Mergers bring us new partners;

              c7Wet£ers bring us
In Austin . . .
JOHN F. LANIER, JR.
John F. Lanier, Jr., joins us as partner as a result
of our merger with Frazer and Torbet. Mr. Lanier,
who opened the Austin office of Frazer and Torbet
in 1951 after spending three years in their office
in Houston, is a frequent speaker before profes­sional
and civic groups and has discussed taxes
in a number of television appearances. He had
been with that firm since his graduation from
Southern Methodist University in 1948 where he
received a BBA in professional accounting. He is
a member of the Estate Planning Council in Austin
and has served as a member of its Executive Com­mittee,
the American Institute of CPAs and the
Texas Society of CPAs, where he is a former vice
president and director and has a long history of
committee chairmanships.
In Boston . . .
Eleven partners have joined us as a result of a
merger with Charles F. Rittenhouse & Company.
They are Clinton W. Bennett, Paul F. Brophqy,
Arthur R. Hills, Ralph G. Lucas, Edward J. Nangle,
Jr., Andrew Petersen, John J. Randall, William E.
Reissfelder, Dudley C. Tetro, Theodore F. Tucker
and Dorothy G. Willard.
CLINTON W. BENNETT
Clinton W. Bennett has written forty-four articles
on various accounting subjects and is a frequent
speaker before business and professional groups.
His book "Standard Costs: How They Serve Mod­ern
Management" is published by Prentice-Hall,
Inc. and a Spanish edition was published in 1967.
Mr. Bennett is past national president of the Na­tional
Association of Accountants, past president
of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs and a for­mer
Member-at-Large of Council of the American
Institute of CPAs, as well as a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and
the National Society of Professional Engineers.