1955
Laser peddler Ace Hall, seizing upon what he describes as "this phenomenon of a Republican administration," left Westinghouse Electric to become assistant to the Undersecretary of Transportation, James M. Beggs. Surveying his new problem, Ace perceptively observes: "There certainly are some things to do in that area!" As for his own transportation, Ace is now merely commuting south to Washington from his Ellicott City, Md., home, instead of north to Baltimore.
Jim Magavern, associate professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has been named assistant to the president of the university, Martin Meyerson. One of his assignments is equal opportunities. President Meyerson stated that Jim's "training and background, as well as his interest in college students, problems of equal opportunity and problems affecting higher education, make him a valuable addition to the cabinet." Jim is co-chairman of the Citizens' Council on Human Relations in Buffalo, and is a board member of the Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, Young Audiences of Western New York, and the Buffalo YMCA. He's also a member of the Government Research Institute of Western New York, Inc., the Erie County Bar Association, and the bar association's Special Committee to Implement the Kerner Commission Report. Jim graduated first in his class from the University of Buffalo Law School in 1959, served as a New York State deputy assistant attorney general and then assistant attorney general in the Litigation and Claims Bureau, practiced law in Buffalo for four years while lecturing parttime at the University of Buffalo, then joined the state university faculty in 1966. He took a year's leave to become an overseas professional fellow at the International Legal Center of the University of the Philippines Law Center, proposing urban and re- gional planning legislation, working with the country's national planning commission, and teaching a course in planning law and administration at the university's Institute of Planning. Jim followed this with two months in Korea, reviewing and recom- mending changes in that country's planning laws, for the Korean Housing, Urban and Regional Planning Institute.
Elsewhere in the academic world, HarryGuenther resigned as dean of Georgetown University's School of Business Administration to return to writing and research, effective this summer. He has been dean since July 1966, and before that was an associate professor at Georgetown for two years. As dean Harry involved the School of Business Administration in new international programs, and developed exchanges of students and businessmen between the school and companies. He is co-author of "The U.S. Balance of Payments — An Appraisal of U.S. Economic Strategy," published in 1966, and has written several academic articles. The acting president of Georgetown, the Rev. Edwin A. Quain, S.J., accepted Harry's resignation "with deep regret."
But Gordie Russell moves too fast to be pinned down. He left Boston hastily to become aerospace marketing manager for the semiconductor division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument, in Mountain View, Calif.
Bill Foggle wouldn't reveal it, but his wife Lynn kindly did. Bill received the Springfield (Mass.) Jewish Federation Young Leadership Award for "outstanding communal service." The letter is authoritative, for it's signed not only by Lynn but by "John Foggle ('79) age 11" and "Andrea Foggle, age 9." You can't fool a Foggle.
John Rossiter, who was Union Oil's manager of military and export sales in Los Angeles, is now the company's manager of logistics planning in Chicago. He, his wife Betty and their three children live in suburban Arlington Heights. Woody Goss moved up to vice president of the Mechanics National Bank in Worcester, Mass.
In New York Neal Allen has been promoted from assistant vice president to vice president at the Chemical Bank. A member of the investment analysis department, he joined the bank in 1958. He was promoted in 1965 to assistant trust officer and in 1967 to investment trust officer. He is a member of the Financial Analysts Federation and was designated a chartered financial analyst in 1967. He and Joan and their two daughters live in Westfield, N. J.
Joe and Arlene Pluto and their two elderly daughters (15 and 12) moved from Mt. Vernon, Ohio, to Findlay, Ohio, as the Penn Central promoted Joe from supervisor of signals and communications to trainmaster. "Higher pay and longer hours," says Arlene.
Bob MacFadyen is a father. His wife Mary Lou helped. They had a daughter, Kristin Anna, on February 25, in Yonkers, N. Y. He reports that Al and Carolyn Murray had their third at about the same time, so while the two wives were still in the hospital recovering, Bob and Al did what any red-blooded Dartmouth man would do. They went to the Glee Club concert in Scarsdale.
Paul Mannes has formed a law partner- ship in Rockville, Md., near Washington. It's Klavan & Mannes. Kilt Andrew left Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. to enter the real estate business with Alan Balfour Co. in Cape Elizabeth, Me. Kilt is now president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Maine.
Allen Palmquist received a plaque from the Advertising Club of Greater St. Louis for serving as general chairman of the club's 66th annual Christmas party. Not many Christmas parties produce a big Salvation Army contribution and a five-figure profit to boot. Allen explains that the money is used to help pay for the club's staff.
Dr. Bob Morse warned about the dangers of smoking, lack of exercise, overweight, and high-cholesterol foods in a Boston talk on "Better Odds for a Longer Life." Bob is a clinical investigator and cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Roxbury, and is a director of the Greater Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association.
Bob Bennett is now with Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., in San Mateo, Calif., as assistant manager of regional distribution. LarryBrown is taking matters into his own hands as the owner of a Mister Donut franchise in Lynnwood, Wash. Tom Jannuzi, back from another tour in India, is lecturing in economics at the University of Texas. The Navy promoted Dr. Larry Kretchmar to commander, which apparently makes him the highest-ranking '55 in military service. He's now in La Mesa, Calif.
Henry Neuberger shifted his real-estating from Boston to Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., and Dr. Dan Nixon relocated to another place in the sun, Miami Beach, from Great Neck, Long Island.
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