1961

Participation in public affairs is the common thread running through much of the news this month. First, Bill Shure writes that since his stint as assistant minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, he has been chief counsel for a special investigation into real estate leases by the Connecticut Legislature and consulting counsel to a U.S. Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices conducting an investigation into beef purchases by the military. This year Bill has been statewide campaign co-manager of Senator Lowell Weicker's successful reelection campaign and established a new three-man law firm in New Haven. He and his wife Pearl-ellen live in nearby Woodbridge with their two sons. Art Johnson also reports from the Nutmeg State that Governor Grasso has appointed him to a committee studying recodification of the state's banking laws for the first time since the late 1940's, with a report due to the legislature early this coming year.

Elliott Weiss recently stepped down as executive director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C., to devote nine months or so to writing a book about the involvement of corporations in the formulation of national environmental policies. Doubtless the friendly folks at Exxon and Allied Chemical are anxiously awaiting publication. Once the book is out of the way, Elliott will be looking for a teaching post at a law or business school. He says he doesn't run into classmates often, but did get together with Butch Small, FrankGreenberg and Mike Kirst during a California trip earlier this year. Coincidentally, Mike just sent in a note to advise that he serves as vice president of the California State Board of Education and is also continuing as an associate professor of education and business administration at Stanford, "the Dartmouth of the West."

Next we have some news from a couple of New England lawyers. The marital partnership of Ray and Mary Ann Blanchard has announced the addition of a son, Daniel Raymond, to the firm, and papa Ray also reports formation of a new law partnership, Flynn, McGuirk & Blanchard. All these goings on occurred in Portsmouth, N.H. Then Pete Stuart was kind enough to send a letter filled with updates on who's doing what where. He says from time to time he sees Pete Freeman, who has established a sailboat building business in Stonington, Conn.; Dave and Ingrid Armstrong of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where Dave has been a trust officer with the Maine National Bank; Bob"Jobbly" Jackson, who formerly worked with Pete at Connecticut General Life and has now set up his own CPA practice in Monmouth, Maine.; and Bob Fuller, who's in Pete's Navy Reserve Company and practices law in Wilton, Conn. At a train station Pete recently bumped into Larry Holden, now a labor arbitrator headquartered in Boston, wearing a tennis tie, of course. Larry said he gets in as much tennis as his extensive travels permit. On the personal side, Pete and his wife Karin live with their two sons in Mystic, while he's a partner in a law firm in Groton, Conn.

Down at the other Big D, Dallas, Harris McKee has taken an engineering management position with Frito-Lay, where he'll be applying his expertise in thermodynamics, acquired in the aerospace industry, to solve technological problems in producing snack foods. If he can find a way to make a leftover Frito taste fresh on the morning after, he should be in the chips in no time.

Finally, Bob Conn has made a job shift, but not very far. He moved over from his desk as national editor of the Charlotte, N.C., Observer after the November elections to become the paper's medical editor. Bob's been with the Observer since 1962 and has won many awards writing on medical subjects. His feature column, "Science on the Move," is nationally distributed by the Knight wire service, and that's thirty for tonight, folks.

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