1954

The following scene may have taken place at your house. You have just arrived home after the usual stiff day at the mines. You find your wife curled up on the sofa reading, of all things, the latest issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and as you bend over to fondly buss her brow she asks, "Did you know Philbert Glink?" "No," you reply, "should I?" "Well," she says, "he was a classmate of yours and I just read where he was elected executive vice president and director of Galactic Industries, Inc., and that he is returning to the head office in New York after having spent the last three years with his wife Giselle and three daughters in the Paris office!" "So?" you mumble. "So," she answers, "why are we still in Ramagoochie, Mich.? And why are you still where you are? And, why haven't we ever been out of the country for three days, let alone three years? And, why ...?" You go take a shower and grab a drink.

While the foregoing may not be exactly the way such things go in your house, why not write in about your accomplishments so your wife doesn't feel left out? This is the final issue for the season. So, if you want to create a whole new scene at your place next fall send us a blurb about your doings that we will suitably embellish. You may be surprised if, after reading the next issue, your spouse asks you if you know you!

On April 8 Dave Metz held a seance in his office for some of the Metropolitan area class agents. Those present included Art Rauch, Joe Mesics, Bill Rex, Barry Nova, Dave Thielscher, John Gillespie, Dick Pearl, Neil Sibley, Frank Weiser, and Tom Kelsey. Dave Thielscher has finally given up trying to go it alone and by the time this article goes to press he will be a happily married man. If you are planning a vacation JohnGillespie is a good man to know since he is engaged in the very specialized field of sort advertising. Once you've picked the spot you can probably get Joe Mesics, now sell, ing space for Flying Magazine, to wing yOII away for a stay, while your financial affairs are attended to by the likes of Rauch, Pearl and Rex.

A few weeks ago while waiting for a plane at Palm Beach Airport a familiar face loomed into view. Virtually unchanged overe the years between, the face belonged to Gus Wedell who was in transit to the West In. dies after a "grueling" sales meeting in the area. Gus is in the liquor distributing business in New York, but confessed that he is sometimes able to conduct his affairs from his home in New Canaan, Conn.

Early this year, January 6 to be exact, lightning struck twice at the Cheshire, Conn.! home of George and Jean Corbett. When the debris had cleared Brian (7½) and Joanne (6) discovered the arrival of twin brothers, Gregory and Paul. Jean reports all doing well, but things are a bit "busy."

Bill Petty, about a month later, added number four, a son James Cameron to go with two older brothers and a sister. Bill's wife Carrie claims that the little fellow holds the endurance record for sleepless hours in the 6-month-old and younger class. Bill is with Procter & Gamble as Associate Advertising Manager of the Food Products Division and when the din of home and office get too much, the Pettys can be found either sailing or horseback riding - (not at the same time, we hope).

Ed Hayes and his family are moving to England where he will be general products manager of Quaker Oats, Ltd., Quaker's British subsidiary. His marketing responsibility will include Quaker's consumer grocery products in the United Kingdom. His headquarters will be in Southall, just outside London. He has been with the Quaker Oats Co. since 1967 and most recently was product group manager for cereals with primary responsibility for Cap'n Crunch products. Earlier he was planning and new products manager for General Mills, Inc.

Some news we are inevitably late in catching up on, but which bears mention no matter when uncovered. On December 14, 1968 Sheldon M. Woolf, president of National Hardgoods Distributors, Inc., received the 1968 Human Relations Award from The American Jewish Committee, Housewares and Hardgoods division. The award was presented at a dinner in his honor at the New York Hilton Hotel. "Shelly" holds a citation from Brandeis University, has been Man of the Year awarded from the New England Housewares and Hardware Representative Association. He has also served as speaker and panelist for the Mass Merchandise Research Foundation.

While most of us dream of ways to relieve the routinized patterns of our lives, I bet it never occurred to us to seek diversion the way Dr. Richard Peterson did. Together with Dr. Le Boeuf, both of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dick went "observing" 7 hours a day, seven days a week, over two long winters. What were they so intent upon? The mating habits of the longnosed elephant seals of Ano Nuevo Island, that's what! The ingenious observations were carried out by writing names like Superseal, Xmas-seal, George and Pinky on the fur of sleeping bulls, using for markers Lady Clairol bleach. Their conclusions, as reported in the New York Times, indicated that the strongest seal gets the most females bating battle the would-be suitors. It not surprising that last year's king may not reign again the following season. Obviously the exertion of battle and the rewards thereof make of the poor devil just so much blubber.

"Notwithstanding the Rowan & Martin adage ""whatever turns you on," John Gil- Christy was elected vice president of ITT Worldcom as well as v.p. and treasurer of American Cable and Radio Corporation. We will also serve as director-finance of the International Communications Operations Group of ITT. Prior to joining ITT in 1965 John was chief of the extended risk guaranty division of the U. S. Agency for International Development. He also served as development loan officer of the U. S. Development Loan Fund and as special assist- ant to the Economic Advisor of the U. S. Mission to India. He holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from University of California, Berkeley.

well have a great summer, and please remember to stuff the news-coffers in time for the next issue. You can readily see from the wide spectrum of endeavors cited briefly here, that all the news is fit to print.

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