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By Arthur B. Foye ^^^^ Managing Partner, 1946-1956 The world of industry and finance allots marks to a man for enterprise, for activity and energy, for administrative skill, for the power of oral and written expression, and for professional merits. This is especially true when the time is propitious and the opportunity open, and the man has the right background of education. As to the latter, Nicholas Murray Butler, the former president of Columbia University, once said: "These are the five characteristics I offer as evidence of an education: correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue, refined and gentle manners which are the expression of fixed habits of thought and action, the power and habit of reflection, the power of growth and efficiency of the power to do." Similarly Bandolph Bourne, the social critic, said: "Interest and skill in one's work, an acquaintance with the contemporary world, an alert intelligence which is always seeking to diminish the area of things human that are alien to one—a man with this would be truly educated." John W. Queenan would have high marks from the economic and professional worlds, and he has in very great measure the characteristics described by Nicholas Murray Butler and Randolph Bourne. The times were propitious. During his formative years until his coming to Haskins & Sells in 1927, the United States had changed from a debtor to a creditor nation, and had emerged as a great world power deeply involved in world affairs—military, economic, social and political. The gross national product in 1927 was beginning to grow rapidly as were the great corporate entities. The profession of accountancy was ready for expansion of activities and growth in numbers. It was still divided between the American Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Accountants. The total number of certified public accountants in 1927 was less than 10,000 (compared with more than 100,000 today). The Firm itself was thirty years old with a record of high professional and ethical standards and a reputation for fine work and service to clients. In it new technical procedures were being established under the direction of John R. Wildman, who brought John Queenan into the organization and who helped guide and develop the aspiring young accountant. The Firm had 29 partners and 37 offices with a gross of only one fifteenth of that of 1969-1970. Mr. Queenan came into this picture with an excellent academic background. Born January 11, 1906 in Aurora, Illinois, he earned his degree in accountancy at the University of Illinois. When he sat for the CPA examination in Illinois in 1931, he received the Gold Medal Award of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants for achieving the highest grades. Recently it was announced that he will be given the Illini Achievement Award at the commencement exercises at Urbana in June 1970. He spent fifteen months in the Technical Procedures Department of the Executive Office assisting Mr. Wildman, who, recognizing John Queenan's potentialities, felt that he should have some practice office experience and asked him to go to the Newark Office in October 1928. In 1930, because of the serious illness of his widowed
Object Description
Title |
JWQ: John W. Queenan |
Author |
Foye, Arthur Bevins |
Contributor |
Leipzig, Arthur |
Personal Name |
Queenan, John W. Wildman, John Raymond, 1878-1938 Powell, Weldon Carter, Arthur Hazelton |
Portrait |
Queenan, John W. |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells. Newark Office Haskins & Sells. Chicago Office Haskins & Sells. Chicago Office Haskins & Sells. Executive Office |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 07, (1970 spring), p. 02-03 |
Date-Issued | 1970 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte; Photography by Arthur Leipzig; |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1970_Spring-p2-3 |