Tuck School
Ed Gruen '31, professor of statistics from 1949 to 1954, has changed his mind about the "stopgap" job he took with the Bureau of the Census late in 1955. "Acting Chief" of the Bureau's Wood Products Branch since last July, he had the "acting" removed in January. He is in charge, he writes, of "all the four-digit industries in Standard Industrial Classification Major Groups 24 through 27" - lumber, plywood, other wood products, furniture and fixtures, printing and publishing and pulp, paper and board. It's "the right slot at long last," he declares happily.
Bob Goode T'54, now an engineer in the administrative industrial engineering department of Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, recently finished a nine-month assignment: adapting an IBM computer so it can tabulate the firm's "pencil sales" reports. The company's house organ for management personnel, which described the project in detail, added Bob has now been transferred to a new job in which he'll "seek the solution to complex business problems."
Hal Baker '19, professor of marketing at John Carroll University, wrote the lead article - "The Dynamics of Marketing" — in the Carroll Business Bulletin for January.
Recent outside speakers have included Chuck Fryer T'52, assistant director of radio and television research, Young & Rubicam; Don Campbell T'53, brand manager, Procter & Gamble; Gwynne Prosser '28, personnel director, Young & Rubicam; Bill Clay '47, account executive, N. W. Ayer; Dudley Darling, Time, Inc.; Edward Pelz, personnel director, The New York Times, and G. A. Renard, executive secretary-treasurer, National Association of Purchasing Agents.
Dean Upgren, on the New England "circuit" between semesters, has spoken to the Springfield Control of the Controllers Institute of America, to the Lynn Rotary and at a career panel at Amherst College. He has also been recruiting in the Boston area.
George Batchelder, Wally Pugh and GeorgeKeagle, all T'57, spoke to the Manchester Rotary on current and future business trends. Mr. Angelo went with them.
