Thayer School News
This letter is both a beginning and an ending. It is the beginning of a new college year and the ending of your correspondent's activities in the editorial field, or the reportorial field, as it might more properly have been called. Beginning with the November issue the Thayer School News will be owned and operated by Edward S. Brown Jr. '35. As a last request before relinquishing this contact which I have enjoyed with the alumni for the past four years I should like to urge you to keep Ed supplied with news of yourselves, your activities, and your associates so that he may pass it on to the many Thayer School men who have shown real interest in this column. Thanks for the cooperation which you have given me and for your tolerance of news columns which all too often must have left a good deal to be desired and certainly left a good deal to the imagination.
Those who knew Mr. Nettles and Professor Hicks will share the regret of the school in their resignations last summer. Mr. Nettles, who made many friends for himself in the school during his brief connection here, has taken a teaching position in the engineering department of The Citadel in his home state of South Carolina. It is also worthy of note that he is the proud father of another son, born in the South this summer. I know that many join me in congratulations.
Professor Hicks has taken a position with the Bristol Company in Waterbury, Conn. His work has to do with the development of bigger and better flow meters of all descriptions for measuring the flow of what technicians call fluids, which I am led to understand covers rather a broad field from air to grease. We are sorry to lose these two men from our faculty, and they go with our best wishes for success in their new locations.
The work which Mr. Nettles handled last year has been turned over to the abovementioned Edward S. Brown '35, who took up residence in Hanover last July. Since his graduation from Thayer School Ed has been engaged largely in sanitary engineering, and that together with the graduate work which he took at Harvard last year forms an excellent background for his duties here. How he fared in his study at Harvard was briefly mentioned in this column last April, to which reference can now be made with some pride. Many of you who knew them both will be delighted to learn of Ed's marriage on September fourth to Barbara Beetle, who was with us here at Thayer School until last year. The bond between Thayer School and Tuck School is thus further strengthened, for Mrs. Brown is now in charge of the Tuck School library.
Professor Hicks had hardly vacated his office when his successor, Mr. Arthur N. Daniels, took up occupancy. Mr. Daniels spent the summer here, arranging his courses and familiarizing himself with the laboratories and surroundings in general. Originally from California, he was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1931, resigned from the Navy in 1935, and received his degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard in 1936.
The surveying season opened on August 19 with a class of ten men, nine of them in their fourth year at Dartmouth and one a graduate of Massachusetts State College. The surveying project included an extension of the map of the Velvet Rocks hills east of Hanover and a relocation for the road north of the Hanover reservoir, also an extension of the line located last year.
At the opening of College on September 23 five more men joined the first-year class, these being students who plan to transfer to some branch of engineering other than civil after this year. The six civil engineering students in last year's first-year class returned for their second-year work, bringing the total enrollment to twenty-one, the highest for several years.
According to my prediction in the June column, the degree of Civil Engineer was awarded on May 21 to Albert Whiting Doolittle Jr., John Jesse Moulton, Amos Addis Ziegler Jr., and Daniel Brown Taggart.
Commencement last June brought a good turnout of Thayer School alumni to Bissell Hall. Some of these escaped unregistered, but the guest book shows that the following were present: Ray T. Gile '79, W. H. Balch '9B, L. B. Farr 'O3, H. E. Plumer 'O3, A. C. Tozzer 'O3, E. T. Richards 'O9, C. E. Locke 'l2, R. E. Baker 'l3, G. H. Farrington '13, Samuel Hobbs '13, E. I. Mitchell '13, M. G. Snow '13, V. C. Smith '20, F. M. Auer '28, Mauritz Hedlund '28, D. E. Jennette '28, S. E. Butterfield '33, A. H. Childs '33, R. W. Olmstead '33, A. P. Whitehill '33, and W. W. Bradt '36.
Visitors during the summer have included Ray T. Gile '79, R. P. Johnson '31, W. M. Silleck 'OB, G. M. Hall '35, Ed Hill '35, Ed Coakley '33, Charles R. Main '08, Burt Sherwood '3l, and F. B. Tomlinson '36. Owing to necessary restrictions on the number of pages devoted to any one letter the news of these men must unfortunately be held over until next month.
The final report of the Robert Fletcher Fund campaign for 1937 will be sent out this fall, but in the meantime it will be of interest to many to learn that contributions were received from 193 men totaling over $2,200.
Dean Garran spent his summer in Hanover, and I managed to tear myself away for a couple of fairly warm months in New York City getting a line on construction methods as an inspector for the state of New York on a bridge job at the site of the now-famous 1939 New York World's Fair. Take it away, Ed Brown.
