1953

Has it always been winter or is this just the longest one on record? It sure seems that way.

Fred England and his 25th reunion committee are hard at work in the organizational stages. Don Goss and Pete Grenquist are planning the reunion yearbook. If you haven't already done so, please send a passport-size picture of yourself to Don at McCaffrey and McCall, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. It should be black and white.

And activities are being planned for the fall. There will be a big party in Boston October 15 after the Harvard game. We are also planning a major weekend November 5 in Hanover when Brown comes to play. Rooms are reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Norwich Inn. Please state that you are a member of the Class.

The Class of 1981 is in the formation stage. Already set on the basis of early acceptance are Mark Smoller's daughter Robin (their second), Wayne Komara's son Mike, Bernie Sudikoff's daughter Suzanne (their third), and Don Goss's son Jon.

Dave Folger left Middlebury College 18 months ago to come to the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Mass. It was a very difficult decision as Middlebury had offered him tenure. Dave is leading an environmental studies team that is assessing potential hazards of oil exploration. It's very interesting work that entails a fair amount of travel including meetings, papers, lectures, and some sea time. This spring Dave will be teaching at Dartmouth in the geology department. In his spare time, there is much sailing, some tennis, and a lot of swimming. Last summer Dave swam from Martha's Vineyard to Woods Hole, which is about four miles. Dave and Joan have three children Susan, a freshman at Mount Holyoke, Peter, a high school junior, and John, eighth grade.

Fred Gieg has been appointed president, United States Steel products division. They produce steel shipping containers in the form of drums and pails, material handling containers, and plastic pails for the oil, chemical, paint and food industries. The division has eight plants around the country. Fred has been with U.S. Steel since graduation. He served in various sales capacities in the Chicago, Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo district offices. He was appointed manager of the Buffalo sales district in 1969. Since then he has come up to the commercial division as general manager of bar, semi-finished and railroad products, and then finally all hot rolled products.

Bobby Douglass was appointed executive vice president and general counsel of Chase Manhattan Corporation, the holding company for the country's third largest bank. The bank is nominally controlled by the Rockefeller family. Bobby has been close to them as he served as personal secretary to Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller during a year of his tenure as governor of New York. The bank has been having its share of problems and receives ongoing provocation from the financial press, so the appointment received a great deal of analysis. Of all the comments, the correct one said, "He got the job because he's just a damn good lawyer."

Larry Harrison has been director of the Agency for International Development's Guatemala City regional office for Central America programs for about a year. The staff of 30 manages a loan portfolio of $150 million, and annual technical assistance programs of about $2 million. Larry has been with the U.S. foreign economic assistance program for 15 years, serving overseas in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. He also occasionally writes for the Washington Post. Larry was recently interviewed in Washington on a public affairs program called "Overseas Mission," and he spoke at great length about the great progress of the Central American Common Market, which started in 1960 with a few tens of millions of dollars of trade among the five countries and is now in the vicinity of $600 million annually. There are new major opportunities in agriculture, he observed. His office is currently negotiating with the Central American Bank for a $15 million loan to help the region expand or create agricultural processing industries to handle the raw materials which are grown by small farmers. Most small farmers in Central America grow grains, and grains do not yield high incomes. However, if they can grow broccoli or Chinese pea pods and find a secure market in terms of a processing plant that freezes them, the possibilities of increasing their incomes are very substantial.

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