1955

Walt Miller was promoted to director of marketing at the Mellon National Bank and Trust Company in Pittsburgh. He had been with the bank for a year as manager of marketing research, and before that was assistant to the dean and marketing instructor at New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration. Walt also did a stint in advertising with McCann-Erickson in New York. He's on the faculty of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University, and is a member of the Savings Committee of the American Bankers Association.

Jay Benenson, a partner in the Newark, N. J., law firm of Furst, Furst, Feldman and Benenson, was named an acting magistrate in his home town of West Orange. Jay took his law degree at New York Law School and is a member of both the New Jersey and New York bars.

Any visitors to sunny Puerto Rico this winter will surely want to call on HarryAmbrose, who's gone native as export manager for Molinos de Puerto Rico. This would appear to be a windmill manufacturer — but since it's a subsidiary of Ne- braska Consolidated Mills, perhaps it produces something a bit more practical. Before this new assignment, Harry spent three years with the parent company; he was assistant to the president, in the Omaha headquarters.

More promotions and advancements. Blake Irons became a senior securities analyst in the investment department of Aetna Life and Casualty Company's home office in Hartford. He had been with the company as an investment analyst since 1963. Jack Fitzgerald moved up to head of the science department for Cheshire, Conn., schools; also, with the help of wife Margaret, he had a son, John Brendan, on August 30 - their third youngster. Gene Givens stepped up from assistant trust officer to full-fledged trust officer at the Bank of California, In Los Angeles.

Al Wright may well be our first bank president. He was elected top man of the Rockingham National Bank in Exeter, N. H., effective September 14. Al has served as executive vice president since 1965. He was the cashier of the New Market National Bank, Newmarket, N. H., at the time of its merger with the Rockingham National in 1964. Previously he had worked for the New Hampshire National Bank, Portsmouth, and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston.

Jerry Levy writes about a busy time in the middle of this year. He visited Europe, for the third time, in May, then became engaged in July and married in August, to Susan Aaron. She thought highly of Jerry and so brought two daughters, six and four, into the bargain. Muses Jerry: "How's that — from a globe-traveler bachelor to a husband and 'father' of two in four months!"

Also at the altar last summer was BillContini. The doctor's bride is a nurse, Kathryn Ann Ryan, a graduate of St. Anselm's College School of Nursing in Manchester, N. H. Bill had just completed a two-year fellowship in cardiology at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover, and after the ceremony Dr. and Mrs. swished off for a two-month trip to the West Coast and Hawaii. Gordie Russell, often a bridesmaid but never a bride, was best man.

Dick Bueschel returned to the Hanover scene, setting up a data processing business on Lyme Road and building a new house just off Balch Hill. The '55 contingent at or near the College is growing progressively larger.

Jon Anderson, who's director of financial aid at Cornell, was named by the New York State Board of Regents to its advisory council on financial assistance to college students. He's also a member of the Ithaca Board of Education, which means he has a hand in governing your reporter's beloved alma mater, Ithaca High School. Ah, strange fate!

The new Deputy Regional Director for the Peace Corps in India is Paul Zimmerman. Paul is at Bangalore, in Mysore State, supervising 300 volunteers working in food production, poultry management, and health and nutrition. He was formerly secretary of the National Aircraft Noise Abatement Council, Washington. He had served on the legal staff of the Civil Aeronautics Board and in private practice in Washington before joining NANAC in 1965 as general counsel and assistant to the president.

Pete Teal, feeling young, moved west.— to Billings, Mont., where he's practicing orthopedic surgery with another doctor. He writes that he, his wife and four children are "taking full advantage of the country" - camping, fishing, hunting, and "looking forward to a great year of skiing at Red Lodge." He adds contentedly: "no plans to come east." Pete reports that Dartmouth "is well represented in Billings and there's been talk of starting a club here."

Dave Corderman moved up to major in the Army and is beginning a year's tour in Viet Nam. He writes, "my family, wife Valerie and three children, will stay in Philadelphia area while I am gone." His last assignment was in Washington, and Dave expects to return there after Viet Nam.

Gale Roberson spent a year in Atlanta as assistant counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank, but then returned to law practice in Chicago last summer. He found Atlanta "a beautiful place to live," populated by "grand people," and "hard to leave." But the bank's legal work was a bit too quiet, and so it was back to Chicago. He's with the firm of Quinn, Jacobs and Berry, an 11-man firm, and is "frightfully busy" with corporate work, including taxes and securities. He's also been helping to organize a new national bank. Although Gale is a native of the Chicago area, he had to make at least one readjustment when he returned. After finding in Atlanta that "I was walking a lot faster than everyone else when I arrived," back in Chicago "I was walking more slowly than other people." Now he's speeded up again. Gale's office is in the Continental Bank building, and there he keeps an occasional eye on Harold O'Connell and Bob Garver, both Continental officers.

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