1949
Lo and behold, by the time you read this, Reunion will be an accomplished fact. The response is great, and it should be a most enjoyable weekend. One cannot praise the work of Woodberry, Hughes, Thomas and their many cohorts too much. If you see one of them, however, try.
On to the tale of John Gallup. From graduation to 1953 John was in the retail store business, first as a buyer, then as a store manager for Mercantile Stores Inc. in Nashville, Tenn., and Gregnville, S. C., finally as assistant manager of the family store in Holyoke, Mass. In 1954 he turned to the Strathmore Paper Company of West Springfield, Mass., and began a rise through the ranks to his present position of production manager of the company, responsible for all the production operations in the four mills located in Western Massachusetts.
Jody Simons went on from Dartmouth to 8.U., where he graduated in 1950. He joined the family hide and skin brokerage firm in Boston, where he worked 'til 1957. He then left for Merrill Lynch, where he is an account executive in the Copley Square (Boston) office, where he was recently made a stockholder.
Jack Benham has been selling plastics since college. From '50 to '53 with the Plax Corporation (polyethylene bottles and such), '53-'60 with the Formica Corporation (countertop materials), and since then with the Polymer Corporation, where he is the Northeast Distribution Manager. The company makes a private brew of nylon with teflon tucked into the crevices. Jack has kept headquarters 'in West Hartford, Conn., through thick and thin.
Jep Ellingwood has been all around the horn. A year with International Harvester, two in the Marines for Korea, a couple with Raytheon, ditto with the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau, seven with the Federal Aviation Agency in the Southern states, one for life insurance in Georgia, and now back north, to Framingham, Mass., where he is with Jordan Marsh in the sporting goods end of the business.
Bob Leary has spent his working life in group life insurance. From graduation till 1954 he was with State Mutual in Worcester. Since then he has worked for New England Mutual in the Boston office. His present title: Assistant District Group Manager.
Harm Saville is a processor of foods. His first venture was his own fish cannery, which went up and down in a hurry. For eight years, until 1958, he worked for Standard Brands. There was a hiatus in food for a year with the Sylvania Company. Then in 1961 he joined Chuck Wagon Foods in Newton, Mass., where he is in production management, responsible for all phases of plant operation, production, research, procurement, and engineering. In case you are not with the camping and hiking business, Chuck Wagon is a leading producer of dehydrated foods for those on the trail.
Loomis Dana has been ever with the YMCA. His stations of duty have been Lawrence, Mass., Chicago, Providence, and, now, Middletown, Conn. Since his arrival in 1960, Loomis has been in charge of all kinds of Y programs, including the summer day camp.
Russ Wolferfz spent 11 years with Sears and Roebuck, a year in his own Northeast Construction Products business, and since 1961 has been sales manager of the Cousens Realty in Rockland, Me.
Connie Pensavalle is, has always been, a teacher and coach, since his salad days on the Dartmouth squad. Five years at North Attleboro High School, a couple at the University of Rhode Island, five at Foxboro High, two at Attleboro High, and, since last year, at King Phillip High in Wrentham, Mass., where he is guidance counsellor and head football coach. Connie has a couple of irons in side fires: he is owner of a driving school; he is owner and coach of a professional football team.
John Ruhsam finished school at Stanford, spent a year in life insurance-real estate out in California, then joined the Marines, in 1951, where he has been ever since. He has enjoyed the scenery in Korea, California, Hawaii, Washington, Chicago, and North Carolina. He bears the rank of Lt. Colonel and the title Marine Corps Reserve Liaison Recruiting Officer (an aviator, qualified in both jet and helicopter aircraft. ... John runs up and down the East coast from his home at the Cherry Point, N. C., Air Base, visiting Marine bases and recruiting).
Harry Randall is a lawyer and politician. Harry Randall is a lawyer and politician. He took his law degree at Rutgers. His firm of Randall and Randall conducts a general law practice in Westwood, N. J. He is serving his second term as a Republican member of the N. J. State Legislature. He is also president of the Westwood Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association, the Commander of the local VFW post, and a director of the Pascack Valley Bank and Trust Company.
Irl Marshall started work with the Duraclean Company out in the Chicago area. He spent 12 years in the cleaning business, with a little advertising work on the side, then moved, in 1961 to Montgomery Ward, where his is Catalog Field Service Manager. He travels all over the country visiting the company's catalog operations and has been working nights toward an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago.
John Balatow, after a couple of years in the Army, settled into Lenoir, N. C., and the furniture business, where he has been ever since. For ten years he represented the Hibriten Furniture Company. Then in 1962 he joined the Kent-Coffey Furniture Company, spent a year on the road and then became National Sales Manager.
Bob Schmitz started work as a salesman, first for the Kieckhefer Container Company in New York City, then, after a three-year stint in Korea with the Army, with the International Paper Company in Cleveland. In 1955 he moved to the Clevite Corporation and spent 10 years in budget and other financial work. Last year he joined the E. F. Hauserman Company (movable, modular office partitions) in Cleveland as Manager of Cost Accounting and Financial Planning.
Deke Jackson joined a concession business briefly after school, then spent five years as a Naval aviator. When he finally got to work in 1955 he took up investment banking, where he has has been prospering since. The first two years were with Lee Higginson in NYC. Then he moved to San Francisco; five years with Lionel D. Edie, and, since, 1962, with Glore Forgan, Wm. R. Staats, Inc. Deke heads the corporate finance department in San Francisco, underwriting, merging and all that sort of thing.
Hayes Woolridge is a surgeon in Clearfield, Pa. He learned the trade at the Dartmouth Medical School, the Jefferson Medical College, the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, the Mary Hitchcock, and the Upstate Medical College in Syracuse. He finally got back to his hometown in 1959 and undertook the practice of general and thoracic surgery.
Most '49s sell insurance, but Lou Gluek buys it. After Tuck School, Lou spent a couple years with the First National Bank of Kalamazoo, Mich. In 1951 he joined the Upjohn Company, in the same city, where he has been since, and where he now heads the insurance unit, buying all the protection that a major company provides its people and its property.
Ken McClain is a geologist, in Texas. Always has been, furthermore. First with Standard of Indiana, then with Midwest Oil Corporation, and, since 1961, on an independent basis. Ken runs around looking at the ground for likely oil and gas hideaways, mobilizes the money to explore his hunches, and sees whether he was right or not. His center of operations is Fort Worth.
Bill Newberry follows the same calling, out of Midland, Texas. Tex took an MA. in Geology at the University of Texas and worked for Gulf Oil and Midwest Oil also. He has been independent since 1962.
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