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Belatedly, here is a report that Bill Augello was honored by the 8,000 member Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Fraternity, Inc. as its Transportation Man of the Year during its meeting last October. Bill was honored by his peers for his leadership in developing an arbitration system for freight claims and an accreditation program for freight claim professionals. He has been critical of the manner by which the Carter administration engineered the deregulation of the airline, trucking, and railroad industries at the expense of the shipping public because of skyrocketing fares and cargo costs and the high fatality rate of commuter lines serving markets abandoned by major airlines.
Bill has practiced transportation law as the senior member of the firm of Augello, Pezold and Hirschmann for some 30 years in New York, Northport, and Huntington, N.Y. Incidentally, his new book, Freight Claims inPlain English, is being acclaimed as the new authority on freight claims in a field where there is sparse legal and technical literature on career liability law and claims management
Reg and Nancy Pierce report the surprise return visit of old barbell specialist and roommate Dr. Ed Attix, who had come back to Hanover for the first time in 30 years. Ed is a successful orthopedic surgeon in Hattiesburg, Miss.
Stephen Hoye recently became the full-time surgeon-in-chief at the Memorial Hospital in pawtucket, R.I. Son Andy is at Dartmouth in the class of 1983 and daughter Elizabeth is a freshman at Brown.
Ruth and I had a delightful visit with Dr. Jack and Sally Carter at their second home in Eastman, N.H., located a brief 20 minutes from Hanover. Jack has a very busy practice in general surgery at the Albany Hospital. He also enjoys interviewing applicants for the Albany Medical School. Jack told about his visit with Dr. Nick Vorys in Ohio. He says that in addition to being a nationally recognized authority on fertility, Nick now is doing important work establishing the Independent Practice Association, a group of medical practitioners who set up their own self-funding health plans as an alternative to conventional insurance plans. One stated purpose of such a plan is that physician participants work to keep their patients out of hospitals.
The Honolulu Star Bulletin recently ran a great feature about Dave Chalmers and his phenomenal success story. He has had more than 30 years of experience in all phases of the oil business, including long stints as a vice president of Tenneco and Occidental Petroleum and later as president of Jefferson Lake Petrochemicals of Canada, Ltd., a subsidiary of Occidental. Dave broke out on his own in 1973 with $1000 and a "good reputation" and started Coral Petroleum, which he has built into a fully integrated oil company with $4 billion in revenues and $500 million in assets. He remains "sole owner of Coral as it now expands in Hawaii with the recent acquisition of six million shares of Hawaii-based Pacific Resources, Inc., and a merger of a Coral subsidiary with United Refining, Co., an independent refiner and marketer in Hawaii. Through a subsidiary company, Coral Industries, Dave also has endowed an $800,000 chair for the study of renewable energy resources at the University of Hawaii. He is building a home in the Diamond Head region of Honolulu and expects to spend about one third of his time in Hawaii. What a story! Congratulations, Dave, on your modern Horatio Alger-like achievements.
Jim Lynch recently won the James R. Reynolds Award as the outstanding head agent for classes 26 to 40 years out of college as a result of his super efforts for the 1980 Alumni Fund. Jim and Dave Weld both received the Roger Wilde 1921 Reunion Award for extraordinary achievement in setting a new reunion record of $280,457, a recognition to be shared by all those who helped make the landmark possible.
John Koslowski, president of the class of 1943, has sent word of the loss of one of Dartmouth's great guys, Bud Zetterberg '44, who suffered a massive heart attack while playing tennis in Winchester, Mass., with his hero and buddy Bill Riley. Despite instant help from Bill and other qualified associates playing on the next court, he could not be saved. Bud was about to retire to Cape Cod from a successful business career in Winchester and will be missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
One of the special Hanover facilities is the Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), which is a center for studies of arctic conditions, permafrost, snow, and ice. Experiments are conducted in town and on Mt. Washington. You may enjoy the February 1981 feature article in Smithsonian magazine that tells about the unique operation, it is not surprising they like their Hanover location. At my abode in Etna on Christmas day we had -30° temperatures and 50 m.p.h. winds. Remember? Please keep in touch. Best regards.
Hayes Hill Etna, N.H. 03750
