Tuck School

THE TUCK SCHOOL has just completed the first term under the Naval V-12 program. With the exception of eight or nine civilian students who were completing their work prior to entrance into the Armed Forces, the student body was composed of men enlisted originally in the Naval V-i and V-7 programs, and in the Marine Corps Enlisted Reserve, who desired to continue their work in the field of business administration. Of this group of 190 men, approximately 95 have now reported to Midshipmen's School or other active duty. The remaining 95 men are continuing their work in business administration for the second term.

To this latter group there has been added about 114 men who are taking elementary work in the field of business administration. These men enlisted originally in the V-1, V-7. and Marine Corps Reserve programs, and were permitted to take three terms of work at Dartmouth before being assigned to other active duty. This group completed its first term in Dartmouth College, taking work preparatory to specializing in the Tuck School, and will be permitted to take two terms in the field of business administration.

As with the group admitted to the summer term, the present classes have been drawn primarily from the region north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi, with the largest group coming from the New England States.

Among the schools represented by the present trainees are: American International College, Boston College, Boston University, Bowling Green University, University of Chicago, Clark University, Colby College, Columbia University, University of Connecticut, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Fordham University, Holy Cross, Indiana University, lowa University, Jamestown College, Lehigh University, University of Maine, Manhattan College, University of Missouri, University of New Hampshire, New York University, Nichols Junior College, Northeastern University, St. John's Umversity, Shenandoah College, University of Southern California, Syracuse University, George Washington University, Washington University, and the University of Wisconsin.

Dean Olsen was one of the speakers at the general session of the American Hospital Association on September 15, 1943, at its annual meeting in Buffalo. He spoke on the topic, "Some Economic Prospects for the Post-War Period." James A. Hamilton Tuck '23 has been president of this association for the last year and was, of course, in charge of the entire meeting. Great credit should be given him for the outstanding work he has done with the American Hospital Association in the last few years. The many important activities which he has supervised and in which he has participated in the field of hospital administration in recent years would fill several pages.

On September 16 Dean Olsen was called to Washington by Navy officials to meet with three other deans of schools of business administration from various parts of the country to draw up a new curriculum for the Supply Corps candidates schools that are to be set into operation in March of 1944, as one of the specialized divisions of the Navy V-12 program. Although the final selection of from eight to ten schools which are to conduct this program for the Navy has not been announced, informal assurance has been given to Dean Olsen that the Tuck School is at the top of this list. It is expected, therefore, that the Tuck School will eventually devote its entire time to training approximately 300 Supply Corps candidates. These men will be selected from the Navy trainees now taking the basic two terms of the V-12 curriculum, and they will then continue for four more terms in the Supply Corps candidates school, after which they will spend approximately eight to nine weeks of specialized training in the Navy's own Supply Corps School at Harvard University. In the meantime the Tuck School is fully occupied with 200 to 300 V-12 trainees who are taking from one to three more terms of work in business administration courses.

On October 15 and 16 Dean Olsen attended the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Management, which were held in Philadelphia. The leading experts in the field of industrial management from both practical and academic life were present. He was there not only in the capacity of Dean of the Tuck School but also as vice president of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business He is secretary of a committee of this association which is making a survey of the problems relating to the teaching of industrial management in collegiate schools of business and schools of engineering.

Following the Philadelphia sessions Dean Olsen went on to Boston to meet with a number of business executives who were attending the Boston Conference on Distribution which this year dealt entirely with post-war problems.

Herman Feldman has been acting as chairman of the Labor Panel for New Hampshire, under the Regional War Labor Board. On Wednesday, October 6, he presided at a hearing involving the Brown Co. of Berlin (the largest employer in the state) and the union in the plantLocal of District 50 of the United Mine Workers. The issues involved included the desire for a union shop, increase in wages, shift differentials, extra payment for certain holidays, and so on. On September 30 he also took part in a conference of the Council on Democracy in New York City, with respect to problems of Negro employment.

Harry Wellman, who has been absent from the staff owing to illness, is now much improved, and it is expected that he will be operating at the old stand with the beginning of the next semester. He reports that the best-tasting medicine prescribed was a recent fishing trip to McNamee, N. B.

The Tuck staff was potentially augmented on August 9 when Fred Knights became the proud father of a son, McClelland.

The championship hopes of the faculty baseball squad were badly shattered when Charlie Sargent snapped a tendon while moving a ton of stone in a wheelbarrow, from the debit to the credit side of the ledger. He is confined in bed at this writing and unfortunately will be committed to crutches for several weeks to come.

The social committee went into action in midOctober and sponsored a student-faculty banquet at the Inn. Their efforts were decidedly successful; everyone had a swell time.

According to a Herald Tribune dispatch, Lt. F. Victor Schneider '42 and Ens. C. T. Hibbard Jr. 39 attended an October meeting of The Dartmouth Club of Tokio via Manila "in an eastern Australian city."

Ens. S. S. Jewett '41 of the Naval Air Corps recently visited the School while on leave from active duty at one of the fighting fronts.

R. H. Rush '38 is the author of "A Case Study of Post-war Planning By Business," in the October number of The Journal of Marketing.

R. R. Butler '30 is president of the New England chapter of the American Marketing Association for the year 1943-44.

Seaman Robert L. Gifford '43 who entered the USNR Midshipmen's School at Northwestern University in September was selected to attend the Navy Supply Corps School at Harvard. In a recent letter he reported seeing Jack Grimm '43, Pascha Zrike '43, Jack McManus '43, Bob Riggs '43, Ralph Rieth '43, and Bud Lasser '42, all of whom are attending the Midshipmen's School.