1955

Nick Kotz won a top journalistic prize, the Raymond Clapper Award, for disclosing that many post office "antipoverty" jobs for young people in the summer of 1965 were filled by friends of Congressmen and other public officials. Nick was chosen unanmously by a panel of five newspapermen "for his comprehensive and discerning reporting." The award includes a cash prize of $1000. Nick reports from Washington for the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Tribune.

Earlier this year, Nick, Charlie Warner,Bob Alvord, and their wives took a five-week trip to Russia, India, Nepal, Lebanon, Egypt, and Italy. Nick and Charlie also tussle frequently on the handball court. These reports directly from Charlie, encountered recently by your reporter at the door of CBS in Chicago; Charlie is sales manager for WTOP in Washington, and was in Chicago for a convention.

Gus Aberle is the new president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania. "We have had a weak club - very little interest," he writes frankly. "I hope to change this situation." Gus also has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Upper St. Clair (Pa.) Township Commission.

Jerry Samuelson reports from Delmar, N. Y., that he managed a Little League baseball team last spring and "through some accident won the league championship. "He goes on: "A friend said that if I could win in baseball 'not knowing anything about it' that I should be able to win in football 'supposedly knowing something about it.' Result: Head coach Pop Warner football team, wishing I had Ross Ellis to head up the backfield. Second result: A perturbed wife. Had to cut a three-week vacation down to one week."

Fred Starling, who's a lawyer in real life, is also president of the Pennsylvania State Fish and Game Protective Association. He received an award for Distinguished Service from the Penn Athletic Club in recognition of "his leadership in opposing the Philadelphia Gun Registration bill." In his Fish and Game post, Fred has also been presenting some awards himself, for conservation.

Lou Cavaliere, teaching science and driver education at North Haven (Conn.) High School, is pushing for more emphasis on driver education in school. His views were the subject of a recent article in a local paper, which noted his degree from Dartmouth and master's from Wesleyan, commenting, "at first glance, Lou Cavaliere would seem to be an unlikely champion of a non-academic subject in the school system." Driver education is taught only after school at North Haven, and Lou wants it included in the regular program. He was quoted: "It is an area of education vital to the life and health of the student and the community and therefore a concern and responsibility of education.... What use are science, mathematics or history to a youngster if he does not live past the age of 17?"

Another teacher, Norrie Howard, is pursuing his trade in England this year, under a teacher exchange arranged by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Norrie's home base is Darrow School, New Lebanon, N. Y., and he's now at Malvern College for Boys, Malvern, Worcestershire. Although Norrie usually flies helicopters in the Canadian Arctic during the summer, this year he taught English in Dartmouth's ABC program for underprivileged boys.

Also in the foreign department, TonyKreulen, who's been in the Far East since 1959 with the American Foreign Insurance Association, moved from Yokohama to Singapore as manager of Singapore-Malaysia operations. Previously he was in Okinawa and Korea. "Enjoying it immensely," he writes, "but not saving much money." While in Yokohama, Tony was vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, and president of The Columbia Society, a local American charity.

Tom Carlsen completed a year at Syracuse University as an assistant professor of research in the Graduate School of Social Work. "Enjoyed it so much," he reports, "we've decided to stay and trust a recently-acquired old farm will adequately hold Ann, the five young'uns, dog, cats, birds, and the rest." The palatial-sounding new address: Main Street, Apulia Station, N. Y. The Mayo Graduate School of Medicine has honored Dr. Paul Andreini for excellence as a fellow in internal medicine and has granted him the A. Ashley Rousuck Fellowship Award. Paul, who received his M.D. from McGill, is an assistant to the staff in rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic. He's one of 29 award winners selected from some 650 more doctors enrolled as Mayo Graduate School Fellows.

Pete Greenfield became rector of All Saints' Parish in Hershey, Pa., on July 1. The Greenfields also had their fourth child, Kyle Sawyer, last February. Dave Miller is now supervisor of internal audit in the controller's division of American Cyanamid Co. in Wayne, N. J. Pete Briggs was promoted last fall to branch manager for the First National Bank of Boston —"a 'store' of my own," he writes - and then was promoted to manager of a larger "store" in May.

John Vaughan moved up from district manager to southern regional general manager of Hospital Food Management, a division of Automatic Retailers of America, Inc. The company manages the dietary departments and food service departments of 105 hospitals in 25 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. John graduated from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration in 1960 and has been with Automatic Retailers since then.

One of our longer-term top executives is Warren Peterson, who's been president of a family company, Peterson Products Corp., since the month after graduation. Warren lives north of Chicago in Lake Forest, and the company is in Schiller Park, near O'Hare Airport. It manufactures barbecues, sinks, hair dryers, and parts for autos and television sets. Warren is also secretary-treasurer of Columbia Tool Steel Co. in Chicago Heights, a producer of specialty steels, especially for tools. He's a director of a trade association, the American Metal Stamping Association, and chairman of its safety committee. Later this month he'll moderate a seminar on power-press safety at the National Safety Council's Safety Congress, held in Chicago. Warren is also an enthusiastic curler in the winter months. He plays for the Exmoor Curling Club in Highland Park, which has won the Illinois championship for the past four years.

During this past summer, Dick Bueschel was associate director of a nine-week computer training course in Manchester, N. H., sponsored by the Programming and Systems Institute of Northern New England.

Vic Sitty married Janet Lake in New London, Conn., on July 2. She graduated from Central Connecticut State College and teaches first grade at Gales Ferry School. Vic is a computer programmer at the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Groton, Conn. They're living in Gales Ferry. On July 4 Larry Metz took the hand of Myrna Lee Schecter in Philadelphia. Myrna is an R.N., a graduate of the Albert Einstein Medical School of Nursing in Philadelphia. She also did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. Larry, who graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, now practices neurology in Springfield, Mass.

Stan and Ruth Sklar had their third daughter, Debra Anne, on June 2. They live in East Northport, N. Y.

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