Tuck School
THE PAST MONTH has been a busy one for the School, and so we are going to devote most of this month's space to recent faculty activities outside Hanover.
Dean Olsen left Hanover shortly after college opened to meet with various alumni groups and to attend the combined meetings of the Executive Committee and the Committee on Standards of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. The latter meetings were held in New Orleans on October 14, 15, and 16. On October 12, Olie met the twelve Tuck alumni employed in the Chicago area for luncheon at the Chicago Athletic Club and a discussion of present and future plans of the Tuck School. Gordon Haverkampf T'35 and Al Haxokes T'39 arranged the meeting.
The following day he was the luncheon guest of the New Orleans Dartmouth Alumni Club, and on October 19, attended a dinner meeting sponsored by the Omaha Dartmouth Alumni Club.
The National Security Resources Board has called Prof. N. G. Burleigh back to Washington on a part-time consulting basis, and he will be dividing his time between Hanover and Washington for the next few months. Nat is listed as a consultant, with the title of Director of the Service Equipment Division in - the Office of Production. The Service Equipment Division—as many will recall—was headed by Nat during World War 11. His present duties include consulting with Office of Production officials on the broad policy problems of that agency as well as developing a standby organization among the industries under his supervision which could go onto a wartime basis within 60 days. Nat reports that the life of an airline commuter between Hanover and Washington is about the equivalent of a trip down the Rogue River in a canoe.
Profs. C. W. Sargent and A. W. Frey visited the Lovejoy Tool Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Vt., as the guests of C. M.Safjord D'oB. Later in the month Al attended the annual Boston Conference on Distribution, which was held at the Statler Hotel, October 25 and 26.
For the past few months, Prof. G. W. Woodworth has been hard at work on a research project in the field of finance.
Prof. L. O. Foster has been working for several weeks with a committee of the New Hampshire Association of Manufacturers on a study of the economic effects of the State of New Hampshire's stock-in-trade tax. Some may recall that this tax was mentioned by Royal Little, President of Textron, Inc., as being one of the reasons for Textron's decision to close out its operations in Nashua. Lou has been making a study of the operation of the tax, the relation of assessments to value, and the effect of New Hampshire taxes on the State's industries. The issue is a "hot" one in the State, and was the subject of two proposed Constitutional Amendments on the State ballot November 2.
On October 20 and 21, Prof. K. A. Hill attended the District Conference on Purchasing, held at the Hotel Bond in Hartford, Conn., and sponsored by the National Association of Purchasing Agents.
Tuck was represented at the recent Society for the Advancement of Management Conference on Human Relations by Prof.J. E. Walters. This conference was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, October 28-30. While in New York, Jack also visited the Chesebrough Co., makers of "Vaseline" products, where he serves as a consultant on general management problems with the title of Administrative Assistant.
On October 23, Prof. R. T. Davis visited the Harvard Business School.
As for Tuck, Prof. Harry R. Wellman has begun his initial personnel interviews with second-year men, the Clearing house has been organized and officers elected, and the School is in the middle of the first round of hour exams "unannounced" this year.
