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Charles P. Baker '27, named Man of the Year by the state bar association of Ohio.
Roderick Stinehour '50, given the American Printing History Association's Laureate Award.
Peirce McKee '51, chosen Citizen of the Year of Orinda, Calif.
Donald R. DesCombes '54, elected chairman of the board of Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan.
Maurice G. Wilkins Jr. '54, named executive vice president of Textron Inc.
Alden Guild '55, elected senior vice president and general counsel of National Life of Vermont.
JohnT. Porvaznik '55, promoted to assistant surgeon general with the rank of rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Walter James Hoshal '56, appointed head of customer services division at Dow Chemical.
Joel B. Alvord '60, named a director of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
R. Carl Palmer jr. '62, named president, chief operating officer, and a director of Naples Federal.
William S. Shanahan '62, named chief operating officer of Colgate- Palmolive Company.
John A. Currier '63, appointed vice president of contracts and complicance, and corporate secretary, of Plessey Electronic Systems Corp.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. '63, named chairman, CEO, and president of RJR Nabisco.
John W. Hosmer Jr. '65, appointed senior vice president, chief lending officer, of Cambridge Savings Bank.
Gary S. Bryson '66, named president of the Cable Communications unit of US West Inc.
Michael T. Masin '66, elected a director of GTE Corp.
Nicholas B. Mason '67, named vice president and chief financial officer of The Savings Bank of Manchester, Connecticut.
Arthur P. Soter '69, named a managing director of Morgan Stanley.
John F. Lundgren '73, appointed vice president, corporate development, for the James River Corp.
Thurlow E. Tibbs Jr. '74, originator of the Smithsonian exhibit now at the Hood, "African-American Art, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection."
Matthew P. Dwyer Jr. '75, promoted to senior vice president at Spaulding & Slye, Boston.
Robert Portman '78, appointed associate counsel to President Bush on the White House legal staff.
Richard R.S. Smith '79, named a managing director, merchant banking/high yield, at Kidder, Peabody.
