Tuck School
THE Tuck School was proud to graduate on September 25 its first group of candidates for the M. C. S. degree since December 1942. The class of 36 men returned to Hanover in March and completed the full two term program between March 1 and September 25. In addition, the Tuck School admitted in March a regular first year class which was able to complete the entire first year program by the latter part of September. We are now once again back on the two semester schedule and do not plan to conduct classes in the summer of 1947.
On October 5 our Fall Term began with 115 second year men and 121 first year men. These totals include 9 second year and 10 first year Tuck-Thayer majors.
As retiring President of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, Dean Olsen was in charge of the annual meeting of the Association in Chicago early this summer. Dean Olsen was SecretaryTreasurer for three years, later Vice President and, during the last two, years, President.
Gordon Haverkampf T'3s joined the Tuck School staff for four months during the summer pinch hitting for Harry Wellman on personnel work. The Tuck School was very fortunate to have Gordon and. his fine help during the period just at the close of his service with the Navy. Gordon, his wife and two little girls have now returned to Chicago.
Karl A. Hill T'39 has joined the faculty of the Tuck School as Assistant Professor of Management and Industrial Relations. Professor Hill has taught at the Nichols Junior Business College in Dudley, Mass. Later he was associated with the General Electric Company in the Production Department of the West Lynn Plant. In October 1943, he joined the Holtzer-Cabot Company as purchasing agent. Professor Hill is joined in Hanover by his wife and two sons.
Professor J. L. McDonald, appearing as a representative of the World Trade Foundation, spoke at a meeting of the International Assembly of Women in New York. His topic was "Two Way World Trade and How it Benefits the People of all Nations."
Professor Herman Feldman of the Tuck School has been invited to become a member of a special, limited panel of qualified labor arbitrators established for New England by the United States Conciliation Service. This list was drawn up with the aid of a comijiit- tee of eight representing respectively the A. F. of L., the C. I. 0., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, and the members are to serve at their option or call. Professor Feldman also addressed the September meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. He spoke on the stabilization of employment.
Professor Harry R. Wellman, who was on leave from the School during the past two terms, returned to resume his work in October.
Professor Henry L. Duncombe Jr., who was on leave during the summer term has also returned to the School. He spent the summer on graduate study at Northwestern University.
Lecturers at the School during the summer term included the following:
F. R. Adams T'20, President and Treasurer, J. T. Slack Corporation, Springfield, Vt.; H. Clifford Bean D'16, Special Assistant to Manager, William Filene s Sons Cos., Boston, Mass.; Arthur Boardman T'32, Assistant Secretary, Irving Trust Company, New York, N. Y.; H. T. Bourne, Vice President and Sales Manager, Sargent and Company, New Haven, Conn.; Cyrus S. Ching, Director of Industrial Relations, United States Rubber Co., New York, N. Y.; Victor M. Cutter T'04, Trustee of Dartmouth College, Boston, Mass.; S. Lane Dwinell T'29, President, Carter and Churchill Company, Lebanon, N. H.; C. F. Holbrook, Holbrook Grocery Cos., Keene, N. H.; Perley B. Merry T'27, Executive Vice President, B. V. D. Corporation, New York, N. Y.; Sylvester M. Morey D'l18, President, HixonO'Donnell Advertising, Inc., New York, N. Y. H. D. Meader T'41, Head of Budgeting and Statistical Division, General Electric Company, River Works, Lynn, Mass.; Royal Parkinson D'05, Consultant in Personnel Administration, Boston, Mass; Robert Simonds T'30, Houghton and Simonds, Brattleboro, Vt.; Clark C. Sorenson T'37, Director of Personnel, Harris-Seybold-Potter Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Herbert Woods D'lo, Director of Research, International Union of Operating Engineers, Washington, D. C.
Ralph Butler T'30 is the author of an article, "Growth Patterns for New Specialty Products: A Case Study," which was published in the July, 1946, issue of The Journalof Marketing. Mr. Butler, formerly with Kendall Mills, is now Marketing Consultant, McKinsey and Company, Management Consultants, Boston, Mass.
William A. Liesen T'33, after serving in the Navy during the war, has resumed his work as Assistant Vice President of Union Trust Company, Springfield, Mass.
Robert Draper T'41 is now associated with the public accounting firm of Konspak and Dalton in Toledo, Ohio. He served in the Navy during the war, and on leaving the service was married to Miss Esta Leonard of Lexington, N. C.
Briggs Austin T'39 is now in the sales department of Eastman Kodak Company. His territory covers the Gulf region from Pensacola, Fla., to Beaumont, Texas, with official headquarters in New Orleans.
R. W. Tucker Jr., T'28 is in the legal department of C. I. T. Financial Corporation in New York City. Through an error we reported in this column that he was entering Harvard Law School this fall. Our apologies!
Arthur Boardman T'32 is now Assistant Secretary of the Irving Trust Company in New York City. During the summer he visited Hanover, and lectured to the class in Bank Management on the work of the foreign department of a bank.
Dwight Meader T'41 gave a lecture to the class in budgeting during the summer term in which he discussed the budgeting methods of the Lynn plant of General Electric Company.
M. F. Johnson T'ss is now Examining Assistant, War Assets Corp., Consumer Goods Division, Office of Surplus Property. He recently became a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management.
RANGING IN CLASS FROM 1940 TO 1946, the men pictured above graduated from Tuck School with the Master of Commercial Science degree. Front row, left to right, Harry L. Gustafson Jr. '43, Philip P. Brooks Jr. '43, Herbert A. Brandt'44, William C. Welch' 44, Stanley M. Lambert Jr.' 43, Benjamin F. Moats Jr. '46, Edwin B. Blatt '46, David C. Donaldson '43, David S. Hazelton '42, Calvin J. Osberg '43 and Wilbur F. Pillsbury '46. Middle row, Robert A. Levinson '46, Scott H. Mitchell '43, Robert G. Conroy '44, John C. Alexander '4O, Ralph V. Merritt '46, William E. Millikin '42, Wendolin J. Nauss Jr. '42, Bruce A. Stephens '42, John Stewart '42, Roger A. Thomas '43, Robert P. McDonald '46 and John R. Highmark '42. Back row, William L. Lee '4l, Charles H. W. Howe '43, Alien N. Hooker '42, Frederick Chase Witzel '44, Louis M. Heller '46, Donald R. Hiltz '44, William T. Maeck '43, Burton M. Bickford '44, Howard T. Pratt '44 (Master of Science in Engineering and Business), Charles F. Sturz '42, Richard L. Silver '42, Herbert H. Schaffner '43 and Merle E. Hagen Jr. '44.
