1964–65 Volume 89 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

108 THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for NOVEMBER, 1964BROTHERS JOHNSON, GRAU, GARDINIER, and VAN SANT.Robert B. Johnson (Colorado College '34), forthe past seven years the managing director ofChicago's State Street Council, has established hisown consulting firm, Robert Bruce Johnson andAssociates with offices at 333 North MichiganAvenue. Prior to going with the State Street Council,Brother Johnson was sales promotion managerfor the Merchandise Mart for seven years and hadpreviously served four years as director of publicrelations for Marshall Field and Company. Priorto naval service in World War II he had been asupervisor in the advertising department of Proctor&: Gamble. Johnson has been president of thePublicity Club of Chicago and of the Society forContemporary American Art affiliated with theArt Institute of Chicago. He has been active inthe Chicago chapter of the Public Relations Societyof America, the Chicago Maternity Center, TheAdult Education Council, Chicago YWCA, AuditoriumTheatre Council and serves on the Committeeon Economic and Cultural Development.James W. Grau (Northwestern '58) has been appointedmanager for advertising and promotion forStations WNBC-TV and WNBC Radio in New YorkCity. Since 1960 he has served in the same capacityStation WNEW.The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times hasnamed Glenn V. Gardinier (Allegheny *68) as itsindustrial-financial editor. His coverage of the latePresident John F. Kennedy resulted in his beingnominated for a Pulitzer Prize and in TheStandard-Times receiving the Associated Press ManagingEditors' Award.James A. Van Sant (Westminster '52) has beenappointed director of public relations and advertisingfor General Steel Industries of Granite City,111. He was formerly an executive with a St. Louispublic relations firm.Lyman D. Lynn (Whitman '28), a senior geographerwith the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has retiredafter thirty years of service with the FederalGovernment. His retirement followed a noteworthycareer which began in 1933 as a Congressional aide.During the subsequent three decades he workedalso for the Library of Congress, Geological Survey,U.S. Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Coast andGeodetic Survey which he joined in 1940. He wasChief of the Map Information Section. The Lynnshave moved from their home in Arlington, Va., toHinton, W.Va.A. C. Polk (Oklahoma '33), Tulsa, Okla., executivevice-president and general manager of theDowell Division of Dowell Schlumberger Corp.,was elected chairman of the board and chief executiveofficer of Dowell Schlumberger. He remainsexecutive vice-president of Dowell. Dowell Schlumberger,is a joint effort of Dowell Chemical andSchlumberger, formed in 1960, which operates inforeign areas using Dowell processes and techniquesin oil and gas well services. Brother Polk joinedDowell in 1941, and has risen consistently to hispresent position of eminence with the company.• • •The United States Air Force has commissionedJohn Lichtenwahier (Washington '43), a widelyknown San Francisco illustrator to make a paintingof McChord Air Force Base's F-106 jet interceptors,the painting to be used as part of the AirForce's Documentary Art program^ to be sent on aworld-wide tour. He is presently at McChord observingthe F-106S in operation. Currently presidentof the Society of Illustrators of San Francisco,Brother Lichtenwalner studied illustration and designat the Art Center School in Los Angeles forservice in World War II as a P-38 fighter pilot.Donald E. Gavit (Wabash "18) has retired as businessmanager of the Hammond (Ind.) public schoolsafter having spent the past thirty years with thesystem. The Hammond Sentinel, in announcing hisretirement, said: "The Hammond school system fslosing one of its most valuable possessions. It's nota building, a painting or a star athlete. It's a manof action. A respected man." As evidence of the