The 1941 Babsonian. - Babson College

BACKGROUND
MARK D. PERKINS
273 :\TorLh Heights, Youngstown, Ohio
O~jecliv(':
Distribution· -Salrs and Advertising
ExperieJIcc :
Summcr Work in a Warehouse; Radio Salrsman;
Ore Handler at a Blast Furnace; Steel Mill \/Vork
Special Trail/il/g:
Distribution: Financc; Production: Salesmanship;
Advertisin.~
Educatiol/ :
Rayen High School; Purdue Vniversity; Babson
Institute or Business Administration, Babson Park,
Massachusetts.
Extracurricular Activities:
Delta epsilon Fraternity, Football Manager, Purdue
Cniversity; Religious Activities Committee,
Advertising Staff, 194' BABSONIAN, Bowling Committee,
Intramural Sports, Alpha Delta Sigma,
Babson Institute
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Stiff practical experience has been the lot of Perkills
during past years. He has had an opportunity to view a
cross-section of the industrial world quite clearly for Iw
has held a variety of summer jobs in diverse branches 0('
business. From actual experience in these jobs, he has
become acquainted with many of the policies and meth-
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ods employed by business organizations. He enrolled at
Babson Institute, after realizing that one can only be
'qualified for executive positions through practical hU'iiness
education.
PRACTICAL TR.\INING
Perkins has been employed during his summn vacations,
as a radio salesman, as an ore handler at a blast
furnace, at various other odd jobs in a steel mill, and also
as a warehouseman. This diversified job training has
made Perkins realize the immense advantages of his
business training at Babson Institute. Here, he has
Iearnt'd the correlation of all departments 0(' business
including the Production, Finance, and Distribution
phases. He is sympathetic to, and readily adaptable to
Sales and Advertising work as he has specialized in these
fif'ids.
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THE BUSINESS MAN
Perkins is a young man who fits well into the spmt
of modern business. Industry and business today welcome
men of great dependability and fine character;
men who are painstaking and hard workf'rs. Perkins has
shown his many friends at Babson Institute th