Tuck School
About fifty business leaders will attend the first Dartmouth-Tuck Business Conference June 23 and 24 in Hanover. The major theme will be "Broadening the Basis of Stock Ownership," the topic studied during the past year by the Dartmouth Economic Research Council. The program will include a report from the Council, a discussion of employeestock-purchase plans by company executives and talks by Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Carroll L. Wilson, director of finance for the Champion Fiber and Paper Company.
A preliminary draft of a book on economics for the layman, prepared under the direction of Dean Upgren and the Brookings Institution of Washington, has been used as a text this spring for Ford Foundation adult education classes. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Morton contributed chapters to the book and also edited the final manuscript for publication. The experimental draft was issued as a series of ten pamphlets entitled "Economic Reasoning."
Mr. Robinson will join the Brookings staff next fall as Research Associate and Assistant to the President.
Relatives and friends have established a memorial to Charles I. Lebovitz T'53 who died last January 2. The cash award will be made in October each year to the second-year student who has made an outstanding contribution to the daily life of the School during his first year at Tuck.
A two-year fellowship has been established at Tuck School by the United States Steel Foundation. An award of $1,500 each year for an unmarried student, or $2,100 for a married student, will be given to a student holding a baccalaureate degree at the time of his enrollment at Tuck.
Leo C. McKenna '56, captain of the 1955 Dartmouth football team, has been awarded the $1,000 Scott Paper Company scholarship for two years of graduate study at Tuck. Christopher Buxton, Rotary fellow from England, won the Freedom From Insecurity contest in which students from about 100 colleges participated. His prize-winning essay included an analysis of the strength and flexibility of the banking system and proposals for maintaining the liquidity needed for an expanding economy. The prize was a free trip to Washington, D. C.
At its annual meeting in April, the Boston Clearing House elected Edwin R. Johnson T'47 manager and John S. Sullivan T'37 secretary. The program included talks by Dean Upgren and Dean Hill, songs by the Tuck chorus under the direction of Peter Kenyon T'55 and a presentation of the outlook for the guaranteed annual wage by three secondyear students, David McLaughlin T'55, Benjamin Bowden T'55 and Edward Hoban T'55.
Dean Upgren, Mr. Burleigh, Mr. Foster and Mr. Broehl spoke at the meeting of the American Society of Sales Executives in Hanover May 4 and 5. Second-year students Bowden and Hoban gave a presentation on the guaranteed annual wage.
Morton Galper, James Mitchell, Johan Oudheusden and Prescott Clark, second-year men, discussed economic conditions with the White River Junction and Windsor Rotary Clubs during May.
Dean Upgren was on the program of the annual meeting of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks at Atlantic City, May 16.
Galley proofs for his forthcoming book on advertising expenditures were awaiting Mr. Frey on his return from his South American trip. The study, prepared under the Sloan Foundation research program, will be published'by the Ronald Press. The latest booklet in the Sloan publications series is Businessmenin Fiction — The Capitalist and Executive inAmerican Novels. It was written by Prof. Robert Kavesh of the Department of Economics.
Charlie Grob T'34 states that business is booming for his Pelzman-Grob Company, wholesale distributors of electrical appliances and housewares in Washington, D. C.
Bob Douglas T'50 reports with Texas enthusiasm about his new position as purchasing agent for Gulf's Port Arthur refinery.
Lou Johnstone T'42 has moved from his Flow Equipment Company to Champion Paper where he is participating in purchasing operations.
Reg Pierce T'48, in Hanover recently in his capacity as president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association, is now an account executive with Kenyon and Eckhardt.
Al Bildner T'48, in charge of store operations for King's Super Markets, has had a busy two years overhauling the company's policies.
Bob Elsasser T'22, busier than any two men ought to be with his consulting activities, nevertheless finds time to carry on as first vice-president of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce and chairman of a municipal committee studying ways and means of increasing the city's revenues.
Danforth Hall T'53 will go to work for General Motors Corporation August 1.
Hammermill Paper Company's house organ for March carried a picture of Ralph Butler T'30, Assistant Promotion Manager, telling the firm's executive group about the background and objectives of the spring sales company.
Richard A. Gilbert T'39 left Olin Mathieson to become manager of administrative procedures at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.
Recent visiting lecturers include: NathanielLeverone '06, chairman of the board, Automatic Canteen Company of Chicago; T. E. Clemmons, sales manager of the Electronic Data Processing Machine Division, International Business Machines Corporation; Frank C. Grady, assistant secretary of the U. S. Trust Company of New York; Laurence Kessel, partner, Graham, Newman and Company; H. M.Sherman Jr. '29, vice-president, Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Cyrus Ching of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Elinore Herrick, personnel director, New York Herald Tribune; F. Ray Adams T'20 of Springfield, Vermont; and Charles F. McGoughran '20, secretary, Sinclair Oil Company.
