1959

Thanks to those of you who pay class dues and take a moment to update your activities, the mailbag is relatively fat this month - I hope that more of you pay dues than pass information along, however. Many of the notes mention the impact of the energy crisis and Norrie Nims writes from Copper Center, Alaska, that they are "raising beef in back yard to beat any shortage. Wife, Sue, got 800 lbs. of cow moose meat. Using our wood stove since we like 72° and getting the exercise that goes with wood heat. We have enough oil on hand to last the winter. We buy things in bulk out in the sticks. We buy many items for a year at a time. Pipe line activity about to start. It goes within a mile of us." No place is sacred it seems.

Bob Ogg, who lives outside of Toronto, attributes a busy and profitable year as a buyer for Simpson-Sears to the energy situation. He also reports the birth of twin boys in November, raising the inventory to five - no shortage of energy there.

Eat your heart out if the 8:15 to wherever has got you down - Dick Jaeger's wife writes that "Dick's not travelling as much as in the past, and we've enjoyed fall weekends cutting wood for our fireplaces, hiking, and 'holding our breaths' for The Big Green at football games! These activities have now been replaced with shovelling the snow off our pond for skating and long cross-country treks on skiis. All's well 'on the hill' for the Jaegers!"

Two weddings to report: John Cook who is an anthropology professor at the University of Alaska married Elizabeth Fields Clark late last year, and Skeff McAllister witnessed Bob London tying the knot last December in St. Paul. Congratulations!

Warren Dechter reported last April that he had returned to the States from London to join Quaker Oats in Chicago. And now the company has announced that he has been promoted to director of product management for cereals and mixes. This, it appears, is a newly-created position with responsibility for all of Quaker's hot and ready-to-eat cereals, mixes, and syrup. The name of Aunt Jemima does seem to ring a bell.

Bob Foot is the new president of Barnett Bank, West Delray Beach, Fla., with assets of over $5 million. He went to Delray in February of last year as first managing officer of the new bank after having been vice president of Barnett Bank of Homestead, and before that was with Manufacturers Hanover Trust. A lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard Reserve, Bob commands the Guard's training unit in Riviera Beach.

After a three-year tour of duty with the Army Combat Developments Command at Fort Bewoir, Va., Major Warren Huse was transferred last August to Fort Hood, Texas, where he is assigned to Second Armored Division Headquarters. Major Dave Foster is stationed in Korea as executive officer of a unit stationed near Seoul and his wife reports he is due home in July to Springfield, Va., where she and the children are living.

Karl Holtzshue and Roger Waldman became partners of the New York law firm of Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock and Brookfield as of January 1. Karl reports that his specialty is real estate law and Roger is a litigator. He also passed along a note that JimGiddens recently became a partner of a competitor, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed.

New England Tel & Tel transferred JimWooster from Massachusetts to Burlington, Vt., for duty as general plant manager for that state.

A one liner from Jay Herpel states that he finally came home to Fullerton, Calif., from Yokohama.

And Pete Barber has forsaken the New York metropolitan scene for Jasper, Ga., a town in the Blue Ridge Mountains not unlike Hanover he says, where he owns a large dye plant which dyes yarns for the carpet industry.

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