1951

The New Year arrived in Baghdad-on-the-Hudson—and a lot of other places—with plenty of snow. Your curmudgeonly Class Secretary greeted it with euphoria as a really NEW new year for him.

I had finally extricated myself from my Philadelphia area civic commitments, retiring in November as president of my high school alumni association and in December as president of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Philadelphia after six months of trying, not very successfully, to run them by long-distance telephone. I had wound up my Boy Scout commitments earlier, October, and was therefore able really to enjoy, for the first time, attending in December a District Junior Leader Training Conference I had run in previous years.

The real coup, however, was the settlement on December 30 of a case I had left over from private practice, which was scheduled to start trial in Chicago on January 13. So the New Year's weekend was the beginning of devoting myself to being a Manhattanite. I started by trudging eight blocks through the snow to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New Year's Day Open House.

By the time this column appears in print, my Upper East Side apartment should finally be in shape for entertaining visitors. With two bedrooms and two baths, I can easily put up visiting firemen and their wives. (With the present astronomical rates both for respectable hotel accommodations on Manhattan and of my rent, I have seriously been considering going into the hotel business on the side.) I would be happy to see classmates who get to New York.

Turning to the news, I find that another of the Class' shrinking bachelor ranks was scheduled to bite the dust on January 2. On that date, Don Smith from Hanover presumably married Virginia Swain of Raleigh, N. C. The news story on their engagement mentions that she, too, has New England forebears.

Don is assistant professor and coordinator of the graduate program in hospital administration at Duke University in Durham, N. C. In addition to his Dartmouth A.8., Don holds a Master's from the University of Minnesota and is working for his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina. His wife is a graduate of that institution and was formerly associated with Duke University Medical Center and the North Carolina Symphony Society as publicist.

With the recent turmoil in the financial community, I have been wondering how our classmates there were faring. RalphWatkins, most recently senior vice-president and national sales manager for Weis, Voisin, Cannon, Inc., is now vice-president and director of the new Long Island regional office of National Executive Search, Inc. NES offers consultant services to industry management and executives seeking improved career opportunities.

Ralph holds an M.A. with honors from Columbia and is a member of the New York City Chamber of. Commerce, the American Management Association, and the Sales Executive Club of New York. He, wife Alexandra, and their four children reside in Locust Valley, L. I.

Concerned about air pollution? It seems to me that we not only have a very real problem but that the need for effective pollution control devices provides excellent business opportunities. At least one classmate is in on the act. Chet Cotter was recently named Director of Marketing for Carrier Air Conditioning Co.'s Environmental Systems Division.

Every once in a while, we have an opportunity to bring ourselves up-to-date on a classmate because the College's newspaper clipping service come up with a clip on a speech he makes. That happens to be the case with Bob Crossley, who spoke in November at Springfield, Ohio's annual Equal Opportunity Day Program.

Bob has been general supervisor of employee relations for International Harvester Co. in Chicago since September 1969. A native of the Windy City, he joined IH following graduation as a personnel clerk at its West Pullman Works. In 1962 he was named assistant industrial relations manager for the Farm Equipment Division and in 1965 promoted to industrial relations manager for that division.

In the same field, Jim Asker is presently Personnel manager for the Packaging Group of Sun Chemical Corp. in New York. He and wife Ginny reside in suburban Briarcliff Manor in Westchester County. Son Jim is a freshman at Rice University in Texas.

Let's turn to our bankers. I pick up items for this column from the strangest places. At my Mother's for Christmas, I was perusing a Philadelphia suburban weekly newspaper. Under the headline "Business Briefs" was reported Sam Sparhawk's promotion to investment officer at Girard Bank.

Bill Hosier has been appointed loan officer at Marine Midland Bank—Western's Power City Office in Niagara Falls, N. Y. Bill holds a Master's from the Babson Institute of Business Administration. He joined Marine at its Power City office in 1962, serving successively as a Credit Department analyst, platform assistant, sales representstive in the Customer Relations Department, and business development officer. He, his wife, and two children reside in Niagara Falls, of which he is a native.

Bill's civic activities are numerous. He is a member of the executive committee of the New York State YMCA; a director and assistant treasurer of the Oppenheim Students' Fund, Inc.; a trustee of DeVeaux School, where he prepped for Dartmouth; a member of the Niagara Falls Citizens' Advisory Committee, Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary Club; and has been active in campaigns of the local United Givers' Fund.

We opened, and now close, on the subject of snow. The First Annual Dartmouth Alumni Ski Weekend takes place in Hanover on March 6-7. For $80 a couple gets two days of skiing at the Dartmouth Skiway, two nights lodging at the Hanover Inn, and two dinners. (Singles and one- nighters are proportionately less.) Make reservations with Dennis A. Dinan, 203 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H. 03755.

Secretary, Apt. 32-A 45 East 89th St. New York, N. Y. 10028

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