Tuck School
By popular demand, first order of business in this column is a brief review on the activities of Tuck faculty members during the summer. As usual, the faculty was active and mobile. Prof. Leonard Morrissey spent a good part of the summer working with Prof. Donald Stone on the revision of his book, "Contemporary Accounting Problems." In addition, he participated in three conferences sponsored by corporations and accounting firms and began serving as the newly appointed Chairman of the American Accounting Association's Committee on Financial Reporting. In this capacity he presided at a session during the Association's annual meeting at the University of Notre Dame.
Prof. Robert Guest traveled to Glasgow, Scotland, in June as a visiting professor for the Management Program sponsored by the University of Strathclyde. He also spent considerable time working with the Dean of Engineering at M.I.T. and the President of the University of West Virginia developing plans for the reorganization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The charge to this group is to determine what organizational arrangements within NASA will best serve the needs of the nation during the next decade. Prof. J. Peter Williamson taught for one week at the University of Montana in a seminar on computer applications in the business school curriculum. He also undertook further research on the performance of college and university endow- ment funds, on a Ford Foundation grant. In addition, he prepared for publication a third Bulletin reporting student research in computer applications in investment analysis.
Prof. Dan Marx oversaw the reprinting of his book, "International Shipping Cartels: a Study of Industrial Self-Regulation by Shipping Conferences" (Princeton 1953). Dean Ronald Wippern traveled out of the country on a three-week trip to Latin America on assignment for the Ford Foundation as consultant on programs in business and public administration. In addition, he traveled to St. Croix to give a paper at the meeting of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. Prof. Christopher Nugent participated in several management development programs in the New England area. Directing his attention to the quantitative computer area, he spoke at two conferences sponsored by The Computer Envi- ronment Corporation, one for EDUTEK and one sponsored by Northeastern Universjty. He also presented a paper with Profs.Charles Mayer and Thomas Vollman at the June meeting of The American Marketing Association in Atlanta.
Prof. Frederick Webster again traveled to South Africa to lecture in the Executive Development Program at the Graduate School of Business, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. On the way home, he stopped at the University of Tel Aviv to work with his co-author on a book entitled "Organizational Buying Behavior." Returning to Hanover in July, he taught in the Pharmaceutical Advertising Club Seminar and at the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, both at the Tuck School. In addition to attending a meeting of the American Marketing Association in Cincinnati, he also taught in General Electric's Advanced Marketing Seminar in September and in G.E.'s Components Sales Operations Institutes in June and September. Finally, he presented a paper on "Industrial Buying Behavior: A State-of-the-Art Appraisal" at the American Marketing Association Conference in Atlanta.
New Tuck professor Victor E. McGee was a lecturer at an NSF Workshop for Teachers of Statistics held at the University of North Carolina. In addition, he was a discussant for a paper on non-metric, multi dimensional scaling at the American Marketing Association Meeting in Cincinnati.
Prof. Willard Carleton and Prof. Richard Bower were co-directors of a conference, "Problems of Regulation and Public Utilities," held at Tuck School in September. This conference brought together economists, engineers, and lawyers from university faculties around the country. In addition, Professor Bower published an article entitled "Risk and the Valuation of Common Stock."
Prof. Kenneth Davis organized and ran a Seminar for the Pharmaceutical Advertising Club which has developed into an annual affair here at Tuck. Prior to the PAC conference, he spoke before the Association of National Advertisers in Miami Beach on the subject "Evolutionary Trends in Agency Compensation." Prof. J. Brian Quinn has been asked to be special adviser to the Royal Norwegian Counsel for Scientific and Industrial Research. Within recent months, he has traveled to Norway and set up this program which will continue for approximately two years. In addition, he served as a member of the Foreign Maritime Policies Panel of the National Research Counsel, National Academy of Sciences. Professor Quinn also published, or had accepted for publication, several articles. The Harvard Business Review will contain an article entitled "Technology Transfer Through MultiNational Companies" in the November-De- cember issue. The April Science Journal included his article "Scientific and Technical Strategies for Industrial Companies" which appeared in the English publication Technology Forecasting and Corporate Strategy.
In the remaining space for this column we'll report on the activities of some of our alumni. Stuart Freeman T'60 was named treasurer of the Madison Square Garden Corporation during the summer. Stuart has been with this organization since 1966, having been with Arthur Young & Company prior to that time. Another treasurer's position has been filled by Harry Van Benschoten T'51. He has been elected treasurer of the Newmont Mining Corporation of New York City. Harry also left a public accounting firm to take this position, having been with Price Waterhouse & Company.
William J. Cross T'51 has been named a vice president of the Reader's Digest Association, in charge of its accounting department. Previously he was with Time, Inc. and W. R. Grace & Co. Herb KnightT'52 has left A & Z Rental Corporation to join Bliss & Laughlin in Chicago, a diversified firm that produces construction tools and equipment and other metal products. George Scully T'53 became treasurer of the Casco Bank & Trust Co. in Portland, Maine. George was elected a vice president in 1958 after joining the company two years prior to that time.
Howard Phillips T'52, formerly vice president of the McCall Corporation, has moved to Oppenheimer & Co. as vice president, corporate development. Daniel Goggin T'62 has been promoted to vice president of the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company. Dan joined Boston Mutual in 1968. GeraldJones T'58, formerly an associate with Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, a Boston law firm, has moved to Wang Laboratories Inc. in Tewksbury, Mass., as vice president and general counsel.
Regards from the hills.
