Tuck School

Since the second edition of Tuck Today will be mailed in May, alumni news will not be included in this column. We felt that the following information might be interesting to alumni.

Abram T. Collier, president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, was the most recent "Executive in-Residence" at the School. As such he spent a week at Tuck attending classes, counseling students, dining at the School's facilities, and sharing generally in a wide variety of formal and informal activities that are part of the broad education and social experiences of an MBA at Tuck.

Mr. Collier joins a growing list of executives from all areas of business and industry who have contributed much to the life of the School and who, in turn, have gained useful insights into the MBA program, and knowledge about MBA students. Eight distinguished business executives participated in the program in previous years and Mr. Collier is one of seven to visit the School during the current academic year. Those who have preceded Mr. Collier are George R. Slater, vice president, Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago; Richard D. Denison, vice president and treasurer, The Quaker Oats Co., Chicago; and John R. Thorne, chairman, Board of Directors, Scionics Corporation, Northbridge, Calif.

During the spring term, Stanley Peterfreund of Stanley Peterfreund Associates, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J.; Howard N. Newman, Commissioner, Medical Services Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and Stanley H. Feldberg, President, Zayre Corporation, Framingham, Mass., will visit Hanover to serve as "Executives-in-Residence." Both Mr. Newman and Mr. Feldberg are currently Overseers of the Tuck School.

Normally, guests of the program are in residence at Tuck from Monday through Friday. They have a choice of rooming in the new student dorm or at the Hanover Inn. Most executives have chosen the former and have found their visits most agreeable. They report that it facilitates the development of open, easy relationships with students and thereby enhances their sense of involvement in, and their enjoyment of, community life at the School.

The Program is very much a student affair. The activities of each Executive-in-Residence are coordinated by one of the second-year students who also serves as his official host. Tuck believes it important that each guest be free to decide the nature and extent of his participation in the School's affairs; and it is part of the duties of the student host to ensure that this policy is observed.

This program, which gives Tuck students an opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas with top leaders from the nation's business and industrial communities, has been of great value to students and guests alike and is likely to be continued in succeeding years.

Best regards from the hills.