Tuck School
Emerging problems of the schools of business administration were outlined at a recent faculty meeting by Dean Thomas Norton T'24 of New York University. Dean Norton stressed the need to recruit promising young men into the teaching profession in order to meet the expected surge in enrollment, and the importance of reexamining teaching methods and curriculum. The discussion tied in with a long-range study of Tuck School plans now being prepared for the Trustees Planning Committee. Dean Norton returned to Hanover to speak in the Great Issues course.
Dean Upgren spoke at the January meeting of the Controllers Institute in Boston and led discussions at the winter seminar meeting of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Mr. Griswold's study, "Financing Capital Expansion: Must Business Depend on Retained Earnings?" is the latest in the Sloan publication series.
The second issue of the quarterly BusinessLetter, prepared by Mr. Andersen for the Development Council, was published in January. Copies are available on request.
Mr. Davis' article, "Salesmen's Base Salary: Grubstake or Control?" appeared in the December issue of The Management Review.
Mr. Katz addressed the Executive Staff Conference of the United States Department of Commerce in Washington. His topic was "Skills of an Effective Administrator.
Mr. Morrissey was appointed to the subcommittee on student health of the Trustees2 Planning Committee.
Joe Russakoff '27 wrote "Media Relations. Gets Some Moot Pointers" in Editor & Publisher for December 10; Dick Burke '29, Director of Merchandise Development for Sears Roebuck, spoke at the American Marketing Association meetings on "The Manufacturer - A Time for Reappraisal"; Joe Bishop T'37 has left teaching and is now Assistant Controller at Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, Portland, Maine; Roland Glasser T'53 manages Gimbel's Addressograph, Print Shop and Mail Room Departments; Bob Williamson T'47 has turned up in the class of 1958 at Harvard Law; Kent Robinson T'54 is teaching statistics to captains, majors and colonels at Fort Benjamin Harrison; another Army Finance officer is Charlie Hathaway T'39, who has moved from his Alaska post to Fort Monroe; Ted Eilenberg T'51, Director of Media for Horton-Noyes advertising agency, is president of the Eastern New England Chapter of the National Industrial Advertisers Association; Sherm Clough T'24 has moved from Frigidaire Sales Corp. to the advertising and sales promotion managership of Admiral's Boston factory branch; Jurg Schlaepfer T'52 has been appointed general manager of Swiss Net Company, Ltd., Munchwilen, Switzerland; John Hatheway T'50 has moved from research to contact at Young & Rubicam; Nick Serenyi's (T'53) newly acquired citizenship was the occasion for a party in his honor given by his GE Rectifier Department and described at length in words and pictures in the GE River Works News.
Two more Career Planning programs have been held for students. Outlining the opportunities in finance were Ralph Fifield T'50 of the First National Bank of Boston, HarrisRichardson T'42 of the Old Colony Trust Co. and Lewis Veghte T'51 of U.S. Steel. Gwynne Prosser '28 of Young & Rubicam spoke on interview training.
Bill McElnea T'48 has been promoted to vice president of the Empire Trust Company of New York. Arthur R. Hills T'47 has become a special partner at Charles F. Rittenhouse & Company of Boston.
Bob Elsasser T'22 has taken on new civic responsibilities with the presidency of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce; BillHands T'37 has moved to Lima, Peru, to become general sales manager of the International Petroleum, Ltd.
