Chase Alumni: Tim Kanter, MD, on the Front Line; Vernon Moore & HK's Response; Peter Gross Recalls

Dear Reader,
 
We hope all of you and yours around the world are safe, healthy and socially distanced.
 
# We've added an extraordinary and moving story to our The Coronavirus Spring collection: An account by Chase alumnus Tim Kanter, who became a doctor and is now on the front line of the COVID-19 battle at a Bronx hospital.

 
 
 
 
# We asked alumni around the world to describe their local experience with managing the pandemic. Vernon Moore sent in a story that begins to explain why the infection and death rate in Hong Kong is so remarkably low.
 
# Alumni are also taking this time to write up stories about important moments in their Chase careers.
See below under "A Moment in Bank History" to read additions from
Peter K. Gross.
 
Please consider sharing with us any special stories you have about displacement, odd or funny stories about how you are occupying your time or old banking stories you've delayed writing up for us because you were too busy doing other things. Please keep sending your book recommendations (and reasons for recommending). 
 
Social distancing is the new norm, but not virtual social distancing! We hope you'll consider the CAA web platform as a way to reach out to others and keep from going stir crazy: Read previously published stories (mostly under "News" or "Life After Chase"), or write a new one for us.
 
Stay well, wash your hands and keep in touch (without touching)!
[Existing stories (including In Memoriams) that feature new comments or material are now indicated with a #.]
 

NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)                                       

Read the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholders letter released last week by Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO.
 
►The alumni trip to Croatia/Italy is being postponed until the fall of 2021. More details will be sent directly to registrants.
 
►We expect that the CAA evening at Citifield, planned for June 2, 2020, will be cancelled, but we are waiting to hear from the Mets ticket office as to what arrangements are being made for ticket holders.
 
LIFE AFTER CHASE                                                                        
Harry P. (Trip) Haldt III has compiled and edited his father's memoir of having been a youthful "amateur mariner" in the romantic and turbulent period of 1931 to 1939. Read about this magical book, Upper To'Gallants and Ruddy Scuppers.
 
 

 

Toni Geyelin writes about her friendship with the late Margaret Klein, another Chase alumna, and how it led to her work with Trickle Up.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY                                                       
NOTE: Past "Moments" can be found under "News" on the CAA website home page menu.
 
# Matrix Management and New Market Approaches
Peter K. Gross used what he calls his "coronavirus recess" to look through some old Chase News and memos he had written, to all of our benefit!
 
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the Old Spare Parts Aren't Trash!
Matt Wasilefsky recalls how a new Chase computer system was rushed out because someone tossed spare parts for the old one.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stars & Stripes Forever...in Moscow!
Sergei Boboshko recalls a concert marking the opening of Chase Manhattan Bank International in Moscow in 1994.
 
 
  IN MEMORIAM                                                                                     

Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org

# Everardo (Evvy) Goyanes, 75, who served Chase in various capacities, with a major emphasis on international and corporate finance for large independent and major oil companies, died of cancer on March 30, 2020.

 

 

 

William (Bill) Pike, 91, a longtime senior credit executive at JPMorgan, died of the novel coronavirus in Connecticut on March 18, 2020.

 

 
 
 
Peter Plati, 58, was a Vice President for Product and Segment Management at JPMorgan Chase from 1994 to 2004. He died on March 29, 2020.

 

 

 

Jane Klivans, 74, who worked in JPMorgan Asset Management for more than 30 years, died on March 29, 2020.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Margaret R.A. Paradis, a former attorney in the Chase Legal Department, died on February 19, 2020, after a long battle with ovarian cancer.  

 

 

 
 
How Best to Use the CAA Membership Directory
If you have not done so recently, please update the information in your profile, so that the CAA and other members would be better able to contact you. Using the Membership Directory is a privilege of dues-paying CAA members.
 
Now get a refresher on how to best use the membership directory to find an individual or groups of individuals you would like to contact. (Note that only dues-paying members have access to the directory.).
 
To get to the directory, log in at www.chasealum.org. On the home page menu, click on Membership and then Member Directory.
When searching by name, or in any of the other search areas, we advise starting by putting in less information in the search field. For example, if you want to find William Smith, type only Smith in the Search by Name box; if you put in “William Smith” and he is calling himself Bill Smith in his profile, you will not find him.
 
If you want to find members who live near you, enter the city, state or country (or any combination) under Location. The Years at Chase search is very valuable. Type in 1996-2005, for instance, and you will find everyone who worked for the bank (including heritage banks) during those years. You can narrow your search by also typing in a location or job title.
 
Once you have entered the search words, click on Search at the bottom of the page. When members’ names appear, click on their names to obtain more detailed information about them.
 
If you have any problem with any of this, contact Ken Jablon at jablonkt@aol.com.
 
As always: If the links do not work for you, you can always access the latest stories by logging on to CAA's web site.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to Ken Jablon or call Ken (during normal working hours) at 212-799-9525.

By the by: Don't forget to explore the rest of the CAA Web site. Just click on the home page menu buttons to find the news archive, photo album, membership directory, past In Memoriams and benefit information.

The Board of the Chase Alumni Association  
           
 
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