The Thunderbird, Fall 1973

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TERRANCE G. LEONHARDY
Diplomat-in-Residence
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THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni pub­lication
of the Thunderbird Graduate
School of International Management)
is published in the Fall, Spring and
Summer of each year.
EDITOR: Martha L. Snyder
COVER:
TERRANCE G. LEONHARDY,
Di ploma t-in-Residence.
(story on page 2.)
This has been an exciting year for the Thunderbird Graduate School. There have been
feature stories on the School from the Los Angeles Times news service, the United Press Inter­national,
the Financial Executive, the Journal of Commerce, Industry Week, the Journal of
Administrative Science, various McGraw Hill outlets overseas, and others. These articles have,
in general, praised the School and its mission. As a result of this publicity, plus the fine effort
by you alumni and our student-staff-faculty recruiters, enrollment at the School increased by
one-third in one year's time - from approximately 670 students to about 870. For the first
time, applications were cut off in August. Currently we are carefully weighing the surge of
applications being received for February 1974 in order to continue upgrading the standards of
admission to the School. There are 135 international students from 44 countries now enrolled.
Most impressive has been the increase in numbers of students from the Far East; namely Japan,
Korea, Hong Kong and The Republic of China.
It is not anticipated that we will let the School grow any larger. We hope to maintain
an ,average of 750 students on a year-round basis from now on. If applications and inquiries
keep increasing as they have over the past two years, we will be able to maintain higher
standards of admissions. This will make our screening role for the multinational corporations
even more effective.
We hope this will result, in the long run, in a substantial increase in corporate financial
support for the School. Unfortunately 85 to 90 percent of our income still comes from student
tuition. Multinational corporations are evidencing interest in our program and are recruiting
on the campus in everincreasing numbers. But we are yet to achieve what I would consider
substantial financial support from our corporate friends.
During the summer months the kitchen was modernized with new stoves, new ovens,
a new tile floor, new refrigerators and several other labor-saving pieces of equipment. It is
imperative now that the renovation of the dining hall be completed as soon as possible. As
you know, we are seeking $83,000 from the alumni in order to accomplish this project. We now
have over 8,000 alumni around the world in over 100 foreign countries. We hope it will be
possible for us to show a substantial increase in the financial support of our long-time friends
and supporters. Won't you please return your pledge card immediately?
You can all be very proud of Thunderbird's record during the 27 years of its existence.
The multinational corporations are virtually unanimous in their praise of you Thunderbirds who
are performing so ably around the world. We are doing our best to keep the School up-to-date
and to provide the kind of education necessary for the ever-changing international climate. In
the past two years we have had to increase the emphasis on the newer concepts in economics,
finance, accounting and marketing. It is evident that the international world of economics and
finance is changing rapidly, and we as a School must be on the frontier of this movement. Rep­resentatives
of these companies tell me our graduates compare favorably with the graduates of
any other institution in the world. This makes all of us at Thunderbird very proud, and I'm sure
you feel the same way.
William Voris
President
• fORMER U. S. CONSUL .. GENERAL IS
DIPLOMAT .. IN .. RESIDENCE AT THUNDERBIRD
Former U.S. Consul-General Terrance G. Leonhardy, who was held under
threat of death by Mexican Terrorists for four days in May, will spend the 1973-74
school year as a diplomat-in-residence at Thunderbird.
Appointment of the diplomat is a part of a program by which the State Depart­ment
assigns selected veteran diplomats to schools and universities for a year.
Leonhardy was released unharmed after the Mexican government met his
kidnapers' demands to free 30 leftwing prisoners and fly them to Cuba. Seized by
three terrorist gunmen on a Guadalajara street, he was the first foreign diplomat to
be kidnaped in Mexico. He was unharmed despite four days' detention, during
which time his execution was threatened frequently.
Mrs. Leonhardy, a former vice-consul in Nogales, Sonora, helped arrange a
bank loan to pay ransom, which the kidnapers demanded in addition to the release
of so-called political prisoners from Mexican jails.
Those released from Mexican prisons were accused of bank robberies and other
crimes believed linked to left-wing political movements in opposition to the govern­ment
of President Luis Echeverria and his predecessors.
A 31-year veteran with the Department of State, Leonhardy served as consul
in Nogales and Mexico City, in addition to assignments in Spain, Colombia, El
Salvador and Denmark, and in the Department of State in Washington.
Among his many awards are a Certificate of Appreciation, awarded by the
Governors of Arizona and Sonora; Certificate of Appreciation, awarded by the
Municipal Council of Nogales, Sonora; Meritorious Service Award from the Depart­ment
of State, and the Order of "Gran Oficial" by the Government of El Salvador.
Mr. Leonhardy and his wife, Leona, and their two daughters, reside on the
Thunderbird campus.
TRAVELS OF THE PRESIDENT
President William Voris recently re­turned
from visiting the heads of six
major corporations as a part of the con­tinuing
campaign to raise $2 .5 million
for Thunderbird, over a five year
period.
President Voris began his discussions
on September 9th in Akron, Ohio, at
a luncheon with Charles Pilliod, Presi­dent
of Goodyear; Richard Riley, Presi­dent
of Firestone; Gerald O'Neil, Presi­dent
of General Tire; and O. P. Thomas,
President of B. F. Goodrich. Each of
the above are thoroughly familiar with
Thunderbird and were quite receptive
to his efforts.
Mr. Pilliod, who will coordinate fund
raising among the four tire companies,
also arranged a dinner for President
Voris with Mr. Russel DeYoung, Chair­man
of the Board of Goodyear; Dr. Olds,
President of Kent State University; the
President of the University of Akron,
and other administrators of the two
schools. The purpose of this meeting
was primarily to help recruit students.
During the same trip, President Voris
met with Mr. John Montag, President
of Caterpillar International Division,
and Mr. C. William Verity, Chairman
of the Board for Armco Steel. Both
companies have agreed to make five
year financial pledges to Thunderbird.
In addition, Armco will provide "full­ride"
scholarship for an outstanding
engineering graduate.
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President Voris spent October 9-12 in
Washington, D.C. to attend the annual
meeting of the American Council on
Education at the Shoreham Hotel. The
topic for this year's meeting was Educa­tion
and the State. While there he also
attended one session of the Pacem in
Terris, a national convocation to con­sider
new opportunities for U.S. foreign
policy, assembled by the Center for
the Study of Democratic Institutions.
Also on his agenda were visits to Mr.
Donald B. Bergus, Dean of the Aca­demic
Relations of the Foreign Service
Institute, and Mr. J. Willard Marriott,
Jr., President of Marriott Corporation.
ASSISTANT VICE
PRESIDENT NAMED
Mr. Donald W. Mil­ler,
'44, has been
appointed Assistant
Vice President and
Director of Student
and Staff Personnel
at Thunderbird.
Before coming to
the S c h 0 0 1, he
served as Director
of Personnel for
Continental Bank in
Phoenix. He was previously associated
with Beverly Bancorporation as cor­porate
personnel manager, with the
' nion Commerce Bank in Cleveland as
assistant vice president and personnel
director. and with the State National
Bank in Evanston, Illinois, as personnel
director.
In addition to his personnel experi­ence,
he served as the assistant director
of admissions for two years at North­western
University and for three years
at Lake Forest College.
He holds a B.A. degree in psychology
and an M.A. degree in personnel ad­ministration,
both from Northwestern
University.
In addition to his personnel responsi­bilities,
he will work as the administra­tion's
liaison with the student govern­ment
organization, and have responsi­bilities
in the area of student housing,
athletics, food services and social ac­tivities.
He is a member of the American Society
for Personnel Administration, American
Management Association, and the Amer­ican
Institute of Banking.
ARTHUR '57 NAMED REGISTRAR
. JOHN J. ARTHUR
has been named
Registrar at Thun­derbird,
and will re­tain
the responsibil­ity
of College rela­tions
Officer which
involves primarily
student recruitment.
The Registrar's du­ties
have been han­dled
by Dr. Robert
L. Gulick, Jr. since
September 1965. Dr. Gulick will now
devote full time to the position of Dean
of Admissions.
John r eceived his undergraduate degree
in Romance Languages at the University
of Houston, and a Bachelor of Foreign
Trade degree from Thunderbird in 1957.
He also received his Master of Interna­tional
Management degree from Thun­derbird
in 1971.
Following graduation in June 1957, he
was employed by Brownell Lane Inter­national
and was subsequently assigned
to Saigon, Vietnam, as Commercial
Officer. In 1962, he joined the American
Trading Company as Resident Manager
in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to
Thunderbird in 1968 to become Director
of Public Relations and was later ap­pointed
to head up the college recruit­ment
program.
John and his wife, Jean, and two chil­dren,
reside at 8636 North 11th Avenue,
Phoenix 85021.
HOWELL RECEIVES
KN IGHT AWARD
JOHN CRAWFORD
HOWELL, a native
of Woodburn, Ore­gon,
received the
August 1973 Alfred
Knight Scholarship
Award for excel­lence
in scholastic
accomplishment.
Ranking first in a
class of 204, he
earned a total of 52
semester hours.
John also received the Barton Kyle
Yount Award for his potential ability
to serve the American free enterprise
system abroad. Active in student affairs,
he served as President and Program
Chairman of the Society for the Ad­vancement
of Management and was a
member of the German Club.
He joined Hilti Fastening Systems, Inc.,
in September and will be based in
Stamford, Connecticut.
NEW FACULTY FACES
Mr. Eugene F . Bond, a former Sunbeam
Corporation executive, has joined the
World Business Department. Mr. Bond
served as Corporate Vice President of
Sunbeam from 1969 to 1971. In all,
he was with Sunbeam for 29 years.
From 1963 to 1969, he was President of
the International Division. His actual
experience abroad was between 1960
to 1963 as President, Director and Gen­eral
Manager of Sunbeam Corporation,
Ltd., in Toronto, Canada.
He received his B.A. degree at the
University of Illinois and did graduate
work at Northwestern University. He
is a member of Who's Who in Finance
and Industry and the World's Who's
Who. He is currently teaching Interna­tional
and Cost Accounting in the World
Business Department.
Another newcomer to the World Busi­ness
Department is Mr. Earl N. Culp,
who brings to Thunderbird a back­ground
of 25 years of worldwide ex­perience
including international mar­keting
and financing. He has worked in
107 countries covering marketing areas
throughout Latin America, Europe, Afri­ca,
the Middle East, Southeas1 Asia, the
Far East and Australia.
Most recently Mr. Culp was Director
of International Marketing in the Kine­tics
Division of Vought Missiles and
Space Company from 1969' to 1971. Prior
to that, he was Vice President of the
White Motor Company subsidiary, White
Motor International, S.A., from 1965 to
1968.
Mr. Culp attended Western Reserve
University majoring in Business Admin­istration.
He is presently teaching the
Capstone course and his experience
should provide an invaluable tool for
those engaged in Capstone SUbjects.
FNCB EXECUTIVE AD.,."..,,, .. ,..,,, AUGUST CLASS
Carlton M. Stewart, Senior Vice President of 1he First National City Bank of
New York, spoke to the summer graduating class at Thunderbird. Mr. Stewart
heads the South Asia, Middle East and African Division of the bank's international
banking group.
A native of Chicago, he attended Stanford and Harvard Universities before
entering the U.S. Army in 1943. After World War II service, he returned to Harvard
and in 1947 received a master's degree in business administration.
He joined FNCB as a trainee in 1947 and for the next twelve years served in
the bank's Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bombay, Singapore and Manila branches. He assumed
his present responsibilities in March 1969.
He is a member of the Asia Society and a director of the Far-East American
Council of Commerce and Industry.
In addressing the graduates he said "that economic prosperity for one nation
depends directly on the economic security of all."
"There is more to be gained (by nations) by reconciling divergent interests
than by pounding one another over the head with them. Countries, including our own,
that once kept domestic and international matters rigidly separated, now find them­selves
forced to discuss with other nations matters once considered strictly of
national interest."
"The best example of this is the intensifying effort among industrial nations
to resolve the international monetary crisis. To bring some order oul!; of this crisis,
nations are being pressed to devise approaches that may require new international
institutions to carry them out."
He further stated that there are dramatic opportunities in trade and investment
in the Middle East and that the U.S. government has projected by 1980 this country
will have to import 35 percent of its oil from there compared to less than 5 percent
in 1970.
He said the Middle East nations will have enormous incomes and the major
challenge facing governments and international business generally is to help find
adequate and orderly investment channels worldwide for these funds.
The School's highest student honor, the Barton Kyle Yount Award, was
presented to John Crawford Howell of Woodburn, Oregon.
Excellence in Capstone Awards were given to Robert G. Ervin of Eugene,
Oregon, Randolph Miller of Warren, Ohio, Richard J. Breit of Denver, Colorado, and
Ravindra Rammiklal Vora of Bombay, India.
The Athletic Award was won by Holland Bowen Evans of Richardson, Texas.
New full time members of the Lan­guage
Department are Miss Norie
Miyagi, Mr. Akihisa Kumayama, An­tionette
Lerond, Luz Molinar, Elizabeth
Zeiner and Mr. Zeddic Lanham.
Miss Miyagi, assistant professor of Japa­nese,
was born and raised in Japan.
She received her undergraduate degree
in English and American Literature at
Aoyama University, a Masters in Guid­ance
and Counselling in Education at
Andrews University. She received a
Masters in Linguistics from the Uni­versity
of Hawaii and for a time was
an instructor in Japanese and a teach­ing
assistant there.
Mr. Akihisa Kumayama is an assistant
professor of Japanese. He received his
B.A. in English in 1966 at Kinsai Uni­versity
in Osaka,and his M.A. in Orien­tal
Studies at the University of Arizona.
He also received a Masters in English
as a second language from the U of A.
He holds a 3rd degree black belt in
Judo and is a part time instructor here
in Arizona.
Antionette Lerond attended Mammouth
College and Tulane University. She was
also an assistant professor at the Uni­versity
of Hawaii and is currently a
Ph.D. candidate at Tulane. She will be
a full time assistant professor of
French.
Luz Molinar of the Spanish Department
holds a B.A. and M,A. from Arizona
State University and is now a doctoral
candida te needing only to complete her
dissertation.
Elizabeth Zeiner, an instructor in Ger­man,
received her B.A. from Arizona
State University and will shortly com­plete
her Masters. She has been teach­ing
at McClintock High School since
1970.
Mr. Zeddic Lanham is teaching English
as a second language at Thunderbird. He
received his B.A. and M.A. in French
and Spanish.
Because of the large enrollment this
semester it was necessary to employ
four part time professors.
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THUNDERBIRD HOSTS
JAPANESE SEMINAR •
A seminar on American Climate for
Japanese Enterprise was held on campus
from September 12 through September
21 under the direction of Christian A.
L~rsen, Director of Special Projects and
Dr. Sabry El-Shabrawy, Professor of
World Business.
The thil'ty-five executive trainees at­tending
the course came from the In­stitute
for International Studies and
Training (IlST), Fujinomiya, Japan.
In addition to the eight Thunderbird
faculty members, the teaching staff was
augmented by Arizona State University
faculty members, Dr. Keith Davis, Pro­fessor
of Management, and Dr. Robert
L. Knox, Department of Economics. In
addition, representatives from local gov­ernment
and business organizations
were on the staff.
Japan's Institute of International Stud­ies
and Training is largely modeled
after Thunderbird as a result of a visit
to the school in 1967 by Mr. Shigeo
Horie, Chairman of the Board of the
Bank of Toyko, Ltd. Mr. Horie was
so impressed with the type of training
being provided for international ca­reers
that he spurred a group of Jap­anese
businessmen and educators to
study the Thunderbird operation and
set up a similar school in Japan.
S.A.M. PLAN TO ESTABLISH
RESEARCH, FORECASTING AND
INFORMATION SERVICE
The Thunderbird Society for the Ad­vancement
of Management, with en­couragement
from the renowned author
and consultant, Robert Theobald, hope
to establish a Research, Forecasting
and Information Service. The research
and forecasting will be done at the re­quest
of executives in business and
government for an agreed upon fee,
by individuals in credited courses of
independent study.
This service will specialize in areas
where other research and forecasting
are lacking, incomplete, misleading, or
biased. It will attempt to uncover ques­tions
as well as answers in forecasting
possible trends in global finance, envi­ronment,
energy, law, government regu­lations,
etc.
Alumni will be appraised of forecasted
trends by means of a topical review to
appear as part of this publication. And
a more comprehensive trendletter and
list of available studies may be offered
depending upon demand.
Input, request or support of this ser­vice
are welcome - write T.G.S.I.M.,
S.A.M. Research and Forecasting.
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SMU and THU
M.B.A.
TO HAVE JOINT
M.I.M. PROGRAM
On September 10th, 1973, the Executive CommIttee of the Thunderbird Board of
Directors approved a joint M.B.A. - M.I.M. program with Southern Methodist
University. The program provides for the exchange of credits toward obtaining one
degree as well as providing for a dual degree program. Dr. Donald Baerresen,
Thunderbird Academic Vice President, and Mr. Michael Harvey of Southern Methodist
University have worked very closely to bring the program to a reality.
In announcing the new linkage between Thunderbird and Southern Methodist
University Dr. Baerresen said:
"These programs are now beginning, and it is anticipated that many students
will be interested in availing themselves'of the special opportunities provided under
the arrangements between Thunderbird and SMU.
It is anticipated that students who are not now presently enrolled in SMU or
Thunderbird will view the dual degree program as a composite opportunity for
specializing in the core program of the Graduate School of Business at SMU first,
where they will spend two semesters and obtain 30 credit hours and then come to
Thunderbird to .augment their education with courses in language, international
studies, and upper level business courses.
The curricula of Thunderbird and SMU are complimentary, and the areas of
specialization at each institution can be used to strengthen the students overall
educational program.
At SMU fundamentals in business administration are emphasized through an
action learning process by which students are encouraged to solve live problems
under the guidance and direction of their professors.
At Thunderbird the students will obtain the basic required level of language
instruction, and receive the required background to understand the political, economic,
social, and cultural relationships in the international environments in which they
seek to work. Also at Thunderbird students will have the advantage of learning
the application of business practices and techniques under the direction of former
executives who were in charge of international operations for major corporations.
The result of this dual degree program should provide the student with a strong
background for his development as a successful international manager."
For further information on the Transfer of Credits Agreement between Thunder­bird
an:! SMU direct correspondence to Dr. Donald W. Baerresen, Academic Vice
President or to Dr. Robert L. Gulick, Dean of Admissions, Thunderbird Graduate
School, Glendale, AZ 85306.
THROUGH THE COURTESY OF HOWARD PATTERSON '69, we received the above
photo taken during a recent FNCB inspection of the Calcutta, India, branch. Shown
are four members of the Asia-Pacific Inspection Team (left to right) - Don Ehrett
'72, Vince Zamis '70, Larry Edstrom '70, Howard Patterson, and Dave Ansell '68,
who was the branch operations officer at that time. He" has since been assigned to
Saudi Arabia as Manager of the Jeddah branch. Howard adds: "Dave used to grade
my papers for Paul Wilson's accounting class, and now (ho ho!) we're grading his!"
1974 WOR.LD TRADE FAIR -
1975 INTERNATIONAL AUCTION
For the past three years the Interna­tional
Auction and World Trade Fair,
successfully sponsored by the Thunder­bird
Women 's Club, has been one of
the highlights of the School year, and
an affair that is eagerly looked forward
to by not only the students but the
local friends of Thunderbird as well.
The Club wishes to again thank alumni
and friends who have so generously
contributed to the last t hree auctions,
however, in order not to burden them
with annual requests and to stimulate
more local interest in the World Trade
Fair, the club voted to separate the two
events by holding them on alternate
years. The World Trade Fair will be
held in the Spring of 1974, with
the International Auction following in
Spring 1975.
Alumni wishing to donate to the 1975
International Auction may send their
donations at any time during the next
year and a half. Alumni planning to
visit campus might find it more con­venient
to bring their contributions with
them. Articles sent by mail should be
addressed to the Thunderbird Women's
Club, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale,
AZ 85306.
INTER-FAITH CENTER
PLANNED 'FOR
THUNDERBIRD
Inter-Faith Center plans at Thunder­bird
may be near realization. The stu­dent
committee formed earlier in 1973
with administration and ASLC approval
foresees that sufficient donations may
enable construction to begin in early
1974. Additional fund raising will be
pursued for furnishings and landscaping.
The facility will be used by all religious
and philosophical groups for services,
discussions, meditations, etc., in addition
to providing a forum by which each
can gain a better understanding of the
world's religions and philosophies.
No such center presently exists on cam­pus.
With a substantially increasing en­rollment
each semester, no other facility
can be made available for this purpose.
Inquiries, suggestions and support are
welcome. Checks should be sent to
Inter-Faith Center, Box 515, Thunder­bird
Graduate School, Thunderbird
Campus, Glendale, AZ 85306.
SAVE TIME!
FORGET THE OPERATOR!
DIAL DIRECT!
Alumni Office Number
(602) 938-7410
SURVEY ON FALL APPLICANTS, 1973
An analyds was made of all the applications which had been accepted for
admission into the fall semester (1973), as of August 31. This study covers a total
of 734 applications, excluding those applications which had been rejected, deferred
or otherwise postponed as of August 31.
AGE: The average age is 26 years. The median age is 241}~ years. The mode is
22 years. The span is from 20 years to 47 years.
MARTIAL STATUS: 32% are married
FEMALE-MALE RATIO: 10% are female
HOLDERS OF ADVANCE DEGREES:
M.A. Degree .... .... ........ .... ........ .. .... .... ................................. 5.5%
M.B.A. Degree ............ .......................................................... 1.6 %
Law Degrees .......................... ............. ................................. 0.8%
Ph.D ...................... ... .......... . .... ........................................ ....... 0.4%
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS:
Business Administration, Economics, and related subjects, (many majors are
cited as "Bus. Ad./Econ.," or "FinancejEcon.," and other similar combinations),
which account for 38% of all applications:
Business Administration .................... ..... ..... ........................ .. 19%
Economics ........ ....... ... ...... ... ................ ................ ....................... 10%
Marketing .................. ..... .. .................... .... ..... ...... ................. ..... 3 %
Management ............................ .......................... .... ............ ........ 2 %
Finance/Banking .. .......... ........... .......................... .. ... ... ........ ... 2%
Commerce ................. ....... ............ ........... .. .... ... .. ...... ....... .. ....... 1 %
Accounting ......... ....................... ................................ ..... ......... 1 %
38%
Political Science ............................. ........ ..... ........... ............. .. .................... ...... 16%
Languages (English 3 %, other languages 11 %) ........................................ 14 %
History and related Area Studies .......................................... ...................... 10%
International Relations ............. .................................................................... 3%
Engineering ............ ...... .......... ....... ..... ....... ......... ............. ... ..... ................ .... .... ... 3 %
Other ....... .............................. ..... ............. .................. ............................... 16%
100%
FOREIGN CITIZEN: 20.5% of all applicants are citizens of other countries.
Of this group, 58% hold degrees from American universities.
VETERANS: 32% of the American males are veterans.
There are 72 undergraduate degrees from foreign campuses: Taiwan, Japan,
India, Korea, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, France, Liberia, Pakistan, Iran, Hong Kong,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Nepal, Switzerland, Nairobi,
and Venezuela.
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,,~ Announcement §
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of the TGSIM ~
"Journal of Applied International Business"
Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management is proud
to announce that the first biannual issue of the Journal of Applied Inter­national
Business will be published in the Spring, 1974. The next issue will
appear in the Fall, 1974.
The Journal will contain current, outstanding articles by the faculty,
students, and alumni, plus other authors of valuable articles.
Topics will include those currently being taught at Thunderbird in the
World Business Department: international accounting, international market­ing,
international management, international f inance, international econo­mics,
etc.
This will be your Journal and also will be distributed to other Uni­versities
offering Business Administration courses. The Journal will provide
increased recognition for the curriculum and faculty developments at
TGSIM.
Would you please check one of the two choices below and return this
to "The Editor, Journal of Applied International Business," Thunderbird
Campus, Glendale, Arizona 85306, at your earliest convenience.
We wish to learn the best way to meet the costs of producing this
Journal and would deeply appreciate your assistance.
We thank you for your consideration.
The Editors
(Please check one)
1) I would be willing to pay for this SUbscription myself.
2) I think that my firm would be willing to pay for this subscription to
circularize among executive personnel.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS AT THUNDERBIRD BESIDES STUDY
DAL ESTABLISHES
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP
RAUL P . MASVIDAL, class of January
1966, Resident Vice President of the
First National City Bank in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, has established an annual
Scholarship in memory of his father,
Raul A. Masvidal.
The Scholarship, which will cover tui­tion
costs for one semester, will be
matched, under the Matching Gift Pro­gram,
by a contribution from the First
National City Bank, to cover tuition
for a second semester. The grant, to be
made annually, will be given to a stu­dent
of Latin American extraction in
need of financial assisrt~nce who has the
intention of joining an American firm
in the field of international business.
Preference will be given to a married
student.
Raul writes: "This is something I have
wanted to do ever since I graduated
from Thunderbird. As you may see,
I have a great interest in helping an
individual who may find himself in
more or less the same situation r found
myself in when I attended Thunderbird.
This effort will require a small financial
sacrifice on my part, but I feel it is the
best manner in which to express my
gratefulness to all of those individuals
who helped me in one way or another
during my school years."
SUPPORT YOUR
ALUjlfNI FUND!
MAIL YOUR CHECK
TODAY!
Ifn jlJ!{emoriam
BARONESS VON WRANGELL
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Baroness Mary Ann von Wrangell
Rokassowsky died on September 17th
in a Burlingame, California, hospital
following several months' illness.
As devoted friends of Thunderbird, the
Baron and Baroness funded the beauti­ful
new entrance to the campus.
Born in Baltimore, the Baroness made
her home in Phoenix since 1965. The
last gift was for the building of the
Carl and Ann von Wrangell Center,
St. Marine de Porres Parish at 37th and
Weir Avenues.
While living in New York City, she was
prominent in social and cultural circles.
Among the organizations she supported
there was the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. In addition, she organized the
New York City usa and was active
in its work. She was an officer of the
French Legion of Honor and was cited
for arranging the reception for King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth prior to
World War II when they visited Paris.
The title of Papal Countess was be­stowed
upon her by Pope John XXIII.
She is survived by her husband, Baron
Carl von Wrangell, an officer in the
Russian Imperial Army in World War
I; a stepdaughter, Leta Clews Cromwell
of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and a
sister out of state.
FORMER THUNDERBIRD
PROFESSOR DIES
GAIL MURPHY 86,
Professor and Di­rector
of the Inter­national
Commerce
Department at
Thunderbird fron,
1948 to 1955, died on
August 6th, 1973, at
a nursing home in
Dunedin, Florida.
Born in Dayton,
Ohio, he was a sales
executive with the British American
Tobacco Company for a number of
years before coming to Thunderbird.
He spent twelve years with the company
in Argentina as manager in charge of
three affiliate factories. He also spent
five years with the State Department
in Brazil and Panama.
Retiring in Florida in 1955 he became
active as a volunteer worker at Mease
Hospital, as a fund raiser for the
American Red Cross, as a lay reader
at the Episcopal Church of the Good
Samaritan, as a public relations rep­resentative
for Senior Citizens, Inc.,
and was much sought as a speaker on
Latin American affairs. He also spent
a year with Stetson University at De­land,
Florida where he lectured on sales
and marketing.
He is survived by an adopted son,
B. Robert Bostick, of Lexington, Ken­tucky.
During his campus days Gail was often
referred to as "the little man in the
French beret." His deep interest in
world affairs and in young people, his
ready smile and his abundance of wit
and humor won him the respect, admi­ration
and love of his students, co­workers
and friends.
AUTHOR STANLEY LOOMIS '54
KILLED IN PARIS
Stanley Loomis, 50,
of Stockbridge, Mas­sachusetts,
and
Par i s, died at
American Hospital
in Paris on Decem­ber
17th as a result
of injuries received
when he was struck
by a car in the
Place de la Con­corde.
A nationally known biographer and his­torian,
he was returning from a dinner
engagement when the accident occurred.
With him were his wife, the former
Virginia Lindsey, his twelve-year-old
son, Craig, his father, Chauncey C.
Loomis of Stockbridge, and his brother,
Chauncey, Jr., a professor of English
at Dartmouth College. The family had
ga thered in Paris for the Christmas
holidays.
Born in New York City, Stanley moved
to Stockbridge with his family at an
early age when his father became presi­dent
of the New England Lime Company
in Adams. He received his bachelor's
and master's degrees in History and
English from Columbia University, and
was graduated from Thunderbird in
February 1954.
While at graduate school, he became
fascinated with the French Revolution
and especially with Madame Du Barry,
mistress of King Louis XV. His research
resulted in a book on Madame Du Barry
in 1959, which was picked up by the
Book Find Club and received glowing
reviews.
In 1963, his book on "Paris in the
Terror: June 1793-July 1794" was a
selection of the Book of the Month Club
and was on the best-seller list. This year,
his "The Fatal Friendship" - a book
on Marie Antionette, was well received
by both critics and the public.
His works were not only admired by
professionals in the field, historians who
do not give praise easily to a non­academic;
they also attracted the gene­ral
public, resulting in several printings
of each book and selection by the lead­ing
U.S. book clubs. His works were
translated into several languages, and
are on the required reading lists in
college history and literature courses.
Several years ago, Stan and his wife
took up winter residence on the Rue
d'Anjou in Paris. They returned to their
Prospect Hill home at Stockbridge each
Spring in time for him to plant his
extensive flower garden and renew his
interest in art.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia,
and a son, Craig, who reside at Prospect
Hill, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01262 ;
four stepchildren, his father and two
brothers.
DEATH OF
WALTER HARNISCH FEGER
Mr. Walter Harnischfeger, a long time
member of the Board of Directors of
Thunderbird, died on September 21,
1973, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A former President, and retired Chair­man
of the Board, of the Harnischfeger
Corporation, he joined the Company
ill 1913 when he was 18 years old. He
became President in January 1931, and
in 1959 was elected Chairman of the
Board. He retired from active service
in August 1970.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor;
a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden; a
son, Henry; a sister, Mrs. Rene von
Schleinitz; nine grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
BONNIE WENZ DIES
BONNIE K. WENZ, wife of George
Wenz of the Class of June 19'70, died
suddenly on August 280th. They were
living in Munich, Germany, at the time.
George and Bonnie and their two chil­dren
had been in Munich for several
months where he is Sales Manager for
the American Greeting Corporation.
George may be reached in care of
American Greetings Europe, Gruber
Strasse 54, Poing bei Munich, Germany.
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FUND RAISING •
THUNDERBIRD ALUMNI FUND ESTABLISHES DIAMOND CLUB
The past three and a half months have shown a substantial rise in alumni giving. Although there have not been as
many contributions, the average size of the donations has increased. In this issue of THE THUNDERBIRD we are adding ,t
the DIAMOND CLUB to give due recognition to those alumni who have contributed $500 or more in 1973. I
The PATRICK DRIVE for Funds was instituted in October, and by this time most of you have received an appeal ,I
from Mr. James E. Patrick, Chairman of the Thunderbird Board of Directors. Proceeds from this Fund will be used along J
with the regular alumni contributions for the completion of the campus dining facilities. The kitchen underwent a face-lifting
this past summer, but we must renovate and aircondition the dining room before another Summer rolls around.
We ask that you give generously to the Alumni Fund by sending in a cash contribution, or a pledge to be honored
before the close of the fiscal year. Remember your contributions are tax-deductible, and that many of our employing companies
participate in a Gift Matching Program. If you are employed by a company or organization having such a program we ask
that you include the completed Gift Matching Form with your contribution.
PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY. You will take pride in seeing your name included with the list of donors in the next issue
of the alumni publication.
Frank Graves '59
Bernhard Edgar '49
Linwood Reed '59
Carlos Valenzuela '69
Selwyn Graves '50
Fred Leisering '47
Lee Haviland '47
Emily Adacusky '47
Lawrence Bocci '48
John Henson '48
James Gump '49
Donald Groves '49
James Buehring '50
James Markley '50
Cliff Mitchell '50
Richard Watson '50
Robert Thompson '51
Karl Rohrbough '52
Alex Madsen '52
John Lambert '53
Eugene Shultz '53
George Benzon '53
Charles Bartlett '53
Philip Kirk '54
George Rainoff '55
Paul Anderson '55
Robert & Shirley Lorenz '55
Addison Luce '56
Irving Perlman '56
Ruth Fellers '57
Alvin Fritzner '58
Jack Ryder '58
J. Hamilton Dethero '58
Barton Hartzell '59
Lee Westendorf '59
Howard Hall '60
Laurence Lippstreu '60
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DIAMOND CLUB
(contributions of $500 or more)
Robert Withers '68
Los Angeles Telefund Drive
CENTURY CLUB
(contributions of $100-$499)
Laurence Ratner '71
Glenn Beck '56
Robert Churidis '56
HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS
John Maier '61
Norman Baum '61
James Black '61
Frederick Arnold '61
Martin Taylor '61
Richard Autenreith '61
Horace Speed '62
Glenn Glad '63
Gary West '63
Luis Pi-Sunyer '64
David Goldman '64
Richard Cochran '65
Olav Leithe '65
Gregory Smith '65
Robert Gravell '65
Thomas Schultz '66
David Arms' '66
Jonathan Giddings '66
Alan Fredette '66
Lance Jensen '67
Ronald Larsen '67
Joseph Gury '68
Alain Vannetzel '68
James Trowbridge '68
Thomas Gevas '69
Ramon Urbano '69
Marvin De Voe '69
Michael Murphy '69
Robert Hughes '69
Barry Soloff '69
Michael Wiley '69
John Heard '69
Sheldon Pooley '47
McNeill Watkins '54
Howard Shaw '61
Everett Herda '69
John Sullivan '69
Stephen Montague-Pollock '70
Walter Nagel '70
Pierre Zarch '70
John Muncy '70
J . Laurence Jones '70
Larry McCarver '70
G. Sheppard Root '70
J.ames Will '70
Chong Rhee '70
Gary Weddington '70
Keith Sanders '71
William Brown '71
John Moore '71
Jon Dwinell '71
Lee Baker '71
Hal Baker '71
John Latham '71
Vincent Masucci '71
Ronald Sobel '71
William Funk '71
Clifford Myers ' 71
Jerome Wetzstein '71
John Scott '72
Todd Hall '72
Jon Steele '72
Bud Sterrett '72
Gary Brukardt '72
Edward Auble '72
Raif Sagieh '73
George Hartley '73
TOTAL OONTRIBUTIONS - June 15th, 1973-0ctober 15th, 1973 - $5,380.40
IL~Tno ... ~
THE CHRIS LARSENS PARTY
WITH SPAIN ALUMNI
SPAIN THUNDERBIRDS - (left to
right) BILL PEREZ '70 (Johnson Wax
Espanola); MANNY BALLESTERO '62
(P. Lorillard Co.); BUD JOHNSON '69
(AIG); CHRIS LARSEN, Director. of
Special Projects at ThunderbIrd;
ROGER LARSEN '72 (AIG); JERRY
SEAY '71 (AIG)
A delightful reception was held at the
Madrid home of ROGER and CONNIE
LARSEN '72 in honor of Roger's parents,
Chris and Valla Larsen, when they vis­ited
Spain in July.
Many of the Spain alumni were on
vacation, but those who attended car­ried
on in true Thunderbird fashion
into the wee 'hours of the morning.
In addition to those pictured above the
following T'birds were in attendance:
BOB CACKETT '68 (AFIA), who at­tended
the reception but had to leave
for another engagement, J erry Seay's
parents and two brothers, Cathy Perez,
Dottie Ballestero, Georgean Johnson,
Linda Seay, Connie and Valla Larsen.
Unfortunately, we were unable to re­produce
the photo of the entire group.
The senior Larsens very much en­joyed
being with the group and re­ported
that they are all fine representa­tives
of Thunderbird, the USA, and their
respective companies.
LOS ANGELES GROUP MEET
AT VILLA TAXCO
By the time this issue of THE THUN­DERBIRD
reaches its destination the
LOS ANGELES Alumni Chapter Novem­ber
10th meeting will be over. At this
early date it looks as though there will
be the usual large representation. The
affair will be a dinner meeting at the
Villa Taxco Restaurant at Sunset and
Virgil. President Larry Lipsher and
his Board of Directors have made an all
out effort to assure that the Fall meet­ing
will be a success. One of the high­lights
of the affair will be the honoring
of Professor Paul Wilson for his many
years of devoted service to Thunderbird.
Unfortunately, because of a previous
commitment he well be unable to
attend. Acting in his behalf in accepting
the Award will be Thunderbird Presi­dent
Voris.
The Southern California Alumnus of
the Year award is also scheduled to be
presented at this time.
More on this in the next issue of THE
THUNDERBIRD.
LIBERIA T/BIRDS MEET
Although we have had no official report
from the Liberia Thunderbirds, CHAR­LEY
ST. CLAIR '56 tells us that the
area alumni met in Monrovia several
months ago. MARVIN DOLE '67 of the
Liberia Tractor & Equipment Company
in Monrovia organized the meeting and
we have written to Marv asking for
more information - hopefully, we will
have it for the next issue of the publi­cation.
ENGLAND CHAPTER
PLAN REORGANIZATION
Plans are underway for the reorganiz­ing
of the ENGLAND Alumni Chapter,
under the guidance of SCOTT W AKE­FIELD
'66 and MIKE ADAMS '69 and
with some assistance from other area
Thunderbirds. In September, MIKE re­ported
that they hope to start off with
a "get acquainted" cocktail party some­time
within the next two months. Eng­land
T'birds should get in touch with
Mike at the Royal Bank of Canada, 6
Lothbury, London or with Scott at
Roulston & Company, Inc., 5 Queen
Street, Mayfair, London.
1973 FASCHING
CELEBRATION IN MUNICH
EUROPEAN THUNDERBIRDS kicked
off a festive weekend on Friday evening,
March 2nd, by warming up over drinks
at the Regina Palast Hotel in Munich.
Later they proceeded to a quaint Argen­tine
Steak House where a "gemutlich"
supper was served to the tune of live
Latin music. The evening was brought to
a perfect close by one Thunderbird wife
dancing on the table to even livelier
Latin music.
On Saturday the group had their usual
Hofbrau luncheon meeting with the
following Thunderbirds in attendance:
Mitch and Judi Summers '64 of Paris;
Dave and Lana Hertel '70 of St. Truiden,
Belgium; Wolf and Marie Oplesch '67 of
Paris; Peter and Nancy Pay '62 of Veley,
Switzerland; Dewey and Sharon Smith
'68 of Wolverhampton, England; Vladas
and Gail Gedmintas of Antwerp, Bel­gium
and Paul and Pat Reimann of
Cologne, Germany. They were joined
by John Avard '65 of Ridge Tool Com­pany
in Elyria, Ohio, who was in Ger-many
on company business. There were
also two non-Thunderbird couples.
In addition to old and new business and
reading of the minutes there were vari­ous
reports given concerning Thunder­bird
"goings-on" in different countries.
Election of officers took place with
Mitch Summers being re-elected Presi­dent,
Dave Hertel as Vice President, and
Paul Reimann as Secretary-Treasurer,
along with various National Chairmen.
The Saturday evening costume ball
brought out a record-breaking atten­dance
- probably the largest in the
history of the Chapter. The group is
hoping for an even larger attendance
at the 1974 Fasching Celebration.
FASCHING COSTUME BALL - Cleft to
right) Paul and Pat Reimann, John Avard,
Dave Hertel and Phil Meadows.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ALUMS
HONOR VORIS
STEVE CONGER '48 hosted the W ASH­INGTON,
D.C. area alumni at his beau­tiful
home overlooking the Potomac in
honor of Thunderbird President William
Voris. The affair was held on Wednes­day
evening October 10th, with approx­imately
35 alumni and guests attending.
President Voris was particular pleased
to meet area alumni and reported a
very successful meeting. We understand
that photos of the group were taken
and if they turn out you will see them
in the next issue of THE THUNDER­BIRD.
Following the reception, President Voris
enjoyed a delightful dinner hour with
the DICK BELLS '64.
RIO ALUMS MEET
Jim Phillips '47, Manager of British
Caledonian Airways in Rio, recently
hosted a Thunderbird alumni party in
BCA's Pub on Av. Rio Branco. Assisting
Jim in arranging the evening of cock­tails
and darts were Stan Wilson and
Dolph J ohnson.
Other T'birds and guests attending were
Aloysio Vasconcellos, Bob Garrison,
Ward Ryan, Dale Sheets, Bill Anderson,
Bill Hayes, Mike Boyatt, Seth Brumley,
Joe Z. Van Over, Denis Bourke, Gary
Ambrose, Gunter Aron, Rich Tyler and
George Souza.
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ST. CLAIR '56 DECORATED
The Executive Mansion
Office of President
Monrovia, Liberia
BERIA GOVERNMENT
CITATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF LmERIA FOR THE ADMiTrANCE OF MR.
CHARLES L. ST. CLAIR INTO THE HUMANE ORD·ER OF AFRICA REDEMPTION,
IN THE QUALITY OF KNIGHT GRAND COMMANDER - July 23, 1973.
Mr. Charles L. St. Clair
Economist, Businessman, Soldier, Humanitarian
Since your arrival in Liberia in 1969 in the capacity of Vice President and General
Manager of the United States Trading Corporation you and your wife, Mary Jane,
have made many contributions to the Civic and Social Progress of the Community in
which you have lived and worked.
You have served three terms as Chairman of the Council of the Liberian Chamber
of Commerce under Presidents Emmett Harmon, Stephen Tolbert, and P . Clarence
Parker. During that period you established the Costing Center of the Chamber of
Commerce. You also served creditably as Chairman of the Board of the American
Cooperative School from 1971-1972. You are an active and faithful mem.ber of the
Monrovia Rotary Club and have closely identified yourself with the President's
High Cost of Living Commission, the National Fund Raising Rally and the National
Safety Council.
You aided in the construction of the Eva Deline Orphanage and sponsored the annual
Christmas program at that Home.
It is because of your interest in civic and humanitarian causes in this country
and because of your family's identification with you in those causes that you have
been named for a meritorious citation in the quality of Knight Grand Comm.ander
of the Humane Order of Africa Redemption. May you wear it with pride and
dignity to yourself, to the honour of Liberia and to the glory of God.
CONGRATULATIONS.
William R. Tolbert, Jr.
President of Liberia
Charley has since resigned his position with the United States Trading Company
(Firestone affiliate) and returned to the States. He is currently living in the
Phoenix area (Address: 806 West Vista, Phoenix, AZ 85020) . The St. Clair's have
five children, ranging from five to sixteen years of age.
He joined Firestone after graduating from Thunderbird in June 1956 and served
in the Philippines for a number of years before being assigned to Liberia.
THUNDERBIRD VISITORS
LISA LEKIS '48 of Ft. Lauderdale, Flo­rida
. . . BILL and KAREN WILLIAMS
'61 of Sao Paulo . .. RICH BURRUS '72
of Aurora, Colorado . . . BOB GREEN­BAuM
'72 of Denver, Colorado ...
JACK GREYER '52 of Aurora, Illinois
(interviewing for McGraw-Edison) ...
GUS NIXON '70 of Hurst, Texas. " ART
NUNLEY '58 of Florrisant, Missouri . . .
DON PIE'RCE '72 of San Francisco . .
DEWEY CADY '71 of Los Angeles . . .
STU GREEN '65 of Pittsburgh . . .
MARY LOU PAULSON '68 of Phoenix
. . . DICK O'BRIEN '67 of San Jose,
California . . . BOB and CHRISTEE
LONDONO '69 of Mexico City . . .
ANN ZEKIAN '66,- and daughter, of
Rio de Janeiro . . . BOB HINKLE '58
of Los Angeles . . . MEG GOETZ '69
of Ventura, California . .. LEITH and
JUDY SWANSON '71 of Laguna Beach
. , . HOWARD SHAW '61 of EI Paso . .
BOB DOLEZAL '66 of Tucson . . .
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CRUZ R. MORA '57 of Torrance, Cali­f{)
rnia . . . EILEID'N and GEORGE
CUMPSTON '52 of Phoenix . .. BILL
WAMSLEY '69 of Sausalito, California
· . . BILL KELLEY '71 of Belgium
(interviewing for Avionics) ... KEN
and JUNE MILLER '49' of Skokie, Illi­nois
. . . CHARLES EMANUEL '72 of
Sun City . . . JOHN BAKER '64 enroute
to a Republic Steel assignment in Cleve­land
. . . PERRY KING '72 of Denver
· . . WALTER MILLER '51 of Scottsdale
· .. KENT GREGORY '72 of Denver . . .
LEANNE and GORAN PETERS '70 of
London . . . FRANK LONG '66 of Sao
Paulo (interviewing for Champion Pa-pers)
.. . BEN SHAMAN '71 of Kobe,
Japan . . . DICK GARDINER and wife
'69 of Kent England . . . JOHN GIL­BERT
'57 of Cincinnati . . . GEORGE
HARDY '73 of New York (interviewing
for Colgate-Palmolive Company) ...
BOB BLOMQUIST '68 of Sacrament{)
· .. JOHN SCHANTZ '66 of Phoenix.
CHARLES ST. CLAIR RECEIVES THE MERI­TORIOUS
CITATION in the qual'ity of Knight
Grand Commander of the Humane Order
of African Redemption from President
William R. Tolbert, Jr., of Liberia lIeft).
(Far right) Mr. C. C. Dennis, Minister of
State.
PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT, JR. of
Liberia, gives a congratulatory hancl'shake
to Mary Jane St. Clair.
CARRILLO JOINS
NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY
DR. BERT CARRILLO '62, assistant
professor of Spanish at Thunderbird for
the past two years, has accepted a po­sition
as assistant professor of Spanish
at Western New Mexico University in
Silver City. His course assignments this
Fall include Mexican literature, inter­mediate
and beginning Spanish. In ad­dition
he serves as sponsor of the cam­pus
Spanish Club.
A native of Guadalajara, Mexico, he
received his undergraduate d egree at
the University of Arizona. Following
graduation from Thunderbird in June
1962, he joined CARE with subsequent
assignments in Mexico and Haiti.
He returned to the University of Arizona
in 1964 to pursue a doctorate and to be
an assistant professor of languages. Up­on
completion of his doctorate in 1970
he joined the faculty at Wake Forest
University and in the Fall of 1971 he
became a member of the Thunderbird
faculty.
AROUND THE WORLD
1947 FRED LEISERING, formerly
Caracas Group Manager for
Sears, has been assigned to
Bogota, and promoted to President of
the Colombian operations of Sears Roe­buck
de Colombia. Also with Sears at
the Bogota headquarters is DON
COOPElR '48, who has been named Vice
President in charge of all merchandis­ing.
1948 We enjoyed an early summer
visit with LISA LEKIS of Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida, and her
sister-in-law of Phoenix. Lisa has com­pleted
requirements for a Ph.D. in Latin
American Studies. Husband WALT,
among other things is a free lance
consultant and operates a charter boat
service.
BEAN APPOINTED EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR - EXPORT-TO-JAPAN
TRADE FAIR
Robert L. Bean '48 was appointed Ex­ecutive
Director of the Export-to-Japan
Trade Fair held at Navy Pier Novem­ber
6-8. '
The Chicago Association of Commerce
and Industry sponsored the Fair, with
the cooperation of U.S. and Japanese
governmental and business groups, to
promote the sale of American goods and
services in the booming Japanese mar­ket.
Bean, recently Coordinator of Programs
for the Illinois Department of Business
and Economic Development, has an ex­tensive
background in export promotion.
Currently he is a Director of the In­ternational
Trade Club of Chicago and
the Japan American Society of Chicago.
1949 BERNHARD EDGAR writes
from Lucerne, Switzerland: "My
wife and I plan to take off for
a two months' trip through England and
Scotland (one month each). Hope to
catch some prize salmon in the Scottish
Highlands and along the Royal Dee.
There is nothing like being retired at a
youthful age. I have had seven years
of it and can take a lot more. I am not
idle, though, quite the contrary. Margot
and I plan to visit Thunderbird in Jan­uary
or February. We want to spend
about three weeks in Arizona." . . .
LLOYD CLARK, formerly of Prescott
and now living in Bisbee, has been
selected as the first regional administra­tor
for the Southeastern Arizona Gov­ernments
Organization, which is one of
six planning and development districts
in the State. He received a Masters in
Public Administration from ASU in
1972, after driving back and forth be­tween
Prescott and Tempe three times
a week for 18 months. Daughter, Candy,
was married in August at the same
church in Prescott where Lloyd and
Jean were married. Son, Roger, is a
senior at NAU, due to graduate in
forestry in December. He and his wife,
Georgene, spent the summer in the
Sierra National Forest marking trees
and fighting fires. Daughter, Cindy, is at
home in Bisbee, and wife JEAN is get­ting
into the swing by taking up golf . ..
We enjoyed several days' visit from
KEN and JUNE MILLER when they
were on campus for son RANDY'S
graduation in August. The Millers have
been living in Warren, Ohio, where
Ken was store manager for Sears, but
will be moving to Sears' Skokie, Illinois,
headquarters. He has been promoted to
International Operations Manager. Son
Randy has accepted a position with the
Continental Bank in Chicago . . . An
interesting article entitled "Retiring in
Costa Rica" appears in the May 1973
issue of THE. RETIRED OFFICER.
Written by COLONEL JOHN FRISBEE,
USAF-Ret., the article confirms what
recent ads and alumni say about the
beauty of the country, the friendly peo­ple
and the low cost of living in Costa
Rica and other Central Ameri.can coun­tries.
John was so impressed during a
fact-finding visit that he plans to move
there the next time around. In the
meantime, The Frisbees continue to live
in Alexandria, Virginia.
1950 JIM BUEHRING updates us on
his activities during the past
few years: "I recently trans­ferred
from St. Clair Shores, Michigan,
and brought my family to live in Taipei,
Taiwan, where I am project officer of
US/ROC Military Vehicle Plant Produc­tion
Program. I have been out of con­tact
due to the nature of my previous
job and the constant military pressures
which kept me traveling around the
world during the recent war in South­east
Asia. The last 12 years or so, I've
been Project Officer and Commodity
Manager for the US Armies M113/
M113A1 Armored Personnel Carrier
family of Vehicles. It is the largest
U.S. Combat vehicle fleet in the world
and the problems we've had in South­east
Asia have kept me extremely busy.
In April of this year, I transferred to the
Republic of China and work under a
sales case for General Hsuing, Com­manding
General, Military Vehicle Plant,
Combined Service Forces, Republic .of
China. The Military Plant is located in
Taipei and we assemble % ton J eeps
and 2% ton trucks for Chinese govern­ment.
The program is presently schedul-
"
ed to be completed in 1978. My family
arrived in July and we are" presently
living in New Peitou, a suburb of Tai­pei.
We live in a beautiful home high
on a mountain overlooking Peitou and
Taipei. We have already made several
local tours, and we hope to take leave
trips to Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong
and Tokyo." . . . CLIFF MITCHELL,
Vice President-Marketing of Mid­Western
Machinery Company in Joplin,
Missouri, reports that he still travels
Latin America regularly and left Chile
amid riots 21f2 weeks ahead of the
September 11th coup.
1951 HOWARD and BILLIE: HOOPS
write from Bucharest, Romania:
"Another country learned,
studied and visited. It's beautiful here.
Hope to see Dracula's Castle tomorrow.
Will head for the Black Sea resorts
next week. Traveling is such fun."
Howard is an Area Administrator for
the American National Red Cross, based
in San Francisco.
1952 ALEX MADSEN, Regional Sales
Manager for A. B. Dick in
Brussels, Belgium is completing
his seventeenth year of European living
... MARRIAN GLEASON, widow of Ed
Gleason, is enjoying her work at Tufts
University School of Medicine but some­times
wonders what an anthropologist
is doing in a psychophysiology lab.
Daughter Julia, a student at Bryn Mawr,
spent the summer in York, England ...
GEORGE and EILEEN CUMPSTON,
formerly of Overland Park, Kansas, are
currently residing in the Phoenix area.
1953 BOB MOREHOUSE, VicePresi­dent
of Wells Fargo Bank, has
been named head of the Bank's
Far East Group. Formerly general man­ager
of the Tokyo branch, Bob will be
headquartered in San Francisco where
he will be responsible for Wells Fargo's
investment and banking business in the
Asia-Pacific region ... VERNE NAZA­REK
is a practicing attorney in Santa
Rosa, California.
COLEMAN PROMOTED
In order to provide for more fully
coordinated management throughout the
Far East Zone, the Gamlen Chemical
Company has promoted RICHARD
COLEMAN '54 to the position of Direc­tor
of Operations-Far East Zone.
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As Director he will continue to be based
in Tokyo and in addition to his continu­ing
responsibilities as General Manager,
Gamlen (Japan) Ltd., he will be re­sponsible
for the day-to-day marketing,
technical and operational activities of
Gamlen in the Far East Zone.
1954 KERMIT ADAMS writes from
Tegucigalpa, Honduras: "It is
with a great deal of apprecia­tion
that I write you of my being named
director of the Escuela Argicola Pan­americana
on July 9, 1973. I say appre­ciation,
for it was Thunderbird School
which gave me the opportunity to pre­pare
myself for a career in Latin Ameri­ca
and helped form my pragmatic phil­osophy
of education. This is one of the
most beautiful campuses of any school
in the Western Hemisphere. Ii has 200
structures of stone, tile and Spanish
cedar constructed by skilled Honduran
Master Masons and carpenters. Further,
it has approximately 1000 head of cattle,
as well as a large dairy herd, swine and
poultry. The fruit, vegetable field crops
and forestry programs, as well as the
livestock programs provide centers of
training for agriculturists from all parts
of Latin America. Presently we have
students representing 13 countries and
a faculty composed of insiructors from
12 countries." ... PHIL KIRK has been
named Group Vice President of the
Kewanee Oil Company with responsi­bility
for the Chemical Division and
Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, and has
moved from the Cleveland area to Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania. He has also been
elected to the firm's Board of Directors
and Executive Committee. He was for­merly
President for The Harshaw
Chemical Company, a subsidiary of
Kewanee Oil Company ... The McNEILL
WATKINS are living in the Coral
Gables, Flo·rida, area where he serves
as General Attorney for Texaco Inc.
He reports: "Being off the beaten track
I don't see many T'birders. My new job
is in charge of legal matters for Texaco,
in Latin America, West Indies and the
Bahamas in the producing, refining and
sales side of our business, and in West
Africa sales and refining."
ATTENTION: SKI and VACATION
MINDED THUNDERBIRDS
DAN ROMANOFF '55, known for his
successful business ventures, offers all
ski and vacation minded Thunderbirds
the hospitality (at reasonable rates, of
course) of his latest acquisitions - THE
GENERAL PALMER HOUSE and THE
GRANDE PALACE hotels in Durango,
Colorado.
Situated in the heart of the ski country
and just forty miles from PUrgatory -
a skier's utopia, Duyango offers a.
glimpse into the historic past. Sur­rounded
by the spectacular peaks of the
San 'Juan National Forests, warmed by
the southwestern sun, the region is
blessed with a natural snow belt that
produced over 450 inches of snow dur­ing
the 1972-73 ski season.
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The General Palmer House and The
Grande Palace hotels combine the in­formal
with authentic Victorian and
with a friendly atmosphere amid the
plush decor of the 1880's. Every modern
comfort is at hand - drive-in conveni­ence,
ample parking, family accommo­dations,
television, dining, telephones,
air conditioning, transportation to and
from the Purgatory ski lifts, etc.
Rio Grande-land is the pioneer business
section of Durango adjacent to the
classic Rio Grande Railroad Depot,
which has been restored and modernized
as a living memorial to early-day rail­roading.
The old Silverton Train, the
last of the West's narrow guage rail­road
pioneers, is in daily operation from
June through September between Du­rango
and Silverton, Colorado.
If you plan to spend your next vacation
with Dan at one of the two hotels we
advise you to make your reservations
early by calling (303) 247-4747, or by
writing to P. O. Box 1048, Durango
81302 . You can take Frontier Snow Club
flight from Denver to Durango, the
jumping off place for the Purgatory ski
lifts.
1956 COMMANDER JOE ZV ANO­VEC,
USN, is looking forward
to his third tour of duty in
South America. He is currently stationed
in Brazil ... BOB CONNELLY left
Armco several months back and is now
employed as General Sales Manager for
Serran Tecnia Industrial, S.A. in Sao
Paulo.
1957 JIM and MARY ELLEN DYER
and family have moved from
Dallas, Texas, to Newport
Beach, California, and Jim is Direclor of
Marketing Services for a fast-growing
pharmaceutical company ... BELMONT
HAYDEL has been named as assistant
professor of Business Administration at
Texas A & I University at Laredo ...
CRUZ MORA made one of his rare visits
to campus a few weeks ago. Currently
he is a probation officer for Los Angeles
County. The Moras and their three
children live in Torrance.
FMAN NAMED
ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR
Philip D. Hoffman '58 has been pro­moted
to account supervisor at Aaron
D. Cushman and Associates, Inc., a
Na1tional public relations and marketing
firm headquartered in Chicago. Phil
joined the agency in July 1972. Prior to
that time he served as public relations
director of the Bloom Agency, Dallas,
and was a staff member of Harshe-Rot­man
& Druck in both Chicago and
Dallas.
Phil and his wife and son live at 1142
Ash, Winnetka, Illinois.
1959 MARILYN BUCKWALTER re­ports
from Seattle, Washington,
that BUCKY was recently ap­pointed
Assistant General Manager for
the Seattle Supersonics . . . DAVE YOU­MANS,
Director for Foster Parents Plan,
Inc., in Bogota writes: "We have a very
large enrollment now and will service
8100 Colombian families by year's end.
My wife, Anita, is well and three sons
are studying in Bogota. Vacation in
Florida and the Keys was welcome and
restful. Europe next year." . . . As
maintenance engineer for the Boeing
Company, BART HARTZELL is doing
his share of traveling - recently visited
Olympic Airlines in Athens, and later
was shipped off to South Africa Air­ways
in Johannesburg. The Hartzells
live in Bellevue, Washington.
GOODYEAR PROMOTIONS
AND TRANSFERS
Goodyear International Corporation has
promoted three Thunderbird employees.
WALLY LIFE '60, formerly vice presi­dent
and managing director for Good­year-
Peru, has been named sales direc­tor
in Brazil. BILL MARKS '54 assumes
Wally's former post in Peru. Bill has
been back in the Akron Home office
for the past year as manager of tire
marketing. CLAUS MORCH '64, for­merly
assistan~ to the sales director at
Goodyear-Sweden, has been promoted
to area manager, export sales, Beirut,
Lebanon.
1960 HOWARD HALL in Hong Kong
writes: "For the third unex­pected
time since graduating in
1960 I ran into BILL NYSTROM. Pre­vious
times were in a Hong Kong bar
in 1963, and in a Los Angeles shoe shine
stand in 1967. This time was in the
Singapore Airport in June of this year.
Bill was on a 'round the world tour
from American Express Travel Bureau
in San Francisco and I was traveling
in connection with my position as in­vestment
management officer for Bank
of America in Hong Kong." ... Follow­ing
several years in the business world,
BOB BALLINGER has switched to the
VORIS AT BAT
academic field. In preparation for this
he earned an MBA at Cal State (at
nights), and received an appointment
as an assistant professor of business
administration at Berkshire Community
College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ...
BOB CASTILLO called from San Diego
a few weeks ago to report that he was
being transferred from Bogota to Rio
by Smith Kline & French Laboratories.
1961 JIM PARKER has been ap­pointed
general manager -
production planning and inven­tory
control for Heinz U.S.A., division
of the H. J. Heinz Company, and is
based in Pittsburgh ... GEORGE BEN­SON
is confined in the Palmcrest North
Convalescent Hospital in Long Beach,
California and reports that shortly
after the first of the year he will be
moving to the Valley. His mother has
purchased a home in Sun City. George
will be in the Beautitude Campus of
Care in Phoenix until such time as his
name comes up on the waiting list of the
Sun Valley Lodge in Sun City ... On
June 1st, JIM BLACK was named Vice
President and General Manager of the
Philippine organization of G. D. Searle
& Company. He spent the past year
at the home office in Skokie, Illinois,
and for five years previous the Blacks
were based in Puerto Rico.
1962 GEORGE MENDENHALL is
Managing Director of ETAK
International, Ltd. (importers
of fresh fruit and vegetables) in Hong
Kong .. . JOHN KELLEY writes from
Memphis: "I finally got married on
March 25, 1972. Four T'bird classmates
attended the wedding - TERRY and
MARILYN SINGER and RALPH and
MAUREEN HANNING." John is Presi­dent
of Southern States Industries, Inc.
in Memphis . . . After bouncing around
Asia and South America for eight years,
BILL and HELEN HEYDEN have set­tled
in the Skokie, Illinois area, where
he is an agent for Allstate Insurance.
Helen is studying to be a chiroprac·tor
... MACKIE CORNWALL left Gardner
Advertising and St. Louis for a position
with Bozell & Jacobs, Inc. and will
principally be serving the international
advertising interests of J . I. Case. He
is based in Racine, Wisconsin.
1963 TOM and FAYE WRIGHT and
family are back in London and
Tom is working for Merrill
Lynch - Brown Shipley New Merchant
Bank . . . GLENN GLAD writes from
Zurich, Switzerland: "It's home leave
time again but this time we will un­fortunately
not be passing through Phoe­nix.
I used some vacation time this
year to spend a week in the mountains
and Laura and I took a week's honey­moon
in London. Life continues to pre­sent
new opportunities for us to help
us understand the meaning of it all, and
except fOT a few health problems we
are most happy." As Manager of Bank­Firestone
Ltd. in Zurich, Glenn spent
some time in New York hob-nobbing
with bankers and brokers, then on to
Akron headquarters for some briefing
. . . JFM RIDDLE is employed by Tele­dyne,
Inc. in Seoul, Korea.
1964 LUIS PI-SUNYER left the
American Express Company
after 4% years and joined the
Export Credit Corporation, a rapidly
expanding finance company for U.S.
exports. He travels all of the Western
Hemisphere with responsibilities for
business development and growth in
that area . . . DON NELSON and his
family are living in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where he is Assistant to the Mar­ket
Research and Control Manager of
. caribbean Refrescos, Inc., a subsidiary
of Coca-Cola Interamerican Corporation
. . . DAVE GOLDMAN has formed his
own commercial real estate leasing and
management firm d.b.a. Real Corpora­tion,
with offices in both Las Vegas,
Nevada and Santa Monica, California
... JOHN BAKER stopped on campus
a few weeks ago enroute to his new
position with the international division
of Bethlehem Steel in Cleveland.
MORGAN JOINS NEWPORT NEWS
INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
ROGER D. MOR­GAN
'64 has joined
the newly renamed
Newport News In­dustrial
Corporation
(formerly NSC) as
Vice President of
sales and marketing.
He will head NNI's
reorganized market­ing
division, with
responsibilities in-cluding
management of the company's
field sales organization, product plan­ning,
marketing development and over­all
business development strategy.
Roger joined Caterpillar Tractor Com­pany
after graduating from Thunder­bird
in June 1964 and spent seven years
in Europe in marketing and dealer
administration. Most recently he was
supervisor of Sales Training at the
Peoria headquarters.
Roger and Heather and their adopted
daughter, Michelle, will reside in New­port
News, Virginia.
1965 CHUCK HARDY is an interna­tional
representative for Beck­man
Instruments based in
Carolina, Puerto Rico ... DON LITTLE­FIELD
is trying to locate BILL MUS­TARD
who attended Thunderbird for
one semester in 1965. Anyone having
information on Bill please get in touch
with Don at 205 North 23rd Street,
Richmond, VA. 23223.
1966 ANDY and CLAIR CHRYSSO­LOR
are living in the London,
England, area where he is Area
Director-Europe & Africa Division of
Allergan Pharmaceuticals . . . BOB
HOSKINS arrived in Sydney, Australia,
last November to assume the position of
International Representative for the
Continental Insurance Companies . . .
Following seven years with Allis Chal­mers,
ED HILL is now a Market Analyst
for Ford Tractor Operations, based in
Troy, Michigan . . . BUZZ AHRENS
writes from Dallas, TX (4748 Forest
Bend) : "Joined Hagger Company earlier
this month with the task of establish-
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ing an international program from
scratch. I would be interested in hear­ing
about market conditions in all those
far-off places." Buzz will serve as In­ternational
Development Manager . . .
The JIM KOESSLERS have been trans­ferred
from El Salvador to Caracas by
the First National City Bank . . . BOB
DOLEZAL stopped on campus a few
weeks ago to report that he is currently
Urban Planner for the City of Tucson
... ANN ZEKIAN and daughter, Mel­anie,
of Rio de Janeiro, visited the alum­ni
office in July. Ann is teaching
English as a foreign language at the
Brazilian Army Language Institute.
FELLABAUM '66 JOINS
UNIVERSAL-RUNDLE
CORPORATION
Dennis J . Murphy,
Nat ion a 1 Sales
Manager, U/R Di­VISIon,
Universal­Rundle
Corporation,
recently announced
the appointment of
ROBERT A. FEL­LABAUM
as dis­trict
sales manager
for New England.
Formerly with Mc­Millan
Radiation Labs, Bob will make
his headquarters in Ipswich, Massachu­setts,
while servicing the New E'ngland
market, where U /R has just started a
new fiberglass plant in Leominster,
Mass.
Universal-Rundle Corporation, head­quartered
in New Castle, Pennsylvania,
has manufacturing facilities in nine
states, and markets its fiberglass, vitre­ous
and acrylic fixtures, as well as brass
fittings, vanities and associated bath­room
products nationally.
PADEN '67 NAMED DIRECTOR
J. MARK PADEN has been named
Director of the Europe/Mid-East/ Africa
Department of North Carolina National
Bank in Charlotte. He joined NCNB's
International division in January 1973
and is an assistant vice president.
Prior to joining the Bank he spent
several years with the American Express
Company in Germany.
1967 CHUCK GRAHAM writes from
Chicago: "I came out here from
Manny Hanny and New York in March
1971 when the. Northern Trust Company
made me an offer I couldn't refuse."
Chuck is 2nd Vice President, and Head
of the European, Mid-E.ast Section . . .
After four and a half years in Singapore,
BILL and MARINA BROWN and sons
have been assigned ,to Monterrey, Mexi,-
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co, by Elizondo, S.A. a subsidiary of
the Carrier Corporation . . . STEVE
STRAWN is now working for Copoly­mer
Rubber and Chemical Corporation
in Baton Rcmge, as a Development
Chemist in the Applications Research
Department. . . RON LARSEN writes
from Honolulu: "I have my own mort­gage
brokerage company and would like
to hear from fellow graduates connected
with Banks on what financing they have
for Djakarta, Singapore and U.S. Trust
Territories. Congratulations to JIM
ROo.NEY on his continuing success.".
You can reach Ron at 843 Fort Street,
Suite 508, Honolulu 96813 . . . The
WAYNE ROHLFS are located in Schipol
East, The Netherlands, where he is a
project manager for the Koehring
Company.
1968 o.n a TWA flight from Chicago
to New York BOB BEAN '48
sat next to DAVE McINTYRE,
who was on his way to Spain and Por­tugal.
Bob reports that Dave is the
Advertising Manager for Seven-Up
International, headquartered in St.
Louis . . . DAN and DIANE LOWERY
are back in the States and living in
Brewster, New York. Dan has been
assigned to the New York head office
of FNCB as an assistant Vice President
in the Middle East Division . . . BILL
SIMPSON writes from Pawling, New
York: "After two years at Barclays
Bank International I resigned to return
to teaching. I taught French and Public
Speaking at The Hill School for two
years after graduating from Thunder­bird.
Am now Master, French Teacher
and Soccer Coach for Trinity-Pawling,
a boarding school" ... DICK BUGEL­WICZ
reports : "My wife, Bonnie, and
two kids, Richelle (6) and Matt (4) -
have finally ended a seven month
o.dyssey and arrived back at our start­ing
point, Germany. In between we
were located in Frankfurt, New York,
Tucson, Fremont, Nebraska, a cabin on
the Delaware River, and finally Muen­chen.
During this time I resigned from
American Express and entered a career
program with Merrill Lynch Interna­tional.
If any Thunderbirds located in
Europe need information on their in­vestments
or portfolios, I'll try to assist
them. Just drop me a line at Merrill
Lynch, Dienerstr. 21, Muenchen and in­clude
your telephone number" . . . AL
V ANNETZEL has been promoted to
Market Director of the packaging divi­sion
of American Can Company and has
moved to Paris . . . Following a year
with Calgon Corporation and three years
with Gallo Wine, BOB BLOMQUIST
joined Sacramento Foods as Marketing
Manager. As new product manager for
Calgon he created Cling-Free Aerosol
Fabric Softener . .. BERT PINARD
reports from Istanbul, Turkey, where
he is District Manager for Sales and
Marketing for the Ford Motor Company:
"My district has this year become 2nd
largest world market for Ford tractors,
o.nly the U.S. is larger in total units
This has earned me another pro­motion."
. . . MASAAKI NAKAMOTO.
has been promoted to Far East Repre­sentative
of Koehring operations based
in Tokyo . . . DICK AUSTIN is Busi­ness
Manager and Administrator of
Po.INT, a philanthropic foundation in
San Francisco . . . MARY LOU PAUL­So.
N is employed by Armor-Dial in
Phoenix.
NURRE '68 JOINS
CHICAGO BANK
WILLIAM B. NURRE '68 has been
named a Vice President in charge of
the Far East Division of the Harris
Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago.
He joined the Bank of California after
graduating in 1968, and in the Spring
of 19'71 accepted a position with the
City Bank of Detroit. He was named
an assistant vice president of the Detroit
bank in 1972, and served in that ca­pacity
until his recent move to the
Harris Trust and Savings Bank in
Chicago.
1969 RALPH GIRARD has been
named assistant vice president,
multinational banking, in Wells
Fargo Bank's international division,
based in San Francisco. He was formerly
an international banking officer of
Marine Midland Bank in New York
. .. KAREN URBANO. writes : "At long
last we are looking forward to an out
of the country assignment. RAMON will
be assigned to Monterrey, Mexico, at
the beginning of August. It will be for
Reproductoras Shaver, S.A., an affiliate
of Cargill .. . MARV DE VOE, formerly
with American Express in Germany,
now has his own auto dealership in
Dedham, Massachusetts .. . On August
I, ED BORGENS joined the Professional
Equity Development Company, an Ari­zona
corporation, and its five subsidiary
California corporations, as Controller.
He is based in the San Diego office,
and manages to keep busy evenings by
teaching classes in Business Computa­tions
at Southwestern Community Col­lege,
and a second course in Foreign
Trade Principles and Practices at San
Diego Mesa Community College . ..
MIKE' WILEY of Modesto, California,
will soon finish his active reserve com­mitment.
Currently he is a sales rep­resentative
for General Foods .
EVERETT HERDA received his pro­motion
to Second Vice President of
Chase Manhattan in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, in August - on
the same day that the first Herda heir
arrived ... ROBERTO DE VALENCIA
writes: "I have just completed a year
tour in Holland where 1 was attending
two courses under a fellowship of the
Dutch Government. I am back in Bogota
and once more join FNCB, and with
good luck on my side I may become
a branch manager in a short while" .. .
JIM DOROBIALA was recently nameu
Assistant Treasurer and Operations
Manager of the Saigon, Vietnam, branch
of Chase Manhattan . .. As Far East
Service Representative for Clark Inter­national
Marketing, S.A., TOM KRILL
expects to be traveling the area from
India to Japan and south through Indo­nesia
40 to 60% of the time. Based
in Hong Kong, he has FRANK CAHILL
as a co-worker ... We had a nice visit
with LARRY LAMB of Chase Manhat­tan
when he called from New York a
few weeks ago. He mentioned having
met MARY SECUNDA '72 on one of
his recent flights ... CHUCK GAME­ROS
is employed by the Travelers In­surance
Company in Hartford, Connecti­cut,
and reports that he has been pro­moted
to senior marketing analyst . . .
In January, the JOHN HEARDS were
transferred from USAID jCosta Rica to
AID/Washington. The Heards have a
new son - Jorge Arturo Heard -
aged 14 - adopted while they were
in Costa Rica . BOB HUGHES
brings us up to date on his activities
in the past few months: "I am managing
director of EX-1M Ltd., in Hong Kong
and have also started a new firm with
a non Thunderbird. I married Miss
Honey Leung on March 31st of this
year." . .. DOUG and BARB WAGNER
are living in Costa Mesa, California,
and he is employed as assistant export
manager of ALTEC, manufacturers of
speakers, amplifiers and telephone
equipment ... PETER WEHMANN is
an account executive for the William
Esty Advertising Agency in New York
City. . BRIAN GAULER reports from
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: "Things are
finally beginning to shape up at Inter­national
Mercury Outboard, and I have
just recently been promoted to a semi­staff
marketing position with the title
of Market Development Manager-Far
East. One of the nice things about the
promo.tion was the three-week trip
covering 22,000 miles throughout the
Far East and Pacific." . . CHARLES
RUTLEDGE is an assistant project
officer for the United Nation's World
Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1970 GARY and JANET (MUL­LERT)
HIBBARD, formerly of
G.D. Searle Company in Manila,
arrived in Bangkok in July following
an extended California vacation. Gary
is Marketing Manager of Searle opera ­tions
in Thailand . LYNN HURL­BERT
is Supervisor of Services for
Transocean Chemicals Company, based
in Houston. As a member of the Texas
International Trade Association he
serves as Program Director under CEC
ROUSSER '64, President. Cec is also
Western Marketing Director for the
Houston Port Authority ... JIM WILL
has been assigned to Sao Paulo as Assis­tant
Representative of the Security Pa­cific
National Bank, and LARRY JONES
was recently appointed Assistant Treas­urer
of the Bank of New York in
London ... JACK WILLS has become
an associate of the law firm of Handen
WESTINGHOUSE ANNOUNCES
MOORE APPOINTMENT
Westinghouse Air
Brake Company, Pe­oria,
Illinois, re­cently
announced
the appointment of
JOHN A. MOORE
'70 to the position
of International
Sales Representa­tive.
In this ca­pacity,
he will be
responsible for the
Company's market­ing
and sales functions in Central
America and the Caribbean.
John is a native of Port Huron, Michi­gan
and was a 1966 graduate of Western
Michigan University. He joined West­inghouse
in September 1971 and has
held various positions of increasing re­sponsibility
in the Company.
He served in the U.S. Army and worked
for the Defense Intelligence Agency in
Washington, D.C. prior to employment
at Westinghouse.
and Singerman in Prince Frederick,
Maryland . TERRY and GINNY
CHAMBERLAIN arrived in Geneva,
Switzerland, some months ago on an
assignment for Caterpillar Tractor
Company, and STEVE MONTAGUE­POLLOCK
has been transferred to Co­logne,
Germany, by AFIA ... CHONG
RHEE and TED MARTIN have opened
an import-export firm in Los Angeles
d.b .a. Amerikie International.. PHIL
WILKEN recently joined Channel Mas­ter
Far East, Ltd. as General Manager
in Taiwan. The Company, a division of
Arnet, deals in consumer electronics.
He has received a Master's Degree from
the Graduate School of Foreign Trade
of Sung Kyun Kwan University in
Korea . . . LYNN CUMMINGS reports
from Telluride, Colorado: "I am cur­rently
employed with the Telluride
Company. This is the corporation that
is doing all the land and ski develop­ment
in this breath taking mountain
community. My job is marketing re ­search.
This is what I have been doing
for various firms since leaving Thunder­bird."
.. MARV HANCOCK has been
working for Bank of America since
graduation and in September '72 was
posted in h is first overseas assignment
to work as an advisor to the Bank's
25%-owned affiliate, Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, in Luxem­bourg.
He is now stationed in Abu
Dhabi and specifically assigned to BCC's
East Regional Office . . . SHEP ROOT
writes : "As you can see from my letter­head,
I am no longer in Sun Valley,
Idaho. Right now I am President of
the Pointe South Development Company
in Boca Raton, Florida. I have become
a land developer and am building a
new high-rise apartment building here.
As soon as the current projects arc
fini shed I think I am going to retire -
probably next spring or early summer.
My new sailboat has arrived from
France and is being fitted out for
circumnavigation. I'm planning to sail
all the way around the world during the
next two or three years."
1971 MAHLON BARASH reports
from Arlington, Virginia: "Pre­sently,
I am working for the
Overseas Private Investment Corpora­tion
in Washington, D.C. , as a financial
analyst. I have been here since May 21st.
From December 1971 to March 1973, I
worked as a project manager for Planned
Neighborhoods Division of IBEC Hous­ing
International. I was in charge of
four subdivisions of low income modu­lar
housing in rural Virginia." Mahlon
will receive a Master of Arts degree,
with a major in anthropology, from The
Pennsylvania State University in Dec.
'73. . SAM SOK YO is Plant Manager
for Aero Trading Company (Canada)
Ltd. (a seafood processing company) in
Tofino, British Columbia . . . DAVE
MILTON has joined Tracy-Locke Adver­tising
and Public Relations Company in
Dallas, as an account executive. Prior
to joining the company he was with
J . Walter Thompson in New York ...
WALT NAGEL has been promoted to
Export Manager of MACTAC Interna­tional,
a division of Morgan Adhesives,
in Stow, Ohio .. MARTHA REINER
writes: "KARL has been named inter­national
trade anlyst for the U.S. De­partment
of Commerce in Washington,
D.C., and we are now living in Spring­field,
Virginia . . . DAVE RICH is a
marketing representative for Mobil Oil
Corporation in the Seattle area; CHUCK
RICHARDS is account manager for
Ryder Trucks, Inc. in San Francisco;
BOB RICHTER recently joined the
United California Bank in Los Angeles
and BILL SPITLER is an international
trade specialist with the U.S. Depart­ment
of Commerce in New York City
PEGGY WATSON resigned her
position with Bank of America in San
Francisco at the end of August and is
spending a semester as visiting bursar
on the World Campus Afloat - destina­tion,
the Orient and South Pacific area.
WINNING JAMAICA TEAM
COACHED BY AUBLE
Under the expert guidance of National
Bc::sketball Coach ED AUBLE '72, the
Jamaica Amateur Basketball Associa­tion's
Team defeated the United States
Naval Base Team from Guantanamo 3-0
in a recently concluded three-game
se ries for the Gillette Trophy .
Ed was selected as coach of JABA last
July . Currently he is working with the
government and community leaders to
establish a foothold for the sport in the
Island. "We are trying to institute a
program for the youth . Poverty and
crime are great problems here and this
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sport should help to guide the youth
into socially acceptable channels. Also,
we are aiming for the 1980 Olympics."
Basketball is Ed's spare-time activity.
On the business side of life he is
Personal Accident Insurance Manager
for the American Life Insurance Com­pany
(AIG) in Kingston.
1972 JIM BAXTER was scheduled
to arrive in Caracas in October
as assistant territory manager
for International Harvester Export Com­pany
. . . LEN BLACK is marketing
manager for Boyle-Midway Interna­tional
in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rileo;
GEORGE CRANE is in the marketing
division of Lee Homes Corporation in
Yuma; JACK DENMAN is assistant to
the president of the Citizens State Bank
in Nevada, Missouri, and WALKER
CURTNER is District Manager for the
National Motor Club in Dallas . . .
SUSAN CORCORAN writes: "I have
been assigned by the First National City
Bank to its head office in Ecuador as
an executive trainee in the corporate
banking group. I recently completed
six months' training in New York and
arrived in Quito on September 23rd
after vacationing in Aruba and Bogota,
I ran into MIKE BURKE', who had
just completed a stay in Ecuador as
a member of the Bank's inspection
team." ... TOM DUANE, Sales Man­ager
of the Latin American and Carib­bean
division of H.D. Lee Company in
Hartsdale, left on September 4th for
an extensive business trip through Puer­to
Rico, Curacao, Aruba, Jamaica, Pan­ama
and Colombia . . . JERRY DYSON
is employed by the advertising firm of
N.W. Ayer in Chicago, as an account
executive on the Gerber line of baby­wear
. . . JOHN FRODSHAM is em­ployed
by the Indiana National Bank in
Indianapolis; BART FRANCOUR is a
commercial analyst at Continental Bank
in Chicago; DON HURST is a business
development specialist for the Navajo
Small Business Development Corpora­tion
in Gallup, New Mexico, and
GERRY O'BRIEN is a management
trainee at United California Bank in
Los Angeles MIKE GARDINER
reports from Yonkers, New York: "I
have a new, exciting job with Hertz
(Rent-a-Car) in its international mar­keting
department. The company is try­ing
to expand its fly-drive programs
throughout the world and another fel­'
low and myself were hired to develop
and plan these tours." Mike was former­ly
with a New York travel agency: ..
VIRG HARP accepted a position with
the Pacific Basin Trading Company of
Athena, Oregon, as a shipping coordina­tor.
As such, he is responsible for the
canvasing of distributors, determining
their needs, ordering the necessary
engines from Japan and seeing that
they get to the proper port and are
allocated as per request . . . BOB
GEWALD writes: "After graduating
from Thunderbird I graduated from
Naval Officer Candidate School to be­come
an Ensign - ,then spent 6 months
and graduated from Naval Supply Corps
School in Georgia to become a Supply
Officer - then graduated from Ship­board
Uniform Automated Data Proces­sing
Systems to run automated supply
in the navy - then off to the USS
Sylvania, the number one automated
supply ship servicing the 9th Fleet in
the Mediterranean." ... JERRY LE
CLAIR has been promoted to Industrial
Sales Manager of Parker Pen Company,
based in Janesville, Wisconsin ... AL
OSTROFE reports that he is now with
J. Walter Thompson Company in Frank­furt,
and while attending a meeting in
Hamburg ran into MAC MESSENGER
at the airport . . . At last writing
DICK and MARIAN KING were look­ing
forward to their September 2nd
arrival in Wolverhampton, England, on
an assignment for Goodyear Interna­tional
. . . TOM McCOY of the Mer­cantile
Bank in St. Louis, was a member
of the recent trade mission to Japan,
Taiwan and Korea ... MARK PITT­MAN
is teaching courses in international
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marketing and advertising at
the University of the Americas in Pueb­la,
Mexico, and LARRY RATNER is
working on a Ph.D. in psychology at
the United States International Univer­sity
in San Diego ... JON STEELE is
working for the Perini Land Develop­ment
Company in West Palm Beach,
Florida. Perini is one of the largest
construction companies in the US . . .
A word of advice from JACK SCOTT of
Henkel International GmbH in Ger­many:
"I strongly urge prospective grads
(who definitely have the language faci­lity)
to consider applying directly to
European firms, particularly if the em­ployment
situation is still tight in the
USA." ... BILL RYE is a technical
management trainee with Jorges Car­pet
Mills, Inc. in Rossville, Georgia.
1973 JIM FITZHUGH is a manage­ment
trainee with the transpor­tation
brokerage firm of Har­per
& Robinson in San Francisco; K.B.
Marshall is regional sales director for
the Del Webb Corporation in Oakbrook,
Illinois, and JESSE WILSON is a con­sultant
with Thomas H. Miner Associ­ates
in Chicago ... Following their
September 14th marriage, PAT and
BETH (CASE) ROGGE settled in Seat­tle,
where Pat is a marketing assistant
in the international division of Camp­bell's
Soups . . . GUNTER KOHLE is
Middle East Manager-Sector Security,
of Pan Am, based in Germany. Gunter
retired on June 20th from the German
Naval Air Wing with the rank of Lt.
Commander . . . MIKE and SHARON
QUINN report that they are enjoying
life in the Philadelphia area, where Mike
is an international marketing analyst
for the Eaton Corporation ... GEORGE
HARDY of Colgate-Palmolive in New
York was a recent campus interviewer
... The following August '73 graduates
report their location and company affil­iation
- JOHN ALLRED, Chase Man­hattan
Bank, New York; TOM AL­WARD,
Esso InterAmerica, Miami, Flo­rida;
BERNIE ANDERSON, Holiday
Inns, Topeka, Kansas; SCOTT AN­DREWS,
Bank of America, San Fran­cisco;
ROBERT AUGUSTON, Bucyrus­Erie,
Evansville, Indiana; LARRY BAR­TLESON,
Corning Glassworks, Corning,
New York; JIM BAUER, Ridge Tool
Company, Elyria, Ohio; AL BEHRENS,
United California Bank, Los Angeles;
NOBLE BLACKSHEAR, First Pennsyl­vania
Bank, Philadelphia; TOM BOLM­GREN,
First National Bank of Chicago;
DICK BREIT, Chemical Bank, New
York; FRED BRUNS, Travelers Insur­rance
Company, San Francisco; MAX
BUXTON, Champion International, Eu­gene,
Oregon; HARRY COCKRELL,
Chemical Bank, New York; JERRY­CONNER,
Leo Burnett Advertising,
Chicago; JOHN CRAWFORD, Textron
Division Of Welsh Manufacturing Com­pany,
Providence, Rhode Island; AB­DULLAH
DABIBI, American Interna­tional
Group, New York; BOB DIX,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New YOP
MARTY FEIGENBAUM Harlan Corpo­ration,
Kansas City; PATRICK FORD,
Macy's Inc., San Francisco; DAVE
FOSTER, Gillette Company, Boston ;
DENNIS GAMLEN, Bechtel Corpora­tion,
San Francisco; BILL GEHLE,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York;
JO'HN GRAEFE, Key Personnel Ser­vices,
Richardson, Texas; BO'B GUFFIN,
Lear-Siegler, Inc., O'klahoma City;
CHRIS HANSEN, Denver Chamber of
Commerce; JIM HANSEN, First Penn­sylvania
Bank, Philadelphia; DICK
HARRIS, Republic National Bank of
Dallas; JIM HENDERSO'N, Toyota USA,
Torrance, California; TIM HOLDEN,
Service Buerau Corporation, Inglewood,
California; RUSS HO'OKER, Esso Inter
America, Miami, Florida; RO'GER HOW­ARD,
First Pennsylvania Bank, Phila­delphia;
JOHN HOWELL, Hilti Engi­neering,
Stamford, Connecticut; JO'HN
JO'HNSO'N, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., Los
Angeles; ERNIE KANGAS, Foreign Cre­dit
Insurance Association, New York;
GEO'RGE KARKLIN, First Pennsyl­vania
Bank, Philadelphia; AL KEISER,
Chemical Bank, New York; ART KIL­FO'IL,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New
York; ED KURTZ, Continental Grain
Company, Lafayette, Indiana, JOHN
LAMPE, Firestone International, Akron;
PETER LIND, Chase Manhattan Bank,
New York; .RON McDANIEL, Continen­tal
Grain Company, New York; STEVE
McKNIGHT, Harper Insurance Com­pany,
San Francisco; BOB MAHAFFEY,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York;
MARV MASSEY, Ashland Chemical
Company, Cplurribus, Ohio; RANDY
MILLER, Continental Bank, Chicago;
MIKE MOATS, Firestone International,
Akron; DAVE MOVSKY, Harper, Rob­inson
& Company, San Francisco; AL
NO'RWEB, Cadillac Plastics, Detroit;
GARY OLSON, Chase Manha,ttan Bank,
New York; DAVE PETERSON, Bechtel
Corporation, San Francisco; MARC
PRUIM, Macy's Inc., San Francisco;
CARLO'S REYNOSO' MONTERO', Ameri­can
International Group, New York;
BRAD RO'OF, General Accounting
O'ffice, Washington, D.C.; HAAKO'N
ROSTAD, Champion International, New
York; JIM SALE, Beech Aircraft Cor­poration,
Wichita; JIM SHIELDS, M.W.
Kellogg Company, Houston; KYU HO'
SHIN, Tong-A-Dyeing & Weaving Com­pany,
Seoul, Korea; JAN A SIMAN,
West Point Pepperell; PERRY SMITH,
American Motors Corporation, Detroit;
LARRY SMITHERS, The Smithers
Company, Hudson, Ohio; GEO'RGE
SO'UZA, Brazil Herald, Rio de Janeiro;
FRANK STEFFEY, Beech Aircraft Cor­poration,
Wichita; JO'HN STEVENS,
First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia;
DAVE STO'NER, Caterpillar Tractor
Company, Peoria; JUERGEN STRAS­SER,
North Carolina National Bank,
Charlotte; KEVIN TAM, Caterpillar
Tractor Company, Peoria; DICK TAY­LO'R,
Goodyear International, Kansas
City; RAVINDRA VO'RA, M.W. Kellogg
Company, Houston; BOB VO'SBURGH,
Devro, Inc., Sommerville? N.J.; MIKE
WILSO'N, Valley National Bank, Sedona,
Arizona; NO'BU YAMAGUCHI, Lion
Dentrifice Company, Tokyo. FRED" J ersey ... EVERETT and VICTO'RIA
PERRY is attending the University of HERDA '69 of Santo Domingo, Domini-
Akron School of Law and JIM ANDRES can Republic . . . BOB and CHALIS
is working on a law degree at Hastings BLO'MQUIST '68 of Modesto, California
School of Law in San Francisco . " ... OLAV and BRITT LEI THE '65 of
If you have accepted employment and South Africa . .. PECK and MARGIE
have not returr.ed your alumni question- BASTIDA '72 of Miami, Florida . . .
naire card, or notified the alumni office, KARL and MARTHA REINER '71 of
we urge you to do so at your earliest Springfield, Virginia . . . GENE and
convenience. For those who have not HEIDI CASTLE '71 of Falls Church,
found employment we hope that your Virginia... JO'HN and LENORE
search will be a brief and lucrative one. FRO'DSHAM '72 of Indianapolis (twins)
· .. DAVE and MARLEEN RICH '71 of
Bellevue, Washington ... KHALIL and
HELEN HACHEM '72 of O'ak Park,
Bltlllliug itllS
CONGRATULATIIONS and BEST
WISHES to the following Thunderbird
newlyweds: PAT and BETH (CASE)
RO'GGE '73 of Seattle ... the JO'HN
KELLEYS '61 of Memphis, Tennessee
. . . the WILLARD HUNTERS '73 of
Rochester, New York ... JOHN and
SUSAN WALLACE '72 of Storm Lake,
Iowa .. . GREG and MELISSA (MIL­LER)
MURPHY '73 of New York.
BO'B and HO'NEY HUGHES '69' of
Singapore.
CRADLE ROLL
BOYS: WAYNE and HEIDI RO'HLFS
'67 of The Netherlands ... NORM and
MARIE WELLS '69 of Rahway, New
Illinois ... BOB and GAEL LIPPERT
'68 of Libertyville, Illinois . . . BLAIR
and CECILY KITTLESO'N '70 of Den­ver,
Colorado ... STAN and ROBERTA
ALLEN '58 of Eugene, Oregon (twins).
GIRLS: MARCEL and MARIE GUER­BET
'70 of France ... BO'B and MARIE
BALLANTYNE: '70 of Beirut, Lebanon
(adopted) . .. the JIM. McCARTHYS
'57 of Tampa, Florida ... JEFF and
ORIS TINE RUBY '72 of La Habra,
California ... GERHARD and LYLIANE
MEIER '70 of Gottingen, Germany ...
DAN and DIANA LO'WERY '68 of
Brewster, New York . .. CLAUDE and
CARO'L BENNETT '70 of Philadelphia
· . . the PIERRE BOUTIGNYS '68 of
Paris, France . . . TOM and DEDA
KENYO'N '72 of Lakewood, California
· . . DAVID and SARAH RO'BERTS '73
of New York City .. . ANDY and
CLAIR CHRYSSOLOR '66 of Cockham
Dean, England.
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