1952
I'm finally going to get to include my item about Classmate Walt Grevatt. I had intended to tell you about Walt last June but the item was cut due to excess length. Walt, as you may remember from these pages or elsewhere, is a minister who serves a Negro parish in Cleveland. He was the subject of a long editorial in the Wall Street Journal. The article was all about his material sparsities and moral richness in a very poor parish. Worth reading. I wish I could reprint the whole thing for you but I can't. It shows that some guys do do what their conscience dictates in this day and age despite the material penalties they pay.
'52 is not all altruism, of course. A lot of our worthy classmates are swiftly rising in the power structure of big business.
Take Morul Durot. He's been upped again by Gillette. After a stint as president of Gillette of France he came back stateside to become president of Sterilon Company, a Gillette subsidiary. He's now moved to president of the Paper Mate Company, another Gillette subsidiary. I hope this means your scribes will never again want for proper writing instruments.
Another '52 doing right well is Donald P. Moore. Don has been elected assistant comptroller of Continental Baking Company in Rye, N. Y. Since 1964 Don had been with Continental in Pittsburgh. Previous to that he had been with Price Waterhouse & Company as audit manager of their Pittsburgh office. Don now lives in Rye with his wife, the former Margaret Pattison of Pittsburgh, and their four-year-old son Don Jr.
Our bankers are doing well, too. Down in Houston, Texas, Capital National Bank has named Brock Lewis vice president and trust officer of their newly organized trust department. Brock moved to Houston from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he held a similar position with the County National Bank.
In Tennessee, American National Bank and Trust Company of Chattanooga has named Peter Robinson a vice president. Pete is an expert in planning data processing systems having been with IBM and, more recently, Glens Falls Insurance Company. He is a member of the Data Processing Management Association.
In Detroit, Jon Walton has been made officer in charge of the Eastern District for National Bank of Detroit's national division. Jon joined NBD in 1956 after Tuck and a three-year stint in the Navy and has been a vice president of the bank since 1964.
Our insurance men are noteworthy, too. Ray Smith has been appointed office sales manager for the New England region of Allstate Insurance Companies. And Brewster Stuntevant is now treasurer and clerk of the Mutual Insurance Agency in Springfield, Mass.
And our educators are making news. From Georgia comes an item about Dr.Alpha Bond Jr., associate professor of sociology at Mercer University. According to the item he has been giving lectures in a series for high school students and young adults preparing for college. The title for the series was "The Modern Mind — from Rye to Toomsboro."
In Pittsburgh, Dr. Bob Lord who is associate professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh has taken on the added responsibilities of president of the Northland Public Library. He is the first president, the library being a new one which will serve a large area of suburban townships in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. When completed the library will be the second largest in the whole Greater Pittsburgh area and make a major contribution to the quality of the area it serves.
In Millbrook, N. Y., is Bennett College. And Bennett has a new dean. He is GeneCesari who became Dean of the College on July 17.
The Pingry School in New Jersey has a new assistant headmaster, too. Another '52, naturally. Jesse J. Morgan Jr. who had been college guidance counselor and head of the history department.
Ray Buck, your erstwhile scribe has moved from the Hanover Plains. Ray, as you may recall, was college editor with Dartmouth Publications. He is now in Storrs, Conn., with University of Connecticut as director of a new Office of Publications.
Down in Little Rock, Ark., Dugald MacArthur is in his third year as Director of Theater and Chairman of the Drama Department at the Arkansas Arts Center. And I am in possession of a review of one of Duke's products. It appeared in the Saturday Review last May, was written by Henry Hewes, and is highly complimentary to Duke and his company for their performance of Marat/Sade.
Here in New York Main Lafrentz & Company, certified public accountants, has merged with Squires & Company thus acquiring a very valuable asset - a new partner in the form of Quentin A. Squires. Quentin has been certifying accounts for some years having started back in 1957 with Arthur Young & Co. here in Manhattan.
In Boston, Bob Brace has been made assistant to the president of United Carr, Inc. In Danvers, Mass., Bob Curtis has been unanimously re-elected Town Manager. In Bedford, Mass., Buz Barton is chairman of this year's Cancer Crusade. And in Darien Steve Mandel has been chairman of the Sustaining Gifts Division of the United Fund.
If everything goes according to plan that gay bachelor George Saddler will be married soon. He's scheduled for an October wedding with Miss Sally Sherman of Newport, R. I. Guess you couldn't spread all that charm around forever, George.
This month I must end on a sad note. I have just received news that our classmate George Domash died of a heart attack last May 5. We all extend our sympathies to his widow. For those of you who wish to do that personally her address is 69 Knoll Road, Parsippany, N. J.
Now, until next month good-bye. Hope to see some of you before I write again.
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