Tuck School

The Tuck School began its 1953-54 year with an enrollment of 166 students, with its new research program solidly under way and with a lecture series on labor relations.

First-year enrollment of 86 includes 11 in the Tuck-Thayer combined business and engineering curriculum. Second-year enrollment of 80 includes 12 Tuck-Thayer students. In addition to Dartmouth men, the enrollment includes students from Boston College, Oberlin College, University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Boston University, St. John's Seminary and Seikei College in Tokyo.

First fruit of the research program, financed by a grant from the Sloan Foundation, will be published before the end of the year in bulletin form. Dean Upgren is director of the research program. Prof. Marshall A. Robinson is assistant director.

Clinton S. Golden, a former labor leader who is now director of the trade union gram at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, opened the lecture series on October 8. He spoke on "The Background of the Labor Movement in the U.S." Austen Albu, Labor member of the British Parliament, will speak on November 8 on "Labor Relations in Britain." Prof. Neil W. Chamberlain, director of the Yale Labor-Management Center, will speak November 19 on "Collective Bargaining Under the Wagner and Taft-Hartley Acts." The lectures are financed by a gift from Albert Bradley '15, a member of the Board of Overseers and executive vice president of General Motors Corp.

Mr. Morrissey spent the summer with Archibald M. Peisch & Co. working on audits for the state of Vermont, Colby Junior College, and several banks and manufacturing concerns. In June, he attended a two-week session of the Chrysler Corporation Conference of Business Management in Detroit, which afforded him a quick look at the company's major operations and an opportunity to meet with numerous top executives.

J. L. Bausher '21 spoke to the second-year class in Marketing Management on September 29 and 30 on the marketing problems of his company, Infant Socks, Inc.

Laurie Blood, T'49 has moved to Ithaca, out of which city he operates as District Manager for the Chevrolet Motor Division; DonMackay T'48 is with R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in Chicago; Dick Pike T'33 has been elected treasurer of Pennichuck Water Works, Nashua; Ralph Dushane T'43 has signed' up with the Chicago branch of the Kroger Co.; Earl Daum T'25 is Managing Director of General Motors Holden's Ltd. at Melbourne, Australia; Merle Hagen T'46 has left Oklahoma for Wisconsin to become market analyst with Kimberly-Clark Corp.; AlHooker T'46 has moved back toward Hanover to become special engineering assistant with Jones & Lamson at Springfield, Vt.; Winsol Burbank '45 co-pilots for TWA; a number of Tail's, just out of the AAF, have taken civilian positions Harry Nelson with Mergen thaler Linotype, Al Karcher with Eastman Kodak, Ed Cotter with Ford Motor Co. as cost analyst in Somerville, and Dwight. Allison at Harvard Law; Larry Denton T-Th'49 is setting up a production control system for CBS Hytron at Danvers, Mass.; Bill Falion is out of the Navy again and with Johns-Manville in the capacity of financial analyst; Cliff Cosgrove T'48 has for some time been business manager of George Washington University, George Conklin T'37, on the investment research committee of the Life Insurance Ass'n of America and vice chairman of the American Life Convention, has been elected financial vice president of Guardian Life Insurance Co.; Bill Vesprini '52 is in the practice division of Inland Steel in Chicago learning such things as furnace performance, steel specifications and other open-hearth subjects, and is continuing his graduate studies at the University of Chicago; Dick Brierly T'37, at present in charge of the W. J. Small Division of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. in Neodesha, Kansas, world's largest producer of high quality dehydrated alfalfa meal, has traveled extensively in Europe for the parent company, served as an official advisor of the postwar West German government in connection with its food program, was made assistant vice president of his company in 1948, has been president of the Soy Flour Association, served on five advisory committees-of the OPS and the Department of Agriculture, and in 1951 was elected to the board of governors of the National Farm Chemurgic Council; AldenJames '22, director of advertising and member of the board of P. Lorillard Co., has been elected a vice president; Al Flouton T'37 is now on the board of directors of Compton Advertising; Dick Echikson T'51, out of the military after many months of service in Japan and Korea, reports a "wonderful trip" to Europe before returning to Macy's New York; Henry Nachman '52 saw considerable action in Korea with the 5th Regimental Combat Team in the months before the end of hostilities there; Austin Lohse '47 is a financial analyst with the American Express Company in New York City; advertising operations of the retail division of C. H. Roth Company, New York, are the responsibility of John laniri '48; Bob Tucker T'28 runs the Tuck Inn at Columbus, Ohio; Hal Clayton T'49 directs the selling of Shaw-knit hosiery; Bill Maeck T'46 is doing personnel and public relations work with Main Hospital, Stamford, Conn.; Bob Wilson T'51 and Jack Kent T'51 are in the purchasing department of Sylvania Electric Products, Salem, Mass.; Harry Gustafson T'46 is in charge of Primex sales for Procter and Gamble in New England; JackRansom T'50 has joined George Gerrish T'50 at IBM in Buffalo; Dud Meredith T'38 is chief cost accountant with Reynolds Alloys Co. in Sheffield, Ala.; Sherm Clough T'51 is head of marketing research with a GE division in Lynn.

Mr. Gruen is the author of an interesting article, "Wood Flour; a Study in Wood Utilization," appearing in the July Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He took time out from his researches into the utilization of wood residues to spend four weeks of the summer at Sears, Roebuck in Chicago and Philadelphia via a fellowship in that company's College-Business Exchange Program. This Program, associated with the Foundation for Economic Education, enabled ten college professors of business administration to get a close-up look at such Sears' activities as mail-order and retail-store merchandising, manufacturing operations, finance, advertising, laboratory testing and real-estate management.

An informal Marketing Theory Seminar was held at the School during the first week of September. A group of 26 marketing teachers and business men from all parts of the country discussed such topics as: operations research as a general approach to problem solving, recent developments in motivation research, and responsiveness of consumers to promotional effort.

We report with sorrow the deaths of HenryMerrill T'14, Ralph Merritt T'46 and HadarOrtman '22.