Tuck School Overseers

Since the establishment of the Tuck School in 1900, as the first graduate business school in the country, the line of responsibility for operating it and determining policy has passed directly from the President and Board of Trustees to the officers of the School. By action of the Trustees at their spring meeting in Hanover last month, the Tuck School now has a Board of Overseers which will supervise the affairs of the School and will be advisory to the President and Trustees with regard to educational program, administration, personnel and general policy matters having to do with the Tuck School or its relationship to the College. The new Board of Overseers is similar in form and authority to that which the Thayer School of Engineering has had since its founding in 1870.

In creating the Overseers of the business school the Dartmouth Trustees approved the recommendation of a special Trustee committee appointed in January 1950, under the chairmanship of Harvey P. Hood '18, to report on the desirability of establishing a supervising board for Tuck School. Mr. Hood, President of H. P. Hood and Sons, Boston, has been named by his colleagues on the Board of Trustees to serve as the first Chairman of the Board of Overseers for Tuck School.

President Dickey is an ex-officio member of the Overseers and others chosen by the Trustees to serve on the initial Board are:

Albert Bradley '15, Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation, New York;

The Hon. Ralph E. Flanders '32h, United States Senator from Vermont, and President of Jones and Lamson Machine Company and the Bryant Chucking Grinder Company, Springfield, Vt.;

Kenneth W. Fraser '31, Vice President of J. P. Stevens and Company, New York;

H. Richardson Lane '07, Tuck School '09, formerly President and now Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Kendall Company, Boston;

Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Tuck School '24, Associate Managing Director of the Life Insurance Agency Management Association, Hartford, Conn.

The Tuck School Overseers will hold their first meeting in Hanover on June 9.

Last month, the first meeting of another new supervisory board was held in Hanover when the Overseers of the Hanover Inn gathered on April 7. James D. Landauer '23 of New York was elected chairman and presided at this initial session. Among those present was Charles W. Bartlett '27, partner in the Boston law firm of Ely, Bartlett, Thompson and Brown, whose appointment to the board as representative of the Dartmouth Alumni Council was made after the announcement of the establishment of the Inn Overseers appeared in last month's issue.