1961

How do you know which computer system you really need for your office or organization? Cartter Frierson probably can help you out.

Cartter's company, which carries his name, was the subject of a major report in the Chattanooga News-Free Press for Sunday, December 14. The report says he began the company "with the idea that it would provide the necessary expertise to companies preparing to embark on incorporating data processing systems within their operations."

In addition to helping companies get their first computers, Cartter's company also helps big firms figure out how to expand their systems.

The story continues, "While heavily engaged with computers and systems, T. Cartter Frierson & Co. approaches its tasks from the perspective of having no particular equipment to sell - retaining a sense of objectivity that Mr. Frierson said is integral to its careful work with clients to help them in charting their activities in today's world of computing." The goal is to help a company's management "make certain the direction taken is really the one that should be followed."

The report continues in that kind of laudatory vein throughout. However - and curiously there are no direct quotes, which is a bit different from the way the same story would be written for my newspaper.

Cartter is, by the way, campaigning for the 1981 Alumni Fund as Key '61 chairman, under head agent Hartley Webster, already turning on the screws with lines like: "When people give as much to Dartmouth as you did in 1980, it is because they care and the gift brings selfsatisfaction - not because of class agent pressure." Nice. I hope it works. Other key people in this year's campaign are Bill Collishaw, fraternity chairman; Mike Hecht, telethon chairman; Bruce Lacoss, regional chairman; and Ron Wybranowski, participation chairman.

George Ramming writes: "Took the family back to Hanover for the Columbia football game and had a ball! The real purpose of the trip was to have George Jr. get a good look at Dartmouth. He is bigger (and thinner, obviously) than I am and a definite possibility for Big Green basketball. Ran into Al Rozycki and we talked about old times . . .

"I just opened the second office of George Ramming and Associates, which is in the headhunting business. Now with Cherry Hill, N.J., and Bronxville, N.Y., locations, I intend to increase my recruiting activity substantially. At least, I hope so!"

I got a chance to talk to Dave Lincoln, who is in the practice of orthopedics in Asheville, N.C. I was in that mountain city covering the successful separation of Siamese twins (Dave was not involved), and Dave said simply that he was "living in the mountains and relaxing." I can't conceive how Dave's Blue Ridge Orthopedic Clinic could possibly be relaxing with the boom in skiing in the North Carolina mountains. But he sure sounds happy, and Asheville is a nice town.

From the Wall Street Journal comes word that Bob Hargraves has joined Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. as a vice president, after serving as president and chief executive officer of D.T.S.S., a Metropolitan Life subsidiary that provides computing services to remote users. (D.T.S.S. stands for Dartmouth Time Sharing System, - which Metropolitan bought in 1978 from the College.) Bob will be responsible for "development of information- service business opportunities." says a release from Metropolitan. Bob also is adjunct associate professor of math at Dartmouth and advisor to Dartmouth's new master's program in computer and information sciences.

John Gillespie '54 writes that Tony Wight has gone to work as a vice president at Needham and Grohmann Inc., a New York City advertising firm. John says Tony's interested in becoming an active alumnus again.

G. H. Denniston Jr., better known as Denny, has been appointed executive vice president of the National Bank of I North America. He's in charge of corporate banking, especially national and specialized industries. He's been with the bank since 1975, after starting out at Chase Manhattan. Denny got his M.B.A. from Tuck four years after graduation.

It's award season again, and we've been collecting some. For the second year in a row, the Observer won the public service award from the North Carolina Press Association for a medical-related series in which I had a hand. Last year, it was for a special report on tobacco and its hazards; this year for a series on brown lung, "A Case of Deadly Neglect." We've just been notified that the brown lung series also has won a Polk award, a national award of some note. I also picked up a spot news award for a medical drama story in which a doctor saved the life of a stabbing victim by putting his finger in a hole in the man's heart until he could sew it up.

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