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Dustin M. Burke '54 is the head of HSA, and Wallace McDonald '44, Director of the Financial Aid Office, often works closely with him in the area of student employment...
Yesterday McDonald said that "Watson has a conveniently foggy memory," and maintained that "the only point at which I touched the decision was as a member of the Committee on Solicitation." According to McDonald, Burke proposed the change at a late August meeting with Watson and Trottenberg in attendance, and it was approved...
...first I knew of this was when I read it in the CRIMSON," stated Wednesday that the "never went before the Committee on Undergraduate Solicitation. It was a decision that Mr. Trottenberg made himself, on a trial basis." Von Stade amended Watson's remark, adding that "Burke and McDonald were...
Impressed by his aggressiveness-'I was always reaching out and taking anything I could get my hands on"-the home office finally put Russell on the executive escalator. Shortly before Pearl Harbor he was named assistant to President A. D. McDonald, proceeded to ram through, against the judgment of his superiors, decisions on equipment allocation that enabled the S.P. to haul more freight for the Pacific war than any other railroad. In 1952, when the S.P. needed a new president, the board inevitably turned to Don Russell, who, at 51, became the line's youngest chief since...
...functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers' Carey) and "Dave" (the Steelworkers' McDonald), he frequently puts in phone calls to them to settle a point of argument. "If you treat most people right," says Seaton, "you get treated back the same...