Tuck School
Mr. Sargent is the author of a section, "How to Run a Cost System," in J. K. Lasser's Business Management Handbook. He is also a consulting editor of Cost Accountants' Handbook and a contributor to Handbook of CostAccounting Methods.
Mr. Gruen will be on leave of absence for the second semester to complete his doctor's dissertation at Duke University. Still carrying on his highly useful research, he is the author of "Hardwood Pulp Brightens the New England Paper Industry's Future," in the Boston Federal Reserve Bank Monthly Review for January 1954.
Dean Upgren teamed with Dean-elect Courtney Brown (D'26) of Columbia's Graduate School of Business Administration to appraise the economic effects of the Eisenhower program before the Conference of Business Economists in New York City on January 30.
Mr. Bodenhorn reports a profitable two days attending the Conference on Operations Research of the Society for the Advancement of Management in New York in January.
A fine array of speakers during January included Sumner B. Emerson D'17, Partner, Morgan, Stanley & Co.; William B. Allen, Field Sales Department, Kendall Mills; Maurice Aldrich, Dartmouth Savings Bank; C. C. Hills D'05, Real Estate Broker, Norwich, Vt.; George S. Case Jr. T'30, President, Lamson & Sessions Co.; Louis G. Seaton, Director of Labor Relations, General Motors Corp.; RobertN. Wallis T'21, Treasurer and Director, Dennison Manufacturing Co.; George Clendaniel, American Association of Real Estate Appraisers; and Robert D. Funkhouser Jr. T'28, Comptroller, Dartmouth College.
Serge B. Jurenev T'25, Assistant to the Board Chairman, Continental Oil Company, received lots of press notices for his talk, "Achieving More Accurate Sales Forecasts," before a recent Marketing Conference of the American Management Association; SpiderMartin T'20 is the new president of the Electric Institute of Boston; Bob Prentice T'37 has moved to Compton Advertising, Inc. as account executive on a P & G brand; TedPurcell '33 is receiving universally favorable reviews of his recent book, The WorkerSpeaks His Mind on Company and Union.
Jim McFarland T'34 has had an interesting and successful career with General Mills, moving from accounting to grain and grain merchandising to district sales manager to advertising manager for Family Flour; more on the T'53's - Pete Lebovitz, Ted Sanderson and Jim Meredith have finished the Navy Supply Corps course at Newport (Sanderson at the head of the class) and moved to Athens, Ga., while Len Hedberg, Don Chambless and AtAcker continue at the Line School, also at Newport, until April 1; Clift Whiteman T'sl is now Assistant Treasurer of Guaranty Trust; Dave Sanderson '36, with Armstrong Cork since graduation, has recently moved into the important job of general manager of Cork Export, S.A.R.L., with headquarters in Casablanca, French Morocco; Walt Schreiner T'52 is taking the Business Training Course in GE's Cost Accounting Services Section.
Another T'52, Charlie Richardson, has signed up for the Sears Roebuck Training Program at Hackensack, N. J.; Paul Meyer T-Th'52 keeps busy in the Industrial Engineering Division of Eastman Kodak at Rochester; Al Jackson T-Th's3, as a buyer for research and development work in electronics at Wright-Air Development Center's Directorate of Procurement, reports to Jim Tobin T'52; Jim Bonnar, also T's2, is chief of another section there; Rob Roy Carruthers '42 has joined Charles Roberts Associates in New York City.
Maybe you saw that Charlie Sturz T'43 has recently been made vice president of Yellow Manufacturing Acceptance Corp., a unit of General Motors; and that Roy Rowan T'42 has returned to the United States for reassignment after serving as Life magazine correspondent with headquarters in Bonn, covering the Iron Curtain from the Baltic to the Adriatic a task which sounds much more exciting than conducting a survey of the cigarsmoking habits of Dartmouth- undergraduates which Roy did in a course for th*e undersigned "way back when."
