The 1941 Babsonian. - Babson College

JOHN HOLMA:"J GILBERT, JR.
'236 Grand Street, Waterbury, Connecticut
()bjective:
Distribution
Experience:
Retail Store, York Beach, Maine; Naugatuck
Glass Company; Naugatuck, Connecticut
S/Jf'Cial Trail/illg:
Mathematics major; Economics; Salesmanship;
Market Analysis; Advertising
!~ducatioll :
Staunton Military .\cademy, Staunton, Connecticut;
Brown Lniversity (two years); Babson Institute
of Business Administration, Babson Park, Mass.
Extracurricular Activities:
Delta Epsilon; Track; Brown L'niversity; Swimming;
Student Executive Committee; Physical
Activities Committee; Treasurer of Bowling League;
Babson Institute
Perso1lal Data:
.\gc '2 .') ; Single; Height 5' I I"; Weight 155
BACKGROL'ND
Gilbert has lived in different sections of the country.
He attended grade schools in Kentucky and Massachusetts,
and entered Staunton Military Academy in 1932,
graduating four years later. In 1937, he enrolled in
Brown University and trained there for two years. He
enrolled in the Two-Year Course at Babson Institute
after leaving Brown University.
PRACTICAL TRAINING
Gilbert has had an opportunity to pick up, through
practical work in the companies in which he has been
employed, many helpful ideas tha t escape the man who
goes into business without practical training or actual
experIence.
Gilbert seeks a position in the same line of business
his father is in, namely, the copper and brass industry.
At Babson I nstitute, he has taken courses such as
Salesmanship, Marketing, and Advertising, that will
help him most in his ambition to get into salt's work.
As a project in the Statistics courst', he surveyed the copper
industry and prepared an analytical report upon
many phases of it.
THE BUSINESS YL\.'\
Because of the fact that lw has been away from home
for a number of years, Gilbert has the knack of making
himself, his friends and acquaintances fed at home,
wherever tlwy are. He likes to meet people, and with his
sincere and pleasant personality, makes friends easily.
Gilbert has been industrious, resourceful, and forceful
in all work undertaken by him while at Babson Institute.
He is one of the finest young men one would care to
know or associate with in any phase of business .