Tuck School

Gran Fuller T'17 was recently sworn in as operations commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration for New England. ... John Zimmerman T'33, executive v-p for finance of GMAC, has been placed in charge of the corporation's branch and borrowing operations. ... Al Flouton T'37 has been elected an executive vice-president of Compton Advertising, Inc. Al is senior management representative on Procter & Gamble soap brands. ... Bob Williamson T'47 has taken office as a Republican councilman in Lakewood, Ohio. He's now in his fourth year as president of the German Shepherd Dog Club of America, and judged shows last year in Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas. ... Dick Kernan T'56 is regional manager of ARMS Institute, Inc., with headquarters in San Francisco.

Mr. Foster attended the meeting of the American Economics Association in Washington in December. ... Mr. Morrissey spent time recently at the Procter & Gamble plant in Quincy, Mass., and at the Arthur Andersen and Gillette Company offices in Boston. ... The chapter on "Budgeting for Research" in the recently published "Handbook of Industrial Research Management" (Reinhold Publishing Company) is by Mr. Quinn. ... Mr. Hennessey is back from Switzerland. ... Mr. Burger completed his seventh AMA seminar on "How to Write Shorter and Better Reports" (in New York), talked with du Pont people about their writing problems (in Wilmington) and spoke at a dinner meeting of Texas Instruments technical people (in Dallas).

The way this report gets shorter and shorter, the time may soon come when it'll consist of nothing but a headline and a signature.