1955

Pete Knoke received a Ph.D. in engineering last year from Syracuse University and is now with General Electric in Phoenix. Bill Nickerson moved up from assistant vice president to v.p. of the Livermore Falls Trust Company in Livermore Falls, Me. Bill abandoned New York and the Chase Manhattan last year for the small town, and he's playing his new role to the hilt: he lives on Legendary Lane. He's also a member of the Livermore Falls Rotary Club.

Dave Miller is worrying about funny money as regional controller of American Cyanamid's Europe-African region. lie joined the company in 1966 as a supervising auditor in the internal audit department. Dave has an M.B.A. from Rutgers. PortSesnon worries about the stock market as a broker with the San Francisco firm of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton.

Ernie Arnold, formerly Scott Paper's Illinois district sales manager, is now west central regional manager for Rival Pet Foods. Another regional manager: GordieRussell, with Fairchild Semiconductors, in Wakefield, Mass.

Shep and Ann Jackson welcomed their second child, first son, David, last September 13. Shep recently was transferred from New Orleans to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. DaveHuff married Barbara Anne Kershner in Buffalo, December 30. She's a graduate of Buffalo General Hospital School of Nursing, and Dave is with W. T. Grant in Buffalo.

Alan Cooke, after two years at the Centre d'Etudes Nordiques of the Universite Laval in Quebec, is now exploring the mysteries of the ends of the earth at Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. By contrast, Jim Kerbin shipped out for St. Croix Country Day School in the sunny Virgin Islands.

Bud Pulis is the new life insurance sales manager for Sturhahn, Dickenson & Bernard, a Princeton, N. J., insurance firm. Bud lives in Springfield, N. J., and for the past six years has been selling for Union Central Life Insurance Company in New York. Previously he spent two years with Penn Mutual. Dick Targett, raised and educated in Danbury, Conn., now sits on the town's Board of Education. He was elected by the board itself to fill a vacancy, and will serve until an election in November 1969. Dick was endorsed for the post by the Democratic Town Committee, of which he's vice chairman. He's also executive vice president of the Young Democratic Club of Connecticut, and in 1966 was coordinator of events in his home area for the successful reelection campaign of Congressman John Monagan '33. Dick is a claims representative for Aetna Casualty and Surety Company in Bridgeport.

Harry Ambrose, newly settled in Chicago with Quaker Oats, is one of just three commodity purchasing managers who supervises the buying of all the ingredients for the huge company's many products. He handles all feeding grains, such as fish meal, corn, soybean meal, milo (grain sorghums), methionine (an amino acid, says Harry, and he must know), and alfalfa pellets, these going into Full-O-Pep animal and poultry feeds. He also supervises buying of "yellow" corn for such products as Aunt Jemima yellow com meal, and various soybean products for Ken-L-Ration dog food. Harry draws on his past sales experience, too, pushing by products like corn oil and oat hulls. The hulls, which Harry insists have nothing to do with boats, go to feed manufacturers.

He trades in both the futures and cash commodity markets, and says, "the hardest part of the job is trying to forecast what the market is going to do, and trying to stay ahead of it." But there's a certain thrill to the game, Harry acknowledges: "I'm gambling — but with other people's money."

Harry, still in touch with Art Sollitt from the days when both were working in San Juan, reports that Art has shifted to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where he's vice president of an outfit called Island Yachts. The company owns a fleet of sailboats and charters them out for Caribbean cruising.

Harry also notes that Jim Nelsen, in the Milwaukee office of Loomis, Sayles investment counsellors, has been elected a partner.

And lest you think our Harry is neglecting his new town of Chicago, he lunched shortly after arrival with Dan Musser, busy preparing for another season at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, and with GeorgeSchmitt, president of Chicago's biggest bottled-water supplier, Hinckley & Schmitt.

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