1956
Your secretary owes the Class an apology for no column last month. A combination of circumstances led to this failure on my part and I am truly sorry.
In this election year, you would do well to consider the labors of Linda Sokol, wife of Don Sokol. Linda, on her way to the hospital to have a baby, interrupted the trip long enough to stop at the polling place and cast her ballot. When queried on the subject Mrs. S. said "It is the duty of every citizen to vote in each election" even though it may mean personal discomfort. New Sokol, Martin Scott, and mother were both reported doing fine.
Dr. Fenwick C. Riley has been honored for outstanding performance in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Fen received a special award in ophthalmology, following his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School back in 1961.
I received a newspaper clipping from Charlie Morrissey who received it from TomConlon, both in Montpelier, Vt., showing Buzz Farbar who was appearing with Norman Mailer in a movie called "Wild Go." Buzz, let's hear from you relative to this.
Ron Mackenzie, a Massachusetts Senator hailing from Burlington, was named one of four outstanding young men for 1968 in Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Jaycees.
Bob Dumont has recently become a successful Massachusetts politician. I pointed out to you in an earlier issue his candidacy for selectman in Southboro. A postcard indicates Bob won by a landslide.
Rog Griffin has been appointed manager of the Mutual Fund Department of an investment banking firm in Minneapolis.
We started this column considering voting. Another seasonal topic is the IRS. Dick Lang recently scored a victory over the IRS in a Chevrolet Corvette. Dick's father's Chevrolet dealerships sponsored sports car racing by Dick. The tax court decided that in spite of the fact that Dick got pleasure out of racing, amounts spent by the agencies in promoting the racing were reasonable in relation to their entire advertising budget and the expenses were found to be ordinary and necessary expense of automobile agencies. How about that for a racing victory?
Bill Balch with Dean Witter & Company in New York has recently been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis.
Richard Foster is a new partner in the law Arm of Foster, Campbell, Lindemer & McGurrin, Lansing, Mich.
charles E. Soule has recently served his community, Westboro, Mass., as chairman of the Heart Fund.
01 Bob Verrone, who joined Prentice-Hall Publishers of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., in 1956 has been named president of a new subsidiary, Bradbury Press, Inc. The new company will publish children's books, with its first publications scheduled to appear in the fall of 1968. Bob has had considerable experience in the maiketing of children's books to schools and libraries; he has been director of Prentice-Hall's Library Sales Division since 1959 and a company vice president since 1966. He is currently treasurer of the Children's Book Council, chairman of Children's Book Week for 1968, and a member of the Council's board of directors.
Bill Crate has been appointed sales manager for heavy chemicals by a division of General Aniline & Film Corporation. Bill has been with GAF since 1960.
Bill Burke is a doctor with the Army in Vietnam where he holds the rank of captain. His wife, Maryann is in Washington, D.C. Also, in the skies over Vietnam, is Dick Zock.
If I'm still serving as your class secretary in the fall, your ALUMNI MAGAZINE column will be edited from month to month by different members of the class executive committee from other areas of the country. We hope that their personal perspective will enable the column to be broader and thus serve you better.
Paige joins me in wishing the merriest of all summers to you all. See you at the Princeton Game.
Secretary, Box 111, Hyde Park, Vt. 05655
Class Agent, Eli Lilly and Co., 740 S. Alabama St. Indianapolis, Ind. 46206
