1954

Here it is February of the year and although the winter's cold is still upon us and most of us are thinking of ways to ski into it or run away from it, there are a few rustlings of spring just the same. By this time, for example, Dave Metz is mustering his class agent forces for the coming year's Alumni Fund Drive and much planning and organization has been going on for weeks. The results our class have shown under Dave and his predecessor, Bob Woodberry, are not accidental, but rather represent the culmination of many months of work, recruiting agents, making assignments, analysing statistics, and setting goals, to say nothing of the considerable correspondence. I have often felt that this developmental effort goes unheralded and is perhaps taken for granted by many of us. It is not out of line, therefore, to comment on it now with the hope that when this year's call is heard, the ear will be a bit more receptive so that Dave can get off to a good start and a stronger finish.

A few months ago United Fruit Company of Boston, Mass., announced that its Board of Directors had elected Donald R. Meltzer Controller. Donald joined U.F.C. in 1967 having previously been a manager for "Big Eight" accounting firm Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Donald holds an M.B.A. from Tuck School and is a member of both the Massachusetts Society of C.P.A. and the American Institute of C.P.A. societies.

Rodman C. Rockefeller, late last summer, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the New School of Social Research. President of the International Basic Economy Corporation, Rod serves as well as a director of Rockefeller Center, Inc., and is co-chairman of the Inter-racial Council for Business Opportunity.

While the Rockefeller family had its beginnings in the oil business, a new star is apparently rising at Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) as Donald D. McCuiag, in the fall of last year, was named assistant treasurer of the giant oil combine. A native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Donald received a master's degree in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in 1959, the same year he joined Jersey Standard as a financial analyst. Three years later he became senior financial analyst and in 1963 he was named treasurer of the company's Japanese affiliate, Esso Sekiyu. Returning stateside in 1965 he served as deputy finance manager and then manager of the company's finance division. Don, his wife, and three daughters live in Harrington Park, N.J.

George "Gig" Voss has moved into the presidential ranks with his appointment to head Automatic Data Processing of New Jersey, a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. The new division will handle the company's New York and New Jersey business from their computer center in Clifton, N.J.A member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, Gig was associated with the Western Electric Co. before joining ADP in 1961 as director of data processing. He was made vice president of data processing in 1967.

Tom Kelsey was kind enough to send the following story from the November 17 edition of the Newark Evening News. "Richard G. Franklin... formerly advertising and promotion manager of RCA Record Club, ... joined Cowles Communications, Inc., New York, as manager of the Books and Records Department within the newly formed... Direct Marketing Division. Prior to his association with RCA, Franklin was manager of the Curtis Publishing Co. Book Division." Oddly enough I had bumped into Dick on the street shortly before this story broke and he was kind enough to volunteer his advice on the recording business for the benefit of my wife, a buddy lyricist. Now I guess she'll have to find another source for guidance in a very Tough Trade. Dick and his wife, Gloria, live in Bloomfield, N.J., with their two sons and two daughters.

Every once in a while I receive mysterious, sometimes cryptic, 3 x 5 white index cards with funny little things on them that are supposed to be news. I do not know from whence these originate, but how can you write a story out of "Doe, Jack Jr. 54 - Sloper College - Degree in Underwater Basket Weaving 6-69?" Whoever sends these things would you please put in a word or two of expansion so that we can get something out of it. Perhaps, however, whoever it is has learned his lesson because I was able to piece together the following news item from one of these cryptograms. Douglas G. Hoskins Jr. was awarded the professional designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter on October 12, 1969 by the American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters, Inc.

Now, we come to the end of this month's column, not because I want to, but because we are dangerously close to exhausting our supply of news. Lots of things happen at the end of the year and I would sincerely hope you would drop me a line and let me know what the latest accomplishments are so that others may share the news.

Secretary, James Talcott, Inc. 1290 Ave. of Americas New York, N.Y. 10019

Treasurer, 30 Juniper Ave., Wakefield, Mass. 01880