Thayer School Mews
We are very pleased to feature a very important announcement in this month's notes. As a matter of fact, you have all been waiting a long while for this story to "break," and now we really have it; the best news of the year. The news is the very recently announced engagement of Mrs. Margaret Sheppard Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Sheppard of Portland, Oregon, to Professor William P. Kimball. The important date hasn't been set finally yet, but it will be Mr. and Mrs. "Bill" Kimball sometime the last of June, depending mostly on how rapidly Bill can make the trans-continental hop after the close of school. From the stack of travel folders on Bill's desk, I gather that Alaska will be the first objective on the itinerary of the newlyweds. On their return to Hanover next fall. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball will reside at 54 Lyme Road, a few houses beyond the golf links. Our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to Bill and the future Mrs. Kimball!
On March 31, Bill is passing away some of the endless period until June by traveling to Montreal to lecture on "Soil Mechanics" before the Montreal Branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
In spite of the total lack of winter sports here, a few men did manage to get up to Hanover at Carnival time. George Farrington '13 made the trip all the way from Philadelphia. Other Thayer School men observed here searching for a place to lay down a ski were Gordon Lane '34 and Heston Hirst '37. Heston, by the way, has been promoted recently to the position of assistant engineer in the chemical laboratory of the Inspection Bureau of the Associated Factory and Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The nature of his new work is the investigation of industrial fire hazards and the examination of private fire-fighting equipment.
Among the first-year men at the Thayer School the following men have distinguished themselves as follows: John M. Hirst was recently elected to the Dartmouth chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Robert Egelhoff was regular guard of the championship Dartmouth hockey team during this past season. Ted Hunter has been a star performer on the Dartmouth winter sport team, and at present is in Sun Valley competing for national honors in skiing.
We have just received another announcement of an impending change in the vital statistics of our alumni. On April 9 Miss Katherine Baum, daughter of John Edward Baum of Bridgeport, Conn., will be married to Mr. Frederick Byron "Barny" Tomlinson. Congratulations and best wishes! Members of the class of '36, please take notice.
On March 4, the Thayer School presented a film "Micro-Movies" to an audience of several hundred in Silsby Hall. This film on microscopic organisms was secured for study in connection with the work in sanitation which the second-year men have been doing recently on the occurrence of tastes and odors in water supplies.
On March 21 the annual meeting of the Boston alumni will be held at the University Club as usual. The program is in charge of Charles R. Main '17 and Phil Rising '29, and will include several reels of moving pictures of Dartmouth athletic teams.
So long till next month .... but isn't that just grand news about Bill!
