1939
We get an interesting stream of letters from Bert MacMannis. Not only does he provide us with a great number of news notes, but he also would win all the marbles at parlor games where you guess the location of every college in the land. Bert sells ads to all the college publications, and his postmarks leave a trail from Alaska to Hawaii to Maine. Sally worries about the coeds, but we know our president keeps his shoulder to the wheel every weekend. Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Wash., have now been heard from. A MacMannis poll of campus preferences would carry a lot more weight with us than all the newspaper bilge we've been subjected to lately.
Our man of the month is Hugh McLaren not only for his good letter but also for his record of solid achievement as executive director of the Office of School Buildings for the city of New York. Hugh's responsibility encompasses a plant of 900 structures and an annual construction budget which in recent years has averaged one hundred million dollars a year. He resigned as president of the Vermilya-Brown Construction Co. of New York, with which he had been associated for 25 years, to accept an assignment as a "roving specialist" in the school system. We suspect he saw a lot of broken glass, and he's now the top man in the office. During World War II Hugh was with the civil engineering section of the Coast Guard, with duty in Newfoundland as commanding officer of a construction detachment. He may very well have the biggest housekeeping headaches of anyone you know.
We get lots of clippings about ArmandoChardiet, who regularly speaks at potluck dinners and service clubs. He's in great demand as an expert on communism in Latin America today. Several light years ago Armando was graduated from Havana University with a doctor of law degree, and they named him a public defender, gave him the Gonzales Lanuza Award for his outstanding legal contributions, and named him the delegate from Cuba on the legal committee of the United Nations Assembly during the Cuban crisis. His shoe is on the other foot now. He's professor of modern languages at Southern Connecticut State College, chair man of their Latin American Area studies program, a fellow of Davenport College at Yale, and a very persuasive gentleman.
The President of the United States has awarded the Legion of Merit to Col. DougYounger "for exceptionally meritorious service while serving as Chief, and later, Director of Study Directorate Three, United States Army Combat Developments Command Institute of Special Studies. In developing, supervising, and evaluating the most extensive study program ever conducted on an aerial fire support system, Colonel Younger enabled the Institute of Special Studies to complete all aspects of the analytical evaluation of such a system and provided the Department of the Army with information they required for major decisions." There's really very little we can add except our sincere congratulations.
Bob Howe has taken another step up at I.B.M. He is now director of marketing and is responsible for the company's headquarters service, systems engineering and marketing planning staffs. Bob joined I.B.M. in 1939 and has held a variety of marketing assignments in their Data Processing Division. Since 1964 he had been director of market planning. As an alternate trustee of the Marketing Institute, he serves on its personnel and finance committee. He and his family live in New Canaan, Conn.
Bob Haslam lives at 35 Circuit Rd. in New Rochelle. Dr. Bill Lee may be reached at Beekman Rd. in Hopewell Jet., N. Y. John Sullivan has taken up residence out in the suburbs at 31414 Aldrich Dr., Bay Village, 0., which Sounds way out to us.
Rod Albright is now living at 333 East 68 St. in New York. Tom Burrell has moved to 377 Westchester Ave. in Port Chester. Andrew Calleja, who was "lost" to the College for so many years, can be reached at 506 Eleventh St. in Union City, N. J. George Sims, who is now the assistant dean of the business school at Florida, resides at 1809 NW 24 St. in Gainesville, Fla. Their football team looks good on paper, and maybe old George could get you a couple of bowl tickets.
The Baltimore Evening Sun featured a photo of a very serious George Bailey upon his election as vice president of estimating and contracts for Baltimore Contractors, Inc. Ace previously was president of the Wilbert Corp., a Washington engineering firm. Prior to that he was with Ticon Corp. of Dallas, Texas, and Raymond International in New York. Ace has moved his family to 1818 Blakefield Circle in Lutherville, Md.
Our Stan Brown, who is probably one of the toughest trial lawyers you'll find anywhere, spoke on "The Law of the Land" at a meeting of the Monadnock Region Board of Realtors last summer. Stan is the American Bar Association delegate from N. H., the vice president-elect of the N. H. Bar Association, and a prominent trial lawyer in Manchester.
In the list of teacher appointments at Pompton Lakes, N. J., this fall we read that Dick Ruebling of Morris Plains was appointed distributive education teacher in the high school there. Sounds a lot harder than Zo 17 to us, Dick.
And finally, Dr. Joe Pyrtek has been selected as a councilor of the Lahey Clinic Foundation Alumni Association. Joe is a graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago, served his internship at Hartford Hos- pital, residency at Union Memorial in Baltimore, and had postgraduate training at Lahey Clinic. He's a member of the Conn. Society of the American Board of Surgeons, New England Surgical Society, and the American College of Surgeons. He's on the active staff of the Hartford Hospital and St. Francis Hospital, and he's one local boy we're awfully glad has made good.
Charles E. Wilder '40 (l), Professor ofBiology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the new director of Mount DesertIsland Biological Laboratory in Maine.With him is the former director and nowpresident of the laboratory corporation,Roy P. Forster, Professor of Biology atDartmouth.
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