1955
Tom Roulston, who heads one of Cleveland's larger brokerage firms, Roulston & Co., has been selected for listing in the fourth edition of Outstanding Young Men of America, to be published May 15. The book contains biographical summaries of about 10,000 men between 21 and 35. Most of the nominations are submitted by Junior Chamber of Commerce chapters and by college alumni associations.
Another mark of distinction, the professional designation Chartered Financial Analyst, has been bestowed by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts on three '55s: Neal Allen, who's an investment trust officer at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company in New York; Jim (Moose) Sherman, portfolio analyst for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis in New York; and JimNelsen, an analyst and portfolio manager in the Milwaukee office of Loomis Sayles & Company. They were among 491 analysts (financial only, not psychiatric) who received the CFA designation this year, after completing a course of study and passing a series of examinations in "investment principles, applied security analysis, and investment management decision-making." About 1,700 took the exams.
Walt Miller, who's been marketing director of the Mellon National Bank and Trust Company in Pittsburgh, was named head of the bank's marketing office, reporting directly to the president. He supervises advertising, public relations, marketing research, area development and sales services. Walt has a master's degree from Columbia and a Ph.D. from N.Y.U. He's been with the bank since 1965, and before that was assistant to the dean of N.Y.U.'s Graduate School of Business Administration. Walt also has a position on the faculty of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers.
Tom Hamilton is a transplanted Californian who likes Chicago and plans to stay! This is no easy matter. Californians don't transplant anywhere easily, and especially not to Chicago's winters. But Tom, after being transferred to the Windy City by a small company which was later acquired by McGraw-Hill, decided to take advantage of his California background and set himself up in business as Chicago representative for nine manufacturers, five of them in California. He also represents a couple of little outfits called Texas Instruments and Litton Industries, for certain product lines. He deals in such things as digital logic modules, memory drums, magnetic tape heads, digital tape transports, paper tape punches and readers, high power pulse generators, surface inspection laser systems, and all that jazz. Bachelor Tom is staying fit and trim with tennis, squash, and lots of traveling, for he covers the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, plus Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and Cedar Rapids and Davenport, Iowa-Tom goes as HH Sales, and lists his office as Suite 705 at 1255 Sandburg, which is also his pad. "I have a 10-foot commute, he laughs.
Another of our bachelor classmates is not fit and trim. Lew Wolfson has a bad back, agony of agonies. He even wrote a story about backaches for the "Providence Sunday Journal," saying, "around here (Washington) there seems to be some status attached to an ailing back. Since President Kennedy, it has become a social disease. ... It's clubby. Claiborne Pell and I share the same orthopedist, and Teddy Kennedy and I were outfitted by the same corsetier, a glib fellow who apparently has sucked up enough tidbits from politician-clients to make Drew Pearson look like a cub reporter." And Lew observed remorsefully: "While body parts are being mended with dacron and whole hearts are being transplanted, the back is an area of medicine where the light is still pretty dim." He added: "I know now what it is like to envy spineless jellyfish, and humans who snatch suitcases with a reckless abandon."
Don Wright transferred from Chicago to Paris with International Harvester. Don Woods, on leave from UCLA, is a visiting assistant professor at Harvard Business School this year. He's teaching finance to M.B.A. and doctoral candidates, and is researching for a study of capital budgeting decisions in large corporations. Don and Miriam welcomed their first youngster, Rachel Ann, on January 9.
A '55 who has not moved is Gus Aberle. We reported in March that he had become a sales representative in Philadelphia for Lufthansa Airlines, but instead it was his classmate-cousin, Dick Aberle, who made the move, shifting from Cook Travel in Philadelphia. However, the mistake had the beneficial side effect of producing a note from Gus that he's still happy with U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh, and since December 1 has been supervisor of commercial development for sheet and strip products. "This job," he explains, "involves coordination of the advertising, public relations and marketing activities for sheet and strip products, in addition to responsibility for training and product development within the same unit. It's a very interesting job with lots of variety and a fair amount of travel."
Jed Isaacs is taking a leading role in a nationwide fund drive by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The Anti-Defamation League Appeal is seeking $5.5 million to support research and education in community relations and civil rights, and Jed is cnairman of the accountants, factors, and finance division. He's a partner, in charge of management services, in the firm of Edward Isaacs and Company, with offices in New York City and Bridegport, Conn. Jed lives in Stamford. He's also chairman of the Data Processing Committee of the New York State Society of C.P.A.'s, and is a lecturer for the society and for the National Association of Accountants. Jed has been active in other charity drives, including the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the United Jewish Appeal, the United Fund of Stamford .. . and the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.
Our class poet, Dave Wang, who once gained some notoriety by advocating white supremacy, now is defending militant Negro poet LeRoi Jones. Dave feels Jones "got a raw deal from the Newark court," in the aftermath of last year's riot. "He should not have got such a stiff sentence," says Dave. He recently took part in a midnight poetry reading in a Los Angeles theatre to raise funds, at $1 a head, "for LeRoi Jones' legal defense."
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