Howard F. Bennett (1911-1974) Papers 1929-1974

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Howard F. Bennett (1911-1974) Papers 1929-1974

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After a time in the U.S. Naval Reserve which interrupted his studies, Howard Franklin Bennett returned to Harvard in the spring of 1946. The following autumn he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Business History at Northwestern University. Bennett re-enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1951 and served on active duty until 1953 , then in reserve as Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Intelligence Unit at Glenview, Illinois. Bennett attained the rank of Captain in 1960 and retired from the reserve in 1969. After resuming his academic position at Northwestern in 1953, Bennett began work on a history of the Bodine Electric Company, which was published in 1959. Bennett began teaching courses for the Northwestern Institute for Management in 1961, and subsequently served on the Institute curriculum committee. The Bennett papers have been arranged into eleven general categories: Biographical Materials, Undergraduate and Graduate Materials, Correspondence, Department of Business History, Course Materials, Syllabi, and Lecture Notes, Northwestern-Related Activities, Northwestern Institute for Management, Nation Defense Education Act Summer Program, Non-Northwestern Activities, Publications and Unpublished Manuscripts and Restricted.

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