1955
Gordie Russell, stopping off in Chicago between New York and Alta, said his new consulting firm is a great success. "I'm not making much money, but what I spend is my own," quoth the entrepreneur. Gordie is a partner in Anixter, Bosch, McClenning & Russell (note that the heavy is batting cleanup), specialists in marketing consulting, sales training, and advising investors on technical business propositions. Among their clients is a large aerospace manufacturer, and Gordie comments that "operating in an aerospace environment, trying to get a commercial venture going is unbelievable. They think everything is on a costplus basis." Gordie managed to squeeze in two months in Europe before launching his new business, and one highlight was a visit to a trade fair in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, where "there were mob scenes around the U.S. exhibit of an Apollo capsule that had flown in space."
Lew Wolfson thinned the bachelor ranks by marrying Barbara Delman of New York City on December 14 in Chevy Chase, Md. She is a Vassar graduate and holds a doctorate in history from Columbia, a fact that Lew admits has created an inferiority complex for him, since he is an associate professor without a Ph.D. Lew left the Providence Journal-Bulletin last year to help form a new master's degree program in communications at American University in Washington, and he reports great satisfaction with the academic life. "This is where it's happening," he says. "Every day somebody holds a demonstration outside my window, or pulls the flag down, so the police come and put it back up." Lew has even managed to shock the students a bit, bringing in Washington correspondents who have made strong, frank observations about journalism and government. "All the correspondents love it," says Lew, and he receives many avid feelers for invitations to deliver a guest lecture. Lew's bride is teaching part-time at American University, lecturing on medieval and English history to special evening courses for policemen. Lew, spurred on by his wife's scholarly attainments and by Dr. Kemeny's appointment, is taking a course in how to use a computer.
Another Washingtonian, Cy Muromcew, was an interpreter at the recent arms limitation talks in Helsinki. Cy, who's in the language services division of the State Department, was one of a dozen Americans and a dozen Russians invited by the Finns to spend a weekend at the Arctic Circle, and he wrote a fascinating letter to his Washington colleagues that was published in the Department of State News Letter. Cy found to his surprise that neither the landscape nor the life was bleak, despite the 30-below temperature. "The landscape is hilly with dense snow-covered woods on the slopes and scattered tidy wooden houses in the valleys." In the evening, a sumptuous banquet given by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then "a wild dancing party with a Polish band and "the Finns and the Lapps ... whooping it up" until 1:30, then on to a lodge where "two - floors tempted us to continue our revels" until scrambled eggs, smoked reindeer tongue, and "wiski ja sodavetta" polished things on at an undetermined hour after 3 a.m. 'The effects of such a night at the Arctic Circle are not easily shed," wrote Cy in understatement. "The morning after - beautiful though it was with snow-covered trees standing in the pink light of the remote lowhanging sun and the clearly etched wintry landscape - felt unreal."
Frank Carlton, whose new position as city manager of Cottage Grove, Oregon, was described in the February ALUMNIMAGAZINE, writes that most class news invariably is "an endless repetition of either marriage, children or success stories, with no reports of the frustrations, heartbreaks or failures that are also experienced. I can't claim to be a Harry Peasley, but maybe I can add a different twist to the sweet smell of success in the fact that mine involved a 25% pay cut! It may be rough for a while in the face of a higher cost of living and a wife and four children to feed and clothe. In the long run, though, making the step up to city manager will mean a great deal in terms of career satisfactions if not financial remuneration." A refreshing perspective on "success."
Air Force Major Paul Brown has shifted from Pacific duty to Bellevue, Neb. BobDeBruyn transferred his law-accounting shingle from San Francisco to Seattle. Dr.John Dinan has finally made his way back to New England, settling in Falmouth, Me.
Biologist Pete Kernaghan is "still enjoying the academic community" at the Stony Brook, Long Island, campus of the State University of New York, and hoping that Government funds "for research will look better in '70." George Snelson became vice president of an ice skating rink, the Ice Palace, in Prescott, Ariz., after a similar spot in Phoenix.
In Chicago Harry "Brose" Ambrose has moved up from Manager - Acquisition Planning to Director - Materials Purchasing at the Quaker Oats Co. He joined Quaker Oats in 1967 as Manager - Commodity Purchasing. Before that he had held key management positions with Nebraska Consolidated Mills. To his Dartmouth 8.A., he added an M.B.A. from Creighton University in Omaha. Home for Brose and Margie and their three children is 66 Abbotsford Road, Winnetka, Ill.
George Fenzl advanced to commander in the Navy and now is in a national security assignment in Washington. He lives in Springfield, Va. Harrie Hogan departed from his government post in New Mexico to stake out his claim on the frontier, in a manner of speaking. He's a fiscal analyst for the Alaska government's Fiscal Affairs Agency in Juneau. Rett Knowles headed for the other new state to join the staff at Hawaii Preparatory Academy at Kamuela.
Bob Horton is chairman of the major gifts division of the Naugatuck, Conn., Salvation Army drive for $350,000. Bob, who's an assistant trust officer of the Connecticut National Bank, has served for the past 10 years in various capacities with the United Council and Fund, of which he's now vice chairman of public relations. In addition to his fund-raising, he's busy at the First Congregational Church of Watertown as a trustee, choir member, and recently vice chairman of the pastoral committee.
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