With Alumni; Applause;

              With Alumni . . . Applause . . •
Boston — Frank Fiorentino has left the firm to accept a
position in the internal audit department of Filene's, a
member of Federated Department Stores.
John J. Danahy, formerly of our audit staff, resigned
to become a sales representative of Burroughs Corpora­tion.
Chicago—John J. Terry has accepted the position of
assistant controller of National City Lines in Tampa,
Florida.
Gene Dierking, who joined the firm in 1959, accepted
a position with Williams and Company, certified public
accountants of Sioux City, Iowa, Mr. Dierking's original
home.
Cincinnati — Robert L. Lacy, who was a senior on our
staff, is now comptroller of Zac-Lac Paint and Lacquer
Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
Donald L. Day, a former staff member, has become
comptroller of Universal Chemicals, Inc.
Dallas—John Drew left to accept a partnership with a
firm in Weslaco, Texas.
Los Angeles—James Lindsay, former audit supervisor,
has accepted a position with Teledyne, Inc.
Mickey Masdeo, former audit senior, became assistant
to the controller of Don Baxter, Inc.
Robert Lane, former audit supervisor, is controller of
Amalgamated Sugar Company, Ogden, Utah.
Memphis — Ron Moore, a former member of the audit
staff, accepted a position with Wesson Division of Hunt
Foods and Industries, Inc.
Minneapolis — Richard Tanquist joined Gelco Corpor­ation
and related companies as controller.
William Rikkers resigned to become controller of
Superior Plating, Inc.
William Nelson accepted the position of controller of
Indianhead Truck Line, Inc.
Gerald McCormick has joined Suburban Ready Mix,
Inc., as controller.
Logan Beisner, on our staff from 1936 to 1947, was
recently named president of Quality Park Envelope
Company of St. Paul, a subsidiary of Standard Pack­aging
Corporation.
San Francisco — Theodore Wentz left the firm to be­come
assistant to the controller of Varian Associates,
Palo Alto, California.
Lou Helvey has been promoted to vice president of
Golden West Savings and Loan Association.
Advanced Business Systems — Richard Sprague was
assistant treasurer of the International Federation of In­formation
Processors Congress held in New York. He re­cently
participated in a debate on Integrated Information
Systems before the National Association of Accountants.
Sherman Blumenthal was chairman of an American
Management Association Conference on Real-Time Busi­ness
Systems from June 23-25. Mr. Blumenthal has been
elected treasurer of the New York Chapter of the Asso­ciation
for Computing Machinery. He was also exhibits
chairman for the Society of Information Display Con­vention
held in New York during September.
Robert V. Head has been appointed editorial advisor
to Datamation Magazine.
Atlanta — Robert E. Minnear was elected treasurer of
the Atlanta Chapter of The Institute of Internal Audi­tors.
He has been appointed chairman of the Tax Forum
sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Society
of CPAs and Emory University. Mr. Minnear was also
appointed a member of the Executive Committee of the
Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Society of CPAs and has
been appointed assistant secretary of the Atlanta Chap­ter
of the National Association of Accountants. He
recently appeared on a televised panel discussion of "A
Career in Public Accounting."
E. R. Dryden was appointed chairman of the Educa­tion
Committee of the Georgia Society of CPAs. This is
the second term he will serve.
Betty Kahrs has been appointed associate director of
the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of
Accountants.
Duff Macbeth has been elected president of die
Atlanta Chapter of the Budget Executives Institute.
Boston—The Massachusetts Society of CPAs has an­nounced
the following committee appointments: Hugh
Dysart, Cooperation with Bar Association; Charles H
Noble, Budget and Finance, Education; James M.
Lynch, Cooperation with Bankers; and Donald C. Wiese,
Federal Tax.
James M. Lynch has been appointed to the Taxation
Committee of the Smaller Business Association of New
England.
Chicago — Kay H. Cowen has been nominated to mem­bership
on the new Speakers' Bureau of the Illinois
Society of CPAs. The Bureau will serve as an important
public relations medium by offering a continuing contri­bution
to the stature and reputation of CPAs through
personal contact with the public.
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