Thayer School News
If there are any constant readers of this column, and if you happen to be one, you may have noted, particularly in last month's issue, a preponderance of T.S.C.E.'s, which have been used for the combined effect of indicating the class in which the alumni referred to were listed in the Thayer School, and of filling up space in the column when the volume of news received by your correspondent reached new lows. In order to save the typesetter from premature senility and the reader from unbecoming ennui, it has been decided to omit this notation, and, unless otherwise noted, the class given will henceforth refer to the individual's Thayer School listing, and not to his college class. It is with regret that we note the passing on February 15 of Frank Lyon Wheaton '86, at his home in Buffalo, N. Y. Before his retirement from active service Mr. Wheaton was civil engineer for thirty years with the D. L. & W. railroad. He was in charge of some of the company's largest engineering jobs, one of the most notable of these being the erection of the Tunkhannock viaduct between Binghamton and Scranton, Pa.
The members of the second-year class were graciously presented last month with complimentary copies of Trautwine's Pocket Book by Major William H. Balch '98. The letter accompanying the books was so interesting and so pertinent to the present times that I quote part of it. "I hope the young men will use thesebooks as much as I have used mine. I cannot wish that they may use them in asmany strange places as I have—nor in suchdangerous conditions—but we live in astrange world and each man has to workout his own life, as God sends it to him.I wish they would copy this saying of Marshal Foch, which I copied from the textbook he wrote when teaching in the FrenchWar College long before the great war. 'Detoutes les fautes, une seule est infamante:L'inaction.'—We sail S. S. San Jacinto fromNew York, February 24. My address for thenext two months: Santo Domingo City,Dominican Republic, West Indies."
A copy of the Maine Alumnus of last month includes an article written by A. H. Ayers '07, chief engineer of the Six Companies, Inc., at present engaged in the construction of the world's largest project, the Boulder Dam. Mr. Ayers has written for the Maine Alumnus a brief description of this project in charge of Francis T. Crowe, Maine '05, who is superintendent and general manager of the Six Companies. The article is a tribute to Mr. Crowe as well as to the relations existing between the superintendent and the chief engineer of this giant project.
Word has recently been received to the effect that Hank Salisbury '31 is a lieutenant in the air service, is married, and is at present residing at 195 West 10th St., New York City.
Gordon Lane '33, who has been working with the CWA surveying a line near Barre, Vt., paid a visit to the school early last month.
I am surprised once each month at the fact that enough news trickles in to enable me to write the column for the following month. I hope that it may be of interest to the alumni, and if not, may I respectfully suggest that a few letters written from strategic sources might, I am sure, provide much interesting and pertinent news.
WLLIAM P. Hanover, N. H.
