1958

Labor Day has come and gone, marking the end of another summer and signaling the beginning of the fall term in Hanover. We wish Coach Crouthamel and the team the best of luck in the coming season. Sports Illustrated picked us to challenge Yale for the title. Let's hope it is the other way around.

Once again congratulations are in order to Joel Portugal on leading a most successful class fund drive. Our record of giving is an outstanding one in which we should all be proud and Joel's leadership has been the impetus to another record-breaking Alumni Fund performance.

Here's news from around the country:

Chet McGuire has been sworn in as assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was nominated by President Carter on March 25 and confirmed by the Senate on April 20.

Chet is responsible for administering the Federal fair housing law, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (as amended). He also administers programs in four other major areas of responsibility: equal opportunity in HUD-assisted programs; minority employment opportunity under HUD direct and assisted contracts; training employment and business opportunities for residents of HUD project areas; and affirmative action in HUD employment.

Prior to his appointment, Chet was assistant professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and vice president and secretary, Berkeley Planning Associated.

Chet, his wife, and three children live in Berkeley, Calif. For most of the past 13 years, Chet has been directly involved in housing and has had experience in construction and home building, consulting for large housing projects, community planning, civil rights, and fair housing. He has also lectured and been an assistant professor at Berkeley. Chet has an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Vernon T. Hyman has joined G. P. Putnam's Sons as a senior editor. He was previously a Senior editor at Doubleday and, prior to that, a Senior editor at Atheneum. He has also been an associate editor for Life and The SaturdayEvening Post.

Dick Portland has been with Eastman Kodak Co. since 1959 and recently has been promoted and moved by the company to Mexico.

Professor John Voll recently spoke on current developments in the Middle East at a New Hampshire Council on World Affairs meeting in June in the New England Center in Durham. John is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in the Middle East, and received his doctorate from Harvard in Middle East history. He has traveled in the Middle East and North Africa and has lived in Beirut, Cairo, and Khartoum.

I received a nice note from Pete Hawes who writes that he recently joined the San Francisco insurance brokerage firm of Dinner Levison Company. The firm had its beginnings in San Francisco in 1915 and is one of the largest independent insurance firms in the West. Prior thereto, Pete was with Alexander and Alexander where his last position was managing vice president in charge of the Los Angeles office. Pete, his wife Ginny, and kids are moving to Woodside, Calif., and are anxious to see any visiting '58s in the Bay Area.

John Hanson '59, new dean of students.

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