1940

Howie Ackerley, Phil Albee, PhilAlexander and Stu Anderson, what's with you? This secretary's notebook shows that nary a word's been heard from any of you in more than half a dozen years. Roomates, fraternity brothers, not to mention classmates in general, hate to lose track of oldtime friends—and I hate to keep writing about the same newsmakers year in and year out. With an almost empty file on hand unless I get some word within the next month, this space just might be empty!

Don Fox, vice president, corporate programs, for AMF, Inc., has been given the corporation's top honor, The Morehead Patterson Highest Merit Award which includes a check for $10,000. He is the seventh employee to receive the award, established in memory of the late AMF chairman whose name it bears. Don joined AMF in his present position in 1969 after serving as vice president for public relations and advertising of the Bendix Corporation in Detroit. Before that he had been with BBD & O.

John Manley, a many-year member of the American Stock Exchange, checks in with news that he's now also trading on the floor of the N. Y. Exchange utilizing the seat belonging to the firm of Sheriff Securities. Welcome aboard, and may you do as well on the Big Board as you've been doing with it's little brother. Keeping up with our most recent man-in-the-news I've got several clippings (with photographs making him look younger than ever) advising that the new N. E. Telephone Co. president, Bill Mercer has most recently been elected a director at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. A third clipping concerns the above mentioned life insurance company's new skyscraper being built in Boston and pictures Gordie Wentworth, senior vice-president of the First National Bank of that city signing a lease for prime space within the Hancock Tower.

An "ancient" letter retrieved from the old mail bag may be a bit stale, but BillHarriman has been in touch with two classmates and comes up with the following: "John Hannestad has moved from Greece back to his old haunts in Germany, where he is busy on engineering supervision of an Army Command Center. He is as confirmed a foreign wanderer as am I but he says I can keep the under-developed countries. Hans-Joachim Heinz, on the other hand, favors the under-developed with a vengeance." (Ed Note: As has been mentioned previously in this column he's working with the Bushmen in South Africa) "The Bushmen are among the most primitive, poorest people on earth and the Kalahari is one of the roughest deserts. That takes real dedication, and he is doing it without financial backing.

"As for myself I still have the supreme good luck to be paid for oil arid gas exploration in the paradise of Jamaica. My two resident daughters, 13 and 14, are happy as jay birds in a good Kingston school. Oldest son Bill is a captain with Army transportation in Rotterdam, and second son Larry is a junior executive with R. V. Reynolds in North Carolina specializing on South American sales."

I warned you the cupboard was bare. HELP!!!!!

Secretary, 200 5th Ave. New York, N. Y. 10010

Class Agent, I.T.T. Grinnell, 260 "West Exchange Providence, R. I. 02904