1957

I hope you all had an enjoyable summer and are now ready for fall activities such as football games with tailgate parties, etc. As for our class activities, I am sure you will hear frequently from our social chairman, John Blades.

Earlier this year, it was suggested in this column that John Griffin and John Donnelly, both with the Grey Company, get together in Paris. They did just that in June, but in Geneva, where they ran into DonSaunders who was coaching a little league baseball team. Don is with Union Carbide and has been in Geneva for the past couple of years.

Army Major Sherm Mills received the Bronze Star Medal, near Co Chi, in Vietnam. The award was received for heroism in action while engaged in ground operations against a hostile force. Also a holder of the Air Medal, Sherm is executive officer of Headquarters Company, 554 th Engineer Battalion. Another classmate in Vietnam, Major Andrew Turner, is stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. He is a navigator assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces.

Back in the States Army Doctor GeneMatusow was recently promoted to major. Gene is an ophthalmologist at the U. S. Army Hospital, Ft. Carson, Colo. He was last stationed in Korea and prior to entering the Army in 1967, he was chief resident, ophthalmology, at Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, in New York. Another doctor, this time a civilian, JimMcDowell, has completed an internship and one year of medical residency at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, and is now in his second year. The big event in Jim's life recently was his marriage in June to the former Pauline Lorraine Theberge.

Last March President Nixon nominated Larry Silberman as solicitor of the Department of Labor. He was a lawyer with the Appellate Division, General Counsel's Office, National Labor Relations Board. Before joining the NLRB in 1967, Larry practiced law in Honolulu, having been admitted to the bar in Hawaii in 1962. He has specialized in labor-management law and also has handled cases dealing with corporate problems and administrative law. He has lectured in labor law and legislation at the University of Hawaii. Upon confirmation as solicitor, he will be the Labor Department's chief legal officer and will supervise its legal activities including proceedings under the laws administered by the department.

Monte Pascoe, an attorney in Denver, has been quite active in Democratic politics. He managed the Colorado presidential campaign, a year ago, of Hubert H. Humphrey. This led to his becoming a candidate for the school board in Denver, teamed with an incumbent supported by the Democratic party and pro-integration groups and individuals - school integration being a major issue. Monte has been president of the Denver Cooperative Pre-School and for three years was chairman of a Denver area committee to find promising recruits for Dartmouth.

Lou Rovero has been chosen by the Republican Town Committee of Putnam, Conn., to fill the Republican alderman's seat in Ward I. He also serves as a member of the Board of Education in Putnam.

A news release from Purdue University says that Prof. John Phillips, assistant professor of Chemistry, was selected as a recipient of a special award as an outstanding undergraduate teacher. He received a $l,OOO cash award from a grant given to Purdue by the Standard Oil Foundation to provide recognition to effective teachers of undergraduates. John displayed superior ability in communicating his chosen class materials to students by stimulating the students' desire to master the materials. He also aided students in advisory and counseling capacities. John has been at the Calumet Campus of Purdue for two years. Prior to that he was on the Chemistry faculty at the University of Ottawa in Canada for five years. His specialized areas of construction are qualitative and quantitative analysis of modern inorganic chemistry. He has written numerous articles for chemical journals and is a member of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Institute of Canada, and the Chemical Society of London.

Last spring at Waterville College's art museum, in Maine, Abbott Meader exhibited oil paintings and acrylic collages. He is on the faculty at Colby College and his work is best known for its political and social comment.

A change of scene for Jack Johnson and family: their new address is 501 South Reuter Drive, Arlington Heights, Ill. John has been reassigned from the Philadelphia office of Rohm and Haas Company to their new Chicago district sales office as the technical representative. He is responsible for the sale of the full line of chemicals Rohm and Haas manufactures for the petroleum industry. That ought to keep him busy!

Charlie Ashley graduated last spring from Boston University with a degree of Doctor of Education. He is principal of the Manchester, Mass., Junior-Senior High School. About the same time John Austin was awarded the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Albany Law School. He also received the Rosch Prize, awarded annually to the graduate having the highest standing in the subject of administrative law. John is presently a law clerk in the office of F. G. Bascom and a Town of Queensbury, N. Y., Councilman.

In the world of banking, Dick Murray has been elected vice president in charge of data processing for the Canal National Bank, Portland, Me. He has been involved in data processing work with Canal for ten years. He is a member of the Data Processing Management Association and the Administrative Management Society. In St. Louis, Athan Mertis was promoted to Banking Officer by the Mercantile Trust Company. He has been with Mercantile for two years.

Wendell Smith is still on the move at Baldwin-Gegenheimer, having been elevated to executive vice president. In his new post he will be responsible for over-all company operations and business development. Chairman of the board of the recently established Japan-Baldwin, Ltd., he is also a director of Korthe Engineering Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary in Chicago.

Jottings: Dave Canfield has been appointed chairman of the commercial division of the 1970 Community Chest Fund Drive in Danbury, Conn. Dave Vorse is president of Cherokee Air Lines, Los Angeles. Sam Rocray is a marketing engineer for Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn. Bill Hamel is a field crew supervisor for Bruce H. Quackenbush Land Surveying, in Syracuse, N. Y. Tom Ely is treasurer of the Research Institute of America in New York City. Sam Bassett is the assistant to the president of Humphreys College in Stockton, Calif. Dr. Bob Jeffrey is in the Department of Radiology at Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

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