1947

Plans are going ahead by leaps and bounds for our 20th reunion a year from this June. It will be some time before Dick Menin's great organization gets in high gear. So, we will keep you apprised of the situation through this column for a couple of months. The plans for the reunion will really commence to gel at the alumni class officers meeting in Hanover in May (which once again ye ed will have to skip due to an annual business conference which conflicts). In October, the executive committee and the reunion committee will meet for the formalized presentation of our reunion plans at the time of the Penn football game in Hanover.

You see, there is a reward for volunteering to serve on the executive committee. You are allowed to spend your own money to go to Hanover, N. H., and to see a football game and probably develop a hangover; all of which is to enable you to spend your money in June 1967 to do the same thing minus the football game.

Last time we mentioned Dave Squire, he had sold or merged his Ansonia Mills and was acting as a consultant to the company of which he was former president. We now find that Dave has been appointed deputy director of the national anti-poverty program Job Corps. The announcement was made by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, who said in announcing Dave's appointment, "Mr. Squire's willingness to forsake his prominent position in industry to assume the Job Corps appointment is another example of the unselfish cooperation we have had from leaders in all fields to assist in the war against poverty."

Dave is also a member of the Urban Redevelopment Commission in Stamford, Conn., where he will continue to reside although he will probably be commuting to Washington quite frequently.

The purpose of the Job Corps is to set up centers for out-of-school and out-of-work young men and women between the ages of 16 and 21 to make them employable or help them to return to school. Although still quite new, more than 600 youths have completed job training with half of those now employed, 35% in the armed forces and the remainder having gone back to school. When Dave sold his Ansonia Mills to International Stretch Products in 1963, he remained on as a consultant for three years but informed the new owners that he planned to enter public service by the time he was forty, and this he has accomplished. Dave lives at 1398 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, Conn., with his wife, Elienne and three children, Susan, 15; Rebecca, 13; and Jonathan, 9.

With the World's Fair now closed, we have been wondering what our own MikePender, who served as deputy to the executive vice president and director of state exhibits at the World's Fair, is doing now. You will be pleased to know that Mike has accepted a job at the department of public works of Hempstead Township in Nassau County, Long Island, N. Y. Although not positive, we are quite sure that Nassau County is the most highly populated suburban county in the whole wide, wide world. With this in mind, you can see that Mike has really been picked to do a very large and vitally important job. Our congratulations go out to both him and the town of Hempstead.

Governor Volpe of Massachusetts has just appointed Dr. Robert J. Prochaska to the board of education in that portion which will oversee the operation of state colleges for a two-year term. Bob presently is manager of the Polycarbonate Research and Development section of General Electric's chemical materials department. Bob, a native of New York, took his master's and doctor's degrees in chemistry at Rutgers University. He joined General Electric in 1951 and has worked in various positions ever since. He too deserves our congratulations.

Last year, Herb Wik was a candidate for election to the board of selectmen of Shrewsbury, Mass. He chose to run against two selectmen, both of whom were in office and both of whom managed to squeak by. Herb however, is undaunted and has announced that he is going to run again this year. At the present time, he is a town meeting representative in addition to being secretary to the Shrewsbury Housing Authority. Certainly he has our best wishes for success this time.

Last month we mentioned Dick Hill as having earned membership in the company's tenth president club with the trip to Miami Beach which it entailed. We have since received further information that Dick has done far more than that. He was responsible for the most insurance sold, most lives insured, and most consistent production. Dick won the Hatch award for leading the agency in lives insured for the second time in four years. He won the company's "achievement certificate" for writing insurance for 50 lives. He won the Robert P. Burroughs Trophy for the agent with the most volume - more than $1,100,000 in Dick's case. He won the agency's Board of Managers Award for the highest total of annualized premiums in his agency, and he won the James A. Welman Trophy for the most consistent production for the fifth consecutive year. Now, if only he were making money.

Dick is an accomplished public speaker, director of the Claremont Chamber of Commerce, past president and former treasurer of the Claremont Rotary Club, is president of the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation plus having served on different posts of the Claremont, N. H., township.

Dick was an announcer for a Manchester radio station and managed radio stations at Claremont and at York, Pa. Before joining National Life, he was co-owner and sales manager of Claremont Builders Supply, Inc. He belongs to several Masonic organizations in Claremont, where he lives with his wife, Margaret and their daughter Janet, 15 and son, Richard, 13. His accomplishments certainly earn our congratulations.

Last month we said we needed news so badly we would have put your resume in this space if you were unemployed. We are happy to announce that the entire class is in very good shape since we did not receive any pleading notes. Imagine a class as large as ours with everyone blissfully happy.

Louis N. Perry has taken over the dutiesas head agent for 1948's fund campaign.

Secretary, Guard Hill Rd. Bedford Village, N. Y. 10507

Class Agent, 201 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I. 02906