Chase Alumni: Trivia Contest! Member Merger & MHT Memories; Frangopoulos and Dangremond, RIP
 
Dear Reader,
 
NOTE: Existing stories (including In Memoriams) that feature new comments or material are indicated with a #.
 
# Trivia Contest! How much do you know about the history of all the banks in the DNA of JPMorgan Chase? Join us for a fun, interactive online CAA outing with members of the JPMC Archives Department on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 1-2 pm (Eastern).
 
The session is free but open only to dues-paying CAA members. You must pre-register to receive the link, and participation is limited to 98 people. Click here to register and for more info.
(The top scorer will win a $200 Amazon gift card, and the top three scorers will be invited to a private tour of the Archives when things get back to normal.)
 
CHEM/CHASE...MHT/CHEM...MERGER MEMORIES                         
 
# In less than three months (March 31, 2021), we will mark the 25th anniversary of Chemical Bank's acquisition of Chase Manhattan Bank and the assumption of the name Chase. The Chase Alumni Association often gets feedback that we neglect our members whose careers began at Manufacturers Hanover or Chemical Bank. So we're asking now for your stories about "the old days" at those two banks. Please send your story ideas or essays to news@chasealum.org. Separately, if you have stories about the merger, please let us know. We need your help to honor the anniversary!
 
We're starting the celebration by posting pictures of various Chemical, Manny Hanny and Chase memorabilia. We'll add more over time and also represent Manufacturers Hanover. If you have other items you want to share, please send the images to news@chasealum.org.

 

 

# Click here for reminiscences from three alumni whose careers started at Manny Hanny: Geoffrey Burke, Lawrence Bloom and Maria V. Trinidad (pictured). More to come! 

  

 

# Memories of Great Softball by MHT's Bad Company team in the mid-1980s, thanks to Jeanine Khoury and Hank Norman.
 
 
 
In the Room Where It Happened: Special thanks to former JPMorgan Chase Vice Chair Don Layton for a superb article, The Merger Name Game, with insights into why Chemical's name outlasted Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical gave way to Chase and JPMorgan Chase wasn't named Chase Morgan.
 
 
 
# We've added an amusing story by Cesar J. Chekijian, former SVP/real estate for Manny Hanny. Michael Prasad, Ed Moran and CJ Smith respond to Don Layton's article (see below) on how and why certain bank names were retained, looks at the merger from its human and cultural impact on employees.
 
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)                                       
 
The greatest optimist among us won the "guess the closing Dow of 2020" contest: Joe Sinzer. When the contest closed on September 30, 2020, the Dow was at 27,781.70. It closed on December 31, 2020 at 30,606.48. Sinzer's prediction for the closing Dow was the highest we received: 29,977.69.  
 
 
 
 
 
Read Rudi Bogni's article, newly published in Wilmott Magazine: "The Strange New Wealth Tax". Bogni is a member of CAA London.
 
 
 
 
 
Can you beat Jim Haynes's record? He has given 52 years of continuous service to Chase! Let us know if you have worked for Chase longer.
 
 
 
 
Nicholas Sargen discussed his upcoming book JPMorgan's Fall and Revival with business journalist Consuela Mack at a virtual event sponsored by the Museum of American Finance and Fordham's Gabelli School of Business on October 6, 2020. If you missed it, you can access an edited recording of the proceedings by clicking here. We welcome reactions to the talk and to the book.
 
 
 
 
We have put together a compendium of past CAA events, with links to photos (viewable only by dues-paying CAA members). Of course, none of us has aged in these photos (from 2005 to 2020). Until we meet again in person!
 
A kindly non-alumnus acquired (and scanned) a copy of the September 1932 issue of The Chase, a monthly magazine published by The Chase National Bank. Dues-paying CAA members can click here to read the articles that give a snapshot of banking and Chase during The Great Depression.
 
 
 
 
 
 
►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!
 
LIFE AFTER CHASE                                                                        
 
When Jennifer Schroeder Johnson joined Chase in pursuit of an international banking career, she never imagined that she'd end up co-owning the oldest estate winery in New York State. Ice wine, anyone?
 
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY                                                       
 
Do you remember the "ForChevAmChrysVagen"?  Read about Manny Hanny's car loan campaign for "AnyCar".
 
 
 
Lynn Walker remembers receiving a Cannon Prize as a young typist at Chase in the mid-1960s. Did you win one or know someone who did? Let us know.
Other Cannon Prize winners we've heard from or of: Steve Friedman, Mike Esposito, Bob Fischer and Clotilda Cepeda.
 
 
 

Learn how this Chase icon became Mr. Zip of the U.S. Postal Service!  The article is taken from the must-read JPMorgan Chase page of the Smithsonian's Postal Service website, which tells of the interconnections between the USPS, JPMorgan, Chase and the predecessor banks. It's really worth your time!
 
 
CORONAVIRUS SPRING/SUMMER/FALL/WINTER                         
 
# Social distancing is still the 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.
 
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). 
 
Read the extraordinary and moving story in our The Coronavirus Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 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.
 
 
 
  IN MEMORIAM                                                                                 

Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org

# Zissimos Frangopoulos, 76, who held various senior positions at MHT, Chemical and Chase over a 30-year career, died on December 19, 2020, following a stroke.
 
 
 
 
 
 
# We only just learned of the August 28, 2020 death of CAA member Robert (Bob) Dangremond, who worked at Chase from 1969 to 1982, largely in worldwide commodities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Click here to see the list of alumni for whom we published "In Memoriams" in 2020. Each name is linked to an article. Alas, we were recently informed that the following alumni also died last year:

 

Leatrice K. Brown

June M. Hickey

H. Jack Joe, Jr.

John Torrance-Nesbitt

John H. Pomares

Raymond Preziosi

Peter Shalla

# Jens Westrick

 

 

 

 

 

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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