1962
Charles D. Gelman has been named an executive vice president of Golin Communications. He will acquire a minority equity interest in the Chicago-based, 22-year-old public relations firm. Chuck joined Golin in 1976 as vice president - management supervisor on the national McDonald's account. Golin has been handling the public relations for McDonald's for 21 years and was their first and only PR firm. In 1977, Chuck was named senior vice president of Golin. He tells us that Ray Crock, founder and chairman of the board of McDonald's, received an honorary degree from Dartmouth. Prior to joining Golin, Chuck was a vice president at J. Walter Thompson Company, in both their Chicago and New York offices. He has been in advertising, marketing, and PR work all the way along in his career, and has been doing some short-story writing on the side for the past 20 years. Telling the story against himself, he added that he still remains unpublished in the short story field. Chuck and his wife Gay live in Chicago and enjoy tennis for relaxation.
Chuck mentioned that Dick Weiss also lives in Chicago and is married with two daughters. Kelly, his eldest, is already thinking of applying to Dartmouth. Robin, the youngest, has a way to go yet. The family lives in Highland Park. Dick may be basking in some reflected glory as being one of the AD's, the fraternity house featured in the recent movie, National Lampoon's Animal House.
Another '62 alumni who Chuck has met recently in the Chicago area is Paul Snow. They met at the wedding of a mutual friend. Paul is married, but due to the lateness of the hour and the festivities proceeding at the time, Chuck confesses he did not remember too much else. So, Paul, how about sending in something as to what's been happening with you for a future column?
Robert B. Needham has been elected vice president of Arlington Trust Company and joins the bank's trust department where he will serve as investment officer. He came to Arlington Trust from Industrial National Bank in Providence, R.I., where he served as investment management officer. Prior to entering banking, Bob served as a stock broker for the Boston firm of Burbank & Co. Inc. After graduating from Dartmouth, he received his master's degree in business administration from the Amos Tuck School in 1964.
Further promotion to report for KentGraham. In our May 1978 issue we mentioned he had been named district manager of Crocker Bank's 51 offices in San Diego and Orange Counties. Kent has now been appointed a division senior vice president of Crocker Bank and has settled in San Diego with his wife Beverly and their three children.
William E. Stern has been appointed as director of revenue planning of GTE Service Corporation, a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electronics Corporation. Bill previously served as director of revenues and earnings of General Telephone Company of Michigan, a GTE telephone operating subsidiary. He began his career with GTE in 1966, joining the financial training program of GTE Sylvania Incorporated, a manufacturing subsidiary. He later served as a budget coordinator, then financial administrator in 1970, and in 1972 as a revenue requirements administrator. Bill, his -wife, and one child are relocating in Westport. After graduating from Dartmouth, he received an M.B.A. degree in finance from Columbia University and served two years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Korea, attaining the rank of captain.
It's a small world! A few days ago I was walking by my brother's office when I heard him instruct his secretary to get Mr. Dennis Crumbine on the phone. I said to myself there can only be one Dennis Crumbine, and sure enough, it was him. He has now become the vice president in charge of finance and operations for Perrier Company. When Dennis came on the phone I had a short conversation with him. He informed me that he had started with Perrier approximately six months ago when he left Pepsi-Cola, his previous employer. Apparently this is a great new opportunity since, from all reports, Perrier is expanding rapidly. Dennis also advises that he and his wife Maureen are still living in Greenwich, Conn., and are the very proud parents of Jeffrey, who is now nine months old.
Just received our annual Christmas letter from Anne and Sandy Apgar. The reason for the delay of this annual missive, looked forward to by so many of us, arriving as it did a month late, is that on January 8, 1979, Frederick Clayton Demarest Apgar was born at University College Hospital, London. Our congratulations to Anne and Sandy. As usual, they spent much of last year traveling to such diverse points as Budapest, Capri, Liechtenstein, and also New Orleans when they found time to revisit the U.S. It is also now official that they will be returning to the States. Sandy will be moving to McKinsey's Washington office this spring. So we shall all look forward to the possibility of seeing Anne and Sandy more often in the future.
2100 Jefferson St. San Francisco, Calif. 94123
