David Carson Dougherty ’34

Dave Dougherty, a former management consultant on organization problems, including strategy, planning, compensation, and personnel, died Aug. 29, 1996. A past president of the Chicago chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management, he was the author of Strategic Organization Planning: Downsizing for Survival (Quorum Books, 1969). He had been an organization planner on the staffs of the War Production Board, Air Technical Service Command, Merck & Co., Chrysler Corp., Allied Products Corp., and the First Natl. Bank of Chicago, among others.

Since 1947, after a stint in Caracas, Venezuela, with the Creole Petroleum Corp., Dave was active in the American Management Assn., where he was a fellow and honorary life member. In 1982 he was required to retire at the age of 70. "I was so distressed at retiring at the height of my powers," he wrote, "that I testified before Congress in favor of eliminating mandatory retirement. The legislation was passed by Congress unanimously."

Dave is survived by his wife of nearly 51 years, the former Bonnie-Mason Throckmorton, a 1944 graduate of Syracuse U.; a son, DavidMason; and a daughter, LeeMerrick. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934