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 # NEW CONTEST: Welcome to a Dow average over 40,000! But what will the JPM stock price (not the Dow!) be at market close on Friday, August 30, 2024?
Send your prediction no later than noon (Eastern) on Monday, June 10, 2024 to news@chasealum.org. Your guesstimate should include two decimal points (e.g. 202.63 – last Friday's closing price -- rather than 203). The winner will receive a $250 Amazon gift card. You must be a dues-paying member of CAA to win the contest. Please: only one submission per person, and no changes permitted.
NEWS & EVENTS (PAST AND FUTURE)
# A new photo album for additional pictures of the CAA's May 1-10 trip to the south of France and Monaco is now up, viewable by dues-paying CAA members. All website readers can enjoy a two-part travelogue with other photos that was posted last week. We recommend looking at it on a laptop or desktop rather than a tablet or phone. Click on these links for PART ONE and PART TWO. C'est si bon!
 Tod Winston (photo) of NYC Audubon led an early bird walk for newbie and experienced CAA birders on Monday, May 13, 2024 in Central Park's magnificently rustic North Woods. Click here for details and images. The birds were plentiful (warblers! grackles! ovenbirds! a Baltimore oriole! a woodpecker! a whopping 50 species in total!) and the weather terrific. We're thinking of doing this again in the fall to welcome the birds back to NYC.
JPMC's Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, issued his annual Letter to Shareholders as part of the 2023 Annual Report.
 Click to read Gary Sernovitz'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.
CAA TECH CORNER WITH DAN ALVAREZ
Get an MFA in the art of blocking hackers who want access to your online accounts! In his sixth monthly feature dedicated to defining emerging trends in technology, in plain English, CAA board member Dan Alvarez explains why, even if it's a little extra time and effort, you should get into the habit of using MFA. The story ends with a fun riddle.
Dan's columns look at tech trends 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".
LIFE AFTER CHASE
Dave Farrell had a short tenure with The Chase Manhattan Bank of South Africa before The Standard Bank of South Africa (SBSA) absorbed Chase's three South African branches, but Chase left an impression and opened up his world. Farrell's account includes many "bankers in danger" moments of his lifetime in African banking, which, he says, is not for the faint of heart.
EVENT PHOTOS
# Remember: Dues-paying Chase Alumni Association members can explore the numerous photo albums on the website.
 Click here to see photos of CAA Vienna's recent luncheon meeting, back at the newly renovated St. Johann's Club. (Photos are visible by all readers.)
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: A small bronze plaque from the 1940s:
For 10 years at least, Chase Manhattan ran ads for the CMB Personal Trust Department featuring chained, supersized (nest) eggs. See how the ad campaign evolved and presented ideas for retirement over the 14 ads we've captured from the 1950s and 1960s. (Two separate posts)
Bank Culture: Values Learned and Retained – We've added a new story by John Sellers to a 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. Sellers looks at the cultures of JPM, Chase Manhattan, Salomon Bros, Paribas and Citi.
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?
Object(s) of the Week Follow-up: First Republic Bank Collectible Lip Moisturizer in Natural Mint. When we ran this, we asked our readers, "What do you think the 'unfamiliar words' would be?" We expected someone to say, "No collateral is necessary," or "Who cares about risk?" Instead, we got a wonderful list of unfamiliar (or at least somewhat tricky-to-use-in-a-sentence) words from alumni author Ralph White. Click here to see his list. Oh – and Ralph's sensational memoir, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians, is coming out in paperback on April 9, 2024.
 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.
LOOKING FOR INPUT...
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!
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IN MEMORIAM
Please send remembrances and news of recent alumni deaths to news@chasealum.org.
 # Bob Gottschall, a senior manager in Chase's NY metro area branch system during his 38 years with the bank, died on February 5, 2024. He was 84. A memorial mass will be held on Sunday, June 9, 2024, beginning at 10:45 am, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 15 Cedar St., Bronxville, NY. Mass will be followed by a brunch at JC Fogarty's Restaurant in Bronxville. To attend the brunch, RSVP – no later than close of business on Thursday, June 6, 2024 – to Ed Sheeran by email or by calling or texting him at 914-260-7938.
 Roger E. Anderson, who served Chase Manhattan as country manager in Denmark, as well as a senior executive in Milan and Tehran, died unexpectedly on March 26, 2024. He was 81 years old and lived in Bronxville/Tuckahoe, NY.
 H. Peers Brewer, 89, died on May 2, 2024 in Wilton, CT. He worked in the Trust, Insurance and Risk Management departments over a 34-year career at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical and Chase.
 Dominique Clavel, 81, died in New York on April 18, 2024. In a 30+-year career at Chase Manhattan, he worked in Europe, Asia and New York, retiring in 1999. We have posted several remembrances.
 Richard "Dick" Wharton died in Connecticut on April 23, 2024, age 85. He had been a Branch Banking Division executive at Chase Manhattan in the 1970s.
 We only just learned of the December 16, 2023 death of Frederick (Rick) W. Geissinger, a greatly admired senior executive at Chase Manhattan in the United States and Japan who mentored many Chase colleagues even after he left the bank. He was 78 years old and died in Stuart, FL. Several remembrances have been posted.
 Frank Reilly, 92, died on March 24, 2024. He retired as a senior vice president at Chase after a 30-year career there. He also served as president of the American Banking Association. Thanks to alumnus John Hehir, we have posted an article featuring Reilly with comedian Tim Conway at a 1986 Metropolitan Community Bank celebration.
 Philip (Phil) Young, 76, died at home in Santa Rosa, CA, on March 24, 2024. He began his career in international corporate banking with Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, working for Chase in the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong and Mexico. Numerous remembrances are posted.
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. (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.
The Board of the Chase Alumni Association
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