1951

It is with sadness and regret that I begin this month's column with the announcement of the death of "Ned" Powers on November 17, 1972 after a long illness. An obituary appears elsewhere in this issue.

Sometimes the news reported in this column is a little bit stale. (Fortunately, it doesn't become rancid and is still edible.) As you were reading in our December column about Wils Cross being named executive vice president for domestic operations of Keyes Fibre Co. (which happened a year and a half ago), the directors were electing him president and chief operating officer as well as a director.

Keyes, with headquarters in Montvale, N. J., is a leading manufacturer of formed fibre products from pulp with plants in five states and eight foreign countries. Wils attended Tuck School after graduation and is a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Royal Ocean Racing Club, and the Union League Club of New York.

On July 1, Tom Trolle became senior vice president in the Latin American group at Xerox, a divisional assignment. Prior to this, he had been assistant to the executive vice president for international matters, a corporate staff position. Tom will continue to be based in Stamford, Conn.

Move #5 with IBM has taken Jerry Mitchell to Beantown as a senior planner in the Boston region. In his spare time, he serves as president of the recently-reorganized Sudbury Valley Dartmouth Club and as a Scoutmaster. He and wife Nan have two sons, one a sophomore at Exeter, the other a seventh grader.

Last summer, Philadelphian Sam Sparhawk left Girard Bank, where he had been director of investment research, to join W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., an old-line stock brokerage firm established in 1844. Sam is doing "investment research, investment advisory, and general helping hand (office boy)." He indicates that he likes the easier pace of a smaller firm.

Business Briefs ... After Life comes what? Special interest magazines. Pete Martin is a senior editor of Time Inc.'s Money, the first issue of which was October ... Joe Morelli named senior vice president of Dreyfus Ashby & Co., a division of Schenley Affiliated Brands Corp ... Jack Gannon, vice president of finance, made a director of Cameo Curtains, Inc ... Stu Johnson, formerly manager for export sales, appointed plant manager for EMR Photoelectric, Princeton, N. J.

Jeff O'Connell, law professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the spring semester. He will be teaching and writing at Oxford University in England, to which, I suspect, he will try to export the concept of "no fault" automobile insurance. He and sociologist Rita James Simon have a new book entitled Payment for Pain andSuffering: Who Wants What, When and Why?"

Professional Briefs ... Springfield, Mass physician John Brennan received his internal medicine certification last February and is now practicing as an internist rather than a general practitioner ... Minneapolis Judge Jim Rogers elected chief judge of Hennepin County Municipal Court for 1973 ... Philadelphia lawyer "Stretch" Mulloy, most recently First Assistant United States Attorney there, is now associated with David Berger, Professional Association whose group specializes in plaintiffs' antitrust suits (as I well know—Dave used to create half of my work when I was in private practice by suing my old firm's clients).

After co-producing a short-lived Broadway play called "Ring Round the Bathtub," a family comedy about the '30's, Manhattanite Jay Wolf spent the summer at Channel 13/WNET. In July, it was a production of "The Rimers of Eldritch"; in August, Anouilh's "Antigone."

Baby Briefs ... Jule and Andrea Olney's second daughter, Cheryl Andrea, weighed in at 6 lbs., 14 oz. on July 3. Jule is financial advisor to the van Beuren Estate with a Manhattan office.

The mourning after took place for '51 atHank Sanders' Darien, Conn., home following the Yale game. Kneeling (I to r) areHank Nachman, host Sanders, PeteHenderson, and Joe Welch; and rear, RussDilks, Dave Saxton, Dave Batchelder, Sandy McDonald, and Bob Hopkins.

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