1949

Last month we reported that Quent Kopp was running for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. This month we can report he won a decisive victory and was the biggest vote getter by far in a field of 29 candidates. That fact also makes him president-elect of the eleven-member board. One of the San Francisco papers described him as "a 37-year-old practicing attorney." That statement should make us all feel pretty good. Quent deserves a great deal of praise for his achievement and for his interest in the problems of the big city, which are extremely complex these days.

In following up on some address changes, I received a note from Emidio Pappa. Mit writes that his prime interest since graduating from Dartmouth has been accumulating income. He presently is achieving this goal through real estate. Prior to this, he was marketing manager at the Electric-Acoustics Systems Laboratories of Hazeltine Corporation. He left that position on October 3, 1975, to enter the real estate business. I wonder which business he finds better for accumulating income. Mit has recently remarried and has a potential member of the Class of 1997, due about January 1. He has three sons, two of them graduates of B.U. The other is attending the University of Massachusetts and planning to transfer to B.U. in January as a junior.

Several months ago we reported that DickMallory had left Vermont politics and moved to Massachusetts to work with the Farm Credit Bank of Springfield, Mass. Dick has given us more details concerning his job and his decision to move. He is vice president of the Farm Credit Bank, which is one of 12 banks largely serving agriculture throughout the country. These banks are owned by their borrowers and are not in any respect federal agencies or subject to political influence. Dick says that, after careful analyzing of the results of the election last fall, he is convinced that, "the electorate in general does not really want to hear the truth or to be faced with the hard decisions which I think government must face. I don't believe that any politician who believes as I do in a limited role for government and the maximizing of individual liberties can get re-elected on a regular basis, at least in Vermont." He looked at several offers in lobbying, but decided that he was "too stubbornly independent to be able to sell the position of any organization with which I did not almost totally agree." With that, he moved to Springfield, where I am certain he will be as successful as he was in Washington, D.C.

Several months ago we reported that Mark Feer was married last June. Now we have learned that he has been elected to the board of directors of W.R. Grace and Company. Mark is a general partner of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New York investment bankers.

My Eastern reporter, G. Thomas, reports that he attended the Yale game with Bud Hughes,Jay Urstadt, Bill Griffith and their wives and children. The weather and the tailgating was much more satisfying than the outcome of the football game. Gordon did have the opportunity of sitting behind John Adler and dripping a little beer down his neck. He reports that John has started a new business called Universal Product Dollars, Incorporated. This is a merchandising service that utilizes the Universal Product Code on food packages for bonuses. Apparently, it will be somewhat similar to trading stamps or bonus gifts. John was formerly president of Ad-Tel, which he organized and which he had earlier sold to Booz, Allen. Gordon also mentioned that he saw Scott and Bobbie Whipple at the Yale game, but otherwise '49ers were rather scarce.

Sam Kilner's letters on class dues brought news from Brian Phillips, who lives in Mississauga, Ontario (321 Lake Shore Road West). He is a Chevrolet dealer in that city (Brian Phillips Chevrolet-Oldsmobile, Ltd., what else). He described a very interesting experience, a reenactment of Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, in which he participated. This expedition was a joint venture of the Arnold Society and the Maine Bicentennial Committee. He said it was a fabulous experience. Six-hundred men participated and the expedition culminated in a battle on the Plains of Abraham, outside of Quebec City. He was a militiaman in Captain Hanchett's company. They were opposed by real live Redcoats and lost for the second time. I can just picture Brian creeping through the woods with his musket, bayonet, powderhorn, etc.

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