1951
Sometimes significant news about a classmate appears in the most barebones form, such as the recent one-sentence item about "Suds" Bissell, albeit with picture, picked up by the College's clipping service. Omitting the names of two others, it reads in toto: "Mass. Investors Trust has elected ...
George S. Bissell ... as three of the managing trustees of Massachusetts Investors Trust, and vice presidents and directors of Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund."
After only a year with Acme Visible Records, Inc., of Crozet, Va., as Vice-President-Finance, Kit Fuller was promoted to executive Vice President in May. Acme is a manufacturer-marketer of custom-designed business systems and information retrieval devices with over 100 branch offices in the United States and Canada. Kit came to Acme from General Foods where he was a divisional controller in the Kool-Aid division and a product manager in the Birds Eye division.
Jack Gannon is Vice President of Finance with Cameo Curtains, Inc., of New Bedford, Mass. He and wife Terry have two children, John, 3, and Julie, 1.
Avon Products, Inc., has appointed BobHopkins New England Division manager at its Rye, N. Y., Sales and Distribution Branch. Bob started with Avon in 1956, working in Branch Operations in the New York office. A year later, he became division manager at the company's Morton Grove, 111., installation. In 1966, he returned to the New York office as manager, sales development, Marketing Research Department.
Herb Knight has joined the Metal Products staff of Bliss & Laughlin Industries, Oak Brook, Ill., as assistant to the group vice president. Bliss & Laughlin is a diversified firm producing construction tools and equipment, cold finished steel bars, scaffolds, casters and furniture hardware, materials handling systems, and electronic packages.
Herb will be concerned with the preparation and execution of future planning, special assignments, and other long-range projects in the operating divisions of the Metal Products Group. He was most recently vice president of marketing for A-Z Rental Corp., a national franchiser of equipment rental businesses.
Jim Balderston is now out on his own as Balderston and Associates, engaged in business planning and product planning in Dallas. He and wife Dorie have three children: Jim, 13; Nancy, 11; and Kathy, 9.
Jim Bovaird is with G. H. Walker & Co., investment bankers, in Chicago. Jim, wife, Elaine, and daughters Anne, 9, and Sarah, 2, live in Winnetka, where Jim is a Little League coach.
When last reported on in this column, Mike Monroney was running for Congress in Maryland's Bth Congressional District. He unfortunately came in second. He had been with the U.S. Post Office but now works for a purveyor of a much speedier means of communications, namely, COMSAT.
After graduation, Mike spent five years as a staff reporter for "The Washington Post" before serving on Adlai Stevenson's campaign staff in the 1956 presidential election. Mike then worked two years each as Director of Information and Research for the Montgomery County (Maryland) Government and as Administrative Assistant to Congressman John Brademas (D., Ind.).
From 1961 through 1966, he served as Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General, which involved him in the dedication of numerous new postal facilities. Mike reports that he was frequently accused of arranging for dedications in New England to occur in the fall so that he could attend Dartmouth football games.
Early in 1967, Mike joined COMSAT (Communications Satellite Corp.) as Special Assistant to the President and to the Chairman of the Board, working principally on government and congressional relations. In May 1968, he temporarily left COMSAT to work on Vice President Humphrey's campaign staff. Mike's job was to coordinate a block of states, including New England, during the pre-convention period.
His daughter Sharon, born at Mary Hitchcock during Mike's junior year, is no.w a Sweet Briar sophomore. Another daughter, Alice, is 14; and Mike Jr., 9. Mike was remarried in 1964 to the former Jocelyn Mason Murray, Smith '54. Their first child, daughter Susanna, arrived last December.
Former fellow bachelor Herb Shay snuck off August 3, 1968, and got married without alerting this column. The word I have is that he and Elisa's firstborn was expected this summer. Herb's major extracurricular activity is the Adirondack Mountain Club, which is where he met his wife.
Pau! Meyer spent the last academic year on a visiting appointment at the University of Texas. By now, he should be back in New York. Les Viereck is Research Plant Ecologist at the Institute of Northern Forestry in Fairbanks, Alaska. He and wife Teri have three children: Rodney, 9; Walter, 7: and Sharon, 2.
Tom Gay spent the last academic year finishing up his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. He is now an associate professor of history at Edinboro (Pa.) State College. He and wife Daphne have one daughter, Michelle, 3.
Major Al Sweet recently retired after 26 years" service in the Air Force. He saw service in the South Pacific in World War II and has been back since in Vietnam. He was most recently staff development engineer at Robins AFB, Ga.
Navy Commander Don Rand is also back trom Vietnam and now at the Pentagon (which he parenthetically describes as Enigma East") as Branch Head in Naval support Management. He and wife Barbara nave three children: Donna, 11; Leslie, 9; and Susan, 4.
Lt. Col. Drew Matthews is now stationed at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington. He is head of the Engineering and General Property Branch, concerned with technical data for construction equipment. He and wife Vivian have three children: Kevin, 12; Mark, 10; and Terry, 6.
Early last year, Navy flyer Rog McAlister retired from active duty to do painting, sculpture, portraits, etc., tree farming, and skiing in rural Oregon. He's still doing it, albeit he is still attached to the Naval Reserve at Seattle. He and wife Stevie have two daughters, Suzanne, 7, and Katharine, 4.
Speaking of painting and related arts, I happened to be passing through San Francisco in August. On a Saturday afternoon, I was exploring the Cannery, an attractive montage of shops, art galleries, and restaurants in a rehabilitated factory building lo- cated between Ghiardelli Square and Fisherman's Wharf.
I came upon a gallery, the door of which was marked "I. Mead Associates." Inside I found classmate Igor Mead, who carries some very interesting works of several artists. He also told me that he had opened a restaurant called "Zhivago" in Menlo Park.
That evening, Jean Bowler, the HowieBissells, Tom Barnetts, Ev Odells, and I attended a '51 gathering at Pierce and RoxieMcKee's in Orinda, across the Bay and beyond the Berkeley Hills. Jean, Bob Bowler's widow, and her children, are now living in Orinda.
Ev Odell is now Controller for Marcor, Inc., successor to the familiar "Monkey Ward," in Richmond, Calif. Ev came West from Oklahoma to open a store of Marcor in Covina, at the other end of California, and was then transferred north. He and wife Kay have four children: Linda, 17; Dan, 15; Sharon, 12; and Jennifer, 5.
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