Tuck School
THE SIGNS OF RECONVERSION to a peace-time basis are becoming more and more numerous at the School. We mentioned last time the increased size of civilian enrollment, the beginning of the first postwar second-year group, and the opening of Woodbury and Chase dormitories. Since that time, the second-year Tuck men have revived the Clearing House as a functioning organization. Plans are being made for a series of informal lectures and discussions as well as for several social activities. The new officers are: H. L. Gustafson Jr., president; R. A. Thomas, vice president; W. J. Nauss Jr., treasurer; and W. E. Milikin, chairman of the social committee.
The Student-Faculty Policy Committee has also been revived. It is composed of representatives of both first-year and second-year classes together with representatives from the faculty. Its purpose is to provide a means by which policies and problems of the School may be freely discussed with a view to making whatever changes or adjustments are in the best interests of all concerned.
Another evidence of the return to a more normal basis is the revival of the policy of bringing well-known business executives to the School for lectures and informal discussions. We have always .felt that such an exchange of views on current business problems is invaluable from both points Of view. Mr. Benjamin F. Stacey T'30, will inaugurate this program with a lecture on, "How the Department of Commerce Can Help the Sales Manager." Mr. Stacey is Regional Business Consultant of the Department of Commerce in Boston, Mass. The second lecturer of the program is Mr. S. C. Allyn, President, National Cash Register Cos., who will speak on the expansion problems now facing the pany.
John W. Harriman has resigned from the Tuck School faculty to accept a position at the College of Business Administration, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. Professor Harriman came to the Tuck School as Assistant Professor of Finance and Banking in 1932 and became Professor in 1938. At Syracuse he will be Professor of Business Administration and will begin his duties there on May 13.
Except when he returned to Hanover for a brief period in the spring of 1942, Professor Harriman has been on leave continuously since 1941. In July of that year he went to Washington on an appointment in the Priorities Division of the Office of Production Management. In April 1942 Professor Harriman was commissioned captain in the Army Air Corps and was assigned to active duty with the Technical Training Command.
In September 194.3 Major Harriman transferred to military government work and after attending the school at Charlottesville, Va., was ordered to Europe in November 1943 where he remained until February 1946. He was on the staff of the Financial Branch of G-5 SHAEF in England and in September 1944 as a colonel went to France as senior United States officer on the financial stafE of the SHAEF Mission to France. After a brief stay in Germany and just prior to the dissolution of SHAEF, he returned to England for work with the Army University at Shrivenham. Here Lt. Col. Harriman was in charge of courses in Finance and Insurance and taught those in Investments. He returned to this country in February.
When these items reach you the Annual Meeting of the Boston Branch of the Tuck School Clearing House will already have taken place. It is scheduled for April 17. William A. (Bill) Thompson, the manager, will preside. Dean Olsen, Prof. A. W. (Al) Frey, and Prof. N. G. (Nat) Burleigh are the speakers for the evening. A large attendance is expected, especially since this is the first postwar meeting of the Boston Branch.
Ralph R. Butler, T '30, has recently become associated with McKinsey & Co., Management Consultants, as a marketing consultant in the Boston office. He was formerly with Kendall Mills.
Warren G. Schmid, D '34, writes that he has been with the Air Products Co., a subsidiary of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., since his graduation. He is now in the general office in New York after four years in the Chicago office and four years in the Detroit office. His present work is in the cost analysis department.
Edwin Hawkridge, D' 42, and Robert D. Mayo, T'22, dropped in to see us a few days ago. Ed has accepted a job with the Holcomb Steel Cos., and Bob was still in the process of leaving the Army and entering business.
Wesley H. Beattie, T'34, writes to tell us that he has become associated with George Mann and Cos., Providence, R. 1., distributors of heavy chemicals in New England.
A GRUMMAN HELLCAT FIGHTER PLANE is dismantled by Thayer School students under the direction of Prof. John H. Minnich '29. Given by the Navy to the town of Hanover for its part in the War Fund Drives, the plane, after being taken apart, will be used for studies in the Thayer laboratories.
