1955
Buck Kuttner won the Citizen of the Year award given by the Irvington, N. J., B'nai B'rith. The award, for outstanding community service, recognized Buck's work as Irvington's former corporation legislative counsel, and his activities in the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Boy Scouts. He authored a "record number" of Irvington ordinances and launched a codification of the city's laws. Buck was president of the Irvington Jaycees in 1965-66, and the chapter was honored as the best in growth and community development in that area. He's national chairman of a Jaycee project he initiated, urging towns and cities to adopt a code of ethics for their local officials. Buck headed two record-breaking Boy Scout enrollment drives, and for the past five years has been the chairman of Irvington's United Jewish Appeal. A busy man!
Jim Wechsler has taken a leave of absence from the Concord (N. H.) Daily Monitor, where he's been political editor for the past year, to join the staff of Republican Congressman James C. Cleveland of New Hampshire. He moved to Washington in January, taking over as Cleveland's legislative assistant and press secretary, a catch-all combination indicating he's the Congressman's good right arm. While with the Monitor, Jim has also written for the State News Service, which goes to seven other papers in New Hampshire, and has been state correspondent for Time magazine and other publications.
Jud Hale keeps busy with a relatively new monthly magazine called Yankee, published in Dublin, N. H. He reports that it's one of the nation's three fastest-growing monthly magazines - from a circulation of 51,000 in 1960 to 292,000 in February 1967. "We've even doubled the number of Yankee subscribers in Alabama - from 4 to 8!" Jud says his only "guaranteed free time" is on fall weekends, reserved for Dartmouth and American Football League games. Jud and Yankee magazine's EditorPublisher-Founder Robb Sagendorph have co-authored a 192-page book, "That New England," published last November by Yankee, Inc., and available at your bookstore for only $12.50. "Even more surprising than publishing the book," Jud says, "is that it's already in the black."
When your telephone becomes a Picturephone, remember that Bill Macurdy helped make it possible. Bill's been promoted to head of the Picturephone and Broadband Switching Department at Bell Telephone Laboratories and will be responsible for the electromechanical switching systems which will make this transmission possible. He joined Bell Labs in 1957 and received his Ph.D. from MIT under Bell's sponsorship in 1962.
Bill Conrad became president of Exploration and Development, Inc., in 1965; the firm's business is natural gas and helium. Bill says it's "expanding rapidly," and "much to our own surprise, we are about to build our first helium extraction plant." But, he adds, "the best part is a shift of the corporate headquarters from Chicago to Colorado Springs." Bill also reports he talks occasionally with "our banker, Bob Garver, at the Continental Illinois."
Paul Hollenbeck was promoted in January to marketing manager of Mobil Chemical Company's plastics division, in Jacksonville, Ill. His comment: "big title, no money yet." Bill Lenderking, back in this country after "five great years" in Japan with the U.S. Information Agency, is taking a one-year course in the South Vietnamese language in Washington, then he'll be off to guess where. He and Lois had their' third son in December. Phil Hadley is now with the Holyoke Machine Company in Holyoke, Mass., a maker of "calendar roll" equipment for the paper industry.
Jim Donohue recently opened his own law office in Clinton, Mass., and was also appointed an assistant district attorney. His wife Betty reports that the combination is keeping him "pretty busy" - happily so. Jim was formerly Clinton's town counseland is chairman of the Clinton School Committee. Another corresponding wife, TimHutchinson's Rosemary, writes that he was made a general partner in the Philadelphia brokerage firm of Elkins, Morris, Stokes and Company. And Bill Hudson, reports wife Joan, became operating superintendent, or assistant manager, of Sears' store in Allentown last year, and promptly plunged into the task of opening a new store in September.
Marty Aronson became a partner in the Boston law firm of Crane, Inker arid Oteri; he's the trial counsel in the firm's civil department. Marty, Myrna and their two daughters live in Framingham. Also a law partner is Pete Fishbein, in the New York firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler.
Dr. John Laverty was named associate pathologist at St. Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield, Mass. He formerly held the same post at Quincy City Hospital in Quincy, and before that served as an Army doctor in Korea. Bob Horton, who's an assistant trust officer of the Connecticut National Bank, will be campaign chairman for the 1967 fund drive of United Cerebral Palsy of the Greater Waterbury Area.
Bill Pattison, an account supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather Inc., has been elected a vice president of the agency. He started with the firm as a copywriter in 1960. Previously he was with Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles and Cunningham & Walsh. Bill was in the Army during the Korean conflict. He and CeCe and their three children live in Newton, N. J., where they are members of the Newton Country Club.
Al Pill is president of Ralph Pill Electrie Supply Company, operating in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and the firm s humorous, imaginative promotions were the subject of a very complimentary article in the October issue of "Electrical Wholesaling," a McGraw-Hill publication. Al is quoted as believing that the best time for promotion is when business is good-to make it even better, and to prevent a letdown in leaner times. "There's a failure on the part of many distributors to believe that business could be any better. Perhaps they're right. I just don't happen to think so." Company salesmen hand out lapel buttons reading "Pill Pusher." Pill consolidates electrical materials needed for a job and delivers them to the site in a "Pill Box." Al once accepted, bushels of apples from a hard-pressed customer in lieu of cash, and his salesmen made a hit by giving the apples out to their customers, in an "apple polisher" campaign. The gimmick was so popular that the company had to buy more apples.
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