1955

Bill Ramsay doesn't fill all his hours as secretary of Rennen Terrazzo Mosaic Co., a Chicago contractor, so he moonlights. He devotes a few hours a week at home to selling through the mail, planetanums overhead projectors, and other teaching aids for astronomy, geology, geography, and meteorology Though the manufacturer, Hubbard Scientific Co., has distributors all around the country, Bill sends out 4 000 catalogs three times a year, and has sold to such far off customers as Boston College, and the Universities of Maine, New . Hampshire, Vermont, and Hawaii. He has been selling the teaching aids for three years - and quite successfully. "We went to Europe on it last year " he says. Bill also reports that he recently bumped into Mike Fiedling, a broker with Bacon Whipple & Co. in Chicago.

Al Pianca is completing four years at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa where he's an assistant professor of Spanish, and on July 1 he'll become an associate professor of Spanish at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N. Y. Loyal reader Pianca writes: "The first thing I do when the ALUMNI MAGAZINE arrives is to turn to the 1955 Class Notes. You can always be sure of an A grade!' Absolutely spontaneous and unsolicited.

Another moving up in the academic world is Bob Keane, who last year finished his Ph.D. in English at Columbia, and then was promoted in March to assistant professor at Hofstra University.

Dave Oberlander last year set up an unusual market development-market research business with Curt Jones '56, and Dave reports with satisfaction that the venture is "growing in the direction we anticipated. Dave and Curt work with companies that want to introduce new products or materials - generally of a sophisticated, scientific nature— without hiring a special new sales force. Headquarters is Chicago, but they travel from coast to coast now in their market research, while concentrating on the Midwest in market development. Some large manufacturers are among their clients. Looking back on the decision to become an entrepreneur, Dave says, "I shudder to think that we might not have done it."

Pete Dromeshauser left Itek to become manager of New England sales for Premier Industrial Products. His office is in Boston, and he and Donna live in suburban Hingham. Pete reports that prominent Boston bachelor Gordie Russell strained himself trying to beat Dave Conlan (who is equally prominent and equally single) at squash, and had to have a cartilage removed from his knee. Bob Blum, who had just barely started medical practice in Oakland, is now an Army captain at Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver.

Joe Pluto is in Cleveland with the newlymerged Penn-Central Railroad. He was formerly the Pennsy's supervisor of communications and signals, but there's no word yet on his job in the combined operation. Vic Sitty plans a July 2 wedding to Janet Lake, a first-grade teacher in Gales Ferry, Conn. She graduated from Central Connecticut State College and is now doing parttime graduate work at the University of Connecticut. Vic, who has a master s degree from the University of Connecticut, is a computer programmer at the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics, at Groton, Conn.

Paul Dingwell is now established at Boite Postale 21036 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He's Goodyear International's regional representative for the Ivory Coast, the ex-French Equatorial African countries, the Cameroun, Spanish Guinea, and the Congo. He was formerly based in the Congo, at Leopoldville. Roger and Dottie Young had their third, Krista Lorraine, on April 5. Roger is with the FBI in New York City, and they live in Rutherford, N. J. Tom andAnn Byrne do have a name for that third son we reported last month; it's Edward Stewart. Tom has tired of suburban life and the tedious commute from Lyme to the Hopkins Center, so they've moved into Hanover, at 1 Butternut Lane.

The Bell System promoted Jack Cogswell and transferred him from New England Telephone & Telegraph to parent A.T.&T. to help prepare information for the Federal Communications Commission investigation of telephone rates. He's now living in New Providence, N. J., and will work on cost and investment analysis. Al Murray switched last year from the staff of the Joint (SenateHouse) Economic Committee in Congress to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, which does staff work on tax bills for the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. This past winter he worked on reports and floor speeches for the Tax Adjustment Act of 1966, which increased some excise taxes and speeded up some income tax collections. The Murrays have also bought a house m suburban Bethesda, Md„ and they see WesBruner and Cyril Muromcew on occasion.

Just for the record, Lou Miano, who recently moved back to California from New York, has even more recently moved back to New York, presumably still writing for television. Don Hummel, who's with the Northern Trust in Chicago, took his family to Fort Lauderdale for a month in March and April, but devoted a good bit of his vacation time to writing 200 postcards - count 'em, 200 — to customers and prospective customers in Wisconsin, the state he covers for the bank. "It's hard to figure out what to write on that many cards," Don reports candidly. However, he tried the same ploy a year ago, and he says it produced one new account for him, so card-writing will obviously be a major part of Hummel vacations for years to come. Another banker, BobHorton, who's an assistant trust officer at the Waterbury office of the Connecticut National Bank, gave a talk last winter on "Lifetime Financial Planning" to an organization called Parents Without Partners, Inc.

Air Force Captain Glenn Wilson, stationed in England and flying the F-4C Phantom, is temporarily back in this country for three months at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.

Frank Carlton writes from California that the "big news here in Milpitas was a $3.5-million bond issue that passed on an 88% 'yes' vote." The explanation: "As assistant city manager I was rather involved, and authored the five-year capital improvement program on which the bond issue was based." Frank also says, "we manage to stay in touch with 1955 ... thanks to visits with Wayne and Margo Cliff in San Rafael (and at the Glee Club concert in San Francisco) and John and Sue Ballard of Los Altos Hills at the Princeton game broadcasts."

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