Thayer School

THERE HAVE BEEN no new developments in the Thayer School curriculum since the last letter. No mention has previously been made of Engineering, Science, Management War Training courses being conducted by the School this fall. Alumni will remember that the first of these courses were given here during the summer of 1941. Additional courses have been continuously in session since that time, most of them intended for employees or prospective employees of the machine tool com- panies in Springfield, Vermont, and scattered employees of war industries in other nearby towns. Courses are currently being taught in Springfield and Claremont as follows: Safety Engineering, organized by Professor Andrew Truxall of the Sociology Department (Andy now calls himself a Societal Engineer!); Electrical Engineering by Dr. Schutz; Machine Design by Professor Ermenc; Production Planning and Control by Professor Knights; Fluid Mechanics by Professor Brown; Advanced Mathematics by Professor Nordstrom. Professor Parker, of the Graphics Department, is teaching a course in Engineering Drawing and Mathematics in Hanover. Incidentally, all of these courses constitute additional work over and above the full teaching schedule which the instructors are carrying on in the regular curriculum. All courses are taught in response to specific requests of the industries served, and the subject matter is designed to meet their specifications.

The Civilian Pilot Training Program, established at Dartmouth by Dean Garran in 1941 is still in operation here. Starting in January, it will be administered by Professor Anton Raven of the English Department and Professor Chauncy Allen of the Psychology Department. Several members of the Dartmouth faculty have been taking the ground school instruction during the summer and fall in order to prepare themselves to teach this work to future groups of trainees.

Social news of the School includes the marriage of Ted Schoonbeck of the second-year class to Caroline Putnam of St. Louis on September fifth. Dick Muller, a member of the second-year class who has been serving as assistant to the faculty for two years, was married to Lucille Katherine Deady at Amherst, Massachusetts, on September ninth.

While we are on the pleasant subject of marriages, the following can be reported in the class of '42: Jack Bowe, Jack Devor and Roy Nevius. Unfortunately, the reticence of the first two has kept me in the dark as far as details or even names are concerned. Roy, however, supplied me with the information that he was married on October sixteenth at his home in Haddonfield, New Jersey, to Edith Matthews of Inman, New York.

Another scrap of news which has arrived without verification or details is that Merit White '31, who has been teaching at Illinois Tech, is now at Princeton. How about some supplementary information, Merit?

Dave Ward '40 is still located at Rome, New York, where the Turner Construction Company has been constructing a large airport with all the accessories such as barracks, shops, highways, lighting systems, etc.

Allen '40 spent a short time in Hanover this fall on a vacation trip from his job with the Maine Central Railroad. Al, Lenore, and their two children live in West Buxton, Maine, and Al commutes in a car pool to his headquarters in Portland. He very kindly furnished us with some information regarding superelevation and spiraling of railroad curves which doesn't seem to be available in publications.

A. N. Daniels, who will be remembered by many Thayer School students as Professor of Power Engineering here, is now located on the West Coast and has been promoted to Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy. Mrs. Daniels spent the summer at their home in Hancock, N. H., and visited Hanover before leaving to join Bud in California.

Speaking of these members of the Nigger Island and Pompanoosuc Railroad, reminds me that no mention has been made of the temporary abandonment of this utility formerly housed in the Thayer School. Second-year students Larry Falls and John Sewall have done a big job dismantling the railroad and disposing of the equipment either to storage or to former owners. The space occupied by the club has become necessary for School use, and the accelerated engineering schedule had left little opportunity for club activities. We hope that with the return of more normal times, a new group may revive an activity which gave much, pleasure and value to its members.

An announcement recently received from Forest Hills, New York, tells of the •arrival of Dale Esther to the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Donald Phinney '34, on October first. The Phinneys' address is 109-14 Oscan Avenue.

W. A. Davidson '35 visited the School during the fall for the first time since his graduation. Bill is working in the Davidson Machinery Company which has been converted to wartime production of tank treads and various gun parts. He was instrumental in effecting the conversion of the plant and told an interesting story of that most difficult procedure.