1941

The Red Sox are no longer leading the Eastern Division of the American League, but I am most happy to report to you that as of April 27, 1941 was still leading its group in the Green Derby. However, you should be alerted to the fact that we are losing ground. In the seven days since the previous interim statement was received, 1946 has gained four percentage points on us and 1948 has gained 4.9 points to draw into a tie for second, only 5.7 points behind us. To date only 76 members of the class have checked in with current contributions which puts us in 4th place in that category. Fortunately, the contributions received have been generous, so that we stand first in total dollars received and percent of objective attained. What is needed now, is contributions, as generous as possible, but in any amount, from the 442 of you who have not as yet responded to the pleas of Bob Thomas and his co-workers.

Bruce Muir, who is manager of the Meeting and Travel Arrangements Department of Amway Corporation of Ada, Mich., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Industrial Travel Executives of Michigan, and at the recent meeting of the Board at Lansing, Bruce was elected secretary of that organization. Bruce, who lives in Grand Rap- ids, has had eight years' experience with local travel agencies. Prior to that time he was an officer of the Muir Drug chain. In his present position, he arranges all Amway personnel travel and accommodations, schedules the company's two airplanes, and handles all arrangements for Amway-sponsored meetings throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Bob Davidson has been appointed director of the Department of Economic Development for Montgomery County, Md. A resident of Bethesda, Bob is the former community relations manager for the Montgomery County Division of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, with whom he has been associated since graduation, with time out for Navy service during World War II. Currently Bob is serving as president of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary Club and is a board member of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. He has been active in many other civic activities and in work with the Boy Scouts.

There is an old saying that when you want a job done well, ask a busy man to do it. In proof of this, it has been announced that Dick Hill will serve as loaned executive recruiting chairman in the 1970-71 Massachusetts Bay United Fund Campaign. The loaned executive program is one in which businesses lend executives to organize United Fund campaigns in more than 3,000 firms in the Massachusetts Bay area.

I finally talked a classmate into writing a bit of news! The welcome letter from Alden Boyd read as follows:

"I have not been much of a letter writer in recent years but there are times when a brief note is called for to bring your records up-to-date. Last November 29 I left the ranks of the bachelors and married Sarah (Mayo) Johnson at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Detroit. Sally was born out in the western plains of Canada, took nurses' training in Windsor, Ontario, and has lived in the States since 1946. After a trip to Florida we have finally integrated our two households of furniture and are now very comfortably situated in my condominium townhouse here in Harper Woods, Mich.

"I have been in Detroit for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for the past five and a half years and for the last couple of years I have been regional supervisor of the mortgage loan division. It is interesting work and I get a fair amount of traveling as my territory includes Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Quebec, and parts of Kentucky and Indiana."

So much for another month. Don't forget Bob Thomas and the Alumni Fund! And please write!

Secretary, 9 Oak Drive Bedford, N. H. 03102

Class Agent, 942 Woodcrest Rd., Abington, Pa. 19001