1947

This seems to be the time for the financial world to boost some of our classmates to well-deserved positions. Northwest Des Moines National Bank was the first one to get smart and elect Dave Wright, president. He has been with the bank since 1951 and has served as executive vice president since 1952. Dave graduated from Stonier Graduate School of Banking and has been past Playhouse and Des Moines Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Dave currently is president of the Retail Credit Association of Des Moines.

Dave McBean has been named manager of the Burbank & Co. Brattleboro office. Burbank is an investment firm which recently took over Vermont Securities, Inc., which include their Brattleboro office. Before joining Burbank, Dave represented F. S. Moseley investment firm. He resides in Dummerston Center, Vt., with his wife, Althea, and their four children, Jean, David, Alison and Alan. And, a little short notice that Bob Allen has been promoted a vice president of Girard Trust Company in Philadelphia.

Still in the financial world, Dick Rearick, purchasing agent of Rust Craft Greeting Cards, has recently written an article in the "New England Purchaser" in which he reports on a seminar recently conducted at the Materials Management Institute. After ten years in purchasing for the United States Envelope Co., Dick went to Rust Craft early in 1964. He is a member of the New England Purchasing Agents Association and active in their literary review committee.

Fred Ruoff has recently been appointed vice president of Anthony Kane Associates, Inc. Anthony Kane is a specialized executive placement agency serving the investment, banking and insurance fields exclusively. And that just about takes care of our financial news of the month.

Professor Barry Marks has been named to membership of the Rhode Island State Commission Against Discrimination. Barry, an associate professor of English at Brown, is a member of the Republican State Central Committee and of its executive committee. He is presently chairman of the Citizens United for Fair Housing Law plus having been chairman in 1960 of the advisory committee to the Rhode Island Civil Rights Commission. Barry received his master's and doctorate in philosophy at the University of Minnesota in 1949 and 1957 respectively. His wife, Gale, and their three children live at 21 Linden Road, Barrington, R. I.

The Chun King Corporation has appointed John Lee to be vice president of Marketing. John started in the food business as a salesman for Procter & Gamble and then became an account executive for Compton Advertising Agency on Ivory Soap. He was with General Foods as product manager on Sanka Coffee and was appointed marketing manager on Wishbone Salad Dressing and Lipton Soups for Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. He then went to American Home Foods, where he was again product manager on the Chef Boy-ar-dee line. John received his master's in business administration and marketing from the Harvard Business School. He also holds the rank of captain in the Marine Corps. He and his wife, Nancy, will make their home in Duluth, Minn.

We have an old engagement announcement, stating that Steve Reinhardt planned to marry Mary C. Hibbard in August. Although the path of true love never runs smooth, we will go on the hopeful assumption that the marriage took place. Steve is a lawyer, having received his law degree from Northwestern. Mary graduated from Mount Holyoke, and we certainly hope the couple live happily ever after, if they got married at all.

For those of you who own Fords and are mad at the way they operate, we now have a direct line into the culprit. Bill Scollard has been named general operations manager at Ford's Ypsilanti plant. He was formerly plant manager of the Rawsonville, Mich., plant. Bill has two master's degrees, one from Dartmouth in mechanical engineering and the other from Harvard in business administration. He is married to Mary-Hope and they have seven children, presently living at 1900 Ivy wood Drive in Ann Arbor, Mich.

George F. Carroll Jr. has just formed a new law firm to practice in Norwalk, Conn., called Carroll, Lane and Reed, having formerly been associated with Lane and Carroll.

Frank Mahoney, who has been a selectman of the Sharon, Mass., Board of Selectmen for five years and past chairman, has just resigned due to business pressures which take him out of town three or four days a week. Frank is a sales representative of the northeastern division of Ginn and Company, national school book publishers. Frank, a former teacher in the Sharon school system, lives with his wife and five children at 6 Pleasant Street, Sharon, Mass.

Another piece of news from Paul Spiers, who is the general news manager for the New England Telephone Company, indicates that he is still working at top speed since the company won the Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America. They received first place in the business and industry category for United States firms for its relations with news media.

Last May, our Walter Peterson, Speaker of the House for the State of New Hampshire, received a testimonial dinner. We quote from a column by political writer, Leon W. Anderson of the Concord Daily Monitor, which gives a pretty good viewpoint of the respect with which Walt is held by his constituents.

It should be a good party for it's in honor of a good man. Speaker Peterson is a respected legislative leader. He's fair and moderate and goes out of his way not to hurt anyone's feelings. He's ever courteous, and he's such a kindly person it's almost a handicap in the ofttimes rough-and-tumble game of politics. Speaker Peterson's such a quiet spoken man that this mannerism at times fools folks into thinking he's an easy mark. But he has purpose and rigid standards of conduct which stand out sturdily when they break through the inherent kindliness of his personality. Peterson's a realtor. He's in business with his dad. He's a native of Peterborough and becomes 44 next September 19. He's a Dartmouth man, a Navy veteran and a former president of the New Hampshire Realtors Association, besides being an Episcopalian. Most of all though, Peterson has long been a behind-the-scenes counselor and key cog in the political life of Sen. Norris Cotton. It has been in this role that Peterson has acquired political savvy and has earned the respect and confidence of Republicans in general.

Walt is serving a third legislative term. He was Republican majority floor leader two years ago.

. . . Late News Flash . . . Steve Reinhardt did marry that nice Mary Hibbard and they plan to make their home in Wilmington, Del. and with Cupid's arrow having found a home, let us retire for the month to contemplate our own wedded bliss.

Stan Waterman '46 (l) and Perry Gilbert '34 (r) with three village chiefs on TikehauAtoll in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia, on an expedition led by Gilbert.Waterman's documentary films won three top awards in a British festival.

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