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Autumn.2013Final_layout 8/1/13 12:47 PM Page 12 The Deans List 1923-1935 Clarence Marsh 1935-1947 Ralph Epstein 1947-1960 Harold Somers 1960-1963 Arthur Butler (Acting Dean) 1963-1964 Simon Rottenberg 1964-1968 James Schindler {1923-present} 1990-1994 Howard Foster (Interim Dean) 1994-1997 Frederick Winter 1997-1998 John Thomas (Interim Dean) 1998-2001 Lewis Mandell 2001-2002 Jerry Newman (Interim Dean) A "state-of-the-art" classroom in the Jacobs Management Center, which opened in 1985. departments were called together and told that there was not enough money to go around; the banks would refuse to lend us any more. There was no alternative but to accept a salary cut. Thus we learned the word 'retrenchment' the hard way." Enrollment stabilized between 1932 and 1942, never falling below 200 and never rising above 300. "Those were lean years for the university and at times we hardly knew whether it could be held together," McGarry wrote. In 1942, enrollment began to drop further and by the following year, selective service had reduced the student body to a mere handful. An Engineering, Science and Defense Training (ESDT) program was established. In those days, according to McGarry, "We attempted to serve our country by giving pre-flight training to would-be officers of the air corps. The faculty had to bend its teaching of economics, labor and marketing to the Army's demand for strategy, tactics and logistics. Dean Somers taught physics. My own experience in handling the horses in field of artillery in the first World War was a little old fashioned for the Air Force, so I was assigned to teach, of all things, celestial navigation." The turning tide 1968-1976 Richard Brandenburg 1977-1990 Joseph Alutto (Acting Dean for first year) 12 Buffalo Business Autumn 2013 2002-2008 John Thomas 2008-present Arjang Assad When the hosts of GIs began to return from war in 1945, the school faced different challenges. "In 1946, we had 1,364 students, six times as many as we had in 1942. The big problem was where to find teachers and where to find a place to put the students," McGarry recalled. "When the GIs left, we eventually dropped back to about 500, about double our pre-war enrollment." In 1949, the school honored Melvin H. Baker, president and founder of National Gypsum, with the inaugural Executive of the Year award, an annual tradition that continues to this day.