1969

I have received five press releases about classmates this month and an honest-to-gosh letter from one of you! It is the first letter that I have received and I stay awake at night wondering if it will be the last. You guys make it tough to write this column!

Chee W. Chow was the winner of the 1983 American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award. Chee is an associate professor of accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is the second year in a row that Chee has won this award. One more and they will have to retire it!

Jim Grant has been appointed assistant director in the individual financial division, employees and financial services group, CIGNA Corporation.

Gene Grayson has been appointed director in the life, health, and financial services department at the Travelers Corporation, where he has served as associate director since 1982. Gene is married, has a son Jeremy, and resides in Wethersfield, Conn.

Tom Kenney has been named vice president and group publisher of the women's magazine group and publisher of Woman'sDay magazine. Tom has been with CBS Publications (the parent company) since January of 1983. Prior to joining CBS, Tom held various, senior management positions at Charter Publishing Company, including publisher of Redbook and president of Ladies' Home Journal and Sport magazines. Before that, Tom worked for Time Inc.

Guyon "Chip" Knight has been elected vice president, corporate communications, of the Washington Post Company. Chip joined the company in May 1982. Prior to that, he was director of public relations for the Dun and Bradstreet Corporation and assistant director of public relations for the Olin Corporation. Chip lives in Chevy Chase, Md., with his wife Linda and one child.

Now I don't want to seem ungrateful for the above news items, but a press release is so impersonal and typed so neatly that an actual letter with type-overs and cross-outs was a welcomed relief.

Fred Byrd writes that he is a reporter for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and as such understands the frustration of not having enough news to print. Being too lazy to summarize and not being able to say it any better, I shall just quote from his letter.

"I suppose my most well-known story this year was that I found out that New York City was shipping its homeless welfare families over to hotels in New Jersey. That caused a big brouhaha, a Congressional investigation, lawsuits and it also caused New Jersey to take a hard look at how it is treating its own homeless population." Fred continued to chronicle other stories from the Newark area, all involving one kind of disaster or other, but his letter ended on a positive note. "As for my personal life, I am now involved with the Quakers, the Religious Society of Friends. I am also a member of Servas, a group which promotes world peace by allowing people to share your apartment instead of living in a hotel when they visit. I have had visitors from Argentina, Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany. No big news to report; just that one of your classmates is happy."

The Alumni Fund has asked me to nag you about giving this year. They are looking for $10.3 million and 70 percent participation. We had over 80 percent last year so we are pulling our own weight plus a little of the deadweight of other classes. Let's keep it up.

In closing, I had to write an obituary this month for Charlie Shuman. It was not an easy thing to do so please, take care and write.

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