Thayer School News
With the advent of spring to Hanoverwe know it's come because the hydrants have been uncovered, the drains have been steamed, the duckboards have come and gone, and even the wire fences are beginning to make their appearance—the Thayer School activities settle into the home stretch. The first-year students lay aside their senior canes often enough to separate the space diagrams from the force polygons, and the second-year students are beginning to have those twinges which come when you know you're leaving Hanover, perhaps for good, this month.
The spring meeting of the overseers will be held at the time of granting the Civil Engineer degrees to the second-year students, May 22 this year. Any time after that date the new graduates will go out to work. There are still a couple of men in the graduating class who are open to offers of jobs, and we should appreciate hearing from any one interested in the services of these men. Some of the first-year men are interested in summer employment before returning to their second-year work here. They will be free between June 6 and September 15, and we should like to help them in finding engineering work for that period.
Fred R. Davis '95, whose home is in Goffstown, N. H., writes that he has been engaged in inspection work near Binghamton, .N. Y„ and in Dansville, Va. and points south. Between inspection trips he still calls Goffstown his home.
A letter from G. H. Hutchinson '84, now living in Pittsburgh, recalls the visit made at his home, then in St. Paul, by Professor Fletcher and Professor Holden in their circumferential tour of the United States in 1915. The memory of this event seems to be as vivid in the minds of those who received Professor Fletcher as it always was in his own mind.
Many tributes have been received from Professor Fletcher's students since his death. One of the most apt, coming as it did from a man who is himself prominent in the field of engineering education, was received from M. O. Withey '05, who is professor of mechanics at the University of Wisconsin. His letter says, in part, "To mymind, he was one of the outstanding teachers in the country. So far as my acquaintance goes, there was no one who was moreinteresting in the classroom and who had abroader grasp of the theme than did Professor Fletcher."
An announcement is made in the April issue of Civil Engineering of the presentation by Six Companies, Inc., of a silvermedallion to A. H. Ayers '07, in recognition of his service as their chief engineer on the Boulder Dam project.
The Robert Fletcher Fund is under way again, and the responses once more testify the continuing loyalty of the alumni to the school. More news next month.
