The Thunderbird, Winter 1981

              1 Cross-cultural studies
Dr. Robert Moran discusses one of AGSIM's important programs
5 Special Report
Cross-cultural Aspects of Managing Foreign Subsidiaries
6 Who's Hu
An interview with exchange professor from BIFT
8 News
Degree requirements changed; Ad Building gets new
name; fall enrollment sets record; international
executive of the year named; and more ...
9 Board Report
Report of October 16 Board of Trustees meeting
14 Speakers
Former Black Panther and British Industry Minister visit campus
16 Que Pasa?
Alumni gatherings around the globe
18 Update
Keeping track of alums around the world
25 Confessions of aT-Bird
Remember Don Novello?
Winter '81 Volume 81, Number 2
Quarterly magazine of the Alumni Office
of the American Graduate School of International Management,
Glendale, AZ 85306
Director and Publisher: Thomas R. Bria
Editor: Sonia V. Thurmond
Special Correspondents: Michelle Foster and Al Ilch
Staff: Cathy Benoit, Naomi Cooper, Diane
Kelly, Donna Cleland and Renee Drabier
Design:
Front Cover:
Pat Kenny, Gray Day Graphics, Phoenix
A group of AGSIM students visually
reflect the international flavor of the
School and its student body.
Cross-cultural training goes beyond the
prescribed academic program as
students like these live, work and
study together on the Glendale
campus. Photo by Jon Whitaker.
A little over one year ago, I
wrote a column in this magazine
that quoted an ancient Chinese
proverb--"Change is a reflection of
order." If that statement is true, the
Alumni program at Thunderbird is
in for another dose of II order."
Effective upon selection of a re­placement,
I will no longer serve as
Director of Alumni Relations. My
responsibilities will continue to be
in Development, but they will be
more oriented toward the fund­raising
efforts of the school. I con­sider
myself fortunate to be able to
maintain many of the fine rela­tionships
I have made with you in
my brief time at the school. My ex­perience
in higher education spans
several types of institutions;
however, none compare with the
unique mission, promise, nor­most
of all-alumni of AGSIM.
It would be best to have an alum­nus
of the school as Director of
Alumni Relations. By the time you
receive this magazine, the school
will be involved in a nation-wide
search for candidates. Your
nomination is most welcome and
should be forwarded to the Director
of Personnel here at the school­Ms.
Evelyn Theobald. Deadline for
receipt of applications is Friday,
January 15, 1982.
Friends, it has been both a plea­sure
and an honor to serve you and
this remarkable school. I see great
things in the future and am very
glad to be a part of it.
Warmest regards,
Thomas R. Bria
Director of Alumni Relations
Cross-Cultural Communication
Program at AGSIM:
Cosmopolitan Managers
for the 80s
by Robert T. Moran
"A cosmopolitan manager is one
who functions effectively in many
areas of the world". 1
Background
The program in Cross-Cultural
Communication at American
Graduate School of International
Management grew out of a convic­tion
that technical business skills
are not the only skills required for
managers, executives, and techni­cians
to function effectively in mul­ticultural
environments. This con­viction
is supported by all studies
which have seriously investigated
the variables and factors which con­tribute
to the success or failure of the
U.S. multinational organizations
abroad.
As initially conceived in 1975 by
several faculty and administrators
at AGSIM, the major objectives
of the program were:
• To add an explicit cross-cultural
communication dimension to the
ongoing activities in each of the
school's three departments .
• To initiate course offerings with
training in cross-cultural com­munication
skills which empha­sizes
the interpersonal level of in­tercultural
business transactions.
Changing Environments for U.S.
Multinationals
During the immediate post war
years when the reconstruction of
the Japanese and European econo­mies
were taking place, the tech­nology,
machinery and consumer
goods that were produced in the
United States or that the U.S. dollar
could purchase were in great de-
1 From Chapter One of Managing
Cultural Differences. Gulf Pub­lishing
Company, Houston, Texas
1979.
mand. There were massive U.S. ex­ports
which were augmented by
direct investment in many econo­mies
by U.S. multinationals.
At this time, the company itself
and the foreign commercial consti­tuencies
such as customers, sup­pliers
or joint venture partners
were involved. The persons manag­ing
our organizations during this
time were largely persons with post
war management training and ex­perience.
About the mid 50s the political
impact of the organizations' inter­national
operations became an im­portant
variable of the decision
makers. Japanese and European re­construction
was completed and
they began to look for global mar­kets.
Accelerated national develop­ment
under responsible and pre­dictable
political systems was the
norm rather than the exception.
The United States accumulated
massive balance-of-payments de­ficits.
Many U.S. multinationals
initiated global production and
marketing systems with central
control. The appearance of these
organizations increased the sensiti­vities
of many host governments
and their options for capital and
technology could be found not only
in the United States but in Europe,
Japan and a number of other coun­tries.
Our competition was increas­ing
as was the complexity of doing
business.
In the early 1970's, the U.S. ba­lance-
of-payments deficit forced the
dropping of the fixed exchange rate
system and the value of the dollar
declined. Concepts of pluralism
and the interdependence of all
countries became evident.
By the mid 1970's the area of in­ternational
business was heavily
politiCized with government regula­tions
at both ends and public con­cern
in regard to pollution and
energy to name but a few. It is a
multi-actor era in which the busi­ness
interest, the two governments,
as well as regional and internation­al
interest groups determined to a
large extent the risk and the profits
of our operations.
In this environment, international
marketers and managers require
new skills and the challenge in the
1980's is to cope with change. As
representatives of the U.S. multina­tional
corporations we are required
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to meet, socialize with and negoti­ate
with foreign businessmen and
government officials on a regular
basis in a multi-actor era.
The new "technocrats" that we
encounter in many countries are
young, well-educated and possess a
strong sense of nationalism which
shows itself in a variety of ways.
These technocrats are dedicated to
the task of building their econo­mies,
and like their counterparts in
the United States and in many
other countries, they are somewhat
anti-establishment and skeptical
about the contributions derived by
their country from the presence of
multinational corporations.
A requirement that is common to
most of these activities is that the
U.S. business person be able to
communicate and work effectively
with persons who have grown up
and who have been socialized in a
different cultural environment.
Customs, values, lifestyles, beliefs,
management practices and most
other important aspects of one's
personal and professional life are
different. We have learned that
there are many problems when
working or living in a foreign en-vironment.
Communication across
cultural boundaries is difficult. Dif­ferences
in customs, behavior and
values result in problems that can
be only managed through effective
cross-cultural communication and
interaction.
The personnel files of our orga­nizations
undoubtedly indicate
many examples of mistakes at the
personal or organizational level.
Some of these are not serious,
while others result in organizational
and personal tragedies. The indi­viduals
affected include company
presidents, expatriate technicians
and managers and their spouses.
Most frequently, the cause of the
more serious problems is that inter­personal
work or social relations
with the host nationals have gone
sour because of ineffective com­munications
and a misreading of
the verbal and non-verbal com­munication
systems.
During the rapid expansion of in­ternational
business after W.W. II,
we were not overly concerned with
the ways that culture influenced in­dividuals
or organizational be­havior.
However, because of se­rious
and costly errors, we now
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have to ask questions such as:
"What do I have to know about
the social and business sytem of
country X?" or "What skills do I
need to be effective as a negotiator
in ountry Y?" As well as questions
such as how to lessen terminal
risks with overseas agents in coun­try
z.
In the multi-actor era of interna­tional
business, the effective mana­ger
and the viable multinational
organization must be able to adapt
its managerial, financial and tech­nical
resources to cultural variability
which refers to the degree to which
conditions within a culture are
changing at either an unstable or
stable, high or low rate. As the
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cultural environments become more
variable, the unpredictability of
business operations increases. This
variability is a primary source of
uncertainty in organizational and
marketing strategies. Cultural com­plexity
refers to the degree to which
understanding of the conditions
within a culture are dependent on
the ability to understand and accur­ately
interpret contexts.
Cultures are either high context
or low context cultures. This dis­tinction
is useful for the business­man
in looking for meaning in ver­bal
messages. A high context com­munication
is one in which most of
the information is either in the
physical context or internalized in
the person. A low context com­munication
is one in which the
majority of information is contained
in the explicit code. The United
States is a low context culture,
while many others are high context
cultures. We look for meaning and
understanding in what is said;
others look for meaning and under­standing
in the position of the per­son
in the company or the rela­tionship
between the businessmen.
To function effectively in a high
context situation we have to know
what is going on at the level of
covert culture.
Cultural hostility refers to the de­gree
to which the conditions in a
culture are threatening to organiza­tional
goals. The extent of this hos­tility
often depends on the accepta­bility
and legitimacy of the multina­tional
organization to the host
country. As hostility arises, man­agement
and marketing strategies
usually become more cautious and
control oriented.
Cultural interdependence refers to
the degree to which conditions in
one culture are sensitive to the de­velopments
in another, and the in­terdependence
of all nations is rec­ognized.
Organiza tions and managers re­spond
to that which is perceived. It
is important, therefore, to have
managers who can "see" what is
happening in other environments.
Careful and critical diagnosis will
assist the organization to making
good choices which correspond to
the organization's strengths and
goals.
Several variables influence our
perceptions which in tum influence
the meanings we attribute to be­havior.
• Our attitudes towards the host
country. An undesirable attitude
for businessmen working over­seas
is ethnocentrism. This is the
tendency to judge others by us­ing
one's own personal or cultur­al
standards as a basis for judge­ments.
• Time sense also impacts upon hu­man
interaction. Most North
Americans conceive of time in
lineal-spatial terms in the sense
that there is a past, a present and
a future. Working with the PRC
requires tremendous patience
and lengthy negotiations and can
be frustrating to many.
• Thought patterns or forms of reason­ing
also differ from culture to cul­ture.
What is reasonable, logical
and self-evident may be un­reasonable,
illogical and not self­evident
to another. We may
often sound just as illogical to
them as they do to us. In func­tioning
and understanding what
is going on at the covert level of
culture these persons should be
able to show respect towards the
many persons they will meet.
The ability to express respect for
others is an important part of
effective relations in every coun-
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try. All people like to believe and
feel that others respect them,
their ideas and their accomplish­ments.
However, it is difficult to
know how to communicate re­spect
to persons from another
culture.
These persons should be able to
tolerate ambiguity. This refers to
the ability to react to new, different
and at times, unpredictable situa­tions
with little visible discomfort
or irritation. Excessive discomfort
often leads to frustration and hostil­ity
and this is not conducive to
effective business relationships with
persons from other countries.
Learning to manage the feelings
associated with ambiguity is a skill
which is associated with adaptation
to a new environment and effec­tively
working with persons who
have a different set of values.
These persons should have a
high ability to relate to people.
Many of us are overly concerned
with getting the job done and
forget that people help us accom­plish
this.
These persons should be able to
display empathy. This is the ability
to "put yourself in another's shoes."
By participating in the courses on
cross-cultural communications MIM
candidates are able:
• To identify many of the cultural
aspects of verbal and non-verbal
behavior, assumptions, attitudes,
values, and other learned charac­teristics
of persons from different
countries and themselves.
• To identify areas in which differ­ences
can cause problems in
communicating effectively with
persons of different countries in
business and management situa­tions.
• To develop an understanding
and the skill in using a concep­tual
framework for understand­ing
and analyzing cross-cultural
communications business prob­lems.
• To assess one's intercultural, in­terpersonal
communication skills
and develop these during the
course of the program.
These, in turn, help participants
and organizations:
• To reduce the rate of "attrition"
of their employees. The attrition
rate of U.S. nationals in some
countries exceeds 30 percent.
• To work more effectively and
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efficiently with foreign nationals
either in the U.S. or abroad.
• To learn appropriate skills for
negotiating, reducing conflict and
motivating persons in other cul­tures.
• To assist with the development
of families from one culture to
another.
• To anticipate potential cross­cultural
marketing, management
and other business and personal
problems and work effectively in
reducing these .
The following comments were
made by recent graduates:
"The courses on Cross-Cultural
Communication have helped me
realize how different people act and
why . . . I believe the class should
be a prerequisite for graduation."
"This is an international School
of Management. Everyone that
graduates from here should have
an understanding of how to work
effectively in the business world
with people from one's own cul­ture."
"The program was eye opening:
it provided concepts and a theoreti­cal
framework for those things I'd
only vaguely understood."
In the 1980's a multinational cor­poration's
viability will depend to a
large extent upon how it responds
to changing conditions in its en­vironment.
Our multinational cor­porations
need cosmopolitan mana-gers
or internationalists in the 80s
and beyond. An internationalist is a
manager who can function effec­tively
in many countries. An inter­nationalist
can create new para­digms,
new organizational models,
new management styles, utilizing
management and business
strategies from other systems in
this superindustrial stage of de­velopment.
At AGSIM we are
attempting to provide educational
opportunities which will develop
this kind of manager. In a highly
unpredictable environment where
the players are new and the ground
rules unclear, this kind of manager
is critical.
Dr. Moran is Professor of International
Studies and Director, Program of Cross­Cultural
Communications at AGSIM. He is
co-author of Managing Cultural Differ­ences,
published by Gulf Publishing Com­pany,
Houston, Texas , September, 1979.
He is the author of So You're Going
Abroad: Are You Prepared?, published by
Intercultural Communication, Inc. and is
the co-author of Managing Cultural
Synergy, published by Gulf Publishing
Company in 1981 . Managing Cultural
Differences is used as a text by over 30
colleges and universities, and it has been
translated into Japanese.
Dr. Moran is also the author of the
Business Week Guide to International
Business Protocol, to be published by
Business Week in early 1982, and the co­author
of International Business Travel
Tools to be published by Business Week in
1982.
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Cross-Cultural Aspects of Managing Foreign Subsidiaries
by Al llch, AMA Staff
Companies wishing to initiate,
develop, and effectively manage
foreign subsidiaries must have
clearly defined goals for their for­eign
operations which can be inte­grated
into the total organizational
plan. The parent company must
thoroughly understand all aspects
of managing foreign subsidiaries;
crucial to the successful manage­ment
of an overseas operation is a
firm knowledge of cultural differ­ences.
Domenico Fanelli, vice president­western
hemisphere with AMNIn­ternational,
suggests that four
words be kept in mind when open­ing
foreign subsidiaries: politics,
economics, society and culture.
Fanelli, who will be directing an
AMNInternational workshop on
starting up overseas subsidiaries
this March, reminds us that even in
world areas where there is a com­mon
language, fundamental differ­ences
in the infra-structure and cul­ture
exist between countries.
The company planning to start
up an overseas subsidiary must
make an extensive review of how
to apply its human resource system
and select its managerial expertise.
Uniform criterien must be de­veloped
to administer overseas ex­ecutive
compensation and perquisi­ties,
while careful consideration
should be given to implementing
strategic and operational planning
across varied cultures, language
and degrees of management
sophistication.
A paper prepared in 1979 by the
worldwide management consulting
firm, Hay Associates, describes
foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multi­national
companies as belonging to
one of three cultures: bureaucratic,
technical, or managerial.
The bureaucratic culture is usual­ly
found in countries like France or
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Japan, which are either protection­ist
or developing. The "organiza­tion
man" is best suited to this type
of company, which is "character­ized
by an impersonal style and
absolute reliance on standards,
norms and rigid procedures."
The technical culture is most
commonly found in countries such
as Germany and the United King­dom,
which have "a long tradition
of technical expertise," and in com­panies
involved in well-established
industries.
The managerial culture, accord­ing
to the Hay Associates report, is
flexible and performance oriented,
and is described as being "typical
of trading countries early open to
free competition (The Netherlands,
Switzerland). It is frequently cen­tered
within highly competitive and
innovative industries.
An extensive analysis of one host
country's value and managerial phi­losophies
must be undertaken by
the parent company before it can
adapt corporate policies to the
needs of the subSidiary. To achieve
this, it is vital that management de-velop
outside sources and contacts
in the host country. These can be
helpful as a guide to economic and
political trends and, later, as a
gauge for determining the image of
the subsidiary in that country.
Developing contacts in the host
country is also helpful in easing
any culture shock which a new
transfer may experience after mov­ing
from the parent company to the
subSidiary. The increasing number
of seasoned executives who have
left a foreign subsidiary because of
their inability to adapt to the cul­ture
illustrates the need for proper
training prior to the transfer.
The parent company's concerted
effort to adapt human resource
management policies to the needs
of the subsidiary is a major step in
assuring the success of foreign op­erations.
Editor's note: American Graduate
School of International Management is
affiliated with the American Manage­ment
Associations. Al Ilch, of the
AMA Public Relations Office, is a reg­ular
contributor to "Thunderbird."
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Who's Hu
Editor's Note: The following is an in­terview
with Mr. Hu Ying-jie of the
Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, Beij­ing,
People's Republic at China, con­ducted
by Michelle Foster, student
assistant in the communications office.
Mr. Hu is the senior member of the
first group of BIFT faculty to study at
AGSIM as part of the first phase of the
exchange agreement between the two
schools. Mr. Hu will complete his stu·
dies here in December.
What benefits do you think you
will receive from attending
AGSIM?
In the first place, I think I will de­velop
a picture of the American
educational system. It is different
than ours; there is a great differ­ence
I should say. I am a faculty
member at the Beijing Institute of
Foreign Trade (BIFT), so I really
want to know something about the
American educational system. I
want to make a comparison be­tween
the two systems, ours and
the Americans.
What is your position at the Beij­ing
Institute?
I am a faculty member. I teach En­glish
as a foreign language, foreign
trade, business education, and
business correspondence.
Do you have ranks in your school
the same way we do among
faculty?
Yes, we do. I am a lecturer.
What, to date, has been your most
valuable course at AGSIM? Which
course will help you most later on?
I think the courses I'm taking are,
and will be, very helpful in every
respect. I find it difficult to say
which course is my favorite. I think
it is very difficult to define that.
The courses I'm taking here will be
very conducive to my work in the
future.
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Which course has been the most
different from what you studied in
China?
First of all, economics. We have an
entirely different economic system.
Ours is a centralized planned econ­omy,
yours is a free market eco­nomy.
That is due to the two dif­ferent
suprasystems. Second is the
accounting I'm taking. In China we
have a single entry accounting sys­tem.
Here, in the United States,
there is a double entry system. This
is entirely different. This is why it
is difficult for me to imagine actual­ly
how accounting is practiced
here. I find it difficult to learn this
subject.
What is the most apparent differ­ence
between American and
Chinese students?
Maybe this is unique to this school,
AGSIM, but I think almost all of
the students are really very, very
hard working. They are pressed by
time. It seems to me that every­body
is in a hurry. In China at
BIFT, students study four years,
and students in the Foreign Trade
department study five years before
they graduate. The time they spend
there is far longer.
Is your school strictly a graduate
school? Have the students had four
years of college before coming to
BIFT?
No. It's undergraduate, actually.
However, we do have a number of
post-graduate courses. The number
of these students is limited.
Do you find that American stu­dents
have a different attitude to­wards
their classes than Chinese
students?
This is a very large question. I find
that because the time is very short,
within three semesters a student
will have to complete 48 credits, I
have a feeling that the courses here
are not taught in depth. I think
ours are conducted and taught
more intensively.
You just said there is a difference
in the depth of our courses; are
there other differences that you see
in the teaching systems?
Yes, I think so. In our school, and
in most of the schools in China, the
teachers have very good rela­tionships
with the students. They
not only teach in class, they are
also responsible for the after class
work, including some ideological
work. This is something different
from the United States. By ideolo­gical
work I mean that if the
teacher finds that a student has
something wrong ideologically that
has prevented the student from
making faster progress, the
teachers will do some ideological
work to solve the problem in order
to push them forward. This creates
a better environment so the student
can improve faster.
Can you give me an example of
that?
Our system doesn't allow students
at the college level to fall in love
with one another. Here it is quite
common. You see girl and boy­friend,
they are always together;
but in our school, during their
undergraduate years, this is some­thing
against the school rules.
However, some students do fall in
love with each other. Then the
school authorities, as well as the re­sponSible
teachers, will talk to
them, tell them the advantages and
disadvantages of having a love
affair during that time. They should
concentrate on their studies. A lot
of ideological work is done to tell
the student the advantages, the
pluses and minuses, of that.
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By ideological work you are not
talking about teaching them
Maoist doctrine?
No, not exactly. We just tell the
students what is good, what is bad,
what is to their advantage.
What area of business education
and business training is most
needed now in China?
First, management. This is a prob­lem
which is facing almost all of
the developing countries. China is
no exception. China is a large coun­try,
both in terms of population
and land. China is also rich like the
Northern Americas in natural re­sources.
At present, the style of
management is different from the
United States .... and is not so
efficiently operated. The second
area is the law, especially interna­tionallaw.
Chinese businessmen,
generally speaking, do not know
Mr. Hu was recently afforded a different
insight into American banking as the guest of
Mr. Delwin Bond, AGSIM '65, at Phoenix's
Valley National Bank. Mr. Bond, the Vice­President
and Group Manager for Euro-Asia,
treated his guest from the PRe to a relaxed
lunch at the bank building's Golden Eagle
Restaurant, then provided him with a tour of
the bank's private Western art collection.
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much about internationallaw. They
do not know much about the actual
practices of foreign companies.
They do not know much about the
regulations and rules of foreign
governments.
What do you think will be the role
of American, or other, multination­als
in China in the future?
You mean Sino-American multina­tionals?
Well, this has a great deal
to do with the development of the
two countries in other areas. I think
as far as multinationals are con­cerned
it is quite promising. I think
that the relationship between the
two countries, China and the U.S.,
is getting along fine, espeCially dur­ing
Haig's visit to China recently.
The relations will get better, there's
no doubt about that. I don't think
they will develop very fast during
the next couple of years. China is
in the process of adjusting her
economy which will take, I believe,
a couple of years. In the future
joint ventures, multinationals, and
foreign investment will be promis­ing.
China is basically an agricultur­al
country and has plentiful natu­ral
resources, but lacks modern
techniques to develop these. The
area of agriculture is very promis­ing,
as is petroleum. China has re­cently
found some offshore oil, but
lacks drilling equipment. Another
area will be banking. China has
joined the World Bank and looks
forward to increased participation
with the IMF; China has borrowed
some money from international
banks and financial aid agencies.
China is borrowing and has bor­rowed
money from Japanese banks.
Agriculture, petroleum, money and
banking: these are the three major
areas which are promising.
What kind of internships would be
of benefit to future Chinese stu­dents
who attend AGSIM?
As far as internships are concerned,
according to the plan, we will be
sent to some large companies to
learn how the management func­tions
there. So the school arranges
internships for us. I went to Dow
Chemical to work for three weeks
during the holidays. After we go
through the courses here in three
semesters we'll be able to work in
other companies for several months
before returning to China.
What specific types of industries
would it be beneficial to have in­ternships
in for other Chinese stu­dents?
In my opinion, if it were conve­nient,
it would be best to arrange
for them to work with companies
which have business relations with
my country.
What would be the benefit to
United States' companies which
support Chinese students to come
and receive an American educa­tion?
First, the companies' support finan­cially,
or in other ways, will help
the Chinese students learn how
American business operates. Upon
their return to China they will be
able to know more about American
business and management so that
in the future they will be more
skillful in dealing with American
corporations. That is very impor­tant
because the business relations
between the two countries are in­creasing
day by day. From China's
point of view, we must understand
the United States of America. This
assistance would be of benefit to
both parties.
What benefit would come from
having American managers who
speak Chinese and understand the
Chinese culture?
If business is conducted through in­terpreters
this is time-consuming
and gives rise to misunderstanding.
If an American manager or execu­tive
knows Chinese, the Chinese
culture, and the Chinese customs
and habits, that will help a great
deal. In this area Japanese mana­gers
are very good. They not only
study the foreign language, they
also study the customs. Japanese
managers and executives know a
great deal about the Chinese
businessman.
Please turn to page 15
7
Changes in
RequIrements for MIM
Effective Fall '82
Effective with the fall semester,
candidates for the master of inter­national
management degree will
be required to complete 42 semester
hours of credit rather than the pre­sent
requirement of 48 hours.
Dr. John Conklin, chairman of
the faculty senate, explained that
the senate began considering the
revision of the degree requirements
in 1980. After a careful and ex­tended
review of the MIM pro­gram,
the senate adopted three
fundamental changes:
• The total number of hours re­quired
for the degree was re­duced
from 48 to 42.
• The minimum number of hours
required at the 400 and/or 500
levels was increased from 24 to
30.
• The maximum course load per
semester was reduced from 18 to
15 hours.
Conklin further explained the
senate action: "The purpose of
these changes is to improve the
quality of the MIM degree. The re­ductions
in total degree hours and
maximum course load will afford
students sufficient time to achieve
greater depth in their courses of
study. The increase in required 400
and/or 500 level courses will pro­vide
students with more upper di­vision
work upon graduation."
8
Wally Parker
Parker Takes Intercom Post
C. Wolcott Parker has been
named director of INTERCOM, the
executive development arm of
AGSIM. Reporting to the vice presi­dent
for academic affairs, Dr. Mar­shall
Geer, Parker will be responsi­ble
for developing INTERCOM's
tailor-made programs in interna­tional
business topics, cross cultural
studies and foreign languages.
Before joining the school fu~- .
time, Parker had served as a VISIt­ing
professor, teaching classes in
international marketing and man­agement
and technology transfer,
in addition to operating his own
management consulting firm. From
1966 to 1972 he was director of
marketing for Fabricacion de Ma­quinas,
S.A. (FAMA) in Monterrey,
N.L., Mexico.
He is a graduate of the Universi­ty
of New Mexico and received an
MBA in finance from the Graduate
School of Business at the Institute
Technologico de Estudios Super­iores
de Monterrey.
He replaces Duane Hall, who re­signed
to devote full-time to
teaching.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
AGSIM to Host RMCLAS
Annual Meeting
The Rocky Mountain Conference
on Latin American Studies will
hold their 30th Annual Meeting at
AGSIM on February 25-27, 1982.
RMCLAS's aim is to encourage in­teraction
among people interested
in Latin America and to foster
cooperation between the United
States and Latin American coun­tries.
Dr. John Conklin, associate
professor of international studies
and chairman of the AGSIM faculty
is serving as 1982-83 president of
RMCLAS, and faculty coordinator
for the event.
Preliminary plans call for John
Gavin, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico,
to deliver the keynote address. Dr.
Albert Fishlow, an economist from
Yale University will deliver the ban­quet
address, "Financing Latin
American Economic Development."
Panel discussion topics planned
for the event include appropriate
technology in Latin America, Mex­ican
futures, economy and develop­ment,
Spanish and Portuguese liter­ature,
politics, history, and
sociology.
New Name for
Administration Building
The administration building, besides sporting
a fresh coat of paint and a new entrance mat,
also has a new name-FOUNDERS HALL.
A bronze plaque which lists the names of the
original 19 founders of the school has been
placed on the front wall of the building to the
left of the main entrance.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
At the annual board dinner, Trustee Alfred Miossi ('48) enjoys a story from the Honorable Raul
Castro, the former u.s. Ambassador to Argentinn.
Student and Faculty Reps Attend Meeting
The 35th annual meeting of the
AGSIM board of trustees was
attended by the student govern­ment
rresident and a representa­tive
0 the chairman of the faculty
senate for the first time in the his­tory
of the School.
This policy materialized as a re­sult
of a recommendation by the
board's student affairs committee,
chaired by Dr. Mae Sue Talley, to
allow the president of the student
government organization to attend
board meetings as an observer.
This proposal was reviewed by the
board's committee on trustees,
chaired by Joseph Klein, and they
added the recommendation that a
faculty representative also attend.
This final recommendation was pre­sented
to the full board on June 5
and approved.
Some actions the new attendees
observed were changes in the sta­tus
of some members and the elec­tion
of a new chairman and three
new members. The trustees re­ceived
a favorable report on the
1980-81 year from Dr. Voris, and
learned about a proposed faculty
office building and the newly­formed
Barton Kyle Yount Society.
Moved to trustee emeritus status
were Mrs. John W. Kieckhefer,
E.V. O'Malley, Sr. and G.R. Herber­ger.
Mrs. Kieckhefer joined the
board in 1970, Mr. O'Malley in
1952, and Mr. Herberger in 1956.
Three new members were added
to the body: Norman E. Auerbach,
Charles Stockholm and Daniel
Witcher. (see story page 10.)
Roger Lyon, president of Valley
National Bank, and a member since
1979, was elected chairman of the
board. Before joining Valley
National Bank in 1976, he was ex­ecutive
vice president of Chase
Manhattan Bank, New York, where
he was department executive of the
Institutional Banking Department.
Active in the Phoenix community,
Lyon is a member of various civic
groups as well as the Arizona
Bankers Association and the Asso­ciation
of Reserve City Bankers. He
replaces G. Clarke Bean, who be­came
chairman of the development
committee and will work closely
with Dr. Robert Horn, vice presi­dent
for external affairs.
Other Action
Other action taken by the board
9
Mrs . Kieckhefer displays the Royal Geographic Society world clock, the symbol of Barton Kyle
Yount Society membership.
included the election of Joseph M.
Klein and James Thornton as vice
chairmen and the re-election of
eight members for three year terms.
They were: Sherman Hazeltine, Ed­ward
B. Juliber, Joseph M. Klein,
Robert McLellan, Alfred F. Miossi,
John C. Pritzlaff, Jr., Richard Snell
and Don B. Tostenrud.
President's Report
Dr. Voris gave his report, noting
recent promotions in the adminis­tration
and new faculty appoint­ments.
He also reported that the
total income for the 1980-81 fiscal
year was $7,558,047, over budget
by $341,297. Expenses for the year
were $7,330,260, which is $249,232
over budget, resulting in a net in­come
of $227,787, over budget by
$92,065. He also reported that the
10
total assets of AGSIM projected for
1981-82 will exceed $10 million for
the first time in the history of the
School.
Proposed Faculty Office Building
Dr. Horn presented the plans for
a proposed faculty office building
which will cost approximately $2
million. The plans call for a 28,585
square foot, two-story building
with a replication of the control
tower exterior. The building would
be located across the mall from the
Frank L. Snell Learning Center.
Barton Kyle Yount Society
Mrs. John W. Kieckhefer was rec­ognized
as the first member of the
Barton Kyle Yount Society. Mem­bership
in the Society requires con­tributions
of more than $250,000 to
Two Alumni Included in
Three New Board of
Trustee Appointments
Three new members of the
AGSIM board of trustees were
elected at the October 16 meeting,
two of them AGSIM graduates.
Elected to the board for a three
year term were: Norman E. Au­erbach,
chairman and chief execu­tive
officer of the U.S. Firm of
Coopers & Lybrand, New York;
Charles Mitchell Stockholm, ('56)
executive vice president, corporate
division, Crocker Bank, San Fran­cisco;
and Daniel Daugherty Witch­er
('50), president and general man­ager,
international division, Upjohn
International, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mi.
Charles Stockholm joined First
National City Bank after graduating
from AGSIM and worked in Hong
Kong, Singapore, Malaya and In­donesia.
In 1972 he joined Crocker
Bank and became executive vice
president, corporate division, in
1976. He is also on the board of
directors of Alexander-Balowin, Inc.
and Matson Navigation.
Dan Witcher joined Sterling Drug
Company after graduating from
AGSIM and had assignments in
Mexico and Brazil. In 1958 he
joined the Brazilian subsidiary of
the School. At the conclusion of the
meeting she was presented a Royal
Geographic Society world clock,
which is the symbol of membership
in the Barton Kyle Yount Society.
Similar presentations are scheduled
this winter for Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company, S.c. Johnson &
Son, Inc., American Management
Associations and American Interna­tional
Group.
At the close of the meeting, stu­dent
government president Ann
Connors remarked, "It was an hon­or
to be able to meet the members
of the board and see first-hand the
workings of the meeting. This new
policy is certainly a step in the right
direction-it's educational for the
student and provides direct ac­cess-
so important for effective
communication."
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Mead Johnson & Company as sales
manager and later became mana­ger.
He joined Upjohn in 1960 as
area manager of Latin America
South. He held various positions
with Upjohn, becoming president
of Upjohn, International in 1973.
The election of Stockholm and
Witcher brings the total of alumni
on the board of trustees to five.
Other alumni serving are Robert
Feagles, (,51), senior vice president,
International Executive of
the Year
This year's International Executive of the Year
Award went to J. W. Marriott, Jr., president and
chief executive officer of the Marriott Corpora­tion,
Washington D.C., right, and was pre­sented
by President Voris, left, at the annual
board of trustees dinner, held at the Paradise
Valley Country Club, October 15.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
personnel, The Travelers Insurance
Companies, Hartford, Connecticut;
Joseph M. Klein, ('47), chairman of
the board, Pluess-Staufer Interna­tional
Inc.; and Alfred F. Miossi,
Jr., (,48), execu tive vice presiden t,
Continental Bank, Chicago.
Stockholm Witcher
'62 Alum Produces
Book Series
Dr. Carlos E. Cortes ('62), profes­sor
of history, University of Califor­nia
at Riverside, has prepared a
book series on Hispanics in the Un­ited
States. This is the first major
series on Hispanics in the U.S. as a
group, rather than just individual
Hispanic ethnic groups. The collec­tion
contains 30 books and is pub­lished
by ARNO Press.
Serving as advisory editor of the
series, Dr. Cortes' many accom­pl~
shments are noted in the prom­ohonal
brochure. He is past chair of
Chicano Studies at the University
of California, Riverside and his
many books and articles include
Gaucho Politics in Brazil: The Politics
of Rio Grande do Sui, 1930-1964 (win­ner
of the 1974 Hubert Herring
Award), and Three Perspectives 011
Ethnicity: BLacks, Chicanos, and Native
Americans, and many others. Reci­pient
of this university's 1976 Dis­tinguished
Teaching Award, Profes­sor
Cortes is contributing editor of
Aztlan International Journal of Chi­cano
Studies Research and has
written and produced a documen­tory
film, "Northwest from Tuma­cacori."
He served as advisory edi­tor
of two previous Arno Press col­lections,
The Mexican American
and the Chicano Heritage.
Fall Enrollment Sets
Record
According to the Admissions
Office, AGSIM's fall enrollment sets
an all-time record at 1,022. Of that
figure, seven are in Barcelona,
Spain, at ESADE, leaving 1,015
attending classes on the Glendale
campus. Fifty-five foreign countries
are represented by 25.7 percent of
the students. The percentage of
women students is the highest ever
at 33.8 percent, with 28 of them
from foreign countries. Only four
states are not represented in this
enrollment: Alaska, Maine, Missis­sippi
and West Virginia.
11
Second WAC Confer­ence
a Success
The WAC keynoter, Dr. Hideo
ltokawa, director of the Tokyo­based
think tank, Systems Research
Institute, called for an EEC-like
Pacific Congress--essentially a
forum for Pacific Rim countries as
well as the U.S. to deal with econo­mic,
trade, monetary and defense
issues. Speaking to approximately
150 people in the school dining hall
on the eve of the conference, Itoka­wa
not only discussed the future of
the Pacific Rim countries, but
touched on space exploration, in­cluding
communications satellites
and rocket development. He re­fused,
however, to comment on
U.S.-Japanese joint defense ven­tures,
advising that he was working
on confidential material and could
not discuss it.
The roundtables on Friday,
which featured participants from
government, industry and
academia, drew attendees from the
student body and the local com­munity
including several local
alumni.
Two alumni were participants in
the roundtables: Boye de Mente
('53), editor, The Importer, Tokyo,
and James P. Rooney ('67), J.P.
Rooney & Associates, Bangkok.
Other participants were: Dr.
Byung-Nin Chun, Korea Trade
Dr. Hideo Itokawa presents his opening C01(/­ments
at the World Affairs Conference.
12
Professors Andrew Chang, left, and Suguru Akutsu talk with roundtable participant Boye De
Mente ('53).
Students Karush Homayuni, left, and Leo Green greet each other at the WAC dinner.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Nancy Hague, chairperson for the Conference,
and third semester student, said of her experi­ence:
n . .. presenting the 1981 World Affairs
Conference was of immeasurable value to me.
lt confirmed my belief that people can work
together, voluntarily to accomplish a goal.
Everyone gained from the conference, which,
to me, defines its success."
Center, Los Angeles; Thomas
Hague, assistant of the chairman,
Borg Warner Corporation, Chicago;
William Piez, director, Bureau of
East Asian Affairs, U.S. Depart­ment
of State, Washington, D.C.;
Howard Cooper, CEO, Electronic
Instrumentation Division of
EATON Corp., Los Angeles;
Stephen Soble, senior editor, East
Asia Executive Reports, Washington,
D.C., Dr. Yung-hwan Jo, Fullbright
professor, faculty of law, Keio Uni­versity,
Tokyo; David Laux, PRC
Affairs, U.S. Department of Com­merce,
Washington, D.C.; Dean
Goodermote, international analyst,
Conoco, Connecticut; Benjamin
Hong, vice president, First Inter­state
Bank, Los Angeles; Robert
Youngblood, associate professor,
and Sheldon Simon, A.S.U. Politi­cal
Science Dept.; R. Bruce Shurt­leff,
manager, Investment and
Trade Marketing, Government of
New South Wales, Australia; and
Olof Lindstedt, vice president,
Chemical Bank, New York.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Class of '53
We need your help! If you know the
where-abouts of these alumni, please fill out
the form below and mail to: The Alumni
Office, American Graduate School of
International Management, Glendale, Arizona
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
"Thunderbird./I We're eager to receive news
about you, your family or your T -Bird friends
for our Update section, so please include that
information also.
Muchas Gracias!
Andrew, Theodore L.
Barker, Richard A.
Bates, Louis A.
Beck, Wallace J.
Bell, Percival J.
Bennett, Ivan E.
Brown, Jack R.
Brundage, Forrest A.
Chastain, William B.
Cioccolanti, Joseph
Craft, Robert L.
Day, Roland B.
Earnist, James R.
Fernow, Robert H.
Foljambe, Gilbert T.
French, Phillip B.
Gearhart, John F.
Grunert, Rodney G.
Habgood, Charles R.
Hand, John H.
Hartner, Henry H.
Hendenberg, Bette
Hennon, James R.
Houghtaling, George L.
Houston, James D.
Hubbard, Frank L.
Ingram, James A.
Kelly, Allen M.
Knister, Russell B.
Kullman, Ortwin
Langa, Vincent M.
Lehoucq, Adonis F.
Lloyd, James B.
Luchsinger, Frank C.
Malloy, DeForest E.
Matthews, Dennis T.
May, James T.
Mitchell, Celestine
Mullins, Carole
Newett Miller, Marie L.
Nissen, Earl L.
Petra borg, George R.
Podesta, Eugene T.
Predmore, Russell A.
Prestrud, K. M.
Prince, Warren F.
Protheroe, Walter J.
Rodgers, Stanley H.
Sakai, Roy T.
Schneiderman, Cynthia
Seaton, Edwin C.
Siemer, Robert L.
Simon, Stuart
Smith, Harry F.
Smythe, Robert K.
Von der Haar, Richard W.
Von Koeller, Hans J.
Waldemer, Alfred C.
Walsh, Thomas P.
Wegner, Herbert G.
Wiesmore, Robert W.
Wilner, Robert W.
Wilson, Raymond W.
Name and Mailing address ___________________ _
Business affiliation ________________________ _
Title ___________________________ _
Business phone _________ _ Home phone _________ _
13
Former Black
Panther Turns 1800
Eldridge Cleaver, 1960's activist
and former Black Panther, spoke
before a packed audience in
AGSIM's auditorium on Friday,
October 2. Charles Sturtevant, who
introduced Cleaver on behalf of the
Speaker'S Committee, noted that
the guest's opinions have changed
during the past ten years, and that
he is currently considering running
for the position of Mayor of Oak­land.
During the 1960' s there was
little love lost between Cleaver and
Oakland city officials; today, at age
46, he hopes to introduce to Oak­land
reforms which include a debt­or's
bank, an institution where peo­ple
deposit their debts. These
would then be renegotiated be­tween
the bank and the lending in­stitutions.
This idea seems far removed
from those of the Eldridge Cleaver
14
The informal reception following Cleaver's talk produced a crowd in the Coffee Shop as well as
some pointed questions from the students.
who eventually fled the United
States, living abroad for years as
the guest of Communist govern­ments.
Cleaver spent the majority
of his lecture discussing his person­al
political evolution, where his in­creasing
disenchantment with com­munism
paralleled a growing con­viction
that democracy is the only
viable political option. He
cautioned, however, against mak­ing
a direct correIa tion between
democracy and capitalism.
Although his political convictions
have changed, Cleaver remains an
activist with controversial opinions.
During his presentation he likened
communism to imprisonment,
stated that the private sector must
take up the burden of equal rights
employment or face nationalization,
Frank Smith (79), left, who was instrumental
in bringing Eldridge Cleaver, right, to cam­pus,
joins the speaker on stage.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
advocated a union for the unem­ployed,
and indicated that there
currently exists no united front tac­tic
or organized worldwide Com­munist
conspiracy. He did empha­size
that the Soviet threat to the
West is real, a threat which could
deprive the world of its greatest in­tellectual
resources.
After his lecture Cleaver received
questions from students in the cof­fee
shop. Points were raised con­cerning
his political aspirations and
religiOUS orientation. When asked
whether he felt there was any con­flict
between his belief in racial
equality and his intention to join
the Mormon Church, Cleaver indi­cated
that there was none, that
most churches in America are cur­rently
segregated in fact if not in
theory, and that while blacks were
slaves the Mormons also suffered
persecu tion in America.
According to Cleaver, Reagano­mics
should help reduce unemploy­ment
and increase efficient produc­tion.
He views these policies as
much needed tonic which will have
short term drawbacks.
Cleaver reiterated his opinion
that individuals have the right to
work within a system for reform
and progress. When asked if he felt
British Minister of
Industry Predicts Bright
Future for his Country
Sir Peter Carey, Permanent
Secretary in the United Kingdom's
Department of Industry, spoke on
November 2 to AGSIM students ab­out
economic trends in Britain dur­ing
the 1980's. Sir Peter is currently
responsible for coordinating the re­generation
of British industry. His
department sponsors various indi­vidual
manufacturing industries
and is responsible for British Aeros­pace,
British Shipbuilding and the
British Steel Corporation and the
Post Office. In his speech he re­counted
Britain's recent past, her
partiCipation in two world wars,
and her current post-imperialist
slump. After outlining several sig­nificant
differences between the
British and American economies,
Sir Peter than offered predictions
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
there existed contradiction between
this and the authority of churches
to refuse the right of members to
dissent, Cleaver found no conflict.
People are born citizens and are
forced into their political systems.
However, they are free to choose a
church and its organization; in
doing so they choose to accept the
rules and system of the church.
Discussion of this point led Cleaver
to comment on the aims and
aspirations of the American
women's movement. He compared
the rights of American women
favorably against those in other
countries, finding that American
women are the most privileged
women in the world, with little
worth complaining about. Cleaver
advocated equal pay for equal
work, but also noted that women
will never be as strong as men, and
perhaps, therefore, unable to per­form
equal work.
A vocal Democrat, budding
politician, and dedicated family
man, Eldridge Cleaver presented
many challenging ideas during his
visit to AGSIM, and stands testimo­nial
to the ability of man to reform
his opinions.
Michelle Foster
for Britain's economy during the
next decade. He indicated that
although unemployment will con­tinue
to plague the economy, new
methods of coping with the situa-
Sir Peter Carey
Hu
Continued from page 7
How much will your stay here at
AGSIM help your own career?
From the language point of view, I
think I have learned a lot. I have
made great progress in English, in
listening comprehension, vocabu­lary,
and all respects. Second, if I
go on working as a teacher at BIFT
upon my return to China, I will in­troduce
the teaching methodology
of AGSIM, especially in the area of
foreign languages. I will teach the
students what I have learned here
in the field of economics and
marketing, etc.
What places would you like to
visit in the
United States?
I want to visit some cities on the
east coast. Arizona is lovely, but I
would like to see more of the
United States.
tion will develop. Work sharing
and shorter work weeks will be
more common, and the British will
enjoy increased leisure time. The
entire system will be undergoing a
transition from total dependence on
manufacturing to becoming in­creasingly
service oriented. He sees
greater opportunities for new man­agement
and the development of
new industries.
Sir Peter emphasized that Bri­tain's
recent economic decline
occurred partially as a result of un­skilled
management. He sees Eng­land's
future as bright; in part this
results from improved management
training and a growing awareness
among young managers-of the
need for communication with labor
and interface with the education
system. M.F.
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Midwest-Area ... Eric Denniston
writes that "highlights of the event
were a turn-out of 90 + alums, who
came and left open-house style. The
picture doesn't catch the largest crowd.
Volleyball, swimming and
frisbee-tossing were the order of the
day. The weather, though warm, gave
us a momentary drizzle, but far from
being enough to dampen aT-Bird
gathering. Thanks to the many ladies
who contributed to our pot-luck
veggies, salads and desserts, not a diet
was kept intact."
"Special mention must be made of Lew
Ross ('78) whose help in the
organization as well as volunteering his
ski-boat for the occasion was very
much a key to our success. The special
efforts of Jesse Wilson ('73), Prince
Manjooran ('79), Bob Johnson ('59),
Ann Parry, John Westgor ('68), Nancy
Clarke (,78), Peter Prims ('80), Michael
Egart ('80) and Barb Mikucka ('80) must
be mentioned in pointing out we do
have an active group of all ages here.
The previously mentioned crew
worked hard enough to ensure a good
time for all.
"Highlight appearances include Robert
Bean, class of '02 ('48) front row center
in the photo and Francoise Daniel ('80)
from France on holiday, who was
visiting her fiance Bill Stewart ('80). We
had a contingent from Milwaukee and
from Racine, as well as Champaign,
!L."
Northern California ... The chapter
organized a "September Fest" Picnic at
Golden Gate Park, which turned out to
be a warm and great afternoon. Sixty
alums showed up with families and
friends bringing the total crowd to 175
plus 2 dogs! The classes of the 70s and
80s were well represented as well as
those of '69, '66, '60, '59 and '53. A
palpable success-Tom Williams.
The association announces the Thun­derbird
ROOST at Barnabys, Embar­cadero
No. I, the first Tuesday of each
month. Meet at the downstairs lounge
5:00 p.m.
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Washington, D.C. ... Mr. William
Edgar, director of the Bureau of Econo­mic
& Business Affairs, U.S. Depart­ment
of State, discussed the role of in­ternational
trade in the formulation of
U.S. foreign policy at a meeting of
alumni at the Cosmos Club on Novem­ber
3.
Washington, D.C. area T-birds were in­vited
by the Washington-Baltimore
chapter of the Stanford Business School
Alumni Association to attend their
October 26 chapter event. Their speak­ers
were Craig A. Nolen, president,
United States Overseas Private Invest­ment
Corporation, and William H.
Draper ill, president and chairman of
the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
South Florida ... The group enjoyed a
fine dinner party in Hollywood in Au­gust
with good attendance from the
Broward County contingent. There was
also a luncheon at EI Viajante Res­taurant
in Miami. In addition, four new
members have been added to the
group.
Regular meetings are scheduled for the
first Tuesday of each month at The
Mutiny/Coconut Grove at 8:30 p.m.
Past events also included a Dart Night
in September.
Geneva ... Using his unbridled orga­nizational
skills, Tom Hofmanner ('79)
along with Greg Fillenger ('79)
arranged a meeting of alums in Geneva
in July for Chuck and Rose Mannel's
visit.
Mannel reports that attendance was
light due to the vacation period but
Frank Jent, Richard McMullen and
Mohammed Tammani did turn out.
New York ... Twenty-nine T-Birds
from the New York Alumni Association
canoed down the Delaware July 18 and
19. The trip had definite thrills and
spills (we were told later that we
canoed on the roughest part of the
Delaware River) but all not only sur­vived,
but prevailed. The weather was
perfect, the water was warm, the beer
was cold, the food was almost edible,
and the lean-to's were as expected.
The package trip had been put together
by NY Alum Board members Taco
Proper ('79) and George Wehman ('74).
Kelly Downing was elected president
of the New York Alumni Association
New York Chapter. Kelly is a founding
board member of the association.
Southern California ... The associa­tion
has scheduled monthly get
togethers for T-Birds in the area. For
alums working in downtown L.A. the
meetings are held the third Thursday
of each month at 5:30 p.m. at Casey's
Bar & Grill on Grand Avenue. For
those T-Birds working in the West L.A.
area the gatherings are held on the
fourth Wednesday of the month at 5:30
p.m. at Jonah's Sea Catch on Admiralty
Way in Marina Del Rey. More informa­tion
available from Jeri Towner,
614-4019.
Brus~els .. Pictured at T-bird dinner in late July when Charles Mannel and Beverly Springer
were m town: from left: Alverro Franco Ferro, Shandor (both seated), Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fin­cher,
Mark. Rudolph, Robert Roussel, Rose and Charles Mannel, Beverly Springer, Mr. and
Mrs. Martm Fleurke, John Cook, Lee Springer, Ross Miller, Bill Epstein, and Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Beatty. The dinner was a great time for all and a good time to hear old war stories from
the placement chief. - John C. Cook.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Michigan . . . "For the second con­secutive
year T-birds from all over the
country gathered at the Lakeside Home
of Joseph c. Schmieder ('78) to cele­brate
our country's bi...r1:hday. T-birds
flew into Spring Lake, Michigan from
Texas, California, Georgia, Florida,
Connecticut and even Brazil! The 3-day
celebration included an international
film showing, all-day volleyball, glitter­ing
fu;eworks display, talent show, and
plenty of food. Everyone left saying­see
you here next year."
Bamako, Mali, West Africa ... T-Birds
met at the home of Sharon Feffer Fuller ('75).
Included were Lewis and Joy Willeford Lucke
(77). All three are in Mali with the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
Thunderbird Club of New England
... President Jay Donovan reports that
the July event, Boston Pops on the Es­planade,
was great fun although
attendance was small due to rain. The
Jazz Cruise in Boston Harbor, with su­perior
music by Art Blakely and the
Jazz Messengers, drew about 30 T-Birds,
and the club met again in early
September at the Winery, with approx­imately
15 attending.
The Board of the TCNE meets three
times annually to organize programs
and handle administrative details. Up­coming
events include a December
meeting at the Harvard Club, and a
February ski trip in Burlington, Ver­mont
(in conjunction with the New
York Club). The club's second annual
meeting will be held in Mayor June,
exact location to be determined.
Anyone passing through the Boston
area is encouraged to contact the T-bird
Club by phoning Jay Donovan, presi­dent,
at (617) 658-6594 or Danielle
Dufour, social chairman, at (617)
367-5875.
Monthly meetings (first Tuesday) are
being held at FOREIGN AFFAIRS on
State Street.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Jerome Petin ('72) sends along a photo of alumni gathering in Paris during Tom Bria's summer
visit.
back, l. to r. Mrs. Chris Morrison, John Esping, Suzanne Remar, Alan Admonds, Barbara
Wicker, Jay Donovan, Mrs. Steven Hall, Chris Morrison, Steven Hall.
front, l. to r. John Wicker, Peter Kalil
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CLASS OF '47, '48 and '49
Stanley L. Scharf (,47), who re-established
contact with AGSIM early this year after
nearly 30 years, writes that he is embarking
on an extended trip throughout Europe and
hopes to greet fellow T-Birds during his
travels. He plans to visit England, Germany
and Sicily and perhaps continue on to the
Orient. e.W. Neumann ('48) writes from
Akron, Oh. where he is manager, industrial
products, Goodyear International Corpora­tion:
"For a good part of my time, I have
lived overseas with G.I.-India, Malaysia,
Singapore, the Philippines, Brazil, Puerto
Rico and Australia .... I have been travel­ing
overseas out of the head office since re­turning
to Akron." Arthur J. Smith ('49) is
in Richmond, Va. and has retired as region­al
director of industrial relations, Reynolds
Metals Co. Besides servicing the labor rela­tions
needs of various major plants of the
company, he was a member of the corpo­rate
labor relations team and had the added
special assignment of coordinator of arbitra­tion
for the company. Art served as place­ment
director at the school for a year after
graduation and before joining Reynolds in
1950. Merrill R. Brooks ('49) is in Las
Cruces, NM. where he is the owner of a
real estate and land development company.
CLASS OF '50, '51, '52, '53 and '55
Fred J. Parmenter ('50) is senior vice presi­dent,
Frank B. Hall and Co., Inc., insurance
brokers, in Chicago. e.G. Malavenda ('51)
is in Barranquilla, Colombia where he is
manager for Prestolite. James Bell ('52) is in
Los Angeles and is president of QRS Corp.,
an outdoor electrical sign company. He
writes: "I'll never forget AIFT-AGSIM-its
camp~s, its marvelous staff and approach to
teachmg and what I learned, the maturity I
devel?ped, ma,king love on the airstrip--a
beautIful year. ' George Dzambik ('53) has
been presented the National Quality Award
for exceptional clientel service by American
Amicable Life Insurance Co., Waco, Tx.
William Schollard, Jr. ('53) is executive vice
president with Allied Chemical Bank Inter­national
in New York. He heads up corres­pondent
and commerdal banking activities
globally. Eric Ericsson ('55) continues to
represent U.S. and African clients in Lon­~
on a~d is .enjoying his sideline of dealing
m antiquanan maps. The enterprise,
SARUM, specializes in American and world
maps of the 16th - 18th centuries. Spouse
Janie has just completed a two year contract
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of administering and promoting Boston Uni­versity'S
part-time M.S.B.A. program for
London's American and international busi­ness
community. Barbara Yunker Bettison
('53) with Smathers & Co., Inc., Long ,
Beach, Ca., is studying for her registration
as an investment advisor.
CLASS OF '56
Mimi Kennedy writes from Nashville, Tn.
to report on two lost '56 alums. Harold Mil­ler
and wife, Jan, are in Birmingham, AI.
and Eugene Meador, Jr. is living in Taos,
N.M. After being a lost alum for 17 years
and close after Mimi's letter, Eugene writes,
"I moved fron Santa Monica. Ca. three
years ago and have specialized in Indian­style
adobe fireplaces and hornos, working
with the noted 'enjorradora: Carmen
Velarde. One of my sons works with me,
along with a partner, and we do our work
all over the country." Henry R. Molwitz is
in Darien, Ct. and is with Paine Webber
Jackson and Curtis. Robert Shuman and
spouse Gloria (Peterson) ('55) are in Puerto
Rico where they have their own insurance
brokerage business, Robert A. Shuman &
Associates, Inc. in Hato Rey. Charles L. St.
Clair is a partner in an executive search
company in Palo Alto, Ca., Management
Scope, International.
CLASS OF '57
Doug Buckmaster is heading up the Nation­al
Audubon Society'S western region fund­raising
office in South Pasadena, Ca. He
will be responsible for soliciting funds from
corporations and foundations in the Socie­ty's
western region. Walter J. Neuerovich
write~ from Houston where he is vice presi­dent
m charge of all international operations
for Kirby International Building System.
Robert Lee Schroeder is managing director
of ARMCO (Australia) Pty. Ltd. in Suther­land,
Australia. Jon Stewart is in Cairo
where he is a foreign service information
officer. He writes: "Currently I am on detail
from USICA to AID as higher education
advisor to the USAID mission in Cairo.
Have been (here) since July '80. Previous
tour as counselor for public affairs for U.S.
Embassy in Riyadh for four years. Contem­plating
retirement from the Foreign Service
and initiating second career in international
business during 1982." Tullio G. Vigano
has been promoted to vice president and
general ma.nager of ARNCO, a chemicals
company, m South Gate, Ca. He and wife,
Barbara, live in Santa Ana. William Withers
sends a correction. He is a clinical psychol­OgIst,
not an attorney.
Arthur /. Smith '49 William Schollard, Jr. '53
CLASS OF '58,'59
William W. Morgan, Jr. ('58) is in Jeddah
and is involved with technical contracts
with Saudi Arabia Airlines and for the fu­ture
will be dealing with the airline's pur­chase
of the Airbus. Ginger and Bob Good
write from Saratoga, Ca. where Bob is with
Wasserman and Good, Attorneys. Accord­ing
to Ginger, the Good's ownership of
their first piece of property relates to
AGSIM-the seller spoke only Spanish!
Doug and Marjorie (Tuggle) McEachron
('59) vi~ited .campus in late July. Doug is
managmg dIrector, Goodyear International
Corporation, Bangkok, Thailand. George L.
Reeves ('59) has been transferred from
Caracas, Venezuela to Buenos Aires with
Chase Bank, S.A. Dr. Robert Schmeltz ('59)
recently resigned from I.M.C. and is in Del
Mar, Ca., where he has begun a sales and
marketing activity in Latin America.
CLASS OF '60
Richard B. Fowler, Jr. is president of Dick
Fowler Homes, Inc. in Overland Park, Ks.
No~~ Gresham is regional manager for
DeVIlbISS Health Care Products and is
based in San Jose, Ca. L.e. "Lee" Hageman
has been named director of the Center for
Business Research and Services at New
Mexico State University. Lee had been vice
president for special projects with Pickard
D~ve~opment Corp., Albuquerque, working
WIth mternational and domestic economic
development projects. Burtt F. McKee III is
vice president for marketing, Business Inter­national
Corp., Darien, Ct. Burtt advises
that B.l. employs about eight T-Birds and
adds, "that's not bad for a company with
approximately 300 employees." Burt e. Ris­ser
is managing director of Credit Leasing
International Corp., a division of Credit
Lyonnais, in New York. He and wife,
Marianne, reside in Greenwich, Ct. Burt
spent the last three years in Frankfurt, West
Germany with the company. James E.
Trice, who is first vice president, west coast
regional manager for Bache Halsey Stuart
Shields, Inc., writes from San Diego. "I
have been employed with Bache for 17 and
a half years. I was an account executive in
Houston for a year and a half; then pro­moted
to manager of the Corpus Christi
office in 1965; in 1967 I transferred to the
San Antonio office as branch manager,
where I remained until January 1981, when
I.became west coast regional manager. I
finally got to use my Spanish while working
as manager of our San Antonio office and
wound up going to Mexico on a regular
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Eric E. Ericssoll '55 BlIrt Risser '60
basis. Although I no longer have responsi­bilities
in Mexico, I still have contacts there
with a number of clients and personal
friends that I developed over the years. A
couple of years ago I had the opportunity to
visit campus and it brought back a number
of memories, all of which were enjoyable. I
can say without a doubt that my one year
with Thunderbird was by far the most im­portant
in my life academically."
CLASS OF '61
F. Van Dom Moller, in Napa, Ca., where
he is self-employed in real estate brokerage
and radio stations, tells us, "Have branched
out into radio in the last years. Purchased
an AM/FM in Ok. in August '79, and in the
process of purchasing KSPO in Spokane,
Wa. with a partner. The media business
seems to be a good one at this time and fits
into my ham personality as well. When not
involved in this new venture, I spend my
time in real estate brokerage and property
management here in the Napa Valley." Pat­rick
E. O'SuJlivan is in ParkviJle, Mo.
where he is a part owner of Parkhill Associ­ates,
Ltd., an international marketing/pro­curement
company. He writes that Horace
Bowman is another part owner of the firm.
James H. Paulino, who is vice president of
Valsan International Corp. in New York,
visited campus in early October and re­marked,
" ... first visit since graduation­looks
better than ever." Richard W. Zim­mer
has been named eastern sales manager
of Uniroyal Industrial Products. He is based
in Middlebury, Ct.
CLASS OF '62, '63
Ernest Bruss ('62) is located in Albuquerque
where he is marketing manager for Sandia
Detroit Diesel. He directs all marketing and
manufacturing activities for the company.
Robert H. Stubler ('62) is living in Goleta,
Ca. and is vice president and branch mana­ger
of Santa Barbara Savings and Loan.
John R. Taylor ('62), after 18 years with
AFIA, joined the international staff of Frank
B. Hall, an international insurance broker-age
company, and is in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. Tom Aageson ('63) is in Mystic,
Ct. where he is president of Mystic Seaport
Museum Stores and Seaman's Inne, a 550
seat, three-star restaurant. Stuart J. Perkins
('63), who was recently named vice presi­dent
of FMC Far East Ltd., has moved from
Manila to Hong Kong. Edward C. Saenz
('63) is in Westport, Ct. where he is manag­ing
his own international management con­sulting
business, specializing in Latin America.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
F. Vall Moller '61 Emest Brllss '62
CLASS OF '64, '65
John Breslau ('64) is in Brazil and operates
art galleries in Rio and Sao Paulo. He spe­cializes
in Brazilian primitive ("naif") art
and is presently selecting galleries in the
U.S. to serve as distributors. Gene R.
Hovey ('64) is engagement manager with
American Appraisal Company, Milwaukee,
Wi. Claus Trier Morch is area manager of
Same Tractor in Djorsholm, Sweden.
Ronald O. Stearns ('64) is heading the new­ly
formed full-time international trade activi­ties
of SNC Manufacturing Co., Inc. in
Oshkosh, Wi. He will travel abroad to work
with major international customers and will
train foreign SNC reps in their respective
countries. Ron says, "It's a privilege as well
as a challenge to be instrumental in SNC's
international expansion." Irvin Garrett
"Gary" Conn ('65) has been appointed
director of Agri-Bio Corporation's newly
established international unit. The Gains­viJle,
Ga. based firm specializes in the re­search
and manufacture of poultry vaccines
and related equipment. Robert Cushman
(,65), after a year in Middletown, Oh., five
years in the Philippines and nine years in
Italy, has transferred to Kansas City. He is
general manager, grinding systems division,
ARMCO, Inc., midwestern steel division.
CLASS OF '66, '67
Ralph W. Callahan, Jr. ('66) moved fron
New York to Greenville, Sc. in 1978 to join
Henderson Advertising Agency. J.W. (Bill)
Lee ('66) is a commodity broker with Shear­son
Loeb Rhoades, Inc. in Miami, Fl. Kent
Naka ('66) is in Coshocton, Oh. and work­ing
for Becton-Dickinson as export sales
manager. John Tom Nein ('67) has been
promoted to manager, international de­velopment
department, Tenneco, Inc., and
has been transferred from England to the
home office in Houston. Jose Polnis ('67)
has been named managing director of
Hegalbach Medical Co. in Everberg, Bel­gium.
James B. Rooney ('67) in Bangkok,
Thailand, where he has his own manage­ment
and tax consultant business, is cur­rently
chairman of the Asia-Pacific Council
of American Chambers of Commerce. Jim
also participated in the Second World
Affairs Conference on campus, September
18.
ROllald O. Steams '64 Robert ellS/I ilia II '65
A 20 Year Update
"The ARNOLD CLAN, too, has come a
long way since my graduation from Thun­derbird
over 20 years ago. A little less than
half that time was spent in Nicaragua where
I worked as a math teacher at the American
School, and formed a bulk vending machine
business that spread into two other Central
American nations.
Seeing more and bigger opportunities in
EI Salvador, I moved with the family to that
country and established an English lan­guage
newspaper, a chain of hot-dog
stands, newsstands in the four leading
hotels, two book stores, a candy store, and
a distribution outlet for U.S. newspapers,
magazines and paperbacks.
Mo<;t of my businesses were centered
around tourism and the English speaking
community. With the commencement of
kidnappings, bombings and the burning of
buses throughout the capital towards the
end of 1978, tourism dropped off to zero
and international companies were pulling
out all of their foreign employees. Even the
hot-dog stands that were located at key bus
stops throughout the city eventually closed
as a result of few buses in circulation due to
the burnings.
Throughout 1979 and 1980, I had much
hope that with the change in government
and the reforms that were established
would bring the different factions together.
I can see now that my hope and faith was
blind, for the problems were much more se­rious
and deep rooted.
In September of 1980, I left my oldest son
off at the Florida Institute of Technology,
where he had received a government scho­larship,
and took advantage of the trip to
the Florida area to check out the job market.
Through an ad in the WALL STREET JOUR­NAL,
I landed an excellent job as General
Manager of COLOMBIAN CARNATIONS,
INC., a firm that distributes freshly cut
flowers throughout the U.S. Needless to
say, I practically had to give away all of my
businesses prior to my departure from EI
Salvador. No one is investing or even
speculating in that country at the present
time. It wiJ! be many years before the eco­nomy
of that tiny nation will reach the peak
levels of 1976-78."
John R. Arnold - '61
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lim Roolley '67 Rebecca Vories '68
CLASS OF '68
Peter Grassl is in Toronto where he is vice
president of Chemical Bank of Canada. Les­li~
A. Leibe~ is completing his doctoral stu­dies
In hospital and health services adminis­tration
at U.S.c. Branger Miller is a market­ing
assistant with National Wool Marketing
Corporation, Bo~ton. He travels throughout
the U.S. marketmg and classifying wool.
Robert W. Repsher is group marketing
manager, international, for Sears Roebuck
and Co., International and is located in Chi­ca&
o. Will~am S. Simpson is manager,
office serVices, for Harper Robinson & Co.
in San Francisco. He writes that he moved
to the Bay area in 1980 and joined Harper
that June and was promoted from agent to
his present position in April '81. Val Stu­kuls
r~signed from World Traper Paper
Corp. m Ne~ York and joined Europam
Paper and Fibre Corp. in Cincinnati as
corporate vice president. Rebecca Vories
sends us a 13 year update from Co. "Work­ed
for the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey for three and a half years,
travelled in Asia, Africa and Europe for
over two years, returning to Co. in
1974 .... this year a partner and I formed
our ow~ business, Infinite Energy, a com­mUnications
partnership specializing in all
forms of communication about energy con­servation
and renewable resources, both
nationally and internationally." She was
also elected to the board of directors of the
American section of the International Solar
~nergy So~iety and is serving on the execu­tive
committee this year. Richard Weden
has been appointed vice president and
general manager, American Express Com­pany
Card .Divis.ion in Mexico City. Pre­VIOUS
to thiS assignment he was resident
vice president and general manager in
~uenos Aires where he launched the Argen­tme
Peso card for AE. He is married to
Frances Shuter and they have a son, Alex­ander
Richard, born in 1978 in Singapore.
CLASS OF '69
David H. Gill is a partner in the firm of
TEDCO Equities, a real estate and develop­~
ent company in Chicago. William Jasper
IS an account executive with Johnson and
ruggins in Los Angeles. Rolff A. Johansen
has been ~amed vice president of Belknap
J?ata ?olutions, Ltd., a marketing research
firm, m Greenwich, Ct. Timothy R.H. Jones
Jomed Laminex Inc. in Matthews, NC. in
January '81 and is responsible for sales into
Canada, Mexico, Central and South Amer­ica,
Far East and Southeast Asia. He writes
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Richard Wedell '68 ,01111 Stantoll '69
that he meets with Antonio Pulido in Cura­~
as o.cca~ionally and talked with Juan Barro
m Mlanu. Gerard Modret is branch mana­ger,
Firestone Interamerica Company, in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. John Stanton has
been appointed manager of the Dallas office
of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., an in­ternational
executive recruiting firm. San­ford
(Sandy) Stone is with the Internal
Revenue Service and lives in Alexandria,
Va.
CLASS OF '70
Ervin Beal, Jr. visited the alumni office in
late summer and advised that he is execu­tive
director of the Japan-American Society
of Dallas. He brought along his family:
Janet (10), Vickie (8), twins, James and Ben­jamin
(6) and Beverly (3). W. Don Burrows
is vi~e pres.ident and manager of the Bever­ly
Hills mam branch of Crocker National
Bank. Michael J. Dwyer is located in Har­risburg,
Or. and is western sales manager
for DG Shelter Products. He visited campus
in late July. Jim Schwartz has formed Valley
Metal Recycling Co. in Harlingen, Tx. and
hopes to be in full operation by January '82.
The company will process junk autos and
other ferrous and non-ferrous metals and
then export the up-graded scrap to overseas
steel mills. Phillip Wilken brings us up to
date on his activities over the past few
years. After leaving International Harvester
he has gone into real estate investments '
wi~h heavy emphasis on prime farm prop­erties.
He adds he is regaining his health af­ter
several years of illness. Philip R. Young,
vice preSident and general manager with
Chase Manhattan Bank in Santo Domingo,
has Just completed his first year as president of
the American Chamber of Commerce of the
Domin!can Republic. In October he accepted
an assignment with Chase in Hong Kong,
~ovenng several developing countries, includ­Ing
Thailand, Korea, Taiwan and the Philip­pmes.
CLASS OF'71
Elizabeth Cammack Lygren is employed
full-time as a spouse and mother of two
daughters, ages two and three, and is living
in New York City. Eugene (Gene) Castle
and wife, Heidi, are located in Riyadh
where Gene is ~hief, logistics training and
support evaluation branch of the Office of
Project Manager, Saudi Arabian National
Guard Modernization Program. Ross S.
Nishihara is in Adrian, Or. where he is
owner-operator of his own farm. John H.
Philip R. Young '70 AI/en F. Ostrofe '72
Latham is trade director, international
marketing branch of the Alberta Depart­ment
of Agriculture in Edmonton. Dennis J.
Orio has moved from 'Sao Paulo to New
York where he is with the international di­vision
of Chubb & Son, Inc. Gary Roberts
recently settled in the Tacoma, Wa. area af­ter
.spending nine years in Japan as an inter­national
counsellor. Charles Scriven has
joined Koehring CO.-Lorain Cranes in
Chattanooga, Tn. as manager, international
administration. Gerald R. Seay is senior
vice president and office manager of Marsh
& McLennan, Inc. in Tulsa, Ok. Aloysio
Vasconcellos has been transferred from Rio
de !aneiro to New York for a two year
assignment as manager, international leas­ing
for Citibank, N.A.
CLASS OF'72
Carl M. Conney is in St. Paul, Mn. where
he is special assistant attorney general in
the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.
John W. Daniel and spouse, Carolyn (Pol­son)
('71) are in Singapore where John is re­gional
head for Asia for First National Bank
of Dallas. William M. Hayes, with Exxon
Minerals, was transferred from Santiago to
New York where he is administrative mana­ger,
controller's department. Allen F.
Ostrofe has been transferred from J. Walter
Thompson Frankfurt to Buenos Aires and is
serving on the management committee for
Unilever, Warner-Lambert, Standard
Brands, Elida Gibbs and Moet Chandon. He
writes, "Took some time off in between to
sail across the Atlantic to the new position,
abroad a beautiful wooden 13 meter ketch."
Susy Sagy Kulesar is brand manager with
L'Oreal, a cosmetic manufacturer, in Cara­cas.
Michael Smith, with AiResearch, has
been transferred from Zurich to Phoenix.
John Wickersham is president of Puerta,
S.A., a business consultant and manage­ment
firm, in Panama.
CLASS OF '73
Douglas Dunsmore is in Boxford, Ma.
where he is president of Safety Seal Interna­tional,
Inc., an exporter of tubeless tire re­pair
material and other automotive accessor­ies.
John C. Howell is with Rainier Bank
Corp. in S:attle, Wa. where he is manager,
Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Ernest Kangas has been promoted to
national sales director of FCIA. John T.
Lampe has. acc~pted a post as sales manager
for Industria Fuestone de Costa Rica, S.A.,
a Firestone subsidiary in San Jose. He has
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Ernest Kangas 73 Patrick Kawasjee 74
been with Firestone since '73 and served in
various sales post in Singapore and Den­mark.
In 1975 he was assistant export mana­ger
with headquarters in Akron and for the
past year served as export coordinator with
the company's affiliate in Spain. John D.
Luque is with Continental Bank in Seoul, as
operations manager. John J. Nobil is in
Boise, Id. where he is executive assistant to
the president of Chandler Corp. Michael J.
O'Shea was transferred from Quito,
Ecuador to Mexico City in November 'SO.
He is now manager of Mexico, MALK Inter­national.
Lee Rigney writes from New York:
"In May '81 I transferred back to New York
after eight and a half years with Citibank in
Asia (the last five of which were in Japan).
I'm now in Citibank's airline and aerospace
department handling Asian Airlines as well
as such domestic accounts as Pan Am and
McDonald Douglas. My wife, two and a
half-year-old son and I am very happy to be
back in the U.S. for a while, where living
really is more comfortable than most other
places in the world." Ibrahim Sirtioglu vis­ited
campus in August from Saudi Arabia.
He is assistant marketing manager for
Ramel Trading in Jeddah. Reed C. Walter is
assistant distribution manager for Carl Zeiss
Optical Co. in New York, and lives in Rich­mond,
Va. Thomas C. Wong, Jr. is mana­ger,
international department, Dominion
Bank Shares Corp., in Roanoke, Va. Stepha­nie
Zirko Edwards is living in Powell, Wy.
where she is a Spanish instructor and
teaches French cooking at Northwest Com­munity
College. She worked several years
as an exporter for Tektronix, Inc., Beaver­ton,
Or. She and her husband, Bill, who is
an energy consultant for Pacific Power and
Light, Inc., have a three-year-old son,
Steve.
CLASS OF '74
Raymond Burris is in Hong Kong where he
is general manager of H.E.I. Construction
Equipment Co. He is also participating in
amateur theater and is an avid runner. Hal
Coggins, who is with Fireman's Fund Insur­ance
as a computer systems auditor, visited
campus in late September. He lives in San
Francisco. Rogert K. Cunningham has been
named president of Capella Corp. in Hous­ton.
Bob Emmerich has been promoted to a
vice president in National City Bank's
national division and is based in Cleveland,
Oh. Bernard Faucher recently transferred
from France to New York. He is with the
credit department of Manufacturers Hanov­er
Trust Co. Kenneth and Lori Mills Foster
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Tony Rios 74 Cheri Woford 76
are in Mexico City where Kenneth is assis­tant
vice president with Crocker National
Bank and Lori is a management supervisor
with Doyle Dane & Bernbach. They write
that they" ... have been successful in
building international careers. We are en­joying
our life in Mexico and are looking
forward to assignments in other countries."
Thomas H. Harris is in sales with Coldwell
Banker Commercial Real Estate Services in
Scottsdale, Az. Donald W. Kamela is in
Phoenix where he has his own company,
K. C. Gutenberg & Kronick, a graphic arts
and printing firm. Patrick Kawasjee joined
Salomon Brothers in March 'SO as interna­tional
operations manager. He was assigned
to the Tokyo office in February 'SI in prepa­ration
for branch operation. Leonard J. Kist·
ner has just completed his first year as
general manager of Clark Equipment Co.'s
Spanish operations in Zaragoza, Spain. Fer­nando
Augusto Moreira Ribeiro visited
campus in late September. He is commercial
manager, USINA Santa Lydia, S.A. in Rio
de Janeiro. Svein B. Oestlien writes from
New York where he is director of marketing
for Seagram Overseas Sales Company: "Af­ter
five years in Rome, returned to New
York in April 'SO." Peggy Peckham has re­turned
from West Germany to the U.S. as a
second vice president of the Chase Manhat­tan
Bank in the foreign direct investment di­vision.
In August she moved to the mining
and metal division. Thomas Pinion received
his MBA from Kearney State College, Kear­ney,
Nb. in December '79. He is working
for the University of Nebraska extension
service as an extension farm business con­sultant
for the West Central Nebraska Farm
Business Association. Tom writes; "I find
my present work as a consultant to be very
rewarding and quite often find that my
education at Thunderbird proves valuable
when the international aspects (very impor­tant
today) of agriculture are considered."
Jose (Tony) Rios has been appointed export
marketing/sales manager for Champion in­ternational
Corp.'s building products divi­sion.
Based in Stamford, Ct. Tony is re­sponsible
for all Champion building pro­ducts
marketing and sales activities in South
America, Central America, Mexico, the
Caribbean and Spain. Bernie Wegert has
been transferred to Miami with Polaroid
Corp. He is marketing representative for
Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. He and his
family have spent the last five years moving
from New York to Mexico to Colombia to
Massachusetts and Florida.
CLASS OF '75
Chryssoula Adams Paas is in Chicago
where she and her husband are exporters of
video cassettes, phonograph records, tapes
and accessories. Mark Andersen IS regional
marketing manager, Latin America, for Her­shey
International, Ltd. and lives in Pal­myra,
Pa. Brian W. Black is with Koehring
in Milwaukee where he is Latin American
marketing manager for excavators, shovels
and draglines. He spent the last two years
with Fiat-Allis Construction Machinery in
Mexico City. John Davidson is manager,
west coast energy office, Barclays Bank In­ternational.
Norman and Lois Segal Fite are
living in Parker, Co. Lois is a lending ad­ministrator
with Bank of the West, and Nor­man
is a corporate lending representative
with the Royal Bank of Canada in Denver.
They add, "After four moves including
New York, Toronto, Montreal and London,
its good to be back in the western U.S.A."
R. Kent Fricks is a contract representative
for Automatic Sprinkler Corp. of America in
Elk Grove Village, II. Heinz Frohnmayer
and his wife, Rebecca Newburn Frohn­mayer,
are living in New York where Heinz
is vice president of Kuehne and Nagel.
Robert Hine is vice president in charge of
Latin America and the Caribbean for Com­modities
of America, Inc. in Miami, Fl.
Kevin M. Keane, with Bunker Ramo Corp.,
Southbury, Ct., has been promoted from
manager, distributor marketing, information
systems, to international sales manager.
Donald B. Lloyd is in San Francisco where
he is vice president of Press Craft, a com­mercial
printing company. Celeste McLane
recently moved to Denver where she is
working as a correspondent banker for Col­orado
National Bank. After a year as export
manager, American Elin Corp., New York,
Richard Saint Amant has been appointed
corporate secretary and controller, export
division. Richard says, "Four and one-half
years in international banking has been very
useful." Deborah Tenner is advertising
manager for Lancer Stores, Inc. in Min­neapolis.
Husband Bob is marketing mana­ger,
new products for Land 0' Lakes Food
Co. Ronald A. Thomson is product mana­ger
with Vacumed, Inc. in Carpinteria, Ca.
He would enjoy meeting other T-Birds in
Santa Barbara area. Elizabeth Toomey is in
Phoenix and is an area sales representative
for Cheshire, a Xerox company.
CLASS OF '76
AI and Judy Murray AUrich are in Wil­mette,
R.I. Judy is not working outside their
home, but is busy with their year-old
daughter. John Austin was recently
appOinted an associate member of the Cali­fornia
Republican Party organization. How­ard
Bohlander is a senior merchant with
Cargill, Inc. in Edina, Mn. Michael F. Cha­hine
visited campus in September. He is
currently manager of Citibank in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia. Marcia Shelton Crumly and
Bruce Crumly are living in Pennsylvania.
Marcia is a corporate banking officer with
Southeast National Bank in Malvern, and
Bruce is product sales manager for FMC.
Keith H. Dickinson is senior copywriter
and broadcast producer with Desmond and
Associates Advertising in Oak Park, Mi.
Bob English is manager of credit adminis­tration
for the London branch of Chicago'S
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Bob Lees 77 Marcia Mergler 77
First National Bank. The move was great for
spouse Shirley also, as she is attending the
London School of Economics and Political
Science. She was chosen as one of a dozen
students to attend the school's one year
program in international history. Joh~ D.
Gordley is legislative assistant for agrlCul.­ture
in the office of Senator Robert Dole 10
Washington. Douglas Holaday has moved
from Paris to San Francisco where he is a
casualty facultative underwriter for General
Reinsurance Corp. Alexander Kubassek IS
director of marketing for Redken Laborator­ies
in Canoga Park, Ca. Mike Louden has
been appointed manager of licensed pro­ducts
for Sunkist Growers, Inc. He will
manage over 30 licen~ed produc.ts pro~ams
in Asia, Southeast ASia, the PaCific Bas1O,
Europe, the middle East, Canada a~d the
U.s. Mike previously served as region man­ager
of export sales for the Far East, Pacific
and Latin America sales territory. Richard
Maynes is vice president, finance, for Wiebe
Manufacturing, Inc. in Hollister, Ca. Mitsuo
Ohara was promoted to assistant vice presi­dent
in Union Bank's multinational group at
the headquarters banking office in Los
Angeles. Adrian V. Popescu has moved
from Atlanta to New York with Texaco De­velopment
Corp. as a process license en- .
gineer. Amanda Roberts ~as chang.ed ,POSI­tions
with Firestone, movmg from ItS 1Oter­national
company to domestic sales and
marketing division as a market analyst.
Amanda syas she's "loving every minute of
it." Jim Roos, international sales manager
for T.A. Pelsue Company, Englewood, Co.,
was recently honored during International
Trade Week in Colorado by receiving the
Governor's Award for Excellence in Export­ing
for 1981. The award is given to one Col­orado
company "in recognition of creative
international marketing initiatives which
have resulted in significant export sales
... " Jim adds that the award was based on
Pelsue's successful effort to penetrate a new
market (Saudi Arabia) and expansion in an
established market (Canada). He ran into
Darrell ':::arver and family in Riyadh and
Satijiv Chahil in Toronto. Jeffrey Schneider
is in Burbach, West Germany where he IS a
contract engineer with Waldrich Siegen
Werkzeugmaschinen. Robert Shanks, Jr.
has been transferred by Ford Motor Co. to
world headquarters in Dearborn. He is a
financial analyst with the Latin American
automotive operations group and is re­sponsible
for Ford South Africa. Recently
transferred to Amsterdam, Cheri Woford
has been assigned to the European treasury
d~partment of Clark Equipment Co. She
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Mary H. Dudley 79 David Likins 79
will be involved in the tunding, cash man­agement,
foreign exchange exposure and
financial planning of the company's Euro­pean
subsidiaries.
CLASS OF '77
Perry Ball writes from Paraquay where he is
second secretary for economic affairs at the
American embassy: ". . . will be in Para­guay
until February '82 at which time I'll be
transferred to another post." Annette M.
Armstrong Bertan-Zetti is with Fischbach &
Moore International Corp. in Dallas. Marty
M. Brady is a recruiter for C. Berke &
Associates in Lawrenceville, N.J. Sara
Chadwick has joined Trans-Western Ex­ploration,
Inc. in Dallas where she is staff
landman, responsible for the land acquisi­tion
program. She wa~ preyiously with .
Aminoil, U.S.A., Inc. 10 Midland, Tx. Lmda
Cypres, in partnership with Patricia Ross,
has established the firm of Cypres, Ross
and Associates, an investment planning and
portfolio management company, in San
Francisco. Ed Dombrowski is a consultant
with Ramada Energy Systems in Phoenix.
Eric B. Fast is an internal auditor with Utah
State Employees Credit Union in Salt Lake
City. Ann T. Gallant has been prOl;not.ed to
director of marketing and commUnIcations
for the Sunpapers, Baltimore, Md. P~ter A.
Holmshaw is sales manager for CubiC West­ern
Data in Coronado, Ca. Bob G. Lees was
recently promoted to marketing manager,
Latin America, Asia Pacific, sunglass lens
division of Corning Glass International, and
is living in Tokyo. Jill Little li~es in Dal~as
where she is a corporate benefits ~dmml~­trator
with Texas Instruments. Juhe Ludmg­ton
is with Security Pacific Bank ~ Los .
Angeles as an international opera.tions offi­cer.
The president of Central National Bank
of Cleveland recently announced the elec­tion
of Marcia Mergler as an international
banking officer. Michael J. Minarich is in
Chicago where he is business manager,
world-wide market planning for G. D. Searle
& Co. Pharmaceutical Group. Yoshi
Noguchi accepted a position as marketing
programs manager for Americas/A~ia ope:a­tions
at Storage Technology Corp. 1O.Lo~ls­ville,
Co. He is responsible for coord1Oat~ng
marketing programs for Canada, Austr~ha,
Japan, Latin America and Southeast ASian
countries. He has moved to Boulder, Co.
from Chicago where he was with IBM. Th~­mas
L. Sumner is a consultant for ElectrOnIC
Data Systems World Corp. in London and
is presently working with the company
under contract to BankAmerica to install a
new on-line current accounts/general ledger
system. Sue Gile Whitmer is in the interna­tionallending
area of the Northern Trust
Co. in Chicago. Henrilcus Winnubst, vice
president of Dusor, U.S.A., Inc., in Stam­ford,
Ct., visited campus in July.
CLASS OF '78
Alexis Aning is living in Arlington, Ma.
and is secretary/treasurer of Aquatra Inter­national,
Inc. in New York. Joseph E.
Barnes is finance director for the Town of
Snowmass Village, Co. Steve Bleuth is a
senior auditor with G.D. Searle Phar­maceuticals
and Eyeware in Evanston, n.
Rita Buczynska has resigned from Amer-ican
International Underwriters and joined
INA International in Chicago as a senior
casualty underwriter. Jaime Bustos joined
Student Exchange International (SEI) in
March and is based in Santiago as national
director. "Owning your own business is a
big challenge," writes Brent Burris from St.
Augustine, FI. where he is owner manager
of a restaurant, Crescent House. Michel EI­Daher
has been transferred from Paris to
Madrid with one of Libinvest's companies,
Cementos Especiales. He shares time be­tween
the head office in Madrid and the
plant in Las Palmas. Kenneth Erickson is a
financial analyst with the African Develop­ment
Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Stephen C. Fitzer is manager, business
analysis and planning, for N.L. Baroid, a
petroleum services company in Houston.
Tom Goudie is sales engineer with Ted R.
Brown and Associates in Salt Lake City.
Steve Horton has been transferred from
Baltimore to Washington as district sales
manager for American President Lines. Bar­bara
Lanning is based in Miami where she
is a sales representative for Graybar Electric
Co., export branch. Her job entails travel in
Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and
Puerto Rico. Howard Lasser is manager,
systems and procedures in the Prince
Matchabelli division of Chesebrough-Ponds,
Inc. and is living in Brookfield, Ct. He
would love to hear from T -Birds travelling
in the New York metropolitan area. Stanley
B. Lerch is New England sales representa­tive
for Teledyne Rodney Metals in New
Bedford, Ma. Mitchell K. McMurry is
corporate accounts mana1?er for the. Bank of
Montreal in Caracas. He IS responSible for
all private sector relationships of the bank
in Venezuela. Michael Metzger is western
representative for Weidner Communica­tions,
Inc. in Los Angeles. Barbara Thomas
Modlin was recently transferred from Bos­ton
to Chicago where she is an international
officer with the Bank of Boston. Andrew C.
Ng, with Beckman Instruments in Fullerton,
Ca., is relocating to Hong Kong where he
will be responsible for bioresearch sales ter­ritories
of Hong Kong, the PRe, Korea a~d
Taiwan. John Peevey has been named chief
of mission for the International Human
Assistance Program, Inc. in the Republic of
Bjibouti. Doug Pressmanf with Bank of Cali­fornia,
is on assignment 10 Bangkok ~here
he is deputy manager. Steven M. Rembolt
is living in Brea, Ca. and IS a consultant
with I.S.U. Companies, Inc., an insurance
franchise, in Irvine. Sterling G. Shimoji is a
senior corporate financial analyst for Gulf­stream
Land & Development Corp. in
Plantation, FI. Dean Storm has moved to
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
Tunisia for the second half of the State De­partment's
Arabic language program. Mike
Taverner recently returned to the U.S. from
an eight month project in Brazil. He also
has been named regional manager, Latin
America, for Stanley Automatic Openers in
Detroit. Jeri Towner, with 1st Interstate
Bank of California, is responsible for de­veloping
and researching new product ideas
for the cash management and financial dis­tributions
areas of the bank. She works in
Los Angeles and lives in Playa de Rey. Pat­ricia
A. Walck is a financial services officer
with Sun Country Financial Corp. in
Phoenix. Albert J. Waszok is in Lagos,
Nigeria, where he is with American Interna­tional
Insurance Co. Mark I. Werts is lo­cated
in Amsterdam, Holland. T.e. Yau is
assistant manager for Citibank in Taipei.
CLASS OF '79
Rick Attix works as finance manager for So­lar
Turbines, Inc., a group of Caterpillar
Tractor Co. Based in Paris, he travels
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
to assist in contract negotiations and receiv­able
management. Sarwar Ahmed writes
from St. Louis, Mo. where he is an opera­tions
analyst with Citicorp Acceptance: "En­joying
work and life and like to say 'hello'
to my '79 classmates through The Thunder­bird."
Andrew J. Bell is an international op­erations
officer for Security Pacific Bank in
Los Angeles. Barbara Bell graduated from
the credit program of Manufacturers Hanov­er
Trust and now handles multinational
accounts in the Ohio-Michigan area. John
e. Bergsma was transferred in April to
Tokyo where he is banking associate with
Continental Illinois National Bank. Robert
H. Berle writes from Milan, Italy where he
ran into Gianni Torti, who is working for
Johnson and Higgins. Thomas J. Brennan
was promoted to East European director of
market development activities for the Amer­ican
Soybean Association. As such he works
in all the Eastern Bloc countries and the
Soviet Union, and is based in Vienna . After
two years in marketing with American Ex­press
card division, Caroline Brodnitz has
joined Datatrol, Inc. in Hudson, Ma. She is
sales manager, national accounts, and is
opening a New York City office for the
company. John C. and Terri Murphy Bur­dett
are in Copenhagen where John is assis­tant
treasurer for Chase Manhattan Bank.
Kelly Burkholder writes that he is with
Hohenberg Bros. Co., the cotton subsidiary
of Cargill, Inc., as an assistant merchant.
Based in Memphis, he writes, "I was hired
by Cargill shortly after graduation and was
assigned to their cotton subsidiary. My job
initially involved learning the merchandis­ing
of Latin American grown cotton in
Europe and the Far East. However, with
Cargill's recent acquisition of a European
cotton merchandising firm, my responsibili­ties
deal more with the merchandising of
North American and Latin American cot­tons
in Europe." Debbye Burks has been
promoted to sales correspondent in the
offshore pedestal crane division of National
Supply Co. James C.M. Chen is with Citi­bank
in Taipei. Jay Donovan, Thunderbird
Club of New England president, visited
campus in October while he was in the
Phoenix area studying foreign trade zone
proposals. Mary Hewitt Dudley has been
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
promoted to marketing manager for Flex­ibox,
Inc. in Houston. Jim Easter is a finan­cial
analyst for the North American energy
department of Barclays Bank International
in Houston. Gabriel EI-Daher is currently
enrolled in Banque Nationale de Paris in
Beirut after working a year in Johannes­burg,
South Africa. His transfer to Paris was
delayed until December due to the war in
Lebanon. Completing Citibank training in
February, Catherine Ferris is an assistant
manager in the government financial in­stitutions
segment at the Santo Domingo
branch of the bank. She reports that George
Wittendorf ('74) is also working for Citibank
in Santo DOmingo. Bruce Gallus, in Chica­go,
is employed by Walter E. Heller Interna­tional
as an international corporate accoun­tant.
Douglas R. Gerber is with Eastman
Kodak as assistant to the marketing mana­ger
in Singapore. He writes that he is mar­ried,
having met his bride in Taiwan.
Martha Elizabeth Goodyear is in Savannah,
Ga. where she is an advertising consultant
for JSA of Savannah. Bette-Jeanne Ham­mond
is project manager for the U.s. State
Department in Washington, D.e. Kerry
Hofferth is living in Reston, Va. and is a
foreign affairs officer with the U.S. Depart­ment
of State. David Jackson has been
promoted into the Asia-Pacific group of
First National City Bank in Houston. V. Eric
Jensen writes from San Francisco where he
is manager, customer service, for United
States Lines, "am really enjoying the job
and advancement opportunities look good."
Vincent P. Karl has been promoted to ex­port
manager of Peter A. Karl, International
Sales Corp., Utica, NY. David Likins has
been elected banking officer of Mercantile
National Bank in Dallas. He joined the bank
in February '80 and in February '81 was
moved to the international department as a
loan representative. Lisa M. Maioriello is in
Chicago and is working at International
Harvester in international operations/truck
group as a financial analyst. Enrique Mata
is a management information consulting di­vision
senior with Arthur Andersen and Co.
in Caracas. Mark McCracken is in Buenos
Aires with Continental illinois National
Bank. William R. Mole and Susan Lucille
Hamrick Mole are living in Duarte, Ca.
where Susan is a management trainee for
Union Oil of California. She had been su­pervisor
of training projects for a year.
JoAnne Myers is project director, Walker
Research in Cedar Knolls, NJ. Chung-Man
Ng has been in the Portland, Or. area since
August and is enjoying his international
marketing representative position with Hys­ter
Co. Sidney Okoye is in St. Louis, Mo.
and is president of New Feld Dynamics,
Inc., commodity traders in West African
countries. Christy A. Peake is president of
FARED Robot Systems, Inc. in Arvada, Co.
and Steve Waymel is vice president of fi­nance.
Christy writes that the company dis­tributes
various lines of industrial robots.
James Pillon is in Beaverton, Or. with Tek­tronics,
Inc. As a cash operations analyst,
he manages the day-to-day cash position of
the company with U.s. banks. J. Mark
Polhemus is with First National Bank in
Dallas as a foreign exchange dealer. John A.
Pressler is currently trans-Pacific marketing
coordinator for Hapag-L1oyd A.G., a large
West German shipping/transportation con­cern.
He resides in San Francisco. Jeffrey
Tringham has moved to Fort Lauderdale
where he is area manager of product sup­port
for John Deere Intercontinental Ltd. In­dustrial
with responsibility for the Carib­bean
region. Carlos J. Valderrama, with
Xerox, has been promoted to accounting
manager for the school districts and univer­sities
in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los
Angeles County. Alan Walicke is with
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Prescott, Az. as business manager. Adri­enne
Wayne writes from Israel where she
has been transferred to Ovada from Tel
Aviv by Management Support Associates.
Ovda is an airbase construction site in the
Negev Desert. Mark Young has left Young
and Rubicam and is now employed by the
SSC & B advertising agency in New York.
He is on the Johnson's baby shampoo
account.
CLASS OF '80
Anthony R. Alle has been promoted to pro­fessor
of business administration at Illinois
Central College, Peoria, II. Christopher
Becker is with Chase Manhattan Bank in
New York where he is an international cre­dit
analyst. Edward Benizzi is area mana­ger,
product support, with John Deere In­tercontinental
Ltd. in San Antonio, Tx. His
territory is southern Mexico. Johan
Breukink completed his training with Con­tinental
Bank in Chicago and will be relo­cated
in the Netherlands. John Thomas
Cameron is assistant to the general manager
of Kodak (Far East) Taipei branch in
Taiwan. George B. Carver is in Southing­ton,
Ct. where he is an independent com­puter
dealer. He writes: "The micro­computer
industry is booming and I hope to
take some it international in a year or so."
Michael Dillon is in Riyadh as area mana­ger
with Valmont Industries, international
divi.sion . He adds, "great company and one
which consistantly hires AGSIM grads."
Dome Taylor Ellsworth is an agricultural
representative with FMA Agrifinancial Ser­vices,
a subsidiary of FMA Financial Corp.
in Nampa, Id. Petter M. Etholm is product
manager for General Tire Plastics Interna­tional
in Peabody, Ma. Lindsey J. Fessler
writes from Miami where he is with Bank
America International as an international fi­nance
officer, " ... wanted to drop a note
to say we had not forgotten the help that all
of you gave me while I was at Thunder­bird."
David R. Frediani is with Johnson
and Higgins in San Francisco. Peggy Gitt is
in New Orleans with Mobile Oil Exploration
and Producing Southeast, Inc. as an accoun­tant,
and expects an overseas assignment in
the next year to 18 months. Peter B. Glance
is assistant manager for Montgomery Ward
in Hong Kong. He writes that he is really
enjoying his job, which includes travel into
the PRe. Steven Granger is administrative
manager, Far East division for Parker Drill­ing
Co. and is based in Singapore. Dan
Manning is in Chicago working for Arthur
Andersen & Co. Stephen J. Haugh visited
campus in early September from New York
where he is an international trainee with
Johnson and Higgins. J. David Holt, Jr. has
joined Bank America in Los Angeles and is
a credit examination officer in their MBA
training program. He advises there are four
other recent T-Birds at the bank. Yo shiro
"Bones" Kano is working as a systems
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Gertrude Kopiyo '80
analyst for Kyocera International, Inc. in
San Diego, Ca. William and Michelle Keip­er
have founded a consulting service to
business and financial institutions, Profit
Development Consultant, Inc., in Tempe,
Az. Shabbir A. Khan is project manager
with Spectra Medical Systems, Inc. in San
Jose, Ca. Mathew Kirby has joined Amer­ican
Field Service as assistant to the treasur­er.
He is living in Ct. and commutes to
New York. Manfred Kohrs is an interna­tional
management trainee in the interna­tional
operations department in NCH Cor­poration
and is based in Dallas. He antici­pates
a European assignment in about a
year. Ginny Krivis writes from Houston
where she has accepted a job with mM as a
marketing rep. Charlie LaFond is working
as a management trainee with Berlitz Lan­guage
School in Vienna. R. Niels and
Judith Scoles Marquardt are in Bangkok,
Thailand where Niels is vice consul at the
U.s. embassy and Judith is marketing repre­sentative
for International Medical Enter­prises,
Inc. for Southeast Asia. Mike
McCallum, whose wife, Celia, will graduate
from AGSIM in May, is export sales mana­ger
for Brown-Delta Tire in Phoenix. Robert
Menestrina is a buyer for Intel Corp. in
Phoenix and lives in Glendale. Stephen D.
Moser joined M.W. Kellogg Co. in Houston
as a cash management accountant in their
treasury department. He advises that Kel­logg
is owned by Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.
and is involved in energy construction, de­sign,
engineering and financing world-wide.
Gertrude S. MuioH Kopiyo is in Nairobi,
Kenya where she is a marketing executive
with Diversey EA, Ltd. Brian Murphy left
for Santiago in October and will be working
for AFlA Worldwide Insurance Company.
Yutaka Osawa is senior manager for Chuo
Senko Advertising Ltd. in Tokyo and will
be in New York from December to June for
a training program. Timothy P. Robinson is
in St. Louis, Mo. and is an international in­ternal
auditor with the Monsanto Company.
Mark and Sharon Roche are in Dallas
where Mark is with Mercantile Bank in
training as a financial analyst. Martin E.
Self is working as a commodities broker for
Arista Commodities in Newport Beach, Ca.
Dorothy A. Senger has accepted a position
as market research analyst with the West
Bend Company, a division of Dart Kraft, in
West Bend, Wi. Bradley J. Thomson, assis­tant
credit services officer with Chase Man­hattan
Bank, has been transferred to the
bank's regional office in Bogota. Yoshiaki
Tokunaga has authored a book on manage-
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ment and has donated a copy to AGSIM lib­rary.
James F. Traner is a lending officer
with Chase Manhattan Bank in Jakarta, In­donesia.
Thomas (Tom) Wells is a credit
analyst with First City National Bank of
Houston.
CLASS OF '81
Adelaida Addum is president of SATCO
Traders, Inc. in New York. Erik G.
Braathen is a credit analyst with Manufac­turers
Hanover Trust Co. in New York.
Dana Christman is a sales representative
with Commerce Clearing House in Phoenix.
John G. Christmann is in Miami where he
is territorial assistant for Marine Midland In­ternational
Bank. Lani Clark is in Los
Angeles working for Paine Webber as a
stockbroker trainee. Olga Eldek, a financial
planning associate with Eli Lilly Internation­al,
is in Rome and will be an AGSIM RP
there. Robert Farquharson is with Con­tinental
Illinois National Trust in London.
Timothy J. Hanahan has accepted a posi­tion
with Citibank International-Houston
in the corporate counselling department of
treasury. Cindy Lynn Jacobs is a financial
analyst with Storage Technology Corp. in
Boulder, Co. Sonya L. Varea is assistant con­troller
at Boggiatto Packing Co., Inc. in Sali­nas,
Ca. Margaret Gumerlock has joined
United State Lines as a management trainee
in the San Francisco area. She writes that
Eric Jensen ('79) and Mark Ungland ('80) are
also with U.S. Lines. Gilbert R. Khoury is a
banking analyst with ARAMCO services in
Houston. He will be travelling to Saudi Ara­bia
on occasion. Thomas Muelling is work­ing
in Los Angeles for Huddleston Equip­ment
Co. as an inside sales representative
and marketing coordinator. He says he "is
still looking for the "Thunderbird My­stique."
Joe O'Dowd is area manager Asia!
Pacific for Salsbury Laboratories, Inc. in
Charles City, Ia. V. Scott Porter is in the
training program at Continental Illinois
Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago. Holly
Siebert is in Tokyo working part-time at
Nomura Tourist Bureau as special projects
assistant and also part-time for Sanjyo
Noritsu DaigaKu, a business school, rewrit­ing
management course textbooks. Richard
Stone is with the Latin American division of
Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago.
Jasmine Syracuse is with Bank of America
in Los Angeles where she is an internation­al
finance officer. Kathryn M. Strate is
senior financial analyst in the international
treasury for the 3M Company in St. Paul,
Mn. Scott Walker has joined First City
National Bank in Houston and is working in
credit with hopes of moving to the interna­tional
department. Peter Warren is an inter­national
marketing coordinator for Interna­tional
Multi-Foods in Minneapolis. David
Zrostlik phoned from New Richmond, Wi.
where he is assistant product manager for
DoBoy Packaging Machinery.
KEY MANAGERS PROGRAM
Paul L. Hertenstein (,60K) is regional man­aging
partner, Southeast Asia for Arthur
Young & Co. in Singapore. Wilson D.
Gouvea (,80K) is in Rio de Janeiro with
Coutler Electronics, Ltda. as general mana­ger.
Robert Steiner ('80K) is managing
director, Germany for Steiner Corp., Salt
Lake City, and is located in Cologne, West
Germany. Mark A. Strayer (,80K) is now
zone manager, Middle East and Eastern
Europe for Kohler Co., Kohler, Wi. Jerry
Caulder ('81K) is director, Latin America,
North for Monsanto. A.L. Zarbock ('81K) is
director of manufacturing, Latin America,
for American Can Co. and is based in
Miami.
MARRIAGES
Joan Blackman ('77) and Peik A. Christen­sen
('77) were married in Los Angeles on
June 27. Kelly Burkholder ('79) and Anne
de Lataulade of Pissos, France, were mar­ried
June 6 in a small ceremony at the
bride's residence. They are living in Mem­phis,
Tn. Sara Chadwick ('77) and Bill
Sampson were married October 18 in Dal­las.
They reside in Richardson, Tx. William
T. Haggerty ('79) and Mary Margaret
Moloney were married last September in
Palos Verdes Estates, Ca. They are both em­ployed
as market administrators by Pacific
Telephone in San Francisco. William Keiper
('80) and his new bride, Michelle, spent a
month-long honeymoon in Europe after
their June 6 wedding and are living in
Wichita, Ks. Jane Elizabeth SchHntz ('79)
and Lawrence William Marino ('80) became
man and wife on June 27 in Janesville, Wi.
at Trinity Episcopal Church. They are living
in New York. Gertrude S. Muloli ('80) mar­ried
R.G. Otieno Kopiyo on May 30. R.G. is
Kenyan and graduated from UCLA, and the
couple is living in Nairobi. Bettina Whitaker
('77) was married to Otis Chandler in Han­cock
Park, Ca. on August 15.
BIRTHS
First child, a girl, Menal, on October 12 to
Ashok Jham ('78) and wife, Shalu. A boy,
Andrei Michael, to Michael and Helen Cha­hine
('76) on April 8, 1981. Donald A.
DiNuccio ('75) and wife Joan Marie, a girl,
Erica Jean, October 16, 1980. A girl, Shara
Liu, born December 1980 to the Lindsey J.
Fesslers ('80). Joyce and Bob Emmerich
(,74), a son, Robert Nathan, their third child
on May 4, 1981. A boy, Derek Wendel,
second son of Todd G. Stadmiller ('78) and
Michele Wolpe Stadmiller ('78) on July 20,
1981. The Tom Goudies ('78) have a son,
Gavin Scott, born June 15 in Salt Lake City.
Yoshi Noguchi ('77) and wife, Terese Hart­ley,
are the parents of a second daughter,
Emi Eliza, born March 29, 1981.
DEATHS
Word has been received that Milovan
Antich ('57) died on April 22, 1976 in Paris.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and
two sons, Anthony and Mark, all living in
New York. Marita Darrow Danielson ('56)
passed away in 1975 from complications fol­lowing
brain surgery. She is survived by
two sons, Wallace and Kenneth. Kum Kru­ger
('69) died suddenly on July 19, 1981 in
Redwood City, Ca. Curtis and Kiku Piper
('74) report that their daughter, Kristen,
passed away of sudden infant death syn­drome
(SIDS) in January 1981. Placida Garcia
Smith, 84, a Spanish instructor here in 1946
died on July 15 in Phoenix.
THE THUNDERBIRD WINTER 1981
CONFESSIONS OF AT-BIRD:
IJy Tim Parish and Dan Wolf
Editor's Note: For some years the
School's clipping service received news
clips regarding one Lazo Toth, a fic­tional
character who wrote letters to
national and international celebrities.
Those clips subsided and were replaced
by items about one Father Guido Sar­ducci,
self-proclaimed gossip columnist
for "L'Osservatore Romano," the Vati­can
newspaper in Rome, who became
famous on the NBC "Saturday Night
Live" television show. Always noted in
the clips was the name, Don Novello­the
originator of Lazo and Sarducci­along
with the fact that he graduated
from AGSIM.
Novello was in the Phoenix area re­cently
as the headliner for the grand
opening of a new comedy nightclub in
Tempe. Two AGSIM students, Dan
Wolf and Tim Parish visited the club
and conducted a backstage interview
with Novello for DAS TOR. They have
agreed to allow us to reprint their arti­cle
here.
Nineteen sixty-five was a good
year for AGSIM, then known as the
American Institute of Foreign
Trade. Intramural volleyball, and
extramural basketball were in full
swing. Dr. Carl Sauer was presi­dent
of the School, Bill Marr won
the "jock of the year award" and
Don Novello received his B.F.T.
(Bachelor of Foreign Trade) degree.
Guido Tells All
All this and more can be
gathered from the "Thunderbird
1965," AIFT's yearbook.
One thing the "Thunderbird"
didn't say, however, was that Don
Novello was destined to become
much more famous than most 1965
B.F.T. recipients. Indeed, Novello
himself had no inkling that his por­trayal
of Fr. Guido Sarducci on
"Saturday Night Live" would be­come
world famous.
We attended his show in October
in Tempe and were fortunate
enough to get a private interview
with him. Pleasantly surprised
when he learned that we were "T­Birds,'!
Novello was happy to talk
about the School, his career, and
the future.
Actually, it is hard to say who in­terviewed
whom, since he asked us
more questions than we asked him.
He said that he liked his stay at
AGSIM (then AIFT) and that be­cause
he came here immediately af­ter
undergrad at the University of
Dayton he was much younger than
most of his classmates.
Graduated in 1965 with a BFT
and French language background,
Novello took a job as a tour-guide
in Europe then moved on to the
world of advertising, where he
spent about five years. After that
came his big break on "Saturday
Night Live" in the mid-1970's.
At this point our conversation
was momentarily interrupted by a
high-school-age couple who came
over to Novello and said, "Father,
will you marry us?" to which
"Father Sarducci" gestured the
sign-of-the-cross and said, "Consid­er
yourselves married."
Slipping back out of character, a
serious and genuinely interested
Novello fired questions at us about
AGSIM. He asked about the job
market and inquired what the
typical 1980 graduate was being
offered.
"Oh, around twenty, twenty-five
thou," we answered. Surprised,
Novello said he'd keep that in­formation
handy in case he ever be­comes
unemployed.
"Are you guys going to be come­dians
when you graduate?" he
joked.
Novello said he'd like to come
back to AGSIM for a visit and
judge the INTERAD if possible.
Would he ever consider speaking at
a graduation?
"Sure," he laughed, "I'd be great
for it."
"Mr." Novello got ready for the
transformation into "Father" Sar­ducci
and the show was about to
begin. He gave us a quick Com­munion
(of Nacho chips) and
walked onstage to greet the deafen­ing
applause.
For AGSIM's most famous gradu­ate
it's been a long road from lan­guage
labs to prime-time, but you
can bet your rosary on one thing;
as long as the Pope remains Catho­lic,
Don Novello's Fr. Sarducci
character will continue to charm
people all over the world whatever
their religion.
American Graduate School
of International Management
Thunderbird Campus
Glendale, Arizona 85306 USA