1951
With the of this column completed, I begin my annual three months' vacation from my reportorial duties as Class Secretary. My file marked "Alumni Magazine News for Publication" is now emptied, so I am completely up to date.
"Hap" Salisbury, executive vice-president of Staley Paint Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, was recently elected a director. Hap joined Staley in July 1966 after having been associated with McDonnell Automation Center and I.B.M.
Earl Reynolds, whose retirement from the Air Force I reported last year, played an important role in the development of the C-5 Galaxy, the world's largest airplane, recently unveiled to the public at the Lockheed-Georgia assembly plant in Marietta, Ga. The new jet transport is 246 feet long and has a 223-foot wingspread.
The article on which I am relying reports that. Earl is (perhaps now as a civilian or was) a program analyst in Headquarters, Military Airlift Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., the command which will fly the new' intercontinental cargo and personnel carrier. Earl holds a master's degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
"Some 1700 members of the Financial Analysts Federation met in Boston last month and elected Suds Bissell their president. He had served this past yearas executive vice president. George is a petroleum industry specialist for Massachusetts Investors Trust and Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund, with total assets of more than $3.2 billion. He also covers the aluminum, communications and natural gas industries; has served as an officer of the Boston Security Analysts Society since 1956; and is a trustee of Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, University Hospital, and Anatolia College in Thessalonika, Greece.
Down East, Dick Sampson, regional group manager for Prudential Insurance Co., calls Cape Elizabeth, Me., home. He and wife Nancy have two children, Rebecca, 11, and Nicholas, 8. On the side, he is serving on Governor Curtis' Task Force on Reorganization of the Maine State Government, in which capacity he would welcome suggestions.
Howie Allen also has his hooks into Maine, but as an absentee entrepreneur living in Brookline, Mass. Howie's company makes women's warm-lined boots in Brunswick, Me., and is now also manufacturing shoes in a one-year-old factory in North Berwick, Me. He and wife "Nat" have a brood of three: Lisa, 13; Bill, 10; and Emily, 4.
Across the border in the Granite State, MerlThorpe is president of Humphreys Corp. and Thorpe Arc Flame Associates, Inc. His family includes wife Inge; Karon, 14; Merle Ill, 13; and Richard, 10. On the side, he is a school board member and vice-president of the Merrimack County Dartmouth Club.
Down in Baghdad-on-the-Hudson, Bill Merkle is Director of Education Programs for First National City Bank. One of our more prolific classmates, he and wife Trudy have six children: Peter, 13; Patrick, "12; Billy, 11; Lee, 3; Mary, 2; and Anne, 1.
The Kit Fuller family has made the move from White Plains, N.Y., to Virginia where Kit has joined Acme Visible Records, Inc. in the newly created post of financial vice president. The company's business of information processing has current sales of nearly $3O million and maintains its principal plant in the Charlottesville area. Kit had previously been a division controller with General Foods Corporation, budget manager for Sperry Rand's Office Equipment Division, and a senior accountant in the budget department of Colgate Palmolive Co.
After some years in the African contingent of the U.S. diplomatic corps, first in Brazzaville (formerly French), Congo, and currently in Algiers, Dave McDonough's next assignment will be Paris after home and August.
Ray Poritsky received a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, in February. Kent MacKenzie is a free lance documentary film editor out L.A. way. He and wife Elizabeth have two daughters, Diane Carol, 10, and Karen Ann, 9.
Guido Rahr is vice president in charge of sales for Great Western Malting Co. in Vancouver, Wash. He and wife Laurie have a brood of four: Guido III, 7; Sarah, 5; Gretel, 3; and Christina, 2. On the side, Guido is a trustee of the Outward Bound School and active in the cause of conservation.
Moving back East to the Garden State, Bayard Johnston is a senior programmer involved with system design and computer programming for the Univac Division of Sperry Rand Corp. His family includes wife Janet (Smith '52); Nancy, 9; Robin, 4; and Duncan, 3.
"Buz" Sawyer practices otologic surgery in Columbus, Ohio. He has three children: Sandy, 14; Steve, 12; and Jay, 8. Al Loehr is president of Boca Steel, Inc., in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he resides with wife Gerry; Lisa, 14; Nicky, 12; Scott, 9; and Alan, 3.
Down Texas-way, to be specific, Houston, Jack Weingarten is vice president and director of manufacturing for the Weingarten supermarket chain. He and wife Miriam have two children, Lea Annette, 6, and Michael, 5.
Here is another '51 portrait, which accompanies the announcement that Rochester's Eastman Kodak Company has made AlKarcher coordinator in its consumer markets division, moving him from the position of manager of marketing research and analysis in the business systems markets division. Al joined the business and technical training program at Kodak in 1953 and held sales positions in West Texas, St. Louis, and Chicago. He then spent three years in Rochester in sales administration and two years in New York before moving to the Recordak Corporation management staff in 1965.
Within a few days of writing this column, I shall be heading back to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. I shall be flying up to Albany, then taking Trans-East Airlines, a scheduled air taxi with two flights daily in and out of Lebanon. Another scheduled air taxi, Executive Airlines, has four flights daily each way between Lebanon and Boston. There are more than just dear old Northeast and private planes going in and out of Lebanon these days.
One of these years, they will finally complete those gaps in Interstate 91 in Massachusetts and Interstate 95 in the Bronx; and I shall be able to drive five miles to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, then expressway all the way to the Norwich exit of Interstate 91 - 360 miles in six hours or less. When they finish the gap in Interstate 89 in the vicinity of New London, N.H., it will be less than two hours to Boston from Hanover. Dartmouth's geographical "isolation" is a thing of the past.
All of which is a sneaky way of getting around to reminding you that, by the time you read this column, there will be left less than a month of the current Alumni Fund campaign to go. As of the end of April, our Class showed almost a 25% increase in dollars over the same time last year in spite of a slight decrease in the number of donors.
Let's hold that increase in dollars during this closing month of the campaign while also increasing participation. Dartmouth is very much a part of all of us, not just most of us. To paraphrase a gasoline commercial, the Alumni Fund keeps Dartmouth College on the go.
Secretary, 2107 Fidelity Bldg. Philadelphia, Penna. 19109
Class Agent, McCall Corp., 230 Park Ave. New York, N.Y. 10017
