1949
The Funderfull Fifteenth Reunion man- aging directors have acknowledged a Fundamental Error in their thinking. They have announced a Policy Reversal and asked that we advertise this belated new look with all vigor.
Namely: Children are now, herewith, cordially welcome to the reunion. The former dictum that they be left at home is acknowledged as Deviationism and a Crime against the People. Those responsible for this nefarious policy have been expunged, extirpated, liquidated, exiled, drummed out, shot, and/or some combination of these.
In contamination with our sister classes of '50 and '51, the reunion directors have arranged for all phases of baby sitting and kiddy activity, teen wings and heaven knows what else. Further, we will have a room reserved at Mary Hitchcock and an obstetrician on call for any women coming to Hanover for their Second Honeymoon in such a condition as to produce their children for this occasion.
As you can see, the minute our boys spot any obstacle to the attendance and enjoyment of this reunion by every member of '49, they wipe it out. Wipe it right out.
Last I heard, they were arranging for a chartered United Air Lines flight to hop across the country from west to east, picking up '49s as it hops, all for Low Money. This column is too infrequent to keep you up to date on the whirlwind action of the reunion committee, so follow your mail for the minute by minute revelation of their latest tricks.
And so to the News: Dick Hanselman is made vice president of RCA Sales Corp. Richard is responsible for peddling TVs, radios and phonographs.
George Hartmann is a bright light. He has climbed to the position of Superintendent of Shop Operations at the General Electric plant in Hendersonville, N. C., site of the company's Outdoor Lighting Division. George has been with GE since graduation, running all over the country in his assignments.
Vail Haak is newly established in New Canaan, Conn. Vail has been in the insurance business since 1952, first with Liberty Mutual in Atlanta, then with Continental National up and down the eastern seaboard, finally with the Travelers. He is now Assistant Manager of the Casualty Sales Dept. in the NYC branch on John St.
Jack Madigan continues in the construction business in the South. He is now in Ma- con, Ga., with the Aaron Torch & Sons firm. Jack is in charge of estimating, bidding, and administration of construction projects.
Zeke Thurlow has been occupationally through a change or two. After eight years as head of a moving company in Evanston, Ill., he set up an International Harvester dealership in Elgin. In 1961 he joined the IBM organization, and after much preparation has been made Area Sales Manager. He is stationed in Memphis.
Ed Graham has his own radio and TV production firm in New York and Hollywood. He lives in LA. He is the producer of Linus the Lionhearted, available to you at 11 on Saturday morning on the CBS, and many other cartoon films. Earlier, Ed was in the advertising business with Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding).
Another IBM executive is Sam Kilner. Sam has been with the punched cards since 1955. He was a salesman in Hartford, an assistant manager in Boston, a staff man in the White Plains HQ of the Data Processing operation, Marketing Manager at the Space Guidance Center in Owego, N. Y., and is now in Armonk, N. Y., as Administrative Assistant to the Senior Vice President.
Gil Nelson, one of our engineers, has focussed his career on the subject of traffic engineering. After civil engineering assignments with the J. E. Greiner Co. in Baltimore, Cleveland, and South Bend, with the B. E. Beavin Co., and the McCormick Taylor Co. and the Baltimore County Traffic Dept., he has taken a position with the Clarkeson Engineering Company in Wellesley, Mass.
Frank O'Halloran has made his career in communications. After stints with NBC-TV (production budgets), Sterling Movies (industrial films), and the Wilding Co. (industrial communications), he went (in 1962) with the Michael John Associates (30 E. 42, N.Y.C.) as a sales executive in this firm which produces materials for sales meetings, selling shows, new product presentations, slide film programs, sales training programs, and special promotions.
BC Palmer is one of our surgeons. After medical school, internship and residency at George Washington University, he went into private practice in Annapolis. He practices general surgery, but has a sub-specialty in thoracic and peripheral vascular surgery, whatever that is. He is Chief of Staff and Assistant Chief of Surgery at the Arundel General Hospital.
Al Smith, on the other surgical hand, is an orthopedic surgeon. He studied medicine at the Univ. of Minnesota, practiced in Wilmington, Del., and has now moved to Brooklyn, where he is Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the V.A. Hospital.
Nelson Abrahamsen is busy practicing op- tometry, fitting contact lenses, in Cleveland. He has had his own business there since 1953.
Bill Davis has been appointed chief engineer, corporate product development, for The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn. Bill, previously product development engineer for Stanley's Steel Strapping Division, will direct the development of ideas for new products and new product lines outside the scope of the product divisions. Bill's graduate work in the Tuck-Thayer program should stand him in good stead. Before joining Stanley, he was a tool designer, an engineer in charge of tool development, and a sales engineer. The Davis family lives in West Simsbury, Conn.
Dick Stanwood has been appointed a vice president of Leo Burnett Co., advertising agency in Chicago, Ill. Prior to joining Leo Burnett in 1963 and taking on duties as an associate creative director, Dick had been a copy supervisor with Young and Rubicam of New York, where he had spent twelve years. He began his career in advertising as a space salesman on the Waltham (Mass.; "News-Tribune" in 1949. Dick and his family live at 122 Ravine Forest, Lake Bluff Ill.
John Adler went lithely up the ladder at Gimbel's department store, from office boy to assistant General Manager, then stepped off to advise others, as a member of the Booz, Allen and Hamilton management consulting firm. Since last year he has been associated with, as vice president, the country's second largest market research firm, Audits & Surveys, of N.Y.C. He is in charge of corporate development.
Pete Brown is another of our builders, has his own construction firm in Clearwater, Fla. After Thayer, Pete went on to Wharton. He was a civil engineer with the Navy, then spent 6 years as assistant manager of somebody else's firm before founding his own in 1962.
Jim Fowler is now advising institutional purchasers of securities, as a member of the N.Y.C. firm of Faulkner, Dawkins, and Sullivan. Jim had a year of study in Paris, followed by an M.A. from the Soviet Union program of the Harvard Graduate School. Thereupon he gave up academics and concentrated on money, for 10 years with Smith, Barney and Co.
This column is specializing in surgeons. Next is Dave Heusinkveld, practicing in Lewiston, Idaho. Dave went to Dartmouth Medical School, thence to Harvard. Intern and residency in Salt Lake, military medicine with the Air Force in Munich. Finally to the hills of Idaho above Jackson Hole.
Secretary, Eastman Kodak, A & OD 5-16 CW Rochester, N. Y. 14650
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