Welcome to 3030 Update

3030 Update is the Internet Zine for alumni of Plough, Inc. and related companies who worked together at 3030 Jackson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1980s and 1990s. Related companies and major consumer brand names with management there during that period include Schering-Plough, Schering-Plough Corporation, Schering-Plough Consumer Operations, Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Maybelline, Coppertone, Tropical Blend, Dr. Scholl's, PAAS, St. Joseph, Di-Gel, Feen-a-mint, Correctol, Afrin, Gyne-Lotrimin, Drixoral, A Clear Away and Mexsana.

About This Site

This site was updated March 31, 2003 by Lewis Nolan of Memphis, Webmaster and Editor of 3030 Update. Sponsors of the 3030 Update newsletter are John Addison of Memphis; Mike Pietrangelo of Germantown, Tenn.; Bob Raub of Parrish, Fla.; Avron "Sonny" Spiro Jr. of Memphis; and Jack Stewart of Memphis and Basking Ridge, N.J. For more information contact Lewis Nolan; e-mail address is Lewis_Nolan@yahoo.com.

Among The Alumni

The following snippets of information are based on reports from persons generally considered to be reliable when sober. Partly due to the time gap between some events covered in 3030 Update and publication, there can be no guarantee of timeliness or absolute accuracy. The only promise editors can make is that this newsletter aims to celebrate the enduring bonds of friendship and fond memories of working together at a great company. Please send additions and corrections and information on the whereabouts and activities of alumni to Lewis Nolan for future publication.

Memphis –

John Addison has formed A-4 Associates, a firm offering consulting services involving quality control and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to companies regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. He and his wife enjoyed an 11-day cruise around the Hawaiian Islands early in 2003. . .Also working as a QC and GMP consultant is Fay Brown. . Chris Berry went skiing on the slopes of Colorado in February; in warmer weather he plays golf with several alumni. . .Hitting the links and getting together with old friends from Plough are Bill Gooch and Jettie Bowen. . .Richard Briscoe has purchased a home at 4353 West Cherry Place near Poplar in East Memphis and intends to again be a fulltime resident of the Bluff City once he and his wife sell their home in Naples, Fla. In Florida, he has served on the Vestry of his church, Cove Episcopal, and on the board of his neighborhood association. . .Bob Brown was the guest of honor at his retirement send-off party at Folk’s Folly in June. . .Richard Butler went on a mission to El Savadore with a group from Shelby Forest Baptist Church and spent more than a week working with underprivileged children. . . Former Maybelline marketing and sales exec Bridget Chisholm completed her appointed term on the Shelby County Commission and chose not to run for re-election. She continues to serve on the University of Memphis Board of Visitors, as does Jim Harwood. Serving on the UM Foundation’s Board of Trustees is Harry Feinstone, whose spacious home overlooking Galloway Golf Course is to become the residence of the UM president upon Harry’s death. . .Craig Cowles is president of the PIP Printing franchise at 1000 June Road. . . Curtis Downs has sold his second home condo in Naples, Fla. and plans to purchase a similar property in the Gulf Shores, AL-Destin, FL area that could be used by his entire family, including two new grandchildren. . .Amy Doville has purchased a new home at 3842 Northwood Drive, a few blocks from her previous home in the Galloway Golf Course neighborhood. . . Rick Duerr is practicing law and developing an apartment community in Tunica, MS, another community in Louisiana and a billboard business in South America. . .Lynn Dunwoody retired after 41 years with S-P. She was honored with the Community Quarterback Award from the Tennessee Titans, a statewide award that recognized her 17

years of work as an Auxiliary Probation Services volunteer. The NFL team made an $11,000 donation to the organization in her honor. An article in The Commercial Appeal credited the company’s Abe Plough Days program for helping open the door for her volunteer work with the agency. . .Russ Elliot, now sporting a modified Prince Nez beard, is serving as a volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement at Northside High School and other locations. He and his wife, Hallie, enjoy the Memphis social scene; they were pictured in the March edition of The Best Times at the black tie, grand opening of the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. . .Longtime Junior Achievement board member June Davidson helped the agency prepare a successful grant application to the Plough Foundation. . . Melissa and Richard Faber had their third child March 5, 2002. They named the boy Samuel Aaron Faber, in honor of her father. Melissa is taking graduate courses in professional writing from the English Department at the University of Memphis. Her advanced studies could lead to a dissertation and PhD in several years. .Phil Gilmer traveled to New Orleans in June to attend the National Meeting of the Boy Scouts of America. His wife, Sammie, a former Plough Foundation employee, was honored with the BSA’s prestigious Silver Antelope Award; Phil has also been recognized nationally for his Scouting leadership. . .David Halpern sold his business, Tennessee Pewter, not long after it was the subject of a glowing feature article in the November edition of Southern Living Magazine. . .Jim Harwood sold his ownership interest in Starr Toof Printing. He remains on the board of SCB Computer Technology, a public company. . .Rick Haynes retired as executive director of the Plough Foundation after 16 years service. His replacement is Rick Masson, who had been chief administrative officer for the City of Memphis under Mayor Willie Herenton. Also working at the Plough Foundation is Joann Christian. The chair and CEO of the foundation is Diane Rudner, granddaughter of the late Abe Plough. . .Wayne Hudson continues to do volunteer work for the Memphis Optimist Club and for Trinity Baptist Church in Cordova, where he edits a weekly newsletter and works with the seniors group. . .Walker Hutchison has not let the surgical installation of an arterial stent get in the way of his deer hunting and weekly tennis matches with Quinn Rowell at Leftwich Tennis Center in Audobon Park. . . Jim Johnson teaches continuing education classes in pharmaceutics at the University of Tennessee’s College of Pharmacy. He served on the doctoral dissertation committee for a PhD student from China. His part-time teaching has turned into full time hours because of the absence of a fellow instructor. . .Linda Key joined Kele as administrative coordinator. The company is a Bartlett-based distributor of high-tech electronics used in data transmission and sensing. . .Jeff Klaus is building a new home in Collierville Reserves. He is senior national account manager for Maxell Corp., a division of Hitachi that makes audio and video recording tape, accessories and computer media. He has been with the company for three years. . .Galen Lapka took a shot at “spendaholic legislators” in a pointed letter to the editor of The Commercial Appeal in June, saying in part “I become fiscally responsible every payday, and expect the same of my elected officials.” . . .Heard Murphy was honored with the 2002 Distinguished Service Award by the Memphis Maroon Club, the local chapter of the Mississippi State University Alumni Association. He is an MSU alumnus and attends many athletic games and other school-related activities. . “Landslide Lewis” Nolan was elected chairman and delegate of his East Memphis ward and precinct for the 2003 Shelby County Democratic Party Convention. Being the only resident of his heavily GOP neighborhood to attend the nominating session, he was elected without opposition. He opened a new website and posted several travelogues with photos of trips taken by him and Betty to Ireland and other places. It is at http://home.att.net/~nolantravels. . Mike Pietrangelo celebrated his 60^th birthday with an “Italian Casual” party attended by his family and many friends, including Rick Duerr, J. T. Jabbour, Bob Kaplan, David Kelley, Norm Kercher, Paul Manning, Ron & LuAnn Mohling (Ron and LuAnn traveled from their home of Duluth, GA, a suburb of Atlanta. He is president of a firearms safety training institute and is renovating some historic property in Columbus into condos), Heard Murphy, Lewis Nolan, Bill Sander, Nick & Kate Vergos and Gary Wilkerson. Great stories about fun times at Plough, Inc., flowed as freely as the fine wines and Italian dishes served at Mike’s home. Mike continues to wheel-and-deal with his business of buying and selling thoroughbred race horses. He also serves as consultant to a Memphis-based, ethnic hair company and on the board of Phoenix-based Medicis, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. At the party, Bill Sander related how he had stopped at the S-P plant at Cleveland, Tenn., while on a trip to the East Coast on his new, three-wheel, Elvis-style motorcycle. He was the executive who opened the plant many years ago and was delighted to find out that despite the passing of 22 years since his last visit, 10 employees still remembered him. . Nancy (Mitchell) Russell, former Community Affairs administrative assistant, is again a full-time employee of Schering-Plough, working in Consumer Relations. She had been temping in the department managed by Don Levine. Nancy helped organize an elegant wedding a reception in October for her eldest son and his bride that was attended by several current and former S-P associates, including Phyllis Hammontree, Gina Kamler, Linda (Myrick-Ramm) Marchisio, Lewis Nolan, Mary Sanders and Debra Turner. . .Paul Sherman has been diligently researching his family genealogy and has compiled 350 pages of history to share with his relatives. He and his wife visit Destin, FL every five weeks, where they have part ownership of a condo. They enjoyed an Elderhostel trip to the Grand Canyon that included a raft ride on the Colorado River and daily classroom lectures. . .Greer Simonton, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the National Ornamental Metal Museum, which has extensive connections to S-P, including service on the board by other former employees as well as the naming of the Schering-Plough Smithy in recognition of the company’s support. . .Sonny Spiro and his wife enjoyed a vacation in Hawaii during October. One of the trip highlights was a helicopter tour that flew over the USS Arizona Memorial. Sonny is an veteran of U.S. Army campaigns in Europe during World War II. . .Jack Stewart and his wife spend about 30 percent of their time in their Memphis home, with the balance in their principal residence in Basking Ridge, NJ. Both are avid bridge players and play in tournaments in the Garden State and the Volunteeer State. . .Trena Packard Street was honored by the Memphis Advertising Federation with the Lifetime Achievement Award. . .Former HCP Marketing secretary Janice Walker is working at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. . .Dave Wells is again a fulltime resident of Memphis, where he and his wife have a spacious home (complete with showcase collection of Plough memorabilia) overlooking the first tee at Southwind. They played in a Couples Championship Tournament in Bermuda in February; he scored a sub-par 70 on the tough course at Memphis Country Club in July and attended the PGA Tournament at Hazeltine Country Club in Minnesota in August as guest of PGA star and frequent houseguest Neal Lancaster. . . Dick Whittington has formed a consulting firm, RW Associates, that does QC work for clients in the HBA industry; he also has a sideline construction business that contracts to build custom storage sheds for residential backyards. . .Gary Wilkerson is mulling over a possible return to work as a corporate counsel now that he has recovered from his esophageal surgery at the M.D. Anderson Clinic in Houston in 2001. He regularly attends football and other sports events featuring the University of Oklahoma and Mississippi State University with best buddy Heard Murphy. . .. . . Steve Wishnia is a regular at basketball games involving the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, as is Gil Noble. . .Virginia Worthington continues to serve faithfully and efficiently as president of PERK (Plough Employees Retirement Klub), sometimes handing off the duties as presiding officer to other dedicated retirees. Officers elected in June include Mary Jewel Watson, Treasurer; and Lucille Simmons, Corresponding Secretary. PERK, which meets monthly in the HCP cafeteria, was formed in July, 1972 and "is still a viable organization because of good leadership and loyal membership that embraces the concept of food, fun and fellowship." In July, PERK observed its 30^th Anniversary with a special lunch and a presentation by Rick Haynes, then executive director of the Plough Foundation. He shared with the group several of the principles Mr. Plough used for running the Foundation, including: 1. Help the greatest number of people. 2. The most knowledge you get is from other people. 3. Be loyal to your people. 4. Finish everything you start. 5. Get satisfaction from your work. 6. Character is defined by what you do in the “dark.” 7. The price of leadership is fraught with criticism. Total attendance for PERK meetings the previous 12 months was 515. Another well-received speaker was retiree Phil Gilmer, who traced the company’s history and talked about the company during his 38 years as being “part of our lives, part of our family.”

Outside Memphis –

Don Anderson, who divides his time between Moneta, Va., and Sunnyside Beach, FL, is working as a consultant for the footcare business of Phoenix-based Medicis, which counts Mike Pietrangelo among its board of directors. . . Alan Beychok is principal owner and President of Benchmark Brands, a direct marketer of lower body health products with corporate offices in Atlanta and a distribution center in Memphis. It sells products through its Internet businesses and its FootSmart mail order catalog. Joining Alan as an equity partner and CFO in 2002 was Greg Ton, who has relocated to Atlanta. . .Former Maybelline production director Steven Bishop is vice president of Noble & Associates, an ad agency in Springfield, Mo. . .David Brittain, living on the waterfront in Sarasota, FL, reports that he “had orthoscopic surgery on my left knee November 1 and I am back playing tennis three days a week. I have a Segway (motorized scooter being tested by USPS) coming in April. Nothing like a new toy”. . Gene Camerick lives in Plantation, Fla. and writes and edits suspense thrillers. His first novel, “Silent Explosion,” foreshadowed the terrorist events of Sept. 11, 2001. It is available on the internet at buybooksontheweb.com. . .Rich Carlsen and his wife became grandparents in February when their daughter gave birth to a girl, named Carstyn Jane, in Gainesville, FL. The Carlsens built a spacious, new home in the River Wilderness development in Parrish, FL. The developer has turned the topnotch, golf and country club over to the homeowners and Rich was elected president of the first board of directors. The volunteer post is requiring him to put in very long days to transform the previously developer-subsidized club into an ongoing, fiscally sound operation. He also serves as treasurer of the community’s charity fund-fundraiser. Plus, he finds time to fly his own airplane. . .Dave Collins divides his time between homes in Manhattan, the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and near Woodstock, Vermont. He is usually at Incline Village, Nev., from January until April. At an altitude of 7,000 feet, the location gives him the flexibility to ski in the morning and play golf at nearby Reno in the afternoon. He has been invited to teach a class in corporate social responsibility at the Vermont Law School this fall, an institution noted for his environmental law programs. Dave remains a shareholder in Calypte, a biomedical start-up headed by Nancy Katz but he has disengaged from the board of directors. . .Former Plough marketer Susan Crow-Granger is living in Simpsonville, S.C., where she works as a marketing consultant. She is the mother of three girls, a Girl Scouts leader and Arts Chairperson for the school district. . .James Daniel and his wife Heidi (Seay) Daniel, a former Maybelline marketer, live in Marietta, GA. They have two children. James is doing consulting work with Hensley & Associates to build brand growth platforms for consumer products. . .Steve Gilbert, who lives in West Chester, PA, has joined SCA as U.S. vice president of corporate resources. SCA, based in Sweden, is the largest forest products company in Europe and is rapidly expanding its operations in North America. It has over 5,000 employees in the U.S. and global sales of $9 billion. Steve and his wife, Diane, celebrated their 25^th wedding anniversary in 2002. . .Bill Gwinn is living in Brentwood, TN, and working as Director of Marketing and New Business Development for The Medstat Group, a health information company. He was featured speaker at a pharmaceutical conference on new drugs. He serves as an usher team captain for Brentwood Baptist Church. . .Burt and Mary Hunter continue to travel the world. He is an international attorney for S-P. They renovated their home in Northern New Jersey to house Burt’s collection of classic cars, which include a 1966 Morgan, a 1961 Rolls Royce and a 1954 Jag. Mary quips that “with these cars, Burt can draw large crowds of very attractive young ladies. Therefore he is not allowed to go out alone in those cars”. . .Lee Jenkins, who lives in Wellington, FL, reports that he is “hale and hearty. Sylvia and I are playing golf and spending time with our children and grandchildren.” He is seeing more sunrises since Pattycake – a wire haired terrier – joined his household. Lee visits Memphis occasionally for board meetings of RFS Hotel Investors and to see friends and one of his sons and his family. The war with Iraq took on a personal face when Lee’s other son, Griff, was attached to a Marine Corps unit in Kuwait as part of an assignment with Fox News. Griff produces a syndicated radio show for Ollie North. . . .Kathy Jones retired from S-P Sept. 1, 2002 and lives with her husband in their waterfront home in Melbourne Beach, FL. She reports that she is “almost totally recovered” from a horrifying attack by a German Shepherd while walking near their former home in Clark, NJ last May. She was severely injured during the savage attack, which required hospitalization and lengthy and painful rehab. Kathy enjoys retirement, watching shorebirds and other wildlife from her yard and the absence of New Jersey winters. . .Mary Gordon Kerr and her husband, who live near Charleston, SC, had their third child May 25, a girl named Mary MacGregor and nicknamed “Molly.” They visited Memphis in October for the 10^th Reunion of her class at Rhodes College. . .Dick Kinney left active employment in November as staff vice president in charge of federal, state and local lobbying as well as philanthropy for S-P. A delayed retirement arrangement allowed him to join the staff of New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey as an economic policy advisor and to serve as an “ambassador” to the state’s business community. Dick has been with the company for 21 years and noted, “I have been blessed to have met and worked with a tremendous number of people who have helped me, taught me and influenced my life.” Dick has an office in the state capitol of Trenton but continues to live in Spring Lake, NJ. . .Also leaving S-P after 13 years was Theresa Wood, a member of Dick’s Washington staff. She joined Abbot Laboratories. . .Dick’s former boss, Allan Kushen, visited another former co-worker, Linn Weiss, during a trip to Chicago. Allan and his wife, art consultant Natalie Best Kushen, live in New Vernon, NJ. . . .Bill Manley is living in Sarasota, FL and frequently visits family in New York City, where he worked in advertising at Warick, Welsh and Miller, the old Coppertone agency, before joining Plough .. . . Robert Maxwell, who lives in Princeton, NJ, has formed Reviresco, Marketing by Design, a consulting firm specializing in marketing commercialization. When not working, he annoys the animal rights crowd by roaring around the Northeast wearing “biker leathers” from head to toe. In biker parlance, his Valkyrie motorcycle is so bad-looking that “it is just sick, dude, sick.” . .Loretta Milesi has moved to a new home at Manchester, NY, a community on the New Jersey shore. She said she loves her new home and retirement. . . Gerry Nobrega and his wife sold their business in Paradise Valley, AZ, last summer. They plan to travel for the next couple of years to look at possible retirement homes . .Former Maybelline marketer Irene (McCullough) Pritchett is living in Erlanger, Ky., with her husband and their three children. She reports that she enjoys retirement. . .Bob Raub continues to teach tennis at the country club community in Parrish, FL where he, his wife and their neighbors Rich and Jane Carlsen live and play golf. The Raubs hosted the Texas A&M women’s golf team playing in a major NCAA tournament at their club in February. They also served as hosts for Stetson University’s Elderhostel Tennis Camp at the plush Palm Coast Resort on the east coast of Florida . .Claudia Robinson, who lives in Greenwich Village, parted company with UBS Americas Inc., the Swiss-based owner of Paine Webber and other global securities firms. She had been director of employee communications. In February, UBS joined many Wall Street firms in scaling back staff in the face of the slumping U.S. stock market. Claudia is enjoying the opportunity to do some reading for pleasure while she looks for another communications position. . .Bob Schreiber, who lives in Sarasota, FL, celebrated with his wife their 50^th Wedding Anniversary. Friends in Memphis and elsewhere honored the couple with wine and other gifts. Former Maybelline and Scholl marketers Bob Soderquist and Gerty (Morell) Soderquist are living in Bay Village Ohio, just outside Cleveland. . .Harry B. Solmson was honored by PERK with a $500 donation to the Girls and Boy Clubs of Sarasota County, which paid tribute to him with the Medallion Award a year earlier from the Boys and Girls Clubs of America . He is reported to be “91 and doing extremely well.” Mr. Solmson has been traveling frequently, including a Caribbean cruise and trip to the West Coast to visit family. . .Another Plough retiree, Mike Swider, is among the colony of Plough veterans living in Sarasota. Mike, who traveled to Memphis to participate in the annual 3030 Alumni Golf Scramble in October, lives in a golf course community. His other hobbies include fishing. . .A family photo that included Andrea Jeannet and her and Art Jeannet’s two daughters was on thousands of Christmas cards sent out by her parents, Tennessee Gov. Don and Martha Sundquist, who left office in early 2003 after eight distinguished years of service and long-running friendships with many Plough execs dating to his time in the U.S. Congress. . .Melissa (Tuttle) Twomey has a fantasy job, a real fantasy position. The former media buyer for Lake-Spiro-Shurman lives in Tampa, FL, with her husband of 15 years and their two boys. After leaving the former Plough Sales and regional marketing office in Tampa, where she worked with Jim Erwin, Melissa became marketing director of the Lowry Park Zoo. After 14 months, she was hired by the New York Yankees as marketing director for the team’s new spring training, single A stadium in Tampa. In 1994, she took over the management of the Yankee Fantasy Camp, where adult fans pay big bucks to train for a week with Yankee coaches and former players. The fantasy players are treated like real major leaguers, complete with Yankees uniforms and equipment plus the excitement of umpired games at Tampa’s Legends Field. Melissa works from her home and runs two camps per year, with 100 players in each camp. While nearly all the campers are men, there have been three women go through the program. Information is available at a website, at http://www.yankeesfantasycamp.com/. Melissa frequently visits family in Memphis and writes, “Life has been very good to me and I am grateful. It all started at 3030 – those were the days!”. . .Derroll Wainwright, who lives in Nottingham, England and occasionally visits friends and former 3030 associates in Memphis and elsewhere, organized a reunion for the old Plough International Group. It was held in April in San Antonio. Attendees included Sherry Betancourt, Richard Briscoe, Jorgen Lindeskov, John Morris, Svend Nielsen, Fred Opper, Raul Ordonez, Helen Sievers, Al Stamps and Bill Wilkins. Dimitri Georgiadis couldn’t make the meeting but called and spent an hour on the telephone talking to attendees.. . .Linn Weiss, based in Chicago as the AMA’s senior vice president for public policy and related communications matters, continues to be in the thick of the legislative fight over medical liability insurance reform and Medicaid payments to physicians. His travel has him setting off security monitors at airports across the country; metal pins were inserted in his wrist, broken when a Chicago bus bounced him in the air when walking across a springy bridge on a wintry day early in 2002. . .Karen Whitaker, who lives in San Jose, writes that she and her husband went to California’s wine country on vacation. She works in executive search, a headhunting business that has markedly slowed because of the sagging economy. . .Rich Whittaker, who continues with S-P in New Jersey, stays in touch with several former HCP associates. Rich and Rich Carlsen enriched themselves by $6 each courtesy of another golf team when they got together for a round and friendly bet in August. Both shot in the 80s.

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