Tuck School

With Dean Upgren beginning his first full year with the School, with several additions to the faculty, with a new research program gathering momentum and with a new management-labor seminar under way, we are all set for an interesting and busy year.

Let's start by introducing the new members of the faculty, in no particular order:

Marshall Robinson, assistant professor of finance and assistant director of research (Dean Upgren is director), comes to Tuck from the faculty of Tulane University. A graduate of the University of California in 1943 and a master of arts (1948) and doctor of philosophy (1950) at Ohio State University, he a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a consultant to the Bureau of Governmental Research in New Orleans. He served as an officer in the Navy during World War II.

Herbert C. Morton, assistant professor and research editor, was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942 and later received his master of arts degree from that institution. His experience includes three years of teaching at the Minnesota School of Journalism, various posts over a six-year period with the St. Paul Pioneer-Dispatch, and four years of editing service newspapers in Guadalcanal and Japan. Mr. Morton will edit the School's research publications and assist faculty and students in editing their reports.

Kenneth R. Davis, assistant professor of marketing, received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and 1947, following three years in the AAF with the final rank of captain. Shortly he will complete his work for a University of Chicago Ph.D. Mr. Davis comes to Tuck from the University of North Carolina. He has done considerable consulting work, largely in the field of marketing research.

Robert L. Katz, assistant professor of business administration, received his A.B. from the University of California in 1945 and his M.B.A. from Stanford in 1948. During the past year, he has been at the Harvard Business School where he is working toward his D.C.S. degree. Before this, he was associated with Sommer & Kaufmann, Inc., in San Francisco and with San Francisco State College where he was administrator of Internal Affairs and teacher of business administration subjects.

George D. Bodenhorn, assistant professor of statistics, received his academic training at the College of the City of New York, the University of lowa and the University of Chicago, receiving his master's degree from the latter institution in 1948. He, too, will receive his Ph.D. degree shortly. Mr. Bodenhorn served with the AAF from 1943 to 1945. His experience includes teaching at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles, and research activity with the Rand Corporation.

Karl Hill has been appointed assistant dean. In addition to this responsibility and his teaching duties, he will handle the placement work of the School. He takes over this latter assignment from Mr. Sears, who so generously interrupted his retirement in order to help out during the past two years.

We regret, as you who know them can readily understand, that Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Hummel have decided to leave the teaching field, at least temporarily, and to enter business. After many years of devoted service to the School, Mr. Duncombe has gone to Washington to be with the Machinery and Allied Products Institute. Mr. Hummel is going to be a neighbor, having joined Bryant Chucking Grinder Company, Springfield, Vt., as assistant to'the general manager.

H. W. Newell T'21, partner in Lennen and Newell, New York advertising agency, has been made a member of the School's Board of Overseers.

Dean Upgren's busy summer included participation, as faculty leader and as headline speaker, in the Executive Program in Business Administration of Columbia University at Arden House; teaching in the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Tuck, the Graduate School of Savings and Loan at Indiana University, and the Central States School of Banking at Madison, Wisconsin; participation in the Ohio Workshop on Economic Education at Ohio University, the First Annual Workshop on Economic Education at Rutgers University, the Workshop on Economics in Teacher Education sponsored by the Commission on Economics in Teacher Education, and the West Virginia Workshop on Economic Education; and lecturing at the Pacific School of Banking in Seattle.

Mr. Griswold and Mr. Foster gave their usual competent performance as members of the faculty of the Graduate School of Credit and Finance held here for two weeks in August.

Mr. Burleigh has returned to Tuck teaching after several months of educational work in Italy and travel in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Wales and England. He reports happy meetings with Tuck alumni J. Steinmann '39, vice president and sales manager of Maschinenfabrik Verlikon, Zurich, Switzerland; FritzGugelman, T'39, general manager and coowner of three textile plants in Berne and Langenthal, Switzerland; Nils Horstadius, '21, Boras, Sweden, owner and operator of the principal artificial textile fibre plants in that country; Jim Burnham, T'50, recently appointed business manager of Time and Life International at its European headquarters in Paris; and Fred Vogt T'38, senior member of the Brussels branch of Price, Waterhouse & Company, who is busily engaged in handling the accounts of British firms doing business in Belgium.

Lack of space prevents the inclusion of alumni and student news in this month's column; we'll not fail you next month. By the way, if you haven't filled out and sent in your "Survey of Graduates" blank, won't you please do it now today?