1954

In this summer of riot, strike, water shortage, and television reruns, there was one bright spot. The news drought suffered by this column has ended, at least temporarily. The level of our reservoir of press releases, newspaper clippings, class correspondence, and old-fashioned gossip has risen appreciably in recent months.

This was a summer which found classmates plunging into the tight money market, the falling stock market and the soarine LSD market.

First, to the field of finance. Dave Dyche has been named a vice president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York City. A member of the corporate research department, Dave joined the Morgan Guaranty in 1958. Previously, he received his M.B.A. at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Another New York City bank, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, has appointed Frank Wright assistant vice president. For those who need a friend at the Manufacturers, look in at its Columbus Circle branch where Frank is loaning officer. When at home in Westfield, N. J., Frank can usually be found with wife Elaine and their four children relaxing his fingers, weary from turning thumbs down at work all day.

From Oil City, Pa., comes word that BobJeffrey has been promoted to secretary of the First Seneca Bank & Trust Company. Jeff, with exception of a two-year hitch in the army, has been with the First Seneca since graduation. He is also a vice president and director of Maviro Corporation and a director of the Indian River Citrus Groves, Inc. Another up and coming banker in the Keystone State is Chuck Dickerson. He has been appointed an assistant vice president by The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company of Philadelphia and has been assigned to the credit division of the commercial banking department. Chuck, Marcia and their two children reside in Chalfont, Pa.

Not all the stock market news has been bad this summer. George Robinson recently announced the formation of a new broker- age firm under the name of Robinson, Lynch & Co. with offices at 20 Exchange Place in New York City. The way the market has been behaving, George would have been wise to launch his partnership with a pill bottle instead of the customary bottle of champagne.

Hopefully those pills would not contain LSD. This subject is of major concern to Dr. Ken Schramm who recently addressed a three-day conference of Vermont college students, faculty, public health officials, and state police held at Goddard College on the use and abuse of hallucinatory drugs. Ken, field studies coordinator at Goddard, theorized that students may be turning to the use of LSD and similar drugs because of loneliness resulting from the breakdown of close family relationships.

While an increasing number of students seem to be getting high on LSD, an increasing number of our teaching classmates are getting high honors for their academic abilities. Phil DeTurk has just been named submaster of the East Junior High School in Walpole, Mass. He has taught English, speech and drama at public and private schools for the past twelve years and his most recent position was at Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, N. Y. Phil received his M.A. in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. This year will be spent by Jim Conrad on sabbatical leave from Nichols College, where he is an assistant professor of American history. Jim will spend the time studying for his doctorate and has been granted a fellowship for this purpose by the University of Connecticut.

The Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Mo., has awarded a fellowship to Bob Wellman, an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts. This award was made by the Foundation in recognition of good teaching and to assist in personalizing the education process. This fellowship is well merited by Bob who has gone through the educational third degree. He received a P.G.C.E. from the University of London, an M.A. from Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from Ohio State. Bruce Haertl, upper school head and varsity football coach at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash., was the recipient of a study grant from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Oregon. This program of research, lectures and field work is designed to show the interrelation between music, art, literature, history and drama.

If Bruce had been given a similar grant to study on the East Coast, he most likely would have attended a performance or two of the American Shakespeare Theater at Stratford, Conn., where he would have run into John Cunningham. John had leading roles in "Twelfth Night" and "Henry IV, Part II (Falstaff)" and the reviews of his performances were most favorable. There was a large photo in the theater section of the Sunday Times this summer showing John paying court to some lovely wench. After each performance John must have had to dash home to wife Carolyn pleading, "there's no business like.. .

If there is a business like show business it must be advertising and happily there is a fair amount to report on in this field. Eastman Kodak has announced the appointment of Tom Nixon as manager of advertising and customer services for the company's radiography markets division. This promotion means a move for Tom, Joan and their daughter from Atlanta, Ga., to Rochester, N. Y. Another adman on the move both professionally and residentially is BarryNova. He has been promoted by Lennon & Newell to supervisor of the entire Consolidated Cigar Corporation account. Previously he handled only Consolidated's Muriel account. Having just moved from New York City to Greenwich, Conn., Barry will now be able to share broken seats and unairconditioned cars with all the other big account execs who daily ride the bankrupt New Haven to Madison Avenue from Fairfield County. A fellow commuter and advertising executive is John Heston who resides up the tracks in Darien, Conn. John was recently appointed vice president by the Ogilvy and Mather Agency where he supervises the American Express account.

Having written about bankers, brokers, doctors, teachers, actors and ad execs, it's time we reported on the doings of the "real professionals," my colleagues, the lawyers. From Denver, Colo., comes word that BillMurane has been made a partner in the firm of Holland & Hart. In East Orange, N. J., Don Berlin has become associated with the office of Harkavy and Lieb.

On second thought, I would have to say that the "real pros" were never mentioned in this column since there were no weddings or births reported.

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