1955
Allen Palmquist writes that after working three years on the Emerson Electric Company account for D'Arcy Advertising in St. Louis, he moved over to Emerson in November as assistant director of advertising, sales promotion and publicity. "This is a new position," he explains, "created by Emerson management to reflect present and potential growth of this large corporation which had a million dollar sales increase to 350 million in the fiscal year just ended." Allen also reports that the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Club arranged for special radio hook-ups last fall to hear the Princeton and Cornell games.
Dick Morrill is on a year's leave of absence from the University of Washington, and is now in Chicago to be project director for a study financed by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the study, Dick says, is to figure out "how to evaluate a present hospital system and how to plan for future changes, to be more responsive and convenient to people." (Dick's regular field, incidentally, is geography.) He adds: "It's challenging, and we find Chicago exciting (in several ways), though I miss my mountain climbing and camping." Dick is based at the University of Chicago. About two years ago, his wife, Margi, died suddenly of pneumonia, when they were in the midst of adopting a son, Lee. But Dick completed the adoption on his own and later remarried, and he and Joanne just celebrated their first anniversary. He reports that "Lee will be spoiled by three sets of grandparents, all of whom get along marvelously."
Ray Woolson was promoted from assistant vice president to vice president of the South End Bank and Trust Company and manager of its new branch in West Hartford, Conn. Ryutaro Shinilo works in Hamburg, Germany, as a European sales representative for a Japanese textile manufacturer. He writes, "My son goes to a German Volkschule and learns language quickly, but my wife and I are poor."
Matty Weinberg has expanded his law office in San Francisco, and he reports proudly that he now employs a Yale man and a Harvard man, and "works them hard." The firm works in the corporate, real estate, and antitrust fields. Also, Matt is legal counsel to two California Legislators, is the program chairman of the Jewish Welfare Federation, and was a counsel on the Committee to Reelect Governor Brown.
Cyril Muromcew is back at the State Department in Washington after working last summer in Geneva with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Also, he says, he "spent some time in New York at the UN General Assembly working on disarmament and peaceful use of outer space with Ambassador Goldberg's team." Cy adds that he's. seeing "some familiar Dartmouth faces around the State Department these days." Another Government worker, Air Force Capt. Glenn Wilson is now flying a 4FC Phantom at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam.
John Ballard was promoted last fall to vice president and general manager of the antenna and transmission division of Granger Associates in Palo Alto. John moves to this position from his post as vice president for marketing. He's been with the company since 1960 and has served as a director of their London subsidiary since its founding in 1963. "Lots of fun and (relatively) few ulcers," he reports. Also, "I see prosperous internist Jim Hall on happy occasions. While I've lost most of my hair, he hasn't changed a bit. Likewise Tom Hamilton, sales manager of Data Disc," another Palo Alto firm.
For the past year Steve Altaian has been assistant corporation counsel of New Rochelle, working mainly as city prosecutor in the city court. Previously he was a partner in the New Rochelle law firm of Levine & Altman. He writes that from April through November he and his wife Syril sail their 25-foot auxiliary sloop "Valkyr" around Long Island Sound, and he's just been reelected training officer of Flotilla 65 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Also, Syril presented Steve with their first youngster, Jonathan Michael, last March 17.
An IBM promotion ended Bob Stirling's sojourn in Paris after three and a half years. He, his wife, and four children are now in Lawrenceville, N. J., and Bob is manager of commercial analysis and system, procurement for IBM's information records division. Jim Alexander is also changing countries - and climate. Now teaching history at the University of Saskatoon in Canada, he'll move next fall to the University of Georgia, at Athens, as an associate professor of mediaeval history.
Ed Wilson is. president of Minatronics Corporation, which now distributes automatic telephone answering machines nationwide, "so I am now jet traveling around the U.S.A. quite a bit." Last fall he tooted off to Japan for what he describes as a "business trip," but it included visits to "most of the main sightseeing spots as well as a lot of areas where tourists don't go," all expenses conveniently paid by the Japanese manufacturer he was calling on, from whom Ed does most of his purchasing. He figures that he'll "probably make the Japan trip once a year. The Alaska route may be shorter, but an overnight stop at Hawaii and swimming at Waikiki Beach is a lot nicer." Ah, the rigors of international business.
One of our domestic financial men, NealAllen, who manages portfolios as a trust officer of the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, reports that the "1966 bear market has made things more exciting than ever." Which is an interesting way of looking at it.
Among the large and active corps of '55 doctors, John Stanley writes that he's "back in my home town after trying both the West Coast (Los Angeles) and the East Coast (Boston)." He's now staff ophthalmologist at Cleveland Clinic. John and Linda welcomed a new daughter, Jennifer, last September 20. Dick Braun completed his service with the First Marine Division in Viet Nam and began practicing orthopedic surgery and reconstructive surgery of the hand in San Diego. Jack Bryan has been practicing orthopedic surgery in Doylestown, Pa., since last May; he and Helene had their third child, second boy, John III, on October 4.
Allen Root is an associate physician and associate endocrinologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania med school. In addition to his two children, Al also has taken on the rigors of a dog — an Irish setter. BobBrandfield, who spent two years at Dartmouth, then graduated from Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and the University of Southern California medical school, is now a resident in plastic surgery in Houston. Earlier he served in Korea with the Army and spent three years in surgical residency in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sandy Antin, an attending neurologist and neuroradiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, became engaged to Jane Ellen Charney. She attended the University of Connecticut and University of Bridgeport, and worked at Mount Sinai as a personnel assistant.
Earl and Kelly Fain had their second child, Virginia, last March 13, in Stamford, Conn.
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