1962

The American Bar Association in Chicago recently announced that Bruce Ennis, a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff, and Ewing, has been reappointed chairman of the American Bar Association Commission on the Mentally Disabled. Bruce was named to the post by incoming ABA president John C. Shepherd of St. Louis, and will serve a one-year term. With 300,000 members, the ABA is the largest voluntary professional organization in the world. Bruce has led the ABA Commission since 1982, working to develop policy proposals on the legal rights of persons with mental disabilities. Bruce was national legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union from 1977 until 1982. From 1968 to 1977, he was a staff attorney with the ACLU in New York. He previously had spent two years as an associate with the New York law firm of Chadbourne, Park, Whiteside, and Wolff. He was licensed to practice law in New York in 1967 and in the District of Columbia in 1982. Bruce chaired an ABA subcommittee on the mentally disabled, a forerunner to the Commission, in He also is active in other legal service and professional organizations/serving as a member of the boards, of directors of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights since 1980 and of the Legal Aid Society of New York from 1977 to 1982. He is a member of the D.C. Bar Association and of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

I have recently sold my homes in Milton, Mass., and Cape Cod and moved to Concord, Mass., to be closer to my new job at Computervision. Copying IBM, the company has recently initiated a national accounts marketing strategy to augment the regional sales force. I have accepted the newly-created position of senior account executive for United Technologies Corporation, based in East Hartford, Conn. After having spent the past ten years in the application software business, this is my first venture into the dynamic CAD/CAM industry (computer-aided design/ computer-aided manufacture). I am based out of the Customer Education Center in Bedford, Mass., and invite any classmates to visit the spectacular facility and inspect firsthand the latest products in high technology.

Congratulations to Fernando de Necochea, who was recently elected chairman of the board of directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). Entering its 15th year, MALDEF's six offices nationwide continue to use the familiar tools of litigation, research, and community education to protect Hispanic rights. The organization is also developing new and alternative strategies to win equality for Hispanics and to eliminate the obstacles that prevent Hispanics from having an equal opportunity in economic, political, and educational areas.

Congratulations also to Charles Bonnes, who has been appointed vice president and general counsel of the BOC Group, Inc. He will be responsible for the corporation's law and patent departments. Charles joined the BOC Group (formerly Airco, Inc.) in 1977, and most recently served as secretary and associate general counsel. The principal U.S. businesses of the BOC Group trade under the names of Airco, Ohio Medical, and Temescal. The company is a member of a British-based corporation with worldwide sales of $2.5 billion. The Group is either a world leader or one of the world's major producers of industrial gases and health care, carbon-based, and welding products. The Group's other businesses include' vacuum engineering, carbideacetylene products, and educational and food services.

I have recently heard from Frank and Beth Hight, who were married this past April, that Frank has had a second bout with heart problems and will spend several months resting in the Bahamas. I am sure that Frank could use some company to go sailing with. Their address through Christmas will be Frank S. Hight III, Spanish Wells Beach Resort, Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Riding is a favorite pastime of Bill Adelaar '63, left, with his father Maurice Adelaar, right, chairman and cofounder of Adelaar Brothers, a New York clothing manufacturer, where Bill supervises production as vice president and treasurer.

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