Arthur R. Upgren Named New Dean of Tuck School

ARTHUR R. UPGREN, Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota's School of Business, was named Dean and Director of Research of the Tuck School early last month. Dean Upgren's appointment, recommended to President Dickey by the Board of Overseers of Tuck School, became retroactively effective as of January 1. Before taking over his active duties as Dean of Dartmouth's business school he will be on leave for a part of the second semester in order to write and study abroad as a Fulbright Scholar. During this period Karl A. Hill 38, Professor of Industrial Management, will be Acting Dean.

Dean Upgren, widely known as an economist in both the international and national fields, has taught at Dartmouth during the past three summers as a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management held at the Tuck School.

In recent years, in addition to teaching, he has been vice president and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; chief of the National Economics Division of the U. S. Department of Commerce; and vice chairman of the ninth district of the Committee for Economic Development. During the past year he has been economic consultant to the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and from 1945 to 1951 he was associate editor of the Minneapolis Star. Prominent as a speaker be fore business and professional groups, he is co-author of Economics for You andMe to be published next month by Macmillan.

Dean Upgren was chairman of the Committee on the Federal Debt sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund, which has just published the committee's report on how to reduce the national debt without causing deflation.

Before joining the University of Minnesota faculty in 1942, he was economist in the Department of State's reciprocal trade agreements program, 1934-35; economic consultant to the Government of Manitoba, 1937-38; and research secretary for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1940-42. In 1944 he was a member of the American delegation to the Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference. More recently under the auspices of the University of Minnesota, he was director of

"The Minneapolis Project," an investigation of capital formation and high employment. He has been chairman of the Minneapolis Foreign Policy Association and of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Committee on Foreign Relations, as well as a director of the American Economic Association. Last year the Swedish government honored Dean Upgren by making him a Knight in the Royal Order of the North Star.

Tuck School's new dean received the Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1920 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1937. From 1920 to 1930 he was engaged in metropolitan banking and brokerage work, before his growing interests in international relations and national commercial policy led him into his distinguished career as economic consultant and research director, teacher, author, anpublic speaker.

In coming to Tuck School, Dean Upgren will be the administrative head of the country's first business school at the graduate level. The School's Board of Overseers, which made the recommendation for his appointment to President Dickey, is headed by Harvey P. Hood '18, Trustee of the College. The other members are Albert Bradley '15, Kenneth W. Fraser '31, Ralph E. Flanders '32h, H. Richardson Lane '07, Charles J. Zimmerman '23 and President Dickey.

Since the resignation of Dean Herluf V. Olsen '22 in the fall of 1951, Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, Professor of Industrial Management, has been Acting Dean of Tuck School. Professor Burleigh was given leave of absence, beginning January 1, to accept the post of Dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Business Management in Turin, Italy, for a six-months period. He is also on the teaching faculty there as Professor of Production Management and Control.

ARTHUR R. UPGREN, who was recently named the new Dean and Director of Research at Tuck School.