1952

Hi. My name is Martha Biakemore Chapman. I'm class of '77 and my father usually writes this column. But all of us in the family, including Chip 'BO, decided we ought to take over this month so that all the news about the class of '52 gets told.

You see, my dad had some news this month that we knew he'd never mention unless we made him. So he offered to let me take over, and I did.

Dad just took a job as executive vice president and director of creative services, worldwide, of Benton and Bowles, a very large advertising agency. He had been a senior vice president and had chaired the creative review committee of Leo Burnett, another very large advertising agency. But Burnett is in Chicago, and both he and Miki are very happy and excited about moving back to New York, where they can visit all of us, and go to all the Dartmouth football games, and generally spend more time in Hanover. He pooh-poohs the idea when we call him creative director of the world, but he's quite proud of his new job and so are we.

Of course that's not all the news this month, but I did want to get that out of the way, which I have, and now we can get on.

Another new executive vice president from '52 is Robert J. Callander. Mr. Callander is executive vice president and head of Chemical Bank's international division. Mr. Callander had been the division's deputy head since early 1978 and before that he was senior vice president in the corporate division and then in the division which he now heads. In addition to his Phi Beta and magna cum laude degrees from Dartmouth, Mr. Callander holds graduate degrees from Yale's Divinity School, the Dartmouth School of Credit and Finance, and the program for management development at the Harvard Business School. And Dad says he's a good guy in spite of all this!

Can '52 take three executive vice presidencies in one column? Well, I guess Dad's friend Bill Kay was already an executive vice president with Sun Company, but now he's been appointed to a new office Sun has invented - office of the chief executive. Mr. Kay will be sharing with the chief executive officer and two other executive vice presidents the responsibility for the overall strategy and performance of the corporation.

Gosh, writing all this makes me wonder if '77 will ever have a record like '52, but then when I consider that we're one-fourth women I know we can't miss!

The class of '52 is also doing okay in tion. At the University of Illinois, FrederickNeuman has been named to the newly,established chair of Price Waterhouse auditing professor. Mr. Neuman is a well-known authority on computer auditing and already a member of the accounting faculty at Illinois.

Another friend of Dad's from '52 is doing really well with Ford Motor Company in Detroit. Last November, Philip E. Benton Jr. was made vice president of the corporation and general manager of the Ford Division. I don't know a lot about big business yet, only just getting started myself, but that seems to me to be one of the biggest jobs in the whole car business. Wouldn't you say? Mr. Benton has an M.B.A. from Tuck and started on the finance staff at Ford in 1953. He's been general manager of Ford's industrial and chemical products division, general manager of Ford's customer service division, executive director of Ford's North American marketing operations, and general manager of Ford's parts and service division before he got his new job. I guess what we say is "Hooray!" or something, since we can't say "Wah-Hoo-you-know-what" anymore.

It always seemed to us that Dad had friends from '52 all over, and now that he has given me this job this month, I can tell you it's true. He got one letter from a fellow in Hawaii this month. Paul Loo wrote and sent a picture of himself with George Sverdrup, another '52, who lives in Oslo, Norway, and was visiting Mr. Loo in Honolulu. The picture is printed to the right.

Dad's class is interesting, I must say. Dr. Harry Goldsmith has developed a fascinating theory that President Roosevelt (whom my Grandpa used to curse a lot) had cancer long before he died in 1945 and that maybe that's what he died of. Dr. Goldsmith developed his theory from a lecture he heard at the SloanKettering Institute and from studying a series of pictures of the President taken over a number of years. Anyway, it got some good coverage in the New York Times.

Dad also got a picture of his friend AlanReich shaking hands with President Carter (whom my Dad curses a lot) in the White House. Mr. Reich is president of the U.S. Council for the International Year of Disabled Persons, and, since 1981 is that year, they got together in Washington to plan the programs.

Last, Dad wants me to tell you that next year, 1981, is the year to celebrate 52's 30th reunion - a year early. And that Howie Smith has been stuck with the job of chairing the reunion. And I say it's a shame you can't wait another year and have your 30th with our fifth.

Whew! This is some job and the last time I'll talk Dad into letting me do it. But anyway, I'm glad I got to tell you the news. Dad will be back next month.

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