Louis Bevier Van Dyck Jr. (1914-1994) graduated from high school in 1932, before going on to Rutgers College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1936. In 1936 he joined General Electric’s business training course in Schenectady, subsequently holding various accounting and financial posts. In 1950 he was appointed manager of the corporate accounts division of the accounting department, and in 1953 he became manager of the general accounting operations department. Later he became manager of the corporate accounting consolidation and reporting operations, retiring after forty years of service in 1976. He was also treasurer of the General Electric Community Service Fund.

He pioneered in modernizing financial and IT systems in GE – helping shape the way large corporations manage data. In 1953, he was photographed holding a teletype tape while standing next to an IBM punch‑card system – a symbol of the early digital revolution that allowed GE’s plants to “close their books” on the same day for the first time. Numerically-coded teletype tape received coded financial statements from GE's 13 plants in 101 cities and 24 states. Time ordinarily lost in mailing reports to Schenectady is saved by overnight teletype service on GE's lease wires. The tape system also eliminated hours of adding machine work and cuts down on toll calls formerly necessary to take reports delayed or lost in mails. Source: Museum of Innovation & Science, Schenectady
In 1972 he was re-appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to the New York State Business Advisory Committee on Management Improvement, where he was cited for his efforts to advance good relations between the state government and private business. Source: De Halve Maen, The Holland Society of New York, 1995