1952

Over the summer (and we hope you had a great summer) we have collected some news of the class which we are pleased to pass on. Since this is an election year let's start with some political news. Dave Neiditz, a member of the Connecticut State Senate for the past eight years, has announced his candidacy for renomination. Dave represents the fifth district west of Hartford. He is currently chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a member of the governing board of the Council of State Governments, and one of three Connecticut Uniform Law Commissioners. In addition he is very active in local civic affairs in the Hartford area. A good citizen. I wonder if we have other politicos sweating it out these next two weeks? Good luck to all.

Further on up in Maine we have received word that Alan Elkins has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of Westbrook College in Portland, Maine. Westbrook is a co-educational college founded in 1831. Al graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1957. During most of the 1960s he practiced in New York at St. Luke's Hospital Center and at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. At both hospitals he was an associate attending psychiatrist. Al is currently the chief of psychiatry at the Maine Medical Center.

For most of his career after college Jim Meredith was in the real estate business in Maryland. His company, carrying his family name, was located in Annapolis. In 1974 Jim was elected as president of the county board of realtors. He and his family, including two young boys in their pre-teens, were enjoying the good, suburban life. Today, Jim and his family are living in Alexandria and Jim has enrolled in a two-year course of study at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. This entire change of life style and very serious undertaking by the Meredith family was recently written up in the Annapolis Evening Capital. As you can im- agine, much thoughtful effort preceded this move and we wish Jim and the family every success in their new career.

Moving out to the west coast we have learned that Edward A. Smuckler, M.D., Ph.D. has been named chairman of the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California in San Francisco. (Lucky dog!). We have reported on Ed's career in earlier columns, and it has been an interesting career. For the past 15 years he has been a professor of pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. During that time he spent a year in England as a Guggenheim Fellow at the National Institute of Medical Research and also received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1965 at the Werner-Gren Institute, University of Stockholm, Sweden. His medical degree was from Tufts, his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Ed, his wife Judith, and their five children will live in Marin County and surely will enjoy the skiing in northern California.

Across the bay in Oakland we have received word that another classmate is moving west. Cincinnati's loss is the Bay Area's gain and the lucky guy is John Collins. Jack has been elected a vice president of the Clorox Company. In this capacity Jack will be responsible for all the operations of the household products division which includes manufacturing and distribution of 16 household products in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Prior to joining Clorox Jack spent 22 years with Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati. His most recent position there was as vice president and general manager of the toilet goods division. At the rate our class seems to be moving to the northern California area we mav be able to get a charter plane lead for the 25th. Ceb Benisch take note.

Not everyone has gone west, though. We are happy to pass along the news that Doug Corderman, vice president-administration at Emerson Electric Company has been elected to his second term as president of the National Contract Management Association. The NCMA is a nonprofit organization of individuals in both business and government who deal in the field of government contracting. Congratulations, Doug.

Back on the east coast we have news that may give the reunion committee some help in their campaign for next June. Conrad Carstens earlier this year was promoted as senior vice president of Dickson-Basford, Inc. in New York. Dickson-Basford is one of the 15 largest public relations firms in the country. Connie joined the company in 1960, was named vice president in 1968, and a group vice president in 1970. His present responsibility is as management supervisor of a group of industrial technological public relations programs. Connie and the family live in East Brunswick, N.J. See you at Princeton.

Our final note of the month concerns my old roommate, Jack Flitner, and his family. Jack is an attorney in norther California (where else?), but fortunately his family still maintains the Diamond Tail Ranch in Greybull, Wyo., where Jack and his brother ('54) grew up. So each spring the family all get together for the sheep drive to summer pasture. This whole interesting story was detailed in a recent issue of NationalGeographic World, with special emphasis on the activity of the children. Very nice story and a great experience.

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