Thayer School
THAYER SCHOOL'S INTERSESSION which is now under way finds all students enrolled who were in attendance at the end of last semester, with one or two exceptions. Approximately thirty students are enrolled in Thayer School curricula, and about thirty more, who have just completed their sophomore year, are enrolled in a course in Analytical Mechanics taught by Thayer School's Professor Edward Brown. This course will be required for admission to the School July first. Five students will be enabled to qualify for their Civil Engineer degrees at the end of the intersession, that is, late in June, and three will qualify for master's degrees with the mechanical engineering option. These students entered Thayer School last May.
John L. Sewall '43 received his Civil Engineer degree at the end of last semester, having been delayed by illness from completing his course with the rest of his class last December. John left for Burbank, California, to join the Thayer School group working at the Lockheed plant.
Professor Brown has been compiling a file of photographs of Thayer School professors, and in the course of this work he has recently received an interesting letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Worthen Thompson, daughter of Professor John A. Worthen '77, who was an instructor of Civil Engineering here in 1880 and 1881. Mrs. Thompson writes, "My father is still punctuality itself, despite his 92 years and complete blindness for 10 years. He is a very busy man, however, with chopping wood for his 'daily dozen' and keeping abreast of the times via radio."
Richard L. Rugen '43 is married and living in Ferguson, Missouri, which, he advises, is twenty miles from St. Louis and five miles from the Curtiss plant at Lambert Field, where he is employed as a detailer and designer of airplanes.
A recent letter from George Collins '35 is written on the stationery of the Corbin Screw Corporation of New Britain, Conn ecticut, but is concerned with his application for a commission in the Navy; so his present address is probably a new one.
A fine letter from Harold Morse '04 is devoted largely to accounts of his son's work, but mentions that his company is extremely busy constructing war factories in and around Cleveland, operating, of course, under the usual burden of priorities, speeded construction schedules and delayed government orders. Following up this letter by a few weeks, came one from Bob Morse '36, and between the two reports, we have a pretty good idea of what Bob has been doing since graduation. This is the first news we have had from him, and we were glad to get it. Bob is married and is a captain in the Army Engineer Corps. His duties have been mostly in connection with large construction projects for Army training camps. Since March, 1942, he has been in" charge of the construction project at Fort Benjamin Harrison involving some 185 buildings, a large addition to a sewage treatment plant and various miscellaneous items costing over two and a half million dollars. Previous to joining the Army, Bob had worked with his father in Cleveland and had made an enviable record in construction circles there.
Robert Stokes '44 writes that he has joined the Navy and right now is really enjoying "boot training" at the Naval Training Station in Newport, R. I. He has been given an opportunity to apply for a commission, so it looks as though the School would have another ensign.
Roger Simpter '43 reports from the Lockheed branch that "Dartmouth and Thayer may become a majority in Lockheed Tool Design. It seems that our work in strength, structures, and indeterminate structures fits the job to a tee. Hardy Cross, the column analogy, Williot-Mohr and Timoshenko seem to be the ruling factors."
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Ad Ziegler '37 on the arrival of Susan Elizabeth Zeigler, all eight pounds of her, at 2:14 a.m., Friday, April 30th.
Dave Warren, Tuck-Thayer '43, writes that he has completed indoctrination at Fort Schuyler and is now in Jacksonville for a two months' course at the Aviation Officers' Gunnery School in connection with his commission in Aviation Ordnance.
Dick Muller '43, who was an assistant on the Thayer School faculty during his last year here, writes that he is liaison engineer for the model design group at the Vega plant. He has had to learn a lot of aerodynamics in order to work in this branch and has had much interesting experience in the testing of models in the wind tunnels. He and Lucille live at 12027 Guerin Street, Studio City, California.
Roy Nevius '42 has joined the Army Air Force and when last heard from was taking basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. However, since that time I believe he has gone to Officer Candidate School as an aviation cadet, ground crew, in engineering.
Larry Falls '43 is in Washington working for the Civil Service in an engineering capacity. He expects to be kept at this work for the duration and finds that it requires all his engineering training. His address is 1121 12 th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
We have had a good nucleus here for a Thayer School father-and-son club. There are five students in school now whose fathers graduated from Thayer School. These are Lewis O. English, son of Harold L. English '12; John L. Muchemore, son of Harrie L. Muchemore '06; Richard S. Rice, son of Russell J. Rice '16; Warren F. Kimball Jr., son of Warren F. Kimball '12; and Gordon L. Ross, son of Kenneth W. Ross 'l7. Four others who might be in school now if their programs hadn't been interrupted by the war at the end of their first-year work last December are James J. Kerley Jr., son of James J. Kerley '15; Nelson C. McClary, son of George B. McClary '15; John C. Pritchard, son of Richard E. Pritchard '15; and Holden N. Waterbury, son of Lewis C. Waterbury '13.
Congratulations to Morton O. Withey '05, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, who has been elected President of the American Concrete Institute.
