1958

Reunion-June 14-16-Reunion

There is something for everyone at 58's fabulous 15th. Reunion. We will be combining with '59 and '60 for many of our programs and also '49 and '69. The activity actually starts on June 13 with a Reunion College followed by the first session of a Reunion Computer Course. On the 14th, President Emeritus Dickey will moderate a program entitled "Great Issues: Then and Now." Add to these an Alumni Golf tournament a trip to Mt. Moosilauke with the DOC, swimming, tennis, and a full schedule of class activities and you have as fantastic value as money can buy in a setting as beautiful as any resort. Make your plans now.

I had hoped that in this month's column I would be able to report on the 4th Annual Alumni Ski Weekend which was to be held in Hanover this weekend. It has been a tough winter for eastern snow lovers. Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, but the very mild winter we have had here, added to the fuel shortage, has brought financial problems to many ski areas, lodges, and I am sure a few banks. The gas situation seems to have eased, and there are shorter lines and filled tanks, but lack of snow has kept the crowds away. Hopefully we can resume our Ski Weekend next year.

Now to news - Walter (Derby) Wilson, cogeneral agent of the Oklahoma City agency of Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Co., has been nanted vice president-sales development, the company. Derby has relocated to the home office in Spring-field, Mass. He is responsible for the copany's continued growth in the areas of training, advanced sales, pension trust, disability income protection and salary allotment sales. This new post is a result of the reorganization of the company's Agency Division. Mass Mutual is the nation's 10th largest life company with 132 sales agencies in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Derby started his life insurance career with the Oklahoma City agency on a part-time basis while at Dartmouth. After graduation he became a full-time member of the agency. He was made staff supervisor in 1960, assistant-general agent in 1961 and was appointed co-general agent with his brother in 1963. The Wilson brothers have led the local agency sales force to over $200 million of life insurance currently in force, serving more than 11,00 policyholders. He is the recipient of numerous company and industry honors for outstanding sales production. He received his C.L.U. designation in 1962, is vice president of the Oklahoma City General Agents and Managers Club, past president and director of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters and the Oklahoma City Estate Planning Council and former secretary of the Oklahoma State , Association of Life Underwriters.

Derby has found time for community interests as well, as director of the Oklahoms County chapter of the American Red Cross, president of the Oklahoma Art Center, treasurer of Casady School and is active in the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Better Business Bureau. Derby and Nancy have three children. Welcome to New England, Wilsons!

Graf Berger has been elected treasurer of Burr-Brown Research Corp. of Tucson. Ariz, Previously controller, Graf will be overseeing the corporate financial structure and the administering of Burr-Brown's overall financial policies. Prior to joining the company in 1972 he was a management consultant for Price Waterhouse & Co. in Cleveland. Graf is a C.P.A. in Arizona.

Charlie Dickenson writes from Wichita Falls, Texas, "At long last I am happy to report that in December, 1973 I was graduated by the University Of Pittsburgh With a Ph.D. in systematic theologv. Now for a short vacation, and then to start hunting in earnest for a teaching job With the job market the way it is, I'll need all the luck 1 can get." Anyone out there lookina for a professor of theology?

With all of his activities and responsibilities, I hope nick and Nan Stoddart will make it up for Reunion. Dick has been promoted to the posi- tion of director of planning of Eaton Corp. This new post includes worldwide responsibility for implementation of planning, economic research, and the company's overall plan for diversification. The diversification effort headed by Dick, formerly director of corporate development, includes acquisition programs outside the current interest of Baton's operating groups. Eaton is a worldwide manufacturer of automotive materials, handling industrial and consumer Products. The company's sales for the first nine months of 1973 were $1,141 billion. Dick has also been elected to the board of directors of Shaker Saving Association. He also serves on the board of directors of Empire Life Insurance Company and the board of trustees of United Torch Services.

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