1953
Neither campus demonstrations nor rampant inflation nor gloom of stock market can stay the Class of 1953 from the annual attainment of its accustomed role as Alumni Fund Green Derby leader! Under Head Class Agent Fred Stephens, directing the efforts of a team of 100 class agents, we once again copped top spot in our group with over $46,000 received from 479 contributors. Since graduation, we have compiled an exceptionally consistent record of widespread and generous support to the College, indicative not so much of blind rahrah loyalty as a reasoned acknowledgement of the necessity to preserve and enhance the unique qualities of private higher education. Amazingly, the burdens involved in producing our latest Alumni Fund triumph didn’t stop FredStephens from keeping the nation alert and responsive to the merits of smelling sweet and looking pretty as he was elected sales vice pres- ident of Gillette Toile- tries right at the height of the campaign. After Harvard Business School, Fred joined Gillette in 1958 as a salesman in Detroit and has held the posts of general sales manager of Gillette’s Blade Division and of executive assistant to the marketing vice president of Gillette’s Safety Razor Division. Right Guard, right on!
Jim Decker, after successfully attacking the ills of our expressways from coast to coast (most recently, Los Angeles), has now moved on to swinging London to be in charge of Wilbur Smith & Associates’ highway and traffic consulting activities there. With any luck at all, merry England will soon boast several eight level, six-lane cloverleaf interchanges, replete with Dart- mouth green and white directional signs. Dazed survivors will emerge driving on the right-hand side of the road, ready for the Monaco races. Jim and Mary Bern, together with their two boys, are now ensconced at 19 Kelso Place, London W. 8.
Byron Menides has formed a new kind of management company to provide special- ized consulting services to venture capital funds, investment banking firms and others who are active in venture capital transac- tions. The firm is conveniently called Byron Menides Company and maintains offices at 1040 Park Avenue in New York. By was recently executive vice president and a director of FAS International in charge of its North American operations, which includes Famous Artists Schools, Linguaphone, Evelyn Woods speed reading, and Welcome Wagon. With that background, By ought to be able to consult effectively with anyone. He, Laura, and son, John, live in Manhattan.
On June 20, George “Van” Cochran married Caroline Jeanne Winston in Chap- paqua, N. Y. Caroline studied sculpture in Switzerland at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, University of Geneva, and at the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York on a National Sculpture Society Merit Scholarship. Van is an orthopedic surgeon in New York and will shortly become director of orthopedic research at St. Luke’s Hospi- tal.
If you’ve got an avid outdoorsman on your Christmas shopping list (like numero uno, for instance), a new fall catalog issued by North by West, Blake Bering’s Port- land, Ore., company, may have just what you need. From life-like decoys to posh rain- gear, Blake’s merchandise looks inviting, even to Eastern urbanites.
Russ Cook is vice president and senior analyst of Colonial Management Associates, which guides the investment policies of all five of the Colonial mutual funds. If the market ever really recovers for good, Russ should be among the first to know. He and Marjorie, together with Melissa (10), Alison (8), and Gordon (5), live in Manchester, Mass.
Dave Burner, our trusty keeper-of-the- coffers, reports that John Dickason has been elected executive director of the Illinois Bar Association. This should be good news to all who, like Shakespeare, have suffered at the hands of tort-spouting, hair-splitting and ear-deafening counsel, since John is normally a warm, understanding and realis- tic human being (i.e., not a lawyer) and yet will be head honcho of an organization made up of over 10,000 bar members. That’s a good way to keep those legal-beagles in Daleytown and environs humble. (If that doesn’t bring in some mail, nothing will.) John and Barbara live in Springfield with their two children, John and Kathryn.
Wayne Hansen is a candidate for the Republican nomination for councilman in Westfield, N. J„ where, to be perfectly straight about it, the Democratic nomination isn’t worth a whole heck of a lot. Wayne has been a Westfield resident most of his life and has long been active in civic affairs, including among other things the PTA which, in my observation, is about as close as you can come to public-spirited maso- chism without actually becoming demented. By day, Wayne is vice president and district executive in charge of Chase Manhattan’s midwest operations. He and Kay have three kids, Julie, Bob, and Kim.
Dick Markey, staff member ot tne Cleveland Clinic in the psychiatry depart- ment, has become a regionally noted authority on the youth drug problem. In addition, Dick holds a faculty position at Case-Western Reserve University Medical School and is also a consultant at George Junior Republic, an adolescent treatment center in Ithaca, N. Y. Dick served as a psychiatrist in the Air Force following his residency at Johns Hopkins. He and Joan live in Elyria.
Sherm Horton is, according to a recent clipping from a Nashua, N. H., tabloid, “kind of a paradox.” The article, reporting on Sherm’s designation as the area’s out- standing civil servant, points out that he came from the Ozarks “but also” (get that!) is a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law. The paradox presumably arises in that, despite those handicaps, Sherm is fairly civil to his constituents. (The reporter evidently did not experience Sherm firing up one of his favorite evil-smelling Castro period Havana rejects, the noxious fumes from which have been the cause of air pollution alerts.) Sherm and Judy (Billy Johnson’s Nancy’s sister) and their four youngsters, Sherman (“Mike”), Andrew, Sally, and Thomas, live in Nashua, where Sherm has a flourishing law practice in addition to ably discharging the duties of office.
Those of you who understand micrograph- ics will especially appreciate the news that Warren Cole, East- man Kodak executive, has been named direc- tor of sales develop- ment in micrographics markets. This keeps Warren within the company’s business systems markets divi- sion, for which he was international coordi- nator and later divi- sion manager in Canada. The new job will bring Warren and Nancy from Canada to Rochester, N. Y.
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