1961

For the last few months most of the news has come from guys marching to different drummers, doing such things as farming in Central America and traveling here, there and everywhere. This month it's reassuring to the rest of us deskbound paper-pushers to find that some '61s are actually still working for a living.

Stephen Dale is living in Cambridge, Mass., and was recently appointed as a vice president of New England Merchants National Bank, where he has been in charge of its profit planning department. I thought banks never had to worry about making a profit, but then there are lots of things I don't understand about banking, like "points" for instance. Another banker, Roger Baumberger, has been appointed by the Small Business Administration as chairman of the New York District Advisory Council. In this post Roger will conduct semi-annual meetings where the needs of small businesses (money?) are discussed and the means by which the SBA can meet those needs (loans?) are considered. Roger is a senior vice president of Marine Midland Bank, working in Melville and living in Rockville Centre, Long Island.

Architect John Hadley Jr., has made something of a specialty of designing banks and other financial buildings. Among John's design credits are an eight-story office and two-story banking facility for the First National Bank in Mesa, Ariz., an 18-story mirrored office building for the Southeast National Bank in Orlando, Fla., and two branch offices for State Mutual Savings and Loan Association in California. He studied architecture at U.S.C. and now heads his own firm, Hadley/Associates, in Los Angeles. It's always nice to hear of a fraternity social chairman who went straight and made good.

We also have news of two more promotions. Mike Andrews is now a full professor in the English Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Mike's been a member of the faculty at ODU since 1970. On the business side again, John McIntyre has been appointed secretary for Upjohn International. John has been the international counsel and manager of legal services for Upjohn for the last three years and, catching up on history, prior to that was an administrative assistant for the late Senator Pat McNamara, practiced law in Detroit, and was a corporate attorney for United Airlines. John and his wife Tina are living in Kalamazoo, about which as many unwarranted jokes and limericks have been written as Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga combined.

For those of you still out hustling on Friday nights or living in far-off lands and distant places, it may still be newsworthy to report that David Birney is back on television this fall as Serpico, the hip intellectual undercover New York cop, in a new NBC series based on the popular book and movie. TV Guide has praised Dave's performance and predicts that the program will be one of this year's most successful new shows.

Rick and Sally Reed came out to California this summer to show the kids the wide open spaces, mostly filled with other tourists, and stopped by Monterey for a visit. Rick asked me not to put a lot of stuff in the column about their family life on the farm in Pacific, Mo., and his work with Aetna in St. Louis, so I won't.

Our reunion committee, composed of chairman Dave Prewitt and Dave Armstrong, TomConger, Chip Serrell and Hank Eberhardt, has put together most of the details for the big bash on the June 17-19 weekend next year. There will be a variety of opportunities to eat and drink together, including a picnic at Storrs Pond with the pea-green '62s and '63s, a meeting with John Kemeny, and lots of activities and babysitters to keep the kids out of the way. We'll be housed in Mass Row, and anyone who turns on a fire hose without good cause faces immediate revocation of his degree, if any, and an unpleasant letter from the dean to his parents, so behave yourselves.

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