Architect's drawing of completed BankJIFC huildings.

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TEN YEAR STAFF

AUGUST: Carl Hoban. OCTOBER: (L to R) Alexander Saitzoff and L. Gray Marshall.

FIVE YEAR STAFF

AUGUST: Above, (L to R) Hubert F. Havlik and Marjorie Billings.

SEPTEMBER: Above, at right, (L to R) Donald W. Jeffries, John Duncan Miller and Audrey Handy­side.

Inset at right: Giuseppe Morra.

OCTOBER: (Standing, L to R) Louis ]. Pizza and Mary Oleski. (Seated, L to R) Betty Anne Yu and Ur­sula Shepheard.

"OLD" refers strictly to the building. Left to right: Joyce Silbaugh, Myrtle Chang, Evelyn Pendleton, Adrienne Bermingham, Carmen Castro and Marie Higginson.

Even a fairly new staff member notes with some wonder the changes in the skyline around 1818 H. Dur­ing the last year some well-known landmarks have disappeared. A glance up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House reveals a new building where once was a parking lot. If your dentist's office is in the front of 1726 Eye, you no longer gaze out open­mouthed upon the blue sky, but at a dull brick wall and spaces that will be windows probably before your next appointment. Even if you felt nostal­gic about the ancient structure once opposite 801 19th Street that served temporarily as the White House, you have no doubt already become accus­tomed to the new look that corner is acquiring-Peoples Drug is only a memory.

We can no longer eat lunch either inside or outside at the Tally-ho. We

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still have the Black Saddle, though it too has gone through a metamorphosis like a staff member becoming western­ized-Sheherazade and Omar Khay­yam. Some months ago we began hearing the question "But where will the California Kitchen go?" The Key Hole had a1ready gone. It is, however, all for a good cause-progress. And this progress affects us very deeply. In fact so deeply that we now point with pride, note with pleasure, view with joy the transformation that is and has been taking place before and above our very eyes.

In less than a y~ar, if all goes well, the old Hurley Wright building, that had 1800 H Street as an address, wiil be occupied by IBRDlIFe staff. Its new face will make it look exactly like 1818 H, enhanced by a facing of In­diana limestone trimmed with Cana­dian black polished granite.

All floors past the second will be connected, though staff members cross­ing from one building to the other will, on some floors, have to walk up a few steps or, in some cases, up a ramp. Visitors may come to either of the buildings by using the driveway which will lead from H Street between the two buildings and exit on 18th Street. The entrance will be a beautiful lobby two floors high. In the new building there will be three passenger elevators offering speedy service to all floors. There wil1 be one elevator for freight. Every office will have an outside win­dow and the office occupants will be able to regulate the air conditioning to suit their personal whims.

Probably the most popular floor in the new building will be the eleventh. There our staff will enjoy dining in a

beautiful cafeteria, large enough to

seat more than 200 persons at a time, with a breath-taking view over the tops of the normal eight story Wash­ington buildings. The executive din­ing room will be on the 12th floor, where there will also be a supple­mental kitchen-the main kitchen will be on the 11 th floor.

Only the floors and columns are left from the old Hurley Wright building, everything else will be new. Soon the workmen will have completed the out­side walls and the windows will be in and they will continue their labors in­side out of view of the sidewalk super­intendents. This kind of construction has been called, "building backwards, almost," by the president of the Ameri­can Construction Company. The un­usual project was described in the lead

(Left) Attorney David Bronheim not only checked the contracts but enjoys watching the construction. Here watching jack­hammer operator. (Right) "We have to move the stairway", explains Engineer Poss toJBRD/lFC visitors.

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"~One gets used to work in high places after thirty years," says Mr. Otis Poss.

article of "The Constructor" for Sep­tember 1959. During the long weeks when typewriters on the east side of 1818 H jumped from their moorings, sometimes taking Bank secretaries with them, work was progressing and each passer-by was protected because of the carefully planned method of re­moving rubble. All the debris of old brick and concrete walls were, first of all, kept sprinkled to reduce the dust, and then moved to the center of the building, thence, on weekends only, over the side into the light court area and hauled away. Steady watchers often wondered on a Monday morning what had become of the two story heap of rubble they'd observed on Friday.

When all the rebuilding of 1800 is com pleted, 1818 will come in for its share of reform. A new board room

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two stories high will take up space on the 11 th and 12th floors, and other changes and refurbishing will gradu­

ally appear. The man who is largely responsible

for IBRDIIFC's new home is Mr. Otis R. Poss, a well-known Washing­ton building engineer. Mr. Poss has had long experience with the U. S. Government and retired from that service in 1957. Since he began work on remodeling 1800 H, he has become a member of our staff with the title of Building Adviser to the Director of Administration. When Mr. Poss undertook the facelifting job at 1800 H he did so with characteristic en­thusiasm and has patiently conducted interested staff over the premises where, in the not-too-distant future , some of us will spend our days.

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THE 1959 ANNUAL MEETINGS by M. M. Mendels

Once again a year of preparation culminated in the meetings of the Boards of Governors of our three or­ganizations, the Bank, the Fund, and IFC. Once again, these meetings, the many attendant sessions they inspired, the interviews with the Managements, the social events, the regional get­togethers and other activities crowded the five days from Monday, September 28, through Friday, October 2.

Let us first take a look at the sched­ule that was followed. The Procedures Committees met on Saturday afternoon, September 26, and determined the plan to be followed during the ensuing week; some rules for the conduct of the meet­ings and the agendas to be submitted to the Boards for their consideration were approved.

Plenary sessions began on Monday about ten in the morning in the large Sheraton-Park Han when the President of the United States came and formally welcomed the assembly. After his de­parture, the Chairman, the Ambassador

President Eisenhower and Mr. Black, before the opening meeting.

of Peru to the United States, Fernando Berckemeyer, opened the proceedings. with his traditional address to which the Governors for Thailand, France, Honduras, Libya and the United States responded. The Governor for Ceylon, the Reporting Member this year, then proceeded to report on the recom­mendations of the Procedures Com­mittee meeting on the previous Satur­day. After approval of these recom­mendations, Mr. Per Jacobsson, Manag­ing-Director of the Fund, delivered his Annual Address, after which the meet­ing adjourned. No further sessions took place that day.

Next morning at 10:00 a.m., the Boards met and heard Mr. Black make his Annual Address. The Fund Board then met for its Annual Discussion of

Fernando Berckemeyer, Chairman of the Board of Gove-rnors of the Bank, Fund and [FC calls a meeting to order.

all Fund activities which lasted the re-­mainder of that day, morning and after­noon.

Wednesday morning was devoted to the IFC Annual Meeting. After open­ing remarks from the Chairman, and adoption of the report of the IFC Pro~ cedures Committee, the President of the Corporation, Mr. Garner, delivered his Annual Address, and the meeting was then thrown open for discussion. Speeches were made by the Governors for Japan, the United Kingdom, Tur­key, Pakistan, India and the United States, and then the meeting closed.

That afternoon, after adoption of the Bank's Procedures Committee report, discussion of the Bank's activities be­gan in the Bank Board of Governors and continued on Thursday morning until about 1 :00 p.m. This discussion was highlighted by the consideration given to a resolution proposed by the Governor for the United States that the

Executive Directors be asked to take up the proposal for an International Development Association and prepare a charter for it. More will be said of this below.

On the Thursday afternoon, the Bank-Fund Procedures Committee met and decided to recommend to the Fri­day session that the Governor for Aus­tralia be Chairman for the ensuing year and that the 1960 meetings be held in Washington. Another recommendation concerned the new Procedures Commit­tee to be set up. All these recommenda­tions were approved on the Friday morning, at the closing session which heard from the Governors for Australia, Morocco, Chile, United States, El Sal­vador, Libya, Greece, Indonesia and Ceylon. The Annual Meetings were then adjourned.

So far as the formal business of the Bank and IFC was concerned, items were disposed of regarding financial statements, annual audits, budgets, al­location of income to reserve, and in the Bank, as well, resolutions dealing with the membership of Laos and Por­tugal. When these two memberships are completed, the Bank will have 70 members.

The most important business item before the Bank was the resolution men­tioned above and presented by the Gov­ernor for the United States on the In­ternational Development Association. It might be useful to quote this; it reads

"RESOLVED: THAT with respect to the question of creating an Inter­national Development Association as

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ber Governments of the Bank."

Through Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, September 30 and October 1, the discussion in the Bank Board was mainly on this resolution. It provoked a great deal of interest and some 34 Governors took part. Al­though, at the end of the discussion, the resolution was adopted, it was clear from the speeches made that there were important differences of opinion on how the I.D.A. charter should deal with

There were also many Special Guests, representatives of communities and or­ganizations interested in the Bank, Fund and IFC, and a large press con­tingent.

While it is true that Annual Meet­ings in Washington are rather easier to organize and conduct than at great dis­tances, this year the large numbers that were present taxed the facilities se­verely. The Sheraton Park Ballroom, or Sheraton Hall as it is called, is probably

Some of the Ministers of Finance who attended the Fou1'teenth Annual Meetinl!-

M01'tWji R. Desai-India Eisaku Sato-Japan

M1'. GtWne1' g1'eets one of the guests at the lFC annual meeting.

such an Association should be estab­lished and all other aspects of the matter, are requested to formulate articles of agreement of such an As­sociation for submission to the Mem­

various aspects of the proposal. Re­solving these differences will be the task of the Executive Directors during the coming months as they proceed with their drafting of articles of agreement.

To turn away from the business of the meetings, it should be noted first of all that the total attendance was greater than at any previous Annual Meetings. The official delegations contained nearly 500 persons, of whom more than 150 were accompanied by their wives. There were 37 observers representing Laos, Nigeria, Portugal, the Bank for Inter­national Settlements, GATT, European Economic Community, European In. vestment Bank, FAO, ILO, OAS, UN Technical Assistance Board, UN, UN Special Fund, UNESCO, and WHO.

the largest suitab1e room in Washing­ton, yet it was uncomfortably full at more than one session. And as our at­tention turns to the social side of the meetings, there in particular the weight of numbers was great, and in addition seemed to generate social activity to an extreme degree.

In most respects, the social events that took place during 'the recent An­nual Meetings followed the pattern set in recent years. The Chairman's open­ing day reception took place on Mon­day, September 26 at the Shoreham Hotel. This was one occasion when the large numbers that attended the party found sufficient space in which to be comfortable. With favorable weather, it was possible to, and most guests did, mingle on the spacious rear terrace and Ilawns behind the Shoreham, where flowers, shrubbery, gay colors and a fountain provided an attractive decor.

On the Wednesday night, the Presi­dent of IFC gave his annual dinner, chiefly in honor of the Special Guests who were present and interested in the activities of the Corporation. This was a very successful party at which every one present had a good time.

The most elaborate social event of the week was the closing party on the

Friday night which took place after the Annual Meetings themselves had come to an end that morning. In order to satisfy all tastes, music was provided in turn by two notable orchestras. First, during dinner and until about 10:30 in the evening Mr. Richard Bales and The National Gallery Orchestra performed in the Viennese manner. There were waltzes, to which people were able to dance, polkas and light overtures. After this delightful part of the program, the party turned to dancing in the modern manner when Mr. Lester Lanin from New York and his band appeared and played almost continuously until 1:00 a.m. Even this lengthy program did not seem to be enough because quite a number of guests made it evident that they would have liked the party to continue much longer than it did.

At the Friday dance, also, a new de­parture was tried from the traditional "buffet." Instead, a mea'! of several courses, with suitable wines, was served at tables and, according to aU reports, every hot course arrived at the tables hot. Again the reports are that the party, the music, the meal and the en­tire occasion were successful.

This year the events that were pro­vided for the ladies alone were also

Festus Okotie-Eboh-Nigeria M. Shoaib-Pakistan Sunthorn Hangladarom-Thailand

notable. The First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Eisenhower, received most of the ladies for tea at the White House, on Thursday afternoon. This hospitality on the part of the wife of the head of the Host State was most appreciated and the event is regarded as the high­light of the week's social activities.

The ladies were also received at tea on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons by the wife of the Chairman of the Boards, Mrs. Berckemeyer, in the at­tractive Peruvian Embassy located on the edge of Rock Creek Park. These were extremely successful parties, thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Bercke­meyer, who made them a subject of personal interest.

Most striking this year also was the large amount of social activity that went on during the week of the Meet­ings, in addition to the entertainment provided officially. There were literally many times the number of receptions, luncheons and dinners than there were days and, as a result, it was impossible to avoid having many parties take place simultaneously, and equally impossible for delegates and guests to attend all the functions to which they received in­vitations. While it can safely be said that it is undesirable to have so much social activity crowded into so little time, it at least reflects the sociable spirit in which the delegates, guests, staffs and others come together at this time.

As everyone knows, one of the prin­cipal advantages of the Annual Meet­ings is the opportunity provided to higb officers in member governments to meet, exchange views, and renew acquaint­anceships. Also, it has been interesting

Mr. and Mn. Per lacobsson at the closing dinner-dance.

to see, over the years, how many old friends re-appear, despite the fact that in many instances, they hold political office. Thus, we saw again Sir Roland Wilson, Secretary to the Treasury of Australia and former IBRD Director; Reinhard Kamitz, Austrian Minister of Finance, and his Councillor, Wil­helm Teufenstein; last year's Chair­man, Jean van Houtte, Belgian Minister of Finance, and his opposite number in the Fund, Hubert Ansiaux, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium; Donald Fleming, Canadian Ministe~ of Finance, accompanied by A. F. W . Plumptre, J. E. Coyne, Governor of the Bank of Canada, and others; Stan­ley de Zoysa, Minister of Finance of Ceylon, who had to return to Ceylon at once on the news of his Prime Minis­ter's assassination, D. W. Rajapatirana, Governor of the Central Bank of Cey­lon, and R. S. S. Gunewardene, Cey­lonese Ambassador to the United States; Ignacio Copete-Lizarralde, General

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Manager of the Bank of the Re­public of Colombia, and former IBRD Director; Joaquin Meyer of Cuba, another former IBRD Director; Svend Nielsen, Governor of the Danmarks National Bank; Oscar Ginebra, Vice Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, and former IBRD trammg participant; Guillermo Perez-Chiriboga, General Manager of the Central Bank of Ecua· dor, and former IBRD Director, with Jose .Chiriboga V., Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States; Stanislaw Kirkor of Ethiopia; R. V. Fieandt of Finland and Reino Rossi, Member of the Board of Management of the Bank

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Delegates, guests (lind staff members mingle on the Shoreham Terrace during the opening reception.

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of Finland, former IBRD Director; Messrs. Baumgartner, Governor of the Bank of France, Sadrin, Schweitzer, Calvet, de Lattre and Koszul of France; Messrs. Erhard, Minister of Economy, Blessing, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, von Mangoldt-Reiboldt, von Spindler, Henckel, Beelitz, and E~minger of Germany; Mr. Gbedemah of Ghana; Xenophon Zolotas of Greece, who delivered one of his inimitable perorations at the closing session ; Joseph Chatelain of Haiti, a former IBRD training participant; Thor'Thors, Am­bassador of Iceland to the United States; Finance Minister Desai, A. K. Roy, and K. G. Ambegaokar of India; A. A.

Nasser, Minister of Finance, and Eb­rahim Kashani, Governor of the Bank Melli of Iran; Messrs. McElligott and Whitaker of Ireland; Messrs. Eshkol and Horowitz of Israel; Giorgio Cig­liana-Piazza and Paolo Baffi of Italy; Minister Sato and Messrs. Suzuki, Isoda and Mitsumori of Japan; Messrs. Tueni, Harfouche, Himadeh, and Solh of Leb­anon; A. N. Aneizi, Governor of the National Bank of Libya, and his ad­visors, Messrs. Tarabulsi and Chanda­varkar; Prime Minister Werner of Luxembourg; Messrs. Rodrigo Gomez and Hernandez Delgado of Mexico; Governor Holtrop and Messrs. Post­huma and van Lennep of the Nether­lands; Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla­Sacasa of Nicaragua, Dean of the Dip­lomatic Corps in Washington; Messrs. Skaug, Brofoss, Kielland and Brinch of Norway; Mohamed Shoaib, Minister of Finance of Pakistan, and IBRD Direc­tor, with Abdul Qadir, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; Julio Heurte­matte of Panama, former IBRD Direc­tor; Federico Mandelburger of Para­guay, former IBRD training participant.

The Chairman, Ambassador Bercke­meyer, was accompanied by Messrs.

Foley and Barreto from Lima, and Car­los Gibson of the Peruvian Embassy in Washington; a former Chairman, Mi­guel Cuaderno, Governor of the Cen­tral bank of the Philippines, was accom­panied by Alternate Governor Romual­dez. There were also Zaki Saad, Coun­selor to H.M. The' King of Saudi Arabia, and IMF Director; Gunnar Lange, Minister of Commerce, and Per Asbrink, Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank of Sweden; Prince Viwat of

Thailand, who contributed his cus­tomary witty remarks at the opening session; Messrs. Zorlu, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Polatkan, Minister of Finance, of Turkey; Messrs. de Kock

and Steyn of South Africa; Minister of Economy El-Kaissouni of the United Arab Republic, accompanied by Sec­retary-General Sawwaf;from the United Kingdom Sir Roger Makins, former Ambassador in Washington, Sir Denis Rickett, former IBRD Director, Maurice Persons, former IFM Director and Sir Robert Hall; and Antonije Tasic of Yugoslavia, former IBRD Director.

The United States Delegation was headed by Secretary of the Treasury Anderson and inel uded Under Secretary of State Dillon, Under Secretary of the Treasury Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Upton (also 1BRD Di­rector), Special Assistant to the Sec­retary of the Treasury Southard (also IMF Director), as well as many im­portant advisors representative of Con­gress, the Federal Reserve System, the Department of Commerce, the Export­Import Bank, and other Agencies.

As one reads this short, select list of old friends, one gets an idea of the extent of the broad representation that was to be seen at the recent Meetings. Not only 68 member delegations, not only some 37 Observers, but also the large number of interested friends who came from many countries as guests, testify to the interesting and important character of the assemblage. More im­portant, however, is the confidence in the organizations that is shown when so many appear; a great tribute to the success of their operations.

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WELCOME TO NEW STAFF-AUGUST

(Seated L to R): JEAN RUSSELL, Department of Technical Operations, from Dublin; GILLIAN S. JOHNSON, Administration Department, from Letchnorth, Hert­fordshire; MARIE B. CLARK, I.F.C., from East Orange, New Jersey. (Standing L to R): BRIDGET LANG FIELD, Administration Department, from Regina, Sas­

katchewan; SERENA K. HAN, Administration Department, from Seoul; MARY E.

GOODWIN, Department of Technical Operations, from Hinton, West Virginia;

MA HSUEH-LING, Administration Department, from Tokyo; and HELEN HOG­

GARTH, Treasurer's Department, from Silver Spring, Maryland. (Unable to be present): ELIZABETH BLAKE, Technical Assistance and Liaison Staff, from New­castle, Northumberland; and CARMEN CASTRO, Department of Operations-West­ern Hemisphere, from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

SEPTEMBER

(Seated L to R): THORBJORG ANDRESDOTTIR, Treasurer's Department, from ReYkjavik; FLORENCE J. FRAZIER, I.F.C., from Astoria, Oregon; INGE JENSEN,

Office of the Secretary, from Copenhagen. (Standing L to R): LARISSA TUNG,

I.F.C., from Harbin, China; ARLINE RYNKIEWICZ, Economic Staff, from Roseland, New Jersey; REGINALD GOMEZ, Administration Department, from Singapore;

ANGELIKA GRIGOROPOULOS, I.F.C., from Athens; and RUBY TUNG YEP, I.F.C., from Cairns, Australia.

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l- 'TRADING POST;; FOR SALE: Girl's Canadian Flyer white figure skates, size 3, used only three

times, in excellent condition. $10 or will exchange for larger size skates in similar condition. Please call Ext. 3080.

RIDE W ANTED to Bank and return from vicinity of -South Capitol Street and Elmira (near Bolling Air Base). Call Ext. 3411.

FRENCH CONVERSATION lessons offered -by father of staff member. In­dividual or group instruction. Ple'ase call Ext. 3221 for further inforf!lation.

FOUND: Gold pin on dance floor of Sheraton-Park Hotel during closing party Friday evening, October 2. Call Ext. 3391.

TO SHARE: Bank staff member would like to share small, -three bedroom house on River Road near Western Avenue with another woman. $60 a month; available after November 1. Call Ext. 3913 for further information.

Australian girl would like to share large, one-bedroom apartment located on Cathedral Avenue near Connecticut.' $57.50 per person a month including all utilities. . .Call· Ext. 3870

FOR. RENT: Furnished efficiency in Georgetown until end of year. $115 a month, completely equipped with silver, linens, etc. Please call Ext. 7040 for further information.

The Health Room has flu vaccine available for staff members who wish to "eceive preventive inoculations this year. This is a polyvalent type serum protecting against Asian flu as well as other flu strain.s. Two inoculations are required, three months apart, cost: $1.50 each.

ETHICS IN THE ANDES

Mervyn Weiner was intrigued by the following item which appears on the menu of a small roadside restaurant, perched on the wall of a deep river canyon, high in the Andes, and hours from anywhere:

Cafe ___________ ________________________________ S/. 0.50 Cafe de Cafe ___________________________________ S/. 1.00

Mervyn is still wondering what the "ordinary cafe" was really made of.

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PGt4~ WEDDINGS: Jo Ann Griffin and

Dean A. Von Waldon were married August 18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The couple are at home at 801 West Turney A venue, Phoenix, Arizona.

Best wishes to Aileen E. Larimer and Donald S. Lawson who were mar­ried September 3 in Rockville, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Karasz an­nounced the marriage of their daugh­ter, Ava Fruzsina, to Rufus King Marsh on Saturday, October 17, in the Christ Lutheran Church, Bethesda, Md.

Announcements have been received of the marriage of Ravi Gulhati to Miss Kaval Singh in New Delhi on August 30.

Diana Hesling and Alvin Z. Macom­ber were married on Sunday, October 18, in Ithaca, N.Y. Mr. Macomber works with the Dept. of Agriculture and Diana plans to continue at the Bank.

ENGAGED: Beatrice Martinson's radiant expression may be partially ex­plained by the announcement of her engagement to Lt. Com. Carl Duberg, U.S.N., originally from Minneapolis, Minn. Com. Duberg is due for trans­fer out of Washington soon after their

marri~ge on November 7. Rita I vanova and Carl Armbrust

recently announced their engagement. They plan to be married November 25 here in Washington at the Russian Orthodox Church. Rita and Carl will be making their home in Washington and Rita will continue at the Bank.

BIRTHS: Amelia Maria Susannah Francesca, 5 lbs. and 9 ozs., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicola L. Caiola, arrived September 20 at Doctors Hospital.

Jennifer and William Baker wel­comed Lucinda Ann on October 2. "Cindy" was born in Doctors Hos­pital and weighed 7 lbs. and 8 ozs.

Andreas, first baby and a son for Mr. and Mrs. Hans K. Kemna, ar­rived at Alexandria Hospital on Sep­tember 12.

Donna and Clement Criddle are the proud parents of David, born Sep­tember 12 in Georgetown Hospital.

Peter O'Neill can now count six grandchildren at family gatherings with the arrival of Jean Marie Winston, daughter of John and Jeanni Winston on October 2 at George Washington Hospital.

IN MEMORIAM

Henry W. Riley, husband of Lillian Riley and member of our staff since

August 1946, September 16, Washington,.D. C.

Rita Ramm, wife of Peter Ramm, September 17, Alexandria, Virginia.

Mrs. John Rozeck, mother of Ann Rozeck, September 25, Windsor,

Ontario.

Allan McCorkle, son of Inez and William McCorkle, October 10, Chevy

Chase, Maryland.

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BOWL<iNG With the Annual Meeting ended, the Bank's bowling enthusiasts met at the

Y.M.C.A. bowling alleys on October 5 to start their winter long battle for trophies. Although we were sorry to note that a number of the "old, familiar faces" were missing, we were equally pleased to see that over a dozen new faces have appeared among this year's teams and it is hoped they will enjoy themselves with us during the coming months.

There had been some misgiving over the change in alleys, but the first evening's play showed that a change of scene has in no way altered the high standard of our players. Jim Reid, as befitting our new President, showed the men the way by finishing up with a Flat Game of 92, while Jorge Montealegre of the President's team brought up his average to 92.

The Office of ]nformation team welcomed back Doris Eliason, who dropped out last season to study economics. If Doris's High Game of 116 is due to study, perhaps G.W. will open a special course for the rest of us! Garry Lightowler, the other new member, also came up with a good score of 112 for Information.

Diana Drowley, T.O.D.'s new member, will certainly keep the rest of her team on its toes. After an absence of two years from the alleys, Diana finished the evening with an average of 102, and leads the rest of the women with two strikes to her credit.

The new "Regulars" team started off the season with Bill Bailey hitting up six spares. Is it possible that Treasurers need a new abacus in their department or was the excitement of the evening too much for their addition?

First evening scores don't necessarily portend the future, but the absence of a Personnel team this year seems to be an added incentive for Administration to stay in the No.1 spot where they ended the first time around.

An invitation is extended to the E.D.1. participants, Bank trainees and other members of the staff to join our substitute bowlers. On many occasions during the bowling season our teams are often looking for extra players to complete their numbers. An expert knowledge of the game is not a necessary qualification-just a desire for exercise and fun on Monday evenings between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. For further details p)ease call Jim Reid, Ext. 3729, or Hazel Fleming, Ext. 3060.

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