Chase Alumni: Happy Thanksgiving! Gratitude for Mentors

 
 
 
Dear Reader,
(# Indicates new articles or articles that have added content.
 
# Thank you to the mentors who influenced  generations of superb Chase bankers (and those of Chemical and MHT and other heritage institutions). On the eve of Thanksgiving 2021, we're offering tributes from Chase alumni who wanted to express their gratitude to men and women who helped shape their careers and lives. 
The tributes are posted in three parts. Each part has links to the others and a list of writers and the colleagues they're thanking.
If you still want to pay tribute to a mentor, if we accidentally overlooked a submission or if you want to say more about someone already cited by a colleague, please send your comments to news@chasealum.org. 
 

# SHARE YOUR STORY We're looking for contributions to Moments in Bank History and Life After Chase. You can either send your story fully written or ask to be interviewed. Contact Andrea at  news@chasealum.org.

 
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)                                       
 
# HOW NOW, DOW JONES CONTEST: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 35,457.31 on October 19, 2021, the contest deadline to predict where the Dow will be at the end of the year. (The Dow was at 35,804.38 when it closed on Wednesday, November 23, 2021.) Our members' estimates ranged from 
31,232.56 to 39,772.06, with a mean of 35,778.07. Time will tell! The winner will receive a $250 Amazon gift card. Do you have an idea for a contest? If so, let us know.
 
Read about CAA New York's first in-person reception since the pandemic started. Dues-paying members can click here to see the photos. (Looking at photo albums is a privilege of membership.)
 
CAA Frankfurt Thanksgiving Gathering: The Thanksgiving Einladung will take place at the Frankfurt Golf Club on Thursday, November 25, 2021. Click here for more information and an RSVP form.
 
__________________________________________________________
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).  
 
►The alumni trip to Croatia/Italy has been postponed to October 2022. More information has been sent directly to registrants. 
 
 LIFE AFTER CHASE                                                                   
 
Anne-Marie Barcia built a lifelong career out of what she learned in Chase credit training – how to train bankers!  She even found the "Bailey manual" in Egypt!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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!
 
 
 
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY                                                       
 
# Object of the Week: From Anne-Marie Ely:  "I retired in 2018 after 30 years at Chase. My parents met at a Manufacturers branch, and Dad retired in 1983 after 45 years with the Bank." Among the trove of old MHT items she has (more to come!) is this tiepin from the Quarter Century Club at MHT:
 
 

(And remember...you have friends at Chase Alumni who want to see photos of your Bank memorabilia! Please send to news@chasealum.org.)

 
Idiosyncratic or wacky? Paul Hemminger recalls some of the strange practices in the upstate NY hometown banks Chase acquired in the 1970s.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Click for a master index to images of memorabilia we've gathered recently, from Manufacturers Hanover Trust,    Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan. 

 
 
 
 
 
  IN MEMORIAM                                                                                

In Memoriams: Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org

# Cesar J. Chekijian, 75, died on November 11, 2021. He was head of corporate real estate for Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank, Chase and, eventually, JPMorgan Chase.

 

 

Edward D. Miller, former vice chair of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, president of Chemical Bank and senior vice chair of Chase Manhattan, died September 26, 2021, age 80. He helped engineer the mergers of these banks.

 

 

 

Ann M. Ahern, a former VP in corporate human resources at Chase Manhattan who worked for the bank  for 47 years, died in Manhattan on September 15, 2021, age 88. Read the touching appreciations of her.

 

 

 

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  
           
 
 
[go to article]




----------------------------------
The Chase Alumni Association respects your privacy!
To make sure these communications are not mistakenly blocked in the future by your spam-blocker, please add 'email_watch@omnimagnet.net' and 'webmaster@chasealum.org' to your approved-senders-list. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence of this kind from the Chase Alumni Association please follow this unsubscribe link: http://www.chasealum.org/unsubscribe.html?email=[email]. You will be removed from receiving any further e-mails at that point. Please allow up to 72 hours to process.