1963

A packet of dispatches has arrived from my predecessor, Kevin Lowther, including a number of items that were too late, or that he didn't have room for, last spring. ("All the news that fits, we print," is the motto of the class secretaries corps.) I suppose in most instances it should be assumed that the person in question has ascended to the next higher rung on the ladder by now.

Kevin, by the way, with wife Pat and family, is back at his editorial duties at the Keene (N.H.) Sentinel after his much enjoyed fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is also shuttling back and forth to Washington as he completes work on a book about the Peace Corps, for which agency he once "ran," as they say in at least some parts of government service, a large portion of Africa. Kevin and I will be meeting for a formal passing on of the torch at the Cornell game, and there we will, in the manner of journalists everywhere, interview one another and thus grow great in wisdom.

Ted Cutler, according to a newspaper dispatch, has been named vice president of the consumer and business media group of Memorex Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. Ted had been general manager of the audio division. His new responsibilities include the overall operations of the television and word-processing divisions, as well as the audio division. Memorex is a major maker of magnetic tape.

Dan Redfield addressed the Waterbury chapter of the National Association of Accountants last May on "financial planning and forecast budgeting." The occasion was an "author's night" at which members of the group who had submitted articles to the association's magazine, Management Accounting, were honored. Dan is a manager on the management consulting services staff of Ernst and Ernst in Hartford.

The May 1977 issue of Mainliner, the United Airlines inflight magazine, used Tom Holzel as an example of the quintessential business executive on the move, for an article titled "The Power of Positive Moving." The story told how Tom, after getting comfortably settled in New York for three months as regional sales manager for Advent Corp. (a maker of largescreen television equipment), was summarily called to the company's home office in Cambridge, Mass., to become national sales director. "Frankly," Holzel told the writer, "I was panic-stricken." The move meant leaving the eight-room, two-fireplace apartment on the Upper West Side, "a stone's throw from Lincoln Center," that the Holzels had lucked into, and meant problems as well for Diane Holzel, who was working as an advertising account executive in New York. The article goes on to imply that Holzel brought all these troubles on himself by being the kind of manager who says, "Give me your mess and I'll straighten it out." Holzel himself comments finally, "The most important thing to me, I've found, is that if I m happy in my work and getting along with my wife, I really don't care where I live." (Thanks, by the way, to Ted Bracken '65, for passing the article along.)

A much appreciated letter also arrived from Jeff Lapic in San Francisco reporting on comings and goings of classmates there. ChrisMiller, Jeff reports, stopped by in between appearances at college campuses. Chris and some associates have sold Universal Pictures a screenplay based on their college experiences in the early 1960s, a sort of "Hanover Graffiti," I gather, from which some member of the Class may emerge as the new Fonz. Another of his visitors was John Rittershofer, who was on his way to a special program at the University of Hawaii. "Sponker" is pursuing advanced degrees in linguistics at Columbia University and teaching. Jeff also reports that Al Mayer is now living in the San Francisco area and working in the construction business, and that ArnieLow is in charge of the computers at I. Magnin, the San Francisco-based chain of posh department stores. Jeff himself is a senior counsel in Bank of America's legal department, and teaches law "on the side" at Armstrong College.

Tim Kraft, our man at the White House, is much in the news as the issue of President Carter's "accessibility" becomes the subject of journalistic debate. Kraft, after all, as appointments secretary, is in charge of accessibility. In a recent visit to Hanover, Tim said that the White House system guaranteed a degree of accessibility unusual in recent administrations. mand, we have a 'spokes-in-a-wheel' approach in which Carter is the hub and eight to ten people have constant access to him," he said. Asked about his own influence on policy, Kraft joked, "I advised against the staff cut and for the payraise."

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