1955

Geoff Snow is moving up in the world: to 11,300 feet, at Climax, Colo., for a new geology job with Climax Molybdenum. Previously he was running a mercury exploration program for Dow Chemical about 100 miles east of Reno. Ostensibly the Snows live in San Francisco, but they hardly see it. Geoff cites one compensation, "Our two boys are getting some good experiences not common among today's urban kids."

John Moffitt is one of the men behind the scenes in television's No. 1 staple, the Ed Sullivan Show. He's associate director, and last summer he directed the summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers, Our Place. John apparently has some difficulty communicating in written form, but fortunately his wife, Sistie, does not (bless all our communicating '55 wives). She reports the addition of a third Moffitt moppet, Sarah Elizabeth, on October 24.

Al Van Huyck writes that his city planning consulting firm, PADCO, "continues to progress well. We have started work in Colombia, South America, and will start in Brazil" early in '6B. "It has been an exciting and interesting six months." Al laid some of the groundwork for his new business by doing city planning in Calcutta with the Ford Foundation, and another '55 just back from that part of the world is Scott Rutherford, who served with the Agency for International Development in Pakistan. He's returned to Washington, living in Chevy Chase, Md.

Also repatriated: Ed Willi returned to New York from Caracas, after a long South American tour with General Motors. But Roy Hill continues his determined effort to clean up the world, selling soap now to the Spaniards from his new location in Madrid. He's still with good ol' Colgate-Palmolive, transferred from South Africa.

Jim Sanderson reports that he shifted from Marine Midland Trust Co. of Western New York to Marine Midland Trust of Rochester, as vice president and investment officer. He and his family live in suburban Brighton. Bob Stirling was promoted to manager of procurement and commercial analysis for the Information Records division of IBM.

Dr. Larry Metz is now in Army green at Valley Forge General Hospital. Tom Wittenberg proves that editors can also write by tapping out a report that he's rounding out ten years at Houghton Mifflin Co. in Boston, where he edits English textbooks. He adds that last year in a Kansas City hotel lobby he bumped into Paul Hollenbeck, also traveling in his role as marketing manager of Mobil Chemical Co.'s plastic division, in Jacksonville, Ill. "Among Paul's products," says Tom, "are those nifty plastic net bags that shroud grapes and potatoes in supermarkets. And tomorrow maybe even plastic egg cartons!" Then on his flight back to Boston, Tom plopped down next to John Mansfield, a TWA first officer. "No, I wasn't in the cabin; John was off-duty and sitting back in the coach section, having just returned from a periodic refresher course at TWA headquarters in Kansas City."

Lew Wolfson, Washington bureau chief for the Providence Journal and Bulletin, wrote harsh comments about the 1967 performance of Congress and world government leaders generally. About the Congressmen: "Instead of getting ready for tomorrow, they pretended it was still yesterday. The Congress turned away from the appeals of the President and its own leadership, and turned in on itself at a time when the country faces the greatest threat to stability and progress since the chaos of the early 19305. It was not a Congress likely to promote confidence in Americans that they can lick their problems." And on world leaders: "In 1967 they did one of the worst jobs in years in trying to straighten out the world and to work out something for the future. These men, who are masters of carrot-and-stick management in domestic affairs, continued to be frustrated, suspicious, and rarely imaginative when they tried to put together civil relations among nations."

Also in print, though not by his own hand Dr. Dan Anzel of the UCLA School of Public Health. The UCLA Daily Bruin reported that Dan "has a big headache. He is trying to find a solution for the health problems of up to 30,000 people in Los Angeles' south central region." Under the anti-poverty program, he's helping plan a neighborhood health center for this low-income, largelyNegro area. The paper quoted Dan: "I am working on a feasibility study concerning all problems of coordination for a center. My role is to be aware of all the ingredients, to orchestrate the different units into a harmonious environment in which to provide medical care for those people who have the greatest need for it."

Chet Gale moved up to director of sales and distribution for the WTS-Pharmacraft division of Wallace & Tiernan, Inc., in Rochester, N. Y. For the previous two years he was director of distribution. Pete Briggs was elected an assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Boston. He's been with the bank since 1961. Jack Krumpe is the new director of mutuels for the New York Racing Association. He started with the N.Y.R.A. in 1959 and moved into the accounting department of the mutuel operations in 1961.

Hank Stephenson joined Morton Oil Co. in Maiden, Mass., as administrative assistant to the president. He had been with Mobil Oil. Lyn Brock, who's president of Brock and Co. in Philadelphia, was elected president of the Mobile Industrial Caterers' Association. He's also a director of Northeast Hospital in Philadelphia. The Rev. Joe Herring follows the modern-day trend of involvement by clergymen, participating in a recent PTA seminar in Morris Plains, N. J., on "Sex Education at the Elementary School Age Level." Perhaps Joe could pass on his thoughts to classmates wrestling with this question right now - several hundred of us.

Allen and Lillian Palmquist welcomed their number three, Jacqueline Mary, on November 26, in St. Louis. Al is assistant to the director of advertising and public relations for Emerson Electric Co. Phil andJoan Reilly had a son, Brian John, November 6. Phil is a surgeon in Norwood, Mass., and serves in the 19th Medical Service Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit, at Otis Air Force Base. It was a second son for Joel and Joanne Shapiro. He's Jason Craig, born August 15; the Shapiros live in Parsippany, N. J.

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