1955
Climbing the corporate ladder: DougMelville, up to assistant district sales manager in New York for Jones and Laughlin (Doug says he's now "wearing a 'Texas Ten Gallon'" since the takeover of J&L by Ling-Temco-Vought); Bob Borwell, now a vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., the huge Chicago-based insurance firm. Bob concentrating in oil and gas and dabbling in other industries, traveling afar, from Atlanta and New Orleans to the west coast; Mike Fiedling, advanced to assistant sales manager in Chicago, the home office, for Bacon, Whipple & Co., supervising about 30 salesmen.
Jim Keane was promoted to vice president for advertising and product management of the American Chicle Division of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., in Morris Plains, N. J. Jim joined American Chicle as a group product manager two years ago, and has had responsibility for such products as Dentyne gum, Rolaids, and Certs. Previously he had been with Bristol-Myers Co. and N. W. Ayer & Son.
A proud report from Ted Chadbourne: he and his wife Joan had two daughters in one year, Tania on June 7, 1967, and Dori on May 26, 1968. They also have an older girl, Deborah, two and a half. Ted works for P. H. Chadbourne & Co. in Bethel, Me.
Dick Roberts, medical researcher at Rockefeller University in New York, was named to a blue-ribbon committee of physicians advising the armed forces on meningitis. Dick is continuing his Army studies of the disease, and last year published a study in The Journal of Experimental Medicine on "the interaction in vitro between group B meningococci, serum factors, and rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes." He concluded that "meningococci are rapidly killed following ingestion by leukocytes." Any questions?
Also in print, though not by his own hand, is Hart Perry. The "New Haven Register" wrote a highly complimentary story saying that Kent School has had only three coaches in the 46-year history of its crew, and the great achievements of the first two "may someday be eclipsed" by the third, our Hart. The Register stated that "Perry, despite his age (he's a youthful-looking 34), has maintained and built upon the school's reputation as the best scholastic crew establishment west of the British Isles (his crews have rowed twice at Henley-on-Thames)." The story also notes that Hart will become dean of the boys' school next year.
On the move: Ted Daus left Bobbie Brooks in Cleveland, where he had been the apparel company's house counsel, and joined Koratron Co. in San Francisco. Ted says Koratron has "the best permanent press process now in existence," and his job, as counsel for compliance and licensing, is to protect the process legally. Ted, Nancy and their four children are living in Hillsborough, and "enjoying the Bay area."
Mike Fletcher completed three years in the Air Force and is now a systems programmer with IBM's System Development Division in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He writes, "Have been promoted to major in the USAF reserve and plan to rejoin a reserve unit as soon as it appears that such units won't be activated!!"
In the active Air Force, Captain BillChapin, a pilot based at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan, was indirectly involved in the launching of the Apollo 6 spacecraft on the Saturn V rocket fired from Cape Kennedy. Bill and his rescue and recovery squadron, called to active duty last January, were shifted temporarily to Moron Air Base in Spain to replace another squadron which moved to Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean to be ready for any emergency while Apollo 6 was in that area.
Still another Air Force officer, Major JimWaldman, completed an M.B.A. at Syracuse University, then plunged into survival training in Washington state and the Philippines, and requalification in the C-130 Hercules. Next stop, late in October: Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam, where he'll be an operations staff officer.
Jack Sandin received a Juris Doctor degree from Washington College of Law in August.
Pete Sarty, owner of the Basin Lodge in Killington, Vt., confesses that a year ago he was married to Mary Woods, a blonde. This year they took an 8,000-mile trip across the country, visiting some Dartmouth friends, including Tom and Chris Kinnamon in Pittsburgh, "all of which proved most enjoyable and that good people don't change."
Web Wilde reports that John and JulieDemas staged their second annual Olympic Games weekend July 13 in Westport, Conn., the strenuous sporting events including badminton, ping pong, horseshoes, croquet, frisbee, and a barbeque, "followed up by traditional milk punch on Sunday A.M." The contestants: Colin and Lee Hunt, Ace andDort Hall, Randy and Betty Hayes, Donand Stess Charbonnier, Zeus and Peggy Stevens '57, and Web and his Rosemarie.
Red Hennigar invites all 'sss to the annual class golf tournament, to be held Friday, October 25, the day before the Harvard game, at Bellevue Golf Club, Melrose, Mass.
Also in the sporting world, Warren Peterson, in Lake Forest, Ill., again played on the state champion curling team last winter, but they finished a disappointing fourth in the national competition. "We could have been second," says Warren, "but I got all keyed up and couldn't make a shot."
Doug Archibald, an assistant professor of English at Cornell, is writing a book on the "nature of literary influence - the whole question of how a later writer is influenced by an earlier writer."
Wedding bells: Skip Mackey and Susan Alexander, June 15, in Cocoa Beach, Fla. ("acquired two girls, 3 and 6, in the bargain"); Dr. John Forline and Marianne Bielen, a Syracuse graduate and former clinical instructor at Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing in Teaneck, N. J., June 8, in Ramsey, N. J.; Dr. Herb Gramm and Colette Bernard, a Swiss gal and University of Lausanne graduate doing research in chemical pathology at Harvard Medical School, where Herb is in the radiology department; Dr.John Laverty and Liane Lang, graduate of Newton-Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing and a staff nurse at Carney Hospital, where John is a pathologist.
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