The Thunderbird, Volume 80, Number 3 1981 Spring

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• Tax problems ·of ove'rseas executives
• International cr · t
• Graduates return for their
Silver Reunion
2 Taxing the Overseas Executive
Professor Robert S. Tancer discusses
the tax situation which affects
AGSIM graduates working overseas
5 Special Report
Economic problems prompt more
attention to international credit,
collection strategies
6 Speakers
General Westmoreland talks to T-Birds;
Behind the scenes with the Speakers
Committee
7 News
'55 T-Birds return to be honored
at their Silver Reul'lion; Ralph C.
Harpham, '49, named outstanding
alumnus; New classroom building
10 Contacts
Roster of resource persons and alumni
association representatives
12 Update
Keeping track of active T-Bird alumni
19 iQue Pasa?
Government official tells Washington,
D.C., T-Birds about "export disincen­tives
of international trade policy"
Inside
Back
Cover Focus on Circumnavigators
Front Cover photo:
An AGSIM diploma is a ticket to travel the
globe. Numbering more than 14,000, AGSIM
alumni distinguish themselves with insignias
such as the familiar T-Bird rings and with
more unusual attention getters such as a per­sonalized
auto license plate. Charles Mannel,
Director of Career Services, promotes his
favorite school with his personalized plate,
pictured on this page and also on the cover.
Photo by Steve L. Hawkins, '80.
Volume 80, No.3
THE THUnDERBIRD
Quarterly magazine of the Alumni Office
of the American Graduate School of Inter­national
Management, Glendale, Ariz.
Director and Publisher: Thomas Bria
Editor: K. Jean Gilbert Hawkins
Special Correspondent: Al Ilch
Staff: Catherine Benoit, Donna Cleland,
Debra Dickson, Betsy Friebel, Margaret
Gumerlock, Steve L. Hawkins, Kathleen
MacDonnell, Mary Motz and Sonya Varea
Photographers: Michael Guay, K. Jean
Gilbert Hawkins, Steve L. Hawkins, Kathleen
MacDonnell, Steve McFarlane, Daniel
Paseiro, Rene D. Pfalzgraf, Pierre Tissier
Some '80 Thunderbirds with 1 TBird and 2TBird are, in front from left, Yoichi Kanai
from Japanj Bruce Wilcox, who was ASLC president, from Californiaj Mary Quist, from
Washingtonj standing with Executive Vice President Berger Erickson is Pagnan Adama Kabore
from Upper Voltaj and with Mabel Erickson is Mie Mie Myint from Burma.
Just Say AGSIM
By K. Jean Gilbert Hawkins
By the time a graduate - a "Thun­derbird"
or "T-Bird" - can finish
saying the "American Graduate School
of International Management," a
business deal could have been con­cluded.
A popular - and quicker - way of
telling someone about your alma mater
in the Arizona desert that trains in­ternational
managers is to call the
school "AGSIM" and to say you're a
"Thunderbird" or a "T-Bird."
And instead of telling someone in
person, you may order personalized
vehicle license plates - like Executive
Vice President Berger Erickson and
Career Services Center Director
Charles H. Mannel did - to tell other
motorists about the graduate school
you attended.
The costs vary from state to state,
from a high of $50 plus $10 annual
renewal in Illinois to a low $10 fee
in Texas. New York will allow eight
letters and! or spaces for your message
while California permits seven letters,
including spaces. Arizona, Illinois and
Texas will only let a resident use six
letters maximum. Nevertheless, that
would permit an alumnus to order a
license plate printed "AGSIM I" or
liT Bird 1." Someone in California,
according to an official at the Depart­ment
of Motor Vehicles, already has a
license plate reading AGSIM.
The procedure for ordering a vehicle
license plate also varies from state
to state, according to The Thunderbird
magazine's informal telephone survey
of five states - Arizona, California,
Illinois, New York and Texas.
License plates using letters rather
than numbers are often referred to as
"personalized license plates" or, in
Illinois, "vanity plates." Contact your
local state department of motor vehicles
for more information.
If you do order personalized plates
for your car, then you, too, will be
telling the world you're glad you are a
T-Bird! Just like Berger and Mabel
Erickson and Charles Mannel.
Charles Mannel, director of Career Services
Center, with his trusty four-wheel drive ad­vertising
his favorite school'~GSIM"
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with the help of Thunderbirds . ..
AGSIM and the Overseas Tax Situation
The United States Congress initially
imposed taxes on US. citizens living
abroad in 1926. Today the United States
is the only major industrialized nation
that taxes its citizens on salaries
earned outside their own country.
According to a June, 1980, Chase
Econometric Associates' report, "Eco­nomic
Impact of Changing Taxation of
US. Workers Overseas," results of this
policy include:
1) A high percentage of US. workers
abroad, in some cases as high as 50
percent or more, are voluntarily and
involuntarily returning to the US.
because of the tax.
2) The return of American workers
from overseas increases the domestic
work force, but does not increase the
number of domestic jobs, therefore
domestic unemployment increases.
3) The cost of maintaining US. work­ers
overseas has risen substantially
due to the tax. Survey results indicate
that these costs add 2 to 10 percent
to the cost of US. goods and services,
depending on the industry involved.
4) The increased cost of employing
US. workers overseas and the reduc­tion
in the number of US. workers
overseas reduces the competitiveness
of US. services and goods abroad and
results in a significant drop in exports.
5) Survey results and other analyses
indicate that the overall drop in real
US. exports amounts to about five
percent.
6) The drop in US. income due to a
five percent drop in real exports will
raise domestic unemployment by
80,000 and reduce federal receipts
from personal and corporate income
taxes by more than $6 billion in 1980 -
many times the value of tax expendi­tures
under Sections 911 and 913.
7) Reduced domestic income from
lost exports cuts state and local cor­porate
profits taxes by $700 million,
and state and local personal tax
receipts by $100 million. Unemploy­ment
compensation payments increase
by some $200 million - more than the
total additional federal taxes paid
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
by overseas workers.
8) Treasury estimates of tax expendi­tures
from Sections 911 and 913 over­state
the potential gain in revenue
since they ignore the drop in corporate
profit taxes when employers equalize
the pay of overseas workers.
9) The impact of US. export com­petitiveness
is greatest in emerging
market countries where such high­value-
added US. imports as construc­tion
and engineering are reduced,
along with the substantial volume of
merchandise exports generated by
major projects.
The overwhelming conclusion from
these findings is that the negative
impacts of the change in taxes on US.
workers - on overall tax receipts, on
exports, on domestic unemployment,
and on other social and economic
factors - are many times greater than
the projected gain in personal taxes
paid by overseas Americans. The long
term loss in global influence is, of
course, immeasurable, but also of
concern.
Professor Robert Tancer has con­tributed
an article to this issue of "The
Thunderbird" which is designed to
be useful for your personal planning
and also to raise your consciousness
in this area.
With the vast changes in Washington
in recent months, the outlook for
change in Sections 911/913 is better than
ever. The US. and Overseas Tax Fair­ness
Committee (1101 15th St. N.W.,
Washington D.C., 20005) has been
established for the sole purpose of
working for a more favorable section
911/913. The Committee feels that op­timism
is justifiable at this time and
solicits your support by writing to the
individuals listed below (with a copy to
your Congressmen) and giving your
support for a change in the law.
Because of the adverse impact of
current legislation on you and on the
American Graduate School of Interna­tional
Management, the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees
has passed a resolution deploring the
Thomas Bria, Alumni Director
current situation and committing the
school to a vigorous policy of oppo­sition
to it. Your help could make the
difference in this session of Congress.
How about it, Thunderbirds?
Thomas R. Bria
Director of Alumni Relations
Dan Rostenkowski (Illinois)
Chairman, House Ways and Means
Committee
1102 Longworth Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Robert Dole (Kansas)
Chairman, Senate Finance
Committee
2227 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Donald Regan
Secretary of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
reassessment of the situation and a
simultaneous effort of exploring alter­nate
solutions. Somewhat on the defen­sive
- no doubt because of feelings
expressed prior to enactment of the Tax
Reform Act - the international busi­ness
community began to champion an
approach based on expanding the
familiar system of deductions, an ap­proach
that would include as eligible
for deductions those items of special
expenses borne by overseas executives
as part of their special way of life. It
was believed that using deductions
would be more acceptable to Congres­sional
critics of special privileges and,
at the same time, still offer meaningful
benefits to the taxpayers involved.
As a result of these considerations,
Congress passed the Foreign Earned In­come
Act of 1978. Whereas the Tax
Reform Act of 1976 eroded the old
exclusionary system, the new law eli­minated
it in all but one limited area.
In its place a system of deductions was
introduced which selected predeter­mined
areas in which overseas per­sonnel
were likely to have increased
expenses solely as a result of their
overseas status.
Those deductions for excess foreign
living costs were recognized by the
new law and include:
a. Cost-of-living differential
established by the government
based on the actual differential be­tween
the highest metropolitan area
in the United States and the tax­payer's
foreign home.
b. Schooling expenses, those ex­penses
incurred in sending tax­payer's
children to United States
type of schools abroad at levels
equivalent to grades kindergarten
through twelfth.
c. Home leave transportation ex­penses,
one round trip per person
over any 12 month period was
allowed.
d. Hardship area amount paid in
those places that the United States
Government recognized as hard­ship,
an amount up to a maximum
of $5,000, for days spent abroad
either under the bona fide residence
or physical presence tests.
e. Housing expenses, calculated
on the basis of an elaborate formula
purporting to establish the ratio
between actual housing costs and
earned income.
All of the above deductions were
subject to an overall limitation for any
tax year; the amount of your net for­eign
source earned income for that part
of the tax year you meet either one of
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the residence requirements.
In only one instance is the taxpayer
able to elect these deductions or utilize
a flat $20,000 exclusion and that is
when his income has been earned in a
hardship area camp. The law defines
hardship area camp narrowly, as an
area close to the job site where satisfac­tory
housing is not available and one in
which the employer provides the
housing.
The Foreign Earned Income Act has
not been received well by United States
multinationals or their employees.
Deductions are simply not worth as
much to the taxpayer as the former
exclusion.
The latter amount is eliminated from
gross income for United States tax
purposes while the deduction merely
lowers the amount of one's taxable in­come.
In addition, eligible deductions
are defined narrowly by the law, and
the Internal Revenue Service has been
particularly restrictive in its interpreta­tion.
Lastly, the worldwide inflation
over the last few years has further
eroded the value of the deductions
themselves. Cost of living tables are
issued periodically, and already have
become obsolete in certain parts of the
world when applied.
For all of these reasons, Congress
has again been reexamining the ques­tion,
largely as a result of increasing
complaints by international firms that
they cannot afford to send United
States personnel abroad and effectively
face the competition.
It is the employer, of course, who
must bear the burden of the extra tax
costs since the average employee is in­terested
only in his net salary and will
not go abroad if he ends up in a situation
which is in fact costing him money.
Two U.S. industries have been out­spoken
in their criticism of the existing
law and have been most active in insti­tuting
change.
These are United States exporters
who feel they simply cannot compete
and sell their products abroad without
United States representatives.
Exporters have more recently been
joined by the United States construc­tion
industry, who also argue they
are losing out on foreign jobs because
of their inability to send their own
employees abroad.
As a result of this problem, a non­profit
public interest organization, U.S.
and Overseas Employees Tax Fairness
Committee, has been organized and
operates in Washington, D.C., where
it plays an active role in lobbying for
change.
Professor Robert S. Yancer
Professor Robert S. Tancer, who is
a visiting professor at AGSIM, received
his LL.B. law degree from the Univ­versity
of Michigan and his LL.M.
degree from the Harvard Law School.
His thesis dealt with the Choice of
Law Clauses in International Contracts.
He maintains a law office in Phoenix
and teaches such courses at AGSIM
as Tourism and Economic Develop­ment,
Legal Environment of Interna­tional
Business, Regulating Direct For­eign
Investment and Doing Business in
Peru and Mexico. He has worked with
the Agency for International Develop­ment
in the Dominican Republic and
Washington, D.C.; has served as an
associate counsel for the American
Broadcasting Company International
Division in New York City, and has been
a consulting attorney in Buenos Aires.
With the uncertainties of a new
administration, it is difficult to antici­pate
with precision changes the law will
take. Several proposals reached Con­gressional
committees during the last
year and it is likely they will reappear
when the new Congress convenes.
Although they differed in details, all
had certain elements in common and
can be summarized as follows: a) elimi­nate
the deduction approach; b) return
to a system of excluding foreign source
earned income, but increase the
amount to $50,000 or $60,000 a year
and; c) reduce the physical presence
requirement to 12 months.
AGSIM alumni should follow these
proposals closely and advise their Con­gressmen
and Senators of their pre- ~
ferences. j~
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
International Credit and Collection Strategies
By Al Ilch
AMA Staff
During the current tight economy,
arranging customer credit and collect­ing
payments is a continuing problem
in international business transactions.
It is a problem that must be understood
by all executives exporting to overseas
customers.
While the decline in the US. dollar's
value has actually expanded the market
potential for many US. exports, the
uncertain economies of many foreign
nations have caused US. exporters
to take a closer look at how well their
marketing tactics are meshing with
their credit and collection policies.
A well planned credit and collection
policy can ultimately be as important
to the exporter as the price and quality
of the product. A thorough knowledge
of the international market, the specific
customer and the customer's country
is essential before sales negotiations
can begin. James J. McCormack, trea­surer
of the Union Special Corpora­tion,
stresses the importance of
observing the "Five Cs of International
Credit Evaluation" in his article on
apparel exporting in the April 1980
issue of Apparel Industry magazine:
character, capacity, capital, country
and cultural. The seller must determine
if the customer has a good reputation,
has established a successful trade record
and is financially sound. The exporter
must also evaluate the customer's coun­try
regarding its political and economic
status, its foreign exchange situation
and whether its social custom and mores
foster a willingness to meet obligations.
A variety of financing or credit
arrangements are available. Mel
Herman, a senior partner with The
Globecon Group, an international fi­nancial
consulting firm in New York,
says many foreign buyers cannot
always get financial assistance from
their governments unless it is for the
purchase of such "big ticket" items as
airplanes or for the building of dams,
refineries, etc. In light of increasing
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
US. trade deficits, however, such US.
agencies as the Export-Import Bank
and the Foreign Credit Insurance As­sociation
will be able to offer more help
with financing.
The most urgent problems in collect­ing
payments are related to the previ­ously
arranged credit terms. A cash-in­advance
situation obviously is of no
risk to the exporter. A letter of credit
arrangement can be complex but in­volves
minimal risk to the seller. The
bank handling the transaction guaran­tees
payment as long as the shipment of
goods is made. The length of time
involved to secure payments, however,
can be excessive in some parts of the
world.
Globecon'c; Mel Herman says there
are few problems with this in Western
Europe and in some Latin American
countries such as Brazil, Colombia,
Chile and Costa Rica. In Uganda, how­ever,
he says there can be delays of
up to 43 months. Among other coun­tries
where lengthy delays can be ex­pected
are Liberia, Zambia, Zaire,
Turkey and Jamaica.
Another credit arrangement, open
account, is normally used only when
dealing with a buyer of high reputa­tion.
The risk here is solely with the
exporter, since payment is not expected
until after the customer receives ship-ment.
If, for any reason, payment is not
made, the seller's course of action is
basically no different than a firm's do­mestic
dealings with overdue accounts.
There is one alternative, says Dr.
James Mills, associate professor of eco­nomics
at AGSIM: The seller can go
to a "discount house," which pur­chases
the goods at a lower price, con­ducts
its own credit investigation and
takes over responsibility for collecting
the past due receivables on a recourse
or non-recourse basis. On a non­recourse
basis, the discount house takes
over all risks.
With a recourse arrangement, the
discount house can return responsi­bility
to the seller if payments are still
not received after a certain length of
time.
Exporters, of course, should be
thoroughly briefed in the intricacies of
international credit and collection tech­niques
before embarking on foreign
sales negotiations.
A number of training programs
and seminars can be of great help in
this area. AMA/International's popu­lar
program, "International Credit and
Collections," is next scheduled in New
York, May 7 -8. The course will explore
current credit and collection trends
and provide up-to-date foreign ex­change
information.
International Credit and Collections
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Official Stresses
Africa's Importance
Lannon Walker, the senior deputy
assistant secretary of state for African
affairs, spoke to about 60 students
at AGSIM the day after the landslide
victory for Ronald Reagan on "Africa:
Economic Challenges of the 1980s."
He stressed the importance of Africa
to the US. and said that if the US.
doesn't become involved with African
affairs, the situation will be bleak not
only for Africa, but also for the US.
Some of the challenges Walker listed
are the important role of government
in encouraging the private sector's
involvement in Africa, in the govern­ment's
role as provider of foreign
aid and the effects of the North-South
dialogue.
He said he could understand the
Africans' frustration at not getting
much financial help because of the gov­ernment's
focus on studies and re­search.
When an African complains to
Walker about that discouraging factor,
Walker reports the African will say
"he has yet to see anything but study
teams, and I don't have an answer
for that."
There is great potential in Africa,
Walker said, but said the US. should
concentrate on a few projects of quality
to help Africa develop her resources.
For example, he said, many African
governments prefer to keep food prices
low, which in turn hurts the farmer.
If prices were allowed to fluctuate, the
revenue could help overrun the food
deficits, he added.
To a question regarding the Reagan
administration, Walker said he hoped
the US. commitment to human rights
would not be dropped. "There should
not only be sticks but carrots," he
said, to offer to African countries
coming to the US. for aid.
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General William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland's IWish List'
General William C. Westmoreland
spoke to a packed auditorium last
November about his "wish list."
The tall, silver haired former chief of
staff for the US. Army told the group
gathered at AGSIM that, if he could
have his dreams come true, he would
wish for the prevention of war and
achievement of world peace, the pro­tection
of democracy, the achievement
of democratic tranquility, the protec­tion
of the physical environment,
maintenance of the quality of life
and the improvement of those less
fortunate.
Yet, he said there are "forces at work
which makes this utopian wish not
possible."
Westmoreland, who was once Time
magazine's Man of the Year, said the
competition between the US. and the
US.S.R. is perceived as being the major
obstacle to such dreams.
"The Soviets play chess while we
play poker," he said, stressing that the
free world would become leaderless
if it were not for the United States.
But other free countries must join
the US., he said, and be encouraged
to share the load despite their self­interests.
"Great military power pays
off in world power."
Westmoreland said he believes there
is a "dangerous decade ahead." Fur­thermore,
he said the US. "has not
come to grips with the energy and infla­tion
problems." He said he was dis­tressed
by former President Jimmy
Carter's vacillation on those two
issues. And, while he said he was "de­lighted"
with the election of President
Reagan, he was unsure of Reagan's
ability to reverse the situation.
Quality of Espionage
Stan A. Taylor, who spoke on the
status of the US. intelligence commu­nity,
told about 60 individuals in
AGSIM's auditorium last November
that "there is a general decline of
perceived worth of all government
institutions."
He said he believed some of this
current thinking was healthy while
other thoughts were unfortunate.
Taylor, who served as a professional
staff member on the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence from 1976
to '78 and who is currently a professor
of g.overnment at Brigham Young Uni­versity,
said the intelligence of the
US. needs internal reform and needs to
reduce its size. He also said there
must be a change in leadership within
the intelligence community itself.
Communication between analysts
should be improved and that may
"immunize redundancies" within the
organization, he added.
Taylor also stated that every single
nation engages in the collection of
intelligence, listing about 15 agencies
which do so in the US. There are two
basic types of intelligence collection, he
said: technical such as use of photo­graphic
and bugging devices, and the
use of humans, which Taylor said is
poor because morale is currently
so low.
Behind the Scenes ...
Worrying that a featured speaker's
plane will be late or dealing with se­curity
for a speaker who has been
threatened is all part of the job for
Sonia Thurmond, director of com­munications
and adviser for AGSIM's
Speakers Committee.
Last semester, she and Vern Chris­tianson,
committee chairman, and the
seven members used many connections
to make contact with potential
speakers, acted as hosts and hostesses
to the speakers and made housing as
well as publicity arrangements for their
guests.
The purpose of the committee, ac­cording
to Christianson, is to provide
AGSIM students with "a variety of
speakers to round out their education,
to improve their understanding of
current issues and affairs." An example
of that purpose is the group's advance
planning for this spring's program on
international terrorism, and the invita­tion
to alumnus actor Don Novello
Please turn to Page 18
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
'55 Grads Return
for Silver Reunion
More than a dozen '55 graduates of
the then-American Institute of Foreign
Trade returned in December to attend
graduation at AGSIM and other func­tions
honoring them at their Silver
Reunion.
The T-Birds were first greeted at a
cocktail reception in the Goldwater
Lounge on the evening of Dec. 11. In
addition to the honorees - including
Roland E. Garcia, '53, who had planned
the first Silver Reunion - President
and Mrs. William Voris, Executive Vice
President and Mrs. Berger Erickson,
Professors liLa Senorita" de Noronha,
Laurence and Mrs. Finney, Frank and
Mrs. JackIe, former alumni director
Martha Snyder, librarian Lora Jeanne
Wheeler and Robert G. Horn, director
of development and public affairs,
attended the gathering.
The morning of graduation the
alumni were given a tour of the campus
including the library and the recently
completed classroom complex. Presi­dent
and Mrs. Voris hosted a luncheon
for them at their campus home. In
addition to the '55 T-Birds, AGSIM's
Board of Trustees, the 1980 recipient
of the Jonas Mayer Award Ralph C.
Harpham, '49, and the current
student body officers also attended.
Graduation ceremonies that after­noon
included recognition of the Silver
Reunion graduates by President Voris
who presented each returning T-Bird
with a specially designed Silver Cer­tificate.
Later that same evening, along
with Alumni Director Tom Bria and
his wife Shonny, a few of the '55 gradu­ates
went on to the graduation party
which was held at a Scottsdale resort.
Chairman of the Silver Reunion was
John R. Izard, '55, who with his wife,
lives in Phoenix. Izard, who is a certi­fied
licensed underwriter, has his
own business, Izard Insurance, cor­porate
and estate planning. Garcia, '53,
the last reunion chairman, is president
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
'55 T-Birds attending the reception in their honor, the evening before graduation, were,
from left back row, Eugene r Meyer, Rob Risher, Paul Davis, Ray Lopez and Robert r
Tyldesley; front row, Sharman Steen Davis, Harley Kelley, Jim Bean, Billy Martin and John
Izard; kneeling, from left, Charles]. Sommer and Niek S/ijk.
of Roland E. Garcia Consulting in
Fresno, Calif. The firm is involved in
international business and consulting
work in the paper and oil industry as
well as a paper recycling plant and
family-owned vineyards. Garcia is
also a former Jonas Mayer Award
recipient.
The other T-Birds who attended the
special ceremony were: James Q. Bean,
who lives in San Diego, Calif., is re­tired
from Fruit-O-Matic Vending.
Paul and Sharmon Steen Davis also
live in the San Diego, Calif., area. Paul
is with Art Leitch Realty and Sharmon
is teaching English as a second lan­guage.
Harley B. Kelley, who lives in
Phoenix, works with Commonwealth
Land Title Insurance Co, Ray C. Lopez,
who with his wife AnneMarie, lives in
Birmingham, Mich. Lopez is president
of Graficentro International, Inc., with
a partner/associate in Panama and
Mexico. The company covers the terri­tory
of the Caribbean, Central Amer­ica,
Venezuela and Brazil. Mr. and
Mrs, Billy F. Martin came from St.
Louis, Mo. Martin, a former Barton
Kyle Yount and Jonas Mayer Award
winner, is the director of utility
finance for A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.,
Corporate Finance Division. Eugene
Meyer, who maintains homes in Tempe
as well as in Show Low, Ariz., is in
real estate. Rob Risher, who lives in
Scottsdale, Ariz., is self-employed
in the aluminum recycling business. He
spent many years overseas in Liberia.
Niek Slijk and his wife live in South­ern
California. Slijk is the manager of
the Chula Vista, Calif., Chamber of
Commerce. Charles J. Sommer retired
from the Civil Service in 1977 and now
"dabbles" in real estate. His wife
Armada died last August. Robert J.
Tyldesley is the manager of the Dawn
o Motel in Santa Monica, Calif. Dee
Jay Weinrebe, who lives in Minot, N. D.,
is an accountant with Baldwin Martz
&Co.
Other T-Birds who sent their regards,
but who could not attend included:
Barbara Yunker Bettison, Long Beach,
Calif.j Charles W. Busbey and his
wife Doris, who live in Plantation, Fla.
("Give my best to everyone. Would
love to be there")j J.G. Egeland "will
be abroadj" Eric E. Ericsson and his wife
Janie, who live in London ("with our
best regards")j Dick Pooler, Alamo,
Calif.j Richard Punnett, Tonawanda,
N.Y.j George R. Rainoff, who works for
Johnson & Higgins in New York City,
said, "I expect to be in Saudi Arabia
on those daysj" Tom Rigler and his
wife Ellie, who live in Los Gatos, Calif.
(" Have one for us!")j Bill Wassmann
from Troizinias, Greecej G.N. Weis­muller
from Maseru, Kingdom of
Lesothoj and Charles D. Yost from
Kirkwood, Mo.
Oklahoman Honored
A graduate of Oklahoma State
University was given the Barton Kyle
Yount Award at AGSIM's 77th com­mencement
exercises Dec. 12.
John Phillip McKay, 23, who is from
Tulsa, Okla., received his B.S. degree
in business administration from OSU
in Stillwater. While at AGSIM, McKay
participated in the Annual Phonothon
and also served as the full-time youth
counselor/director at a Methodist
church in Phoenix.
Please turn to Page 8 for More News
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World Affairs Conference
Seeks Information
The Pacific Rim will be the geo­graphic
area of concentration for
World Affairs Conference at AGSIM
Sept. 24 and 25.
Faculty adviser is Professor
James Mills and student chairman is
Nancy Hague. AGSIM students
John Dunn, Candy McAdams, Diana
Owens and Conrad Terry have
volunteered to advise the new com­mittee
because the four served on
the first conference.
The committee welcomes assis­tance
and recommendations from
interested alumni. Address all
inquiries to the World Affairs Com­mittee,
AGSIM, Box 548, Glendak
Ariz., 85306.
Department Data
A new department chairman for
Modern Languages, a flurry of paper
presentations and some new faces
in the World Business Department are
highlights for AGSIM's three de­partments.
International Studies Department:
Dr. Andris Trapans has been invited to
participate in the Sixth International
Scientific Conference on Baltic Studies
in Stockholm, Sweden, this June.
Professor Beverly Tanner Springer
has written a chapter for the book
"Women in European Radical Politics./I
which was published the first of this
year. She was also elected to the execu­tive
board of the Southwest Labor
Studies Conference where she pre­sented
a paper on the British Labor
and Thatcher Government. Springer
and Professor Robert S. Tancer dis­cussed
Italian tourism at the Midwest
Political Science Association.
Professor Yao Nien-Chin of the
Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade in the
People's Republic of China was a guest
lecturer for one month from mid­September
to mid-October. He held
three talks about the Chinese economy
open to all students in addition to
lecturing and attending AGSIM
classes.
Modern Languages Department:
Professor Jorge Valdivieso stepped
down as chairman of the department
after six years. He will continue to teach
and to do research. Robert M. Ram­sey,
Ph.D., who most recently lived in
Barcelona, has been selected to suc-ceed
Valdivieso as department chair-
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Winning Ad Campaign
Winners of the 1980 fall semester Inter-ad competition were, from left, Carolyn Katterjohn,
Robert Kerwin, Russ Walter, Jennifer Pinkerton, Jennifer Armstrong and Susan Ylvisaker.
Their team presented an advertising campaign to introduce Oil of Olay into Greece.
Other teams' campaigns were to introduce Levi-Strauss slacks into Mexico, Sprite soft drink
into Brazil, and Harley-Davidson motorcycles into France.
African Club's Memorial
"In loving memory of Gbodey N. Bodom, Class of 1980," the placque reads in front of
the African sumac which was planted and dedicated by the African Club in early December
1980 near the new classroom building. Badam, who was a student from Nigeria, was
afflicted with a rare form of hepatitis, according to Dean of Students Stephen R. Beaver, and
died in a Phoenix hospital in December 1979, shortly after he received his Master in
International Management degree from AGSIM. The tree was selected as a memorial, accord­ing
to Tom Malone, a former president of the African Club, in the hopes that future stu­dents
would sit under the tree and enjoy the shade and shelter from the Arizona sun. Attend­ing
the dedication were members of the African Club, President William Voris (right
of tree), club president Clark Ross Croulet (left of tree) and Beaver (behind Croulet).
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Ralph C. Harpham, '49, the Jonas Mayer
Award recipient for 1980.
Bank Executive
Gets Alumni Award
An executive with United California
Bank in Los Angeles is the recipient
this year of the Jonas H. Mayer
Alumni Award.
Chosen because his "outstanding
international career has brought credit
not only to himself but to the
American Graduate School of Inter­national
Management," according to
President William Voris, Ralph C.
Harpham, '49, executive vice president
of United California Bank, was
honored Dec. 12 at a luncheon held at
Voris' campus home. He spoke at gradu­ation
ceremonies later that afternoon.
Harpham, who speaks four lan­guages
including English, was elected
to his present position seven years
ago. Prior to his position at UCB, he
was vice president of finance for
Merrill Lynch International in
Geneva, Switzerland.
A past president of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland
and also a past chairman of the
Council of American Chambers of
Commerce in Europe and the Mediter­ranean,
Harpham joined Merrill
Lynch in 1972. Prior to his affiliation
with Merrill Lynch, Harpham, 56,
served First National City Bank of
New York for 23 years, organizing the
bank's first German branch in Frank­furt
and later opened First National
City's Geneva bank and other Swiss
branches in Zurich, Lugano and
Lausanne. Harpham left the bank
as vice president in charge of all
Switzerland operations.
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Putting on a New Face
The temporary trailers have disap­peared,
and the 'stables' which were
used as classrooms in the hangar nearest
the athletic field at the American
Graduate School of International Man­agement
have also been abandoned.
The students at AGSIM have been
attending class in a brand-new building
which was completed last August,
just in time for the beginning of the fall
1980 semester.
The $600,000 structure contains
three buildings, which total 13,000
square feet, and is U-shaped, connected
by covered walkways. A blue-tiled
three-tiered fountain, donated by
Kenneth Jacuzzi, '79, in honor of his
parents, Inez and Candido, is the focus
of the central courtyard and patio area.
Surrounded by trees and shrubs, the
29 rooms vary in seating size from
accommodating about a dozen language
students to classrooms for larger
groups of about 50 or 60 students to
a lecture hall that seats 90 individuals.
There is also a room which can be used
for seminar discussions.
"You will be happy to learn that the
'stables' will be abandoned for class­room
purposes," wrote Dean Marshall
Geer III in a memo to students, faculty
and staff last year. Some of the other
classrooms by the Quad and the Audi-torium
will continue to be used,
however.
The building, which is constructed
of slump block keeping in line with
the western style architecture of
AGSIM's Thunderbird campus, is adja­cent
to the library and the Career
Services Center and Alumni Office.
Donors to be honored at the spring
1981 classroom dedication include in­dividuals
- Clay P. Bedford, Thelma
Kieckhefer and the late Paul W. Litch­field;
and corporations - Anderson
Clayton Corp., the Arizona Bank,
Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, Fire­stone
Tire and Rubber Co., First
National Bank of Arizona, S.c. John­son
& Son, Inc., the Kresge Foundation
and Valley National Bank of Arizona.
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Resource Person/
Alumni Association
If you are visiting, job-hunting or moving to
their area, the T-Birds marked RP (resource
person) will help you. If you'd like information
about alumni meetings and activities in their
area, the T-Birds marked AA (alumni associa­tion)
will advise you of times and places of
get-togethers. By writing or calling the Alumni
Office (602-978-7135 ), you may add your
name to our list of distinguished AGSIM alumni
who are proudly serving their school as well
as other T-Birds world-wide.
ARIZONA
Noble U Blackshear (AA
Director of Inti Sales
Reuter EQUipment Co
1802 W Jackson SI
Phoenix. AZ 85005
Tel (602) 252-7231
Ed Dombroski
Sigma Inti
61 7 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale. AZ
Eleanor HamriC (RP)
Realty Executives
1310 W Palmalre
Phoenix. AZ 8502 1
Tel (602)997-9196 (H,
(602)264-0605 (0)
ROlla B Skeet Holland III [AA RP)
4444 W OCOlllio. #79
Glendale. AZ 85301
Tel (602)937 7556
Kenneth A JacuzzI (RP'
4914 E Cheryl Drive
Paradise Valley AZ 85253
Tel (602) 948-1027
Max McQueen
908 South Wilson
Tempe AZ 85281
Tel (602) 968-3032
CALIFORNIA
(Northern)
Bruce Eberly IAA
448 StudiO Circle #3
San Mateo. CA 9440 I
Tel (415)981-6700(01
(415)344-9417 (H)
Paul E Elias
3866 Sacramento
San FranCISco. CA 94 t 18
Tel (4 t5)751-4216
Roland E Garcia
3733 W Shaw Ave
Fresno. CA 93711
Tel (209) 442-8 t 00
Michael and lmda Carlson Haun
137 Arcadia Court
Pacilica. CA 94044
John B Lambert (RP;
804 Nash Road
Los Alios. CA 94022
Gary Miller
1215 Joyce Court
San LUIS ObiSpo CA 93401
LOUise Ure (RP)
c/o Foote Cone & Belding/Honig
55 FranCISco St
San FranCISco. CA 94133
Tel (415) 398-5200 (0)
William Thomas Walsh
Coldwell Banker
Commercial BrOkerage
Ordway BUilding SUite I t 50
Oakland , CA
Tel 415) 874-1900 'W
4 t 5)931-2375
CALIFORNIA
(Southern)
Dan Bohart (RP)
Bank 01 San Diego
225 Broadway
San Diego. CA 92101
Tel (714 I 236-9666
Jim Dale (AA. RP)
Villa Nova
313t West Coast Highway
Newport Beach, CA 92663
Tel (714)642-7880 (0)
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George C Mussenden (RP, AA'
3417 E Green St
Pasadena. CA 9 t 107
Tel (2 t 3)792 1898
Tony Savarese (RP)
Bateman Eichler Hill Richards
16776 Bernardo Cenler Dnve :: 101
San Diego CA 92128
Tel (714)487-4140
[714)27t-7419
Ronald A Thomson [RP)
t 4805 PriSCilla SI
San Diego. CA 92129
Tel 714)487-6129
714 744-3011
COLORADO
S Robert August :RP'
The Ranch
I 1853 Pecos St
Denver. CO 80234
Tel (303) 469-3377
John Culhmn (AA~
c/o Valley Lab
5920 Longbow
Boulder. CO 80301
Tel [303) 530-2300
Lin Kingsbury (RP)
Kingsbury ASSOCiates. Inc
New Age Monetary Management
Lincoln Plaza Corporation
2557 E. Woodmen Road
Colorado Springs CO 80918
Tei [303) 598-5434 (0)
Cables Kingsbury New Age
Timothy C Walker
Do-Ray Lamp Company, Inc
4038 Dover Drive, PO Box 20
Colorado City, CO 81019
Tel (303) 676-3353
OutSide CO 1-800-525-3352
CONNECTICUT
George A Wehmann (RP AA,
50 Courtland Ave, # 1
Stamford. CT 06902
FLORIDA
Mark W Faller (RP1
433 Worthington Drive. F2
Winter Park. FL 32789
Randy F Graves (RP)
1 t610 N W 39th St, Apt #2
Coral Springs FL 33065
AnlOnlo R Vidal (AA)
10521 S W 99th St
Miami FL 33 t 76
Tel:305: 628-8079
GEORGIA
Ed Fay (RP
Internallonal Marketmg Manager
Carpets International-Georgia. Inc
PO Box t503
Orchard Hili Road
La Grange GA 30241
Tel (404) 882-1891
Anna Lee Hixson
The Coca-Cola Company
PO Drawer 1734
Allanta, GA 30307
Tel [404) 898-3397
Arthur M Lucas (RP AA)
Lucas ASSOCiates. Inc
3379 Peachlree Rd NE
SUite 350
Allanta GA 30326
Tel (404) 266-2722 (0)
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Rodney A Taylor [RP AA)
A T Kearney, Inc
Management Consultants
223 Perimeter Center Parkway N E
Atlanta. GA 30346
Tel (404) 393-9900
HAWAII
Harry A Fanning
44-208 Malae PI
Kaneohe. HawaII 96744
Tel:808 254 t 221 (H)
ILLINOIS
Michael E Biller (RP)
TechnomlC Consultants. Inc
1 N Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel (312) 346-5900 X 73
Robert E. Johnson (RP)
R E Johnson International
& ASSOCiates
PO Box813
Arlington Heights. IL 60006
Tel (312) 358·6464
Judy S Purze
Homart Development Co
Sears Tower. 44th Floor
Chicago, IL 60684
Tet. [312) 875-2017
Nicole Stevens
c/o Leo Burnett US A
Prudenlial Plaza - Fourth Floor
Chicago. IL 60601
Richard Storch
c/o Sunbeam Interconllnental Ltd
5400 W Roosevelt Road
Chicago. IL 60650
Jack D Taylor
The Dtversey Corporation
2215 Sanders Rd
Northbrook. IL 60062
Tel: (312) 480-4400 (0)
Jesse G Wilson
c/o Thomas H Miner & Assoc
135 S LaSalle SI
Chicago, IL 60603
INDIANA
J Wright Witcher (RP)
9144 Bryant Lane. # 1 A
Indianapolis. Ind 46250
Tel 317 261-3722 [0:
LOUISIANA
Robert W Hesson, Jr Manager
MISSISSIPPI Marketing CounCil
International Trade DIVISion
324 Inlernallonal Trade Mart
New Orleans. LA 70130
Tel 504 524 7114
MASSACHUSETTS
C Michael BenniS
111 Suffolk Road
Cheslnut HIli, MA 02167
Tet. [671) 232-91 t 6
Jay J Donovan
Hartington. Keefe & Schork, Inc
One Bosfon Place
Boston. MA 02108
Tel' (617) 367 -2760
Suleyman Umil Onan
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Fletcher Hall
Medford. MA 02155
MICHIGAN
Sieve Engel (RP)
c/o Asg row Seed Co
SubSidiary of UPlohn Co
Gull Road
Kalamazoo. MI 49001
Tel (616) 385-6746 (0)
Leonard J Kistner (RP. AA)
Clark International Marketing S A
PO Box 1320
324 Dewey Ave
Battlecreek, MI 49016
Tel (616) 966-4580
Diana V Methven (RP AA)
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
444 Michigan Ave Rm 320
Detroit. MI 48226
Tel :3131 223·6673
MINNESOTA
Mary K McMunn (AA)
Northwest Airlines. In
Tel (612) 726-2047
MISSOURI
George L Hiler
Commerce Bank of Kansas City N A
922 Walnut
PO Box 248
Kansas City MO 6414 1
Tel (816) 234 -2603
Bob Nelson (RP)
622 Bent Oak Drive
Lake St LoUIS. MO 63367
Tel (314) 652-7800
NEBRASKA
Michael Harvey
322 Cenler St
Omaha. NE 68105
Tel (402) 342-4083
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Dexter S Johnston (RP)
2121 S 77th
Uncoln. NE 68506
Scott Mortis (RP)
4825 S 91st Ave
Omaha. NE 68127
NEW JERSEY
Professor Belmonl F Haydel Jr
(RP. AA)
Rider College
School of BUSiness Administration
PO Box 6400
LawrenceVille. NJ 08648
Tel (609) 698-5000
William 0 Neumann (RP)
Towne Travel ASSOCiates. In
150 West End Ave
Somerville. NJ 08876
Tel (201) 722-0330
NEW YORK CITY AREA
Michael Crotty (RP)
210 E 87th St Box t06
New York, NY 10028
Tel (212)722-7434 (H)
Kathleen M Kidder (RP)
84-15 63rd Ave
Middle Village. NY t 1379
Tel [2t2) 476-0203
Peter J Martin (RP)
c/o Chern Depi
Mltsublshl Inll Corp
277 Park Ave
New York. NY 10017
Tel [212) 922·2248
Frances E McCutChan. CPA
Peal. Marwlck, Mitchell & Co
345 Park Avenue
New York. NY 10154
Tel (2 t 2) 758-9700
Or 220 East 791h. #3A
New York. NY 10021
Tel (2 t 2) 879 7362
LUIS J MeJla·Maya
Fordham University
POBox Siatlon 37 Box 439
Bronx. NY 10458
T~I (212)365-8151
Sherman J Olson
AFIA Worldwide Ins
110 Wilham SI
New York. NY 10038
Tel (212)9644990 (0
Richard Salnt·Amant (AA1
144-49 Charter Rd. Apt liD
Jamaica. NY 11435
Tel:2 t 2) 380-3565 (H)
~212) 269 7320 [0,
Gary L Towell
Transway International Corp
747 Third Avenue
New York. NY 10017
George Wehmann (RP AA)
Amencan Express Card Mklg
125 Broad Streel
New York. NY 10004
Tel:2 t 2) 480-5052
NEW YORK
Robert Ballinger HP)
Ass! Professor BUSiness DIVISion
Siena College
LoudonVille, NY 122 t 1
Tet. (518) 783-2300
Gregory Buchal (RP)
Bounty Oil & Gas. Inc
#408 Fenlon BUilding
Jamestown. NY t4701
Paula Messer (RP,
34 Black Mallard
Fairport NY t 4450
R Wayne Walvoord
International Trade Management Co
Temple Bldg
14 Franklin SI
RocheSter NY t 4604
Tel (716) 232-5530 (0.
(716) 2237492 (H)
Telex 978433 ITM ROC
OHIO
Roy A Daugherty (RP)
General Electnc
Aircraft Engine Group
Mall Drop C- t 5
CinCinnati, OH 45215
Tel (5 t 3) 243-5443 (0)
Thomas Hacklm (RP. AA)
Owens UllnOtS Inc
PO Box 1035
TOledO. OH 43666
Tel 419: 247-0176[0;
OREGON
Jim Pilion
18462 SW Caslle Courl
Beaverlon. OR 97007
Tel (503) 649-4920 (H)
(503) 643-8 139 (O~
Gayle Schellentrager [RP
7115 N Delaware
Portland, OR 97217
Tel (503) 285-8517 (H)
PENNSYLVANIA
Ahmed M Hussein :RPI
FMC Corpora lion
3400 Walnut St
Colmar. PA 18915
Tel (215) 362-8307
Or 103 Concord Place
HarleYSVille. PA 19438
Tel (215) 362-8307
Donald Stanek eRP)
2862 Washington St
Easton, PA 18042
Tel (201) 859-2151 [0)
[215) 252-7394 [H)
RHODE ISLAND
Donald DI-Nucclo
Elmwood Sensors Inc
1655 Elmwood Ave
Cranston. RI 02907
Tel (401) 232·1264
SOUTH CAROLINA
Martha Goodyear (RP)
Sales Development Corp
PO Box 5835
Pope Greenwood Complex
BUilding #9
Hilton Head Island SC 29928
Tel (803) 842-3380 (0)
Virginia A Thompson (RP)
1623 Rlpplerock Road. ApI ~3
Columbia. SC 29210
Tel (803) 798-4097
TENNESSEE
John Walker
Export Marketing Consullant
1018 Andrew Jackson Bldg
NashVille. TN 37219
Tel 7415870 [0)
TEXAS
Bruce Blankenship (RPI
Blankenship Developmenls Inc
PO Box 5246
Lubbock, TX 79417
Tel (806) 762-5221 (0)
Houston W Briggs II (RP)
VARO Eleclron DeVices
2203 W Walnut
Garland TX 75040
Tel [214) 272-356t x619
Debora S Burks
4530 Briar HOllOW Place ;203
Houston. TX 77027
George A G,agtzls (RP, AA)
2228 Dunstan
Houston TX 77005
Shelly Hurley
32' I West DIVISion t: I 55
Arlington TX 76012
Tel (817) 261-8978
Ben Miedema (RP. AAI
8327 W Tidwell #1404
Houston. TX 77040
Randolph K Miller
Vice PreSident
Lalln American DIVISion
Texas Commerce Bank. N A
701 Main St
Houslon TX 77002
DaVid B Trott (RP. AA)
6073 Village Glenn Drive #4228
Dallas. TX 75206
Tel (214) 691-5857 (HI
(2t4) 386-2388 (0'
John D Willyard III
FCIA
1 Houston Center SUite 1210
Houston. TX 77002
Tel (7t3) 7591114
UTAH
Tom GoudleRP)
5154 Ridgecrest Drive
Salt Lake Cily Utah 84118
Tel (801) 967·9036
WASHINGTON
Charles S Hazen. Jr 'RP AAJ
Hazen & Co
10113 Main Place
Bothell. WA 98011
Tel (206) 485-9702 ;0)
Tom & June Pearson Sweetser (RP]
Paccar Inlernatlonal (June)
Renton. WA
Tel (206) 235-3030 (June)
Metalclad Insulallon Corp (Tom)
4233 W Margmal Way S W
Seattle. WA
Tel (206) 932-5544 [Tom;
Cynthia Wallon rAP)
723 E 53rd St
Tacoma WA 98404
WASHINGTON D.C.
AREA
K A Casey Cummings
ENI Companies
2844 S Columbus SI
Arlington VA 22206
Tel (703) 528-8780 [0)
[703) 998-0865 (H)
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
WEST VIRGINIA
Edwin N Vinson (RP)
Nelson Trust
PO Box ~53
Huntlnglon W V 25701
Tel (304)525-2166 (H)
WISCONSIN
Thomas J Melcalf
c/o Thomas Johnson
Office of Career Planning & Placemenl
University of Wisconsin
500 Lincoln Dnve
Madison. WI 53706
Tel (608) 262-3921
ARGENTINA
Robert 8 Garnson
fNA fnl Corp
R,vadav,a 195. 9 C
San ISidro. Buenos Aires 1642
Tel 792-7545 (H)
747-1913 (0)
Palnclo Seidel (RP)
San Marlin 140-Plso 18
1004 Buenos Aires
Tel 34·3862
344276
AUSTRALIA
S D Clarke (RP'
International Harvester Australia lid
211 SIUrI Streel
Soulh Melbourne VIC 3205
Tel 697·7532
AUSTRIA
Oayk Tveul (RP)
Amencan Embassy
16 Boltzmanngasse
Al 091 Vienna Austria
Tel 3155·11
BAHAMAS
Suzanne J Black
Allied Bank and Trusl Co , Ltd
PO Box N 3944
Nassau. Bahamas
Tel (809) 322·8992 (0)
BAHRAIN
Joseph T and Arlelle E Miller
Bahrain Pelroleum Company (CALTEX)
PO Box 25029
Awall. Bahrain
Tef 750005 x4583: 0;
x4960 H
BANGLADESH
Mary Carney
CARE Bangladesh
PO Box 226
Dacca, Bangladesh
Tel 31516468
BELGIUM
John C Cook (RP
c/o UnlveSlors 5 a
30. Avenue Legrand
1050 Brussels. Belgium
BERMUDA
Robert J Rosser
Seldon Rose COllage
Pembroke, Bermuda
Tel (809) 295·2482 (01
(809) 295·3050 (H)
BRAZIL
Mark S Abrams (RP)
First National Bank 01 Boston
Rua Llbero 8adaro, 487
Sao Paulo Sao Paulo
Tel 35·0151 x441 (0)
2119336 (H)
Robeno Bumagny IRP/AA,
Rua Monle Alegre 1352 Api G
Sao Paulo· PerdlZes CEP 05014
Tel (011) 65·7596
A B DaSilva (RP)
c/o FMC do BraSil S A
Industna e Comerclo
D,v,ao de GUindastes e Escavadelfas
Av Paullsta 1274 go Andar
01310 Sao Paulo. S P BraSil
Tel 285·3685
DenniS J Ono (AA)
Director
Argos,Cla de Seguros
Largo de Sao FranCISco 34·2
01005 Sao Paulo. S p , BraZil
Sian ford P Wilson (RP AA 1
Snelling e Snelling Ltda
Cons de Pessoal
Av Graca Aranha 57/4° AND
R,o De Janeiro. RJ 20030
Tel (021) 292·2140
BRITISH WEST INDIES
George E Grimmell (RP)
Geolradlng Ltd
PO Box 1579
Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands B W I
Tel 95995 (0)
CANADA
Mark Rousseau
c/o Pelroflna Canada. Inc
736·81h Avenue, S W
Calgary, Albena Canada
Tel (403) 243·6050 (H)
(403)266·7451 (01
CHILE
Max Krauss (IRP)
Triumph International de Chile LTDA
Avda Santa Marla 1926
Sanllago, Chile
Tel 744544
744943
COLOMBIA
Gabriel Cuellar
Graco Inc
Aparlado Aereo 90877
Bogola 8, Colombia
Tel 236-9855 (H)
Greg Grinnell (RP)
c/o Security PaCific National Bank
Calle 40 # 13·09
Aparlado Aereo 92434
Bogota Colombia
Tel 269 8994 (0)
LUIS Javier Mejla·Maya
Calle 17 #468. ApI 1704
Bogola Colombia
COSTA RICA
James Dahlstrom (RP AA)
Super ServlCIO S A
Aparlado #994
San Jose Costa Rica
Tel 22·5544 (0)
William Goode (RP AA)
Aparlado 1266
San Jose. Costa Rica
Tel 35·9149 (0)
35·2941 (0)
352947 (0)
James C Sian ley (RP AAJ
Fuenejlos SA
API 5181
San Jose. Costa Rica
Tel 2901 II 10'
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Elhan Book
c/o Bdnk of America. NT & SA
PO Box 1373
Santo Domingo. Dom Rep
EGYPT
George T DeBakey (RP)
RockweJllnternatlonal
15 Radwan EI Tablb
11th Floor
Gila Cairo. Egypl
Tel 989358
Telex 93301 ROCKWUN
EL SALVADOR
John R Arnold :RP AA
Arnold Enterprises
Bo)( 1111
San Salvador EI Salvador
Tel 21 4466. 216400 22-4774 (0)
231318(H
ENGLAND
Ashok D Palel RP
Conllnenlal Can Inll
Coburg House
Sheel Slreel
Windsor Berkshire England
Tel Windsor 53711
Roby S Swan
Pizza HUI. Inc
149 Earls Courl Road
London SW 5
Tel (0 I) 3706443 (0)
home
#9 Mldholm
Wembley Park. Middlesex
HA 9 9LJ England
Tel 904 7801 :H
FRANCE
Alfred C Hamburg IRP)
Internallonal Harvester
87. Ave de la Grande Armee
75782 Pans Cedex 16. France
Tel 50216·10
Telex 6118351HE F
Jerome J Petln
Revlon
21 Rue Bosslere
Pans 75116 France
Erik M Severeld
71 Ave de Segur
Pans. 75007 France
GERMANY
GUniher H Kohlke
Ander Eiskaul 46
6390 USlllgeniTs
(0608 I) 14245
Axel Mees (RP)
Ungerer Str 19
8000 Munchen 40
Tel (089) 394440 (H)
(089) 38955233 (BMWAG) (0.
Rene H Salomon
Grenz Strasse 31
60S 7 D,ellenbach
GREECE
Dents Gavanas (RP)
Sana vag ASSOCiates GP
BUSiness Development ConSUltants
PO Box 1622
Alhens 126, Synlagma Greece
HONG KONG
Bill Tak·M,ng Ling (RP AA.
CCAA International Limited
10lh FI Ka Wah Bank Bldg
259·265 Des Voeux Rd C
Hong Kong
Tao: !j-453047 (OJ
C Greg Wadas (RP AA)
Trade Media Ltd
POBox 1786 Kowloon Central PO
Kowloon Hong Kong
Tel 5·777772 :0)
INDIA
YG Dwarkanalh ~ RP AA)
Sn Krishna Spinning & Weaving Mills
Subramanyapura Bangalore 560061
Tel 41517(H)
41595 (0)
Behram R Selhna (RP)
Karal Estate. 2nd Floor
248 Tareo Road
Bombay 40D 007
INDONESIA
D J Goldsmllh
SCOII & Danmark lid
PO Box410/KBY
Jakarla Selatan
Tel 582792 0:
ISRAEL
Simon Hakim (RP)
PO Box 1348
Ramal Hasharon. Israel
Adrienne Wayne (RP, AA)
Palace HOlel
277 Hayarkon
Tel AVIv. Israel
Tel:03: 445111
ITALY
Evan C Hasslotls (RP~
Cilibank N A
Ford Buonaparte 16
Milano. 20100
Jorgen lIndeskov
c/o Otlcen Ilaha s r.1
Lungarno GUlcclardln1 n 7
50125 Flrenle. Italy
IVORY COAST
Kennelh EncksonRP.
Alncan Development Bank
Room 802
B P 1387
Abld,an. Ivory CoaSI
JAPAN
Terence M Esmay (RP)
Meltsu-Dally
I 1 Nlshl·Shlmbashl
Nlmato-ku
Tokyo. 105. Japan
Yu FukUI
ASSistant General Manager
Ole mae Women s College
2 10 Olamae Hlgashlku
Osaka Japan 54 I
Tel 06·944 1106
John K Pidcock
C/o AVA International
SUlle 502 Higashi Alabu Sky Heights
3-5 · 1 Higashi Azabu Mlnato· ku
Tokyo. 106 Japan
Tel 586·8645
Michael B Powell (AA)
c/o Allco Japan
C PO Box 953
Tokyo 100·91 Japan
Tel 03·212·0411
03952·2370
JORDAN
Mohammad Anwar AbdeJrahman
Jordan Kuwait Bank
Head Office
PO Box 9776
Amman. Jordan
Tel 6212662129 [0)
KENYA
Muslafa MamUlee (RP AA
M/S MamUlee BrOlher Llmlled
PO Box 90600
Mombasa Kenya
Gertrude S Muloh
c/o Valentine Musoga
TWlga Chemlcallnduslrles Ltd
PO Box 30172
Nairobi Kenya
Tel 338333
KOREA
Jae Suk Lee (RP AA)
The Korea Development Bank
IPO Box 4570
Seoul. Korea
Tel 22·4111
JungBae Kim
ASia Cemenl Mig Co Ltd
10m Floor Dong Ah Bldg
120·23, Seosomoon - Dong
Chung·ku, Seoul Korea
Tel 28·7607 [0)
5906442 (H)
MEXICO
Craig J Dudley (AA)
R,o Rhln #77. Penlhouse
MeXICO, 5. D F MeXICO
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Belsy Kaduk (AA)
c/o Muillbanco Comermex. S A
Plaza Comermex
Blvd AVila Camacho NO I
MeXICO. 10. D F
Claude Shaneyfell
[:.;p!anada ;. 1220 A
Lomas de Chapullepec
MeXICO. 10. D F
MOROCCO
Judllh Taybl
Villa Valiespir
12 B·d des Nallons Unles
Agdal
Rabat. Morocco
or USAID/RABAT
Department 01 Slate
Washmglon. 0 C 20523
NETHERLANDS
Alexander Barge :RP AA
Welssenbruchstraat 253
2596 GH
Den Haag Nelherlands
Tel 070·280083 (H)
NORWAY
Jan A Strangel
Aasterudvn 16A
N·1344 Haslum
Tel:02 202255 0
'02 532526 H,
PAKISTAN
Ashfaq All Ouellawala (RP AA)
Bankers Eqully lid
Dr Z,audd,n Ahmed Road
Siale Llle BUilding #3
Karachi. Pakistan
Tel 513683
514017
PANAMA
Michael Pierce 'RP
Pierce & Kryonaqa
Box 605
Balboa. Republic of Panama
Tel 52·2329
52·5298
PARAGUAY
Perry E Ball RP
c/o the American Embassy
AsunCion. Paraguay
John Zavala· Kent
Av Mcal Lapel 1532
AsunCion . Paraguay
Tel 22·162 H
PERU
Hector Cespedes Brave
Hector Cespedes Bra\lo-Empresa
Unlpersonal of Export of Peruvian
Handicrafts
Los Mlrtos 448·lInce. Lima-Peru
Tel 225097
PHILIPPINES
Mary Baron 'RP'
lnlernallonal SchOOl
PO Box 323
Commercia! Center
Makatl . Metro Manila 3 t 17
Bruno Cornelio (RP ~
c/o Bank of Amenca
Manila Branch
BA·Lepando BUilding
Pasee do Roxas
Makatl. Metro Manila
Tel 85·09 II
PORTUGAL
DIane Claus HIJth
Johnson & J()hn~ In
Apartado t7
27460ueluz·Codel
Tel 289-410:H
PUERTO RICO
Ole B Dam
Dlgllal EqUipmenl Corp
PO Box 106
San German Puerto R,co 00753
Tel 809) 892·1946
Jerome E FlrSly
Flrbeck Inc
PO Box 14423
Barno Obrero Station
Santurce, P R
Tel (809) 726·1102
(809) 726 1798
Robert & GlOria Shuman (AA~
(;/0 Robt:rl ShUiTIdn & ASSOClili8S
Box 1393
HalO Rey Puerto RICO
Tel (809) 789 9371
John F Tomlinson PreSident (RP, AA)
Canbbean Properties Limned
171 Del Parque
San Juan Puerto RICO 00911
Tel 809 725 7365 O'
SAUDI ARABIA
Gary E Adams (RP AA
Fluor Arabia Limited
Gas Gathering Project
PO Box 360
Ohahran Airport
Dhahran Saudi Arabia
Tel 875·8327 (0)
8757651 (H)
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Edward CAuble (RP)
ALiCO
PO Box474
AI·Khobar. Saudi Arabia
Harry A Cockrell (RP)
The National Commercial Bank
PO Box 34
Riyadh. Saudi Arabia
Tel [40 I) 3545/402·5084
Roger N Voegele
c/o HBH Company
Contracts Department
PO Box 2704
Jeddah. Saudi Arabia
SINGAPORE
Michael M BrookS
INA Inlernatlonal Corp
SE ASia Regional Office
141h FI Clifford Cenlre
Raffles PI
Singapore I Singapore
James W Echle (RP, AA)
Salsbury International Inc
187 A Goldhlll Shopping Centre
Thomson Road
Singapore II Singapore
Dick & Sandy Hasenpfiug (AA
Monsanto Singapore Ltd
261h Floor Clifford Cenler
Raffles Place
Smgapore 0104
James W Stewart
Lampra Holdings Private
20 I B Goldhlll Cenlre
NeWlon/Thomson Rds
Singapore 1130. Singapore
William [Bill) Wagner (RP)
WABCO Trade Company
197 B Goldhlll Shoppmg Centre
Thomson Road
Singapore II. Singapore
SPAIN
Harold Buck Brown (RP)
Sterwln Espanola. SA
Av del General Peron 274
Madrid 20. Spain
Barton L Hartzell
ConstrucClones Aeronautccas. S A
Faclona de Getale
Apartado 193
Gelafe'Madrid Spain
Tel 681 58- 1 I
Elllabelh J Nelson ;RP AA)
The Chase Manhallan Bank N A
Aparlado 972
Paseo de la Castlilana 31
Madrid 1 Spr:lln
SWEDEN
Claus T March (RPI
Ekeby Skogsv IS
18265 Dlursholm
SWITZERLAND
Bernhard G F Edgar RP AA,
Oberhasll 3
SI Nlklausen
6005 Lucerne
Tel 041 44 2466 (H
J R Svalander lRP AA
BP Chemicals (SUisse) SA
8c Ave de Champel
Box 291 CHI211Geneva12
Tel (022) 46· 77 47
TAIWAN
lillian Llang·lIang Tung
6 Fly 5·1
Alley 15. Lane 96
Ho,P,n E Road Sec Z
TaipeI. TaIwan Republic of China
Tel .02 ' 7085858
THAILAND
Thermchal Phllnyawalana (RP)
Chase Manhallan Bank. N A
S,am Cenler. 965 Rama I Road
GPO Box 525
Bangkok Thailand
Tel 252114150
James P Rooney
J P Rooney & Assoclales Ltd
PO Box 111238
BangkOK. Thailand
TUNISIA
SCOII K Johnson
Bank 01 Amenca
25 Ave Jean .Jaures
TuniS. TUniSia
Tel 259·599
VENEZUELA
SUlY Sagy de Kulcsar
Apartado 5081 7
Caracas. 50817 Venezuela
Tel 239·4442 (H)
745·169 (0)
Mitchell K McMurry
Representalo Adlunto
Bank of Montreal
Edl! Centro Altamlra PISO 14
Avda San Juan Bosco. Alta mIra
Apartado 68415 Allamlra 1062
Caracas, Venezuela
Tel 324275 or 321189 [0)
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CLASS OF '47, '49, '50
Ben Cid Novoa Jr., '47, whose mailing address
IS Crown Point, Ind ., is working for Sears In
Mexico, He is a former Jonas Mayer award
recipient. Phyllis and Walter M. Leonard, '49,
have moved to Tombstone, Ariz" where they
continue their writing and researching of "the
old West." David W. MOir, '49, is the export man­ager
for Nordic Controls Company in Batavia, III.
His primary connection is as manager of In­ternational
sales for Furnas Electric Company,
also in Batavia, Richard Kerr Murison, '49. with
his Wife Cacilda C" recently visited the Alumni
Office, Murison is the administration/ financial
manager of the metalurgical company Mcquay
do Brasi l, Ltda. in Sao Paulo, Joseph D. Ames,
'50, who is living In Oak Park, III., IS the regional
marketing director for Candlelight Dinner Club
and covers three states - Illinois, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Richard G. Kranz, '50, is the man­ager
of purchasing in the contracts administra­tion
for General Dynamics/Pomona diVISion In
California, Living in Singapore are Carol and
Robert Lewis, '50 , who is working for Monsanto
Singapore Pte, Ltd , Fred J. Parmentier, '50, is
the senior vice president With Frank B, Hall & Co,
International department and has recently
moved to Chicago, Robert G. Walker, 50, has
retired from AmeriTrust of Northeastern OhiO
He was chairman and chief executive, and served
In that capacity since 1976, He joined the bank
in 1959 as an assistant vice president.
CLASS OF '51
Inter-American Development Bank has trans­ferred
Carlos F. Borja Jr. to Lima, Peru, Curtis
Rausch is working for Cosdel Singapore Pte,
Ltd, In Singapore, Richard Sullivan is a vice
president with Mobil Oil In Norway. We heard
this news from his brother-in-law Ben Cld
Novoa Jr" '47,
CLASS OF '52
Norman "Norm" J. Blackie of Castro Valley,
Calif" is self-employed In the export business,
James V. Kauffman recently wrote, 'After PUrina
I set up a poultry meat business for them in
Mexico City and operated it for five years
since then the family and I 'escaped' from Mexico
City, I operate a small feed lot for beef cattle
near Queretara and Ruth supplies the city With
American pies. I suspect we rank near the top of
the seniority list of Thunderbirds In MexIco '
CLASS OF '54
Jack William Ncdeil is the manager-International
administrative services for Procter & Gamble
In CinCinnati , Ohio, Ken Nelson IS working With
the store Spanish Galleon in PhoeniX, Robert C.
Senkfor has joined FCIA as senior vice presI­dent,
underwriting,
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CLASS OF '55
Dale Sheets has returned to the U,S, after
spending seven years In Brazil. He has his own
Snelling and Snelling Employment Services of­fice
in Burlington, Iowa, "Jack" John Thomson
will be the sales manager for Latin America for
Fokker Aircraft U,SA but will keep his office
in the Washington , D,C" area,
CLASS OF '56
Phillip R. Keeler is the owner of an advertiSing
agency In MexIco and recently jOined other
T-Birds at an alumni gathering at the Camino
Real. Benedict J. Mione IS the director general
for Latin America and the Caribbean for Canada
Dry, He resides in Mexico City, He was recently
on campus, VISiting With Executive Vice PresI­dent
Berger Erickson, Mione and his wife Irma
were in Phoenix to attend a two-day meellng;
they spent one evening at a local restaurant
which had been transformed into a Mexican
village, ringed with 700 luminarias, Mrs, Mione
was quoted in the local newspaper as saying:
" I've never seen anything so spectacularly
beautiful in all of MexIco."
CLASS OF '57
Alan B. Helffrich Jr. has JOined the manage­ment
group of Tupperware International, a
division of Dart Industries, and is planning a
move to Buenos Aires then on to Santiago,
Chile, Alf Johnsen IS with Nat Chemsearch in
Madrid, RobertT. Mott has recently been named
a partner in Dames & Moore, an engineering
and environmental consulting firm in San Fran­CISCO,
He and his wife Esther and two sons
live in San Rafael , Calif,
CLASS OF '58
Pieter A. Vos has been appointed export
marketing manager for Bunker Ramo Interna­tional
Sales Corp" In Oak Brook, III. Vos, who
was born in the Netherlands, has more than 20
years of international marketing experience in­cluding
resident positions in Belgium, Cuba,
Germany, Guatemala and Thailand , as well as
export sales experience in Africa and the Middle
East. Stanford P. Wilson, who is employed by
Snelling and Snelling in Rio de Janeiro, writes
that he has been in Rio since 1959 " , , and plan
to stay here much longer,"
CLASS OF '59
Gerald K. "Jerry" Anderson is the owner of 0 'Tay
Nursery Inc, In San Diego. He recently visited
the Alumni Office, Andrew W, Furlan IS the
executive vice president and general manager,
International, for Del International, Inc" a division
of Del Labol'atories, Inc., in Farmingdale, N,Y,
Aldon L. Pierce Jr. is the owner and president
of Coronado Finance, Inc" Las Cruces, N,M, He
and his wife Carmen Salcido Pierce, who have
three children, recently celebrated their 20th
anniversary
Robert Walker, '50 Robert Senkfor, '54
CLASS OF '60
Charles H. Brassard is the general manager of
Seagram's de Mexico in Mexico City, Donald
A. Brugge, who recently visited the Thunderbird
campus, is With Chapman Chemical Company,
Memphis, Tenn , Nancy and Robert F. Kidney,
who works for Kodak Pte., Ltd " are residing
in Singapore Paul Reiss is the managing direc­tor
of Ther, SA, in Cuautitlan, MexIco, Gordan
W. Ware recently wrote from Mexico where he is
the president of Hallmark Cards, Kit and James
Worthington, who is employed by Citibank, live
in Singapore,
CLASS OF '61
Duane Bellmore is working for Promotora Gales
in Madrid, Sue and Richard Dron are living In
Madrid, where Dron is working for Pfeizer,
Jerome "Jerry" S. Lewis has taken a year's
leave from CARE and is working on his brother
('68) Richard's pig farm in Valencia, Venezuela,
Jerry has been with CARE in Venezuela for 18
years; but writes, "I love the change of pace and
If it works out, I may stay longer,"
CLASS OF '62
Carol and Robert Louis, who works for
Monsanto, are liVing in Singapore, Julius J.
Modlinski, who received his doctorate from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the execu­tive
director of the Arizona Children 's Home
Association In Tucson , Ariz, The job title of Peter
Reitz, who was profiled in the last issue of The
Thunderbird magazine, was incorrect, Reitz is
the assistant executive director for CARE
Europe All other information about Reitz, how­ever,
was accurate, Living in Singapore are
Boba and Theodore "Ted" F. Ryan, who is
working for Electronic Data System World Corp,
Mida and David M. Sheehan, who works for
Mobil Producing Services East ASia Inc" also
reside In Singapore.
CLASS OF '63, '64
Beatriz and Richard Hotz, '63, are living in La
Coruna, Spain, where Hotz is employed with
Nebrasca Consolidated , Stanley A. Zagrodnik
Jr., '63, works for Southeast Enterprises, Singa­pore,
Lester " Les" Montegut Jr., '64, is a
financial adviser for Walter Wainright in San
Francisco, Donald C. Nelson, '64 , is no longer
with MONY; he is self-employed as an insurance
broker In Fargo, N.D, The job title of George
Radcliffe, '64, who was profiled in the last issue
of The Thunderbird magazine, was Incorrect,
Radcliffe IS the assistant executive director, over­seas
operations for CARE, All other information
about him, however, was accurate
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Dale Sheets, '55 John Thomson, '55
CLASS OF '65
John Datsopoulos IS the president and owner
of InterCat Corporation , American Diversified
Products, Inc., and Horns International, and lives
In Missoula, Mont. The companies, In order, are
involved in export of reconditioned heavy
equipment with emphasis on Caterpillars; export
of medical/dental equipment, and the export
of horns from elk and deer to the Orient. Tom
Granger, who IS president of the Central
American division of Pfizer, Inc., lives in San
Jose, Costa Rica, with his wife, the former Ellen
Parker, and their three daughters Since gradu­ation
, Granger has traveled and worked in
Thailand , Ceylon , India, New Zealand , Peru and
Costa Rica. Christian A. Larsen Jr., who was
recently elected to the New York Alumni
Association board of directors, IS the mar­keting
director for Aramis International/ Estee
Lauder International In New York City, Don
Novello, who plays the unprlestly priest
Guido Sarducci who is a gossip columnist from
the Vatican on the comedy show 'Saturday
Night live," was recently interviewed In the
magazine Rolling Stone The article notes that
he covered Pope John II 's VISit to the United
States for the Roiling Stone. 'In hiS article,
Father Sarducci mentioned among other things,
that he didn't even know In what state Des
MOines was located , but that he didnt Just want
to come out and ask someone, 'So I've been
waiting for someone to mention the name of It,
but no one does. I think I might ask, What are
the names of the states surrounding this one?'
and then maybe I could figure It out myself,
within a state or two." According to the article,
Novello and hiS Wife Kathy are liVing In Holly­wood
, where he IS writing a non-Guido movie
In which he hopes to playa role Novello
published "The Lazlo Letters" In 1977, a book
of letters sent to various celebrities under the
pen-name of Lazlo Toth . (The real Laszlo Toth
- Novello changed the spelling a bit - was
the Hungarian-born Australian who in 1972
had attacked Michelangelo's " Pelta" with a
hammer.) He also continues to promote his
comedy record " Father Guido Sarducci live,"
which has sold about 70,000 copies.
CLASS OF '66
Ed Fernandez-Fournier is working for Westing­house,
SA, In Madrid, Gerald E. Rupp was
recently promoted to personnel administration
manager for Northrop in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
CLASS OF '67
William C. Dyer has loined Connell Brothers
Co., Ltd ., in San FranCISco, as executive assistant
to the president. He sold his own firm , Cor­porate
Export, Inc" and now resides in Walnut
Creek, Calif. Thomas D. Farver recently was
hired by GOE Resources, oil and gas invest-
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Robert Mott, '57 Jul ius Modlinski , '62
ments In Houston. In January, he became a
director and vice president, treasurer and con­troller,
when the Boston Oil and Gas Drilling
Fund Company's Houston office separated and
formed the privately owned 011 and gas Invest­ment
company called GOE (Gas, Oil and
Energy) Resources Company, David G. Fisher
and four others, including two Thunderbirds,
have incorporated the Oak Bridge Institute In
Tokyo, with the purpose of prOViding cross­cultural
services to Japanese and foreign firms
In Japan. Nicholas L. Hunter writes that he is
supervisor of finance and accounting for Dravo
Arabia, Ltd" which is a subsidiary of Dravo
Utility Constructors, Inc ., of New York City. "We
have a contract to maintain and operate the
Ghazlan power plant which IS an 800 megawatt
oil and gas fired steam generated electrical
plant." Edward K. Kimmel recently began a three­year
tour as a commercial officer at the US.
Consulate in Hamburg, W. Germany. This
assignment. he explains, is with the new U,S
Department of Commerce foreign commercial
service. J.M. Moore is the manager of the
Los Angeles and Beverly Hills branches of
Banque Naclonale de Paris After 12 years With
Citlbank In New York, Brussels, Madrid, London,
MeXICO and Los Angeles, Dean M. Ross has
set up his own company to bUild and develop
a 160-unlt condominium/ time share resort
project in Puerto Vallarta , MeXICO. HIS company
IS located In Los Angeles, where Ross, hiS
Wife Susan and two daughters live. Harold N.
Tune IS working for Textron in Singapore.
CLASS OF '68
Seiling Mayan deSigns to tOUrists In Antigua,
Guatemala, IS Cynthia C. Burski. Sandy and
Dick Hasenpflug, who IS working for Monsanto
Singapore, are liVing In Singapore, James H.
Hunt IV is working for Temenggong Merchant
Bank In Singapore A newspaper interView re­cently
appeared In a local PhoeniX paper about
Tom Lyons, who trains horses on his 80-acre
spread on West Buckeye Road with his Wife
Tootie. "They're our business and our hobby,"
he was quoted as saying . "A cutting horse has to
be born with an instinct to work cattle, He's
got to love it . You always want the horse to
believe he can Jump over the moon You want
him to think he can do anything because if he
fails, he'll worry about It and then he'll lose hiS
concentration ," Stephen D. Nadler was recently
admitted in to partnership with Schneider &
Shuster, certified public accountants, in Denver
Kenneth P. Skuse has moved to Seoul , Korea ,
with Marine Midland Bank Algis Vosylius is the
preSident of Avex International, Ltd " in Naper­ville,
Ill. Mary and Montroville B. "Bo" Walker
III, who is working for Kodak, are living in
Singapore. Booker R. Warren is the regional
manager for LNC Corp, in Dallas.
Thomas Farver, '67 Tom Lyons, '68
CLASS OF '69
James R. Brokken is the vice president and
deputy regional manager, corporate banking
Europe, with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in
New York City, He completed the Stanford
Executive Program last summer, which included
180 executives of which 60 were with foreign
corporations, Roger Brown is working for
Marine Midland Bank in Singapore. Robert B.
Hughes IS with Export-Import Bank in Singa­pore.
Graham M. Lowe IS the director of national
sales for American Express in Mexico. He met
recently with other T-Birds liVing in Mexico and
Tom Bria, the alumni director. Valentin Navarro,
with his wife Blanca, are liVing in Madrid , where
he is employed by Nat Chemsearch. Employed
by John Deere Industrial Pte., Ltd ., and liVing
In Singapore IS Thomas Rhomberg. Walter C.
Sweet III IS now operating Walt Sweet AdvertiS­Ing
, Inc., In Phoenix.
CLASS OF '70
John Daughenbaugh is the vice president of
United California Bank, International diviSion ,
In Los Angeles. Bruce R. Duston IS senior
vice preSident for Western Bank In Farmington,
N.M. Thomas K. Gray was recently promoted to
vice preSident for studiO publiCity at United
Artists in New York. C. Norman Hansen has
been in the Frankfurt, W Germany. office of
Marine Midland Bank for four years and IS cur­rently
vice president and senior representative
responsible for Central Europe and YugoslaVia
as well as the Com-econ countries. R. Lynn
Hurlbert has moved from Venezuela to Houston
where he is enrolled at the University of Houston
In the Ph .D program In management opera­tions
with a minor In International bUSiness
He remarked . "I received full credit for all my
Thunderbird classes." W. Dana Juett IS the pro­duction
control manager for Mostek Corp In
Carrollton , Texas. Richard Kidder is the district
manager for Coca-Cola U.S.A In Atlanta, Ga
Patrick J. McCormick, as vice preSident and
general manager of the United California Bank,
Tokyo Branch, has moved to Tokyo. Richard J.
Roth IS assistant vice president for the First Bank
of Minneapolis. He lives in Plymouth , Minn .
Herbert G. Rupp is working for Georgia Pacific
International in Singapore Gary Walter, who
also lives in Singapore, is working for John Deere
& Co. Charles M. Weeks III IS In Monterrey,
Mexico, working as the general manager for
Burger Boy's northern division in an expansion
program to develop the chain In that part of
Mexico. "Forty restaurants to date," Weeks writes
and explains that Burger Boy IS a recent acquI­sition
of the VISA Group.
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CLASS OF '11
Bonnie and Harold D. "Buck" Brown are living
in Madrid , where Brown is working for Sterwin
Espanola SA William " Bill" M. Coulter, mana­ger
of the United Kingdom Export Finance
Division for the Chase Manhattan Bank, NA,
has worked in New York and Hong Kong. He
writes: "I feel very fortunate having had the
opportunity to work in two very exciting over­seas
locations and my year at Thunderbird
certainly cOf)tributed to my success in obtaining
a career in' international business." Michael
Hanson is now in international finance and audit
with Control Data. Judd Kinne IS working for
Frazer & Co. in Singapore. Dan Mapes is a
manager of international marketing for Kaiser
Commerce International in Berkeley, Calif.
Lance M. Renault is the director of administra­tion
for Compassion International in Colorado
Springs, Colo. This organization , which works
through evangelical missions and national
churches providing educational and health care
and Christian nurture, assists 56,000 children in
33 countries In ASia , Latin America and Africa ,
according to Renault. Phillip N. Strongin has
been appOinted vice president of Bartlett and
Company, Grain. He and his family reside in
Overland Park, Kan Charles Taplin IS working
for William Wrigley, Inc., In Madrid Margaret
E. Watson, who IS now Margaret W. Lupton,
is currently living in Brookfield, Conn.
CLASS OF '12
living in Poway, Calif , Daniel Bohart IS an
assistant vice president for the Bank of San
Diego. William W. Burrus was recently named
the executive director of ACCION International/
AITEC. He had been the Latin American direc­tor
of operations. Paul R. Collins is working
for Business International Corp In San Fran­cisco.
Carolyn H. and Grier H. Cooper attended
the Balloon Race in November John Cullison
has been transferred from California, where he
studied agriculture and the needs of developing
countries, to Africa, where he has the respon­sibility
for southern Africa for Bank of America
as vice preSident. Richard Delaney is now
working for ITT with their consumer finanCial
unit as executive assistant to the president.
John Fred Duffer, who recently returned from
Dusseldorf, W. Germany, is the vice president
general manager for the Coca-Cola bottling
plant in Waco, Texas, which is owned by Ameri­can/
European Associates. Marcia and Gregory
W. Duffin, who works for The American Insur­ance
Company, live in Singapore James W.
Echle, who works for Salsbury International Inc.
as Asian marketing director, and his wife
Michiyo are living in Singapore also. Barton A.
Francour is vice president of Continental
Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago, Distribution Service. Nancy and
William " Bill" R. Grant, who recently visited
the Thunderbird campus, are living In Rosnell,
Ga. , where Grant is a trader of peanuts and
vegetable oils for Alimenta (USA) Inc , which
exports these items Russell E. Johnson has
recently been transferred to the north Asia head­quarters
of American President lines, Ltd ., in
Kowloon , Hong Kong. James D. "Jay" Kreimer
is presently in Peru, handling all of National
Supply Company's business with Peru, Ecuador
and Bolivia. Nick Lazos is chief of procure­ment/
logistiCS with Gray International Corp., in
Jakarta, Indonesia Gary Michael is the sales
manager for Latin America for Bausch & Lomb
in Rochester, N.Y Alec Soon Guan Teck who
lives in Singapore, works for Sim Lim Company.
W.A. Taft and his wife recently visited the
14
William Coulter, '71 Phillip Strongin, '71
Thunderbird campus on their way to Bermuda
where he works for Cameron & Colby Insur­ance.
David A. Young is employed with DECA
Group, Inc., In Miami Beach, Fla ., as the client
services manager, dealing with real estate
developers. architects, general contractors and
Interior decorators In building Interiors for
commercial buildings.
CLASS OF '13
James Mike Alexander is working for Wood­ward
& Dickenson in Singapore. Also living In
Singapore are Sharon and R. John Davis, who
is working for First National Bank of Dallas.
Xuan and Robert "Roy" M. Dix Jr. are another
couple liVing In Singapore; Dix IS with Chase
Manhattan Bank there. Terence M. Esmay
started as a consultant last fall with the Califor­nia
Avocado Commission, promollng California
avocados in Japan. Ted Finkel, who recently
returned from BraZil, is working for Chase
Manhattan Bank and its correspondent banks In
Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus He cur­rently
resides in Great Neck, N.Y. Gilberto
Franquebalme IS working for Multlbanco
Comermex, SA, In Mexico City. Dilcia and
William Gambrel with their daughter are liVing
In Buenos Aires, where he recently was pro­moted
to vice president and manager of corpo­rate
banking at Chase Bank, South America,
which is a subSidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank
of New York City Lawrence C. Giessinger has
been transferred from Singapore to the head
office of First Pennsylvania Bank, NA, inter­national
department, In Philadelphia, as an as­sistant
vice president. John C. Graeff has
left Pool Company after six years there to start
his own company called Porthcawl Services
Inc., which specializes in providing technical
training and technical placement services to the
oil and gas industry. He lives in Houston.
Working for J .I. Case is Jackson Harris Jr., who
with his wife Charlotte is living in Singapore.
Herb Jensen IS a faculty associate at Deloltte,
Haskins & Sells in New York City David Levy is
in the management development program as a
trainee with Electronic Data Systems In Erie,
Pa. Randolph K. Miller has become the vice
preSident of Texas Commerce Bank NA's Latin
American division He resides In Houston
Michael A. Morris, who came to the Balloon
Race in November, recently jOined Getty Oil
Company in Los Angeles as a macroeconomic
analyst. Richard L Painchaud is professor of
International bUSiness at Mankato State College
in Minnesota David Resha has been elected
preSident and executive officer of Colonial Bank
In Louisiana. ' I am looking forward to pro­viding
Colonial Bank with the impetus and direc­tion
needed to make the bank an integral and
contributing factor within the financial commu-
David Resha, '73 Dennis Kelley, '74
nity of Orleans Parish ," Resha said. Charles L
Rucquoi is employed by Funding Systems Inter­national
GmbH In Dusseldorf, W. Germany
Gerd Stippinger, who lives In Toronto, is In­volved
In international travel as director of mar­keting
for Inclusive Tours, Ltd. He takes care of
all arrangements for several companies -
Including Sperry Univac, General ElectriC,
Zenith, John Deere - for these companies'
group and incentive travel to such places as
Acapulco, Barbados, Martinique, Amsterdam ,
Puerto RICO, Vienna and London. As he says:
It surely IS quite challenging and rewarding . It
also gets you out of the house once in a while "
PhysiCian Mary E. Thorne IS living In DetrOIt.
Mich. Jesse G. Wilson has Joined March Ad­vertising
, which does marketing and advertising
research for Chicago hispaniCs, In Norridge, III.
CLASS OF '14
LIVing and working in Singapore IS Charles
Allard who IS with the State Bank & Trust Co.
James Randolph Andersen, who is the cost
engineer and senior field scheduler for Fluor
Arabia Ltd , IS living in Saudi Arabia. Bob and
Cindy Cotton Brady write from Goshen, Ind.,
where they are keeping busy gentleman farm ­ing"
and restoring a turn-of-the-century farm­house.
They also have a son , Alden , born Jan
19, 1979. Bob is with Glascoat of Midwest, a
supplier to the reinforced plastics industry, as a
manager of sales. Cindy IS forecasting and
pricing manager for NIBCO, Inc ., a leading man­ufacturer
of valves and plumbing fittings. Tim
Burleigh is an account executive with Conti­commodity
in Denver. Gary A. Drimmer IS
currently the director of planning for the world
processing diVISion of Continental Grain Co
He recently returned from Paraguay. Hugo
Bernard Effinger Jr. is manager of finance for
Hydril Co., a petroleum manufacturing company
located In Los Angeles. Bashar T. Farouki IS
the director for United Group for Development
and Contracting In Amman, Jordan. James
Ferrara has moved from Singapore to the Philip­pines.
Barry L Heimbigner has been trans­ferred
from Bank of California's Taipei office to
the Seattle, Wash., branch as vice president and
International department manager. Gregory
H. Holm is going into the Air Force officer
training program. Richard L Hubbell is currently
posted to the American Embassy In Kabul
Norman P. "Norm" Huddle is a realtor for the
A.J. Alfano Co. In Phoenix. Dennis B. Kelley,
who has been working for Cummins Engine
Company Foundation, says "for the last two
years I have devoted my efforts toward nego­tiating
a technology agreement with the People's
Republic of China. I would be happy to share
my experiences with any Interested faculty and
students if their studies are focusing on doing
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Paul Pugsley, '74 Harold Bl air, '75
business with China." He resides in Columbus,
Ind. Stephen John Koller and his wife Cath­erine
are living In Singapore, where Koller is
employed by Sterling Drug Pte. , Ltd. Stuart M.
Lane has become a senior foreign exchange
consultant for Chemical Bank in New York City.
Pat and Paul Larson currently reside in Seattle,
Wash. Paul is the Seattle branch manager for
Karl Schroff and Associates, custom house
broker for Importing and exporting. He received
his custom house broker license about two
years ago. Bruce Marks, who recently changed
jobs, is now the director of export sales for
Premier Industnal Corp., In Cleveland , Ohio.
Kent C. Mericle is a commerCial loan officer
for the National City Bank of Minneapolis Paul
Pugsley is the assistant vice president for First
City National Bank of Houston, International
department, and was recently assigned to Singa­pore
to handle marketing business develop­ment
and credit for the new branch which began
operation In January. David L. Sandel and his
family are re-Iocatlng to Southeast ASia where
Sandel will continue to work for Cooper Indus­tnes
which IS based In Houston Tony Savarese
IS an account executive with Bateman Eichler,
Hill Richards In San Diego, Calif. Lynda and
Craig Williamson, who works for Industnal
National Bank, are liVing In Singapore
CLASS OF '15
John Jose M. Anter IS working for Procter &
Gamble in Madrid as a brand assistant. Harold
H. Blair has been appointed executive director
of the International Council of Mid-Ohio by the
council 's board of trustees. Garrett R. Bowden
IS the assistant vice president of Cross &
Brown Company In New York City Sara K.
Burgess has left IBM and is currently employed
by Deloltte, Haskins and Sells, specializing In
data processing as a consultant. She lives In
IrVing, Texas Robert C. Burnett of Houston IS
the project manager for Venezuela for Coflexlp
& Services, Inc , which IS Involved with pipelines.
Pierre "Pete" Charbonneau has left Agnew­Tech-
Tran , Inc .. to form his own company Char­bonneau/
Crowe & Associates in Van Nuys,
Calif. Charbonneau, who speaks French, Rus­sian
and Japanese, said his services will provide
translations for advertising copy In French,
Spanish, German, Italian, Portugese, Arabic ,
Japanese and Chinese. He also contracts
with translators of other languages. Charles
Clausen IS sales manager for Mexico and South
Amenca for Franklin International Company In
Houston. Salvatore D'Amato Jr. was promoted
recently to field training consultant with Metro­politan
Life. Jan and Russell "Rus" H. Davis
III, who IS employed by Caterpillar (FE) Pte. Ltd .,
are living In Singapore. Vernon Hatch has
been promoted to brand manager Latin Ameri-
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Pierre Charbonneau,'75 Robert Kronman, '75 Robert English, '76 Mary Hewett Dudley ,'79
can area distributor markets for Parker Pen Co.
He resides in Janesville, Wis. Michael J. Kelley,
who recently took an AGSIM refresher course
in Japanese, is in the process of moving to Tokyo
where he is the general manager, international
metal trading , for U.S. Reduction Co. He will
handle both sales and purchases in Japan for
the subsidiary. Kelley expects to live there for
about two years. Robert B. Kronman, who is
currently employed by Beckman Instruments In
Fullerton , Calif., has co-authored a book en­titled
"Gentlemanly Attitudes: Jerry Ford and the
Campaign of 1976," with David and Margaret­Mary
Howell. Emily and James C. Loberg, who
works for Crown PaCific in Jakarta, are liVing
In Singapore. Robby T.K. Loh is employed by
Robin Company in Singapore. Alwin "Win"
Miller has been promoted to senior consultant
with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in the com­munications
and information technology division
and works In Bethesda, Md. Michael Moore,
who was interviewed in Minnesota's "Corporate
Report" October 1980 Issue, IS the senior
representative for Northwestern's Banco diVISion
and living In MeXICO City. Just two weeks pnor
to hiS move to MeXICO In October 1980, he was
married . "Working abroad is something that has
always appealed to me," the T-Blrd said In the
Interview. 'I happened to be about the only guy
in the office who was qualified for this assign­ment
so I was pretty lucky. The real bonus is
that I will get to open things up and make all the
Initial decisions." Tom Nolte IS director of mar­keting
for Philippines, Micronesia and Orient
Lines (PMO Lines) and IS based in San Fran­cisco.
Allan Ronnow recently added Arizona
and Southern California to his territory of North­ern
California and Nevada as district repre­sentative
with Bucyrus-Ene Co. He and hiS wife
Jennifer and three children are liVing In liver­more,
Calif. Robert J. Rosser, who works With
Hudson Underwriting Ltd , In Bermuda, was In
PhoeniX recently for an Insurance convention
and stopped by AGSIM. Jeffrey C. Slocum IS
the director of annual giving at Carleton College
in Northfield, Minn. Emmett Steed, who is the
controller at the Los Angeles Marriott Hotel, was
on campus recently as a recruiter for Marriott
Corp. Ted R. Strickler writes from Zaire where
he continues to work for Constructeurs Inga­Shaba,
a consortium of construction firms led
by Morrison-Knudsen International Co., his pri­mary
employer. Marcia E. Vancil is the advertis­ing
manager - Latin America/Caribbean for
Seven-Up International, which is owned by Philip
Morris International. She resides in Miami.
Robert J. Wark was recently appointed director,
telecommunications marketing, at RCA solid
state division . He and his Wife Mary and their
three children are residing in Gladstone, N.J.
Mark Wolf works for Bank of New York in
Singapore.
CLASS OF '76
Jeanne A. Bear is the international marketing
manager for Greyhound Lines, Inc., Phoenix,
where she coordinates all marketing activities
for Greyhound International, including ad­ministrative
and sales offices in Europe, Asia,
Australia, South America and Africa. She travels
extensively. She recently spoke to the Women
in Business Club at AGSIM. Robert C. English
was recently appointed assistant vice preSident
in the worldWide banking department of First
National Bank of Chicago. Lynette Guzzino is
with Grey AdvertiSing in Madrid. Steve Hering
is working for the First Wisconsin National
Bank of Milwaukee. Douglas Holaday has re­cently
been transferred to the Paris office of
A.I U. liaison office to do production and public
relations work for all the A.I.U. business in
Europe. Francis Hsu is working for American
Express International Inc. in Singapore. Robert
F. Jamison is the branch manager for Valley
National Bank, Dobson Ranch office, PhoeniX.
Joseph C. Jarvis has been named assistant
vice preSident of Emil Preuss Inc. His office
directs the joint efforts of Emil Preuss GMBH
and Co , Hamburg, Germany and Fred S. James
& Co , Inc., In their approach to German­linked
businesses in the U.S Edward K. Kimmel
IS liVing In Hamburg, West Germany and work­Ing
for the U.S. Department of Commerce
foreign commercial service. Alex Kubassek,
who is liVing In Phoenix, is the brand manager
for Cudahy Foods Co. Cynthia Leidner IS with
CBS In Madrid. R,E. "Tex" and Michael
McGrath Miller have recently moved to Texas
where he is With Mid-Continent Supply and she
IS With Miller Brewery Co. They send their
greetings to the Guadalajara summer '76 group
Paul D. Miller IS working for the Agency for
International Development In the U.S State
Department, planning a move to Manila. Philip­pines,
soon. John Newlin is an equipment
speCialist for Gill Management Services In San
Jose, Calif. Brian O'Boyle IS a commercial
loan officer for Great Western Bank In Scottsdale,
Ariz ., where he and his wife Bobble reSide.
Pamela Papas is a third year law student at
California Western School of Law. John Phillips
has recently joined Whittacker Corporation in
Los Angeles . Tom Rahn is working for Con­tinental
Grain in Lisbon , Spain. Ronald B.
Schun IS manager, international sales Europe/
Africa, for Canadair, Inc., for the Challenger jet.
He resides In Munich, W. Germany Charlotte
Kennedy-Takahashi and David G. Fisher, '67,
With Yasumiro Takahashi as auditor and
stockholder, and two others have Incorporated
the Oak Bridge Institute in Tokyo, with the pur­pose
of providing cross-cultural services to
Japanese and foreign fi rms in Japan In addition,
to his affilia tion with his wife's institute, Takahashi
is manager for SK&F in Japan.
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CLASS OF '17
Laurie and Thomas J. Beatty are moving to
Brussels because as part of a consolidation plan ,
the European internal audit department of
Clark Equipment Co. will be based there. The
Beattys previously lived in Mulheim/Ruhr, W.
Germany. Elizabeth L.C. Beck is the comptrol­lers
international inspector for Citibank in New
York City. Arthur G. Brina is with Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell & Co. in Chicago. Rosamaria M. and
Emilio A. Cabrera, who came to the Balloon
Race in November, are living in Glendale, Ariz.
Cabrera is working as a systems engineer for
IBM. The Cabreras were married last August.
Jane Carey is with the General Accounting
Office, international division, in Washington,
D.C. Richard Chalk is the Far East sales man­ager
for Classic Chemicals in Dallas. Judy and
Jose Chertrudi are living in Madrid where
Chertrudi is working for Chrysler. Michael
Christenson is in the budgeting and operational
analysis division of C.P.T. Corp. In Eden Prairie,
Minn. J. Michael Clatterbuck was recently
promoted to assistant vice president and as­signed
as Bank of California's representative In
Taipei. Laurence E. Crabb IS currently em­ployed
by Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco.
linda Cypres, who lives in San Francisco and
works for Sutro & Co. as an Investment spe­cialist,
attended the Balloon Race In November.
Roy A. Daugherty, who is with the aircraft
engine group at General Electric, was recently
promoted to administrator - international per­sonnel
practices, and will be supporting the
world-wide aircraft engine operations and the
JOint venture with SNECMA, a French aviation
company. Jo Anne Spatz de Vargas is an inde­pendent
consultant, living in Winston-Salem,
N.C. John Garza is an international sales en­gineer
for Sand S Corrugated Paper Machine
Co., in Brooklyn, N Y. Tom Halder recently
became the accounting supervisor for RANTEC,
a division of Emmerson Electric, which manu­factures
antennas for satellite communications.
Raymond V. Haley has been promoted to as­sistant
vice president, planning and corporate
development for Manne Midland Bank in New
York City Joseph A. Igoe, who came to the
Balloon Race In November, is an International
banking officer for United California Bank in
Los Angeles. Frank Jent is in Switzerland with
Procter & Gamble. Scott K. Johnson writes
from Tunis, Tunisia, that his job with Bank of
America "remains interesting and challenging ,"
and that he and his wife have a daughter, Ines
Rim , who was born July 2, 1980. Ed. J. Jusino,
who attended the Balloon Race in November,
is the di rector of marketing/ Latin America,
Caribbean operations for Foodservice ConSUl­tants
& Designers - Exports in Irvine, Calif.
Mary Kolehmainen is employed by Danis­Benton
& Bowles In Madrid. Nimrod Kovacs IS
a senior account executive for Wells, Rich ,
Green, Inc., in New York City. T-Bird Gerald
E. Rupp, '66, reports that he has seen Jim
Kreuze on the tennis courts or playing bridge
in AI Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Kreuze's wife and
newborn child recently joined him In the Middle
East. Ken Lambert IS with Cato Johnson in
Madrid . Steve Lunde is working for Crown
Pacific in Singapore. Shirin McElhinney, who is
living in Dublin, Ireland , is working with the
Irish Export Marketing Board. Lorrie Miller has
left Pillsbury to work for ConAgra Inc. in St.
Louis, Mo. Morris "Mo" Ostroff is the marketing
representative in international marketing for
Goodyear Aerospace Corp., in Litchfield Park,
Ariz. Frank M. Parsons is an administrator for
Baker International/Exploration Logging in Sac-
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ramento, Calif. Jack Query is the Far East
coordinator for National SemiConductor. Arthur
F. Rizzi Jr. is working for Banque de l'Union
Europeenne in the corporate banking sector on
special projects. He writes: "We are still a rela­tively
small operation with approximately 50
people. We are a full branch of the Banque but
have only been in the States for two years." Mark
Scott is working for Grey Advertising in Madrid.
Craig Shoots is working for Guard ian Indus­tnes
in Houston. Mark Steinborn is an import
distribution supervisor for Volkswagen of Amer­ica
in Pleasanton, Calif. Mary Suzann Van
Sickle is the travel director for Mantz Travel
Company in Fenton, Mo. Curt Ward, who is an
industrial engineer for Intel Co. , in Santa Clara,
Calif ., attended the Balloon Race in November.
Ying Chin Wah, who is employed by Clark
International Market SA Melroe Division, lives
In Singapore. Akiko and Yoichiro Yoshida, who
is employed by Obayashi-Gumi, reside also In
Singapore. Robert J.H. Zuurdeeg, who was
recently married to Jean Weingart, IS an educa­tional
counselor.
CLASS OF '18
Abdulrhman AI Amoudi is now working In sales
at OLAYAN Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Elias Ashkar is liVing in Geneva, SWitzerland ,
and working In the advertiSing department of
Procter & Gamble. Peter Asten IS employed by
Crocker Bank's credit review department in Los
Angeles. C.J. Atteridge, who attended the
Balloon Race in November, IS a marketing repre­sentative
for computer sales with IBM-GSD In
Phoenix. Pierre Bachoc and his wife Sima
recently celebrated their second year in Rome
and plan to stay pOSSibly two more years. Pierre
has become the marketing planning manager
with Ell Lilly and will market vet drugs in the
Mideast and Africa. Catherine Baldwin IS work­Ing
In merchant banking for Crocker Bank in
San Francisco. Carolann Paul-Bennett, who
was married In 1979 to Joel Bennett, is living In
Los Angeles and working for the state of Cali­fornia
in the Office of International Trade, doing
International business development for Cali­fornia's
industries. She wntes. ' The Job IS lots of
fun and I get to use a Wide range of the knowl­edge
I learned at Thunderbird ." Paul D. Brady
is a telecommunications speCialist for Wall
Street with ITT World Communications. He is liv­Ing
in Arlington , Va. Raul Casas is a loan officer
In the commercial loan division of Cltibank,
NA, in San Juan, Puerto Rico . Louis I. Clark
has changed jobs and is currently employed by
Texas Rice Export, Inc., Houston. Gary Cochran
IS the assistant to the president of Radius
International Corporation in Clearwater, Fla.
Cynthia Ann Cramer is a communications an­alyst
for Iowa-Des Moines National Bank. Prior
to her present POSition , she was the supervisor
of the bank's communication center with a staff
of 12, installing the electronic word proceSSing
center. Mai Dam, who recently visited campus,
IS an economist and financial analyst in charge
of evaluating the performance of Ivory Coast
corporations with the Minister of Economy,
Finances, Planning In Abidjan , Ivory Coast.
John E. Durbin, who was recently promoted
and transferred , is the financial coordinator for
Douglas Oil Company of California in Costa
Mesa, Calif. David A. Dustin is working as a
contract administrator in the Middle Eastern sec­tion
of EF&G Washington Analytical Services
Center, Inc., and is planning a move to the East­ern
Province of Saudi Arabia. Michel EI-Daher
is cu rrently based in Helsingborg, Sweden,
with Joint Trawlers Ltd . Sweden AB, a company
owned by Libinvest Holdings, SA, Paris.
Richard J. Gibson is a senior staff consultant
for Keith-Stevens Inc. in Edina, Minn. He at­tended
the Balloon Race in November. Rick
Griffin is the director of marketing for Fi rst State
Bank & Trust Co. of Houston. Carolyn Harvie
is the market development manager for Baxter­Travenol
in Glendale, Calif. Richard Holst has
recently been reaSSigned as area manager, pro­duct
support for Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
with John Deere Intercont. Ltd. He will be living
in Quito, Ecuador. Yoshihiro Hotta is employed
by Procter & Gamble in Japan Leslie Johnson
is a sales representative for Container Corp
in Los Angeles. Robert D. Johnstone is
working in strateg ic planning for Boeing Com­mercial
Airplane Co., and lives in Federal
Way, Wash. Masao Komiya is in the advertising
department of Procter & Gamble In Japan. Mark
O. Larsen IS an account executive/ faculty
for Management Recruiters In Tucson , Ariz.
Lorraine lindsay is In Peru With Procter &
Gamble. Another Procter & Gamble employee
is Michelle lionel, who is in Canada in the
advertising department. Tim Lund is working at
National Supply Company, a division of
ARMCO, Inc , in Houston . Jo Ann Lynch, who
attended the Balloon Race in November, IS a
management associate for Mountain Bell tele­phone
company in Phoenix. Phillip M. Mar­tineau
is working for Onan Far East in Singapore
Sandy McDevitt IS in marketing support With
Memorex. Kim W. Mc Leroy IS working for
Spanish-American Health System in Miami
Milind P. Mokashi, who was recently married to
Sasmita, is with the export department of Godrej
& Boyce Manufacturing Co. in Bombay, India,
with plans to expand to Indonesia. The company
makes typewriters, forklift trucks, steel furni­ture
and office equipment. George Carteret
Mussenden IS vice president-sales for H.A.
Mussenden & ASSOCiates In San Marino, Calif.
lisa Fesler North and her husband Mark
North are liVing in Stamford, Conn. Lisa is a
management trainee with State National Bank of
Connecticut, International diVision; her hus­band
is a territory assistant for Manufacturers
Hanover, International diviSion . Charles Nunu
IS a meal merchandising manager responsible
for meal pricing , sales strategy, spreads regional
delivery differentials, hedging and coordinat­ing
daily marketing efforts, currency exchange
and credit control. He moved to England earlier
this year Brian J. O'Connor, who came to the
Balloon Race in November, IS an economic
consultant and worked on the Reagan for Pres­ident
Committee. Douglas Pressman, who lives
in San Francisco, works for the Bank of Cali­fornia.
Steve Reinbolt, senior agency marketing
representative for INA International Corp. in
Los Angeles, recently visited campus. Jerome
Sanzo is with Chase Manhattan Bank in Singa­pore.
Jan Skybak is in the advertising de­partment
with Procter & Gamble in Venezuela.
Klaus Stoehr is employed by Hoechst in Som­merville,
N.J. Dean Storm recently changed
jobs and is now with the State Department,
learning ArabiC at the Foreign Service Institute.
Kunio Toma is in the advertising department
of Procter & Gamble in Japan. Roger Voegele
is working as the contracts department manager
for HBH Company, on a contract for opera­tions
and maintenance of the Royal Saudi Naval
Forces. Voegele, who said he expects to be In
Saudi Arabia for several years, said his primary
employer is Hughes Airc raft Co., but is on loan
to a joint venture of Huges, Bendix and Holmes
and Narver (HBH). Steve Yudicky is a sales
representative for Merck, a pharmaceutical
company in North Dakota.
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
CLASS OF '79
Richard "Rick" Attix is with Solar Turbines, Ltd .,
London. Ali M. Bahaj, who is with Procter &
Gamble, lives in Switzerland. Kathyrn "Blossom"
Banks is with North Carolina National Bank In
Charlotte, N.C. , where she and her husband
Jeff Rinz reside. Wesley "Wes" D. Bigler is
presently working for FMC Corp., in Atlanta, Ga.
John C. Cook has left International Harvester
to join Univestors s.a., a Belgium investment
company which specializes in U.S. real estate,
commercial development, and oil and gas ex­ploration
. He writes, "The company is 15 years
old and is well known in Brussels and Texas,
where most of our U.S. activity is concentrated.
My job is on the investment/sales side." Mary
Hewitt Dudley has joined Flexibox Inc. as mar­keting
coordinator in Houston. Mary Jayne
Dzvonik is a credit analyst for First City National
Bank of Houston with plans to enter into either
an energy or International lending position. Jim
Easter is a credit analyst for Houston National
Bank in Houston. Catherine "Kaki" Ferris is
working for Citibank in New York City. Rachel
Gellman is worki ng for Backer & Spielvogel as a
research analyst and also lives in New York
City. Yves Gourmelen is the assistant controller
for the French subsidiary of Bunker Ramo Corp.
based in Oak Brook, III. Phillip S. Harward is
a management examiner for W.N. Murray & As­sociates,
Inc. Barbara Hoffman lives in Pasa­dena,
Calif. Tom Hofmanner is a junior trader
for Transammonia International Limited, a fer­tilizer
marketing company, in Zug, Switzerland .
Daniel T. Holstein is an associate selected
account manager, Los Angeles commercial
branch , for Burroughs Corp. Yun-Jung Huang,
who lives in San Francisco, is a technical re­cruiter
for Executive Resources. Ann L. Huse­man
is a project specialist with J.1. Case, and
for the past year has been working in The Nether­lands
and in England. For the next two years,
she writes, she will be based in either Racine,
Wis., or Frankfurt, W Germany. Simon Kings is
the store manager of Pico Rivera branch of
Jewel T in the Los Angeles area. Martha Laham
IS helping to run Richard Ouelette (a beauty
salon and cosmetics shop) in Laguna, Calif.
Nelli Long, who came to the Balloon Race in
November, is a financial analyst/electronics for
Intel in Phoenix. Clifford W. "Cip" Lord has been
traveling around South America visiting several
hotels as a traveling accountant for Inter-Con­tinental
Hotels. Jane and Stephen Ludders are
liVing in La Grange, III. Ludders IS a financial
analyst for Allied Tube & Conduit in Chicago.
John F. "Paco" Marshall is working In Houston
for Harle Services, an airfreight forwarder.
Satoshi Matsu IS In the sales department of
Procter & Gamble in Japan. Rei Matsui IS In
Japan, also employed by Procter & Gamble.
Laurence D. McGriff is a hospital administrator
at Christ Hospital In Illinois, and also does pri­vate
consulting work. Marianne Mcilvain is
working for Chase Manhattan Bank In New York
City. Matthew Powell works with attorney
Neveille Johnson In Woodland Hills, Calif. Taco
Frederick Proper is working for McCann Erick­son
advertising agency in New York City. Sonia
Jeantet Rosco began a 38-week training pro­gram
last fall with the Four-Phase Systems
Company in southern California as a marketing
representative. After spending a year at the
American University In Cairo, at a special Arabic
language institute for diplomats and business­persons,
Charles Signer is now working for
Paccar International, Inc., in Bellevue, Wash., as
a sales administrator for the countries of the
Arabian Gulf. He writes: "As the company's only
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Arabic speaking employee, In an area where
it has a large market, my chances of being sent
overseas pretty soon are very gOOd. I am glad
I stRrted ;1t AGSIM , and I oi1ly wish I had gone
there sooner." Virginia Simonds is a research
assistant with Russel Reynolds Associates, an
executive recruiting firm in Los Angeles. Balbir
Singh is working for J.1. Case in Singapore
as is Virginia C. Sipiere, who IS employed by
Mandarin Singapore. Judy Riedinger Smythe
and Peter Scot Smythe, who were married Nov.
17, 1979, in Covington, Ky., are currently liv­ing
in Lafayette, Calif. The new Mrs. Smythe is
a consultant in the management information
consulting division of Arthur Anderson , San
Francisco. Scot is the consumer promotion
analyst for the Clorox Company in Oakland,
Calif. Alfred Stanton and hiS wife Glenda have
moved to Yokoto Air Force Base in Japan where
Stanton is a staff officer captain . Thomas
Stevenson has been sent to Geneva, Switzer­land
, by Caterpillar Tractor Co. James W.
Stewart was recently hired by AmerOrient in
Singapore. Samuel West Stewart is working
for Mitsubishi in the machinery diVISion in New
York City. Alan P. Walicke and his wife Sheila
attended the Balloon Race in November. Walicke
is an Instructor In the management diVISion of
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Pres­cott,
Ariz. Thomas Yang is in the advertising
department of Procter & Gamble In Canada.
CLASS OF '80
Jamieson C. Allen has been hired by Bechtel
Corp. as an international management specialist
and is working in Saudi Arabia, according to
hiS wife Kathy P, who is hoping to join him
shortly. "His working hours may not be the best
which is from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays to
Wednesdays, but the working facilities and con­ditions
provided by Bechtel are the most superb
in that area," hiS wife writes. Eunice "Neesy"
Armstrong is a financial analyst for First City
National Bank of Houston James "J.D."
Chambers IS with Conoco Chemicals as an inter­national
customer service representative In
Houston. Cynthia E. Cielle is the president and
founder of Phoenix Export Systems, Inc., in
Scottsdale, AriZ. She writes: "ThiS IS an exciting
and challenging adventure The things I learned
at AGSIM are absolute essentials. My firm is
dealing with electronic components and my cus­tomers
are in Western Europe. This is a long
way from my stated goals, but I'm finding it more
fulfilling than the corporate hierarchy. Wish me
luckl" James R. Corley, who is a financial
analyst in the international division of Max Factor
& Co, is liVing In Los Angeles With his wife
Dawn. Dennis J. de Atley is employed in the
international department of the Republic Nation­al
Bank of Dallas. Jesse Erickson is in the
credit training program at Texas Commerce
Bank in Houston. Pearl J. Garrido IS participat­ing
in a one-year training program with Industrial
National Bank's international department in
Providence, R.1. Shannon R. Greene is market­ing
coordinator for Vacco Industries in South
EI Monte, Calif. Jeanine Hartnett is working
for Manufacturers Hanover. After two weeks of
beginning work with Harris Corporation, satell ite
division, James H. Herald was sent to Lagos,
Nigeria, where he spent two months then he was
sent to Guatemala. Shabbir Ahmad Khan is
an analyst for Spectra Medical Systems and
lives in Sunnyvale, Calif. Debbie and Fritz
Kleppinger are living in Taif, Saudi Arabia, where
Fritz is employed In the microbiology laboratory
at AI Hada Hospital. Michael R. Lederle is a
product supervisor for Intel in Portland , Ore.
After graduating from the liST in Fujinomlya.
Japan , Jerry Maloney was hired by Kobe Steel,
Ltd ., to work in their export department in
Tokyo. " Life in Tokyo is rather hectic," Maloney
writes, "but exciting (especially the earth­quakes)."
Chung-Man Ng and his wife Penny
have moved to Danville, III., where Chung is
working for Hyster. They recently drove to Chica­go
where they observed the Chinese bronze
exhibit. Nobuaki Ogura IS a construction
supervisor for Mitsubishi International in Los
Angeles. David S. Paris is a credit analyst for
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and lives in San Fran­cisco.
John C. Paxson and his wife Francine
have moved to Gardena, Calif. Paxson is an
advanced planning specialist for Mattei Toys,
which is located in Hawthorne, Calif. Jim Rey­nolds
is with Chevron USA In Denver. Yung
Tae Seo IS working in the International division
of the Royal Bank of Canada In Montreal. Mary
Shurtleff is starting as a group manager for
operator services for Mountain Bell/ Tempe in
Arizona. Robert E. Siobe is the manager of
associate programs for Business International in
New York City. Gregory l. Stringer is a trainee
with United Brands and lives in Panama.
Gustavo A. Teran Jr. and James F. Traner Jr.
are both working for Chase Manhattan Bank and
are sharing an apartment In New York City.
Julie Van Buren IS a marketing representative
for Caterpillar Tractor Co. Craig Vrabec is in his
first year of law school at Capital University in
Columbus, Ohio. Gregory Clark Wallace is an
administrative manager for Parker Drilling Co.
He writes, "Due to the living conditions in Algeria,
I work 14 days In Algeria then I spend seven
days In Palma de Mallorca, Spain, resting . Eric
K. Williams, who is livinQ in Aurora, Colo .. is
the new manager of International licenses/ team
promotions for Descente. a Japanese sports­wear
manufacturer. He writes that he ' couldn't
have done it Without T-Bird background ."
George J. Yoshida is in the advertising depart­ment
of Procter & Gamble in Japan
MARRIAGES
Cindy Bailey, '77, and Terry Oakes were married
In January. Cindy is a zone manager for Ford
Motor Co. in Colorado. Cynthia Linenbroker,
'79, and David D. Johnson, '79, were married
June 1, 1980, in Los Angeles. The couple, who
reside in Torrance, Calif ., both work for AiRe­search
of California. Cynthia is the manager of
the after market sales diVISion and her husband
IS the director of Far East operations. Laurie
McClearey, '79, and Brad Gaylord were married
Aug. 10, 1980, In Denver, where they reSide
Marla Modiano and George D. Miller, '50 , were
recently married In Mexico City. Laura Lee
Larson and John Lyon Mulcahy, '78, were
married Aug. 23 , 1980, at St. Patrick's Cathedral
In New York City. Mulcahy is an account repre­sentative,
international diVision , of Chase Man­hattan
Bank In New York. The couple reside
in Bronxville, N.Y. Wedding vows were ex­changed
Oct. 4, 1980, between Suzanne
O'Hanlon, '79, and Donald Markle In Anchor­age,
Alaska. Cassandra Rhine, '77, who is an
account manager for The Burroughs Corp. in
San Jose, Calif., was married to Donald Craig
Giesen of San Francisco on Nov. 15, 1980. Mona
Louise Rizk, '80, became Mona Carbona del
Valle on Dec. 27, 1980. The newlyweds traveled
throughout Spain, Greece, Egypt and Thailand
on their honeymoon. Debbie Williams and
James K. Secunda, '76, were married Sept.
28, 1 9aO, in Charlotte, N.C., where Jim has his
own business, American Rehabilitation, Inc.
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BIRTHS
A girl, Sara Louise, born Oct. 27, 1980, to Dawn
(former editor of The Thunderbird magazine)
and James Corley, '80. A daughter, Heather
Anne, to Kathleen and David A. Dustin, '78, on
April 27, 1980. A boy, Ernest Karl, to Paula
and Karl Edelmann, 78, on Oct. 3, 1980, In
Ashland, Ky. A boy, Brian Tash, born Oct. 30,
1980, to Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod Kovacs, 77, in
New York City. A boy, Dane Alexander, to Tina
and Larry Lotspeich, 76, on Oct. 14, 1980. A
daughter, Ellen Marie, born to R.E. "Tex" and
Michael McGrath Miller, '76, on March 30,
1980. A boy, Allan James, on Sept. 23, 1980, to
Mr and Mrs. Allan Ronnow, 75. A girl, Cristina
Ann, born April 9, 1980, to Conchita and Fred
Smoot, '66, in Honolulu.
DEATHS
Donald D. Bentley, '64, died Oct. 20, 1980,
follOWing a long illness. Bentley, 52, was Good­year
International Corp.'s Industrial products
sales and marketing manager. He is survived by
hiS wife, Betty, and a daughter and three sons.
Mr Bentley lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Northern Ireland, Iran and London. Walter D.
Gillis Jr., '56, suffered a fatal heart attack while
in Italy on Oct. 30, 1980, during a business trip
Mr. Gillis was chief counsel for Sun International,
Inc., a subsidiary of Sun Company, Wayne, Pa.
Paul Parrette, '56K, who died Oct. 17, 1980,
headed Procter & Gamble's trade relations diVI­sion
when he retired in 1965 Before that, he
established the Procter & Gamble Beige Co. in
Belgium . He was also preSident and general
manager of the Procter & Gamble Philippines
Manufacturing Co. in Manilla. Mr. Parrette, who
was 74, and who lived in Carefree, Ariz., is sur­vived
by his wife Anne. Lars Hals-Hagen, '57,
died in November 1979. He is survived by his
Wife Ruth Stern Hals-Hagen, who lives In Oslo,
Norway. Peavy Heffelfinger, '66K, recently
passed away. Pamela Irene Dolan, 79, died in
an automobile accident Oct. 5, 1980. More than
75 individuals, including dozens of T-Birds,
sent in donations to AGSIM In Miss Dolan's
memory "We all hope this will bring happiness
to others as Pam brought much happiness into
our lives," said Linda Hunter, research super­visor
at Leo Burnett U.S.A. Miss Dolan is sur­Vived
by her mother, Mrs. Harry Parker Dolan of
Winnetka, IIi.
KEYMEN
Thomas M. Huber, '56K, was recently promoted
to manager of world-wide business develop­ment
for Owens-Illinois, Inc. Leonard S. Beard,
'59K, who recently viSited AGSIM, is the director
for Central America and the Caribbean for 3M
Company. Bodo A. Lubenow, '64K, corporate
engineer for 3M in St. Paul, Minn., recently
viSited AGSIM and noted that he learned Spanish
here which 'formed a good foundation upon
which to build while working in Argentina."
R.W. Meadows Jr., '71 K, is the president of
LaFrance Fire & Safety, Inc., which is an exporter
of fire and safety equipment, in Newport, R.I
Hector Fernandez Gallardo, '80K, who lives
In MeXICO City, IS the commerCial director
of U.S Sanitary de Mexico, SA, which is aHiliated
with American Can Company of GreenWich,
Conn Bert A. Gyllin, '80K, is the export sales
manager for Stephens-Adamson, Inc., an aHiliate
with Allis-Chalmers Corp. Mark A. Stayer, '80K,
is the zone manager/Europe and the Middle
East, for Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wis. Robert C.
Steiner, '80K, of Salt Lake City, IS the general
counsel/managing director for Germany for
Steiner Corp.
IB
Jorge Valdivieso Robert Ramsey
Department Data
Continued from Page 8
man. Ramsey initiated and directed
the English as a foreign language pro­gram
of the International Summer
Courses, University of Salamanca,
Spain. He is also assistant professor
for English language in the Depart­ment
of Modern Languages at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona,
where he has taught since 1968.
Ramsey, who was born in Petoskey,
Mich., received his diploma in His­panic
studies from the University of
Barcelona in 1961 and his bachelor's,
master's and doctorate degrees all
from the University of Michigan.
Professor Larry Finney took on the
Speakers/Behind the Scenes . ..
Continued from Page 6
("Saturday Night Live"), '65, to judge
an AGSIM Talent Show.
They try to work in advance, Chris­tianson
explained, but limited funds
often restrain the students. Yet the
committee members have been re­sourceful
- dealing directly with a po­tentiallecturer,
having a relative or
friend from AGSIM do the persuading.
Such was the case with Ambassador
L. Dean Brown's nephew who attends
AGSIM and with Professor Duane Hall
who knows General Westmoreland,
Christianson said.
Serving on the committee is good ex­perience,
he said, because the students
do most of the leg work: Writing let­ters,
planning the calendar, working on
publicity, arranging for housing, meals,
airport pickups. The rewards not only
are the experiences but also the talks
on a one-to-one basis with the speaker
during a lunch before the speech or on a
ride from the airport, he said.
duties of acting chairman until
Ramsey arrived.
According to Valdivieso, 275
students of the 827 enrolled in lan­guage
study at AGSIM, are studying
Spanish; 180, French; 108, English
and English as a second language;
98, German; 63, Chinese; 43, Portu­guese;
36, Japanese; and 24, Arabic.
World Business Department:
There are five new professors in
the department: Professor Donald
Schmidt, who holds an M.S. degree
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and who comes from the University
of Texas at El Paso to teach Opera­tions
Analysis and Management
Information Systems. Professor
Alfred Hagan, who has a Ph.D. from
the University of Texas, and his wife
Professor Theresa, a Certified Public
Accountant who holds an M.B.A.
degree in accounting from the Univer­sity
of Cincinnati. Professor Wenlee
Ting, who holds a Ph.D. degree from
New York University and who has
recently taught at the Tatung Institute
of Technology in Taipei, Taiwan; and
Professor Clair McRostie, on sabba­tical
from Gustavus Adolphus
College, St. Peter, Minn., who holds
a Ph.D. degree from the University
of Wisconsin at Madison.
Thurmond agreed and added that
the committee which meets weekly
really works to assure a full house for
the speaker, to take care that the plan­ning
goes smoothly. For example, the
speaker who had been threatened, was
not intimidated and went on with his
plans to talk to the AGSIM students.
Everyone was tense, Thurmond added,
with security very tight, but the speech
went off several months ago without
incident.
Members this year have been stu­dents
Mary Beth Anthony, Kathleen
Bonar, Alain Brown who is spring
semester chairman, Christianson who
was the chairman last fall, David
Church, Laura Garavaglia, Nancy
Hague and Ernie Olsen. Alumni who
are interested in speaking at AGSIM or
who could provide help in reaching
other potential speakers may contact
either Thurmond or one of the com-mittee
members. ~
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
Washington, D.C. ... Richard Owen, direc­tor
of the Office of Commercial Affairs in
the Department of State, recently spoke to al­most
20 alumni on "Export Disincentives of
International Trade Policy."
"Now it is often said with some justice I
might add, that US. embassies do not provide
their exporters with as effective service as
the British, Japanese, Germans and other
major traders provide their businessmen.
While I am not so sure that this complaint is
always accurate, I do think that there is a
basis, in fact, for it," he said.
Owen, who has served in nine posts in Latin
America, Europe and the Far East, continued
by stating, "As you all are aware, US. laws
.. . frequently serve as disincentives to trade
... The legal factors most frequently cited
by busInessmen as a dIsIncentive to US.
exports are taxation of foreign earned income,
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and anti­trust
laws. There has been progress in recent
months," Owen told the group gathered at the
International Bank of Washington's 12 floor
conference room, "toward clarifying or
changing these laws to reduce their unfavor­able
impact on trade."
Also reported at the Oct. 23 meeting was
the donation of $133 to the Thunderbird
Fund by the D.C. chapter - and the group's
challenge, expressed by organizer Brian
Marshall, '73, to other alumni associations to
match or top that amount. Registrar John
Arthur, who attended the meeting, hand­carried
the money back to AGSIM.
Seattle, Wash .... A bunch of happy alumni
gathered together at the Washington Plaza
Hotel here Jan. 30 to "Kick Off the New Year."
They enjoyed hot hors d'oeuvres and cock­tails.
Mrs. Tom Sweetser, '77, and Susan D.
Arnold, '77, were the organizers.
Tucson, Ariz .... Southern Arizona T-Birds
at the Westward Look Resort on the after­noon
of Jan. 11 joined Alumni Director Tom
Bria in celebrating his anniversary of being
with AGSIM's Alumni Office.
Singapore ... A fourth annual Christmas
party was held Dec. 17 for T-Bird alumni
living in Singapore. James W. Echle, '72,
coordinated the party.
Houston ... Ben Miedema, '77, hosted a
group of about 10 persons at his home Dec. 14
THE THUNDERBIRD, SPRING 1981
for a wine tasting of German whites. He
kept himself busy before the party, preparing
the cheese and snacks.
Miami ... An open house/cocktail party was
held Dec. 10 at the International Center of
Florida. The Miami T-Birds are also holding
get acquainted meetings every Tuesday even­ing
at Coconut Grove's The Mutiny. Contact
Greg Hargrett, '68, in Miami for further
information about club cards. Other questions
may be directed to either Fran Aldrich, '78,
or Paul Simons, '70.
New York City ... By applying two months
in advance, the New York chapter of the
Thunderbird Alumni Association was able to
reserve a block of seats for the play "Evita!"
T-Birds first had dinner at Arthur's then
went on to view the drama. Richard Saint­Amant,
'75, helped organize this exciting
event in December.
Washington, D.C. ... About 40 alumni at­tended
the Dec. 6 Christmas party at the home
of Jane Carey, '77. According to Brian Mar­shall,
'73, Laura Clarke, '78, and her husband
"went beyond what I'd expected in the way
of food preparations ... and Dean Storm, '78,
and Steve De Lateur, '74, came through with
their 'special' hot punch." Sandy Stone, '69,
helped with the fund raising, which is done
at each meeting to contribute to the Thunder­bird
Fund.
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas ... Students enrolled
in the joint Southern Methodist University/
AGSIM program were guests at the Dec. 5
cocktail party at Churchill's Polo Tavern.
Dave Trott, '74, organized the event.
Puerto Rico .. . On the same day, across the
waters, a film on AGSIM was being viewed
at the 1980 Thunderbird Club del Caribe
reunion. "The party was very pleasant with
about 35 alumni and spouses attending,"
reported Peter Benziger, '77.
Mexico City ... About 40 alumni and spouses
attended a cocktail reception Dec. 2 at the
Camino Real, honoring Alumni Director Tom
Bria and his wife Shonny. Craig]. Dudley,
'58, was helpful in organizing the event, and
reported he was also "pleased with the
response."
Houston ... Tarek Badjwa hosted a Thanks­giving
dinner for nine T-Birds, according to
Ben Miedema, '77, who added that Mark
Kerrissey, '76, prepared the traditional turkey,
stuffing, vegetables and pies ... which were
"outstanding," Miedema said. Seven of the
guests were '77 graduates.
Atlanta, Ga .... John Arthur, registrar, and
Tom Bria, alumni director, brought best wishes
from Thunderbird to the alumni attending
the get-together at Harrison's Bar and
Restaurant Nov. 21. Rod Taylor, '75, had
made arrangements for the meeting.
Glendale, Ariz .... More than a dozen T-Birds
stopped by the Alumni Office the Nov. 15
and 16 weekend during the Balloon Race, to
catch up on news and to update their files.
Madrid ... The Alumni group in Spain,
under the direction of Duane E. Bellmore, '61,
are holding monthly meetings and working
on future club plans.
The group is considering contacting Spanish
university students and notifying them about
the benefits of attending AGSIM, collecting
Spanish magazines and reference books for
the AGSIM Library, gathering material about
the T-Birds in Spain for mutual benefit, and
updating the list of alumni living in Spain.
Najib Ben-Yedder, '77, (left) hosted a small
party in his London home for T-Birds Rosalie
Huntzinger-Della Ratta, '76, Ralph M. Della
Ratta Jr., '77, and Rick J. Clinton, '77.
In Mexico City were, from left, Claude Shaneyfelt, Craig]. Dudley, Shonny Bria and Tom
Bria, director of Alumni Relations; Steven H. Spencer and Mrs. Spencer.
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Class of 1951
We need your help! If you know the where­abouts
of these alumni, please fill out the
form below and mail to: The Alumni Office,
American Graduate School of International
Management, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale,
Ariz., 85306.
By providing our office with this information,
you assist us in keeping track of the successes
of our graduates. A list of unknown alumni will
appear consecutively by graduation year in
upcoming issues of liThe Thunderbird" magazine.
Also, if you have news about yourself, your
family or your T-Bird friends, please include that
information for our Update section.
Richard D. Anderson
Frank L. Barney Jr.
Nancy Barrington
Charlotte Beal
Francis L. Biglen
Vincent E. Bochnak
Angelo J. Cannizzaro
Maurice J. Cardinale
William R. Charleson
James H. Cook
Patricia M. Cropsey
James R. Daly Jr.
Richard R. De Long
Harry J. Defazio
Robert L. Dodge
Frank K. Eckley
!talo P. Frajola
John E. Good
Wilbert L. Haberthier
Hubert J. Hagens
Edward J. Headley
Oliver J. Hensler
Name and Mailing address
Business affiliation
Title
Donald C. Herman
Earl L. Hill
Tetsuo Horita
Daniel H. Horwitz
William D. Johnston
William J. Kamp
David D. Karmann
Wyatt B. Keith
John A. Klingel smith
Richard D. Lawyer
Tom E. Leggett
Con sola to G. Malavenda
Alex Maruda
Robert E. McCarthy Jr.
Daniel J. Metaxas
Jack