NEWS NOTES
In the Norwood News of the Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) Loppy ,is, reported to have announced that he will be a candidate for re-election in 1964 to the Board of Selectmen. He is now chairman of that Board and will be seeking his fourth consecutive term on the Board.
The Newburyport, Mass., News - Whit Kimball has been promoted from assistant sales manager to sales manager of Cambosco Scientific Co. of Brighton. He will now be responsible for the sales efforts of 55 representatives of that company which supplies school science laboratories.
The Springfield, Mass., Daily News reports the wedding of Mary Eileen Teahan and Melville Conner Jr. in the Chapel of the University of Maryland on Friday, November 8. Congratulations to Mary Eileen and Bill and Marcella!
The Northbrook, Ill., Star - Bob Ellis celebrated his 25th Anniversary with Lyman-Richie & Co., an insurance brokerage company of which he has been vice president for 20 years. Congratulations, Bob!
The October issue of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce House Organ - Don Dougherty who up to this time has been vice president of sales for Ice Equipment Inc. is now manager of the Better Business Bureau of Hartford. The Bureau is becoming associated with the Hartford Chamber of Commerce. Good luck, Don, in the new job!
Wall Street Journal of December 20 - I.B.M. is negotiating to pay some $62,000,000 in stock for Science Research Associates, Inc., a Chicago based publisher of educational materials and psychological tests headed by Lyle Spencer. This ought to be hard to take!
On September 1 Doug Alden will leave the University of Maryland where he is head of the Department of Foreign Languages and move to the University of Virginia as chairman of the Department of Modern Languages. Doug and Martha's daughter, Claire, is in her last year at Wheaton College (Mass.) and Barbara is starting her sophomore year at Swarthmore. Congratulations on your new appointment, Doug, and "Good Luck!"
Jim and Lyn Alder were with us at Reunion and Jim repeats what many of us have said that it is too bad that more of you couldn't have been along. "Did seem like our ranks were getting thinner - or stouter - depending on how one looked at it." Jim is a manufacturer's rep handling a line of architectural products, maintenance materials and specialized coatings. He is a com- mercial pilot and says that he has been involved in the usual community services. He and Lyn have four children - Jonathan, Muffet, Clay, and James. The oldest 16.
Alva Allen is District Group Manager for New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in Cleveland. He is president of the Cleveland Group Representatives Association. Al and Dorothy's daughter, Susan, is in the Class of '66 at Wellesley.
Ted and Dorothy Almy have one son, David, who is married and in his senior year at Southern Illinois University. Ted is administrative assistant to the Dean of Faculty of Illinois State Normal University and lives in Normal, III.
The chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Sullivan Stauffer Colewell & Bayles, Inc. one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States, is, of course, our classmate Heagan Bayles. Heagan re- ports that the National Association for Mental Health is his main interest outside of making a living. Gladys and Heagan have three children, Elizabeth, who is married to F Joseph Wheeler; Heagan Jr., and Christina. Elizabeth attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in '59. Heagan attended the University of North Carolina and Long Island University and Christina is in the Class of '66 at Trinity College in Washington.
I reported in an earlier column that Bill and Eleanor Bates had attended their son Calvin's graduation from Dartmouth with the Class of '63 but had not been able to stay with us through reunion. They had attended their daughter Susan's graduation from secondary school, Eleanor's 30th reunion at Smith, and by the time Bill's graduation was over, Bill Sr. figured he had better get back to work. Bill is still with Aetna Insurance Company in Hartford as financial vice president and treasurer. He is director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Family Service Society, Greater Hartford Foreign Policy Assoc., and the Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
Charlie Shafer is past president of the Maryland Food Brokers Association and also the Grocers Manufacturers Representatives of Baltimore. He is a member of the National Food Brokers Association and active in Kiwanis Club and past trustee of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Charlie and Doris' daughter, Judy, graduated from Hollins in Roanoke in 1962 and married A. Y. Hoff and presented Doris and Charlie with their first grandchild as previously reported. Charles Jr. will graduate from the University of Virginia in '65. Charlie is president of Shafer-Evans Company, Inc., food brokers.
For the past 25 years A. A. Selivanoff has been an insurance consultant having his own agency. He and Leona have four daughters - three of whom are married. Their daughter Sandra graduated from the East Washington College of Education in 1959 and Nikki from the Sacred Heart School of Nursing. They have five grandchildren and "a couple on the way."
I don't believe that it was reported previously that Don Seixas was married in May, 1961. Don has a daughter Betsy by his previous marriage who was married in January, 1962 to E. G. Ellicott Jr. They have one child. Don is manager of marketing in the Western Area for the Pulp and Paperboard Division of Weyerhaeuser Company and is active in the Trade Associations in the paper industry.
Bob Sands was promoted in December to accounts executive, top position in the accounting department of the Superior Oil Co. of Venezuela. The Sandses came all the way from Maracaibo, Venezuela to attend reunion. Bob and Marianne are actively engaged in working with the Peace Corps and with the Accion de Venezuela in support of their projects for building schools, community centers, and dispensaries. Bob is chairman of the Sports Committee of the North American Association. Marianne's daughter by a previous marriage, Marianne, attended U.C.L.A. and is married to J. Frank Davies. Bob and Marianne have three sons, Robert, Charles, and Joseph and the Davies have presented them with three grandchildren.
George and Polly Farrand's son, George Jr., graduated from Lehigh in '58 and married Elyn Marie Hallberg. Their daughter Carolyn graduated from Colby and Katharine Gibbs and is married to Peter Hager, Williams '61 and Tuck '63. Carolyn and Pete have presented the Farrands with their first grandchild. Son, Richard Farrand, is 17. George, as you must know, is chief financial officer for Young & Rubicam Inc. He holds several other titles in the company and is director of various subsidiary companies. He is very active in church and community affairs in Montclair, N. J., as well as many trade associations. George is a real loyal Dartmouth alumnus being a member of the Board of Governors of Dartmouth College Club in New York and chairman of their finance committee, Treasurer of our Class, and one of Sid Stoneman's real mainstays in an executive capacity as a captain for the Alumni Fund.
Let's really do a job this year on the Alumni Fund.
Secretary, 303 Roanoke Rd., Westfield, N. J.
Treasurer, Young & Rubicam, Inc. 285 Madison Ave., New York 17, N.Y.