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Hawthorne issue of the Essex Institute Historical
Collections.
Corning Glass Works, Corning, has
named Joseph Littleton manager of special
projects-international. Joe became affiliated
with the company in 1945 as an engineer
and has served in capacities such as production
and maintenance supervisor, manager
of the optical plant in Corning, manager of
the Big Flats plant, and manager in the
transportation products dept. For the past
year, he has been special projects manager
in the technical products division.
Having recently been appointed vice
president-international division for Interlake
Steel Corp., George B. Howell assumes
responsibility for Interlake's international
operations in Canada, Mexico, England,
and France, plus export operations, including
Latin America and Europe. Prior to
joining the company, George was vice president
of manufacturing for Royal Electric
Corp., vice president of manufacturing for
Leece-Neville Co., Cleveland, and manager
of General Electric's Ft. Wayne, Ind. hermetic
motor operations. George is active
with the American Management Assn., Illinois
State Chamber of Commerce, and
American Iron & Steel Institute, and is a
village trustee in Oak Brook, 111. He lives at
5 Brighton Lane, Oak Brook, with wife Barbara
and five children.
New address for Robert Sailor Jr., 619 E.
Locust Ave., Lompoc, Calif. Although Bob
doesn't feel the move from San Francisco
Peninsula area to Lompoc a big improvement,
it's better than Anchorage, one of his
past addresses. He is still with Philco Corp.
(19 yrs.), and the family, including wife
Ellinor, two sons, Robert and William, one
cat, and 10 tame mice are trying to adjust
themselves to their new surroundings.
Out in Wheatridge, Colo., the skiing is
tops and an invitation to "Come on out" has
been extended by Wilbur F. Herbert. The
saying rings a bell to all of us who have been
listening to "Come on down" for such a
long time; it's a change of pace, anyway!
'43
Men: S. Miller Harris
8249 Fairview Rd.
Elkins Park 17, Pa.
You're going to get pretty sick of reading
about Gene Saks in this column, but he's
about our only celebrity now that we're on
our way to the moon without Brainerd
Holmes. Anyway, Gene is here in Philadelphia
while I'm writing—and on Broadway
while you're reading—as director of the new
musical "Mame" starring Angela Lansbury
and Gene's wife Beatrice Arthur.
Saw former crew commodore Bill Dickhart
III at Penn Charter parents' night
recently. He had just flown in from somewhere
or other on a mission for the Budd
Co., which I hope (what with three sons in
private school) was successful. The sons:
William IV, Wallace II, and a middle one
who apparently isn't named for anyone and
goes merely as Bruce.
And Stra Claggett would like to thank all
the classmates who worked on the combined
Centennial-Cornell Fund Campaign. At last
report over 200 men of '43 had contributed
a total of some $61,000.
From 28 Brookside Dr., Littleton, Colo.,
Robert Byrne writes: "Have tried two years
May 1966
of Colorado, and wife and four girls 8 to 18
agree that it's the finest." (Myself, I would
have started a new sentence after "18".)
Champ Salisbury writes: "Just heard
from Pittsburgh that Jack Rice (picture)
of Koppers Co. has
finally lost the intriguing
title of vice
president — procurement,
and is now
assistant general manager
of the engineering
and construction
division, with prime
responsibility for
sales and marketing.
I suppose he tired of all the bum jokes. Me,
I'm still representing manufacturers in the
Midwest and trying to support wife, Peggy
(Clark '44), plus two boys, 18 and 16, and
two girls, 13 and 12."
Maj. Henry B. Stolz, a programmer at
Hq Strategic Air Command in Bellevue,
Neb., wrote last year that his daughter
Wendy Kathleen had applied to Cornell,
and writes now that she is at Wells. Which
brings us to Bill Orndorff, who writes from
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, that his daughter,
Brandy, "had an 85 average from prep
school but couldn't make it through Cornell
admissions. Was accepted by Vassar and
Syracuse but decided on Katy Gibbs in
Boston. Γve decided against buying Lake
Cayuga and donating it to the water polo
team. The old school will have to sink or
swim without my help."
On the other hand there are families like
the Frickes. Richard I. Fricke begins his
second year as president of the Cornell Law
Assn. Vice President and general counsel of
the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York
with offices in Manhattan, Dick was with
Ford Motor Co. from 1957 to 1962, and
previously a member of the Cornell Law
School faculty. While a law student he was
editor-in-chief of the Cornell Law Quarterly.
Dick lives in Darien, Conn., with the former
Jeanne Hines '45 of Ithaca and their four
children. His parents, Professor Emeritus
and Mrs. R. F. Fricke live in Ithaca, where
his son Rick is an undergrad at, of all places,
Cornell.
Last year Jack O'Brien wrote that the
whole O'Brien family, four girls, one boy,
one wife, one Jack, was busy outfitting their
cabin cruiser for summer boating on Great
South Bay, Long Island. I guess it's safe to
assume that they're doing the same thing
this spring.
'44
Men: /. Joseph Driscoll Jr.
8-7 Wilde Ave.
Drexel Hill, Pa.
Last month the column closed with an
item sparked by an article from the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin. So it is appropriate
to open this one with news about a
classmate from the same paper. Quoting the
paper, "A certain amount of 'sludging' of
blood is found even in the normal individual,
a Harvard University professor of medicine
said here today." That professor is our
Dr. Roe E. Wells, who spoke at a meeting
sponsored by the Heart Assn. of Southeastern
Pennsylvania. It appears that the work
that Roe and his colleagues are doing will
have great significance for those of us who
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While Roe holds forth in the Boston
area, Edward H. Carman III has established
himself closer to Ithaca. Ed was recently
named director of sales development
for special markets in the business systems
markets division, Eastman Kodak Co. He
joined Kodak in 1946. Under a Sloan Fellowship,
he studied at MIT and received an
MS in industrial management in 1958. He
and Cecily (Bishop '46) have three children
and live at 145 Clover Hills Dr., Brighton.
A series of personal notes from your correspondent
to members of the class. Nothing
intimate, so read on. Clarke Fitts: John
Meyer's former secretary, who served the
class so well, advised me that she sent Bob
Ready's address to you. If you mislaid it,
and haven't written to him, it is 121 Avenue
of Two Rivers, Rumson, NJ. Len Goland
(1417 Stephen Rd., Meadowbrook, Pa.):
Not much new to tell about Cornell activities
in the greater Philadelphia area. Since
we have so many '44s in the area, maybe a
get-together would be in order.
Joe Hofheimer (18 Vanderbilt Rd.,
Scarsdale): Wish you all the success in the
world in the paper business; particularly if
you aren't handling the products of a competitor.
(Joe is vice president of Richard
Bauer & Co. in New York.) John Hotaling:
My apologies for not returning to you the
15-year Reunion jackets which you brought
back for use by the band in 1964.1 still have
them. Their fine styling and subdued coloring
make them ideal for daily wear in the
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