Thunderbird Magazine, Spring 1984

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Thunderbird continues the tradition of utilizing practical
experience in the academic environment ... this time it's
alumni teaching the lessons learned beyond the classroom.
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NEWS
World Business Advisory Council ... International Auction
... Events on campus . .. and more.
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An alumnus establishes a special loan fund for needy
T'birds.
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A reunion on paper for the Pioneer Classes of 1947-1953 and
the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Class of 1958
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Thunderbird Network
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Alumni Update
COVER
During the 1984 Winterim program, the five special World
Business seminars-Agribusiness, Banking, CEO's in Action,
Insurance, and Investments-attracted more than 80 top
executives from major multinational corporations as guest
lecturers. Read this issue's cover story to find out which ones
were Tbirds.
AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
William Voris, President
Spring, 1984
Quarterly magazine of
the Alumni Relations
Office of the American
Graduate School of
International
Management,
Thunderbird Campus
Glendale, AZ 85306
(602) 978-7135
TELEX 18-7123
Director of Communications
and Editor:
Nelda S. Crowell
Assistant Editor:
Nancy Smith Nebeker
Photographer:
Myra Mergler Niemeier
Communications Staff:
Irene M. Ringdahl, Secretary
Mark Bockley '84
Mary O'Kate Rafferty '84
James F. Johnson '84
Director of Alumni Relations
and Publisher:
Wayne M. Pulver '701'78
Alumni Relations Staff:
Cathy Benoit, Executive Secretary
Donna Cleland, Records Coordinator
Lisa Klemme
Carmen Buschman
Student Assistants, Alumni
Relations Office:
Ginger Gossen '84
Steve Heronemus '84
Dave Parker '84
Jukka Pylkkanen '84
Anand Rao '84
John Steakley '84
Winterim:
Alumni
Executives
Come
Home
This year's intensive three-week Winterim program in the
World Business Department attracted more than 80 top
executives from major multinational corporations as guest
lecturers. Eleven of those executives were Thunderbird
alumni.
Gathered from all areas of international business, each
alumnus participated in one of the five special World
Business seminars: Agribusiness, Banking, CEOs in Action,
Insurance, and Investments. They came back to teach some
of the things they have learned beyond the Thunderbird
classroom.
As a group, they are an interesting sampling of the best
of what Thunderbird teaches. They are motivated, caring,
hard working, and successful, with a global view of the
business world. Their willingness to participate in Winterim
revealed their commitment to Thunderbird and the special
curriculum it offers. It was nice to have them home.
"Tremendous change." That's
how John Cooper '61, described
what he thought after more than
twenty years away from campus.
Cooper came back to speak on
"Banking Services to Foreign Gov­ernments"
at the Winterim bank­ing
conference and was
overwhelmed by the changes in
the physical plant and the in­creased
number of women
enrolled.
Cooper joined Citibank N.A. di­rectly
after leaving Thunderbird.
Following several significant inter­national
positions with Citibank,
Cooper transferred to San Francis­co
with Citicorp (USA) Inc. in 1981
as vice president responsible for
multinational companies on the
west coast. He joined Marine Mid­land
Bank, N.A. two years later as
a senior vice president responsible
for all business in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
Cooper said he found it "nota­ble"
that the age level of students
hasn't changed. Like other alumni,
he feels it is valuable for students
to have professional experience be­fore
graduate work. He thoroughly
enjoyed Winterim and was im­pressed
by the conference syllabus.
He suggested, however, that there
should be more opportunities for
students and participants to meet
and exchange views beyond the
classroom. "Selfishly speaking,"
said Cooper, "I want to know
what today's students are
thinking."
Since graduation, Abe Curdumi
'74, has been with First National
Bank of Chicago. Immediately after
joining the bank, his work took
him on foreign assignments to Bra­zil,
Costa Rica and Mexico. In
1979, he returned stateside to head
the asset and liability management
division for Latin America and is
responsible for the trade and fi­nance
division for the entire west­ern
hemisphere.
Most recently, Curdumi also
served on President Reagan's Pri­vate
Sector Cost Survey (Grace
Commission). He was a team
member on the committee headed
by Dr. Clifton Cox, chairman of
the Thunderbird World Business
department.
Like many returning alumni,
Curdumi was "happily surprised
by the expansion of the campus."
He termed the Winterim program
"quite a feat" and was delighted
with what the School is
accomplishing.
His topic was "Financing Agri­business-
Domestic and Interna­tional,"
and he found the students
in his seminar well prepared.
"They participated, asked good
questions and showed that they
had thought about the material."
As for the long-term benefits, Cur­dumi
thinks Winterirn will "pay
dividends to students in terms of
recruiting and placement."
In addition to Winterim, Curdu­mi
has agreed to partiCipate in an­other
program designed to pay
Thunderbird dividends of a differ-
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ent sort. He is a member of the
World Business Advisory Council,
a group of top executives from ma­jor
multinational corporations who
are involved in Thunderbird's edu­cational
planning.
Like many students, Stephen
Hall '69, came to Thunderbird
with professional experience al­ready
under his belt. He had been
an assistant export sales manager
for Parks-Cramer, Co. in Massa­chusetts
for two years.
Directly following his degree,
Hall went to New York as manager
of performance measurement for
Pan American World Airways.
Two years later he moved to
Washington, DC to work for the
U.S. Department of Commerce in
the Bureau of International Com­merce.
In 1976, Hall joined Food
Marketing International, Inc.,
where he is now president.
Given his varied career, Hall was
more than qualified to address the
topic, "The Market for Specialty
Items and the Role of the
En trepreneur."
Hall said he espeCially enjoyed
the chance to meet other Winterirn
participants. He found his fellow
lecturers "enthusiastic, supportive
and interested" and felt the stu­dents
responded in kind.
Daniel Jacobsen '59 has partici­pated
in the Winterirn program for
the last two years and describes
the current Tbirds as "very lively
and very interested" in his subject.
His topic, "Corporate Supervision
of International Activity," is a nat­ural
one for Jacobsen who has
served as senior vice presiden t and
chief auditor of Citicorp and Citi­bank
for the past four years.
In 1959, directly following gradu­ation,
Jacobsen joined Citibank's
overseas division, a decision that
kept him overseas for the next
twenty years. His assignments in­cluded
major positions in Mexico
City, Puerto Rico, Canada, Tokyo,
Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
Finally in 1979, Jacobsen was ap­pointed
senior vice president and
returned stateside in his present
position of chief auditor.
Asked to comment on the Win­terim
program, Jacobsen said he
thinks it's important to give stu­dents
a sense of what is really hap­pening
in the international
business arena. He added that
"Thunderbird does better in that
regard than other business schools
because the faculty has strong
business and international
backgrounds. "
Jacobsen was particularly
pleased to participate and give an
insider's view on a subject that is
often in the press. Said Jacobsen,
"I can give a different perspective
on corporate supervision than
either the press or the regulators."
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Ray Johnson '75, by his own ac­count,
has been a very busy man
since he left Thunderbird twelve
years ago. First employed in the
securities industry by Merrill
Lynch, he joined E.F. Hutton &
Co. in 1978.
In his address in the Invest­ments
Seminar, "Everything you
wanted to know about the Stock
Market from Rousseau to Yogi Ber­ra
by Way of Wall Street," Johnson
dealt with some of the naivete stu­dents
have about investments.
Johnson's experience in invest­ments
started at the age of 18 with
personal investments in the stock
market. He is now training Hutton
brokers and serving as the mutual
fund coordinator for Hutton's
Scottsdale office. He has been a
member of the E.F. Hutton Blue
Chip Award club for the past two
years, which represents the top 5
percent of producing account exec­utives
in the U.s. securities
industry.
He was impressed by the quality
of the Winterim students and their
questions. "I think they are bright­er
than we were," he said with a
light laugh. From his perspective,
however, students need more in­vestment
counseling to counter the
"banking mentality" that is so
prevalent in the educational sys­tem.
His parting advice to students
was "pay your dues early and by
all means, continue your education
beyond graduation." And of
course, when E.F. Hutton speaks,
everyone listens.
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Alfred Miossi '47, is a longtime
friend of Thunderbird. He is cur­rently
serving as a member of the
Board of Trustees, the Presidents
Council, and the World Business
Advisory Council. Therefore, it's
not surprising that for the past
several years, he has also agreed to
be a participant in the Winterim
banking conference.
Currently executive vice presi­dent
and director of international
affairs for Continental Illinois Na­tional
Bank, Miossi is an active
member of the international finan­cial
community. His Winterim ad­dress
was on "Global Banking
Strategy."
Directly after graduation, Miossi
joined Bank of America and Na­tional
Trust Association as a pro­assistant
cashier in Tokyo and Ma­nila:
In 1952, he joined Internation­al
Harvester Export Company, but
left the next year to take a position
with Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Company where
he moved up quickly to his pres­ent
position.
In reviewing changes at Thun­derbird
over the years, Miossi esti­mates
that the one with the
greatest impact has been the in­creasing
number of foreign stu­dents.
Perhaps as a natural
consequence, he adds, there is also
a greater awareness on campus of
international activity in the finan­cial
sector.
"A very positive addition to the
curriculum." That's how Alex­ander
Naughton '70, described
Thunderbird's Winterim program.
Naughton, who addressed the
banking conference on "Edge Act
Banking in the U.s.," said he
thought Winterim was a "very use­ful
way of providing a lot of infor­mation
on a specific topic."
Naughton is a vice president of
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Company and a deputy regional
manager in the bank's internation­al
division. He is responsible for
the bank's Edge Act banking net­work
and its worldwide trade group.
He joined MHT in 1973 after a
stint with Bank of America's inter­national
banking office in New
York. In 1976, he was made a vice
president and in 1978, a senior vice
president and manager of the
bank's Edge Act Subsidiary in Los
Angeles. When asked if he had
had any posts overseas, he
laughed and referred to his time in
L.A. as his "foreign assignment."
Naughton, who returned to cam­pus
three years ago on a recruiting
trip for MHT, found the students
in his seminar "conversant on a
number of top banking issues." He
added that the Winterim program
may provide potential employment
opportunities for students who ac­tively
participate. Another benefit,
according to Naughton, is that the
program should help give students
a sense of the career opportunities
available and prepare them for ca­reer
interviews.
Mark Paden, '67, has participat­ed
in the Winterim program for
three consecutive years and in re­cent
years has also returned on
three recruiting trips. As a result,
he has kept in touch with Thun­derbird's
growth and development
and thinks programs of the quality
of Winterim "will distinguish the
School."
Paden is currently a senior vice
president and director, Latin
America, in the international divi­sion
of NCNB National Bank of
North Carolina. In addition, he is
responsible for the international
departments of NCNB National
Bank of Florida located in Tampa
and Miami. He estimates he travels
30 to 40 percent of the time.
Directly after graduation, Paden
joined the American Express Inter­national
Banking Corporation with
banking assignments in New York,
London, Frankfurt, and Hamburg.
In 1973, he joined NCNB as off­shore
calling officer in Europe,
Middle East and Latin America. He
was then made manager of the Eu­rope,
Middle East and Africa
Group.
Paden could not have better cre­dentials
to address the banking
conference on "International Trade
Finance." The conference covered
both traditional international bank­ing
activities as well as current
trends. According to Paden, "that
can't help but give students a bet-ter
appreciation of what really goes
on. I only wish the program had
been available when I was a student."
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In the eleven years since gradua­tion,
Susan Stevens '73, hadn't
come back to campus until last Jan­uary.
As the only alumna on this
year's Winterim program, Stevens
said she "came away with a re­newed
commitment to the
School."
In reviewing all that she's done
since graduation, it's no wonder
Stevens didn't have time for a vis­it.
In 1973, she joined a subsidiary
of Julius Baer and was involved in
lending activities in Latin America
as well as portfolio management.
From there, she went on to Ameri­can
Express International Banking
Corporation as country manager,
responsible for all lending activities
in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Stevens is now a vice president
in Bank of America's Investment
Group in New York. She is re­sponsible
for syndicated transac­tions
in the western and
southwestern United States and
Mexico. The topic of her Win term
presentation was "International
Loan Syndication."
Stevens visited with students af­ter
her address and found them
"knowledgeable and full of intelli­gent
questions." Perhaps as a re­sult
of the Winterim lectures which
preceeded hers, Stevens said she
found the students familiar with all
the current "buzz words." As a
matter of fact, she said, "they were
more plugged in than I was when
I graduated."
Anthony Webb '70, waited thir­teen
years before returning to cam­pus,
but when he finally carne
back, he was pleased with what he
found. He called the Winterim pro­gram
"first class."
Webb has been with the Royal
Bank of Canada since graduation
in positions that have included
Montreal, London, Toronto and
New York. He is currently senior
vice president of merchant banking
and a director of Orion Multina­tional
Services, Inc., Orion Royal
Bank Ltd., Orion Royal Pacific Ltd.
and The Royal Bank of Canada
(Channel Islands) Ltd.
With those credentials in his
pocket, Webb addressed the bank­ing
conference on "International
Investment Banking." Webb hy­pothesizes
that the high quality of
Winterirn guests is influenced by
two factors: first, "the reputation
of the school in international bank­ing"
and the second he added
with a chuckle, "the appeal of
Phoenix in January."
Although Webb noted the ob­vious
changes in Thunderbird,
even more significant is that the
average age of the Tbirds is still
older than in many graduate pro­grams.
"From our perspective as
employers, those hired with pre­vious
work experience do that
much better."
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
For the past seventeen years,
John Warner '51, has been the
CEO of Sabritas, one of PepsiCo's
most successful international enter­prises:
Therefore, for the past two
years It has been an extraordinary
opportunity for students in the
agribusiness conference to hear
Warner's presentation of "The Sa­britas
Case Study."
Warner studied Spanish at
Thunderbird and went directly to
Mexico with Pepsi-Cola Interna­tional.
He worked his way up
thrOl~gh the .ran~s from developing
PepsI franchIses m Mexico through
division vice president for the Far
East, in Sydney, Australia.
His sensitivity to the country
and the people of Mexico, as well
as his success in marketing,
uniquely qualified Warner to be­come
president of Sabritas. Under
his leadership, Sabritas became
one of the largest agribusiness
firms in Mexico. In December, he
returned to the U.S. and became a
senior vice president of PepsiCo
Foods International.
Warner has presented the Sabri­tas
case study twice at Thunder­bird
and three times at the
Harvard Graduate School of Busi­ness.
He found the Thunderbird
students "enthusiastic and well
prepared" and the smaller size of
the Winterim seminar, as com­pared
to the Harvard presentation,
an advantage. Warner is a propo­nent
of the case study method of
learning, an approach both Har­vard
and Stanford Business
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Schools emphasize, and he would
like to see a room on campus de­signed
specifically for case studies.
A long time friend of the School,
~ar!ler ~eceived the Jonas Mayer
DIstingUIshed Alumnus Award in
1981, an award conferred annually
on an alumnus who, by virtue of
his ~rofes~ional achievements, is a
credit to himself and Thunderbird.
He is also a member of Thunder­bird's
Presidents Council. Warner
says he believes in the School so
much that the Warners will soon
be a three-Tbird family. His
daughter graduated in 1982 and
his son starts this May.
International
Studies
Winterim
. Winte.rim at!Tacted several major
mternational fIgures to the special
classes offered in the Department
of International Studies.
Dr. Hideo Itokawa of the Sys­tems
Research Institute in Japan is
a world renown futurologist who
taught IS-Sal, Toward the 21st
Century: Global Issues of the Inter­national
Business Environment.
Dr. Itokawa is a consultant to Japa­nese
corporations, to the Japanese
government, and the government
of the People's Republic of China.
Dr. Clifton Cox, chairman of the
department of World Business,
talks with Hugh Luke, retired chairman of
the board of Reliance Electric.
He also serves as chairman of the
Japan-Israel Commission.
Teaching the class in NATO De­fense
and European Security was
Dr. Gunther Wagenlehner, perma­nent
undersecretary of defense,
West Germany, who shared his
vast experience in the German
government with students in the
class.
Changes that have taken place in
postwar Britain were discussed by
Professor Patrick Duffy, a member
of the British Parliament, in the
European Seminar on Modern Brit­ain.
George Renwick, president of
Renwick and Associates, presented
the seminar on Cross-Cultural
Communication.
GUEST LECTURERS WINTERIM '84
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER CONFERENCE
American Management Associations
James C. Hayes
Chairman of the Board
Argyle Atlantic Corporation
William Turner
Chairman
Cooper and Lybrand
Norman Auerbach
Chairman and Senior Partner
(Retired)
Del E. Webb Corporation
Robert Swanson
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
First Interstate Bank of Arizona
Edward Carson
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Vaughn L. Beals
Chief Executive Officer
Pepsico Foods International
John Warner '51
Senior Vice President
Reliance Electric
Hugh Luke
Cha:irman of the Board
(Retired)
Southwest Forest, Inc.
William Franke
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Standard Oil of Ohio
Frank Mosier
Chief Executive Officer
Teledyne Ryan Electronics
Hudson Drake
President
Tylan Corporation
Charles Drexel
President and Chief Executive
Officer
United Bank of Arizona
James P. Simmons
Chairman of the Board
United States Senate
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The Honorable Dennis DeConcini
U.S. Senator
INVESTMENTS
CONFERENCE
The Chicago Board Options
Exchange
Charles J. Henry
President and Chief Operating
Officer
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Gary R. Schirr
Financial Futures Consultant
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
Christine A. Callies
Technical Analyst
Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc,
Frederick E. Allardt
Vice President
Norman E. Mains
Director of Research
E. F. Hutton and Company, Inc.
Raymond H. Johnson '75
Account Executive
Gordon D. Schubert
Vice President
Globe Finlay, Inc.
Francis Finlay
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets
Terry H. Holbertson, III
Vice President and Sales Manager
Warwick M. Jones
Vice President
New York Futures Exchange, Inc.
Lewis J. Horowitz
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Penny Stock News
Jerome Wenger
President
Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc.
Larry Haugaard
First Vice President
AGRIBUSINESS
CONFERENCE
Banco N acional de Mexico
Jesus Berumen
Economist
Cargill, Inc.
Robert Kohlmeyer
Senior Merchant
Carnation Company
Clarke A. Nelson
Senior Vice President
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
David DuPont
Agricultural Marketing Associate
Continental Grain Company
J.B. Elliott
Vice President, Corporate
Transportation
DAMAR International
Dr. Amram Knishinsky
President
Deere and Company
Dr. Jerry Saylor
Manager, Marketing Economics
Delegation of the Commission of the
European Community
Dr. Joly Dixon
Economic Advisor
The First National Bank of Chicago
Abe Curdurni '74
Vice President
Food Marketing International, Inc.
Stephen Hall '69
President
Merrill Lynch Futures, Inc.
John J.Conheeney
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
Olson Farms
Robert Alexander
Chief Executive Officer
(Retired)
Oscar Mayer Food Corporation
Dr. Pat Luby
Vice President and Corporate
Economist
Pepsico Foods, International
John Warner '51
Senior Vice President
Sabritas, S.A. de C.V.
Kurt Fuhrer
Vice President
Rudy Jacinto
Manager, Research and
Development
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Honorable Richard Lyng
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
United States Senate
The Honorable Dennis DeConcini
U.S. Senator
Valmont Industries, Inc ..
RA. Wahl, Jr.
President
The World Bank
Dr. W. Graeme Donovan
Senior Agricultural Economist
INTERNATIONAL
INSURANCE AND RISK
MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE
AFIA Worldwide Insurance
William Crowley
Vice President
American International Group, Inc.
William Monk
Educational Director
American International Group Risk
Management
Joseph Smetana
President
American International
Underwriters, Inc.
Houghton Freeman
President
Arizona State University
Dr: John O'Connell
Associate Professor of Insurance
Insurance Exchange of the Americas
Alan Teale
Chief Executive Officer
Johnson & Higgins
Lloyd Benedict
Senior Vice President
Frederick Howard
Vice President and Assistant
Treasurer
Marsh and McLennan, Inc.
Edward Contant
Vice President
Prudential Capital
Jack Bock
Vice President
Talley Industries, Inc.
Charles Lorenz
Director of Insurance and Risk
Management
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INTERNATIONAL
BANKING CONFERENCE
1984
Bank of America
Susan F. Stevens '73
Vice President
Bank of Montreal
Hans-Martin Tucher
Senior Vice President
Bank of Tokyo
Toshihiko Kobayakawa
General Manager, N.Y. Agency
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
Charles J.L.T. Kovacs
Vice President
Chemical Bank
James H. Hillestad
Vice President
Citibank, N.A.
Dr. Jack S. Berger
Vice President
Seymour R Rosen
Vice President
Citicorp/Citibank
Daniel T. Jacobsen '59
Chief Auditor
Continental Illinois National Bank
Dr. F. John Mathis
Vice President
Alfred F. Miossi '48
Executive Vice President and
Director
Crocker National Bank
Roy E. Derevyanik
Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Hara Lipman
Economist
First Interstate Bank of California
Donald D. Snyder
Senior Vice President
First National Bank of Chicago
(Canada)
Robert D. Haven
President
First Wisconsin National Bank of
Milwaukee
Douglas R. Stucky
First Vice President
International Monetary Fund
Bahram Nowzad
Editor, Finance and Development
Manufacturers Hanover Leasing
Corporation
Madeline Bayliss-Allen
Vice President
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Ole Jacob Diesen
Vice President
. Alexander E. Naughton '70
Vice President
Thomas M. Flattery
Vice President
Marine Midland Bank, N.A.
John C. Cooper '61
Senior Vice President
National Bank of Detroit
Philip G. Moon
Senior Vice President
North Carolina National Bank
J. Mark Paden '67
Senior Vice President
The Northern Trust Company
Dr. William L. Wilby
Second Vice President and
Economist
Office of Comptroller of the
Currency
William A. Ryback
Director, International Banking
Activity
The Royal Bank of Canada
Anthony A. Webb '70
Senior Vice President
University of Michigan
Dr. Gunter Duffy
Graduate School of Business
Administration
The World Bank
Dr. Nicolas C. Hope
Chief, External Debt Division
Executives Get
Involved
More than thirty-five executives
attended the second annual World
Business Advisory Council
(WBAC) meeting on campus
March 22-24. The purpose of the
WBAC is to involve executives
from major multinational corpora­tions
in educational planning for
the School.
The meeting started with a ban­quet
for participants on Thursday
evening. Marv Berenblum, senior
vice president of Continental
Grain, delivered the keynote ad­dress.
The following day, three
work sessions were held. The first
covered institutional goals and fac­ulty
and curriculum progress. The
second session addressed institu­tional
needs, and the afternoon
session reviewed the place for con­tinuing
education and corporate­assisted
financial aid.
The council's meetings were
chaired by James G. Parke!, the di­rector
of personnel services at IBM.
Discussion leaders included Presi­dent
William Voris and Dr. Clifton
Cox in the first session, followed
by Dr. Robert Horn in the second.
The final session was led by Philip
(front to back) Norman Auerbach, trustee
and retired Chairman of Coopers &
Lybrand, Thomas Wolfe, trustee and
president, Oilseed Processing Division,
Anderson Clayton & Co., and Henry
Conway, senior vice president,
International Bank.
(left to right) Donald Metcalf, manager of international recruiting for Procter and Gamble,
President William Voris, and James G. Parkel, the director of personnel services at IBM.
Philip Moon, senior vice president of the
National Bank of Detroit, addresses the
conference.
Marv Berenblum, senior vice president of
Continental Grain, gave the WBAC
Keynote address.
Moon, senior vice president of the
National Bank of Detroit, and Don­ald
Metcalf, manager of interna­tional
recruiting for Procter and
Gamble.
Following the last work session,
an informal reception for selected
students was held. The conference
concluded that evening with a
chuckwagon barbecue at the Wig­wam
resort, although the execu­tives
were invited to remain for
recreational activities during the
weekend.
The two-day meeting "exceeded
my expectations," said Dr. Robert
Horn, vice president for external
affairs and the man responsible for
the formation of the council. Horn
was delighted to see the council
developing into "a group of busi­ness
people willing to take some
ownership" and responsibility for
the school. They expressed their
opinions, offered good sugges­tions,
and exhibited a sincere com­mitment
to the goals of the council
and Thunderbird. Horn called it a
"positive sign for the future of the
SchooL"
Plans are already underway for a
fall council meeting at the corpo­rate
headquarters of Tenneco, Inc.
in Houston. A second ad hoc
meeting in the fall is still to be
scheduled.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
NEWsN EWsNEWs NEWS NEWS NEWS
30-Year Employees Get
Recognition
This Spring, three Thunderbird
staff members---Tom Sunderlin,
Laurence "Larry" Finney, and Lora
Jeanne Wheeler-marked their
thirtieth anniversary of working at
the School. They were honored
along with more than 20 other em­ployees
with five or more years of
service to the School, on February
29 at the home of President and
Mrs. Voris.
Tom Sunderlin, director of the
audiovisual department, has a rep­utation
for being hard working and
supportive, which makes Thunder­bird
fortunate to have had him for
thirty years. His early recollections
of the School include a time when
Friday night antics consisted of
games of bumper tag on the run­way.
According to Sunderlin, how­ever,
a photo of a memorable (but
not serious) crash came to the at­tention
of the law and ended the
games.
Lora Jeanne Wheeler, chief li­brarian,
has seen the library grow
from 7,000 volumes in 1953 to its
present 86,000 today. The staff,
which once consisted of Lora
Jeanne and four student assistants,
now has three librarians, four full­time
library technicians, twelve
students, and three secretaries.
In the early days, she recalls,
"we didn't have anything more
technical than a rencil sharpener.
Now we have al these machines.
We give better service, we're open
more hours, and we serve more
students." Before the construction
of the new facility in 1970, the li­brary
was located in the hangar
annex now occupied by the book­store.
"Because the curriculum of
the School has changed so much,"
she says, "more demands have
been made on the library. But
that's what has made this job so
interesting. "
Larry Finney, is not only unique
because of the number of years he
has been a member of the Thun­derbird
faculty, but also because
he is an alumnus of the Thunder-
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Larry Finney Tom Sunderlin
bird "Pioneer" class of 1952. He is
currently the director of the key
manager program and an associate
professor of Spanish.
The key manager program was
developed in 1951 because of re­quests
from leading corporations
for a specialized executive training
course. The program is designed to
give corporate executives and their
spouses intensive conversational
language training in preparation
for overseas assignments.
Finney, when asked to reflect on
his Thunderbird experience replied
simply, "All of the former students
whom I have had in my classes are
my greatest memories."
Over the years, Sunderlin,
Wheeler and Finney have each
seen Thunderbird develop from a
unique and tenuous institution in
the wilderness of Glendale to a
thriving, internationally acclaimed
school. Indeed, each of them have
been a part of that process.
Lora Jean Wheeler
$48,000 Exxon Grant
The Department of Modern Lan­guages
was recently awarded a
$48,000 grant from Exxon in sup­port
of a foreign language research
project. It is the largest grant ever
given to the school's language de­partment.
The project is under the
direction of Professors Lilith
Schutte, project leader and depart­ment
chair; Christa W. Britt; and
Jorge Valdivieso.
According to Dr. Schutte, the
study has the following objectives:
1) To devise a lexicon of essential
Spanish and German business
terms and incorporate it into a lan­guage
curriculum at the School. 2)
To develop a model for more accu­rately
testing oral and written pro­ficiency
of students and
management personnel in prepara­tion
for overseas assignments. 3)
To develop a consistent core of
teaching materials.
The project team will be assisted
by Professors James Mills, Carl
Frear and Dennis Guthery of the
World Business Department. An
independent computer consultant
and student assistants will also
help in the study.
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Distinguished Alumnus
Henry N. Conway Jr. '55, was
honored with the Jonas Mayer Dis­tinguished
Alumnus Award in De­cember.
The award is conferred
annually on a Thunderbird gradu­ate
who has advanced notably in
his personal career in addition to
bringing recognition to American
business abroad. It is the highest
award an alumnus can receive.
Conway's career has been a
model for Thunderbird graduates.
Directly following graduation, he
joined the International Trust
Company of Liberia in Monrovia.
In 1961, he became president of
that company, which was com­posed
of a full-service commercial
bank, an insurance company and
the administration of the Liberian
merchant fleet.
In 1975, he joined IB Financial
Corporation and International
Bank in Washington, D.C. Conway
is currently senior vice president of
international banking and financ­ing
for IB Financial Corporation
and International Bank as well as
president of IB Financial Corpora­tion.
Conway oversees seven
banks serving customers in 25 loca­tions
in Luxembourg, Belgium, Leb­anon,
Liberia, the Bahamas,
Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.
In addition to all of his profes­sional
responsibilities, Conway
currently serves on the World
Business Advisory Council and the
Presidents Council.
Henry Conway '53 and wife Mary were on
campus in December to receive the Jonas
Mayer Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Janis Winikka receives the Roger Lyon Memorial Scholarship presented in honor of the late
Roger Lyon, who was a member at th~ Thunderbird Board of T:ustees, and President and
Chief Executive Officer of Valley Natwnal Bank. The scholarshIp IS awarded to the son or
daughter of a Valley Bank employee. ~00kin8 on are her parents, ~r. a~d Mrs. Robert
Winnikka and Mary Lyon, center, WIdow at Roger Lyon. ~~ the n~ht IS Howard !VlcCrady,
who succeeded Lyon at Valley National Bank, and Dr. WIllIam Vons, School preSIdent.
Dow Executive Speaks
to Grads
Paul F. Oreffice, president and
chief executive officer of The Dow
Chemical Company offered some
good advice to the graduating class
of December, 1983.
First discussing problems of in­ternational
trade, Oreffice focused
on the huge debt of countries such
as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
When it comes to trade, Oref­fice
said, "one of today's great ob­stacles
is the lack of an
international monetary system ...
The time is overdue to have the
main countries of the world sit
down and talk about a reasonable
monetary system. That's another
place where I see a role for gradu­ates
from a fine school such as this."
Oreffice then gave the graduates
some tips on "key things that can
make you successful."
• "You must experiment early in
your career. You must not be
afraid to take risks with assign­ments,
to move geographically ...
Don't wait too long."
• "Do the common thing un­commonly
well. Most people who
move up in an organization start
doing so because someone has no­ticed
that they do everything well,
from the hardest to the simplest
task."
• "Always stand up for what
you think is right. I am convinced
that you can fight city hall . ...
Sometimes it will be your boss or
some other authority [but] you can
fight it and win if you have the
facts on your side, and if you
know how to articulate them."
• "Learn how to communicate,
both orally and in writing. Be
short, be clear."
• "Go ahead and beat the boss
at anything you can. A winner is a
winner is a winner."
• "Make others look good
around you. Don't be upset if one
of your ideas is taken by someone
else. Be especially happy if your
boss claims your ideas as his or
her own. He will know whose idea
it is."
• "Always have fun in whatever
you do. People who have fun in
their jobs are infinitely more pro­ductive
than those who view their
job as drudgery. A very important
part of this is .. . to be an all­around
person. Don't become one­dimensional.
"
• "Behind every problem there
is an opportunity. As you move
out in the world, don't join those
people who seem to wallow in the
real and imagined problems
around us."
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
EWs N EWsNEWs NEWS NEWS NEWS
Alumni Donations Spur
International Auction
The International Auction, held
in November on the eve of the Bal­loon
Race, has become the big
fund-raiser in the annual weekend
of festivity. Last year's auction
raised a grand total of $15,167, and
the whole "Hot Air Affair," of
which the auction is only the be­ginning,
netted $25,556. An inter­national
dinner follows the
auction, and the evening climaxes
with the spirited bidding of the
Calcutta.
Spearheading the event is Mavis
Voris, wife of the School president,
whose energy and enthusiasm
have brought the affair to its cur­rent
status as a major social and
fund-raising event. Cochair last
year and this year is Joyce King,
President of Friends of Thunder­bird.
Gift parties during the weeks
preceding the auction provide a
large portion of the funds, Mrs.
Voris reports, and are increasing
both locally and worldwide.
The silent auction features items
sent by Thunderbird alumni all
over the world. Letters requesting
donations for this year were re­cently
sent, and preparations are
underway for an even bigger auc­tion
in 1984. Last year's items
came from more than twenty-five
countries including Brazil, Thai­land,
Japan, Venezuela, West Ger­many,
Brunei, South Africa, and
Saudi Arabia. Accolades go to the
alumni in Panama who hold the
record for most items donated and
gave a very successful gift party.
Coin collectors drooled over a
mint set from Brunei (Bruno Cor­nelio
'76) while film buffs quickly
pushed up the bids on a set of
American film posters of the 1940s.
"All embroidered items are
snatched up," reports Mrs. Voris.
"Jewelry is popular and may bid at
two or three times its value. An­tiques
from anywhere also sell
well," she says, "and American of­fice
equipment, de co beach towels,
gift certificates, also do well."
Past successes, she reports, have
included brass and copper pieces
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
from the Middle East, wood carv­ings
from Africa, porcelain pieces
from Europe, trons from Scandina­vian
countries, decorated snuff
bottles from Asia, and embroi­dered
linens from Latin America.
The event began with the Thun­derbird
Women's Club long before
there was a balloon race. The
wives of the students wrote to ce­lebrities
as well as alumni overseas
for donations to the auction. Mrs.
Voris recalled that, "in 1973 the
TWC sponsored a Trade Fair dur­ing
the day on half the Quad, and
the International Auction and din­ner
in the evening on the other
half. At the fair, students provided
food and game booths as well as
Mavis Voris, wife of Thunderbird's
president, displays items from the
International Auction.
continuous entertainment," she
recalled.
When the Balloon Race began in
1975, an impromptu Calcutta was
orchestrated by Rod Taylor '75
ASLC president. Ian Campbell '75
was student coordinator. The auc­tion,
held in a large tent, was still
a separate event held in the
spring. Since 1976, the Hot Air Af­fair,
(the International Auction,
Dinner, and Calcutta) has been
held on the eve of the Balloon
Race.
In 1983, with 650 people in at-tendance,
the event filled the en­tire
Activity Center, and auction
sales were phenomenal. "Our in­ventory
at present is so low, that I
fear for this year," Mrs. Voris said.
"Alumni, we need your help! To
meet the demands of so many, we
need the interesting, exotic, and
the practical donations of Tbirds
everywhere. "
Forbes Article Lauds
Thunderbird
Following a three-day visit to the
Thunderbird campus, Forbes re­porter
Anne Bagamery wrote a
strong article about the School,
published in the February 13 issue.
The article entitled "The Thunder­bird
Mystique," describes the
School as a "trailblazer in manage­ment
education . .. (which) rivals
or even surpasses such bastions of
prestige as Harvard and Stanford
business schools."
The article describes the School's
program, campus and unique cur­riculum,
with the theme of the
Thunderbird mystique running
throughout. It examines the essen­tial
differences between the M.B.A.
and the M.I.M. and quotes Presi­dent
William Voris as saying Thun­derbird
is "not turning out your
standard number-crunchers." In­stead
the School produces what
Voris terms "trained
internationalists. "
The article also focuses on the
growing interest graduate schools
across the country have in interna­tional
business and how Thunder­bird's
program has served as a
model. In addition, the article ex­amines
the Schools' limited en­dowment
of $2.9 million and
suggests that may hinder the
School's ability to compete with
other big-name schools. For exam­ple,
Harvard Business School has
an endowment of $110,000 per
M. B.A. candidate as compared to
$2,900 per Thunderbird student.
As a result, this year Voris is
"pleading for big alumni
donations. "
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Gifford Loan Fund:
T'Bird Says Thanks
For more than three-fourths of
Thunderbird's history, Louise Gif­ford
has been on the scene. Ask,
and she'll gladly show you her re­cently
earned gold pendant mark­ing
her 25 years of service to the
school. The last 17 of those years
have been spent in the Office of Fi­nancial
Aids, so it is fitting, that
the Louise Gifford Loan Fund was
established last fall in her honor by
alumnus Christy Peake, '76.
She started as secretary to the
Executive Vice President, Berger
Erickson who recalls Gifford's job
interview in 1958. He was im­pressed
that she had been the val­edictorian
of her high school class.
"I decided right there that meant
she was either very bright or very
industrious. As it turned out, she
was both," he said.
Anyone who has had any con­tact
with Financial Aids Office, has
had contact with Gifford. It's im­portant
to her to know the individ­uals
behind the paperwork.
Students use words like "person­a!,"
"empathetic," and "con­cerned"
to describe her. Sue
Gumz, a fourth semester student
and the most recent recipient of
the Gifford Loan Fund should
know. At present, Gumz holds
three part-time jobs and a $500
scholarship in addition to the Gif­ford
loan. "She knows more about
my financial situation than I do,"
said Gumz.
According to Gifford, that is ex­actly
how she selects students for
the Gifford Loan Fund. "I watch
and listen and see how I can
help," she said. When all reason­able
alternatives have been ex­hausted,
she steps in.
Peake, the loan's benefactor, was
once a struggling Tbird. He is
now president of Robot Defense
Systems, Inc. in Denver. As a stu­dent,
he was on the federal work
study program, according to Gif­ford,
and worked in the Financial
Aids Office for two semesters. He
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was married at the time with one
child and a second on the way.
"Louise was not only there for fi­nancial
assistance, but also as a
good friend. Her help allowed me
to finish my education," Peake
explained.
Gifford, both flattered and mod­est
about Peake's decision, says "It
carne out of the clear blue sky, like
a bolt of thunder." She sees it as
Peake's expression of appreciation
for everything Financial Aids did
for him, rather than a tribute to
her. But Peake is very direct about
his reasons for naming the Loan
Fund as he did. "I wanted to rec­ognize
Louise as a humanitarian
and as a person who sincerely
cares about others."
The fund was established with
several thousand shares of stock in
a company Peake founded, Fared
Robot Systems. The stock, valued
at over $11,000, was sold by the
School and set aside for the loan
fund.
Gifford is the sole administrator
of the loan and dispenses $1,000
each semester as she sees fit, gen­erally
in two $500 loans. The only
conditions are that the recipients
Sue Gumz '84 receives her loan from Louise
Gifford.
be u.s. citizens who have complet­ed
their first semester and have a
3.0 grade point average or above.
Peake, in addition to his finan­cial
donations to the school, has al­so
recruited Tbirds to work for his
companies. At least three gradu­ates
to date have been hired by
Peake in various capacities. Ac­cording
to Torn Bria, Assistant Vice
President for Institutional Develop­ment,
Peake hopes to continue do­nations
to the loan fund. It's his
way of saying thanks.
News Notes
Speakers on Campus
Prominent speakers continue to
give students the benefit of their
expertise. Appearing on the cam­pus
during the spring semester
were:
Carol Goldberg, chief operating
officer and executive vice presi­dent,
Stop and Shop Companies
James Bere, chief executive offi­cer
of Borg-Warner
John W. Teets, chief executive
officer, Greyhound Corporation
Ken Miller '49, formerlyoperat­ing
manager, international opera­tions
with Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Scott Lowry, chairman of the
board, Great Western Bank
N.C. Yao, exchange professor
from the Beijing Institute of For­eign
Trade
AZ-TESOL
From February 9-11 Thunderbird
hosted the annual conference of
Arizona Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages (AZ­TESOL).
Dr. Robert Ramsey, De­partment
of Modern Languages at
Thunderbird, chaired the confer­ence,
which had as its theme,
"Better Teaching-Better
Learning. "
The conference attracted 350 par­ticipants
and was a good public re­lations
tool for the school,
according to Berger Erickson, Exec­utive
Vice President.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
NEWSNEWSNEWSNEWSNEWS
Berger Erickson displays the Paul Harris
Award presented to him by the Glendale
Rotary Club.
Erickson Rotary Award
Executive Vice President Berger
Erickson was one of three people
to receive the Paul Harris Award at
the Glendale Rotary Club's annual
banquet held at the Holidome in
Metrocenter on February 11.
The local club donated $1,000 to
the International Rotary Founda­tion
in Mr. Erickson's honor for his
service to the Glendale Rotary
Club. The International Rotary
Foundation provides scholarships
for international students. Three
recipients of the scholarship are
currently enrolled at Thunderbird.
MCSB Conference
More than 50 deans, administra­tors
and faculty from business
schools all over the nation, gath­ered
on campus March 11-13 for
the American Assembly of Colle­giate
Schools of Business (AACSB)
seminar on "Strategies for Interna­tionalizing
the Business School. /I
Saudi Arabia Trip
Dr. William Voris was invited to
visit King Abdulaziz University,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia April 1-10.
The purpose of his visit was to ex­change
ideas about education in
business schools, to review their
undergraduate and graduate pro­grams
and to speak to the King
Abdulaziz University staff and
graduate students about new top­ics
in international management.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Spring Enrollment
The official enrollment figure for
spring semester 1984 was 996 stu­dents.
Of that total, 23 percent
were foreign students. The country
with the most students represent­ed
was Korea (18), followed by
France (13), Canada (12), Japan
(11) and Germany and Norway
(10).
Balloon Race Proceeds
Total net proceeds for the 1983
Balloon Race activities amounted to
$29,096. The Hot Air Affair was
the major fund raising event with
total proceeds of $25,584. The
gran~ total of race proceeds during
the rune years since the inception
of the event is $173,222. Life mem­berships
and contributions from
the Friends of Thunderbird have
added $5,092 bringing the Friends
of Thunderbird endowment princi­pal
to $178,314.
Duane Hall
Faculty Member Publishes
Dr. Duane Hall of the World
Business Department recently fin­ished
a new book, International
Trade Operation: A Managerial Ap­proach
published by Unz & Compa­ny.
In addition, Hall has been
contracted by Praeger Publishing
to publish a new book, The Interna­tional
Joint Venture. The book, to be
written solely by Hall, is due to be
published in hardback sometime in
the middle of this year.
Corporate Contributions
During the first quarter of 1984,
funds received from corporations
brought the total of corporate do­nations
for the fiscal year 1983-84
to more than $350,000.
Prince Charitable Trusts donated
$66,000 toward their agribusiness
endowment, and Continental
Grain donated $25,000, also for an
agribusiness endowment. A check
for $20,000 was presented to the
school for fellowships by Chase
Manhattan Bank. Valmont Indus­tries,
FMC Corporation, Valley
National Bank, and Gannett Cor­poration
also donated funds
toward scholarships.
Huffco donated $10,000 for IN­TERCOM;
Leo Burnett Co., Inc.
donated $5,000 for INTERAD:
Wheeler Manufacturing Co. donat­ed
$2,000 for the Library; and IB
Financial Corporation gave $3,333
toward the banking and finance
program. The Chicago Board of
Trade gave $2,000 to the School for
the development of computer soft­ware
for the futures trading game,
and Teledyne donated $2,000 for
contracted research. Other major
donors included Ramada Inn, the
Donald Ware Waddell Foundation,
Crocker National Bank, Nordson,
and H.W. Ayer ABH International.
Gayle Roessl Scholarship Fund
A total of $14,202 has been re­ceived
toward the Gayle Roessl
Memorial Scholarship Fund. More
than 145 alumni have made contri­butions
in honor of Gayle, a for­mer
student who died last year of
cancer. The scholarship was set up
in her memory by Ian McCluskey
'82, her husband.
A posthumous degree was
awarded to Gayle during the De­cember
commencement. Ian was
present at the ceremony to accept
the degree on her behalf.
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Pioneer Reunion Class of
'47 Classes of 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 Emily Adacusky retired in 1971
Editor's Note: The Pioneer as a high school Spanish teacher
Reunion for the classes of _-----------..- ---------. ihne rL calsa Vsse tgoa sb.e Shhier ewd absy t hSeta fnirdsat rodf
1947-1953 was held on cam- Eighty-five alumni and Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson, Oil. She is now living in Pitts-pUS
in December. Because guests attended the Pi- Rod Ritchie, and Mr. and town, PA.
ma'fo alumnl' could not attend oneer Reum'o n 0 f t h e Mrs. Sam Schulman. Class iHneterrbneartti oHn. aAl odpaemras tiiso ndsir feocrt oGr roaf-the
estivities and because it Classes of '47-'52 and the of '53: Mr. and Mrs. Bob ber Industries in Middleton, WI.
was such a significant event, thirtieth Anniversary of Arnstein, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson is now chair-we
developed the idea of a re- the Class of '53 held at Norman Bailey, Mr. and man of Langan, Haeger, Vincent
unlO. n on pa per . Thunderbu'd December 15- Mrs . Eu gene Be nz, Van H&e B polrann Isn cto. sinlo twh eh iCsh bicuasginoe asrse aac. -
The entries that follow con- 16. Crichfield, Mr. and Mrs. tivities down and "work into"
tain some of the information The festivities began Boye De Mente, George retirement.
each of you so carefully took Thursday, at 7:00 p.m. Dzambik, Dr. and Mrs. George B. Andrew retired in
the time to send us. It is, we with a reception in the Ca- John Eikenberry, Ed Gar- 1967 as a staff civil engineer at
hope, at least a small part of reer Services Center. On cia, John Gearhart, Mr. Air Force Training Command,
Randolph AFB, TX. He and his the information you would Friday, Professor Joaquin and Mrs. James Smeed, wife live in San Antonio.
have shared with one another Duarte spoke to the alum- Harry Tiber, and Mr. and George Barley retired in 1972 as
if you had the chance. ni followed by a campus Mrs. Chuck Wood. financial director of Iberian Gulf
As you review the updates tour and a luncheon. Com- Next year's Pioneer Re- Oil Co. in Madrid. After 12 years
of your classmates an d co I- mencement ceremonies union will feature the sina hS pFaoirne,s th, eN iCs .n ow living in Pis-leagues,
you will find that as took place in the afternoon Class of 1954 in celebration James B. Boyce III took early re-a
group you have reached an and a class banquet was of their 30th anniversary. tirement a number of years ago
extraordinary level of profes- held at the Westcourt Ho-sional
and personal success. tel in the evening.
In those early years, you came The following alumni
to a campus just recently con- and guests were in attend­verted
from a WWII air force ance, Class of '47: Bob An­field.
You came as a very derson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
"gutsy" group-not afraid to Bell, Bill Bierer, Harold
work hard and take risks. By Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs.
your own accounts, both the Lou Curtis, Mr. and Mrs.
work and the risks have paid Fred Dahlkamp, Ray Flo-off
· res, Stephen Hutnek, Al
There is one thing to be Jankus, Joe Klein, Mr. and
said for all of you today; you Mrs. Lester Maasch, Jor­are
not standing still. Amid dan Paine, Mr. and Mrs.
these updates, you will find Charles Ritter, Stan Scharf,
your friends biking through with daughter, Susan.
mainland China, climbing Class of '48: Mr. and Mrs.
Mt. Kilimanjaro, paragliding Bob Bean, Mr. and Mrs.
over the Andes and running Norman Wanek, Mr. and
marathons. Mrs. Gale Warner, Mr.
Professionally you are still and Mrs. AI Zimberoff,
on the move as well. While and son, Emmet. Class of
some have worked for one '49: Mr. and Mrs. Neil
company for decades, others Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
have made several different Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
career choices: you've gone Craig, Mark Enck, Dave
back to school, devoted your- Moir, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
selves to art, writing, teach- Miller, and Joe Viner.
ing, even growing grapes. Class of '50: Joe Bender,
There is no question that Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Dor-the
word "pioneer" is an apt ris, Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn
description of each of you- Graves, and daughter, Ju-then
and now. lia, Mr. and Mrs. John
Turner. Class of '51: Bob
Knorr and Jack Moss.
Class of '52: Pete Cozzetto,
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Mr. and Mrs . Charles Ritter '47, Bill Bierer '47, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Dahlknmp '47, Joseph Klein '47, Bob Anderson '47, Al Jankus '47,
Lester Maasch '47, Tom Bell '47.
1----------------. as international circulation direc­"
Thunderbird was one of the
most important and lasting ex­periences
in our lives. We both
feel A.I.F. T. started us on a
"life of travel" and a desire
never to give up our "inquisi-tiveness"
... A.I.F.T. is like "a
relative" proud of each gradu-ate's
accomplishments, and
we'll always feel a part of your
Thunderbird family."
Howard D. Hoops '51
Administrator (retired)
Red Cross
Pacifica, CA
tor for Time Magazine. He now
lives in Raleigh, NC and concen­trates
on investments. James re­cived
the Jonas Mayer Distin­guished
Alumnus Award in 1953.
Sidney Braufman is vice presi­dent
of industrial affairs for Sper­ry
Corp. in Purchase, NY.
Albert F. Cariello Jr. retired in
1978 as vice president of SunCo.
in Radnor, PA.
Harold Carpenter, Jr. is retired
from General Tire and Rubber
Co. and is living in Tucson. He
maintains a summer residence in
McCall, ID.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Eugene D. Cooper retired in 1970
as owner of Tiger Transport Co.
He is living in Yuma, AZ.
Louie F. Curtis retired in 1968 as
superintendent, U.S. Post Office
Dept. He returned to school in
anthropology and graduated with
a B.S. He is a volunteer archaeol­ogist
living in Prescott.
George J. Dietz is an alternate
permanent representative of the
U.S. to the United Nations Agen­cies
for Food and Agriculture in
Rome. This is his seventh embas­sy
post.
"Without a doubt, the major
educational experience of my
life."
Louie F. Curtis '47
Superintendent (retired)
U.S. Post Office Department
Prescott, AZ
Robert H. Kahley retired in 1981
as an accountant, and is living in
Rochester, NY.
Charles W. Edmiston retired in
1969 as a special agent from the
F.B.1. He now lives in Miami and
works with thoroughbred horses,
travels and golfs.
Hal Kalmans retired in 1978 as a
film and videotape producer and
writer. He is now concentrating
on art and is living in Westches­ter,
IL.
Frank R. King retired in 1978 as
(left to right) John Turner '50, Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Dorris '50, Mrs.
Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Arnstein '53, Mavis Voris.
president of T.O.K. He is living Herb H. Lindstrom is the divi-in
Amarillo, TX.
Edwin J. Lamb spent 14 years sion director for export develop-with
Creole Petroleum in Vene- ment with the U.S. Dept. of
zuela and 10 years self-employed Commerce in Ft. Washington,
in Seattle. He is retired and pur- MD. He plans to retire to Cape
Cod in the near future .
suing his avocations of anthro- W. Robert Marisa retired in 1978
I pology and archeology. He lives as chairman of the foreign lan­in
Cuzco, Peru.
Fred A. Leisering retired in 1983 guage department of the Penn­as
president of Sears Roebuck del sylvania University System. He
Peru. He is now the country di- spent many years in France as a
Steve Hutnek '47 joins Mr and rector for Peru of the Internation- consultant and was awarded the
Mrs. Gale Warner '48
al Executive Service Corps in "Order of the Academic Palms"
Lima. Fred received the Jonas by the French Government. He
I----------------i Mayer Distinguished Alumnus lives in Atlantic City with his
. "We felt like pioneers!" A d · 1967 family .
Robert P. Bertocchi '50
I-_w_a_r_m_ __._ _____- --i Irwin Marks retired in 1983 as
managing director of United Art­ists,
Spain. He lives in Acushnet,
Sales Service Manager "1 feel that my year at Thun- MA.
Allen Bradley Co. derbird was one of the high-
Milwaukee, WI
I---------------i lights of my life. It gave me the
necessary background to get an
overseas position with Ameri­can
Express. This led to exten­sive
travel to different areas of
Edward G. Engelsen is an inter­national
economist for the Bank
of California in San Francisco. He
and his wife, Celeste, recently
celebrated their 35th wedding
anniversary.
the world."
William O. Neumann '48
Vice President (semi-retired)
Towne Travel
Middlesex, NJ
Robert L. Mcintire retired in
1981 as president of Sears de
Venezuela. He lives in Glenside,
PA.
Robert E. Michael is an instruc­tor
of business at the College of
San Mateo in California. His wife
Viola, a librarian at Thunderbird
in '47-'48, is now retired .
(left to right) Al Zimberoff '48,
Bob Bean '48, Mrs. Zimberoff,
and Mrs. Bean look through
Alfred G. Eriksson owns a print,
map and book business, with
material from the 16th to 19th
century. He lives in New York.
Carl G. Gonzalez retired as a
manager in Latin America in Jan­uary
1984. He plans to buy a sail­boat
and sail to the Caribbean.
Joseph W. Graf retired in 1981
after 34 years with WABCO in
Peoria, IL., selling fleets of min­ing
trucks in 65 different coun­tries.
He now lives in Morton,
1----------------' school scrapbooks.
IL.
Steve L. Hutnek is owner of Bay
Sales & Manufacturing Co. which
manufactures brass, aluminum,
and stainless steel specialty hand­rails
in San Francisco.
Merle E. Johnson Jr. retired in
November 1982 as corporate sec­retary-
controller of The Sexauer
Company in Brookings, SD. He
is past chairman of the Council
of Governors, MD-5, and Lions
International.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Florence Mervis retired in 1975
as personnel director for 27 years
with Federation of Jewish Philan­thropies
of New York. She has
traveled extensively since.
Gerald Mirkin is president of
Mirkin Volkswagen in Haw­thorne,
CA. Gerald is a member
of Thunderbird's Presidents
Council.
Bill E. Mitchell retired in August
1984 as president and general
manager of B.F. Goodrich Philip­pines,
Inc. He spent 30 years
overseas. He recently incorporat­ed
a small consulting company,
"A small advertisement, an­nouncing
the newly founded
A.I.F.T., in a Sunday New York
Times in June 1946, started us
on the road to Thunderbird and
with the experience of that year
we have enjoyed a most satis-fying
career in international
business. "
Bill Mitchell '47
Founding Partner
International Resources, Inc.
Clover, SC
International Resources, Inc. in
Clover, Sc. Bill received the Jon­as
Mayer Distinguished Alumnus
Award in 1955.
John H. Moynahan is vice presi­dent
of Bailey and Casey Inc. in
Miami. He spent the summer of
1983 in Kenya visiting his son
who is a doctor.
Richard P. Murlless retired in
1975 from Rockwell International,
as regional manager for Latin
America. Since retirement he has
been involved in investments. He
lives in Oakland.
Barney Olsen retired as corporate
vice president with Kaiser Steel
Corp. and has set up Bordo In­ternational,
Inc. a consulting
firm. He is living in Walnut
Creek, CA.
15
(front, left to right) Bob Bean
'48, Harry Tiber '53, and Mrs.
Bean (background) Dave Moir '49
Robert S. Thomas retired from
Sohio in 1982 as wholesale and
consumer pricing coordinator,
marketing department. He lives
in N. Olmstead, OH.
Class of
'48
Robert C. Brock retired in 1966
as president of Brock's Coin Op­erated
Laundromats, Inc. He is
now a senior counselor of North­east
Florida Better Business
Council and lives in Jacksonville.
1--------------1 Robert was the first recipient of
"]'d probably rate my year at the Jonas Mayer Distinguished
Thunderbird on a par with WW Alumnus Award in 1952.
II for an experience and, with- Edward J. Bums Jr. retired in
out doubt, the greatest and best December after 17 years teaching
influence on work career. Still at Avondale Junior High. He and
have active friendships from his wife live in Phoenix.
days at T'bird." Oliver W. Chapman retired in
1983 as president of Chapman
John W. Turner '48 Enterprises, Inc. He is moving to
Marketing Manager (retired) Colorado and planning "to build
Sears International a retirement home from scratch."
Kingsland, TX Francis Richard Crane is general
1-____________ -1 manager of Naarden Internation-
Ernest H. Olsen is president of
Hypron, Inc., an export manage­ment
company in Pasadena.
James O.B. Phillips is the direc­tor
and president of A vip am Tur­ismo
in Rio de Janeiro where he
and his wife also own the Lord
Jim Pub. James received the Jon­as
Mayer Distinguished Alumnus
Award in 1961.
Irving Platt is working with Dav­id
Platt & Co. Inc., as sales man­ager.
He plans to retire at the
end of 1984.
Sheldon G. Pooley is president
of Irrometer Co. Inc. , a manufac­turer
of soil moisture measure­ment
equipment in Riverside,
CA.
Ernest J. Rokahr retired in De­cember
after 11 years with U.S.
pharmaceutical companies in
Southeast Asia and Latin Ameri­ca
and 21 years as an internation­al
trade specialist with the Los
Angeles District Office, U.S.
Dept. of Commerce. He lives in
L.A.
al do Brasil Ltda. in Sao Paulo.
William E. Davis retired in 1979
as a tax and delinquent fee col­lector
in Guilford County, NC.
Both he and his wife, Allce, are
recovering from major opera­tions.
They are living in
Greensboro.
Werner E. Diehl retired in 1983
as vice president of Northern
Trust Bank of Florida. He spent
30 years overseas and is currently
living in Miami.
Norman L. Gray, and his wife,
Jean, just bought a small busi­ness,
Trim-Line of Tucson.
Wilbert F. Heitman retired in
February as manager, interna­tional
personnel, Bechtel Corp.
He is living in Lafayette, CA.
John D. Henson is president of
J.D. Henson Assoc. , an interna­tional
management consulting
firm in Miami. He retired from
the State Department in 1976, af­ter
working and living in Asia for
22 years and in Europe for five.
David C.Kilmer is self-employed
as a management consultant in
Belvedere, CA.
Robert F. MacCachran is the in­ternational
sales manager for
Dennison in Framingham, MA.
Lowell K. Marcus retired in July
1983 as president of the LCK
Corporation. He flew as a cadet
at Thunderbird and came back as
a student under General Yount.
Alfred F. Miossi is executive vice
president of Continentallllinois
National Bank. He continues to
serve Thunderbird as a trustee
and lecturer at Winterim. Al re­ceived
the Jonas Mayer Distin­guished
Alumnus Award in 1975.
Robert B. Moyer is manager of
Goodyear, San Francisco district,
and lives in Stow, OH.
Robert D. Munger retired as the
president of Southern Resources
Company. He is the Chairman of
the Service Corps of Retired Ex­ecutives
and lives in Little Rock,
AR.
William O. Neumann is semi-re­tired
as vice president of travel
for Towne Travel in Middlesex,
NJ·
Earl S. Osburn is a consultant for
tax havens and tax shelters in
Coral Gables.
John Schlosser retired from Fire­stone
after 33 years to start work
for Omnitronics Research Corp.
as director of export sales and
sales development. He is living
in Akron.
Peter P. Skupien retired in 1981
as branch chief of the GSA Stock­pile
Division, Midwest Region in
S. Holland, IL. He is taking
courses at a local college and has
plans to travel.
Eloise Crump Terho is a Spanish
teacher at Pittsford-Mendon High
School in Pittsford, NY.
Allan P. Terho retired in 1983 as
manager of international market­ing
training for Eastman Kodak
Co,
Roberta Thome is a junior high
school reading teacher at Biloxi
Jr, High in Biloxi, MS.
Norman E. Wanek retired in 1980
as director of sales, after 30 years
with Schering-Plough Corp. He
is now involved in personal
property management on a part­time
basis.
Gale Tim Warner retired in 1977
as managing director for Fire­stone
Tyre and Rubber Co. of In­dia
in Bombay. He and his wife
live in Phoenix.
Harold A. Wright retired in 1981
as manager of rate proceedings
for Western Airlines, He has fos­ter
chidren in Peru, Colombia,
Ecuador and Nepal.
Allan L. Zimberoff is president
of Allan L. Zimberoff & Associ­ates
in Albuquerque.
Leonard M. Zolkos is the indus­trial
hygiene coordinator for the
Inland Steel Company in High­land,
IN.
Class of
'49
Robert Allen, Jr. is a professor of
accounting at Cerriton College in
Norwalk, CA.
Chester E. Beaman retired in
1972 from the U.S. diplomatic
service. He has his own person­nel
management consulting firm
and frequently handles projects
for the State Department. He is
living in Alexandria, VA.
Samuel X. Bloom is self-em­ployed
as a manufacturers' repre­sentative
in Pittsford, New York.
Thomas G. Bourke retired in
1983 as the president of First Se­curity
Bank of Idaho. He is living
in Boise.
Lloyd Clark teaches classes at
I------------~ Rio Salado Community College
"The social and inter-cultural
values] learned at A.I.F.T. have
influenced and enhanced all of
my experiences since then."
Stanley L. Scharf '47
Quality engineer (retired)
Hughes Helicopter
Los Angeles, CA
in'Sun City. One, "U,S. Military
Posts of the Arizona Frontier,"
includes visits to the old camps.
Another, "Casa Blanca," studies
the award-winning movie. Lloyd
recently interviewed Howard
Koch, the film's screenwriter,
Neil M. Clark, retired in 1983 as
the district director of the Ameri­can
Red Cross in Frankfurt, West
f---------------4Germany. He is living in Sierra
Vista, AZ.
William D. Connolly is a self­employed
marketing consultant
in Stuart, FL.
Robert C. Ellis retired in 1983 as
vice president of Citibank Inter­national
in Houston. He is now
living in Santa Fe.
William L. Schaeffer retired as
manager of integrated logistics
engineering support at Litton In­ternationallDCS.
He is presently
an international management
consultant, a member of a Presi­dential
Task Force, the Congres­sional
Advisory Board, and the
National Aviation Hall of Fame.
He is living in Austin, TX.
Stanley L. Scharf retired from
the u.s. Army in 1967 with the
rank of Lt. Colonel. He then
worked for Hughes Helicopters
as a quality engineer until 1980.
In 1983, after one year as a full­time
student, he graduated from
Cal. State University.
f--------- ------4 Mr. and Mrs. John Turner '50
Don Groves is employed as a
staff scientist at the National
Academy of Sciences National
Research Council. Don has au­thored
over 200 articles and two
books.
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"] discoverd the value of
excellence. "
Brayton Lincoln '52
President
Sales Opportunities Unlimited
S, Dartmouth, MA
reminisce with Berger Erickson.
John W. Turner retired from
Sears International in 1980 as
marketing manager and since
then has been working full time
in social and church benevolence
work.
John G. Gustafson is involved
with international investments.
He was formerly president of
Gustafson Lincoln Mercury. John
was married last falL
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
/lThunderbird has provided me
with instant friends and con­tacts
throughout the world dur­ing
my career in international
banking, which has been both
gratifying and helpful./I
John P. Weaver '52
Vice President
Bankers Trust
Sao Paulo, Brazil
al trade company, SIBCO Int'l
Trade Inc. in Stamford, CT.
Helen J. Deman retired in 1982
from Federal Services and is now
employed as assistant to the Vol­unteer
Coordinator for Contra
Costa County, CA.
Winfield, AL. Gunner spent 30
years with B.F. Goodrich Interna­tional
prior to his current posi­tion.
He returned to Thunderbird
in 1978 to complete the M.I.M.
requirements.
Robert A. Keffeler retired in
1980 as a general agent for All­state
Insurance Co. in Fairport,
NY.
Charles R. Hoffman is president
and owner of E.G. Vernon and
Son, Inc., a retail building mate­rials
company in Anderson, IN.
William J. Hoge retired in 1980
as an officer with U.S. Immigra­tion.
After 33 years of service, he
retired to the desert near Tucson.
Robert Bruce Hughes is an attor­ney
with the U.S. government
Office of Personnel Management,
Washington, DC.
Robert F. Kline is director, sup­port
operations staff, for Motoro­la
Inc., Government Electronics
Group in Phoenix.
Bill De Smith and his wife Bon­nie,
have both worked for Ar­mour
Food Company for more
than 34 years. They live in Ana­heim,
CA.
1-------------1 Irving A. Enevold retired in 1981
John R. Long, Jr. is managing di­rector
of Paternoster Financial
Services Limited in Hong Kong.
Edward E. Lundquist retired as
an FAA flight service specialist.
He is living in Midland, TX.
James A. Markley, Jr. is presi­dent
of Provident Bank in
Cincinnati.
T. Upton Ramsey has retired as a
chef, but still teaches cooking
and does a live TV show once a
week on cooking. He is living in
Salt Lake City.
Robert S. Ross retired in 1976
from G. & c. Merriam Co.
F. William Sohle is investment
representative with California
Federal Savings & Loan, Laguna
Hills, CA.
Donald H. Stay is senior vice
president of Safeco Insurance
Companies in Edmonds, WA. He
has traveled extensively in Amer­ica
and Europe.
Dwight A. Steffen retired as vice
r---------------I president of the First National
Bank of Boston. He lives in
Southern Pines, NC. His two
sons are also Thunderbird
graduates.
Dr. and Mrs. John Eikenberry
'53 toast good memories with
Carmen Madrigal Boller (center),
associate professor of Spanish.
/II will never forget the school
and the professors. The students
now will never know those first
great leaders and workers.
What a crew!/I
Joseph P. Viner (formerly Ven­ditti)
considered the Pioneer Re­union
"one of the most
important events in my life," es­pecially
commencement. He lives
in San Diego.
Walter R. Kelley '52
Colonel (retired)
U.S. Air Force
Bossier City, LA Clarence L. Wasson, Jr. is vice
I------------~ president of Citibank N.A. in
Rowley Lascelles is director of
buildings, grounds and transpor­tation
for the San Luis Coastal
Unified School District.
Louis P. Lingua, Jr. is president
of Lingua Motor Works, Inc. in
MemphiS.
Paul Maertzweiler retired in 1983
as the southeast regional manag­er,
mining and construction
group of Joy Mfg. Co.
Edgar J. Mongan, Jr. is an attor­ney
in Rancho Cordova, CA.
Henry T. Mulryan is senior vice
president of industrial minerals,
for Amoco Minerals Co., in
Denver.
Richard Kerr Mursion is control­ler
for a medium-sized joint ven­ture
company, McQuay do
Brasil, in Sao Jose dos Campos,
Brazil. Richard graduated from
law school in 1982 and was ad­mitted
to the Brazilian Bar Asso­ciation
in early 1983.
Charles M. Pal meter retired in
1983 as associate manager of
claims f.or Pacific Telephone and
is living in Escondido, CA.
Charles is interested in informa­tion
on traveling by car in South
America. Contact him with any
information.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
New York.
Class of
'50
Richard C. Anderson retired in
1983 as a federal mine inspector.
He spent 18 years in metal mines
in Mexico and has stayed on
to"take it easy."
Joseph R. Bender is president of
Kerry Patch Travel in Dallas.
Robert P. Bertocchi, Jr. is sales
service manager, international di­vision,
Allen Bradley Co. in Mil­waukee.
He plans to retire
sometime in 1984.
John F. Biehl, Sr. is a marketing
manager with Brunswick Corp.
He is living in Anaheim, CA.
Ralph R. Bower, is self-em­ployed
as an executive outplace­ment
consultant in Waterford,
VA.
Sterling L. Boyce retired as vice
president of Miles Pharmaceuti­cals
Division, Miles Laboratories,
Inc. He is living in Madison, CT.
Sebastian J. Buccheri, has retired
after 30 years with the Bendix
and Facet Corporations in inter­national
operations. He is now
president of his own intemation-and
lives in Toms River, NJ.
Robert M. Frehse, Jr. is vice
president and executive director,
William Randolph Hearst Foun­dations
in New York. He was the
first recipient of the Barton Kyle
Yount Award in 1950.
James R. Goldsborough taught
economics and history at Lowell
High School in San Francisco for
21 years and retired in 1983. He
started out as a foreign bank in­spector
in Europe and Latin
America in 1950.
Selwyn J. Graves retired in 1980
as division manager of Wilbur-El­lis
Co. in San Diego.
William A. Harris is president of
Ideal Standard S.A. de C.V. in
Mexico City.
George D. Miller is the owner
and manager of Estudio Miller, a
photographic portrait studio in
Mexico City. He "would wel­come
old friends stopping by."
Charles Cliff Mitchell is vice
president of marketing for Mid­Western
Machinery Co., Inc. in
Joplin, MO. He and his wife,
Jerry, recently celebrated their
40th wedding anniversary.
Charles C. Muse is president of
Intergraphic Inc. in Panama. His
son Mark is a first semester stu­dent
at Thunderbird.
r--------------I Robert E. Peck is coordinator of
/lIf your firm intention in going
to Thunderbird is to learn and
to learn how to use what you
have learned, then Thunderbird
is where it is at. /I
Jeronimo A. Morales '53
Owner
Frontier Employment Agency
Norwalk, CA
marketing and management for
Grossmont College in EI Cajon,
CA. He is finishing a book on
male mid-life crisis entitled,
"Mid-Life Man on the Road to
Oz."
Glenn W. Pederson retired in
1981 as assistant vice president of
Burlington Northern Railroad. He
lives in st. Paul.
Elaine Fritz Rice, Ph.D. is now a
r--------------I teacher trainer in Togo with the
(left to right) Bob Arnstein '53,
Van Crichfield 53, and Ed Garcia
'53 visit at the Alumni Relations
Office.
Virgil E. Heidbrink is district
sales manager for Hammermill
Papers Group, Dallas, TX. He
continues to study Spanish regu­larly
with a private tutor.
William Hunt is president of
University Travel in Seattle and
is also Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer of
the American Society of Travel
Agents.
Farnham J. (Gunner) Johnson is
director, international, for Conti­nental
Conveyor & Equipment in
Peace Corps. She has also
worked for the United Nations.
Her home in Togo is open to all
T'birds.
Alvin G. Robins retired in 1983
as general manager of Grupo Me­talplas
in Panama. He lives in
Fallbrook, CA.
Denman F. Stanfield retired as
American Consul, Chief Consular
Section, Monterrey, Mexico in
1973. Since retirement he has be­come
a competitive runner and
has run several marathons. He is
living in Harlingen, TX.
Joseph C. Tooke retired in 1983
after 28 years as manager of the
Fort Myers Office, Florida State
Employment Service.
Calvin L. Van Pelt is president
of the Columbia World Trade
Center Corporation. He is also
Honorary Consul for the Repub­lic
of South Africa in Portland.
John N. Wilson retired in 1981 as
a trade specialist, U.S. Depart­ment
of Commerce. He lives in
Guntersvilla, AL.
17
Daniel D. Witcher is vice presi­dent
of the Upjohn Co.,; presi­dent
& general manager of
Upjohn International Inc.; and
Chairman of the Board, Upjohn
Health Care Services. He is also a
member of Thunderbird's Board
of Trustees. Dan received the
Jonas Mayer Distinguished Al­umnus
Award in 1973.
Class of
David E.Morgan is vice president
of Cedar Heights Clay Co. in
Oak Hill, OH.
Paul E. Murray, Jr. retired in
1976 as vice president, sales and
marketing manager for Bank of
America International. He has
been a guest lecturer in Interna­tional
Business at San Jose State,
U. of Washington and Stanford.
Sidney M. Pace is managing
Ed Garcia '53 and Joe Viner '49 partner at Pace Ranches in Gate­way,
CO.
"Was probably the happiest
and most productive year of my
youth studying under and asso­ciated
with such giants as
Schurz, Shaterian, Gail Murphy,
Frank Jackal and on-and-on!!!"
Selwyn J. Graves '50
Division Manager (retired)
Wilbur-Ellis Co.
San Diego, CA
Elmer L. Edwards is director of John K. Pidcock is president and
Nancy Basset and John Barring- Empresas Norte-Sur S.R.L. and chairman of the board of House
ton announce the marriage of Empresas Norte-Sur de Orient of Aloe Corp. in Guam.
'51 Class of
'52 their son, John Basset Barrington S.R.L. He is based in Maracaibo, Jose Garcia Roady is export di-
(who is presently attending Venezuela. rector for Companie Internation- Roy L. Baughman is executive
Thunderbird) to Peggy Ann William M. Ferry is semi-retired ale de Restauration in Marseilles, vice president of Sterling Asia in
Blind, Dec. 31, 1983 in Eugene, and working as an account repre- France. Manila. He is retiring soon to the
Oregon. sentative with National Pre-paid John Thomas Rogstad is group Napa Valley after 31 years
D. Barker Bates retired in 1979 as Legal Services, Inc. He is living vice president of Upjohn Interna- overseas.
a packaging engineer for Long- in Nashville, TN. tional and has traveled to over 80 Norman Blackie retired in 1976
view Fibre Co. He is a consultant John M. Frikart, Ph.D. retired in countries. He is now living in from Singer Business Machines
and volunteer for the Fort Worth 1971 as associate professor of Kalamazoo, MI. as regional director of dealer op-
Museum of Science and History. Economics from the University of Jack P. Snyder is semi-retired af- erations in Latin America. He is
He lives in Benbrook, TX. Arizona and currently resides in ter selling his business 2 years running a small export operation
Jack B. Bartholf retired in 1983 Tucson. He is a member of the ago. He will be driving around in Castro Valley, CA.
as president of Union Carbide original faculty at Thunderbird the country this year and "is Eugene Cantore is vice president
Colombia, S.A. and Union Car- and taught here for 9 years. John looking for some interesting of Citibank in Porto Alegre, Bra-bide
Ecuador, S.A. His wife, was also responSible for estab- places to visit." He hopes class- zil. He has been with Citibank
Dorothy, also a T'bird, died two lishing the alumni records here at mates will contact him. for 40 years.
years ago of cancer. He lives in Thunderbird. John R. Timmel is managing di- Peter R. Cozzetto is president of
Melbourne, FL. Howard D. Hoops retired in 1975 rector of Manufacturers Hanover Cesco International, Inc. in Min-
Patricia M. Birch Giddings is an as administrator for the Red Bank in Luxembourg. neapolis, MN.
interior designer with her hus- Cross. He and his wife Billie ~--------------1 George S.W. Cumpston is semi-band's
architectural firm in New- have traveled extensively in Asia retired but working full time as
port Beach. They received the and Latin America. "[ have always thought the parts manager in Aircraft Mainte-
A.LA. Honor Award for a build- Donald M. Johnson is regional first class of the school set the nance Co. in Tucson.
ing they designed in Puerto director for the Cigna Corp. tone for years to come." George I. Curtis, has worked in
Vallarta. based in Macon, GA. He and his Ernest Rokahr '47 his own Oficina de Hipnosis for
Carlos F. Borja is subrepresenta- wife, Libby, have won numerous International Trade Specialist the past 24 years in Costa Rica.
tive in Peru for the Inter-Ameri- awards for volunteer work in (retired) Laurence M. Finney is an associ-can
Development Bank. He has their community. Donald was ate professor of Spanish at Thun-been
stationed in 7 Latin Ameri- Thunderbird's placement and al- U.S. Dept. of Commerce derbird. He has been a faculty
can countries. His next post will umni director in the early '50s. Los Angeles, CA member for more than 30 years.
be in Paraguay. Jerome Emsley Johnson is self- Robert E. Gabriel has been the
William C. Bramble is director of employed as owner/president of Bob Thompson is self-employed owner of Accounting Profession
marketing in Central and South Eagle Propeller Manufacturing as a real estate broker. In recent in Amherst, NY since 1963. He is
America for Ralston Purina Inter- Company in Calhan, CO. years, he and his wife have trav- also the director of several civic
national. He lives in Coral Cecil A. Kersten retired in 1975 eled extensively. They live in organizations.
Gables. as regional sales manager (Asia- Santa Ana, CA. Ernest Garfield is chairman of
Thomas P. Carter is a professor Africa) for Goodyear Internation- Harry B. Turner retired in 1983 Allied Bancorp, Inc. and Inter-of
education at California State al after 22 years. He then spent as owner of Investment Counsel bank Services, Inc. in Phoenix.
University in Sacramento. He re- several years in theater and in Santa Barbara, CA. He has Raymond T. Gillen is vice presi-cently
completed a study of effec- toured with major film stars in- since spent time camping in the dent of Continental Illinois Na-tive
bilingual schools, to be cluding Henry Fonda, Eva Marie Northwest Territory and the Arc- tional Bank in Chicago.
published shortly. Saint and Jane Russell. He and tic and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. William E. Insch retired in 1982
John H. Downey is finance direc- his wife have retired to Laguna John A. Warner returned from from CrnA/Geigy Pharmaceuti-tor-
secretary for Goodyear Jamai- Beach. Cecil received the Jonas Mexico in 1983 after several years cals. He and his wife live in Win-ca
Ltd., in Kingston, Jamaica. Mayer Distinguished Alumnus as president of Sabritas, a subsid- stan-Salem, NC.
t-------------~ Award in 1959. iary of PepsiCo Foods Interna- Charles C. Janson is sales man-
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"Thunderbird made me a mem­ber
of an exclusive club . .. the
result being I'm never a strang-er-
be it Cairo or Caracas;
Khartoum or Karachi; Singa­pore
or Sao Paulo, and [ could
go on and on."
John T. Rogstad '51
Group Vice President
Upjohn International
Kalamazoo, MI
John A. Klingelsmith is western tional. He is now a senior vice ager, Insulation Specialists Inc. in
regional manager for Wilsolite president of the parent company. Glendale.
Corporation in Los Angeles. He and his wife live in La Jolla. Richard I. Johnson is an associ-
Vidor W. Landrigan is general John received the Jonas Mayer ate in malacology, Museum of
and sales manager for Petrolera Distingiushed Alumnus Award Comparative Zoology, Harvard
Chevron Inc. in San Juan. in 1983 and is currently a mem- University, Cambridge, MA.
Shelton W. Marlow, Ph.D. is ber of Thunderbird's Presidents James V. Kauffman retired in
president of New Mexico Univer- Council. 1981 from his own business. He
sity at Carlsbad. He spent many Frank E. Watkins is a dentist and is living in Queretaro, Mexico.
years in Pakistan, Bangladesh part-time business developer in Walter R. Kelley retired as Colo-and
Thailand. Saratoga, CA. He is president of nel in the U.S. Air Force in 1970.
John L. McFadden is director of Dental Health Center, Inc. He attended pilot training at
Laurie Auditorium at Trinity Uni- Thunderbird in '41-'42.
versity in San Antonio.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Charles H. Kesse retired in 1979
as district manager of Beneficial
Finance Corp. in Atchison, KS.
Brayton Lincoln is president of
Sales Opportunities Unlimited in
Dartmouth, MA. He recently
published a book, Mechanical Fas­tening
of Plastics, and is starting
on his second.
Toby R. Madison is the director
of Thunderbird Travel, Inc. a
California corporation and special
consultant to the management of
New Zealand Optical Ltd. of
Auckland. Toby lives in New
Zealand, his native country.
Dana A. Nelson is a Spanish
professor in Tucson. He recently
released a critical reconstruction
of El Libro de Alixandre, an early
13th century Spanish classic.
George J. Peckham is superin­tendent
of poultry production in
Guatemala City.
Robert D. Vance is assistant area
executive, Latin America, for Mo­bil
South Inc. in New York.
Raymond L. Voisard has turned
to painting and drawing after a
"fruitful career in foreign trade."
He recently had a one-man show
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
John P. Weaver is vice president
and senior representative for
Bankers Trust in Sao Paulo. This
is his second assignment in
Brazil.
Robert S. Williamson is a part­ner
and developer of industrial
and business parks in Oklahoma.
After 15 years in Mexico, Robert
misses lithe international flavor
of living abroad. II
Van F. Crichfield is self-em­ployed
in housing and land de­velopment.
He and his wife live
in Longmont, CO.
Margaret E. Dougherty retired in
1982 as editor of Maryland Maga­zine
and from the U.S. Naval Re­serve
as a Captain in 1979. She is
currently renovating two proper­ties
in historic Baltimore.
George Dzambik is a general
agent for American Amicable Life
Insurance Co. in Phoenix.
John H. Eikenberry is superin­tendent
of schools in Wilcox, AZ.
He and his wife, Betty, attended
the Pioneer Reunion in December
and found it a "wonderfully rem­iniscent
and renewing
experience. II
"I have obtained three degrees
in my academic training: a B.S.
in Foreign Business Administra­tion
from U. of S.c., a Master's
in Economics from the Foreign
Service Institute and a Juris
Doctorate from USc. My one
year at Thunderbird has helped
me more in understanding and
in helping me to live in Latin
America these past 20 years
than any other institution of
higher learning."
Carlos Borja '51
Subrepresentative
Inter-American Development Bank
Lima, Peru
La Senorita de Noronha visits
with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Craig
'49.
Richard K. Enochson works in
government sales for Norwich- Raymond T. May was self-em­Eaton
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and ployed for many years and re-lives
in Castro Valley, CA. cently retired. He is currently
"Thunderbird crystallized and
directed my career. As a mem­ber
of the Board of Trustees, I
am on campus frequently and
greatly enjoy participating in
the continuing development of
Stephen J. Fouchek owns Fou- helping his son start a mail order
chek Realtors, builders, devel- business.
the school."
opers and investment brokers, in Jeronimo A. Morales is the own-
McAllen, TX. er and manager of Frontier Em-
Daniel D. Witcher '50
President, General Manager
Upjohn International
Kalamazoo, MI
f---------------I ployment Agency, Notary Public
and Accounting Services. Most of
"Was one of the best years of
my life-profoundly affected my
career path and led to some
wonderful years in Brazil, Hong
Kong and Spain."
John H. Moynahan '47
Vice President
Bailey and Casey, Inc.
Miami, FL
his work is with the Latin Amt ci-I--------------i
can public. He and his wife liv ~
in Norwalk, CA. and had hop~d Deaths to attend the reunion.
Robert H. Morehouse has re- Richard B. Bentley ' 48 has died
turned to Tokyo as director of of cancer. His wife Jean is retired
Skandinaviska Enskilda Ltd., and writes that she and Richard
London. "enjoyed every minute of our
Sam Neblett is in the accounting stay in Thunderbird." Jean lives
department of IBM in White in Webb City, MO.
f---------------I Plains, NY. He has recently re- Richard L. Burkland ' 48 died last
Jack R. Hams, writes that "in quested transfer to Florida. December in Phoenix. Richard
1982 (he) came out of retirement William Schollard, Jr. is execu- was a retired agricultural repre-for
the third time." He and his tive vice president, international, sentative with Leffingwe Chemi-wife,
Pat, are living in Seaside, of Allied Bank in New York. He cal Co. He is survived by his
1-------------- OR. lives in Huntington. wife Nancy, two children and
"It was great to have Dr. Clif Roland E. Garcia is president of Eugene H. Schultz is an employ- four grandchildren.
Cox join our Thunderbird team Regar Recycling, Co. and M & R ment interviewer for Florida Job Keith M. Rowe '49 died of lung
(as Chairman of the World Garcia Properties Co., Inc. He is Service, in Winter Haven. He cancer last December. While
Business Department) after living in Fresno, CA. He attend- married Katherine W. Jarrell in undergoing chemotherapy and
leaving Armour Food Co. after ed the reunion in December and March. radiation, he actively continued
so many years." writes lito those who couldn't James R. Smeed is chairman and as president of Paccar Leasing
make it, you missed a stirring CEO of Dynasonics Corporation. Corporation, in Mercer Island,
Bill De Smith '50 occasion. II He plans to retire this year. He is WA. He is survived by his wife,
Armour Food Co. Tom Hitchcock celebrated his active in the John Birch Society Norma, and their three children.
Placentia, CA 30th anniversary with Citibank and lives in Bakersfield, CA. Irving A. Taylor '49 died last
1--------------1 last June. He and his wife Mary James C. Stanley is president of year of leukemia. He was 62
Class of
'53
Thomas J. Adams is a professor
of business, Sacramento City Col­lege.
He has published 9 books
and has been farming 90 acres of
grapes since 1979.
Norman C. Bailey is a regional
manager with Dunbar Kapple, a
manufacturer of pneumatic con­veyors.
He is living in Jackson­ville,
FL.
Edward C. Campeau, retired af­ter
26 years with IBM and is now
self-employed as a developer of
educational software for the IBM
Personal Computer in Pittsburgh.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Wrinch Hitchcock are living in Fuertejidos, S.A. in Costa Rica. years old. Most recently, he was
Stamford, CT. Tom received the Charles T. Wood retired in 1983 special assistant to the director,
Jonas Mayer Distinguished Al- as a vice president of STP Inter- Office of Health, Bureau of Sci-umnus
Award in 1965. national. He is living in Boca Ra- ence and Technology in Detroit.
Edward J. Kelly is labor relations ton, FL. Charles writes that "our He is survived by his wife, Eliza-chief
for the county of San Ber- 30th reunion at Thunderbird was beth, two sons, and four
nardino, CA. He is also a part- most memorable. II grandchildren.
time professor. . f---------------j Baysel Jernstadt '50 died last
Frank V. Kraml retired in 1980 as April.
group manager of Nestle's Brazil- "My decision to change careers Wilford J. (Jerry) Marshall '51
ian subsidiary. . and attend Thunderbird, was died of ALS, a form of muscular
John B. Lambert is a frrofessional probably the single most im- dystrophy, last August. He had
writing consultant, a reelance portant event in my business been president of Marshall Ex-writer
and editor. Prior to this, lile." port Corporation in South Bend,
he worked for General Electric as J' IN.
a design engineer, proposal writ- Cliff Mitchell '50 Werner Arthur Jung '52 died last
er and contract negotiator for 40 Vice President, Marketing June after a long battle with can-years.
He is currently a member Mid-Western Machinery cer, in Salt Lake City.
of Thunderbird's Presidents Joplin, MO
Council.
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"The Thunderbird experience Silver Reunion was the first step in what has
been an endlessly fascinating
The Silver Reunion of 25-Year T' Birds and exciting career of twenty-the
class of 1958 took place five-plus years in international
on January 12-13 with t, __________ .. _________ ~ banking."
fourteen alumni returning III Robert La Port '58
to campus. Class of Senior Vice President
A reception was held '58 'j Bennett Cole is teaching at Flori- American Express International
Thursday evening at the da Southern College in Lakeland, Ba n k·m g Co rp. FL. He would love to see any
Career Services Center. On Stuart D. Brolly is a staff engi- classmates passing through the Brooklyn, NY
Friday morning, speakers neer, space systems, for Lock- area.
from Career Services, Ad- heed Missile and Space Co. in Donnell L. Crain is the Mayor of
Los Altos, CA. Stuart also owns East Wenatchee, W A. and owner
missions, INTERCOM, a computer company. of Crain's Bookstore.
Robert A. Farber retired in 1974
as a securities trader. He and his
World Business and Inter- wife took a trip around the world Edgar T. Busch is a professor of
national Studies brought management at Western Kentuc- I-------------l in 1983. They live in Upper Sad-dle
River, NJ.
the alumni up to date on ky University. He will be teach-the
school's growth and ing at The Netherlands School of
Business this summer. He re­development.
At the alum- turned to teach at Thunderbird in
ni luncheon, Dr. Martin the summer of 1981.
Sours gave an "Update on Waiter A. Bustard is part owner,
Asia." The class banquet director and vice president of
TropiBurger in Caracas.
was held Friday evening at Charles J. Candiano is living in
the Hotel Westcourt. Los Altos, CA. He and his wife,
The following alumni of Sally, would like to hear from
the class of '58 and guests classmates stopping in the Bay
d S Area.
were in atten ance: tan- Kenneth C. Cogdill is manager
ley Allen and twin sons, of corporate planning and control
Fred and Betty Andresen, for Amerada Hess Corporation in
David and Peggy Brown, New York.
Anna Gardner Cullinan,
Frank and Inge Forline,
Richard Graham, Robert
Hinkle, Gerald and Carol
Juliani, Peter and Elaine
Kawakami, George and
Rhoda Lee, Barry and AI­exana
Mason, Frank and
Victoria Pinckard, 'Nute
Sanchez, and Ronald and
Carol Sigler. Others who
attended the reunion were:
David & Peggy Brown '58 review
old yearbook photos
"Have met many of the more
recent 'vintage' T'birds in Chile
and discovered, much to my de­light,
the existence of a true
"esprit de corps," despite the
sometimes considerable age
gap."
Rein Maremaa '58
Self-employed
Santiago, Chile
Ronald F. Faust is resident man­ager
and vice president of Dain
Bosworth Incorporated, in Bill­ings,
MT.
William S. Fishback is the de­partment
chairman of Foreign
Languages for Arlington High
School in Indianapolis.
Douglas F. Hill is executive vice
president of Goodyear Interna­tional
Corp. and vice president of
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com-
1-___________ -----' pany in Akron.
Ron Sigler '58, visits with Tom
Bria, newly appointed director of
External Affairs.
Anna J. Cullinan, whose enter­taining
skit was a highlight of the
reunion, writes "it was a joy
being back." Anna is a widow
living in Tucson with three chil­dren
in college and one in high
school.
"Excellent!"
Donald G. Rosel/ini '58
Vice President and General
Manager
American Can International
Greenwich, CT
Mary Wrinch Hitchcock
'53, Dr. and Mrs. William
Voris, Mr. Berger Erickson,
Dr. Emily Brown, Profes­sor
Connie Fleek Estes, La
Senorita de Noronha, and
Ms. Lora Jeanne Wheeler.
1--------------1 William H. Cunningham, Jr. is
J. Dean Huelat is representing
LSI-RAPISTAN in Central Ameri­ca
and is living in Costa Rica. He
has established a very successful
arts and crafts shop in Costa Rica
called "La Buchaca."
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"Maturity came late to me as a
student-it coincided with
Thunderbird:-my year there led
me on a direct path into a ca­reer
beginning with foreign se-curities
on Wall Street.
Language and Dr. Schurz were
the foundations on which my
career began."
Robert A. Farber '58
Securities Trader (retired)
Upper Saddle River, NJ
president of the Kraft Foods Divi­sion
in Venezuela . Carmen, his
wife, is teaching World and U.s.
History at the American High
School in Caracas.
Dean W. Dietrich is chief, ser­vices
division, Department of Ar­my
Development and Readiness
Command in Alexandria.
William Drum is renovating the
historic Restaurante del Paseo
which he will later operate in
Santa Barbara. His wife Carol, is
managing a bookstore.
Irving P. January is the owner of
January's, Inc. a men's depart­ment
store in Virginia Beach. He
plans to retire at the end of 1984,
to spend half of each year in Vir­ginia
Beach and half in Europe.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRlNG 1984
Gerald B. Juliani is an aquacul­ture
consultant in Quito.
Gary E. Kelley is in Hong Kong
in charge of Beatrice Foods Co.
in Asia. Most of the last 20 years
have been spent overseas. He
and his wife also maintain a
home in Oregon.
Robert E. La Port is senior vice
president of American Express
International Banking Corp. in
New York.
Derek Liecty is vice president of
the newly formed Mason-Mc­Duffie
Mortgage Corp. in Alamo,
California and resides in Oak­land.
He recently toured China
by bicycle.
Rein Maremaa retired in 1979 af­ter
10 years with GTE in Chile.
He has started pilot gliding over
the Andes as a hobby.
Lawrence J. O'Brien recently
formed his own firm, O'Brien
Associates, Inc., specializing in
real estate investment and devel­opment
for U.S. and foreign
investors. He lives in South­hampton,
NY.
"Thunderbird was young and
dynamic and so were we."
Stan Wilson '58
Owner
Snelling & Snelling
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Dwight T. Peterson is self-em­ployed
with Boyd A. Peterson,
Inc. in Redondo Beach. In Janu­ary,
he vacationed in Tahiti.
Plouto Poulios is president and
general partner of a privately
held corporation in Rochester.
Donald G. Rosellini is vice yresi­dent
and general manager 0
American Can International in
New York.
Jack D. Ryder retired in 1982 as
loan officer with the Small Busi­ness
Administration after 25
years with the federal
government.
John S. Shannon teaches social
studies at Carlmont High School
in Belmont, CA.
Fred Sill is coordinator of adver­tising
and publicity (Latin Ameri­ca)
tor United International
Pictures in Panama.
Loren Smith is vice president of
sales and marketing with Univer­sal
Fragrances Domestic and In­ternational
in New York.
John F. Tomlinson is president
of Caribbean Properties Limited
in San Juan.
Thomas C. Trauger is financial
Frank and Inge Forline '58 service manager in Ecuador for
f--------------1 Latin Pacific Finance Corporation
"In retrospect, Thunderbird's
curriculum played an important
part in all our international ca­reers,
but 25 years later what I
perhaps value most are those
special campus memories and
special friendships."
Ray Young '58
Self-employed
Hohokus, NJ
Gerald and Carol Juliani '58 came
all the way from Quito, Ecuador
N.V.
Pieter Vos is general manager of
Amphenol East Asia, division of
Allied Corporation in Hong
Kong. He expects to be moved to
Europe as soon as he completes
this assignment.
"In teres ting. Worked hard­played
hard. A mature group of
students . .. 'Result oriented'
and my guess is the group still
is. "
Loren Smith '58
Vice President, Sales/Marketing
Universal Fragrances
Mountainside, NJ
Cleo E. Wall is president of HUB
International Inc. in Houston. He
recently completed a marketing
study for a Nigerian company.
Stan Wilson is the owner of
Snelling & Snelling Brasil, the
largest network of employment
agencies in Brazil.
Raymond W. Young is self-em­ployed
and living in Hohokus,
NJ·
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Boulder All alumni in the Boulder area
were invited to attend a social at the
Hilton Harvest House Lounge in No­vember.
These get-togethers are great
for the alumni who are not able to at­tend
the Denver functions. Contact Joe
Barnes '78 for further information:
(303) 741-4617.
Chile The first Tbird "Summit Meet­ing"
was held last year in Farellones
on a summit in the Andes. Those in
attendance (from left to right in the
photo) were: Rein Maremaa '58, Mari­lyn
and Keith Sanders '78, Alejandra
Tamayo, now Mrs. Clinkscales, Bill
Clinkscales '78, and Faraz Maani '81.
Miami In February, South Florida
Tbirds met our new Director of Alum­ni
Relations, Wayne Pulver '70/'78 at
"J.P.'s On The Bay" in Coconut
Grove. On February 22 they also en­joyed
a dinner party at Viva Zapata.
Events for spring included socials at
the Biscayne Bay Marriott Hotel, a ren­dezvous
at J.P.'s and a picnic in May.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Twin city Tbirds
meet every First Tuesday of the month
at the Minneapolis Plaza Hotel. Last
February 25 alumni met in the hotel's
Stradivarius Lounge. Mary McMunn
'74 organizes the events. Contact her
for more information.
Peoria Alumni in the Peoria area meet
frequently at Panterra's Pizza. Anyal­umni
interested in participating in
these socials, please contact Tony Alle
'80 at the Illinois Central College.
THUNDERBIRD NETWORK
Dallas/Ft: Worth Tbirds met at Houli­han's
in January to "shake the winter
doldrums." The officers of the Dallas/
Ft. Worth alumni chapter are Melody
Ball, President; Mark Gebhardt, Vice
President; Bob Huft, Treasurer; and
Dave Trott, Secretary. Pub night is
held regularly at Houlihans every First
Tuesday. Please come and join for free
hors d'oeuvres.
Houston The holiday party held at the
Steak and Ale in Houston was the site
of lively festivities. More than 45
Tbirds were in attendance for a good
time.
Los Angeles Tbirds met on the first
Tuesday of April, as they do every
month, at the Crossroads Restaurant.
The Tbirds' George Washington Pot­luck
Celebration, a yearly event, was
held in style again at Tom Muelling's
fine home. On February 2 dinner was
held at the Hungry Tiger and was fol­lowed
by the play Quilters at the Mark
Taper Forum in LA's Civic Center. Be
sure to drop in on the monthly First
Tuesday at the Crossroads. Relax a bit
with other Tbirds before heading
home.
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Saudi Arabia Twenty-two graduates
and their spouses attended the second
annual get-together in November in
the Riyadh area. This event was spon­sored
by Dean Storm '78 and Roger N.
Voegele '78. The Riyadh Group is hav­ing
monthly dinners on the First Tues­day
of each month. Any Tbirds who
are traveling through Saudi Arabia are
welcome to contact Dean or Roger. In
the Jeddah area primary contacts are
Jon Kaily '76 and Greg Harrison '77
and in the Eastern Province, Henry
Longmire '79. For any newcomers
these alumni are ready to serve as
"door openers."
Sao Paulo Citibank, N.A. in Sao Pau­lo,
Brazil recently hosted a "Thunder­bird
Banker's Breakfast" at the bank's
offices. Alfred C. Hamburg, '75, orga­nized
the event.
San Francisco Tbirds in San Franciso
met on April 3 for their monthly roost
at Barnaby'S. Wayne Pulver, Director
of Alumni, was also present. April's
roving dinner was held at Java in the
East Bay. A free beer went to the first
person to correctly pronounce Rijstta­fel!
Other activities included a First
Annual International Spring Picnic. An
international food barter was held.
Phoenix Thirty Thunderbirds attended
February's pub night at John Scott's
are House. These gatherings are held
regularly at the are House every First
Tuesday. Please pass the word to any
other alumni who might not have
heard and who would be interested in
attending. Contact the Alumni Rela­tions
Office at 978-7l35.
Washington, DC The First Tuesday of
each month is pub night at the "new"
Old Ebbitts Grill for Washington
Tbirds. In April, the Washington al­umni
club sponsored a dinner featur­ing
the Right Honourable Hugh
Dykes, a member of the British Parlia­ment
and vice president of the Conser­vative
Group for Europe. The topic of
discussion-"Is free and fair trade be­tween
the U.S. and Europe really pos­sible?"
This event was sponsored by
Marcus Schaefer '82 and Brian Mar­shall
'73, for further information con­tact
them.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
New Director
Meets Alumni
During the past four months,
Wayne Pulver '70 '78, director of al­umni
relations, has traveled extensive­ly
to meet with chapter officers and
alumni around the country. It has
been an opportunity to give alumni a
personal update on the School and the
Alumni Relations Office, as well as a
chance to discuss alumni chapter
concerns.
Pulver visited Atlanta, Tampa,
Miami, and Houston February 5
through 10. While in Miami, he was
able to attend their First Tuesday gath­ering.
On February 23 and 24, Pulver
visited Dallas and attended their alum­ni
chapter elections.
He continued his travels with a visit
to San Francisco on March 5 and 6
where he attended another First Tues­day
get-together. At the end of that
. t Meeting"
SJ,IInl11l . and
"Andean Manlyn d
T'b!rd, Aarel11aa ;S8, Alejandra an
ReIn IV' ders 78, nd FaraZ.
. h San '78 a
I<.~tt Clinkscales ft to right)
BtU . '81 . (Ie
Maant ,
month, he visited Los Angeles and
San Diego and attended a pizza party
with local alumni. During the first
week in May, Pulver went east to
meet with chapter officers and alumni
in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia,
Boston and New York.
As a relatively new alumni director,
Pulver has enjoyed the opportunity to
meet with Tbirds. He reports that
most of the chapters he visited have
similar experiences and problems in
their organization and that all are con­cerned
with involving as many alumni
as possible. Pulver added that he was
"pleased, but not surprised, by the
warm response of Thunderbird
alumni."
Intercom Director
Visits Asian Alums
C. Wolcott Parker, director of IN­TERCOM,
met with alumni through­out
Asia last November and
December. The purpose of Parker's
trip was to discuss the Huffco program
for the year and interview participants
and their supervisors for past and fu­ture
programs. In meetings with alum­ni,
Parker gave a "state of the school"
message.
In Tokyo, Parker met for dinner and
drinks with approximately 16 Tbirds.
Charlotte Kennedy Takahashi '76, and
Yasuhiro Takahashi '76, told Parker
that the eighth alumni party of the
year had recently been held. In Taipei,
25 Tbirds met with Parker for a Mon­golian
barbecue organized by Lillian
Tung '80. In Hong Kong, Paul Meyer
'80 and Bill Ling '73 organized a sail
on a junk to an island dinner spot for
fresh seafood. About fifteen Tbirds
attended.
In Singapore there was a Sloan
Court Tbird gathering. In Jakarta, al­umni
met at the home of Jim Traner
'80 and in Brunei, Bruno Cornelio '76
arranged a visit for Parker with the
Deputy Minister of Education. Accord­ing
to Parker, it was a productive and
enjoyable trip.
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ALUMNI
UPDATE
Classes of
'54 and '55
Arthur S. Erickson '54, owns Foster's Re­sort
in Upper Lake, CA.
Philip F. Kirk '54, is president of Wall
Street Business Brokers, a new consulting
finn specializing in the purchase and sale
of companies.
Phillip S. Tedesco '54, is eastern regional
sales manager for Duraco Products in
Georgetown, CT.
Don Alger '55, an investment executive for
Oberweis Securities, Inc. in Aurora, IL, re­cently
visited campus and was pleasantly
surprised by all the changes.
Ann Lockledge '55, is student teacher su­pervisor
at Pan American University in
Edinburg, TX.
Classes of
'56 and '57
Maurice C. Avery '56, is an analyst for the
Department of Defense in Washington.
Diane Connelly '56, and Jerold Gray Gal­lagher
were married last September in
Phoenix.
William 1. Rodgers '56, is vice-president
and director of Hemisphere International
Trading Company in Alexandria, VA.
Jerome Firsty '57, is self-employed and re­cently
returned from a business trip to
South Africa.
Belmont Haydel '57, is a faculty member in
the department of business policy and en­vironment
at Rider College in Lawrence­ville,
NJ. He just completed doctoral
studies in August. He returned to campus
in March to participate in the AACSB con­ference
about the internationalization of
free business school curriculum.
Lloyd Ranger '57, is working for Sears Roe­buck
and Co. in Chicago.
Jon W. Stewart '57, is counselor for public
aff~irs with the U.S. Information Agency in
BeIrUt.
Gerald P. Thomas '57, and his wife Lois
are on the teaching staff of Providence Col­lege
in Taichung, Taiwan.
Henry Traynor '57, is working in the divi­sion
of highways for the State of California.
Editor's Note: Updates for the Class of '58 are
found in the special reunion section.
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Class of
'59
Sydney A. Kessler is president of SIAlK In­ternational
Inc., Miami.
David J. Hansen is vice president of Cargill
in Minneapolis.
Barton 1. Hartzell is manufacturers' repre­sentative
for the Boeing Company in
Australia.
J.1. Gaarder is manager of training and de­velopment
at Wyeth International Limited
in Philadelphia.
Ernst Schuckmann is commercial director
for BASF Quimica in Medellin, Colombia.
E~I M. Ward is accounting manager for
Display Data Corp. in Cincinnati.
David Youmans is an associate extension
professor at Washington State University.
He is currently in Lesotho with Farming
Systems Research, USAID
Class of
'60
Peter Burgess has been promoted to associ­ate
director of the nutritional manufactur­ing
subdivision of Wyeth International.
Robert 1. Ciszewski is executive director of
Population Services International in New
York.
Donald E. Ehrlich is an account executive
for Paulson Investment Co. in Beverly
Hills, CA.
John F. Kieser is vice president, treasurer
and director of Gato Corporation and presi­dent
of the Diamond T Land & Cattle Co.
m Oakland, CA.
John J. Ross is eastern regional sales man­ager,
Dylite EPS, Arco Chemical Co.,
Philadelphia.
Class of
'61
Howard Adams has won re-election and
will serve a fourth term as a Phoenix city
councilman.
John R. Arnold is the general manager of
the wholesale division of Master Flowers
Inc. in Miami.
Richard J. Dron is the managing director
for Pfizer, S.A. in Madrid.
J?seph B. Gregory is an expediting super­visor
for Bechtel Power Corporation, Palo
Verde, AZ.
Berton 1. Lerner writes that he is active in
personal consulting and troubleshooting in
the field of accounting.
Leighton A. Willgerodt is the general man­ager
for Hercules Far East, Ltd . in Tokyo.
Charles Workman and his wife Lydia teach
at Robert Louis Stevenson prep school in
Pebble Beach.
Class of
'62
Manuel C. Ballestero is the vice president
and national sales manager for Caballero
Spanish Media in New York.
Carlos E. Cortes is professor of history and
chair of the department of history at the
University of California, Riverside.
Morris Feldman is assistant to the trade
commissioner of the Consulate of Finland
Trade Commission in Chicago.
Sehe Jong Ha is president of Kukje Pacific
New York Corp. in New York.
Richard Hayes is vice president and repre­sentative
for Bank of New England in Sao
Paulo.
Stephen M. Hotchkiss is vice president of
Latin America currency unit with Bank of
America N.A. & S.A. in Panama.
Theodore Ryan returned from Singarore in
1982 to take over as vice president 0 feder­al
marketing for Electronic Data Systems.
B. Paul Smith is general manager for Ban­co
Continental de Panama, S.A.
Class of
'63
Ronald P. Burkard is director of CARE in
Mexico.
John Huminski is owner of Pan American
Export Sales Corp., in Miami.
Bernhard D. Guenther is vice president
and area director for Warner Cosmetics,
Inc. in New York.
Robert J. Lambrix is vice preSident-finance
for Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc. in
Deerfield, IL.
John P. Lewis is executive vice president
and director of Mega Petroleum.
Stephen V. Naegle is general manager of
Tennant Mexico S.A. de C.V. in Cuauht­emoc,
Mexico.
James H. Riddle, vice president of Tele­dyne
in Seoul, has been elected to a three
year term as vice president of the Americal
Chamber of Commerce in Korea.
John F. Votta is trade specialist for the U.~
Department of Commerce in Fairfax, VA.
Class of
'64
John R. Baker is manager-countertrade
marketing with Northrop Corporation in
Hawthorne, CA.
Charles Ancona is comptroller for Boar's
Head Enterprises in Charlottesville.
Ira G. Berlin was promoted to vice presi­dent
of investments at Dean Witter Rey­nolds,
Inc. in Memphis.
C.A. Rousser is president of International
Trade Development Corp. in Houston.
Class of
'65
Mark E. Fairbanks is senior sales planner
for Avon Products, Inc. in New York.
Douglas W. Greene is director of interna­tional
marketing for Pascoe Building Sys­tems
in Pomona, CA.
Darrell M. Harden is vice president and
manager of the international financial man­agement
center with Security Pacific Bank
in Los Angeles.
Lawrence Prager is working for Pascoe
Building Systems in Pomona, CA.
Joseph A. Robinson is the owner of K.J. &
A., Inc. The company markets quality
products through the mail. Any Tbirds
with interesting products should contact
him at 401 Wellington Drive, Forest, VA.
24551.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Class of
'66
Edward Cline is vice president, project
management, for McDermott International
Corporation.
Alan ~. Fredette is international operations
coordinator at Henny Penny Corp. in Ea­ton,
OH.
Jonathan R. Giddings is vice president of
Esso Brasileira de Petroleo S.A.
Perry S. Melton is general manager for
Electronic Interconnect Systems in Nogales,
AZ.
Reese Moyers is director, office of private
enterprise development, for the Depart­ment
of State, USAID/Haiti, in Port-Au­Prince.
A son, Victor, was born in August.
Jonathan G. Verity is executive vice presi­dent
for Bank One Corporation in Dayton,
Ohio.
Class of
'67
Ralph E. Bailey owns Ridgefield Search In­ternational,
an executive recruitment firm
in Ridegefield, CT.
Juris Berzins is marketing photovoltaic en­ergy
technology for Intersol, Co. The com­pany
has been awarded three U.S Dept. of
Energy contracts since 1981. Tbird alumni
and students interested in solar high-tech
should contact Berzins at 11901 W. Cedar
Ave., Lakewood. CO 80228.
David Carpita is senior vice president of
Trans-Arabian Investment Bank's newly­formed
Gulf Division in Manama, Bahrain.
Richard E. Dueringer is assistant vice pres­ident
with E.F. Hutton & Co. in South­bend,
IN.
Peter Feddersen is managing director for
Continental Grain (Australia) in Milsons
Point, Australia.
Dennis E. Harman is vice president of Eco­nomics
Laboratories Inc.
Gary L. Mallon is market manager for Bor­den,
Inc. in Atlanta .
~onald E. McCowen is director of opera­tions
for a petroleum exhibit for the ITA in
Washington, DC.
Wayne A. Rohlfs is managing director of
Spotnails International in Basingstoke,
England.
Frederic S. Snyder is the western regional
sales manager for Hanshaw Chemical Co.
in Cleveland.
William H. Strong was promoted to presi­dent
of Teledyne Industries International in
Los Angeles.
Jennings F. Werner is in Hong Kong as
managing director of Continental Illinois
Bank Ltd.
Class of
'68
Peter A. Bachhuber is marketing manager
for Enerpac in Elm Grove, WI.
Victor A. Baltrusaitis works for Noranda
Sales Corporation Ltd., in Toronto.
Joan W. Becker is self-employed in the real
estate and investment field in Phoenix.
Frank J. Biersach is president of Camelot
East Inc. in Honolulu.
Michael J. English was elected chairman of
Nava's International Trade Council.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Morris Feldman '62 Timothy McGinnis '68
t
Doug Gilmore 70 Kenn G. Morris 73
Alumni requesting placement
services information should direct
their inquiries to the office of Career
Services at (602) 978-7242.
George E. Grimmett is the president of
Transnational Citrus Corp. in Longwood,
FL.
Ernest F. Koch is sales manager for Craw­ler
Systems, a division of Rotek, in Meno
Falls, WI.
Timothy McGinnis is senior vice president
for Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Rafael Miyar is the vice president of inter­national
investment management group for
Bankers Trust Company International in
Miami.
Douglas L. Montgomery is president and
chief executive officer of Meridien Interna­tional
Bank Ltd. in London.
Gary A. Moore is assistant vice president
of Seattle First National Bank in Seattle,
WA.
Rudy Pina is marketing manager for Col­lectron
Arizona, Inc. in Nogales. Last year,
he became a licensed U.S. Customs House
broker.
Dorsey Ray is working with Wagner In­vestments
in Houston.
James G. Vardon is starting Fravar Associ­ates
consulting firm in Winnetka, IL.
Henry P. Wright is president of H & H
Trading Corporation in San Francisco.
Class of
'69
Juan A. Barro is finance manager for
American Express do -Brasil S.A. in Sao
Paulo.
Jim Blaisdell is assistant vice president
with Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of
Sacramento.
Gary Cochran is an associate consultant
with Touche Ross & Co. in Atlanta .
Joseph M. Gontram recently formed the
law partnership of McBride, Ruch & Gon­tram
in Philadelphia.
Jeffrey P. Rudolph manages the New Or­leans
tax prectice for Coopers & Lybrand.
A daughter, Rebecca Anne, was born in
September.
John F. Springer is the owner and manager
of Maaco Auto Painting in Glendale, AZ.
Jack E. Voluntine is president of Floranor­rie
of California, Inc., in Emeryville, CA.
Walter Francisco Zamudio is health care
business development manager for Dow
Coming do Brasil in Sao Paulo.
Class of
'70
Rodrigo A. Arroyo is general manager of
Quirnica Holanda Ltda. in Santiago, Chile.
John S. Brady started an agribusiness con­sulting
service in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Joseph Chamalian is an engineer for the
Arabian Bechtel Company Ltd.
William D. Epley is sales manager for F&L
Fluid Components in Hanover, PA.
James Fox is the owner of Pacific Beverage
Marketing in San Francisco.
Carlton B. Foust is a partner and director
of client services with TBW A Espana in
Madrid.
Wayne B. Fulcher is management supervi­sor
for Del Monte Foods for McCann-Erick­son
in San Francisco.
Dennis R. Gesin is a real estate broker for
The Housing Authority in Colorado.
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A. Douglas Gilmore is director of market­ing
for Levi Strauss & Co. in North Syd­ney,
Australia.
Michael Harvey is executive director of the
Institute of International Agribusiness in
Omaha.
Daniell D. Henderson is broker-owner of
Sundance Realty and Investments Inc. in
Bozeman, MT.
Sharon Quan Hensley owns Gooseberry
Pie, a card company in Midland TX.
James N. Hesse is an independent manu­facturers'
representative in Spring, TX.
R. Lynn Hurlbert is international market­ing
manager, Latin America, for Solavolt
International in Phoenix.
Michael C. Kwee has been elected director
of the Board of American International As­surance
Co., Ltd.
Joseph Longo is a sales representative for
Burroghs-Wellcome Company of Yakima,
WA.
Glenn R. McQuiston is an attorney with
Breskin, Robbins & Merkle in Seattle.
Michael G. Montgelas is senior vice presi­dent
for Communication Trends in Atlanta .
Thomas T. Moore Jr. is property manager
for the U.S Department of Defense in Bad
Toelz, West Germany.
Michael O'Shaugnessy owns Dealan Pro­ductions,
Inc. in Chicago.
Jerome A. Raggett, Jr. is the sales support
manager for the Americas, for S.c. John­son
and Son, Inc. in Racine, WI.
Jorge A. Rivera is a partner in the sales/
media firm of Costello/Rivera & Associates.
Thomas B. Sanders is working on his doc­torate
in international finance at the Uni­versity
of Colorado.
James c. Schwartz is principal owner of
the Texas Shredder Parts Co. in San Anto­nio,
TX.
Da~id E. Shaffer is senior European mar­keting
representative for Ditch Witch Inter­national
Inc. in Perry, OH.
Anthony A. Webb is senior vice president
of merchant banking with Royal Bank of
Canada in Toronto.
Jerry Whitted is owner/operator of a mar­keting
advertising business in Phoenix.
Ja~es M. Will heads the utilities/pipelines
UTIlt of the corporate banking world energy
and extractive industries division of Secu­rity
Pacific Bank.
Stephen B. Wright received a Ph.D. in
~arriage, family and child counseling and
IS self-employed in Berkeley, CA. On Au­gust
31, a second child, Daniel, was born.
Vi~t'.)l M. Yic~oy is president of Yichoy &
Chmnos Asoclados S.A. in Lima.
Kenneth Young is the president of Gata
Box Ltd . in New York. His first child, Ken­ne~
h. Scott, was born last August.
Phlhp R. Young is senior vice president
and group executive, corporate banking,
for Hibernia Bank in LaFayette, CA.
Vince Zamis is an investment broker with
Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc. of
Phoenix.
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Class of
'71
Agustin V. Arbulu is a tax lawyer in
Detroit.
Mahlon A. Barash is the home improve­ment
adVisor for the Cooperative Housing
Foundation in Belize.
Eugene H. Castle, Jr. is the chief of the
contracts evaluation branch for the U.S.
Anny Project Office in New York.
John W. Daniel was made a senior vice
president in the international division of
InterFirst Bank Dallas, N.A.
Jeffrey D. Davis is no longer associated
with Paramount Export Co. He is taking a
year to pursue personal projects.
George T. English is an economist for the
National Ocean Service. Last October he
completed a 184.6 mile hike of the Chesa­peake
& Ohio Canal towpath.
J.N. Kleinecke is account manager for
product sales with Zytron Corp. in Tulsa.
Hideo Morishita works in sales promotion
for International Learning Systems Ltd. in
Tokyo.
Peter Palm en was appointed director of Ra­bobank
Nederland in Bad Hoomburg, West
Gennany.
Kenneth S. Vanosky is founder and presi­dent
of Founders Venture Resource Corpo­ration
and North American Telephone, Inc.
in Phoenix.
Class of
'72
Robert W. Abraham is manager of aviation
sales for Pacific Resources, Inc. of
Honolulu.
D.W. Atkinson is managing director of
Merchant Shippers (UK) Limited.
Dario Benedetti is working for the Getz
Corporation as regional vice president,
Southeast Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan.
William S. Borthwick is the vice president
of sales for Southwest Products, Inc. in
Albuquerque.
Michael C. Bruce is vice president and
manager, multinational group, with First
Interstate Bank in Los Angeles.
Lyle E. Brumfield, Jr. was appointed se­nior
vice president, client services, for
Stockton, West, Burkhart, Inc., in
Cincinnati.
G~ry Brukhardt is senior vice president
With VHA Health Ventures in Irving, TX.
Susan J. Corcoran is vice president of Citi­corp
in Atlanta .
Juan De Cardenas is executive director for
~m~res S.A., a low cost housing developer
ill Lima .
Thomas D. Duane was made a senior vice
president of the savings division of Ameri­can
Savings and Loan Assoc. of Florida. He
is based in Miami.
Barton A. Francour is vice president of
Continental Bank in Amsterdam.
Ralph N. Galascione is the owner of West­land
Benefit in San Diego.
Jack N. Hays is international sales and
marketing manager for Litton in
Minneapolis.
George Hiller is vice president internation­al
division of the United Virginia Bank in
Richmond .
Gary Hogenson is working for Jadex Corp.
in Richmond, VA.
Michael C. Hopkins is owner of the ex­porting
firm, MCH International in Dallas.
Gary Michael is regional export manager
for Snauwaert in Medley, FL.
Michael J. Mitchell is assistant vice presi­dent
of Waterman Steamship Corp. in
Athens.
Michael Moe is the general manager of in­ternational
sales finance for J.1. Case Co. in
Racine, WI.
Dennis T. Oshiro is president of Interna­tional
Business Resources Inc., in
Honolulu.
Phillip R. Wilson is vice president, inter­national,
for Lynx Precision Golf in City of
Industry, CA.
Class of
'73
Holland B. Evans is president of Evans
and Wood & Co., Inc. in Houston.
Peter C. Hellwig is a vice president with
San Diego Trust.
Timothy J. Holden is commercial loan offi­cer
and assistant vice president for Lloyds
Bank of California in Woodland Hills.
AI Keiser is vice president of Canadian Im­perial
Bank of Commerce in Chicago and is
ill charge of the bank's corporate finance
group.
Jae Suk Lee is vice president of Korea As­sociated
Securities Inc. in New York.
Roger B. Madsen has opened a law office
in Boise, !D. He specializes in employment/
administrativellabor law.
Liz Matthiesen-Jones is vice president and
account director for Needham, Harper &
Steers Ltd. of Canada.
Thomas A. Monroe is area manager Latin
America for FMC Corp. in Houston.
Kenn G. Morris is director of marketing
communications for Corona Data Systems
in Westlake Village, CA.
Ronald R. McDaniel is vice president and
account executive with Conti Commodity
Services in Minneapolis.
Rid J. Miller performed magic on a local
television show this fall. He is active in
community theatre and drama workshops
in EI Sobrante, CA.
William J. Monnich is a representative
with the First Pennsylvania Bank N.A. in
Sao Paulo.
Ronald Nicosia is a contract analyst for the
Department of Defense.
George E. Richter was married to Monica
G. Richter and is living in Columbus.
Charles Rucquoi is president of Syncovest
Corp. in New York.
Julius Toma is export development special­ist
for Small Business Administration, S.E.
Region.
B. Geoffrey Tosi, Jr., is the vice president
of marketing at Tosi Vintners International
in New York.
Alban G. Toulemonde is administrative
and financial manager of Cia de Tejidos de
Lana Omnes Ltda. in Pereira, Colombia.
Richard A. Wainio is chief of the economic
research and market development division
for the Panama Canal Commission in
Miami.
John Demaree Willyard is vice president of
corporate operations for the Foreign Credit
Insurance Association.
THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE SPRING 1984
Class of
'74
John R. Bachlott is operations officer for
Creditbank in Los Angeles.
Neal W. Baker is the president and owner
of Reportero Industrial Mexicano in Mexico
City.
Mike Biggs is export manager for Meda­sonics
in Mountain View, CA.
William L. Devir is the marketing manager
for the international division of Monarch
Marking in Dayton.
James E. Dodson works for the Interna­tional
Hough Division of Dresser Industries
as regional sales manager for Spain and
Portugal.
William S. Duursma is marketing manager
for Europe, Middle East and Africa with
the Rust-Oleum Corp. in Roosendaal, The
Netherlands.
Hugo Effinger is vice president of foreign
exchange with Chase Manhattan in Los
Angeles.
Jon A. Esping is export manager for G.S.
Bl~gett Co., Inc. in Burlington, VT.
Hemz W. Frohnmayer is vice president, in­ternational,
for Olan Mills photography in
the United Kingdom. He and his wife had
their third son, Paul Michael, in
September.
Leo. D. Hochstetter, Jr. has been trans­ferred
from Rome to Hong Kong as area
sales manager for Seagrams Overseas Sales
Co.
Bo Howard and Pam Gary Howard '76,
live in Houston and recently had a son,
Zachary. Bo works for Mellon Energy
Products.
Bill Howard is vice president of business
development for Allied Corporation.
Robert S. Jennings and his wife, Penny,
announce the birth of Tyler, born in
October.
Terry L. Mc Manus has a son, Scott, born
Jan. I, 1982.
Gregory John McDonald is general manag­er
of Colgate-Palmolive in Portugal.
Norman McIntosh is special projects officer
for S.E. Asia wit