Thayer School
CLASSES UNDER THE Navy College Training Program started at Thayer School July fifth, as scheduled. Out of a total of seventy-two students enrolled in Thayer School classes, sixty are apprentice seamen in the Navy or privates in the Marine Corps Reserve. Courses in the civil engineering curriculum correspond to subjects in the Navy V-12 schedule. In addition, special courses are being offered to a small group of mechanical engineering students who have one or two semesters remaining to complete their work for a degree. Dr. Schutz is also teaching a course in Electrical Engineering for Navy deck officer candidates. Conforming to the V-12 curriculum, surveying courses are being offered to three separate groups during the present term. Plane Surveying, which corresponds to Engineering 20, has been taken over by the Thayer School in order to make it possible for the Graphics Department to teach Engineering Drawing and Descriptive Geometry to a very large number of trainees who are required to take these courses. Both Plane Surveying and two groups of Geodetic Surveying are being taught by myself with the very able assistance of Professor James P. Poole of the Botany Department and of my father, Mr. William H. Kimball of Davenport, lowa, an alumnus of M. I. T. in civil engineering. This staff, combining a fine back- ground of both teaching experience and practical engineering, makes it possible to meet the extraordinary requirement of teaching surveying to over fifty students during the present term.
Mrs. Ruth Bristol has resigned her position as Secretary of the School to undertake public school teaching in Vermont, and leaves with the best wishes of the faculty for happiness and success in her new work.
Mrs. Delia Hall, who has been in charge of the ESMWT and CPT office at the School for two years, replaces Mrs. Bristol as Secretary of the School. Miss Abbie Metcalf, who has been our librarian for one year, retains this position and has taken over increased duties in connection with keeping accounts and issuing equipment, books and supplies to students. Dr. Harald Schutz, who joined the staff a year and a half ago, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
The following men completed the requirements and received the degree of Civil Engineer at the end of the Intersession on June 24th: Lewis O. English, Harry G. Gerber, Phillip R. Jackson, John L. Muchemore, and Joe J. Nagler. The degree of Master of Science in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering option) was awarded at that time to Roger T. Gaskill, Richard D. Livingston, and Franklin T. Perley. This is the first awarding of this degree by the Thayer School, and his classmates have voted to Frank Perley the distinction of being the oldest living mechanical engineering graduate of Thayer School! Several of these graduates have applied for commissions in the Navy and others are enmgaged in war industries. More exact information should be forthcoming before the next letter.
We are happy to record the marriage on June 27th in Brooklyn, New York, of Richard L. Seidman '41 and Miss Dorothy Greenspan. Congratulations and best wishes.
Enthusiastic letters have been received from the civil engineer graduates o£ last December who enlisted in the Navy. These men, Don Amy, Jim O'Mara, Jim Skinner, and Charlie Weinberg, completed their seaman training on the "Prairie State" training ship during the spring, and have now all been transferred to the Civil Engineer Corps and are in training at the Seabee camp at Williamsburg, Virginia. It is expected that they will shortly be at- tached to battalions and assigned to foreign duty. This is the branch of the Navy which they had all hoped to get into, and they are much pleased to find themselves back in civil engineering.
It is with deep regret that we note the death of Maurice F. Brown '98 on May 21st at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts. Mr. Brown was one of the School's outstanding graduates in the engineering field, and until his death was active in the firm of Waghorne-Brown which he founded. He was connected with the construction of several buildings on the Dartmouth campus and of many large buildings in other localities, such as the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company home office building in Boston.
A fine letter from Gerald Hall '35 brings the news that he is now stationed at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point as an instructor in the department of military topography and graphics. Lieutenant Hall is very much enjoying this work and has been pleased and a little surprised to find how well his Dartmouth and Thayer School training has stayed with him.
No room for more this time, but we'll be back again next month.
