Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 6 | Next |
|
This page
All
Subset
|
We Present: With the Alumni Atlanta — George D. Ashford has resigned to take a position with a local accounting firm. Boston — Scott Gerrish resigned in November and is now associated with his father in the grocery business. Donald Hilton has resigned from the audit staff to accept a position as controller of the Checker Cab Co. in Boston. Chicago —Frank Strachota resigned to accept a position as assistant to the vice president of Loyola University, a client. He had been a member of the Chicago audit staff since 1955. Executive Office —Dolores DeWolf resigned in December so that she could be with her husband in Detroit. She had been Director of Communications since January of 1959. Memphis — B. M. McKnight, a veteran of the Memphis Staff of over 37 years, has retired to enjoy the pleasures of home and travel. William C. Marshall, Memphis Office Manager, left the firm February 1 to join the Cost Department of John T. Everett & Company, large national manufacturing concern with home office in Memphis. New York — Edward C. Davis, a former member of the New York audit staff, has assumed the position of controller of Dugan Bros. Bakeries, a client of the New York Office. Castle N. Day, formerly a senior consultant for the New York MS staff, is now associated with the Socony Mobil Co. St. Louis — John J. Ostermeyer resigned to take a position with Orchard Paper Company, a client of the St. Louis Office. San Francisco — Duane W. Fuller left in November to accept a position as controller for one of our clients, The Customer-Aire Products Division of Pacific Industries, Inc. GERALD M. HAWTHORN, senior partner of Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart in Canada, died on February 9th at the age of 63. A leading chartered accountant in Montreal, Mr. Hawthorn was elected a member of the management committee of P. S. Ross & Sons in 1946 and served as a member of that committee until the firm merged with George A. Touche & Co. in 1958. He was selected as Administration Partner and supervised the difficult task of integrating the two firms. He was also a member of the Policy and Administrative Committees of the merged firm. He handled many of the most important audits—such as Du Pont Co. of Canada, Canadian Industries Limited, Canadian Celanese and also carried out many large special assignments . . . such as the installation of punched-card accounting for the City of Montreal. Mr. Hawthorn was born in Grenada, West Indies, and spent his early years in Trinidad, where he attended Queens Royal College. He moved to Canada in 1920 and joined the firm of P. S. Ross and Sons, of which he became a partner in 1928. A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Quebec since 1926, he served on several of its committees and on committees of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He was president of the Quebec Institute in 1952. He took an active interest in student affairs and was one of the organizers of the Students' Society. He was a member of the Montreal Club, the Mount Stephen Club and the Mount Royal Club. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice, two daughters, a son and a grandchild. 42 THE QUARTERLY