Tuck School
THE Tuck School has had a busy summer. On June 26 we became host to two groups of French engineers whose work in the United States was sponsored by E.C.A. and the National Management Council. The objective of the visit was to acquaint French businessmen with American production methods. The first of the these groups was composed of 14 management consulting engineers who hold key positions in French industry and who can make a real contribution to increasing French industrial productivity. In addition to plant visits this group heard a series of outstanding American specialists discuss many aspects of American business practice covering such widely different subjects as time study and advertising. This group left Hanover on August 19 for a one-month tour of American industrial plants prior to returning to France.
A second group of younger French "productivity experts" also arrived on June 26 and were with us until September 15. These men have all had outstanding records in French schools and industry. Their stay at the Tuck School is preliminary to a six months' intensive study of American business practice in the field. Dean Olsen, Professors Burleigh, Walters, Woodworth, Sargent, Duncombe, Frey and Davis took part in the instructional program prepared for the group.
Both groups are .composed of very able men and we at the Tuck School feel that it has been a spent. We have been very proud to cooperate with E.C.A. and N.M.C. in this venture.
Beginning on August 6 the Tuck School played host to the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management sponsored by the National Association of Credit Men, the Credit Research Foundation, and the National Institute of Credit. This School, a newcomer to Tuck, was very successful and we are looking forward to continuing mutually profitable relationships with the organizations. The faculty drawn from a great many different institutions included Professors Foster and Griswold of the Tuck School.
Enrollment in the Tuck School regular fall semester appears to be as high as ever. Including the Tuck-Thayer majors, there are 113 men enrolled in the first year and 70 men enrolled in second year. Requests for admission to the Tuck School still run very high and this has been particularly true of applications from men whose academic background has been at some institution other than Dartmouth. We have felt for some time that it would be desirable to increase the number and percentage of men from other institutions and this year have accepted 16 such applications.
Top news on the faculty for this summer was the marriage of Prof. "Nat" Burleigh and Miss Beatrice U. Bridges on June 29 in Andover, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh are planning a trip to the West Coast this fall while Nat is on a long-deserved sabbatical leave.
Prof. Robert Davis taught in the%tfmmer session of Clairmont Men's College and returned to Hanover in time to take part in the E.C.A. productivity school noted above. Professor Griswold has spent most of the summer at his camp on Lake Superior taking time out to return to take part in the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management.
Dean Olsen has had an unusually demanding summer not only teaching in the various schools but also acting as administrator for them.
Professor Gruen and his family spent a three-week holiday on Cape Cod and Ed has put in a profitable summer outlining the work for his doctoral dissertation.
Prof. Karl Hill has been recuperating from a year-long illness and has just successfully undergone an operation which we all hope will prove a solution to his illness.
It was a great shock to us to learn of the death of Mr. and Mrs. S. Richard Arneson on August 8. Both were killed almost immediately when the automobile in which they were riding on a vacation trip collided with a lumber truck on the Ellsworth-Buckport Highway in Maine.
A few personal items have come to our attention. Al Flouton T'37 was made a vice president of Compton Advertising Company in July.
William Hallager T'so has gone with the Texas Company in the Sales Department.
A nice letter from John White T'42 tells us of his change from IBM to Bristol Laboratories, Inc., where he is assistant to the treasurer.
Frank Bateman T'49 has recently been made assistant buyer in the rug department of Abraham & Straus.
Gordon Chipman T'27 is now the proprietor of Chip-Ahoy in Cocoa, Fla.
Ort Hicks T'50 writes from Norway where he is taking part in the Experiment in International Living.
Reed Parker T'50 is also participating in the Experiment in International Living.
We are happy to receive the announcement of the marriage of Miss Joan Watson and Lloyd Krumm T'50. The best wishes of all at Tuck School to the newly-weds is happily recorded in these notes.
H. W. Newell T'21, partner and executive vice president of Geyer, Newell & Ganger Inc., has been elected to the Board and Executive Committee of the National Outdoor Advertising
BuBureau John K. Benson T'32 has been appointed assistant to the president of the National Shawmut Bank.
Robert M. Prentice T'37, formerly sales and advertising assistant in the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corp., has been appointed associate sales and advertising manager of the Calumet Division.
Bob Fieldsteel T'47 has resigned his position with Abraham & Straus and is now associated with Henry Glass & Company, New York.
