1952
If the class news this month doesn't make the Alumni Magazine you can blame the weatherman. No, not for holding up the mails, but for dumping three glorious feet of snow on the New England ski slopes the first weekend in April. This late winter (early spring) snow storm attracted vast crowds to the ski areas still open and your reporter was among them, instead of doing the class news notes.
You may have noticed in the March Magazine that Bill Kay was given recognition for being appointed president of Standard Brand Foods. We have more details and are pleased to pass them on. Standard Brands Foods is a division of a parent company of almost the same name and produces such well known consumer products as Planters Nuts, Blue Bonnet and Fleischmann's Margerines, Chase and Sanborn Coffee, Tender Leaf Tea and Royal Gelatin. (Trivia buffs should have no trouble recalling which well known radio shows were sponsored by those last three products back in the '40s.) Prior to joining his new company Bill was group vice president-consumer products of Illinois Central Industries. In fact, after starting out in the advertising industry following graduation from MIT with a master's degree in industrial management, Bill has spent his entire career in consumer products. Previous associations have been with Campbell Soup where he reached position as general manager of the frozen foods division of their Pepperidge Farm subsidiary and later was named marketing vice president of Pepperidge Farms. Bill left Campbell Soup in 1967 to join Associated Products as president of their Rival Dog Food division and subsequently became executive vice president of Associated. In 1972 Bill joined Illinois Central for the position he held prior to joining Standard Brands.
This month we are continuing our profiles on classmates not recently heard from and, purely by coincidence, we have three different career paths - an attorney, a finance man, and a doctor.
First, from Mt. Kisco, New York, we had a nice chat with Howard Whitaker who is an attorney in practice in New York City and is a partner in the law firm of Mitchell, Petty and Shetterly. Howie has been with the firm since 1958, just after graduation from the University of Virginia Law School. The firm, located in the Wall Street area, specializes in tax and bond work. Howie and his wife Barbara have two children. Sam is a senior at the Taft School and their daughter Corwin is a sophomore at Miss Hall's School.
From over New Jersey way news comes of the George Davis family. The Davises live in Tenafly which means George has a relatively short commute to his office in Murray Hill N.J., where he is treasurer for C. R. Bard, Inc. Bard is an important manufacturer of hospital and medical supplies. George has been with Bard for almost three years and prior to that he was with the Thomas J. Lipton Company for 12 years. The Davises have three children, Steve 16, Carol, 14 and Leslie, 11 and George's wife Maria has recently developed her own business specializing in office interiors for business executives. Some of her clients include major corporations and she has been most successful in the field of art.
If an accurate ranking is important I don't know whether it would be more appropriate to list Don Horrigan's profession or his hobby first. I guess the profession comes first since Dr. Horrigan is managing partner of the Radiology Group of New Brunswick (N.J.), a group of 13 doctors who manage the radiology departments of three major New Jersey hospitals. The hospitals, Raritan Valley (Rutgers), St. Peters, and Middlesex, are in the central part of the state, near the Horrigan home in Princeton. Don and his wife Julie have four children. Three of them, Jeff, 13, Scott, 10 and Ben, 9, are at home while their oldest, Susie, is a freshman at Colby-Sawyer in New London, N.H. That makes two things we didn't know. First, Colby is now a two name school in order to avoid confusion with Colby in Maine since both are now four year colleges. Second, Colby-Sawyer has the top collegiate equestrian team in the country and Susie Horrigan is a rider on that team. She comes by her interest and talent naturally since her mother is also an excellent rider and teacher of the sport. The Horrigans, incidentally, have a goodsized stable of their own in Princeton.
Once in a while we get information quite by accident and such was the case recently when I came across the December 1974 issue of PaperAge, "The Voice of the Paper Industry." This monthly publication featured, as it's cover story, a tribute to the Gilman Paper Company on the occasion of its 90th anniversary. The president of Gilman is Charles Gilman Jr. and we would like to add our belated, but sincere congratulations to Charles and his family who have been such good friends of the College over the years. I wish there were space to reprint highlights of the story because it is very interesting.
Finally, next month we hope to provide you with an early report on the plans for our class get together during the fall season. In the meantime, give Jack Barclay all the support you can in this year's Alumni Fund drive. Please.
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