The Business School recently named two professors praised for their teaching ability to endowed professorships.

Anthony G. Athos, an expert in managerial and organizational behavior whom Time magazine called "one of ten great college teachers" in a 1966 article, was named Strauss Professor of Business Administration. Jesse Insider Strauss' sons established the chair in 1973 in memory of their father, a retailer and philanthropist.

Charles J. Christenson, a specialist in management control, was named Little Professor of Business Administration. Friends and associates of Royal Little, founder of Textron, Inc., endowed the chair in 1966 as a birthday gift to the entrepreneur.

Tom Janes '77, a second-year B-School student and communications chairman of the school's General Affairs Committee, yesterday lauded both men as two of the "best professors at the school, with excellent reputations among the students."

Both men graduated from the B-School as Baker Scholars, the school's highest academic distinction. Christenson graduated in 1954 and Athos in 1964.

Athos returned in 1966 as assistant dean and director of admissions, while Christenson has been at the school since he began in 1957 as an instructor. Christenson also serves as treasurer of the Telluride Association, the educational foundation that funds programs for gifted high school students.