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Motorola Day- AGSIM
Robert Muller, speaker-Auditorium, 8 P .M.
Mid-Year Board Meeting
Spring Recess
Dr. Gulick in San Francisco
Dr. Granfield, speaker-Auditorium, 2 P.M.
Norman Borlaug, speaker-Auditorium
31-April 3
Dr. Voris in Japan and South Korea
Cliff Call in Utah
Congressman Sam Steiger, speaker-Auditorium., 12 noon
Dr. Voris in Las Vegas, AACSB Meeting
Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin America-AGSIM
30-May 2
World Trade Conference in Chicago
Dr. Voris in Chicago
19-21 International Trade Conference of the Southwest at SMU
22 Commencement
5-6 Summer Registration
9 Summer Session Classes Begin
7 -13 European Foundation for Management Development Conference
Manchester, England
Dr. Voris in England, EFMDC
Twenty-five Japanese at AGSIM for three weeks
Fall Classes Begin
Thanksgiving Recess
THE THUNDERIlRD (alurrmi publication of the
American Graduaite School of International Management)
is published in the Fall, Spring and
Summer of each year.
Editor: Diane Connelly
Technical Assistants: Diane Paul, Susan Lutter
COVER: Candids of women at Thunderbird
by Ralph Marshall
Saturday, April 26, 1975
10:00 Get Reacquainted: Coffee and Donuts
10:15 "The Changing Need for American Management
Talent Abroad," Al Marks, Chairman,
World Business Department
11:00 "AGSIM's Response to this Changing Need,"
Round Table Discussion and Question and
Answer Period:
Marshall Geer, Dean of Academic Affairs
Dave Merchant, Director of Development
Joaquin Duarte, Chairman of International
Frank JackIe, former Chairman of Modern
Charles Fonvielle, Director of Placement
11 :45 Alumni Association Meeting: "The AGSIM
Alumni - A Study in Excellence," Diane
Connelly, Director of Alumni Affairs
12:00 Phoenix Alumni Meeting - Boye De Mente:
order of business, plans for the future, election
of officers
12:45 Plaque Ceremony
Left to right, Gail Dale, William Voris, and Lee Connelly.
12:30-3:00 Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament - the
Four "F's": Former Students, Family, Faculty,
and Friends.
10:00-5:00 International Fair - booths, food, games,
and entertainment
5:30-6:30 Informal Cocktail Party at Connelly's
7:00 'Scholarship Benefit Dinner
9:00 International Auction
"Not only the number but the quality of women as
potential managers is increasing."-Debra Nichols, 1975.
"There were a substantial number of employers who
did not fill openings with women last year because
they could not find candidates qualified for the available
position." - Recruiting Trends Survey; 1974-75,
Michigan State University Placement Service.
"AGSIM women have increased their job market possibilities
by increasing their qualifications."-Charles
Fonvielle, Director of Placement.
"The name of the game is achievement and dedication."-
Kathryn Stu11a, 1972.
There has been a four-fold increase in the enrollment
of women students at Thunderbird during the last
eight years. During the same period, the percentage
of AGSIM women gainfully employed upon graduation
has more than doubled.
In earlier years, the one-in-four woman graduate who
found employment found it on her own, usually with
the United States government or in teaching. Now,
the female T-Bird commonly receives more job offers
than her male counterpart. She is being wooed by
major, diverse-product, U.S. international companies,
with international banks hiring the greatest number.
The· Equal Employment Opportunity Act has spurred
large American companies to seek out qualified women
to fill company positions, many never before filled
by women.
"Particular shortages exist in the engineering and
business fieLds where women have traditionally not
studied," reports the Trends Survey. Equally qualified
women are being offered opportunities equal to those
offered men, most companies insist, but the ratio of
female applicants to jobs is still low.
"Advanced international management training and
high personal motivation speak for themselves: women
graduates are able to offer companies what the companies
have always wanted - prepared, responsible
people ready to become part of international management."
And companies are hiring AGSIM women.
Recent Thunderbird women graduates express confidence
in themselves, their training and their business
Mary McMunn, 1974, is Staff Assistant to the Executive
Vice President, AGSIM. "My greatest work satisfaction
has come from building a department by gathering
together previO'usly separated, diverse personnel
functions." The AGSIM program, Mary feels, filled in
"gaps" she had in business theory and in managerial
finance. She sees increasing need for men and women
trained in international management skills who have
a "working with peO'ple" background.
Susan Corcoran, 1972, has been in Quito, Ecuador,
with Citibank since 1973. As Assistant Manager, she
heads up the Bank's World CO'rporate Group and
Small Business and Agricultural Loan Program.
Susan came to AGSIM fluent in Spanish from her
work in Colombia with Peace Corps, but with no business
background. Business department courses gave
her an entirely new outlook on wha.t type of international
career was available, and banking evolved as
her gO'al.
"I can look back on many of the campus interviews
in which the interviewer inquired if I thought I
could work effectively overseas as a woman and especially
in Latin America due to the machismo complex.
My answer was that if I did my job well and satisfied
the client's needs I should have nO' prO'blem. Every
day I have fO'und this to be true."
"The future with Citibank is great for wO'men. In my
opinion, it gives the greatest opportunities to women
of the international banks. The experience I am gaining
now is invaluable and can only be gained by working
Coordinator of International Marketing, a "trO'ubleshooter"
position, which would entail some travel, is
Julie Houk's, 1974, short-range position goal. She is
currently Assistant Coordinator of International Marketing,
Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company, in Chicago, Illinois.
"Having never had any business courses before going
to Thunderbird, my classes enabled me to learn the
'vocabulary' of business and the basic principles behind
marketing techniques. While I mtist now learn
the' chewing gum business, at least I feel confident
in my business learning abilities."
Mary McMunn
Julie Houk
Susan Corcoran
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Kathryn Stu11a, 1972, is Assistant Treasurer of the
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., International Division,
Market and Product Management Group, in New
York City. She is charged with developing marketing
strategies in overseas markets and creating products
to be introduced in those markets. She spends some
of her time in the field (most recently in Venezuela)
working on marketing projects.
"The Bank is hiring women for all kinds of management
posts, and will send them abroad on assignments.
The Bank's ratio of women executives to men is still
low, but they are now providing the same upward
mobility for women that men have had. The business
world is looking for people who can see the big picture,
and especially for people who have a sensitivity
to other cultures and can respect the differences. I
am really encouraged about women in business and
their future."
Virginia McCampbell
"After working on my PhD in French for three years,
I suddenly realized that the demand in this limited
job market was French males, not American females."
-Diane Paul, 1975.
Roughly thirty percent of the Thunderbird women
have lived overseas. AGSIM's language program receives
their highest praise. Most feel that the MIM program
should be expanded into a four semester study.
They have, worked summers and part-time through
college. If older, they have worked steadily at one or
two jobs after completing their undergraduate degree
until they matriculated here. They express dissatisfaction
with these jobs. "Secretarial work is not challenging
enough. I want to be able to make as' well as
type up decisions," says Joyce Kenney.
The woman student aspires to a more responsible,
higher level job overseas, and she sees the MIM degree
as the way to achieve it. Most have as their shortrange
goal living and working overseas, with Europe,
specifically France, the preferred area. Thunderbird
women have difficulty perceiving where they might
be professionally five or ten years from now, however.
"Growing up overseas gave me a different perspective
of the world and the United States," says Virginia
McCampbell. Her goal is entering an import-export
firm which trades with China. She believes that
international trade, because it opens nations one to
another, is the world's only viable alternative to nuclear
war. "I hope to learn through the years to understand
my field well enough to write about it ·and pass
on my experiences and observations."
She observes that their are two kinds of women in
business: the very successful combines her intelligence
and femininity and can work with both men and
women; the other is protective of her own job and
anxious to restrain other women from sucoeeding. Men,
and successful women, reward initiative and give responsibility
upon demonstrated ability. "Women have
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Diane Paul feels her two undergraduate disciplines
of International Relations and French give her a good
background for MIM. study. She feels she can best
utilize her studies here in international banking or
finance. She would like to eventually work as an Economic
Advisor to OEeD, headquartering in P aris.
"Work is a human value, of importance and dignity to
all people, male and female alike."
"Individual, knowledgeable Americans abroad are our
best salesmen for America." believes Stephanie
Jackson. She became fascinated with different cultures
and saw her own country from a different viewpoint
during her junior year of college in Germany.
Short-run, she seeks a strong bank training program,
to build in her admittedly newly-found AGSIM business
base. "Women in international business today are
definitely a growing force. They are better prepared
and more willing to take on managerial responsibilities."
"Our time has come and We are ready for it."-Susan
Lutter, 1975.
The demand for women professionals is at an all-time
high: the number of women training for .international
management at AGSIM has more than doubled from
1974 to 1975. It's a matter of being in the right place
at the right time - and having the assurance and
determination to succeed. We await the employment
and achievement records of the AGSIM women of
Diane Paul
Stephanie Jackson
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It is becoming more and more apparent that in spite
of worldwide economic problems the American Graduate
School of International Management will continue
to prosper. Our enrollment for the spring semester is
in excess of 850 students, far and away the largest
spring enrollment in the history of the School. We
took in over 250 new students. As you know, we now
take in new students four times a year-September,
January (for the one month Winterim semester), February
and June. We are projecting 650 students for the
summer session. We are rapidly becoming a yearround
institution with a standard enrollment of about
800. All of us are convinced here that, if we wished,
we could have an enrollment of 1,000. However, it
has been the policy of the Board of Directors, and I
concur, that· we should keep enrollment small and
emphasize quality.
An analysis of the students accepted for the spring
semester shows very perceptible changes taking place.
The average age of the student body is slowly declining.
Students who are 22 years old or younger represent
24 percent of the applicants for the spring. This
is up three percent over last year. Twenty-four percent
of the applicants are from foreign ·countries. A
substantial number still come from Latin America,
but there is a decided increase in numbers from Europe
and the Far East. The average undergraduate grade
point average of applicants is 2.9, where a 3.0 is a B.
The State of California continues to be the chief supplier
of students with Colorado and Ohio following in
All of you will be glad to know that the funds you have
contributed over the past few years toward refurbishment
of the dining hall have allowed us to put the old
dining hall in beautiful condition. We urge you all to
come and see it. The floor is carpeted, the ceiling has
been lowered with new lighting, the room is fully airconditioned
and new drapes have been installed. All
of the staff, faculty, students and administration thank
you from the bottom of their hearts for your assistance
which made this possible.
Also of interest is the renovation of all the classrooms
on the west side of the hangar. Wood paneling has been
put on the walls, new ceilings have been installed,
new doors have been hung and everything painted.
After some 28 years, the language faculty now have
attractive classrooms in which to work their magic.
As many of you know, the School has received an unusual
amount of publicity this past year. An outstand-
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GET over your fear of working with a computer by
playing three-domensional tic-tac-toe with it and
by drawing pictures of Snoopy with its help. Then
write your own World Business program with a #1
pencil on standard cards and store it on your own
casette tapes. Create a country. Designate what human
and natural resources it has. Design monetary and
fiscal policies. Feed into the computer's memory bank
such inputs as populati0'n, real fixed investment and
pers0'nal disposable income. Receive such outputs as
the level of unemployment and the effects of business
and governmental expenditures on GNP and the effects
of the balance of payments on domestic liquidity.
This innovative course is AGSIM's WB-25-Monetary
and Fiscal Policies. It introduces future international
executives to the probem-solving and data-processing
capacity of the Hewlett Packard computer and trains
them how to use a sophisticated tool to analyze
variables, interpret data and make decisions. The original
Michigan program was re-designed by DR. DALE
VORDERLANDWEHR and set up by JAMES LEE to
me.et AGSIM objectives. Its increasing popularity
shows the value that students think it has.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (continued)
ing story in the November 4 Newsweek International
lists the American Graduate School as one of the eight
top business schools in the world. This is a great
tribute to all of you alumni, the current students and
the faculty of the School. There also was an outstanding
article in the September Nation's Business and the
September Business World.
The proposed move to Carefree, Ariz0'na, is under
careful study. The faculty and students have been
polled as to their wishes. Two cost analyses are being
conducted on behalf of the Board of Directors. The
Board will make a decision one way or another on
March 14, 1975 at the semiannual Board meeting. I
have appreciated the comments many of y0'U alumni
have given me on this move. They will be taken into
consideration when the final decision is made.
In closing, I would like to welcome Ms. Diane Connelly
as Alumni Director. As many of you know, she
is a Thunderbird herself and has a deep understanding
and empathy for the School. She is making a point
of getting around the United States and meeting as
many fellow alumni as she can. If she comes to your
area, I hope you will get acquainted with her. If you
come by Phoenix, be sure to' drop by the Alumni Office.
Y0'U are always welcome.
Data Pracessing Manager, James lee
J AMES LEE is a man of information systems and
data processing, of the Age of the Computer.
He holds no formal college-level educational degree.
But he speaks nineteen computer "languages." He has
received "Who's Who" recognition, scholarships and
performance awards. He is a college teacher, program
devel0'per and model simulator - and AGSIM's technical
Left to right; Martha Snyder, William Voris" Jim Crosson, Anno
Vickroy, Dione Connelly, ond Berger Erickson.
Indirect lighting. Split-bamboo curtains. An
acoustical ceiling. Paneled partitions. Carpeting.
Refrigeration. Soft background music.
Appetizing meals served from gleaming steam
tables. A salad bar and drink-dispensing center.
THANKS to the many concerned, caring alumni who
contributed to the Dining Hall Fund, this is now a
reality. The drafty, noisy barn of a building where we
ate our three meals a day as students now is a warm
center of calm and comradeship.
Over the past three years, the Dining Hall Fund has
been building. Finally, the funds were sufficient and
the renovation was made in January under the direction
of Berger Erickson, Executive Vice-President,
Carl Barron, AGS1M's Plant Superintendent, and James
Crosson, Director of Food Services. Total cost: $31,000.
Total result: a new efficient, sorely-needed, much appreciated
campus facility.
A sampling of first-day comments:
Paul Wilson: "It looks beautiful."
Larry Finney: "I like the reduction in the
noise. (But the air-conditioning is the greatest
plus to me, of course.)"
Charles Fonvielle: "Effective use of alumni
Alice Miller and Kevin MacDougall: "It's beautiful.
Just great."
Craig Oxford and Mark Berg: "This is the best
institutional food anywhere-in the best surroundings."
Chryssoula Adams: "It's a friendlier, cleaner,
brighter place to be in."
Martin Amoke: "It's great. Lots warmer and a
better environment for eating."
Anna Vickroy: "Please tell the alumni how
very much the dining hall staff appredates
them. Weare so grateful to them for providing
an up-dated, efficient facility."
On a beautiful, warm late-Fall afternoon, December 18, 1974
in the Central Quadrangle, Commencement exercises for 220
were held. Two hundred fourteen MIM candidates and six
Certificate of Advanced Study candidates received their
Dr. William Voris introduced the Commencement Speaker,
Allan Sedwick, Vice-President of Texaco, Inc. Mr. Sed wick's
theme was "Thoroughfare for Freedom." During his speech,
he stressed t.hat the free enterprise system gives the individual
his only chance to exercise his economic, social and politiea:
l vote. His personal advice to the graduates was "Always
manage to have your assignments changed before your mistakes
catch up with you."
Dr. Marshall Geer presented the awards: Athletics to David
S. Anderson; Scholastic (for Summer Session) to Richard H.
Lee, and the Barton Kyle Yount to Vince Daniels.
In his acceptance of the Barton Kyle. Yount Award, Vince
Daniels stated. that The American Graduate School of International
Management was "one of the seven best bus ness schools
in the world - and THE BEST WORLD BUSINESS SCHOOL
in the world."
The Phoenix Newspapers' Advertising Award went to the
team of Stephen: Bullock, Kenneth Foster, Lori Foster, Demetra
Brockman, Elliot Waxman, and Deborah Flier. Their project
was Sales Promotion of Bohemia Beer in Mexico.
Incoming ASLC President, Bruce Harris, g.ave outgoing ASLC
President, Vince Daniels, a symbolic gavel.
The candidates were presented by Dr. Robert Gulick. Invocation
and Benediction were by the Right Rev. Joseph Harte,
The Bishop of Arizona, and organ music was by DT. Paul
Paige of Grand Canyon College Music Department.
Students last semester organized the Thunderbird Flying Club
wirtJh the stated purpose of providing pro.fess.ionaily maintained
airaraft and professional instruction to members at the lowest
possible com. Membership is open to students, faculty and
aJumni ama their families. The Thunderbird Flying Club currently
has 18 planes available ranging from 6 Cessna 150's to
a V-3513 Bonanza,. The Club offers a free ground school to
members along with flight instructilons carried out under the
superviston of an F AP approval flying school.
For additional information, Alumni in the Valley can contact
the Club Founders, Ken McPheTson 937-3232 or Terry Williams
942-2158,. The address is: Box 933, AGSIM, Glendale,
Arizona 85306.
RUDOLPH O. DE LA GARZA '65, now of the Department of
POIlitical Sdence, Colorado CoUege, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
will be Chairman of the Panel on "Internal Colonialism,
Chicanos and Natives Americans; The Test of a, Model" at
the Rocky Mountain Council in Latin American Studies meeting
being held at AGSIM April 24-26, 1975.
We consider it our great good fortune that AL MIOSSI '48
will be AGSIM's keynot.€ speaker at the May 22, 1975 graduation.
Al is Executive Vice-Pres~dent of the Continental Illinois National
Bank, InteDlationa:l Banking Division, President of the
Bankers Association for Foreign Trade and active as a director
and board member of the Chamber of OommeTce and business
enterprises around the world.
Three visiting professors added in:novative courses to the
Winterim offerings.
Dr. Bernard Mennis, Associate ProfessOT of Politicai Science,
Temple University, and Project Director of the Multinational
Enterprise Unit, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
offered "U. S. Foreign Policy alnd Multinational Corporations."
Mr. Charles P. Pieper, Course MaJ1Jager, fuitercul>tural R.eLatiorns
Division, Naval Amphibious School, Coronado, California,
taught "Cross-cultural Communications."
Mr. Edward B. Hoff, Director of Computer Assisted Instruction,
Maricopa County Community Col!l.ege District, gave a
course in computer programming.
From January 6th to January 24th, five AGSIM students participated
in a program held in condunction wLth the School of
Internatiornal Commerce of the Universidad' "Jorge Tadeo Lozan:
o" in Bogota. They attended twelve lecl.ures on the Economic
Integra,tion of Latin America and visited major official
Colombian organizations and Colombian export businesses.
PosSlibilities are being explored to bring a g1roup of Colombian
students to AGSIM in July for a three-week lecture
series on Marketing and to organize a joirut post-graduate
summer program in Bogota, which could include students f;rom
other Latin American countries and other U. S. SlChools.
We want to take this opportunity to express publicly our appreciation
to the many alumni who participate in our campus
recruiting activities. During calendar year 1974, we attempted
to schedule 261 campus visits. Nearly all of the visits occurred
between February-April, and October-December. Seventeen of
these efforts did not materialize in actual visits. In some cases,
the cancellation was necessary because we were n()t able to
find a representative to cover the date (or to find a substitute
for OIl1e who had to bow out a.t the last minute). In a few
cases, visits were canceled because there was no student or
faculty response. The final result is that our representatives
vis,ited a total of 244 campuses during the year.
During these visits, personal contact was made with 1,631
students. Equally important were the individual faculty or staff
corutacts, made during luncheons or office visits, which numbered
844 for the same period. The value of such faculty/staff
COIlJtacts is considerable in the total recruiting picture, for each
person who is favorably impressed can develop an interest for
the. Schiool among future graduate students as well as among
)ther faculty members.
Ne do want to salute at this time three alumni who, year
Ift& year, make multiple visits to campuses in their general
ll'ea: Timothy C. Wanker (Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia); Chares
P. Ancona (Virginia); and Robert J. Bmwn (Washington).
~ the most part, th,ese have been very stimula,ting and rewa,
rding experiences for our alumni educational counselors. On
eOO DIther hand, . as to be expected in this kind of entel'p['ise,
>orne of our representatives were disappointed by the lalck of
student-faculty response on the various campuses. In several
cases, there were only two or three students signed for interviews;
and, in a few cases, there were Il()ne. This is naturally
discouraging, particularly to an alumnus who has taken a day
away from his work for the purpose and who may have travelled
a long distance to reach the campus. From our point of
view, however, such visits are nearly always beneficial because
of the public relations exposure which the scheduling of the
visiIts provides the School. For instance, it affords us the opportunity
to advertise in the campus newspaper, to correspond
wIth between 50·-150 faculty members, to have announcements
and placards pos-ted in various departments on the campus,
and to rekindle individual faculty contacts'. Experience shows
that student inquiries are generated for many months after
such ac~ivities are initiated.
There are about 250 alumni educa1rl.onal counselors who work
with us in this program, and approximately 100' of these are
ac1Ji.ve in both the Fall and the Spring seasons. As we all know,
however, our alwnni are mobile and have many demands
placed on their time in pursuit of their business obligations.
For this reasoll1l, we are frequently in a position of not having
enouglh representatives in a given area just at the time
when we need help. Therefore, we would like ,to have additional
alumni volunteers, especially in large metropolitan
areas. If you feel that your pro£esslioIlJal obligations would
allow your spending one day in the Fall and one day .in the
Spring each year representing us on a campus .in your general
area, please write to me as won as possible tOo offer your
John James Arthur
College Relations Officer
IN RECOGNITiON
What each of us does as an alumnus/alumna after graduation
from Thunderbird is a very individual matter:
What support we give to Thunderbird as alumni depends on
our own, unique convictions as to what we "should" contribute
and what we actually do contribute.
Your Editor publicly salutes alumnus TIMorTHY C. WALKER
'68, who has resolved what he should contribute by giving in
every way open to him - in time, effort and money. Tim is
the Outstanding Alumni Educational Counselor of 1974. He
visited ten campuses on behalf of AGSIM in Ohio, Indiana,
and West Virginia, interviewed 75 prospective students and
hosted 43 faculty and staff members at luncheons.
Tim contributed his expenses involved in these campus visits
directly to the Alumni Fund. Additionally, he has made regular
individual alumnus gifts and had them matched under the
Corporate Gift-Matching Plan by his employer, National
Cash Register Company.
Thank you, Tim, for everything you have done for AGSIM.
Thank you for showing, in your unique, quiet way, what contributions
one alumnus' convictions lead him to make.
The 1975 International Auction Committee has set an ambi-tious
gool for the most exciting Alumni Auction ever planned.
This year the ~:lUotion will be held on April 26 in conjunction
with the annual International Festival and a new Alumni
Day program. The International Festival and Alu.rrurl activities
will be held during the day and provide internaJtiOonal
food, entertainment and fun for all who attend.
The grand finale will be the International Dinner and Auction
held in the style of a fund-raising event. Advance plan.n.i.ng
calls fOil: a wen-known celebrity to act as auc1rl.oneer to bring
the highest possible prices for gifts dona,ted by alumni abroad
and .in the U. S. who have been abroad. Gifts received to date
range from such items as embroidered silk from Korea to an
International Pepsi-Cola bottle collection. Our success depends
upon the interest of alumni in helping the Auction raise money
for the student scholarship fund. Tuition per semes,ter .is now
over $1300.
Gifts from overseas may be delayed in the mail. Please advise
under separate cover if you are sending a gift so that
it may be included in the pil:inted program. All inquiries' and
gif,ts should be directed to: Inteil:na,tional Auction, AGSIM,
Glendale, Arizona 85306. Help us meet our wonthy goal.
If you lost, misplaced or never got around to buying your
Yealrbook while you were a student at Thunderbird, you are
now in luck!
Rescued from the hangar and stacked in the Alumni Office
a~e Yearbooks from the years 1954 to 1971. Send us your check
for $2.50 made out to the Alumni Office, and we will send
you prepaid THE, THUNDERBIRD from your class year. Don't
delay. Lt's a first-come, first-served basis, and some years'
supply is only two or three.
Chkago T-Birds now get-together regularly. An "ad hoc"
committee of RANDY MILLER '73, JESSE WILSON '73,
FRANK KRESANKO '57, and CHUCK SCHELLENGER '72
have rut upon a successful format: T-Birds meet at cash-bar
pa,rties at two local watering-holes. One was held December
5, 1974, and tJhe one held January 30, 19,75 at Bolling's Bar
on North La Salle, in the Loop area attracted, about forty
Birds, wives and friends , who "bent elbows" in a typically
casual T-Bird fashion. Another is planned for March 6th at
Bolling's, 228 North La Salle, 5-7 p.m. Writes Randy, "The
unwritten motto of our 'organization' is no dues, no obHgatiooo,
come if you want, stay as long as you want. We feel
this is better than a formal, dues-paying association which
can tend to inhibit membership."
The Chicago Alumni will honor Dr. Voris at a cocktail party
at the Chicago Chambe'l" of Commerce and Industry, 5:30 to
7:30 p.m., May 1, 1975, while Dr. Voris is in Chicago to attend
the World Trade Conference, according to Frank and
Randy. BOB BEAN '48, Director of the World Trade Division
of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, is arranging
Any T-Bird is welcome to attend. For additional details, contact
Randy at 828-3705 or Jesse at 237-8745.
The sixty-fi'l"st National Foreign Trade Corwention, held a.t the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, November 18th and 19th
1974, attra'Cted many T-Birds. Among those attending were
PHILLIP GUGEL '63, JACK JESSEN '59, BARRY MASOoN
AL MIOSSI '48 served as General Discussion Leade'l" for the
Monda,y afternoon In,ternational Monetary and Finance Sess~
on, which examined how much of the "Petrodollar" pool
can be re-cycled.
If you feel there are too-few AGSIMers in YOUI' area or
that formal evening meetings fail to attract enough alumni
consider what the Cleveland T-Birds are doing. '
During a recent visit to campus, GARY PACIFIC '72 explaIned
th at fifteen to twenty alumni meet every couple of months
for a luncheon. During lunch, they discuss problems of international
trade common to the group and renew AGSIM friendsh
ips. Generally attending are: GARY CHRISTENSEN '63
RUDOLPH '72, GARY PACIFIC '72, JOHN BAKER '64, and
ALAN WELSH a 1967 Keyman.
Gary said the group will welcome any alumnus, new or old
to the area. Call him at 216-871-9014 or 216-574,7168.
The San Francisco Bay Area Alumni are active again! In
response to a flier ROLAND WILLITS '70 sent out in early
November, over 70 T-Birds met at the Fondue Pot in CQr'te
Madera, December 1, 1974, and ten more alumni who couldn't
attend sent in their dues. A typical T-Bird ("no contest") election
resulted in HELEN WILLITS being named as President;
TOM BIRCH '51 as Vice-President; and ROLAND WILLITS
as Secretary-Treasurer.
The group present resolved that the Bay Area Alumni would
be basically a social group, meeting three to four :times a YeM",
in a reasonably priced international atmosphere. They will
study special projects to ra,ise mOl1J€y for 1:Ih.e club. The most
enjoyable part of th,e meeting, which perhaps other Alumni
groups would care to adopt, was having everyone present introduce
himself (starting with the 1947 class) and tell where
he has been and what he is doing now.
Present from AGSIM wa'S' Dr. Robert Gulick, Dean of Admissions.
Dr. Gulick brought those present up-to-date as to
what was going on at Thunderbird and outlined the Ca.refree
proposal. A s,pirited discussion followed. The expression cxf
many valid "pros and consl' resulted iIll a group suggestion
tJh,at independent consultants investigarte the soundness of the
The party closed on the theme, "Drink and Be Merry." Con~
sensus of the evening: GREAT!
A future meeting was planned for March 1, 1975. Contact:
Helen or Roland, 15 Mariner Green Dr., Corte Madera, CA
94925 (924-8390') or Tom Birch, 6 Mariner Green Dr., Corte
GEORGE DE BAKEY '73, aided by MIKE HOPKINS '72, is
organizing a Dallas Alumni Association. George feels the
Dallas emphasis will be on brin,ging the joint SMU-AGSIM
degree students and alumni into closer ties with Thunderbirds
in the area.
The group will host a cocktail pacty for Dr. Voris during the
Internationall Trade Conference of the Southwest, which will
be held at SMU May 19-21, 1975. Interested alumni may contact
George at: 7739 Willow Stream Court #22,9, Dallas, or
phone: 214-368-8599.
The Southern California Alumni Association met the evening
of November 30, 1974, at Va Vi!lla Basque, in Vernon, California.
After dinner, LEE WESTENDORF '59, chairman protem
of the selection committee, explained the criteria used in
chosing the third annual Southern California Alumni of the
Year Awa,rd recipient. President LARRY LIPSHER '65 then
read background letter from , JACK ROKAHR '47, about the
1974 Alumnus of the Year, DICK CROFT' '60.
Dick is Export Manager for Cal-Asi,a International and very
active in the Export Managers' Association. He also haS' been
teaching courses in the Documentation of Foreign Trade at
UCLA Extension and Eastern Los Angeles City College. His
syllabus on the Functions of a Foreign Freight Forwarder is
soon to be published as a textbook. Dick acknowledges that
tJhe foundation for both his teaching and syllabus is the notebook
he was required to prepare during his: course on foreign
trade documellitation while he was a student at Thunderbird.
Dick says, "AGSIM's strength lies in its practical approach
to teaching foreign trade." Cal-Asia donated a check in his
name to the Southern California, Scholarship Thndl.
Mr. Emmett Smith, publisher of the Los Angeles Journal of
Imerna.tional Trade, was a welcomed: guest at the get-together.
Mr. Smith is planning antides on both DICK CROFT and on
AGSIM for future' issues of this publication.
Larry announced that the next SO CAL Alumni Association
meeting will be held on Saturday evening, June 7, 1975,.
AUumni in the area on themailin.gliSit will receive several
weeks' notice. Alumni new to Southern California should
phone President Lipscher, (home) 213-9'88-2639> or (office)
213-462-2088, or Treasurer JEFF RUBY '72 (home) 714-595-
9942 or (office) 213-330-0666 for further details.
Ailtunni attending the Fall meeting were: PIERRE ZARCH
'70, LEE WESTENDORF '59, JEFF and CRISTINA RUBY
'72, CHASE CHONG RHEE '70, JIM and MARY RYEK '60,
WESLEY KRUSE '69, LARRY and LYNN LIPSHER '65,
PETER HELLWIG '73, JIM and FRAN BONNAR '59, MIKB
MORRIS '73, JIM HENDERSON '73, FRED and CONCHITA
and JOAN DOYLE '57, DICK and GRETA CROFT '6(), ORMOND
and BARBARA ORMSBY '72, THOMAS SANDEGREN
'73, CATHERINE BORGES '73, and RICHARD IMENDORF
Representing AGSIM were DIANE CONNELLY '56, Director
of Alumni Affairs, MARY McMUNN '73, Assistant to Berger
Erickson, and MARTY SOURS, Associate Professor of Internaltional
T-Birds in El Salvador are VeTY acrtive a:gain. They had an
informal cocktail party and reunion in November and it was
such a success that everyone wants to meet agadn soon and on
a continuing basis! JOHN ARNOLD '61 writes: "I wanted to
get a few pictures of our first meeting, but the conversations
were so interesting that I com'Plet~ly forgot about it." Meetings
are scheduled, for March and July. Contact John at 21-4466
for more information.
Despite short notice, FLORENCE MERVIS '47 was able to
contact many AGSIMer s, so the New York Alumni got together
during the World Trade Fair Week in New York City
last November 19th at the Steak and Brew to honor Berger
Erickson, re-new T-Bird acquaintances and meet new friends.
After cocktail h our, many stayed on to have dinner wilth
Berger and Diane Connelly.
Those present included : JULIE FLORES '68, FRANK PHILIPS
DAVE MOrn '49, KIDGIE WILLIAMS '68,. VICKI BAIRD
'67, ERNIE and HELEN ESCOBEDO '73, Mr. and Mrs. LEWIS
STAPLES '72, ROBB and MARY PEGLAR '72, ROBERT
We hope to hear soon of a summer get-together being planned.
Contact the Alumni Office for details.
DAVE and GINGER SECUNDA must feel they have founded
a Thunderbird. Dynasty. Three of their four chi.ldren are
AGSIM Alumni, as is their only son-in-law, and their fou,rth
child will enter Thunderbird in 1975.
I.EANNE '70 started it all. She is now Mrs. Goernn Peters.
The Peters live in London, where Goeran '7() is Vice President
of Rhein-Donau Stahl, Ltd., an interna,tionail. steel trading
firm. MARY FRANCIS '72, is a financial analyst at FCIA in
New York City. JOHN '73 is a purchasiUlg agent in the Materials
Department of RCA Corporation. JAMES is finishing a
Marketing major at Fairleigh Dickinson UrniversityaiIld should
be an AGSIM "alumnus in residnce" this Fall.
"Goeran told me 'People in the world pay for someone
(AGSIM) to take away from them the complications of inter-national
business,' and 1 agree with him completely that that
is 'what AGSIM provides,' .. Dave Secunda, Vice President of
AMA, told your EiditOI1. Thank you, Dave, for being so sold on
your AMA affiliaJte that you make it your family's Ilchool.
The Seattle Alumni will be getting together mid-J\lne in
Bellevue, at the Holiday Inn. Berger Erickson, Executive Vice
President of AGSIM, is tentatively set as guest speaker on
Thunderbird programs and progress. Contact BART HARTZELL
'59, at 632,2 - 126th Ave., S.E., Belle!VUe 98000 for further
Last year, UK Alumni started with a cocktail party at the
American C1ub on Piccadilly and finished with an impromptu
dinner at Drone's Res,taumnt. For many, it was the first oi>portunity
to see all of the other a1umni livinlg in En,gland.
From the picture it seems> it was a great success.
Sixty-four Japanese students, representing the largest banks
in Japan and sponsored by the Japanese-American Conservation
Institute, headquartered at AGSIM for severnl days in
January. This culminated their 25-day tour of the U. S. While
in the Valley, they observed first-hand business and social
customs. They participated in seminars conducted by AGSIM
faculty and guest speakers, toured the Valley National Bank's
check processing center and the Honeywell Information SyStems,
saw a Wild W€St rodeo and played golf. Faculty leader,
Mr. Kwnoki Yanagishita, reported that they were especially
surprised with the atmosphere of friendship and informality
durilng their stay on campus.
It took LEE DE NORONHA to get the Hong Kong Alumni
crowd together again. CAROL THOMAS and JIM' SWEENEY
'61 arranged the party, while MERLE HINRICHS '65 and
DON McCANN '65 provided photographs.
It was the biggest turnout of any Thunderbird gathering ever
in Asia and possibly anywhere outside the U.S.A. The gaJthering
was at the American Club where (afta- a short Portugu€Se
lesson) all toasted "The Senorita" and drank to various oIther
"Instiltutions.'; Some stayed on for dinner (with Portuguese
wine, of course), and after "The Senorita" outlasted all present
the group begrudgingly retired. Hong Kong's · message to Miss
De Noronha: "We will all miss you and want to thank you
again for bringing us together."
KNEELING: Gerald Heck '54, Joe Ringer '68, Charlie Emmanuel '72, Bill Ling '73, Tam Krill '69, Robbie Nimmo '68: LADIES: Joon Tun"
Sally Holbrook, Carol Thoma., THE SENORITA, Kyoko Tanda, Hiroko Byrne, Bonnie Brown, Evelyn Heck, Patricia Hall, Karen McCann:
STANDING: Kris Anderson '72, John Tung '64, Bob Louis, George Mendenhall '62, Jim Sweeney '61, Buck Brown '71, Don Jacob.an '59,
Bob Heinemann '60, Terry Thomas '65, Barry Byne '58, George Martin '59, Merle Hinrichs '65, Ken Holbrook '66, Howard Hall '60, 0011
McConn '65.
Write in your opinions on any topic of general alumni interest.
Try to limit the letter to 200 words or less. The editor will
chQose those of greatesrt current relevancy for publication.
TAKE PLACE" for it is extremely pleasing to see the campus
with its updated facilities while not losing its flavour, which
I feel, regardless of certain positive aspects, is bound to be
sa<:rificed." R. TAYLOR HOSKINS, '66
SHOULD BE ANSWERED in orde!l' to help arrive art: any oort
of decision:
1. Who are the people behind earefree; how strong are
they financially; and what is their actual financial commitment
to the overall growth of the Carefree project?
2. Which companies have already committed themselves
to a CaI'efree move; how many employees do they plan
to hire in thrut area?
3. Other than the Carefree Company growth projections,
what independent projections and plans have been made
by unrelated companies; by the Starte of Arizona?
4. Insofar as maintenance and p}an't improvements at the
present Thunderbird Campus are concerned" how difficult
has it been to raise funds?
5. Can we realis.tically assume that, in light of changing
economic conditions and corporate attitudes towards
acadaemic contributions, funds could be raised to build
a new campus?
6. How frequently does the present studenlt body travel
into the Phoenix area to take advantage of sports and
cultural facilities, shopping areas, etc? What effect would
a move to Carefree have on these activities' and in art:tracting
future students?"
An Alumni Council, dedicated to improving the services offered
to AGSIM alumni and to establishing closer liaison with
the student "alumni-in-residence" is now meeting monthly in
the Alumni Office.
Represootatives of the administration are Berger Erickson,
Robert Gulick, Dave Merchant and Gates Davison. Faculty
members are J orge Valdevieso, Al Marks, Joaquin Duarte and
Cliff Call. Students serving are Bruce Harris '75 and Jim
Hildebrandt '75. Alumni Association presidents Larry Lipscher
'65, Henry Avalos '70, Helen Willits '70, George DeBakey
'73, Dave Hertel '70, Boye Demente '53 and John Lindholtz
'48 advise the Council.
Current considerations include improving the Bulletin, Alumni
Day and preparing a slide presentation on AGSIM for presentation
at Alumni meetings.
Thanks to you, the Alumni Office is able to maintain contact
with over 90% of all AGSIM graduates·. (This is an incred~ble
ra·te - most UllIiversities average about 50%!) However, we do
have some "ADDRESSES UNKNOWN." Please write us if you
know the current address and/or other information fOlI' the
alumni below. We shall publish additional lists of those with
whom we have lost contact in each Bulletin.
Thomas H. Aageson '63
Jack Abrahams '47
Paul C. Alvarez '62
Harold R. Anderson '68
John W. Avard '65
John H. Bagg '63
John K. Bailey '65
William A. Barclay '66
Dale O. Barnes '60
Carlton M. Barlow '66
Diego L. Bastianutti '63
Ed:ward J. Bell III '67
Elsie C. Bell '47
George B. S. Bellander '62
Stuart R. Beresford Jr. '62
Peter B. Blackford '64
Gerald Blanton '47
Barry G. Bobbitt '62
David, G. Boucher '66
Peter L. Bower '67
Robert L . Brannon, Jr. '60
Eric G. Brelin '64
John D. Bridge Jr. '47
Forrest A. Brinkerhoff '60
Larry W. Brown '64
Ernest H. Bruss Jr. '62
Jacques L. Bry '60
Gordon L. Burgett '62
Ronald L. Cabe '66
Fernando Pompeo d€ Camargo '61
Thomas E. Cantwell Jr. '67
David E. Chavez '62
Hans I. Christensen '63
Luis L. Conant '65
Marvin G. Cooksey '63
Donald L. Coover '60
Richa·rd H. Dailey '67
James M. Davis '62
Paul B. Davis '67
Peter Dombrowski '6,5
Jay G. Dungan '63
Edward G. Engelsen '47
Ruth L . Foran '64
Benjamin J. Holt '47
John C. Hubbell '64
J oe Hart Jolly '47
A cone-rete example of alumni caring about their school is the dining hall. Transformed with alumni money from a drab,
inefficient operation into a modern, first-rate eating place, it is high-profile evidence now of how Thunderbirds continue to
help their school after graclua tion.
A plaque ceremony will be held on Alumni Day, April 26, 1975. I hope that as many of you as possibly can, will attend
to be honored.
The renovation of our facilities is a continuing job. We are also out-stripping classroom space. Your help is needed if
Thunderbird is to continue to grow and prosper.
J05eph Klein '47
Howard H'oIOps '51
Ted Bi'huniak '57
Gerald Mirkin '47
G€orge Walters '47
William Henley '48
John Wal1l1er '48
Sterling Boyce '50
Daniel Witcher '50
John Greyer '52
Brayton Lin'coln '52
Jean Burns '53
Robert Morehouse '53
Charles Keller '54
Phd! Kirk '54
McNeill Watkins '54
Eugene Box '56
Harry I(rntoville '56
Winthrop Wyman '56
David Hart '57
David Neverovich '57
Frank Pinchard '58
Jack Ryder '58
Curgie Pratt '59·
Robert Dilworth '60
Robert HeinemaIliIl '60·
John Kieser '60
Richard Autenxeith '61
Duane Bellm.ore '61
James Btack '61
F. Van Doren Moller '61
Cados Cortes '6·2
Leon EStes, '62.
Terry Singer '62·
HaTold Shaefer '63
Richardson SmLth '63
Steve Barber '65
Tim Titus '65
David Arms '66
Pet& Baer '66
Michael Bennis '66
Howard Boyer '6·6
AndTian Chrysslor '66
(Contributions of $500 to $99·9)
Frank Graves '59
(Contributions of $100 to $499)
RichaTd Oroft '60
William Pennel '64
Tim Walker '68
Michael Finney '66
Jonathan Giddings '66
Gerald Greene '66
Basil Harris '66
James Richardson '66
Joseph Thompson '66
Dallas Archibald '67
Don Bradford '67
Richard Brotzman '67
William Brawn '67
David Carpita '67
Andrew Donnelly '67
Lester Hess '67
Lance Jensen '67
Edwa,rd Kimmel '67
David Liddle '67
Stanley Steele '67
Steve Strawn '67
J oel Wineburgh '67
John BeTg '68
David Boston '68
Sang H. Choo '68
Bert Hollansky '68
Emil Joost '68
David Long '68
Peter NobLe '68
McLaren Peace '68
Michael Pierce '68
Richard Sanchez '68
John Shroll '68
Robert Wilcox '68
John Andrews '69
Martin Bowman '69
Roberto Breton '69
Roger Brown '69,
Robert Coyne '69
Vladas Hedmintas '69
John Gummere '69
Charles Hazen '69
David Hilliker '69
John Barelli '69'
Michae'l Murphy '69
Jeff RandoLph '69
Ramon Urbano '69
Gary Walcott '69·
John Brady '70
William Brown '70
Mark Bruce '70
Michael Evans '70
Douglas Gilmore '70
Libby Ginnetti '701
Marvin Hancock '70
George Ittne[' '70-
Olive[' Jakob '70
John' Muney '70
Don Muston '70
Tom O'Keefe '70
Michael Perren '70
Don Reis '70
Tom Sanders '70-
Alban Schuele '70-
Gary StaggS '70
Gary Underhill '70-
John WeI'I1Jer '700
Howard Westphal '70
Hunt C[eveland '71
Roy Dahle '71
J eff Davis '71
Anthony Da Silva '71
Harold Gunn '71
Pe.ter Hrebec '71
Mark O'Malley '71
Keith Sanders '71
James White '71
James Williams '71
Ed Auble '72
Ga:ry Buckingham '72
Brad Oorson '72
Tom Dreis '72
Roge,r Fu:1le,r '72
Peter StiHy '70
Gary Robeirlis '71
Kris Anderson '72
Khahil Hachem '72
Dieter Helfen '72
Nick LazoS' '72
Robert Mueller '72
Gary Pad fie '72
Robb Pegla.r '72
James Rook '72,
J onathan Steel '72
T'om Tegart '72
Steve Tams! '72
Christine Topoulos '72
Robert Wedwick '72
Meriwether Williams '72
David Young '72.
Steve Bisbee '73
Christian Febiger '73
John! Howell '73
Russell Jaffe '73
Joel Kopel '73
Ron McDaniel '73
Christopher Mornisan '73
Alan Nordell '73
Raif Sa,gieh '73
Perry Smith
Stevin VIan Luven '73
Pete'f Wallin '73
David Balch '74
Del Bishop '74
Leroy Cl05e '74
Hal Coggins '74
James Dodson '74
John Doman '74
Ralph Johnson '74
Micha.el Kolb '74
Bjorn Livered '74
Tom Pinion '74
Delef Stevenson '74
Arnt Vagle '74
Firestone International
Bank of America
First National City Bank
. American Can Company
Morgan Guaranty
Levi Strauss
ESB Inc .
Manufacturers Hanover
Wells Fargo
Kidder Peabody Inc.
Upjohn Company
Cyprus Mines
Bank of California
Cummins Engines
Southeast First National Bank
of Miami
(Contributions of $100 to $499)
Howard Shaw '61 B. Paul Smith '62 Peter Feddersen '67 Bill Fagan '70
John Lambert '50,
William Johnson '60
Wayne Battenfield '68
David BeIll '68
Joseph Gury '68
William Mattison. '68
William Vaught '68
Roger Brown '69'
JAMES ROBYN '74 of Flol'ence, Arizona ... BILL WALSH
'71 of Newport Broich, California. . FRANK RUSHLOW
'71 of Sutherlin, Oregon . . . GUIDO ANTEZANA '69 of New
York City .. . TERRY DOYLE '57 of Orange , California .. .
RUDY ZEIPEDA'72 of Houston, Texas ... MANFRED BRAUN
'72 of Phoenix, Arizona . . . NORMAN WOOD '73 of New
York CiJty ... JAMES HALDERMAN '74 of Dhahran, Saudi
AIrabia. . ROBERT LAPORT '58 of Brooklyn Heights, New
York . . . CHARLES ROBERTS '72, of DeeiI"field, Illinois ...
GEORGE OAKES '56 of Bellevue, Washington ... DREW
MERKEL '74 of Los Angeles, Calif=ia ... RICHARD WILLIAMS
'74 of Jasper, Indiana ... HENRY AVALOS '70 of
Washing:ton, D.C .. .. HAROLD HUNTRESS '62 Q1f Overland
Park, Kansas ... WALTER and PHYLLIS LEONARD '49 of
Phoenix, Arizona . . CURT and LOIS DUNLAVEY '52 of
Estherville, Iowa .. . ROBERT FEHLMAN '71 of Frankfurt,
Germany ... ROBERT HUGHES '69 of Singapore ... RICHARD
CHOPY AK '68 of Racine, Wisconsin ... PETER SCOTT '50 of
Nevada City, California ... HOWARD PATTERSON '69 of New
York City ... LEO HAGEMAN '60 of Belen, New Mexico .. .
KEN KVISTAD '67 of Genthod, Switzerland ... CLARK and
ULLA HALLMAN '67 of Brooklyn Heights, New York ...
GARY PACIFIC '72 of Bay Village, Ohio ... GLENN GLAD
'63 of .Zurich, Switzerland ... KATE BECKWITH '72 of San
Francisco . . . MIKE MAC AFEE '71 Q1f Phoenix ArizQlna . . .
BOB STIMSON '71 of Tempe, Arizona ... ALAN SCHLOSSER
'71 of Phoenix, Arizona ... RICHARD and ADELE LANNIN '70
of New York City . .. GARY MILLER '73 of Pasadena., Califorma
... WALT and MICKI HANFORD '58 of Tokyo, Ja.,pan
... DAVID ARBESMAN '73 of New York City ... GEORGE
FLETCHER '68 of Lubbock, Texas ... FRANK MOLLER '61
of Napa, CalifQlrnia ... MALCOLM WEBB '65 of El Piaso,
Texas .. . HOWARD SHAW '61 of El Paso, Texas ... DON
WHISMAN '6,5 of ArlingJton, Virginia . .. MARK MORAN
'74 of Glendale, Arizona ... MIKE. GRIFFIN '66 of Casper,
Wyoming ... GEORGE SEWARD '70 of Tempe, Arizona ...
BILL GRANT '72 of Long Beach, California ... WADE COiLLINS
'64 of Overland Park, Kansas ... MR. and MRS. W ALTER
BOICE '64 of Newport Beach, California.
CARL H. TROWBRIDGE, '69, died, in Kansas City, Missouri,
on January 14, 1975.
DA VID H. BURGER, '54, died in Chinle, Arizona.
Terry Chamberlain '71
Phil Wilken '71
Warren Bl'ainard-Smith '71
Dierk Hagemann '71
Bob Hardwicke '72
K. C. McAlpin '73
Girls: JOEL and MARJORIE WINEBURGH '67 of New York
City ... the JAMES BLACKS '6,1 of Manila,. Philippines ...
LINDA and: JIM HESSE '70 of Mexico City . . . HOW A.RD
and SHERRI GOLDSMITH '73 of Brentwood, California . . .
JAMES and SUSAN DOLAN '73 of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
· .. BILL and JEAN BROWN '70 of Glen Shaw, Pennsylvailiia
· . . STEPHEN and MARION MAHOOD '72 of Oberlin, Ohio
· .. GARY and SHARON COUNTS '70 of Frankfurt, Germany
· .. BILL and JODY KELLEY '71 of Torrance, California.
Boys: WAYNE and BETSY PULVER. '70. of Amenia, New
York ... ROBERT and MARIE BALLANTYNE '70 of Beirut,
Lebanon . . . JIM and CINDY RIGGS '71 of Beirut, Lebanon
· .. R. JAY CASSELL'S '62 of San Antomo, Texas ... GARY
and CANDACE STAGGS '70 of Danville, California .•.
MICHAEL and CHARLOTTE PIERCE '68, of Balboa, Canal
Zone . . . MacLAREN and OAROL PEACE '68 of Miami,
Florida ... TERRY and VIRGINIA CHAMBERLAIN '70 of
Bryans ton, Transvaal, South Africa . . . ERNEST and MELODY
KANGAS '73 of Waukesha, Wisconsin ... JOHN and
MARY JEAN BARELLI '69 of Kansas City, Missouri . . .
MORRIS and EILEEN BARKAN '72 of San Diego, California
· .. GARY and SALLY WALCOTT '69 of New York City
· .. RONALD and MARY LIDDLE '67 of Koneohe, Hawaii .. .
GARY and ELS BUCKINGHAM '72 of The Netherlands .. .
LOU and BETTY ANDREADIS '73, of Long ISiland, New York
· . . MICHAEL and PENELOPE CLAREY '72 of Harrison,
New York.
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES to the following
Thunderbird newlyweds: F. VAN DORN and CAROLYN
MOLLER '61 of Napa, California . . . STEVEN and ANNE
MARIE (SCULLY) GOLD '68 of San ~rancisco ... DAWN
(SEARS) '70 and WALTER (SAM) REYNOLDS of Aspen,
Colorado . . . DOUGLAS and DONNA (LADENDORF)
QUELLAND '720 of Des Plaines, illinois ... S. BREDO '74 ailld
RONDr (SCHAEFFER '73) OESTLIEN of New York City
· .. PERRY and MARGARET (McCOY) SMITH '73 of Ypsilanti,
Michigan . . . MICHAEL and LINDA (C:AlU.SON)
HAUN '74 of San Francisco.
47 All goes well for GERALD and DOROTHY MIRKIN.
They are still living in Encino, California where
Gerald has his own Volkswagen Agency. "Our daughter
Jill (12) is a straight 'A' student. Daughter Lori (13) is a
'C' student and used to play the vioUn. We love them both!"
.. DR. WILBUR MARISA (Ph.D. 1958) is again conducting
the annual "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" Study-Tour
"Fieldwork in French Studies" at the Sorbonne for California
State College.
48 DICK I:IASSERT,. Vice-President of First National City
Bank, IS responsIble for "The Americas" and gets to
travel again. ., GEORGE and EILEEN GELBER
are still in Garden City, New York where George is Administractive
Vice Presid ent for Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Industries
.. .. Texaco Inc., appointed SALVADOR JIMENEZ as Assistant
Manager - International in the Company's Corporate
Labor Relations Division. Salvador joined Texaco in Bogota,
Colombia after graduating from AGSIM. He will coordinate
labor relations activities for subsidiaries of Texaco outside the
continental United States. His offices will be located in Houston,
Texas ..
PROFESSOR JOHN LINDHOLTZ '48 brought into the Alumni
Office a January 29, 1975, article on THUNDERBIRD, which
appeared in THE NEWS, Mexico City. Featured were JAMES
TAYLOR '64 and RICHARD LORDEN '601
• Jim was quoted:
"1 believe that I learned more in four (!) months at Thunderbird
than. in four yea·rs at col1ege as an economics major with
emphasis on Latin-American studies. We got intensive courses
in accounting, management, marketing, micro and ma.cro economics,
operations arualysis and something called the Capstone
course, which incorporates all the general knowledge we acquired
throughout the full course in the form of an international
pll'oject study." Rkhard contributed: "The languageteaching
system is an interesting one because we spent the
first four months just listening. Not a book was opened. We
learned as children learn, by mimicry, on the theory that eye
identification coupled with ear identification does something
ruasty to a pure accent. It was not until much later that written
Spanish or Portuguese plus all the logic behind grammar
wa,s' parcelled out to us. Don't think it doesn't work. I've
been taken for a native Brazilian by native Brazilians."
The article concluded with this paragraph: "It isn't necessary
for a Thunderbird graduate to sport a class ring or the school
tie, in order to be recognized. Social and business know-how
on top of language flueocy come with the diploma and if this
isn't the 'better mouse trap,' then why is the world beating a
path to its door?"
49 Executive Editor COLONEL JOHN FRISBEE reports
that his May 1973 article on Costa Rica which he
wrote for The Retired Officer Magazine elicited a
670 letter response! His wife, LUCY, writes books for Bobbs
Merrill, oldest son heads West Coast office of National Trust
for Historic PreseTvation in San Francisco, and Steve is Assistant
Manager at Snowbird, Utah. Busy family ... The BERN
EDGARS· of Switzerland visited Thunderbird this February
for the first time in twenty six years, via the Caribbean and
Central America. Bern wrote, "It has taken about four years
for me and FRED OPPER '68 to find out tha,t we were both
living in the Lucerne, Switzerland area. At last we got together."
... KEN MILLER is still enjoying his job as Operating
Manager of Sears Interna,uonal - it's challenging, entails
quite a bit of tra·vel, and he has now become a train
commuter, since moving to the Sears Tower in downtown
Chicago. His office is on the 45th floor of the taUest building
in the world, and he's sometimes above the clouds. He's taken
business trips to Puerto Rico, Mexico, Caracas/ Maracaibo/
George ond
Eileen Gelber '47
Panama (JUNE joined him on this one), New Orleans, Columbus"
Canada (Montreal and Ottawa), St. Louis, Brazil, Peru
and Colombia. He cellebrated 25 years with Sears on October
6th . . . a long-standing love affair.
STERLLNG BOYCE has been promoted to Vice-President
in charge of Growth and Development with
Dome Pharmaceutical Laboratories,. Son, JIM '73, is
alumni counselor in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
6 1 "Our home garden was featured in July '74 Sunset
magazine (Oriental Landscaping). After our trip to
Rumania, we decided to build two view homes OlD t!he
Pacific Ocean coast here in Pacifica, CaHfornia as income
property," write HOWARD and BILLIE HOOPS. Sounds like
shrewd, effective investments, Hoops.
63 ERNIE GARFIELD won re-election as Arizona Corporation
Commissioner. C~:mgratu1:ations, Commissioner!
54 Gamlen Chemicai has announced the appointment of
RICK COLEMAN as Vice President - Far East effective
January 1, 1975. He will continue to ~quarter
in TokY'O, Japan, where he has been Director of OperatioIllS
for the Far East Zone since September, 1973.
66 JIM and ELLIE BETTA and their two sons, Jimmie
and Giancarlo, al'e back in Bogota., Colombia after
seven years in the States. They are enjoying their
return and many old friends. Jim is now in the Marketing
Division of Merck, Sharp and Dohme.
5 6 WYNN WYMAN has . resigned as president and director
of Triton Shipping, Inc. He has been named Vice
President of Peter Marcy Inc., and President of
Wyman-Marcy both of New York City. Wynn will be concerned
with export-oriented brokerage business in the U. S.,
European and Brazilian agricultural commOOities. .
He reports, "In March, enroute back from a trip to Guam and
T'okyo, KERSTIN and I spent a delightful eveiliing in POll'tola
Valley, California with CHUCK and DAWN STOCKHOLM
'56. In August, we visited the HORST DANIELS '56 in In~
dianapolis, havin,g last seen them in Sao Paulo a couple of
years earlier." .. . BOB CONNELLY has resigned as General
Sa:les Manager of Coferraz, SA, to open his own importexport
business in Sa':) Paulo, Brazil .... FRED BRENNER
has been named Vice President and General Manager - International
of Flagship Banks Inc., of Mia,mi Beach, Florida ....
JAMES F. McCLOUD, has been appointed president of Kaiser
Engineers, a division of Kaiser IndUSitries Corporation. He
will continue with his duties as a director and. member of the
executive committee of Kaiser Industries .... We wrongly
reported DAVE MURISON with the United California Bank
in the last issue of the Bulletin. Dave is still Vice President -
First National City Bank and has been appointed "Area Credit
Officer" for Europe, the Middle East and Africa . He will reside
in Frankfurt/ Main, for airport and travel convenience. He
just spent two weeks in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his
next trip will take him to Beirut and Nairobi.
Fred C. Brenner '56
57 NANCY SCHAPER, former placement office employee,
phoned to teII us that MANUEL and SADIE
APODACA '57 are still in Guatemala. Manuel has
retired and Sadie is running her own beauty shop. Nancy also
visited with EV and GERRY LEE '47 while in Guatemala.
. . . SHIPPEN LUQUER resigned as General Sales Manager
of Armco S.p.A. - Genoa, Italy and has been busy setting
up the I.talian Branch of an English Company to sell two
particular 3M products. He is living in Milan ... . JAMES
McCARTHY is now with Anchor National Financial Services,
Tampa, Florida .... "Just enjoying life in wonderful Wisconsin"
writes WALTER NEVEROVICH.
58 HAMILTON and INGA FORLINE write, "In May and
June, we traveled 4000 miles within Norway via
ship, bike, hike, train, two weeks in Denmark and
will probably make it a yearly affair.". . "Seven yea.rs to
retirement! Super Dome is due to open in May 1975" writes
JACK RYDER from New Orleans, where he is a Federal Loan
Officer .... FRED ANDRESEN is back in touch. He is selling
his interest in Scandia Trading Company which he started
in 1962, to devote his full energy toward helping other companies
develop their maximum export potential or necessary
foreign resources to augment their local production through
the Trade Development Corporation.
59 DAVID YOUMANS writes from Niteroi, Brazil: "I
will soon complete my first year as PLAN'S Field
Director in Brazil after serving eighteen months in
the same capacity in Colombia. As you know, this is my tenth
assignment overseas and I guess I remain as enthused as I
was the first time out. ANITA is well; my sons are growing
up. rm gertting older. But my life is dedicated to helping
our less fortunate brothers and I guess it will always be that
way." ... JIM BONNAR is Export Manager for Roberts Consolidated
Industries. Although stationed in Los Angeles, Jim
makes fairly frequenJt business trips throughout the Far E'ast.
... BART HARTZELL of Bellevue, Washington is still with
Boeing. He has been in their Maintenance E,ngineering Group
since he and LUZ returned from Bogota in January 1972. His
job sounds challenging. "We are responsible for compiling
maintenance data for airlines who have Boeing airplanes. We
also perform maintenance evaluations of airlines around the
world. On February 11, I will be leaving for a month for
evaluations of Iran Air in Tehran, and Ariana Afghan in
Kabul, Afghanistan." Daughters Caroline and Irene accompanied
Luz for a six-week visit with her family in Medellin,
Colombia last summer.
60 We were delighted to hear from GORDON WYNN
after being out of touch with him for several years.
His address is 202 Wynn Place, Warner Robins,
Georgia 31093. .. BILL JOHNSON has really been busy.
As Manager, InJternational Su.pply and Distribution, he formed
new international refined petroleum product trading and
shipping groups for Tesoro this summer. He opened office in
New York City, plans offices in EUrope, Latin America, U. S.
West Coast (for Asia). Will continue to headquarter at corporated
offices in San Antonio, Texas.
61 JOHN and DIANE ARNOLD and their children continue
their busy lives in El Salvador, responding to
the vast opportunities in the country. Arno·ld Enterprises
will be opening its third and largest bookstore in early
1975. . . . F . VAN DORN MOLLER writes from Napa, California:
"I urge all Thunderbirdsl to drink: more California
Wine. I am now in the grape business (as We'll as having my
own realty company by virtue of owning a vineyard)" . . .
JIM SWEENEY writes: "BO BOWMAN is changing jobs and
PAT O'SULLIVAN moved back to the U. S. last year. A few
of us are runnJing our own businesses and none of us have
been hurt (yet ) by the world recession. Generally, I think all
Thunderbirds in Hong K ong are doing quite well. Living conditions
here are great, although a little expensive for the
newcomers. UnJ.ike Hawaii, Hong Kong is truly where East
meets West. Here we have most of the conveniences of the
West while living in the E!ast. Another sake anyone? Or would
you prefer a French v intage !!"
62 MIKE FRUMESS is serving as- President of Creative
Motivators, a subsidiary of the Brown g,roup in Horuston,
Texas .. . . JOHN and ANN ZIEBARTH are now
living in San Francisco where John is Manager of Manufacturing,
International Operations, for Proctor and Gamble
Overseas Division. Cousin, ELLIOT EAVES '53, is operating
Caribbean Properties, Ltd. an ind ustrial real esrtate development
company in San Juan, Puerto Rico. TOBY MADISON
'52 stopped through San Francisco to visit on return trip
to Kobe, Japan, where he's Vice-President - International
Division of Honny Chemicals Co. Ltd. Ziebarth's landlord is
the father of RICHARD AGUIRRE '64, now Mana'ging Director
of Reprense South Africa. All this via a l1I€wsy letter from
John .... CARLOS CORTES an Associate Professor of History
and Chairman of Mexican-American Studies at the University
of California, Riverside, writes: "Arno Press in New
York just published a 2.1-volume series on Mexican-Americans
which I edited. University of New Mexico Press just published
my; "award-winning" book. Gaucho Politics in Brazil:
The Politics of Rio Grande Do SuI, 1930-1964."
63 DAN VAN GELDER writes: "I came up from Mexico
to attend AGSIM (for just under a month) to update
myself and take a vacation in my own home
coun try after 10 years. I decided to return to international
banking - this time with the FNCB in Houston. Though I
have been away from Mexico, where I make m.y residence,
I am now traveling back to Mexico on busiiness for my new
bank. My short r eturn to AGSIM will be rememb&ed as I
Gary Frashier '64 Gerald Green '66
found the tremendous 'AIFT' family spirit was there - just
the name was changed." .. . HAROLD SHAEFFER was elected
Vice-President of Beker Industries Corporation in August
1974. He and ROBERTA are living in New Canann, Connecticut.
64 GARY E. FRASHIER (Keyman) of Simbury, Connecticut
has been appointed Vice President and General
Manager of Latin America, Americas Group,
Loctite Corporation .... O'DONNEL DUGGAN, President of
Duggan's Poultry Farm in Tucson, Arizona writes: "We have
ov~r 10,000 turkeys and chickens in our rapidly growing business."
... STEVEN SPENCER is a Resident Member of the
University Club of Mexico, A.C.
65 CLARKE TODD has been promoted to Assistant Export
Manager, Firestone Internationa,l in Buenos Aires.
... NORMAN F. VAN ARSDALE has been appointed
Vice President and Manager of the International Department
at California Canadian Bank's Head Office, San Francisco.
66 GERALD GREENE has bee named General Manager
of Kodak Chilena S.A.F. in: Santiago, Chile. . . .
PAUL MASVIDAL has left FNCB and is now Executive
Vice President with Inter National Bank of Miami. Inrter
National's parent company is The Royal Trust Company of
Edward Bridges '66 with President Ford.
Montreal, Canada .... After four years in the night program
at Northwestern School of Law in Portland, PETER BAER
has passed the Oregon State Bar Examination . . .. Engaging
in informal conv.crsation with President Gerald R. Ford is
EDWARD E. BRIDGES, who recently joined Commercial
Credit as Vice President-U.S. Operations, Commercial Trading
International. Bridges received an award from the Pres,ident
for his participation. in the Presidential Executive Interchange
Program in 1973-74, serving as an international trade specialist
with the Bureau of East-West Trade for the Department
of Commerce. In his 14 months of government service, Bridges
acted as Director of a Commerce Department trade mission to
the Soviet Union, Hungary and Austria, prepared a study on
switch and barter transactions and worked on the staff of
Federal Energy Administr3Jtor and Deputy Secretary to the
Trpasury, William Simon.
6 7 RICHARD MATCHETTE has been promoted by
Firestone International from Trade Sales ManagerArgentina,
to Sales Manager-Costa Rica ... . STEVEN
VEST has been named Vice-President of The Nikko Securities
Co. International Inc., in New York . ... DAVID and CARO·
LYN CARPITA and their family have been transferred to
London after three-and-one-half years in P'akis.tan. David is
Assistant Vice President for American Express International
Banking Corporation. . . . DICK O'CONNOR of GreenJbrae,
California and his son came by to visH AGSIM. Dick has
just been promoted to Regionail Sales Manager, Control Data
Corporation. He says he often sees BOB MELLON '67 in San
Francisco . . . . After spending the summer of 1974 in the
Soviet Union, EDWARD KIMMEL has been studying Russian
in night school. .. . MELANIE DONNELLY writes: "ANDY
has been named Vice President and Managing Director, Consumer
Products Europe-Ralston Purina. Purina' has operations
in aU European countries with major subsidiaries in Hoiland,
Belgium, France and West Germany. As in the U.s.A., the
principal produet area is pet foods." ... LESTER HESS just
resigned his position· as President and General ManagerAliansa
Guatemala (a Cargill subsidiary) to accept a position
as Assistant to the President of Piensos Hens, S.A. Barcelona!,
Spain (also a Cargill subsidiary). Les writes: "After
three years in Guatemala City (a real paradise), we find it
tough adjusting to life in Barcelona, a city of apartments and
industry, and wouln like to know of any T-Birns living in the
area. Home phone: 204-2034."
68 After a four-year assignment in Scandinavia, JOHN
BERG has been transferred back to the home office
of Fiat Allis Construction Machinery in Springfield,
Illinois, where he is now Senior Merchandising Representative .
. . . Yacht Builder (sa1ilboats) DAVID RLTTENHOUSE, of
Scheel Yachts, Tenant's Harbor, Maine, says Maine is his
winter vacation from the rain at his Lee Valley, Tennessee
farm. Dave is interested in ftndiing out more about Brazil and
Costa. Rica as possible locations for Jfear-round farming. . . ' .
DAVID MAC LAREN has' been appointed Village Manager of
Vill:age of Miami Shores. . . . MICHAEL PlERCE has expanded
his l'aw firm with a new office in Cristobal, on the Atlantic
s,ide of the U.S. Canal Zone .... WILLIAM DEMMIN is now
Manager for Bank of America's branches in St. Kitts, Nevis,
and Anguilla, and he and DOROTHY have moved to Basseterre,
St. Kitts from Barbados .. .. WAYNE and JULIE
BATTENFIELD have moved to Mexico City after five years
in Panama. Wayne is now Sales DireCitor for Firestone EI
Centenario there. "Everything about Mexico City so far has
been great. We have seen several T-Birds already, some of
whom were old Panama T-Birds, plus many others here in
Mexico." ... During an eight-country trip 1Jhrough the Middle
East, GEORGE GRIMMETT '68 visited with JIM ROWLAND
'67, Area Manager for Goodyear Interna,tional in Beirut. "It
seems that everywhere I go internationally, I run into people
who have friends and! or business associates who are Thunderbird
graduates. Truly, we have international fraternity."
George continued: "Recently, as a result of the Fall issue of
THE THUNDERBIRD, I received a call from Ml'. RAMo.N
BUENO. '65 who has been Traffic Manager fol' Disney Wol'ld
si.nce their opening in o.ctober 1971 and we enjoyed lunch together."
. . . Life has certainly been eventful for STEVEN
Go.LD, Corporate Vice President of Seligman and Latz, Inc.
In June he earned the Master of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies
from the New School for Social Research in New York
City. End of 1974, Steven was named Senior Vice President
of the Beauty Salon Division, and he and his August bride,
ANNE MARIE, moved to San Francisco to establish an office
for the Western U.S.
69 ANDREW G. BRANSCOME has been named Vice
President for Advertising of the W~.rldwide System
Division of Holiday Inns, Inc. whIch encompasses
more than 1 700 Holiday Inns. He is st.ationed in Memphis,
Tennessee . . '. NORMAN and MARIE WELLS and their children
are now living in St. George's, Grenada, W.I., where
Norman has been named Manager of the Chase Manhattan
Bank ... GUIDO. ANTEZANA was at AGSIM interviewing
for Chase Manhattan Bank. He is Team Manager - Brazil,
Second Vice-President Corporate and Government .. . STEVE
BURRELL has resigned from J. F. Pritchard & Co. in Kansas
City, Missouri. He has accepted an assignment with Arthur
G. McKee and Company as Director of Business Development
for McKee do Brasil, in Sao Paulo ... F. JOHN PAUL ANDREWS
writes: "Resigned from First National City Bank
earlier in the year (J9074) to assume present position aSi VicePresident
in London. Allied Bank (The Chase) is a branch of
New York head office." .. . From ROBERTO BRETON: "I
was recently promoted to General Manager and given a new
assignment in Athens, Greece, where I'll be living start~ng
February 1975. My wife, BLANCA and I are really lookmg
forward to Greece and hopeful to meet T-Birds. residing in
Europe." ... DOUG and BARABARA WAGNER advised us
that Doug is now Administrative Manager of the new ALTEC
International Division. Barbara is again teaching Junior High
Biology, and next year there will be a family addition .. ..
MIKE and MARIANELA MURPHY write that To.M GRAY
'70', stopped in Panama to see them on his ":I'ay back to ~uth
Africa . . . DAVID MOORE is Vice PresIdent of DaVId E.
Blackburn and Associates, Inc. of the Travelers Insurance
Companies . . . I have been doing tax plannin? and research
for Coopers and Lybrand for the past year. ThIs Fall, .1 st~rted
working on an LL.M. in taxation at New York UmversJty.
JANIE is teaching first grade at Greenwich Day School and
in her spa.re time g.tudying o.rganic Chemistry at the University
of Bridgeport (Connecticut)," writes JEFF RUDOLPH
MARTIN McNAMARA has been appointed Manager of the
Personal Accident Department at ALICO's home office in
D. L. Koropp '69 Philip Bloisdell '70
Wilmington, Delaware. He recently received the Good Samaritan
Award from the Presidcnt of the United States for saving
the li ves of several persons during an apartment building fire.
. After assignments as a field representative in Puerto
Rico ann the Dominican Rcpublic, nCltive Phoenician, Do.NALD
L. Ko.Ro.PP has becn named thc new Branch Manager for
Firestone International in Panama City.
70 PHILIP BLAISDELL has been promoted and transferred
by Chase Manha ttan Bank. He is now Second
Vice-President, and his new assignment, out of
Chase's Regional Office in Hong Kong, will give him a good
deal of responsibility over the portfolios of the bank's branches
in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and
Hong Kong. He writes: "I am a bit sorry to leave Japan where
I have found many friends, several of whom are T-Birds.
MIKE Po.WELL '64 is here working for the AIU Group, and
GARY OLSEN '73 is here with Chase, and KEN WHITNEY
'74 is working for Mitsubishi-Chase Consulting Company.
Last night, Ken's charming wife, MITSUKO, served up a delicious
meal for us." ... News from PHILIP O'ROURKE: "I
was in Upper Volta last week and former student TOM KELLY
'71 and I had a grand time discussing mutual acquaintances
scattered throughout the globe. JIM POBANZ has resigned
from UNDP where he served in Lagos, and we just transferred
to Bujumbura, Burundi, effective January 1, 1975, as Dire::tor
of the Catholic Relief Services program. We are very eXCIted
and it's interesting to note that as we prepare our French
how much of it is coming back from those seemingly endless
hours O'f language instruction." . . . BILL BROWN joined
Rockwell International of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as Logistics
Manager for Industrial Tools, October 1974 ... For the
se-cond consecutive year, ED BORG ENS, taught the course,
Foreign Trade Principles for the San Diego Community College
District. CHUCK HINKLEY '59, was a 0lass member and
BEN KETCHUM '55 was a guest lecturer. NICK SLIJK '55,
taught a similar course, Introduction to International Commerce,
concurrently at Southwestern Community College. (The
course and major curriculum at Southwestern were developed
by Ed Borgens) ... VICTOR TAGGERT is no longer Marketing
Manager with H. J . Heinz in Valencia, Venezuela. He is Administrative
Sales Manager for New England Fish Company of
Seattle, Washington . .. "About mid-November I will be transferred
from Costa Rica where I've been Country Manager for
the past year, to Citibank's Head Office to become an Assis~nt
Vice President in our new Agribusiness department", wrItes
WAYNE PULVER ... Upon leaving Lagos, JAMES POBANZ
will devote full-time to his jewelry business based in New
York after traveling around the world . . . JEFF and MARTINA
HAYDEN have spent the last two years teaching in Laos, completely
responsible between them for an elementary school
of 14 American students. "It was really a lot of fun but the
Americans were all pulled out at the end of the year (19·73),
and we were transferred up to Vientiane" ... MICHAEL and
KATHY PERREN write: "We arrived in Puerto Rico July
1974 from Northern Ireland and nearly melted from the heat.
Michael is in charge of industrial rubber product s·ales for
Goodyear Western Hemisphere Corporation in Puerto Rico,
the Caribbean and Central America. We've switched from
Guiness by the fire to Pina Colada. by the sea" ... JOHN
BRADY writes: "On June I, 1974, I was tra.nsferred from Sao
Paulo to Recife to direct all of Adela's activities in Northeast
Brazil and the Amazon Region". Sounds like an awfully big
territory, John! ... "MARILYN is substitute teaching on regular
basis. Fairbanks booming! Lots of river canoe trips and mountain
climbing in summer and cross-country and downhill skiing
in winter". Sounds like you are ha.ppy in Alaska, DONALD
MUSTON ... TERRY CHAMBERLAIN informs us that
another T-Bird in Johannesburg with CatHpillar is DAVE
R. B. Myhre '71
71 LANCE and SUE RENAULT returned to the States
from the Philippines and have settled in the Chicago
area, where Lance is Controller fQr Compassion, Inc.
The organization has international child sponsQrship programs
and other related activities in develQping countries (orphanages,
etc) ... KLAUS and CAROL SCHOEING are now living in
Greenwood, SQuth Carolina, where Klaus is account executive
with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, F enner and Smith .. . BOB DWINELL
has been promoted to Assistant Regional Finance DirectOtr
of Asia-Africa for Goodyear International Corpomtion. Bob
and Mary would be happy to have Thunderbirds stop by and
see them .. . TONY DE SILVA is now with FMC Corporation,
Crane and Excavator Division in Cedar Rapids, Iowa . . .
"After spending two years in Brazil as Financial Contro.ller of
Gestetner Duplicadores, Ltds., I will be transferred to' our
Gestetner subsidiary in Mexico in March 1975, occupying the
position of "Gerente Administrativo," writes VICTOR HAUPT .
He ho.pes to contact fellow T-Birds in Mexico ... JIM RIGGS,
Middle East Area Manager, was in Elyria for a refresher training
on the full range of Rigid products ... JOHN MOORE has
been appo.inted Regional Sales Manager fo.r the Caribbean
area by Massey-Ferguson Americas EXPQrt Operations . ..
After receiving training and being a store manager in Mesa,
Arizona, RAY MYHRE has been named as field representative
in Copenlhagen, Denmark by Firestone International .. . FRED
SHEEHY writes: "Presently I am residing in TorQnto, Canada
holding a position wHh the Ontario. Go.vernment,. Ministry of
Industry and To.urism, Division of Trade, International Marketing
Branch, Western Hemisphere Section, as an Industrial
Developmenrt; officer in the capacity of Marketing Consultant
for the Mexico, Central America and Caribbean area" ... We
hear that TOM KELLY is with the Catholic Relief Services in
Upper Volta, West Africa .
72 SUSY SAGY is Operatio.ns Manager f0'r ARRENDACINA,
C.A., an affiliate of U.S. Leasing Company
in Caracas. She writes: "Since my return to Carocas,
I have been visHed by DENISE PEINE and GEORGE ADAM,
both members of my December '72 class. Denise lives in
Denver, George in New York. Have also seen LUIS MUCHAGATO
and wife, NANCY, another December '72 gmduate.
Have seen members of earlier graduting classes such as DOMINIQUE
'58, JAMES TONG '50, PAUL DONNELLY '67 and DICK
WEDEN '68" ... MAX KRAUSS-DROGUETT has returned to
Chile af.ter spending two years in Honduras as an Associate
Project Advisor for Technoserve, Inc. He has opened his own
export business and is teaching a course in International Marketing
at a local university. Max writes: "I wish r could contact
every T-Bird and around the world and tell them the entire
true story of Chile-infonn them how happy the people are,
how the country is recuperating in spite of the previous disastrous
administration and. today's world crisis. I do hope to
visit the campus soon and have the opportunity to relay this
message to. present students" . .. DENISE MARCHESE ind'onns
us that MICHAEL is now Assistant Project Finance Manager
at the Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corporation in New
York City . DOUG QUELLAND writes: "I've been able to
combine my three ambitions-teaching eleven and twelve year
olds, teaching freshmen in college an overview of business and,
most of all, coaching a high school varsity soccer team . . .
JON STEELE is Condominium Development Coordinator for
the Perini Land Development Company, which, according to
Jon, is "currently developing 1500 acres of West Palm Beach,
Florida to become a totally planned unit development" ...
'~O n a recent business trip to Panama, Ecuador and Janmica,
I ran into MIKE CLENNAN and ELMER HAMOR in Panama
and JIM RICE in the airport of Guayaquil, Ecuador", writes
ROBERT MUELLER, Export Sales Representative for Grea,t
Northern Paper .... JAMES ROOK has an exotic new territory.
He is located in Hong Kong and covering Hong Kong,
ThaHand, India and Bangladesh, for Caterpillar Tractor Company
... DAVID YOUNG writes from Brentwood, California:
"I have recently become self-employed, presently dealing In
classic and special interest automobiles" ... Associated Chemicals,
specializing in the import and export of chemical fertilizers,
as well as other commodities, is MORRIS BARKAN's
own new business. "It keeps us between California and Arizona
a lot. EILEEN retired with the birth of son, Russell. Love
to all my friends (especially L.G.)" ... KHALED CHAMMA
writes from Beirut: "I am heading a finance company in the
Middle E.ast and have a business of my own. My house has
been opened to any Thunderbird student :I1or the last two years,
and I am glad I have seen some of them. Here are some ot
the TUTES who have been in Beirut: CHAT SKAYNE '72;
SAM WOLF '72. Also there are some Thunderbird grads who
are living in Beirut ... AMffi MALAK '73 working for 3M; MOHEB
al SADAT '72, Middle East Representative for Kohler
International; STEVE PHOTIADES '72, Middle East Representative
for McGraw-Edison. Also MATHEW GREEN '72-he
was stationed in Beirut at Triad Company and he 1ust ma~ried
Bot. Renz got together with old friends when he was in Tehran in
November 74. Left to right: Bob Renz '12, Shirin Moinpour '73,
Farhad Akhavi '72 and Mike Carapiet '72.
a wonderful Lebanese girl by the name of Rudi and he is
now in London. I am happy to have an open house with fun
Middle East hospitality to any TUTES" ... ROBB PEGLAR
continues his traveling ways. Writes MARY ANN: "Robb just
returned from his' third trip to tJhe Far East this year. He
attended the Southeast Asian Insurance Conference in Djakarta
representing the AIG Re-insurance Division •. Later he will be
off to Manila fOtr two weeks" ... RICHARD CRAlL is a Contract
Negoti.ato~ for the U.s. Department of Defense, responsible
for affecting eC'onomics in procuremel1lt for foreign military
governments interes.11ed in U.S. technical products manufactured
here and abroad ... JOHN WALLACE is now with
Ferry-Morse Seed Co.mpany, International Division, in MOuntain
View, Oalifornia . . . TOM TEGART, Consultant to the
Commercial Bank of Malawi, writes: "It was a real pleasure
to read the Newsweek article on AGSIM. The School is
becoming known and well thought of even in Malawi. Dr.
Voris should be commended for his effective effort". . .
MICHAEL PELLIZZA has transferred from American Home's
Mass Marketing Department in New York to AIU of Rio de
Janeiro as Mass Marketing Manager in the Auto Department
.. " . BARTON FRANC OUR has been named an International
Banking Officer with Continental Bank of Chicago . .. Kenya
to Washington is quite a change. MIKE WILLIAMS left National
Outdoor Leadership School in Kenya and is now attending
the Gonzaga School of Law in Spokane ... "Things are
going fine-traveling a lot throughout the area with India
being my most frequent stopover place. Anybody need some
curry" writes KRIS ANDERSON from Hong Kong.
73 DAVI~ and JOAN W~TKINS a.nd their childr~n a~e
now m France. David was hired by Schenng ill
November 1973, as a Market Research Associate, and
he was transferred to their Paris subsidiary in September
1974. "We miss the Arizona sunshine as it seems the sun has
been on strike along with the postal service, railroads, electricity,
gas, sanitartion department, etc." ... An up-to-date on
MARGARET ANN McCOY and PERRY SMITH. Margare,t and
Perry were married in November 1973. Perry is employed as
the International Marketing Analyst for the International
Division of American Motors Corporation and Margaret is a
Credit Analyst, the training area for the International Department
of Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. Two internationally-
minded budding, executives in one family! . . .
ALAN NORDELL of Olympia, Washington is coordina.ting a
forest products ma'chinery mission to the Philippines, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand for
April 1975, as well as a Northwest Forest Machinery Exhibition
for the Department of Commerce and Economics Development.
What do you do in your spare time, Alan? ...
CHRISTOPHER HANSEN, formerly Assistanrt Director International
Economic Affairs for the AMA,. is now Assistant
Editor-International Investment/Multi-national Corporations
for International Business-Government Counselors, Inc. of
Washington, D.C .... "Still in Rio de Janeiro after almost four
months. Our assignment may keep me here through Carnival."
Enjoy it, K. C. McALPIN. It is an unforgettable experience
.. . RON McDANIEL, Continental Grain Company, is engaged
in grain organization for export out of the Minnesota market.
Ron visited with ROGF.R and PAT HOWARD in London while
he was on vacation .. . The DOLANS continue their traveling.
JIM earned a MBA at the University of Guam in December
1973. Wife SUSAN, who worked a short time in the
Alumni Office, received a Masters degree in Pacific History,
UniVersity of Hawaii, August 1974, They have been transferred
from Alaska and are now temporarily based in Saudi
Arabia, where Jim is Eastern Business Manager for InterGreen
... JIM BAUER is Ridgid's new Caribbean Sales Representative.
Jim will also supervise operations of Ridgid's repair
station in San Juan, Puerto Rico ... The last issue of the
Dean Johnson '73 Jim Bauer '73
Bulletin incorrectly had JACQUES KERREST working in the
Budget Division of the United Nation, instead of at Chemical
Bank. It is SANDRA WERTH KERREST who is in the Budget
Division of the United Nations. Congraulations, Sandra! ...
NORMAN WOOD is Manager Hydroponic Projects for Intercontinental
Motel Corporation of New York ... FRED PERRY
writes: "Am presently pursuing a Juris Doctorate in International
and Corporate Law at the University of Akron School
of Law. I spent the past summer working in a Mexican law
firm as well as taking law courses there" ... WENDELL
SPARKS is working for International Cultural Exchange and
will be involved in cross-cultural orientation and counseling
of exchange students in the Louisiana and Gulf Coast area
. . KEN TANNER was with Westway in New Jersey until
August 1974, when he and HARRIET were transferred to
Tokyo, Japan where Ken is working as liaison ... After a
"brief tryst" with Rockwell International, DAVE CHRISTENSEN
is Senior Engineer in charge of directing the development
of a computerized economic model with Bechtel Incorporated
for Saudi Arabia ... JOHN SECUNDA is Materials
Associate with the Purchasing department of RCA in Cherry
Hill, New Jersey ... RANDY MILLER, son of KEN MILLERS
'49, is all wrapped up in his job as an International Trainee
at Continental Bank. At present, he is in the Africa Section.
To keep himself even busier, he's attending law school four
nights a week at DePaul University and French class one night
a week ... DEAN JOHNSON has been named Water Wen
Drill Sales Representative at South Milwaukee for BucyrusErie
... AGSIM has a golf champion! DAVID ARBESMAN won
the Dean Martin Pro-Am Tournament January 15th in Tucson
with partner Miller Barber. David is still with Ma~ufacturer~
Hanover Trust Company in New York City as their Principal
Europe Currency Deposit Dealer.
74 DOLPH HOEHLING reports that he is very pleased
with the inrtensive training he is receiving with FNCB
in New York. He and ANN e·xpect a Far East assignment
within the next few months. Dolph says he is realizing
more and more hQW very well AGSIM has prepared him for
an international career, particularly PAUL WILSON's accQlUllting
CQurse as basis for the intensive advanced accounting he
is now completing with the bank. Also via Dolph, is the good
news that DAVE PRATER is now with the Marubeni Ida
Trading Company of Houston, Texas . . . BILL DEVIR is a
Forecast Planning Specialisrt with National Cash Register
Company in Da.yton. TIM WALKER '68 Mana,ger of the department
writes: "Bill assisted me Last summer between semesters
rut Thunderbird, and we were veTY satisfied with his
performance at tha,t time. We are all looking forward to working
with Bill here and trust that a long lastinJg working relationship
with NCR will develop" ... SALWA MORCOS is a
Senior InternatiQnal Auditor with Continenltal Illinois Corporation.
She writes: "1 am presently in New York on my way
to London. In New York, I have gotten toge,ther with T-Birds
frQm my class and previous classes and greatly enjQying their
hospitality. I have also become aware of the fact that Thunderbird
is a widely known institution and many of my foceign
collegues are well aware of their work in the futerootional
Business" ... IDUARDO MORAN writes from Quito, Ecuador
that he is employed as Manager of Industrial Safety with the
National Oil Company, as well as doing part-time university
graduate teaching and foundation maTketing courrsulrting ...
GARY SHAEFER is Associate Product Engineer, managing
B.F. Goodrich's sales fQr all their products foc countries in
the Far East . . . BASHAR T AJI F AROUKJ is now with L. M.
Ericsson in Kuwait. He wrirtes: "My job art this multina,tional
worldwide, Swedish cQmpany is the head of all the adminis~
tration activities and departments" ... Thirteen is definitely
BOB KEATINGS lucky number. Puerto Rico Valve CQmpany
interviewed and hired Bob on Friday, the 13th of December,
and by the 13th of January he was already in Puerto Rico!
After training with JIM RUHLMAN '57, Bob assumed marketing
responsibilities for all of Southern Puerto Rico for the
company ... SANG TAE CHOE is pursuing a Phd in Marketing
at North Texas State ... "Started working with H. D. Lee
in August and am involved in every aspect of the marketing
mix. International fashion moves fast, but it's a lot of fun." So
is GREG PELNI's title-Management Trainee, Assisting the
Regional Manager for Africa, Asia and the Pacific! ... Dayco
Corporations Sales Manager, South East Asia JIM DODSON
will take up residence in Hong Kong by June ... PATRICK
KAWASJEE is assistant purchaslng agent with Harman Industries
in Los Angeles ... ERIC and MARTEE LEWIS are
living in California, where Eric is Import-Export Specialist
with Burroughs Corporation in San Diego ... "San Francisco
is great!" writes JOHN HETTRICH, who is a management
trainee with Harper, Robinson and Company there ... JOHN
PUTNAM is a management trainee with J .C. Penney Company
in Seattle ... As of January 1975, JAMES and JULIANA
NEDELKOW plan permanent residence in Vienna; Austria.
Jim will be Marketing Representative to the U.S.S.R. for
Rohm and Haas Gesellschaft M.B.H. Chemical Company ...
STEVE NEUMANN is an examiner with the regional administrator
of National Banks in Santa Barbara, California ...
JIM CHRISTIE is with Bausch and Lomb, Inc., International
Sales Organization in San Diego ... GAILIAN BAGLEY is an
Engineer Trainee with Otis Engineering Company of Morgan
City, Louisiana. "Entering engineer training program of Otis
for 18 months (to learn complete oil process}-back to Carrollton,
Texas for 5-6 months overseas preparation and overseas
after a total of two years training to go into administration
in England or sales and services in Middle East or Far
East" ... "1 joined the company in October 1974, and will be
in Davenport for approximately eight months, after which I
will relocate somewhere in Europe, either Brussels or Frankfurt",
writes MICHAEL HOOVER, a newly appointed International
Sales Manager, Industrial Controls, Eagle Signal
Company ... GARY PAYNE, Manager-International Trade
Department, San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, informed
us that he worked with the Mexican Institute for Foreign
Trade to put on Mexico's largest international trade fair in
Saul Antonio ... PAUL NIELSEN is Business Communications
Systems Representative with Motorola Communications
and Electronics Inc., in San Mateo, California . . . JOHN MAXWELL
is Director of the World Trade Department for the
Dallas, Texas Chamber of Commerce. John's primary duty is
finding export/import markets ... "After graduation I had. no
job and decided to come to Brazil to look for one. Thunderbird
is well known here and I had several offers. I found it
very easy to find work with an American education and minimal
Portuguese. I am very happy with the pay and benefits
that I am getting here." RANDALL KNAUF is now financial
analyst with I.BM do Brasil ... "1 spent three months of orientation
in Iowa, Salsbury Laboratories Headquarters, before being
assigned to European Post". BJORN LIVEROD is now living
in England as Salsbury's European Marketing Manager ... "I
was happy to see and discover the fine reputation AGSIM has
on the East Coast," writes ARNT VAGLE, an accountant with
A. Gusmer. "SHARON and I are leaving for Norway for good
next summer" ... RICHARD WILLIAMS is advancing with
Kimball International. "I will be traveling to the Bosendorfer
Klavierfabrik, Vienna, Austria in January 1975. At that time,
I will be involved in the audit of Bosendorrer, which is an
affiliate of Kimball International. Beginning in July, I will be
the American Representative for Kimball in Vienna. My
duties will involve the overseeing of the accounting and marketing
activities".. JIM HALDERMAN arrived in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia, last November. He is employed as an auditor for
the Arabian-American Oil Company there. Jim reported that
BRUCE KING is in Cambodia with World Vision.
Left to Right: Joe Piligion, Florence Mervis, Julie Flores, Berger
Erickson, Omor Akchurin, Dove Moir.
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Review, No.6, 1974, p. 43-55.
Filer, Robert J., "Foreign Productivity Centers-What We Can Import from Them," Management Review, v. 64, January, 1975,
Foy, Nancy, "R & D on a Global Scale," Management Review, v. 64, February, 1975, p. 4-10.
Daniels, John D., "The Non-American Manager , Especially as a Third Country National in U.S. Multinationals : A Separate but
Equal Doctrine?" Joumal of Int ernational Business Studies, v. 5, Fall, 1974, p. 25-40.
Rhodes, J ohn B., "U.S. New Business Activities Abroad," Columbia Journal of World Business, v. 9, Summer, 1974.
Dufey, Gunter, "Financing East-West Business," Columbia Journal of World Business, v. 9, Spring, 1974, p. 37-41.
Christian, Richard C., "European Views of Advertising," Journal of Advertising, v . 3, Fall, 1974, p. 23-26.
Mazzolini, Renato, "Creating Europe's Multinationals: The International Merger Route," Journal of Business, v. 48, January,
1975, p. 39-51.
Sethi, S. Prakash, "Why Japanese Business is Losing Its Halo," Business and Society Review, Winter, 1974-75, p. 35-43.
Goldman, Arieh, "Outreach of Consumers and the Modernization of Urban Food Retailing in Developing Countries," Journal
of Marketing, v . 38, October, 1974, p. 8-16.
Perimatter, Howard V. and Heenan, David A., "How Multinational Should Your Top Managers Be?" Harvard Business
Review, Nov-Dec, 1974, p. 121-132.
Carley, William M., "Troubled Outposts-Many U.S. Firms Find Foreign Subsidiaries Are Major Headaches," The WaH Street
Journal, Jan. 22, 1975.
Maisonrouge, Jacques G., "The Mythology of Multin.ationalism," Columbia Journal of World Business, Spring, 1974, p. 7-12.
Be rgsten, Fred C., "The Response to the Third World," Foreign Policy, No. 17, Winter, 1974-1975, p. 1-34.
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