Burton C. Hallowell, educator, economist, and President Emeritus of Tufts University died November 21, 2006, at the age of 91.

Born in Orleans, Mass., in 1915, he grew up in Danielson, Conn., graduating from Killingly High School in 1932 and Wesleyan University (BA ’36, MA ’38). Caught up in WW II, he received his PH.D. in 1949 in economics from Princeton University. He also has five honorary degrees.

In World War II, he served as a civilian economist in the Office of Strategic Services and in 1942 entered the Army as a private, advancing to captain in the Transportation Corps. before his discharge in 1946. He led a group which designed and prepared statistical measures of performance for each of the Army’s corps in getting requisitioned supplies overseas to our troops. These measures were actively used to improve performance.

In 1946 he rejoined the Wesleyan University faculty (having been an instructor there in 1941-42) advancing to full professor and head of the Economics Department. Starting in 1949 he also served as consultant to the president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company for eleven years. He always believed that a foot in the real world made a better college professor. His scholarship was in the international economics and financial fields.

In 1961 he was persuaded to become a vice president, later executive vice president of Wesleyan. He played a significant role in resolving, with the faculty, the issue of selective doctoral programs. He also started to build a permanent money-raising capability for Wesleyan.

A strong believer in the practical usefulness of a liberal education at all levels of a person’s career, he left Wesleyan in June of 1967 to become president of Tufts University. He saw at Tufts a strong arts and sciences core including undergraduate women and well-known professional schools of medicine, dental medicine, and international relations. This appealed to him. The setting for higher education in 1967 was tumultuous and difficult: the Viet Nam War and Universal Military Service, minority and women’s rights, protests, sit-ins, and riots often leading to violence. There was uncertainty day and night as to what would happen next.

In this setting he lived on campus and related directly to students at all times. He turned budget deficits into surpluses, brought a sense of unity and cohesiveness to a university of proud and diverse schools and colleges, brought a view of what a higher education could and should be, and helped realize that vision. He also revamped and eliminated many restrictions on women, brought in more minorities, and rebuilt a sagging relationship with the Tufts New England Medical Center, its major medical affiliate. He brought a strengthened Tufts safely through the most difficult period in its long history.

He became president of the state Association of Schools and Colleges (AICUM) and brought it from a loose association into a powerful and effective voice of higher education.

When, in 1976, the tumult had eased and educational progress and finances were much improved, he resigned to direct his attention to corporate governance in the United States, a long-time interest. Briefly, from 1976-1979, he was chairman of Keystone Custodian Funds, a mutual fund firm in Boston. He was or became a director of seven corporations and participated in panels regarding reform for corporate governance. He relinquished the last directorship, Oppenheimer and Co., Inc., in New York City in 1997.

His directorship of Shaw’s Supermarkets led him back to higher education as one of the five original trustees of the Davis Educational Foundation. This foundation provides grants for projects designed to improve teaching of undergraduates. He and his wife, Joyce, drove thousands of miles throughout New England to colleges making proposals. He believed that teaching had been losing out compared to conventional research since World War II, and it should be invigorated. The foundation also supports projects such as college consortia to control university and college costs. He continued this work for the rest of his life.

He believed in helping the states and localities where he worked and lived. The governor of Connecticut appointed him chair of the commission to allocate federal facility grants among Connecticut colleges and universities. In 1967 the governor of Massachusetts appointed him as the first chairman of the new Housing and Home Finance Agency, which has thrived over the decades in making medium and low income housing a reality.

On moving to Cape Cod, he served as a Finance Committee member for a term in Orleans as well as on a revision committee for the town charter. He was one of the five founders of the Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore and a trustee of the Cape Cod Museum of National History.

Dr. Hallowell’s first wife, Pauline, died in 1998, and in 2002 he married Joyce, who survives him. He is also survived by his son, Robert; two stepchildren, Deborah Fortin and John Glynn; and three step grandchildren, Emily, Peter, and Daniel Fortin.

JOHN M. ERSKINE, 89, who headed the commercial sales department at Bell Helicopter, died July 9, 2003. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Predeceased by his wife, Dorothy Bevan Erskine, survivors include two children.

RICHARD L. DUNNELL, who taught science at Phillips Exeter Academy for 38 years, died March 9, 2007. He was 93. A member of Eclectic, he was an assistant in the chemistry department before receiving a master’s degree from Wesleyan. Predeceased by his wife, Eleanor Stearns Dunnell, survivors include two children.

GORDON C. DUNN, a retired merchandising executive, died July 24, 2010. He was 94. The son of Harold A. Dunn of the class of 1902, he was a member of Psi Upsilon, and received LLB and JD degrees from Rutgers University. He was the head of the sporting goods department at R.H. Macy Company for many years and later joined Vornado Inc., where he became a vice president. His wife, Abby R. Neill Dunn, and his son predeceased him. Survivors include his daughter, Priscilla Dunn Carter; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his brothers, Harold C. Dunn ’39 and Donald G. Dunn ’48.

AVERY H. DEMOND, who retired as an administrator with Air India, died June 24, 2006. He was 92. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During World War II he served with the Civilian Public Service and later worked in Europe with the American Friends Service Committee. Predeceased by his wife, Antoinette Saunders Demond, survivors include three children, four grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, and a brother.

H. CLARK DALTON, 90, professor emeritus of biology at Pennsylvania State University, died Feb. 5, 2006. A member of Sigma Chi, he received his degree with honors and with high distinction in biology, and he was elected to Sigma Xi and to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving a master’s degree from Wesleyan and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, he served in the U.S. Army during WWII. He taught at New York University for a number of years before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. He was a fellow of the New York Academy of Science and had received a citation from Wesleyan for outstanding achievement as a teacher and scholar. After he retired to the island of Kauai, he became a volunteer at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. He is survived by his wife, Eleanora Keene Dalton.

CLARK E. BRUNER, 91, a retired businessman, died April 17, 2004 in Cleveland. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and was the son of William E. Bruner, of the class of 1888. He was a purchasing agent for 42 years at Pickands Mather & Co., retiring in 1980, and was a past president of the Wesleyan Alumni Association. Predeceased by his wife, Pauline, he is survived by a son, William E. Bruner II ’71; a daughter, Lydia, and son-in-law, Paul Oppmann ’64; and four grandchildren, including Amanda Bruner ’02 and Andrew Bruner ’04.

ARLO A. BROWN JR., 92, who retired as the head of Green Acres of the State of New Jersey, died Feb. 15, 2007. He was a member of Eclectic and received his degree with distinction in History. The brother of Robert L. Brown of the class of 1939, he also received a master’s degree from Columbia University. Among those who survive are his wife, Elaine Rushmore Brown, and three children.

Educator Daniel O. S. Jennings, 92, died peacefully in Brewster, Massachusetts on January 8, 2008. Dan’s connections to the Outer Cape were life long. He honeymooned with Barbara Lewis Jennings at Ballston Beach in June 1940 and subsequently summered at the home of his mother-in law, the former Peg Lewis of Provincetown. He was no idle summer vacationer during his stays at the Cape. The last surviving member of the original “Bone Dome Construction Company,” Dan worked on many building projects with foreman Jimmy Thomas, John Alexander, and Tom Soames. Over the years, he tended bar at the Atlantic House with Ciro Cozzi and the late Frank Hurst, Sr., ran the club house at the Provincetown Yacht & Tennis Club, delivered milk door to door for the Hood Milk Company, sold Compton’s Encyclopedias, painted the exterior of the Provincetown Art Association (more than once), and sang in St. Mary of the Harbor Church choir.

Dan’s teaching career began at the Governor Dummer Academy (Mass.) in the late 1930s, followed by terms at Hebron Academy (Me.) from 1946-57 and Montclair Academy (N.J.) from 1957-62. In 1962, his appointment as the first male head of school at Laurel School for Girls in Cleveland made local Ohio history. During his tenure at Laurel, he worked to diversify the student body, even as he remained true to the single-sex mission of the school. After his “retirement” in 1977, he taught for a year in Pebble Beach, Calif., before settling in Providence to assist his closest friend, Evan West, Head of Providence Country Day School.

Shortly after the death of his beloved wife, Barbara, in 1996, Dan moved to an assisted living residence in East Providence, before ultimately settling at EPOCH at Brewster Place, to be closer to his family.

Mr. Jennings, Wesleyan University Class of 1936, fervently supported his alma mater. He was awarded the Wesleyan Service Award in 1996, in recognition of his 60 years of extraordinary involvement. He leaves three great grandchildren, five grandchildren, two sons in law, and three daughters: Sally Jennings of Londonderry, Vermont, Marne Hodgin of North Truro, Mass., and Deborah Minsky of Provincetown, Mass. Born February 18, 1915, Mr. Jennings was just shy of his 93rd birthday when he succumbed to a heart attack. A celebration of his life is planned for August in Provincetown.

WELLESLEY W. BOWDISH, an investment manager and professor emeritus at Marist College, died Oct. 22, 2007. He was 93. A member of Eclectic, he was the son of Lewis F. Bowdish of the class of 1901 and the brother of Lewis S. Bowdish of the class of 1933. His wives, Dorothea Troike Bowdish, and Betty Yaeglin, predeceased him. Survivors include three children, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

BOSTON — Kenneth R. Andrews, who began his academic career as an authority on Mark Twain and went on to become a renowned professor at Harvard Business School, a founder of the field of corporate strategy, editor of the Harvard Business Review, and a beloved “master” of Leverett House (one of Harvard University’s undergraduate residences), died on Sunday, Sept. 4, at his home in Durham, N.H, after a brief illness. He was 89 years old and had also resided in Cambridge, Mass.

A member of the Harvard Business School faculty for forty years, Andrews retired from the active faculty in 1986. At the time of his death, he was the School’s Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1936 and a master’s in American literature a year later, Kenneth Richmond Andrews was pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) when his studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the service, he found himself at the Army Air Force’s Statistical Control School, which was held on the HBS campus and taught by members of the School’s faculty. Andrews was impressed by the quality of the teaching; his instructors were equally impressed by the quality of his intellect.

With the end of the war, Andrews, who had risen in rank from private to major, returned to the University of Illinois in 1946 to complete his dissertation on Twain. Within a few months, however, he received a call from HBS professor Edmund Learned, offering the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary teaching group being formed at the School to teach a new course in organizational behavior called Administrative Practices. What clinched the deal in HBS’s favor was the opportunity for Andrews to also continue his research at Harvard’s Widener Library, which housed Twain’s private papers, and to complete his dissertation (which was published to critical acclaim in 1950 as Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle).

Remaining at HBS after receiving his doctorate in 1948, Andrews not only taught MBA students and wrote case studies, but he undertook an exhaustive survey of the effectiveness of university and corporate executive training programs. But around the same time, another opportunity came his way that proved to be an inflection point in his career. He was asked to join a small group of other faculty reviewing the School’s required course in Business Policy, in which MBA students examined the problems of an entire company from the perspective of top management. Professorial input, however, was limited mainly to the personal perspectives of the senior faculty members who taught the course.

After more than two years, this group developed the concept of corporate strategy as the organizing principle of the course. Andrews put his mark on the project with an important series of case studies on the Swiss watch industry. As a result of these efforts, the Business Policy course underwent a complete revision and influenced the work of other professors’ course development as well in areas such as competitiveness and country and industry analysis. In addition to its impact on the HBS curriculum, this groundbreaking work also contributed to the rise of corporate strategy as a specialty in the management consulting industry.

During his career, Andrews held many leadership positions that were important in the life of both Harvard Business School and Harvard University. Besides heading the Business Policy course and chairing the General Management unit, he served as chairman of the School’s Advanced Management Program for senior executives from 1967 to 1970. While in this position, he submitted an influential report laying out objectives that guided the School’s expansion of its Executive Education portfolio from two programs to twelve during the 1970s.

“Ken Andrews’s contributions to Harvard Business School were enormous,” said HBS professor and strategy expert Joseph L. Bower. “With Professor C. Roland Christensen and others, Ken Andrews built the field of business policy, which laid the foundation for what we now think of as the field of strategy. He also dramatically improved the professionalism of our Advanced Management Program and transformed Harvard Business Review into a leading journal of business ideas. For me personally, he was a very wise and caring mentor, and I felt particularly honored to succeed him in the chair named after former Dean Donald David.”

In 1971, in the midst of considerable student unrest at Harvard and other universities, Harvard president Nathan Marsh Pusey appointed Andrews the master, or head, of Leverett House. It was an assignment that Andrews–with his wife, Carolyn, as Leverett’s first comaster?completed with great success over the next decade, easing the transition into coeducation and creating a sense of community in a large, ethnically diverse group of undergraduates.

After his move into Leverett House, Andrews began his long association with the Harvard Business Review (HBR), first as chairman of its editorial board from 1972 to 1979 and then as editor from 1979 to 1985. During this period, he became increasingly interested in the study of ethics and personal values in the workplace, encouraging contributions to the magazine on this topic from business practitioners. In 1989, he published “Ethics in Practice,” an HBR article that focused on developing managers as moral individuals, building an environment in which standards and values are central to the company’s strategy, and formulating and implementing policies that support and sustain ethical performance. This effort soon led to the book Ethics in Practice: Managing the Moral Corporation, a collection of 21 Harvard Business Review articles he edited and for which he wrote the introduction. Under Andrews’s leadership, the magazine’s reputation and influence grew considerably, and by the time he stepped down, its worldwide circulation had grown to 240,000, with eleven foreign editions.

Throughout his career, Andrews was also active as a consultant, director, and trustee, working with a number of organizations, including the Harvard University Press; Wesleyan University; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; and Xerox Corporation.

He was the author of numerous articles on executive education, management development, corporate strategy, and corporate governance. In addition to his work on Twain, his books include The Effectiveness of University Management Development Programs(1966), which won the Society for Advancement of Management Book Award; Business Policy: Text and Cases (1965 and many other editions), and The Concept of Corporate Strategy (1971 and 1980), which won the McKinsey Foundation Book Award.

Andrews received an honorary master’s degree from Harvard University in 1957. He also received the Distinguished Service Award from Harvard Business School in 1990; the citation for that award read: “He understands, as Mark Twain never did, how business works best; his writings elucidate the complex subject to the benefit of his Harvard colleagues and of managers everywhere.”

A voracious reader until his death and a New York Times crossword puzzle enthusiast, Andrews also found solace in the outdoors and developed a passion for gardening and boating.

He was married to Edith Platt from 1945 to 1969. She died in 2002. His marriage to Carolyn Erskine Hall lasted from 1970 until her death, also in 2002.

He is survived by a son, Ken Jr, of Marlborough, Mass.; a daughter, Carolyn, of Maynard, Mass.; three stepchildren, Lyn Hejinian of Berkeley, Cal, Douglas Hall of San Francisco, and Marie Katrak, of Durham, N.H.; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.