Prison Accountants

Students at the Tuck School have this year added volunteer teaching at the Vermont State Prison in Windsor to their long established community service project of tax consultation for local residents.

Three second-year Tuck men and one first-year student who had already passed his CPA examinations before entering Tuck are teaching a course in accounting two evenings a week at the prison.

The course was instituted at the request of the prisoners, who range in age from 19 to 60 and in sentences from a few months to life.

Thomas Yahn '64, area coordinator for Vermont's Regional Community College Commission, brought the prisoners' proposal to the attention of the Tuck faculty. Leonard E. Morrissey Jr. T'48, Professor of Accounting, and John R. Bassler, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, helped coordinate the course.

The four volunteer teachers - John M. Graham, Gary B. Jacobsen, Robert W. Jannino, and Gregory A. Menke - all have experience in either accounting or teaching.

There are 16 Tuck students involved in the tax consulting project this year, the fourth the service has been offered. Volunteers are on duty two evenings a week at a West Lebanon church, from mid-February through the April 15 filing date.