1932

The busy year-end and holidays lessened the flow of news. I hope you all had fun and have started a good new year.

Sey Rogers reports: "My son, Stewart, now is a freshman at Dartmouth (class of '69) and although working very hard is en-Bill joying the college as much as I did, which is saying a great deal. I am busy specializing in general surgery and find some time for amateur radio and boating."

Morton was recently elected a director of The American Express Company. President of W. H. Morton & Co., dealers in municipal bonds, Bill is a past president of the Municipal Bond Club of N. Y. and a former chairman of the municipal securities committee of the Investment Bankers Association. Bill is now also a homeowner in Hanover, out in the hills of Etna, and is often seen on the Hanover scene.

Dr. Sheldon C. Reed, director of the Dight Institute of Human Genetics at the U. of Minnesota, has released a research report showing that higher I.Q. parents are producing slightly more children than the less intellectually endowed. This report, which should be heartening to all of you, upsets a long-standing presumption that was based on the fact that the larger the family, the lower the average I.Q. Sheldon says that it does not follow that the less brainy produce more children because many of the offspring of the low I.Q. families do not marry and produce children. He finally contends that- the increasing mechanization and complexity of our society will encourage reproduction by the more intelligent and discriminate against reproduction by the less intelligent.

Jay Whitehair fills a card for us: "I see Bill Morton at football games, looking sleek and healthy; they have grandchildren on the West Coast. I pass Warren Moore at 57th and Madison each a.m. at 8:39; he's on the way to Lever Brothers (our respected competitors). He also looks fine. Chuck Adkins is doing a wonderful job as president of Briarcliff College - has quadrupled their facilities — it looks wonderful. We have three granddaughters and two grandsons.

Sterling Apthorp has been assigned to the organization planning staff of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio) to specialize in executive appraisals and organization reviews. He had been manager of personnel administration for Sohio since 1963, having joined the company in 1933.

As I said - there wasn't much material this month. Sometimes I inadvertently lengthen a column by repeating a previously - reported item that I receive again from a second source. But even that stumble would not have helped this column.

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