With the alumni; Applause; TRB&S people pass CPA examinations;

              With the Alumni
Atlanta—Donald G. Peterson resigned from the Atlanta
office staff to take a position with the Atlantic Company,
located in Atlanta.
Chicago—After five years on the Chicago audit staff,
Robert Caudill resigned November 30th to accept a
position with the Paul M. Schwark C.PA. firm in Yuma,
Arizona.
Richard Niemeyer left us in December to accept em­ployment
with Reynolds Metals Company in McCook,
Illinois.
Executive Office—Bert Arcus has received his Ph.D.
from the University of California. His dissertation was
based on work he commenced with TRB&S at Chrysler,
and is entitled An Analysis of a Computer Method of
Sequencing Assembly Line Operations'. He is now on a
special assignment in New Delhi.
Felix Probandt, Director of our International Tax Divi­sion,
resigned from the firm on January 24th to accept a
position with the Ampex Corporation in Redwood City,
California.
New York—Thomas J. Corbally, an alumnus of the
New York office, was elected president and a member of
the Board of Carpenter-Morton Company, a paint manu­facturer
in Everett, Massachusetts.
Thomas I. Marcosson, supervisor on the audit staff,
resigned to become controller of Superior Surgical.
St. Louis—Erwin A. Court left the St. Louis office to join
Applause
Chicago — Robert Trueblood was host recently to the
Long-Range Objectives Committee of the A.I.OP.A. at
the Drake Hotel in Chicago. On the first day the commit­tee
met with three accounting educators — Sidney David­son
of the University of Chicago, Herbert Miller of
Michigan State University and Paul E. Fertig of Ohio
State, and on the second day with Dr. Paul F. Lazarsfedl,
a sociologist from Columbia.
John Bell has been elected chairman of the Research
Committee of the Chicago Chapter of the Budget Execu­tives'
Institute.
James Bragg has been appointed a member of the Data
Processing Management Association's Chicago Chapter
a local accounting firm. Bradford Bradsher left to estab­lish
his own law practice.
San Diego—Lois J. Pearson, semi-senior staff member,
left December 31st to take the position of assistant con­troller
with Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation.
San Francisco—Dan Ball has been transferred by Per-manente
Cement to India as Administrative Manager of
Mysore Cements, Ltd. in Bangalore, India.
Ted Perry has been transferred to be chief accountant
of a construction project of Kaiser Engineers & Con­structors,
Inc. which is building Kremasta Dam in Greece.
Seattle—Orville E. Melby, who left the firm in 1956,
was elected corporate treasurer of The Boeing Company
effective December 1. Stepping into Mr. Melby's position
as assistant treasurer is another Seattle staff member,
Dean D. Thornton, who came with the firm in 1954.
W. J. Pennington, business manager of The Seattle
Times, was named Seattle Junior Chamber of Commerce
"Boss of the Year." This is the most recent civic recogni­tion
ne has received, preceded by many through the years
since he left die Seattle staff in 1951. He was cited for
"depth and strength, and a major contributor to prog­ress."
Washington—Angelo S. Puglise resigned from our staff
to accept a position with Macke Vending Company.
Morris E. Sampson has resigned to accept a position
with the Market Tire Company.
Research Committee. Mr. Bragg also attended a two-day
preview of the AT&T Communications Seminar planned
for business equipment salesmen. The purpose of this pre­view
was to critique the content of the seminar.
The Chicago office assisted in a program for high school
guidance counsellors sponsored by The Illinois Society of
Certified Public Accountants. On January 14th, six coun­sellors
from south suburban high schools spent the morn­ing
at our office learning from Robert Shehan, Raymond
Revers, John Terry and Clem Siemer of the many oppor­tunities
existing in the public accounting field. At noon
they joined a number of counsellors from various subur­ban
high schools for lunch at the Union League Club,
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