1948

We start February with the traditional "Happy Ground Hog Day!" Rural American tradition has created the legend concerning the ground hog but fails to indicate whether the marmota monax actually is looking forward to the end of winter or six more weeks of sleep!

Dick Leggat finished the '6os by having child number six, a son Robert Elliott, born in December. Congratulations to both Dick and Patsy.

If that makes you feel young beware because Bob Stewart expects to be a grandparent this month! Bob is wholesale sales manager for Atlantic Richfield Company covering Orange and half of Los Angeles County in California. He is very active in one of the largest Kiwanis Clubs in the U.S. Bob and Verle have five children, two in college and three in high school.

In Chicago Ken Saunders has been elected Vice President in charge of the Agency Division of the Combined Insurance Company of America. He was previously assistant vice president for marketing in the Agency Division. He joined Combined in 1962 after serving as an executive for insurance companies in Detroit and Chicago. Active in professional and civic affairs, he is a director of the Chicago Group Insurance Association and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Tavern Club.

Congratulations to Wally Baker on two accounts — he has been named treasurer, office and sales manager of Harraseeket Enterprises, Inc., and in this connection will be moving to Maine in the near future. Harraseeket Enterprises will operate a marine sales and service business in South Freeport, Me. Wally has summered on an island off of South Freeport and races his Ensign very successfully in the Casco Bay area. Wally and Joyce have a son and three daughters ranging in age from eleven to nineteen.

Congratulations also to Dave Packard who has been named president of American National Securities Corporation. American National are investment bankers located in Memphis, Tenn. Dave and Ginny live in Memphis and have a son and daughter, ages nineteen and eighteen. Dave has been in the securities business since the mid-fifties and brings a broad range of experience to the new job.

Paul Campbell is with the Temple University Department of Psychiatry doing research in schizophrenia and also serving as personnel administrator. Paul and Lorraine have one son, age thirteen, and live in Pipersville, Pa. Paul recently had lunch in Concord, N.H., with his old roommate, Governor Walter Peterson '47, and reports that Pete hasn't changed a bit.

Ken Schaefer has transferred to Firestone's Synthetic Rubber & Latex Company and is based in Los Angeles. Ken handles their West Coast Sales Operation and he and Dorothy live in West Covina.

I mentioned previously that Rem Drury had moved to Rio de Janeiro with Gulf. He will be responsible for the development and coordination of international crude oil and product sales activity between the Gulf subsidiary and third parties and affiliated companies. Rem did see Dick Kuzmier in N.Y.C. before leaving the States. He also reports that Dick Repko now runs Caltex's petroleum operations on Okinawa.

Secretary, Concord Circle, Wildwood Park Cumberland Foreside, Me. 04110

Treasurer, Whirlwind Hilltop Wallingford, Conn. 06492