1954
Springtime is for singing! The most popular tunes these days are likely to be "April Showers" or "Deep in the Heart of Taxes." For some of us, however, the appropriate song could well be "How to Succeed, etc." Bill White would certainly come within this latter category. Bill, who has successfully led our Class these past four years, has succeeded in business, too. In New York City, he has been named president of James T. White and Company, publishers of the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. This prestigious reference work has been published by Bill's company for more than eighty years.
Bruce Classon has received a noteworthy promotion. He has been appointed senior vice-president of the factoring division of James Talcott, Inc., one of the largest commercial finance companies in the country. In addition Bruce is serving as a V.P. in the parent Talcott organization in New York City.
Dick Page has something to sing about, too. Dick was recently elected as secretary and director of Broadcast-Plaza, Inc., the largest of The Travelers' Insurance Company's subsidiaries. It owns and operates Constitution Plaza, one of the nation's biggest and most successful urban renewal projects, and WTIC radio and TV channel 3 in Hartford, Conn. Dick reports seeing Bill Rogers both in the flesh and on television. Bill is acting in New York and recently appeared in N.Y.P.D. Says Dick, "Bill's appearance was not long as he was shot in the first five minutes and expired magnificently forthwith."
Joe Mesics has been named to an important new post. He has left Piper Aircraft to join the Butler Aviation Company as sales manager of its short takeoff and landing aircraft. In this capacity, Joe will be responsible for managing the overall sales program as well as developing new markets for the twelve passenger Dornier Skyservant STOL craft. Upon completion of a nationwide demonstration tour, Joe will work at the Marine Air Terminal at New York's LaGuardia Field. Since graduation Joe has really been up in the air. He served as a flight instructor in the Marine Corps for four years before joining Piper where he reached the position of assistant domestic sales manager. Presently Joe holds a commercial pilot's license with single, multiengine and instrument ratings.
From Boston comes word of the election of Frank Carey as second vice president of the Employers' Life Insurance Co. Frank, who joined Employers' some seven years ago, is a director of agencies responsible for life insurance sales development.
Another insurance exec, Bob Clements, has broken an almost 14-year communications silence to correct a "small libel" which appeared in this column a year ago. At the time I reported that Bob and Marilyn had an active family of five. Although the Clements family is active, it is not quite as large as reported. For the record, there are only Paula, 9, John, 7, Jeff, 5, and Ben, 3. Since 1964 Bob has been a vice president with Marsh & McLennan, insurance brokers. The Clements live in a sixty-year-old house on a tree-lined street in the center of Toronto, Canada, just ten minutes from Bob's office. Bob says this is the next best thing to a rent controlled apartment in New York City. Less air pollution, too.
Not too far south of Toronto in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dr. Marty Lindenauer is currently serving as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Michigan. Marty became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons this past fall.
In our overseas department this month we have received word that Bob Wellman, a former assistant professor of education at the University of Massachusetts, is presently teaching in Teheran, Iran. Dean Berry, who previously taught at the U of P's Wharton School, has joined the faculty of London Graduate School of Business Studies. LBJ shouldn't fret too much since the traffic is not all one way. Dutch Oudheusden has left Breda in the Netherlands and currently is residing in Windsor, Conn.
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