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Westinghouse Electric is putting Ace Hall through a five-month "executive development" stint in the Brookings Institution's Public Affairs Fellowship Program in Washington. It's designed to provide "an intensive program of education and experience in Federal Government operations." The program includes 14 weeks in a Federal agency (NASA for Ace) and three weeks in a Congressman's office. Ace is one of 15 in the program, which runs until June 29. He reports: "very interesting so far."
Harry Guenther has been named dean of Georgetown University's School of Business Administration. Although the school has existed for ten years, Harry is its first head to be given the title of dean. He promptly announced ambitious plans for the future. Quoted in a Georgetown publication, Harry stated: "I would look upon some of my most immediate tasks as a complete review of the existing curriculum — adding new courses where necessary — and changing the context of existing courses, and the addition of new faculty members. The location of the School of Business Administration in Washington is an advantage we plan to use, especially in the areas of business-government relations, international business and finance."
Dean Guenther, as we will think of him now, has been an associate professor of finance nanceat Georgetown since 1964. Before that he spent a year as visiting associate professor at the University of Minnesota, where he taught business finance, investments, and portfolio management. From 1959 to 1962 he was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and in 1961 was appointed dean of the Beirut Management College, a middle-management training program he co-founded. Harry graduated from Tuck and has a doctorate from the Indiana University School of Business.
Before his death, William Carlos Wilcollaborated with Dave Wang on English versions of a number of Chinese poems, including both ancient and contemporary. This anthology, "The Cassia Tree," has now been published.
Bill Browning received the Navy Surgeon General Award as the outstanding graduate in his Flight Surgeon Class at Pensacola, Fla. The award is presented on the basis of academic achievement, leadership ability, moral character, and military character, and bearing. Bill previously served four years as a Naval aviator, and is now back for a second hitch, as a doctor. Air Force Capt. Glenn Wilson went through the F-4C Phantom II pilot course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Montana, and is now stationed at Bentwaters RAF Station in England. The Phantom II is the Air Force's fastest operational plane.
Foreign travel is on the upswing. PortSesnon toured Europe for two months last year, then returned home in time for his wedding to Linda Baker of Orinda, Calif., on September 30. Bob and Carol Morton have been traveling in Spain, Italy, France, and Holland, and Bob insists it's all in connection with his job as associate editor of a new Time-Life book series, the Time- Life Library of Art, a five-year project of fine, illustrated books on master artists of the western world. Bob was doing research lining up museum cooperation, and assigning photography during his European tour He also reports he's "building a modest art collection" in his new apartment in New York City. Cy Muromcew visited Moscow and Leningrad last fall in connection with his State Department job (on which he divulges no details), and brought back a "very furry hat" and a bottle of vodka both of which "came in handy during the last snowstorm here in D. C."
Pete Sarty, who spends busy winters at the Basm Lodge and Basin Ski Shop in Kilhngton, Vt., is off to Europe this summer He's picking up a car in England June 1, then touring through Holland, Germany Austria, Switzerland, the Riviera, "back to Paris and home in three weeks." He doesn't say whether hell have time to stop any place during this whirlwind drive. NewellStultz will return to Africa again this summer, visiting Kenya and Ghana. He switched last fall from Northwestern University to Brown, where he's the African expert on the political science faculty, and he says "every aspect of this new job is exciting making the years in graduate school suddenly very worth while."
Gene Givens, originally from a Chicago suburb, went all the way to California to find a Chicago-area gal. On March 5 Gene married Gwyneth Walker of Wheaton, Ill., who's doing graduate work at U.C.L.A' Gene is a banker in Los Angeles. LarryPilchman reports that he's "getting married finally on April 17 to well-known fashion coordinator Miss Diana Aforieri." Larry practices obstetrics and gynecology in Long Beach.
John Vaughan has been advanced to Southern Region General Manager of Hospital Food Management, a division of Automatic Retailers of America, Inc. John, who has his office at Wake County Memorial Hospital in North Carolina, joined ARA in 1960 after obtaining his graduate degree in hotel administration at Cornell University. He will be responsible for his company's operations at hospitals in the entire South.
In the business world, Otis Carney now lives in Summit, N. J., and is a sales representative for Arthur A. Crafts Co. HenryNeuberger submits a report "from the leasing manager," stating that "the first section of a nearly 1/5-mile-long office building (known as one/two/three Center Plaza) in Boston's Government Center is nearly 90% leased" and so the leasing manager and his wife departed for two weeks' vacation in St. Thomas. Government Center is a huge urban renewal project in the heart of Boston. Henry also says he's been interviewing prospective members of the class of '70.
Jim Wallace was transferred from a branch of the First National City Bank in New York to its head office, where he's assistant to the chairman of the credit and policy committee, which supervises the bank's entire loan portfolio and reports to the board all extensions of credit over $1 million. "With a portfolio of eight billion plus," comments Jim, "this is a lot of reporting." porting."The bank is sending Jim this summer to a six-week advanced management course at the University of Virginia. He and Diane also enjoyed a few days in Bermuda at the bank's expense, as a reward for his former branch's placing among the top he bank's 160 branches. The Wallaces 12 of bank's 160 branches. The Wallaces moved last October from Pleasantvlie, N. Y. to Chappaqua, N. Y., where they have "a few more bricks and more lawn to now " Jim is also a director and treasurer of a' swimming pool-tennis association of 325 families;
Ross Robbins left the Leo Burnett adver agency in Chicago to become vice president and manager of Robbinswood, Inc., a family-owned outdoor advertising company in Rockford, Ill. Ross formerly was with General Outdoor Advertising Co. to Chicago. In June the Robbinses will move from Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, to Delavan, Wis., and he'll commute from there to Rockford. Harry (Macky) Wirth became board chairman and president of Pacific Associated Lighting, Inc., San Francisco, which he says is the world s largest manufacturer of highway sign lighting. Bob Haves was promoted to assistant secretary of Bankers Trust Co. in New York. He's in the pension trust division.
jack Bryan is moving this month from Charlottesville, Va., to Doylestown, Pa., to begin private practice of orthopedic surgery. Pete Stevens switched his investment-analysis skills to Jesup & Lamont in downtown Manhattan. Frank Tepper was elected to the board of the First National Bank of Cape Canaveral; he's also president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida.
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