1953

Ed Condit has become a partner of Messrs. Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum, prestigious Boston law firm. For several years, Ed repeatedly led us to Green Derby victories in the alumni fund campaigns, during which time his clients must have had to handle their legal affairs on their own. Ed, Nancy and daughter live in Weston.

Gus Allen has been made a partner of Shields & Co., NYSE brokerage firm, headquartered in New York. Gus, Mabel and their brood of three (Byron III, Lesley and Earle) live in Tenafly, which means that Gus' commutation helped finance the second deck of the George Washington Bridge.

Some '53 careers appear unique; DickGiesser would seem to have a valid claim to this distinction. He has been named coordinator of heel finishing by Vulcan Corporation, a Cincinnati-based firm supplying shoe manufacturers in the U. S. and Canada. Dick is general manager of the Dix Heel plant, which Vulcan acquired in 1968. Dick, says the press report, is an extremely talented chief heel stylist/designer, which means that we can hold him personally accountable for the shift from spikes to stubs.

In the hills of Virginia, Woody Spurgeon has taken over as manager of manufacturing for the new control systems business section of the General Electric industry control department at Salem. He is responsible for the business section's manufacture of electrical equipment used to automate or control industrial processes including iron and steel making, paper mills, mining hoists, excavators, testing equipment, and gas turbines. He has been with G.E. since 1957.

George Krall has been named plant manager for General Electric's Hooksett, N. H., plant. Prior to this, George served as manufacturing engineering manager in GE's aircraft engine plant in Rutland, and also as manager of manufacturing operations at the Everett, Mass., plant. He, Marjorie, and son reside in Reading, Mass.

Professor Rudi Haerle, chairman of the sociology-anthropology department at Middlebury, has been appointed chairman of the social sciences division for the 1968-9 academic year. Rudi joined the Middlebury faculty as instructor in 1962, leaving in 1966 to be senior research sociologist and project director at the Center for Urban Education in New York where he stayed a year before returning to Middlebury as associate professor.

The aptly-named Harmonie Club was the scene for the recent wedding of NathanBurkan to Roberta Dresdner, a University of Michigan graduate and until recently a copywriter at Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc., a Manhattan ad agency. Nathan got his law degree from New York Law School and is now deputy counsel of New York's Office of Rent Control of the Housing and Development Administration.

A report from Norm Carpenter says he came from Minneapolis to New Haven for the Yale game with every intention of making the pre-game warm-up at the tent. But Norm encountered land mines (or the alcoholic equivalent) set in the parking lot by Dick Conn, Norm Chapelle and their wives and hence missed a large contingent of '53's who, throwing caution to the winds, subscribed to a reprise of one of FredCarleton's famous bus trips. Fred and TomBloomer, nostalgia bent, tricked an unsuspecting bus charter agent into a GreenwichNew Haven round-trip, and loaded it up with classmates and hangers-on, a few of whom expressed surprise and disappointment at not ending up disabled on Mt. Holyoke's campus. Butch Edgar and TedSpiegel checked in from the Motor and Windy cities, respectively, to see if Fred's driving had improved. They report it hasn't.

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