1955
Al and Betty Van Huyck are back after three years in Calcutta, where Al was engaged in city planning under the auspices of the Ford Foundation. He reports: "Out work in Calcutta turned out to be very successful and I think will have a major effect on the future of the city." Al is now in Washington as president of a newly-formed consulting firm, International Planning and Development Cooperative. Its purpose is "provide governments and private clients in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East with integrated research, planning and management services for urban development." Al comments, "We think we have a major new idea on how to provide consulting services to the developing countries."
Jim Perkins left the top spot at Playboy Press in Chicago to become No. 2 man (out of two) in a newly-formed management group which will administer and pull together eight separate book publishing companies acquired by the Times-Mirror Company of Los Angeles. Jim's office is in New York.
Nebraska Consolidated Mills Co. promoted Harry Ambrose to assistant manager of the flour division. He was formerly in charge of export sales for a subsidiary in San Juan. Nebraska Consolidated owns flour mills in seven states and Puerto Rico, and Harry now assists the flour division director in all phases of the company's flour milling operations.
Harry Well writes that he's now a partner in the Pittsburgh law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. He also reports on a recent meeting with Joe and Anne Kagle. "Joe has escaped from the obscenity scandal caused by exhibition of his paintings in the Spokane Public Library, has returned unharmed and with many curious mementos from his trip to Taiwan as Guggenheim Fellow, and is now encamped among the wine presses on Lake Keuka, N. Y., where he transmits his varied knowledge to the girls at Keuka College."
Other promotions: Harold O'Connell moved up to second vice president in administrative services at the Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago; Blake Irons was named an investment officer at Aetna Life & Casualty Co. in Hartford; and Bill DeLana was elected to the board of Montgomery Co., a manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment, in Windsor Locks, Conn. Bill is a partner in the Hartford law firm of Day, Berry & Howard.
Paul Andreini was appointed to the staff of the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., as a consultant in internal medicine. He has been an associate consultant in rheumatology since January 1966, after completing residency in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Jack Bryan joined the staff of Doylestown Hospital, in Bucks County, Pa. His specialty is orthopedic surgery. Bob Blum returned from an Army tour as neurosurgeon at the 8th Field Hospital in Nha Trang and is now at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco. Dick Roberts is researching meningitis, trying to develop a vaccine, at the Rockefeller University in Manhattan. It's a continuation of his Army work at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. Dick and Debbie had their first youngster, Bryan, on January 29.
Other new arrivals: to Web and Rosemarie Wilde, their second son, Peter, born last September (Web is continuing his unusual spare-time art work, using thousands of postage stamps in all shades of color, and his most recent "painting" is called "Inbound - Cedar Cove"); Alan and Carolyn Murray also had a second son, Jonathan, on April 4; to the Louis Turners, first son, second child, Stephen, born June 21, 1966; to Phil and Mary Mossman, second child, first daughter, Cynthia, March 14 (Phil is practicing internal medicine in Beverly, Mass.); to John and Judith Mansfield, a third daughter, February 25 (John is a TWA first officer flying a Boeing 707 out of Boston); to Dick and Maxine Sklover, a son, Andrew, born last year" (Dick has his own insurance business in Great Neck, Long Island, specializing in consulting for auto-rental companies); and to Henry and Margot Neuberger, a daughter, Kathryn, February 28. Kelly McCornack, one of our longer-lost correspondents, since September 1964 has been pursuing a doctorate in dramatics at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. He comments: "always considered myself a liberal until I came to Berkeley." Kelly has an M.A. in English from Middlebury, also studied a year at Yale Drama School, spent three years in the Coast Guard and three years teaching English at a private school in Alexandria, Va. Hod Symes left the Mercantile Stores chain to join Roger Clothing Co. in St. Joseph, Mo., as assistant to the president. The company operates men's and boys' clothing departments in department stores, and that takes Hod occasionally to Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Birmingham. Bob Bennett shifted to Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp. as supervisor of meals traffic in the company's export trade division. He's still in San Francisco, and lives now in nearby Pacifica. Hank Stephenson, after 10 faithful years with Mobil Oil, moved to Morton Oil Co. of Maiden, Mass., a home heating oil concern. He's administrative assistant to the president, a Dartmouth man, class of '31. "Eventual opportunity," says Hank, "if all goes well, to become part owner." Don Fraser left IBM after seven years in Mexico City, and is now making the rounds in various parts of Borden Chemical, preparing to join their foreign operations in Spain or Latin America.
Harry (Mackey) Wirth reports that he's president of a nation-wide commercial lighting firm, Pacific Associated Lighting, Inc., in San Francisco. Also, he says, "developed 3,500-acre tree plantation worth $450,000 with only $20,000 investment in six years." Walt Miller is director of marketing for Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. in Pittsburgh.
Jon Kropper lives in Scotland and toots all around Europe, including Russia and East Berlin, as manager of engineering for Polaroid's operation in Scotland. He also finds time for about two months a year in this country. Also abroad, though briefly: Steve Schmieder spent three weeks skiing in Austria last winter, though he confesses that one 25-mile ski tour forced him "to the bar on the sun balcony" for several days of recuperation.
Joe Pluto semaphores that he's "struggling along with Pennsylvania Railroad" as supervisor of communications and signals in Cleveland. His two daughters are now and 6, and thus poor Joe concludes that he's already an old man. Dan Danneman is with a real estate firm in Scarsdale, N. Y.
When the Glee Club visited St. Louis last March, Gene Gerard was general chairman of the event, and Allen Palmquist was publicity chairman. Allen reports that it was "highly successful," making possible a "sizable contribution" to the St. Louis Dartmouth scholarship fund.
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