Tuck School

OUR feeling toward Christmas this year is pretty well illustrated by the comment of the man riding in the fast car through the small town when he said, "This is a nice town, wasn't it?" It seems as though the time went by very quickly and, even more to the point, with only three weeks left in the semester it seems as though the term has skipped by.

For our regular students, the times are filled with uncertainty, and one's mind drifts back to the summer period of 1941 when the calm and unruffled pursuit of knowledge was disturbed by the cloud of war. These are difficult times for the private college, for the student, and for the teacher. Yet we here at the Tuck School feel very keenly that more efficient production holds the key to many of our difficulties, and that schools such as the Tuck School have a more important role, if anything, to play in days such as these. Our French group was in Washington, D. C., during the vacation, learning about some of our more important Governmental and private agencies whose headquarters are in the city. Under the direction of Dr. Paul Atkins, the group visited the Chamber of Commerce, the Brookings Institute, the Federal Reserve Board, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce and other related agencies. The group has returned to Hanover and is now working with Prof. Jack Walters in the field of Personnel Management in the United States.

The Tuck School brochure, about which we have written in the past is making progress, although we have had to put it aside from time to time because of the pressure of other duties. We think we now have it closer to the form in which we would like to have it published.

Christmas vacation is, in the New England tradition, "meetin' time." Dean Olsen and Professors Woodworth, Frey, and Duncombe attended meetings in Chicago.

We are very proud to be able to announce that Albert W. Frey has been appointed to the Managing Editorship of the Journal ofMarketing by the Directors of the American Marketing Association.

Prof. Karl Hill is very much improved and is up and about again.

We have received many wonderful Christmas cards from all of you and deeply appreciate your thinking of us here at the School. Beyond this we have just a very few items about alumni to be included in this issue.

Iver Olson T'41 was chairman of the Business Work Shop Sessions at the Winter Conference of the American Marketing Association in Chicago. Iver has recently been appointed Chairman of the Marketing Department at De Paul University. To make sure that twenty-four hours of each day are fully utilized, he is carrying out advance studies at the University of Chicago.

Dan Leary T'50 is with I. B. M., as is George Gerrish T'50. Both write that they like their work very much.

Don Kuhn T'50 writes enthusiastically about his work with Burroughs and reports seeing Lloyd Krumm T'50 and Bud Robertson T'50.

Ralph R. Butler T'30 has joined the Hammermill organization in the capacity of Assistant Promotion Manager. In addition to a wide range of business experience, Mr. Butler has been an officer in the American Marketing Association and has taught business subjects at Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University.

K. A. HILL