Thayer School
ON SEPTEMBER S, twenty-seven students returned to Hanover to begin the new academic year. Eighteen of these, the first-year civil engineering students, left immediately for the surveying camp at Canaan Street where they will be engaged in topographic surveying and mapping, under the guidance of Professor Brown assisted by Mr. Morgan, until September 27. The second-year class remained in Hanover for the course in Highway Surveying, Design and Construction conducted by William P. Kimball '29. Both classes work on a ten-hour-a-day schedule of field work, office computations, recitations and prepartion.
On September 18, five non-civil-engineering first-year students, who do not take the surveying course, reported for work at the School, bringing the total enrollment of the first-year class to twenty-three, the largest class to enroll in the Thayer School since 1913, and only exceeded in number by the famous classes of 1903, 1909, 1911 and 1915. In addition to this group, eleven students registered for the first-year work in the combined Tuck-Thayer course in Business Administration and Engineering. These men take three courses in Tuck School and three courses in Thayer School each semester of the first-year work. With an enrollment of thirty-four men in these first-year courses, it has been considered desirable to form two sections in order that the personalized instruction which we have always deemed so essential to the Thayer School program might not be lost. The two Tuck-Thayer students who inaugurated the course last year are returning for the second-year work this year, bringing the total of students engaged in Thayer School work this year to forty-five.
Richard K. Muller, a member of the second-year class, has been appointed Assist- ant in Engineering for this year. He plans to complete the second-year work in two years, spending approximately half his time assisting the instructors in first-year classes and laboratories. Mr. Muller entered the first-year class a year ago, after receiving his B.S. degree from Massachusetts State College, and made an outstanding record here last year.
Mr. Kenneth K. Edgar has been appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering for the present year. Professor Edgar received the degree of Master of Science from Ohio State University in 1937 and has been engaged in both teaching and industrial work since that time. Until this year he has been Assistant Professor of Industrial Administration at Oregon State College. After spending the summer as time study engineer in the Alcoa Plant at Los Angeles, Professor Edgar arrived in Hanover September 8 to take up his duties at Thayer School.
Thayer School has seen more than the usual amount of activity during the summer months. Four Engineering Defense Training courses were taught here during the ten-week period from June 23 to August 29. The total enrollment in the four courses was about 50 men, not less than ten being enrolled in any course. Elementary mathematics of college grade was taught by Professor Bancroft H. Brown of the Mathematics Department; Engineering Drawing by Professor Fred Parker 'O7 of the Graphics Department; Radio Engineering by Mr. Millett G. Morgan of the Thayer School; and Surveying and Mapping by William P. Kimball '29. The courses were organized under the auspices of the United States Office of Education by the Thayer School, Dean Garran acting as administrative head. The courses are fi- nanced by the federal government and are tuition-free. In addition to these courses, a Civilian Pilot Training course was taken by ten men, the ground work being taught by Professor Richard H. Goddard and as- sistants. This is the third C.P.T. course which has been conducted during the year. Dean Garran has been coordinator of the C.P.T. work. A fourth course will be of- fered to students and others interested dur- ing the first semester. A second session of Engineering Defense Training courses is being organized for men engaged in indus- tries in the vicinity of Hanover. This ses- sion will extend from October through February. The industries concerned have shown great interest in and desire for the courses. More definite information will be included in next month's column.
Visitors here during the summer included Ad Ziegler '37 and fiancee Dorothy Bollinger—Mrs. Ad Ziegler since September 6, 1941; A. T. English '16; P. W. Clogston '23; A. C. Nichols '16 and son, a prospective Tuck-Thayer student; John Hirst '39; Bob McCarty '40 and Mrs. McCarty on their wedding trip; Tom Middleton '29, with Mrs. Middleton and their three children; Jim Dunn '35 with Mrs. Dunn; Charles F. Goodrich '06, recently elected Overseer o£ Thayer School, with Mrs. Goodrich and Miss Grace Goodrich; Dick Squire '31 with Mrs. Squire; Fred Slaughter '32; Merit White '31. More news of alumni next month.
