1953

Bill Hutchison has been elected vice president of Fidelity Union Trust Co. in Newark. Bill joined the bank after graduation and had previously served as second vice president. The news story in our papers had Bill's picture with a magnificent Cheshire cat smile; the photographer must have been on hand when the prime rate went to 7%. Elton Clark has been elected vice president in the national division of United California Bank with headquarters in Los Angeles. After serving in the Navy and earning an M.B.A. at the University of California, he joined United California's management training program. Since 1964 he has been assistant vice president and has been assigned to the national division for the past two years. His present assignment takes him regularly to Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Louisville, so perhaps classmates in those cities will be hearing from him.

John Alger reports that he is campaigning to be moderator in the town of Barnstable, which includes along with his own village of Osterville, Cotuit, Hyannis, and Hyannisport. With any luck at all, we'll soon have a '53 telling Ted Kennedy that he's out of order. After eleven years with another lawyer. John recently opened up his own law offices in Osterville, where he, Nancy, Sarah (11) and Jed (7) reside much as the rock resides at Gibraltar. Says John, "Nancy and I did take a three-hour overseas trip to Nantucket for New Year's, which we found most broadening." He hints the journey may qualify for the Exotic Travel of the Year award

George Baird, following eight years as a naval aviator, opted for the computer consulting business and California for six years, and is now with West Publishing Co. in St Paul. West serves the legal profession exclusively and George is applying his computer expertise by supervising design and implementation of an automatic phototypesetting project, presumably with the laudable aim of easing the lawyer's burden in locating relevant case law and statutes. Maybe it will also ease the clients' burdens of lawyers' fees. George, Kay and their two daughters live on Prior Lake near Minneapolis. Water ski, si; skimobile, non.

Syd Gross is division manager in the Milwaukee office of L. M. Berry & Co., which acts as sales agent for over 500 telephone companies in developing advertising for the yellow pages. Syd reports having luncheon with Dick Stanley and a late evening with Bill Gilges, which included a telephonic re-union with old roommates Sherm Horton (Nashua, N. H.) and Len Gochman (Scarsdale, N. Y.), routing them both out of their trundle beds and proving once more that when it comes to time zones, one man's meat may be another's poison. Syd and Linda expect their third child this spring; he/she will join Emily (3) and Syd III (1½).

The venerable Chicago law firm of Messrs. Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles & McLaren took pleasure in announcing that Dick Calkins has become a partner, effective January 1.

Jack Newton has persuaded Anne Hallowell, a Wheelock graduate now at Boston University for her master's degree, that April is a fine month for marriage. And so it will be.

Pat Dudensing, who until recently was associated with Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., has joined United Fruit Sales Corp. as new product development manager in Boston. This sounds like it might require equal parts Luther Burbank and P. T. Barnum, but Pat, who historians will recall, opened up the first real Mad Ave advertising agency in White Town, survived Fred Whittemore's and Charley Fleet's singing commercials for his clients, and later went on to salvage the cranberry business when it got bogged (ho-ho) down over the insecticide scare, is a man of rare and diverse talents. If you get a banana with scotch whiskey taste, it'll probably be the result of Pat's imagination and hard work.

Veep Wayne Hansen has been appointed district executive for. Chase Manhattan Bank, overseeing the bank's business in Indiana and Michigan. Wayne, Kay, and their three children live in Westfield, N. I.

Al Ives has been promoted to plant supervisor-customer services at the headquarters of The Southern New England Telephone Co. in New Haven. Al started with the telephone company as an engineer's assistant in New Haven in 1955. He was advanced to plant force supervisor and later held supervisory positions in Bridgeport. He was district equipment superintendent at the time of his promotion. Al is a major in the Marine Corps Reserve and president of the New Haven Chapter of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association.

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