Two new members recently added to the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration are Ralph Lazarus '35 of Cincinnati, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., and Raymond Stevens of Cambridge, Mass., president of Arthur D. Little Company, engineering consulting firm. They will fill positions created by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, which last month voted to increase the number of Overseers to ten.
Mr. Lazarus, who became president in i957, as been with Federated Department Stores, Inc., since his graduation from Dartmouth in 1935. He began as a salesman and in 1951 was named executive vice president of the nationwide chain of 44 stores. He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a trustee of the American Retail Federation and secretary of its executive committee, and a member of the board of ACTION and other charities.
Mr. Stevens was graduated from M.I.T. in 1917, and after serving in the Army in World War I he became associated with Arthur D. Little Company in 1920. He was a consultant to the War Production Board during World War II and is active in the National Research Council. Mr. Stevens was a member of the M.I.T. Corporation, 1945 to 1950, a trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and an overseer of the Brown and Nichols School. He has written many articles on research management and was the editor of Research, a National Resource.