Prof. Feldman Dies

DR. HERMAN, FELDMAN, one of the most prominent members of the Tuck School faculty and an authority on industrial relations, died suddenly October 16 while playing tennis with a Tuck School student. He collapsed on the court and was pronounced dead by Dr. Joseph G. Pollard '23, assistant medical director of the College. He was 53 years old.

Prof. Feldman was named Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations at the Tuck School in 1923. He was made a full professor and awarded an honorary master's degree by the College in 1929.

In 1940 he was appointed Dean of Business and Civic Administration, College of the City of New York. He returned to his Dartmouth faculty post two years later.

He held a large number of public positions, including chairman and panel member of the National War Labor Boards in the New England Region, 1943-46; Chairman, New Hampshire Commission on Unemployment Reserves, 1933-35; Public Member, Apparel Industry Committee, U. S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 1939; Economic Adviser, U. S. Personnel Classification Board, 1928-30.

Also, Personnel Consultant, State of New Hampshire, 1934; Research Consultant, National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1930-31; Research Secretary, Advisory Committee on Industrial Relations, Social Science Research Council, 1928; Secretary, Committee on Public-Employer-Employee Relations, National Civil Service League, 1945-46.

Also, Rapporteur, Section on Industrial Relations, Seventh International Management Congress, 1938; Arbitrator, New Jersey Board of Mediation, 1942; Arbitrator, New England Regional Labor Board of N.R.A., 1934-35 and National Panel, American Arbitration Society from 1940 until his death.

He was the author of several books, including Stabilizing Jobs and Wages and Racial Factors in American Industry, and was editor of Labor Relation and the Public and Labor Relations and the War.

Dr. Feldman was born in New York City, March 20, 1894, and 'received his A.B. degree from the College of the City of New York in 1915. He was awarded an A.M. degree by Columbia University in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1925.

He was a memebr of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Economic Association, the American Management Associations, the Society for the Advancement of Management and the American Association of University Professors.

Surviving is a brother-in-law, Samuel A. Fried of New York City. The funeral was held October 19 from the Riverside Chapel in that city.

PROF. HERMAN FELDMAN