Tuck School
OLD "news" by now is the graduation of 48 Masters of Commercial Science on June 1 last. Degrees were awarded by President Dickey at exercises held in Dartmouth Hall. Amos N. Blandin '18, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, was the principal speaker, addressing a highly appreciative audience of students, parents, faculty and friends on "The Place of the Business Man in a Free Society." Acting Dean Burleigh spoke briefly and presented The Herman Feldman Memorial Prize to James C. Balderston and The James A. and Sabra M. Hamilton Prize in Administration to George K. Hinkley.
Pre-graduation events included a merry picnic for students, faculty and staff at Mr. Sears' farm in Lyme and a night-before party in Stell Hall, both given by the graduating class. The annual ball game resulted in the usual easy victory for the faculty, according to the faculty scorer. This feat can be better appreciated when it is revealed that the Tuck student team won the college dormitory championship the week before.
Twenty-seven Tuck graduates and four Tuck-Thayers were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Air Force on the afternoon of May 28 at a simple but impressive ceremony on the front steps of Tuck Hall. They have been assigned to duty as either procurement or auditing officers, after eight weeks of training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The swearing in of the 31 men, more than half of the graduating class, followed four weeks of intensive efforts on the part of Mr. Griswold, Major, Air Force Reserve, with cooperation from Mr. Burleigh and Mr. Sears, in their capacities as Acting Dean and Personnel Director, respectively. As this is being written, Harry Nelson, one of the new officers, has dropped in to report that they are now enjoying a few days' leave before reporting at various points across the country.
Mr. Burleigh attended the meeting of the New England Council at Whitefield, N. H., in June Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Davis put in many an hour last spring on a research project involving the economics of New Hampshire State recreation areas. Mr. Morrissey spent the summer doing graduate work at the University of Indiana. Mr. Olsen is Director of the Commission on University Education in Hospital Administration, which is conducting a survey of 13 university graduate programs. The project is financed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The chairman of the commission is Jim Hamilton T'23. Mr. Olsen lectured and conducted discussions at Workshops on Economic Education at the University of Rochester, the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University last spring. The Workshops are under the sponsorship of the Joint Council on Economic Education.
Mr. Griswold took an intensive course in real estate appraisal at M.I.T. in July. On June 20, Mr. Gruen delivered a paper to the New England Research Council at Amherst on "The Economics of Waste in New England Forest Industries." In July, he submitted a report on the demand for steel in 1955 to the Rand Corporation. Keeping up his steam, he spent the rest of the summer continuing his research on wood waste utilization which called for trips to wood-using centers, rides over "some of the ruttiest tote roads," as well as the usual desk work.
Alumni who know the two men will be happy for them and for the School that Mr.Hill was promoted to Professor of Industrial Management in June and that Francis Hummel T'49 was added to the faculty as Assistant Professor of Marketing. Since his graduation, Mr. Hummel has been teaching marketing subjects at the University of Massachusetts and conducting research for western Massachusetts organizations. This past summer he was busy on consulting work. Alumni will likewise be glad to learn that Mr. Duncombe is back at Tuck after an interesting year with OPS in Washington.
The students presented a pen set to Mr.Wooclworth and a briefcase to Mr. Davis before these two gentlemen departed for their new positions at the business schools of Michigan and Harvard respectively.
Another summer session of the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management was held at Tuck from August 4 to 16. One hundred and eighty-seven students from companies all over the United States attended. Mr.Griswold and Mr. Foster were on the faculty, teaching Financial Management. Mr. Olsen, assisted by Mr. Hummel, is in charge of Management Study Reports for the Graduate School. Merryle S. Rukeyser in his syndicated column referred to the session as "a notable example of adult education for business leaders."
Lane Dwinell T'29, head of Carter & Churchill, Lebanon, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from Suffolk University, Boston, in June. Lane has been Speaker of the House here in New Hampshire for the past two years and is one of the leading Republican politicos; Charlie Zimmerman T'24, managing director of the Life Insurance Agency Management Association and a Tuck overseer, has been made a Trustee of the College; Frank Drake T'o3, Chairman of the Board, Gulf Oil Corporation, received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the College in June; Ort Hicks T'22 was elected president of the Alumni Council at its June meeting; Hike Newell T'2l left Geyer, Newell & Ganger on June 2 to become president and chief executive officer of Lennen & Newell, Inc., advertising agency. Moving with him were Phil Penberthy T'47 and Reg Pierce T'4B; Jim Schaefer T'49 has joined the contact staff of Dickie-Raymond, sales promotion and direct mail specialists, in New York; Nate Bugbee T'26 has been elected vice president and director of Standish, Ayer & McKay, Inc., investment counsel, Boston; Bob Draper T'4l was made a member of the C.P.A. firm of Konopak & Dal ton, Toledo, on July 1; NockWallis T'2o is now a member of the Board of Directors of Dcnnison Manufacturing Cos.; Ken Fitllon is solving sales management problems for Beach Soap Company, Lawrence, Mass.; Moose Concannon 1'49, with Young & Rubicam, is working on that agency's drug and grocery in Poughkeepsie; HarryWolfe '24 contributed "Science as a Trustworthy Tool" to The Analysis Journal for Ist March; Howard Phillips T's2 had hardly left Hanover when he reported himself deep in navy duties in Hawaii.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS IN THE AIR FORCE, 31 OF TUCKS SCHOOL'S JUNE GRADUATES ARE SWORN IN
