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Tuck School

APRIL 1965 BOB KIMBALL T'48
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Tuck School
APRIL 1965 BOB KIMBALL T'48

First item on the agenda this month is the announcement of the Boston Tuck School Alumni Association Dinner on Thursday, April 22. This annual Clearing House meeting will again be held at Schrafft's in Boston and it is hoped that the usual full attendance will be repeated. Many interesting activities are planned so all of you Boston area alumni set aside the date — Thursday, April 22 — for a most enjoyable evening.

The New York Tuck School Alumni Association Annual Dinner will be held on Thursday, April 29, at the Biltmore Hotel, and the same advice applies to you New Yorkers. Be sure to turn out for an interesting evening on Thursday, April 29.

Dean Hennessey and Professor Elbing gave a ten-session Management Seminar to the top nursing staff at Mary Hitchcock Hospital last fall. Professor Elbing spoke at the Rutland Hospital in February on "Communication: A Perceptual Point of View." Other brief faculty notices include ProfessorTom Vollman who was co-author of an article in L'Etude du Travail (for those of you like myself who do not understand French, this is a work study magazine) which reported on plant and facilities layout; and Professor Robert Macdonald who spoke at the Windsor, Vt., Rotary meeting in February on the subject "What's New in Labor Relations."

We have fallen behind on our reporting of guest lecturers at Tuck in recent weeks and will correct that situation by giving you a brief rundown on the interesting and informed men who have appeared in the Tuck classrooms. Needless to say, we greatly appreciate the efforts of these men who contribute so much to the Tuck education. M. Kisor Jr. and Paul Lagan of Standard Statistics Company, Inc. lectured on the computer's role in security analysis and portfolio selection. Robert Jones, vice president finance of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, talked on "Financing the Telephone Industry." Edward M. Cavaney, president of Gile and Com- pany, insurance, addressed a class in long-term finance on the subject "Survey of Business Property Insurance Needs." Art Boardman T'32, executive vice president of the Irving Trust Company, led a team of six executives of his bank to Tuck for a seminar covering many aspects of the banking business. His "teammates" included John F. Childs, Kenneth M. Wright, Robert A. Kerr, Edwin A. Heard and Richard J. Chouinard.

Mitchell Epstein, vice president of Benton & Bowles, Inc., talked to the advertising management class. Fred A. White, president, Donald F. Fletcher, cashier, and Roger Ball, manager of the installment loan department of the Dartmouth National Bank, talked to a banking class, as did Maurice E. Aldrich, president, and Elden J. Murray, treasurer, of the Dartmouth Savings Bank.

Jim Hamilton T'23 spoke on "Hospital Administration" and Don Miller, vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, discussed "Bank Loans to Business" with a class in commercial banking management. Bruce Cormack of American Machine & Foundry spoke to the first-year class regarding one of their projects. Dr. Rolf Kaltenborn, assistant to the president, American Stock Exchange, discussed "The Security Markets in Transition." George Clendaniel, representing a real estate firm in Woodstock, Vt., spoke on "The Real Estate Appraiser as a Business Consultant"; and William S. Morris discussed the opportunities for small business and personal enterprise.

Jud Pratt T'63 of the Polaroid Corporation, Bill Stoloski T'63 of Cummins and Bill Carlson T'63, student at the Harvard Law School, were participants in an interesting Career Panel in February.

Tuck alumni have been very active in recent months. We will try to catch up this month but if not we will have to carry over until the next column. This is indeed a happy situation for your correspondent. Donald M. Keller T'55, C.P.A., a senior consultant with Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart, spoke to the National Association of Accountants. Merrimack Valley Chapter at a recent meeting, as did Charles A. MorrisonT'55, C.P.A., a member of the firm of Arthur Andersen & Company, who was one of seven tax experts speaking at the third annual Tax Institute in Springfield. Tudor W. Bradley T'21 has been named district superintendent of the Brockton Division of Employment Security. Harry Midgley T'41 has been advanced to senior vice president at the Worcester County National Bank. Harrison F. Condon Jr. T'31 has been elected a trustee of Massachusetts Investors Trust. Jack Ketchum T'ss was recently named manager of the securities department at the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company at Portland, Maine; and Russell A. Cook T'57 is now an assistant vice president of The Colonial Fund, Inc. of Boston.

Bob Andrews T'58 has been appointed assistant secretary for the Phoenix of Hartford Insurance Company, and E. Swift LawrenceT'60 was elected secretary of Citizens Trust Company and Citizens Savings Bank in Providence, R. I. David Cudlip T'58 has been named assistant manager in the commercial banking department of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, while RobertJ. Rodday T'41 has been appointed general manager of the Brand-Rex Division of the American Enka Corporation.