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The fancy Washington, D. C., law firm of Lear, Scoutt and Rasenberger was recently so renamed because our man Raymond took up shop with them.
The Charlie Russell family has a nice new baby daughter. She was a Christmas present and is named Elizabeth Ann.
As one third of what might be called the "Dartmouth shift" in Manchester (N. H.), Zeke Straw recently moved up to Executive Vice President of the Manchester Savings Bank. Other Big Green alumni moved up to Chairman of the Board and President respectively of the Manchester National Bank. Air Corps veteran Straw joined Manchester Savings in 1954 after serving with Slayton and Co., in St. Louis and the Amoskeag Savings Bank in Manchester. He became assistant treasurer a year later and vice president and secretary in 1960. Zeke was also recently named a director of Manchester National Bank. He has been both secretary and president of the alumni association in Manchester. He and Margaret have four children.
Gene Howard is big in amateur golf (he won the Illinois Open Tournament) and lightweight aggregate, which I think is stones (he is vice president of the Waylite Company). He lives with Mary Jane and their three kids in Winnetka.
Al Brooks has moved from the Department of Art and Archeology to the Department of Fine Arts, at the University of Toronto. But then maybe it isn't a move. Maybe they just changed the name of the department. And why are art and archeology bedfellows? We would just as soon get this one cleared up.
Ray Drake, our Air Force captain, is now in Korea with the 3rd Bomb Wing. Write him at APO 64, San Francisco. Ray was previously in Portsmouth, N. H., but then he is used to running around the world.
Jep Ellingwood is doing something or other in the government of Orlando, Fla. Jep has progressed south from Birmingham, Ala.
Charlie Yardley has been promoted to the position of Actuary for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Doug Thomson is in boots. Not only that, he makes boots in Thomson, Ga. He is the newly appointed manager of the newly built U.S. Rubber Company plant there. Doug has been at the Naugatuck, R. I., plant heretofore. He and Betty have two boys.
Nathan Gottschalk conducted the annual "Messiah" performance in Wellesley, Mass.
Paul Petersen is president of the Connecticut State Milk Dealers Association. Paul runs the A. C. Petersen Farms.
Warren Norris has made it to assistant vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co.
Dick Hoar is putting your March of Dimes gifts to good use. He has a grant from that organization to study the effects of hormone production during pregnancy in producing birth defects. Dick is assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Anyone who has been in any way close to birth defects will wish him good hunting.
Dave Jones is vice president at the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh. Dave is, however, located in New York City, the bank's representative there in something called a Municipal Dealer Office.
Tom Sheehan is in Florida horticulture. He is Associate Ornamental Horticulturist at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Cut flowers is what this means. Tom specializes in orchids, like Nero Wolfe. The Sheehans spent last year in Hawaii, while father was visiting professor of Horticulture at the University of Hawaii. He taught a course in guess what? Orchid culture. There are three siblings in the Sheehan family: Tommy 9, Peter 7, and MáLyn 5.
Slade Gorton:
I have been practicing law in Seattle for seven years, following three years in the Air Force and three years at Columbia Law School. Last January the small firm with which I was associated merged with this one, a relatively large firm for Seattle. I spend most of my time on legal problems dealing with forestry, marine insurance, corporations, mu- nicipal problems, and the like.
By pure coincidence, one of the other associates in this firm is our classmate "Ding" Durning. As he was a Rhodes Scholar before beginning law school, he came to Seattle a little later than I did but has done extremely well here. He is married, has two children, Susan and Jonathan, and is ex- tremely active in politics and civic affairs. Al- though he is a Democrat and I a Republican, we have worked together, with some success, in his main areas of interest, billboard control and the acquisition of land for parks and other recrea- tional uses. He is one of the most successful ama- teur lobbyists I know and has been a tremendous asset to Seattle and to the state.
With a combination of luck and presumption, 1 talked my way into election to the state legislature in 1958, two years after I settled in Seattle on a permanent basis. That was a poor year for Republicans everywhere and we have not yet fully recovered, though we have increased our representation in the legislature in each election since. Although the Democrats control the present state House of Representatives with a nominal 51 to 48 majority, a number of their representatives revolted and organized the House in a coalition with us. The negotiations leading up to the organization of the coalition, in which I played a part, were as exciting as anything I have ever done and no one outside of the people concerned knew what was happening until it was all over.
Since the beginning of the year, my own particular specialty has been redisricting, a problem which Washington shares with most other states. I was chairman of the House committee dealing with the problem, which was not solved during the 1963 session but is likely to be early next year.
In Washington, the Legislature ordinarily meets only for two or three months every other year, and membership is consistent with at least the reasonably successful practice of a profession.
Secretary, Dept. 90 Eastman Kodak Co. A & OD 400 Plymouth Ave. N Rochester 4, N. Y.
Treasurer, 182 Main St., Wenham, Mass.
