1947

Happy fall to one and all. And wasn't it a short summer?

It's only fitting and proper to start off a new year with news of a promotion. Congratulations are in order for Frank Wuerfel, who has been named president and chief executive officer of S. A. Schonbrun & Co., a subsidiary of Maize-Products Co., New York. Frank joined Schonbrun in December, 1972, as executive vice president. The Wuerfels live in Bernardsville, N.J.

Among the chief rewards of being a class secretary are the letters that arrive (too infrequently) from classmates. No one is more faithful than Ham Chase. It's always a pleasure to hear from the never-say-die hockey player and his family. Oldest son Fred is in the service in Germany, Tom is taking pre-veterinarian courses at the University of New Hampshire, and Carol is at Jackson College (Tufts). Ham is proud that he has earned his instrument flying rating which makes flying more practical and safer, he reports. After completing the old timers' hockey season last year with nothing more serious than a broken rib, our colleague, I'm sure, is looking forward to another season in his inexorable quest to be the oldest living alumnus actively participating in ice hockey.

F. Richard Hill Jr. of Claremont, N.H., a services and sales representative of the National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont, has received two recent honors. He's been elected vice president of the New Hampshire chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters and also is a new trustee of Claremont General Hospital. Dick thereby earned attendance at the Club's educational conference this fall in Acapulco, Mexico.

We're happy to report that Hugh Chapin has accepted the job as '47s Bequest and Estate Planning Chairman. Our Class formally entered the Bequest and Estate Planning Program at the time of our 25th Reunion in 1972. The program, started by the Alumni Council in 1951, encourages Dartmouth alumni, families and friends to include the College in their estate planning. As most classmates know, Hugh heads Chapin-Wood Insurance Agency in Cambridge.

Another election to report concerns Alfred E.(Bob) Gray. He's been chosen vice president of the Construction Specifications Institute. The institute, headquartered in Washington, is the only technical organization dealing with all aspects of construction communications. The Grays live in Madison, Conn.

An early deadline sometimes makes news in this column seem somewhat out of date. But it can't be helped. All of which is a brief buildup for an article that appeared in The New York Times last spring pointing out that George Lendrihas has been chosen as developer of a blighted one-block area lying in the shadow of the county courthouse dome in Hackensack, N.J. It quoted George, who worked as an undercover narcotics agent from 1950 to 1955, as saying his hope was to put up "at least one, perhaps two, office buildings at the site." George's project marks the first stage of what Hackensack officials hope will be an ambitious urban renewal program with private capital.

Dr. Richard Egdahl is now the academic vice president for health affairs of Boston University and executive vice president of University Hospital. A distinguished surgeon (who has appeared on the cover of Modern Medicine), researcher, and chairman of BU School of Medicine's Department of Surgery, Dr. Egdahl is also a professor at the University and a professor of management in the BU College of Business Administration.

Congratulations of a different sort are in line for Edwards Murray. Again a clipping from Times brings the news, this time of his marriage to Nancy Mann Pyles in Bel Air, Md., in May. He is director of operations for the Council for International Progress in Management, a nonprofit association, in New York.

Townes Harris sends a note in which he mentions he has completed his third and final year at the National Trust Graduate School held at Northwestern University in Evanston.

And Norm Fink, counsel to the development program at the University of Pennsylvania, participated as a faculty member at a briefing conference on the Non Profit Corporation Law of 1972 held in Philadelphia.

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