1954

What better way to start off my last column for the Alumni Magazine than to pay official thanks on behalf of the Class to Messrs John Gillespie,Dick Page, and Pete Barker for their work on the 20th Reunion get-together. Even though this article is being written in advance of this event, I have had enough contact with the doings of this group to know that a deuce of a lot of time, effort, and worry have gone into the arrangements for this milestone year. I certainly hope the attendance rewards these gentlemen for the fine job they have done.

Another word of thanks has to go forward to Dave Metz and to Bob Berry for their superb effort in this year's Alumni Fund Campaign. Perhaps the best way to show our appreciation, however, is for those of us who have not yet sent our gifts on to Hanover to do so at once with the reading of this article.

And now to beat the big red hand around the clock with the final burst of news for this year ... From Fred Alpert comes word that Phil Kaiser has been promoted to general merchandise manager of Mercantile Stores and further that Phil and wife Kaye and children have moved to Summit, N.J. from out of the deep and sunny South, which Phil had sworn previously he would never abandon. (Fred Alpert, by the way, told me at the last Executive Committee meeting that he was retired. However, if retirement consists of starting up a new chain called Alpert's, Inc. engaged in furniture showroom/warehouse operations from Cleveland and Akron, Ohio all the way up to Buffalo, New York, I hate to think what Fred will do when he really retires. Fred's partner in this venture is General Cinema Corporation which seems to indicate that the next pattern in retailing will be to show people their selection by sitting them in a theatre and flashing the merchandise on the screen.)

Another bit of news concerns Brad Borden who is running for selectman in Barrington, R.I., on the Republican ticket. According to one of our classmen in a neighboring state, Brad swears to keep Barrington Republican to spite the encroachments of an increasing Democratic world.

Item ... Richard Barker, our lighthearted, but not lightfingered, treasurer soon to be replaced, is still engaged in recruiting for Bryant & Stratton, a private business school located in Boston. DanMcCarthy, another Boston area resident, told me recently that he was "not up to much" being back to a full professorial standing at Northeastern University, teaching courses in finance and business policy. He also recently ran a program for INCAE in business policy in Managua, Nicaragua, and got out just about a week or so before the earthquakes that shook that unfortunate city. Dan tells, too, of a forthcoming teaching stint at London University and in his spare time he still fiddles around with Youth Hockey League where his last year's record was something like 93 and 9! ? Dan retires shortly from six years on Dartmouth College Athletic Council where I know his services were much appreciated.

Another of our classmates engaged in the academic world is Dean Berry who is director of INSEAD located in Fontainebleau, France. This school is the major business management school in Europe, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Professor McCarthy wound up doing a tour of duty in that neck of the woods.

Charles Ennis is the new vice president and senior counsel for TRW Inc's automotive worldwide organization in Cincinnati, Ohio. He joined the firm in 1966 as an attorney and since 1970 has been general counsel for the industrial operations group of TRW in Los Angeles. Charles earned his law degree at Columbia and is a member of the New York Bar, the California Bar, and the Los Angeles Bar Associations. The

George Graboys has been named executive vice president of the Citizens Trust Company in Providence, R.I., where, according to one observer who wishes to remain nameless, he has established himself as one of the keenest banking minds in that City. But perhaps the keenest mind I have heard of in a long while belongs to Ed Winnick a partner in the law firm of Winnick & Winnick, New Haven, Conn., who is just about ready to experiment with the firm's policy of a one year sabbatical after seven years of working. Rumor has it that Mr. Winnick and family will be going to Portugal for the up-coming year as part of this sabbatical experiment. Needless to say it sounds like it will be doomed to success.

So, there you have it ... the final words from my pen after many years. It wouldn't be fitting, however, to sign off without thanking all of the members of the Executive Committee with whom I worked over the past several years for having made this task so rewarding.

Dr. Donald D. Brown '53 of the CarnegieInstitution of Washington was chosen by theNational Academy of Sciences to receive theU.S. Steel Foundation Award in MolecularBiology, and $5,000.

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