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Dear Reader,
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 # This coming September 11th marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. We welcome written and photographic accounts of your experience of the tragedy, as well as thoughts about how the event may have changed your life and perspective. Thank you to the alumni who have already sent us moving recollections. Please send yours no later than September 4, 2021 to news@chasealum.org.
 # As we send out this newsletter, we still have seven seats of the 40 we reserved for the Subway Series game to be played at CitiField on Friday, September 10, 2021. You must be a dues-paying CAA member to buy tickets, and each member may buy up to four seats. Click here for details and for the purchase link. They're great seats at a great price. As of now, you must be fully vaccinated for seats in this section, but you will not be required to wear a face mask.
LIFE AFTER CHASE
 Read about the other two (or is it three and counting?) careers of Robert Aberlin, and learn how some Chase connections led from one thing to another in film, the dance world and education. Jim Adamson commented on the story, adding a great anecdote...worth a read!
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)
 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 October 2022. More information has been sent directly to registrants.
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.
# Object of the Week: Medal Count: Here's one for the Manufacturers Hanover Corporate Challenge. The first race was held in New York's Central Park on the evening of July 13, 1977, with 200 runners from 50 companies participating. Forty-six years later, the renamed JPMorgan Corporate Challenge has grown to more than 250,000 total entrants from more than 6,900 companies participating at events in 13 cities in seven countries on five continents.
 (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.
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY
 Keith Wheatley isn't strictly a Chase alumnus, but he was the "Plant Man" and "Flower Man" at Woolgate House in the 1980s and 1990s. He hopes his recollections will trigger some others. (The photo is of him from around that era.)
Click for a master index to images of memorabilia we've gathered recently, from Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan.
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IN MEMORIAM
In Memoriams: Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org
 We recently learned of the June 26, 2019 passing of Ann R. Leven, 79. She has a brief tenure as a VP at Chase Manhattan in the late 1970s between financial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a task force for President Ronald Reagan. She was a pioneer in the intersection of art and institutional finance.
Thomas C. Creamer, 72, who was assistant to Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman and CEO Thomas Labrecque, died of cancer on July 4, 2021.
 We learned recently of the death of Gerald "Jerry" Sullivan, 80, on December 9, 2020. He was a star branch manager for Chase Manhattan Bank, including for the branch at 1 New York Plaza.
 Claude Pellegrino, 71, died June 12, 2021. He was a VP at Chase Manhattan in Treasury–Asset Liability Management and was a maverick in Risk Management, as father of NEMESIS in the late 1970s, for internal balance sheet accrual risk analysis.
 A. Cushman "Cush" May, who left his mark on Chase Manhattan serving in Asia from 1968 to 1975, died in Connecticut on June 5, 2021. He was 87. Read his In Memoriam and the moving (and sometimes funny) tributes from those who reported to him. As alumna Gillian Van Schaick wrote to us, "I wish I had known Cush May! Cush was by all accounts a wonderful man, colleague, boss and friend. It is impressive that so many former Chase colleagues felt moved to write! Clearly a life well-lived."
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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