DIRECTORS: Good Worker

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Captains of the crew are traditionally strong in heart and head as well as arm. No exception was Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard's 1924 crew captain. "Buz" Henry, who was also Ibis of the Lampoon, and librettist of the Hasty Pudding show, graduated cum laude, published a novel, married rich Harry Payne Whitney's daughter Barbara.

Back from a year at Oxford, Barklie Henry worked for the Boston American, Atlantic Monthly, became managing editor of Youth's Companion. Suddenly in 1928 he dropped out of sight. Close friends knew he had a job with New York's Guaranty Trust Co., but the job was so small that Guaranty's telephone operators seldom recognized his name.

"Buz" Henry quit Guaranty in 1931, having quietly acquired a financial background that fitted him to handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive.

After he went in for a career of good works he made good friends with Walter Sherman Gifford, president of both American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and New York's Charity Organization Society. Last week 37-year-old Barklie Henry was elected a member of A. T. & T.'s 19-man board of directors, filling the vacancy created last fall by the death of Edward D. Duffield, president of Prudential Insurance Co.

Rangy, bespectacled Good Worker Henry, who is too modest to list himself in Who's Who, almost perfectly fulfills SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' definition of the disinterested professional director (see below).