Chase Alumni: Unfamiliar Words + RIP: Tom Gardner, Elaine Kapotes, Miguel Martinez

 
 
 
 
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►The 20th anniversary of the merger between Bank One and JPMorgan Chase is coming up on July 1, 2024. That merger, of course, brought Jamie Dimon to JPMC.
We are looking for alumni from both Bank One and Chase who were involved with the merger and/or post-merger changes. If you have a story to tell, please contact Andrea at news@chasealum.org, preferably sooner rather than later!
 
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)                                            
 
 
J.P. Morgan Wealth Management posted an interesting article in honor of Presidents' Day, "U.S. Presidents Over the Years: A Timeline of Financial Events". Writer Mary Mannion works in mentions of various heritage banks that are now part of JPMorgan Chase. 
 
Gene Ret (not pictured), a privacy expert whose 30-year Chase career included privacy work, gives some practical advice on how to avoid and recover from identity theft. Gene has also added something to the article following an alumna's question. Previously, Ret wrote for us on how to reduce spam texts, emails and phone calls.
 
Click to read 's article "Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine: He made JPMorgan Chase the biggest bank in the world. What is it, exactly?" in New York Magazine. Its editors call it "One Great Story" – and it is.
 
Henry Kissinger, who died on November 29, 2023, was a close friend of David Rockefeller and chaired Chase Manhattan's International Advisory Committee from 1977 to 1981 before becoming a "counselor" to the Bank on international relations. Here's a brief look at that relationship, with a much appreciated contribution from alumnus Bill Flanz.
 
CAA TECH CORNER WITH DAN ALVAREZ                                  
 
Column #5: How to Whitelist an Email Address  Our newest (and definitely youngest) CAA board member, Dan Alvarez, has launched a monthly feature dedicated to defining emerging trends in technology, in plain English. His plan is to address these questions at a "100-level" for Luddites, brilliant (of course) but non-technologically inclined bankers and anyone else in the financial world embarrassed to ask basic questions while looking at the "big picture". 
     For his fifth column, Dan is offering some Mr. Fixit/useful guidance for members who aren't getting emails they want to get (such as the CAA newsletter). Of course, if you[re not getting the newsletter, you won't be getting this advice via the newsletter either. Catch-22, eh?
 
EVENT PHOTOS                                                                              
 
 
 

An impromptu reunion lunch was held the week of December 13, 2023 at New York's Villa Mosconi. Pictured (L-R) are: Robert Plows; Joe Murphy: Janet Besso Becker; Tom Lynch; Ken Jablon: Tim McGinnis.

Click for photos from CAA Frankfurt's 2023 Thanksgiving celebration. The photos are viewable by everyone.
 
 

 

Click here for coverage and 99 photos of October 2's Fall CAA NYC reception. (Photos can only be accessed by dues-paying CAA members.) The evening included remarks by Charlie Maikish that should be of interest to anyone who worked in Lower Manhattan or the Brooklyn Exposure Zone on 9/11.

 
CAA Belgium held its fourth reunion on October 13, 2023 in Antwerp. Colette Selfslagh, who is with J.P. Morgan in London, was the luncheon speaker. Everyone can see the photos and links to other stories out of Antwerp.
 
 
 
 
 
 
MOMENTS IN BANK HISTORY                                                         

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

#  Object(s) of the Week: First Republic Bank Collectible Lip Moisturizer in Natural Mint. What do you think the "unfamiliar words" would be? Let us know at news@chasealum.org!

 
 
Gene Berry sent us a brochure used to recruit potential MBAs and college students to Chase in the late 1970s. Click here to see the inside of the brochure, which features such CAA members as Peter Holzer, Bill Flanz, Sally French (Phelps), John Oakes, Amy Gadol, Bruce Gregory and Ben Jinks, as well as Gene Berry. See if you can find someone you know! Below, see a map showing Chase's global footprint at the time.
Hong Lien Nguyen recalls how she was hired in 1966 for the new Chase Manhattan branch in Saigon and how, after "Black April" – the fall of Saigon in 1975 – she continued to work for Chase in New York and the Ivory Coast, retiring after 30 years with the bank.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank Culture: Values Learned and Retained – We've begun a new series in which alumni articulate how corporate culture shaped the banks they worked at and how corporate culture differed among the banks that are now under the JPMorgan Chase umbrella. We begin with three contributors: Janin Campos, Richard J. Moss and Elease Ruddock.
     Please send your thoughts – or full-blown essays – to Andrea at  news@chasealum.org. Please indicate which bank you worked for and when, and at what stage of your career. Here are some prompts for responses: How were you made aware of expected values, beliefs, behaviors? Were they set at the top or by your more immediate managers? Were they ever challenged in the heat of battle -- or after your bank may have merged with another? Did aspects of the initial culture stay with you always?  
 
LOOKING FOR INPUT...                                                                                                
We invite you to submit stories for a new series: Brushes with Greatness. Was there a client or executive with whom you worked at Chase or a heritage bank who might have earned his/her reputation as a mover or shaker? Was the person especially demanding? Did he/she make an effort to put you at ease? Did you learn from the encounter or longer-term relationship or dine out later on the story? Was there a more junior colleague where you saw the sparks that made for a later stellar career? Please send your story to Andrea at news@chasealum.org.
 
We're always looking for new Lives After Chase (in non-financial areas) and Moments in Bank History. We also welcome new contributions to such existing series of articles as: Ex-Pat Housing, Corruption, Mentors, Bankers in Danger and our newest, Corporate Culture. Please remember to send your story or story ideas to Andrea at news@chasealum.org. As always, you can write something up, or Andrea can interview you and write it up for you.
 
POLICY CHANGE: We're following up on an alumnus suggestion that when we publish  comments from CAA members, we identify the writers by the years they worked for Chase, Chemical, MHT, First Chicago, WaMu or whatever bank that is now part of JPMorgan Chase. So when you write in, please remember to provide that information.
Many thanks in advance!
IN MEMORIAM                                                                                  

Please send remembrances and news of recent alumni deaths to news@chasealum.org.

#  Tom Gardner, a scholar of Renaissance literature who found a career at Chase in investment banking and as president of Chase Bank Canada, died on March 6, 2024, in Henderson, TN, after a long illness. He was 80.

 
 
 
 
 

#  Eileen Driscoll Kapotes, who met her husband (Nick) at Chase Manhattan while working in Corporate Telecommunications at the Bank in the late 1980s, died on October 20, 2023 after a near 12-year battle with breast cancer. She was 62 years old and lived in Pompton Plains, NJ.  

 
 
 
 
 

#  Miguel Martinez, a valued member of Chase's Global Security Technology team for 30 years, died on December 21, 2023, two years after taking early retirement. He was 50 years old and lived in Brick, NJ.  

 
 
 
 
 

William "Lee" Heidel, who once ran Chase Home Mortgage, died in Minnesota on February 19, 2024. He was 80.  

 
 
 
 
 
Peter Hughes, 73, died of leukemia in Dorset, England, on February 8, 2024. His 26 years at Chase included senior positions in Brazil, Germany and the UK. His In Memoriam includes instructions on how to attend or livestream his funeral/celebration of life on March 15, 2024.
 
 
 
 
 

William (Bill) Millen Duncan II, 84, died on January 23, 2024. A resident of Southport, CT, Duncan began an illustrious banking career at Chemical Bank, where he eventually ran international operations, and later was president of JPMorgan Chase's New Jersey subsidiary.  

 
 
 
 

Paul D. Vaglio, 74, died on January 17, 2024 in Cape Coral, FL. Vaglio had retired in 2007 as a Vice President at Chase after 33 years with the Bank.

 
 
 

 

Robert W. Keith, 97, died on January 28, 2024 in Greenport, NY. Keith had been an Executive Vice President in Manufacturers Hanover Trust's Human Resources department.

 

 

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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. (www.chasealum.org) 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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