Thayer School

FOR THE FIRST TIME in many years, the Thayer School and Tuck School held joint graduation exercises on April thirtieth. For the first time in all time, the Thayer School and Tuck School awarded degrees inscribed by both schools, graduated students who henceforth are alumni of both schools, who are either engineers or business administrators, depending on your point of view! The degree of Civil Engineer was awarded to the following eight members of the Thayer class of 1942: R. T. Barr, J. D. Bowe, J. M. Devor, J. G. Guenther, J. P. Hands, M. L. Nevius, J. P. Rogers, and R. C. Tousley. The degree of Master of Science in Business Administration and Engineering was awarded to the first recipients of this degree who have faithfully constituted the Tuck-Thayer class of 1942 for the past two years: Allen Van Wie Jr., Courtland Young.

The award of degrees was made by President Hopkins. Present at the exercises were two Thayer School Overseers: Arthur C. Tozzer '03 and Charles F. Goodrich '06. Mr. Goodrich gave a brief address to the graduating classes of both schools in which he ably summarized the nature of the world into which they were about to enter and outlined the task which that world will set for the business administration and engineering graduates of this day. Dean Garran announced the award of the Thayer Society Prize for 1942 to Charles A. Gibbons Jr. '43 for his paper "Plenum Process for Soft Ground."

A meeting of the Board of Overseers was held in Hanover on April 29 and attended by President Hopkins, Messrs. Tozzer and Goodrich and Luther S. Oakes '00. Charles R. Main '08, the fifth overseer, unfortunately was prevented from attending by sickness. Included in the business of the meeting was the approval of the appointment of Joseph J. Ermenc as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Ermenc comes to Hanover in May from Rensselaer where he has been teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering lor several years. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1934 and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1940. He will teach both mechanical and industrial engineering subjects at Thayer School.

We very regretfully record here the death of Raymond Robb Marsden 'O9 at Wilmington, Delaware, on March 11, 1942. Bob returned to Thayer School in 1909 to take up teaching duties which he continued throughout his period of service at the School. In 1925 he was appointed Dean of the School and added the duties of this position to his teaching work. During his residence in Hanover, Bob won many friends by the charm and magnetism of his personality. His untimely death will be mourned by all who were privileged to have his acquaintance.

An announcement has recently been received of the marriage of John Alexander Lockwood '42 to Jean Elizabeth Manville at Tuxedo Park, New York, on March 28. Jack, the older son of Harold Lockwood who was Professor of Power Engineering at Thayer School from 1919 to 1934, attended Thayer School last year and transferred after graduation from College to Lafayette College where he has been continuing his studies in engineering physics and working as an assistant in the Physics Department.

We'll be working at the same old stand on Tuck Mall all summer, and we're hoping to have many visits from Thayer friends and alumni. So come and see us—if you can get the gas!