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ARTS AND SCIENCE-MEN
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1905
AL SIGL, veteran newspaperman and radio
broadcaster, retired in February after thirty
years of service with the Rochester Times­
Union.
1908
HAROLD E. AKERLY, retired superintendent
for business affairs for the Rochester
schools, was recently appointed staff director
for the New York City School Construction
Inquiry.
1911
RICHARD R. B. POWELL, Dwight Professor
of Law at Columbia University School of
Law, was appointed visiting professor at
The University of Michigan Law School for
the second semester of the 1959-60 year.
1917
HOWARD J. HENDERSON retired in February
from Lawyers Cooperative Publishing
Company, Rochester, where he was director,
senior vice president and treasurer.
1919
LEO D . WELCH, vice president of Standard
Oil of New Jersey, was appointed general
vice chairman of the 1959 Red Cross
campaign in New York City.
1922
FLOYD F. HOVEY, general supervisor of
administration, color print and processing
division, Eastman Kodak Company, retired
in January after thirty-four years of service.
1924
DR. SALVATORE Russo, a clinical psychologist
at the Wichita Guidance Center and
past president of the Kansas Psychological
Association, is one of the contributors to a
new book, edited by S. 1. Hayakawa, that
brings together a collection of pieces from
B.T.C., a quarterly journal of semantics that
was founded and is now edited by Dr.
Hayakawa. The book was published by Harper
& Brothers on April 15.
1925
GLYNDON G. VAN DEUSEN, Associate
Dean of the U of R College of Arts and
Science and Chairman of the History Department,
is the author of a book entitled
"The Jacksonian Era: 1828-1848" published
by Harper and Brothers in February. This is
the tenth volume in the Harper New American
Nation Series.
1926
HENRY F. FOOTE was elected chairman of
the board and chief managing director of the
Eastman Kodak Company's Australian affiliate,
Kodak Pty., Ltd., in February. He and
his wife reside at 42 The Eyrie, Heidelberg,
Australia.
1929
HOWARD D. ROOT, formerly credit sales
manager of Sears Roebuck and Company in
Rochester, has established the Root Funeral
Home at 41 South Main Street, Fairport,
N. Y.
HOBART MITCHELL, baritone, recently recorded
three thirteen-week series of radio
programs entitled "Poetry in Song" for the
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Network. In addition to presenting
concerts for university and college audiences
he edits the "Poetry in Song Bulletin," a
quarterly publication for the use of singers
and voice teachers.
1930
LLOYD A. SMITH has been named deputy
superintendent of the film emulsion division
at the Kodak Park Works plant of Eastman
Kodak Company, Rochester.
1932
BENJAMIN B. BASTIAN is now associated
with the general tax department of the Gulf
Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh. He is supervisor
of state income and franchise tax matters.
1933
DR. RICHARD FEINBERG is director of
the division of applied visual science of the
Titmus Optical Company, Inc., Petersburg,
Va.
1934
DR. FRANKLIN A. WARREN, optometrist,
Waterbury, Conn ., was elected a diplomate
of the Contact Lens Section of the American
Academy of Optometry at its annual meeting
in December.
EVERETT J. MANN is working with the
industrial division of the International Cooperation
Administration in Korea, after two
years with the O.E.E.C. in Paris, and two
years on the faculty of Emory University,
Georgia.
1937
WILLIAM A. MAY has been elected vice
president of the American Can Company.
DR. J. SHELTON REED was recently elected
a director of the First National Bank, Kingsport,
Tenn.
ELI ROCK is labor consultant to Mayor
Dilworth of Philadelphia.
IRVING BERNSTEIN is associated with the
Industrial Relations School at UCLA.
PAUL D. SMITH was recently elected a
vice president and general counsel of Philip
Morris, Inc.., New York City.
1939
WILLIAM L. MADDEN has been appointed
secretary of the Security Trust Company,
Rochester.
GORDON R. CRAMER has been named acting
president of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
Board of Education for the 1959-60 term.
1941
GEORGE M . MULLEN has been appointed
vice president and director of Belknap and
McClain, Inc., Boston, wholesale floor covering
distributors in New England.
1944
JOHN W. HANDY was named chairman of
He's Grown Accustomed to the Pace.
John McKeehan., '46., Gets Things Done In a Hurry
"It's second nature to me now, like
breathing out and breathing in . . . "
This line from the song ''I've Grown
Accustomed to Her Face" from the now
world-wide hit musical, My Fair Lady,
has special meaning for John H. Mc­
Keehan, '46, now residing in Syracuse,
New York. Breathing out and breathing
in is not second nature for polio victims;
their very liyes depend on intricate
mechanical lungs that do their
breathing for them. McKeehan has
taken it upon himself to see that the
chest shell respirators, in which two
neighbors who have been stricken with
polio must live, are functioning properly
night and day.
His duties include a greasing and
battery check every month, and twice a
year the artificial lung is torn down and
completely rebuilt. This complete overhaul
is done by McKeehan in just a
little over one hour- less than half the
time that a polio patient can live without
assistance in breathing from the
respirator.
"This is a pretty tense job; it could
be disastrous if I accidently stripped a
screw, for instance," he explained.
To do this job he searched out and
studied a service manual for the respirators
which are a compact version of
the familiar iron lung. A skilled me-
chanical engineer by aptitude, education,
and experience, McKeehan does
this job of maintenance so well that
emergency calls for service are rare.
However, he is never away from home
without leaving word where he can be
reached.
A man of many interests, McKeehan
finds time for a multitude of varied activities.
He is president of the University
of Rochester Alumni Club of Syracuse,
and in the past few years has
chairmaned the Fund Drive in Syracuse.
He is also active in the Boy Scouts and
Toastmasters International.
At home he pursues his hobbies of
horology, the repair of watches and
clocks, producing color movies and hi-fi
stereo tape recordings, and repairing
broken toys, with which his three children
keep him well-supplied.
It was his interest in intricate machinery
that led McKeehan to his present
job with General Electric Corporation,
where he is employed in the
Semiconductor Products Department.
McKeehan is married to the former
Gladys Brougham, whom he met in
1947 when both were working for the
Carrier Corporation. Their two daughters
are now nine and seven years old,
and their son, Walter, is five.