Tuck School
THE TUCK SCHOOL, along with the College, opened its doors to the first Navy class on July 5. This class is composed of v men who have volunteered for service in the Navy under the V-i and V-7 Programs and who have already completed part of their college training. Under the present program, the men will be permitted to take training for a number of semesters that varies inversely with the number of semesters they have completed before their assignment to active duty.
The Tuck School has the responsibility for training the approximately 300 men whose major work has been in the field of business administration. Of this total, 200 are now taking courses in the Tuck School. The remaining 100 are carrying work in the College preparatory to entering Tuck in November. The vast majority have been transferred from institutions located east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason- Dixon Line. A partial list of the colleges and universities from which men have transferred follows: Boston College, Boston University, College of the City of New York, Clark University, Fordham University, New York University, Northeastern University, Tilton Junior College, University of Chicago, University of Indiana, University of lowa, University of Maine, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin.
The program of studies offered by the Tuck School is similar to the program usually offered and is designed to complete the preliminary training for those men who can qualify for the Naval Supply Corps. Major emphasis is, however, on the field of industrial management in which a wide variety of work is now being offered. Work in accounting, statistics, marketing, and finance is being offered as usual to the large number of men desirous of completing their college majors in these fields.
According to present schedules, about sixty of the two hundred men now enrolled in Tuck will leave Hanover at the end of the current semester for duty else- where. At that time, too, it is expected that the 100 pre-Tuck men now in the College will begin to take their business school training. For the most part, this group will be permitted two semesters in Tuck before being assigned to further duty.
In addition to its part in the Navy Program, Tuck is offering its regular program to civilians who want training in business administration. In the present semester there are eleven students of civilian status taking work in various phases of business administration. The School will continue to be open to civilians who can meet the usual standards for admission.
William Main '39, Supply Officer with a Navy Construction Battalion in the South Pacific, has been promoted to Lt. (jg). In place of the annual spring dinner meeting of the Boston branch of the Clearing House, a luncheon session was held on April 14 at the Hotel Touraine. The following members attended: 1903 —Dalyrmple; 1940—Cutter; 1913—Luitwieler; 1914—Merrill; 1917—Tapley; 1920—Crosby, Hayes, Wallis; 1921—Cate, Macomber, Morrill, Bennett; 1922—Ruggles; 1923—Bullen; 1925— Bugbee, Dickinson; 1926—Bowden, Nute; 1927— Blodgett; 1928—Page; 1929—Kenerson, Rankin; 1930—Stacey, Tucker; 1932'—Benson; 1937— Newell, Sullivan; 1938—Fowler. Hanover representatives were Olsen, Wellman and Frey. A. Hayes '20 and John S. Sullivan '37 were elected Manager and Secretary respectively for 1943-44, succeeding John K. Benson '32 and J. M. Fowler '38.
We have learned from a newspaper report that Ensign Richard D. Hill '41 has been publicly commended by his admiral for devising a new type fuse which increases the effectiveness of aerial bombs. The fuse has been accepted by the Navy and is now in general use.
On April 21 the entire Tuck School faculty and staff were guests at an Inn dinner party given by the men who completed their Tuck School work at that time.
Messrs. Duncombe, Woodworth and Frey attended the annual spring meetings of the American Marketing Association in New York.
Mr. Feldman has been appointed by Secretary Hull to serve on the special committee on labor standards and social security of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post-War Foreign Economic Policy. This committee holds monthly meetings in Washington, D. C.
The Tuck faculty and staff were guests of the graduating class at a dinner at the Inn on June 21. Dean Olsen and President Hopkins were the speakers for the occasion. In the absence of a formal graduation exercise, this banquet was in a sense a substitute, and therefore had more than the ordinary meaning to all present.
Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Woodworth attended a school on the methods of controlling quality of manufactured products during the first week in June. The School was held at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., under the auspices of the War Production Board.
It is with regret that we announce that Mrs. Elsie Lilley has resigned as Tuck School Librarian to accept a position in the Howe Library of Hanover. Mrs. Nellie L. Pierce has been secured from Baker Library to take her place.
William G. Bates '34 is chief investment officer of the Hartford National Bank and Trust Company.
Waldo Potter '21 has recently been made Director of Advertising Operations of Eastman Kodak.
Gordon Chapman '27 has left his teaching work at Michigan State College to become director of training for the Hotels Statler Company, Inc.
Karl Hill '38 is now with General Electric Company in Lynn.
