1955

Roy Hill writes enthusiastically about Johannesburg and his new job, managing director of Colgate-Palmolive's companies in South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. He previously headed Colgate-Palmolive operations in the Caribbean, until he was unexpectedly notified last fall that he was moving. "The next thing I knew, I was in New York, London, and here in Johannesburg - all in three weeks - minus one practically new Mustang and surfboard!" Since then Roy has toured most of his new territory, which is about two-thirds the area of the U.S., and has found it "a fascinating and beautiful area. Fortunately we have great roads and all the latest jets so travel isn't difficult." From the business standpoint, "we have a tremendous growth situation," though "the political end of things keeps us on our toes and concerned about finances, and no one can predict the final answer — if there ever is one - to the Rhodesia question. Local wags here kid me that it was a good thing Mr. Wilson was not Prime Minister in London when the Americans took the plunge 200 years ago!" Roy describes Johannesburg as "a pretty swinging town, and South Africans are great sportsmen - mostly tennis, golf, swimming, hunting, and sex - and not necessarily in that order."

Jack Bailey completed his master's degree in education at the University of Florida and in January started toward a doctorate, to be finished in June 1968. He plans to do educational research afterward. Geoffand Jean Snow had their second son, Tim, last July. Two weeks later all four Snows left home in Danville, Calif., to spend the rest of the summer in Idaho, where Geoff was prospecting.

Al and Betty Van Huyck, in Calcutta for the Ford Foundation, report they had a "whirlwind ten weeks' leave from India" last year which took them to Iran, the U.S., England, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. In New York they visited the World's Fair and Lincoln Center, and in Moscow they "drank vodka with students from Tashkent and Kiev, saw a dazzling ballet and mastered the subway. To make the setting perfect for our memories of the golden domes of the Kremlin, it snowed on our last day there." Now back in Calcutta for another 15 months, the Van Huycks write that Al's work on the city plan for Howrah, across the river from Calcutta, "is going well" and the plan "should be published in mid-1966." In extracurricular life, Al is secretary of American International School Board, and Betty is chairman of the Welfare Committee of the American Women's Club. The Van Huyck children, John and Nancy, recently were joined by two orphan friends, who stayed with the family for two months.

In other news from the Indian subcontinent, Scott and Dorothy Rutherford, stationed in Dacca, East Pakistan, with the Agency for International Development, report that "the work continues to be immensely interesting" and they expect to remain in Dacca until 1967. Dorothy and the three children had to be evacuated in September because of the war with India, but they returned before Christmas.

Bob Hayes has been employed by the Bankers Trust Company of New York since earning his degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1958. Last month he was promoted again, to Assistant Secretary. He has been in the pension trust division of the bank, serving as pension administrator and as supervisor of the division's clerical staff. In Palisades Park, N. J., where he resides, Bob is chairman of the finance committee for the First Presbyterian Church.

Mark Leipman, who runs a Boston marketing and sales agency, Sidney and Mark Leipman Associates, has also become treasurer of a new company, Contract Metalworking Corp., which makes food service equipment. Air Force Capt. Mike Fletcher is now stationed at Goose Bay, Labrador, with the Goose Air Defense Sector. He and Ann had their second child, first son, Glenn, last July 24. Mike is taking advantage of the northerly clime to play hockey two or three times a week. He reports that Capt.Ed Jones is also at Goose Bay, with the Defense Communications Agency, and both will be there until the summer of 1967.

Red Hennigar was elected a director of the Melrose Co-operative Bank. He lives in Reading, Mass., and does other spare-time duty as a member of the executive committee of the Boston alumni association, a governor of the Bellevue Golf Club, and a director of the Reading Youth Hockey Program.

Frank Chase is a claims policy specialist with the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. Joe Kagle left Pittsburgh and is now teaching at Keuka College, Keuka Park, N. Y. Alan Cooke shifted from the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England, to the Centre d'Etudes Nordiques at Laval University in Quebec. Pete Gulick is a systems engineer for The Mitre Corp. in Paris.

Martha and Dick Hopkins had their second youngster, first daughter, Patricia, last May. Dick sells turret lathes and other machine tools in the Chicago area for Warner and Swasey, and is at least tied for the class longevity record with one employer. He's been with the company since graduation, working in Cleveland and Milwaukee before being transferred to Chicago in 1964. Dick commutes from the northern suburb of Deerfield.

Another Chicago commuter, Bob Garver, was promoted last year to assistant cashier at the Continental Illinois, the Windy City's largest bank. He's in the commercial department, handling deposits and loans for oil, gas, and public utility companies. He travels occasionally to visit public utilities in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, and other midwestern states. One of Bob's co-workers at the Continental is Harold O'Connell, who's also an assistant cashier in the commercial department.

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