Tuck School

New faculty members are: Robert S. Burger, research editor, from the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal; Henry M. Piatt, assistant director of research, from Columbia University; and John D. Van Blarcom, assistant professor of business administration (he's teaching production), on leave from G. E.

Mr. Burger has also been with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the St. Paul Dispatch and the Rochester, Minn., Post-Bulletin. He has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Southern Illinois University.

Mr. Piatt, a lecturer at Columbia's Graduate School of Business Administration, taught "The Economics of Business" there. He taught general economics and economic theory at Dartmouth College in 1950-51.

Mr. Van Blarcom has been with G. E. more than three years, first in employee relations, then on the faculty of its Advanced Management Course at Crotonville, N. Y. He was previously in production engineering with Sikorsky Helicopter Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; Northwest Airlines, St. Paul, Minn., and Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Aliquippa, Pa.

Mr. Morton's booklet, "Putting Words to Work," was reprinted (again!) in the September and October issues of Manage, the official publication of the National Management Association.

Lt. (j.g.) Bob Sullivan T'57, teaching gunnery and fire control at the Newport, R. I., Naval Base during the summer, had among his students Gus Aberle, Lyn Brock, TomGately, Tom Hamilton and Don Mix, all T'56.

Alumni recently elected: Dick Brierley T'37, vice-president, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.; Ed Higbee T'37, to membership in Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery; Dick Rush T'38, president, North American Acceptance Corp. (new finance firm that resulted from the merger of the old North American Acceptance Corp. with Richard H. Rush & Co., Inc.); and Bill Tetrick T'39, president, Avis Rent-a-Car System.

Leo Ungar T'21 has disposed of his furniture business and is devoting his time to the presidency of the Council Bluffs, lowa, Chamber of Commerce and other civic activities.

Lew Johnstone T'42 has been promoted to assistant director of purchases by the Champion Paper & Fiber Co., Hamilton, Ohio.

Fran Hummel T'49 and Merle Hagen T'46 are the authors of "Making a Marketing Survey," published by the Small Business Administration.

Len Larrabee T'53, discharged from the Army during the summer, is with the Hanover Bank, New York.

A Stanford Research Institute survey of development potentialities of Hawaii's "Big Island," coproduced over a seven-month period by Bay Yee T'54, got enthusiastic attention in the Territorial press.

Jack Misner T'ss, now a first lieutenant, sends in this new address: Box 331, Harlingen Air Force Base, Harlingen, Texas.

Tom Davidson T'56, after spending the summer on special marketing assignments for Standard Oil of Indiana, has taken up his teaching and graduate-study labors at Northwestern's School of Commerce.

Faculty activities since last report: Mr. Davis taught at the National Sales Executives Graduate School of Sales Management and Marketing, held at Rutgers University, and took part in a merchandising clinic sponsored in New York by the National Shoe Manufacturers Association . ... Mr. Burleigh was the expert on Italy at a conference on "How to Develop Good Managers Overseas," held in New York under the sponsorship of the Council for International Progress in Management. . . . Mr. Broehl spoke to the Springfield (Mass.) Control of the Controllers Institute of America on

"The Implications of the 'Proxy Battles' for Your Company." ... Mr. Griswold took part in an American Management Association seminar on "Return on Investment." ... Dean Hill attended a New York meeting, sponsored by Time, Inc., of placement directors of eastern colleges and business schools.... Mr. Bodenhorn was the author of "The Stability of Growth Models," which appeared in the September issue of the American Economic Re- view. . . .Mr. Frey spoke to the Bell System Advertising Conference in Asbury Park, N. J., on "Planning the Advertising Program." ... Dean Upgren attended several meetings, gave several speeches (including one to the Vermont-New Hampshire School of Banking at the University of Vermont) and led panel discussions on the economic outlook before the Controllers Institute of America and the American Management Association. The latter session was at the A.M.A.'s new headquarters in the Astor Hotel, N. Y.... Mr. Morrissey testified on the variable annuity at hearings of the New Jersey State Senate Committee on Business Affairs and directed a Conference (at Tuck) for New England Insurance Leaders on the same subject.

Alumni in new jobs: Dave Fox T'37, General Foods, White Plains, New York; operations research.... Gil Shattuck T'50, Torrington Co. . . .Randy Gilpatric T'53, Union Oil of California; sales forecaster, northern division . . . . Charlie Clough and Dick Dalbeck, both T'53, Rectifier Department, General Electric Company, West Lynn, Mass.; marketing research. . . . Spike Hicks T'56, General Mills, Chicago area; sales. . . . Jim Reman T'56, Armstrong Cork Co., sales.

We regret to report the death of Irv Blaine T'22.