Thayer School News
As this letter is being written, the thirtyinch blanket of snow which beautified the campus and hills for the first week after New Year's day is rapidly being disintegrated by one of those foggy spring rains, and the six-inch covering remaining is anything but beautifying in effect.
Ed Coakley '33 came to town a few days ago for a taste of winter sports, and seems even less pleased than the rest of us with the weather. Ed is working for the North American Oil Refining Company, and his friends will be interested to hear that he has not lost weight in the rigors of competitive business.
B. O. McCoy '34 came to town last weekend from Concord, where he has been employed with the Highway Department.
By the time this letter appears in print the annual meeting of the Thayer Society will have been held in New York City, and a meeting of Thayer alumni from the Boston district will have been held. The events of these meetings will be recorded next month.
A notice appeared in Civil Engineering for December that Otis E. Hovey '89 has accepted an appointment to serve as the representative of the American Society of Civil Engineers on the United Engineering Trustees, Inc.
Notification was recently received from the executive committee of the Thayer Society that the Thayer Prize for the best student paper written during the year '933-34 has been awarded to Robert Colborn '34, for his paper, "The Binary Vapor Cycle." High honorable mention was awarded to A. J. Cotton '35, for his paper, "Activated Sludge." Cotton is now taking second-year work at the School.
Professor Fletcher has received many acknowledgments and notes of appreciation from former students of the School for the fine Christmas letter which was sent to alumni last month, telling of the activities of himself and the School. The news items that follow have been taken from these letters.
Luther S. Oakes '00, who was in Hanover for his thirty-fifth reunion last June, writes interestingly from Minneapolis re garding the tremendous engineering works now in progress in the West. One of these projects, the driving of eight miles of sixteen-foot tunnel in Southern California, is being done by the Winston Bros. Company, of which Mr. Oakes is the president.
John Y. Jewett '95, who is testing engineer for the city of San Diego, Calif., forwarded a copy of the discourse of Rev. Wm. Forshaw of that city, who conducted the funeral services for Hiram N. Savage '90, whose death last June was reported in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for October.
E. P. Dewey 'B6 writes so interestingly of his days in Hanover that I cannot refrain from quoting in part: "I probably remember you long before the time at which you have any recollection of me. It was probably soon after you came to Hanover. I remember the town meeting in Tenney's Hall at Etna, then known as Mill Village, N. H. Huntington moderator. You were there with a book under your arm, and after voting, while others were gossiping and discussing crops, awaiting the counting of votes, you would retire to that bench that extended along the westerly side of the hall, and improve the time with your book. Meanwhile I was a small boy, acting as the only Mill Village restaurant, having a basket on my arm, selling fresh doughnuts two for five."
Frank W. Newhall '02, who is chief engineer of the Republic Steel Corporation's Northern Coal Mines, writes, enclosing a copy of Technical Publication No. 577 of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers as "evidence that despite the grind and drive of our business life, there has been a little time for study of a subject quite vital to mining." The subject of the paper, of which Mr. Newhall is part author, is the subsidence of the ground surface above one of their mines.
Charles H. Cheney '88 writes from his home in South Manchester, Conn., to thank Professor Fletcher for his letter and to recall the memories of his days under Professor Fletcher's guidance in Hanover. Mr. Cheney has just been retired from Cheney Brothers and the silk industry after forty-four years of intensive service.
