Tuck School

Dean Upgren spoke before the faculty Social Science Club early in March on President Eisenhower's diagnosis of, and prescription for, the American economy in 1954. By the time you read this, he and his troupe - Assistant Dean Karl Hill, Professor Marshall Robinson, and Charlie Fleet, Bob Malin and Fred Whittemore of the current second-year class - will have played a one-night stop in Boston at the Clearing House dinner, directed by John Benson T'32 and Dick Southwick T'47. Assuming that the advertising piece before me at the moment carries reliable information, Dean Upgren discussed the general program of the School, Mr. Hill talked about the current problems of placing Tuck graduates, Mr. Robinson explained the School's new research activities, and the students reviewed the performance of business and the national economy in the past year and presented their views as to the outlook for 1954.

Swarms of personnel officers have descended on the School during the past two months looking for executive talent. Among the company representatives were Don Crowther '34, Aetna Life Insurance Co., and Ed McLaughlin T'48, who heads up quality control for Scott Paper in Glens Falls.

Recent speakers have been C. Jerry Spaulding '24, C. Jerry Spaulding, Inc., Worcester, Mass.; Professor Joseph Shister, Chairman of the Department of Industrial Relations of the University of Buffalo's School of Business Administration; W. S. Dietz '36, vice president, Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson and Mather; Gwynne Prosser, Director of Personnel, Young & Rubicam; Harrison F. Dunning, vice president in charge of manufacturing, Scott Paper Co.; James A. Hamilton T'23, formerly of the Tuck faculty and now head of James A. Hamilton and Associates; William T. Hazelton, partner, Price Waterhouse and Co.; Walter Swoboda, Dartmouth Smoke Shop; and Irving J. Bluestone, international representative, General Motors Department, International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Mr. Bluestone delivered a lecture in the Bradley Seminar series, "The Administrator and Labor Relations" - his topic, "Operating under Collective Bargaining Agreements."

Second-year men Bob Core and Marvin Klein staged an enjoyable student-faculty bridge affair in Stell Hall late in February, with about a dozen tables in operation. At this writing, results of the evening's play have not been released for publication.

Hike Newell T'21 has been a busy man lately moving his agency, Lennen & Newell, to new quarters at 380 Madison Avenue, as you who read the advertising trade papers are well aware; Harvey Kelley T'53 has recently departed for Europe in Army Finance; Bill McElnea, Jr. T'48 is now assistant vice president of Empire Trust Co.; Walt Lindenthal T'51 maintains his enthusiasm for retail merchandising and has moved up to senior assistant in Macy's nursery department.

Walt Sonnenberg T'53 carries on a mixture of plant accounting, personnel managing and purchasing of Scott Paper's Sandusky wax paper plant; Les Boyce T'47 is senior accountant with Price, Waterhouse and Co. in San Francisco; Bill Portman T'47 has been appointed vice president in charge of industrial sales for Charles William Doepke Co., Rossmoyne, Ohio, supervising sales of that firm's Nestier materials handling equipment and assisting in directing the sales activity of subsidiary Nebel Machine Tool Co.; Ed Johnson T'47, after two years in the Marine Corps as Production Control Officer of the Clothing & Equipment Factory in Philadelphia, has returned to Kendall Mills as assistant head of the planning department; Sven Karlen T'36 is now Secretary and Treasurer of Amalgamated Textiles, Ltd., N.Y.C.

The Clothing Manufacturers Association of the U. S. A. has issued a report, "Increasing Office Efficiency in the Men's and Boys' Clothing Manufacturing Industry," authored by Dick Goldberg T'47; Jack Clow '52 will receive his M.B.A. from the University of California in June, having been fortunate enough to attend that institution under Operation Bootstrap, the Air Force educational program; neighbor Dick Bowlen T'31 has been elected a director of Bryant Chucking Grinder Co.; Tom Beaumont T'47 plays a heavy part in the direction of sales for U. S. Fiber and Plastics Corp.; Dick Simpson T'47, we hear, is now in the merchandising department at Young & Rubicam.

With sorrow we report the deaths of Raymond E. Paine T'03 and PhiVp E. Bennett T'21.