1957

Fall is nearly here, the College is readied for the onslaught of a new group of eager frosh, and many of us are making plans for football weekends and foliage viewing.

It was recently announced by the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities that one of three successful applicants to the National Endowment for the Arts Bicentennial Film Competition was awarded a grant of $24,-860. C. Abbott Meader is a member of the group that produced this winning film, Visions ofMaine Performing Arts.

John J. Greene has been elected president of Western Steamship Services, Inc., a wholly owned documentation, data processing, and accounting subsidiary of General Steamship Corporation, one of the largest steamship agencies on the Pacific coast with offices in all of the major ports including Alaska, British Columbia, and Mexico. Jay joined General Steamship in 1958 and has been executive vice president of the subsidiary since 1975.

John P. Hall Jr. has been named executive vice president of operations for the Chicopee Manufacturing Company, an affiliate of Johnson & Johnson. A graduate of Tuck School, John, who was also elected to Chicopee's board of directors, began his career with the company in 1963 and has held managerial positions in research planning, marketing, finance, production, and corporate planning.

Joseph A. Malley has recently been made a principal of Laventhol & Horwath, a nationwide auditing and accounting firm.

Philip E. Lippincott, Scott Paper Company's senior vice president of marketing, has recently joined the editorial advisory board of ProductManagement, a monthly magazine for product management teams in the consumer packaged goods industries. Advisory board members assist in determining the editorial direction of the magazine, suggest articles and contributors, and regularly critique issues for their marketing pertinence.

On the international scene. The New YorkTimes recently reported that it was only through the persistence of United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Laurende H. Silberman, that a 44-year old American engineer from Loveland, Col., Laszlo Toth, was released after nearly a year in prison. Toth, who had been on a business trip, was arrested on apparently trumped-up charges that he had committed espionage for a foreign power. Larry's perseverance in seeking Toth's release involved him in controversy not only with Yugoslav officials but also with State Department officialdom. Larry was quoted as saying, "When we get to the point where we don't care about an American citizen innocently imprisoned, then we're not much of a country anymore." I suspect Larry stuck his diplomatic neck out, and that we can be proud of his stand.

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