1953
Hooray for us! Thanks, and well done! For the twelfth time since graduation, the Class of '53 has copped top honors in the Alumni Fund Green Derby competition. Under Head Agent Fred Stephens' dynamic, whip-lashing leadership, we raised almost $52,000, 128% of our objective, leading all classes in this respect. As a class, we can take special pride in our consistently superb leadership performance in alumni financial support. In these times of change, deeply disturbing to some, it is particularly note- worthy that our record of support has in no way been diminished. Fred was ably assisted by nearly 100 Class Agents coordinated through regional agents Don Bigham, Dick Giesser, Dave Berry, Ron Lazar, Dick Conn, Jim Cobb, Turner Austin, Ed Parsons, Dick Mainzer, Tom Trager, Bill Gilges, Pete Wagner, Perry Free, and special agents Ed Condit, Jack Crisp, Jack Newton, Don Smith and Ted Spiegel.
Shortly after the completion of the Alumni Fund Campaign—luckily not during—Fred and Thelma Stephens moved to 52 Manning Street, in Needham, Mass. and shortly following-that (July 21), their first child, Nancy Edith, weighing in at 7 lbs. 2 oz., made her presence known. In addition to all of these events and responsibilities, Fred keeps the nation poof-happy with Right and Left Guard as head of Gillette Toiletries.
Tony Frank has opted for the Golden Gate and the San Andreas Fault in assuming the presidency of the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association, the biggest Federal S and L in town. Tony was previously president of INA Properties. Tony, Gay, Tracy (ten) and Randy (nine) are still living in La Canada, near Los Angeles, but will shortly move up to the Bay area. This will be bad news for PSA, but ought to please Mayor Alioto and all 53's within ten leagues of Fisherman's Wharf.
Ben Branch writes, "I ended my one-year tour of duty with USAID, State Department, in New Delhi, India by taking a number of influential Indians on a trip to view various abortion services in the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. This was in preparation for the Government of India's response to a projected reform of India's abortion law. That very successful trip was surprisingly influential and made me realize that the most underdeveloped country from the point of view of abortion and family planning services was in fact the United States of America. After spending some vacation time with the family on the Island of Samos, Greece and in France, I returned to International Planned Parenthood Federation in London where a working paper on medical termination of pregnancy in family planning programs was authored. Since January of 1971, I have been medical director of PRETERM, Inc., a non-profit foundation interested in developing abortion techniques and services. Our service arm is at 1726 Eye Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C., and has been developed as a model free-standing non-hospital-attached facility to extend a compassionate, inexpensive and expeditious service for women in need regardless of their financial or social situations. The initial difficulties in establishing creditability within the medical community provided the greatest challenge so far. As PRETERM progresses, it is hoped that its international involvement in providing technical assistance and expertise in the development of full-scale family services (including abortion) will increase to meet the obvious needs. Before coming to Washington, I was involved in setting up research-oriented outpatient hospital-attached abortion services at Kings College Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital in London."
Blake Heringr has been reelected to the Board of Trustees of Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Ore. Catlin Gabel is a nonsectarian coeducational day school, grades K thru twelve, which has served the Portland area for over 60 years. Blake has served a previous three-year term on the Board of Trustees during which he was a member of the Finance Department and Annual Giving Committees. In 1971 the Annual Giving program, under his leadership, established a new record, nearly doubling the largest previous amount. Must have been his good '53 training with our Alumni Fund.
Ed Potoker has been elected Chairman of the Department of English of the Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York. He and Berit live at 186 Riverside Drive with their son Eric (four and a half).
Paul Paganucci, president and treasurer of the Wall Street brokerage and investment banking firm of Lombard, Vitalis, Paganucci and Nelson, Inc., has been named to the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School. Pag earned his MBA from Tuck in '54 and risked losing its value by taking an LLB from Harvard in '57. Luckily for both Pag and Wall Street, the Green won out over the Crimson.
Fred Gieg, who was district sales manager for U. S. Steel in Buffalo, recently graduated from the AMP program at Harvard Business School. The Advanced Management Program was established to improve executives' capability for top management decision-making and long-range planning, and its alumni now number 7,000, many of whom, according to the publicity release, are company presidents and chairmen of the board. We'll be watching and waiting, Fred.
Stu Struever, associate chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, has become one of the nation's top experts in the American prehistoric man. Since 1959, he has directed an archeological program in the lower Illinois River Valley, about 300 miles southwest of Chicago. The program has three dimensions: to reconstruct the prehistory of the region which dates back to at least 8,000 8.C.; to train students in archeological field methods by participating in ongoing excavations; and to save as much as possible of the record of ancient man in the lower Illinois Valley before it is destroyed by the northward encroachment of St. Louis. Stu is director of the Foundation for Illinois Archeology, a private foundation established in the late 1950's to serve as the recipient of private gifts to support his and other archeological programs now under way in Illinois. During the summers, Stu takes a group of botanists, zoologists and other natural scientists together with a party of students into the field to excavate sites.
Secretary, ROBERT A. MALIN Blyth & Co., Inc., 14 Wall St. New York, N. Y. 10005
Treasurer, DAVID M. BURNER JR. Kirkland Ellis, Hodson 2900 Prudential Plaza Chicago, 111. 60601
