Thayer School
IF IT WERE a cold day Hanover could be called bleak, but the temperature being what it is and the streets sloppy as they are and the campus mottled a dirty greengray our usually beautiful town can only be called barren. And looking into my files labeled "Alumni—news of" I find that they, in apparent sympathy with the season, are also barren.
I do recall that Ed Foley '34 was here during our Christmas vacation with skis and a miscroscope looking for a little snow, and bearing up nicely under what must have been a great disappointment in weather conditions to him as to hundreds of others who journeyed north at that time to try our trails.
Ed brought the news that classmate Walt Douglas has returned to this section of the country and is working knee-deep in the Flushing meadows, preparing for the World's Fair of 1939.
During the vacation the faculty made an inspection trip to Fred Auer's job at West Lebanon, where Fred '28, genially has everything under control, with the temporary bridge about completed and the demolition of the old structure appearing from a vantage point under it to be merely a matter of giving it a gentle shove.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Among the Christmas greetings was a card announcing the engagement of Barney Tomlinson '36 to Kay Baum of Bridgeport, Conn., where Barney is in the construction business. Contemporaries of Barney's will remember Kay with pleasure and join me in congratulations to him.
The announcement of the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York in January lists a lecture and motion picture film to be presented by C. F. Goodrich '06, on the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and a discussion for the Water Resources Committee of the National Resources Committee by Thorndike Saville '15, on the collection and publication of hydrological data.
A letter from John Guppy '24 tells of his activity in connection with the steel work for both the West Lebanon bridge and the new tied-arch bridge across the Connecticut River at Orford. The contract has recently been let for the latter, and construction is to begin soon. The American Bridge Company is furnishing the steel for both bridges.
After the Thayer Society meetings of January I hope to have a wealth of news, particularly about the alumni of the Boston and New York districts; so the prospects for next month's letter are somewhat brighter.
