Tuck School
Dean Upgren was the "critic commentator" on a statement by Secretary o£ the Treasury, George M. Humphrey, published in Nation'sBusiness for January 1954. Humphrey's statement was one of ten submitted by members of the Eisenhower Cabinet covering their progress and achievements during the first year in office. Mr. Upgren's remarks were entitled "Indirect Controls Are Working."
Mr. Walters has resigned from the Tuck faculty to become chairman of the newly formed Department of Engineering Administration at Rutgers University.
Response to Tuck's first publication under the grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been very gratifying. Requests for reprints of the booklet, "Fringe" Benefits, have been received from business firms, management consultants, educators and librarians from all parts of the country. Mr. Sargent, the author, is putting the finishing touches on the full report, which will be sent to persons requesting it. For guidance in preparing future booklets, the research staff hopes that alumni and others will send in their frank opinions and reactions.
Fran Hummel T'48, ex-faculty member and now heading up marketing research for Bryant Chucking Grinder Company, gave a most interesting two-hour exposition of his activities before the class in Marketing Management. Messrs. Upgren, Gruen, Foster, Davis and Frey attended the annual meetings of the professional economic associations in Washington during the Christmas holidays.
As the second semester approaches, Assistant Dean Hill digs more deeply into the placement problem. Let him know about job opportunities of likely interest for Tuck graduates.
Bob Malin is the editor of a new publication, a one-page weekly bulletin presenting a time-table of coming events for his second-year classmates. Major events in December were a program of Christmas music very capably presented in Rollins Chapel by the recently organized Tuck School Chorus under the leadership of Fred Whittemore and Charles Fleet and a Christmas party in Stell Hall given by the students for faculty, staff and themselves. Carol singing at the latter gathering was interrupted long enough to present athletic letters to members of the Tuck varsity football team and special awards to Messrs. Gruen and Foster for outstanding attendance records during the fall football season.
Nellie Pierce and her library staff were hostesses at a delightful Christmas party for faculty and staff in the Tuck Hall foyer. Special guests were Professor and Mrs. George W. Woodworth, now of Ann Arbor.
George E. Sprague T'26, for some time carrying the responsibilities of merchandising manager of Kendall Mills, took, over the additional duties of advertising manager early in January; Major Charlie Hathaway T'39 sends a long, newsy letter from Alaska, saying in part, "Last January we moved into our new office building. The U. S. Army, Alaska, is now completely out of the Elmendorf Air Force Base set up. We have our headuarters on the new Fort Richardson where not less than $200,000,000 is being spent to create one of the finest Army posts in the world. The job is almost too big to begin to describe. There will shortly be about 1500 sets of quarters on the post. There are 1200 now. The Army headquarters is a three-story building; the Comptroller's Office is on the third floor and the view from my desk is so pretty that it is very difficult to keep my mind on my work. The sunsets are beyond description, and the view over the post and into the mountains is grand."
Bill Hands T'36 is enthusiastic about his work in Brazil: "In late 1948 I came to Brazil as General Manager of the largest foreign subsidiary of Atlas Supply Company (barring Canada which is considered domestic) and in 1952 was named Regional Manager for South America. In 1953 Standard Oil of Jersey became the 100% owner of all of the foreign Atlas subsidiaries. I am being transferred therefore into the oil business, working for the Standard Oil Company of Brazil where I undoubtedly shall have to be more or less a trainee for the first year or two. Eventually [ shall be engaged extensively in marketing petroleum either in Brazil or some other foreign marketing area for Jersey."
Don Cox T'52, still with Kendall Mills, has moved his base of activity from Walpole to New York City; Bob Cohen T'52 has jumped from Chicago to Denver to become Secretary of Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. and is supervising general office procedures, especially accounts receivable, accounts payable, personnel and other functions; Ed O'Brien T'50 is a senior investment analyst with Bankers Trust in New York.
Four T'52's make news - Fred Brown followed up his military hitch with a three-month pleasure jaunt through Europe; HarryBerwick has signed on as a junior accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in Boston; John Clayton is with the First National Bank, Boston; Ed Weisenfeld is executive assistant with Equitable Paper Bag Co., Long Island City.
Bob Roohe T'50, with the research department of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane in New York City, is an analyst in the paper, machine tool and machinery groups; Nick Skrylov T'53 reported last from Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; Mike Serenyi's (T'53) cur" rent assignment with GE puts him in Coshocton, Ohio, where he is with marketing administration services section of part of the company's chemical division.
