Tuck School

A face-lifting job on the second floor has given Tuck a new case discussion room of the most advanced design. Rooms 206 and 207 have been converted into one large room with a seating capacity of fifty. The desks and swivel chairs are arranged in two concentric horseshoes on different levels so that each student can see everyone else in the class. As a result student-to-student discussion has been considerably improved. The new room is being used for administration, marketing, labor relations and general management courses. The remodelling project was carried out by the plant and operations department under the guidance of Dean Hill and Mr. Katz.

Our roving correspondent, Mr. Frey, reports from Guatemala City that a high point of his Latin American trip was a reunion with Erniede la Guardia Jr. T'25. Ernie and his wife were the perfect hosts, giving the Freys an excellent close-up of Panama City and entertaining them royally. Ernie's classmates and Tuck men generally will be interested in his exciting and interesting career since he left Hanover: 1925-28, Panama consul in San Francisco, with a weekly contribution on the side to the World Topics section of the San Francisco Chronicle during that period; 1928-32, head of the Diplomatic Department of the Panama Foreign Office; 1932-40, in business with his father and on his own; 1941, appointed general manager of National Brewery, which position he still holds; 1945-48, Vice President of Panama; head of the Panama delegation to the United Nations. After heading the Renovation party, he became, and now is, a member of the executive committee of the National Patriotic Coalition. As if all this were not enough, he was open golf champion of Panama in 1932 and has for several years owned a stable of race horses which, under his overall supervision, have won many honors. In his spare time Ernie writes the editorials for his weekly newspaper and operates a radio station of his own. For relaxation he makes use of his talents as a much-above-average horticulturist on his beautiful estate.

Hilton Campbell T'22 was elected manager of the New York Clearing House at the annual meeting March 8. John Hatheway T'50 was named secretary.

Dean Hill and Christopher Buxton, Rotary Fellow from England, attended meetings of the Windsor and White River Rotary clubs. Dean Hill and Mr. Broehl were guests of Hartness Beardsley '37 at the Bryant Chucking Grinding Company in Springfield, Vt.

Mr. Foster, Mr. Morrissey, Mr. Sargent and Mr. Hill were guests of R. J. Canning in Schenectady. They reviewed accounting procedures and training programs at General Electric and attended a luncheon with more than twenty Dartmouth and Tuck graduates.

Dean Upgren and Dean Hill attended a conference of business economists at Harvard School of Business. Dean Upgren also attended a meeting of the Rutgers Banking School and was invited to give three lectures at the school this summer.

A digest of Mr. Katz' booklet on ExecutiveSkills, published last June, was the lead article in the March issue of Notes and Quotes, a publication of the Connecticut General Life' Insurance Company. The complete booklet was also reprinted by the company and made available on request.

Congratulations to Patrick Dudensing T'53 on his appointment as research manager of Business Week magazine.

Recent guest speakers included William R. Fair, Director of Operations Research Section, Stanford Research Institute; David Drexler of the Yale Law Journal; James D. Landauer '23, San Antonio Real Estate consultant: Frank T. Weston, partner in Arthur D. Young: & Company; and K. M. Montgomery of Arthur Andersen & Company, who showed a film on the use of the electronic computor in accounting transactions.

Alumni who have recently visited Hanover include Donald E. Cummings T'50, EdwardH. Concannon T'49, Richard A. Nylen T'49, Charles Fleet T'54, Roger Malkin T'53 and Burt Flounders T'53.

David Hilton T'52 is working in Detroit on a public accounting job.