Thayer School News
From occasional reports of engineering and construction acquaintances, and more immediately from talking with various engineers in New York, I am led to believe there is a considerable boom in the building field just now. This is good news for many of our alumni, I know, and has made the placing of the second-year students a pleasant task. There are still several firstyear students, however, who would like summer employment, and if there are jobs available for these men Dean Garran would very much appreciate being advised of openings. These men are generally available for employment from June 15 to September 15.
The spring term was opened by John '29, who talked to the engineering law class on contract bonds and legal phases of construction work. John makes his headquarters in Lebanon, and is working in the bridge department of the New Hampshire Highway Department. At present he is acting bridge engineer for the state in the absence of John W. Childs '11, temporarily inactive because of poor health.
Barney Tomlinson '36 also writes of the construction boom in Bridgeport, and mentions a corollary commented on also by John Minnich, namely the spring-up of cheap construction methods and results along with the fly-by-night contractors who raised so much havoc with the building industry several years ago.
Chan Griggs '33 has left the New Hampshire Highway Department to take a job with the Phoenix Engineering Corporation, and can now be found at 168 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Charles R. Chase '02 visited the school in March. He is principal grade separation engineer for the New York Public Service Commission, and lives in Albany. He has a son majoring in chemistry at Dartmouth.
Ken Lieber '37, who has been working for the New Hampshire Highway Department, has left there to take a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad. He is the second Thayer School man to go with them since Mr. Trowbridge's visit to the school last spring, Ed Elsenhans '36 having started last fall.
Byron O. McCoy '34 has left his position with the Forestry Department in Vermont to go with W. P. Creager, a prominent foundation engineer in Buffalo. Mac finds his work extremely interesting, most of his time being devoted to work on a book on dams and foundations being prepared by Mr. Creager.
A good letter from Don Phinney '34 tells of the activities at Enfield, where he is now second in charge of the soil testing and laboratory for the big earth dams of the Quabbin reservoir project. Since that letter he has had a vacation in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and by this time he's probably back testing dirt again. Don says he has received an announcement of Gordon Lane's ('34) wedding, which is more than we have; so for the time being that's all I can tell you about that.
An announcement appeared in TheDartmouth recently that the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa had elected Otis E. Hovey '89 an honorary alumni member of the chapter. Congratulations to our overseer on this recognition of his attainments.
On the basis that it's better late than never I should like to record that Dick Olmsted has moved to Springfield, Mass., 'way last year sometime, where he is working for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. His home address is 157 Westford Circle, Springfield.
George Metzger '35 visited Hanover late in March in quest of a city planning expert. George has become interested in beautifying the home town—Buffalo, N. Y. —and you should see the prospecti, documenta, chartulae, and figurae which he has prepared to show both the technic and results of city planning. You really should, if you're interested in the subject. They're good.
Perley Clogston '23 has moved to Washington, D. C., where he can be reached at the Annapolis Hotel, Room 1027.
Shaw Cole '31 dropped into Hanover one week-end last month from Granville, N. Y., where he is representing the Pitometer Company of New York on a job. He was here for the annual C. and G. get-together, but stayed over an extra evening to teach the Thayer School faculty some contract. Shaw's game is improving, and with a little practice he should make a good player.
Jim Dunn's '35, address is 322 Beaver St., Sewickley, Pa.
Thayer School feels the loss of Dean Gray, and expresses its sympathy to the faculty and students of Tuck School. He was always friendly and helpful to us, and through him the cooperative course in business administration offered to our second-year students by his faculty has become a valuable feature of the Thayer School curriculum.
Dean Garran has been busy signing sophomore "Thayer School major" cards, and enrolling juniors in the first-year class for next fall. Three sons of Thayer School alumni are headed for entrance to the school next fall: E. H. Hunter Jr. whose father was in the class of '02; C. T. Main 2d, whose father was in the class of '08; and W. J. Roby, whose father was in the class of '06 s far as I am able to determine, this is an all-time high for sons.
The annual meeting of the Thayer School alumni in the Boston district has been scheduled for May 14, and will be attended by Dean Garran and myself as representatives of the Thayer School. A notice of the exact time and place of the meeting and of the program planned will be mailed to alumni in the Boston district shortly.
