1955

Harold O'Connell paused long enough before jetting off to the Orient to accept promotion to vice president in the Continental Bank, Chicago's largest. Harold, first '55 to complete law school (two and a half vears, University of Michigan), joined the Continental in early 1958 and hasn't strayed since, earning him the Fifty Five Faithfulness Award. He was elected assistant cashier in 1963 and second vice president in 1967. He's in the metropolitan division of the commercial banking department. Tooting around the Far East for a month—not business, just one of those things bachelors do—Harold was reported swinging through Australia, Indonesia, Bangkok, and Hong Kong.

And speaking of being a swinging bachelor. Bud Bombard is making a career of it. Long famous for his participation in America's Cup sailing races, Bud is the president of the Chalet Club, a New York-based organization founded as a ski club and now "making readily available to its members a wide variety of rare and beautiful experiences." No, he's not competing with Hugh Hefner. Bud's bag is sports—scuba diving trips, skeet and trap shooting, expeditions to such places as Antarctica, Africa and the vineyards of France, skiing in Europe and Chile, sailing in the Caribbean and the Greek islands, flying, parachuting, soaring and ballooning (the Chalet Club has its own balloon). Membership dues are $15 a year, $25 for a family, opening the door to an exotic world of trips and tours ranging from three days to two weeks. If you don't like sports, Bud offers a "Monster Watch" at Loch Ness, in cooperation with the Loch Ness Phenome- na Investigation Bureau Ltd. The club had a full-time hostess stationed in Vail last winter. Up with pleasure, Buddy!

Returning to the prosaic, Dick Parry, economist for Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., Minneapolis, was elected president of the Minnesota Economics Club. Dick has a doctorate from Ohio State.

Dave Page, a partner in the Detroit law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn, has been elected to the board of directors of Allied Supermarkets, Inc. He will continue to serve as secretary of the corporation, a position he has held since 1963. Dave lives in northwest Detroit with his wife, the former Andrea Burdick, who is also an attorney, and their two young sons, Mark and Jason. Dave won highest scholastic honors at Dartmouth and at Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was also a Fulbright scholar at the London School of Economics before entering law practice.

Hart Perry, Kent School crew coach, is the new president of the Rowing Coaches Organization of America, succeeding Navy coach Carl Ullrich. Hart has been secretary- treasurer and vice president of the organisation. He's also a director of the National Rowing Foundation, is U. S. representative ? we Subcommission on Youth Rowing of be International Rowing Federation, and manage the U. S. youth rowing team competing in Yugoslavia this year. In addition to his casual interest in crew, Hart is Kent's dean of boys.

Also in the prep world, Allan Walker, headmaster of Woodstock Academy in Connecticut, is a director of the 30,000- member National Association of Secondary School Principals, headquartered in Washington, D. C. Al has been Woodstock's headmaster since 1960, serving before that as teacher, coach, and athletic director at the school. He's a member of the Board of Control of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, and is secretary of the Connecticut Association of Secondary Schools. While at Woodstock Al completed a master of arts degree from the University of Connecticut.

For the second consecutive year, NelsonJones has guided his Springfield, Mass., office of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company to an "Outstanding Agen- Agency Award" which recognizes excellence in all phases of agency operations. In addition, Nels is secretary- treasurer for the General Agents and Managers Association of Springfield, a member of the Estate Planning Council of Hampden County, and secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Springfield. He and his wife Trix and their three boys, Russell, Scott and Eric, live at 2 Hitching Post Lane, Wilbraham, Mass. Demonstrating the versatility of insurance men, Nels recently addressed the Springfield Sales and Marketing Club on "Imaging to Success."

Wayne Cliff left E. S. Merriman & Sons, San Francisco mortgage bankers, to become vice president of Bank America Realty Services, Inc. Wayne, who has a master's from Tuck, spent seven years at Merriman, responsible for the production of commercial and industrial loans. Before that he was with National Life Insurance Co. in Vermont, underwriting mortgage loans and real estate investments. Bill Forester was named second vice president and group actuary of Paul Revere Life Insurance Co.

Three of us have represented Dartmouth at inaugural ceremonies for new college or university presidents. Tom Jannuzi, who lives in Austin, Tex., attended the inauguration of Bill Mac Jones as president of Southwest Texas State University, in San Marcos, Tex. Jon Anderson, an administrator at Cornell, went across town to help inaugurate Ellis L. Phillips Jr., as president of Ithaca College. Your correspondent donned a green and white hood for the inauguration of Merlyn W. Northfelt as president of Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.

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