1950

Dartmouth College has selected its next president, Dr. John G. Kemeny. And Lake Forest College also has selected its next president, Dr. EugeneHotchkiss III. We're very pleased to announce Gene's selection as eleventh president of this Lake Forest, Ill., institution, which will be effective September 1, 1970. He presently is executive dean of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, where he has been for about two years since returning to the east from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., where he was dean of the college. Gene is a native of Illinois, and several members of his family are residents of the Chicago area, including his brother Jim, who lives in Hinsdale; Frank continues to be a West Coast resident, living in Santa Monica, Calif.

John F. "Swede" Swenson has been named regional manager of the Chicago branch of David North & Associates, which is an executive search firm. This is a new office, located at 645 N. Michigan Street in the Windy City; it is being established as part of an expansion program of the North organization.

A little further east, Wallace C. Young has been elected treasurer of the ParkerHannifin Corporation, a Cleveland firm. Wally, who is a native Clevelander, previously had been assistant treasurer of Pickands-Mather & Co.

One of our key committee members for the Twentieth Reunion, Jim Lyons, has been promoted to assistant vice president in the personal trust department of Marine Midland Grace Trust Company of New York. Jim, who lives in Short Hills, N. J., has been with the bank for seven years in the capacities of security analyst and investment officer.

Speaking of reunion, we find that classmates from far and near are planning to attend. One of the latest to advise us that he plans to be in Hanover is Howard "Doc"Irons of Port Charlotte, Fla. He, Nancy, and their five children also will be vacationing in Vermont.

Another Howard whom we expect to see in fine form in Hanover is Howard "Fizz"Nichols, who has only to journey up from Beantown. In a recent conversation with this Old Colony Trust Company investment officer, we're pleased to report that he's having an excellent year on the ski slopes, even though Mother Nature has been rather stingy in supplying the white stuff during the first few weeks of 1970... we're well into February, and he has yet to see the inside of an orthopedic specialist's quarters! Fortunately (for ski enthusiasts only) the unusually cold conditions which prevailed during most of January in these parts preserved much of the record-breaking snowfall of late December.

Frederick K. "Fritz" Rubins has retired from the Navy, and has joined PRD Electronics, Inc. as logistic support manager. His residence now is Apt. 7-F, 400 Fulton Street, Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735.

Lawrence Starlight is the planning economics coordinator of the Dranian Oil Operating Co. Maybe those of you who haven't been too impressed by the recent performance of the oil stocks could get an economist's view of their future prospects by writing him at Box 1065, Tehran, Iran.

Rev. Edgar A. Nutt is assistant to the rector of Immanuel Parish in Bellows Falls, Vt. Ed received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in 1953.

Stephen B. Mahoney is associate editor of Life Magazine; 230 East 48th Street, New York, N. Y. 10017 is his mailing address. I don't know whether his pen was applied to the article in Life's January 9th issue entitled "Squeezing into the '70's," which showed scenes of congestion of humanity from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Coincidentally, however, in the same mail that brought that issue of Life, we received a letter from Jim von Rohr '46, concerning the Rapid River Camp program which takes boys — and a few fathers - from a base camp in Errol, N. H., into the remote and sparsely occupied Allagash region of northern Maine. Drop Jim a note at 51 Kathleen Court, Wayne, N. J., if you'd like further details.

I am extremely sorry to report the passing of our classmate, Edward P. Weir of New Haven, Conn., due to natural causes. Members of the class and the Gamma Delta Chi fraternity were present at services for Ned on February 5.

Brookhaven National Laboratory's senior ecologist, Prof. George Woodwell, who also holds an adjunct appointment as lecturer in ecology at Yale, was a featured speaker at a recent meeting of the Connecticut Group of the Sierra Club. His research interests are in the structure and functions of ecological systems, and especially the cycling of DDT over the surface of the earth. It is becoming more and more evident that this type of work is part of the great struggle to maintain an environment in which man can survive; George's efforts to restrict the use of persistent pesticides includes recourse to the courts.

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