1952

I am faced with an embarrassment of riches this month. Partly due to the first annual (we hope) winter meeting of the class executive committee last night (March 6) in New York; partly due to a fine, long letter from Pete Zischke; and partly due to the normal flow of news from the regular sources.

The general consensus seemed to be that our committee meeting last night was a smasher, and there is no double entendre intended. The main topic of discussion was the up-coming Alumni Fund campaign, and John Klein came all the way in from Cleveland to explain to us his new regional organization. At the meeting we decided that we should launch an all-out attack on first place in our Green Derby group. With this in mind we decided on a new wrinkle in the campaign which we hope might inspire some of us to take a new look at our individual efforts.

We decided to establish two clubs: "The Half Century" and "The Quarter Century," to be made up of individuals who contribute $50 or more and $25 and more respectively. At regular intervals during the campaign we hope to bring the rosters of these clubs up to date and to the attention of all the Class.

As for the rest of the meeting you can look for a brief description of it with a condensation of the minutes in the next Newsletter you'll be getting from Brother Durot.

From Pete Zischke's letter it is apparent that, though the West Coast is far, far from the Hanover Plain, there is no scarcity of representation out there of the Class of '52 —in the San Francisco Bay Area at least. These are a few of the things I learned from Pete:

Grovey Bryant is waxing affluent as manager of a growing fats and oils business on the Oakland waterfront. Len Hedberg is rocketing upward with Pacific Telephone. And Jack Shuman is running for the school board in Piedmont with a lot of campaign assistance from Lee Cliff.

I learned further that Bill Montgomery is back in the area after a short stay in Kansas City, and that Bob Adams is living on the Peninsula and traveling the area for Connecticut General Insurance. Pete also reports that Dick Karnan has formed his own real estate company in San Jose, that Jack Clow has become a partner in a local law firm and is also quite prominent in the Young Republican Club of California.

Pete also reports having spent New Year's with John Bartlett and spouse and Lee Cliff and wife. And if things went according to schedule Pete himself should be a new father as he reported wife, Midge, was expecting momentarily in early February.

It is really a pleasure to get such a lengthy, newsy letter, so thank you, Mr. Moto!

I also got a card from Pat Gramm in Chicago which tells me he's the father of a new son born last December. It also informs me that Pat is president of Great Lakes Char Products Corporation, a fact I didn't know before. Congratulations on both counts, Walter.

Bob Foley is also a recent father, this time of a girl born in January, so congratulations to you, too, Bob.

On the other side of the ledger I got two cards from two notable '52s who aren't announcing offspring, at least not publicly, since they're both bachelors. One came from Salt Lake City and informs me that TomAllen (cattle and oil, you know) is manager of the Group Department of Travelers Insurance in that city. The other came all the way from Geneva, Switzerland, where E.Kent Calhoun was enjoying a schuss vacation. Cal assured me a full report on Minneapolis and the Upper Midwest on his return so look forward to that in the near future. Okay, Cal?

On the business front I got a few welcome tidbits. Next door in Stamford, Conn., Roger Malkin was recently named vice president of administration of the Norma-Hoffman Bearings Company, a division of the Universal American Corporation. Prior to this Roger had been director of marketing.

Up in Boston, Steve Parkhurst has been made an assistant vice president in the New England Merchants National Bank of Boston. And Don MacLeod, in New Haven, has been promoted to mutual fund sales manager for Eastman Dillon's Metropolitan Division covering New York, New Jersey, and New England. This means that Don will be moving headquarters from New Haven to Wall Street and also moving his home a little closer to New . York since he's not anxious to commute for four or five hours a day.

In New York, too, Sid Schneck has just been appointed an assistant Trust Officer of the First National City Bank. Previously Sid had been engaged in the practice of law, principally in the area of trusts and estates, and in his new position he will continue to do estate planning work for customers of the Bank. Be a good man to see if I had anything I thought constituted an estate.

By the grace and patience of the good people in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE office these notes will get into the April MAGAZINE. They are already late enough so I'd best cut short and get them in the mail. Sweet dreams!

Attending the wedding of Ray Freud '54 and Sally Whitaker were (l to r) BruceBergquist '55, Dean Berry '54, Paul Freud '60 (Ray's brother), Ray, Sally, NetsEhinger '52, Tom Wilson '53, Dave Fitch 54. Herb Hillman '54, Dave Roberts '55missed photo.

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