New York University School of Commerce - Commerce Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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GEORGE ROWLAND COLLINS Associate Dean EORGE ROKNLAND COLLINS, associate dean ol the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, came to New York University in 1922 as a graduate of Harvard from which he had obtained his MA. degree. Previously he had studied at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota to earn his B.A. In 1934 he received from Macalester College the degree of LL.D. At present, Dean Collins is a professor of marketing in the Graduate School of Business Administration of N.Y.U. from which he at one time received the degree of M.B.A. He is also the Director of the College-Commerce course at the College of Arts and Pure Science of New York University and the Administrative Director of the New York University accredited courses in the University of Newark. Organizations with which he is afhliatecl include The American Economic Association, American Academy of Social and Political Science, American Asso- ciation of University Professors, American Management Association. Before entering his present profession, Dean Collins was a partner in the sales promotion company of Lawrence Swan and Associates and an editor in the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Vlfashington, D. C. He has also written many books used in the held of marketing. These include Platform Sjaeakingg Market- ing, Salesmcmship, and Outline of Business. Honorary and social fraternal organizations of which Dean Collins is a member are Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, Pi Kappa Delta, and Alpha Kappa Psi. 18

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-'fic' .x ' '..off, 'Q---Qui-w. JOHN T. MADDEN Dean School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance 17

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,1-,-,, g,4 . .q..A. , e 11LfZw'a,ff..affsvfwff- EDWVARD JONES KILDUFF Assistant Dean SSISTANT Dean Edward Jones Kilduff was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on December 15, 1889. Twenty-three years later he received his A.B. from Yale. In 1915 he obtained his M.A. at New York University. While still an undergraduate at Yale, Dean Kilduff was awarded the james Gordon Bennett Prize in economics and English prose. In 1912 he came to the School of Commerce of New York University. He is a Past President of the National Association of Teachers of Marketing. In 1937 the American Business Writing Association chose him as its president. In addition to the duties he fulfills as an assistant dean, Dean Kildulf is a professor of business English, Chairman of the General Course Department, Chairman of the Curriculum Committee, and Chairman of the Publicity Com- mittee. Dean Kilduff is the author of many text-books on commercial subjects. Included in his writings are: How to Choose and Get a Better job, The Private Secretary, The Stenograjoltens Manual, and the Vocabulary Buildefs Notebook. Within the past year, he became a co-author with Professor McKee and Professor Nyberg of the Business English Department, in writing a book entitled The Studenfs Public Speaking Record Book. Dean Kilduff was also the editor of Business Terms and Expressions in the New Century Dictionary. Dean Kilduff is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Phi Sigma, Sphinx, and Alpha Delta Sigma. His social fraternity is Alpha Kappa Psi. 19