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Celebration

June 1976
Article
Celebration
June 1976

The Tuck School wound up its year-long diamond anniversary observance last month with a two-day symposium on "The Business System - A Bicentennial View."

Some 500 alumni, faculty, and friends came to celebrate Tuck's 75th birthday in the context of the nation's Bicentennial and the 200th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith's seminal treatise, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes ofthe Wealth of Nations.

The retrospective look at the progress of the business system was organized around three seminars - "Economics and Social Progress: Adam Smith Plus 200 Years," "Modern Institutions and Individual Freedom: Thomas Jefferson Plus 200 Years," and "Technology for Man: Benjamin Franklin Plus 200 Years."

At the first, conservative spokesman Milton Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Leonard S. Silk, economist and member of the editorial board of The New York Times, offered divergent views of Smith's laissez-faire economics. Speakers at the second session were Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, president of Sweden's A.B. Volvo, who has pioneered development of alternatives to automobile assembly lines, and Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Commission for Manpower Policy, Columbia University professor, and economic adviser to seven successive American Presidents. The final seminar featured Edward E. David Jr., executive vice president for research, development and planning for Gould, Inc., and William D. Carey, executive director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Tuck Dean John W. Hennessey Jr., who will relinquish his administrative duties next month to become the first incumbent of the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professorship of the Management of Man, offered the welcome at the opening luncheon. His 14 years of leadership at the nation's oldest graduate school of business administration - as associate dean for six years and dean for eight - were honored at the closing diamond anniversary banquet.

Professor Frederick E. Webster Jr. '59 was the conference chairman. Faculty members Richard S. Bower, Wayne G. Broehl, and James Brian Quinn moderated the three seminars.