Thayer School

THE DEFENSE INSTRUCTION organized for this fall by the Thayer School is now in full swing. Twenty Dartmouth students have successfully met the rigid admission requirements for the Civilian Pilot Training course and are engaged in intensive ground and flight instruction. Under the auspices of the U. S. Office of Education, the School has organized eight E.S.M.D.T. (Engineering, Science and Management Defense Training) courses which are being given both in Hanover and in Springfield, Vermont. The total enrollment in these courses is 437, consisting almost entirely of men engaged in defense industries in Springfield and vicinity. College students are not eligible for these courses, but it is hoped that courses may be offered during the second semester for which seniors desiring to engage in defense industries may be eligible. The present series of defense courses is administered by Dean Garran. Each member of the Thayer School faculty is teaching a course, and courses are being taught also by Professor Parker '07 and by Professors Sargent, Gaa and Troxell of the Tuck School faculty.

The annual fall picnic of the engineers was held at Bonnie Oaks October eighth, featuring the usual touch football, refreshments, ping pong, and various other forms of relaxation. A turkey dinner was enjoyed by all, as was the reading of the surveying camp log which followed. Visitor of the evening was Harry A. Ward '10, who was discovered vacationing in Hanover. Mr. Ward is always a welcome visitor at the School and enjoys the distinction, to the best of my knowledge, of being the first Thayer School alumnus to provide more than one son to the School roll. Dave was graduated in 1940 and is now working for the Turner Construction Company, and Nate is a member of the present first-year class.

The annual convention of the New England Section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education will be held in Hanover between now and the time this column appears. At the same time, a meeting of New England Engineering School Librarians has been arranged. Details next month.

Congratulations to Kay and Barney Tomlinson '36 on the birth of their second son, Robert Bruce, on September ninth. Kay and Barney occasionally make it to Hanover for too-brief visits, though construction work for defense industries in Bridgeport have kept Barney tied down recently.

Congratulations also to John Coggeshall '38 who was married to Carol Jurka on Saturday, October eleventh, St. John's Church, Pleasantville, New York.

Mention was made last month that Bob McCarty '40 and Mrs. McCarty had visited Hanover. The rest of the story is that Mrs. McCarty was Helen Patricia McCumber and that they were married on June fifteenth in Watertown, New York, and that Bob is now Ensign McCarty of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Somewhat belatedly, but nonetheless enthusiastically, we note the arrival of Nancy Elizabeth Parsons at the home of Carl Parsons '33 on June tenth, last. More congratulations.

The news has been received that George Kisevalter '3l has been called to active duty as First Lieutenant in the 42nd Engineer Regiment, U. S. Army. When last noted, in June, he was stationed at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, "training green recruits to be good Engineer Troops. Just threw a 300-foot footbridge across in eight minutes from scratch for a record using 30 men." Sounds like pretty successful training, and he didn't even mention the climate!

In another branch of the service is Cornelius Meaney D.C. '18 who is a Lieutenant in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Lieutenant Meaney has recently been advanced from Executive Officer on the Survey's "Oceanographer" to Captain of the "Lydonia."

More news on hand, but if this column goes on indefinitely, I am reminded that this is the Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE, not the Thayer School Alumni Magazine. So this must be all for November.