroit. Olie found both classmates in fine fettle.

Yan Vleck H. Vos Burgh has been named resident representative in Hartford of R. W. Pressprick & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. He will be in charge of the investment firm's new Hartford office. He was formerly with Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Co. Good luck, Duke, and thanks to Dr. Stanley B. Weld '12 for forwarding the news.

Clark B. Bristol is New Hampshire District Governor of Rotary International. Deeply interested in international affairs, Clark enthuses over The Rotary Foundation which awards fellowships to graduate students in countries other than their own. In the past 15 years the Foundation has awarded 1,600 such fellowships at a cost of $4 million contributed by local Rotary clubs.

"Holiday in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. WalterE. Sands leave on European trip" — so reported Boston papers Dec. 20. The caption continued: "They will visit England, France and Switzerland. Sands is president of Sands, Taylor and Wood, manufacturers of King Arthur Flour. They plan to spend Christ" mas holidays on the continent with their son Bob ('59) and their daughter Sylvia (Vassar '62). The Sands live at 57 Merian St., Lexington." But it was the accompanying picture that really stopped the eyes. There they were, our photogenic Walt and Doris on the ramp of a super jet, both looking younger than springtime as if they were off to St. Moritz for the junior skiing championship. Happy landings.

Brand new grandson of Stewie and LouiseStearns, William Sayre McClung Jr. joined our class family, Nov. 23, 1962. Susan Stearns McClung, Wheaton '6l, is the young man's proud mother and his dad Bill is Dartmouth '60.

Tom Barrows' wife, Jane, writes from Carmel, Calif.. "Thank you so much for your note which I greatly appreciated. Although Tom was at Dartmouth for only a short time, it always had a particularly warm spot in his heart, and he was greatly interested in its progress. My warmest appreciation to the Class of '22 for your thought of me."

Gene Hotchkiss, chairman of our bequest program, reports some encouraging replies from his November letter to all Twoters. Particularly interesting is the reply of a classmate who has provided in his will that his bequest be added to the Class of '22 Fund. This means that the income from the bequest will become part of the income of the Class of '22 Fund and will be credited annually to the Alumni Fund until the last known member of the Class has passed on. The principal of the '22 Fund will then become available to the College for unrestricted use. It occurred to Gene and the man who made this bequest that this provision might have similar appeal to other classmates. Some who cannot make a large bequest might feel more comfortable about making a modest one if instead of standing as an individual figure it became part of the Class of '22 Fund. Gene would be delighted to hear from you. He's still living at 901 Baldwin Road, Highland Park, Ill.

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