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Many of you alumni will be interested to know that the
Board of Directors has approved a new Long Range Plan
for the American Graduate School of International Management.
The plan was developed by an ad hoc committee
of the Board, Chaired by Mr. James Thornton,
retired chairman of the Lummus Corporation.
While I won't try to cover the entire document, which
does a thorough job of blueprinting our future, I do think
a discussion of some of the highlights is in order.
One of the most significant things is that the "Plan" di-rects
the School to develop a plan for establishing a data
base and a computer-based prediction model to reproduce
the operation of the School in mathematical terms.
This will provide decision makers with the best possible
information in the shortest possible time for analyzing
problems and suggesting alternatives.
The Plan establishes that for the foreseeable future enrollment
should be kept at an average of 750 students
and that provision be made for housing 80% of them on
campus by 1980. At present we house about 55%.
The percentage of foreign students is to be increased
from the current 18-20% to 25% of the student body by
The Key Man language program for executives is to be
doubled and a plan developed for offering executive training
programs in various management and international
studies areas.
An International Business Research Institute composed
of faculty members should be established to work with
business firms and other clients on a paid basis to study
specific international business problems.
A report should be submitted to the Development Committee
of the Board by March 1, 1976 outlining capital
requirements through 1985 and should update semiannually
the proposed building programs required to provide
economical but adequate facilities to reach the goals of
the Long Range Plan.
All of us at the School are delighted that the Board of
Directors has decided to take a stronger, more active role
in the affairs of AGSIM. This interest, participation and
support cannot help but be a great boost for the institution
over the coming years.
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni publication of the American Graduate School
of International Managment) is published in the Fall, Spring and Summer
of each year.
Editor: DIANE CONNELLY '56
Chief Photographer: FRANCO MOLINA '76
Assistant Editor: CHRIS TVEIT
Alumni (Office) Ass't: THOMAS J. BEATTY '76
Cover and Sketches: ink drawings by CHARLOTTE H. ROE
I think you will find much of interest to you in this issue
of THE THUNDERBIRD. Your fine response to the alumni
questionnaire featured in the last two issues has made possible
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, an analysis of information
from that questionnaire. The feature article examines
the current T-Bird "alumnus-in-residence," and studentwritten
articles let you know what it's like to be at AGSIM
During the past eight months, Resident Historian, David
Henry, has been researching AIFT-TGSIM-AGSIM. He has
talked with founders, board members, faculty, administrators,
alumni and friends; he has studied what has been
written in and of the school during its thirty years; he has
gathered treasured photos from around the world. And he
is now writing THIRTY YEARS AT THUNDERBIRD; A
PICTORIAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY. I hope you
share my excitement about this project. More details next
The Alumni Office is planning to issue (att cost) a geographical
directory of all alumni by class years. Write me
if you want this, and please advise me if you don't want
to be included. We also have for you a lower-priced, betterdesigned
THUNDERBIRD' ring.
Thank you for the fine service you are giving to AGSIM -
as coIlitributors, recruiters, resource persons, publicizers,
active association officers and members, guest lecturers.
AGSIM will continue to reflect the extent of your excellence
and involvement.
Diane Connelly
Broadfield Robin, INFLATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,
1964-1974, International Labour Review, November,
1975, p.p. 315-334.
Gilpin, Robert, AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY TO FOREIGN
INVESTMENT, Challenge, Nov./Dec., 1975, p.p. 12-19.
Africa Development, November, 1975, p.p. 43-45.
Jameson, Robert, THE PROFESSIONAL JOB CHANGING
JOB, Performance Dynamics Inc. (Verona, N.J.).
MULTINATIONAL, International Management, January,
19>76, p.p. 10-14.
Fayerweather, John ATTITUDES TOWARD FOREIGN
Management International Review, vol. 14, No.6, 19'75, p.p.
Lauter, G. Peter and Paul M. Dickie, MULTINATIONAL
ECONOMIES, Journal of Marketing, October, 1975, p.p.
Leonard, Phyllis, PHANTOM OF THE SACRED WELL,
David McKay, January, 1976, 273 pages, $8.95.
A novel of "romance and unrequited love, mystery and suspense,
murder and violence, archeology and history." The
story is set in northeastern Guatemala's remote jungles.
McNulty, Nancy G. EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT' EDUCATION
COMES OF AGE, Conference Board Record, December,
1975, p.p. 38-43.
Maxwell, Kenneth, THE THORNS OF THE PORTUGUESE
REVOLUTION, Foreign Affairs, January, 1976, p.p. 250-270.
Reid, Douglas M. TODA Y'S PERSONNEL CHALLENGE -
SERVING COMPANY AND EMPLOYEE, American Management
Associations Managers' Forum, vol. 3, no. 2, February,
1976, p.p. 1-3.
A top vice-president in charge of staff personnel shares
his ideas for turning personnel headaches into opportunities
via " . .. the total approach to individual career planning
and management development ... " He covers such areas as
affirmative action programs, upward mobility, career information
centers, departmental and branch manager orientation,
and a manager training course.
S.M.M.'S MULTINATIONAL MARKET GUIDE, Sales Marketing
Management, December 8, 1975, p.p. 49-57.
Szulc, Tad, LISBON AND WASHINGTON: BEHIND PORTUGAL'S
REVOLUTION, Foreign POlicy, Winter, 1975-76.
-Courtesy of Lora Jean Wheeler and Chris Tveit
6 John Furbay, speaker - Auditorium, 12 :00
8 Chris Mojekwu, speaker - Auditorium
Department of Politics, Lake Forest College
12 Egyptian Ambassador - Auditorium, 7:30 P.M.
16-19 Spring Recess
22 Senator Proxmire, speaker - Auditorium
23 ARIZONA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETINGThunderbird
Room, AGSIM
24-30 Dr. Voris in Atlanta
4 INTER-AD - Auditorium
14 Commencement
18-19 Third Annual International Trade Conference,
"Economic Interdependence - The U.S. and the
World Economy"
19-22 Dr. Voris in Washington, D.C.
23-27 Dr. Voris in West Berlin
3-4 Summer Registration
7 Summer Session Classes Begin
13 Commencement
26-27 Fall Registration
30 Fall Classes Begin
25-26 Thanksgiving Recess
17 Commencement
Starting with this issue, THE THUNDERBIRD will be sent
to you by surface mail instead of by airmail. We apologize
for having to revert, for economic reasons, to this slower
Fall 1975 THUNDERBIRD back cover aerial photo courtesty
of Robert Bumman '75.
2 6gsim events
President Voris talks with resident historian DAVID HENRY and students TINA LOTSPEICH, NORMAN MULLEN and
"The American Graduate School of International Management
is approaching the level of quality of faculty and
students which all of us have been striving for," stated
Dr. William Voris in his opening remarks to the Annual
Meeting of the Corporation, October 17, 1975. The total
current Spring semester enrollment of 784 students is
well within the goal set by the Board of Directors to
average AGSIM's enrollment at 750 students per semester.
A survey of the undergraduate majors of current T-Birds
shows that 35 % hold degrees in business administration
or economics, 17 % in language, 15 % in political science,
10% in history, and the remaining students' degrees range
from anthropology to zoology!
AGSIM continues to recruit foreign students. "At the
present time we have about 20% of OUt student body
from foreign countries. We are moving toward 25%,"
said President Voris in his annual report. An ongoing
record systsem established by John J. Arthur, Registrar,
shows the following countries as the top five contributors
of foreign students: India, Iran, Japan, Korea and
Mr. Arthur's records also point out the changing age of
students. For example, in the Fall of 1973, the average
T -Bird was 26 years old, while today the average male
student is 25.8 years old and the average female student
is 23.6 years old.
There has been a four-fold increase in the number of
women enrolled at AGSIM during the last eight years.
For the Spring semester of 1976, about 21 % of the total
enrollment is female.
Current Thunderbird students share their backgrounds,
their experiences, and expectations for their business futures.
Satjiv Chahil, May 1976, is from the State of Punjab,
India. Before coming to AGSIM, Satjiv received an undergraduate
commerce degree from Punjab University and
studied the international approach to management at the
University of Washington. He has held management positions
in publishing businesses in India, the U. S. and
Satjiv came to AGSIM because he felt that T -Bird offered
the best MIM degree program and an excellent language
program. He also had a close friend who enrolled
at AGSIM and highly recommended the school to him.
Where does Satjiv see himself one year after the AGSIM
program? "I hope to be involved with an international
banking operation." As his long-term career goal, say
five years from now? "I would like to be managing my
own international business of export/import, spending
half my time in the U.S.A. and the remainder in India."
SA TJlV CHAHIL
Thomas Beatty, December 1976, spent three and a half
years in Augsburg, Germany, as part of the U. S. Army
Security Agency. Tom feels that the combination of his
undergraduate work in mathematics and business and his
overseas experiences give him a good background for
MIM study.
He became interested in T -Bird as an undergraduate at
Northern Arizona University. While overseas, Tom encountered
T-Birds willing to share their knowledge and
experience of AGSIM with him. (They convinced him)
Thunderbird is offering Tom an opportunity to develop
his international business background, to study the cultures
of Western Europe, and to increase his fluency in
Tom feels that he can best share his talents in a management
position with an international firm involved in
a computer-related industry.
Ingrid Podbewcbek, December ]976, was an auditor with
the Superintendency of Foreign Investment, Caracas,
Venezuela, when she received a scholarship under the
Venezuelan Program a de Becas ("Gran Mariscal de
Aycucho") to pursue a master's degree in business in the
United States.
Upon the recommendations of T-Bird alumna and current
Caracas resident, Susy Sagy, December 72, Ingrid decided
that AGSIM offered her an excellent opportunity to
improve her English while she was acquiring an American
approach to management. She feels that with an MIM
and her undergraduate degree in business administration
from the Catholic University "Andres Bello," Caracas, she
can obtain a position with an international corporation in
finance and/ or accounting.
International business law is the career objective of Charles
Labanowsky, May 1976, as he enters his final semester
at T-Bird. Charles is a graduate of Marquette in economics
and political science. "My primary objective in
coming to Thunderbird was to acquire a varied international
cultural base. Upon gradution from law school, 1
felt that American business lawyers generally lacked the
facility for dealing with other Americans who had been
raised with different cultural modes of living."
Where does Charles see himself in the near future? "I
would like to find an opportunity which would permit
me to develop legal expertise in dealing with multi-cultural,
multi-national citizens and business enterprises." Where
do you see yourself in five years? "I hope to have, at the
end of five years, confidence in utilizing the language,
business and legal skills which I am learning at this time."
James Lynch, December 1976, is part of a growing number
of T -Birds who hold dual citizenship. As the son of
an American businessman who was located in Brazil for
30 years, James is both bilingual (Portugesc/ English) and
A graduate of Texas Tech University, James came to
T -Bird because, "I heard from American businessmen and
T-Birds in Brazil that it was quality education, with a
fantastic placement service. There were also opportunities
to expand my undergraduate work in finance."
James' goal is to be " ... working in Brazil in a financial
middle-management position of a corporation or a bank."
As to his long-term career objective, he sees himself as an
upper-level manager with an internationally oriented corporation.
All diverse, all sincere, all uniquely internationally-minded
- Thunderbirds.
-Chris Tveit
wilD wllflf wllere & wilen
The typical Thunderbird has recommended his school
to 257 students, has worked at 10 different jobs since
graduation, and has lived overseas for 28 years, Would
you believe these figures? Certainly not, but these are
some of the interesting extremes which were recently
uncovered in the compilation of the questionnaire which
appeared in the Summer and Fall issues of the Thunderbird.
We are very grateful to those alumni who took the time
to complete the survey. Thanks to their cooperation, a
wide variety of current biographical data was generated
and incorporated into the alumni information system, as
wen as a useful evaluation of this trade-off of the assistance
between alumni and AGSIM. Specifically, we want
to ascertain what the alumni office should do to directly
help graduates, and what these Thunderbirds should do
to aid AGSIM through their contacts with the Alumni
This questionnaire was sent to the approximately 7000
alumni for which we have current mail-deliverable addresses
(of a total of approximately 10,000 graduates).
Almost six hundred responded.
As you would expect, the return rate was generally much
higher from the more recent graduating class members,
with almost 50% of all returns coming from those graduates
of the last six years. (However, there were a few
notable exceptions. The class of 1947, our first graduated.
had an unusually high rate of returns, as did those who
graduated in 1968.)
(total questionnaires equal 100%)
Period % Responding
Interestingly enough for an international graduate school,
45 % of those responding had not gone abroad since
graduation, subsequently lowering the average number
of years abroad after graduation to 3.71. (When those who
chose to remain in state-side employment are not considered,
the average almost doubles, reaching a respectable
6.74 years.) Equally 'intriguing is the fact that 40%
of those polled still held their original post-graduation
job, although the average was 2.26 jobs. Ninety-five percent
of the returns were from males, who historically
compose 96% of our graduates. (This should in time
decrease because of the increasing number of females,
who now constitute 20% of our student body.) Only 5%
of the questionnaires were returned by foreign nationals.
(Current campus non-U.S. enrollees are now 20% of the
student body.) Seventy-five percent of the respondents reported
being married. (The majority are from the earlier
class years.)
A total of 92 % of the respondents have retained contact
in various ways with AGSIM during the last five years.
The most common contact was by correspondence (69%),
primarily with the Alumni Office.
Alumni Office
Admission & Records
Financial Assistance
% Contacting
Almost one third of the graduates reported having visited
the campus at least twice, but only 4% have attended
an actual campus event. Student recruitment was rated as
the most important contribution alumni should make to
AGSIM; and more than one third of the poll participants
were willing to help in this area. 28 % of the Thunderbirds
individually recruited an' average of 5 people during
the last 5 years. Overall, almost 10 students per
graduate were persuaded to consider Thunderbird.
The Alumni Office was consistently rated as the highest
performing facility currently at AGSIM. The actual prestige
of Thunderbird was rated second, followed by the
MIM program. It is interesting to note that while 10%
believed themselves too far removed from the present
campus to give an honest evaluation, a full 36% of those
querried failed to rate the MIM program, possibly due
to its relative newness. Other facilities in descending order
of rating included the Admissions and Records Office,
the faculty themselves and the Administration Office. Although
all facilities received an average rating of "good,"
the Placement Office had the highest number of ratings
(87%), but it received the lowest rating of all the offered
facilities. As one respondent wrote, "More emphasis is
needed on the development of the Placement Office, both
as a service for original placement as well as re-placement."
Affiliation with AGSIM was characteristically marked
by a strong belief in the type of school that Thunderbird
represents, as evidenced by 54% of the respondents rating
this aspect as their strongest association. Only three
people considered this area their weakest point. 55%
of the questionnaires had no weakest affiliation marked.
Next in order was the alumnus' particular class year, followed
by the Alumni Office, faculty, and local Alumni
Association. Particularly interesting was the great number
who specifically mentioned fellow graduates other
than their own class as their strongest affiliation with the
Those surveyed were willing to be of assistance to AGSIM
in a wide variety of areas. A majority of graduates recognized
recruitment to be essential to the future of Thunderbird,
and subsequently, many graduates offered to
recruit. Alumni also believed that their services are being
under-utilized in a number of other areas, including
serving as guest lecturers and generating local pUblicity.
One respondent writes, "Alumni, as a part of the business
community, are perhaps best able to communicate the
changing character of the business world."
(Continued on next page)
Student Recruitment
Lecture Presentation
Alumni Fund Contributions
Local Publicity
Alumni Chapter Programs
Summer Jobs
Deferred and Estate Giving
Positive Response (%)
The majority of general comments dealt specifically with
how the Alumni Office should benefit AGSIM graduates.
The Bulletin overwhelmingly received the greatest number
of endorsements, receiving approval on over 80% of
th questionnaires. "The THUNDERBIRD is always a
welcome arrival." "I usually read it from cover to cover."
"We have drifted away from friends, but thanks to the
THUNDERBIRD, we are still close to our T-Bird
friends." Answering alumni overwhelmingly feel that the
Bulletin is accomplishing its goal of presenting the most
requested personal interest items - class news (by far
the most demanded area), Alumni Association news, campus
news, and the President's Message. While suggestions
included adding "cartoons," "a full-color nude centerfold,"
more photos, or at least clearer ones, a great
number of respondents offered concrete ideas for future
articles. One specific suggestion was alumni tips and comments
on living and doing business overseas.
More than one-fourth of the responding graduates requested
that the Alumni Office assist in the areas of
Placement and Continuing Educational Programs.
Contributions to the Alumni Fund were received from
51 % of those alumni who participated in the survey,
and 56% stated they have donated within the last 5
years on approximately three different occasions. The
mode amount given was $25.00, with the overall contribution
slightly higher.
Educational Programs
Class Reunions
Alumni Associations
Professional Development
Other Publications
Group Tours
Alumni Awa.rds
Group Insurance
Positive Response (%)
Recommended changes which warrant further consideration
Periodically include an updated list of T-Birds by class.
Expand capsule type reports on campus activities, particularly
in areas of proposed building programs, faculty
and student concern.
We need you and we appreciate you. Your comments
and future suggestions will help your Alumni Office better
serve you and your school. Your offers to help AGSIM
will be directed to the proper office.
-Tom Beatty
Alumni Office Assistant
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tlJunder""d revlsl1-ed
"My first impression was the tremendous growth the Phoenix
area had achieved during my twelve year absence.
Practically all of those open acres of farm land are now
covered by homes, apartments, and shopping centers.
I had mixed emotions as I approached the entrance to
Thunderbird for the first time. (By the way, anyone who
graduated in the 60's still considers our campus the Thunderbird
Campus and himself a "Thunderbird," especially if
one has worked overseas very long. It is our trademark).
All those old memories flashed back into my mind as I
passed the new school entrance and approached the still
unchanged Administration Building. The faces of old T-bird
friends and the memories of good times we shared in those
swamp-cooled dorms, which haven't changed one bit, came
back to me. It seemed like it was just yesterday that DAN
CARR and I were sweating out those Spanish dialogs together.
Then there was the time I memorized my Spanish
speech perfectly only to find myself completely tongue tied
the next day in class.
All the obvious questions came to my mind. Will many of
the same professors still be here? Will that relaxed campus
atmosphere, which is so important while learning a language,
still exist? Have the new buildings and increased
enrollment changed the school much? And, of course, those
personal feelings such as: How will a 38 year old grad fit
into a 24 year old scene?
The answers to these and many other questions soon arrived.
I felt more at home when I found that many of the
professors were still here. The relaxed atmosphere and
physical appearance really hadn't changed. The library used
to be where the bookstore now is and the campus now
boasts a beautiful new Library-Placement building. It was
great to see that the dining facilities have been upgraded
considerably! Fitting in has been the least of my problems.
All in all, I believe the greatest feeling I have is a sense
of quiet pride and satisfaction. For me, Thunderbird has
been the best investment I ever made. International has
opened up more doors to interesting jobs and advancement
in those jobs than any other field I could have chosen. I
believe every Thunderbird derives an unusual satisfaction
in being able to adapt and survive comfortably in a foreign
environment. It's particularly enjoyable when one can
make a good living at it.
It really is great to be back!"
Ron Willeford
"How can I get the M.I.M. degree? How many more credits
do I need? Can I do it in one semester? What about 'Incomplete'
These questions are raised, with increasing frequency, by
former students and alumni who graduated prior to 1970
(when we abandoned the old degree programs). Each term,
we have about ten "returning students" in the process of
completing current requirements.
With rare exception, all the credits earned with a grade
of "c" or better under any prior degree program will apply
toward the 48 semester hours needed for the M.I.M. Most
graduates prior to 1970 completed 32 semester hours of work.
Therefore, this leaves theoretically 16 more hours in order
to complete the M.I.M.
There are various ways of completing the remaining hours
needed. The most obvious is to return to Thunderbird
campus for a regular semester, spring or fall, during which
time a full-time student can take between 12 and 19
semester hours of work for the same basic tuition ($1,200
plus general fees amounting to around $125) excluding
room/ board and miscellaneous expenses.
There is also the Summer Session, which runs for about ten
weeks, starting early June. Full-time students can take between
9 and 13 semester hours of work, with tuition and
general fees running about $905. In addition, it is possibl~
to attend the Winterim, which runs for about three weeks
in January, and take up to 4 semester hours of highly accelerated
work at a tuition rate of $100 per credit hour
(plus a general fee of $25).
It is important to understand, however, that it is not merely
a question of adding up credit hours to a total of 48. It is
RON WILLEFORD graduated from AGSIM in 1964 with a
Bachelor of Foreign Trade degree. His after-graduaticm
work history: store management, Sears, V. S. and Venezuela;
own land and investment company (Terinco); chief
accountant, Williams Brothers Overseas Canstruction Company,
Santa Cruz, Bolivia; chief of cost ccmtrol, Spil BatignaILer
(French company with contract to construct a gas
pipeline in the Libian desert), Tripoli; director of purchases
and auxiliary services, Greenville College, Illinois. Ron
is here on a five-month combined leave of absence-vacaticm
from Greenville to complete his requirements for the
also necessary to meet the minimum requirements which
prevail in each of our three academic Departments. For
this reason, some M.I.M. candidates may have to take more
than the minimum 48 hours in order to earn the degree.
The current requirements of the three Departments are:
Modern Languages: Under some old programs, only introductory
and intermediate language courses were required.
It is now necessary to complete an advanced
(400) level course or otherwise demonstrate a proficiency
equal to the completion of that course.
International Studies: A minimum of 9 semester hours
of work are required.
World Business: All degree candidates must have taken
the basic principles of: accounting, management, marketing,
operations analysis, micro-macro economics.
These subjects can be taken here or elsewhere. For each
course (equivalent to 3 semester hours) successfully
completed elsewhere, at an accredited institution of
higher learning, a waiver will be granted on the requirement
here. The waiver applies, of course, to subject
matter only and not to credit hours. No matter how
many waivers are granted, a total of 48 semester hours
are still required.
If you want to know exactly where you stand in relation
to current requirements, just drop a note to the Office of
Admissions and Records. If you plan to return to complete
the M.I.M., we ask that you advise us about six months
ahead of time, in order to reserve a slot for you in your
ch')sen semester.
In closing, what about those "incomplete" grades? As the
Bulletin has stated for some time: "Grades of Incomplete
may be discharged upon completing the course requirements
to the satisfaction of the instructor, within one year; otherwise,
they remain permanent." It is the responsibility
of each student to resolve incomplete course work by dealing
directly with the instructor concerned.
John James Arthur
At the request of President William Voris, the governing
board has taken steps to create a comprehensive development
program for AGSIM. The development function is a
marketing and sales management process designed to focus
all alumni, community, and public relation's efforts; all
publicity and communication programs; and all annual,
capital and planned gift (endowment) efforts among all
constituents - alumni, friends, business, and foundations.
Development is most often perceived as purely a "fundraising"
operation, and indeed, increased, continuous financial
support is the ultimate goal of any development program.
Such support, however, does not and cannot occur in
a vacuum. Therefore, the development process in its broadest
terms includes all activities which serve to undergird
the well-being of the institution as a whole. It serves to
assure the total enrichment of the school, including its academic
program, student needs, plant and teaching needs and
other services of the school. Successful, generous and continuous
support comes from good constituency relations
which in turn emanate from good management, a strong
and meaningful academic program, and frequent communications.
The development task is a team effort involving all components
of the school both internally and externally in
the constant advancement of the institution and its public
image. The Direcor of Development under the President
coordinates this process working closely with the governing
board, administrative staff, faculty, srt;udents, alumni
and friends of the school ultimately to maximize the potential
for gaining philanthropic support.
The governing board has retained the educational management
consulting firm of Frantzreb, Pray, Ferner and Thompson
of Arlington, Virginia to work with President William
Voris; the Board; the Director of Development, David Merchant;
Director of Public Affairs, Gates Davison, and others
to design, organize and implement the program.
Representatives of the firm have visited Thunderbird monthly
since October to meet with selected members of the
Board, administrative staff, faculty, students, alumni and
friends to ascertain the "state of readiness" of this institution
to undertake the proposed comprehensive development
program including making recommendations on the implementation
of annual, capital and planned-giving activities.
This report will be presented to the School and the Board
for approval in the near future. When approved, the School
will begin to implement the recommendations.
This endeavor will have an impact on, and be affected by,
all programs, activities, departments and individuals related
to AGSIM. It is expected that the school-wide development
program will result not only in deserved increased
financial support, but concommitantly, in an enhanced self
image, greater understanding of goals and objectives and
greater cooperation among all constituencies involved in
strengthening the American Graduate School of International
Management - your School.
M. David Merchant
Director, Development
M. DAVID MERCHANr
The American Graduate School of International Management
has received a gift of a house on five acres of land
near Camelback Mountain in Metropolitan Phoenix. The
house is located in a section where property valucs range
from $150,000 to $250,000. This property was donated to
the school by Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bennett of Scottsdale.
The proceeds from the eventual sale of this property will
be used to help finance an initial building in the school's
soon-to-be-undertaken building program. This program,
when undertaken, will seek to rebuild virtually the entire
Thunderbird campus, at its present location, replacing existing
pre-World War II military facilities with new academic
facilities and graduate residence halls designed specificalIy
to meet the needs of the school and its students.
In addition to this gift of property, AGSIM has received the
following new financial gifts and grants from friends and
corporations thus far in 1975-76:
$34,340 from Mr. Clay Bedford to support planning for the
new buildings program. Mr. Bedford is a member of the
AGSIM Board of Directors.
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$15,000 from Mrs. John W. Kieckhefer to assist in the new
buildings program. Mrs. Kieckhefer is a member of the
AGSIM Board of Directors.
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$15,000 from Continental Grain Foundation to develop a
program in international agricultural management. This
program will be designed specifically for students seeking
careers in international agricultural management and related
areas of activity. Currently, more than 1500 of Thunderbird's
9500 alumni have entered such careers.
Although still very much in the planning stage, the new
program in international agricultural management will include
such areas of study as International Futures Commodity
Markets, International Freight and Insurance, International
Agricultural E<:onomics, the International Production
and Marketing of Foodstuffs, and International Agribusiness
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$6500 from Sobin Chemicals, Inc. of Boston to establish the
Sobin International Chemical Business; IMC Chemical
Group; International Minerals & Chemical Corporation Fellowship.
This Fellowship, supporting the three terms of
study necessary for the MIM Degree, will be awarded annually
to an outstanding student entering the school.
$5000 from IBM Corporation to assist the school in increasing
minority enrollment. Efforts are now underway to increase
recr uiting activities aimed at minority students and
to communicate directly with such students concerning the
advantages of pursuing the MIM Degree at Thunderbird. ';' *
$3000 from the Earhart Foundation for the establishment
of a distinguished speakers program. The program is being
administered by Professor William H. Peterson, J ohn David
Campbell, Professor of American Business.
$2500 from Triad Holding Corporation, a Saudi Arabian
enterprise, to assist in the development of an Arab Studies
* * *
$1500 from Mary B. Kelland to establish the Mary B. Kelland
$1000 from an anonymous source to establish the L. W.
Douglas Fellowship.
New or Increased Unrestricted Grants to AGSIM
Name of Grantor
The Clayton Fund
Massey Ferguson, Inc.
Valmont Industries, Inc.
The Gainey Foundation
Kimberly-Clark Foundation, Inc.
United California Bank
The items mentioned above are new gifts and grants. In
addi tion to these, AGSIM receives generous support on a
continuing basis from alumni, friends, corporations, and
foundations. This annual support totaled approximately
$280,000 in 1974-75.
C6h1/JIIS /Jriefs
THE JAMES PARSHALL MEMORIAL FUND has been established
in honor of the son of Mrs. Lili Parshall, who has
been a French professor at AGSIM for the past ten years.
Her son, who was in the United States Marine Corps, died
as a result of injuries sustained during a mine-defusing accident.
Funds contributed to this James Parshall Memorial will
oonstitute an endowment, whose interest will be used to
purchase textbooks for the use of a student who is a
former Marine. Please make your donation checks payable
to Parshall Fund and send them to the Alumni Office.
The winner of the TmRTY YEARS AT THUNDERBIRD
photo contest was JEFF SLOCUM '75. His pioture was
judged to be most representative of AGSIM's facilities by
the committee.
STUDENTS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY to join business
executives for dinner and informal panel discussions in
February and March. The executives were participating in
American Management Associations Councils on Manufacturing,
International Business, Finance and Personnel at the
Biltmore and Camelback Inns in the Valley.
THE WORLD BUSINESS DEPARTMENT welcomed two
new faculty members this Fall. Full Professor ROBERT J .
McMAHON, is the holder of the S. C. Johnson Chair. He
has been Senior Vice President and member of the Managing
Committee of Lloyd Bank California the past decade, as
Doesn't sound like an exciting topic. does it? You say you
can't even remember what ASLC stands for? You say that
it wasn't called ASLC while you were here? That's right,
for it was called SAC (STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE)
from 1948 until 1970. (Our historian, David Henry, has told
me that the first year the campus also had a student council.)
Whatever its name, the Associated Students Legislative
Council at AG'SIM (or TGSIM or AIFT) has been active and
The major project assumed by ASLC Summer Semester,
1975, under President Riad Marei, was a student survey
about the Career Services Center, which took students 150
man hours of work. The result of this effort was that President
Voris more fully realized student concern in this most
delicate area. The average age of the student body has
decreased partially because the number of veterans decreased
at AGSIM. Dr. Voris has reorganized our Placement
Center structure, naming Mr. Charles Fonvielle to
the new position of Director of Career Planning. Replacing
him as Director of Career Services is Mr. Charles Mannel.
who was formerly with the University of Minnesota and
has prior experience with directing placement activities.
The summer ASLC also successfully suggested that all faculty
members submit syllabi to the ASLC and to the library,
where they would be on file for use by the student body.
These syllabi nicely complement the efforts of the Academic
Evaluation Committee of ASLC, which is responsible for
semester surveys of student opinions of each and every
professor and class.
ASLC endorsed and backed the passage of U.S. House
of Representatives Bill 3211, which President Ford signed
into law, January 2, 1976. This Bill (also cited as the Overseas
Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975) gives expatriots
residing abroad the right to vote in U. S. elections.
During the presidency of Rod Taylor, Fall semester, ASLC
supported and was very actively involved in the First
Annual Thunderbird Invitational Balloon Race sponsored
by a group of supporters named the "Friends of Thunderbird."
This was ASLC's major project and involved hundreds
of man hours.
The Autumn ASLC endorsed and organized the first legal
aid service offered to AGSIM students. This service helped
many students with such problems as rental contracts,
immigration, and auto accident complications, and was
manned on a voluntary basis by students with law degrees
under the guidance of Professor Robert Tancer, a parttime
faculty member and Phoenix lawyer.
well as an instructor and guest lecturer at the University
of Southern California. A frequent contributor to banking
journals. Dr. McMahon holds a doctorate in communication
from the University of Southern California.
PAUL J . SCHLESINGER, Associate Professor, comes after
a decade of service with Tatham-Laird & Kudner, where
he was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman
of the Plans Board. He is outgoing National Director at
Large of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
Mr. Schlesinger received his marketing degree from Northwestern
SEVERAL NEW LIBRARY BOOKS on Asia were purchased
this Spring from the interest on the endowment of the Joseph
Brooks Smith Fund. Joe '69 was killed by a mine while he
was with AID in Vietnam in 1970. The Peter Osborne (,61)
Fund also made possible the purchase of many books this
MR. CHARLES H. MANNEL, SR., became Director of Placement,
March 15, 1976. He was associated with the University
of Minnesota for more than ten years, most recently as
Assistant Dean, Programs and Administration, of the College
of Business Administration.
Mr. Mannel received his bachelor's degree in business and
public administration from the University of Maryland, and
his master's degree in guidance and counseling from the
University of Minnesota.
The last major accomplishment was the survey of student
opinion on the AGSIM diploma. ASLC backed efforts of
individual students who conceived and created a new diploma.
The May commencement will see the introduction
of this diploma.
In general, the student government provides ongoing service
to the student body through various activities and committees.
An example of this is free distribution to students
of a pictorial directory, which contains photographs, local
addresses, box numbers, and permanent addresses of all
current students. The ASLC also provides facilities for the
Used Book Co-Op so that it can be centrally located for
sales of textbooks early each semester, and it runs the
used goods Co-Op, which is a convenient vehicle by which
third semester students can leave behind radios, cars, tape
recorders, etc. for sales at the inception of the following
ASLC has a large committee structure - currently four
ad hoc committees and eighteen regular committees. Examples
include a Student Development Committee, which
is working with the retained fund-raising consultant firm
of Frantzreb, Pray, Fern & Thompson, Inc.; a Food Committee,
which works with the Food Services Director to insure
the continued high standards of the dining hall; a
Placement Committee, which works with that director to
inform the student body of the informational resources
available, setting up resume seminars etc.; a Film Committee,
which shows ten or more foreign and classical films
each semester on a no-admission fee basis; and a Speakers'
Committee, which, with the great cooperation and assistance
of Gates Davison, Director of Public Affairs, has obtained
such speakers as: Malcom Forbes; Ecuadorian Ambassador
Jose Cardinas; Dr. Halem Hussani. League of Arab States;
Portuguese Consulate, Luis Martins; Congressman Mauricio
F~uet, Brazi1ia~ Opposition Party Leader (MBD); and,
VIctor MarchettI, author of THE CIA AND THE CULT OF
INTELLIGENCE. Among the speakers this committee has
obtained for the Spring 1976 semester are: Cypress Ambassador
Nicos Dimitriou; Arizona Governor Raul Castro; the
Ambassador for Turkey; the Ambassador for Egypt· and
U. 'S. Senator Proxmire. '
The student government at AGSIM is alive and well. If
you are visiting Thunderbird, please stop in at the ASLC
office~ and. make your presence known. We enjoy getting
the vIewpoInt of alumnI and exchanging stories of all the
fun and headaches that make up T-Bird life.
-Bob English
ASLC President
Enjoying the renovated coffee shop.
ALUMNI FUND MONIES have made possible the remodeling
of the canteen/student lounge area. The new serv~ce
line is all self-serve now, and it features a short-order ~ll.
The TV lounge has become a game room, and previOUS
dining hall storage has become a corner TV room, complete
with restrooms. The whole area is cooled by a seventeen-ton
refrigeration cooling unit. Tile flooring throughout will allow
the area to be used for campus parties and dances.
International Fair 1975
Parades of internaJtional flags and costumes, foods from
around the world, native arts and crafts displays and sales,
day-long varied entertainment and music, an international
fashion show and auctions and raffles will all be part of
INTERNATIONAL FAIR 1976, Saturday, April 24th. All
alumni and friends of AGSIM are urged to attend this event,
Which will be open to the public.
The Ariu>na alumni will kick-off festivities Friday night
with a cocktail hour, dinner, and LAS VEGAS night (see
Arizona Alumni News).
CHRIS KROOS, general chairman, and LESLIE SPECTOR,
co-chairman, aided by an inspired student committee, promise
A GREAT FUN WEEKEND. Proceeds will benefit
AGSIM's scholarship fund .
As a means of publicizing AGSIM locally and of raising
money for scholarships, The Friends of Thunderbird organized
a two-day balloon race program at Thunderbird November
8th and 9th, 19-75.
The Arizona alumni kicked off the week-end of November
7th with a cocktail party and dinner honoring the balloonists.
ROD TAYLOR, '75, acting as auctioneer and aided by alumni-
in-residence, GARY ROBISON, MARY CARNEY, PAULA
MEISER BOB HINE, & RICH BRAM skillfully encouraged
spirited bidding on the eighteen balloonists present. Alumni,
Friends, administration and staff contributed almost $500
to the Friends' scholarship fund , and the donation of all her
winnings by Mavis (Dr. William) Voris' mother, Mrs. Lucile
Myre, purchaser of the winning balloonists, dou.bled this
The Saturday morning kick-off event, November 8th, was a
student parade of flags and native costumes. A bicentennial
band marched in colonial costumes. Student booths selling international
foods suddenly appeard. A French Club dinner
and Friends' champagne brunch contributed to the festivities.
During both days of the event, thousands of delighted
spectators watched the events: a hare and hound hunt,
with points awarded to the competing balloon landing closest
to the lead balloon; a target marker drop; tandem flying .
competition; and, exhibition flights led by Mr. Malcolm
Forbes, of FORBES magazine.
The Friends also banked their net proceeds, over $1,000,
towards an eventual endowed one-semester scholarship
fund. DORIS (Mrs. Jordan) PAINE and MARY BETH
TOMPANE of FOT and IAN CAMPBELL, '75, and the many
other enthusiastic student helpers hope that the Thunderbird
Invitational Balloon Race will become an annual event,
and dates have already been set for November 20 and 21st,
1976, the weekend before Thanksgiving, for the next race.
Thunderbird Balloon Race
President Voris presents TIM WALKER '68 with award.
AT A SEPTEMBER 1975 LUNCHEON aHended by AGSIM
faculty, staff and students, PRESIDENT VORIS presented
TIM WALKER with a plaque honoring him as Thunderbird's
outstanding Alumni E<iucational Counselor.
KEITH and JULIE CROMLEY '75
Newly Designed Thunderbird Ring
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Dr. Laurence M. Gould, past president of Carleton College
and geologist, second-in-command of the first Byrd Antarctic
Expedition, was the commencement speaker December
19, 1975. He stressed optimism as being essential for action
and results, and he opinioned that "future shock" may well
be behind us now. The 541st Air Force Band from Luke
Air Force Base provided the public address system for the
ceremony as well as the music.
Three hundred and seventy Fan and Winterim students
received their MIMs and twelve received Certificates of
Advanced Study. Fifty-four of these were from twentyeight
countries and territories other than the United States.
Dr. Voris honored Mrs. John Kieckhefer with the President's
Award for outstanding service to the school as a member
of the Board of Directors. KEITH CROMLEY received the
Barton Kyle Yount Award for scholarship, character and
potential business ability. MICHAEL T. CURTISS was the
first recipient of the Alumni-in-Residence Award for service
to alumni and to Thunderbird. JERRY K. MITCHELL
(August 1975) and ROBERT PATRICK BARNES (December
1975) earned the Alfred Knight Award for highest
scholastic excellence. Current ASLC president BOB ENGLISH
presented outgoing president ROD TAYLOR with a
The International Advertising Award went to ROBERTO
NAHODIL, PATRICIA TIDWELL, and ROQUE WILLARD
for their marketing presentation "Wrangler Jeans in Brazil."
Joining alumnus ROBERT FEAGLES '51 on the Board of
Directors of the American Graduate School of International
Management are JOSEPH KLEIN '47 and AL MIOSSI '48.
Elected October 17, 1975, these two outstanding alumni
also were recipients of AGSIM's distinguished achievement
recognition, the Jonas May€r Award - Klein in 1974 and
Miossi in 1975. Additionally, Miossi was commencement
speaker, May 1975, and Klein was honored as the Southern
California alumnus of the year, 1975.
Klein is executive vice president of Cyprus Mines Corporation
of Los Angeles. Prior to joining Cyprus Mines in 1966
as group vice president of international marketing, he was
president of NBC. International, Ltd. and vice presid€nt of
NBC News. He was named a Cyprus Mines senior vice president
in 1967, executive vice president of industrial operations
in 1972, and director of Cyprus Mines in 1975. He is
chairman of the board of Cyprus Hawaiian Cement Corporation,
a Cyprus affiliate and director of Mission Equities
Miossi joined Continental Bank's international banking department
in 1953. He was named vice president in 1960,
senior vice president and head of the international banking
department in 1968, executive vice president in 1971, and
a member of the board of directors of Continental Illinois
Limited in early 1975. He is chairman of several European
Continental Banks, board member of Banco Atlantico, and
president of Continental International Finance Corporation
as well as Continental Banks International in New York,
Los Angeles and Houston.
Greetings etc.
Thurston is still alive. Been with White Farm Equipment's
export department since November of '73 (the old OliverMinneapolis
Moline Tractor Company). Only thing I would
do over would be to tape record Richter's export class instead
of merely taking notes. When I was at the Bird, we
were all wrapped up in international management theory,
and short on the nuts and bolts approach, i.e., once almost
ate $25,000 because I failed to notice, on a LIC that the
port of embarcation was "Japan" instead of New Orleans,
and we shipped out of NOLA.
Since those who have been "blooded" in the field tend to
offer advise to those still sheltered under the wings of the
Thunderbird, I will stay true to form:
1. Eat in the cafeteria - the food is secondary, the conversation
is the important thing. Half the education is not
derived from the classroom. The Pub was also a good hangout
in which to round off the educational process.
2. Remember that most U.S. firms have absolutely no idea
of export and think International Trade is a Parker Brothers
game similar to Monopoly. If you think the "case studies"
are far fetched, wait till you experience one first hand.
3. And about the time you are ready to impress your new
boss with your educational knowledge he hands you an
import license from Colombia and asks if everything is in
order. And then you run into technical translations and find
that an "enganche de tres puntos" does NOT mean an
affair with three gigilos.
4. If you expect a job the day after graduation, try public
relations with a major oil company, i.e. learn how to pump
gas and wash windshields. But hang in there and keep
plugging - Thunderbirds have infiltrated U.S. business
better than the FBI did with the Klan, and for so few
graduates (compared to Business Ed at UCLA) we pack
quite a wallop.
5. And finally, if you heed nothing else, develop "flexibility."
Harvard and Wharton lack this quality, while Thunderbird
grads are noted for it. This means your first job
involves a two week training period after which you are
transferred to Biafra and end up making a profit selling
luxury items. Two Thunderbirds can trade rocks to each
other in Death Valley and declare a dividend at year
end, while a Wharton grad would declare bankruptcy, and
a Harvard grad would die of thirst the fourth day.
Harold G. Thurston '72
trJ14l I , Grn, )'
The following Lowell Parker articles, based on information
provided by DAVID HENRY '75, AGSIM's Resident Historian,
appeared in THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC of November
10th and 11th, 1975. Perhaps you would like to use
them where you now are for publicizing our school.
First of two parts.
When Phil Samper, threading his way along the crowded
sidewalks of Rua Boa Vista in Sao Paulo, Brazil, occasionally
bumps into Ken Furlong, their first words of greeting
are, "Hello, Thunderbird."
On the streets of Amsterdam, Jim Wegenar sometimes meets
Tom Nein, and they, too, greet each other with, "Hi, Thunderbird."
In the swank Camino Real Hotel in Guatemala City, Jerome
Johnston now and then sees John Davis, and there, again,
the same greeting is exchanged. • • •
It's a greeting that originated in Arizona but now is heard
world-wide wherever products of the American Graduate
School of International Management meet. And meet many
of them frequently do, for living and working in Brazil
alone are more than 100 AGSIM alumni who, with a few
exceptions, have homes and offices in either Sao Paulo or
Rio de Janeiro.
Another 100 or more right now are living and working in
Mexico, mostly in Mexico City. Fifteen are in Iran, well
over 100 in Japan, 65 England, enough in many foreign
cities for formation of alumni clubs.
Of course, there are a few lonely fellows like R. Lee Rigney,
the only AGSIM man in Kuala Belait, Brunei, wherever
that is, and Richard W. King, who holds down the fort for
Kohler International Co., Ltd., in Accra, Ghana.
However, they and a few others are the exception rather
than the rule, for AGSIM graduates are found in considerable
number in capitals or large industrial cities around the
All told some 10,000 alumni are either working or have worked
in 100 countries, as executives in a wide variety of multinational
Not too many Arizonans, other than those in high executive
circles, know much about the American Graduate School
of International Management. Not many have ever visited
the campus at 59th Avenue and Greenway on the far northwest
outskirts of Glendale. Many think of it simply as Thunderbird
C'A"~!.fl'N~ _
Although the school never has veered from its original purpose
of specifically educating men and women for positions
abroad, it has had three names in its 29 years of existence.
At first it was the American Institute for Foreign Trade.
Then, to better identify it as an educational institution, the
name was changed to Thunderbird Graduate School of International
Finally, it was decided that Thunderbird was a bit colloquial
and the name became American Graduate School of
International Management. This was a move decried by
many alumni who continue to call themselves Thunderbirds,
as do the present student body_
But why that name Thunderbird in the first place?
Well, the campus of AGSIM, prestigious by whatever name
you use, once was a private airport used as an Army Air
Force primary training school during World War II. It then
was called Thunderbird Field No. I, and many a hero-tobe
made his first solo flight there.
There also was a Thunderbird NO.2 several miles eastward,
at the edge of present-day Scottsdale. That, too, became
a school now operated by Seventh-day Adventists, after first
serving for a time as a sort of trade school conducted by
Arizona State University. Falcon Field, now a private airport
at Mesa, was the third of a complex of primary :flight
training fields in the Phoenix area.
Probably no other institution of higher learning boasts a
flight control tower right in mid-campus, an oddity that
sometimes leads passersby to think that AGSIM still is
some sort of flight training institute. The tower nowadays
houses individual offices of some faculty members.
More than 800 students, approximately 15 per cent of them
foreign, at present attend AGSIM classes. Any average semester
will find close to 40 countries represented by one or
more students, and the babble of foreign tongues is commonplace
anywhere on the 160-acre campus.
Foreign flags frequently fly alongside the Stars and Stripes
in recognition of some special occasion in the homeland of
various students.
The faculty of some 70 men and women is as diverse in
origin as the student body. Ophelia Castro e Silva, instructor
in Portuguese, earned her degrees in Brazil. Taeho Kim,
assistant professor of economics, is a product of Kookmin
College in Korea. Andrew C. Chang, professor of Chinese
and Japanese, got his M.A. degree at National Taiwan University.
Average student age is 26. SQme are married. Some, both
men and women, are single. Accommodations on campus
are available for about 40 per cent of the single men and
women and married couples without children. Others live
in apartments or houses in nearby subdivisions that have
spread out from fast-growing Glendale in recent years.
All in all AGSIM is a tight little world of its own, a cosmopolitan
gathering strange ,t{> find on the rural fringes of
the Phoenix area.
What brings students from around the world to this unique
school better known in the board rooms of international
corporations than to the average Phoenician?
SQle purpose of AGSIM is to train college graduates for
international careers in multinational companies'. It's the
only school in the United States devoted exclusively to such
training. And how it came into being is an intriguing story
in itself.
Tomorrow: No wonder they called it "Country Clnb of the
Second of two parts
Thunderbird Field, now home of the American Graduate
School of International Management, had its beginnings in
Hol1YJW<>O(i, and the glamour of that movie capital rubbed
off on the flight training school.
Men of many nationalities learned to fly at the desert field,
which then was far beyond the outskirts of little Glendale.
They were students destined to serve in many foreign lands,
just as AGSIM's graduates are destined to do.
Thunderbird, a primary flight school, came into being in
lIMO at the time the pre-World War II "arsenal of democracy"
defense program was launched.
* * *
Leland Hayward, actors' agent and later big as a movie
director, persuaded a number of Hollywood's air-minded
notables to join him in establishment of what was to become
SQuthwest Airways.
Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Cary Grant and other stars
put up the money to buy a nondescript little flying school
on the site of the present AGSIM grounds. What now is a
pleasant, tree-dotted campus was just raw, barren desert
Obviously, American participation in War II was in the
offing and Lt. Gen. Barton K. Yount, chief of the Army
Air Forces Training Command, who later was to become the
founding father of AGSIM, knew it. He knew, too, that the
Army Air Force was going to need thousands of pilots,
more pilots than the Army itself possibly could turn out
in a hurry.
Southwest Airways was one of many civilian schools called
upon to train Army fliers under contract, and Hayward lost
no time in turning the rather bedraggled little field into
what many eventually were to call the "country club" of
the air. Sizable trees were hauled in and replanted to shade
streets of not very barracks-like barracks, some of which
since have been converted into apartments to provide housing
for AGSIM students.
* * •
Everything at Thunderbird was spic, span, colorful and
glamorous. Buildings were brightly painted and even the
trash cans were two-tone to match the base's general decor.
There were tennis courts and two swimming pools.
Cadet quarters had specially designed bleached mahogany
furniture, and presiding over the kitchens was no less a
personage than the former chief steward of the famed Los
Angeles Biltmore Hotel.
Came the first of Thunderbird's many graduation ceremonies
and movie starlets arrived to entertain the cadet
crop. Flying in with them was Brian Aherne, a stockholder
in SQuthwest Airways. Hoa.gy Carmichael, the composerpianist,
pounded out his hit songs, including "Stardust" and
"Rockin' Chair." Hayward himself handed out silver WTist
No wonder they called it the country club of the air.
So impressive was the Thunderbird show that the British
asked Hayward to train their pilots, and this request brought
about establishment of Falcon Field. As the Army's pilot
training program advanced, Thunderbird No. 2 was built
along the same lines as No. 1.
Eventually the Hayward schools· were to train pilots from
27 countries.
Came Pearl Harbor and Hayward was deep in debt. So the
Army persuaded the government's Defense Plant Corp. to
buy all three fields. Actual training, however, remained in
the civilian hands of Hayward's staff on a contract basis,
with SQuthwest Airways collecting a fee for every cadethour
Along with technical training of air and ground crews,
Gen. Yount's command was using intensive speed-up courses
to give men bound for overseas service a grasp of foreign
languages and customs. Methods used were an entirely new
venture in the field of education, and they worked remarkably
After a 41-year military career, Gen. Yount retired from
the Army within weeks after end of War II. Envisioning
an expanding world economy that would require knowledgeable
Americans in all parts of the globe, he was determined
to put war-born teaching techniques to use.
He envisioned, particularly, the need for people specifically
trained for foreign service, people who spoke the language,
knew the country; people who would not create an "ugly
American" image.
* • *
Thus was born what now is AGSIM, a dream that rapidly
became reality, after considerable salesmanship on the part
of Gen. Yount and Finley Peter Dunne Jr., one of the general's
wartime staff aides. They won the interest and support
of exporters, foreign trade experts, ambassadors and
Finally, after picking comparatively luxuriOUS, deactivated
Thunderbird Field No. 1 as ideal for their purpose, they met
with Phoenix bankers and civic leaders.
Local response was enthusiastic, and out of these meetings
came formation of a nonprofit school devoted exclusively
to training young Americans and young foreigners for careers
with multinational companies. And out of that first
school, which opened in October 1946 with enrollment
limited to 300 selected students, came the present-day American
Graduate School of International Management.
Only college and university graduates holding a baccalaureate
degree from accredited institutions are considered for
admission. After three semesters of intensive study, those
accepted are granted a Master of International Management
degree - if they have maintained a minimum grade point
average of B.
* • •
Through the years, foreign governments and American businesses
of an international nature have sent students here.
However, many, both American and foreign, finance their
own way, a matter nowadays of more than $6,000 for a
single student living on campus for three semesters.
International nature of the AGSIM campus is exemplified
in many ways. An outstanding example is the school's new
library. Built in 1970, it contains an amazing assortment of
study materials, including rack upon rack of periodicals
in a variety of languages from all parts of the world.
Another example is Dr. William Voris, president and professor
of international management. Of course, he has held
other academic posts in this country. But, more to the point,
he has served as professor at the University of Tehran
Iran, and similarly at the American University of Beirut'
Lebanon. He also was an adviser to the King Abdul Azi~
University in Saudi Arabia.
And then there's the campus newspaper.
It's printed in English, but it's called Das Tor. That's German,
and it means "The Gate."
14 reSfJ/lrce persfJns
The following is a list of T-Birds who have volunteered to serve as Association Officers and/or Resource Persons in their
geographical areas. If you are visiting, job-hunting, or moving to their areas, they will help you. Yet another example of
Thunderbird spirit and of how T-Birds give service to their school and fellow alumni. Use them. Get to know them. Enjoy
them. (Perhaps you would like to volunteer to serve in your area. If so, let us know and we will add your name to this distinguished
ARIZONA (Phoenix)
Jack A. Williamson
c/o Caravan Inn
3333 E. Van Buren
Phoenix, AZ 85008
tel: 602-275-7551
CALIFORNIA (Northern)
(Bay Area)
Shennan J. Olson
c/o AFIA
234 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
tel: 415-472-2910
Roland J. Willits
342 Blackstone Drive
San Rafael, CA 94903
tel: 415-472-5856
Gary Michael
1776 Monroe, Apt. H-C
Santa Clara, CA 95050
tel: 408-296-0982
Roland E. Garcia
6293 N. Marks Avenue
Fresno, CA 93711
tel. 209-227-1774
CALIFORNIA (Southern)
(Los Angeles)
Wes Kruse
10334 Pounds Avenue
Whittier. CA 90603
tel: 213-69\-0255
Jeff Ruby
23016 Haddock Drive
Diamond Bar, CA !H765
tel: 714-595-9942 (H)
213-330-0666 (0)
Tom Sanderson
Biz International Corp.
333 N. Bereclo St., #321
Los Angeles. CA 90004
tel: 213-666-2892
(San Diego)
Craig A. Starkey
Box 1122
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
tel: 714-756-2692
Marlon E. Willson
5900 S.W. 93rd Place
Miami, FA 33143
Harry Fanning
44-208 Malae Place
Kaneohe, HI 96744
ILLINOIS (Chicago)
Bob Johnson
RE Johnson Int'l Assoc.
1795 Taft Avenue
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
tel: 312-358-6464
Randy Miller
c/o Continental Bank
2315 S. LaSalle St.
Chicago, IL 60696
tel: 312-465-5352
Jesse Wilson
127 E. Ash
Canton, IL
tel: 312-236-8745
Cynthia Young
535 N. Michigan, Apt. 1602
Chicago, IL 60611
David Traff
1811 Kingsway, #F-5
Peoria, IL 61614
LOUISIANA (New OriealUl)
Glenn Little
3607 Garden Oaks Dr. #238
New Orleans, LA 70114
tel: 504-366-4328
MARYLAND (Baltimore)
Bruce Wallace
Box 155, Williams Road
Hydes, MD 21082
Tom Wong
119 Stonington Lane
Charlotte, NC 28212
OHIO (Cleveland)
Mike Groeneveld
5115 Lake Road, #824
Sheffield Lake, OH 44054
Allan Welch
14914 Lake Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44107
Steve Mahood
31 Stewart Court
Oberlin, OH 44074
Harry Cockrell
c/o The Ridge Tool Co.
400 Clark Street
Elyria, OH 44035
Ricardo Peduzzi
6201 Garden Rd. #H141
Maumee, OH 43537
Mike Crotty
21 W. 86th Street, #710
New York, NY 10024
tel: 212-929-4100 (0)
John Sandor
10 Waterside Plaza, #17-D
New York, NY 10010
Debby Smith
40 Sutton Place. Apt. 8-C
New York, NY 10022
tel: 212-754-1100 x 560
(Women only)
R. Wayne Walvoord
c/o Security Trust Co.
(In!'1. Dept.)
One East Avenue
Rochester, 'NY 14638
tel: 716-262-2871 (0)
Donald Stanek
2862 Washington St.
Easton, PA 18042
leI: WI-859-2151 (0)
TEXAS (Dallas)
Barbara Stewart
15417 Preston Road, # 1161
Dallas, TX 75240
tel: 214-661-1197
Virginia McCampbell
Suite 1200, Conoco Tower
Five Greenway Plaza East
Houston, TX 77046
tel: 713-621-9050
WASHINGTON (Seattle)
Barton L. Hartzell
6322 - 126th Avenue S.E.
Bellevue. WA 98006
tel: 206-641-2796
Haven Stewart
12205 - 6th Ave. N.W.
Seattle, WA 98117
tel: 206-292-3344
(So. Washl.naton ,.
Portland, OR)
D. Barker Bates
1926 Olympia Way
Longview. W A 98632
WISCONSIN (Milwaukee)
Ernest Kangas
2405 Springdale Road, #l-A
Waukesha, WI 53186
tel: 414-224-0240 (0)
AI Keiser
c/o Marshall llsley Bank
770 N. Water Street
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Byron Coelho
1955 Estrada dos Remedios
5000(} Recife. Pernambuco
tel: 812-272552
(Rio de Janeiro)
Ernie Escobedo
Bethlehem Brazilian Corp.
Avenida Churchill 129,
Suite 402
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
tel: 242-3885 or 222-9540
"Bethlehem" Rio de Janeiro
Dolph Johnson
Rua Barao de Guaratiba
Gloria ZC-Ol
Rio de Janeiro, 20.000 Brazil
(Sao Paulo)
Dennis Orio
Rua Itambe 96
Apartado 151
01239 Sao Paulo. Brazil
Max Krauss
MacIver 265
Oficina 61
Santiago, Chile
Jim Dahlstrom
c/o Super Servicio
Apartado 992
San Jose, Costa Rica
tel: 22-55-44
James Stanley
Box 5181
San Jose, Costa Rica
John R. Arnold
Arnold Enterprises
Box 1111
San Salvador. EI Salvador
Jim Koessler
c/o Arguenta Koessler
S.A. de C.V.
Paseo General Escalon y 83
Av Sur
San Salvador, EI Salvador
tel: 23-9000
Pascal Cornille
70 Rue Du Point Du Jour
92.100 Boulogne, Seine, France
Lor Locher
7932 Munderkingen
Donav-Kirchplatz 6, Germany
tel: 07393-22.25
Roy de Motte
Furstenzeller StaBe2
8359 Ortenburg, Germany
tei: 08542/593
Kris W. Anderson
c/o Sea grams Overseas Sales
402 Asian House
Hong Kong
Philip C. Blaisdell
Chase Manhattan Bank
A.LA. Building
Hong Kong
Allan S. Cheng
c/o Meyer Mfg. Co. Ltd.
330 Kwan Tong Road
Hong Kong
Bill Tak-Ming Ling
c/o Ling-McCann-Erickson Ltd.
Suite 902, 916 Central AId
Hong Kong
C. Gregg Wadas
Trade Media Ltd.
P. O. Box K-1786
Hong Kong BCC
Y. G. Dwarkanath
SRI Krishna SPG & WVG
Mills (Private) Ltd.
Bangalore 11, India
INDONESIA (Jakarta)
Daniel J. Goldsmith
c/o USAID/PHD
American Embassy
Jl. Merdeka Selatan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Stephen G. Heiner
c/o Total Indonesia/CFP
Compagnie Francaise des
Tromolpos 10/JKT, Jakarta,
Nersi Sahba
National Iranian Oil Co.
Marketing & Exporting Dept.
P. O. Box 1863
Tehran, Iran
Dave Fisher
c/o Internation Edu. Center
Conversation Inst.
21 Yotsuya, 1-chome
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
tel: 359-9621-6
Cable: IECENTER TOKYO
Gerald H. Kangas
c/o F.N.C.B.
P. O. Box 30490
Nairobi. Kenya
tel: 334-286
Woo-Hyon Paek
LP.O. Box 3301
Seoul, Korea
Jae Suk Lee
c/o Korea Development Bank
C.P.O. Box 28
Seoul, Korea
tel: 24-2752
Riad Marei
c/o Y. Alghanim & Son
P. O. Box 223
Chuck Hazen
S.E. Asia Reptv. Office
Seattle First National Bank
11 Jalan Damansara Endah
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Larry Schaeffer
c/o General A. Mora
56 Michelet
Colonia Nueva Anguras
Mexico 5, D.F., Mexico
tel: 5-89-51-15
Patrick T. McLaughlin
c/o Fromex S.A.
Geneva 33 PH
Colonia Juarez
Mexico 6, D.F., Mexico
Bill Syms
c/o AKZO Consumenten
Prod ukten bv
Postbus 1299
Den Haag, Holland
Steve Montagu-Pollock
Lagos, Nigeria
Hector Cespedes (Bravo)
Asesor Comercial
Embajade de Nueva Zelandia
Ave. Salaverry #3006
San Isidro, Lima, Peru
John F. Tomlinson
Carribean Properties Ltd.
171 Dec Parque
San Juan 00911, Puerto Rico
tel: 725-7365
Bill Wagner
Dodge & Seymore (Far East)
37-39 Robinson Rd.,
2nd Floor, Rm. 2
Singapore 1
tel: 94200
Keith Bovetti
Highpoint 32-C
30 Mt. Elizabeth
Singapore 9
Marshall Malden
23044 Vintrie
Melmoe, Sweden
George H. Pitts. Jr.
c/o Dow Chemical Int'1.
1007 Chia Hsing Building
Taipei, Taiwan
Cliff Bevans
518/4 Ploenchit Road
Sirneo Building. 3rd Floor
Dominique Matron
c/o Coca Cola Export Corp.
Apartado 3729 - Carmelitas
Caracas, Venez.uela
tel: 36.42.65; 36.42.82; 34.30.72
(lllImnlf fllnd CfJntr''/)lItfJrs 1975
Joe Klein '47
Frank Graves '59
Howard Keefe (KM '61)
$100 - $499
Ernest Olsen '47
Bob Bean '48
William Davis '48
Don Lenertz '48
Lowell Marcus '48.
F. James Lee '49
Cliff Bevens '50
Selwyn Graves '50
Dan Witcher '50
Bob Feagles '51
Howard Hoops '51
Paul Black '52
Roland Garcia '53
Mark Antinucci '54
Addison Luce '56
Dave Murison '56-
Charles Stockholm '56
C. W. Pratt '59
Bob Schmeltz '59
Jack Donnelly 160
William Lindberg (KM) '61
Howard Shaw '61
Richard Elliston '64
William Pennel. '64:
Jan Wells '64
Peter Fedderson '67
Ralph Harmon '67
Steve Ward '67
Gera Id Mon tague '68
William Wagner '68
Tim Walker '68
Wilson Brook '69
Steve Burrell '69
Mark Wertz '70
Jim Kohl '71
John Schultz '71
Richard Baca '72
Mike Bruce '72
Andy Heinmark '72
Larry Ratner '72
Jim Henderson '73
Jack Kitchen '73
Greg Murphy '13
John Sandor '73
Estelle Wagner
IPaul '73 & Doug '69)
Everett H. Terril
(Jim Terril '74)
Claude J. Jasper
(William Jasper '69)
MATCHING GIFT PROGR.AlIf
American Can Company
American Express Company
American Home Products
Armco International
Bank of America
Bank of California
Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Carrier Corp.
Chase Manhattan Bank
Cummins Engine Co.
Continental Can Co.
Cyprus Mines
Dow Chemical Co.
Dun & Bradstreet
Equitable Insurance Co.
ESB Foundation
EXXON Foundation
Firestone International
Fluor Corp.
First National City Bank
First National Bank of Miami
Fritz Companies Inc.
General Electric
Harris Bank
Honeywell Inc.
IBM Corp.
S. C. Johnson &: Sons Inc.
Kidder Peabody & Co.
Manufacturers Hanover
Marine Midland Bank
NCR Foundation
Nordson Corp,
Philip Morris InC.
Provident Mutual
R. J . Reynolds Co.
Rohm & Haas
Joseph seagrams & Sons
G. D. Searle & Co.
Sears Roebuck .& Company
Southeast Bank Corp.
Southeast First National
Bank of Miami
Levi Strauss
C. Tennant & Co.
Travelers Insurance Co.
Upjohn Company
Wells Fargo Bank
Emily Adadusky '47
Lee Haviland '47
Lindsay Henderson '47
Fred Leisering '47
Herb Lindstrom '47
Gerald MirkIn '47
Irving Platt '47
Charles RItter '47
Ernie RDkahr '47
Larry SchaeUer '47
George Walters '47
Larry Bocci '48
Bob Clarke '48
Warner Diehl '48
William Henley '48
John Henson '48
John Lien '48
Bob MacCachran '48
Fred MacDonell '48
William Neumann '48
John Warner '48
Harold Wright '48
Robert Allen '49
Dave Clay '49
Sam Coddington '49
Tony Lodico '49
Gerald Marugg '49
Carl Perkins '49
Sterling Boyce 'SO
James Carrillo '50
Virgil Heidbrink '50
Charles Mitchell '50
AI Robins '50
John Barrington '51
Barker Bates '51
George Engelhardt '51
Don Johnson '51
Harvey McIntyre '51
Curtis Rausch '51
Don Robinson '51
Harry Turner '51
George Curtis '52
John Greyer '52
Fred Koppl '52
Brayton Lincoln '52
Toby Madison '52
H. T. Withers '52
Tom Adams '53
Jean Burns '53
Ed Campeau '53
Boye DeMente '53
Robert Morehouse '53
Sam Neblett '53
Gene Schultz '53
Charles Keller '54
Phil Kirk '54
George Lindahl '54
Ken Nelson '54
Phil Sidel '54
Gerritt Vander Ende '54
W. Bruce Wallace '54
McNeUl Watkins '54
Paul Anderson '55
Ernest Parada '55
R. K. Pooler '55
John E. Smith '55
Eugene Box '56
Fred Brenner '56
Jack Butetish '56
Norman Capps '56
John Cecil '56
Robert Duin '56
Irving Perlman '56
William Rodgers '56
Winthrop Wyman '56
Carl Arvidson '57
Alex Boggio '57
Doug Buckmaster '57
Virgil Carlson '57
Tod O. Clare '57
All Johnson '57
Charles Maggio '57
Walter Neverovich '57
Willlam Rush '57
Frank Wallis '57
Arnold Anderson '58
Harry Atkinson '58
Philippe Cavanagh '58
Richard Deakin '58
Ham Dethero '58
Phil Davis '58
AI Fritzner '58
J. Dean Huelat '58
John McGill '58
Frank Pinchard '58
Jack Ryder '58
Henry Schlichting '58
Fred SUl '58
John Tomlinson '58
Pieter Vos '58
Stanford Wilson '58
J ohn Bogert '59
Andrew Furlan '5S
Bart Hartz-ell '59
Dan Jacobsen '59
Chuck KammerE:-r '59
Sid Kessler '59
Bob Linsenmayer '59
George Reeves '59
Edward Shaw '59
Dave Youmllns '59-
Diana de Rollin Bishop '60
RDbert Ciszewski '60
Malcolm Goode '60
Robert Heineman '60
Jerry Holmes '00
William M. Johnson '60
G. A. Misner '60
Robert Perkovich '60
Bob Rensha w '60
John Ross '60
Dave Wallace "60
William Weber '60
George Armenta '61
Fred Arnold '61
Richard Autenreith '61
Norman Bawn '61
Duane Bellmore '61
James Bellmore '61
Ken Bennett '61
James Black '61
Jaime Ghezzi '61
Dave Mayo '61
F. Van Dorn MoUer '61
Jim Paulino '61
Ron Segerlind '61
Leighton Willgerodt '61
Karen Williams '61
James Benson '62
Carlos Cortes '62
Morris Feldman '62
Jerry Gersten 62
Steve Heiner '62
Richard Loth '62
Peter Pay '62
Darryl Petersen '62
Brooks Rawlins '62
Terry Singer '62
Gene Weidner '62
C. H. Yahn '62
Tom Zacharias '62
Ron Burkard '63
Paul Draughn '63
Bruce Heine '63
Gordon King '63
Bob Lambrix '63
Harold Olcott '63
Douglas Pfafr '63
Dan Van Gelder '63
Ratael Velez-Candelario '63
Robert Williamson ~63
Robert Andrews '64-
Leonard Babineau '64
Joe Bunce '64
John BuOer '64
Steve Charlesworth '64
Dennis Donahue '64
Larry Hersh field '64
Bruce Hord '64
Garry Moore '64
Claus Morch '64
Mike O'Keefe '64
Ronald Stern '64
Ward Clarke '65
Alpo Crane '65
John DeLeon '65
Carl Doran '65
Dan Goldsmith. '65
Terry Hayden '65
Charles Horton '65
Tom McSpadden '65
Larry Prager '65
J oseph Robinson '65
Richard Rosalak '65
William Shapiro '65
John Shepherd '65
Leavitt Ahrens '66
David Arms '66
Peter Baer '66
Mike Bennis '66
Max Bissey '66
Harry Boyer '66
Pat Demerath '66
John DiFazio '66
Art Downend '66
Mike Feeney '66
Jon Giddings '66
Gerald Greene '66
Peter Hahn 186
Andy Havis '66
Steve Jeffrey '66
Christopher Lane '66
Richard Mar '66
Derek Miller '66
Lloyd StraIts '66
Steve Swenerton '66
Joe Thompson '66
W. David WatkJns '66
Dallas Archibald '67
Richard Brotzman '67
WilUam R. Brown '67
W. F. Craig '67
Fred Crawford '67
John Dudley '67
William Dyer '67
Robert Eichfeld '67
Vic Fontaine '67
Fred Frese '67
Lester Hess '67
Ed Kimmel '67
Ron McCowen '67
Dave McCracken '67
WilUam Messett '67
Earl Oman '67
Richard Roney '67
Dean Ross '67
Alain Vanneuel '67
John stoody '67
Steve Strawn '07
Rupert Watson '67
David Ansell 168
Henry Batchelder '68
Wayne Battentield '68
David Boston '68
William C. Brown '68
Bob Chapman '68
Tim Dolan '68
Jobn Dowd '68
Bob Duncan '6&
John Gilbaugh '69
George Grimmett '68
Steve Gold '68
Peter Hellman '68
Bert Hollansky '68
Pete Joost '68
James Lemon '68
Tom Lester '68
Pat McLaughlin '68
Martha Thorne Mirabel '68
John A. Moore '68
Masaaki Nakamoto '68
John Norris '68
Mike Pierce '68
Ron Renchard '68
Brent Santord '68
Bob Schreiber '68
Val Stukuls '68
Robert Vassar '68
Montroville Walker '68
Robert Wilcox '68
Jim Brokken '69
Roger Brown '69
Steve Hall '69
Chuck Hazen '69
Da ve Hilliker '69
William Jasper '69
John Jones '69
Tim Jones '69
Loog Klelnbussink '69
Richard Kohler '69
Marshall Malden '69
Dan Montville '69
Cary Morton '69
Mike Murphy '69
Larry Nelson '69
Ward Ryan '69
Glen scherkenbach '69
Ramon J. Urbano '69
Richard Wade '69
Gary Walcott '69
Jeff White '69
John Brady '70
William G. Brown '70
Bob Capwell '70
Malinda Elliott '70
John Eugenio '70
Doug Gilmore '70
Marc Golubock '70
Phil Hand '70
Mike Harvey '70
Jim Hess '70
George Ittner '70
Oliver Jakob '70
Larry J ones '70
Dana Juett '70
Blair Kittleson '70
Geraldine Gurley Lamonica '70
Phil Matthews '70
Steve Montague-Pollack '70
Craig Morehouse '70
David Morehouse '70
John Muncy '70
William H. Murphy '70
Walter Nagel '70
Tom O'Keefe '70
Steve Onuparik '70
William Peter '70
Chase Rhee '70
Alban Schuele '70
James C. Schwartz '70
Udo Sietins '70
John Simon '70
Mike Sunderland '70
Gary Underhill '70
William Walker ~70
George Wenz '70
John Werner '70
Harold Westphal '70
Steve B. Wright '70
Lee Baker '71
Dewey Cady '71
Oscar Cerallo '71
Hunt Cleveland '71
Tony Da Silva '71
Jeff Davis '71
Brian Derby '7 11
Robert De Wolfe '71
Serge Du bois '71
Edgar Dunlaevy '71
J on Dwinell '71
Harry Folk '71
Jim Folsom '71
Harold Gunn '71
John Hamilton '71
Robert Harris '71
Victor Haupt '71
Robert Hi tchcock '71
BlI! Hubbard '71
Lewis Jacobs '71
E. F. KIngman '7 1
Jiro Kitakaze '71
Peter Luft '71
Richard Moriarty '71
CliU Myers '71
Mark O'Malley '71
Dennis Or!o '71
Gunter Pfiuer '11
Keith Sanderson '71
J on Shoup '71
D. W. SmIth '71
Bill Spitler '71
Don Stanek '71
Jack Taylor '71
James White '71
Jim Williams '71
Farhad Akhavi '72
Ed Auble '72
Bruce Blankenship '72
Manfred Braun '72
WillIam Broad.loot '72
Gary Buckingham '72
Hans Combee '72
Grier Cooper '72
Brad Corson '72
Walker Curtner '72
Richard Delaney '12
Richard DeSmet '72
Ka(hy Doyle '72
Tom Dries '72
Marc Files '72
Siegfried Filoon '72
Roger Fuller '72
Bob Hard wicke '72
Dieter Helfen '72
William Lebow '72
Gary Pacific '72
Robb Peglar '72
Larry Ratner '72
Charles Robe rts '72
Jim Rook '72
Jeff Ruby '72
Charles Rudolph '72
John Ryan '72
William Rye '72
Susan Sagy '72
Dave Seldon '72
James Shoultz '72
Jon Steele '72
Lee Smith '72
William Sterrett '72
Steve Toms '72
Chris Topoulos '72
Allan Welch '72
Meriweather Williams '72
Hugo Wolter '72
Dave Young '72
Gary Adams '73
Bernie Anderson '73
Nick Anderson '73
Dimitri Andonov '73
Steve Bisbee '73
Ernie Escobedo '73
Holland Evans '73
Steve Fitzhuge '73
Hunter Fry '73
John Graeff '73
Russ Hooker '73
Ernie Kangas '73
K. C. McAloin '73
Ron McDaniel '73
Roger Madsen '73
Bela Marriassy '73
Ken Miller '73
Chris Morrison '73
Tom Mon roe '73
Alan Nordell '73
Chris Petropoulos '73
Ron Pfafllin '73
Neil Sabin '73
Rai! Sagieh '73
Gerry Sibley '73
Perry Smith '73
Ba rry Tatganhorst '73
Richard Taylor '73
Kathleen (Wal ker) Mihara '73
Stevin Van Luven '73
Peter Wallin '73
Brooks Walton '73
Hoyet Wilson '73
Innocent Abiaka '74
Frank Apple '74
Neal Baker '74
Dave Balch '74
Mike Bixler '74
Steve Brown '74
Pascal Cornille '74
William Devir '74
Jim Dodson '74
Carl Duisberg '74
Bill Duursma '74
Paul Fronczek '74
Par & Steve Gibbens '74
Cliff Greene '74
Jim Harper '74
Sandra Harrison '74
Barry Heimbigner '74
Dolph Hoehling '74
Julie Houk '74
Ralph Johnson '74
Nancy Jones '74
Mike Kolb '74
Lee Lundal '74
Mike McLafferty '74
Shawn McIntosh '74
Bob Marquardt '74
John Melarky '14
Apostolo Merguzhis '74-
Drew Merkel '74
Richard Millison '74-
Larry Mueller '74
Tom O'Dea '74
Roger Patterson '74-
Tom Pinion '74
Pat Rankin '74
Tony Roman '74
R. Lee SelbY '74
Richard Smithers '74
Barbara Stewart '74
Brad & Becky Stoops '74
Frank Suchlln '74
J . E. Terril '74
Jim Walton '74
Bob Webb '74
Richard Williams '74
Dwight Winkler '74
Mike Wold '74
Janet Wright '74
Keith. Bovetti '75
Leonard & Demetra Brockman '75
George Cevallos '75
K. A. Cummings '75
Leland Henken '75
Jim Hilderbrandt '75
Paul Martell '75
J ohn Mazza '75
George Romain '75
Larry Ursich '75
Cynthia Young '75
ARIZONA alumni will meet Friday night, April 23rd, at
7:30 p.m. in the Thunderbird Room on campus. A no-host
cocktail party with Friends of Thunderbird and students
will precede dinner; LAS VEGAS gambling will follow.
Jack Williamson '72, Gary Robison and Tom Beatty ('76)
will host. Make reservations with the Alumni Office, 938-
At an elegant dinner meeting December 5th, 19'75, at the
Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Sherman (Jerry) Olson '50
was installed as president and Roland Willits '70 as vice
president of the BAY AREA alumni. Gary Michael '72
hopes to organize a regional AGSIM placement service.
Berger and Mabel ('65) Erickson were honored guests.
One hundred and three attended the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
dinner meeting at the end of November. An
Egyptian diplomat was the speaker; and Joe Klein '47 received
the Southern California Alumnus of the Year Award.
Call Wes Kruse (213-691-0255) or Jeff Ruby (714-595-9942)
for details of the June meeting being planned.
Earl and Diane Oman '67, hosted sixty five Thunderbirds
in their Coral Gables home October 11, 1975, for the first
gathering of the Miami Alumni Association. The group met
again in March. Marlon Willson '51 was elected president
and Diane Oman, secretary of the group. Please contact
Diane (305-665-7727) when you move to the area.
Getting together in Charlotte is fun. Contact Tom Wong
'73, North Carolina National Bank for time and place.
Ninety-five people braved heavy rains October 18, 1975,
to attend the NEW YORK. CITY alumni party at the Red
Baron. President Mike Crotty '74 reports that the group
consisted of mainly recent graduates and he hopes that
"older" grads will try to come to the next party, too. His
telephone number is 212-724-8500.
Ken Krasney who is in the dual AGSIM-SMU program
wants to organize an alumni meeting. If you will help,
contact Ken at 3124 University Blvd., #4, Dal1as, Texas
An alumni get together is planned for May 8, 1976 at the
Seattle Hilton. For additional information contact Haven
Stewart '72 (206-292-3344).
A tremendous storm resulted in the attendance of only
twenty eight at the October 28, 1975 MILWAUKEE picnic.
In attendance were the families of Dave Sandel '74, Brian
Gauler '69, Dwight Winkler '74, John Doman '74, Dean JohnSon
'73, John Farrington '68, Dan Ela '74, Chuck Jones '73,
John Stanger '69, Ernie Kangas '73, Jagdish Patel '73, AI
Keiser '73, and Jack Harris '73. Contact Ernie (B-224-0240,
H-549-0942) or AI (B-765-7610, H-549-0942) for future
RIO DE JANEIRO alumni met at their annual banquet late
1975 according to Dolph Johnson '68 and Ernie Escobedo
'73 (242-38'85 or 222-9540). They then met for a dinner
end-March. Ernie, Stan Wilson '58, Ward Ryan '69, and
David Ransome '72 formed the committee.
Alumni in the SAO PAULO area should contact Dennis Orio
'71, Rua Itambe 96, Apto 151, 01239 Sao Paulo. A Pautista
get-together is being planned.
The Thunderbirds of SAN SALVADOR met November 25,
1975 in the home of John and Diana Arnold '61. Attending
were Jim Koessler '66, Doug Bernard '68, Steve otto '66
Bob and Mercedez Rodezno '66, Dick and Jane Ambrose '72,
Russell and Jane Hooker '73, Jim and Judy Whittlesley '65,
and Diane Connelly '56.
EUROPEAN ALUMNI got together for skimpy skiing and
full companionship in Kitzbuehl. They also celebrated fasching-
carnival at Hotel Hayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany
in February. Contact people are Bill Syms and Jim Walton
'74, Zuidende 13, Broek-in-Waterland, The Netherlands.
New York City T-Birds
Milwaukee Picnic
April 24, Mexico City Alumni will meet at 7:30 in Erlinda
Diaz's home. Telephone Patricia Gutierrez '73 or, Larry
Schaeffer '47 (5-89-51-15) to make reservations.
Iranian T-Birds got together January 8th for a Mexican
buffet and margaritas. Mitch & Judy Summers '64, hosted,
and attendees included Shirin Moinpour '73, Behrouz Pirouz
'63 and Reza Fattabi (A 12).
Charlotte, North Carolina Alumni Meeting (from left to
right): ALPO CRANE '65, JURGEN STRASSER '73,
DOUG MRSTIK '74, MARK PADEN '67, and TOM
WONG '73. Not shown in the picture but present at the
party-BRYAN CRUTCHER '72 and RICK GREEN-WOOD'
Many TOKYO alumni got together at the wedding reception
of James and Michiyo Echle '60, and they hope to start
meeting as alumni on a regular basis. Call Dave Fisher '67
(359-9621-6) if you are interested.
Please contact Chuck Hazen '69 at 742996 or 11 Jalan
Damnsara Endah, Kuala Lumpur 23-02, Malaysia, for more
information about a June T-Bird party.
Larry Schaeffer '47, Craig Dudley '58, and Victor Haupt '71
publicized AGSIM on CBS station VIP in Mexico City November
24, 1975 or Dona Garder's local show "Viewpoint,"
and called for T-Birds to turn out for are-organizational
meeting at the Guillermo Tell restaurant November 30th.
Fifty-three alumni and friends came.
All Thunderbirders interested in having a get-together with
"palitos" should call Sandy Stone at home (763-1162) or
contact him c/o IRS, P .O. Box 1485, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
T-Birds in BANGKOK are interested in an occasional
alumni get-together. If any Thunderbirder living there
haven't been contacted locally, call either James Williams
'70, 32941 or Cliff Bevens '50, 526141 or 518929.
Seoul Alumni Party (attendees included): WOO, HYON
PAEK '69, JAE SUK LEE '73, Linda Hale, JU WHAN
YUN '73, Mrs. Yun, THEODORE McCULLOCH '72,
Mrs. Paek, Professor John Lindholtz, R. N. HALE '61,
Mrs. Hale, HAN SOO KIM '73, Professor Wan Soon
Kim, HEUNG SIK '74, KYO HO SHIN '73, JU SUP
Members of the board and officers of the AGSIM/Mexico
Alumni Chapter from left to right: CLAUDE SHANEYFELT
'58, PATRICIA GUTIERREZ (Mrs. ERNIE '72),
VICTOR HAUPT '71, HERLINDA DIAZ (former in-structor),
and CRAIG DUDLEY '58.
Tokyo Alumni
Wedding Reception of JAMES W. ECHLE, December
6, 1975, from left to right: PAUL HAMMERSTAD '72,
Iranian T-Birds at alumni party held in Tehran, January
8,1976. (MITCH & JUDY SUMMERS '64, 4th and 5th
from left).
C/6SS news
STEVE and Margaret HEINER '62, Jakarta, Indonesia
· . . ROBERT LAUGHLIN SMITH, JR. '67 and Nancy
Lenore Newton, Shaker Heights, Ohio ... THOMAS P.
CHURCH '70 and Roberta Lou WJ.xler, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
... JONATHAN H. SHOUP '71 and Nancy J.
McCormick, Baltimore, Maryland ... JAMES DUNCAN
OTIS '72 and Caroline Hall, Littleton, Colorado ... KATHLEEN
A. W AL"KERI '73 and Yasutaka Mihara, Chicago,
Illinois ... DAVID BARNETT '75 and Joyce Sarnotsky,
Phoenix, Arizona ... LELAND G. HENKEN '75 and Sheila
R. Robinson, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan ... STEINAR
A. MIKKELSEN '75 and Irene Neuman, Stockholm, Sweden
· .. TONY OLBRICH '75 and NANCY NAPIER '75, Columbus,
Ohio ... JEAN-GABRIEL ROMAIN '75 and Matgor-zata
Medynska, Montreal, Canada ... GEORGE and Irene
TAVARES '75, Glendale, Arizona ... OWEN E. STRECKER
'75 and Diane Reifel, South Laguna, California ... TAPAN
SINHA '74 and Rebecca Linneman, Calcutta, India ...
JAMES ROBERTS LANGLEY 'n. and Judith Kushner,
New York Cfty ... GLENN LITTLE! '75 and Patricia
Chavez, Guadalajara, Mexico ... ROBEY CLARK '74 and
Mitzi Sutton, Dallas, Texas.
WALTER H. GILLETTE '63, Big Rapids, Michigan ...
WESLEY E. OLANDER '49, Guatemala City, Guatemala
'60, Warner Robins, Georgia ... WILLIAM B. OGILVIE '52,
Santurce, Puerto Rico . . . LEE S. JOHNSON '47 . . .
ARTHUR O'NEILL, retired assistant superintendent of building
and grounds, AGSIM ... JOHN DAVID CAMPBELL,
former professor of World Business, AGSIM.
KIM and MARTA LUTZ '64, Washington, D.C .... MIKE
and MARIANELA MURPHY '69, Panama . . . the Y ADALAM
DWARKANATHS '70, Bangalore, India ... BRAD
and KERSTIN CORSON '72, Sao Paulo, Brazil . . . the
WILLIAN AMENS '73, Culican, Mexico ....
FRED and MARIA-INES SHIELDS '61, Richland, Washington
. . . JERRY and KATHY GILLOTTI '65, RALPH
and ANN HARMON '67, Jakarta, Indonesia ... JIM and
MICHELE DOROBIALA '69, Glendale, Arizona . . . EDWARD
and BONNIE AUBLE '72, Oranjestad, Aruba ...
BUD and LIZ STERRETT '72, Atlanta, Georgia ... HUGO
and MARY WOLTER '72, Silver Springs, Maryland . . .
DIMITRI and SHARON ANDONOV '73, Milan, Italy . . •
JAE SUK and CHOON YOUNG JANG LEE '73, Seoul,
Korea ... SALAH and JANE TARRAF '73, Montreal, Can-ada
... RICHARD and CATHY SMITHERS '74, Peoria,
Illinois ... ROBERT and COLETTE SUZANNE SPARKS
'74, Stamford, Connecticut ... DICK and SHERRIE SAINT-AMANT
'75, New York ... GERD and BETSY STIPPINGER
'73, Vienna, Austria ... .
ERVIN and DEANNA DEE BEAL '70, Garland, Texas -
Please write us if you know the current address and/or
other information for the alumni below.
John Gearhart '53 Dan Ruderman '66
Herb Hendrick '54 Diego Veitia '66
John Rock '55 Jim Delahunty '67
Walter Pinkston '55 Fred Miley '67
Theobald Diehl '56 Fred Opper '68
William Bottorf '57 William H. Jones '68
Eugene Martin '57 Dave Layton '68
Art Mastoras '5·7 Ney Raahauge '68
Jim Staub '57 Gary Johns '69
Mike Carstens '58 Gary Collins '69
Richard Barrutia '59 Richard Erler '69
Jerry Hughes '60 Jack Witter '69·
William Ozolin '60 Sergio Montalvo '70
Tim Wilbur '61 Henry Avalos '70
Larry Greene '63 James R. Grebe '70
Stan Urban '64 Curtis Lynch '70'
George Pitts '65 Richard Rowland '71
Clarke Todd '65 Mike Gibson '72
William Gleason '66 Jim Bacon '72
Joe La Piccolo '66 Mike Brown '74
NICK LUBAR '74, Port Washington, New York ... THAD
HOGAN '60, Placentia, California ... BOB COTTAM '56,
Kings Beach, California ... RON CLARK '59, Huntington
Beach, California ... ED DIAMOND '74. San Bernandino,
California ... BOB STIMSON '71, Tempe, Arizona ...
TERRY HAYDEN '65, Toronto, Canada ... CAL VAN PELT
'50, Portland, Oregon . . . DAVID BELL '68 and TOM
McWILLIAMS '61, San Francisco ... BILL WALSH '71,
Newport Beach, California ... RICHARD IMENDORF '72,
Los Angeles ... LARRY LAMB '69, Portland, Oregon ...
JIM MANNING '53, San Rafael, California . . . BRIAN
GAULER '69, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ... KEN MURRAY
'61, Los Angeles, California ... ROMAN REYES '74, Phoenix,
Arizona ... MACK SLOAN '70, Glendale, Arizona ...
KEN HOLBROOK '66, Houston, Texas ... JACK CHRIS-TENSEN
'71, Newport Beach, California ... JOHN THIEL-BARR
'66, Chicago, Illinois . . . MIKE MARGOLIS '75,
El Paso, Texas ... RIAD GHALI '74, San Francisco ...
RON PFAFFLIN '73, Davenport, Iowa ... CURTIS LESAGE
'73, Chicago ... RICK BURRUS '72, Thousand Oaks,
California . . . DAVE McINTYRE '68, st. Louis, Missouri
· .. ROGER ELY '69, Phoenix, Arizona ... DAVID NAYLOR
'72, Boston, Mass ... BOB WHITE '72, Little Rock, Arkansas
· .. BILL KELLEY '71, Irvine, California ... BOB LUZAR
'73, Lyndhurst, Ohio ... JOHN CASTRO '74, Floral Park,
New York ... LARRY EDSTROM '70, London, England ...
GENE NAGLE. '72, Phoenix, Arizona ... BILL DUBBS '75,
San Francisco ... CHUCK ROBERTS '73, Chicago, Illinois
· . . BERNIE ANDERSON '73, Ecully, France . . . BRAD
CORSON '72, Elyria, Ohio ... BILL NEIGER '74, Denver,
Colorado ... JAY CASELL '62, San Antonio, Texas ...
GARY RIPPEN '75, Glendale, Arizona ... DON KOPPEL
'53, Tlalnepantla, Mexico ... BARRINGER NEWCOMB
'68, Oceanside, California ... ROLAND RAYMENT '61,
Wilmette, Illinois ... JAMES HALDERMAN '74, Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia . . . JOHN LAMPE '73. Singapore . . . DR.
THOMAS P. CARTER '51, Sacramento, California ... MIKE
MORAN '74, Phoenix, Arizona ... MARK WERTS '70,
Amsterdam, Holland ... DAVE STONER '73, Peoria, Illinois
. . . CHRIS CHESSER '73, Tucson, Arizona . . .
STEVIN DELATEUR '74, Washington, D.C .... PETER
GUNTHER '68, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . . . RON WILLEFORD
'64, Greenville, Illinois . . . ART WEHRMEISTER
'73, San Diego, California . . . DAVE McCULLOCH '74,
Tulsa, Oklahoma ... ART KELLEY '70, Glendale, Arizona
· . . FRANC ROCHELEAU '71, Bisbee, Arizona ... ROY
K. MALKIN '68, Miami, Florida ... HAL YONOVITZ '74,
Coolidge, Arizona . . . DAVID TRAFF '74, Peoria, Illinois
· .. BILL PAGE '67, Denver, Colorado ... KIRK WINKELMEYER
'62, Ft. Collins, Colorado ... DENNIS SOKOL '74,
La Grange, Illinois ... RICK CUNLIFFE '75, Waukesha,
Wisconsin ... JOHN CLISE '75, Phoenix, Arizona .. .
ALLAN ZIMBEROFF '48, Albuquerque, New Mexico .. .
SIMON HAKIM '75, New York City ... JOHN DICKINSON
'69, Mexico City ... HERB RUFP '70, Memphis, Tennessee
... EUGENE GRAF '65, Bozeman, Montana ...
BERNIE MURPHY '74, Chicago, Illinois ... STEVE ENGEL
'74, Canby, Oregon ... GEORGE SEWARD '70, Phoenix
· .. RICK STRACK '72, Palo Alto, California ... GEORGE
BLAKE '59, Mexico City ... NORMAN SLUIS '72, Phoenix,
Arizona ... RONALD BELCZYK '72, Santa Ana, California
· .. RONALD HAMES '74, New York City ... LIANNE
SORKIN '72, New York City ... ROBERT BEGANI '67
Chicago. . . • '
JACK BUTEFISH '56 and other tennis players.
~7 Larry Schaeffer is presently operating "Schaeffer To School of Speech - Linguistic Services" with his
wife, Nina, in Mexico City. He is president of the
Mexican Thunderbirds ... The Gerald Mirkin family vacationed
in Hawaii and Colorado last summer and hope to
visit Arizona in 1976 ... Lindsey and Eve Henderson write
from Savannah, "Lindsey is still president of Chatham
Associates International, Inc. He continues to head the
Factor's Walk Military Museum, which he founded." ...
~8 John D. Henson, with USAID, after being evacuated
~ from Saigon last year, saw Pete Stilley '70 in
Singapore, went to Bangkok for two months, took
over the regional commodity management office in Manila,
and is now chief of the logistics division in the Philippines.
"LYDIA and I have given serious thought to retirement.
I am anxious to get a new career started in the business
world." . . . Werner Diehl writes, "Still in London
after almost seven years with Northern Trust Bank. Just
finished a computer project for London branch. Moved
into country about 30 miles out and enjoy country life. Son
married and in medical school in States - daughter in
college here." . . . Fred MacDonell, after many years as
manager of the international division - Ferry-Morse Seed
Company, left to form his own sales organization International
Marketing Management, in San Jose, Califo;nia . ..
From Tim Warner: "Am now in my 25th year as a resident
of India. All three children now in the States attending
school. Some T-Birds here, including Bob Steinmetz '55,
who is our (Firestone) sales director." . . . Lowell and
Chrys Marcus returned from Spain and live in Long Beach
... John Warner has been president and on the board of
directors of the American School in Mexico City. He hired
graduate Robert Sands '74 to work for PEPSICO there and
Robert was promoted three times within his first year 'with
the company. "Robert has performed admirably and is a
credit to the school. He is liked by everyone works hard
and gets results. His AGSIM training was val~able," write~
~ lJ Dave Moir has left Square D Company to join T 7 Quasar Electronics Corporation as their director of
international operations. Quasar is a subsidiary of
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America.
~() "Mary Helen did graduate work this summer in
JI Guatemala and I joined her for a look-see then
vacation in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Dan Jr. has' been
living in Brazil over four years. I still travel frequently
all over the world. Son J. Wright is interested in Thunderbird,"
writes Dan Witcher from Kalamazoo .. . Helen Deman
is employed by the Department of Labor as a vocational rehabilitation
specialist, in the region of California and Nevada
with headquarters in San Francisco ... Fred (Skip) Voorh.
e~ is I?anagin.g principa! of Self-Resort Counseling AssoclatlOn
m Medma, Washmgton. Says Skip, "AGSIM experience
still paying positive husiness dividends."
rl Barker Bates advises: "We had an enjoyable remin-
J j iscing session in mid-September with classmates
Jack and Nancy (Bassett) Barrington (both '51)."
The Bates live in Longview, the Barringtons in Bellevue
Washington. '
r2 "Living in Kobe, Japan and New York. Traveling J4 the world and meeting as many old alumni friends
. as possible in each country visited," writes Toby
Madison . .. From George PeckhalOl: '''Now with Agro Tech
International with headquarters in Miami. "We supply products
and knowledge to the animal and poultry industries
mostly in the Caribbean and Latin America. Bill Bramble '5i
is a neighbor." . .. "After nearly two decades abroad, I've
return~d to open my own firm - incorporated in Arizona,
but WIll operate out of the industrial North East - offering
market studies for firms interested in Asian markets
and limited import-export activity," writes George Griffin:
5.-:J Roland Garcia is acting president of Time Indus~
tries, Inc. He traveled to Florida last December to
conduct the quarterly managers' meeting ... In
Jacksonville, Florida, Norm Bailey organized and manages
Latin American Trading & Consulting Company after leav-
ing Getty Oil Company in October, 1973 ... John Lambert
has made half a dozen trips a year for the past three years
to Europe on nuclear electric power plant engineering and
contract work. He and Nancy traveled England, Spain and
Holland last June.
r ~ "I am still helping social scientists at the UniverJT
sity of Pittsburgh use the computer," writes Phil
Sidel ... Ken Nelson spent September traveling
Europe on business . . . After his hospitalization in New
England and convalescence in Oregon, Mark Antinucci returned
home to Rome with his five younger children. Of
the older children in the United States, Lana attends Union
College; Richard and Steven, Rollins College; Ellen, St.
J ohn's . . . Charles Keller expects to retire in August 1977
and move to San Diego .. Phil Kirk returned to Cleveland
as president of the Harshaw Chemical Company and
continues as group vice president and director of parent
Kewanee Industries.
r r From Juan Forster in Guatemala City: "Staying JJ alive with exportation of beautiful typical weavings
and other handicrafts. Just about to begin construction
on long-planned tourist center on shores of Lake Izabal.
Need a good Thunderbird partner with similar experience -
and MONEY! Great future prospects." .. . Jack and Ann
Potter Lockledge (both '55) write, "We feel we're in the
forefront of the new waves in elementary education. Jack
acts as a consultant on open space schools and serves on the
governor's liaison committee. Ann teaches in open space
and implements the new techniques - and keeps the home
fires burning." ... After tours of duty in Colombia, Egypt,
Honduras and Vietnam, George Weismiller administers a
five year CARE food-for-work hygienic program in Bangladesh
.. . Donald Burdon has been appointed European
representative for the state of Wisconsin and will be based
in Frankfurt, West Germany.
r6 Seen in the October SPORTS magazine, a photo of
J I Jack Butefish of GDI with the worlds' leading tennis
players. (He's the one in the business suit.)
Winn Wyman, traveling as Vice President of AGRICO
International, has been in Sao Paulo (where he saw classmate
John Dailey), Paris Amsterdam, East Berlin, Brussels,
Antwerp, London, Seoul, Moscow and San Salvador. Winn
says that East Berlin is shockingly stark and unappetizing -
untouched by detente except cordiality of business contacts
From William Rodgers: "After twelve continuous years
in Latin America on my second sojourn there, the last six
years being in Brazil, we have returned to the States and
live in Washington, D.C., where I work in The Agency for
InternatIonal Development. Dr. Schurz was right: Brazil is
indeed a fabulous and varied country! I had the good fortune
to live three years in Rio, then three years in Brasilia
and of traveling many times from one end of the country
to the other visiting and working in most of the states. Enjoyed
Brazil and the Brazilian immensely!" . .. Gloria
Shuman is vice president/secretary of Robert Shuman and
Associates in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico ... Garry Hoyt is an
advertising executive with Young & Rubicam in Puerto
57 Alan Helffrich is managing director of Armco International
- Spain ... Daniel Harkins has been
promoted to general sales manager, Ashland Chemical
... From Doug Buckmaster: "Have completed four and
a half years as director of development for USC Cancer
Center program; eleven years of exporting processed food
products. I am a principal in a firm which sells natural
vitamins and food supplements by mail order - at discount
prices. I'd be pleased to hear from interested T-Birds worldwide."
... Alex Boggio advises us that his oldest son Umberto,
is followin.g in . his father's footsteps, as po~tfoliO
manager for CredIt SWISS ... Art Carpenter is president of
the Montebello (California) Board of Realtors.
r D William Foster has been promoted to senior vice
.;10 president of Union Trust Company, New Haven,
. Connecticut ... Stanford Wilson is president of
Snelling & .SnellIng In Rio de Janeiro .. . Ham Dethro, vice
preSIdent, International division at Crocker National Bank
in San Francisco, has been elected president of the Cali-
fornia Council for International Trade for 1975-76 ... .Jack
Sherman is still a registered representative with Fahnestock
and Elizabeth is currently teaching English at the Universidad
Simon Bolivar in Caracas.
S·t) The David Youmans have been in La Paz, Bolivia 7 since June 1975 on his third assignment with PLAN
and eleventh abroad. He is director for Foster
Parents' Plan International for Bolivia. "Schools are very
good. Our programs with PLAN include social work co-operatives,
health, community action and education. Anita,
Sergio and Vance are with me, and Rick is in the American
Navy." . . . The Ric.ba.rd Cummings family is living in
Lilongue, Malawi, where Dr. Cummings is educational planning
advisor to the government ... Bob Roberts is attending
Southern Connecticut State College to prepare himself
for a research/academic career . . . C. Eugene Osment II
writes, "Investment advisor for a few wealthy families overseas.
Current emphasis in Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Noel
is feature writer - San Diego Union." ... Jerry & Anne
Gaardner are living in Yorba Linda, California. Jerry is
with the international marketing group of Allergan Pharmaceuticals,
with an office next to John Barnett (J600). . ..
William Holsnider is now President of the Paper Mate Division
of the Gillette Company.
60 Arthur Misner writes from the Philippines: "Charlotte
and I are deeply involved in community affairs.
Charlotte is president of the St. Lukes Women's
Board (a hospital auxiliary). I'm president of the
Rotary Club of Makati and chairman of the executive committee
of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business (a Jesuit
University) ... Lockheed transferred the Jim Armstrong
family from California to Australia last September. They
report missing their family farm ... John Kieser is assistant
treasurer - international operations with Kaiser Aluminum
and Chemical Corporation in Oakland, California ...
Don M. Noble is sales manager for Firestone-Chile . . .
William Weber has made a permanent move to Dunedin,
Florida. "For the past three and a half years (after twelve
years in banking) I've been a tour manager for TRAVCOA,
one of the largest wholesale tour operators in the U. S." ...
Craig Starkey is Director of Economic Research-Master
Planning for branches, future growth directions for whole
company - First Federal Savings & Loan Association, San
61 James Paulino is marketing manager, Valsan International
Corporation, New York City. He took a
four-week trip throughout the Far East, Australia
and New Zealand last fall ... Alvord Branan is the 1976-77
resident director of the California State University and
Colleges International Program in Aix-en-Provence . . .
Roland and Norma Rayment visited the campus and commented
that they "liked it better when it was small and
we had to rough it." ... Robert Garrison is resident vice
president - Southern Cross region and Ralph Goodrum is
general manager - Brazil for AFIA.
L2 Christof Scheiffele, who has been director of med- 11, ical volunteer specialists in Washington, D.C. for
MEDICO, the medical arm of CARE for the past
two years, is now country director in Haiti ... The James
BensoM have moved to Arlington, Virginia ... Morris Feld-man
is a prospective candidate for U.S. Representative
(Democrat) - Fourth Congressional District of Illinois ...
From Wallis Sanborn: "I am still a district sales manager
for the Mud Cat division of National Car Rental. The job
is fun and what more could one ask. Judy is going back to
school and hopes to have her B.S. in nursing in about two
years. Our son, Trip, is now eleven and is a stud football
player. Diana, soon to be eight, is a super gymnist and also a
good student." ... The April, 1976 international edition of
READERS DIGES·T featured "The San Antonio Story" including
the Remember the Alamo Theater and Museum of
which Jay Gasell is executive producer.
L ~ Robert Williamson with John Deere Intercontinen-
11~ tal writes, "Have enjoyed the two tours as AGSIM
campus representative to Illinois colleges and I
am available as needed." ... "Stephanie has some free time
now that our youngest child has entered first grade, so she
has taken up elephant training! India is an exciting and
stimulating change after twelve years in seven different
Latin American cities," write the Ronald Burkards. We hope
the Burkards and Yadlam Dwarkanath '70, can activate the
Indian T -Birds.
6'~1 The Claus Morch family has been transferred irom T Beirut, Lebanon, to Stockholm, Sweden, by Goodyear
... "My wife and I have just returned from
a two week trip to Europe as a result of my winning ana·
tional sales contest held by the Redactron C'orporation. We
visited England, France, Denmark and Holland," writes
Joe Bunce ... John Hubbell is regional director for Creative
Marketing of America in Wisconsin. "Built a new home and
learning to become a balloonist. Wow! What a sport! Anyone
interested, write! Any T-Bird graduate buying a balloon
can get a special discount." ... Robert Andrews is with the
U.S. Steel Corporation affiliate in Belem, Brazil. "I have
just completed my third year in Brazil which has, been most
rewarding. Previously, I worked in Venezuela for almost
four years, and for three years in Mexico where I picked
up an MBA in international business from the Universidad
de las Americas." ... Jan Wells writes, "I recently moved
from product management to public relations. I now deal
with three of Seagram's wine marketing companies, two
in U.S., one (U.S. based) that exports wines around the
world." Jan lives in San Francisco ... Dave Goldman is
president of Real Corporation of Catifornia and Nevada.
The firm deals in commercial leasing an& management and
condominium sales ... After three years in Bogota, CololThbia,
Kim and Martha Lutz are in Washington, D.C. for two
years. They saw Ed Frey in Bogota when Ed was on his way
frbm Cali to the U.S .... John Lewis has traveled over a
million miles on foreign business activity during the past
seven years. He is vice president - First National Bank in
Dallas ... John Baker is director of international operations
National Steel products for National's subsidiary, Stran Steel
Corporation of Houston ... Jim Kelly was a candidate for
Congress from the eighteenth district, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
L r Ben Barteldes is product manager for Agroceres in
11t7 Sao Paulo, Brazil ... Vice president and sales man-ager
• export division is Carl Doran's new position
with Ford Meter Box Company of Wabash, Indiana. The
company recently received the President's E Award for Export
Excellence ... Terry Ba.yden writes that he is undergoing
training activity as credit analyst with the Bank of
Nova Scotia in Toronto ... Jerry GUlotti is with Rockwell
International, business equipment division, Arlington
Heights, Illinois.
66 steve Swenerton has been re-assigned to Los Angeles
as product manager by Norris Industries ...
Ken Holbrook has been named manager of the RustBan
Coatings division of Exxon Chemical USIA. He has
moved to Houston from Hong Kong ... Fred Smoot has left
Pirelli Tire and has joined Ron Pfafflin ('73) in forming an
export company - appropriately called Phoenix Pacific Inc.
... Jim Koessler up-dates: "I went to work in the international
division of First National Bank of Boston in September
of 1966. Summer of 1969, I returned to the United States
and graduated from the Harvard Business School. Spring
of 1971, I went to work for the First National City Bank
and was sent to El Salvador. In 1973, I resigned from the
bank and formed my own company here in San Salvador -
Argueta, Koessler, S.S. de C.V." ... David Arms has organized
Financial, Management & Resources Company in Shaker
Heights, Ohio, to provide financial services and management
consulting to selected individuals and small corporations
... From Mike Griffin: "After eight years overseas
(Switzerland and South Africa) with Caterpillar Tractor
Co., we have settled back in the West (Casper, Wyoming).
We are enjoying the States and the opportunity to Americanize
the girls." Mike is general parts manager for Wyoming
Machinery, Caterpillar dealer ... John E. Smith reports
that from 1969 until 1974, he was legislative assistant
to U. S. Senator Bob Dole (Kansas) in Washington. Since
then, he has been general counsel and secretary of Herman
Brothers Inc., a trucking company specializing in the transportation
of bulk commodities throughout the Midwest and
South " Ed Oshiro works for Public Health Service -
community health division in Ft. Washakie, Wyoming ...
Howard Boyer was transferred by Bank of America from
Hong Kong to Seoul in September, 1975 ... Chris Lane
writes, "continuing as partner with Trident Navigation. We
always are looking for companies to represent on the West
Coast - ship owners, exporters, shippers, charters, etc. Have
been elected president of the Bay Area California Maritime
Academy Alumni Association. Would appreciate hearing
from anyone connected to the maritime field ." . . . Andy
Havis is planning director of corporation-designing programs
in education, such as teacher training for Early Training
Inc., Silver Springs, Maryland . .. Yoshio Ueda, Senior
Associate, Tokyo, Egon Zehnder International, was a feature
speaker presenting the international consulting firm's
methods of solving management problems in Japan to the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce World Trade Committee
. . . Congratulations to Captain Patrick Demerath in
Taipei, who has won the following awards: National Restaurant
ASSOCiation, Hennessey Trophy; Top Services Officer
in the USAF for 1974-5; Republic of China Combined
Services Forces Commendation Medal. The Demeraths are
teaching square dancing to Chinese Nationals and put on a
demonstration for President Chang-Ching-Kuo.
6.7 Earl Oman has formed his own real estate company,
which sells real estate investments and vacation
and retirement homes to U.S. citizens abroad
and South Americans and manages the investments for many
clients. He is helping Marlon Willson '51, organize Florida
alumni meetings ... November, 1975, the Dave McCrackens
were transferred to Italy, where he assumed general sales
manager responsibilities for Armco grinding products for
Europe, Middle East and Africa . . . Bill Messett writes
from San Jose, Costa Rica that he has been general manager,
manufacturing and marketing, for Sybron Corporation
for the past three years in the Caribbean-Northern South
America areas ... Don Milligan is international sales manager
for Physio Control Corporation. "I continue to travel
about seven months a year throughout the world visiting
existing representatives and interviewing for new ones. It
is a lot of fun to watch our sales grow overseas and become
a larger percentage of corporate gross sales." . . .
John Dunmar writes, "I now am married (Barbara) with
two children: Britt, three; Jonathan, two; both born in
Buenos Aires." In January, John was named a vice president
of J. Walter Thompson .. . From Dean Ross: "Fourth move
in eight years - from New York - Brussels - Madrid -
London - Mexico - all with FNCB. Am now in charge
of FNCB's Latin American specialized products headquarters
in Mexico." . . . Bill Craig is sales manager for Firestone-
Venezolana ... "With Citibank in Saudi Arabia -
along with Dave Ansell '68, Bill Fagan '70, Lee Nelson '74,"
writes Fred Crawford ... Tom Rear is manager of international
administration, WKM Valve Division, ACF Industries
in Houston. He had a party in Phoenix for Ted Townsend '67
of Mexico City, along with Bill Parker '65 and Bill Stanton
'65 ... Mike Pierce writes from Balboa, Canal Zone, "Charlotte
and I plan to attend the Olympics in Montreal. We
are interested in trading our apartment, beach house, cars
and maids for four weeks during the Olympics for similar
accommodations in MontreaL" ... Jim Rooney is presently
acting as financial consultant to companies in Thailand and
Southeast Asia. He also has been elected president of the
American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand for 1976 . . .
Joel Wine burgh is the assistant vice president of Cometals,
which is the international subsidiary of Commerial Metals
Corp., New City, New York.
L8 Eastman Kodak Company recently announced the
(11 appointment of Montroville B. Walker as market-ing
manager, Komal Sendirian Benhad, Malaysia.
a unit of Kodak's international photographic division . .
Charlie Barringer writes from the Niger Republic, "Our
invitation is still open for any T-Birds to drop in for a drink
and swim if they are in the Niamey area. Any old time!
Call 72-37-40 during office hours.". . From Ron Renchard:
"As of September 2, 1975, I have joined Singer Company
as manager planning development for Mid-East-Africa region.
I will be located in Beirut. Prior to joining Singer, r
was the area manager Europe-Mid-East-Africa for Borden,
Inc. International. U. S. Department of Commerce requested
and filmed me in a lecture on how to export to L.D.C." ...
"After training for ten months in NYC, Peggy, children and
I left for Recife in Brazil, then made subsequent moves to
Rio, 'a cidade maravilhosa,' and Sao Paulo. My position is
now country head in Brazil for World Corporate Group,"
writes Gerry Montague of FNCB . . . Bill Wagner is area
representative for Dodge & Seymour (Far East). His territory
includes Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei ... Writes
Robert Vassar, "After three years in Iran, we are enjoying
our assignment in Indonesia. The pace of agricultural development
over the past two years has been exciting and
we're looking forward to continue to participate in it." ...
Phoenix Magazine, December '75, featured the Phoenix
Athletic Club, the Valley's first private handball/racquetball
club, and its general manager John Norris ... Edmund
Allen dropped by the alumni office for the first time since
leaving AGSIM. He is an attorney for the Maricopa County
Public Defenders office in Phoenix . . . Martha Thome
Mirabal reports that she enjoys Santa Monica, marriage and
her son, Jonathan, who is almost two ... John Dowd reports
that his daughter, Heather Anne, is now two years old.
The family moved to Panama from Puerto Rico last year.
John is marketing manager for the Kodak Panama Companies
(Central America, Panama, Bolivia and Ecuador).
... From Robert Duncan: "In Malaysia have Caterpillar finance
responsibility for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka (and until April, 1975, Cambodia and South Vietnam).
See many T-Birds including Rick Henry '70 of
Continental Bank and Chuck Hazen '69 of Seattle First
National Bank." ... "After three years in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, Dave Ansell has been transferred by Citibank to
Kinshasa, Zaire, where he'll be managing director and senior
officer. While in Saudi Arabia, the Ansells traveled extensively
and went on a ten day desert and mountain camping
trip ... "Am traveling throughout Mexico and thoroughly
enjoying it. We continue to run into more T-Birds here in
Mexico City all the time," writes Billy Battenfield, sales
director for Firestone in Mexico ... John White comments:
"I saw Bob Snyder '70 in Portland, Maine, this past summer.
Although he's quite a pro at serving up lobster, his
tennis service is still unprofessional!" ... American Can
International transferred the Alain Vannetzels from Paris to
Greenwich, Connecticut. Alain's new title is market manager
- flexible packaging . . . Dolph Johnson is managing
partner - Executive Placement, in Rio and Sao Paulo ...
Ben Amraoui is still with Western Union International
and has been promoted to Director of Africa and Middle
East. He will be pleased to help any alumni with telecommunications
problems in Africa and the Middle East ...
Masaaki Nakamoto resigned from Koehring and joined the
Korf Group, an engineering firm. Masaaki will receive his
MBA, Sophia University, Tokyo, June 1976.
69 Bruce Michener writes, "I left Latin American Agribusiness
Development Corporation in December,
1974, to form my consulting firm, Agrimercado.
I'm currently working with a production affiliate of Goldsmith
Seeds in Guatemala." ... Kathy, Tara, Wendy, Emily
and Wil Banks moved in September, 1975, from Sydney,
Australia, after a tour of four years, to Seoul, Korea. They
are still with Marine Midland and enjoying their overseas
living and travel ... John Jones has moved to Tokyo to be
the representative for Texas Commerce Bank ... Timothy
Jones is a sales executive with E. Scragg & Sons in Macclesfield,
Cheshire, England .. . The Kendall Furlongs will
return to Sao Paulo, Brazil as soon as he completes IngersollRand's
compressor training program ... Marshall Malden,
marketing and sales manager for American Can Company
in Sweden, reports that they still enjoy Sweden. "While
in Oregon on home leave last September, we had nice visits
with Hallvard and Katie Grosvold '67, who were visiting
the U. S. from Canada, and with Pat and Sharon Sharpe
'69 in Connecticut." ... "After five years of frustration in
trying to get overseas, finally made it this year to Brazil
as director of business development for McKee," writes
Stephen Burrell. "Prior to McKee spent two years traveling
all over Latin America for J. F. Pritchard & Co., another
engineering company. Wife and kids like Brazil, but don't
like Sao Paulo itself, which is too big, too noisy, etc." ...
Michael Q. Adams is a business consultant with the Peace
Corps in Nicaragua " Thomas Carroll is manager of marketing
administration for the Arcata Publications Group
and will headquarter in New York City ... "Have been with
California Canadian Bank, the U. S. subsidiary of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce for three years. Phyllis and
I bought a house at 235 Santiago Avenue, Redwood City,
California last year and would enjoy hearing from any exT-
Birds we knew in Hong Kong as well as those in the class
of '69," writes Jeffrey White ... James Brokken, Vice President
in the Western district of the National Division of
Manufacturers Hanover Trust, is responsible for all commercial
lending in San Francisco, Hawaii, Alaska, British
Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada . . .
The Sandy Stones are in San Juan, Puerto Rico on a two
year assignment with the Office of International Operations
of IRRS ... Manfred Lor Locher is working for ESPA and
living in Munderkingcn, Germany. He is very anxious to
hear from some T-Birds ... Last year, Tim Collett was
named vice president and representative of ~arine Midland
Bank for Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with representative
office located in Bogota. He is also a member of the
Board of Directors of the "Corporacion Financi~ra d~l Nor.te,"
Barranquilla, Colombia, and of th~ "Corpora CIOn Fmanclera
Centroamericana S.A.," Panama City, Panama.
.., A Yadalam Dwarkanath, Director of Sri Krishna
, V Spinning & Weaving Mills, Ltd., .would like t? have
other Indian T-Birds contact hl~. to ~stabbsl: an
alumni chapter there ... "I have been lIvIng m W~Shll~gton,
D.C., for the past three years and work: as legislatIve
assistant to Representative Yvonne Brathwaite B';lrke (~California).
I have also been wor.kingon a Master m Pu~IIc
Policy at George Washington UmverSlty and should receive
my M.A. soon" writes Renee Norrblo.m Montgel.as . : .
Geraldine Gurley Lamonica is pro-assistant C~shler with
the Bank of America in Houston, Texas .... Pat~c.k.McC~rmick
is assistant vice president-internatIonal .dlvlslon with
United California Bank in Los Angeles ... Jim Schwartz,
general manager - South America, with Newell Manufac~
turing Company in Sa~ Antonio, Texas, v.:rites "steel and
solid waste shredding Just gettmg started m South America.
I spend a lot of time in Rio de Janei~o. and Sao Paulo."
Pavel Kriz is working as an advertIsmg manager and
~~ntinuing his studies at the Charles Unive~sity in p!ague.
He would appreciate a call from any T-Blrd travelmg to
the area. Address: U Strze 3, Praha 4, 14600 Czechoslovakia
... "I am North Pacific area manager. for Halll!lark
Cards, marketing responsibility for Japan, Okmawa, Taiwan
and. Guam," writes Larry Matthews from Agana, Guam ...
Blair and CeeiJy Kittleson have two boys: B.J., three years;
and Peter, ten months. Blair is having his best year ev~r
in the residential real estate market. He has started hiS
own Denver-based realty company and has been in close
contact with Joe Chamalian and Bill Cutler, both '70 ...
Len Holzworth has been transferred by AMF to Berese,
Italy, as regional sales manager---;-Middl,: East, ~frica and
the sub continent. While on a busmess tnp to Cairo he met
Len Thomsen '64, director of planning, bowling operati0t;ts
for AMF ... Ollis and Sandy Jakob have bought a ho~e m
Danbury, Connecticut ... Michael Kwee has been appomted
assistant vice president-investment by. the Amer~can lfo1-
ternational Assurance Company and Will be statIOned m
Hong Kong ... An up-date on Peter Stilley: I!l. ~arch,
1975 he was hired by Union Texas Petroleum DlVlSlon of
Alli~d Chemical Corporation as administrative manager for
their petroleum exploration conc~ssion - off~hore South
Vietnam, to begin setting up their ?algon office. He. ",-,as
reassigned to the Singapore office .m May 1975 as Jomt
venture coordinator Far East operatIOns ... Oscar Cerallo
is general manager'in Venezuela of Levi Strauss International
... After four years in Colombia, Jan Daub has his
own export firm in Miami, Florida . . . Bob and Loretta
Capwell moved to Bogota August, 1975, after spending two
years in Caracas, Venezuela, with the B~nk of America .
Peter WeIlma.n writes, "I have been aSSigned as an adVisor
to Bank of America's Italian subsidiary in Milan, Italy.
I look forward to getting together with other T-Birds in
Europe." . . . Phil Young has been reassigned to Chase's
branch sy
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