Thayer School

SOMEWHERE IN A not too conspicuous position in this column I should like to insert the notice that a son, David Phelps, was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Kimball on February 13 and that mother and son are thriving, and the old man, too.

Barney (F. Byron) Tomlinson '36 and wife Kay were in Hanover recently and showed us a reel of 16 mm. color film of Ronnie at the age of ten months tearing down his first Christmas tree. The prospects for a Thayer School football team in i960 are bright. Barney reports his home town of Bridgeport is a madhouse of defense activity and building. On the side, however, his firm has just finished an ex tensive remodeling of the Waterville Inn located in Waterville Valley, one of the real, unspoiled beauty spots of New Hampshire.

Heber Ashley '2O has recently been elected president of the New York State Association of Highway Engineers. Mr. Ashley's home is in Grand Island, New York. He has three children, Yvonne, an instructor in home economics; and Heber Jr. and Emery in college and preparatory school respectively.

Bill Olmstead '39, who has been a reserve officer in the Navy, has been called to duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. His new address is 2020 Locust Street, Philadelphia. Bill has been placed second in command of $600,000 worth of construction work involving a force of some 650 men and finds that the job calls for all the engineering and human relations training and experience he's ever had.

A copy has been received here of an announcement "To the Officers, Corps of Cadets, and Soldiers of the Garrison" by Brigadier General R. L. Eichelberger, Superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, of the retirement as of July 31, 1941, of Lt. Col. John A. Gilman 'OO from active service. Colonel Gilman has been Constructing Quartermaster at the Academy since 1935 and Field Agent of The Quartermaster General for the West Point Land Project since 1939. The announcement is in the form of a heart-warming eulogy to Colonel Gilman, and I am sorry that space permits only brief excerpts from it: ". .. . executed. .. .major construction projects: Wright Memorial. .. .new Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. .. .at Arlington National Cemetery. .. .first permanent construction project at Fort Knox. .. .construction program at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, amounting to approximately $6,000,000. .. .able engineer and officer, wholly devoted to his profession. Every project. .. .carried to completion with energy, efficiency, enthusiasm and splendid results. .. .endowed with personal attributes that have endeared "

For the sake of accuracy in the news it is respectfully submitted that E. Shaw Cole '3l, reported in the February Class of '3O notes as"speaker of the month" of January for his lecture at Thayer School, presented his lecture February 22, his subject, announced in the College Calendar as "The Pilot Tube," being "The Pitot Tube." Shaw gave a masterful exposition of the applications of the Pitot tube to industry with particular reference to waterworks, using slides and motion pictures to illustrate the subject.

A 1 Hazen '4O, engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been transferred from Erie to Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. His address is "Squaw Run Road, R.F.D. 2, Pittsburgh—15, Pa." A 1 is located on the western end of the main line of the Conemaugh division and wrote to ask for the address of ex-colleague John Hirst '39 who has been transferred from the Nigger Island and Pompanoosuc to the Boston and Maine Railroad. For the purpose of maintaining cordial public relations, details of Al's letter are withheld, but the news can be released that he and Lenore and daughter Becky are enjoying the best of health and happiness.

The School was privileged to hear a lecture on March 7 by Mr. J. C. Evans, chief engineer of the Port of New York Authority. Mr. Evans chose as his subject "Crossing Highways and Highway Crossings," and traced, with the aid of slides, the development of modern forms of highway intersections and junctions and of waterway crossings. Mr. Evans' broad background of historical study and practical experience coupled with his forceful and convincing manner of presentation made his lecture one to be long remembered by those fortunate enough to be present.