Tuck School

As THIS is written, early in May, a number of .second-year men are all set with thenmilitary assignments. Craig Hausman, Len Larrabee, Lou Zehner and Pete Eckert have commissions in the Army Finance Corps; by the time you read this, Ed Finerty will be in the Line School, and George Scully and Harry Bingham will be in the Navy Supply Corps at Newport. Al Jackson has been commissioned in the Air Force; eight other men are in the NROTC and will go on active duty in June Marcel Durot, Sam Daniell and Terry Malone in the Supply Corps; Dan Hall, John McGuire, Don Moore, John North, Bob Ringstad and Farquhar Smith in the Line.

Both the New York and Boston alumni organizations are to have efficient direction this next year. Officers of the New York Clearing House are Dave Fox T'37, Manager, and BobFisher T'48, Secretary. The Boston organization is headed by Jack Benson, T'32, Manager, and Dick Southwick T'47, Secretary.

Students and faculty were happy that Dean Upgren could return to Hanover from Europe early in May, a month earlier than originally planned. Mr. Upgren and Stahrl Edmunds are the authors of Economics for You and Me, published this spring.

On May 7, Mr. Gruen spoke on "Economic Aspects of Residue Utilization: A Few Basic Questions Examined" before the North East Section of The Forest Products Research Society, in Portland, Maine.

Mr. Frey has been elected Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Marketing and a director of The American Marketing Association. The second edition of his Advertising was published in April.

Al Elkins '52, is studying at Boston University in preparation for entering the B.U. School of Medicine in the fall; the Cummings in the new investment-security partnership, Bregman, Cummings & Company, is DonCummings T'50; Sam West T'47 is now assist- ant sales manager of The Tyler Fixture Corporation, Miles, Michigan; Tom Norton T'24, Dean of C.C.N.Y.'s business school, was recently elected vice-president of The American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business; Pudge Neidlinger '23 spoke on "Untangling the Web of Foreign Trade" at the Eighth Mississippi Valley World Trade Conference in New Orleans in April.

Merle Hagen T'46, after completing his course work and examinations for the Ph.D. degree at Syracuse, was called back to the Navy for two years; recently released, he is now education and training specialist in test analysis and evaluation at the Norman, Okla. Navy Air Technical Training Center; JayBuck '50 is out of the service and now labors in the credit department of the Northern Trust Company in Chicago; Ted Fajen T'48 is enthusiastic about his new connection, the Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee.

Phil Gahm T'49, as chairman of the Yearbook Committee, was responsible for the publication of the 1953 Booster Yearbook and Buyers' Guide of The New England Automotive Booster Club; Jim Wells T'47 has recently left Procter & Gamble to join W'm Underwood Company, manufacturers of deviled ham; Joe Russakoff '27 is the author of "Retailers Get Rid of Banking" in the fall, 1952, issue of the Journal of Retailing, a bit of tardy reporting on our part. Jim Field '45 is the inventor and marketer of Raincoat Chaps, written up as a feature with the '45 class notes this month. Jack Clow '52, now taking graduate courses at the University of California in Berkeley, has been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve as a Management Analysis Officer.

Outside speakers in recent weeks have been Charles Zimmerman T'24, Tuck Overseer and Managing Director, Life Insurance Agency Management Association; Theodore Shapleigh D'23, partner, Hamilton's, New Haven, Frederick Bowes Jr. D'30, Director of Public Relations and Advertising, Pitney-Bowes, Inc.; Babert V. Brooks Jr. T'49, Editor-Analyst, Value Line Investment Service; RichardDarby T'42, Vice President and Account Executive, Peterson & Kempner, Inc.; DwightSargent D'18, Personnel Director, Consolidated Edison of New York; Gerard Swope Jr. D 29, Vice President, International General Electric; Allen Flouton T'37, Vice President, and Alex Hoffman T'51, Assistant Account Executive, Compton Advertising, Inc.; JohnMeek D' 33, Treasurer and Vice President, Dartmouth College; Clark Sorensen T'37, Assistant to President, and Charles Conlin, Director of Personnel, Harris-Seybold Company; v. W. Shefferman, President, Labor Relations Associates; and three Sears, Roebuck execu,jves_C. B. Caldwell, Vice President in charge of Personnel and Employee Relations, Frank Cellier, Employee Education & Executive Development, and Jon Bentz, Psychologist, National Personnel.