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THUNDERBIRD CRADUAT CHOOl
OF INTERNATIONAL MANACEMENT
Thunderbird Graduate School continues to progress rapidly. A spring enrollment
of 197 new students is the largest in the history of the School. The academic accom­plishments
of the new students are obviously superior to those of previous years.
There is no question but what the School is moving to the forefront as one of the fine
graduate schools in the United St?tes and, of course, the only one still devoted en­tirely
to education in international management. New faculty members added in Feb­ruary
include Mr. Taeho Kim, who comes to us from the University of Colorado where
he is completing his Ph.D. degree in economics. He is a Korean national who grad­uated
from Kookmin College in Seoul, Korea, and was a research specialist with the
Bank of Korea for several years. Also joining us in February is Mr. Andris Trapans,
Assistant Professor of International Studies. Mr. Trapans has degrees from Stanford
and Berkeley and is completing his doctorate in economics at Berkeley. His speci~1ty
is the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
The first Winterim semester in the School's history was completed durin.g Jan­uary.
One hundred sixty students were enrolled in the one-month experimental
courses. From all reports it was extremely successful. The students particularly en­joyed
some of the innovative courses such as those in the World Business Department
which used a computer for simulation and gaming.
During the fall I visited Saudi Arabia to give the commencement address at the
new King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. My original association with the Univer­sity
was as a member of an international committee to evaluate the possibility of its
establishment and to suggest curriculums, programs, and faculties. On the trip I met
with alumni in Rome, Jeddah, Beirut, and Paris. It was a great thrill to visit with
them and to see how well they are doing in multinational companies throughout
Europe and the Middle East.
The School has started a five-year development plan which includes a drive for
$2,500,000. A good start has been made with a gift of 5,000 shares of Weyerhaeuser
stock from Mrs. J. W. Kieckhe·fer, a member of the Board of Directors, and new academic
Chair of International Business from Chase Manhattan Bank in New York which
will amount to $20,000 a year.
We hope the alumni will be able to help us in this drive as they always have
in the past. We are operating in the black, but as I've told you before, living from year
to year on student tuition is a precarious situation. It is necessary to build up funds
so iiculty salaries can be raised to an equitable level and the quarters you remember
so well can be refurnished. Please help us if you can.
William Voris
President
THE NEW
ENTRANCE
Through the generosity of our good
friends, the Baron and Baroness von
Wrangell of Scottsdale, Thunderbird
now has an attractive and impressive
entrance to the campus. (see cover
photo) .
It provides a twOo way curbed drive
circling a planter-ramada type struc­ture
with an expanse of desert landscap­ing
on either side. The Oold wooden sign
which formerly welcomed you tOo Thun­derbird
has been replaced by a perma­nent
concrete one complete with bronze
lettering and tOopped by a modern ver­sion
of the Thunderbird symbol. The
latter was designed by Delbridge
Honanie, a Hopi Indian of SecOond Mesa,
Arizona.
The gate house and a portiOon of the
white fence have been removed and
additional parking space provided ad­jacent
to Greenway Road.
The new entrance is not only a very
attractive addition to the campus, but is
a lasting tribute and memorial to the
Baron and Baroness. who donated $25,-
000 for the project.
THUNDERBIRD BOARD MEMBER
DIES
Mr. Fred Bohen, Chairman Oof the Board
of Meredith Corporation. and a member
of the School's 'Board of Directors, died
on Saturday, February 17th at Good
Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix.
Mr. Bohen had been President and
Chairman of the Meredith Board of
Directors since 19'29, and was the Com­pany's
chief executive for nearly 40
years. He was elected to the Thunder­bird
board in 1966.
He is survived by his wife, Mildred; a
daughter, Mrs. Fred Pfeifer, and four
grandchildren. Services were held at
St. Augustin's Catholic Church in Des
Moines.
RECIPIENTS OF GLENDALE
C OF C AWARDS
Thunderbird received the outstanding
community service award· for 19'72 at
the annual Glendale Chamber of Com··
merce banquet.
The award was presented for the
School's 26 years of service in the field
of education. Executive Vice President
Berger Erickson was also honored for
his service to the School since 1946.
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni pub­lication
of the Thunderbird Graduate
School of International Management)
is published in the Fall, Spring and
Summer of each year.
EDITOR: Martha L. Snyder
ARCMO PRESIDENT DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Mr. William S. Rose, President, Armco Steel Corporation, Industrial Division,
delivered the commencement address to the December 22, 1972, graduating class.
His address, for the most part, was devoted to the outstanding success and rapid
rise of Thunderbird graduates who' have joined his Company, and whOo are now
assigned to executive positions with Armco throughout the wo§ld.
Mr. Rose is a graduate of Cornell University and joined ArmcOo as a sales trainee
at division headquarters in Middletown, Ohio. His first overseas assignment came
in 1951 when he was assigned to Armco-Paris as assistant to the president of the
organization. A year later he was transferred tOo naly as assistant general manager
of division activities, and was named general manager of Armco-Genoa in 1957.
In 1962·, he became president and general manager Oof Armco-Paris.
He returned to the States in 1967 as assistant to the President of Armco, with
responsibility for long-range planning. In 1968, he was made assistant Managing
Director of the International DivisiOon, and was elected to a vice presidency in 1970.
He became President of the International Division in 1971.
Present at the commencement exercises were members of the Thunderbird Board
of Directors. Mr. James Patrick was presented as the new Chairman of the Board,
replacing Mr. Frank Snell, who gave up the Chairmanship last Fall.
One of the highlights of the exercise was the presentation of an Honorary Doctor
of Laws degree to Mr. Snell in recognition of his many years of service and devotion
to Thunderbird.
Donald Louis Swihart of Williamston, North Carolina, was the recipient of the
Barton Kyle Yount Award for schOolarship, character, desire and potential ability
to serve the American free enterprise system abroad.
The Phoenix Newspapers' Advertising Award was given to the ·team introducing
"Leggs in Mexico" at the Fall advertising competitions. The Athletic Award was
received by David S. Jaworski, and the Marketing Club Award was, won by Steven R.
Kroos and R. Hart Miller.
President William Voris announced that at the suggestion of the Associated Students
Legislative Council the West Apartment Lounge has been named in honor of Nort
Sobo, Thunderbird Professor of Advertising, 1965-1972, and an appropriate plaque
in his honor placed in the Lounge.
FEAGLES '51 ELECTED
TO THUNDERBIRD BOARD
ROBERT WEST
FElAGLES of Chap­paqua,
New York,
was elected to the
Thunderbird Board
of Directors at the
semi-annual meet­ing
on: March 13th.
He received a BS in
Mechanical Eng i­neering
in 1943
from Georgia Insti­tute
of Technology,
a BFT from Thun­derbird
in 1951, and a Certificate from
the StOonier Graduate School of Bank­ing,
Rutgers University, in 19,58..
He served with the U.S. Army during
World War II and retired as' Captain
after two years in the China-Burma,­India
Theater.
Bob joined the Overseas Division of the
First National City Bank of New York
in 1951 and was assigned to the Puerto
Rican Branch System. In 1954, he was
appointed a Lending Officer, and from
1957 to 1963 was a part of the Overseas
Division Personnel Group. In 1964, he
was named a Senior Officer for Bank­wide
Personnel Relations.
He is a member of the following organi­zations:
Board of Directors, International
Executive Service Corps; Personnel
Round Table, American Management
Associations; Executive Committee Per­sonnel
Division. The American Bankers
Association; Administrative Committee
Government Relations Council, Ameri­can
Bankers Association and The Busi­ness
Roundtable.
He is also a member of The University
Club, Mount Kisco Country Club, Camp
Fire Club, and a Trustee of the First
Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco,
New York.
He is married to the former Anita Mac­Rae,
has four children, and is a resident
of Chappaqua, New York.
WELCH RECEIVES KNIGHT
AWARD
Alan ParI Welch, a native of Tarzana,
California, received the December 19,72
Alfred Knight Scholarship Award for
excellence in scholastic accomplishment.
He has accepted a position as market
analyst in the Export Division of Re­public
Steel Corporation and will train
at the Cleveland, Ohio, headquarters.
He is a graduate of the University of
California at Santa Barbara, and the
son of Dr. and Mrs. E. ParI Welch of
Tarzana, California.
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THUNDERBIRD PRESIDENT
DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT
ADDRESS IN JEDDAH
In November, President Voris journeyed
to Saudi Arabia to deliver the com­mencement
address to the first class
graduating from Abdulaziz University
in Jeddah. It was a warm and friendly
reception for Dr. Voris who had served
as advisor both to the government when
the school was formed, and to several
of the present deans and faculty when
they pursued their graduate studies at
the University of Arizona.
In the audience were representatives
from many governments of the world,
including Senator William Fulbright
from the United States.
Mrs. Voris and their son, Michael,
accompanied Dr. Voris as far as Rome.
then rejoined him in Paris for the flight
home. "The trip was a fun adventure,"
relates Mrs. Voris, "constantly on the
brink of calamity. Late planes, lost
luggage and three days with a broken
zipper on my one and only suit before
the suitcases arrived during a porter's
strike. Bill delivered his speech donned
in the sport coat and slacks that he
slept in while flying the Atlantic. while
Mike and I lugged his bulky doctoral
robe and formal clothes to Venice, Mu­nich
and Paris. In Verona, we boarded
the crackerjack Trans European Eix­press
that arrived two and a half hours
late, settled down in our reserved seats,
and contemplated the changing scenery
-other trains going by. Our car wasn't
attached to the engine. This was the
first time I had traveled without Bill to
handle the details and complications, so
I feel properly proud that we survived."
Michael and Mrs. Voris enjoyed the
hospitality of Thunderbirds MARK and
LOrS ANTINUCCI '54 while in Rome
and the entire Voris family had a most
pleasurable eve n i n g with the Paris
Alumni. The Voris' recollect that MITCIH
and JUDI SUMMERS '64 of St. Cloud,
France, were on their way to a "God­father"
party with a RE'AL Horse's
head stowed in their auto, and are still
wondering if they won a prize before
the judges fainted.
STICKLAND APPOINTED
CONTROLLER
C. Lee Stickland
has been named
Controller at Thun­derbird,
replacing
Rich ar d Rochford
who j 0 i ned the
School in 1963.
Lee came to Thun­derbird
in 1968 as
senior accountant.
He began his career
as ate a c her at
W hit tie r Junior
High School, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota. He was later as­sociated
with General G.M.C. Truck
Sales and the Comstock Steel Company.
He is a graduate of Northern State Col­lege
in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where
he majored in business administration.
Dick Rochford left Thunderbird to enter
private practice as a C.P.A.
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THE THUNDERBIRD PROGRAM WHAT IS IT?
As you realize, numerous changes have been made during the past two years in
our continuing effort to improve the program. We are receiving many inquiries from
alumni, especially those involved in our world-wide campus recruiting campaign,
seeking an explanation of our current activities. So. in order to bring all of you up
to date, and to put you in a better position to counsel prospective students, we have
prepared the following reference outline.
PROGRAM OF STUDY
M.I.M. Degree The only degree program offered at the School is that leading to the
Master of International Management degree, requiring at least 48 credit hours of work.
This takes three semesters in residence. The three semesters can be completed in
one year by those students who use the summer session as one term of residence.
Otherwise, it takes one and one-half years. Students can enroll in the spring semester,
the summer session, or the fall semester.
Wives Certificate Program: Women, whose husbands are full-time students at the
School, may register for nine hours of course work at a tuition cost of $200 per tenn.
Wives may take the same courses in languages and international studies as their
husbands, or may choose different courses. In special cases, wives may enroll in
courses within the Department of World Business. Successful completion of 18
credit ,hours of work with a grade of C or better in each course qualified the wife to
receive the Thunderbird Wives Certificate.
Key Man Course: This is a non-degree program aimed at meeting the special needs
of individuals and their families for doing business and living overseas. The six-week
Key Man Courses include 27 Y2 hours a week of language instruction (French, German,
Spanish, Portuguese), plus two hours a week of international studies lectures. There
are also eight-week courses in Japanese and English as a Second Language.
DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE M.I.M. DEGREE PROGRAM
International Studies Courses: All entering students are required to take nine credit
hours of work in International Studies. They are to take at least one introductory
survey course (300 level) in a major world area or in international relations, and
at least one 400 level course. Those students who have already developed proficiency
in one or more fields covered by the International Studies curriculum may petition
for a partial waiver of the requirements. All students must take at least three credit
hours in the Depa,rtment, regardless of background.
Mod.ern Language Courses: A requirement of the Thunderbird curriculum is that all
students are expected to achieve conversational proficiency-as well as reading
ability-in one of the six languages (including English) taught at the School, in
addition to their native language. For this reason, fifteen credit hours of course
work are required of all students. This requirement may be waived in part or in
whole upon examination by the Department of Modern Languages to determine the
level of the student's proficiency which he may have obtained prior to his admission
to Thunderbird.
World Business C'ourses: All entering students are required to complete WB-310
(Accounting), WB-3'20 (Economic Theory), WB-330 (Operations Analysis), WB-340
(Management), and WB-350 (Marketing). They are also required to take the Capstone
Course in the last semester. This course incorporates general knowledge acquired
throughout the full course of study at Thunderbird, in the form of an international
project study. Waivers may be granted on the basis of prior training in these subjects.
Summary: To summarize, therefore, the following courses are mandatory for students
who do not have previous training in these respective subjects:
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES:
One 300 level course and two additional courses, at least one of which is at
the 400 level, covering one of the following: Asia, Europe, Latin America,
Middle East/North Africa, Suhsaharan Africa, or International Relations
totaling... ...... ..................................................................... ................................ 9 . hours
MODERN LANGUAGES:
Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced courses in: French, German, Japanese,
Portuguese, Spanish or English as a Second Language, totaling ............ 15 hours
(16 hours in the case of Japanese)
WORLD BUSINErSS:
One 300 level course in each of the following Accounting, Management,
Marketing, Micro-Macro Economics, Operations Analysis; also, in interde-partmental
capstone course in the final semester, totaling ..................... t5, hours
Elective Courses ..... : ................... ......................... ... ..................................... ..................... 9 hours
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED STUDy .................................................. 48 hoUl's
If any of the above prerequisities have been met prior to attendance at Thunderbird,
they may be waived with the approval of the Department Chairman in question,
so that more advanced work can be taken. A total of 48 credit hours of study is
still required.
AMA CELEBRATES 50th
ANNIVERSARY
On January 24th, a tribute to the
American Management Associations, by
the Newcomen Society in North America
marked the commencement of the year­long
celebration of AMA's 50th Anni­versary.
The tribute was a Newcomen National
Dinner at which AMA Chairman of the
Board Lawrence A. Appley and Presi­dent
James L. Hayes were guests of
honor, and the event attracted nation­wide
press coverage. The black-tie
affair, was held in the Grand Ballroom
of the Hotel Pierre in New York.
The Newcomen Society of North
America. which is also celebrating its
50th Anniversary this year, is affiliated
with the Newcomen Society for the
Study of the History of Engineering and
Technology, headquartered in London.
Throughout this anniversary year, AMA
will have a special exhibit on its past,
present, and future on the eighth floor
of its New York headquarters build·ing.
EXCHANGE PROGRAM
IN FULL SWING
As part of Thunderbird's faculty and
student exchange program with Sung
Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, Korea,
Dr. Martin Sours of the International
Studies department is spending the
Spring Semester at Sung Kyun Kwan.
Dr. Sours, who joined Thunderbird in
1971, is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and received his
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Uni­versity
of Washington. He has been
associated with the Agency for Inter­national
Development with various as­signments
in Vietnam.
The exchange program, which began
last fall, allows for the exchange of
three students each semester and the
exchange of professors on an alternating
semester basis.
Thunderbird students attending Sung
Kyun Kwan University this spring are:
Michael Thieme from Greenville, Ohio;
Edwin DeBus from Los Angeles, Cali­fornia;
and Arthur Huptich from Ruthu­ford,
New Jersey. Students from Sung
Kyun Kwan University attending Thun­derbird
are Han-Sao Kim, II Hyun
Sohn, and Jae Suh Lee.
COLLEGE RELATIONS OFFICER
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
John Arthur, Thunderbird's College Re­lations
Officer, attended the Conference
of the Western College Placement Asso­ciation
in Honolulu the week of January
15. The trip was a very beneficial one
for the long-range interests of the
School.
J ohn received a very cordial reception
and many of those attending the Con­ference
expressed enthusiastic admira­t
ion for the Thunderbird program and
were surprised that little TGSIM would
send a representative.
Remarks were frequently made with
reference to - "how Thunderbird had
blossomed over the past five years" or
"what a prominent position the School
has taken in management training. "
The conference was of particular value
to J ohn since he met many college
officers who had previously assisted him
in Thunderbird's cam pus recruiting
efforts.
NEW ADDRESS FOR THE
CAMPBELLS
Knowing that many of our alumni
keep in touch with DAVE CAMPBELL,
former Thunderbird professor who re­tired
two years ago, we report that
Dave and Verna have a new address.
They are happily situated at The Beauti­tudes,
1650 West GlendaJe Avenue,
Apartment 49, Phoenix 85021, and would
love to hear from their Thunderbird
friends.
Dave has been a partial invalid for the
past year and his wife, Verna, is re­covering
from a recent hip operation.
ifn :Semoriam
BILL POWELL DIES IN TOKYO
WILLIAM POW­ELL
'57, Vice Presi­dent
of the Nation­al
Bank of Detroit
in Tokyo, died on
October 15th, 19'72,
of a cerebral hem­orrhage.
Bill became a resi­dent
of Japan in
19'5,7 as an em­ployee
of the First
National City Bank,
and subsequently
worked in several of the Bank's Jap­anese
offices, as well as in Hong, Kong
and Taiwan. In the middle sixties he
briefly established his own business in
Taipei and was later employed by the
Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo.
He joined the National Bank of Detroit
in November 1970 as Assistant Vice
President and Far East Representative,
and officially opened the Far East Rep­resentative
Office in June 197:1. In No-vember
1971, he was promoted to Vice
President. His responsibilities included
coverage and development of the Bank's
relationships in Japan, South Korea,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines. In­donesia,
Singapore and other Asian
countries.
Mr. Richard L. Ashworth, Far East Rep­resentative
of the Bank, states in a re­cent
letter: "We greatly miss Bill, but
we move confidently forward from the
sound base he was so instrumental in
developing in a very short time."
Bill is survived by his wife, Junko, and
a four-year-old daughter. of 1-7-2,5
Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo: his
mother, Mrs. Helen Powell, of 3154 D
S t r e e t , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19134, and a brother, Father Peter Pow­ell,
of 919 West Belden, Chicago 60614.
DEATH OF WARREN WESTLAND
WARREN WEST­LAND,
Class of June
1952, died on De­cember
14, 19'72, at
the Bangkok Sani­tarium
and Hospital
where he had been
confined for several
weeks for a liver
ailment.
At the time of his
death he was the
Vice President and
Director of Rolibec
International (insurance brokers and
consultants) with regional duties in
various Asian countries. He had been
with Rolibec since 1960 with assign­ments
in both Thailand and Japan.
Services were held at Christ Church in
Bangkok followed by a memorial service
and interment at Fort Snelling, Minne­sota.
He is survived by his wife, Fumiko, a
son Gregg, and a daughter, Gloria, who
will reside at 1804 North Tejon, Colo­rado
Springs, Colorado 80903.
SUFFERS FATAL HEART ATTACK
WHILE JOGGING
DONALD A. KEPPY '6&, Accounting
Manager for Syntex in Palo Alto, Cali­fornia,
died on November 14th, 1972,
from an apparent hea,rt attack while
jogging in the Mt. View Recreation
Center.
His body was found at 7:02 a.m. by a
woman who was walking her dog and he
was pronounced dead on arrival at E'I.
Camino Hospital in Mountain View.
Identification was not made until the
following day.
A member of the Class of January 1968,
he had been employed by Syntex for the
past two years and was previously a
senior auditor with Arthur Andersen &
Company in New York City.
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JEDDAH ALUMNI HOST VORIS
DAN AND DIANE LOWERY '68 enter­tained
President Voris during his Asia­European
tour at their home in Jeddah.
(Left to right) Charles Carter '6,2, Man­ager,
Market Research-Saudia Arabian
Airlines: Nadia Carter; President Voris;
Dan Lowery '6,8 of First National City
Bank; Beau Walker '68, Middle East
Sales Supervisor-Eastman Kodak, of
Beirut. Lebanon; and Diane Lowery.
The Lowerys have since been assigned
to the Philippines.
DINNER IN BEIRUT
President Voris enjoyed a pleasant din­ner
hour in Beirut with Bob Kidney '60,
General Manager-Eastman Kodak, his
wife, and Mary Cuffe Walker '68 (Mrs.
Beau). Beau was in Jeddah at the time.
MEXICAN POSADA
Although we have had no word from
the MEXICO CITY Thunderbirds we
learned through a newspaper clipping
that a Thunderbird-Mexican Posada
was held on Tuesday, December 19 at
Le Chateau Restaurant. Chapter Presi­dent
DICK LORDEN was in charge of
arrangements and perhaps we will have
more on this for the next issue of THE
THUNDERBIRD.
LUNCHEON IN GUAM
Five Guam Thunderbirds and four
University of Guam administrators at­tended
the January 3rd luncheon held
at the Crows Nest in Agana. Arrange­ments
were made by Dr. K I E T H
BINFORD '57, Dean of the College of
Business and Applied Technology, Uni­versity
of Guam.
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College officials attending were Kieth,
Dr. Larry Kasperbauer, Dean; Dr. Edwin
Carey, Associate Dean; and W. C. Gar­rett,
Associate Dean.
Attending were Thunderbirds Kieth and
Anne Binford '57; Dr. William Slemons
'48, Dental Consultant for the Depart­ment
of Public Health & Social Services;
Roy J ohnson '56, Assistant Manager for
the Bank of Hawaii in Agana; and Ron
McKerahan '69, Division Manager,
Guam and U.S. Trust Territory Islands
for R. J. Reynolds Industries.
Kieth reports that the Thunderbirds
present did an excellent job of describ­ing
the role and mission of the School.
HAWAII GROUP ENTERTAIN
ARTHUR
JOHN and NANCY BUTLER'S beautiful
home in Honolulu was the setting for
the January 14 cocktail party in honor
of JOHN ARTHUR '57, Thunderbird's
College Relations Officer, who was in
the area to attend a conference of the
Western College Placement Association.
Present at the affair were the HAL
FANNINGS '59, the LOU TASCOTTS
'59, DAVE and MARY LIDDLE '67, the
GEORGE KELLERMANS '68, RUTH
FELLERS '57 (and a guest), RON
LARSON '67 (and a friend), AARON
YUNG '71 and FRANK W ADELIGH '49.
This was the first meeting of the
Hawaiian Thunderbirds since President
Voris visited the Islands on his way to
Korea in the Fall of 19171.
SAIGON THUNDERBIRDS
ENTERTAINED
REO E N T GATHERING of the Vietnam
T'birds at the home of BILL and CATHY
FUNK in Saigon: (front row-left to right)
PETER STILLEY '7'0, BIILL F'UNK '7'1-, BOB
STIMSON '71, JIM COLE '70; (top row­left
to right) JOHN WHITE '68, DUFFY
DAUGENIBAUGH 'TO, JOHN HENSON '4'8,
BILL MATTISON '6'8~, JUD KINNE '71, and
BOB DE WOLFE '7'1.
NIEMANNS ENTERTAIN
ECUADOR THUNDERBIRDS
On December 6th. the CHUCK NIE­MANNS
'62 entertained a small group
of ECUADOR Thunderbirds in their
Quito home. Present' were the JOHN
McLEODS '67, the DICK REDDERS '58,
AUDLEY HOLM MILTON '50, and her
husband LEE, who is an Embassy
doctor. and the host and hostess. One
of the Neimann's servants served as
photographer but, unfortunately, the
pictures were too blurred for repro­duction.
EUROPEAN ALUMNI GREET PRESIDENT
EUROPEAN THUNDERBIRDS ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED President Voris
and his family at the Paris meeting. Shown above (left to right) - Ross Quan '69· of
the U.S. Trade Center; Ben Amraoui '68 of Western Union International, and his
financee; Lo Locher '619 of Bendix Corporation and guest; President Voris and (?).
NEW YORK GROUP FETES
ERICKSON
On very short notice, Florence Mervis
'47 managed to round up a sizeable
group of New York area Thunderbirds
to properly fete Thunderbird's Execu­tive
Vice President Berger Erickson
when he was in New York in November
to attend the National Foreign Trade
Convention. The party was held at the
Federation of Jew ish Philanthropies'
New York Headquarters with some 60
alumni and guests present.
FLO MERVIS '47, Gary Langstaff '71 and
Toby Madison '52 at New York Party.
BELGIUM T'BIRDS CELEBRATE
MINUS HONORED GUEST
The January 6th meeting of the BEL­G
IUM alumni, planned in honor of the
visit of Thunderbird Professor Robert
Dequenne, was held in true T'bird fash­ion
in spite of the fact that the honored
guest did not arrive.
Unfortunately. the notification of the
meeting arrived .after the Professor left
campus for his European trip and we
had no way of reaching him. It was
particularly disturbing for Dequenne
since he sat in his hotel room in Brus­sels
while the party was in full swing a
few miles away.
We offer our apologies, and our thanks
to Brian Reilly and his committee for
their efforts in our behalf.
LOS ANGELES TELEFUND DRIVE
Although it is too early to have the
final results of the LOS ANGELES
TELEFUND DRIVE we are happy to
report that the contributions keep drift­ing
in and hopefully we will have a final
figure for the next issue of the THUN­DERBIRD
NEWS.
We wish to thank Jim Bonnar and his
co-chairmen for their time and efforts
in our behalf.
HELEN BALLAM STILL A WINNER
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Although better known for her golfing skills in the Foster City, California area,
HELEN BALLAM '52 exhibits her tennis trophies won in tournaments from Cali­fornia
to South America. She has been a finalist in more than sixty tournaments,
and her trophies date back to 1939 when she was a finalist in her home town of
La Jolla. Her most recent was won in 19'12 at the Circus Club in Menlo Park. Her
biggest wins were in South America where the Ballams lived for twelve years, and
in Hawaii where they spent five years prior to returning to the States.
In Venezuela, she was National Women's Champion twice, and also won six national
championships, in mixed doubles twice and in women's doubles four times-each
time with a different partner. In Hawaii, she won the State mixed doubles and
women's doubles title just prior to moving to California. Helen says that while she
is not exactly a candidate for Forest Hills and Wimbledon she had had a lot of
fun playing in state and local tournaments over the years.
TED and HELEN were the first couple to purchase one of the new West Shore
homes in Foster City, and they are delighted to return to waterfront living. Their
daughter, Susan, and five -year-old son recently spent three weeks with them while
her husband was studying for his specialty board exams in neurosurgery.
Ted is Western Region Area Sales Manager for General Foods Company, based
in San Leandro, California.
NEW YORK PARTY with Berger Erickson, guest of honor, at
the head of table.
5
THUNDERBIRD TODAY
Alumni and former staff and faculty
members who have not visited campus
in the past year or two remember
Thunderbird as 160 acres nestled amid
lush farm land, fields of cotton, melon
patches and vegetable gardens with very
few farm homes within a radius of two
or three miles.
Today the campus is being surrounded
by housing developments - to the
north and east, on either side of Green­way
Road and 59th Avenue (the old­sters
remember it as Lateral 18). The
general store across from the campus
entrance which has served the needs of
a generation of students, is being re­placed
by a convenience type market.
On the corner of 59th Avenue and
Thunderbird Road you will find a
Serve-Yourself Gas Station. Soon tt~ere
will be a Circle K market just south on
59th, and a couple miles farther is the
beautiful and ultra modern Glendale
Community College.
The Barn (1 mile west of 59,th on Bell
Road) , featuring sizzling steaks, western
music and dancing, will soon be avail­able
to students who like an evening
of off-campus entertainment.
It is no longer necessary to make the
long trek to Phoenix for shopping needs
since there are a number of shopping
centers within 3 to 5 miles of campus.
A LAST GOODBYE and a toast to the
future success of Dick Rochford (left), for­mer
Thunderbird Bursar who left at the end
of the year to esta'blish his own accounting
business in Glendale, (right) Lee Stickland,
who was appointed the School's Controller
on January 1st.
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THUNDERBIRD'S SENIOR STAFF MEMBERS - Professor Paul Wilson, Executive Vice
President Berger Erickson, and Professor Larry Finney, socialize at Paul Wilson's 25th
Anniversary Pa,rty.
TORA, THE THUNDERBIRD
MASCOT
She is just a plain alley cat, but [)he rules
the roost at Thunderbird! Tora, an ex­pectant
mother at the time, showed up
on campus a couple of years ago and
immediate'ly adopted the Administration
Building as her home. After she de­livered
a batch of kittens in the closet
of the Public Affairs Office, Thunder­bird
personnel took up a collection to
assure that she would have no more
blessed events.
In addition to being the Thunderbird
mascot, Tora, rated a five-column photo
in a Sunday issue of the ARIZONA
REPUBLIC. She also has the distinc­tion
of being the only animal to con­tribute
to the Alumni Fund. He do­nation
of $20 was courtesy of the front
office personnel.
DINNER AT KWANS CHINESE' RES­TAURANT
in Scottsdale - (left to
right) Youngho Chin '12,; Martha Snyder,
Editor THUNDERBIRD NEWS; Dean
Do-young Chung, exchange professo.r
from the Graduate School of Foreign
Trade of Sung Kyun Krwan University;
and Sei-Jong Chung, first semester stu­dent.
THUNDERBIRD'S FAMOUS LANDMARKS - the old gate house and gate have been torn
down to make way for the new entrance to campus.
FROM BOGOTA TO ABU DHABI BY STAGGERWING BEECHCRAFT 81st birthday! Having made this long
trip, and also found it a bit grueling and
occasionally difficult, one has to admire
her spirit and abilities to take on so
much at her age and do it all solo.
When BOB ELLIS '49 received word of
his First National City Bank transfer
from Bogota to Abu Dhabi, he wound
up his 1942 Swaggerwing Beechcraft
and embarked on a solo flight that took
him more than a third of the way
around the world.
Following a Staggerwing Reunion at the
Beech factory in mid-June, he wended
his way eastward on the heels of Hur­ricane
Agnes, and on July 9 departed
from Holton, Maine for Goose Bay, Lab­rador.
There he became acquainted with
Mrs. Marion Hart, an 80-year-old avia­trix,
who was there in her Beechcraft.
She, too, was flying solo and the next
day she took off on a non-stop trip to
Iceland and Bob departed for Narssar­suaq,
Greenland.
"Entering into Narssarsuaq was rather
hairy, as there was a nearly solid over­cast
at 400 feet, and visibility dropped
to two miles, in rain. Happily, I found a
small hole to drop down through and
made my way slowly and cautiously up
the fjord at 300 feet until I found the
runway in the near freezing rain. Next
day, better weather and on to Iceland
where I met Mrs. Hart again. I stayed
there 3 days while the weather im­proved,
and then on to Shannon (over­night)
and on t</ Gatwick and London.
After a weekend visit back to myoId
WW II USAF Base, which was virtually
all returned to farmland, I met Bill
Adams who had previously been my
RVP in Colombia. He 'is there now as
Managing Director of Operations for
FNCB's affiliate, National and Grind­leys
Bank. Also got together with
HARRY WAIT and wife LUCY '58,
former colleague and ex-manager of
FNCB Medillin, now a top officer for
Crocker Citizens in London.
"After six days in the UK, on to Bilbao
and Jerez, Spain, where I spent a week
with very good friends from Puerto
Rico, and we toured Southern Spain.
From there to Barcelona and on the
same day to Geneva. After a routine
check, oil change, etc., went by train
to Lucerne where I spent a very de­lightful
week with my former AIFT
roommate BERNHARD EDGAR '49, his
wife, and daughter. I enclose snapshots
taken at their home and at the airport
in Neuchatel when they took me to go
on to Florence. Bernhard ",nd his family
have a beautiful home furnished with
exquisite antiques, with a spectacular
view overlooking Lake Lucerne. We
took a day's trip on the lake in their
spacious yacht, visiting the William Tell
shrine, etc. We also took a trip by car
up through the Alps, visiting the Rhone
glacier, and doing part of the trip with
the car going piggy-back with us in it
through the Alps by train. It was great
to get together since our last visit was
a long weekend holiday when I joined
them in Curacao in 1966.
"Before going on to Florence, I returned
to Geneva and had a most pleasant re­union
(after some 15 years without see­ing
each other), with my other AIFT
roommate, TED HARPHAM '49, his wife
and children. Ted has just recently re­signed
from FNCB (He has been VP
in Geneva for some years), and at that
time had not definitely made up his
mind about his next employment. It
was like old home week for Thunderbird
a la 1949.
"After two days in Florence (cut short
there and in Athens due to delays with
the plane in Neuchatel), on to Athens,
where I found Mrs. Hart's plane parked
at the terminal. I left her a note, invit­ing
her to Abu Dhabi on her way to
India. Then, visited the Bank branch
and a former inspector there who had
been at my branch in Barranquilla, and
did a quick "Cook's" tour of the Acrop­olis,
then on to Istanbul. Spent two days
there seeing the Topkapi Museum,
Blue Mosque, St. Sophia, etc. Four days
later I landed in the mushrooming cap­ital
of Teheran with jet fighters and
airliners crowding the traffic pattern
constantly. I had developed magneto
trouble half way from Ankara to Tabriz,
but was unable to get it checked in
Teheran; however, it ground checked
out OK, so I kept on flying.
"The Turkish mountains had looked a
bit formidable, but they were nothing
compared to those of Iran that I had to
go over to get to the Arabian Gulf. The
magneto behaved fine until I had just
crossed them, but since the other one
was doing well I flew on to Bahrain
Islands to meet my area Vice President.
"On August 26, I arrived at my new
home, and was pleasantly surprised.
I had been misinformed that it had a
population of about 10,000. It is over
50,000 and a modern city that is popping
up out of the desert like the proverbial
oil gushers! My arrival at Bahrain was
really breath-taking, about 115 de­grees
F. and 99·% humidity. I was
soaked from head to toe in my own
sweat and could hardly breathe the air.
Happily, it is a bit cooler in Abu Dhabi
(105 degrees F) and the humidity was
only around 9'4 %. It is now much nicer
with low and high daily temperatures
of 75,0 to 9'10 and the humidity around
90%, and daily getting better.
"My furniture arrived OK from Colom­bia,
have my house well set up, includ­ing
a fine cook and a houseboy. Last
week had a special luncheon in honor
of the visit of Mrs. Hart, with the U.S.
Charge d'Affaires and his wife, the Di­rector
of Civil Aviation, and a member
of the Abu Dhabi Air Wing and his
fiancee. Mrs. Hart left for Muscat on her
"Yesterday the mail erroneously
brought me a letter from the Bank of
America addressed to T. MARVIN
HANCOCK '70, ~ho is the Regional
General Manager for their new Middle
East Affiliate (Bank of Credit and Com­merce
International, S.A.). He just ar­rived
two weeks ago and it was quite
a coincidence for he had been in Colom­bia
with the Peace Corps, in my areas
and branches, when I was there! The
world is small if you own a Beechcraft
(even if it is a 40-year old design and
a 3D-year old model). Perhaps it is
even smaller when you are a Thuder­bird
and find a classmate in a place
that is still pretty much off the beaten
path.
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INAUGURATION of the First National City Bank Branch in Abu Dhabi. Seated in the rear
seat of the limousine is His Highness Shaikle Shalifa, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Prime
Ministet.
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FUND RAISING
THUNDERBIRD ESTABLISHES CENTURY CLUB AND HONOR ROLL
The HONOR ROLL is our way of saying THANK YOU to those alumni who have so generously contributed to the
various fund drives (Dining Hall Renovation Project, Los Angeles TE'LEFUND and Scholarship Fund) during the current
fiscal year (July I, 19,72 through March I, 19,73). To give added recognition to those who have donated $100, or more during
the given period we have established the THUNDE:RBIRD CENTURY CLUB. Beginning with this issue the Honor Roll and
Century Club will be a prominent part of our alumni publication.
Harold R. Carpenter '47
Joseph Klein '47
Howard Hoops '51
CENTU RY CLU B
Kara Dunn Armstrong '56
Frank Graves '59
David Chen '65
John Schantz '66
Timothy Walker '68
Robert Withers '68
Mrs. Frances Emmons (SS '51)
Howard Keefe (Key Man '61)
New York Alumni Association
Los Angeles Scholarship Fund
HONOR ROLL OF ALUMNI CONTRIBUTORS
Fred Leisering '47
I.'win Marks '47
Joe Jolly '47
Herbert Lindstrom '47
Florence Mervis '47
John Henson '48
Robert L. Bean '48
Harold Wright '48
Jerry Mulherin '4,g
David Moir '49
Robert C. Ellis '49
Clifford Bevens '50
Robert Plazibat '50
Craig Myers '50
James Markley '50,
Sterling Boyce '50
C. Clifford Mitchell '50
Sherman Olson '50
George Engelhardt '51
Harry B. Turner '51
David Duff '52
Karl Rohrbough '52
Wyburn Brown '5,2
Brayton Lincoln '52
Ted Withers '52
Eleanor Sherwood '52
Lillian Douglas Hogenboom
'52
Elmer Stege '52
Robert Morehouse '53
Norman Bailey '53
Eugene Benz '53
Hector Mallette '53
Ed Campeau '53
James Monaghan '54
Charles Keller '54
Richard Stone '54
George Lindahl '54
Robert & Shirley Lorenz '55
Richard Whitlow '55
Carter George '55
Michael Stolen '55
Robert Steinmetz '55
Doug Parrish '56
Addison Luce '56
Narce Caliva '56
John Reddan '56
Joseph Lockman '56
John Evans '56
Robert D. Bailey '56
William Rodgers '56
Charles Stockholm '56
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Robert & Gloria Shuman '56,
Charles Maggio '57
David Hart '57
William Gargigulo '57
Paul Welborn '5,7
Hobert Caltrider '58
Alvin Fritzner '58
Dean Huelat '58
William Morgan '58
Jack Ryder '58
Harry Mallott '58
John McGill '58
Daniel Jacobsen '59
John I. Bennett '59
James Bonnar '59
Thomas Wetzel '59
George Martin '59
John Picardi '59
George Reeves '59
James Whitn'an '59
David Youmans '59
Joe Ripley '59
David Bravender '60
Rudy Delgado '60
Arthur Misner '60
Russell Keely '60
W. Lee Lyons Brown '60
Larry Uppstreu '60
Henry Windsor '60
Stewart Hume '60
Robert Dilworth '60
Robert Duin '60
Norman Baum '61
Philip Samper '61
Jay Tate '61
Ron Segerlind '61
Robert Garrison '61
Mark Moriarty '61
George Armenta '61
Jack Beldon '62
Darrell Lininger '62
Lewis Maviglia '62
Chris Scheiffele '6,2
Orlin Jacobsen '62
Michael Snideman '62
John Florida '6,2
Wallis Sanborn '62
Stephen Heiner '62
John Ballas '63
Ronald Burkard '63
John Huminski '63
Stephen Naegle '63
Don Hellbusch '63
Lou Varricchione '63
Gary West '63
Michael Sussmann '64
Brian Magnusson '64
Claus Morch '64
Bruce Listerman '64
William Pennel '64
Garry S. Moore '64
Richard Bell '64
Wilson Fullbright '65
Tom McSpadden '65
Dan Goldsmith '65
Frederick Bannier '65
Robert Gravell '6,5
William Parker '65
Maurice Walters '65
Olav Leithe '65
Barry Hull '65
Robert Gowland '65
Merle Hinrichs '65
Donald Littlefield '65
Jonathan Giddings '65,
Michael Gross '66
David Leblanc '66
G. Michael Griffin '66
Frank Long '66
Alan Fredette '66
David S. Arms '66
Joseph Kercheville '66
Carl Boller '66
Michael Bennis '66
John Verity '66
Thomas Moore '66
Michael Feeney '66
Gerald Greene '66
Peter Baer '66
Kenneth Holbrook '66
Alexander Nalle '66
Stephen Swenerton '66
Robert T. Moore '66
Gary Ambrose '67
James & Anne Teaff '67
Edward Kimmel '6,7
Horst Nolden '617
Marvin Dole '67
Robert Jarrett '67
Ronald McCowen '67
Andrew Donnelly '67
Dallas Archibald '67
Steven Strawn '67
Earl Oman '67
David Long '68,
Dewey Smith '68
Richard Hasenpflug '68
Stephen Sullins '68
Voldemars Stukuls '68
William Mattison '68,
Joseph Gury '68
Henry Batchelder '6,8
Richard Sanchez '68
Ihartha Thorne Mirabel '68
Michael Pierce '68
Lawrence Maltz '68
Don Hedgpeth '6,9
Roger Brown '69,
Stanley Loth '69'
Norman Wells '691
Richard Koehler '6,9
Peter Cover '69
Howard Patterson '69
Everett N. Herda '6:9
Bruce Michener '69
Robert Coyne '6,9,
Cary Morton '69,
John Polhemus '69
John Barelli '69
H. Reed Nelson '69
Michael Considine '69
Marshall Malden '69
Oliver Jakob '7(}
Gerald: Rosemas '70
Gary Counts '7(}
David Kaveny '70
Frank Woods '70
Pierre Zarch '70
John Ervin '70
Larry McCarver '70
Steven Nason '70
Carol Anderson '70
Roland Willits '70
William Gage '70
Gary Staggs '70
George Ittner '70
Stephen Wright '70
Chong Rhee '70
Ronald E,ld '70
Hardy Thomsik '70
Uno Sietins '70
Charles Weeks '70
Lawrence Phillips '70
Eric Weaver '71
Dierk Hagemann '71
Michael Herbert '71
Jeffrey Davis '71
William Funk '71
Clifford Meyers '71
Keith Sanders '71
Wayne Walvoord '71
William Hayes '71
Alyton Vasconcelles '71
Brian Derby '71
Aaron Yung '71
George Howard '71
Robert SchoUe '71
Dennis Orio '71
Dan Sharpley '71
James Kohl '71
Phillip Strongin '71
Dewey Cady '71
Thomas Robinson '71
Robert Betette '71
Lee Baker '71
Gregory Ford '71
Jon Dwinell '71
Ed Auble '72
Gary Gasson '72
Joseph Piela '72
Stephen Badenhop '72
Robert McBride '72
John Anderson '72
William Scheer '72
Christine Topoulos '72
Daniel Thies '72
Ralph Carp '72,
George Wilson (Special)
Gordon Bullock (Special)
William -D. Hacker (Special)
TOTAL CONTRmUTIONS: $9,619.79 PERIOD: 7/1/72 - 3/1/73
A gift to the Alumni Fund is an indication not only of your pride and confidence in Thunderbird, but your desire to
be a part of its future growth and success. Again, we thank those who are listed on the Century Club Roster and on the Honor
Roll of Contributors, and we hope that the list of donors and total contributions will double in size by the time the next issue
of the alumni publication goes to press.
LET US ALL JOIN TOGETHER AND MAKE 1973 THE BIGGEST YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE' THUNDERBIRD
ALUMNI FUND. If your company has a Gift Matching Program please remember to include the completed gift matching form
with your contribution.
GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS
INCREASE
The following companies and individ­uals
have made substantial contribu­tions
to Thunderbird's general fund
since the beginning of the 19'72'-73 fiscal
year:
AFIA Worldwide Insurance, American
Airlines, Arizona Public Service, Armco
International, Camelback Inn, Cargill
Foundation, Carnation Company, Chase
Manhattan Bank Foundation, Chrysler
Corporation Fund, The Clayton Fund,
Colgate-Palmolive Company, Combined
Communications . Cor p ., Continental
Grain Company, Cynamid International,
Dun & Bradstreet International, East­man
Kodak Company, Mrs. Laurence B.
Emmons, First National City Bank, Mr.
Edwin J . Foltz, Campbell Soup Com­pany,
Ford Meter Box Company, Fuller
Foundation, Gainey Foundation, General
Tire International Company, Johnson's
Wax Fund, Mrs. Thelma Kieckhefer,
Marine Midland Bank, Mellon National
Bank & Trust Company, Masco Corpo­ration,
McConnell Foundation, Northern
Trust Company, Olin Corporation, Mr.
Edward V. O'Malley, Mr. John C. Pritz­laff,
Ramada Inns, Sears Roebuck &
Company, Snell & Wilmer. Tozer Foun­dation,
Ina., VaHey National Bank,
Wilbur-Ellis, Young & Rubicam.
EDITORS VISIT CAMPUS
On November 8, 9' and 10', Thunderbird
hosted editors from various national
publications. Their visit was arranged
by PRR International, the School's pub­lic
relations counseL
The guest list included representatives
from Nation's Business, Export, and
Financial Executives. ---
A second team of editors visited campus
the fir st week of March and represented
Industry Wee k , Sales Management,
World P etroleum, New York Post,
FInancial Executive, EX p '()';t, News­front,
United Press International, and
Chemical !!:E Engineering News.
During their stay the editors visited
with students, faculty and staff, and
attended various classes.
THUNDERBIRD EXPERIMENTS
WITH WINTERIM SESSION
One hundred forty-seven students par­ticipated
in Thunderbird's first win­terim
session in January.
Courses were offered in all three de­partments,
Modern Languages, Inter­national
Studies and World Business.
The courses were intensive with classes
being held four days each week, each
subject requiring two 75 minute periods
a day. In addition to the regular courses,
many students used the winterim for
special research projects in marketing
and finance.
The winterim is part of the new 4-1-4
semester system, which Thunderbird
adopted this academic year. The system
consists of two four month semesters
separated by a one month winterim.
Thunderbird is one of several private
colleges in the country experimenting
with the short, intensive one month
winter semester.
Simulation games utilizing computers
are used for Economics, Management
Decision, Marketing and Accounting
courses in the World Business Depart­ment.
For example, the simulation game
in Management Decision uses the com­puter
to simulate a small industry in
which there are a few companies manu­facturing
and selling a single product.
Students are organized into teams which
operate their hypothetical companies in
competition with each other.
Dr. J ohn Drake, Chairman of the World
Business Department, plans to make
the simulation game courses a perma­nent
part of the curriculum. He feels
that computers will become a necessary
tool for the executive of the future.
These new courses will teach Thunder­bird
students how to use the computer
effectively as an aid in making sound
business decisions.
AMA SPONSORS
OPERATION ENTERPRISE
An open forum, designed to acquaint
educators with new concepts in business
management and explore solutions to
administrative problems, was sponsored
by the American Management Associa­tions
at Thunderbird from January 7-19.
The program is part of AMA's "Opera­tion
Enterprise" program and is the
counterpart of a simultaneous confer­ence
for college students that wascon­ducted
at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg,
Florida, on January 3-26. Faculty from
16 colleges and universities attended the
13,-day educator conference being. taught
by leading business executives, Thun­derbird
faculty members and AMA rep­resentatives.
Schools with faculty who attended the
special conference are: Memphis State
University, New Mexico State Unive'r­sity,
Texas Technological College, Uni­versity
of Puget Sound, University of
the Pacific, University of Kansas,
Southern Illinois University, Utah State
University, Cleveland State University,
Tulane University, University of mi­nois,
Depauw University, Arizona State
University, Westmont College, Boston
College and Dickinson College.
CARRILLO NAMED TO
EDUCATION
COMMITTEE OF
ARIZONA-MEXICO COMMISSION
Dr. Bert Carrillo '62, Associate Professor
of Spanish, has been named a member
of the Education Committee of the
Governor's Arizona-Mexico Commission.
The Commission, formerly known as the
Arizona-Mexico West Coast Trade Com­mission,
was originally oriented toward
trade and commerce, but has now ex­panded
into the areas of public health,
education, agriculture and livestock,
tourism, art and culture and banking
and finance.
Dr. Carrillo's appointment will extend
through 1973.
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THUNDERBIRDS AID
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
A high degree of coordination was
reached by relief agencies working in
the Nicaragua earthquake disaster area.
Principal among these agencies was
Catholic Relief Services which immedi­ately
set up numerous relief centers
outside Managua. Heading the Nicara­gua
CRS was STEVE OrrTO, a 1966
graduate of Thunderbird, CRS represen­tative
for Nicaragua.
Steve visited campus a couple of weeks
before the earthquake on the first lap
of his home leave, and was recalled to
the area to assist in relief efforts. He
was' joined by CRS representatives from
Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador.
CRS delivered over nine million pounds
of food to Nicaragua, much of it trans­shipped
from nearby La,tin American
countries. About 390,000 pounds of
clothing arrived from CRS centers in
Brooklyn, New York, and El Salvador;
also 1,000 cartons of survival biscuits,
1,000,000 water purification tablets and
200 first-aid kits.
OLLIE JAKOB '70 of the 529th Military
Intelligence Unit at Fort Hood, Texas,
served with the 2'lst Evacuation Hospi­tal
for two weeks. He was attached to
the hospital as a Spanish interpreter/
translator, and worked in the emergency
rooms interpreting for American docto·rs.
"The things I saw, the damage, and the
random destruction was unbelievable.
I really felt sorry for them and was sure
glad I had an opportunity to be there
and help in any little way possible,"
comments Ollie. "The people were down
but not out. It was tough leaving on
such short notice the day before Christ­mas,
but it was worth it. I was proud
to be there and proud of the Army. All
America should be proud of the out­standing
job the Army did to help. Nic­araguans
were sure proud of us and
appreciated all our help."
WITCHER NAMED PRESIDENT
DAN WITCHER '50
has ass u m e d re­sponsibilities
as President of Up­john
International
Inc., international
pharmaceutical firm
which has subsidia­ries
in 36 countries
including 13 manu­facturing
units in 11
countries.
Following gradua­tion
from Thunder­bird
in 19,50, Dan joined Sterling Drug
Company as a supervisor in Rio de
Janerio, Brasil, where he rose to the
position of District Manager with head­quarters
in Sao Paulo. In 19'56, he was
named Manager -of the Brasilian sub­sidiary
of Mead Johnson & Company, a
position he held until he joined Upjohn
in 1960 as Area Manager of Latin
America.
Four years later he was named Manager
and Vice President of the Company's
Latin American Division and transferred
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to the head office in Kalamazoo, Michi­gan.
In 1967. he was made Vice Presi­dent
of the Far East Division, and in
1971 was promoted to Group Vice Presi­dent
and assigned responsibility for all
of Latin America and all areas of the
Far East in which Upjohn is active.
Dan and his wife and their four children
reside in Portage, Michigan.
KNORR NAMED VICE PRESIDENT
OF KIRSCH
At a recent meeting
of the shareholders
of the Kirsch Com­pan
y in Sturgis,
Michigan, ROBERT
J. KNORR, Class of
June 1951, was
named internation­al
Vice President.
He joined Kirsch in
1954 and was for­merly
director of
the international
d i v is ion of the
Company. He is married and the father
of two children.
Kirsch is the world's largest manufac­turer
of drapery hardware and markets
a variety of other home furnishing
oriented products. The Company has
worldwide distribution and maintains
24 fully stocked branch offices through­out
the U.S., and has permanent sales
showrooms in New York, Chicago and
Dallas.
WARRENS BACK IN AUSTRALIA
"It's g rea t to be
back in Australia,"
says BOB WARREN,
new 1 y appointed
President of Bendix
Corporation Aus­tralia
pty. Limited.
The Warrens recent­ly
returned to
Australia following
several years resi­dence
in M e x i c 0
City.
Bob began his, in,..
ternational career after graduation in
February 1955 with the North American
Insurance Company, and was assigned
to the Philippines. A few years later
he joined Electric Storage Battery Cor­poration
and for the next six and a half
years was managing director of its over­seas
affiliates in Panama, Colombia and
Venezuela.
Back in 1965, he joined Bendix and
after a year's orientation in the States
and Latin America, he was appointed
Project Manager of Bendix Corporation
of Australia's new A.D.F. project at
the Rockdale plant.
Two years later he was on the move
again, this time to Mexico to serve as
President and General Manager of the
company's Mexican affiliate, Frenomex,
S.A. Four years· later, he was made
President of a new' Mexican subsidiary,
Bendix Mexicana, S·.A. In this capacity,
he was responsible for establishing a
multi-million dollar plant where all
types of Bendix products are manu­factured
for export to the U.S.
BOB and RUTH have three children -
Robyn, aged 16, born in the Philippines,
10-year-old Margot, born in Colombia,
and Mark, now aged seven, who was
born in the United States between as­signments.
Bob manages to take time out from his
busy schedule to keep up his golf and
on a recent trip to the Bendix Manage­ment
Conference in Florida, he shot a
net 68 on a par 72 course.
AROU N D TH E WORLD
1947 JOE JOLLY has been trans­ferred
to Indonesia by Ameri­can
Overseas Petroleum, Ltd.,
as Relations Advisor. This is the same
position he held in his previous assign­ment
in Libya .. . HERB LINDSTROM
of Oxon Hill, Maryland, Marketing Man­ager-
Italy and Greece for the U.S.
Department of Commerce, was recently
Director of a very successful U.S. print­ing
equipment trade mission to Spain
and Switzerland. Wife, MARIOLYN, is
employed by Galaxy Inc., a firm of
international management consultants
. .. In the last issue of THE THUNDER­BIRD
we mentioned that FLO MERVIS'
1972 Summer jaunt took her to Yugo­slavia
and East and West Germany,
however, we neglected to include her
"wonderful" 4-day visit with FRED
KOPPL '52 and his "charming" wife,
NORA, in Heidelberg.
1948 JOHN HENSON of USA I D
has been assigned to Vietnam
as Advisor to Central Logistics
Agency, and writes: "We couldn't stand
Washington for more than a year, where
I was on rotation assignment, following
three years in Djakarta. So, when Sai­gon
requested, we accepted. Arrived
here on September 1, for a two year
tour. Joined BILL FUNKS '71 for a
Thunderbird get-together last month.
Many Thunderbirds, and fun." . , , BOB I
BEAN and his charming wife, ALIC E, I
of Chicago visited the Valley of the Sun \
over the Christmas Holidays. This was
Bob's first trip back to Thunderbird
since graduation. At Sky Ha·rbor Air­port
in Phoenix he ran into KARL
KLOMANN '47, who is a practicing
attorney in Chicago.
1949 The MARV ARMSTRONGS of
Santa Monica, California, re­port:
"EMMY LOU has her
masters in Spanish and is teaching at
UCLA. We're boat freaks and spend
most of our leisure time crusing up and
down the coast. The kids are all grown
and working-Cathy, who spent a lot
of time crawling around the Thunder­bird
pool at the age of six months is
now twenty-five." Marv is General
Man age r, Reprographics Division of
Continental Graphics in Los Angeles
. . . A couple of years ago, WALT and
PHYL LEONARD gave up their Phoe ­nix
insurance business and concentrated
on free lance writing and photography.
Their subjects cover everything from
Aztec featherwork to sailboating spurs,
and to date they have sold 85 illustrated
articles. On January 31, the Leonards
celebrated their 25th wedding annivers­ary
. .. The KEN MILLERS of Warren,
Ohio, have had another busy year-still
active in little theater groups, still trav­eling
here and there on business and
pleasure trips, etc. Their son RANDY,
a current studen.t at Thunderbird, has
received the Bronze Star Medal for
outstanding meritorious service in Viet­nam.
1950 SIBBY BUCCHERI, of Stam­ford.
Connecticut, who has been
employed by Bendix Interna­tional
for the past eighteen years, has
been appointed Manager of Automotive
Original Equipment Sales. The ne,w
position was created as part of l?en?lX
International's planned reorgaruzatlOn
to meet the ever increasing Bendix auto­motive
OEM equipment demands of U.S.
multi-national firms and of foreign car
and commercial vehicles and off- the­road
construction machinery equipment
manufacturers . . . WARREN ALGEO
is Sales Development Manager for Dia­mond
Shamrock Chemical Company in
Cleveland, Ohio . .. FRED PARMEN­TIER
has joined the insurance firm of
Rollins Burdick Hunter Company as
Vice President of the International Di­vision.
He is based in the Chicago office.
HUPMAN PROMOTED
JOHN N. HUPMAN
'52 has been named
to the new position
of manager, safety,
health and security
for Cooper Tire &
Rubber Company's
Findlay, (0 hi 0 )
plant. In addition
to his new duties
he will be the plant
liasion coordinator
for 0 S H A regula­tions.
John spent five years on overseas as­signments
in South Africa, Manila. and
Mexico City for Firestone InternatlOnal
before join'ing Cooper in 1960 as finish­ing
department manager. From 1968 to
1971, he was on special assignment. In
1971, he was named shift superintend­ent,
the position he held until his recent
promotion.
John and his wife, Vaneda, have two
children and reside at 929 South Main
Street in Findlay.
1952 MARRIAN GLEASON, widow
of ED GLEASON, of Wellesley,
Massachusetts, writes: "0 u r
daughter Julia (17) is a freshman at
Bryn Mawr and a National Merit
Scholar. Son Edward is almost as large
as his father was. He is at Middlesex
(where he concentrates on soccor, base­ball,
hockey. squash, tennis and socializ­ing).
The children spent the summer
in Scotland and England. I received a
degree from Boston University in De­cember
1970 in anthropology, but I
shall not be competing with Margaret
Mead since my field of concentration
was prehistory. Have been SUbstitute
teaching sciences and social studies in
local schools and looking for a job in
research. Had expected to see JIM
BAST ABLE this year, but he did not
come East. This year I hope to see JIM,
LOU and LIZ PELLIGRINI in New
Haven, and TED HARPHAM, who ex­pected
to return with his family to the
States." . . . Following 19 years of
almost constant overseas living LOIS
ALBERTS RADER has settled in Boul­der,
Colorado and, on a few occasions,
has "reunioned" with the WINSTON
DUNLAVEYS both in Boulder and
Esterville, Iowa . . . CAL O'NEAL
writes from Vienna, Austria: "Both our
children are attending an Austrian ele­mentarv
school and are bi-lingual. We
are building a house on the edge of the
Vienna Woods and continue to spend
August on Elba and to ski during the
winter in Corinthia or Tyrel. Last year
I was promoted and obtained full dip­lomatic
status." Cal is Chief, Contracts
Administration Section, of the Inter­national
Atomic Energy Agency.
LAMBERTS TAKE TO THE RAILS
"Who would ever take a train trip from
San Jose, California, to the Guatemala
border and call it a vacation?" asks
JOHN LAMBERT '53. That is just what
the Lamberts, John, Nancy and daugh­ter,
Gina, experienced last year, travel­ing
some 7,600 miles by rail. Of course,
they had many misgivings before they
undertook the trek, however, they
wanted to use their rusty Spanish and
also see the Maya Indian Country, so
off they went.
They spent Christmas in Merida and
New Year's Eve (which turned out to
be a rip-roarin' party complete with
pinatas, bubbling champagne-like sidra,
singing, dancing, etc.), somewhere in
the Chihuahua desert. Highlighting the
trip was the ten-piece mariachi band in
Vera Cruz, the leisurely tour of Merida
in a horse-drawn carriage, the mag­nificent
and mysterious Maya ruins,
topped off by Mexico City in holiday
regalia.
Their fellow tourists included teachers,
social w 0 r k e r s, engineers, artists,
preachers, railroad buffs, and a dentist
from Chicago, who luckily carried a few
tools of the trade and pulled the aching
molar of one of the crew members.
They report that accommodations were
adequate, in spite of the bathless bath­rooms,
the food was excellent (because
the chef had cooked for former Presi­dent
Diaz Ordaz) and the whole deal,
including meals, hotels and bus tours
came to 9 cents a mile.
1953 GEORGE BENZON of Pomona,
California, visited campus in
December and we spent an in­teresting
hour discussing the good old
days at Thunderbird. This was one of
George's rare visits to the Valley and
our conversation was mostly confined
to the members of the February and
June 1953 Classes. The following even­ing
CHAUNCEY BAILEY called him
from Los Angeles. He was in the States
for three weeks with the Buenos Aires
Aeros Junior Soccer team of which he
is coach. They planned to play two
games in Los Angeles, then on to San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle, New York
and Washington, D.C. . . . GEORGE
PETRABORG reports from St. Cloud,
Minnesota: "Our family owned business
of 43 years is now in the process of
selling out. I'm too young to retire so
have given serious thought to taking
up a foreign trade career." . .. SAMMY
NEBLETT's 13 years as a traveling au­ditor
came to a full stop early this year.
He is currently working at the IBM
WTC headquarters in Manhattan and
maintaining an apartment in Queens.
His 1972 travel was a brief vacation to
Amsterdam and London, plus occasional
weekends in Florida.
1954 KERMIT ADAMS, Program Di­rector
of California State Poly­technic
Foundation reports:
"Coordinating with Ministry of Agri­culture
of Guatemala to provide agri­cultural
technician support for vegetable,
crop, livestock, fruit production, and
forestry agricultural mechanics. This
program is in its 6th year and has been
selected by USAID as one of two in the
Western Hemisphere (and of 5 in the
world) for an Institutional Development
Agreement Contract." ... DAVE BUR­GER
writes from Chinle, Arizona: "Nav­ajo
Nation development problem exactly
fits my hideously abstract doctoral dis­sertation.
Am currently working out
economic consequences of moving Nava­jo
Community College to new Tsaile
Lake Campus."
NEWLYWEDS TOM and MARlA ISA­BEL
BARNETT were married on Jan­uary
19th aboard the yacht, Miss Florida
in Miami Harbor, and honeymooned i~
Acapulco and various parts of New
Mexico, before returning to Rio where
Tom ('55) is President of Gram Publi­tRade
advertising age~cl'
Uq do CJuf/ldo') !o °t1Jz a
.73::<" - ;;?,,Z... ? .2- 11
1955 AL MONKS, Assistant Profes­sor
of Education and Research
at the University of Wyoming,
reports that he has made several trips
to the USSR and plans another for the
near future ... JACK and ANN LOCK­LEDGE
and their three sons of Canton,
Pennsylvania, spent a part of their 1972
summer vacation in Mexico. They flew
to Colorado and made the rest of the
trip in a borrowed Toyota. Jack, with
dictionary in hand, brushed up on his
Spanish but Ann admits she never got
past the listening stage .. . RUTH BILL
is back in Miami, Florida, again and
trying to adapt to working the night
shift at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Daughter DIANE completed her nurses
training at the University of Florida,
and in 1971 married a doctor she met
there. Currently Dr. and Mrs. Francis
Lim are with the Air Fo·rce in Hawaii.
Son JIM now 27 has been working for
Univac in Philadelphia since graduating
from Carnegie-Mellon University in '6·8.
1956 WALT GILLIS has returned to
the States from Malta and he
has accepted a position as legal
counsel for Kewanee Oil Company,
which' will involve some overseas travel­ing.
The Gillises are living in King of
Prussia, Pennsylvania ... BILL ROD­GERS
of USAID writes from Brasil:
"After being in Rio de Janeiro for three
years we were transferred to the capi­tal,
Brasilia. Brasilia is growing rapidly
and is becoming the center of govern­mental
activity. We have a nice home
overlooking the lake, and live here
with our two high school age daughters.
Our son, now a junior in college in
New York, spent a few weeks with us
in August after summer school in Sego­via,
Spain."
NEW CITIBANK BRANCH
FIRS.T NAT'IONAL
CITY BANK cele­brated
its 7·0th year
of s e r vic e in the
Philippines by offi­cially
0 pen i n g a
new branch at 319
Buendia Avenue in
Makati. Prominent
i nth e Philippine
banking operatjons
is Vic e President
SAM ESTA­BROOKS,
Thunder-bird
'58. Sam joined
FNCB shortly after graduation and
served in Japan and Hong Kong before
being assigned to the Philippines in 1971.
1957 "We're paddling our way to
the USA for our once every
three year home leave!" write
the MARK WHITCRAFTS of Bangkok.
"Mark just received the news, he is
to be participant in the 65th session of
the Harvard University Advance Man­agement
Program. He will have to live
in the dorm on the Gambridge campus,
so the rest of us have decided to stay
in Hawaii." With an eye to the future,
the Whitcrafts have invested in land on
the Islands . . . The JOHN GILBERTS
of Cincinnati had another busy year~
a three week European vacation for
Mom and Dad while the two grand­mothers
did the baby-sitting, an a11-
12
together family vacation at Lake Le­lanau,
Michigan, a fire .in their basement
which caused the family to flee into
the night, and as a climax to an already
exciting year-son JEFF, and freshman
at Miami University. accidentally shot
himself. "The 22 bullet passed through
his left wrist - missing all the veins,
arteries, etc., and on into his chest,
again missing all vital organs. and is
still lodged in his left armpit. Doctors
said to leave the bullet in and Jeff
heartily agreed."
AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIST
ASSIGNED TO TURKEY
RAYMOND ANDERSON '57 of Tucson,
recently spent three months in Turkey,
where he served as a livestock consult­ant
specializing in foreign development.
Ray was on assignment for the Univer­sity>
of Arizona and joined Dr. John
Fischer, also of UA, who is on a two­year
assignment as consultant to the
planning division of the Ministry of
Agriculture in Turkey. Current agri­cultural
planning emphasizes livestock
development.
UA maintains personnel in that Country
under financial sponsorship of the
United States foreign aid program. Ray
previously served with the UA group in
Brazil, as well as with private firms and
development banks in other Latin
American countries, Africa and the
Middle East.
1958 Following four years in Taiwan
and Okinawa with Foremost
Dairies, the GERRY KELLEYS
were transferred to Bangkok several
months ago, where he is managing Di­rector
for the Company's Thailand op­erations
... A Christmas letter from
PETE and HARRIET VOS reports:
"This year we're a long way from
that 'tropical paradise' which we so en­joyed
last year! Yes, instead of swaying
palm trees in the warm sunshine, we
look through frosty windows at snoW­laden
maples, groaning in the wind!
But even with Nebraska's justified rep­utation
for long, hard winters, we' are
very glad and thankful to be here."
Returning to States from Bangkok, they
embarked on a real adventure, seeing
everything they could along the way.
"We started in Nepal, a most primitive
but interesting country, nestling in the
Himalayas, and even saw Mt. Everest.
Then on to India - Delhi and to Agra
and the T'aj Mahal, for a sight we will
never forget. Then on to Teheran with
its gleaming mosaic minarets framing
snow-capped mountains, Lebanon with
its ancient Phoenician ruins, Cairo -
the pyramids and the Sphinx, Istanbul
and the. mosques, and Athens, giving
another glimpse into the past. Yugo­slavia
- the old walled city of Du­brovnik
and the Dalmatian Coast, then
Rome with its timeless beauty, Paris
and its charm, and then to Holland. We
spent two months there, seeing lo,ts of
new places as well as familiar ones,
and enjoyed being with relatives ." The
Voses are currently in Omaha, Nebraska,
and Peter (having left Scott Paper)
is waiting for the right opportunity to
come along.
BUCKY BUCKWALTER TIC FOR
SEATTLE SUPERSONICS
Sports minded Thunderbirds, especially
those of the May '5,9' Class, must know
that the much talked about and con­troversial
BUCKY BUCKWALTER of
the Seattle Supersonics is the same
Morris Binns Buckwalter who attended
TGSIM back in 195>8-59.
Most recently head basketball coach
for Seattle University, Bucky has been
given the unique title of Temporary
Interim Coach of the Seattle team, but
has no real clue as to his final destina­tion
in the Sonic scheme.
Born in a small Utah town, one of
Bucky's first dreams was to dance like
Gene Kelley of the movies, and later
he decided to become a lawyer and
obtained a bachelor's degree in political
science. Then came a service commit­ment,
followed by a BFT from Thunder­bird.
This led to an offer from First
National City Bank in New York, which
would have taken him to Mexico City
as a bank representative.
Before he could accept the offer his
father asked him to help on a family
ranch in Utah. He had earned the nick­name
of Bronco Busting Bucky during
his sophomore year in high school when
he went to work on his dad's 40:,000 acre
ranch near Helena, Montana.
Finally deciding that ranching was not
his cup O'f tea, Bucky accepted an assis­tant
coaching job at the University of
Utah, and later moved on to the Seattle
University to become head basketball
coach.
What the future holds for Bucky is
indefinite. You'll have to follow the
sports' pages for the answer.
MARTIN '59 PROMOTED TO VP
GEORGE E. MARTIN has been named
a Vice President in the international
inspection department of the Comp­trollers
Division of the First National
City Bank.
George joined FNCB after graduating
from Thunderbird in June 19,59. In 1964,
he was named a senior inspector and
made an assistant cashier two years
later. In 1967, he was promoted to as­sistant
comptroller and currently super­vises
international inspection activities
in the Asia-Pacific area, headquartered
in Hong Kong.
1959 SAM KELLER, former assis­tant
vice president of the
Crocker National Bank in San
Francisco, has accepted a position with
the Department of State . . . BART
HARTZELL writes: "I thought it was
about time to bring you up to date on
my whereabouts. At the end of last
January Boeing transferred us from
Bogota, Colombia, back to Seattle. I am
now in an Airline Maintenance Engi­neering
group. We assist both beginning
and established airlines who have Boe­ing
equipment with their maintenance
programs. Our assistance involves a
fair bit of travel, as there are numerous
airlines around the world wh.o have
B.oeing planes. In August, I traveled to
Kathmandu. Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur,
Singap.ore and Hong K!.ong in order to
visit 3 airlines in that part of the
world. In October. I was in Copenhagen,
Frankfurt. Beirut. Jeddah, Mogadiscio,
and Addis Ababa visiting 3 Middle
East-African airlines. Both Of these
trips were quite interesting as I had
never be€n in the Middle East, Africa
or the Far East before. Since returning
from my last trip, I have been assigned
to assemble maintenance planning in­formation
for People's Republic of China
(Peking), who have purchased 10 707
airplanes fr.om Boeing. As there is a
good possibility I could be traveling
to Peking this year, 1. have started
taking an evening c.ourse in Mandarin
Chinese." The Hartzells have moved
into a new home in Bellevue.
HUME NAMED VICE PRESIDENT
S TE WAR T O.
HUME '60 has been
prom.oted to Vic e
President in the
Multinational Divi­sion
of Ban k of
America's Interna­tional
Banking De­partment.
I n his
new post, he will
administer c red i t
and marketing ac­tivities
of sen i 0 r
field officers ser-vicing
major mul­tinational
clients around the gl.obe.
After serving a number of years in the
internati.onal division .of First Nati.onal
City of New York, including a f.our year
assignment in Sa.o Paul.o, Stu joined
Bank of America in 1966 as an assistant
cashier. He was promoted to assistant
vice president in mid-1969, and in May
'71 he was transferred t.o the Multi­national
Division.
1960 Following nine years in South
America and tw.o and a half
years in Southeast Asia GERRY
KANGAS has been assigned t.o Suva, as
Manager .of the Fiji Islands operations
of First Nati.onal City Bank . .. DAN
ISHIBASHI is Planning Manager f.or
Max Factor K.K. in Toky.o . . . The ART
MISNERS are still enjoying life in the
Philippines where ART is General Man­ager
for Rohm and Haas. Char writes:
"I have been Chairman of a hospital
fund-raising campaign and published a
cookbook f.or them to sell. ART is busy
with w.ork and still finds teaching
graduate business courses at Ateneo
University quite stimulating. We see
YVES and BILL YE COCK from time
to time and in October enjoyed a pleas­ant
weekend at their beach house with
them and PETE and MARY BURGESS.
The latter arrived in Manila in July.
MARY and I met at the hairdressers
.one day and she said 'I kn.ow :vou from
Thunderbird.' I wasn't thinking about
them being in this part of the world as
I thought they were still in Latin
America. Really is a small world."
1961 TOM and MARGARET Mc­WILLIAMS
have moved to the
Bay Area where he has been
a ssigned as Vice President and Manager
of the San Francisco International Di­vision
of Security Pacific National Bank
. . . BO BOWMAN was recently named
District Sales Manager of Lees.ona Cor­poration
and has established offices in
Osaka, Japan, with responsibility f.or
sales activities covering Japan, K.orea,
Taiwan and Hong Kong. Prior to join­ing
Leesona he was Pacific Regional
Manager for Hobart Brothers, A. G.
headquartered in Amsterdam . . . Fol­lowing
ten years .of overseas living,
the GEORGE ARMENTAS [,ave trans­ferred
t.o Chicago where he will serve
as Manager of the International Devel­opment
Division of The Quaker Oats
C.ompany .. . BOB and BETSY FETNER
and their two children, formerly .of the
Virgin Islands, have been assigned to
Panama by Chase Manhattan Bank. Bob
is second vice president of the Bank's
Panama operati.ons.
1962 CHUCK and ELAINE ALEX­ANDER
and two children re­turned
to England in the Fall
of 1971. where he is a Vice President
of the Manufacturers Han.over Trust
Company in London .. . The MANNY
BALLESTERO'S write from Madrid:
"Back .overseas again. This time to
sunny Spain t.o head up Lorillard's
Iberian operation. OLE!" . . . DR.
RICHARD CARTER has transferred
from the FederaI Reserve Bank of
Cleveland t.o the Department of Com­merce
in Washington. His present as­signment
calls for extensive research
on current analysis of Balance of Pay­ments
and methods of improving c.ol­lecti.
on of BOP data . . . We are happy
to report that Tim, the young son of
the GENE METLERS .of Orem, Utah,
is satisfactorily recovering from a rare
bone disease. The Metlers keep busy
with their motel rentals, and this past
year GENE was elected President of
an apartment owners association in
the Provo-Orem area. He recently com­pleted
a four-year term in the BYU
76th Ward Bishopric, and is an Advisor
for 26 Explorer Scouts . . . A new
Year's Eve package was delivered to
the CHUCK NIEMANNS in Quito, Ecua­dor.
Erika Signe arrived at 10. p.m.,
weighing in at 6 pounds 12 ounces.
Chuck is Care Director-Ecuador .. . GUY
STILLMAN writes from Hawi, Hawaii:
"We have 85 acres and are in the process
of converting the land from sugar cane
to diversified agricultural use. Our
house, shop and storage area is nearly
complete, and we have a five-year
plan for production." ... WALLY
SANBORN has accepted a position as
Southwest District Sales Manager for
the MUD CAT Division of National Car
Rental System, based in Houston, Texas
. . . CONNIE WILKINSON is attending
Los Angeles College of Law and with
his bride, the former Patricia Jo Tipton,
is living in North Hollywood .. . PHIL
VOSBURGH resigned from the Mennen
Company several months ago and has
joined Eutectic Corporation as Vice
President-International Division. Eutec­tic
is a leading producer of speciality
welding materials.
FLORIDA NAMED MANAGING
DIRECTOR OF J. WALTER
THOMPSON PERUANA
On March 1st, JOHN
FLORIDA assumed
the responsibilitie's
of Managing Direc­-
tor of J. Wa I t e r
Thompson Peruana,
and will be' head­quartered
at the
company's branch
office in Lima.
He returned t.o the
New York .office in
W71 and was pro-moted
to Vice Pres­ident
following a seven year assignment
in Buenos Aires.
A member of the January 1962 grad­uating
Class, John was the recipient
of both the Barton Kyle Yount Memorial
and the Alfred Knight Scholarship
Awards, and was a member of the win­ning
advertising team.
HOFFOWER NAMED VICE
PRESIDENT
PAUL M. HOFFOWER '63 has recently
been appointed t.o a vice presidency in
Hutchins Advertising Division of Hut­chins/
Darcy Inc., a Rochester, New
York, based advertising and public re­lations
agency .
Paul joined J . Walter Thompson in New
York in the summer of 196,3 as a trainee
and assistant account executive. He
joined Compt.on Advertising as an ac­count
executive in 1966,.
In 1969, he accepted a positi.on with
Hutchins Advertising as an account
executive. In this capacity he handles
accounts such as Curtis-Burns and Star
Supermarkets for which he successfully
solves many advertising and sales pro­motion
problems.
He is a member of Marketing Communi­cati.
ons Executive International and
Grocery Manufacturers of America.
Paul and his wife, Margaret, and their
two children reside at Taunton Gap,
Fairport, New York.
1963 TOR FOLKEDAL has been
named President of the Chicago
branch of First National City
Bank. He was formerly Resident Vice
President .of the Bank's Korean opera­tions
. . . GARY W ES T .of Sterling
Products writes: "I was transferred
back to Costa Rica after eight months
in EI Salvad.or where I was with our
regional office. Now I'm back at our
Dorothy Gray factory. I see LEX
CREAMER '62 often and from time to
time stay at his place in Tegucigalpa
where he raises pigs, chickens and
ducks. Spent two and a half months on
vacation and visited HEN R Y and
KAREN VIGOR in Mexico City for a
week." ... MARC GILMORE has been
named an Assistant Vice President of
13
FNCB's international banking group and
has moved to the New York office fol­lowing
eight years in Peru and Ecuador.
The Gilmores live in Stamford. Con­necticut
. . . ERNIE MOORE reports
from England: "LOIS and I, and our
20-month-old adopted son Geoffrey, are
fine. Am now in business for myself­opening
party shops throughout Europe
-having left Hallmark on good terms
in August. Everything is moving very
well and I am pleased to be on my own."
... MEL HERTZ has been promoted
to Manager, Personnel Services, of the
First National Bank in Albuquerque.
JOANNE was New Mexico State Press
Director for the Nixon Campaign, which
she claims was one of the most exciting
and fascinating endeavors of her career
... A few months ago, BRUCE BARBER
accepted an offer as Director of In­vestment
Planning and Research for
Bamerical International Financial Cor­poration,
a subsidiary of the' Bank of
America. During the year, the BAR­BERS
vacationed in California and Colo­rado
and enjoyed a business-pleasure
trip to the Netherland Antilles, with side
excursions to Bonaire, Aruba, Vene­zuela,
Trinidad, Martinique, Puerto Rico,
Florida and then on to Panama.
1964 PETER de VRIES has joined
the international division of
American Home Products in
New York City . .. WARREN and
GILMA ALVERSON spent the Christ­mas
holidays in Peru with Gilma's
parents. The Alversons reside in Ridge­wood,
New Jersey, and W,arren is an
associate of Profit-Improvement, a New
York management consulting firm ...
The GARRY MOORES returned to the
States last Fall following 3, years in
Belgium and Spain for General Milk
Company, and were no more than
settled in the Los Angeles area when
they received word that they were to
be sent to Peru, where Garry will serve
as marketing manager for Leche Gloria,
S.A. Although the plant is located in
Arequipa, he will be working out of
the Lima district office . . . DON and
NORMA KRAVITZ and their two child­ren
have returned to Phoenix. As area
real estate representative for Food­maker,
Inc., Don is currently acquiring
sites for Arizona Jack-in-the-Box ex­pansion
. .. BOB ANDREWS writes:
"How time flies! In the nine years
since I left Thunderbird I spent seven
years in Latin America - working in
Venezuela and Mexico, and picking up
a Masters in Business Administration
from the University of the Americas
in Mexico City. I now work for U.S.
Steel Corporation and have been per­manently
assigned to Brazil" . .. T ANN
YONG left National Chemsearch several
months ago and has joined EssoChemi­cal.
He will remain in Bangkok.
1965 JOHN DATSOPOULOS is at­tending
a retail management
program in London. Upon com­pletion
of the one year course he will
be reassigned by Firestone. His tele­phone
number is 937-3613 and he
would be happy to hear from area
Thunderbirds . . . ALPO CRANE has
been promoted to assistant vice presi­dent
of the North Carolina National
Bank. The Cranes recently moved into
their new home in Charlotte . .. DON
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WHISMAN, formerly with the Vinnell
Corporation in Vietnam, has joined Sea­Land
Services. He will remain in Sai­gon
... JOAN GLADEN writes from
Frankfurt, Germany: "All is fine here
and we continue to enjoy living in
Europe. CRAIG is now a 2nd Vice Presi­dent
with Continental Bank. The little
ones seem to thrive on traveling. We
had a marvelous time in Chicago, Florida
and London this past Fall when we did
our bi-annual home leave." ... MERLE
HINRICHS, Managing Director of Trade
Media, Ltd., interviewed on campus in
December. He spent the holidays with
his parents in Nebraska before return­ing
to Hong Kong.
1966 BILL GRANT, executive vice
president of Grant Advertising
International in Chicago, re­cently
completed an intensive retail
training seminar sponsored by the Con­sumer
Markets Division of Eastman
Kodak Company at its Marketing Ed­ucation
Center in Rochester ... PERRY
MELTON joined General Tire & Rubber
Company in September, and has been
named production manager in the
4,000 unit a day tire manufacturing
plant in Porto, Portugal .. . Following
three years with Reader's Digest, JOSE
VILLARREAL joined the Mexico Gov­ernment
as Trade Commissioner of the
Mexican Embassy in Lima, Peru . . .
BOB MOORE, contracts specialist for
the Army & Air Force Exchange Service,
has been transferred from Vietnam to
the Okinawa Regional E'xchange . . .
BOB NORFLEET called a few months
ago to report that he was about to leave
on a trip to Argentina and from there
would go to Mexico on a six month's
assignment for Alberto Culver.
MOYNIER APPOINTED MANAGER
JOHN P. MOYNIER '67 has been ap­pointed
manager of Bank of America's
branch in Rotterdam, Holland. He
previously served for four years in the
Mexico-Canada Division, Bank of
America World Headquarters in San
Francisco, where he held the title of
Assistant Vice President.
Prior to his assignment with the Mexico­Canada
division, he served in the Latin
American area of the bank's interna­tional
department.
1967 PAUL DONNELLY writes from
Caracas: "In September 1972,
I made one of the most impor­tant
changes of my life. I formed a
company with a Venezuelan friend of
mine to control all his family's interest,
which amount to more than 60 com­panies
including a bank, leasing, finance,
credit card. real estate and insurance
companies. I love Venezuela, and I hope
to live here permanently." . .. F RED
CRAWFORD is Assistant Manager of
the F NCB branch in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia . . . CARL GONZALES and his
family are living in Morristown, New
J ersey, and he is employed by Cooper
Labs International . . . JOHN HALE
has been named Assistant Treasurer of
Chase Manhattan Bank's Panama opera-tions;
TED KYLE is a practicing attor­ney
d .b.a . Cain, Kyle, Helm & Britton
in Tempe, and JON LAUBSCHER is
an international banking officer for
Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chica,go
... EARL OMAN reports: "Just recently
left Firestone and joined The Deltona
Corporation in Coral Gables as Assist­tant
Director of Sales for Latin Ameri­ca
and the Far East. We look forward
to living in this area and invite our
friends from Thunderbird to stop in
and see us if they pass through. The
Omans reside at 1331 San Ignacio in
Coral Gables . . . ERIK FELKER is
employed by the Department of Social
Sciences in the Glendale. California,
area. As a "moonlight" job he teaches
English as a second language to a group
of adults.
LEWIS JOINS SMITH KLINE &
FRENCH
PETER W. LEWIS
'68 has joined Smith
Kline & F r e n c h
Laboratories as In­ternational
Product
Man age r for the
company's Interna,..
tional and Feed Ad­ditive
Operations,
Animal Health Pro­ducts
Division.
In his new position
Pet e r will coordi-nate
the introduc­tion
and marketing of new Animal
Health Products throughout the World.
Prior to joining the company he was
with the Coca-Cola Export Corporation
in Mexico, where he was National Ad­vertising
Manager for F ANT A.
Peter and his wife, the former Leticia
Vela, reside in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
1968 "Well, here we are in another
country and with another job
for LEE," writes BE C K Y
ALlSTON. "He is now Division B Su­perintendent
of the new Goodyear plant
start-up in Casablanca. We were in
France such a short time, tha,t it doesn't
seem we were there." . . . TYLER
WILSON has joined the Menlo Park,
California, office of Fox & Carskadon
Securities Corporation; NOR M M 1-
CHAUD is employed by Rande, Inc., in
Berthand, Colorado; DICK ZECKER is
District Travel Manager for American
Express in New York, and ROGER
RUPPE recently joined Markel Services
in Burlingame, California .. . The new­lyweds,
DAVE and LOUANNA LONG,
honeymooned in Penang and Nepal ...
BRIAN O'CONNOR reports from St.
Paul: "I'm almost half way through the
Seminary, and enjoy my studies in­mensely
and my new found vocation in
life. After all. how many Thunderbirds
have gone into the priesthood? I tried
calling TIM DOLAN in Caracas last
August but the line was busy. DAVE
MIDGLEY called me during the holi­days
from San Diego to say he is with
Maremont Corporation of Chicago, but
will be working in Cleveland." . . .
Since resigning from American Express,
GARY MOORE has taken a position
with the First National Bank of Arizona.
The Moores have purchased a new home
three miles from campus and are happy
to be back in the USA . . . JOHN
SCHUBERT is living aboard a beautiful
36' yacht in scenic Oceanside Harbor,
California, and is employed by Ocean­side
Marine Centre. You can find John
on Dock F ... JOHN KOEGH reports:
"As you already know, I left Grant
Advertising in Sao Paulo and accepted
a position in the international division
of the First National Bank of Miami.
We're happy to be back, but we do
miss Brasil and all our friends there."
· . . BOOKER WARREN, Southwest
Area Financial Manager for Scientific
Products Division of American Hospital
Supply Corporation, recently attended a
National Operations and Financial Man­agers
meeting in Key Biscayne. Florida,
and while there met' BOB SUTTON,
was is Operations Manager in Washing­ton,
D.C. Booker and his family live in
Arlington, Texas . . . As Sales Engineer
for Stewart and Stevenson Services
out of San Juan, Texas, BARRY BEYER
frequently travels through Central and
South America with emphasis on the
Andean group ... AL WILSON, a
newly-appointed Regional Sales Man­ager
for Whirlpool, has been doing
some extensive traveling through Cen­tral
and South America.
WILSON JOINS MORTGAGE
REAL ESTATE FIRM
MARK C. WILSON '69 has joined Son­nenblick-
Goldman Corporation of Texas
as Vice President. The firm is headquar­tered
in New York City and has 10 af­filiated
offices throughout the country.
In his new position, Mark will be re­sponsible
for the development of com­mercial
and industrial real estate loans
throughout the Gulf South and will be
headquartered in Houston.
Prior to joining Sonnenblick-Goldman,
he was assistant marketing manager for
Cameron Iron Works in Houston.
1969 DICK FREDRICKSON has been
named Manager of American
International Underwriters
(Santo Domingo) S.A. in the Dominican
Republic . . . BILL BARBEE left
ADELA Investment Company to accept
a post with Watson & Rae, gourmet
food processors, in San Jose, Costa Rico
· . . MIKE CONSIDINE has been pro­moted
to Assistant Manager-Credits of
the Panama Regional Office of Bank
of America; JOHN GILLETT is Man­aging
Director for Sea-Train Limited
in Sydney, Australia; JOHN HAGEN
has been promoted from Senior Analyst
to Supervisor of Pricing and Budgets
by American Motors, International Di­vision,
and REED NELSON is a USAID
Province Development Officer in Viet­nam
... DON HEDGPETH writes: "Back
in Hong Kong, after 5 months in New
York at home base. Seagram is a
super company, however, NYC was a
real downer. Now working with STE,IN
OWRE '67 at TMX Continental Ltd."
· .. SANDY STONE recently purchased
a condominium apartment in the Mira­mar
Section of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
His first social event was a going away
party for the MARTY McNAMARAS,
Who were leaving for a month's vacation
in Guatemala. Also attending the func­tion
were LUIS ATECA and CHUCK
FAIRMAN '70, both of Mobile Paint
Company in P.R. . . . Following two
years in Copenhagen, JOHN and
MARKA POLHEMUS were transferred
to Helsinki, Finland, where he has as­sumed
the responsibility of Area Man­ager
of Goodyear products . . . BOB
HUGHES writes from Singap0re: "I
left Union Carbide over a year ago and
am currently General Manager of E'x-Im
Hong Kong. Been traveUing extensively
through S.E. Asia, primarily Indonesia
and Thailand, and am away from home
base about 60% of the time." ... An
article written by BUD JOHNSON, ad­ministrative
assistant to the manager of
American International Underwriters
in Madrid, Spain, appeared in the Jan­uary
'73 issue of BUSINESS WORLD.
"In a Multi-National Company Oppor­tunities
Abound" gives Bob's views of,
and experiences with AIG, particularly
in Madrid. Entering the insurance busi­ness
was the farthest from Bob's mind
when he came to Thunderbird and his
story further relates why he chose AIG
for a career over numerous other offers
he received. Pictured in the same publi­cation
is JEAN PIDLLIZZA '72, BOB
BUDGE '72 and VINCE MASUCCI '71,
all of AIG . .. HOWARD PATTERSON
reports: "Presently, I am in charge of
inspections of First National City Bank's
various branches in India, and have
three other Thunderbirds working with
me. LARRY EDSTROM '70, VINCE
ZAMIS '70 and DON ERRETT' '72. His­torically,
culturally, politically fascinat­ing
as India may be, don't let anyone
try to kid you that Calcutta is as much
fun as say Hong Kong." .. .W ALT
ZAMUDIO is Sales Supervisor-Brazil
for Travenol Labs, based in San Paulo,
and BOB WILLIAMSON has been as­signed
to Continental Illinois Limited
in London as an international banking
officer.
GI RARD PROMOTED
BY MARINE MIDLAND
RALPH A. GIR­ARD,
JR., '69 has
been promoted to
International Bank­ing
Officer of Ma­rine
Midland Bank,
New York, and as­signed
to the do­mestic
finance divi­sion
of the bank's
international bank­ing
department.
1970 PHIL YOUNG has been pro­moted
to Assistant Treasurer,
International Division of Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York ...
GREG MAGEE, Officers Assistant,­Chemical
Bank New York Trust Com­pany,
spent the past year in Zurich,
Switzerland, doing credit analysis work.
He expects to return to the States in
April . . . JOHN and LAURIE MURPHY
were on campus in January while visit­ing
his mother in Tucson. They reported
that MARK WERTS is selling clothing
in Holland; JIM GRAVES is dealing in
real estate in the Phoenix area and
rooming with John's brother BILL in
Scottsdale. Bill is selling Redactr-on e-quipment
for PBSW in Phoenix. JOHN
ORTMAN, GARY GUNDERSON and
John formerly operated Orange Crate
Arts in San Francisco, however, John
and Gary left the company a short
time ago and now operate the Atlantis
Trading Compllny in the Bay Area. Th.e
company sells foam rubber creations­all
kinds of soft, cuddly, comfortable
furniture ... MARTY VOGT has been
promoted from Personnel Analyst to
Personnel Administrator by Ben d i x
International in New York; LARRY
PHILLIPPS is Life Manager for Ameri­can
International Life Assurance Co­mpany
in Guam; ROGFJR FRY has been
promoted to Money Management Officer
of Marine Midland Bank in Ney York,
and GARY DILLEY is assistant manager
of the First National Bank of Chicago
in Singapore . .. CHUCK WEEKS, New
Products Brand Manager for Colgate­Palmolive
in Mexico City, writes:
"Joanne is still teaching at Montessori.
The Director (an ex-priest) calls her
'Mother Superior' because she is always
going to bat for someone. Our kids are
both well and almost completely Mexi­canized.
Colgate keeps me pretty busy
and on the road often. We love it here!"
Joanne and their two children were
campus visitors during the holidays ...
DON MUSTON is Assistant Vice Presi­dent
and Assistant Branch Manager of
the Alaska State Bank in Fairbanks, ...
JOHN EVANS is employed as Manager
Future Sales/Purchasing for Interna­tional
Steel Company in Houston, and
GARY BURLEY has started a new ca­reer
as West Coast Sales Manager for
Tideland Signal Corporation. The Bur­leys
live in Concord, California . . .
After a two year stint in the Marketing­Advertising
Department at Procter
Gamble, GIL VILLAS ANTE has ac­cepted
a position with McCann Erickson
in Mexico City .. . BO SEIFERT' reports:
"As you know" I went to work for
Leo Burnett after graduation as a man­agement
trainee. Unfortunately, after
a year's training, I had to return to
Sweden, but I was lucky to find a
good position with a Swedish advertis­ing
agency. I started out as an Account
Executive with Caldjngs and today I
am Vice President of the Agency. It is
not a big company, but we are truly
international." . . . MEL BIBO has been
assigned to Lourenco Marques, Mozam­bique,
by Goodyear Intern,ational . . .
ALOYSIO VASCONCELLOS is a prac­ticing
attorney in Rio and frequently
gets together with DENNIS ORIO '71,
RAUL DUNLOP '72 and PAULO REIS
'72 . . . CAROL CHASE: has accepted
a position as Sales Coordinator for a
new pharmaceutical company in London.
Galenopharin (U.K.) Ltd. is a Geneva,
Switzerland, company which has just
established British ODerations and man­ufactures
test kits for use in hospital
and laboratory diagnostic machines . . .
WES MITCHELLS is Coordinating
Manager for Service Master Hospital
Corporation in Downers Grove, Illinois,
<>md wife BARS. teaches in nearby
River Grove . . . MANNY FEIBIG
writes: "I have just returned, with my
wife and young son, to live in Phoenix,
after working in West Germany for
J. 1. Case the last two years. I am
presently parts and service representa­tive
for Case for the States. of Idaho,
Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and
Eastern Texas.
15
1971 ALEX WELLES is an invest­ment
executive with Shearson,
Hammill & Company in New
York, and his wife, D I AN E, is now
in an executive position with Ster­ling
Manhattan Cable Television in NY
. . . ROY D A H L E, Area Manager
for Ridge Tool Company in Caracas,
reports that the Company has re­ceived
the Presidents "E" Award for
the last three years and is up for the "E
Star" Award ... PETER LUFr writes:
"At present I am working with DEMI­NEX,
the only German oil exploration
company in Dusseldorf. and I shall be
transferred to Lagos, Nigeria, in the
near future." ... ERIC WEAVER is
enjoying his first assignment in Seville,
Spain, as post administration officer for
the U.S. Department of State. JANE
is school nurse at the air force school
in Seville and also does volunteer work
at Columbus International College. Eric
reports that JOE SCHREIBER has also
joined the Foreign Service ... DENNIS
ORIO writes from Rio: "Brasil is fan­tastic.
The Brasilians are extremely
gracious people and the country has an
amazing variety of ethnic groups and
ways of life. I am expecting to be
transferred to Sao Paulo in April to
be the Group Insurance Marketing Man­ager
for AIU. My boss is going to be
another T-bird, WARD RYAN '69. He
is being transferred from Recife and
will assume the position of AIU's Sao
Paulo Manager. r encountered TONY
DA SILVA on one of the main streets
in Sao Paulo. He is working for Ridge
Tool." . . . MARY DWINELL writes:
"JON and I have just completed one
month's home leave in Washington
State. We are now back on audit for
Goodyear. At this time we are spending
a few weeks on Goodyear's rubber
plantation in Guatemala and find the
change in life style very different and
interesting. We have received our audit
assignments for the beginning of '73,
and after a couple more weeks here
we will be going to Jamaica and Colom­bia."
... While the BILL HAYES were
in Nicaragua last Fall on an Esso assign­ment
they shared the 7th floor of the
Inter-Continental Hotel with Howard
Hughes, who also occupied the 8th floor.
Plenty of guards on duty, but not a
glimpse of Mr. Hughes . . . BILL
GOEN has been appointed domestic
contract representative for the Parker
Drilling Company in Midland, Oklahoma
... JOHN HAMIL TON has been named
Manager of the Sacramento Metropoli­tan
Chamber of Commerce's Metropoli­tan
Development Council. In his new
position, John will be responsible for
metropolitan development, transporta­tion,
natural resources, education, agri­business
and crime prevention . . .
After spending the first half of 1972
at the Foreign Credit Insurance Associa­tion
headquarters in New York, and the
last half in Washington, D.C., ANDY
TIBBETS has moved to NY to become
Manager of FCIA's Master Policy Sec­tion
. . . ROBERT FEHLMAN is a
Credit Analyst in the Frankfurt (Ger­many)
branch of Security Pacific Na­tional
Bank; VIC HAUPT serves as
traveling auditor for Gestetner Limited
out of Yonkers, New York, and DIERK
HAGEMANN is Manager, International
Operations of Airbourne Freight Cor­poration
in Romulus, Michigan . . .
BILL KELLEY writes from Torrance,
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California: "I've been commuting back
and forth to Europe for several months
now (from L.A.) and on route ran
into TOM ROBINSON. We were on the
same flight from Washington, D.C. to
Paris. He was on route to an assign­ment
with the Foreign Service in Libre­ville,
Gabon." Bill is European Area
Sales Manager for Avionics Biomedical
Division of Del Mar Engineering Labs
... CLIFF LAVIN is Director of Mar­keting
and Sales for KXIV in Phoenix
... JOE and ARLETTE (RAMSE.Y)
MILLER are living in Houston, Texas,
and Joe is teaching at the College of the
Mainland in Texas City . . . JOHN
LATHAM reports: "After completing
a year's training program in Ottawa,
I was posted in Lagos in the summer
of 1972 to assume my position as Assis­tant
Commercial Secretary in the Com­mercial
Division of the Canadian High
Commission in Lagos. My function very
broadly will be to increase Canadian
exports to Nigeria by assisting Canadian
businessmen in penetrating the Nigerian
Market. This will involve providing
indepth market research studies, econ­omic
reporting on the Nigerian economy,
assisting Canadian businessmen in ob­taining
representation in Nigeria, ad­vising
them of customs tariffs, licensing
requirements, etc. Several weeks ago at
a cocktail party here in Lagos, I met
CAROLYN and ED NADEAU '61 fel­low
Thunderbird alumni." ... PHIL
STRONGIN was on campus in February
interviewing for Continental Grain Com­pany.
He is now Director of Merchan­dising
& Procurement for the Conti­nental
Milling Corporation, a subsidiary
of Continental Grain, and as such is
responsible for exporting grain and
general merchandise to the Caribbean,
Latin America, and Africa. The Strong­ins
live in New York City.
1972 BRUCE and CHERYL BLAN­KENSHIP
arrived in Okinawa
in late September on an Ameri­can
Express assignment. Bruce is Man­ager
of the Machinato Military Banking
Office ... GARY SLADE, pharmaceuti­cal
representative for O'Neal, Jones &
Feldman in the Los Angeles area, was
chosen as one of the top six salesmen
of the company after his first full month
on the job . . . JOHN SOLOMON is
employed by the Union Planters Na­tional
Bank in Memphis, Tennessee;
BILL SCHEER is an administrative as­sistant
in the international division of H.
H. Robertson Company in Pittsburgh;
JOHN DUFFER is district manager of
the bottling operations of Coca-Cola
in the Carrollton, Texas area, and
DENNIS BIVENS is Service. Manager
for the Braden Machinery Company in
Blythe, California . . . CHRISTINE
TOPOULOS has accepted a position as
Credit Assistant with the International
Banking Department of Central National
Bank of Chicago ... Following gradu­ation
in August, PECK and MARGIE
BASTIDA toured Europe, and upon
:their return settled in the Miami
(Florida) area. Peck secured a position
with the First National Bank of Miami
on the first day of his employment
search, and will be rotating around the
various departments for the next two
years .. . CHRIS SWENSON is a Mana­gement
Auditor for the U.S. General
Accounting Office in Washington, D.C.;
ANDY HEIMARK is an international
trainee with Dun & Bradstreet in Cin­cinnati.
Ohio; JUAN RIBES is Senior
Project Advisor and General Manager
of the Honduras operations of Techno­serve,
Inc.; TERRY SCHAEFER is an
account executive for Doyle Dane Bern­bach
in New York. and PHIL HANSON
is Program Manager of - ACTION in
Washington, D.C .... GEORGE NOR­TON
is Assistant to the Vice President
of Previews Inc. in Denver, Colorado
... BOB MUELLER recently joined
the Great Northern Overseas Corpora­tion
in the Stanford, California, office.
In his new position as Sales Representa­tive
for Latin America, he will be
responsible for maintaining and de­veloping
Latin American sales of both
printing paper and container board. On
September 1st, he married the former
Rosario Jimenez de Flores, who was one
of the Mexican students from the Uni­versity
of Mexico who visited the
campus last March " From JON ERB
in Montclair, New Jersey comes: "Be­gan
work with Colgate-Palmolive in
New York last Summer. Now have the
position of Assistant to the Vice Presi­dent
and General Manager of the Euro­pean
Division as part of the interna­tional
training program. Married Me­linda
Piper in June." ... TOM AT­WOOD
is a marketing management
trainee with the Burroughs Corporation
in Seattle, Washington and MIKE MAR­CHESE
is a commercial lending trainee
with the European-American Bank in
New York ... LIZ MESSENGER writes:
"Greetings from West Germany! MAC
has been transferred here by American
Express and his new title is Direktions
Assistent of the branch of the bank
here in Hamburg. He is fulfilling the
duties of the assistant branch manager
whom he replaces, who turned out to
be an old Thunderbird by the name of
MARK PADEN '67, who left American
Express and returned to a new position
in the States." ... The BUCK BROWNS
of Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., are living in
Montclair, New Jersey, and enjoyed a
recent visit with ED and BONNIE
AUBLE and DAVE and MONICA
LEECH. They also enjoyed a trip to
Cape Cod with GEORGE and PETRA
NORTON. Incidentally, the Ed Aubles
should be in Kingston, J~. maica by this
time on an AIG assignment ... KENT
GREGORY spent the summer in Europe
and upon his return joined Lease
Finance. Inc., in Denver, Colorado . . .
RUSS JOHNSON is a marketing repre­sentative
for American President Lines
in Los Angeles ; TED MICHEL is admin­istrative
assistant to the international
Vice President of Chesebrough-Ponds
in Greenwich, Connecticut; M IKE
GRADY is with the United California
Bank in Los Angeles, and MICK MOE
has joined the Milwaukee office of
Foreign Credit Insurance Association
. . MARIN KING writes from Sheboy­gan,
Wisconsin: "DICK is very happy
working for Kohler International and is
being groomed as sales manager of
Africa - we will probably go to West
Africa in 18 months and live in the
Ivory Coast. As soon as we finish get­ting
settled, I must begin French lessons
as we will have to be fluent." . . .
DAVE OGILVY reports from San Fran­cisco:
"Married January 20 in Scotts­dale,
traveled in Mexico for 12 days.
Ran into DAN MURPHY in Museum of
Anthropology 15 minutes before earth-
PRESIDENT VORIS (center) chats with FCIA employees DAVE BELL '68 (left) and DAN
KIMBERLY '71 at Foreign Credit Insurance Association's N'ew York headquarters. Dr. Voris
recently met with FCIA President· Denton and the following FCIA Thunderbirds: DAVE BELL
'68, YOUNG CHUN '70, MIKE HANSEN '71, DAN KIMBERLY '71, MIKE KING '71,
PORTER HOVEY '72, JIM MORRELL '70, UDO SIETINS '70, and ANDY TIBBETS '71.
Other FCIA Thunderbirds located at regional offices outside New York are DAVE DETTNER
'70, JIM KOSMALSKI '70, MICK MOE '72, and JOHN WOOD '70.
quake which shook much of Western
Me x i co." Dave is an international
trainee with Bank of America . . .
Formerly with Hallmark Cards, CRAIG
ADAMS recently accepted a position
as Manager of the World Trade Division
of the Portland (Oregon) Chamber of
Commerce. His immediate predecessor
was JAY KILEEN, Thunderbird '64. In
his new job, Cra.tg will travel abroad
several times a year on Trade Missions.
1973 ROD0'LF ALVAREZ BAC:A.,
who had a scholarship awarded
by AID and the Honduran Gov­ernment
while attending Thunderbird,
has been reinstated in his tasks as a
functionary of the Ministry of' Economy
and Commerce of Honduras. He is also
active in the Tegucigalpa Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce ... J0'HN WICKER­SHAM
has accepted a position with the
Citizens & Southern National Bank in
Atlanta, Georgia.
THUNDERBIRD VISITORS
ARNE and RUTH TEGEBO '54 of Dana
Point, California ... TIM WALKER '68
of Dayton, Ohio ... JERRY GERSTEN
'62 of New York City ... DALLAS
ARCHIBALD '67 of Toronto, Ontario
(interviewing for National Chemsearch)
... BILL HOLT SNIDER '59 of Aus-tralia
... LARRY LAMB '69 of Singa-pore
. . . DOUG LARIES '61 of Los
Angeles . . . JOANNE WEEKS '70 of
Mexico City ... JEFFREY REX '72 of
Providence, Rhode Island (interview-ing
for Industrial National Bank) .. .
BILL TANNER '52 of Phoenix .. .
JOHN EVANS '56, of Oakland, Cali­fornia
. . . RICHARD CRUMB '59 of
San Francisco . . . DON KRAVITZ
'64 of Phoenix ... HARRY LEWIS
'47 of Santa Ana, California ... JOHN
THIELBAHR '66 of Chicago (inter­viewing
for Continental Bank)
LARRY KLIPP '72 of Tucson . . .
JOHN AVARD '65 of Lorain, Ohio
(interviewing for Ridge Tool)
MILES FREITAG '62 of Charles City,
Iowa (interviewing for Salsbury Labs)
· .. CHUCK NEUSTADT '61 of Colum­bus,
Ohio . . . DAVE CHAVEZ '62 of
Albuquerque . . . J0'HN McGILL '58
of Carlsbad, California . . . L 0' U
DOUTRICK '49 of Phoenix ... TOM
DALE '71 of Orange, California . . .
ROD RITCHIE '52 of Hanford, Cali­fornia
... BOB BRIGGS '70 of Taiwan
· .. EINER BERGH '69 of Oslo, Norway
· .. GE0'RGE BENZON '53 of Claremont,
California . . . BILL LUKE '70 of New
York City . .. DAN RISLEY '50
of Washington, D. C .... MERLE
HINRICHS '65 of Hong Kong ... STEVE
OTTO '66 of Managua, Nicaragua . . .
WAYNE SELPH '72, of Houston, Texas
· .. JOHN GIRTON '69 of Paris, France
· .. RALPH and LOUISE HURLBUTT
'69 of Hong Kong ... RICK and ELLEN
N0'RMAND '69 of Ft. Worth, Texas ...
B0'B and ALICE BEAN '48 of Chicago
· . . the MICHAEL PIERCE'S> '68 of
Balboa, Canal Zone . . . MACKIE
CORNWALL '62 of St. Louis, Missouri
· .. PHILIPPE MATRON '70 of St. Louis
· .. DOMINIQUE MAT'RON '70> of Cara­cas
... JOHN and LAURIE MURBHY
'70 of San Francisco ... DICK SCHI-ENDLER
'67 of Los Angeles ... FRANK
WADLEIGH '49 of Honolulu ... BOB
NEWMAN '58 of Los Angeles . . .
JERRY KLOMP '61 of Beverly Hills
· .. MARTHA TH0'RNE MIRABEL '68
of Santa Monica, California . . . J0'E
KLEIN '47 of Los Angeles . . . JOHN
MAIER '61 of Tucson . .. JERRY
HOLMES '60 of Dallas .. JUAN and
MARY FORSTER '55 of Guatemala City
· .. DIANE CONNELLY '56 of Tempe ...
GEORGE and MARY J0' LIDDICOAT
'52 of Palo Alto ... KEITH and HELEN
MAL L G R EN '49 of Phoenix . . .
ORTWIN KULLMAN '53 of Luden­scheid,
Germany ... JOHN LUSCHER
'72 of Sydney, Australia ... STU COIT
'60 of Scottsdale ... BUZZ AHRENS '66
of Miami, Florida (interviewing for Levi
Strauss) ... BILL JOHNSON '60 of San
Antonio, Texas . .. PHILLIP STRONG­IN
'71 of New York (interviewing for
Continental Grain) . .. BILL FAGAN
'70 of Djakarta, Indonesia . . . BOB
DAILEY '64 of Nogales, Arizona
JACK WORTH '50 of New York.
KEY MEN ITEMS
MICHAEL COLLINS KM '67, formerly
with Consolidated Industries in Medel­lin,
Colombia, has been appointed Presi­dent
of the Fidelity Union Life In­surance
Company of Dallas, Texas ...
CLARK KUEBLER is President of
Perma Plasticos, S.A. in Rio de Janeiro
and, also, holds important offices with
various Brasil organizations.
FORMER STAFF AND FACULTY
NEWS
DICK and LEE TURNER of Laguna
Hills, California, had another busy year,
In addition to Dick's many activities as
consultant for a number of business
firms, the Turners conducted a 23-day
tour for 21 of their friends which took
them through Spain, Portugal and Mo­rocco.
After landing at Malaga, Spain,
the group took an American Express
motor coach tour through the three
countries, covering some 3,000> miles. In­cluded
in the Turner's 1973 itinerary
is a Caribbean Cruise, scheduled fo·r
March . .. DOROTHY BURGE ALLEN,
former Thunderbird Librarian, writes
from Montpelier, Vermont, where she
serves as Special Services Librarian for
the State of Vermont: "The summ.er of
1971, we visited DR. MARJORIE J0'HN­SON
(head of the Language Department
from 1946-1949) and EDITH and
TERRY SAMPSON '48 in Albuquerque,
also with MARCIA TUNNELL LOGS­DON
'4·9 in Sante Fe. BILL REED '47
works for the Vermont Highway De­partment.
When in Chicago in June, I
had lunch with BOB BEAN '48 and a
long telephone conversa.tion with EU­GENE
SLADKY '48· who was recuperat­ing
from a hospital visit." The Allens
spent the month of October in Japan
with the Experiment in International
Living. Two years ago they attended
a like meeting in Turkey. The Allens
live at 4 Meadow Lane in Montpelier,
Vermont, and would like visiting and
local Thunderbirds to stop. by and see
them at their home, or you can find
Dorothy in the building- next to the
State Capitol ... NELLIE' KIRKPAT­RICK
TAYLOR, formerly of the lan­guage
department, completed her Mas­ter's
Degree in French at Arizona State
University and planned to visit her
mother in San Miguel Allende, Mexico.
She hoped to see PACO and RAQUEL
GAONA while there ... J0'HN EWING
reports: "Have a lot of students inter­ested
in Thunderbird, so I keep fun­nelling
them down. Look forward to see­ing
TY and JOANNIE COBB in Tequis­quia
pan since we have a house and
business venture nearby." John is cur­rently
professor of Business Administra­tion
at the University of Santa Clara,
Graduate School of Business . .. LINDA
DIAZ, a former language instructor at
Thunderbird and now teaching .at the
American School Foundation in Mexico
City, writes: "I am enjoying my work
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tremendously, always trying new ap­proaches.
At any rate, my students are
learning Spanish, History, Culture of
Mexico and how to live here and like it.
I'm still doing photography and pre­paring
several exhibitions, one for
Saigon, one for Argentina, and a very
important one here in Mexico on the
whole system of our subway. My hus­band
is getting his Master's in P.E. at
Mankato State in Minnesota."
WEDDI NG BELLS
CONGRATULATIONS and BE S T
WISHES to - GARY and PATRICIA
(CASSELL) SMITH of New York .. .
ROBERT and ROSARIO (JIMENEZ de
FLORES) MUELLER of 'Stamford, Con­necticut
. . . CONRAD and PATRICIA
JO (TIPTON) WILKINSON of North
. Hollywood, California . . . FRED and
N.A.NCY (MUNIZ) SAAR of New York
. . . WILLIAM and VICTORIA ANN
(CROSSMAN) KRISTY of Los Angeles
... ROBERT and MA YRA HOPPER of
Inglewood, California . . . JONATHAN
and MELINDA (PIPER)ERB of Mont-o
clair, New Jersey ... TOM and MARIA
ISABEL (FARIAS) BARNETT of Rio
de Janeiro . . . RICK and ELLEN
(OPPENHEIM) NOR MAN D Of Ft.
Worth, Texas ... ORMOND and BAR­BARA
JO (BOARD) ORMSBY of Haw­thorne.
California . . . JIM and SUSAN
WEGENER . . . GUNTER and MARIA
PFITZER of Hanover, Germany ...
DAVID and MARY OGILVY of San
Francisco.
CRADLE ROLL
BOYS: GERRY and KAREN ASHTON
'71 of Kearny, Arizona ... LANCE and
SUE RENAULT '71 of Silang, Philip­pines
... JIM and SALLIE HOLT '72
of Danville, Virginia . . . BUZZ and
JOAN AHERNS '66 of Miami, Florida
(twin boys) . . . JOHN and GALE
KINGMAN '70 of Glendale, California
... the PETER NOBLES '68 of Benne­broek,
Holland . . . ANDY and MARY
MADSEN '68 of Springfield, Massachu­setts
. . . the MIKE CONSIDINES '69
of Panama .. . GEORGE and VICKI
CRANE '72 of Rexdale, Ontario ... the
WALT GILLESES '55 of King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania ... FRED and JUDIE
MONTANO '70 of Okinawa . .. FRED
and SUZANNE HARSSEMA '607 of
Short Hills, New Jersey (twin boys)
... the BILL SPRAGUES '69, of Tucson,
Arizona .. . BILL and LOTTA JETER
'66 of Pasadena, Oalifornia . . . FRED
and SUSAN BOLLERER '67 of Buenos
Aires ... BILL and BECKY KILEY '66
of Fremont, California . . . ED and
BONNIE AUBLE '72 of Wilmington,
Delaware.
GIRLS: JACK and JUDY BROOKHART
'70 of North Olmstead, Ohio ... GARY
and GEORGIA BURLEY '70 of Con­cord,
California . . . VIC and LINDA
TAGGART '70 of Valencia, Venezuela
(twin girls) ... DON and MARILYN
MUSTON '70 of Fairbanks, Alaska ...
MIKE and ALICE DIXON '69 of Balti­more,
Maryland . . . S TEl Nand
DEANNE OWRE '6,7 of Lausanne,
Switzerland ... TERRY and DONNA
MARABLE '72 of Parma, Ohio . . . the
GARY RAN K E R S '6,7 of Harefield,
England . . . BILL and CATHY FUNK
'71 of Saigon . . . JIM and SUSAN
KUHLMAN '68 of Caracas. Venezuela
.. ' CHUCK and INGRID NIEMANN '6,2
of Quito, Ecuador . . . LUK and LUT
VAN BERCKELAER '70, of Woodside,
New York.
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