Tuck's New Dean

Richard R. West, a 38-year-old Yale alumnus who took his graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, has been named dean of the Tuck School, to succeed John W. Hennessey Jr., who will relinquish his administrative position July 1 to become Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor at Tuck.

Currently dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Oregon, West will become the sixth dean in Tuck's 75-year history.

West will leave Oregon with mixed emotions, he said, but "in the final analysis, there was no choice to make to come to Dartmouth." He cited as compelling attractions Tuck's size - about 250 students compared with 1,700 at the University of Oregon; its concentration on the MBA program; and "the openmindedness of its method of teaching."

A specialist in finance, West taught at Cornell's Graduate School of Business and Public Administration from 1964 to 1971, serving the last three years as associate dean. Before going to Oregon as dean in 1972, he spent a year at the University of Alberta as Distinguished Visiting Professor. He is co-author of TheEconomics of the Stock Market, and shared in the publication of FinancialPolicy Decisions. As a teacher and scholar, he has held fellowships from Carnegie, Woodrow Wilson, and the Ford Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank.

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