Thayer School News
The social season of the Thayer School years was initiated early last month, following a somewhat hectic opening of the academic year accompanied by pre-season football games and fraternity rushing. The first event of the Thayer School social calendar was a picnic held at Bonnie Oaks and attended by all the members of the school and the faculty. Guests on this occasion were John Minnich '29 and John Hayden, who as superintendent of construction and state inspector respectively had recently opened the new Ledyard Bridge across the Connecticut at Hanover. Interesting facts and information regarding bridge building in general and this job in particular were presented by these men. John Minnich was in rare form, having practiced up on the Dartmouth Scientific Association the week before.
One of the student projects of particular interest to the school this year is the reorganization of the material in the school museum, and the acquisition of many new displays of engineering materials, models, and instruments. This work is being done by F. Byron Tomlinson of the second-year class, who would welcome suggestions, samples, or data regarding anything of historical or current interest in the field of engineering from the alumni or friends of the school.
It is our pleasure even at this late date, to offer congratulations to George E. Chamberlin '11, on the birth of a son in the middle of the last month of May.
Also in the same general category of news I'd like to recommend as a good place for a week-end stopover the palatial residence of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Pasfield and Mr. George H. Pasfield Junior at 389 Penn Road, Wynnewood, Pa. I was fortunate enough to visit these good souls about the time they moved into their new home last summer. The food was excellent and the accommodations clean and comfortable. Incidentally George Junior is a husky lad of one, and he and his father, '29, act each other's age quite remarkably.
I was also fortunate enough during my brief vacation trip this summer to meet up with Al Richmond and Thorndike Saville, classmates in 'l5, at the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech in June.
From this meeting a beautiful drive over the new highway still in the construction stages over the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee took me to Knoxville, where Raymond H. Foss '15 is the engineer in charge of construction and maintenance for the T.V.A. Mr. Foss gave me a warm reception atid kindly arranged a trip through the Norris Dam site, where I saw modern largescale construction practice as it should be practiced.
Visiting alumni at the school during the summer included Phil Thompson '09, Dick Olmsted '33, Arthur J. Coakley '24, John Guppy '24., Arthur V. Ruggles, the hardworking Fletcher Fund agent of the class of 'O3, Arthur C. Tozzer '03, Merit White '31, who has recently received his doctor's degree from California Tech, where he has been an engineering fellow and research assistant, and in a more official capacity Everett M. Stevens '02, representing the Worthington Pump Company.
A personal item in a July issue of the Engineering News-Record noted the transfer of A. H. Ayers '07, who has been chief engineer for Six Companies, Inc., at Boulder Dam, to the Oakland office as chief engineer and secretary to the executive committee of the company. What with the current engagements between II Duce's and Haile Selassie's teams and the more local engagements between Earl Blaik's squad and most of the other outstanding aggregations of the East, reading time for the Thayer School News must be somewhat curtailed at this season; so enough until next month.
'28, Secretary.
