Tuck School
Dean Upgren's spring activities have included a meeting with Tuck alumni in Portland, Maine; attendance at a Northwest Alumni Association get-together in Minneapolis; talks before the Dartmouth Clubs of Hartford and Western Connecticut; attendance, with the support of Messrs. Hill andBurleigh, at the annual conference of the Deans of the American Collegiate Schools of Business, in Cambridge; and a speech on tariff matters before the New Hampshire and Vermont Leagues of Women Voters, in Hanover.
Mr. Olsen spoke at the initial meeting of the Connecticut Council for Advancement of Economic Education at New Britain, Conn., at convocation exercises at Southern Methodist University and before the Economics Club of Greater Dallas. He participated in the Conference on Collegiate Education for Business at the University of Alabama.
Mr. Sargent's study on "Fringe Benefits" is being reprinted in the May issue of Personnel, a publication of the American Management Assocation.
Mr. Robinson is the author of the third brochure in the series financed by the Sloan Foundation. Entitled "Federal Credit and Creditors," the study discusses how the distribution of the national debt affects the government's credit position.
Mr. Morton spoke on "Training for More Effective Communications in Business" at a regional meeting of the American Business Writing Association in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to Tom Norton T'24 on his election to the presidency of the American Collegiate Schools of Business. Tom heads the business school of C.C.N.Y.
Prof. F.J. Roethlisberger, Harvard Graduate School of Business, gave the final Bradley Series Talk before the first - and second-year men early in May - his subject "The Role of the Administrator." Preceding him in the series was Prof. George W. Taylor, Wharton School, who spoke on "The Place of Government in Labor Relations."
Outside speakers have, as usual in the spring months, been abundant. Among them were Robert M. Edgar '28, Boston and Maine Railroad; Donald E. Megathlin '27, Director of Research, Kendall Mills; Charles J. Zimmerman T '24, Managing Director, Agency Management Association; Cy Ching, Cyrus Ching Associates; Walter J. Cairns T-Th '51, Worcester Taper Pin Company, Worcester; DexterBrooks T'49, assistant to president, Arnold Bernhard & Company and Value Line, Inc.; Archibald Campbell, Colonial Attache, British Embassy, Washington, D. C.; George W. Tuttle, International Business Machines Corporation, Concord; Christian G. Norman '28, vice president, and G. N. Shellbach, chief security analyst, Standard & Poor's Corporation; Judson Dunaway, Judson Dunaway Corporation, Dover; Theodore Shapleigh '23, president, Hamilton's, New Haven; and Donald E. Cummings T'50, Bregman Cummings & Company, New York City.
No one ever tells us anything but the news has leaked in that George Farrand '33, assistant treasurer, Young & Rubicam, is the author of a series of articles in AdvertisingAgency on the general subject, "The Financial Management of Advertising Agencies" the first one, "What Are the Objectives and Functions of Agency Accounting," appearing in the April issue; Bob Castle T'50 has moved from market research to account representative activity at J. Walker Thompson; JimNorth, '32 has come back East to be marketing manager of General Foods Associated Products Division; Al Karcher T'52 moves along in his training assignment at Eastman Kodak and is now in the Market Research Department; George Hinkley T'52, is in accounting at Eastman Kodak; Dick Echikson T'51, has recently been promoted to service assistant buyer for dress fabrics at Macy's; Burt Flounders T'53 is building volume for Kendall Mills' Curity Nursery products, cheesecloth milk filter disks and industrial fabrics in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware; Bill Portman T'47, vice president in charge of industrial sales, The Charles Wm. Doepke Manufacturing Company, told how "We Make Immediate Sales on 75% of In-Plant Demonstrations" in Sales Management for April 15 last; Tom Maver T'48 has moved to Columbus, Ohio, to take charge of all purchasing for Simmons Company operations in that city; Jim Field '45 is pushing his M.F.D. (Medicine for Dandruff) in test territories; Buzz Morley T'31, treasurer, Morley Brothers, Saginaw, Michigan, is helping to lick the buyers' market which seems to have crept into that neck of the woods; Fred Neumann T'53 is an officer on USS Hornet; Roy Abbott and Dick Greene, also T'53'.s are with Chase National Bank; LenLarrabee T'53 has his lieutenancy in Army Finance and is doing budgeting and fiscal work at Camp Kilmer.
Recent seekers after Tuck graduating talent have been Bill Conway T'40, Time, Inc.; Doug Thomson T'50, U.S. Rubber Company; and Fred Witzel T'46, A. G. Spalding & Bros.
We are sorry to report the death of NickJurenev T'26.
