Tuck School
An interesting pioneering job determining the economic importance of the Franconia Notch recreation area to the adjacent communities and to the State of New Hampshire as a whole has recently been completed by Dick Dalbeck and Dan Hall, second-year men, and Messrs. Morrissey, Hummel and Gruen, of the faculty. Mr. Davis, ex-facultyite, and five other students assisted in the earlier phases of the work, involving a pilot study conducted at Sunapee State Park and the surrounding areas in the winter of 1951-58. Limited in scope, this preliminary study served to point up desirable techniques for the broader survey at Franconia last summer.
Dalbeck and Hall interviewed nearly 1600 parties, including over 5000 individuals, from every section of the United States and Canada, between last June and mid-September. Among the interesting findings were: The typical party of three people spent $105 in New Hampshire during an average stay of four days approximately $8.50 per person per day; out-of-state visitors to Franconia Notch left approximately $20,000,000 in the state during the period covered by the survey; guests from the Mid-Atlantic States outnumbered those from New England; only four per cent of the tourists were from New Hampshire.
Jim Gaylord T'sl, after 15 months in the Consumers Representative Department at Scott Paper Company doing quality control work, has moved into Staff Personnel as the Job Analyst. The company's job evaluation system covers practically all salaried positions. He is also working on special projects. BobCrabb T'3B, who left canning in Minnesota for real estate in Seattle, finds the change highly satisfactory. He writes, "We act as real estate consultants primarily to department stores and exclusively on commercial real estate. Our clients are scattered all over the country. The work that we perform for these clients covers quite a broad field and includes such questions as the economic justification for new or expanded stores, either downtown, isolated branch stores, or in integrated shopping centers.... We also number among our clients several real estate development firms."
Herb Knight T'52, a recent visitor at the School, is on leave from Harris Trust to assist the Red Cross in Chicago in organizing for the solicitation of corporate, employee and individual contributions. Don Ash T'49 has moved from Metropolitan Life to Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh; he's an assistant to the executive department, undertaking a wide variety of studies, economic and otherwise, designed to provide top management with information for policy decisions. Bill Cross T'51 reports from the development department of W. R. Grace & Company's New York offices that he is doing "cost and profitability estimates on proposed ventures - everything from purchase of going companies to building of new plants." Jack Brodie '50 is out of the Army and finishing his academic career at New York University. Lt. Harry Nelson T'52, at Griffis Air Force Base, Rome, N. Y., has taken on considerable responsibility as chairman of the Supply Directorate's Management Improvement Committee and Assistant Deputy for Requirements and Distribution.
Doug Craig T'25, Metropolitan Life, described to us recently what it's like to operate a department whose full complement should be 4000 employees with 600 short of that number. Ken Anderson T'32 has just been elected vice president and manager of agencies of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. Lt.Harry Berwick T'52 is assistant to the colonel in charge of appropriations accounting at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. DougThomson T'50, with the Naugatuck Footwear Division of U.S. Rubber Company, and Al Schlosser T49, director of sales training for Bauer & Black, were February visitors in Hanover hoping to pick up a future executive or two for their companies. Schlosser took time out to talk to the class in Marketing Management.
Other recent outside lectures were: John M. Fox, president, Minute Maid Corporation; James A. Hamilton T'23 of James A. Hamilton & Associates, hospital consultants, and professor and director, course in hospital administration at the University of Minnesota; S. D. Chamberlain, field sales manager and director of executive development, Kendall Mills; and Clark Sorensen T'37, assistant to the president, Harris-Seybold Company.
