1960

News of several appointments arrived during the summer. Jack Hodgson was appointed to the board of overseers of the Hanover Inn last May for a three-year term. Jack has considerable experience in hotel management, having worked for several years with Western Hotels International. He now heads his own firm in Seattle and consults on the management and development of hotel and recreational facilities.

Joseph Mandel recently became the senior vice president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a voluntary organization of 15,000 attorneys, the largest such organization in the nation. Joe has served as a trustee of the association for the past four years, and has chaired numerous committees. He has been a representative to the Conference of Delegates for the past ten years, serving as chairman last year. He practices law with a private firm and is currently president of the Legal Aid Foundation of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Kevin O'Sullivan was designated a certified association executive of the American Society of Association Executives. He was one of 90 association executives receiving this honor at the association's convention in Boston last August. He qualified for certification by successfully passing an extensive examination covering many association management subjects and by fulfulling prescribed standards of performance and conduct including three years experience as the chief executive of an association. Kevin is executive director of the American Society for Training and Development and lives in Madison, Wise.

Recently promoted Lieutenant Colonel Loren Jacobson is now serving as a science and technology affairs manager with an Air Force systems command unit at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. He was previously assigned to the Pentagon in Washington. Loren was commissioned through the ROTC program at Dartmouth and earned a Ph.D. degree in 1968 from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jim Leavitt was promoted to lieutenant colonel last February. His silver leaves were pinned on by his wife Phyllis and by General Baldwin, British Army of the Rhine. Jim is a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and liaison officer to the British Army of the Rhine at Rheindahlen Garrison, a British post near the Netherlands border. The Leavitt's oldest son Steven is a 21-year-old junior at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. Paula, 14, and Sheldon, 16, attend the AFCENT International School in Brunssum, Netherlands, while James, eight, is enrolled in a British school on the post.

Joseph Tausta, chairman of the science department at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vt., received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst last May. In addition to his thesis, "Exploratory Photochemistry of Selected Bichromophonic Molecules," Joe has co-authored several articles in various scientific journals. He holds an M.S. in chemistry from Xavier University in Cincinnati and a C.A.S. in earth science from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Two Nantucket Summer Weekend Seminars were taught by Anthony Thompson. He conducted a print-making workshop last July and a seminar in advanced painting, drawing, and sculpture last August. He has been involved for many years in visual arts activities in Nantucket and during the winters has taught at Pine Manor College and Cornell University and has been a visiting artist, critic, and lecturer at many colleges, professional schools and art organizations. Anthony has a B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and a master's degree from Cornell. He has exhibited widely and is represented by the Neilsen Gallery in Boston. Articles about his work have appeared in Art Forum and Nightfall magazines and in the Boston Phoenix.

Charles Darrow has been elected treasurer of Literacy Volunteers of America Inc., a nonprofit organization that trains volunteers to teach reading to functionally illiterate adults and to teach spoken English to foreigners. More than 8,000 volunteers work with over 10,000 students through 105 programs in the United States and Canada. Charlie is a vice president of Onondaga Savings Bank in Skaneateles, N.Y., and has been active for many years with Literacy Volunteers of greater Syracuse.

Dr. H. Nicholas Muller, president of Colby-Sawyer College, spoke at the 50th Anniversary Calvin Coolidge Convocation in September in Woodstock, Vt., about President Coolidge's concept of the "indomitable Vermonter." He also discussed changes in Vermont and its people over the last fifty years and whether Vermont's tradition can survive in a changing world.

Dr. Ray Dilworth has moved from Massachusetts to Tacoma, Wash., where he will lead a group of physicians specializing in family medicine and teach at the University of Washington.

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