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CHEM/CHASE...MHT/CHEM...HERITAGE/ MERGER MEMORIES
Please continue sending your story ideas, essays and images regarding the banks and the merger to news@chasealum.org.
Another artifact from 25 years ago and the Chemical-Chase merger: I was a member of the Chase IT team that worked with the businesses and helped deploy the new bank’s first and early versions of our Internet presence. Craig Goldman funded and led the first year’s effort around the Internet until the businesses started to invest and grow out their sites into the fully functional type sites we expect today. The early sites were non-transactional, “brochureware” informational pages that laid the foundation for growth in a new and (at the time) not universally trusted technology for business.
(Happy) 25th Anniversary! March 31, 2021 was the 25th anniversary of the Chemical Bank-Chase Manhattan merger. Click here and here to see how the merger was covered in the media a quarter century ago.
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.
 Starting at MHT: We've added sweet rememberances of MHT by Penny Quinn, whose mother also worked for the bank, but when Manufacturers and Hanover banks were only "associated".
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)
 # VIENNA ZOOM: CAA Vienna will host a Zoom session on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 6 pm (GMT+2). Peter Forster will speak (in German) about "Bitcoin as the Pillar of the Digital Revolution". The session should last about an hour–more if the discussion is hearty! For more information and to get the Zoom link, please contact Edith Fischer.
 # CONTEST: Where will JPMorgan Chase stock (JPM) be at the close of the second quarter 2021? The contest is now closed, with a winner to be announced on July 1, 2021.JPM stock closed on March 31, 2021 at 152.53; our
participating alumni's guesses for the June 30 closing price ranged from 135.215 to 182.75, with a median of 161.15.
 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!
►The alumni trip to Croatia/Italy has been postponed to next year (2022). More information will be 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
 # Andrew Berry wrote in about the just published Argyle-The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells (University of Melbourne Press), a fascinating study of the discovery, development and intrigues associated with the Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia. Two chapters, wrote Berry, “deal with the challenging and supposedly impossible raising of a US$175,000,000 project financing by the Mine’s 38.24% owner Ashton Mining Limited. The majority owner and operator was the mercurial Rio Tinto’s Australian subsidiary CRA, which awaited fruitlessly for Ashton to fail in this financing endeavour so it (CRA) could acquire some or all of Ashton’s interest. Such was not the case because the Chase Manhattan Bank underwrote and successfully syndicated Ashton Mining's debt funding.”
Click here to read more about the book and Chase (and Berry's) roles.
Click for a master index to images of memorabilia we've gathered recently, from Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan.
 Do you remember Chase's Universal Account from the 1980s? Perhaps you can identify some of your colleagues in the brochure photo.
LIFE AFTER CHASE
 The Extroverted Economist: A risk analyst at Chase for five years in the 1980s for the Sub-Saharan Africa desk, Bob Graboyes is now an expert in health care economics and the use of technology in health care. His heart, though, is in the music he composes.
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IN MEMORIAM
Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org
 # Bill Lee informed us of the deaths in 2009 and 2014 of three colleagues from Manufacturers Hanover Leasing: John J. Kettle, of Central Islip, NY, on September 29, 2009; Karl M. Parrish, 76, of Greenwich, CT, founder and chair of Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corporation, on January 20, 2014; and Douglas L. Hutter (photo), 65, of Westbury, NY, on July 19, 2014. For more information, click here.
 # Doug Werlinich, who served Chase Manhattan in the USA, UK and Japan, died of cancer on March 8, 2021. He was 78.
 The CAA mourns the death of longtime member
Dick Corrigan, who died on March 4, 2021 in Florida.
Ten of his 17 years with Chase had been spent in Malaysia and Singapore.
 King Frederick Lowe, 84, who began his banking career at Chase Manhattan in 1965, died on February 27, 2021.
 Tom Kitz, 76, who worked at Chase for 42 years, died of cancer on December 13, 2020. He was a long-time CAA member and had worked in Global Strategic Planning. Read the appreciation by his friend and colleague Russ Campbell.
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.
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