Tuck School

DEAN UPGREN spent several busy days in Hanover last month conferring with President Dickey and members of the Board of Overseers and the faculty. He will take up active direction of the School's affairs in June upon his return from Europe. This brief statement assumes that you have read of Dean Upgren's appointment either in your newspaper or in this issue of the MAGAZINE.

Mr. Hill is directing the School during the second semester.

Mr. Walters spent several weeks in Brazil in December and January, aquainting a group of university professors in that country with methods of teaching personnel management.

As one of the principal staff contributors to the New Hampshire Forest Policy Committee Report, Mr. Gruen attended a meeting of the group with Governor Sherman Adams in Concord on January 7. The Governor requested the report as a guide for future state legislatures.

Mr. Olsen spoke at the annual fall conference of the Society for the Advancement of Management in October on "Teaching the Total Management Function Through Job Rotation and Other Ways." As a consultant to the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development, he attended the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of CED, and participated in the conferences of representatives from CED-spon-sored College-Community Research Centers in November.

Messrs. Duncombe, Griswold, Foster, Gruen and Frey attended the meetings of the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, American Statistical Association and American Marketing Association in Chicago during the Christmas holidays. Among the alumni attending these meetings were George Conklin T'37, Bill Tongue T'3B, Gene Radford '41, Ivar Olson T'41 and HalBaker '23.

The Burleighs flew to England on December 27 en route to Italy for Mr. Burleigh's professorial and dean assignment. At a tea in Stell Hall shortly before Christmas vacation, the students presented a beautiful suitcase to the traveling tutor.

The many alumni who had the pleasure of knowing 'Victor Cutter T'04 will be saddened to learn of his death on December 25. Mr. Cutter was one of the School's most devoted friends.

After several years at the St. Louis Army Finance Center, Major Charlie Hathaway T'39 spent several months at Leavenworth in the Command and General Staff College, that is and now reports "all's well" from Fort Richardson, Alaska. Bob Cohen T'52 is writing liability insurance for long-haul truckers, waiting to enter the super market business in Chicago in the fall; Bob Fieldsteel T'47 has been elected a director of Henry Glass Cos. where he is an executive in the converting department; Art Bright T'40, former Tuck teacher and now heading up research activities for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, outlined a 10-point program to strengthen the New England economy, before the American Institute of Banking.

George Gerrish T'50 is working with Charles Benton Jr. '35, branch manager for IBM in the Buffalo territory; Hugh Brower T'51 is with Harris Trust Cos. in Chicago; Bollie Bollenback T'50 is with Edward E. Johnson, Inc., St. Paul, manufacturers of well screens; Hike Newell T'21 was cited by Advertising Age as one of the ten men who created the biggest stir in advertising in 1952, for his union with Phil Lennen in Lennen & Newell; Joe RuSsakoff '27 was featured in a news story in the New York Times business section, December 7, for his advertising and publicity skill, organ playing, teaching at two colleges, and numerous other accomplishments; Wes Field T'51, stationed at Quantico, has been promoted to first lieutenant in the Marine Corps; Reg Pierce T'48, with Lennen & Newell, is account executive on the Chicopee Mills Lumite Division account; Dave MacGregor '48 is working in an assistant-to-the-president capacity at Verney Corporation; Bob Kimball T'48 is with Hood Rubber Cos. in Boston; Tom Murray '45 has charge of the Pabst Beer account at Warwick & Legler. Burg Taylor T'52 is participating in the training program at Western Electric in New York; Harry Schoenhut T'47 keeps busy as president of Oscar Nebel Cos., hosiery manufacturers in Staunton and Verona, Virginia.