Thayer School News
Few alumni have visited the school since my last letter, but as this is written we are expecting a considerable visitation this week-end at the time of the Cornell game.
All Thayer School alumni will be interested to learn of the recent merger of the Dartmouth College Tucker Fund and the Robert Fletcher Fund. This new arrangement is the result of a general realization of the basic common interest of both funds, and it is the purpose, of this merger to do away with the unfortunate duplication of efforts by agents of both funds. Complete details of this merger are contained in a letter included with the annual report of the Robert Fletcher Fund soon to be sent to all alumni.
Two regular meetings of the Am. Soc. C. E. Student Chapter have been held during the last month. Illustrated lectures were presented on the Hetch-Hetchy hydraulic development and the Miami River development.
The Thayer School social season opened very informally on October 14 with the annual outing at Bonnie Oaks, attended by all members of the school and faculty. Guests on this occasion were E. H. Hunter '02, Fred Parker '06, Peter S. Dow '11, Don Phinney '34, and John Moulton '37. Edgar H. Hunter gave an interesting talk on his experiences in public, private, and military engineering work. Don Phinney showed a few reels of the construction methods used in building the dams at the Quabbin Development in Massachusetts. John Moulton is employed by the Montpelier and Wells River Railroad.
JEWETT '95 IN SAN DIEGO
John Y. Jewett '95 has informed us recently of his retirement from the engineering department of the city of San Diego, Calif., and his entrance into private practice in Paso Robles, Calif. His practice is consultation work on problems relative to testing materials of construction.
In Harrisburg, Dan Taggart '37 is employed as chief of a surveying party for a private engineering firm now engaged in preparing plans for a new additional water supply for that city.
In charge of the construction by remote control of the new chimney at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover is George
Simpson '30. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my patient readers. Any Christmas presents in the form of news items of yourselves or your friends will be most acceptable. See you in 1938.
