Tuck School
This is the initial appearance of TUCKSCHOOL NOTES in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
From time to time this column willappear in order to keep former Tuck menand others in touch with the activities ofthe school.
THE ENROLLMENT of second-year men is the largest in the history of the school, forty-six as compared with thirty-one last year. Enrollment in the first-year class is eighty-eight as compared with ninety-four in the preceding year. In addition there are two men who have elected the new Tuck-Thayer major.
Two new men have been added to the Tuck School staff this year, Mr. Henry L. Duncombe, Assistant Dean and Instructor in Business Statistics, and Mr. John P. Troxell, Professor of Industrial Relations.
Mr. Duncombe replaces Richard L. Funkhouser who is now secretary of the American Statistical Association. He comes from Northwestern University where he taught Labor Problems and Statistics and where he has substantially completed the requirements for the Ph.D. degree.
Mr. Troxell comes to the school from New York City where for the past seven years he administered the labor agreement in the shoe industry. He did his graduate work at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin and holds a Ph. D. degree from the latter institution. His former teaching positions include instructorships at Michigan and Wisconsin and professorships in Duke and Kentucky Universities. He has also varied business experience, having erved as Manager of the Shoe Workas Protective Union of Haverhill, as Director of Education and Research for the ennsylvania Federation of Labor, as Director of Research for the Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, and" Director of the Baltimore Employment Commission.
Professor Herman Feldman has been slanted a two-year leave of absence from the school in order to assume the deanship of the School of Business and Civic Admin istration of 'he College of the City of New Youk.He paid the Tuck School a visit at the time of the national election and reproted that his work is progressing most satisfactorily.
Dean Olsen was called to Washington, D.C.,on the fourth and fifth of October for a conference of all professional accrediting associations, called by the American Council on Education. Dean Olsen represented the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business in which he holds the position of Secretary-Treasurer. The purpose of the conference was to attempt to standardize accrediting practices for all professional schools such as law, medicine, business, etc.
Mr. Richard L. Funkhouser, who left the Tuck School staff last year to become Secretary of the American Statistical Association, visited the school at the time of the national election.
Professor George W. Woodworth attended the annual conference of the New Hampshire Bankers Association held at Whitefield, New Hampshire, October 11 and 12. Arrangements were made to hold the Second New Hampshire Bank Management Conference at the Tuck School on May 16 and 17, 1941. The first banking conference of this kind in the state was held at the school on June 7 and 8, 1940. This occasion proved to be so worth while from the standpoints of both the School and the bankers that there seemed to be no question about the desirability of a second conference. It is hoped that all Tuck men interested in banking will avail themselves of the opportunity of attending the conference next May.
Mr. Victor Z. Brink, who taught accounting at the school during the past two years, has assumed his duties as Assistant Professor of Accounting at Columbia University.
Mr. Leonard Young, President of the Electric Soldering Iron Company of Deep River, Connecticut, spoke to Professor Troxell's class in Human Relations in Management on the subject, "Problems of Labor Relations in Small Towns." Mr. Young was at the Tuck School on October 12.
Mr. Frank J. O'Brien, Vice President of Continental Can Company, lectured at the school on November 7 and 8 on "Management Control Problems of a Large Enterprise. " Mr. O'Brien is a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1909. His son, Frank Jr., graduated in the class of 1937.
Mr. Seymour L. Dwinell of Carter and Churchill, Lebanon, New Hampshire, lectured to the class in Merchandise Management on November 12 on the subject, "Merchandising a Line of Clothing." Mr. Dwinell graduated from Dartmouth in 1928 and from Tuck in 1929.
Mr. Clayton F. Mugridge '18, Manager of Industrial Relations, Eagle Pencil Company, Inc., New York City, spoke to the first and second-year classes at the Tuck School on November 20.
Mr. Joseph Barber, Assistant to the President of the Walworth Manufacturing Company, spoke to the Tuck School on December 2 and 3 on the subject, "Forecasting and Budgetary Control."
