1949
First in order of business is the FIFTEENTH REUNION, our June 17-20 date in Hanover. The roster of those definitely coming has grown since the last issue as follows:
Clark Church Charlie Scheutz Dick Higley Bud Hughes Paul Woodberry Herb Crampton Ed MacBurney Scott Whipple Dick Russell Carl Granger Dick Moulton Bob Pierce Carll Tracy Bill Ballard Ed Sullivan Bob Zeiser Thad Seymour Dick Moersch Louis Farrar Pete New Larry Schaefer Sam Smith Dick Andrews
The Probablies' ranks have increased as well, to wit:
Jack Barr Ray Drake Doug Parsons John Simpson Ed McNeil Roy Benson Jay Rosenfield Ted Baumann Harv Chandler Dick Mallary Zeke Straw Joel Berson Charlie Barwis Bob Underhill Roy Lovell
Our Newsletter Editor, Bill Ballard, is not only an advertising chief (associate creative director of the Lennon and Newell Adv. Agency, NYC) but also a politician. The Pelham Manor Democratic party has nominated him to run for the office of Village Trustee. In this Republican country our man is a pioneer.
Ed MacBurney married the other day. Married into the family, you might say; his bride is the sister of Gus Farnsworth. The wedding was in St. Thomas Church, and colleagues of Ed's from parishes all over the country were there to celebrate the occasion. Mrs. MacBurney is a widow and brings with her three sons to get the family off to a roaring start.
Dick Elliott has also married. His bride, Marion Elizabeth Wier, and he are both pediatricians. They will live in Duxbury, Mass., and practice in the Boston area.
The weddings roll on: Gene Smith has married Lois Wollenweber in Quincy, Mass. Gene is a financial writer for the New York Times. Lois is a partner in the public relations firm of Allen, Foster, Ingersoll and Weber, in Manhattan.
Dan Ryder, in Bedford, Mass., was awarded his CLU designation recently. He is with the Boston agency of the Union Mutual Life.
Dick Andrews is one of our legion of General Electric people (we are much more popular there than, for example, GM). He joined GE at graduation, took one of their financial training programs, in Lynn, Mass. Thence to Cincinnati, where he's been since, in the Flight Propulsion Division. Dick is in production control of the jet engine manufacturing program.
Roy Benson was in the insurance business (Mass Mutual) for a couple years before joining GE. He is an accountant; has been all over the map; is now at the Erie, Pa., plant.
Doug Stevenson took an M.A. at Syracuse, then taught grammar school for a year, joined GE in 1952. In 1955 he got into GE's computer operations as a consultant, salesman, applications representative, market researcher, product planner. He is now in NYC, a consulting Systems Analyst, assigned full time to AT&T.
Joe Baker graduated from Tuck in 1951, went right to GE, was trained as a salesman. He is now working out of Philadelphia, selling wiring devices to distributors from New Jersey to Virginia.
Ray Bankert did Tuck School, then a year as a salesman in Utica, N. Y., joined GE in 1951. Ray is financial. He watched over money at the Light Military Electronics Dept. in Utica, traveled around as a member of the corporate auditing staff, is now Manager, General Accounting, Taxes and Budgets, for the Machinery Apparatus Operation, Schenectady.
Bill Chapman joined GE after graduation, was in Boston for manufacturing and financial training two years, moved to Cincinnati as a cost accountant, returned to Massachusetts (Everett) in 1961. He is Manager of Materials, head purchasing agent, that is.
George Hartmann came to GE after graduation as a mechanical engineer from Thayer. George has been at a variety of GE plants, is now Superintendent of the Hendersonville, N. C., factory that makes GE's line of highway and outdoor lighting equipment. George's factory has 470 people, who make the pieces and put them together.
Pete Wing, a fairly new recruit to 1949's army of insurance men that I mentioned a month or so ago, has already won himself a medal. Pete, an associate of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s agency in Nashua, N. H., since 1963, has been named one of the company's Freshman Five award winners for 1965. The award is presented annually to the top five representatives, new to the life insurance business, completing their first year with the firm and is based on sales volume, commissions earned, and number of lives insured. Before joining Mass. Mutual, Pete was in sales and marketing work in the New England area. He has just been named chairman of the American Cancer Society's April drive in Nashua.
Bill Buettner is a data processing wizard with the Bureau of the Census in Washington. He is Chief of the Production Branch, compiles and organizes statistics on every conceivable subject: unemployment, imports, exports, agriculture, business and industry, population, housing, income, and on and on. Except for an M.A. at George Washington, and a half dozen years running his own pest control company in Brooklyn, Bill has been in the federal government. Part of this time he was with the U.S. Public Health Service.
Clarke Church joined Procter and Gamble after graduation. He was a salesman in Scranton and Harrisburg, a sales manager in Manchester, N. H., Boston, and Cincinnati. He is now Sales Manager and Director of P&G of Canada, in Toronto.
Peter Costich spent a couple of years in the Navy following graduation, then a dozen years as sales manager of the Hicks Nurseries (plants, that is) in Westbury, L. I. In 1963 he formed Horticultural Materials and Systems, Inc., of which he is president. His company operates as consultants in sales and marketing programs for horticultural products. They run a publishing company, a design studio, an advertising agency, and a sales organization. It is a small nationwide company, with such clients as W. HiGrace and Union Carbide.
Mark Feer has had a varied career. From Hanover he went to the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the University of Paris for a year. Thence to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, operated by Harvard and Tufts, where he got his M.A. and Ph-D. He went on a Fulbright to India (to write his dissertation: "India's China Policy"). Next: economic consultant, Arthur D. Little, Cambridge. A couple of years in Army Intelligence, then to the First Boston Corp. in NYC, where he is now vice president of this major investment banking firm. Mark is concerned with negotiating for the issuance of stocks and bonds of foreign governments and companies, spends about 30% of his time abroad, mainly in Japan, Europe, Australia and Venezuela.
Lou Mulkern went from Hanover to San Francisco's Bank of America. His assignments started with Tokyo, thence to Bangkok, Beirut, Osaka, and back to San Francisco. He is now vice president in charge of an area that stretches from Afghanistan to Australia (seven branches and two representatives in 18 countries). Lou has been attending the summer sessions in Hanover of the Graduate School of Credit and Finance. He travels around this part of the world about a quarter of the year.
Al Neidle went to the Kent College of Law in Chicago, to U.S. Steel and Milprint, in turn, as an industrial engineer, to the Essex Wire Corp., as Personnel Manager. Al is now in Cleveland with the Weatherhead Co., Industrial Relations department, in charge of recruiting, wage and salary, training.
Harv Nolan spent a couple of years with the Union News Co., one with the Marines in Korea, then joined the McCarthy Dry Goods Co. in Woonsocket, R. I., where he can still be found. He progressed through various positions to that of president, treasurer and general manager of this department store, which does a couple million business, with 120 employees in an old mill town.
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