1952

Well, we got through the Holiday pleasantries with a minimum of pain. A little looking back and assessing but not enough to dim the thoughts of good days ahead in 1968 and on. One thing that brings particular cheer to right-thinking '52s is the thought of the gala gathering of the guard in June.

Reunion! Remember? The fantastic belated fifteenth! Charlie Curtis who has valiantly accepted the job of mustering the troops sent me a photo some weeks ago. A photo which depicted certain members of the Class in the process of plotting the weekend in June way last October. Unfortunately, Chas, it wasn't quite reproducible. Too dark. Which is not meant to impugn the maker of the marvelous film which took the picture a fine firm well endowed with '52 staffers. I offer this only as an explanation of why the pic has not been reproduced.

Anyway! Plan ahead! Come to reunion!

After many a month of silence comes news from Minneapolis. Fine letter from John Brower. Mostly about old "Rose-nose," Kent Calhoun. As of Jan. 1, Cal is new district sales manager for Joseph T. Ryerson Steel and Aluminum out of the Minneapolis plant. Cal and John both went to Minneapolis with Ryerson in the summer of 1959 when the entire Minneapolis staff numbered three. Cal and John got things rolling, though, and Minneapolis now boasts a plant with 92 people. John is general order manager of the office so that he and Cal will continue to work very closely together. John says that he and Jan will bring their kids to reunion and that the Calhouns are planning the trip along with the Linmans, at last count.

Am also in receipt of the annual New Year's note from Francis and Carol Chisdes in which they report the arrival of their firstborn, Jonathon, on September 3. He was a husky 8 pounds 14 ounces and from the looks of him in his picture he hasn't slowed down since his first squawk.

Forgot to mention another item in Brother Brower's letter, but fortunately I have a release which reminds me all about it. Our former baseball pitching ace, Pete Burnside has hung up the glove. Peter went back to Northwestern for his Master's and is now baseball coach at New Trier West High School in Northfield, Ill., and a Physical Ed teacher at New Trier East in Winnetka. As you may recall Pete pitched for six years in the Major Leagues, first with the old New York Giants and then with the Detroit Tigers. He ended his active professional career pitching in the Japanese professional league.

Another new teacher at New Trier is Classmate Bill Ware. His specialty is educational research.

Also out there in the Chicago area, Tom Schanek has a new title. He was recently appointed assistant to the president of Signode Corporation. Tom has been with Signode since graduation and prior to this appointment was eastern division sales manager. Tom, his wife, and three tads live in Oak Brook, Ill.

Way out in Minot, N. Dak., John Hoeven has been elected president and director of the Union National Bank. John had been vice president. After graduation from the University of Montana law school John started his banking career at Western Montana National Bank in Missoula. He has been with Union National since 1964.

Back in New York City, Jim Rosenfield has been named director of Daytime Sales for CBS-TV. And on the other side of the country, Dick Coyne has been named manager of the West Coast office for "Seventeen" Magazine.

I am also in receipt of a Christmas card complete with letter from Harry Mac "Whitey" Dunlap who informs me that he is now supervisor of Flight Training for United Airlines in Denver. The Dunlaps are quite a skiing family, too, it seems. So much so that Whitey bought an interest in a new ski lodge at Sunlight Ski Area in Colorado. Guess he figured with all the family skiing it was cheaper to do it that way.

And now, shoving my icy pedal extremities deep into a feather down blanket, I will take leave of you, hoping to survive the cold until next month. The Lord and the weather willing I'll be back then.

Rosenfield

Coyne

Secretary, McCann-Erickson, Inc. 485 Lexington Ave. New York, N. Y. 10017

Treasurer, 2327 Park Place, Evanston, Ill. 60201