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TH NDERBIRD THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT SPRING 1989 THE VORIS YEARS o utstanding In Their Field: More than 180 Thunderbird supporters enjoyed a special evening in March, the annual Spring Banquet. Guests of honor ranged from the newly-formed ASLC past presidents group to the Academic Board of Visitors. During the event, the Thunderbird Alumni Association paid tribute to an outstanding group of alumni being recognized for distinguished service and achievement. The Jonas Mayer Distinguished Alumnus Award was presented to H. Gene Wick '60, vice president of operations, R.]. Reynolds Tobacco International, Inc. This award, the highest award granted to an alumnus, was established in 1951 by Dr. Jonas Mayer. It is conferred each year upon an alumnus who has had an outstanding career in international business. Wick joined RJ. Reynolds in 1968 as manufacturing director of the company's Puerto Rico operation. From 1974 through 1980, he was based in Geneva, Switzerland, as manufacturing director and later as vice president of manufacturing for RJR Tobacco InternationalEurope/ AfricalMiddle East. In 1981, he was promoted to vice president of operations at the company's Latin American/Caribbean headquarters in Miami, Florida and two years later was named vice president for operations for RJR Tobacco International. He has lived in London since 1987 and is responsible for manufacturing and leaf operations worldwide. It was fitting that the award was presented to Wick by his classmate and longtime friend, Jack Donnelly, president of the Thunderbird Alumni Association. James R Brokken '69, executive vice president, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, received the award for Banking and Finance. Brokken has held numerous positions with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company since he joined the firm in 1971. He was named senior vice president and deputy general manager, international division, in 1984, a position that involved all the company's international business activities. In 1986, he was appointed executive vice president. (I-r) Wick, Voris, Somper, Warner, Daniels, Witcher, Donnelly, and Peterson toke a moment to pose with the symbols of the alumni association's annual awards. T hunderbird Honors Alums The award for Business and Industry was bestowed upon J. Phillip Samper '61, vice chairman and executive officer, Eastman Kodak Company. The Kachina was presented to Samper's son Joaquin, a student at Thunderbird. Samper joined Eastman Kodak in 1961. He was awarded the Sloan Fellowship to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his MSM degree in 1973 and he returned to Kodak to become general manager of U.S. marketing, and a vice president of the company in 1978. Samper currently heads photographic products, commercial and information systems, worldwide manufacturing and support operations, customer and marketing support operations, and Kodak subsidiaries in Europe, Canada, and Latin America. Vincent S. Daniels '74, president, Minequip, received the award for Entrepreneurship. Located in Miami, Minequip provides equipment sales to mining and industry in Chile, Boliva, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. Daniels began his entrepreneurial career as president of the import-export firm, Hassdan International, while a student at Thunderbird. In 1977, he founded Daniels International Sales and Consulting, and subsequently formed Minequip in 1980. In addition, five individuals were awarded the Service to Thunderbird for their significant contributions of time and energy to the School. Jack E. Donnelly '60 is president of the Thunderbird Alumni Association, having served on the association board since 1986. He is an Alumnus Education Counselor, a member of the President's Council, provides alumni chapter support, participates as a speaker during Winterim, and is an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees. Thomas A. Peterson '77 is a member of the Thunderbird Alumni Association board and chairs the bylaws committee. He was instrumental in forming the Arizona Alumni Chapter and is former chairman of its board. Mavis Voris's '77 involvement with the School began in 1971 when she served as an advisor to the Student Wives Club. In 1973, she founded the Friends of Thunderbird and served as ex-officio board member from 1973 to 1988. Mrs. Voris has chaired the Hot Air Affair, International Auction and Calcutta since 1976 and is first vice-president-elect of Friends of Thunderbird. She received a Certificate of Advanced Study in 1977. John A. Warner '48 has been an active Thunderbird supporter for 40 years, counseled over 30 students as an Alumnus Education Counselor, and hired four graduates of the School for PepSiCo. He has given five seminars during Winterim and provided alumni chapter support in Mexico City. Warner received the Jonas Mayer award in 1981. Daniel D. Witcher '50 serves on the School's Board of Trustees as well as the Thunderbird Alumni Association Board. He initiated the association's first alumni awards program, chairs the awards committee, is a member of the President's Council, and supports corporate recruiting efforts. CONTENTS 2 AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. WILLIAM VORIS 5 THUNDERBIRD'S FIRST LADY 8 CAMPUS NEWS 12 BOARD OF TRUSTEES PROFILE DAVID C. LINCOLN 13 VIEWPOINT 18 NETWORK 22 UPDATES Thunderbird Magazine Spring 1989 Quarterly magazine of the Alumni Relations Office of the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, AZ. 85306 (602) 978-7135 TELEX 187123 FAX (602) 439-5432 American Graduate School of International Management Director of Communication and Editor: Nelda S. Crowell Thunderbird Alumni Association 1988-89 Board of Directors and Officers Chairman of the Board Stephen F. Hall '69 Managing Editor and Writer: President Carol A. Naftzger Jack E. Donnelly '60 Contributing Writers: Amy Cutter Patricia Gieseke Deborah Kallina Communication Secretary: Joann Toole Design: Pat Kenny Graphic Design Director of Alumni Relations and Publisher: Bobbie M. Boyd Alumni Relations Staff: Catherine Snelling Executive Secretaryl Office Manager Donna Cleland Data Base Administrator Pearl L. Anderson Data Entry Clerk Janet M. Mueller Secretary Jane Kidney Receptionist Ruth E. Thompson Administrative Assistant Brenda Woolf Records Assistant On the cover: Dr. William Voris has sreered Thunderbird on an academic course of excellence for the past 18 years. Photo by Jack Kustron. Vice Presidents John C. Cook 79 Robert G. Lees 77 Peggy A. Peckham 74 Thomas A. Peterson 77 Treasurer Larry K. Mellinger '68 Secretary Bobbie M. Boyd Ex Officio Members William C. Turner William Voris Board Members George T DeBakey 73 Eric A. Denniston '80 John A. Florida '62 William H. Holtsnider '59 Franck P. Kiser '89 Gary L. Pacific 72 Douglas R. Quelland 72 Charles M. Stockholm '56 Mariya A. Toohey 78 Jeri R. Towner Denniston 78 Daniel D. Witcher '50 Clarence H. Yahn, Jr. '62 Honorary Board Members Joseph M. Klein '47 Berger Erickson '86 / After 18 yea" of gUiding Thunderbird from near disaster into the academic spotlight as the world's leading graduate school of international management, Dr. William Voris will retire from the presidency on July 1, 1989. By any measure one choosescurriculum, faculty, students, physical plant, finances, alumni, or worldwide reputation- Thunderbird is a vastly better place than it was in 1971. That was the year a concerned board of trustees sought a new president to take over the troubled institution. Robert Delaney, its president of one year, had been asked to leave. Voris recalls those early years during a recent interview. ''The School was at a very low ebb-academics, physical plant, morale, funding." The previous president, whose roots were in the East Coast, found little to like about Arizona, so the search committee was attracted by Voris's statewide reputation. "They wanted an internationalist," he says, "but they also wanted somebody that liked Arizona." As dean of the University of Arizona College of Business, Voris was known as a "community dean" in Tucson and had worked with industry in the city and all over the state. He recalls that Jim Patrick, then chairman of the board of Valley Bank, who chaired the search committee, "called me out of the blue and said, 'Would you be interested in the presidency of Thunderbird?' Our kids were coming to an end of their particular schools. Mike (who later received his MIM from Thunderbird) was just out of junior high school, and our other son (Bill II) had finished at the University of Arizona, so I told them to put my name on the list. " At the University of Arizona Voris had been familiar with Thunderbird. "In fact ," he says, "I had sent some students here when I was a professor at California State University in Los Angeles, and they did very well. 1 always recommended it for what it was - pretty much a training institution. " The day of his interview for the • • T+H+E An interview with Dr. William Vons presidency is a vivid memory for Voris. "Mavis and 1 hopped in our little green Camaro, rode up to Phoenix, got about half way, and blew a tire. 1 hitchhiked to a pay phone and called Frank Snell (chairman of the board) saying 1 was going to be late. The committee waited an hour and a half before we arrived. 1 was all disheveled and sweaty, and there was the search committee for this crucial interview. They all thought it was very funny, and we got a hilarious reception. " Frank Snell remembers interviewing several candidates, including one very prominent dean from the Midwest. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 2 "But when we looked around here we found a good man right in our own backyard, and he had good international experience, far more than any of the others we interviewed. It was a critical period. We needed the right man and we got him." Voris's international credentials, plus his academic reputation as a dean and author of two prominent books on production, impressed the committee. He was hired and told: "Take the school as far as you can, put it on the map, and keep us informed of your progress." 'l\l.most all the deans at the University of Arizona thought 1 was out of my cotton-picking mind," says Voris. "1 was faced with a situation where the curriculum was out of date; where the World Business Department had only a handful of people capable of doing what needed to be done; where the physical plant was just falling down around its ears. There was no air conditioning in any building. The pipes, the sewage system, the water system-everything was vintage 1939. There was absolutely no money in the endowment. The School was living day-to-day financially. "1 was 46 and very confident of myself having been a professor in (I-r) Frank Snell, founding member of the 80ard of Trustees, and Dr. Voris share a moment during Opening Ceremonies. Snell remembers interviewing candidates for Thunderbird's presidency and says, "We found a good man right here in our own backyard." Dr. William Voris gave the commencement address as president-elect of Thunderbird in August 1971. Since that time, he has presided over 53 consecutive commencement ceremonies, sharing the lectern with CEOs of multinational corporations, ambassadors, and government officials. Tehran, Beirut, and a dean. I had worked my way up through the ranks and I knew pretty much what I was doing when it comes to international academic institutions. I went into it without a qualm. I really enjoyed it. Every day was exciting. And how many times does a person get to mold something that needs to be rebuilt?" FIRST THE ACADEMICS Focusing first on refining the master's degree as the sole offering of the School and on the development of the faculty, Voris began the job of building the School's academic reputation. "I went after the academic side first. Somehow or other, I had to convince my colleagues at 2,000 other universities and colleges in this country, and 500 of them overseas, that this was a legitimate institution of higher education. It wasn't even on any list anywhere as being a quality academic institution. We weren't considered to be a college or a university. " Thlking to corporations to find out what they needed, and using his academic connections to find the faculty, Voris gradually built the kind of superior graduate school he envisioned. "I knew the kind of faculty member I wanted when I saw one-usually a guy with some international business experience, plus a doctorate. It had to be both. As a matter of fact, we got a lot of faculty with doctorates and gave them international experience afterwardshard- hitters in the fields we needed." He also recruited more expert faculty for the International Studies Department and added Ph.D.'s to the language department. Voris is also pleased with the development of overseas programs. "Guadalajara was our first one, and now we have eight of them. I'm very proud of that. It adds a tremendous amount of appeal to our students, and I think we'll have many more of them." Also noteworthy are Voris's efforts to raise faculty salaries. "They're pretty much competitive now," he says. ''They were rock bottom, so we've been doing quite a bit of leapfrogging. Now our mean and median salaries look pretty good, and we're right in there with the averages for colleges of business. "We wanted the complete respect of the MCSB (American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, the accrediting body for colleges of business) ." But instead of changing the Thunderbird curriculum to fit the strict MCSB mold, Voris took a different tactic. With deliberate strategy he set out to encourage the MCSB to accept Thunderbird. "I never sought MCSB accreditation, but they mentioned to me that, 'We SPRING 1989 3 must find a way to accredit this institution, so unique and so important,' and that's not possible the way the rules are written. "I am still pushing for the MCSB to broaden its standards; not just for us, but for places like Carleton College, Antioch, Oberlin. Their departments are not accreditable according to standards set by the MCSB, and they have very fine business departments." Although MCSB standards remain fairly rigid, and Thunderbird's tripartite curriculum is outside the realm of their MBA structure, the School is well respected in the organization. Voris has served on its board of directors for three years, as well as being chairman of its International Affairs Committee for seven years, and he has been highly influential in internationalizing America's schools of business. While he was chairman of that committee in the early 1980s, the organization adopted a standard that all curricula in business administration had to have an international dimension. ''The minute those words came out in the standards they created quite astir," Voris recalls, and he is somewhat disappointed that internationalism has not been more widely embraced by America's business schools. PHYSICAL PLANT Along with the need for upgrading the academic side of the School, it became readily apparent that the physical plant needed a drastic overhaul. Voris recalls one particular day: "It was a Thursday afternoon. Water was spouting from about six different places all at once. We had no water pressure. The place was being flooded. Nobody could take a shower; nobody could take a drink of water; and the physical plant people worked day and night patching the breaks. They dug dowrI and there were those rusty, old iron pipes. The pillars were all rotten and the roofs over the sidewalks were falling in. None of them would hold water; the buildings were leaking. So we issued a development bond, the only one we've ever issued and used the money to get the physical plant up to standard." Almost as an afterthought he adds, "Of course, we added nine new buildings." And he points with pride to the fact that except for small loans on a couple of dorms, they're all paid for. "Our debt service is only $160,000 a year. I'm unwilling to borrow money. I've been criticized for that. All we did was borrow from ourselves (the endowment), but I could see where the money was going to come from, and when that money came in we put it back in the endowment." ALUMNI INVOLVEMENT The alumni body, which is growing at the rate of over BOO per year, numbered only 7,200 when Voris came. Over 66 percent of all alumni graduated during the Voris years, and the total is now more than 21,000 located in 106 countries and every state in the u.s. "When I came, the alumni were not an important factor at all. In fact, we didn't know where many of them were, and most of them had never helped the School. We had a marvelous alumni director, Martha Dr. Voris has added nine buildings to Thunderbird's campus, maintaining the integrity of Millard Sheet's original design. During an Alumni Leaders' Conference, he reported on campus expansion and renovation and answered questions about the School's future plans. The Thunderbird Alumni Association made Dr. Voris an honorary alumnus during the Spring Banquet . Snyder, who knew them all by name. That shows how small an operation it was. We just weren't getting any support from the alumni at all. ''Thunderbird alumni are just now getting to the point where they can afford to support the school. A relatively young school at 42, we're just now getting alums who are chief executives of corporations. "That's one of the things I've enjoyed watching the most - the development of the Thunderbird Alumni Association. It's been a remarkable thing, especially in the last five years. I'm really delighted, especially with the leadership. It's very strong, very steady. It's bringing the alumni back to the fold. I think it's the future of the institution." 18 YEARS IN THE BLACK The financial picture of the School is the only area Voris is still not comfortable with. '1\s a matter of fact, two months ago I was ready to have a conniption fit," he says. "My advisors told me we were going to have a shortfall of about 82 students. I've been worried every semester for 18 years. With an endowment of $5.5 million, you can run through that in about six months if there's a drop in enrollment, so you can never relax." Nevertheless, the School had no outside funding when Voris came, THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 4 and he set out to raise operating funds from the corporations. "I traveled a lot of miles and talked to a lot of companies-sold them on a quid-pro-quo idea. I said that if they took our graduates, they should help with our operations. We managed to get a substantial increase in support from the corporations-companies like Citibank, Chase, Bank of America, Goodyear, Caterpillar. We became a regular part of their budget. Thank God for that. It allowed me to raise salaries and bring in better professors. Then we started a development office and really started to go around the country with a campaign." Voris has kept the School in the black, shOwing a surplus for each of his 18 years, while the operating expenses have gone from $2.5 million in his first year as president, to $14.2 million last year. "I still can't solve the financial problems, and that's one of the main reasons I'm not a bit sad about retiring. To me, that's the tough part. I enjoy the faculty, the students, building buildings, but I don't like raising money. But it doesn't mean that somebody else can't do it and enjoy it." That somebody will be Dr. Roy A. Herberger, Jr., who in an uncanny parallel to Voris's own career path, is 46 years old and comes from a position as dean of a university college of business (SMU). Remembering his own transition, Voris notes that being president is very different from being a dean. ''I'm an entirely different person than I was when I was dean. I'm like a chameleon. I play different roles in different environments, and if I have any secrets, that's one of them. "Thunderbird is a small, intimate, very explosive environment, and I use that word very carefully. We have a lot of nationalities - very intelligent high-level minds, and they're not easy to work with. They're not easy to lead. You have to get out front, and stay out front." Voris's advice to the new president is to know the School; know its nuances; know its strengths and weaknesses, its people, and let them get to know you. "Know what they can get away with, and what they can't; where you stand," he says. '1\t a school like this they have to see their leader; know their leader. They don't have to like him. Of course, "No single person has made a greater contribution to the academic success and international recognition of this institution," said William Turner, chairman of the Board of Trustees during dedication of the building named for Dr. Voris. (L) George Getz has been a member of the board for over 16 years and it was his generosity that made the William Voris Hall of Modern Languages possible. that's one of the sacrifices of being president of the school, or a dean, is that you have to rise above the idea that, 'What will they think.' You have to call them as you see them. There's nobody I can pass the buck to, and that means knowing the School." Frank Snell has high praise for Voris's accomplishments. "He has given 150 percent of dedication. He is aggressive, vigorous-just like he plays tennis. Bill Voris has had the ability to meet all the special requirements of being president of Thunderbird. He has a great capacity for getting to the heart of problems and solving them and he has developed a very warm relationship with the board. He welded the board together in a very effective way." As Voris winds down in his final weeks as preSident, he is looking forward to a six-month hiatus to prepare for his return to the classroom in the spring of 1990 to teach Middle East studies. "It's going to take that long because I haven't gone to class in 26 years. I enjoy teaching, but I've got to go back and dig in; read, travel, find out what's going on. I'm not going to go into the classroom ad-lib. I'm not going to go in there and give them anecdotes. I just refuse to do that. It's going to be fun." A PROMISE KEPT In his initial report to the trustees in 1971, Voris told them of a promise he made: "What 1 have done is go directly to the students, to the faculty, and to the staff, and to spell out to them that Thunderbird is a community; 1 was frank that 1 felt change was necessary, but 1 promised them that change would be gradual; would be carefully thought through; the advice and assistance of all segments of the community would be consulted; and that all change would be from the firmly established base of the tripartite approach - the pragmatic approach traditional to the Thunderbird Graduate School." As he returns to the classroom, Bill Voris can be secure in the knowledge that he has kept his promise. He is a patient man who has kept Thunderbird firmly and steadily upward on the track he set for it 18 years ago. The change has indeed been gradual but viewed over the 18-year span of Voris's administration, it is nothing short of awesome. SPRING 1989 5 By N. S. C. ADMINISTRATOR TO ATHLETE: The Many Sides if William Voris ADMINISTRATOR A strong believer in faculty governance, Voris encouraged the Faculty Senate and departmental committees to take a significant role in developing the curriculum. During the Voris years, new courses were added in all departments and instruction in Arabic, Chinese and Japanese was initiated. The world business foundation course structure and the core curriculum were developed, the language department added a business language requirement, and the international studies department instituted a new foundation course. ''The curriculum is sounder than it has ever been," Voris says, "and our students can compete with the best of them." SCHOLAR Although his specialty is management, Voris wrote two textbooks on production before the subject became popular in colleges of business. One of them, Production Control, went into a third edition and was translated into Spanish and Russian. At one time it was used by over 150 colleges and universities around the world. "Bill Voris taught me one important thing," says Edwin Flippo, professor of management at the University of Arizona and a former graduate school colleague of Voris, "that 1 could write a saleable textbook. If he could write a book like that, and it wasn't even in his field, 1 figured 1 could do it too." ORGANIZER Before the Academy of Management (the academic association for management faculty) developed its regional divisions, it was one big organization with meetings in the eastern states. Voris saw a need and founded the Western Division of the Academy of Management covering all states in and west of the Rocky Mountains. Other divisions soon followed, and Voris was named one of fewer than 100 Fellows of the Academy for his leadership. He also started the Continued from page 5 Western Division of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business and was its first president. INTERNATIONALIST Mingling with kings, princes, ministers, and university preSidents during the late 1960s and '7Os, Voris was one of six people who founded King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "He was a Middle Easterner at heart," says Dr. Francis Hom, preSident emeritus of the University of Rhode Island, who was one of the six. In prior years Voris had spent three years in the Middle East as a visiting professor at the University of Tehran and the American University of Beirut. "No matter where Bill Voris would be, he would adjust," says Hom. "I've spent 50 years in university administration, and I don't know anyone who has more get up and go and drive than he does," Hom added. RETIREE No label is less fitting to Bill Voris than this one. On his 65th birthday this year, Voris was ebullient. "I woke up this morning and said, 'I'm 65, and I'm happy about it. I went out last weekend with the students and alumni, played softball, got on base every time, scored three runs, and threw a whole bunch of 'em out at first base playing shortstop.' I can still hit a tennis ball, and I'm glad to be alive." ATHLETE College letterman in football and basketball, captain of the University of North Carolina football team, draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers, semi-pro shortstop and 100-yard dash man, Voris lives his other life as an athlete. He runs the perimeter of the campus every morning, and plays tennis every weekend. Robert Hunt, Sr., chairman of Huntcor and one of Voris's tennis partners calls him "inexhaustible-a human backboard. He almost never loses." Voris is a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, and if he had another life to live, it would be as their shortstop and manager leading them to a World Series championship. A LOOK AT THUNDERBIRD'S Mavis Voris is a petite, enthusiastic, energetic and avid Thunderbird supporter. Although she missed her husband's first commencement speech because of a long-planned rafting trip down the Colorado River, she has been by Dr. William Voris's side during his 18-year term as president of Thunderbird. Mavis says, "These 18 years have been a marvelous part of our lives." She remembers the early days on campus with the lack of air conditioning and one mimeograph machine to do the School's duplicating. "Now you see a computer on everyone's desk." When the Vorises arrived in 1971, the campus was surrounded by onion and cotton fields and it was a lO-mile trip to the nearest grocery store. During the years, Mavis Voris's gift for seeing a need and filling it has initiated such traditions as the Hot Air Affair, the balloon race, Friends of Thunderbird, the School's first endowment fund, and the student emergency loan fund. After being actively involved in faculty wives clubs and their activities since her marriage in 1949, and serving as president of the Faculty Women's Club at the University of Arizona, Mavis says, "Upon arriving at this campus, I was surprised to find no club or auxiliary, and no little old ladies in tennis shoes running around raising funds." What was in place was an active student wives club which held an annual spring THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 6 auction to raise funds for immediate needs. This club gradually faded with some of their ideas incorporated into other ventures. Mary Beth Tompane, a founding member of the Friends of Thunderbird, remembers the group's beginnings. "The idea came from Mavis," says Tompane. "Shortly after she and Bill came to campus she was aware how few people in Phoenix even knew the School existed." Luncheon invitations were mailed to "the women who really get things done in Phoenix," and the Friends of Thunderbird became a reality. One of the group's first projects was to arrange transportation for students arriving in Phoenix after school hours and to assist international students in making the transition to a new country. This included a reception for these students which quickly turned into a campus-wide event. '1\fter the first year," says Mavis, "the American students were saying, 'Why do you give a reception for them? We're international students too.' " Since that time, President and Mrs. Voris greet all new incoming students at a reception held in their home as each new semester begins. Not too long after the Friends of Thunderbird's inception, they sensed a need for an endowed scholarship fund and began looking for a unique way to raise money. In November 1975, the Thunderbird Invitational Balloon Race was born. A dinner and auction were held in conjunction with the race and Malcolm Forbes was the featured guest speaker. Mavis transformed the dining hall into an absolutely gorgeous spot, according to Tompane. "She painted huge 4 x 8 panels of balloons and just did everything. " Over the years, Mavis has gathered gifts from alumni all over the world to be auctioned at the annual Hot Air Affair, cataloging and storing items ranging from a stuffed piranha from the Amazon to trolls from Scandinavia. As a fitting tribute to the woman who has helped raise over $350,000 to assist students, the organization she helped found has renamed the fund the Friends of Thunderbird Mavis Voris Endowed Scholarship Fund. Along with her many other activities on campus, Mavis's ongoing interest in art has enriched the ambience of Thunderbird. It was her idea to use former U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater's American Indian photographs hanging in the Goldwater Lounge. "Friends of Thunderbird purchased half of the photographs from the Heard Museum," says Mavis, "and the other half were a gift from Senator Goldwater. " The graceful Thunderbird at the 59th Avenue entrance was commissioned by Mavis. The original drawing for the Mavis Voris admires a carved chest donated to the School's annual International Auction. The Thunderbird Alumni Association pays tribute to Mrs. Voris's dedication to the School by presenting her with the Service to Thunderbird award at the annual Spring Banquet SPRING 1989 7 wrought-iron sculpture was done by a Second Mesa Hopi Indian who taught art at the Indian School. An uncovered addition to campus art are the murals that adorn the walls of the Thunderbird Room. They are the work of Millard Sheets, the artist who also designed the campus in an architectural rendering of the Indian god of Thunder. Over the years the murals had been covered with brown cork. "One day I was in the Thunderbird Room," says Mavis, "and noticed a piece of cork had fallen down. I looked through the space and there was a painting." She discovered the murals, which were covered with glue from the cork and had to be restored. Previously undiscovered photos of the murals provided by Berger Erickson aided Mavis's restoration efforts. "I sent photographs of the murals to Millard Sheets," says Mavis, "and he approved, saying he was glad we had restored them." From artist to goodwill ambassador, Mavis Voris's presence at Thunderbird has had a significant influence on the School, past, present, and future. By Carol Naftzger CAM PUS NEW S PRESIDENTS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A strong interest in Thunderbird leads some students to seek out the office of ASLC president. This same trait has lead to the creation of the Presidents Association, formed to create a means by which past student body presidents, as a group, can stay involved with the School and support the future growth and development of Thunderbird. According to Dean of Students Steve Beaver, who serves as staff officer and parliamentarian of the association, almost all of the 72 past presidents have contacted him to pledge their support and interest. 'The response has been overwhelmingly positive," says Beaver. Fifteen past presidents were on campus in March to approve a charter, elect members of a Liaison Committee, and meet with various Thunderbird groups. During a joint dinner with the Thunderbird Alumni Association, a plaque was presented to Dr. William Voris on behalf of the Presidents Association thanking him for his years of outstanding leadership. Representatives elected to the Liaison Committee include: Dan Romanoff '55, 1950s; Karen Bell '61 , 1960s; Rod laylor '75, 1970s; Patrick Avis '85, 1980s; representatives-atlarge Gene Lavelle '80 and Mac Messenger '72; and the current ASLC president. In addition, Messenger was chosen as liaison to the Thunderbird Alumni Association board; Romanoff, liaison to the World Business Advisory Council; laylor, liaison to the Board of Trustees; Lavelle, liaison to Thunderbird's president; and Bell and Avis, liaison to the association's membership. According to Beaver the group expects to be task oriented rather than a social group, and will be working on behalf of the School. They will meet twice a year with the next meeting scheduled for September 28-30, 1989, in New Orleans. PHOTO BY JACK KUSTRON Past presidents of the Associated Students Legislative Council on campus for the inaugural meeting of the President's Association. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 8 Patrick Duffy DUFFY GRADES GLASNOST While the Soviet Union has made lengthy strides in the area of foreign policy under Mikhail Gorbachev, the low-level economic reforms that must take place in order for glasnost and perestroika to succeed are lagging far behind, according to Patrick Duffy, recently elected president of the North Atlantic Assembly Duffy, a member of British Parliament and one of NATO's foremost experts on defense, was on campus during Winterim teaching an International Studies course on NATO. In a briefing Duffy received recently in Brussels, he learned many details of the vast political changes going on inside the USSR, some of which he shared during a January speech to students and faculty. 'Nthough the political reforms under way are still far from western concepts-objective democratic societies-the events taking place are truly remarkable," said Duffy Outlining Gorbachev's plan for Soviet economic reform, Duffy stressed the USSR's reform of foreign trade, with its focus on greater independence and dealings with foreign partners. He also noted the Soviet premier's promotion of joint ventures between Soviet and western entrepreneurs. 'NI this represents a major departure from past indifference to those organizations. The real test of Gorbachev's success or failure," Duffy said, "are the economic reforms. If their domestic economy becomes anywhere near as efficient as their military economy, then we should look out," he warned. Duffy did list nine "impressive" reforms regarding Soviet foreign policy that have taken place during the Gorbachev era. These reforms include the INF Treaty, which Gorbachev largely initiated and of which many believe the Soviets are the main beneficiary: the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years; the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan; the fact that Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are now being heard without interference in the USSR for the first time in three decades; and Gorbachev's initiative to try to achieve a conventional stability between NATO and the Wcirsaw Pact. Duffy went on to talk about how NATO will react to Soviet military cutbacks in Eastern Europe, and about the importance of nuclear weapons to NATO. "Nuclear weapons will continue to playa key role in deterence," he said, " .. .it is still an indispensable element of military stability that conventional forces alone cannot provide." Duffy was elected president of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in November during the assembly'S annual session in Hamburg. He has been a member of the assembly, considered one of the top political jobs in NATO, since 1979, and a member of parliament since 1963. (I-r) KingsfDn Fletcher, Koro Welch, Anthony Logue, and 8rom Watkins check the wig, part of the required dress Logue wore as a barrister in high court. Logue was one of ewer 100 top executives (rom multinational corporations and international political leaders participating in the 1989 Winterim program. Fletcher coordinates the Procter & Gamble International Consumer Marketing Seminar and Logue is retired chief trademark council for Procter & Gamble Europe. Welch and Watkins were teaching assistDnts for the course. EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE FOCUSES ON KOREA Dr. Duk-Choong Kim joined Thunderbird as the Executive in Residence in February. During the week, Dr. Kim sat in on classes, spoke to the student body, and was available for consultations with students who are interested in business in the Far East and Korea in particular. Dr. Kim is a professor of economics and director of the research institute for economics at Sogang University in Korea. He also serves as executive counselor for the Daewoo Corporation, of which he is former president and chief executive. Dr. Kim lectured to students and faculty on "US. - East Asian rrade Issues From an International Perspective," focusing on Korea and its emergence as a "major player" in East Asia. International bankers like Korea, he said. "In recent history, only Korea paid the interest, and also the principal on its loans. Every other country in the world, so far, has paid off or had difficulty paying off just the interest." Comparing the US. and Korea, Dr. Kim said that Korea has undergone major economic and political changes in the past decade, whereas the US. has not had any basic changes. Korea PHOTO BY NELDA s. CROW£U SPRING 1989 9 Executive-in-Residence Dr. Duk-Choong Kim offered Thunderbird students his insights into the world of business during his visit to campus in February. has gone from a country with a $50 billion deficit to its 1988 surplus of $14 billion. He pointed out some of the changes in South Korea over the past few years: "We have democratic political institutions. For the first time the people elected our leader. It used to be 5,000 who elected our leader. This time, 25 million out of 42 million voted to elect a preSident. Our leader is of a military background," he added, "but he was elected by the people. So it's a democratic institution. In Korea there once was no right to organize a labor union; no right to strike. But what has happened today? We had 3,511 labor disturbances in November of 1987 . . . and now our wage rate has increased 40 percent in two years. Still we are competitive; somehow we manage; just like Japan." Dr. Kim is Thunderbird's fourth Executive in Residence since the program began in 1984. It is designed to bring outstanding business executives to campus to speak with faculty and students for two or three days. What distinguishes this program from other visiting executives and dignitaries is that the Executive in Residence spends a few hours each day consulting individually with students. CAM PUS NEW S COUNCIL AND STUDENTS SHARE CONCERNS Twenty years ago, when Larry Kroh '69 was searching for a graduate program to prepare him for a career in international business, his undergraduate advisor told him the only place to go for such training was "that little school in Phoenix:' Kroh's Thunderbird education has been instrumental to his long career at Coca-Cola International, where he presently serves as director of human resources for Latin America. Today, Thunderbird is still the leading graduate school in international business, but competition has caused the school to reevaluate its program. For the past two years, Kroh has been an active member of the World Business Advisory Council, a group of 60 corporate executives who advise the :! World Business Department. Since its ~ inception six years ago, the WBAC has ~ also become an advisory council to the ~ School as a whole. ~ This spring the WBAC devoted an "entire day of their annual meeting to interacting with students. Kroh said the council hoped to "feel the pulse of the school in the attitudes of students." At a roundtable forum, the council members discussed the qualities their respective companies look for in potential international managers, and addressed students' comments and concerns about the Thunderbird program. Kroh told students that Coca-Cola looks for bilingual, multicultural candidates who also have prior work experience relating to the position they are interested in. He believes that current Thunderbirds meet these qualifications handily. "Students at Thunderbird are poised on the threshold of an expansion of hiring by multinational corporations. Cultural sensitivity, language ability and business skills are extremely valuable to today's company which competes in a global market. The cost of being wrong with international personnel is simply too high to gamble on employees who do not demonstrate this background:' he said. In the question-and-answer session that followed, students voiced their opinions about Thunderbird to the council. When confronted with the comment that Thunderbird does not World Business AdviSOry Council member D. Larry Kroh '69 visits with a student during a dinner which gave students an opportunity to interact with WBAC members. give students as much hard-core business training as other business schools, WBAC members told students that indeed it is the generalist nature of the school which makes Tbirds stand out in the crowd of MBAs. The curriculum changes the council has recommended over the past six years have helped ensure that students get the "nuts and bolts" technical skills they will need on the job. Students were also concerned about Thunderbird's financial future given its low endowment in comparison with competing international business programs. Kroh told students that half of the corporations represented on the WBAC contribute Significantly to Thunderbird. Despite this, Kroh and the others stressed the need for more money to fund scholarships and facilities. To reach this goal, the WBAC hopes to see an expanded alumni fund-raising effort. Finally, WBAC members gave students guidelines to interviewing with campus recruiters. Some American THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 10 students questioned the accessibility of recruiters to them, since many multinational corporations exclusively recruit foreign nationals to work in their overseas offices. Kroh told students that international companies are segmenting their recruiting efforts, and are increaSingly seeking foreign nationals at Thunderbird because it is such a rich source of highly qualified foreign business students. Nonetheless, Kroh encouraged American students to get their names and resumes to companies that interest them. Recruiters of foreign nationals are often happy to send along any material received from qualified Americans to other branches of the company. After the panel discussion, Kroh and the other executives participated in various afternoon classes around campus. Kroh attended an international industrial marketing class taught by John Zerio, where he shared with students his experience at Coca-Cola with sourcing for international markets. Students found Kroh's contribution a welcome real-world vantage point from which to frame their readings and case studies on the subject. By Deborah Kallina Enthusiastic students, faculty. and staff took port in the 1989 campus phonothon which resu/red in pledges of $71,000 from (Ner 2,000 alumni. Pictured (front to back) are students Mary Everett, Michael Risse, Anthony Sample, Jane Mobil/e, and Denise Marceaux (standing). In March, alumni volunteers in the New York area participated in a phonathon which raised pledges from 249 alums totaling over $10,000. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION The Career Services Center has added a media dimension to its program thanks to the generous support of Johnson &. Johnson. A self-directed Career Management Media Room is now available for students wishing to access software and videotapes to help them plan their career paths and match their knowledge and skills with employers' needs. Michael Longua, Johnson &. Johnson's director of college recruitment and international management development, presented a check recently to fund the media room. The room is designed to help students learn skills to remain competitive upon graduation and afterwards. With the demise of the "cradle-to-grave" employer concept, students must be prepared to make knowledgeable decisions about the pace and direction of their career changes. Videos will describe various companies' corporate culture, history, and future plans, as well as the typical responsibilities of finance managers, account executives, and other personnel within the organization. Future plans will permit worldwide data transfer with potential employers allowing them instant access to Thunderbird's resume book. International 50S AssistDnce pledged $10,000 to set up an emergency loan fund to assist Thunderbird students. Pictured (I-r) are George Howard 11/ '71, president, 50S, and Claude Giroux, chairman of 50S, giving the (lrst instollment to Charles Mannel, vice president for external affairs. PHOTO BY GARY FORBUSH (I-r) D.R. Belisle, assistant vice president and director of employer relations, Michael Longua, Johnson & Johnson, and Kathryn Vegso, director of career services, in front of the Career Services Resource Ubrary. TRUSTEE DONALDB. TOSTENRUD DIES Donald B. Tostenrud, a member of Thunderbird's board of trustees since 1978, died at his home in Phoenix on February 6, 1989. Mr. Tostenrud was chairman of the executive committee of the Arizona Bank and its holding company, Arizona Bancwest Corporation. He was also a member of the board and executive committees of Security Pacific Corporation and Security Pacific National Bank of Los Angeles. Security Pacific owns Arizona Bancwest and Mr. Tostenrud was the driving force in arranging the passage of interstate-banking legislation in Arizona and Arizona Bank's friendly merger with Security Pacific. SPRING 1989 11 Is THERE A SPEAKER IN THE HOUSE? Thunderbird is seeking alumni interested in sharing their knowledge and expertise with various audiences. The Thunderbird Alumni Speakers Bureau, currently being formed, is a list of alumni willing to speak to trade associations, media representatives, alumni leaders, civic groups, universities, and other audiences. If you are interested in promoting your ideas as well as educating people about Thunderbird and its alumni, please fill out the form below and mail it with a copy of your current resume to: Thunderbird Alumni Speakers Bureau Committee American Graduate School of International Management Office of Communication Thunderbird Campus Glendale, AZ 85306 If your credentials meet our needs, a committee member will be in touch with you to discuss this project. Name Year Graduated Job Title Company Address City, State Zip Telephone (Office) (Home) Topics you are willing to speak on TRUSTEE PROFILE DAVID C. LINCOLN: FROM COPPER TO OPTICAL SCANNER One of the most enthusiastic standing ovations in the School's history occurred when David Lincoln, a member of the board of trustees, was introduced as the man who funded the new computer building with a half-million dollar contribution. Students who had previously labored in a one-room computer area furnished with a half-dozen antiquated terminals have elevated Lincoln to near sainthood in grateful appreciation to the quiet man and his wife, who simply saw a need and filled it. "Everybody had been after us to help with that campaign (for the Faculty Center)," Lincoln says, "and Joan and I listened to a number of approaches and finally decided that was the one that interested us and probably would be as helpful as anything. We guessed right on that one, I think," he says modestly. Significant as that contribution is, however, David Lincoln's commitment does not stop there. As a trustee, he is rarely absent from board meetings or commencement. When the students recently invited him to speak at their entrepreneurship conference, true to form, he readily agreed. Lincoln's participation in Thunderbird is a legacy from his father, John C. Lincoln, a founding trustee and prominent Phoenix leader, who passed the values of education and philanthropy on to his son. Lincoln went to Judson School and North High in Phoenix and then received his master's and bachelor's degrees in engineering from California Institute of Technology. After 10 years as an engineer, first with Convair and then with Sperry Gyroscope, he became active in family businesses in Cleveland. FollOwing his father's death in 1959, David Lincoln succeeded him as president of Bagdad Copper in Arizona, which he ran for 14 years until its merger with Cyprus Mines. Then David Lincoln began looking for an entrepreneurial venture, and together with a laser engineer formed Lincoln Laser prodUCing optical scanning equipment. "When we got into the scanning business, we knew that it was not going to be large enough to carry the company into the size that we eventually wanted it to be. The market probably would have slacked off somewhere in the $10,000,000 region and we wanted to have a company that had at least one more zero at the back of that, and maybe more. We had to have what we were calling a systems part of the company. We would use the scanning technology as the basis for the systems that we produced." Confessing to a major marketing mistake with respect to the Japanese market during Thunderbird's recent entrepreneurship conference, Lincoln told the audience, "Marketing is extremely important. My advice to you if you're going to be an entrepreneur is to do your marketing right, particularly if you're a bunch of naive engineers like we were. You think if you build a better mousetrap, the world's going to beat a path to your door; it doesn't happen that way," he says emphatically: "You've got to go find that mouse and put it in the trap." Lincoln feels the same way about marketing Thunderbird. ''I've been very pleased with this School. Its curriculum is unique and important-crucial. The problem is competition. It's going to take a lot of entrepreneurship and a lot THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 12 of being quick on our feet, doing the right things and staying ahead of the competition. "We need to continue to pay attention to our customers, which are some combination of our students, and the people who hire our students and what they want. One of the nice things about Thunderbird is that it can be more responsive. A big university that is set in its ways can't respond nearly as quickly as Thunderbird can. "There's some good news and some bad news in the way we're financed right now-by tuition," Lincoln says. "The bad news is, we don't have much of an endowment. The good news is, we're really responsive to our market. Every semester we're responsive to our market. I'm not saying we should stay tuition-dependent, but we've got to keep that responsiveness to what the students want and what the world wants our students to do, as well as build up the endowment. "It's a fascinating School," Lincoln says. 'The spirit here is unique and there is that Thunderbird mystique. I think it's here to a large extent because of the students. We can learn from them in many cases." N.s.c. VIEWPOINT 1992: THE SLOGAN AND THE REALITY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY By Dr. Beverly Springer Something is happening in Europe today. Excitement, vitality and optimism characterize the area that a few years ago was described by one word, Europessimism. The date "1992" is seen and heard from Denmark to Greece. 1992 is about the establishment of a single market. It is a schedule of some 279 proposals for framework laws of the European Community. 1992 is a process not a date. What is this 1992 that President Mitterand says will once again make the 320 million Europeans actors in history and that Jacques Delors, president of the commission of the EC, says will enable Europe to run the lOO-meter sprint rather than the lOO-meter hurtles as they have been doing? The scope is vast. If achieved it would result in a Europe that is more integrated for business than the United States. But even if the ideal is never reached, the present is a Europe in which change is occurring with incredible speed. The EC is simultaneously attacking physical, technical and fiscal barriers to the internal market. Physical barriers refers to the border checks that can add four hours per border for an exporter. Technical barriers refers to the different standards that a product must meet in order to be sold in a country. Fiscal barriers refers to the constraints that kept financial services divided into 12 costly units in the EC Europeans are gaining the right to have a bank account anywhere in the EC that they desire, to buy their insurance wherever they find the best deal, and to receive in their living rooms TV programs produced in other member countries. Corporations will have the option of operating under the single legal code of the EC rather than under a different legal code in every country where they have a subsidiary. They will be able to consolidate production wherever it suits their product and distribute a single product throughout the EC without costly border delays or differing national standards. Dr. Beverly Springer, professor of International Studies, is considered an expert on the European Common Market With great fanfare, the EC published the Cecchini report last spring. It is a summary of a huge research effort that culminated in 6,000 pages of analysis of the costs of non Europe and the expected benefits of a single market. Some of the findings are: Exporters lose 25 percent of profits due to customs related costs. Car insurance rates vary 300 percent among member states but consumers in high cost countries have not been allowed to buy where it is cheaper. Governments could save 17 billion ecu's (1 ecu = $1.15) each year if they purchased goods and services EC wide rather than in domestic markets. Businessmen in a survey ranked closed government purchaSing as the worst barrier to profitable business operation inside the EC Differences in value added taxes and freight regulations were tied for second place. The removal of all these barriers will give the European economy a supply side shock according to the report. Individuals will gain purchasing power, firms will become more competitive and profitable and government deficits will fall. Whether 1992 is a phony medicine for what ails Europe only time will tell. But what is certain is that many business people have confidence in it. Polls show that awareness of 1992 is increasing rapidly and that the larger the business, the more likely its leaders support 1992 and are adjusting business strategy in response. Europe is SPRING 1989 13 in the midst of a merger mania. What excites European business people is the lure of a $4 trillion market with 320 million affluent consumers. For the first time, they will have "the critical mass," as the head of the German Industrial Association calls it, necessary to develop firms that can compete with the US. and Japanese corporate giants. Now we come to the tricky partthe prognosis. Inside the member countries, the powerful voices from the business sector are ahead of their governments in support of 1992. Interestingly, labor unions which are very powerful in much of Europe, also support 1992. Quite simply, the issue has not become a left/right issue in any member state. No political party of any importance has taken an anti-1992 position. Public opinion supports European integration. Neither is it possible at the present time to see a coalition of European leaders forming to block the decision-making process in the EC I know that Americans are very concerned that the new Europe will become a fortress Europe. The EC is our largest trading parmer. At stake is a two-way trade that totaled $145 billion in 1987. Certainly protectionism is in the European heritage as it is in ours. At the present time most of their protectionist noises are directed at Asia. If the EC creates a more prosperous internal market without throwing up external barriers, then, of course, many US. exporters will find better customers there. It will be very important that the US. government works closely with the EC to head off protectionist pressures. I think that the issue of direct investments is more important even than the trade issue. We have more direct investment in the EC than any other region in the world. Almost every American MNC has subsidiaries in Europe. Under EC law, these subsidiaries are considered European firms and are covered by EC policies. The US. government has to be alert to assure that foreign subsidiaries continue to be treated as nationals and especially to assure that US. service industries operating in Europe are treated equally when barriers to the services are removed. Much that happens will continued on page 31 4:558.m. Arizona time, November 18, 1988. Sleepy-eyed graduate students are slowly gathering in the Thunderbird Computer Center, ready for today's International Finance and Trade class. But, this is no ordinary class. These from Tokyo to Arizona. Using this advance information, they will be able to make decisions in foreign currency futures markets, just as real-world West Coast traders do. Normally, this is more like a homework "game" =:=---- played with plenty of students are preparing for the real world of multinational management. Today's exercise uses the Nikkei Japanese News Retrieval System to simulate the life of the foreign currency futures trader. The system was donated to the school by the NEC Corporation of Japan as a goodwill gesture to promote greater understanding between the United States and Japan. Thunderbird was one of only 29 universities selected by NEC for the system. The students will look at the foreign exchange rates from the markets in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and London as they are beamed by satellite decision -making time. But, today is different. Overnight quotes are flashed on the screen; decisions must be made before the Chicago market opens, and every scrap of background information helps. Yesterday's data pave the way for today's decision that can lead to tomorrow's fortune. 5:008.m. In just one hour, the International Monetary Market of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange opens. For the foreign currency trader, time zones are used to advantage as the traders seek to get a handle on the markets in the rest of the world before putting their money down on the board in Chicago. "Welcome to the world of the futures trader," says Professor Dale Vor der Landwehr. "The first thing we're going to do using the Nikkei Telecom System is to look at the most recent news bulletins broadcast during the night. They will playa part in the decisions you'll be making in the next few minutes," he cautions. The tension is building. Students sit together in teams, poised at their microcomputers as information appears on their screens. The global monetary picture begins to unfold. "Notice that the yen opened at 123.25 in Tokyo," the professor points out. "You should be discussing this in your teams, deciding what you want to do." The Nikkei system flashes information from Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Zurich, and London as the students huddle together, weighing the impact these data will have on today's monetary futures market. They are allowed to make decisions on as many as seven currencies and up to 20 contracts. One group wants to stick with one currency. Another group asks permission to do more than 20 contracts. "We want to be very, very rich or very, very poor," the group leader explains. 5:158.m. The data on the screen show an erratic monetary market. The Central Bank is almost frantically trying to offset the negative impact of Bush's preelection promise of "no new taxes." Vor der Landwehr explains, "The market views the budget deficit as a serious economic problem and it doesn't really believe Bush can cut expenditures significantly. " The screen cuts to recent 24-hour data on the yen, the pound sterling, the Swiss franc, and Canadian dollar, and the Deutsche mark. "It seems that those central banks are intervening like crazy over the night as we move throughout different countries," Professor Vor der Landwehr observes. 5:25 a.m. "It looks like the German Bundesbank is actively trying to offset the market forces, so you've got to incorporate all that into your decision-making. We're 35 minutes away from deadline before the Chicago market opens," he warns. More data flash on the Nikkei screen. "Now we're going to go into the actual markets and see the Tokyo market duririg the different hours of the day. It's 10:30 at night, in Tokyo, and the foreign exchange market is closed, but this is what happened. You can see the detail by the hour." 5:35 a.m. One student spots a sharp aberration in pound sterling on the Hong Kong and Singapore markets. "Is that a typo?" he asks. "It goes from 1.82 to 1.71 in one hour; that's more than it's moved in the past month," he observes. The professor assures him that it's no mistake. "The worldwide financial markets are crazy right now. Rates are moving all over the place," he says excitedly. "It's a marvelous time for traders because it's a time of disruption. You can make a fortune, but you can also lose a fortune. That's going to be important to keep in mind as you try to make a bundle yourselves when you enter the futures market in just 25 minutes." 5:40 a.m. More data: "This is the most recent data in London where it's now 12:40 p.m. This is the The students huddle around the terminals while Vor der Landwehr relaxes, talking about the Nikkei system: "The thing that makes this whole experience possible is the NEC Corporation, who gave us this Nikkei Japanese News Retrieval System," he says. "Thunderbird is one of only 29 schools in the U.S. selected by NEC to receive this system and we're just beginning to see the possibilities. It was given to the school because NEC felt that with so many international courses, we could get the most use from it, and they were right. "All the other international finance and trade faculty members use it. We have about 300 students using this system hands-on to obtain the latest foreign exchange data and other economic information as well as having access to all the historical data contained in the International Monetary Fund's international financial statistics. They also have access to the most complete English data bases available on Japanese business." Vor der Landwehr last step for you to look at before you get together with your team to make your final decision. There's actually a lot more we could look at, but we just don't have the time. As it is in the real life of a trader, it's always done with imperfect information," the professor says. "While you're talking over your decision, we're going to put the Nikkei system into the broadcast describes its sciencefiction- like mode of operation. "The computer wakes up by itself at a pre-programmed time of 5 a.m. It goes into the file and sees what instruction is left for it. The other day, we had it call Los Angeles at 5 a.m. Arizona time. A beam was sent to a satellite in Tokyo, and in Tokyo a beam came from London for the current exchange markets into Tokyo. The Tokyo information was sent through satellite, back to L.A. The telephone response was made to Nikkei. "Nikkei takes the information; puts it into storage; looks in the file again; sees if we told it to do anything else; we said, 'Yes, print the foreign exchange information.' Remember," Vor der Landwehr stresses, "It is 5:00 a.m. and there's no one in the library. All of a sudden the printer goes into its rapid-fire rat-a-tat-tat; nobody's there. 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Two or three items: $3.50 Four or more items: $5.00 A CCOUNT NUMBER EXPIRArION DATE TOTAL D PERSONAL D CHECK VISA D MASTERCARD 589 SIGNArURE (Signature must accompany order) THUNDERBIRD NETWORK ARIZONA In March, the Arizona chapter of the Thunderbird Alumni Association held its annual meeting on the Thunderbird Campus. After the meeting, members joined students in the TAC for a "Salsa on the Beach" party. Officers for the Arizona chapter for 1989-1990 are Chairman Ken Nelson '54, President Don Parker '82, Vice President Hein Schoustra '83, Treasurer Bob Wedwick '72, and Newsletter Editor Skeet Holland '78. The association also has four new board of director members. They are: Sally Craig '84, Leon Estes '62, John Hodges '85, and Jim Kistles '77. The group continues to meet on First Tuesdays at the Pointe of View on 16th Street. The speaker for February was International Studies Professor John Frankenstein. April's First Tuesday speaker was Mark J. Coleman, senior vice president, sales and product development for America West Airlines. CALIFORNIA Gold Coast Thirty-five alumni from the west San Fernando Valley, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties got together in March for their inaugural First Tuesday. The get together was held at the office of Pacific InterTrade Corporation in Westlake Village, California. Pacific InterTrade employs four Tbirds. Alumni in attendance ranged from Joe Klein '47 and John Real '52 to a prospective student for the class of 1990. The group even received a congratulatory phone call from Berger Erickson. Randy Schilling, director of development at Thunderbird represented the School. The event was organized by Maarten W Fleurke '79 and Robert Lees '77. Greater Los Angeles The greater Los Angeles chapter elected new officers during their February First Tuesday. Officers for 1989 are: President &: Treasurer Carol Brittain '77, Vice Presidents Charlie Lowe '77 and Diane Carter '87, and Secretary Marianne Wehner '84. To facilitate reaching Tbirds of all eras, each class year or group of class years will have a class captain to act as a contact and a general motivator for participation and enthusiasm. Diane Carter '87 is responsible for coordinating the class captains. Recent activities of Los Angeles area Tbirds include a jazz night at 'i\t My Place" in Los Angeles. Entertainment was provided by Richard Elliot and his band. The event, which also included dinner, was organized by Charlie Lowe '77. Errol van Stralen '83 organized an international dinner for the group at a local Brazilian Restaurant. Orange County Orange County Tbirds held 1989 elections in January and elected the following officers: President Cynthia Schmidt '84, Vice President Cindy Carlson Stephan '84, Newsletter Editor Tim Polland '87, Treasurer Marc Gallin '86, Guest Speaker Coordinator Monica Walleser '86, and Entertainment Chair Sally Ingram '86. San Diego During their First Tuesday meeting in March, San Diego Tbirds selected a steering committee to lead their chapter. The committee consists of Don Capener '85, Steve Magoffin '86, Louise Gobron '85, Lois Brown Vera '77, Janelle Nieves '87, Jeri Towner Denniston '78, and Eric Denniston '80. First Tuesday gatherings continue to be held at the Copacabana and are organized by Louise Gobron '85. Deb Thomas '75 will be organizing monthly ethnic dinner get togethers. The group sponsored a luncheon in April that featured keynote speaker, Phil lauber. • Thunderbird was well represented, 16 percent of attendees, at the international marketing meeting of Motorola's Government Electronics Group held in Scottsdale. Pictured (I-r): James E. Schoen '62, Area Managerllnternational; Matt Jarvinen '82, Director Asia/Pacific North; Paul S. Fitch '86, International Contract Manager and Patrick Quinn, director of international operations and member of the World Business Advisory Council. West German T'birds gathered for First Tuesday at Das Kleine Haus in Frankfurt. Pictured from top to bottom ar (I-r): Madeline Blankensrein '85, Glenn Wheatley '87, Barbaro Karmeinsky '87, Jackie Lutz '87, Ira Burkemper '87, Shirley Henning '81, Timothy Powers '80, Pascal Crepin '86, Joachim Becker '85, Jorge Montero '83, Ursula Schroth '87, Alexander Brunen '86, Gregory Tripple '82, and Jeff Schneider '76. • Califomia Gold Coast alumni at their first, First Tuesday get together in March. Members of the Chihuahua Alumni Chapter gathered for their first First Tuesday in February at Chihuahua Charlies. Seated (I-r) are Dan Gallagher '88, Geoff Horsfield '87, Evie Gashler '87, and friends. The three T'birds are all financial controllers for Zenith's three plants in Chihuahua. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 18 .. Miami T'birds during a March get together with Dr. Dennis Guthery. Seated (I-r) are Enrique Zelaya '81, Rob Kasavage '84, jim Smith '84, Eduardo Ramos '84, Frank Forque '66, Guido Antezana '70. Standing A Orlando T'birds gathered for their first alumni meeting. First row (I-r) Cida Greco, jerry Greco '76, Mary Canova. Second row (I-r) Carlos Roncal '76, Ted Troy '57, Rachel Pauley '83, Mario Canova '85. Third row (I-r) Gerry Chambliss '81, Tom Hooker '81 , lliena Hooker, Tom Hackim '77. (I-r) are Amy Lonowski-Eastlund '85, Deborah Hartshorne Niskin '70, Dr. Guthery, Marisela Rodriguez '84, Kathryn Tobiassen '85, Regina DiSpigna '84. A Maarten W Fleurke '79 recently became a U.S. citizen. Fellow T'birds helped him celebrate at a party in his honor at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Maarten is vice preSident and co-founder of Pacific Inter Trade in Westlake Vii/age, California, and is a new member of the President's Council. umber is president and CEO of the Kashi Company, makers of puffed cereal products, and he spoke on the topic, "Problems and Opportunities of Starting a New International Business." San Francisco A Hypercard database for Bay Area Tbirds was unveiled at a recent get together and all present were invited to input their curriculae vitae. The database features entries for language and country skills, specialized work experience, hobbies and interests, and committee interests. The Bay Area alumni association views the database as a useful networking tool for career development and fun too. Forms will be available at most functions during the year, allowing the data to be input later. About 50 Tbirds made an appearance at the February First Tuesday including Bruce McKinnon '70, Robin Raborn '76, Yvette Morrill '83 and Nobu Kondo '83. Afterwards a lively Szechuan dinner was had by about 20 at Brandy Ho's to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Serpent. In March the group held a roving Thai dinner at Satay House. This event was organized by Adelaide Nye '85. FLORIDA Orlando Tom Hackim '77 and Jerry Greco '77 have organized First Tuesdays in the greater Orlando area beginning at 5 p.m. in Valentyne's Jazz Bar, 54 • International Studies Professor Dorothy Riddle recently joined a group of T'birds for dinner at the Plaza Hotel in Amman, jordan. Front row (I-r): john A. Moore '70; Bashor r Farouki '74; Dr. Riddle; Ben Cross '69; Back row: Mohammed A. Azab '79; Francis Donovan '81; Mohammad Ensour '80, Nazzal A/-Armouti '79; Mohamad Anwar '79; Mansour Abu-Rahmeh '86; Halim Abu-Rahmeh '84; and Frederick jeroy '51. SPRING 1989 19 N. Orange Avenue. Tom and Jerry say, "Look for the sign at Valentyne's that says The Pub.''' GEORGIA The Atlanta Chapter continues to meet on First Tuesdays at 6 p.m. at East Village Grille, 248 Buckead Avenue. Maher Tubbeh '87 and May Cheong '87 organized a picnic for the group. Members got together in April at Callaway Gardens, 70 miles south of Atlanta, and enjoyed the 700 varieties of azaleas that were in full bloom. MARYLAND Baltimore Tbirds have moved the location of their First Thursday gatherings. The group will be meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Rusty Scupper in the inner harbor. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Tbirds met for their first First Tuesday in January at Delfino's Lounge in the Clarion Four Seasons Hotel. Attending the gathering were: Ernie Bruss '62, Sherrie Busler '86, Roberto Castillo '60, Susan Danto '80, Warren Feller '74, Louis Frey '73, Christy Henspeter '82, Dave Huhn '70 and Laurie Staebler '88. Only four of these Tbirds had ever met before. The group will continue to meet each month on third Thursdays. NEW JERSEY New Jersey Tbirds have new officers for 1989. They are Co-presidents Michele Pieropan '87 and Bjorn Kirchdorfer '87; Vice President Cindy Gebhardt '87; Treasurer Eric Chadwick '87; Secretary Greg Jenik '86; Special Events Cathy Modaber '87; Public Relations Uku Ateinea '75; and Social Chair Cindy Engels '86. To celebrate the end of tax time for 1988, the group went to Atlantic City for a day of gambling and fun. The trip was organized by Eric Chadwick '87 and Cindy Gephardt '87. THUNDERBIRD NETWORK NEW YORK Ethnopigging continues to attract New York City Tbirds to various eateries. In February the group dined at Tibetan Kitchen, in March at Mocca Hungarian, and in April, the group sampled a Yemeni style dinner at Rectangles Cafe. In April, the group also toured New York's newest museum, the LLadro, which was followed by dinner at a Spanish restaurant, Alcala. These events were organized by Helen Covington '82. New York Tbirds joined the Adventurers Club for St. Patrick's Leprachaun hunt through the bars of New York City. This event was organized by Robbie Weaver '86. First Tuesdays have been temporarily relocated to Houlihan's at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, until May. In May, the group will join Cinco de Mayo at its new location for a private pre-opening celebration. Cinco de Mayo has moved to the Citicorp center at 54th Street and Third Avenue. ILLINOIS Chicagoland Chapter A research committee is being formed to analyze the European Community's plans for dropping all internal trade barriers within member countries. Linda Pascucci '85 and Conrad Terry '81 are organizing the committee. Tbirds wound their way to 3 Happiness in Chinatown to celebrate the Year of the Serpent with a seven-course "Master Chef' dinner. The chapter has grown over 15 percent in the past 14 months and now has 839 registered members in the Chicago area. Mark Rudolph '78, has organized a global job bank: a newsletter that lists international job opportunities in the Chicago area. The newsletter will be distributed to subscribers each time at least four job postings are received. Linda Pascucci '85 was elected chapter president for the next eight months. TENNESSEE Nashville Steve Nicley '82 hosted Nashville's second annual winter Tbird party featuring a Mexican dinner catered by the San Antonio Taco Company. Jennifer Alcantara '87 handled the reservations. TEXAS In keeping with their tradition of relocating the First Tuesday meeting place every 15 to 18 months, the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter has changed its gathering spot to The Mucky Duck Pub, located in the Centrum at the comer of Oak Lawn Ave. and Cedar Springs, in Dallas. WASHINGTON Seattle Tbirds will be rotating their First Tuesdays this year. Beginning in March, First Tuesdays every other month will be held at The Eastside in Kirkland followed in April, June, August, October by a First Tuesday at Duke's in downtown Seattle. Seattle Tbirds have a new editor for their monthly newletter. He is David L. Novick '87. GREATER WASHINGTON WISCONSIN Milwaukee Tbirds are currently meeting for First Tuesdays in a private room at the Brown Bottle which is located in the old Schlitz Brewery in Milwaukee. These events are organized by Bill Reade '88 and Erik Burros '88. Dallas/Fort Worth T'birds held a reception recently to honor Thunderbird president-elect Dr. Roy Herberger. The event was held at Southern Methodist University in Dallas with 45 alums in attendance. Shown (I-r) are organizer Dave Trott '74 and Dr. Herberger. Ardith Dentzer McCormick '87 names her husband, Andrew (kneeling), an honorary T'bird during an impromptu ceremony at their wedding reception in Larchmont, New York. Interested observers include (I-r) Kris Brown '87; T Alumni gathered in Garrison, New York to celebrate the wedding of Stephen Sarro '83 and Dorodrt Krebs Sarro '77. Back row (I-r) Abelardo Gonzalez '84, Wilma Gonzalez, Edward Thompson '84, Dawn Sarro Rodriguez '83, Gerry E.srerbrook '77, and Linda Eastwood. (I-r) T'birds Matt Venezia '88; S. Kelly Seibold '88; C. Fred Ehle '88; and Matt Rymer '87 help Terry Crowley '88 and Karen Hime Crowley '88 celebrate their wedding day. Trocy Hinds '87; Colin Veater '85; Vicki Rosenburg '86; Mary Ryan Foss-Ski(rescik '86; Bob Caines '87; Vicky Goldstein '86; Greg Dickson '86; Ana Maria Diez de Medina Vega '86; and Yolande du Monceau '86. D.C. Tbirds gathered in March for their annual membership meeting at Pizza and Pasta restaurant in downtown Washington. The gathering was held to attract new members, to conduct elections for four vacant board seats, to take stock of last year's successes and to make plans for 1989. This event was organized by Treasurer Marcus Schaefer '82. Deboroh Sheehan '86; Pier Stiny '86; T New officers for the group are: President Jon Goodman '86, Vice President Brian Marshall '73, Treasurer Marcus Schaefer '82, and Secretary Tim Watkins '78. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 20 A Reunion to Remember Over 175 T'birds and guests attended the lO-year reunion for the classes of 1978 and 1979 on campus in March. The event opened with Pub Night where an original resume, rejection letter, or first T'bird job offer letter was good for a free beer. The Jim Mills Celebrity Golf Tournament, a faculty/alumni meeting and a cocktail party in the Thunderbird Activitiy Center rounded out Friday's schedule. On Saturday a job planning workshop allowed current students to talk to alumni about career planning and job search strategies in marketing, banking, finance and business management/communications. A group of Thunderbirds gather for a picture in front of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore during the Asia Reunion weekend. Thundergames gave returning alumni a chance to compete with alumni-in-residence. The day concluded with a southwestern evening of dinner and dancing at Pinnacle Peak. Plans have been approved for a $1.2 million library expansion on campus and the Classes of 1978179 have established a goal of raising $150,000 for this muchneeded renovation to expand the square footage of the library to twice its present size. Under the direction of Chairmen Tom Hobson '79 and Bob Whelan '78,51 alumni have pledged $50,000 to date. A donor brunch was held during reunion weekend honoring those alumni who have pledged $2,500 or more. Alumni Enjoy a Singapore Fling .... T'birds pictured at the dinner cruise on an Arab dhow during the Dubai Reunion. Pictured in the back row from (I-r): Gerald Kangas '60,jean Kangas, Phil Blaisdell 70, Dave Brothers 78, Hatem Kurdieh '85, Robert Standfast '60, Christine Standfast, Labib Baltagi 78, Lucy Baltagi. Front row (I-r) julian Gallegos '84, Beau Walker, Belly Dancer, Saeed Masoud '82, Rita Gallegos, Ossman Charabati '84 and guest SPRING 1989 21 ... Some of the members of the Classes of 1978179 steering committee get together during dinner at Pinnacle Peak. Front row (I-r) Bob Whelan 78, Sara Greenwood 79, Rachel Ge/tman Susz 79, and Marty Susz 79. Back row (I-r) j. Starrett Berry 79, Tom Hobson 79, Sonia Dias 79, Steve Orr 79, Tom Brennan 79, and joe Schmieder 78. eighty-seven Thunderbirds were at the opening dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Singapore for the three-day T'bird Pan Asian gathering. With great fanfare Randy '86 and Claire Hendy Oudemans '87 organized and carried off the very successful second annual Asian gathering for T'birds. On Saturday some 76 people got together for golf, sightseeing, tennis and water skiing culminating in a dinner cruise through the harbor and surrounding islands of Singapore. Sunday brought 47 of the hearty folks to the Raffles Hotel for Singapore Slings and an Indian brunch. With sadness and resolve to meet again the energetic group dispersed to carry on their international activities . The third annual Asian gathering is being planned for June 8-10, 1990 and will be held in Hong Kong. Sharon DeAlwis '87, marketing coordinator for Jean Paton Parfumeur (Asia) Ltd. and her committee guarantee a great gathering of Thunderbirds with shopping, conversation, island hopping and friendship. See you there. ALUMNI UPDATES 1948 Leonard M. Zolkos has retired from Inland Steel Co. He lives in Highland, IN. 1949 Robert W. Bloch is retired and lives in Madison, WI. FJ. Lee has retired as owner of Circle Florist. He lives in Ogunquit, ME. William G. Stephenson is the owner of Realty Specialists. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. 1950 Alton L Ashley has retired from R.J. Steichen. He lives in Bloomington, MN. Donald E. w..l<eman is retired and lives in Boise, \D. Daniel D. Witcher retired from his position as corporate senior vice president and assistant to the president of The Upjohn Company after 28 years of service. He lives with his wife, Betty, in Kalamazoo, MI. 1951 D. Barker Bates is a design consultant for Longview Fibre Co. and resides in Longview, WA. Donald M. Johnson is retired and living in Macon, Georgia. Before his retirement he was regional director of CIGNA Corporation. 1952 George S. Cumpston has retired as a major accounts manager with Dart Truck Co. He lives in Swansboro, NC. Robert B. Gooden has retired and liquidated Gooden Indusrries. He lives with his wife, Joan, in Elko, NY. 1953 John E. Calley is a western sales manager with FMC Corp. He lives in Riverside, CA. Cynthia Choyce is a self-employed realtor She lives in Coral Gables, FL. James T. May works with the State of Ohio in economic development. He lives in Columbus, OH. 1954 William C. Goff is retired and lives in Limerick, ME. Ralph C. Johnson is international sales manager for Bruning Computer GraphiCS in Martinez, California, and lives in Santa Clara. 1955 Alfred L Monks is a professor at the University of Wyoming. He lives in Laramie, WY. 1956 Ernest S. Olson Jr. has retired from General Motors Corp. He lives in Rochester Hills, MI. Fernando D. Pulido is a sales consultant for American Bell Inc. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. Carroll M. Rickard has recently retired as vice president from Continental Bank in Chicago, IL. B.C. Wirren was senior vice president of Young &. Rubicam before his retirement. 1957 Donald R. Johnson is retired and living in Eugene, Oregon. Before his retirement he was a hospital sales representative for Abbott Laboratories. W. Allan Kelly is a grove manager for Maebert and Baiamonte, a real estate brokerage and grove management firm in Escondido, CA. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Carlsbad. Roger L Hudkins '60 John Butler Jr. '64 1958 Russell E Bruno is retired as preSident, medical equipment, Squibb Medical Systems, but continues to advise pharmaceutical companies on their international operations. He lives in London, England. Walter R. HanfordJr. is retired and lives in Venice, FL. Robert W. Priebe is the executive vice president of Standard-Thompson Corp. He lives in Cincinnati, OH. 1959 William H. Abel is the owner of William Abel Training Services. He lives in Rock Island, IL. George L. Reeves is the managing director of the Latin American Debt Management Association. He lives in Miami, FL. 1960 Howard G. Hall II is vice president/manager/senior trust officer for First Interstate Bank, Ltd. He lives in Moraga, CA. Roger Hudkins was recently elected president of liustcorp International Services, Inc., a new nonbanking affiliate of liustcorp, Inc., in Toledo, Ohio. Dean L. Steele is retired and living in Moscow, \D. Prior to retirement he worked for the U.S. government as a warehouse examiner. Jed D. Terry is retired and living in Barrington, Illinois with his wife, Norma. Prior to retirement, he was head of the cenrral region, private banking division, Citicorp. 1961 Peter Avery is a system analyst with AlC Corporation in Tokyo.]apan. James D. Black is general manager of E.R. Squibb &. Sons de Mexico. He lives in Mexico City. Joseph T. Clarke is in sales with Grain Processing. He recently rraveled to Seoul, Korea to see his daughter, Kim, compete on the women's U.S. handball squad. He lives with his wife, Krys, in Muscatine, IA. Grant C. Ehrlich has his own business consulting firm and recently opened a new office in Carpinteria, CA. Reginald W. Hairston has retired from the social services department of the State of Virginia. He lives in Arlington, VA. James H. Parker was a general manager for H.]. Heinz Company before his retirement. John P. Rutten is a Spanish instructor with the University of North Dakota in Devils Lake, NO. J. Phillip Samper was recently elected to the Berkeley Business School Advisory Board. He is vice chairman and executive officer of Easrrnan Kodak Co. 1962 Jerome N. Chaffee is the director of international sales with Diamond V Mills, Inc. He lives in Marion, IA. Lex Creamer has opened a plant for THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 22 Roland Corriveau '69 Chris Hoey '70 micronurrient fertilizers in Houston, 1exas. He lives in Tegucigalpa. John M. Kelley is with Bowman &. Associates, an insurance agency, in Mesa, AZ. Robert K. Louis is a sales representative for BASF Corp. He lives in Greenville, sc. Wallis R. Sanborn is the manager of the Cen-Tex Recycling Center He lives in Taylor, TX. 1963 James Hickson is a product manager for E.1. du Pont de Nemours in Wilmington, DE. Stephen A. Imredy was named director and president of Gelman Sciences International, Inc., a producer of microfilrration products for medical, scientific and indusrrial applications in Ann Arbor, MI. David R. Wilson is the owner of The Landing. He lives in Charlevoix, MI. 1964 REUNIONNOVEMBER 11-12, 1989 M. John Butler, Jr. is owner of Butler Sales and Marketing, a manufacrurers' representative firm in Honolulu, HI. Luis M. Garcia is the director of international sales for Sun Diamond Growers. He lives in Orinda, CA. William]. Surge is a sales representative for Tynan Equipment. He lives in Indianapolis, IN. 1965 George M. Dykes is with the u.s. Office of President Elect. He lives in Alexandria, VI.. Eugene Graff III is the president of Bon Ton Inc. He lives in Bozeman, MT. Paul]. Koskey is the associate director for the President's Commission on Executive Exchange. He lives in Alexandria, VA. Alexander Kretsedernas is the owner/operator of CHS Inc., a chemical services firm that distributes Oxford Chemicals. He lives in Plantation, FL. K.B. Nichols is the chief financial officer of Antree. He lives in Irving, TX. H. Kenneth Palmer is with the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia as director of marketing for the invesrrnent management division. He resides in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Thomas W. Zoellner is vice president of Valley National Bank He lives in Tucson, AZ. 1966 John E. Amos Jr. is sales manager of Ben Meadows. He lives in Atlanta, GA. Mariano Arranz Jr. is the owner of Consolidated Box Manufacruring. He lives in Jacksonville, FL. Michael R. Englund is regional manager of real estate for Michael's Stores. He lives in Thousand Oaks, CA. Richard E. Mar is a loan representative with M Company. He lives in Foster City, CA. Charles E. Meech and his wife, Susan, and three children have rerurned to the U.S. after L 17 years in England. They live in Wayzata, MN. Thomas R. Mixon is a sous chef at the Cajun Cafe in Lafayette, lA Robert J. Snyder is a parmer in Ernst &: Whinney, an international CPA and consulting firm in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Janice, reside in Radnor, PA. 1967 William E. Bradford is a company strategic manager with Knauf Fiber Glass. He lives in Greenwood, IN. Richard E. Dueringer is second vice president and financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Hutton in South Bend, IN. Victor C. Fontaine is vice president and general manager; construction equipment with Nissan Kizai Nice Inc. He lives in Peoria, IL. Dennis E. Harman is a vice president/director of sales for Ecolab Inc. He lives in Edina, MN. Rene P. Larrieu is the deputy director, personnel department for the City of Miami. He lives in Coral Gables, FL. John A. McQuilkin is managing director of Cadence Capital Management Corp. He lives in Wayland, MA. Preston A. Reed is president of Cheese Cake Co. He lives in Newburyport, MA. Kurt W. Reiswig is the western division manager of Nissan Kizai Nice Inc. and lives in Byron, CA. Richard]. Roney was recently transferred to Firestone's Venezuela plant as factory manager. He lives in Carabobo. 1968 Edouard R. Amar is manager/professional relations with General Electric Co. He lives in Louisville, KY. Richard R. Austin is president of Austin Management Group in Mill Valley, CA. Richard A. Chopyak is the director of marketing with Arizona Computer Corp. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ. James E. Korinek is the president and owner of Southwestern Business Forms. He lives in 1empe, AZ. John H. Lockwood Jr. is a vice president, international, with American National Can Corp. He lives in Winnetka, IL. Larry K. Mellinger is executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank for the United States. He recently spoke at a seminar in Los Angeles on "The IDB, Comments on Debt, and Mexico." Brent]. Sanford is a parmer in The Cumberland Group and resides in Spring Valley, OH. Carl]. Stahl is preSident of RIS, Incorporated, a car rental company, in Riverside, CT. He and his wife, Catherine, reside in Old Greenwich, CT. Booker R. Warren is second vice president of Lincoln National Ufe Insurance. He lives in Fon Wayne, IN. 1969 REUNIONNOVEMBER 11-12,1989 Steve Burrell is responsible for M.W Kellogg's process plant contracting in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Indian subcontinent. He lives with his wife, Kathie, in London. Roland R. Corriveau was recently promoted to regional vice president for Valley National Bank, overseeing 16 branch offices. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ. Stephen Duggan is semi-retired in a villa overlooking the northwest coast of Corsica. Michael R. Garrett is a manager of corporate lending for American First Credit Union. He lives in Syracuse, UT. Bruce Michener is an agribusiness advisor to USAID in EI Salvador, working with John Heard '69, who is assistant mission director. Gerard C. Mordret is owner of Island Delights, a French restaurant specializing in foods from Mauritius Islands. He resides in Glendale, AZ. H.P. Reimann is the president of Venture Group. He lives in Sugar Land, TX. 1970 Roger A. Allington is the president of Dominion Financial Services. He lives in Alameda, CA. Paul L. Biddle is a director at Stanford University, and lives in Belmont, CA. Houston W. Briggs II is a realtor with Mangan Realty &1 Investments in Kissinunee, FL. William G. Brown is self-employed as a consultant with William G. Brown &: Amoskeag Bank. He lives in Hampton Falls, NH. Ronald C. Eld is manager of international operations for Erbamont. He will be based between Milan, Italy and Stamford, Connecticut until a permanant headquarters site is determined. A.D. Gilmore is vice president/wholesale division with Transcanada Glass. He lives in Mercer Island, WA. Chris Hoey is division manager of RJR Sales Company. He and his wife, Cheryl, recently moved Associates. He lives in Burke, VA. James U. to Piedmont, CA. Rex E. Johnson Edwards III is executive vice president of is vice president of Impact Software. He ALUMNI PROFILES FOREIGN SERVICE AT HOME AND ABROAD The recent bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by unknown terrorists brought home America's vulnerability to international terrorism. As associate coordinator for counter-terrorism, Ambassador Clayton E. McManaway '59 has led the u.s. State Department's efforts to prevent terrorist acts against U.S. citizens and to bring accused terrorists to justice. McManaway's job was his latest step in a distinguished government career. About three years after his graduation from Thunderbird, he was assigned to Cambodia with the Agency for International Development. From 1965-1970, he was part of a civilian military organization in Vietnam. Since then, he has served as a deputy assistant secretary in the Defense Department, on the staff of the Director of Central Intelligence, and as deputy director to the State Department's task force that managed the last days of U.S. involvement in Viemam. In this job, he oversaw the evacuation of Saigon and the resettlement of 250,000 Indochinese refugees. In 1975, he set up the State Department's Sinai Field Mission, which was part of the agreement that separated the Egyptian and Israeli forces . He then served as deputy executive secretary of the State Department. SPRING 1989 23 Clayton E McManaway jr. '59 McManaway was named Ambassador to Haiti in 1983. During his tenure, the 30-year-old Duvalier regime collapsed, opening up the possibility for democracy in that troubled country. "We felt very good about having gotten the Duvaliers out of there," McManaway recalls. One of his fondest memories of his term in Haiti was driving to the national palace in downtown Port-au-Prince the day after the Duvaliers fled the country. "It was one of the few times I drove down to the palace flying the American flag on the car and, of course, I felt a little like I was liberating France. The Haitians were so happy and grateful to the Americans." After the fall of Duvalier, McManaway worked hard to establish a schedule for democratic reforms and elections with the provisional government of Colonel Henri Narnphy. "My meetings with him would go on for three or four hours and I would leave with a splitting headache. He was sort of a stubborn guy, but you could move him if you worked at it." Unfortunately the promised elections ended in a bloodbath, and Haiti's future remains uncertain. Still, McManaway thinks the departure of the Duvaliers was for the good. "Internationally, it makes a difference. The Duvalier name was associated with such repression and misery that foreign governments !;lid not want to deal with them at all." Since his return to VWshington in 1987, McManaway has been offered a number of other overseas ambassadorships, all of which he has turned down. Being in Haiti was rough on his family, especially his teenage daughter. "I wanted to come home for my daughter'S sake. Her education was interrupted during the revolution in Port-au-Prince, and I'd like to let her finish out her high school education before going overseas again." McManaway retired from the foreign service in April to become the vice president of the Fairfax Group Ltd., a consulting firm located in Virginia. ALUMNI UPDATES lives in Conyers, GA. W. D. Juett is a professor of real eslllte at the University of lexas at Arlington. He lives in Dallas, IX. Thomas D. Mansfield is Latin American area sales manager with International Rectifier Corp. He lives in San Diego, CA. Georgia Nachtman is program director of WfCA, World Trade Center Association in Long Beach, CA. Prior to joining the WfCA slllff, she was on contract with the California SllIte Export Finance Office. Samuel Strasbourger Jr. is self-employed in The liavel Agents. He recendy had his first son, Brock. They live in Aspen, CO. Joseph N. Vaz is the vice president of commercial lending for the Zion First National Bank in Phoenix, AZ. James D. Woodson is an economist with Woodson, Delgadillo &: jacques. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. 1971 James H. Boyle is the assisllInt department chairman and business instructor at Glendale Community College. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. Richard E. Carter is vice president of Signet Armolite in Escondido, CZalifornia. The company recendy opened a branch in the u.K. to gear up for 1992. John I. Costa has been promoted to vice president, international, Lehn &: Fink, in Montvale, NJ. Thomas E. Dent is an assislllnt professor of education with the University of Maryland. Helen D. Hachem is a realtor wit\l. Gagliardo Real Eslllte. She lives in River Forest, IL Dennis W. Harte is a sales represenllltive for nonhern California with E.I. du Pont de Nemours. DaveJosepbson is the U.S.-based consullllnt for ARBI S.A., a Brazilian holding company. He lives in Huntington Beach, CA.].N. Kleinecke is the product manager of Zytton Corp. He and his wife recendy had a daughter, jill. They live in Thlsa, OK. Ted O. Mullen is the owner of the Stockyard Reslllurant in Phoenix, AZ. Ray B. Myhre is general manager of the European branches of Firestone International Europe in Switzerland. w.aIter Nagel recendy had his book Export Marketing Handbook published. The book covers all aspects of exporting, including exponing to Third v.brld countries. He is currently doing seminars on exporting and related topics. Mary ]. Phillips is a writer and lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Thomas 1: Rankin is the owner of Huff and Puff Pet Foods Inc. He lives in Richmond, VA. Hal G. Reid is a vice president/real eslllte with Arby's Inc. He is expecting his founh child in April. The family lives in Lilburn, GA. Donald W. Stanek is in international sales with Reheis, Inc. and lives in Easton, PA. David Alan Stewart is self-employed with JDS fuding Company. He lives in Huntsville, AL. Kenneth S. Vanosky is a self-employed private financial consullllnt. He lives in Mill Valley, CA. William 1: \¥.Ilsh is a senior sales consullllnt for Coldwell Banker. He lives in San Francisco, CA. 1972 Alberto Jorge Almirall is president and owner of AlmiraU y Compania S.RL, an adveltising agency. He lives with his wife, Betty, and two daughters in Paraguay. Thomas Austin is the owner of a real eslllte development firm in San Francisco, CA John G. Bostick is general manager of Sunshine Homes. He lives in Russellville, AL. Gary A. Brukardt is vice president of Volunlllty Hospilllis of America. He lives in Coppell, IX. Ralph E. Carp is the vice president of sales and marketing for Airsensors Inc. He lives in Wxx:Iinville, WA. Grier H. Cooper is slllff planner for the Arizona Biltmore. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. John H. Daws is the chief financial officer for Loral Systems Group. He lives in Orinda, CA. Juan M. DeCardenas is an investment officer for Caribbean p.rojett development with the v.brld Bank in v.ashington D.C. He lives in Vienna, VA. Kent Gregory works for Thorn Leasing. He lives in Newport Beach, CA. Robert 1. Hansen is a customer service represenllltive for Deilll Airlines in Salt Lake City, UI Catherine Ingram Krell is a partner with Marketing Directions. She lives in Pasadena, CA. David]. Lewis is general manager of Rank Training. He lives in Van Nuys, CA. Robb K. Peglar is president of Peglar &: Associates, Inc., an independent reinsurance intermediary firm. He lives in Darien, CT Ellen QuestJaeckel is market research manager for U.S. v.bt Communications. She lives in Golden, CO. Charles R. Schellenger is the owner of National Home Video. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Sc. Richard C. Strack is the owner of Maxwell Street Pizza and lives in Cucamonga, CA. 1973 Bernard Anderson sells commercial real eslllte and land for Hallmark Realty in Phoenix, AZ. He lives in Scottsdale. Louis R. Andreadis is a financial planning consullllnt with Prudential Financial ALUMNI PROFILES COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY Communication and change-two important words in Richard Greenwood's vocabulary. Greenwood is EVP and the chief fmancial officer for Valley National Bank, headquartered in Phoenix. He is responsible for all accounting and treasury functions, including broker/dealer operations, underwriting activities, and U.S. Treasury bond trading. His travels since becoming CFO in 1988 take him to New York City to deal with securities analysts and investment bankers, and YWshington D.C., to deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as to San Francisco and Los Angeles where the Federal Reserve and the Comptroller of the Currency offices are located. This is quite a change from his previous posts. Until joining Valley National, international banking has been Greenwood's career choice since graduating from Thunderbird. He spent time in London as Citibank's treasurer for its individual bank sectors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in consumer operations. Traveling 60 percent of the time, he was responsible for making sure the treasury operation and risk management of the 27 companies in 13 countries were being properly addressed. Richard M. Greenwood '73 Greenwood gives credit to his Thunderbird education for teaching him the importance of communication, not only overseas but in the U.S. as well. He says, "It was important to understand that wherever 1 am, there are subtle differences in the way things get done, the way people view things, and what people's priorities are. If I can catch on to these particular characteristics, it is easier for me to blend into the environment and get my objectives across, whether it be the social or business aspects of moving to a new community within or outside of the company." This philosophy worked well for Greenwood in Europe. "I had treasurers working for me who did not always understand THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 24 U.S. business customs, and 1 found it was a lot easier for me to understand what was important to them and where they were coming from to get things going," says Greenwood, "rather than to spend all my time trying to tell them where 1 was coming from." Greenwood keeps Tom Peters' latest book, Thriving on Chaos, on his bedstand. He views change as a way of life, with our age of information and computers facilitating information flow. "Change is constant now," says Greenwood. "It isn't something that you get out of the way and then settle into a routine." Changes are taking place in the way companies do business. Greenwood says people at Thunderbird asked if he has felt a loss coming back from Europe to Phoenix. He still deals on an international level with many business activities, like insurance, or bonds, trading and potential underwriters coming from places like London and Singapore. "Many aspects of life are so globally connected," says Greenwood. "More and more we live in a transnational environment. Those of us who went to Thunderbird don't have to learn how to cope with the implications of this evolution. We got it from the beginning." I Services in West Caldwell, NJ. Gary N. Bishop is a financial planner for Merrill Lynch in Phoenix, AZ. Robert E Caples is the director of operations for Skyline Chili Parlors. He lives in Cincinnati, OH. James D. Dolan is a project manager with the Atlantic Richfield Co. He lives in Dallas, TX. James M. Fitzhugh is a sales manager with the Fritz Co., Inc. and resides in Burbank, CA. Thomas 1. Harvey has been promoted to president of lluss-Corn, a manufacturer of building components for the northern California area. He lives in Sacramento. Steven 1. Haynes is vice president, corporate banking with U.S. Bank. He lives in Seattle, WA. Jim Henderson is the director of international programs for Teledyne Continental Motors. He lives in Mobile, AL. Eino A. Huhtala is a systems specialist with Government Technology Service. He lives in Reston, VA. Ernest 1. Kangas is a senior vice president/insurance with Republic Hogg Robinson Insurance Brokers Inc. He lives in San Ramon, CA. Claxton E. Lovin is director, airline economics, for British Aerospace Inc. He lives in Leesburg, VA. K.B. Marshall is the owner of KM Company, a sales and marketing consulting firm. He lives in Issaquah, WA. John H. Rentenbach is the owner of Le Becasse Restaurant in Maple City, MI. Arne Rosell is marketing manager; pharmaceuticals for Glaxo Lakemedel AB. He lives in Uppsala, Sweden. Donald E. Snortland is a regional sales manager for Heavy Machines Inc. He lives in Conroe, IX. Eugene A. Spindler II is vice president of Johnson Wax Development Corp. He lives in Mission Viejo, CA. 1974 Jose c. Carreiro is self-employed by Bay State Marketing. He lives in Marshfield, MA. Andrew W. Cherones is a principal consultant with SRI International. He lives in West Bloomfield, MI. Charles W. Cliburn is an account manager for the Digital Equipment Corporation in Jacksonville, FL. Hal Q. Coggins works for the State of North Carolina. He lives in Raleigh, NC. Bernard E Faucher is an assistant vice president with Mechanics Bank. He lives in Boston, MA. Paul S. Fronczek is an instructor at the University of Houston. He lives in Friendswood, TX. Gregory H. Holm is the owner of Brolm Market Research. He lives in Pueblo, CO. Frank W. Martin is marketing manager, channels, Toshiba America Information Systems with Toshiba America Inc. He lives in San Clemente, CA. John C. Melarkey is a cash management officer with the First Interstate Bank of Nevada. He lives in Reno, NY. Alberto Montezuma is executive director of Meritum S.A., an executive placement and general consulting firm. He is also executive vice president of marketing for Axial S.A., a firm specializing in merchant banking. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kelan S. Moore is a stockbroker with Lomas Securities and lives in Austin, TX. Rick E. Newcombe is director of sales and marketing with Leigh Industries Ltd. He lives in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. David Prater is the manager/ partner of lCARA, an international trade consulting firm in Denver, CO. Jaime A. Sancho is a sales representative for American General and lives in Forth Worth, TX. Michael H. Walter is the president of Equity Consultants in Mesquite, Texas. He has a daughter, Raegan Elizabeth, born in August. Hugh A. \\arren is senior vice president of Corroon & Black International in Boston, MA. He resides in Acton, MA. Georgia Nachtman '70 Thomas L Harvey '73 1975 Daniel G. Ball is an international sales manager with Kemit Inc. He lives in Simpsonville, Sc. Robert C. Buurman is national sales manager of Carolina Canon Co. Inc. He lives in Simpsonville, sc. Charles Clausen was promoted to international sales coordinator for Spicer Axle Division, Dana Corporation. He lives in Fort Wayne, IN. R.S. Dannison is a manager of corporate business development with Xerox Corp. He lives in Culver City, CA. Jane Dodson Nims is a brand manager with Reynolds Metals Co. She lives in Richmond, VA. Les M. Dvorak is a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. , in Rapid City, SO. Michael B. England is self-employed with the Dustoff Medical Group. He lives in Grand Junction, CO. Gerald W. Farr is a district manager with Sun Microsystems Inc. and lives in Salt Lake City, UT Jennifer A. Fidiam is a project analyst for Lucky Stores, Inc. She lives in Danville, CA. Michael T. Gaule is assistant to the president of Hi-Lex Corp. He lives in Batile Creek, MI. Deborah Gaylor \\bodall is dean of Heald Business College in San Francisco. She lives in Ceres, CA. Dale S. Gravelle is a vice president of United Bank of Midland. He lives in Midland, IX. Bruce W. Harris is a management consultant for Pradco. He lives in Cleveland, OH. Guy H. HarrisJr. is controller, banana production for Chiquita Brands. He lives in Panama. Raymond H. Johnson is vice president of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. in Scottsdale, AZ. William S. Machtiger is a group marketing and sales director with IMS International Inc. He lives in Ambler, PA. Michael B. Moore works for Cargill Financial Services Corporation in financial markets. He lives in Edina, MN. Brian M. Payne is an adjuster for American International Adjustment Company in Honolulu, Hawaii. He lives in Aiea, HI. Vickie 1. Rickey has been named vice president, worldwide agricultural equipment marketing for J I Case, in Racine, WI. Richard 1. Saint-Amant is rreasurer of Intenech International Corp. He lives in Melrose, MA. Jay Savage married Nieves Bartolini in Manila in October. Present at the wedding was Gary 1. Crist '80. Jay is with Plexchem International. Robert Sherman was elected president of the Africa Finance and Economics Association for 1989. The organization conducts research on African financial and economic issues. He is organizing a panel discussion on the African Debt Crisis. Will E Smith is an executive sales manager with Intergraph Corp. He lives in Palo Alto, CA. Larry D. Ursich is marketing director of Metro International Limited, a travel industry consulting firm. He lives in London, England. Peter W. Wdel is vice president of First Bank of Minneapolis. He lives in Houston, IX. Edward T. Wiese is with U.S. Wheat Associates Inc., Department of State, Abdijan. Charles A. Willman is an employment benefits auditor for the Lincoln lluSt Company He lives in Denver, CO. SPRING 1989 25 Charles W Clausen '75 Jeffrey A. Corbett '76 1976 Sarah Bellman is San Francisco Bay Area sales manager for AT&T's General Business Systems Division. She lives in Cupertino, CA. Mary 1. Carney is self-employed as an independent consultant in Sierra Madre, CA. Jeffrey A. Corbett has recently been promoted to vice president, product marketing for IteVPullman. He lives in San Francisco, CA. Bruce 1. Crumley is the president of Stonhard Inc.lAsia. He and his wife, Marcia Shelton Crumley '76, will be returning to Manila. Juan]. Diaz Perez is executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. James A. Doll is vice president of the Research Counsel of Washington. He lives in Cheverly, MD. Norman E. Fite is self-employed as a commercial mortgage broker and resides in rempe, AZ. Garry Gammon is the assistant general counsel for Computerland Corporation. He lives in EI Granada, CA. Linda A. Grandstaff is a senior vice president/manager of AmeriTrust Company N.A. She lives in Lakewood, OH. Charlotte Kennedy Takahashi was interviewed on a recent edition of "Good Morning America," as part of its series on Japan. She is president of Oak Associates in Tokyo. James V. Miller is the grants administrator with the County of Yuma, Arizona. He lives in Yuma, AZ. Philip D. O'Connel III is regional director of The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton. He lives in Philadelphia, PA. Alejandro Reyes is self-employed in e~port and lives in Miami, FL. Patricia Barnes Ricks is self-employed as a writer, and recently sold hh third novel. She lives in Austin, TX. Christopher D. Sandvig is an executive vice president of FNB of Chicago. He lives in Wheaton, IL. Luis G. Sarrosa is working with EGS Exponllmpon and resides in Scottsdale, AZ. Lynn B. Scattolini is an infonnations manager with the Environmental Protection Agency She lives in Alexandria, VA. Kimberley Shaw-Alvarez is self-employed as a tax consultant and was listed in the 1988 issue of Who's Who of American \l.bmen in Industry & Finance. She lives in Sunland Park, NM. Barbara A. Silverman is the owner of The Gift Solution and lives in Stoneham, MA. Irvin Varkonyi and his wife Leslie Spector '76 are expecting their second child in February. He is presently cargo sales manager, North Americafor Martinair Holland. She has been workmg With International Planned Parenthood Federation as systems analyst. Niculove G. Vintila is the preSident of Vintila Asset Allocation Inc. He lives in Waterloo, lAo Betsy Vogel Boze is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. T. Jeffrey Whitchurst is an executive vice president of Franklin Federal Bancorp. He lives in Austin, TX. ALUMNI UPDATES Joan Larson 77 Kendra L Mahoney 79 1977 Joseph K. Bassi is regional sales manager of Corporate Class Software. He lives in Chicago, IL. Russell H. Belcher is a national account manager with Xerox Corp. He lives in Topsfield, MA Cynthia Bend Gibbs is a market support representative with IBM Corp. She and her husband, Sam Gibbs, recently had a son. They live in Portola Valley, CA. larry H. Blivas is the president of Airport Metals, Inc. and resides in Pacific Palisades, CA. Terry E. Brahmsteadt is sales manager of Aspen Leaf retail ski clothing. He lives in Grand Junction, CO. Barbara Byrnes is director, corporate finance, Baxter International in Chicago, where she has been working for eight years. She manages interest rate and foreign exchange risk, and was recently named one of several corporate risk managers of the year by Intermarhet Magazine. Edward H. Danse is the director of business development with Allergan Inc. He lives in Miami, FL. Steven M. Erickson works in risk management with Covia Corp. He lives in Lake Bluff, IL. Clifton A. Foster is director of investments/real estate with Tower Companies. He lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Neveu S. Grove is a senior product planning! marketing manager with Memorex Telex. He lives in Tulsa, OK. Kathleen M. Hansen works for Levi Strauss &. Co. in San Francisco, CA Randy 1. Hartshorn works with IDS Financial Corporation and lives in Bellflower, CA. Douglas R. Hebard is assistant vice president of Signet BanklMaryland. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Baltimore, MD. Mary Louise Hydock is a corporate auditor for Motorola Inc., and lives in Phoenix. Jim Jehovics is director of marketing for R.A 1Iading Company in Houston, TX. Dennis A. Keithly is an international sales manager, computer subsystems, for Procom Technology, Inc. He lives in Torrance, CA. Teresa King Silbert is president of TK Silbert &. Associates. She recently had a son, Richard. They live in Wilmette, IL. Jonathan Kranz has completed his Ph.D. in political science at the City University of New York and has accepted the position of part -time instructor at John Jay College in New York. Joan 1. Larson is a securities account executive for Fahnestock &. Company, Inc. in New York Ciry She lives in Short Hills, NJ. Robert G. Lees is president of Pacific Inter rrade which has recently merged with the Shenzhen Electronics Group of mainland China to form SEC/Pacific 1Iade Inc. The joint-venture company will have headquarters in Westlake Village, California and the Quangdong province of China. Philip E. Martin is with Murray Imports/BMW sales in Uttleton, CO. BrianJ. McCorry is the national credit manager/paint products with the O'Brien Corporation. He lives in Mishawaka, IN. Bobb A. Meckenstock is the president of Ft. Hays Financial Planning, in Hays, Kansas. He was recently nominated to the board of directors for the Thp of the Thble, recognizing the top 600 life insurance salesmen in the world. Michael]. Minarich is an associate director/international marketing operations with G.D. Searle &. Co. He lives in Elmhurst, IL. George C. O'Keeffe is president of Pacific Rim Associates and resides in Pleasant Hill, CA. Kenneth S. Paley is a vice president, marketing and sales director, with Citicorp Finance &. Securities in Bangkok, Thailand. Timothy P. Rickards is a system coordinator with Phillips Petroleum Co. He and his wife, Kate, have two children; Ben, 5, and Claire, 2. They live in Bartlesville, OK. Kelly R. Sauer is a senior vice president with First Commerce Bank. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. CharlesJ. ~hrle sold his company, Axon, and has recently accepted a position as president of Windeco Industries. He lives in Pompano Beach, FL. Stephen H. Williamson is the vice president of finance with Computerized Security Systems. He lives in Harbor City, CA. Chin Wlh Ying is director of marketing, AsialPacific, for Melroe International. He lives in Singapore. So-Cheng Yuan is the manager/owner of Golden Phoenix restaurant in Phoenix, AZ. John P. Zavala is manager, import, distribution of Bentex Ltda. He lives in Paraguay. 1978 Paul G. Beal is vice president of industrial projects and licensing for Grove Manufacturing Company in Shady Grove, PA. Mary Bell Moudry is vice president, management supervisor of Foote, Cone &. Belding in San Francisco. She lives in San Carlos, CA. Bonnie 1. Biddix is an international management consultant with IBDC Advisory Service in Sydney, Australia. Lon Blauvelt is an international sales manager with Henry Vogt Machine Co. He lives in Floyd's Knobs, IN. Raul Casas is cash manager, treasury services, for Save the Children Federation based in Westport, CT Barbara Damm McKinney is a manager of business planning with Pacific Bell Directory in San Francisco. She and her husband, John McKinney '78 reside in Fairfax, CA. Daniel DeVito transferred from Honduras to Melbourne, Australia as a commercial attache at the US. Consulate. John E. Durbin is the treasurer of du Pont de Nemours International S.A. in Geneva, Switzerland. Kenneth A. Erickson is controller for Rajala Lumber Company of Deer River, MN, and resides in nearby Grand Rapids. Kenneth A. Erickson is controller for Rajala Lumber Company of Deer River, Minnesota and lives in Grand Rapids. Harold D. Foster is a foreign service officer with the US. Department of State. He lives in Wlshington, D.C. David A. Gaddie is an import specialist with the US. Department of rreasury, US. Customs Service. He lives in Andover; MA. Steve 1. Horton is the foreign trade manager for American President Company, Ltd. He lives in San Francisco, CA. Kelly D. Lockhart is a vice president with AG. Edwards &. Sons Inc. He lives in Jackson, WY. Charles 1. Nunu has rerurned to Rome after 11/2 years in Paraguay. He works for Compagnie Continentale ltalia, and he and his wife, Rita, are expecting their first child in July. Brian]. O'Connor is the managing general parmer of CMC Partners Ltd. , investment banking, in Phoenix, AZ. Stephen Warden is a real estate broker with Merrill Becker, Knoll &. Associates. He and his wife, Maria C. DeMaio '77 recently spent a year and a half traveling in 25 countries. Maria is a senior account executive with Mexicare Health Plans. They live in Oak Park, IL. Richard O. Wilson is a regional manager for McDonnell Douglas Finance Corp. He lives in Irvine, CA. THUNDERBIRD MAGAZINE 26 1979 Randolph W. Boyer is a regional sales manager, banking software with CFI Bankers Service Group. He lives in Towson, MD. Gary C. Clayton is a brand manager with the Kalkahlua Group, manufacrurer of Kahlua. He lives in Pasadena, CA. Judith K. Cole is an attorney in the office of the legal advisor, US. Department of State. She lives in Columbia, MD. Nicholas Crowder is a probation officer for Maricopa Country Adult Probation, County of Maricopa. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. Craig F. Dawson is the chief financial officer/venture capital for Sequoia Capital. He lives in Alameda, CA. Carl W. Eidsness is an independent agent for Northern Europe for American hot air balloons. He lives in Mainz, West Germany, in the winter and spends summers in Montana. Gary E. Glaser is president of Glaser 1Iade International, a trading company located in Philadelphia, PA. William Hussey is with InterTrade Services in Houston, TX. Steinar Hybertsen is the director of
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