Tuck School
As ALL OF YOU REMEMBER, the coming of the duck boards heralds spring, and the duck boards are down. This semester finds us at the Tuck School well along on the road of reconversion. Proof of this is to be found in our current enrollment figures which show some 35 men beginning the regular second-year Tuck program, 62 men beginning the firstyear program, 35 men in the process of completing the second semester of first-year work, 3 Tuck-Thayer men and 2 special students. All of these men are veterans, many of whom have been away from Hanover for five years. It has been a real pleasure to be able to welcome them back. As we have informed you before, both the first and second year groups admitted this term will continue their studies with a full semester of work in the summer.
Further evidence of reconversion is found in the fact that the Tuck School dormitories, Chase and Woodbury, are again open. Jim Gillespie is back with us in Woodbury. His delight in being back is matched only by our delight in having him. Ray Waterman will be back in Chase in July and we are looking forward to his return. We have hopes that Sten Hall will be opened in the fall.
If more evidence of reconversion is necessary, we offer the following: Dean Olsen reports that the Clearing House at Tuck School will be reorganized within the next two weeks. The Student-Faculty Policy Committee, dormant during the war years, is soon to be reorganized. Dormitory Committees are being formed and the scene at Dartmouth is quickly taking on the familiar aspects of old.
A few notes concerning the Faculty activities are on our desks. Dean Olsen along with the deans of four other collegiate schools of business took part in a conference with Secretary of Commerce Wallace and his staff called together for the purpose of discussing ways and means by which the collegiate schools of business in the United States could be of assistance to the Department and by which the Department could help all of the collegiate schools of business. The meeting was highly successful and is, we hope, the first step in achieving a closer working cooperation with the Department. Both the schools and the Departments stand to gain a great deal by this cooperation.
Professor Herman Feldman of the Tuck School has completed his work as secretary of the Committee on Public Employer-Employee Relations of the National Civil Service League. The Committee has drawn up a report on the rights and obligations of employee organizations and of administrators of government departments, and has obtained unanimous acceptance. The report, "Employee Organizations in the Public Service" featured in the press, helped to settle the Houston, Texas, strike of civil employees and had a part in Mayor O'Dwyer's handling of the transit strike in New York City. In addition he is the author of "Annual Wage Plans and Some of Their Practical Problems" published in Advanced Management for September, 1945.
Professor Woodworth has just returned from a semester's leave which began last November. Woody remained in Hanover working on the complete revision of his textbook in Money and Banking.
Professor Foster, on leave last semester, is back with us again. Lou spent the major portion of his three months in Washington, working on the revision of his text in accounting, and doing some consulting work with the OPA.
We are delighted to have the privilege of announcing to you the appointment of Arthur A. Bright Jr., D. '39 and T '40, to the faculty as Instructor in Statistics and Finance. Art has been a member of the Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics and Social Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past three years. For two years he taught economics and during this past year he has been connected with the radar laboratory and he has engaged in completing a study of the economics of technological development in the lamp industry. As many of you know, Art has almost completed his work for a Ph.D. with a brilliant record at the University of Chicago. He brings with him a wife and a year-old child.
William Thompson, T '26, and Mort Jennings, T '29, General Manager and Secretary respectively of the Boston Clearing House have been actively engaged in lining up the meeting of the Clearing House scheduled for the early part of April. These meetings to which outstanding business leaders are invited to give their views on current business problems have always been popular with Tuck School graduates and faculty. When one considers the magnitude of the problems facing business in the near future on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the prospects of seeing many of our old friends in the service for the past two or three years, this meeting should be both more joyous, and more significant than any we have had for a long time.
Capt. Charles Hathaway, T '39, paid us a flying visit a few days ago. Charlie has been stationed in the Mediterranean theater of operations for several years and this is his first return to the States. He brought interesting news of some of our good Swiss friends. On his return he was able to see Fritz Gugelmann, T '39. Fritz is the father of, a boy three or four years old who, strangely enough, speaks only the English language. Charlie also saw Jorge Steinmann, T '39, and Rolf Eckert, T '39. These three, together with Bob Hahnloser, T '35, constitute an excellent nucleus for a Zurich chapter of the Clearing House.
Our reference above to our good Swiss friends reminds us that we should report to you the fact that the School is again receiving applications from students not resident in the United States. A glance at our file for October shows that we have received applications from two Norwegian students, one Swiss, one Chinese, and two Colombians.
