1949

In deference to our shortest month (it's still February as I write), these notes, too, will be mercifully brief. Your almost total silence indicates that, in keeping with your status in life, most of you have retreated from the rigors of winter '79 to places unvisited by our postal servants. Please write when you return.

My employer and provider treated some of us to a week in Palm Springs early in the month. We departed in — 16 weather and returned to same. Wives stayed home to stoke the fires and remonstrate over the absence of corporate sensitivity.

Our class interior designer and Boston businessman, Martin Elinoff, has been elected 1979 national treasurer of the American Society for Interior Designers. He is president of Martin Elinoff Associates in Newton Upper Falls and lives in Weston. Following graduation, Martin worked for J.M. Lord Co. and Victor Henry Associates before starting his own firm in 1964.

By the time you read this the subject of this month's profile will have been in direct communication with each of you. Gordon "Punchy"Thomas, our head agent for the next five years, has already served the class as president, secretary, 20th reunion chairman, 25th reunion treasurer, class agent, member of the executive committee, and fall reunion chairman for many years.

Following Dartmouth, Punchy obtained a law degree from Columbia University in 1953, and spent the next two years with the law firm of Sage, Gray, Todd & Sims, and four more years with the Travelers Insurance Co. Since 1958 he has been vice president and general counsel for I.T.T. Continental Baking Co. in Rye, N.Y. This involves overseeing all legal cases, with primary involvement in government and private anti-trust litigation. He is a director of two companies headquartered in Mexico City and Jamaica.

Gordon and Doris live in Lewisboro, N.Y. (just over the line from New Canaan, Conn.) with children Krista, 14, and Alex, 12. Doris stays busy with tennis, FISH, and the Republican Town Committee, while Krista (5'11") dominates the junior high volleyball and basketball circuit, and Alix wins equestrian jumping championships.

In his spare time Punchy is district chairman of the American Bar Association and a past vice president of WESFACCA, a local association of corporate counsels. He is an adjunct professor at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., where he and others introduced a course in communicating "what corporate business is all about" to members of the academic world. The course has been franchised on a countrywide basis . . . just some of the reasons Punchy has been honored with the class Gold Pickaxe Award

2 Cornfield Rd. Simsbury, Conn. 06070