1957

Early in April, I met with many classmates at the annual" class agents dinner at the Commodore Hotel in New York Among those attending were: Bob Rex,Ned Roesler, Al Gladstone, Garvey Clark Bob Hannoch, Bill Edgerton, Whitey Frandsen, Grenelle Bunker, Skip Kerr, Clyde Brownstone, Tim Hanley, Gary KeplerGeorge Johnston, Bob Smith, Mike Waldbillig, John Strong, John Blades, and Bill Breer. If I forgot anyone, I'm sorry. great to see so many '57's working for the Alumni Fund. If you couldn't make it this year, the class welcomes your support in the future.

During dinner I found out that Ned Roesler has left the commercial banking business (formerly with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in New York) favor of the brokerage business. Ned is a registered representative in Smith, Barney & Co.'s uptown New York office. Grenelles Bunker is involved in various marketing activities for J. C. Penney & Co. He and his wife have recently moved to Warren Township, N. J., from New York City. Bob Rex tells of Skip Bohn's leaving Union Bag-Camp Paper where he was an are manager for bag sales, to sell advertising space for Look Magazine Skip and Judy are in Arlington, Ill., outside of Chicago. When Pete Wardle is not playing the role of "World Traveler," he is a managing partner of Henry F. Swift & Co., San Francisco, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Pete lives in San Francisco with his wife Jody, and their two daughters and

From Vietnam's battlefields to deserters' hideouts: that is Chris Wren, senior editor of Look magazine, and author of "Protest in the Ranks." Prior to writing this, Chris a former paratrooper and member of the Grew Berets, admits that he had a negative attitude toward military deserters. As a Look correspondent, he had been to Vietnam three times and felt a strong tie with the men he met there. Once he began to examine the defection problem that the military avoids discussing, his attitude toward AWOL soldiers was tempered with more understanding. "I am not taking sides, he says "but I'm trying to show what these deserters are all about." His search for deserters who would be willing subjects for his article, took him to Berkeley, Calit., and then to Stockholm, Sweden. While coverine the World Council of Churches meeting in Uppsala, he talked with deserters who were based there.

Employers Reinsurance Corporation has announced the election of John Holliday as treasurer of the corporation. He joined the Employers' investment department in 1962 as assistant treasurer after being associated with H. O. Peet and Company of Kansas City. John has served in the Missouri general assembly, as an elected state representative, and is currently a vice-president of the Kansas City Society of Financial Analysts Federation.

Fred Searby, a Principal of McKmsey & Company, Inc., international management consultants, moved from Chicago to the firm's Paris office last month. He joined McKinsey & Company in 1962 in New York, transferred to Chicago in 1965, and became a group manager in 1967. He was named a Principal last July. Fred has served a wide range of leading corporations in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, organization, financial planning and marketing. In Paris, he will counsel with companies in Western Europe. Fred and his wife, Grace Marie, have two boys.

A couple of fellows going back to school are Chick Igaya and Ned Bixby for intensive training in the middle management development course conducted by the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. They are two of approximately 145 young executives participating in the program for Management Development which ran from late January to the middle of May. About 60% of the class are from a variety of American firms, 8 per cent from the federal government and 32 per cent from foreign companies. Participants are sponsored by the companies to attend the course designed to enlarge the experience and understanding of young business managers who have demonstrated outstanding ability in a functional field or specialty and who give evidence of high leadership potential.

Dr. Mike Matzkin and the former Sara Louise Howard announced their engagement. Mike is an attending dentist in oral surgery at Harlem Hospital, in New York, St. Mary's and Waterbury Hospitals, Waterbury, Conn., and also a consultant at St. Raphael's Hospital, New Haven. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Surgery, a member of the American Society of Oral Surgeons, and commissioner of the Board of Health of Waterbury. In his spare time he is president of the Dartmouth Club of Northwestern Conn. A March wedding was planned.

Jottings — Llewellyn Diplock is a senior planner for the County Planning Agency of the county of San Mateo, Calif. Rev. JohnRoberts is a community relations director with the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago.

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