1955
Dan Musser is preparing for his fourth season as general manager of the Grand Hotel, a stately resort hotel on Mackinac Island at the northern end of Lake Michigan. The place has 300 rooms, and a staff of 350 daring its four-month season. Dan, who worked four college summers at the hotel and returned for year-round work in 1957, now spends about six months a year actually at the hotel, and the other six months in Chicago. During the winter, he says, "I spend a lot of my time staffing." About 225 of the staff return each year, but the others must be recruited. "They're mostly professional migrant resort workers," says Dan, so the recruiting is done at southern winter resorts. Dan also devotes part of his winter to "trying to round up convention business." During summer vacation from school, Dan's wife Amelia and their three small children, ages 6, 4 and 2, join him at the hotel.
Bob Leopold was promoted to lieutenant commander and is now commanding officer of the "USS Pluck" (MSO-464), an oceangoing minesweeper based in San Francisco. Navy Lieut. Al Brookes, one of our class's few Annapolis graduates, has moved from Vallejo, Calif., to Bloomfield, Conn. On the Army side, Capt. Jay Lewis shifted from Fort Bliss, Texas, to 9th Corps headquarters in San Francisco.
For all of you '55s who get a kick out of zooming and scaring those earth-bound creatures below with an ear-shattering blast, you are warned that Paul Zimmerman has been named Executive Secretary of the NANAC (National Aircraft Noise Abatement Council). NANAC is the aviation industry's cooperative noise abatement group. Under a recent reorganization Paul moves up from general counsel and assistant to the president ( a post that has been abolished) to the top spot. Prior to NANAC Paul served as an attorney with the CAB and later practiced law in Washington, D. C.
Colgate-Palmolive has now plopped its peripatetic Latin American expert, RoyHill, down in San Juan, Puerto Rico. JohnBassette is with Pittsburgh Plate Glass in New Haven. Mac McGuire lives on Dartmouth Woods Road in Wilmington, Del.
Apparently Ty Auer has an injured writing hand because his wife Jean is handling his correspondence these days. She writes that they had their first baby, Lance, last August, and moved into a new home in Santa Barbara in January. "Front yard is a veritable orchard - variety of fruit trees from citrus to fig to apricot to avocado." Also, Jean reports, Ty has taken a new job as assistant to the vice president of Puritan Leasing in Santa Barbara.
From out of the west come smoke signals announcing that Gene Elsbree has been appointed assistant to the director of advertising for Hill Brothers Coffee, Inc., San Francisco, Calif. Gene, who was formerly with "Sunset" magazine, joined the Hills Brothers advertising department in December 1962. In his new position Gene will be involved in advertising, packaging, and marketing programs for both regular and instant products. We'll have a cup on that!
Jan Braestrup is in Chicago with International Paper. He sells fine papers and other products to accounts in the Windy City, Pittsburgh, Houston, St. Louis, Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, and other cities. A bit of traveling is involved, he says. Jan found not only a job but also a wife in Chicago; he's married to the former Ann Allen of suburban River Forest.
Walt Van Dorn joined the Boston law firm of Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster. Tom Maurey is a management consultant with Martin & Associates in Dallas. GeneGivens, a trust officer at the Bank of California, in Los Angeles, has moved to a place that must be gorgeous, 7191 Pacific View, and all Dartmouth men visiting in the area are invited to stop there, bring your friends, and stay indefinitely.
Bill DeCesare is an instructor in medicine at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D. C. He and Ellen and their two daughters, Caroline and Martha, live in suburban Bethesda, Md. Bob Horton was co-chairman of the January 17 53-minute march" staged by United Cerebral Palsy of the Greater Waterbury (Conn.) Area. The "march" was the solicitation of the town's residential areas. Bob is assistant trust officer of the Waterbury branch of the Connecticut National Bank, and he's secretary of the Greater Watertown Junior Chamber of Commerce and served as chairman of the commerce and industry division of the Greater Waterbury United Fund for 1965.
Stan Bergman married Lillian Pollack of New York City on Nov. 22 at Levittown, Pa She's a graduate of Girls High School of Philadelphia and attended New York University. Stan, a graduate of Tuck and Michigan Law, is a tax lawyer and certified public" accountant in New Haven. To accommodate his bride, Stan had to move – all the way from apartment 17-H at 111 Park St. to apartment 10-D.
John French exchanged vows with Anne Hubbell on Jan. 9 at Bedford. N. Y. Anne graduated from Wellesley, and John is a lawyer in New York. Roy Pfeil became engaged to Susan Magro of Cincinnati. She's a graduate of the Hillsdale School there and now studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York. She also attended Bennett College. Roy is with Noxzema International in London. Al Graham made wedding plans with Carol Moore of Gloucester, Mass., an alumna of Wheelock College.
Wes Bruner moved from Greenbelt, Md., to nearby Laurel. Closer to the track.
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