Tuck School
WITH THE SUMMER TERM now successfully under way, it is possible to give you the latest facts and figures on Tuck enrollment. There are, in total, 180 men taking work at Tuck. Of this total, 106 have two terms remaining to complete, 53 are in their last term, 14 are irregular or special students and seven are civilians. The last figure, while still very low, is indicative of a trend which we expect to rise rapidly in the next year or two as larger numbers of men are released from the armed services and set about completing their education. Both now and in the future Tuck stands ready to help veterans wishing to return for training in the field of business administration.
Dean Olsen spent two weeks in Washington in the War Department helping to get into operation and to select teaching-"personnel for the two University Study Centers that the Army is establishing in England and France. These universities are being established exclusively for combat forces being discharged from the Army and for whom shipping facilities will not be available for from six to nine months.
Professor (Lt. Col.) John W. Harriman has been transferred from the Military Government Branch of the Army to the University Study Center at Shrivenham, England. He wil be in charge of the courses in business administration and economics given there in the Army Educational Program.
Miss Elizabeth Ruiter, now Mrs. John Williamson, resigned her position on June 30 as Secretary to Dean Olsen, to go with her husband to Maine and take up the full-time job of being Mrs. Williamson. All of us were sorry to see Betty leave. Before she left the Olsens had a farewell tea for the Williamsons and there the faculty presented a large engraved sterling, silver tray and two smaller ones to her as an expression of appreciation for her many years of valuable service.
Miss Phyllis Stanton who has been with the Tuck School as a secretary for four years has been appointed Secretary to the Dean. Phyllis is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. Incidentally, we have been searching in vain for a competent secretary to fill the gap. Any recommendations will be gratefully received.
Professor Nathaniel G. Burleigh, who recently returned to Dartmouth and the Tuck School after four years spent in Washington with the OPM and WPB was honored at the close of his Washington service with a testimonial dinner June 12, given at the Harvard Club in New York by members of the office equipment industry. At the dinner which was attended by prominent industrialists in this field, Professor Burleigh was presented with an engraved platinum watch, chain and knife. The inscription on the watch read: "in recognition of his able administration and his contribution to the war as a member of the War Production Board."
Professor Burleigh was Director of the Service Equipment Division when he left the War Production Board on June 1 and held the record for the longest service of any division chief in this branch of the government.
Professors D. L. Stone, Herman Feldman and H. R. Wellman have been granted leaves of absence for the July-October term.
Professor J. L. McDonald gave a community lecture in Dartmouth Hall recently on the Reciprocal Trade Agreements.
Professor Herman Feldman was one of a group of industrial relations experts invited to spend two weeks in June in the plants of the General Motors Corporation as guests of the Corporation. Professor Feldman was assigned to the Hyatt Roller Bearing plant in Harrison, N. J. Professor Feldman spoke before a regional meeting of the American Hospital Association held in New Haven, Conn. This was held under the sponsorship of the New Haven Hospital whose director is James A. Hamilton T'25, for years a member of the Tuck School staff.
Professor G. W. Woodworth is the author of an article on "The Board of Trustees of a Mutual Savings Bank" which appeared in the June issue of the Savings Bank Journal.
Professor H. L. Duncombe Jr. is the father of a daughter, Elizabeth, born on July 9.
Major John A. Maloon Jr. T'38 recently wrote us an interesting letter describing the fighting in the Philippines and at Okinawa, and the problems of supply in amphibious operations. He mentioned having a reunion with Bob Brown T'40 in the Philippines. He also said that Bill Brown T'38 is the skipper of a subchaser operating in the Aleutians; that Charles Pingree T'38 is at Camp Miles, Dela., engaged in research for the Ordnance Department, and that Marshall Roper T'38 is in the states after a tour of duty on a PT boat in the Pacific.
Lt. J. Warren Bishop, USNR T'37 is the commander of a very unusual four-man team in the Pacific. He has been in anti-submarine warfare in both the Atlantic and Pacific since entering the Navy in May 194 a. Graduate of a special Navy school, he travels the war zone acquainting Navy personnel with the latest methods of combating underseas raiders. Lieutenant Bishop was associated with the Public Service Commission of New Hampshire before entering the Navy.
Lawrence H. Martin D'28 was recently elected a vice president of the National Shawmut Bank. He entered the service of the bank in 1928 and became an assistant vice president in 1942.
Philip A. Leary T'16 died at his home in Lynn, Mass., following a heart attack, on June 29. He was a consulting engineer at the Lynn office of the War Manpower Commission.
Short letters were received in June from G. H. Zimmerman T'33, Hose Division, United States Rubber Company, and from Captain Wayland Avery Jr. T'41, USMCR, who is stationed at the Marine Corps Station, El Centro, Calif.
Captain Carmelo Gugino T'39, AAF, paid us a visit in early June. After serving in India and China, he is now stationed at Buffalo, New York, where he tests C46's.
Lt. Benjamin Page D' 42, USNR, also dropped in to see us in June. He is attached to a destroyer. Ray Berquist T'38 is supply officer on the same ship.
Lt. (jg) Robert Wetzler D'40, USNR, writes that he is attached to the staff of the Chief of Naval Air Operational Training in Jacksonville, Fla. He acts as an expediter of spare parts for fighter planes.
Congratulations to Lieutenant and Mrs. Lewis K. Johnstone T'42 on the arrival of Lewis Knox Johnstone Jr., born Thursday, July 5. Edgar Lyle T'24 was a Tuck visitor during June. He is sales manager of the Spencer Corset Company in New Haven.
