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Other officers chosen were; vice-president, Richard Goldsmith '55 of Adams; political activities chairman, Christopher Nielbuhr '56 of Lowell; Harvard activities chairman, Charles Edson '56 of Dunster; secretary, Richard Comegys '57 of Strauss; public relations chairman, Orlan L. Isaly '56 of Lowell; membership chairman, Robert Colman '56 of Adams; member at large for film series, Michael Jorrin '54 of Adams; and members at large, Phillippe Villers Allerand '55 of Adams, Joseph Cooper '55 of Dunster, and Joseph Frank '56 of Lowell...
First-ballot choice of the nominating committee for new president of the convention was spectacled, Nebraska-born Winfield Edson, 45, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif. A low 80s golfer, camera fan and chinchilla breeder on the side, Winfield Edson has boosted his church's membership from 1,500 to 3,724 since 1939, has averaged a speech a day to do it. Not content with expanding, his church has pushed members out to form ten new churches in the Long Beach area...
...Folks give me credit for that," says Edson. "But shucks sakes, it was my people...
Richard Goldsmith '55 was named vice-president, Joseph Cooper '55 secretary, and Humphrey Fisher '55 treasurer. Other officers chosen include: Phillipe Villers '55, Political Action Chairman; Christopher Niebuhr '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman; Charles Edson '56, Membership Chairman; Anthony Beilenson '54, Public Relations Director; Lew Smith '54, Michael Jorrin '54, Gordon Graham '55, Peter Waldstein '55, members at large...
...duly produced next day in Lawyer Smith's crowded Pasadena office. The fund was established, Smith explained, after Nixon was elected to the Senate in 1950. It was closed up when Nixon was nominated for the vice presidency (a point which neither the New York Post nor Columnist Edson had noted). Smith himself was the trustee who wrote the checks. "Some of the disbursements," he said, "came to me as direct bills for payment. And some came to me as statements of expense from Senator Nixon's office. The Senator never handled any of the money himself...