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While we are still basking in the afterglow of the 25th reunion, Don Smith and his mini-reunion committee have put together a good program for the fall. Specific details will be in the newsletter, but here's a quick rundown on the schedule: October 13 and 14, when Yale comes to Hanover, we have rooms reserved at the Sheraton Conference Center in West Lebanon. There's a class meeting Saturday morning, a cocktail party after the game for all the sons and daughters, and a banquet that night. October 21 in Cambridge there will be a cocktail party and dinner at the Harvard Club in Boston following the game. November 4 Columbia comes to Hanover for house parties. There will be a cocktail party after the game. There will also be one November 18 at Princeton. We sure hope that as many classmates and friends as possible can make these events.
Lots of news about elections, appointments and promotions.
State Mutual Investors named new officers and directors. Fred Fedeli, formerly vice chairman and president of the trust, was named chairman. Fred is also executive vice president of State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America, the trust's advisor. Among those elected directors was Byron Menides. Byron isn't an officer of the trust; he is a special investment assistant of the advisor.
Jack Patten has been appointed vice president of sales for McGraw-Hill Publications Co. He had been vice president, Atlantic Region. Jack has been with them since 1954. He has come up through the sales side all the way.
Colonel Pete Patterson retired this summer after 20 years Army service. His last assignment was deputy commander and chief of professional services for Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star medal with oakleaf cluster, and numerous other awards and dec orations. Pete and Connie are moving to Durham, N.H., where he will assume duties as the director of health services at the University of New Hampshire.
Warren Cole is a director of market development for the Business Systems Markets Division of Eastman Kodak Company. He was elected the president of the National Micrographics Association. Warren has been with Kodak since 1954, much of it with the Recordak Division.
Bill Chafee has assumed the duties of acting executive vice president of Downtown Denver, Inc. He had been deputy executive director of the Regional Transportation District; before that was director of urban design. Bill has been practicing architecture ever since receiving a master's degree from Harvard. His last commission before joining the public sector was as development consultant to the United Nations to assist in the founding of the New University under its aegis in Japan.
Jim Courtney has been named senior vice president, corporate development, of the Hanna Mining Co. here in Cleveland. He will also be responsible for international investments, lands and leases, exploration geology and technical services. Jim has been with Hanna since 1974, after having represented the company as an attorney in private practice for more than 10 years.
President Carter has appointed Fran L'Esperance to the National Health Resources Advisory Committee. The NHRAC was established under President Johnson to advise the Federal Preparedness Agency on emergency medical preparedness. One of FPA's responsibilities is the development of plans to keep the government and economy moving during national emergencies. NHRAC members are representative of major areas of health. Fran is associate professor of clinical opthalmology at Columbia and is also engaged in a very successful private practice.
Andy Sigler has been elected a director of AMF, Inc., the world-wide producer of leisuretime and industrial products. We all know about the leisure-time products, but did you know that practically every cigarette is made on a piece of AMF equipment, and that absolutely every hamburger and hot dog bun is, too? Andy is president and chief executive officer of Champion International Corporation, which is a major forest-products company. ;
The Dartmouth National Bank,: Hanover, has elected Paul Paganucci vice chairman. Dartmouth National is the largest commercial bank in the Upper Valley by a considerable margin. Total assets are over $40 million.
The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Dartmouth College has a tradition of awarding two alumni memberships each June to graduates who have made significant contributions in academic or other intellectual areas. One of this year's recipients was Stu Struever, who was recognized for his dedication, his scholarship, and his archeological accomplishments.
Warren Cassidy has been elected a director of the National Rifle Association. They now have over one million members.
Since PEOPLE magazine was launched in 1974, Dick Thomas has been director of advertising sales. He now has been appointed to the additional post of associate publisher. Dick has been with Time since 1956 except for one year when he became senior vice president in charge of marketing for National Student Marketing Corporation.
Bob Henderson has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, a Boston-based diversified energy company. Bob is president and chief executive officer of ITEK Corporation. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager of Honeywell Information Systems.
The University of North Carolina has named Dave Godschalk chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning. This is the largest department of this type in the South.
Charlie Haws has been appointed assistant general manager of Gourock Industries, Ltd., and general production manager of Can-lift Industries. Both are subsidiaries of Noranda. He deals in cordage and nylon-web slings.
For his sabbatical year, John Green has been awarded a National Research Council senior research associateship at the Johnson Space Center of NASA at Houston. He will be continuing his petrologic and geochemical studies of the billion-year-old lava flows along the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior.
That's it for this month. Let us hear from you.
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