Tuck School
We don't think it's unusual for a business school to take note of a good administrator and therefore, having just witnessed the great Dartmouth victory over Yale, let us send congratulations to Coach Bob Blackman for a superb job. Though undoubtedly premature (the drama will have unfolded by the time you read this) it looks like the Big Green is a winner. Tuck salutes an executive who is renowned not only for his coaching abilities but for his unusual administrative talents which make his practice sessions and game plans flow so smoothly and work so successfully.
Speaking of winners, let's continue with our run-down of faculty and alumni newsworthy notes. The faculty continues to carry its work and expertise far afield, enhancing the prestige and reputation of the Tuck School both home and abroad.
Willard Carleton T'57, in addition to being promoted from Associate Professor to Professor published several important articles and co-directed with Prof. Richard Bower a conference at . Tuck entitled "Problems of Regulation and Public Utilities." Prof. Robert Macdonald recently led two seminars concerned with labor and management relations, the first at Duke University and the second at McGill in Canada.
Prof. Peter Williamson, in addition to other projects, put together a book of Computer Manuals which explain the use of the finance and investment computer programs on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Prof. Victor McGee participated in conferences at Stanford and at the American Marketing Association meetings in Boston and will give a paper at the American Institute of Decision Sciences in Dallas later this year. Prof. Jack Weber participated in a two-week advanced training program for professional sensitivity trainers and taught in the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Tuck last summer.
Dr. David Bradley participated in an industry training program sponsored by Prof. Tom Vollmann, and new Tuck Professor Robert Kerwin traveled to Turkey early this fall as a management consultant on Educational Loan Projects, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Turning briefly to interesting projects. Tuck will continue its Executive-in-Resi-dence program during the 1970-71 school year. Overseer Walter Oliphant, a partner in Arthur Andersen and Co., has already been in residence for a week; Overseers Donald E. Meads, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Gerald G. Garbacz T'65, director of long-range planning for the Boise Cascade Corporation, have set their dates, and we expect at least two more guests to participate in the program this year. These executives participate fully in student affairs, including classes and other projects, and the interaction between executives and students has been unusually beneficial.
A second important program was inaugurated in late summer for entering students who felt they might profit from a two-week pre-enrollment program designed primarily to improve their quantitative skills prior to the beginning of the regular academic year. The program was organized and directed by Professor Roodman and staffed by a number of Tuck faculty members. This year's experiment will be carefully evaluated as we continue our efforts to ease the transition of students with varied undergraduate backgrounds and preparations to graduate study in business.
Turning now to alumni activities, we are pleased to note a number of interesting and important changes. The first concerns one of Tuck's most illustrious alumni, Charles J.Zimmerman T'24, chairman of the board of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. After serving as an Alumni Trustee of Dartmouth College for eight years and as a Charter Trustee since 1960, Mr. Zimmerman was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.
Arthur Boardman T'32 has been named President of the Irving Trust Co. in New York. He was previously Senior Executive Vice President of the bank. George BrophyT'57 was promoted to Vice President-Marketing, Building Products Division of Masonite Corporation. George was with Corning Glass Works prior to joining Masonite. Winthrop Giles T'59 has been elected a Vice President of John Hancock Distributors, Inc., the marketing company for John Hancock Mutual Funds.
Roger Coe T'61 has been promoted to Merchandising Manager of the Samsonite Corporation, a move which will take him to Denver, Colo. Allan Rikkola T'65 has been named Director-Financial Relations for Trans World Airlines. Rick has been with TWA since he graduated from Tuck. Warner Bishop T'42, chairman and president of the Union Financial Corp. in Cleveland has been elected a trustee of the National Mortgage Fund in Cleveland. Warner is also President of the Union Savings Association, Chairman of Cowles Tool Co., and Copifyer Lithograph Corp. In addition, he is a director of several Ohio corporations.
Laforrest Thompson T'37, a partner in the Burlington, Vt., office of the Thompson, Prahl & Kelly accounting firm, has been elected to a three-year term of the governing council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA). Robert Wing T'40 was recently named Vice President of the Western Bank and Trust Co. in West Springfield, Mass., having joined Western in 1967.
Richard Brierley T'37 has been elected President and Chief Executive Officer of Stearns & Foster Co., Lockland, Ohio, a highly diversified manufacturer of nonwoven fiber products. Formerly Executive Vice President of the Drackett Company prior to its merger with Bristol-Myers, he became Vice President for corporate development for the parent company before assuming his new position. John Hungerford T'54, executive vice president of the Southern Connecticut Gas Co., was elected a trustee of the City Savings Bank in Connecticut.
John Barclay T'54, president and chief executive officer of the Wire Rope Corp. of America, has been elected to the board of directors at First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. in St. Joseph, Mo. John Dougherty T'66 was appointed a Vice President of the Industrial National Bank in Providence, R. I., having moved from Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. of New York in 1969. Slater SmithT'68 has been elected a loan officer by the First National Bank of Boston. LarryCrumpler T'70 recently joined Amtel, Inc. of Providence as Assistant to the President in corporate acquisitions and planning.
That just about empties the mail box so we'll look forward to a flood of alumni news for the balance of the year. In the meantime, best regards from the hills.
