Tuck, Thayer Schools Award Degrees to 94

TUCK SCHOOL and Thayer School graduation ceremonies were held Sunday morning, June 7, one week before the regular College Commencement. Sixty-nine Tuck students had the degree of Master of Business Administration conferred upon them by John F. Meek '33, Vice President and Treasurer of the College, after being presented as candidates by Dean Karl A. Hill '38. In a separate ceremony Mr. Meek also conferred Master of Science degrees upon 25 Thayer School students who were presented as candidates by Prof. Edward S. Brown Jr. '34.

The Tuck School commencement address, "Your Business and Mine," was delivered by Lane Dwinell '28, former Governor of New Hampshire and a 1929 graduate of Tuck School. Governor Dwinell described the many frustrations of businessmen who have entered the government service; however, at the same time he strongly urged students to participate actively in government at all levels, concluding that "where government succeeds, in almost every case it is because people with superior training and qualifications have devoted themselves to public problems at first hand."

Eight of the Tuck students received degrees with honors. Graduating with highest distinction was John U. Farley '57, Cleveland, Ohio. High distinction honors went to Donald E. Dorough '58, Birmingham, Mich.; Carl D. England Jr. '53, Hanover, N. H.; and Lawrence W. Hampton '58, Manhasset, N. Y. Graduating with distinction were Theodore Kleinman '58, Rego Park, N. Y.; Richard L. Mahoney '58, West Hartford, Conn.; Peter Nessen '57, Brookline, Mass.; and Robert Van Benschoten, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

The following winners of scholarships and fellowships were announced: Donald E. Borough '58 received the Walter A. Jacobs Memorial Prize, awarded to a student who has demonstrated outstanding qualities to the faculty and student body. He also won the Haskins and Sells Foundation Award. Theodore Kleinman '58 won the James A. and Sabra M. Hamilton Prize in administration, an award given to the outstanding student in industrial management and administration courses. The Charles I. Lebovitz Award to the "student who made the greatest contribution to the daily life of the school" went to Kenneth M. Healy of Leominster, Mass. The Herman Feldman Memorial Prize, for outstanding ability in the field of labor relations and personnel administration, was awarded to Robert W. Mueller Jr. '58 of St. Paul, Minn. Carl D. England '53 of Hanover, N. H., was given the Gulf Fellowship in Business Administration, an award by the Gulf Oil Corporation to encourage advanced study in the field.

The Thayer School commencement address was delivered by Edwin L. Yates '25, of Detroit, director of technical personnel relations for the General Electric Corporation. Frederick S. Geller '43, superintendent of the American Optical Co. of Keene, N. H., and member-at-large of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, presided over the induction of the entire class into the Society and awarded the Society's prize to Leslie Joseph Tenn-Lyn '58 of Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies. The coveted Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize, awarded to the second-year student with the highest all-around record, was presented to Coleman P. Colla '58 of Wellesley, Mass., by Dr. Charles F. Goodrich '05, donor of the prize and former member of the Thayer School Board of Overseers.