1965
About once a month the alumni office forwards clippings they receive concerning milestones in our careers. Lately I've been letting these accumulate while spending time in sorting through the information forms so many of you have slipped into the mail. News releases should be current or they lose their impact - so let's get started on that pile.
On the bottom of the stack is one from a New Bedford, Mass., newspaper announcing the promotion of John Poole to vice president, investments within the First National Bank. John has been with the New Bedford First since 1970 when he moved south from the State Street Bank in Boston. While in Boston, John received an M.B.A. from Boston University and now is working for his chartered financial analyst certification from the University of Virginia. If you're in the New Bedford area, you can find John and family in South Dartmouth.
Another clipping quickly turning yellow with age was sent in by Ted Bracken. In connection with a shift in style of TV spot ads used by President Ford in the California primary campaign, Bruce Wagner and his boss resigned from the campaign - effective after the primaries. The switch was from the theme of a thoughtful and effective President to a theme portraying the President as a campaigner utilizing "slice-of-life" commercials. Now that November 2 is history, we can only wonder what might have been the outcome if Bruce's concepts had prevailed a little longer.
The public relations department of Massachusetts Mutual Life sends us notice that Martin Stackhouse of Longmeadow, Mass., has been named counsel in their law division. Martin was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1968 with an L.L.B. from Boston University and in 1970 became a chartered life underwriter. Within the company he has been chairman of the Management Issues Board (could we have a report?) and is a member of the Federal Tax Committee. I wish they had said something about how he spends his non-working hours. We need to know that before qualifying him for 1965 Group Life.
Ed Taber has made his mark with T. Rowe Price Associates of Baltimore, since joining them as a money market specialist in 1973. In May he was elected executive vice president and chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund - established in 1976 as a no-load mutual fund. Ed's M.B.A. is 1971 vintage from Harvard.
An earlier column mentioned that we have a tag team of M.B.A.'s working in St. Louis with Pet, Inc. Well, this year as a result of their diligence, Roger Urban received a son and TedAtkinson received a promotion to director of marketing - Established Products (Grocery Operations). Ted joined in 1975 as a marketing manager. Roger is an internal consultant having a great time in spite of the fact he doesn't have what Ted considers "a real job."
Jim Ramsey writes that he has finally taken his first vacation. It was probably in response to the hard work he has done this year in negotiating through the U.S. District Court with the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association. Last spring Jim won a case allowing a girl to play on the Wartburg baseball team. With the fall season here, the rule change Jim helped establish will now, according to a clipping from the September 16 Oak Ridger, let girls play on the Oak Ridge football team. Here is proof again that change isn't automatic. We bring it about! You and I.
Chris Fisher, an associate professor of math at the University of Regina, Canada, came across a brief article in the American MathMonthly that ties in with a comment from the minutes of the February Board of Trustees meeting. The news is that Lawrence Zalcman has won the 1976 Chauvenet Prize - one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics. The Mathematical Association of America considered professor Zalcman's paper "Real Proofs of Complex, Theorems (and vice versa)" noteworthy and profitable reading for members. Larry has been travelling quite a bit from Stanford to Maryland with stops on the way at Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Forschungsinstitut fur Mathematik in Zurich. Now that he has mastered the technical aspects of mathematics, Larry is moving into the philosophical and intellectual contexts. I think I know what I just wrote means, but there is no proof!
By the time this arrives the Christmas-New Year's holiday will be upon us. Why not make a resolution to send me a leftover Christmas card telling what you've been up to in the last two years. Or at least sort through those you received and send me the ones from classmates - with news. This column works like charity the more you give, the more you get in return. Peace, brothers.
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