Chase Alumni: We Have a Winner! + RIP Delalio

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CONTESTS!  (A winner and a new contest                                       
 
# CONTEST No. 1: Guess who Joe Biden's running mate will be. WE HAVE A WINNER!
Forty alumni guessed Kamala Harris. Their names were shuffled in a hat and one was drawn by a blindfolded representative of PriceWaterhouse (not quite, but we were scrupulously honest about picking the name)...and the winner is Harry (Trip) Haldt, whose book is featured below under "Life After Chase". Congratulations on winning a $250 Amazon gift card! from among the correct prognosticators.

Contest No. 2: Where will JPMorgan Chase stock (JPM) be at the close of the third quarter? 
Submissions are closed. Predictions ranged from $56.88 to $128, with a median guess of $103.76.
 
As of the market close on Friday, August 14, the price was $102.41, up $3.81 since the contest ended on Monday, June 1. Since then, the price has ranged from $92.18 (July 9) on $113.45 (June 8)...so fasten your seatbelts!

NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)                                       
 
Click here to see photos from a Vienna "Heurigen", July 2, 2020.
 
REAL CHANGE, RIGHT NOW: Read JPMorgan Chase's statement on the path forward to creating a more inclusive world for the Black community. We have created a new page for our alumni's comments. See additions from Bob Matthews and Steve Tocci.
 
►The alumni trip to Croatia/Italy has been postponed to October 1-10, 2021. More details have been sent directly to registrants.
 
SAVE THE DATE: With hope and faith that baseball has a future, we've reserved 40 seats for the Subway Series game to be played at CitiField on Friday, September 10, 2021!
 
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY                                                       
NOTE: Past "Moments" can be found under "News" on the CAA website home page menu. "Moments" are also now featured on the CAA website homepage.
 
Amazing Adventures of Chaseman
Check out the 1970 Chase Manhattan ad featuring five Chase bankers. Thanks to Peter Rapuzzi for sending it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brushes with Celebrity
Johnny Torrance-Nesbitt reminds us how celebrities sometimes show up in the course of business.
 
 
 
 
 
 
CMP and Early Investment Banking
Tony Lord remembers when it happened, in the early 1970s in Manila, alongside AIG.
 
 
 
 
 
 
First-Ever Long Term Currency Swap
Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe writes about the why and how of the first long term currency swaps.
 
 
 
 
 
 
CORONAVIRUS SPRING/SUMMER: STORIES                                 
Click here to read what four of our members missed about normal life during the pandemic. Send in your thoughts! (news@chasealum.org)
 
UPDATED (Find out how his patient is doing, see a photo of Dr. Kanter's team)
Read the extraordinary and moving story added 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.

 
 
Hans van den Houten remembers the Netherlands during World War II, prior to this week's observance of the 75th anniversary of the country's liberation by Canadian forces, providing a link to a stunning article in The New York Times about recovered Dutch wartime diaries and casting today's "war" against COVID-19 in a different perspective.
 
 
 
 
Vernon Moore sent in a story that begins to explain why the infection and death rate in Hong Kong is so remarkably low.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
LIFE AFTER CHASE                                                                        
# Ottho Heldring (Chase 1972-1998 and CAA board member) is on another road trip -- no interstate -- from Baltimore to Seattle and back, with some major side trips. He posts photos with text daily on Facebook. You can follow his journey at fb.com/ottho.heldring. This page is public, but he'd be quite happy to accept friend requests. Many Chase alumni followed him on his trips in the United States, the UK and elsewhere since 2015. (The photo–"Bring Your Wrecks to Rex"–was taken in Vincennes, Indiana.)
 
Read how a daughter's death made Vicente Monge Alcalde seek what he calls "responsible happiness" and create a foundation in Santiago to help children with cancer during their treatment. A PDF of a book about his daughter's journey  is available upon request.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
  IN MEMORIAM                                                                                     

Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org

Anthony Delalio, 74, a long-time Chase executive in Securities and Treasury, died on August 8, 2020. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Guy LaVignera, 76, who began a 40-year Chase career at Chemical Bank, died of COVID-19 on May 5, 2020. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Paul G. Tongue, 87, senior vice president for consumer lending at Chase in the early 1980s and vice chair of Chase USA, died on July 7, 2020. Many remembrances of this beloved colleague are posted.

 
 
 
 
 

Arnold "Arnie" Gluck, 79, a pioneer in Domestic Institutional Banking at Chase in the early 1970s, died on June 23, 2020. He was also an avid large format photographer.

 
 
 
Nemir Kardir, 83, who formed Ivestcorp in 1982 with colleagues from Chase Manhattan and was considered a founding father of private equity in the Persian Gulf, died on June 8, 2020. Read Bill Flanz's touching tribute.
 
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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