Tuck School
THE SUMMER SESSION of the School just ended was the first semester under the accelerated program adopted for the duration of the war. Under this program the four-semester course has been compressed to three semesters, and the curriculum has been revised to emphasize training for men entering the armed services, war production work, or government service. Entrance to the School is now at the middle of the Junior year instead of the beginning of the Senior year.
The enrollment for the summer term was large. Including the 10 Tuck-Thayer majors, the entering class numbered 112. There were 21 men in the second-year group, including 6 men in the Tuck- Thayer major.
Enrollment for the current semester is also large. On the basis of the present count there are 95 men going forward with the second semester and 70 men in the entering class, including 4 Tuck-Thayer majors entering under the recently-designed accelerated program for the Thayer School.
Dean Olsen recently attended a session of the National Institute on Education and the War in Washington, D. C. The meeting was sponsored by the United States Office of Education with the primary aim of working out educational policies during wartime with representatives of the armed forces, selective service and the war manpower commission.
Several changes in the faculty are in evidence as the new semester opens. Mr. Feldman returns to assume his old post as Professor of Industrial Relations after a two-year leave of absence, during which he was Dean of the School of Business and Civic Administration of the College of the City of New York. Charles J. Gaa is leaving the staff to take a position in the accounting division of O.P.A. "Chuck" will be deeply missed by his many friends at the School.
Two new members are being added to the teaching staff, Mr. Lewis O. Foster as Professor of Accounting and Finance, and Mr. Fred J. Knights as Asst. Professor of Industrial Management. Mr. Foster comes from Western Reserve University, and for the past seven months has been with the accounting division of OP A in Washington. Mr. Knights is from Chicago where he has been associated with an industrial management consulting firm, and has taught at Northwestern University.
A number of very stimulating outside speakers were present for the summer term. Mr. Louis H. Lingler of the Sheffield Corp. addressed the class in Industrial engineering on "Gaging Practices in Modern In: dustry." Mr. F. Ray Adams discussed the problem of company organization with the class in Industrial Management. Mr. H. M. Huffman Jr., Vice President and Works Manager of the Huffman Manufacturing Company, spoke to the class in Industrial Management and to the second-year class on "The Plant Management Job in a Small Manufacturing Company." Mr. Frank E. Seidman of Seidman and Seidman, Accountants, and consultant to the furniture branch of W.P.B., spoke to the class in The Economic Problem of War on "The Problem of Small Business in Wartime." Nat Burleigh, on one of his too infrequent visits to Hanover, addressed the first and second-year classes on the "Organization and Operation of the War Production Board" and "W.P.B. and the Operation of Individual Business Concerns."
During the summer semester Ensigns Lewis K. Johnstone, Warner B. Bishop, Richard D. Hill of the class of '41 and Ensigns Roger Sands and Raymond W. Wattles of the class of '42 returned to Hanover to take the two-month naval indoctrination course. Word has just come in that Ensign Johnstone will remain in Hanover on the instruction staff.
W. B. Potter 'si had charge of the ceremonies recently when Eastman Kodak Company received the Army-Navy Production Award. He presented a program of notables-Eddie Cantor, Helen Hayes, the Southernaires, Olsen and Johnson, Vincent Lopez, etc. which attracted 28,000 spectators to the Rochester Stadium. Our own Mr. Burleigh was on hand as the representative of the War Production Board.
In the remainder of this column and in future columns there will be presented some of the information which has been received on your Tuck Alumni blanks and which seems to fall into the category of news. Space is limited so there'll have to be very little embroidery. Here goes: 1905 G. H. Greenwood is President of the Pacific National Bank of Seattle; 1907 T. Brown is special agent with Equitable Life Assurance Society; 1910 F. Greenwood is Manager of The Bank of California, N.A. at Portland, Oregon; 1913 J. W. Baxter is Head Accountant in the Office of Chief Signal Officer, Material Division, Legal Branch, War Department, Washington; W. H. Bruner is acting as management consultant for the War Department, 5.0.5., Office of Surgeon General, in Washington; W. A. Harris, Captain, (C.A.C.) T.C., is liaison officer with the Officer Procurement Branch, the Adjutant General's Office, Washington; P. W. Loudon, on leave of absence from Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood is Executive Manager of the Victory Fund Committee, Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis; 1917 G. H. Tapley is working on in-plant training programs for Training Within Industry in the four northern New England states; 1920 R. R. Larmon is heading up OPA activities in the state of New Hampshire; C. M. Sears Jr. is Associate Director, Division of Transport Conservation, Office of Defense Transportation, Washington; 1921— J. G. Allen now audits for the General Insurance Company in Seattle and vicinity; D. C. MacKay is with the law firm Petit, Olin and Overmeyer in Chicago; W. P. Sigler is Chief, Allocations Unit, Aluminum Branch, War Production Board, Washington; L. E. Smith presides over the meetings of the Flavoring Extract Manufacturers' Association of the United States; 1922—C. L. Bartholomew is Process Engineer with Twin Cities Ordnance Plant; I. E. Blaine is Chief, Central Research Unit, Services Branch of Division of Industry Operations, War Production Board; H. F. Bra- man is Assistant Manager of the Sales Department at American Brass Company, Waterbury; M. F. Johnson is District Auditor for J. C. Penney Company, his territory taking in fourteen states; M. W. Newcomb is Subcontract Auditor with U. S. Maritime Commission; W. I. Miller is Captain, U. S. Air Force; 1924 H. S. Fitz is in charge of air-raid control communications with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company in Washington; E. R. Lyle is Regional Manager of Spencer, Incorporated; L. A. Putnam is President of the Associated New England Short Line Railroads; C. J. Zimmerman is now Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R. More next month.
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