Dartmouth in T. V. A
Dartmouth men in Knoxville, Tennessee, all of whom are connected with the P. V. Authority, hold meetings occasionally. The last get-together was on September 11.
This meeting was for the purpose of having a noon-hour Last Supper in honor of Fritz Mosher '33, who has resigned from T. V. A., where he has been doing research. He enters Syracuse's School of Citizenship and Public Affairs this fall, hot on the trail of a graduate degree. His brother just arrived in Knoxville a month ago (Dick Mosher, to carry on the family torch in T. V. A.'s harassed but capable (we hope) legal division. Milton Smith, one time Poly Sci professor and now chief of T. V. A.'s Classification Section was present, and also H. P. Emerson 'B3, chief of the Agricultural Division.
The meal served as an initiation banquet for Ellsworth Weed '23, who is Dartmouth's latest newcomer to the Authority, being an engineer, and coming direct from the tide-harnessing outfit of Passamaquoddy Bay.
We had the pleasure, a couple of lunches ago, of having Professor McKaye of Thayer School with us. His home is in Knoxville. Incidentally, since Knoxville is a bit off the beaten path of Dartmouth men, we wish all of the Big Green species that do come our way would drop in and get in touch with us.
According to the calendar four months have gone by since one of these news letters last flowed from the pen of your correspondent. The pile of notices and news before me testify to much the same thing, so it must be only in my own mind that the last letter was written yesterday.
The surveying season started according to schedule on August 13 with a promising class of six prospective civil engineers: J. B. Arborio Jr., M. R. Butler Jr., J. W. Coggeshall, D. M. Mann, and S. R. Stearns of the senior class, and F. R. Drury of the class of '26, who has returned to take the Thayer School course. Four other members of the senior class and one graduate joined this group at the formal opening of college on September 17 to take the first-year courses preparatory to pursuing some other line of engineering at the completion of this year's work here: C. M. Adams, C. W. Demmon Jr., H. W. Pierce Jr., E. Timson, and H. S. Hirst '36.
The second-year class, consisting of J. G. Bouker, A. W. Doolittle Jr., J. J. Moulton, and A. A. Ziegler Jr., who finished the firstyear work last year and D. B. Taggart, who completed his first-year work in 1934 and has returned after two years' practical work to take the second-year work, has been on the job since September 17.
The teaching personnel has been increased this year by the addition to the faculty of last year of Hill Reid Nettles, C.E., M.S., who is in charge of highway engineering, office practice, graphic statics, and sanitary engineering. Mr. Nettles has had teaching experience at Lehigh University, and several years of practical experience with the South Carolina Highway Department and other organizations. He has been in Hanover since the first of July, getting his courses organized and absorbing the spirit of the Thayer School. Miss Barbara Beetle, who has been secretary of the School for three years, has taken a position as librarian for the Tuck School, and goes to her new work with our best wishes for a pleasant and successful association. Her position here has been taken by Miss Mildred Smith, 5.8., a graduate of Simmons College.
During the summer Professor Hicks has been putting the finishing touches on the newly equipped electrical and hydraulic laboratories, and has had the pleasure of showing these laboratories and the rest of the school's plant to visiting alumni as they have dropped in during the vacation season. Dean Garran spent several weeks on valuation work for the State of Vermont in connection with an extensive Hood-control program to be put into effect by the construction of retention dams throughout that state; and together with myself has been engaged in a valuation study of the Cheshire Bridge across the Connecticut river between Springfield, Vt., and Charlestown, N. H. In addition to this work, I have occupied myself during the summer with the International Conference on Foundations and Soil Mechanics held at Harvard in June as a feature of the tercentenary celebration, and following this remarkably fine conference, with inspection trips to cement factories, the Bethlehem Steel Company and other engineering projects. As mentioned above, Mr. Nettles has been orienting himself in Hanover, and he and I were in charge of the surveying season for five weeks before college opened.
The awarding of the degree of Civil Engineer to the graduating class took place in the Thayer School library on May 23. On the morning of that day the board of overseers met in Hanover for their annual spring meeting, interviewed each of the candidates for the degree individually. These personal interviews proved to be pleasant and worthwhile both from the point of view of the Board and of the candidates, and it is planned to continue this method. The degrees were awarded by Dean Gray, the President's representative in his absence, to G. E. Elsenhans, W. D. Lamson, R. M. Morse, G. S. Spencer, and F. B. Tomlinson.
Visitors to the School at Commencement and reunion time in June included F. E. Austin, L. S. Oakes 'OO, F. E. Cudworth 'O2, J. W. Crowell 'O2, F. B. Marsh 'O2, W. F. Rugg 'O2, G. A. Sampson 'O3, F. W. Welch 'OB, P. L. Thompson 'O9, R. H. Ellis 'l7, G. H. Pasfield '29, O. S. Hobbs '32, C. A. Babbitt '32, C. H. Thomas '32, C. B. Griggs '33, and S. E. Butterfield '33.
A. W. French '92, reelected member of the board of overseers at their spring meeting, attended his forty-fifth reunion.
F. H. Stowell 'O5 visited the school early in June. His daughter has been teaching in a nursery school in Hanover during the past year.
A. C. Tozzer 'O3 visited the school on his way through Hanover returning from a vacation trip to Quebec.
The sudden death of Edwin J. Morrison '93, on July 1 at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., was a shock to all alumni of the school who have known him through many years of faithful service to Thayer School, as a member of the board of overseers and as a special adviser to the School and to the Thayer Society, which he helped to found and maintain. His loss will be deeply felt by all those with whom he had contacts.
We were saddened also to hear of the death of S. J. Lord '96, who worked as engineer for the state of New Hampshire for many years. He died in Center Harbor on June 2.
Recent graduates particularly will be shocked to hear of the death of Bob McDonough '2B. Bob was on the job of relocating railroad tracks near the Tygarts Valley Dam, West Va., when he was struck in the head by timbers falling in a tunnel. He died a few hours later. He is survived by a widow and three children, to whom we offer our deepest sympathy.
News of the activities and whereabouts of the alumni will have to wait until the next letter, owing to space limitations at this time. So be on the lookout for the November letter.
Thayer School News
