Tuck School
THE TUCK. SCHOOL has now been officially selected as one of the few schools of business administration in the country to conduct a Supply Corps Candidate School under the Navy V-12 program. Consequently, with the trainees who will be assigned to this program plus those who have had some previous college work and will therefore concentrate their studies in Supply Corps curriculum courses and other business courses, the Tuck School will again have an enrollment far in excess of the number handled in normal times. The trainees who complete such work satisfactorily and who are in the selected group will then go directly to the Navy's own Supply Corps Officers School where they will receive their final instruction by Navy officers. Although these courses will be quite different in many respects from those offered in the peace-time Tuck curriculum owing to the difference in age and preparation of the trainees, every one at the School is happy to be of service in this particular manner.
Dean O1sen spent a week in Washington in the latter part of January on various official business of the School pertaining to current and also post-war problems.
He has met several times now with Navy officials as a consultant in regard to the Supply Corps Candidate School Curriculum.
Lt. (jg) Thomas T. Brooks, USN, D '39 was in Harfover for a few days on furlough from duty in the Mediterranean and not of least importance, on his honeymoon. Tom was in the first invasion group of North Africa; was on a transport that was sunk at that time; commanded an L.C.I, boat that was one of the first group to land on Sicily and also to invade Italy at Naples. The many times he shuttled back and forth in this boat between Bizerte and Sicily and Italy carrying troops, munitions, equipment, etc., would make a fascinating story. After a furlough he is to pick up an L.S.T. boat in Philadelphia and will join a flotilla that will presumably head toward the South Pacific. Being a master of his own ship is giving him a great deal of pride and pleasure.
Lt. (jg) Lewis Johnstone, T'42 spent several days vacationing in Hanover in early February. He is now assigned to inspection work at the Naval Ordnance Plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
H. D. Meader T'41, who is with the River Works of General Electric at West Lynn, Mass., writes that he is struggling with a problem of measuring labor turnover in the various divisions of the plant, and that he has been forced to dust off the old Tuck textbook on business statistics.
Lt. (jg) H. M. Frechette, Supply Corps, D'41 has been stationed in Bermuda. He has now returned to this country and is in training with the Seabees.
Nolan P. Benner Jr. D' 44 has received his commission as Ensign U.S.N.R., and is now attending the Naval Supply Corps School at Harvard.
Robert L. Gifford, Ensign, U.S.N.R. D' 44 spent a short vacation in Hanover during the first week of February. He is also attending the Harvard Naval Supply Corps School.
Pvt. Irl Rose D' 44 writes that he is now stationed at the Citadel, Charleston, S. C., in the third phase of Basic Training. He was formerly stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Pvt. H. B. Thomson Jr. D' 44 has recently graduated from an Army Administration School in Fargo, North Dakota with high standing and has been recommended for Officer Candidate School by his Commanding Officer.
R. B. Hamilton T'42 has recently accepted a position with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Los Angeles, Cal. For the past year and one-half he has been with the War Production Board in Washington.
Ensign John R. Highmark D'42 wrote us last month from Taranto, Italy.
Fred C. Cohn D'44 is. working in a war plant in Buffalo, awaiting a call from his application to the U. S. Naval Reserve.
Arthur A. Bright Jr. T'40 is co-author with W. R. MacLaurin of "Economic Factors Influencing the Development and Introduction of the Fluorescent Lamp" which appeared in The Journal of Political Economy, October, 1943.
Karl Hill T'29 is now with Holtzer-Cabot of Boston, manufacturers of electric motors. His work is supervision of priorities.
Sgt. A1 Coons D'43, who has been stationed in New Guinea for the past eight months, wrote us an interesting letter describing conditions and life in the Army in that part of the Pacific. He has been selected to attend Officer Candidate School in Australia.
Mr. A. C. C. Hill D'25, Deputy Vice-Chairman of the Office of Civilian Requirements of W. P. 8., was a luncheon guest of the faculty on February 7. Mr. Hill has been a close adviser of Donald Nelson since the beginning of the war program, and has been in the midst of the various difficult problems which have arisen. The informal discussion which followed was therefore of very great interest.
