Taylor Society

The Taylor Society was created in 1912 at the New York Athletic Club by followers of Frederick W. Taylor, including Frank Gilbreth, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Robert Kent, Conrad Lauer (for Charles Day), and Wilfred Lewis.

In 1925 the Society declared that it 'welcomes to membership all who have become convinced that "the business men of tomorrow must have the engineer-mind".'

The Taylor Society merged with the Society of Industrial Engineers in 1936, forming the Society for Advancement of Management.

At the entry of the United States into World War One in 1917, the Society's membership numbered around 100.

Prominent interwar members included Lyndall Urwick, William Leffingwell, Harlow S. Person, Lillian Gilbreth, Mary van Kleeck, Henry Gantt, Sanford E. Thompson, Richard Feiss, Hans Renold, Henri Le Châtelier and Oliver Sheldon.

From 1919, the Society's permanent secretary was Harlow S. Person.

By 1925 the expanded Taylor Society had 800 members.

The Society's president from 1919-1921 was Henry S. Dennison, owner of Dennison Manufacturing Co. Paper Box Factory. In 1927 its President was Morris Llewellyn Cooke and in 1932 Sanford E. Thompson.

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