1954

Well, winter is almost upon us and if all the reports are correct, some of you may now be scrambling for a tank full of oil or gas just to keep warm for the rest of the winter. According to all the news reports this is supposed to be the winter of shortages. We hope that these predictions do not come true.

Some of our more astute classmates have taken steps to see that at least they're not affected by the shortage of one very important resource - cash. How have they done this? By rising in their positions as bankers. It sounds as if our classmates have got their hands on a lot of money and at the right time too.

The National Bank of Commerce of Memphis, Tenn., has announced the election of George Alexander Hume III as assistant vice president. George joined the bank in May of 1969.

Oakite Products, Inc. of Berkley Heights, N.J., has announced the election of Tom Sayles, president of Summit and Elizabeth Trust Company, as a director. Oakite is a supplier of materials for industrial cleaning, etc. Not only has Tom got his hands on money, but he is also cleaning up!

Jack Feldman has returned to New Jersey after eight years as a Detroit banker. Jack has been elected executive vice president of United Jersey Banks, a 1.75 billion dollar multi-bank holding company. It didn't take Jack long to renew old friendships. Counselor Don Berlin handled the closing of Jack's new house in Basking Ridge, N.J., as well as chaperoning Jack until wife Yvonne and sons John and Pete arrived from Michigan. Jack also writes that he saw Charlie and Eileen Dickerson and Mike and Willa Spicer at a New Jersey Bankers Convention. Mike is practicing law in Princeton, New Jersey where Charlie is senior vice president of the First National Bank of Princeton, one of United Jersey's 16 banks.

Our erst-while Buffalo banker Kevin Sullivan was not to be out-done by this rash of news relating to the take-over of the banking industry by the Class of '54. The Bank of Buffalo announced the election of Kevin as its president. Kev joined the Bank in 1971 after a tour with the Manufacturers & Traders Trust of Buffalo where he had risen to the positions of vice president and secretary. In a writeup in the Buffalo newspapers Kevin was credited with having brought "an infusion of life into the Bank in recent years."

If any of our banking executives have any ideas of straying from the straight and narrow, they may find themselves running face to face with Jonathan Moore, our class contribution to the Justice Department. As you probably know, Jon has been associated with Attorney General Elliott Richardson in Richardson's previous posts in the State Department, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Defense Departments. Now Attorney General Richardson has announced Jon's appointment to a new position in the Justice Department - Associate Attorney General. Jon M" advise Richardson on policy, direct his immediate staff, and coordinate Justice Department activities in management planning and public flairs. At this point it appears that next to Elliott Richardson, Jon Moore has had more exposure to more various Government Departments than any other executive in the Administration. It must be some sort of record for a non-attorney to have been appointed to such a high position in the Justice Department. This is certainly a testimonial by Elliott Richardson to Jonathan Moore. Congratulations, Jon!

A small blurb in the Wall Street Journal of May 25 announces the appointment of John C. Heston Jr. to the position of senior vice president of the Ogilvy and Mather Agency. John has been a manager and supervisor with this world-famous advertising agency.

Still in the business world, Bob Dean has been elected as a secretary in the Hartford Insurance Groups personnel department. Bob who is director of Employee Relations and Benefits joined the Hartford in 1967 after a career with Scott Paper Company where he held posts in Personnel and Employee Benefits Administration. Bob was elected as an assistant secretary in 1970. Well Bob, it looks like you put your Tuck school background to better use than just opening kegs!

And from Minneapolis comes word that Trustee Dave McLaughlin, president of The Toro Company, has been made its chief executive officer, succeeding David Lilly '39, chairman of the board and former Toro president. Dave assumed the presidency of the company in May of 1970 when it had annual sales of $51.9 million. In late September Toro reported annual sales of $106 million. He had resigned as president of Champion Packages Company where he started in 1957 as executive assistant to the vice president for operations.

Bob Boyd has recently been named Eastern Sales Manager for the Coating and Adhesives Division of Polymer Industries, Inc., a division of Phillip Morris, Inc. Bob's previous experience with Sun Chemical Corp. for the last ten years should come in handy in handling his new responsibilities.

Our class not only has money as illustrated by our bankers; and influence as illustrated by our politicions; it also has erudition as illustrated in the person of Dr. Richard Kolbe who is now visiting professor in our Alma Mater's Government Department during the fall term. Dr. Kolbe is chairman of the Department of Politics and Economics and co-chairman of the Environmental Studies Major at Cedarcrest College in Pennsylvania. Dick earned his Ph.D. in 1962 in Political Science at Princeton where he has also been a visiting professor, in addition to visiting professorships at Temple University and the University of Delphi. Dick will teach "American Parties and Politics" and "The American Political System." It sounds like a dream come true. What better place to spend the fall than at Hanover - talking rather than listening!

We have an award winner! Jim Berry who started with our class but received his B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan was winner in two categories at the 1973 Annual Awards Presentation of the National Cartoonists Society of New York. Jim's syndicated panel cartoon "Berry's World" apparently appears in 512 Newspapers and is the most widely published satirical cartoon in the country. Jim received the Society's award for the best syndicated panel and the Society's Special Features Award for his on-the-spot coverage in the 1972 Democartic Convention.

Richard Krimm was the keynote speaker at the Washington Insurance Council's annual meeting this past summer. Dick is Director of the Flood Insurance Program and Assistant Administrator of the Federal Insurance Administration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Before assuming his present position in March of 1970, he was the Deputy Insurance Commissioner in Pennsylvania. The title of Dick's talk was, "The Federal Government and the Insurance Industry, Partners." I don't know why that should be a surprising title because I don't know anything in which the Federal Government is not a partner, or at least so it seems!

A recent edition of the Pawtucket, R. I., newspaper carried a smiling picture of MikeMessore. Mike was elected chairman of the Pawtucket and Blackstone Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross. Anyone who needs help, just yell for Mike!

And so we come to an end of another column of world-shaking events! I sure hope I'll have the opportunity to run into more of you along the highways and biways of commerce or in the playground of Dartmouth Athletics. I'll be looking for you. Won't you look for me with some newsworthy comments.

Secretary, Alperts Inc., 100 Highland Ave. Seekonk, Mass. 02771

Treasurer. 30 Juniper Ave. Wakefield, Mass. 01880