1953

If your peepers are having a little more difficulty reading this size type than they did when you had your vision checked by Doc Pollard, think what it must be like trying to write it with orbs which have just made it through (a) too much New Year's, (b) four bowl games from preview to wrap-up, (c) both pro league championships, and (d) episode #22 of the latest Wonderful World of Disney series. All this preamble to emphasize that—despite eye- strain which Murine can't conquer—it's always a pleasure to watch the tubes if the subjects are your classmates. One example: Bob Douglass, looking very satisfied with the entire proceedings and occupying a highly prominent spot among other dignitaries, as his boss, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller '30, was sworn in (for the fourth consecutive time) in the inaugural ceremonies January 1. Rocky has appointed Bob Secretary to the Governor, the highest appointive office in the state. Bob joined the Rockefeller team back when it was formed in 1958 and has held a succession of interesting and important posts ever since, the most recent as the governor's legal counsel. Bob and Linda live in Delmar, within voting distance of Albany, with their children, Robert (7), Brooke (4), and Andrew (3).

Second example: Bill Beutel, who is star anchorman on New York's ABC-TV evening news programs, has so convincingly whomped the competition that his show was recently awarded TV's coveted Emmy. If you were watching Bill's 11 p.m. show the night ABC won, you saw what a normally reliable and highly professional newscaster—the type you can count on to lead you confidently through the intricacies of both Nixon's economic game plan and the Arab-Israeli peace talks—looks like when the celebration can't wait. It reminded me a little of the December evening when Herb Solow announced soberly (at first) over WDBS the receipt of a Christmas goose by then president-elect Eisenhower.

Charley Fleet has been elected a member of the board of directors of Dominick & Dominick, NYSE member firm. Chazz joined Dominick in 1962 and was made vice president three years later. He is also a member of the firm's executive committee. He and Jackie and their first- grader Kate (who being your scribe's godchild, is the prettiest and smartest first- grader there is) live in Greenwich. One of Kate's best friends is Giant QB Fran Tarkenton's daughter; if you have a choice in the matter, I commend to you a blonde goddaughter with a fairly comprehensive understanding of the blocking assignments on the pass-run option, quick right.

Boston-based Don Smith, an account executive with Fairfield & Ellis, Inc., has been named a vice president of the insurance brokerage firm. Before joining Fair- field & Ellis 11 years ago, Don worked as a special agent for the Home Insurance Company of Boston. Besides being past president of the South Shore Dartmouth Club, Don keeps busy with church and community activities in Cohasset. If that's not enough, his wife Marilyn and their four boys, Jeff, Bradley, Christopher and Randall, provide some home insurance against life getting dull.

Hap Presson has been elected to the board of directors of the Glens Falls (N. Y.) chamber of commerce and from the looks of the press photo, he's the youngest director by a couple of decades. Hap is manager of employee and community relations for General Electric's industrial and power capacitor department in nearby Hudson Falls.

Phil Kreider has been named associate director of the university health service of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Phil was college physician at Lebanon Valley College prior to his Lehigh appointment. The news clipping doesn't say, but presumably Phil didn't hesitate to abandon the coeds for Lehigh's all-male patient population. (In all this flak about the Big Green going coed has anybody figured out what to name Dartmouth's infirmary—Dick and Jane's House??) Phil received his medical degree from Temple in 1957 and has been in private practice for twelve years in Palmyra, Pa.

Tom Davidson was recently elected president of the board of trustees of Berwick Academy in Maine. Tom is vice president of Oxtoby-Smith, a marketing research and consulting firm in New York. After a Tuck MBA, he did graduate work and taught at Northwestern and then was a member of the faculties at the University of Connecticut and the University of Bridge-port. He and Nancy live in Hampton Falls with their four children, Myra-Lea (16), Melinda (15), Tad (14), and Sarah (8).

Norm Carpenter has just become a member of the board of regents of Augsburg College in Minneapolis, marking the first time that a non-Lutheran has been named. Frankly, it's hard to recall anything about Norm's general deportment at Hanover (or yours either, gentle reader!) which would induce the Lutherans (or anyone else) to entrust their institutions of higher learning to his tender mercies, but undoubtedly the responsibilities of his law partnership at Messrs. Faegre & Benson, and before that, the attorney generalship of Minnesota, have worked a wondrous metamorphosis.

Don Smith's Christmas missive makes it clear that bachelorhood, despite its drawbacks, can still sustain the spirit. He chronicles a vacation trip through Austria, Yugoslavia, and Greece, winding up with a Greek Isles cruise highlighting Crete, Rhodes, Mikonos, and Istanbul. (The Turks must really want tourists if they allow Istanbul to be called a Greek Isle.) As a balancing note, Don mentions that during the fall he completed the H & R Block income tax course; no matter what, Uncle Sam still requires the nation's few remaining bachelors to subsidize the rest of us.

Right now I can't see beyond April 15, but some guys are really planning ahead. For the first time since Grover Cleveland's second incumbency, Yale is playing in Hanover next fall, and Fred Carleton says he and Tom Bloomer are arranging for a Greenwich bus to make the trip. Sounds like a multi-kegger; for reservations contact your local travel agent.

Bob Malm, vice president and director of Blyth & Co., was elected vice president, corporate finance of the Investment Bankers Association of America for 1971 at the trade group's annual convention in December. He had been serving IBA as chairman of its corporate finance committee. Bob, 1953's class secretary, has been with Blyth & Co. since 1960 when he left Biddle Purchasing Company to join their corporate finance department. He and his wife Gail have two children, Alison, 6, and Robert, 3.

Secretary, Blyth & Co., Inc. 14 Wall St. New York, N. Y. 10005

Treasurer, Kirkland Ellis, Hodson 2900 Prudential Plaza Chicago, Ill. 60601