Dean at Columbia

Courtney C. Brown '26 has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia, it was announced on November 3 by Grayson Kirk, president of the University. He will remain in his present position as Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey until the first of the year, and will assume his duties at Columbia on February 1.

Mr. Brown has had a wide background of experience in business, economics and education. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, he spent ten years in investment management work, then in 1935 resigned his position with the Bankers Trust Company in New York to become an instructor in economics at Columbia, later in the School of Business, while studying for the Ph.D. degree. Mr. Brown received his doctorate from Columbia in 1940, and in 1941 took leave of absence to be associate director of research at the Chase National Bank.

During World War II, Mr. Brown spent three and one-half years in Washington with the War Food Administration and the Department of State. His work dealt largely with negotiations with foreign governments to procure essential supplies from abroad. In 1946 he joined the Standard Oil Company, serving first as manager of the Petroleum Economics Division and then in his present position as Assistant to the Chairman of the Board.

In announcing Mr. Brown's appointment as Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Business, President Kirk said, "I believe it is obvious that he is almost uniquely fitted To his well-demonstrated skills as a teacher, he adds the broad experience of a most useful career in business and economics."