Tuck School
IT is WITH very great regret that we must announce the resignation of Prof. Joseph L. McDonald and Arthur A. Bright from the Tuck School Faculty. For some two decades now Joe has divided his time between the Economics Department and the Tuck School. He now plans to devote full time to his work in Economics. Our own thoughts on Joe's leaving are best expressed in the resolution incorporated in the Tuck Faculty Minutes which follows:
In 1926, the Economics Department granted a temporary loan of the services of Joseph Lee McDonald to the Tuck School. The loan has been renewed annually up to the present.
During this period, Joe has labored unstintingly to give his best in the interest of Tuck students and faculty alike. And that best has constituted not only an invaluable part of the education of both first- and second-year students but also an exceedingly helpful contribution toward the wise direction of the School.
Always thoroughly cooperative in assuming burdens beyond his due share, continually solicitous for the welfare of the individual student and colleague, inexorably insistent upon the maintenance of high standards in whatever he has undertaken, possessing a combination of qualities of heart and intellect that have made it a pleasure for each of us to have been his Tuck colleague, ever ready to relieve the over-serious situation by the light touch of which he is the master, Joe leaves a large void in the life and activities of the School as he departs to assume full-time teaching in the Department which has so generously made his services available to us.
Fortunately for us, he is to remain in Hanover. While_we shall miss his direct participation in the School's affairs, we hope that our paths will cross his with great frequency. He leaves the Tuck School with our affection and our sincere best wishes.
While Art Bright was with us for only two years, he had earned an important place in our work. We are very sorry to see him go. However, he felt that he wanted to do those things he had been teaching others and decided to take advantage of an opportunity to go with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as an industrial economist. Since we have a verbal agreement with him to return and discuss his work with our classes, we feel that we still have one small string on him and we plan to use it.
We are very proud to be able to report the appointment of three new men to our Faculty. We will tell you a little about each in the paragraphs which follow.
Dr. Jack Edward Walters did his undergraduate work at Indiana University. He received his Master of Science in 1923 in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University in 1934. From 1926 to 1940, Dr. Walters was director of personnel, Schools of Engineering and Science, and Professor of Personnel Administration at Purdue University. From 1940 to 1943 he was vice president of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., was in charge of personnel and labor relations for that company, and from 1943 to he WaS personnel relations consultant or McKinsey and Company, New York, N Y He has done consulting work with various firms in the Middle West and in recent years in the East. For the past three years he has been president of Alfred University. He has written several books in personnel relations andindustrial management and is well known n the field. Dr. Walters has been appointed as Professor of Management and Industrial Relations, succeeding the late Herman Feldman.
Edward D.Gruen has joined the Tuck School Faculty as Assistant Professor of Finance and Statistics. A graduate of Dartmouth in 1931, he was manager of varsity baseball, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx. After graduating from Dartmouth, he was employed by the Gulf Oil Corporation for seven years. From April 1941 to February 1947, he was an economist for three U. S. War Agencies: Office of Production Management, War Production Board, and Civilian Production Administration. He hopes next summer to complete his course requirements for the ph.D. degree from Duke University. For the last year and a half he has been teaching at the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. He is married and has a daughter almost five years old.
Professor Robert T. Davis received his A B degree from Harvard College and his M B A degree from the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. During the war he served with the OSS in the China Burma-India Theater. For the past two years he has taught at St. Lawrence University in the various fields of business administration. He is married to the daughter of Professor de Haas, who until he retired last year was Professor of Foreign Trade at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Davis comes to the Tuck School as our Assistant Professor of Marketing.
Robert N. Waliis T'2o, assistant treasurer of the Dennison Manufacturing Company, was elected president of the Boston Control, Controllers Institute, at its spring meeting.
Gail G. Grant D' 43 has been elected president of Gail G. Grant, Inc., the department store founded by his father in Painsville, Ohio, in 1893. D' 42 is sales representative for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, with headquarters in Washington, D. C.
Professor Frey is a member of the Consulting and Advisory Board for the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia. Roy F. Duke of the current second-year class is the recipient of the Walter L. Jacobs award for this year The award consists of a collection of 50 books of the recipient s own choosing. It is presented by the parents of Walter L. jacobs, a former Tuck student who lost his life in World War
Paul W. Dickson T'38, with the Division of Busines Practices of the National Industrial Conin ference Board," No.30 in the of "Decentralization Business Policy 30 " the Board'S Studies in
Harris P. Dawson Jr. T'36 has accepted a twoyear assignment with the American Military Government at Frankfurt, Germany, as chief statistician for the Export-Import Agency for the British, trench and American Zones. For the past five years he has been regional director of U S Bureau of Labor Statistics, Atlanta. His wife and three children will accompany him to Germany
Recent visitors to Hanover have included jorg Steimann T'39, George C. Smith T'34, Roger A Somal,T46, Frederick W. Tetzlaff T'32, Ed Blatt T 46, Richard Hartman T'48, and Alan Michael Frothingham D' 43. Steinmann and his wife were completing a business trip of several months through South America and the United States. He is Assistant Sales Manager of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon in Zurich. Smith is Senior Examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Thomas has just left the position of Market Analyst with "Westinghouse Electric Corporation to take a similar position with Telechron. Tetzlaff is Director of Retail Sales Development with Rohm & Haas Company in Philadelphia. He also does a bit of farming at his home in North Wales, Pennsylvania. Blatt is engaged in buying and selling activities with Continental Barrel and Drum Company, Cincinnati. Frothingham was accompanied by his bride, the former Sara Struthers.
Thomas W. Streeter Jr. T-Th'48 and Mrs. Streeter proudly announce the arrival of Thomas 111 on July 30 in Worcester. The Ralph G. Chadbournes T'47 with equal pride are telling the world of the arrival of Darlene Lillian Chadbourne on June 24.
JUIIC Z.T. The engagement of Allen I. Bildner T'48 and Joan Aline Lebson was announced in July.
Charles E. Leech T'ls has recently been appointed Dean of Nichols Junior College, Dudley, Mass. He was formerly vice-president of Jones, McDufFee and Stratton.
A. W. FREY
