A Busy Summer
THE Dartmouth summer conferences for business executives, begun several years ago, have been expanded this summer to include three major programs. Under the general direction of Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Dean of the Faculty, each of these programs is under the associate direction of a member of the Dartmouth faculty. The conferences are organized into formal courses with regular faculty lectures, supplemented by smaller seminar sessions.
Two of the three conferences this summer are primarily concerned with the liberal arts and are employing three courses, Modern Man in Literature, The Individual and the State, and Business and Society. These two liberal arts programs are aimed at "broadening the intellectual horizons of middle-level management." The third conference, for high-level management, is largely business oriented and is studying "the goals of modern business and how they can be implemented and communicated."
Of the two liberal arts conferences, the first group to arrive, on June 37, was the Management Development Conference for Savings Bankers. This conference, under the direction of Prof. Herbert W. Hill, is being conducted in two sessions of four weeks each. The first group of 34 executives, here in July, are those paricipating in the program for the first time; the second group of 41, here during August, are those who participated in this same program last summer.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is participating in the remaining two major programs concurrently. These began June 29 with the arrival of a group of 33 middle-management executives, enrolled in the liberal arts program under the direction of Prof. James F. Cusick, and of a group of fifteen top-level executives, enrolled in the A.T.&T. Communications Conference under the direction of Prof. Francis W. Gramlich. All the conferences are scheduled to end on August 81.
In addition of these summer programs which Dartmouth actually directs, the College will play host to several groups holding meetings and conferences in Hanover. Among them are:
The meeting of the American Conference of Physics Teachers, held June 25-27. Prof. Francis W. Sears of the physics department is president of this group.
The Conference for Urban Redevelopment, sponsored by the Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge, Mass., held June 29-July 1.
The conference of the National Academy of Sciences, to be held July 6-18.
The meeting of the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industries of the U.S. and Canada (TAPPI), to be held July 20-31.
The Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, conducted by the Credit Research Foundation of the National Association of Credit Men, to be held August 2-15.
The Business School Deans Seminar, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, to be held August 30-September 4.
For music lovers in the Hanover area there will be the regular concerts by the Estival Quartet, to be held in College Hall on July 9, 16, 23, 30, and August 6. Members of the quartet are George Finkel, cello; Prof. Edwin Sherrard, violin; Matthew Raimondi, violin; and Godfrey Layevsky, viola. Lionel Nowak, piano, and Louise Rood, violin, will make guest appearances with the Estival Quartet during the summer.
