Forging Ahead in Business

by Alexander Hamilton Institute

STAFF

The members of the Staff conduct the Modern Business Course and Service

Bruce Barton	General Publicity
Graduated from Amherst College. Managing editor Home Herald, Chicago, 1907-1909; managing editor Housekeeper, 1910-1911; assistant sales manager P. F. Collier and Son, 1912-1914; editor Every Week, 1914-1917; publicity director United War Work Campaign; President of Barton, Durstine and Osborne, Inc., advertising agents. Author of "More Power to You," "It's a Good Old World," "The Making of George Groton," and contributor to leading magazines and business papers.
Dwight E. Beebe, B.L.	Collections
Graduate of the University of Wisconsin; for three years assistant to the Sales Manager of the Westinghouse-Nernst Lamp Company of Pittsburgh; for three years connected with the Publicity Department of Allis Chalmers Company, Milwaukee; later associated with Charles Austin Bates, New York City; appointed Bursar of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in 1911. Director of Service since October, 1918. Collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Credit and Collections."
Geoffrey S. Childs, B.C.S.	Office Methods
Educated at Bryn Athyn Academy; graduate of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Formerly with Trackless Trolley Company; and British and American Mortgage Company, New York City. Assistant Chief Clerk, Alexander Hamilton Institute, 1914-1915. Office Manager of Alexander Hamilton Institute since June, 1915. Collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Office Administration."
Edwin J. Clapp, Ph.D.	Transportation and Terminal Facilities
Graduate of Yale University; after graduation spent one year teaching at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; two years as factory assistant and traveling salesman with the Robin Hood Ammunition Company; Instructor in Political Economy, Yale University, 1911-1912; Assistant Professor of Trade and Transportation, School of Commerce, New York University, 1912-1914; Special Traffic Commissioner to the Directors of the Port of Boston, 1914; Special Adviser to the Mayor and Harbor Commissioners of Troy; Professor of Economics, New York University and Lecturer on Transportation in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, 1914; Special Adviser to the Legal Department of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in its Sound Lines Cases; author of "The Navigable Rhine," "The Port of Hamburg," "Economic Aspects of the War," "The Port of Boston," the Modern Business Text on "Transportation."
Raymond J. Comyns, B.C.S.	Personal Salesmanship
Educated at New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; connected with branch of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1900-1901; Accessionist, New York Botanical Gardens, 1902; entered Tenement House Department, New York City, 1903; Acting Chief Inspector of Tenements, Bronx Borough, New York City, 1907; Examiner of Charitable Institutions, New York City, 1909-1910; Lecturer on Salesmanship and Sales Management, New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; representative in Colorado of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, 1911-1913; appointed Staff Secretary in charge of Enrolments, 1913; Assistant Director of Sales since 1915; Co-author, Modern Business Text on "Salesmanship and Sales Management."
Herbert F. deBower, LL.B.	Advertising and Sales PoliciesBusiness Promotion
Educated in the University of Wisconsin; practiced law for two years; engaged in selling specialties for a number of years; since 1911 Vice-President, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman Executive Committee of the Alexander Hamilton Institute; also Director of various business corporations; author of the Modern Business Text on "Advertising Principles."
Roland P. Falkner, Ph.D.	Business Statistics
Graduate of the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; graduate student at the University of Paris, Berlin, Leipsic and Halle; 1891-1900, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania; 1891-1892, Statistician, U. S. Senate Committee on Finance; 1892-1893, Secretary, International Monetary Conference; 1900, Chief, Division of Documents, Library of Congress; 1903, Special Agent, Bureau of Census on Statistics of Crime; 1904, Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico; 1907, Expert Special Agent in charge of School Statistics for the U. S. Industrial Commission; 1908, Chairman of the Commission of the United States to the Republic of Liberia; 1909, Financial Representative of the Republic of Liberia; 1911, Assistant Director of the Census; 1913, Member Joint Land Commission, United States-Panama; since 1914, Lecturer, New York University; member International Institute of Statistics and other learned societies; contributor to various statistical and economic periodicals and has prepared several Government Reports; 1915, Associate Editor, 1918, Managing Editor of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Major B. Foster, M.A.	Banking Principles
Graduated from Carson and Newman College, 1910; Principal of Watauga Academy, 1910-1911; graduate student in Cornell University, 1911-1913; Fellow in Political Economy at Cornell University, 1912-1913; Assistant Professor of Economics and former Secretary of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; author of several of the Modern Business Reports and the Modern Business Text on "Banking." Former assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, now assistant to Executive Committee, Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Leo Greendlinger, M.C.S., C.P.A. (N. Y.)	Financial and Business Statements
Graduate of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; practising accountant; member of the Accounting Faculty of New York University, 1907-1915; formerly Editor of the C.P.A. Question Department of The Journal of Accountancy; member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants; member of the American Institute of Accountants; member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors as well as Secretary and Treasurer of the Alexander Hamilton Institute; author of "Accountancy Problems," 2 vols.; and the Modern Business Text on "Financial and Business Statements."
J. Anton deHaas	Foreign Trade and Shipping
Graduate of High School, The Hague, Holland; 1900, Diplomas in Accounting, and French, German and Dutch commercial correspondence, 1902; Junior Accountant with J. H. Rosenboom, Public Accountant, The Hague, Holland, 1901-1904; A.B. Stanford University, 1910; M.A. Harvard University, 1911; Ph.D. Stanford University, 1915; Special Agent in Europe of the California Immigration Committee, 1914; American representative for Magnesiet Werken, Rotterdam, Holland, 1916; Instructor in Economics, Stanford University, 1913-1915; Lecturer Foreign Trade School, San Francisco, California, 1915; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, University of Texas, 1915-1917; Professor of Commerce, Ohio State University, 1917-1918; Examiner, Federal Trade Commission, summer 1917; Professor of Commerce, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1918; Lecturer on Foreign Trade, Columbia University, New York, summer 1918; Captain U. S. A., 1918; formerly Professor of Foreign Trade at the Commercial University at Rotterdam, Holland, 1919-1920; Professor of Foreign Trade, New York University, 1920. Author of Business Organization and Administration, and of Modern Business Text on "Foreign Trade and Shipping."
Edward R. Hardy, Ph.B.	Insurance
Graduate of Boston University; formerly Librarian, Insurance Library Association, Boston; for several years engaged in investigations and administrative work for various insurance organizations; Secretary and Treasurer of the Insurance Society of New York, 1909; Manager of the Underwriters' Association of the District of Columbia, 1914; Lecturer on Insurance in New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; Assistant Manager of the New York Fire Insurance Exchange; co-editor of the "International Insurance Encyclopedia"; author of "History of Fire Insurance in Massachusetts" and contributor on Fire Insurance in the Modern Business Text on "Insurance."
Warren F. Hickernell, Ph.D.	Business Conditions
Studied Political Economy at Yale University. M.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1919. Was economic expert with the Immigration Commission, 1910, and the Bureau of Census, 1910-1911. From 1911 until 1916 was Managing Editor of the Brookmire Economic Service. Author of "Business Cycles" and numerous articles on business and financial conditions. Lecturer on "Panics and Depressions" at New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Director, Bureau of Business Conditions of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, since August, 1916.
Solomon S. Huebner, Ph.D.	Marine Insurance
Educated at University of Wisconsin. B.S., 1902; M., 1908. Dr. Huebner was a special lecturer on insurance and commerce in the University of Pennsylvania, 1904-1906; Assistant Professor, 1906-1908, and Professor since 1908. Since 1919 Dr. Huebner has been expert in Insurance to the United States Shipping Board and to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives. He has had charge of the Congressional Marine Insurance investigation. While serving the Committee on the Merchant Marine he had charge of the shipping investigation which led to creation of U. S. Shipping Board and played a prominent part in forming the U. S. Shipping Act. Dr. Huebner is a special lecturer on insurance in the Columbia University School of Business. He was expert for the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives. He is author of works on Property Insurance, 1911; Life Insurance, 1915; Steamship Agreements and Affiliations in the American Foreign and Domestic Trade, 1913; Marine Insurance, 1920, and of the sections on Marine Insurance and Life Insurance in the Modern Business Text on "Insurance."
Jeremiah W. Jenks, Ph.D., LL.D.	Relation of Government to Business
(See Advisory Council.)
Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., LL.D.	Economic ProblemsBusiness Ethics
(See Advisory Council.)
Walter S. Johnson, K.C.	Commercial Law
Educated in McGill University (B.A., B.C.L.); member of the Quebec Bar; practising law in Montreal; Lecturer on the Law of Agency, the Law of Partnership and Lease and Constitutional History, McGill University; collaborator in writing the Modern Business Texts on "Credit and the Credit Man" and "Business Organization"; author of the Canadian Modern Business Text on "Commercial Law"; editor, the Quebec Civil Code.
Edward D. Jones, M.A. (Hon.), Ph.D.	Investments
Educated in Ohio Wesleyan University; graduated in 1892 with degree of B.S., M.A., 1912; entered University of Wisconsin and received degree of Ph.D. in 1895; Instructor in statistics and Economics, 1895-1898; Assistant Professor of Economics and Commercial Geography, 1900-1901, University of Wisconsin; United States Commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1899-1900; Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1902-1919; member of International Association of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, 1903; holder of Diploma and Bronze Medal, Paris Exposition, and Gold Medal, Buffalo Exposition; during the war with the General Staff of the War Department, and with the War Industries Board; member of American Economic Association, of American Society of Industrial Engineers and of Industrial Relations Association of America; now in charge of Harvard University Service in Foreman Training; author of "The Economic Crises," "The Business Administration," "The Administration of Industrial Enterprises" and of the Modern Business Text on "Investments."
John G. Jones	Sales Management
Educated in Public School and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; came to America in 1888 and engaged in newspaper work and mining in Montana and Colorado; engaged in sales work since 1903; Vice-President and Director of Sales and Advertising of the Alexander Hamilton Institute since 1912; also a Director and member of the Executive Committee of Alexander Hamilton Institute; Special Lecturer on Salesmanship and Sales Management in the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance; chairman of the International Committee on Business Methods and Industrial Relations, Industrial Association of Rotary Clubs, 1920-21; author of the Modern Business Text on "Salesmanship and Sales Management."
Dexter S. Kimball, A.B., M.E.	Cost Finding
Practical work with Pope and Talbot, Port Gamble, Washington, 1881-1887; entered shop of Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 1887, continuing this practical work until 1893; graduated Leland Stanford University, 1896; entered the Engineering Department of the Union Iron Works, 1896; Designing Engineer, Anaconda Mining Company, 1898; Assistant Professor Machine Design, Sibley College, 1898-1901; Professor Machine Construction, 1904-1905; Professor Machine Design and Construction, 1905-1915; Professor Machine Design and Industrial Engineering, 1915-1919; Dean of the Engineering Colleges, Cornell University; member of Council on Industrial Education, New York State Department of Education, 1911; member of American Society Mechanical Engineers; member of Society for Promotion of Engineering Education; author "Elements of Machine Design" (with John H. Barr), 1909; "Industrial Education," 1911; "Principles of Industrial Organization," 1913; "Elements of Cost Finding," 1914; contributor to scientific press; author of the Modern Business Text on "Cost Finding" and "Plant Management."
Bernard Lichtenberg, M.C.S.	Advertising Principles
Graduate of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Two years post-graduate study in advertising at New York University. Formerly with the Clark-Hutchinson Company, of Boston; and with the Business Book Bureau, New York City; Office Manager of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, 1912-1915; Assistant Director of Advertising since June, 1915. Co-author of the Modern Business Text on "Advertising Principles."
Frank L. McVey, Ph.D., LL.D.	Economics
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, November 10, 1869; educated in Ohio Wesleyan University and Yale University, receiving degree of Ph.D. in 1895 from the latter; also studied in England in 1898. He became Professor of Economics in the University of Minnesota in 1896; President of the State University of North Dakota in 1909-1917; now President of the University of Kentucky; Chairman of North Dakota State Educational Commission, 1911; member of North Dakota State Board of Education; member of American Economic Association; member of American Statistical Association, and member of other commercial clubs and societies; Secretary and founder of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences; member and Chairman of Minnesota Tax Commission, 1907-1909, and member of other commissions and committees. Author of numerous tracts, books and pamphlets, including "Modern Industrialism," "Railway Transportation," "The Making of a Town," and Editor, National Social Science Series; collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Economics—the Science of Business."
John Thomas Madden, B.C.S., C.P.A. (N. Y.)	Accounting Practice
Born in Worcester, Mass.; graduate of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance (summa cum laude); employed with Swift & Company's subsidiary interests in various capacities, 1900-1909; with Leslie & Company, Chartered Accountants, New York, 1910-1911; practising public accountant; Instructor in Accounting, New York University, 1911-1913; Assistant Professor of Accounting, 1913; now Professor of Accounting and Head of Department of Accounting, New York University; special lecturer in accounting, Association of Employes, New York Edison Company; Treasurer, Old Colony Club; President, American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, 1920-21; National President, Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity, 1919-1920; and collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Accounting Practice and Auditing."
Mac Martin	Advertising Campaigns
Educated in Minneapolis public schools; graduate of University of Minnesota; President Mac Martin Advertising Agency; Ex-President Minneapolis Advertising Forum; Agency Service Committee, American Association of Advertising Agencies; Professional Lecturer in Advertising at the University of Minnesota; author "Planning an Advertising Campaign for a Manufacturer"; author "Modern Methods of Merchandising"; author "Martin's Merchandising Reporting Service," and of the text on "Advertising Campaigns" in the Modern Business Series.
G. F. Michelbacher, M.S.	Compensation and Liability Insurance
Graduate of the University of California, 1912; Teaching fellow in mathematics in the University, 1912-1913; Lecturer in Insurance and Mathematics, 1913-1915; in charge of the preparation of the California Schedule for Rating Permanent Injuries, for the Industrial Accident Board of the State of California, 1913-1914; later superintendent of the permanent disability rating department of the Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California and superintendent of the claims department of the State Compensation Insurance Fund; a year later became Statistician of the National Workmen's Compensation Service Bureau in New York, 1916-1920; Actuary of the Bureau; Secretary of the National Council on Workman's Compensation Insurance; contributor on Liability and Workman's Compensation Insurance to the Modern Business Text on "Insurance," also Secretary of the National Council on Workmen's Compensation Insurance.
T. Vassar Morton, Litt.B.
Graduate Rutgers College; engaged in sales work with the American Hard Rubber Company; office manager of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company; afterward Subscription Credit and Collection Manager of Doubleday, Page and Company; member of the National Association of Credit Men; appointed Bursar of the Alexander Hamilton Institute October 1, 1918. Collaborator on the Modern Business Text "Credit and Collections."
Bruce D. Mudgett, Ph.D.	Life Insurance
Graduate of University of Idaho; one year of graduate work at Columbia University and four years at University of Pennsylvania; seven years instructor in insurance, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Insurance, School of Business Administration, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. On leave 1918-1919 as Statistical Economist, Bureau of Research, War Trade Board, Washington, D. C.; now Associate Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota. Joint author with S. S. Huebner of volume on Life Insurance; author of "The Disability Clause in Life Insurance Contracts;" several articles in economic periodicals; contributor on life insurance to the Modern Business Text on "Insurance."
E. L. Stewart Patterson	Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Educated in England; entered Eastern Townships Bank at Sherbrooke in 1888; acted as Accountant for this bank in Granby and Montreal, 1889-1901; became Assistant Manager at Montreal in 1902; served three years (1904-1907) as Assistant Manager at Sherbrooke; later became Manager, and in 1909 Assistant General Manager; since amalgamation of the Eastern Townships Bank with the Canadian Bank of Commerce, in 1912, has served as Inspector at Toronto, and is now Superintendent of the Eastern Townships Branches, with headquarters at Sherbrooke; fellow of Bankers' Institute, London; of Institute of Banking of the United States; and member of the Canadian Bankers' Association. Collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "International Exchange."
Frederic E. Reeve, C.P.A.	Accounting
Born January 3, 1886; graduate of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, June, 1911. C.P.A. Degree, New York State, August, 1911. Former instructor in Accounting at New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Member of the firm of White and Reeve, Certified Public Accountants, 1913-1917. Since that date practising as a certified public accountant in New York City. Collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Accounting Principles."
Frederick C. Russell, B.C.S.	Auditing
Graduate New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Formerly accountant for Carter, Howe and Company, manufacturing jewelers; connected with the Auditing Department of the New York Telephone Company; formerly Instructor in Accounting, New York University School of Commerce; Controller, Alexander Hamilton Institute since 1916. Author of the Modern Business Text on "Accounting Principles."
Bernard K. Sandwell, B.A.	International Finance
Graduated Toronto University, 1897; began newspaper work in England, but returned to Canada in 1900; editorial writer on Toronto News; editorial writer and dramatic critic on Montreal Herald; specialized in economic subjects, and in 1910 was one of the founders of the Montreal Financial Times and became editor of that paper; resigned 1918 to take present post of Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill University, Montreal; editor of the Canadian Bookman, 1918; National Secretary Canadian Authors Association; author of financial section of "Canada and the Great World War."
William W. Swanson, Ph.D.	Money and Banking
Studied at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and specialized in Economic Science under Dr. Adam Shortt; graduated with honors in 1905; Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Political Economy, 1905-1908; graduated Ph.D., 1908; author of "The Establishment of the National Banking System"; associate editor of the Montreal Journal of Commerce, 1914; since special writer for the Journal of Commerce; contributor to Monetary Times and other financial journals in Canada; investigated the unemployment problem for the Ontario Government Commission on Unemployment, 1915; Associate Professor in Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, 1908-1916; Professor of Economics at the Provincial University of Saskatchewan, since 1916.
John B. Swinney, A.B.	Merchandising
Graduated at Syracuse University in 1904; previous to entering college engaged in retail merchandising; 1904-1906, Superintendent of Schools, Springville, N. Y.; 1906-1908, with John Wanamaker in retail merchandising; 1908-1913, with Longmans, Green & Company, in wholesale merchandising; Assistant Secretary in charge of Service, Alexander Hamilton Institute, 1913-1917; Lecturer on Wholesale Merchandising in New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, 1916-1917; editor Harper's Retail Business Series; Professor of Marketing, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Tulane University, 1917. Lecturer on Merchandising in Columbia University, 1919. Now Superintendent of merchandising, The Winchester Stores (Chain Sporting Goods and Hardware Stores). Collaborator on the Modern Business Text on "Marketing and Merchandising."
William H. Walker, LL.D.	Financial Problems
Educated in the Wharton School of Finance of University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Purchasing Agent, Consolidated Lithograph Company; later engaged by the same company in the installation of cost systems and the organization of branch plants; a number of years Superintendent and Assistant Manager, Erie Lithographing and Printing Company; resigned to become President of the Grape Products Company; director and officer of numerous other corporations; engaged for many years in special study of finance, corporations and business efficiency; financial counsel to corporations; lecturer and writer on finance and corporations; in 1913, appointed Dean of the School of Accounts, Finance and Commerce, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh; director, Pittsburgh Commercial Club; member of Pittsburgh Tax Commission and Chairman of its Committee on Administration; author of the Modern Business Text on "Corporation Finance."