Tuck School
The annual meeting of the Tuck School Clearing House, Boston Branch, was held at the Hotel Puritan, 390 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, on April 6. The meeting, arranged by Sherman M. Clough T'24, Manager, and W. H. Beattie T'34, Secretary, got away to a good start with a "social hour" at 6:00 P.M., followed by dinner at 7. DeanOlsen and Professors J. E. Walters and K. A.Hill attended as representatives of the Tuck faculty.
Dean Olsen commented briefly on the Tuck School program, activities of various faculty members and experiences with curriculum changes made last fall. Mr. Roger C. Sonneman, Personnel Director, Merrimac Division, Monsanto Chemical Company, presented an interesting discussion of "Industrial Peace Everyone's Responsibility."
According to tentative plans, the New York Branch will hold its annual meeting during the week of May 2-6. Announcement of the time, place, and program will be mailed as soon as final arrangements have been completed by K. C. Ballantyne T'28, Manager, and K. A. Hamilton T'41, Secretary.
Returning to the local scene, F. Ray Adams T'20, President and Treasurer of the John T. Slack Corporation, Springfield, Vt., met with Professor Burleigh's General Management class on March 8, and presented a very interesting discussion of federal legislation governing the labelling of wool products. Ray also described several recent developments in the operations of his company, which were of considerable interest.
On March 11, Mr. Isadore Pickman, Regional Director, International Fur and Leather Workers Union, Boston, visited the School as the guest of Mr. D. E. Cummings, a first-year student. Mr. Pickman spoke to the first-year Industrial Relations and second-year Management and Organized Labor classes of Professor Walters. His topic, "A Labor Viewpoint on Labor-Management Relations," stimulated a great deal of discussion during the "question and answer" period which followed his talk.
Mr. Olin D. Gay, president, Gay Brothers Company, Cavendish, Vt., was at Tuck on March 15 for a meeting with Professor Burleigh's General Management group. Mr. Gay discussed some of the current problems faced by woolen textile plants in this area, with particular emphasis on inventory problems in a weak market. During his talk, Mr. Gay outlined effectively the satisfactions—as well as the problems—to be gained from a family business.
Speaking on "The Essentials of a Good Personnel and Labor Relations Program," Avery Raube D'30, Director of the Personnel Division, National Industrial Conference Board, New York City, met with the first-year Industrial Relations and second-year Management and Organized Labor classes of Professor Walters. The sessions, held on March 18, were well received by the students.
On the same day, Charles L. Sheldon, Director of Purchases, Hood Rubber Company, Watertown, Mass., was a guest of the School, and discussed current purchasing and inventory control problems with Professor Hill's Production Management class. Mr. Sheldon, a former president of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, emphasized the current need for a "hand-to-mouth" inventory policy in the rubber footwear industry and the techniques for rapidly adjusting inventories to changes in production schedules.
On March 21, Clinton Golden, labor adviser to ECA and well-known co-author of The Dynamics of Industrial Democracy (Harpers), spoke to the Industrial Relations and Management and Organized Labor classes of Professor Walters. Mr. Golden, in Hanover to meet with the Great Issues course, discussed informally the background of many labor issues such as seniority, union security' and wages.
Charles F. McGoughran D '20, recently named General Sales Manager of the Sinclair Qil Refining Company, New York City, visited TuCk on March 22 for meetings with the first-year Marketing and second-year Sales Management classes. Mr. McGoughran, guest of Professors Frey and Davis, outlined current "Oil Marketing Problems" in his meeting with the Marketing class. In Professor Wellman's Sales Management class, Mr. McGoughran analyzed the problems encountered in "Revamping a Distribution System."
John E. O'Gara T'20, Vice President and General Manager, Macy's Inc., New York City, visited the School on April 5 for a meeting with Professor Burleigh's General Management class. Developing his material from his many years of management experience, John presented a very effective discussion of the problem of business leadership.
During March, Professor Hill's Production Management class and Professor Dague's class in Engineering in Business made three plant visits. On March 10, the two classes visited The Cone Automatic Machine Co., Inc., in Windsor, for an inspection of the manufacturing processes required to make the company's famous multiple spindle bar machines.
The following week the same group visited The Sullivan Machinery Division of the Joy Manufacturing Company, Claremont, where they were conducted through a plant specializing in the production of mining equipment, such as the widely known Joy coal cutters and special drills, etc. On March 24, representatives of the Jones 8c Lamson Machine Company, Springfield,' Vt., conducted the two classes through its modern plant, specializing in the production of turret lathes, Fay lathes, thread grinders and comparators. Through the courtesy of the company, an extensive exhibition of carbide-tooled machining operations was presented to dramatize the production cost savings possible with this type of tooling.
Professor C. W. Sargent is the author of several chapters in J. K. Lasser's recently published Handbook of Cost Accounting (D. Van Norstrand, 1949).
Dean Olsen discussed Tuck's program, policies and objectives at an alumni meeting in Springfield, Vt., March 28.
Clark C. Sorenson T'37, Director of Personnel, Harris-Seybold Company, Cleveland, was at Tuck interviewing students on March 15. The March 15 issue Modern Industry devotes considerable space to a discussion of HarrisSeybold and the management philosophy of its president, George S. Dively. Included in the article are several "on the job" photographs of Clark.
James A. Hamilton T'23, director of the School of Public Health and head of Hospital Associates, spoke at the annual meeting of the New England Hospital Assembly on March 29. According to The New York Times, Jim's discussion centered on an analysis of the need for a complete Federal program of compulsory health insurance. As an alternate, Jim proposed that the Federal Government pay Blue Cross premiums for those unable to meet the cost.
D. H. Newell Jr. T'37 has reported the arrival on March 14 of Duncan Hale Newell III, a lusty 7 pounds 5 ounces prospect for the class of '72." Dune's letter states that all members of the family are doing famously.
A recent note from Edwin R. Johnson T'47 states that his engagement to Miss Betty Thayer, Central Village, Conn., has been announced. Ed is with the Cloth Purchasing Department, Kendall Mills Division, Kendall Company, Walpole, Mass.
E. M. Jennings Jr. T'29, Assistant Vice President, First National Bank of Boston, is the author of "Bank Loans to Shoe Manufacturers" published by Hide and Leather andShoes, Chicago 6, Illinois.
Robert N. Wallis T'20, Assistant Treasurer of Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, Mass., and President of the Boston Control, presided at technical sessions of the 1949 Eastern Controllers Conference held at the Hotel Statler, Boston, April 1 and 2. The Boston group, under the leadership of "Nock," sponsored the two-day conference of the Controllers.
Recent visitors at the School have included Jesse K. Fenno T'17, Malcolm McLoud T-TH '47, James Broderick T'47, David McGregor T'48, and Walter Snickenberger T'4B.
Word has just been received of the accidental death of Abraham H. Belsky T'30 in Glen Burnie, Md., on March 17. He had been Treasurer of Charles Belsky & Sons, Inc., Holyoke, Mass.
CONDUCT RESEARCH WORK IN SHORT WAVE RADIO FOR U. S. NAVY AT THAYER: Prof. Millett G. Morgan of Thayer School (center) with C. Robert Paulson '45, Thayer student (I.) and Richard C. Dunham '39, laboratory technician, who are making studies of the possibility of eliminating fading in short wave radio reception in a project supported by the Office of Naval Research.
