1951

My immediate fear was "Nepotism" when I received copies of two press releases with the same date from the same company announcing the election to officerships of two classmates. Then I read further and discovered that our two classmates were involved with separate parts of the same enterprise. So it's not nepotism, but '51 talent being given due recognition.

The company involved is Illinois Tool Works, Inc., of Chicago. Charlie Widmayer scooped me by plunking the story on Fred Chandler (with mug shot) in the middle of my April column sequence on correspondence relating to coeducation.

The other classmate is Will Rowe, formerly a vice president of Armour-Dial Corp. Will now heads up ITW's newly formed Medical Products Division in Des Plaines, Ill. as a vice president. In addition to his Dartmouth A.B., he holds an M.B.A. from Northeastern University in Boston. Will and wife Mae have two children: Gail, 18; and Bruce, 15.

Moving West to the L.A. area, United California Bank has elected John Greenwood a vice president. He is a commercial loan officer at the bank's downtown L.A. office. John joined UCB in 1963 and moved up successively to assistant manager of its Seal Beach Leisure World office, and then manager of the Huntington Beach and Tustin offices, before joining the head office special credit section in 1969. From April 1970 to April 1971, he was on loan to the Los Angeles Job Development Corps. In addition to his Dartmouth A.B., John holds an M.B.A. from Stanford.

Heading back East to Baghdad-on-theHudson, we find that Sun Chemical Corp., has promoted Jim Asker to director of employee relations. With Sun for ten years in corporate personnel, Jim is now responsible for the development and administration of salary and incentive pay policies, fringe benefits, and the formulation of personnel policies. Prior to joining Sun, he was with International Latex, Jim is a member of the Chemical Personnel Association of New York. He and wife Ginney live in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Son Jim is a sophomore at Rice University.

A promotion has drawn Chuck Fitzsimmons into the big city. Cities Service Co. has named him manager of the company's Chester Cable operations. Chuck joined Cities Service in 1965 as plant superintendent of its New Haven, Conn., copper operation. He, wife Carole, and their five children now reside in Mahwah, N. J.

In the New York academic world, bachelor Bob Maguire is Professor of Russian Literature at Columbia. Bob claims to be spending too much time on the lecture and convention circuit but still tries to find time to play as much chamber music as possible.

There finally filtered through to me a December Washington Post column which reported:

"Right-wing professor Jeffrey Hart of Dartmouth is writing an authorized biography of President Nixon which will be finished early next year. Hart not only rates high enough at the White House to be invited to the recent dinner for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; he was also allowed to suggest other guests to be put on the list ..."

Another source supplied me with a copy of one of Jeffs March syndicated columns reporting on the speakers "of absolutely scandalous heterodoxy" being brought to Hanover by an apparently student group called the Dartmouth Committee for Intellectual Alternatives. The column suggests that they organized after "hearing, term after term, the full spectrum of political opinion—all the way from George McGovern on the left to people like Pete McCloskey on the right." Does anybody remember the "Jeff" (Jefferson) Club of our undergraduate years?

Among our lawyers, Ted Corsones is in private practice in Rutland, Vt., and doing well enough to require the assistance of two associates. Ted practiced law in Los Angeles for two years before returning to Vermont in 1956. He has twice been elected State's Attorney for Rutland County and was appointed Municipal Judge for one term. He and wife Theane have three sons: Cortland, 15; Christopher, 13; and Gregory, 11.

Manhattan attorney Mike lovenko left private practice last year to become Deputy Superintendent and Counsel of the New York State Banking Department. His wife writes short stories and had another book of them published a few months ago under her maiden name, Sallie Bingham. With their three sons—Barry, 10, Christopher, 4, and William, 2—Mike and Sallie recently moved into an Upper East Side brownstone.

George Emerson is vice president, Marketing, of the S. G. Taylor Chain Co. of Hammond, Ind. He and wife Marillyn have two sons: Steve, 14, and Jeff, 10. On the side, George recruits for Dartmouth. Out there among the steel mills, he ought to be able to find some husky linebackers!

We've all heard the story of the kindly gal in white who nurses her seriously ill patient back to health and then ends up marrying him. And we've all probably wondered whether it ever happened in real life. Well, it has happened at least once, to our ex-bachelor classmate Lloyd Richardson. On December 4, Lloyd married his nurse, Miriam Corinne Noble. "Cory" is a graduate RN from Temple University in Philadelphia and studied later at Wayne University in Detroit.

Lloyd had been seriously ill for some time, to the point of not being able to work and possibly losing his ability to walk, with osteoarthritis and an endocrine problem. As a result of a series of operations, he is now "all metal from pelvis to knee cap on both sides." Fortunately, the operations were successful—Lloyd now suffers no pain and is able to navigate without any props. He and Cory reside in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit.

P. S. I just received Alumni Fund Interim Report No. 1, which shows the Class $525 ahead BUT six contributors BEHIND the same time last year. Let's stop pouting and get with it!

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

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