1957

Advertising man Don Cowlbeck of Ogilvy & Mather has left the yellow roses of Texas for Toronto, where he has taken up duties as creative director for the agency. Don's swansong in Texas was a series of commercials for Shell, in which he was plugging a giant-size NFL drinking glass. To make this series of commercials, Don employed the services of some pretty big guys-Bubba Smith (6'8") of the Baltimore Colts, Merlin Olsen (6'7") of the L. A. Rams, and "Dandy Don" Meredith (6'3") of Monday night ABCTV Football. "All of them are great guys," says Don, "but since I am 5'11" and shrinking daily, I developed a bit of a size complex during the shooting."

Dick Vanden Bosche has been named vice president in charge of construction management for Robert S. Means Company. The fields in which the company names Dick an authority are systems construction, performance specifications, pre-bidding, fast-tracking, CPM, and multiple prime contrading, all of which probably is comprehensible to engineers. He has also been elected national chairman of the American Association of Cost Engineers, Consulting Cost Engineers Committee. Home address for Van and Becky is 11 Stage Coach Road, Tree of Knowledge Estate, Duxbury, Mass.

Fred Searby has been elected a director (senior partner) of McKinsey & Company, Inc., international management consultants. Fred has been with McKinsey since 1962 when he joined the firm's New York office. In 1965 he was transferred to the Chicago office and three years later was elected a junior partner. After a stint in the Paris office, Fred was named head of McKinsey's Cleveland office.

Major Sherm Mills is studying at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. The five-month course begins with an intensive orientation program in each of the military departments and includes field trips in Navy ships and watching Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps exercises. Sherm holds the Air Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Bronze Star, awarded in Vietnam in 1969.

The Cape Cod Standard Times recently did a feature on District Attorney Phil Rollins who with eight assistants handled more than 5,000 cases in 1971. Phil is a strong advocate of classroom before court-room. "Education is our mainstay against crime," he told the newspaper. "The average man must understand his constitutional rights. Very few realize what these rights are." Seventy per cent of the offenders in Phil's district commit drugrelated crimes, and the key problem for phil and his staff is lack of sufficient time for handling the tremendous caseload. "Justice delayed is justice denied ... it is also maligned," Phil says. "Many times cases are dismissed for lack of prosecution ... As a case in point, we dismissed a man accused of robbery due to lack of prosecution. He left the courthouse, crossed the street and held up the same store he'd robbed before. All within five minutes!" Phil is a graduate of Boston College Law School and has been a practicing attorney for 12 years. He lives in New Seabury, Mass., with his wife Priscilla and their three children.

John P. (Jack) Hall Jr. has been named administrative manager of the Non-Woven Fabrics Division of the Chicopee Manufacturing Company in Milltown, N. J. Jack joined Chicopee in 1963 as supervisor of research planning at the Milltown plant and later served as manager of marketing services and as controller. For the past year Jack has been at the . Chicopee plant in North Little Rock, Ark., as production superintendent. Jack, his wife and two sons live in Hopewell, N. J.

Major Robert G. Winter, U. S. Army, recently completed a 10-month course at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. He holds the Bronze Star and two awards of the Army Commendation Medal.

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