1961

Tell it to the judge Judge Read Ambler, that is. Governor Jerry Brown recently named him to the Santa Clara County Superior Court, filling a position newly-created by the California legislature. Read had been an attorney in private practice in Palo Alto. According to a clipping from the Los Angeles Daily Journal of February 15, the appointment was one of five superior court judgeships filled that day by Brown. It's a second-level court, ranking higher than the municipal courts, so you Californians can expect to read about Read trying the most serious crimes. (And I'll try to keep a watch on the wires in case he snares one of those particularly heinous crimes for which the state seems to be famous.)

And Peter McCrea has been elected president of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which I suspect is as much of a hot seat there as utilities are anywhere. It's a sidelight job, and Pete continues as supply and distribution manager of the Chevron Chemical Company's fertilizer division. He's been a member of the commission for three years.

Hartley Webster has received some welldeserved recognition from the College for his leadership in last (and this) year's Alumni Fund. He received the Raymond J. Rasenberger Award as one of the outstanding head agents.

Rick Husband has become assistant vice president for Correspondent Bank Operations for Essexbank of Peabody. Bruce Donaldson is manager for technical sales for Chemineer Agitators in Dayton; he has a wife and three boys. Maynard Wheeler is director of pediatric ophthalmology at Newington Children's Hospital near Hartford. Art Provisor is in pediatric hematology-oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. David Clark is marketing director of the Quebec State Lottery. Robert Garrity is treasurer, Gulf Oil Company, Eastern Hemisphere, based in London. Steve Roeder is chairing the Chemistry Department at San Diego State. And Jerry Greenfield says he's glowing in the dark; he's with Westinghouse-Hanford, which does nuclear power research

I was walking across the Duke University campus the other day, talking with several members of the public relations staff, and only casually looking at the people we passed Suddenly, the light went on in my middle-aged and somewhat addled brain: "I know that guy." My companions quickly identified him as Duke faculty member Jim Gifford, and off I ran after him. He's doing well and enjoying himself at Duke. And the same alarm bell of recognition had gone off in his head.

Moral of the story: Look where you walk And don't assume you can go anywhere without running into a classmate. And when you do, let me know about it for these notes. Or tell newsletter editors Bert Rowley or Bob "Otter"Anderson.

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