1951

Among the news we have been squirrelling away is that of no less than ten promotions. Advertising account executive ChuckFryer even got his pix in the New York Herald-Tribune last May when he made veep at Young & Rubicam.

Down in Greensboro, N. C., Jim Culberson must have done a good job on foreclosures as manager of the mortgage loan department to earn his veepship with the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company. Jim and wife Joan have three children.

Parke Sickler has been named assistant veep of Hoague-Sprague Corp., a United Shoe Machinery affiliate. Parke joined United in Boston in 1962 and went with Hoague-Sprague last year as manufacturing superintendent of its Lynn, Mass., plant. In his new post, he will be responsible for all manufacturing and quality control of one of the nation's largest suppliers of shoe boxes.

Bob Leavitt is now administrative assistant to the vice-president of International Pulp Sales, Ltd., in New York City. Up in Boston, Dave Hall has moved up to Eastern Division Sales Manager of Kyanize Paints.

In Philly, Jim Balderston is the new assistant to the controller of Philco Corp. Jim is responsible for planning and coordination of recruiting for the corporate finance staff and for divisional controllers' offices, as well as assisting his boss.

"Sandy" McDonald has been named sales manager for the Plastic Container Division of Continental Can Company. The six manufacturing plants of that division produce plastic bottles, vacuum-formed containers, and injection moldings. (What are the last two, Sandy?)

Robertshaw Fulton Controls Co. has named Joe Lux as assistant manager of engineering of its Lux Time Division. Joe, wife Gertrude, and two children, reside in Waterbury, Conn. Bill Bridge is now brokerage manager for the Robert B. Whittemore Agency in Boston, associated with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Armstrong Cork has shifted Doug Frandsen from St. Louis to New York to, now. New Orleans, where I hope he'll help HunterWhite roll out the red carpet for '51's during Mardi Gras. Doug is the new manager of Armstrong's New Orleans Floor Division office.

We've got two more veeps to mention but they apparently took over new jobs. Al Judson left Mojud Hosiery Co. to become a veep of Surveys for Business, Inc., New York marketing information firm. Al will head up a new subsidiary, Real Estate Direct Mail List Service, which will provide direct mail prospect lists for reality residential and commercial developments.

Milt Olander has moved from First Western Bank in Los Angeles to a veepship at the Beverly Hills National Bank, where he will be involved with commercial lending and new business development. Milt was previously with the National City Bank in Cleveland. He and Mary Lou live with their four children at 501 Palmetto

We've also got bankers in the Mid West. Dave Webber is assigned to the Correspondent Bank Division of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago and travels in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. Dave, wife and two daughters reside in LaGrange Park, Ill.

Dave Hilton not only sells megabucks of insurance but also takes the time to send me some news from Chicagoland every once in a while. Excerpts from his most recent letter: "Recently Bill Brooks was transferred from Pittsburgh to Chicago, and is working with Texaco. [This represents a promotion from District Sales Manager to Assistant Division Sales Manager.] He has been associated with the company for about eleven years now, has two children, Donald and John, and has bought a home in Northbrook.

"Mase Weare is with Florsheim Shoes, and was transferred back to Chicago about one year ago. I believe he has been in New York and Cincinnati before this. He is traveling a good deal, and they have one daughter. ... Pete Henderson has a third child on the way. He has also been traveling a great deal. In the space of one month this summer, he was in South America on business and Europe on vacation. ..."

In the educational field, Ken Way is now Dean of Men at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass., where he also teaches psychology. After three years in the C.I.A., Ken returned to Hanover as Assistant Dean of Students. Most recently, he served as vice-president and general manager of the American Institute of Business Research in Boston.

Paul Staley has been elected to the executive committee of the Dartmouth General Association of Alumni. Paul is now an executive of the Procter & Gamble Plant on Staten Island. Since Dartmouth, the Harvard Law School, and the Navy, P&G has moved Paul from Quincy, Mass., to Long Beach, Calif., to Sacramento, Calif., to Kansas City, Kan., before his present assignment.

Just as I was about to take my TV dinner out of the stove a few weeks ago, the 'phone rang. It was Al Wright, who announced that he was in Philly attending an IBM management school. Mechanical engineer Al works for Du Pont on the AEC Savannah River project. He and wife Barbara live in Aiken, S. C., and have four children: Lynn, 9; Russell, 7; Sally, 5; and Phyllis, 3.

That finishes off my other news, so let's get started on the report on this past summer's Floating Reunion.

My first stop was in Pittsburgh with Jakeand Janet Livingston and sons Bruce and Stuart, 8 and 6, respectively. Dick Patton came over for the evening. Dick is in new product market research (industrial rather than consumer) for Alcoa and does enrollment work for dear old Dartmouth.

From there, it was over some of the worst roads in the U.S. to Louisville to see "Geeb" Goldberg. Geeb wholesales shoes and service surplus materiel. He and wife Carol have a son, Michael, 3, and daughter, Nancy, 14 months as of July.

Bill and Barbara Pardee hosted a gathering in Champaign, Ill., which included Daveand Connie Doud, and Ben and GinnyMurd.

The Hurds have two girls, 8 and 2, and a boy, 4. Ben is in GE's financial section at their Decatur plant, where, phonographs are manufactured. The Douds have two girls, 8 and 5, and two boys, 2 and six weeks as of July. They live in Bloomington, Ill., while Dave practices general surgery in a town with the peculiar name of Normal (undoubtedly no psychiatrists there!).

Host Pardee is an Assistant Professor of Agronomy at the University of Illinois. He is primarily in agricultural extension work and spends most of his time writing, speaking, and in conferences. Before departing the following morning, I watched him in the filming of a TV tape in a corn field.

Bill left banking to get a Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics at Cornell, where he was on the staff for three years before coming to Illinois, where he has also been for three years. He does interviewing of Dartmouth applicants - and on the Illini campus, no less. The Pardees have three children: Jo-Anne, 8; Sharon, 2½; and Scott, 14 months.

My next stop was with Bob Closser in Overland Park, Kan. Bob and wife Ann have a brood of three: Bob III, 9; David, 7; and Mary Ann, 16 months. Bob is sales manager for Sherwood & Co., distributor of industrial solvents.

I hope to see many of you at some of this fall's football games.

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