1942

With the thermometer registering between 10 and 13 degrees and a possible dip to 5° above on this night of January 1 the heat and excitement of the Rose Bowl game are welcome as this first column of 1969 is being written.

FROM THE LATE FALL MAILBAG Dipping into the fall mailbag we have the pleasant task of reporting the following newsworthy items: Dr. E. Wayne Martz of Pittsburgh, a graduate of Dartmouth and the New York University College of Medicine, is the 1969 President-elect of the Pennsylvania Heart Association. He is also associate director of the Western Pennsylvania Regional Medical Program, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and former director of medical education at St. Francis General Hospital, Pittsburgh. He is a past president of the Western Pennsylvania Heart Association and served in 1968 as chairman of the professional education committee of the Pennsylvania Heart Association, planning scientific programs for doctors and nurses.

Richard W. Lippman, our class president and director of Dartmouth's enrollment activities in the Philadelphia area, served recently on a panel considering "The Use of Alumni in Admissions" at the annual conference of the Association of College Admissions Counselors held in New York City. It is significant, and a tribute to "Lip" that more than 65 young men from the Philadelphia area are currently undergraduates at Dartmouth.

E. Burton Keirstead of Richmond (Mass.) has resigned his post as agency supervisor of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company to accept a position as brokerage supervisor in the life division of the Aetna. Life and Casualty Company's Springfield Agency. Burt is chairman of the school committee in Richmond where he resides with his wife, the former Betty Jo Warden of Bluefield (W. Va.) and their four children.

Alco Products, a major subsidiary of Studebaker-Worthington Inc., has moved from New York to Schenectady. Their vice president-marketing is 42's Richard B. Fairman. He has been elected president of Alco Locomotive Inc. Dick joined Alco in 1946 as a sales representative operating out of me New York Office after having served in the U.S. Navy as an engineering officer.

Addison Winship, director of development at Dartmouth.was the guest speaker on the topic "Dartmouth, Today and Tomorrow at a meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southeastern Massachusetts. The meeting was held in Middleboro recently. Among Ad's outstanding achievements in behalf of Dartmouth is receipt of a trophy as outstanding class agent of the year in 1951.

Another Hanover resident, Wallace J. Farr, president of Bradford Veneer and Panel Co., Bradford, Vt., has been elected president of Associated Industries of Vermont. Wally is a native Vermonter.

A November news item in Variety out of Hollywood, Calif., announced that ducer Matt Rapf was signed by Talent Associates and would join the company as exec producer and creative executive concentrating on theatrical films and creation of dramatic TV series. Signing of Rapf is part of an expansion undertaken since Norton Simon Associates acquired the controlling interest in Talent Associates. Matts credits include producing such series as Ben Casey" and "Slattery's People." Earlier he was a feature film producer at Metro.

Mel Lee, institutional marketing manager for Libbey Products, Owens-Illinois, Inc., has been elected secretary of the National Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers. He just completed a four-year term on NAFEM's board of directors and previously served as chairman of the annual workshop committee and as chairman of NAFEM's Table Top Products group. He has been with Libbey since 1940. Mel and Fran and their two daughters live in Toledo.

Dr. Joseph C. Palamountain, our own Skidmore College president, was recently named president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents 108 institutions in New York State. His two-year term began on January 1. The commission's purpose is to "insure effective cooperation with the tax-supported institutions and to unify, channel and make articulate the vast resources of private higher education."

A few weeks ago Southern Pacific Company announced the appointment of RobertJ. McLean as vice president and treasurer. He advances from the post of assistant vice president and assistant treasurer. Bob will assume overall jurisdiction of the treasury department for Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries. The McLeans and their two children reside in Los Altos, Calif. Bob s educational background includes Columbia College, Columbia Law, and completion of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard University.

A Christmas card from Bill Russell of Parsippany (N. J.) noted that he and his wife, Nan, sat with Bob Taylor and wife Mary at the Dartmouth-Harvard game. The Russells also attended the Holy Cross game. Bill feels that they do better watching the Big Green in the Princeton and Columbia bailiwicks nearer home.

In Illinois Ed Spiegel was elected president of the Alton Box Board Company by the company directors. Formerly executive vice president, he came to Alton Box Board in 1965 as vice president and general manager of the container division. He has devoted his entire business career to the paperboard and packaging industry, having ioined the former Gaylord Container Corporation in 1946. After a merger with Crown Zellerbach in 1955, Ed stayed with the Gaylord Division until 1965.

'42 MOURNS LOSS OF CLASSMATES. It is with sadness that we report the deaths of two classmates, Richard C. Hetfield of Plainfield, N. J., and Richard H. Wilson of Norwell, Mass. The entire membership of the Dartmouth Class of '42 and their families were also saddened upon learning of the tragic airliner crash at Lebanon airport which claimed the life of Richard Searles '46, brother of Bob Searles, who was written up in our December column at some length.

Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the members of the Hetfield, Wilson, and Searles families. We are thankful that among the ten survivors of the airliner accident was Ad Winship's brother-in-law, Robert Y. Kimball '46, Assistant Dean at Tuck School.

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