Thayer School Notes
As this column goes to press, the annual Summer School will be winding up its five weeks of intensive surveying for the first-year Thayer School men. The field work this year consists of topographic work on Velvet Rocks and the laying out of a highway line between the upper and lower reservoirs.
At the annual spring meeting of the overseers on May 27 the degree of Civil Engineer was awarded to the following men on the satisfactory completion of the second-year work: Morgan Robert Butler Jr., Jonathan Wright Coggeshall, Francis Remington Drury, David Morton Rand, and Stephen Russell Stearns. The graduation exercises were conducted by Dr. John F. Gile of the Dartmouth Medical School. At these exercises the Thayer Society Prize was awarded to Henry C. Beck, a first-year student, for his paper, "Labor and the Construction Industry."
It is with sadness that we record the untimely death on May 17 of Henry ("Hank") Salisbury '31. Hank and Mrs. Salisbury with their two children, Richard, three years old, and Judith, two and onehalf months, were returning from Los Angeles on a new Lockheed airliner, the construction of which Hank had been superintending, when the ship became lost in a fog bank and crashed on a mountain top, bringing death to all on board. At the time of his death, Hank was assistant to the vice-president in charge of operations of the Northwest Airlines. The tragedy of Hank's death will be felt deeply by all who had the good fortune to know him as a brilliant student and, later, as one of the most promising young men in the field of aeronautical engineering.
It is with sadness, also, that we announce the death of Mr. John Y. Jewett '95, shortly after a severe heart attack. Mr. Jewett had been retired since July, 1937, from the position of testing engineer for the city of San Diego, Calif., a post he had held for 18 years.
In the September issue of the A.S.M.E.News we noted the announcement that Overseer Arthur W. French '92 was among those receiving honorary degrees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering and was made Professor emeritus. Dr. French went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute as professor of civil engineering in 1899 and served in that capacity until his recent retirement. In appreciation of his long and devoted services the civil engineering alumni presented his department with a cabinet to hold photographs of the men who graduated during his term of office and dedicated it to him. He was also presented with a bound volume of greetings from his alumni. We should like to add our congratulations to the many he has received.
Stephen E. Butterfield '33 has been awarded a fellowship in the Bureau of Street Traffic Research in Yale University for the academic year 1938-1939. Congratulations to Nan and Dick Olmstead '33, on the birth of a son, Richard Wagner Olmstead Jr., on August 5, 1938.
