Tuck School
For the tenth successive year Tuck School has received a fellowship award from the Gulf Research and Development Company. The fellowship provides tuition, fees and a $2,000 cash award to a second-year student, and an unrestricted grant of $500 to the School. Last year's student winner was Dick Kinnier T'57.
Mr. Davis' book, "Furniture Marketing: Product, Price and Promotional Policies of Manufacturers," was published March 6 by the University of North Carolina Press. The first full-scale investigation ever made of the furniture industry's marketing problems and practices - which critics have found fault with for years - it finds generally for the defense.
Also newly out is "Putting Yourself Over in Business," whose three co-authors include Fred Dyer T'48. Its theme is that to be successful in modern business one must wage a calculated campaign to "promote" oneself. Fred is a senior member of the Society for the Advancement of Management and a frequent contributor to publications on training and leadership.
Elected and appointed: George Conklin T'37 (he's vice-president and director of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America), trustee of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America; John Bowers T'42, car-advertising manager of the Ford Division of Ford Motor Company; Lew Johnstone T'42, director of purchasing of Champion Paper and Fibre Company; Walt Snickenberger T'48, registrar of Cornell University (he'd been assistant to the president there since '52).
Jim Cartmell T'55 is back in Middlebury, Vt., with Cartmell industries.
Mr. Frey, in Rochester, N. Y., to address the Rochester Advertisers, used the occasion also for visits with Pete Potter T'21, Tom Roberts T'39, George Hinkley T'42, Dick Mayberry T'47 and Frank Hutchins T'48.
Mr. Olsen lectured and ran three days of seminars at a school of administration for 60 Army and Air Force officers at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, then took part in a Conference (at the University of Chicago School of Business Administration) of Preceptors of Graduate Students in Hospital Administration.
Mr. Burger tied for fifteenth place in the New York Herald Tribune's Great Names Contest. His prize: $50 and a nine-inch portable TV set. Spending a day in New York on Tuck-CED business, he saw, among others, Bob Field T'47, chairman of one of the research groups for the '56 Tuck-CED research project.
Dean Upgren has recently addressed the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston, the Hanover Rotary, the Harvard Advanced Management Association, the Cosmopolitan Club of Springfield, Vt., and the Dartmouth Clubs of Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.
Recent outside speakers have included Jim Hamilton T'23, director of the hospital-administration course at the University of Min- nesota Medical School; Professor Alfred D. Chandler Jr. of MIT; Harrison F. Dunning '30, vice-president of the Scott Paper Company; Al Hawkes T'39, merchandising manager, consumer dressings and specialties, Bauer & Black; Lincoln Thompson, vice-president of Raymond Engineering Laboratory, Incorporated, Middletown, Conn.; Daniel Chabris, Grace Lines; Walter J. Cairns '48, of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; and patent attorney Robert Crooks.
The Tuck Clearing House of New York met March 20; that of Boston will meet April 10. Probably more next issue about the first.
