1955
Al Murray had a hand in President Kennedy's tax reform bill which is now before Congress. Al, who holds an economics Ph.D. from Columbia, started work at the Treasury in 1961, was recalled by the Army during the Berlin crisis, but returned to Washington last year in time to help prepare the section of the administration bill dealing with personal income taxes.
Foreign department: Newell Stultz is in Pretoria, South Africa, on a Ford Foundation grant to research his dissertation for a Ph.D. in political science from Boston University. The African sojourn, scheduled to end this fall, gives his wife, Betsie, an opportunity to reune with her parents, who live in Pretoria. Ed and Cecelia Willi spent Christmas with her family in Chile; Ed is materials manager at the San Martin plant of General Motors Argentina S.A. Jack andSirkka-Liisa Hodgson, who have spent most of their two married years in Finland, are returning to this country in February. Jack is finishing his dissertation for Harvard and will wind it up while living temporarily in Orford, N. H., with his parents. He's pointing toward teaching. The Hodgsons had their first child, Deborah, April 5 in Helsinki. Paul Dingwell is a salesman for Good-year International Corp. in the Philippines. Capt. Art Boudreau is an Army pilot in Vietnam. Lieut. Jack Bailey completed two years' teaching mine warfare in Belgium and returned last month to join the U.S.S. Farragut, a guided missile frigate based in Mayport, Fla.
A social highlight: last fall a seven-inch, two-column photo in the Chicago Daily News showed Harold O'Connell and his partner on the dance floor. The caption must be rendered in full: "Among the couples enjoying the music in the Grand Ballroom were Shaun Cudahy and her devoted beau, Harold P. O'Connell Jr. Shaun chose a lovely gown with shocking pink velvet skirt and a rose pattern top etched on white. Following breakfast shortly after midnight, guests at the ball danced into the early hours Saturday."
At the beginning of the year Ted Daus became house counsel for Bobbie Brooks, Inc., Cleveland clothing manufacturer. JimNelsen left Chicago to join Loomis, Sayles & Co., investment counselors, in Milwaukee; he prepped for the new job with four months in Boston last fall, "and in the process saw many friends and Dartmouth football games." Hugh Taylor forsook his post as a manufacturers' agent in Hartford and moved his substantial family (four children) to Raymond, Me., where he operates a marina on Sebago Lake. He reports that the fresh air is an improvement over urban atmospheric conditions. John Meyer joined U. S. Envelope Co. in Metuchen, N. J., as a quality control engineer, a job intended "to help cut costs and make envelopes so they stick better." A noble undertaking! His wife, Margaret, presented him with a second daughter, Mary, on October 8. The Meyers now live in Warren Township, Plainfield, N. J.
Other new arrivals: The Fred Crockers had their second girl, Linda Ann, December 7. Though the Crockers are somewhat off the beaten track in Herkimer, N. Y., Dougand Nutzi Archibald stopped in to visit last fall on their way back to Ann Arbor. A second daughter, Jennifer Beth, also arrived for Marty and Myrna Aronson, on October 16; he has his own law office in Boston and they live in Framingham. Dan and TamiNixon welcomed their first, Asa Joel, in August; Dan is finishing his third year in internal medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and has a fellowship in hematology. He reports that he and his wife "are in constant touch with the Pete Fishbeins, Jed Isaacs, Bernie Siskinds, et al."
Among our other medicine men, JohnBarlow is a resident in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; DickBraun is chief resident in orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore; Dick Cooper has a fellowship in hematology at Cleveland Metropolitan Hospital; JohnLaverty is chief resident in pathology at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, Calif.; Bill DeCesare is a consulting physiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction; and JimMickle is a resident in psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.
Jim Keane plans to wed Barbara Kratovich of Scarsdale, N. Y., April 20. Jim has left N. W. Ayer, an ad agency, and is now with Bristol Myers in New York City. DonWoods, now toiling for a Harvard Business School doctorate, has scheduled a spring ceremony with Miriam Carroll of Canton, Mass., and Regis College.
Mike Buck is a salesman in Edina, Minn., for Imperial Eastman Corp., makers of tube fittings and hydraulic hose assemblies. Al Clark analyzes securities for Bear, Stearns & Co. on Wall Street. Dick Drake is a sales representative in Reading, Pa., for Colgate-Palmolive Co. Tom Lord is a lawyer with Security Title Insurance Co. in Los Angeles. Jack Kimberley is a securities salesman for Kidder, Peabody & Co. in Albany. Tim Jenkins is in the traffic department of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in New York and commutes from Old Greenwich, Conn.
Tom Jannuzi, the old India hand, is now India program officer for the Asia Foundation in San Francisco. Paul Finegan is a securities analyst for Insurance Company of North America in Philadelphia. Jerry Foeller sells for Johnson & Johnson in Pasadena. Dave Heegaard is a project administrator for Minneapolis-Honeywell in Hopkins, Minn. Capt. Mike Fletcher is a squadron communications and electronics officer at Rockport Air Force Base in Texas. Architect Tom Hardenbergh draws for Sert, Jackson & Gourley in Cambridge, Mass. Joe Gahn is a graduate assistant in history at Syracuse University. Charlie Grafton is district traffic manager for Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland in Westminster, Md. Capt. Ted Voorhees is with an armored division at Fort Hood, Tex.
Charlie Warner heads research and sales development for Bay City Television Co. in La Jolla, Calif. Tom Maurey is a field underwriter in Bradford, Pa., for Mutual of New York. John Moffitt is associate director of the Ed Sullivan Show on "CBS-TV. PortSesnon lends money for Crocker-Anglo Bank in San Francisco. Don Page is a methods programmer for Statistical Tabulating Corp. in New York.
Bob Saia sells life insurance and pension plans for Standard Insurance Co. in San Jose, Calif. Lud Probst is a sales engineer for Gould Pumps, Inc., in Houston. BobSpencer is assistant manager of the mortgage loan department at Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. John Stonehill is chief designer for Associated Architects & Engineers in New York.
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