1955

The Chicago Tribune says George Schmitt is biting the hand that feeds him. But the Tribune says George is a good guy, because he sells bottled drinking water and his sales to homes have doubled in five years from concern about pollution, and George nevertheless is joining the fight against pollution. George is president of Hinckley & Schmitt, Inc., in Chicago, a company founded by his grandfather. In a very complimentary feature story about George on March 29, the Tribune said: "Despite the possibilities of hurting his own business, Schmitt has given time and money to anti-pollution organizations and has offered his experience to business committees which may be formed under the Nixon administration's programs." The story quoted George as observing: "We'll never be able to restore our lakes and rivers to what they were 300 years ago. We will be lucky if we can keep water pollution at its present level." George also managed to get in a plug for bottled water. The story continuing: "Schmitt considers himself somewhat of a cold-water connoisseur and says hard water - such as that he has trucked in from springs west of Chicago - tastes better than soft water, such as Lake Michigan water.... Annual growth of 10 to 15 per cent has prompted the 84-year-old company to expand. It now is building a million-dollar plant at 61st Street and Harlem Avenue, with June occupancy expected."

Our man in Belgium, Roger Sherman, has been promoted to senior associate at Planning Research Corporation in Casteau. An analyst programmer specializing in mancomputer interfaces, he joined Planning Research in 1963 and is in their European Systems Department. He is expecting to complete his M.A. in computer sciences at George Washington when he returns to this country. Right now he and Alice with daughters Kyra and Paige make their home in Obourg, Belgium.

Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times and a rapidly-growing potpourri of other publications, named JimPerkins chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, Inc., acquired by Times Mirror last year. Fuller & Dees is a direct marketing company based in Montgomery, Ala., with operations also in Chicago. It specializes in publication and sale of cookbooks and home-making books, home reference materials, encyclopedias, and books for children and their parents. The company operates three book clubs, including the Cookbook Collectors Library. Jim has been vice president of the Times Mirror Book Publishing group after joining Times Mirror in 1967 as assistant to the president and director of special projects in book publishing. Previously he was director of the book division of Hugh Hefner's HMH Publishing Co. in Chicago and a vice president of Curtis Books in New York.

Major Bruce Gardener is flying almost-daily B-52 bombing missions against the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. Bruce is with the Strategic Air Command and is officially assigned to the 99th Bomb Wing at West-over Air Force Base in Massachusetts. His current assignment is officially described by the Air Force as "temporary duty at a forward base in the Western Pacific." His wife Barbara and their three children are living in Holyoke, Mass.

Newell Stultz, African expert at Brown University, has been a visiting lecturer in political science at Southeastern Massachusetts University during the spring semester. Newell spent a year in South Africa on a Reynolds Fellowship from the College and later earned master's and doctoral degrees in African studies at Boston University.

Allen and Lillian Palmquist have done it again. Not just had another baby, their fourth, but had it on the fifth birthday of number two. Now that may seem insignificant to you bachelors, but the true import of this is that the Palmquists can get away with just three birthday parties each year instead of four. The new arrival is Suzanne Lillian, born April 2 in St. Louis, where Dad is assistant to the director of advertising and public relations at Emerson Electric. The "twin" birthday belongs to Allen Jr. The Palmquists have two other daughters, eight and two and a half.

Dave Wang, finishing up his doctorate at the University of Southern California, is teaching summer school at Occidental College in Los Angeles - a course in modern poetry and a writing workshop.

Gene Gerard joined Liberty Loan Corp., St. Louis, as vice president-financial department. The company said Gene will be "the primary contact for the company in bank relations and will assist on the investments held by Liberty's subsidiary companies. He will also be active in the direct selling of commercial paper and long term notes." Gene worked for Liberty once before, while still in school, on a summer job in the statistical department. He has an M.B.A. from Northwestern, and is currently serving as a regional representative to the Alumni Council.

Dr. Bill Browning relocated from Lexington Park, Md., to Danvers, Mass., and Air Force Major Walt Lamb shifted from a Washington assignment to Brookline, Mass. More classmates returning to New England, though perhaps for different reasons.

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