1952

Hello again!! Now that the month of August is past history and the pumpkins are appearing on the stands, Gene has got to get with it for the scholastic year 70-71. I hope that all of you enjoyed the summer and that the calorie count was strictly maintained. Here in the East, the weather was ideal throughout the summer and the Cape Cod innkeepers had a banner year.

Once again I find that fall is here and those plans that I made in June never became a reality. Oh well maybe next year. To you who have had to read these notes I extend my heartfelt condolences and leave you with the thought that I have four more years in office so suffer in silence. To you who have high hopes for the Boston Red Sox ... I say get smart . . . and to you who are waiting to read through this mess I say on with the show.

Our own Dr. Bob Lord, University Organist and Associate Professor of music. University of Pittsburgh, has been invited by the noted French organist and composer, Jean Langlais, to perform an organ recital at the Basilica of Ste. Clothilde in Paris. The recital is one of a series in honor of the centennial of the birth of Charles Tourne- mire, a noted French organist and composer. Dr. Bob a former student of Monsieur Langlais, is the only American organist who has been invited to participate.

An outstanding example of nineteenth century French organ building, the pipe organ in the Basilica of Ste. Clothilde is one of the most famous in France. Cesar Franck and Charles Tournemire are among the many famous organists who have played there.

Bob has been on Pitt’s music faculty since 1962. Prior to going to Pitt Bob taught at Davidson College in Davidson, N. C. He is dean of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Guild of Organists and chairman- elect of the Western Pennsylvania region of that organization. He recently was appointed music critic of the ‘American Organist.” Show ’em how. Bob!!

Dick Watt has published another winner “The Kings Depart.” Allow me to quote from an article written by the notable J. H. Plumb for the New York Times book review section. “First of all a salute to the author, Richard M. Watt. He has produced a brilliant readable book of absorbing human and political interest, as relevant to our own generation as to the history of World War I.

The events of 1918-1919 created the conflict and stress in which so many of us have had to live our lives—a world of fear, of pain, of repression and tyranny, a world of diminish- ing hope. How this happened is Mr. Watt’s theme and his handling of it is masterly.

“His range of scholarship is as impressive as his historical understanding and his compassion. He writes with clarity and wit about one of the most complex periods in the history of modern Europe. His narrative strength is amazingly good and his charac- terization too. I have rarely been so absorbed by so long a book: the hundreds of pages flashed by and I could have done with hundreds more. If this book is not an outstanding success the fault will not lie with Mr. Watt: he could not have done it better.”

Congratulations are in order and a round of applause for your contributions to the literary world. We wish you great success with the “Kings Depart,” Dick!!

Bill Kay, president of Rival Pet Foods of Chicago, has picked up a nice directorship with the Glenmore Distilleries Cos. Skoal! Bill was vice president for marketing of Pep- peridge Farm, Inc., before taking his post with Rival Pet Foods. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at M.1.T., where he took a master’s degree in industrial manage- ment in 1963, and currently he is president of the Society of Sloan Fellows. He is also on the advisory council of M.l.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

Add another president to the 1952 roster. Gerry Lukeman has been named President of Audience Studies, Inc., the worldwide advertising research company. He joined ASI in 1964 as direc- tor of client relations and most recently was executive vice presi- dent, as well as vice president of Inmarco, Inc., the parent com- pany, ASI, which pre- tests TV commercials, programs, and motion pictures, has branch offices in London, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, and Frankfurt, in addition to three in this country.

Hope to see some of you in Hanover or Cambridge this fall.

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