1943

Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, successful skipper in defense of the America's Cup some years ago and a one-time chief of protocol in the State Department, has a couple of new feathers in his headpiece of attainments. Bus has been elected chairman of the board of overseers of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and he's also been named commodore of the New York Yacht Club, which, until this year, was the repository of the America's Cup.

George and Josephine Mason write from San Jose, Costa Rica, extolling the benefits of life in that Central American nation the one with no revolution. George and Jo moved there about 15 months ago from Keene, N.H. Food is inexpensive and climate and scenery superb, and Costa Rica has a body of laws designed to lure investors and retired persons (pensionados, they're called) to live there. George and Jo, and daughter Rebecca, issued a blanket invitation to '43s to visit them during a vacation or business trip.

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, John Sant has been named chairman of the board of the Universal-Rundle Corporation of New Castle, Pa., which makes bathtubs. The position is in addition to John's post as chief executive officer. John is planning to retire in June.

Speaking of retirement, Seth Washburn retired effective March 1 as a vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories. He and Janet are planning to sell their home in Peapack, N.J., and move to West Bath, Maine, after northern New England's mud season has passed, which probably means May. They bought a house on the coast about a year ago.

And Fred Stockwell Has advanced his retirement plans. He now plans to leave his post as president of the Massachusetts Business Development Corporation on June 30. He and Marj plan to move into their new house in Grantham, N.H., across the highway from Eastman, after they sell their house in Winchester, Mass., where they've lived for 34 years. Fred and Marj already have sold their condominium in Florida. The magazine House Beautiful is doing a feature story on the Stockwells' passive solar Grantham home.

For the past eight years, George Graham has been a track and field judge for both indoor and outdoor events in Hanover, where George and Nora live. His specialty is measuring shot-put and 35-pound weight throws, and javelin, discus, and hammer heaves in the summer. George says he had no previous experience at track and field judging, but now he's a certified judge "with so many badges I look like a South American general," he says. George also reports that Don Taylor, who lives at Eastman, is another track and field judge, which we hadn't known before.

Dartmouth trustee Bob Field, who is supposed to be retired in Hanover, is traveling weekly to Johnstown, N.Y., to apply his considerable management skills to a glove manufacturing company that was having some organizational difficulties. Bob has been on the company's, board of directors and snapped up an invitation to run the firm until the difficulties were resolved. His wife Pauline reports that Bob is relishing the experience.

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