New partners;

              8 HASKINS & SELLS
New Partners
IT IS with pleasure that we announce the
admission to the firm, as of June 1,
1931, of Messrs. 0. N . Hutchinson, H . W.
Welsch, T. V. Barb and M . M . Stone.
ORION NEELY HUTCHINSON
Mr. Hutchinson joined our Baltimore
staff as an assistant accountant on July 30,
1917, after graduation from Eastman Col­lege,
Poughkeepsie, New York. He be­came
assistant manager of our Baltimore
office on January 1, 1924, and was ap­pointed
manager of the newly opened office
at Charlotte, North Carolina, December
1, 1925.
Mr. Hutchinson is a certified public ac­countant
of the states of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Tennessee, and has
been active in the North Carolina Associa­tion
of Certified Public Accountants, hav­ing
served as director, vice-president, and
president of that association. He is also a
member of the American Institute of
Accountants.
HENRY WILLIAM WELSCH
Mr. Welsch joined the staff of the Chi­cago
office on January 8, 1920, after at­tending
Northwestern University. He rose
from the grade of junior assistant account­ant,
passed through the successive grades,
and became a manager of the Chicago
office on January 1, 1929.
Mr. Welsch has specialized in tax work.
He is a C. P. A. of the State of Indiana, a
member of the American Institute of Ac­countants,
and recently passed the exami­nation
in Illinois.
THOMAS VIRGIL BARB
Mr. Barb entered the organization as an
assistant accountant by way of the Balti­more
office, July 14, 1919, after having at­tended
George Washington University, at
Washington, D. C. His progress in the or­ganization
has been by way of the Philadel­phia
office, to which he was transferred on
January 1, 1920, from Baltimore, and the
Providence office, of which he was ap­pointed
assistant manager on August 1,
1926, becoming manager of that office,
November 1, 1926. For two years follow­ing
the fall of 1922, he served as comp­troller
of J . L . Mott Company, Trenton,
New Jersey.
Mr. Barb is a C. P. A. of Rhode Island,
a member of the American Institute of Ac­countants,
and has been active in civic af­fairs
in Rhode Island. On April 20, 1931,
he was elected vice-president of the Rhode
Island Society of Certified Public Account­ants.
Mr. Barb has the high honor and distinc­tion
of having received a citation and the
Croix de Guerre for exceptional courage in
sticking to his battery, after having been
badly wounded, at Soissons, France, dur­ing
the Great War. He left the artillery
service as a captain. Concerning his serv­ices,
one of his superior officers in the Field
Artillery said:
"I consider that Barb made an excep­tional
record for himself and I felt that he
was one of the ablest, nerviest, and most
loyal of the junior officers of the regiment.
He has a natural gift for handling men, as
well as figures."
MILON MARSHALL STONE
Mr. Stone became connected with the
New York 39th Street practice office on
November 2, 1925, after several years of
practice on his own account. He was ad­vanced
to the grade of manager of that
office, January 1, 1929, and on October 1,
1930, was transferred to our Chicago office
as a manager.
Mr. Stone is a C. P. A. of the State of
Connecticut, a member of the American
Institute of Accountants, and recently
passed the Illinois examination.
July