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Dear Reader,
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 # Looking forward to the new year and new beginnings, we'd like to launch a new feature for the newsletter:
Who is the best person you ever hired at the Bank and why? Please send your story to news@chasealum.org.
We'll start running the series in 2022.
 Thank you to the mentors who influenced generations of superb Chase bankers (and those of Chemical and
MHT and other heritage institutions). 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 thanked.
►If you still want to pay tribute to a mentor or if you want to say more about someone already cited by a colleague, please send your comments to news@chasealum.org.
 # In the last newsletter of each year, we run an "In Remembrance" of all the alumni for whom we have posted an In Memoriam in that year. Inevitably, we then receive many emails about other alumni who died earlier in the year or even distant years. If at all possible, please inform us about the deceased by Christmas, so we can include their In Memoriam this calendar year. You can see whose death notices we have published by going to the home page menu and clicking on In Memoriam.
 # 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 35,365.44
when it closed on Friday, December 17, 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.
 See photos from CAA Vienna's November luncheon, featuring Andreas Treichl.
 See photos from CAA Frankfurt's 2021 Thanksgiving gathering at the Frankfurter Golf Club.
 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
(And remember...you have friends at Chase Alumni who want to see photos of your
# Object of the Week: More Matchbook Marketing–from Chase promotions in Puerto Rico (celebrating 25th anniversary of Chase on the island) and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
It would appear that the Puerto Rican matchbooks were printed in St. Louis, and the matchbook promoting Virgin Island branches was printed in Puerto Rico!
 Gene Ret remembers being one of the "mole people" working without windows in The Vault on 5B at One Chase Manhattan Plaza. (# Comments posted.)
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.
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IN MEMORIAM
In Memoriams: Please send remembrances to news@chasealum.org
 # Colin Swinborne, 84, died on October 14, 2021, in Palm Beach, FL. Starting at MHT as a lending officer, he retired from Chase in the late 1990s from posts in Corporate Affairs.
 # Warren Townsend, 88, died on November 25, 2021, in Beaverton, OR. He served Chase Manhattan in the 1970s in East Africa, South Asia and New York.
 Kenneth S. Rolland, 90, died on November 24, 2021, in Scottsdale, AZ. He was Chief Investment Officer of Chemical when he retired after 40 years with the Bank, in 1992.
 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.
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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