For the benefit of those of you who haven't heard, '51 again won its division in the Alumni Fund Green Derby. Our hats are off to Head Agent Howie Phillips, his hardworking team of regional and local agents, and the many classmates whose realistic gifts added up to $28,745.85, over 12 per cent more than last year, with an average gift of $59.51. The only disappointment was a slight drop in the number of contributors.
John Hoskins has returned home after four and a half years as regional legal adviser to the Agency for International Development covering Thailand, Laos, Burma and, until recently, Vietnam. The first two years of his tour of duty he, wife Marilyn, and their three children lived in Saigon; for the remainder, in Bangkok. John is now spending a year at the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington, D. C.
Meanwhile, Dick Reed moved overseas in the other direction to London as Director-Personnel, Europe for American Express. Dick holds a Master of Industrial Administration degree from Yale as well as his Dartmouth A.B. Prior to joining American Express, he was Assistant Director of Personnel for the Ford Foundation. A Korean War veteran, Dick is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He and wife Joan have two sons, Timothy and Christopher.
W. T. Grant Company, nationwide merchandising chain with over 1,000 stores, has named Line Fenno advertising manager. With the company since 1964, he had been promotion manager. Line, wife Mary, and daughters Susan, Nancy, and Jane live in Oradell, N. J.
"Jock" McIntyre has left Baltimore, where he was assistant director of Union Memorial Hospital, to become associate administrator of the Meriden (Conn.) Hospital. After serving in the Korean War, Jock earned a Master's in Hospital Administration from the University of Chicago. He served his administrative residency at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., where he was an administrative assistant before going to Baltimore in 1960. Jock is a member of the American Hospital and American Management Associations and a candidate for Fellowship in the American College of Hospital Administrators. He and wife Charlotte have two children.
Joe Baker has joined Garden City Trust Company, Chestnut Hill, Mass., as executive vice president. A graduate of the Rutgers Graduate School of Banking, he was most recently assistant vice president in the Correspondent Bank Division of Boston's First National Bank. He, wife Louise, son Kevin, and daughter Pamela live in Westwood, where Joe is active in community affairs and was Chairman of last year's United Fund Drive.
New York lawyer Pete Krehbiel is the new secretary of American Chain & Cable. After four years of Navy service during the Korean War, Pete worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as a credit analyst and then for Allied Chemical as a sales correspondent while attending law school at N.Y.U. After earning his LL.B. in 1960, he entered private practice. Pete joined American Chain in 1964 as patent and trademark counsel and became assistant secretary last year. He, wife Bernice, a son and a daughter reside in Pleasantville, N. Y.
In the academic world, Jim Reynolds has become chairman of the psychology department at Colgate, where he was recently promoted to associate professor. Jim holds an M.A. from Rutgers and a Ph.D. from Syracuse. After teaching for two years at the University of Pittsburgh, he studied at the University of California's Institute of Human Learning before joining the Colgate faculty in 1964.
Back in Hanover Town, Jack Skewes is now associate business manager of the College. A Tuck School M.8.A., Jack worked for Scott Paper as administrative assistant to the production manager of the Fort Edward, N. Y., plant and was plant superintendent at Stanley Tools Company in New Britain, Conn., before returning to Hanover in 1960. His responsibilities with the College include plant maintenance activities, budget control, and plant insurance management.
Joe Caldwell is vice president of Caldwell Lumber in Syracuse, N. Y., and also veep of Millwork Components and president of Truss Systems. He and wife Marcy reside in Manlius with their three children: Cindy, 5; Jay, 3; and Heather, a June arrival.
"After struggling for fourteen years with the vicissitudes of farming in Stowe, Vt.," Dave Batchelder has become associated with Harrington's, mail order merchant of Vermont goodies and related equipment, as understudy to the present owner. Harrington's has three retail stores in Vermont, located at Richmond, Stowe, and Shelburne.
Charlie Russell has taken a fling at politics, running for town treasurer as a Democrat against the Republican incumbent in Chepachet, R. I. After graduation, he served two years as an officer in the Army Medical Service Corps, retiring from the reserves seven years later as a captain. A chartered property and casualty underwriter, he is casualty underwriting manager of Affiliated FM Insurance Company.
Three things of note happened in the Mike lovenko family in the late spring. In May, New York lawyer Mike spent a few weeks as an Alternate U.S. Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. For this period he held ambassadorial rank, no less, which should create some envy among our professional diplomats.
Then on June 13, "The Touching Hand," a book containing a novella and six short stories by Mike's wife, was published by Houghton Mifflin under her maiden name of Sallie Bingham. The following day, their first son, Christopher, weighed in at 8½ lbs. Sallie's book was favorably reviewed in the "New York Times" the following Sunday.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF. ... Class Chairman Charlie Hood elected president and chairman of the board of governors of the Harvard Business School Association of 805t0n. ... A new daughter, Rosemary, born to Dartmouth English professor JeffHart and wife Stefanie of Norwich, Vt.
John Hatch, author of an article "The Industrial Insurance Buyer - Tomorrow" in Boston's "Industry" magazine of April. A feature entitled "The Purposeful People" in the now defunct "New York World Journal Tribune" telling how a 5:15 to 9 a.m. broadcasting schedule gives the country's leading morning disc jockey, John GamMing, more time for family life.
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