1958

In 1700 a Boston merchant hired John L. Sands to sell his imported flour. In 1982 Frank E. Sands II, president of Sands, Taylor and Wood Company, is still selling King Arthur Flour. A resident of Norwich, Vt., who entered the family business in 1963 after graduating from Harvard Business School, Frank has seen the 200-year-old flour business both expand and contract since that time. It took the wisdom of five generations to cope with declining flour usage, demand for unbleached flour, acquisitions, divestitures, and other problems. The flour business, certainly old, has experienced every modern business problem. Frank took the family firm up to $45 million in sales, found the pace on that track neither sweet nor acceptable, and brought it back to $5 million. With a controlled pace and wife Brinna running customer relations, Frank is smiling again. Thanks to Katie Bankart, wife of Robert C. Bankart, '37 class secretary, for the Boston Globe article from which this material was gleaned.

A recent issue of the William Mitchel LawReview carried an article by Leon R. Goodrich, who practices law in St. Paul, Minn. The article is on Minnesota statutes on price fixing and sales below cost. Leon is a Harvard Law School graduate who has written a number of articles on complex litigation, the Robinson Patman Act, and related subjects. Leon's firm has its home office in St. Paul and maintains offices in Minneapolis and Brussels.

Boyd H. Parker Jr. was recently promoted to vice president of group underwriting of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford, Conn. The Parkers live in Simsbury, Conn. Boyd had been with Union Mutual Life Insurance Company in Portland, Maine, before joining Phoenix Mutual in 1981.

Tryg Myhren was just elected vice president of Time Inc. This column previously reported his election to chair and chief executive officer of American Television Communications Corporation, a Time subsidiary.

If you haven't already done so, dig out that questionnaire you received from the reunion yearbook staff, fill out the answers, and send it in. Get a picture, presumably of yourself, to go with it. Whether you are coming to reunion or not, this will help dispel rumors that you have died or were committed. If you show up, people who have studied the book will call you by name and you will feel good. The unpaid, talented staff doing this work for our pleasure deserves our cooperation.

Another item relates to reunion but touches on all of us. The Dartmouth Alumni Council, of which Joel Portugal is a most prominent member, has recently been restructured. The Alumni Council will have more elected representatives from the classes and fewer at-large appointments. As a result, the reunion classes, including '5B, will be electing a total of 12 new class representatives to the council. Current council projects include programs to shore up the quality level of areas of the College which have lagged behind the academic program. For example, the quality of residential life and the fraternity situation, with which the College is increasingly becoming involved, are part of the current focus. For those of you attending reunion, you will get to vote on additional class representatives to the council during the class meeting. That should swell attendance!

Josh Hill '56 finished a creditable 16th in the first-ever U.S. Open Crossword Puzzle Championship last summer. He admitted to being surprised at his high finish, describing himself as a sometimepuzzler, "who does the Sunday Times crossword, trying to compete with the real experts, the realpros." More on his achievement is in the 1956 class notes.

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