1951

Labor Day arrived before I knew it, and I ended up having to call Hanover to confess that I would be late getting in the copy for these notes. With the summer hiatus, this is always the occasion for a full news bag. If you sent me some news on a reply postcard or otherwise and don't see it this month, please be patient.

This month has always been an occasion, at least since I have authored this column, to take a look at how the Class did on the Alumni Fund. On dollars, we did great this year, ranking fifth among all classes in achievement of objective with 125.2%. The only sour notes in that regard are that 1953, which raised approximately $11,500 more than we did. ranked first; and 1954 ranked third.

On participation, however, I can't be particularly proud of our ranking of 40th out of 70 classes, with only 455 donors and 76.9% on the complicated index. I know that Head Agent Howie Phillips and his hardworking co-workers really sweated this one and deserve the credit for our excellent showing in dollars, which to some extent makes up for, but does not excuse, our poor showing on participation.

The Class added two new members to the College's Alumni Council in June. In my last column, I noted that Howie Phillips was elected to the Council as representative of the Class Agents. Howie; by the way, recently switched jobs. He is now with the securities firm of Oppenheimer & Co. in New York as vice president - Corporate Development. Howie is in charge of new business in the corporate finance department, including venture capital, private placements, and public offerings.

In addition, Judge Jim Rogers from Minneapolis was elected as a regional representative from the upper Mid-West. Howie and Jim, together with Bob Kreidler, constitute the three active members of the Class on the Alumni Council. Paul Staley, who just retired, and earlier retiree Russ Dilks, bring the total class representation to five, more than any more recent class, and also more than many older classes.

In the more professional sections of the groves of academe, Sam Chu has been appointed a professor of history at Ohio State University. Since 1960, he has served on the University of Pittsburgh history faculty and concurrently as executive secretary of the Council on Asian Studies in that city. In addition to his Dartmouth A.8., Sam holds both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia.

Kent State University in Ohio has named Ray Poritsky assistant professor of biological sciences. He was most recently an instructor at Case-Western Reserve Medical School. In-addition to His Dartmouth A.B., Ray holds an M.S. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Western Reserve. Mike Choukas, headmaster of Vermont Academy, was recently elected president of the Independent School Association of Northern New England.

Home Life Insurance Company of New York recently honored Harry Johnson for outstanding achievement during 1968, naming him as a member of the President's Council, the company's highest honor group. After Army service and 12 years in management in Home Life's home office, he became a field underwriter in 1966. A fellow of the Life Office Management Society, Harry lives in Chatham, N. J., with wife Maribel, daughter Judith, and son Carlton.

John Boardman has gone to Denver to become regional manager for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado. The Colorado region is the newest of six autonomous regions of the Kaiser Foundation Medical Program, the largest group practice prepayment plan in the country. John joined Kaiser in 1962 as assistant administrator of the Harbor City (Calif.) Kaiser hospital. In 1967, he became director of facilities planning for the Southern California region of the Kaiser Medical Care program.

State Street Bank and Trust Co. of Boston has promoted Joe Baker to vice president in the corresponding banking department, Depositors Service division. JoeMorelli has been named Eastern division manager of the Browne-Vintners Division of General Wine and Spirits Company. Joe had been Eastern division manager of Browne-Vintners Company prior to its designation as a division of General Wine and Spirits.

Armour-Dial, Inc., has appointed Bill Rowe corporate director of planning. After working in the management consulting field and holding various controllership, data processing, accounting, and marketing positions with several manufacturing firms, Bill joined Armour Pharmaceutical Co. in 1967 as controller. In addition to his Dartmouth A.8., Bill holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern.

Bruce Robertson is president of Vogele Public Relations, Inc., a new Chicagobased financial and corporate communica- tions counseling firm. Most recently, he has been serving six Chicago area firms in a counseling capacity at Fensholt Public Relations. Prior to that, he was public relations manager for the Com- munications Division of Motorola, Inc. and assistant advertising manager and public relations director of the Kemper Insurance Group in Chicago.

Bob Rugen has joined Dictaphone" Corp. as director of employee relations, a new post. He was previously with Singer Co. as assistant to the vice president for employee relations. The holder of a Yale LL.B. on top of his Dartmouth A.8., Bob resides in Princeton, N. J., with wife Carolyn and three children.

Al Streelman has been named industrial relations manager for the Electronics/Instruments Group of American Precision In- dustries, Inc. Most recently in a similar position with the Delevan Electronics Division of American Precision, Al will now supervise personnel, labor relations, industrial relations, and other functions for the group, which includes Delevan and the Electro-Mechanical Products Divisions, both in East Aurora, N. Y., and the Moeller Instrument Co., a subsidiary, in Richmond Hill, N. Y.

The Saalfield Publishing Company has elected Ron Thorburn, its director of marketing for the past three years, vice president-marketing. In addition to Tuck School, Ron holds an M.B.A. from Columbia. He is a member and past president of the Akron-Canton (Ohio) chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Dominion Securities Corporation of Toronto has appointed John Woods its Director of Research in the United States. Dominion is a Toronto-based international investment banker and broker with offices in Canada, New York, Boston, London, and Paris. As of the spring date of the news clipping, John was running for re-election as a borough councilman in Bernardsville, N. J.

He holds an M.M.E from Thayer School and has taken advanced studies in engineering and business at the University of Massachusetts, the Wharton School at Penn, and N.Y.U. For the past eight years, John has been a security analyst with Vilas and Hickey in Manhattan and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

New Arrivals. ... A light-weight daughter Julianne arrived on the scene for Andreaand Jule Olney on July 13. Winifred andJack Gray adopted two sons, John and Stephen, on May 6.

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