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Congratulations to Dave Wark on his appointment as vice chairman of bank administration of Union Planters National Bank of Memphis. Dave will direct the bank's operations and data processing services. Previous steps along the way to vice chairman included executive vice president of Parts Industries Corporation of Memphis and executive positions at National Bank of Commerce, Memphis; American Express; Reader's Digest; and the CIA. Dave has a master's in business administration from the University of Chicago and has served on the faculty of. the graduate school of banking at Rutgers.

Another banking promotion for DonMcCree, who is now sector executive vice president in charge of Manufacturers Hanover Corporation's newly-formed corporate banking sector. It is exhausting even to write that Don is in charge of the divisions for North American corporations, energy, private banking and securities industry, institutional trust and agency, and the bank's Delaware and Canadian corporations. He is also a member of the management committee. Imagine how challenging it must be to manage all that. The New York Times pictured Don looking very managerial and quoted Dean Whitter Reynolds: "They ought to be able to manage the company more efficiently as a result of these changes." A big job for a capable gentleman.

Norton Company has promoted BillHildick to the position of account executive for the abrasives marketing group. Bill has been with Norton for 25 years, serving in Chicago, Detroit, and Oregon. Among his activities is the position of director of the Portland Rose Festival Association. He is active in organized car racing and in 1984 was awarded the director's award for CART. Bill, his wife, and their two children live in Tigard, Ore.

In the ever-changing business world, Dick Lowry, former Champion International executive vice president in charge of domestic building products, has been elected chairman and chief executive of U.S. Plywood, a company formed from certain business operations of Champion.

The last time I heard from Tony Gittes, he was living in Ecuador and constructing an experimental airplane. The next letter announced that Tony had moved to New York as president and chief executive officer of Kron Chocolatier, Inc. After 21 years in Ecuador, the Gittes family now finds itself in the jungles of Manhattan. You guessed it, Tony completed the experimental plane "Long-Eze" and flew it from Ecuador to New York "with fun- filled stops along the way in the Caribbean and Mexico." The Gittes family is presently residing at 37 E. 18th, New York, NY 10003.

For a number of years Jim Young has been the headmaster of Ransom Everglades School in Miami, Fla. He is now the headmaster at the Community School of Naples, Fla. While at Ransom, Jim was vice president of the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce and has been on the board of directors of the Florida Council of Independent Schools. In 1974 he was elected to the Country Day School Headmasters Association, a national association of independent day school headmasters. The Youngs will live in Wyndemere, Fla.

Governor Mario Cuomo of New York has appointed Harry Dodds as one of five members of a Moreland Act Commission for the state of New York to investigate police and prosecutorial practices relating to the use of force, including deadlyphysical force, by the police. Harry is director of corporate responsibility programs for Champion International. Among previous positions, Harry has been the deputy commissioner for legal matters for the New York City Police Department, so he is well qualified for this important and potentially controversial assignment. Harry is a graduate of Yale Law School. He is also presently an independent drug expert for the National Basketball Association.

The law firm of O'Connor and Hannan, which maintains offices in Minneapolis, Washington, Denver, and Madrid, recently announced that Ted Furber has become special counsel to the firm. Ted formerly served as corporate and international counsel for Libbey-Owens-Ford Company, Boise Cascade Corporation, and U.S. Steel. He has been practicing law in the Minneapolis area.

I recently had lunch with Phil Calkins, who lives in Palatine, Ill. Phil's career has been in physical distribution and administration and sales support areas. He works for Simplex Time Recorder. We discussed our mutual enjoyment in the junior soccer programs in our respective communities. He has served as a coach for many years.

On a personal note, the Fred Louis family enjoyed a three-week tour of England, France, Switzerland, and Germany this summer. Our older daughter was studying at the University of Paris during her junior year at Smith, so we collected her and used her fluency in French to negotiate our path through Europe. No boring trip details, but if you haven't taken the cruise from Basel, Switzerland, down the Rhine to Cologne, try it. It is as beautiful, enjoyable, and restful as anything have ever done. The navy was never like that.

You all received a bequests and trusts booklet from Myles Slosberg recently. If you haven't done so, take the time to study this information and think about its implications for you and for Dartmouth. I know that you are still young, but not too young to plan ahead.

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