Tuck School
ROBERT T. DAVIS, Assistant Professor of Marketing, has resigned from the Tuck faculty to join the teaching staff of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard in September. Relatively few alumni have had the opportunity of knowing Bob, since he has been with us for only three years, but those who have been privileged to be in his classes know full well the loss which the School suffers in his leaving for Cambridge. An unusually gifted teacher, with boundless energy and enthusiasm, he has given the School considerable of a lift during his short period of service here. You will hear much about him in the years ahead.
Mr. Hill's class in Production Management made several interesting trips during the past semester. Among the plants visited were Randolph Furniture Company, Randolph, Vt.; Northfield Mills, Northfield, Vt. (through the courtesy of Jack Field T '47, Assistant Superintendent); and Mack Molding Company, Arlington, Vt. Mr. Hill and Mr. Davis made an inspection trip to the Saco Lowell Shop in Biddeford, Maine.
We of the faculty are always grateful for the assistance you give in providing cases and problems for classroom and textbook use. Many of us lean heavily on you to maintain our inventory of up-to-date, live teaching material. This is just a way of saying that if you are encountering any problems which would lend themselves to useful analytical treatment in the classroom, don't be bashful about letting us know. This paragraph is particularly inspired by Mr. Griswold's enthusiasm over his success in obtaining several excellent cases in sale and lease-back and short-term financing during the past two months.
The labors of the faculty have been eased somewhat in the past two months by the generous classroom contributions of the following outside speakers: Donald L. Barr D '18, Assistant Treasurer, Dartmouth College; Alfred V. Bodine, President, The Bodine Corp., Bridgeport, Conn.; E. Morton Jennings T'29, Vice President, First National Bank of Boston; Richard P. White D'18, Executive Secretary, American Association of Nurserymen, Washington, D. C.; F. J. Shepard, Jr., General Manager, Lewis-Shepard Co., Watertown, Mass.; S. Judson Dunaway, President, Judson Dunaway Corp., Dover, N. H.; Dwight S. Sargent D'18, Personnel Director, Consolidated Edison Company of New York; Kenneth L. Anderson T'32, Senior Consultant, Agency Management Assoc., Hartford, Conn.; Richard S. Robie, President, R. S. Robie, Cambridge, Mass.; Kenneth Henderson D'16, President, Ditto, Inc., Chicago, Ill.; Clark C. Sorenson T'37, Director of Personnel, Harris-Seybold Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Benjamin S. Graham, Future Demands Committee, Standard Register Company, Dayton, Ohio; C. F. McGoughran D'20, Vice President, Sinclair Refining Company, New York City; and William M. Tetrick T'39, Treasurer and General Manager, R. S. Robie, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
Ken Anderson was with us for three days and did a fine job of enlightening the general management class on the whys and wherefores of insurance.
Both the First-Year and Second-Year Student Faculty Committees have been most helpful in providing suggestions for improving the work of the School. At the year-end, they are submitting written reports which can be invaluable aids to the Faculty.
On April 20, Mrs. Burleigh and the other faculty wives gave a tea in Stell Hall for Tuck students and wives, and juniors who have been admitted to next year's first-year class.
Dwight Meader T'41 has joined the Management Consultation Services Division of Genera] Electric Company, in New York City. The work of the Division, which is part of the Executive Office of . the President, is of a staff nature, involving operations in any area of the entire Company. Ed Mansfield '51 has received a University Fellowship at Duke, "where he has been doing graduate work this past year. Along with more of the same at Duke next year, he plans to tackle a course in mathematical statistics at the University of North Carolina. Fred Tetzlaff T'32 reports extremely interesting experiences moving continually around Europe and back and forth to America in his work with Charles Lennig & Co. Ltd., of which he is a director.
Jack Jenness T'48 is Management Analysis Officer for Headquarters 1805th AACS Group in Newfoundland. He and his family are roughing it there. As Jack puts it, We are living in a six-room frame house (not on the base), with running cold water piped directly from a neighboring stream, an old-fashioned wood cook stove that also heats kitchen and dining room (and keeps me supplied with exercise), and an oil space heater that can heat the rest of the house if we keep the doors to the living and spare rooms closed—all for $70 a month, plus utilities."
Recent Tuck visitors have included TedEilenberg T'51, Sales Engineer with Fenwal Incorporated, Ashland, Mass.; Reg Pierce T'4B8, Geyer, Newell and Ganger, who has been running all over the East in an interesting assignment in connection with the agency s Continental Oil account; and Bert Englert T'43 who is in accounting work, having passed his C.P.A. exams last year.
