Deceased September 13, 2015

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In Memory

James Madden “Jim” Hund ’44 passed away in Atlanta on Sept. 13, 2015. He was emeritus professor of management and former dean of Emory University School of Business, now the Goizueta Business School.

A Phi Beta Kappa and member of the Chi Psi fraternity, Jim graduated six months early at the end of 1943, when he joined the U.S. Navy, serving in the South Pacific. After the war he worked for Reo Motors in Lansing, Mich., before entering Princeton University, earning his doctorate in economics in 1954. There he and his wife became lifelong friends with Bill Ward, the College’s 16th president, and his wife, Barbara.

After teaching for three years at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., he moved to Emory University in 1957 where he taught and was dean (1965–68) until his retirement in 1987. In 2001 he received the Goizueta Business School Lifetime Achievement Award.

Especially passionate about music, he was a life director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and an active supporter and board member of the Friends of Music at Emory University and the Georgia Chamber Players. Physically active until very recent years, he loved to travel, bicycle, ski and play tennis.

A consummate gentleman, Jim was a loving husband, father and grandfather, a loyal friend and a professor who remained in touch with many of his former students. He was predeceased by his wife, Nancy Black Hund, in 1967. He survived by his wife of 46 years, Barbara McKnight Hund; daughters Marcia and Gretchen; a stepson; a stepdaughter; five grandchildren; and five nieces.

Jim is remembered by his classmates as a warm, friendly person who was mindful of the needs of others. He served as an effective, on-time class agent for many years and class president in his later years.

Tom Dorman (son of Parker Dorman)

50th Reunion

James M. Hund
One September morning in 1941 Ted Haley and I got off the Wolverine in Palmer and waited together for the one-car Central of Vermont "train" to take us to Amherst .Going the "wrong" way to Amherst, we encountered no other students Amherst-bound that morning. I was transferring from Stanford, Ted from the College of Puget Sound. By signing up in the Naval Reserve l was able to graduate with about 45 others in October 1943.As a supply officer on a PT boat tender I spent the remainder of the war "swinging around the hook" in the Southwest Pacific, and President Truman saved me from the invasion of Japan.

After release from active duty in 1946, I went to work for Rec Motors in Lansing, Michigan. In January 1950 I made two big decisions: to ask Nancy Black to marry me and to go to graduate school for a PhD in economics, my major at Amherst under the careful tutelage of Colston Warne .She agreed and Princeton did too, and I emerged in 954 with the PhD and went to teach at Clark University in Worcester.

We moved to Emory in Atlanta in 1958 where I worked in the business school until retirement in 1987.From 1965 to 1968 I served as dean of the school, but gave up that position a year after Nancy died of cancer in 1967. My two young daughters needed more attention from me than a dean's job would permit.

In January 1969 I met Barbara Roberts at our church. One of our first dates was hearing Dick Wilbur read his poetry. On June 6 we were married, thus giving us both two more children to care for. We both work to support the music program at Emory and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. I have served on the latter's board for 12 years. We are also active in our local church and I volunteer each week at a local children's hospital. For five years after retirement I did outplacement counseling.

James Hund
Our travels have taken us to many interesting places in the world. For exercise we both play tennis regularly and ski two weeks each winter in the West. My oldest daughter and her family live in Colorado, so we mix skiing with a family visit. We also enjoy visiting my second daughter and her husband in Seattle. Barbara's two children live in Atlanta, her daughter and her husband with our only "in-town" grandchild and her son single and working locally.

Being class secretary these past 5 years has been an enjoyable opportunity to touch base with the far-flung members and l look forward to seeing everyone at the 50th reunion.