George H. Beehler, a longtime printing salesman at Security Bank Note Company - who was lucky enough to retire when stock certificates were still a big business - passed away on March 26 at the age of 92. George was one of the longest-serving members of the old Corporate Transfer Agents Association - and he remained active until fairly recently in its new incarnation as the Shareholder Services Association as well. According to SSA guru Jimmy Smith, “Big George” was a CTA/SSA member for 50 years, and maybe a few more - and was the only member who had not served as President to be awarded a lifetime honorary membership. A Minnesota native who retired to Rehoboth Beach MD before returning to MN, George was the very model of an old-school gentleman - an avid bridge player and New York sports teams fan, and someone who always had a new (and always clean) joke at the ready. He will be very warmly remembered by the many friends and colleagues he met through the SSA. He is survived by loving wife of 64 years, Aileen; children, Patricia (James) O’Donnell, Christopher (Patty) and John (Alison) Beehler; nine grandchildren; five great grandchildren.
Douglas Chia, a former Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson, will be leaving his current role as Executive Director of The Conference Board Governance Center in June to become a Fellow for Rutgers Law School’s Center for Corporate Law & Governance. Doug will continue to make contributions to The Conference Board as a Senior Fellow of the Governance Center, which we are renaming the ESG Center. A great move for Doug - and for Rutgers!
Jim Miller, an ISS veteran who, “in 2008 joined ISS in the M&A Edge Team covering proxy contests and contentious mergers, before becoming head of the Financial Sector Group and Deputy Head of U.S. research…and who has led numerous high-profile engagements with issuers and investors” has joined fast-growing Alliance Advisors as a Managing Director, joining Reid Pearson, Shirley Westcott and Tyler Herka in Alliance’s Corporate Governance Group.
Patrick Tracey, whom we wrote up in our last issue upon his move to Carta, e-mailed back to remind us, correctly, that ‘the event you met me at was in 1980 or 81…Not ‘the 70’s’ - and that “I was in 6th or 7th grade in 1970!” Ouch! Maybe a momentary memory lapse on our part, or, we hope, just an example of our all too frequent fat-fingering…but a good excuse to give another shout-out to Pat…one of the very best “hires” your Editor in Chief ever made.
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