Thayer School

THE DINNER AND ANNUAL MEETING of the Thayer Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth College Club of New York on the evening of January 22. There were 41 members and guests present. The following men were elected to the executive committee to serve one year: F. H. Munkelt '09, P. L. Thompson '19, J. S. Macdonald '14, F. E. Cudworth '02, S. C. Bartlett '08. The following men were elected to the advisory board, their terms expiring January, 1945: E. H. Elkins '15, G. H. Stiles '13, P. H. Winchester 'OO. At a later meeting of the executive committee, Jack Macdonald was elected president; Fred Munkelt, secretary; and Phil Thompson, treasurer, for the ensuing year. F. E. Cudworth '02 was nominated by the Society to be elected to the Board of Overseers.

After an excellent dinner, Captain Paul J. Halloran '20 (CEC) USN spoke on the function of the Civil Engineer Corps of the Navy and the problems of rapid expansion. Thorndyke Saville '15, Dean of the College of Engineering of New York University, spoke on experiences in adjusting a college program to the requirements of the Army and the Navy. C. F. Goodrich 'O6, Overseer, and Professor E. S. Brown Jr. '35 spoke briefly, and the writer reported the state of affairs in Hanover and described in general the accelerated program and some of the problems of the School in wartime.

We have received many interesting letters from alumni during the past month. George H. Hutchinson '84 was honored on January 19 by accepting for the Pittsburgh Coke & Iron Company the Army-Navy "E" pins. D. M. Brown '25 writes that he is about to finish work with the Dry Dock Associates, who have been doing some heavy construction around Portsmouth, Virginia.

Notes from Griff Roberts and Shaw Cole, both '31, say that they are at the same work and busy as ever. Dick Tousley '43, now an ensign, writes from the Canal Zone. Dick is doing very interesting work but seems to prefer the Hanover weather, even in winter, to the gnats and fleas that go with the tropics. "Redeeming features are, however, good sailing, tennis, and uniforms without neckties." Letters from Bill Knoff '43 and Holden Waterbury '44 tell of work with the Lockheed-Vega Aircraft Corporation. Waterbury says that he never did like to get up early in the morning, so he works on the "swing shift." Bill writes that he and four of his classmates—Paul Breck, Mai Garfink, Rog Simpter and Nate Ward—are living together doing their own cooking and housework. Altogether, nine men left the Thayer School in December to work for Lockheed. It looks like a good chance to start a Thayer Alumni Club on the West Coast.

Dan Drury '38 is enjoying a few days in Hanover from his duties at Camp Peary in Virginia, where he is a lieutenant in the Civil Engineer Corps.

Congratulations: Announcement has been received of the marriage on January 4 of Elsa Detmold Tucker to Lawrence Horr Falls '43. Two additions to the Thayer School family in Hanover are Gertrude Charlotte Schutz, born on January 12, and Robert Alan Brown, born on February 8.

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