L'Ecole Tuck

In Cooperation with ECA and the National Management Council, Tuck School this fall and winter is repeating the special courses given during the summer for a group of Frenchmen sent to this country to learn about American industrial methods. The new group of 21 young "productivity trainees" from France reached Hanover on November 14 to begin a 13 week course of study, after which they will spend several months touring some of the country's leading industrial centers.

Compressed into their three months of study at Tuck School will be courses on business management, production, marketing, industrial relations and personnel, administration, accounting, advertising, sales and foreign trade. These courses, taught by the Tuck faculty on a sort of rotating schedule, have been specifically designed to give the French production trainees "an insight into the philosophy, principles and methods of management as they operate under the American system of free enterprise," according to Dean Herluf V. Olsen '22, who is directing the study program.

The Frenchmen, who are living in Wigwam Circle and taking their meals in Stell Hall, have all been hand picked by the French Association for the Increasing of Production. They average 28 years of age, and most of them hold the equivalent of a Master's degree in their specialized fields. Many of them also have had experience in administrative posts with French business or government.

The first group of young French production trainees who studied in Hanover last summer are now touring the country seeing in practice some of the things they learned at Tuck. An older and smaller group of French management consulting engineers, also summer students at Tuck for an eight-week period, returned to France this fall after a month's tour of U. S. plants.

To those who associate Edward Tuck with France, where he lived for many years and was beloved as a generous benefactor of the French people, it seems appropriate for more than practical reasons that the Tuck School should now be playing an important part in a program designed to benefit the industrial life of that nation.

AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE NEW WILDER DAM SHOWING THE WIDENED CONNECTICUT NEAR HANOVER