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The calendar year-end always brings with it certain news of job changes and promotions and it's always a pleasure to report them in this column. In no particular order it's a delight to let you know that not unexpectedly Creight Holden took on the job of G.O.P. national committeeman for Michigan—which will have no effect on his chairing our 35th Reunion a year and a half from now. Also, not unexpectedly was the announcement on December 8 that Scotty Rogers, who had been executive vice president, was elected president of the American Chain and Cable Co., Inc. of Bridgeport, Conn., effective January 1. When Scotty moved from Cleveland, where he'd spent his entire life, we knew that something as tremendous as this had to be in the wind. He'll assume full responsibility of operations of all ACCO's divisions in the U. S. as well as subsidiary companies in Canada and South America.

Stepping down into complete retirement after many years in the advertising "rat race" is DewittJones who, along with wife Barbara, has moved to his home on Captiva Island, Fla., where he plans to enjoy "watching the world go by." From the Hooker Chemical Corporation's office in Niagara Falls comes word that this fall Alton V. Thorpe, who's been with them since leaving Hanover, has been named manager of employment. Prior to this time he held numerous administrative posts and most recently employee recruiting. In his new position he'll be responsible for all professional employment within the Hooker Chemicals and Plastics group. Also in mid-October we received a release from Reynolds Metals in Richmond, Va., that Lamson Kerins, director of industrial engineering, had been named general manager of aluminum sheet and plate, wire-rod-bar operations of their Mill Products Division. Lammy is now responsible for the operations of their plants in Listerhill, Ala., and McCook. Ill.

The Illinois Institute of Technology has appointed Bob Raclin to its board of trustees. Bob, vice president and director of Chicago's Paine, Weber, Jackson and Curtis, Inc., has been a lecturer at Harvard Business School, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University. He is also a trustee of Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, and a trustee and board vice chairman of the First Congregational Church of Evanston, where Jean and Bob live at 116 Burnham Place.

About three months ago I wrote of the demise of Raymond's of Boston which had suffered a Chapter XI bankruptcy and wished Jim Schaye well. It is truly a delight to keep you posted with the news that on September 26 Federal Court in Boston released the company from its bankruptcy and allowed it to resume normal business both at its downtown store and in suburban Waltham. Jim announced to the press that he was "staking 102 years of Yankee ingenuity on the reorganization" and my local spies report that Christmas crowds were bigger than ever.

A member of our Class with deep convictions is Page Smith who was a member of the faculty of the University of California for the past 20 years. Page resigned from the faculty of U.C. at Santa Cruz where he's been provost of Cowell College since 1964. His retirement was in protest against the "publish or perish" personnel policies which he felt treated junior faculty members in a "cruel and inhuman" manner. Page's action was brought on, according to a Los Angeles Times article, when an excellent teacher-friend was not granted tenure as he was more interested in teaching than in research. Page's biography of John Adams, published in 1962, won several national awards including the coveted Bancroft Prize and a Santa Cruz spokesman was quoted as saying, "we are very, very sorry that Page Smith is planning to leave the campus—it is a great loss." Page's retirement takes effect at the end of this year.

Reaching for new heights of success is the president and principal owner of the Florida Ladder Co., John "Dink" Wiener. In an interview with the press, Dink, whose company produces approximately a quarter of a million ladders annually, said that the public is no longer interested in the cheapest way to climb to the top, but in the best way. Five years ago 75 per cent of his business was in inexpensive wooden household ladders—which today represent less than half his output. As well, he represents throughout Florida a firm which manufactures fiberglass and aluminum commercial and industrial ladders. A list of Dink's suppliers reads like the Who's Who of the lumber companies with douglas fir, western hemlock and spruce coming from the Pacific Northwest, yellow pine from north Florida and Georgia, and hickory from Alabama and Tennessee. I'll bet his purchasing agent does a lot of travelling!

To close on a purely personal note I want those of you who'll be reading this sometime during the month of February to realize that your constant flow of correspondence has been most appreciated. Although occasional news clips are sent me from the Alumni Records office in Hanover—and your notes to Don Rainie when paying annual dues are forwarded by him to me, it's only your individual letters which keep this column flowing. This is the first year I haven't had to beg for news—so keep it up. From the looks of these pages (and I read all class notes from '34 thru '45) you guys (and in some instances your wives) are doing a great job and making my monthly job merely one of editing what you've said instead of being a chore! Keep it up.

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Treasurer, 64 North Main Street Concord, N. H. 03301