1938

Let's begin this month's notes with comments about and by Sox Calder, c.e.o. (as in chief executive officer, for the benefit of the country yokels among us) of Union Camp Corporation, a bellwether of the paper industry. The comments about Sox are from an article in the Wall Street Transcript, and Sox's quotes are also from a long feature in that prestigious business publication. The Transcript selected Sox as the outstanding c.e.o. "because he has demonstrated the ability to position his company for aboveaverage growth by modernizing its facilities, correctly anticipating industry trends, and building a superior management team."

The article is sprinkled with quotes by industry analysts like the following: "Calder made the right decisions and stayed in profitable areas. He stayed out of areas with problems"..."Calder has shown a very sound approach. Union Camp pretty much sticks to its business, and it has put together an outstanding record"...The company "was the first to go into plantation in the South in a big way. It will reap the benefits of this five to ten years before anybody else will."

Queried regarding his overall business philosophy, Sox noted that he started out early in his career (with Union Camp) in the personnel department, "and I've been fascinated with the importance of not only getting good people in the first place, but finding ways to keep their interest and have them grow. I think that is a primary responsibility of a c.e.o. You are responsible for the organization having good people." For the long haul, Sox predicts that the entire paper industry "is going to continue to grow."

Squee Ellis is another of our amazing classmates highly successful in business, but in is instance it's his daughter's achievements rather than Squee's that deserve mention here, n the women's hockey section of the March "Big Green Sports News," the following is reported: ''Coach Mark Panella relied heavily upon junior co-captain Janice Ellis in the nets. Ellis recorded a shut-out against Yale in the opening round of the women's Ivy League hockey championships held at Princeton."

The grasping hand of the IRS is much on a person's (this person's) mind as these notes are being promulgated. It won't do any good for your 1979 returns, but if any of you are thinking about a worthy itemized deduction for 1980, the Dartmouth Educational Association in Boston is worth your consideration. As noted in the opening paragraph of the brochure sent each year to association members, "the DEA is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts ... for the purpose of assisting needy students pursuing courses of study at Dartmouth College." The association's annual dues are $10, and, according to the most recent tabulation, 47 of our classmates are members. Further information will gladly be provided by the association's treasurer, Wilbur W. Bullen '22, 38 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

I was glad to receive a card from RogerBaker kindly thanking me for getting a letter from a Dartmouth friend in the class of '37 to him. The difficulty was that Roger had moved, and his address in the current (1976) alumni directory had become obsolete. In this connection, it would be good for all of us to make a mental note to advise the Alumni Records Office in Hanover when we have a change of address, since new directories are printed only every five years. Even at that, there is the very infrequent error and omission. Grover H. (Bud)Fox is unaccountably missing from the 1976 edition, although his name appears in the 1971 model and we all know Bud was in Hanover from 1934 to 1938. But errare humanum est, as was noted a couple of months ago, and Nancy Elliott and her ARO staff have a fantastically high batting average.

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