Thayer School

A MEETING OF THE Thayer School Board of Overseers was held in Hanover Friday, Sept. 29. Those attending were President Hopkins, Luther S. Oakes '00, Charles F. Goodrich '06, and Frank E. Cudworth '02. Most important action of the Board was the unanimous approval of Dean Garran's proposal to extend the .curriculum of the School after the war to include full five-year courses in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering as well as to renew the Tuck-Thayer course and continue the civil engineering course. Proposed course schedules and descriptions for the mechanical, electrical, and civil curricula were included in Dean Garran's report and are expected to be made available for publication shortly. Adoption of the enlarged program will involve maintaining an engineering faculty of approximately twelve and increasing teaching facilities proportionately.

The Tuck-Thayer curriculum is to be made the subject of an extensive study before detailed plans are adopted for it. At the recommendation of Dean Olsen of the Tuck School and Dean Garran, the Board of Overseers approved the appointment of your correspondent to conduct this study during the winter term. It is felt that a combination business and engineering training can go far beyond the confines of the conventional industrial engineering curriculum toward fitting students for participation in a wide variety of fields. Although specific plans have not been completed, it is expected that the study will include a survey of the industries which may be served by the course through, personal interviews with engineers and business men at various levels in each industry or field. By the end of the winter term, a curriculum should be developed which will provide a program consistent with the actual requirements of the professions and industries involved.

Although there will be a considerable decrease in V-12 enrollment in the Dartmouth unit beginning in November, the enrollment of civil engineer candidates will be somewhat higher than at present. Twelve trainees will complete their full eight-term course at the end of the present term, and an incoming third-term group of approximately twenty is expected.

Frederic W. Welch 'OB, Professor of Civil Engineering at Washington State College writes that engineering enrollment there is small since the Army took out their 500 A.S.T. engineering students and 1500 air corps trainees. Professor Welch spent six weeks during the summer on a combined vacation and work trip to the college's surveying camp in the Cascades. He is President of the Washington State Dept. R.O.A.

According to a clipping enclosed in Professor Welch's letter, Frank G. Cook '10 has recently been commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the transportation corps. Colonel Cook has been in railroad work for over thirty years and until this appointment was superintendent of the Northern Pacific Railway at Spokane, Washington. He was scheduled for overseas duty immediately following his appointment and is believed to be in Europe where the restoration of transportation facilities is of vital importance to the progress of the war. Colonel Cook has two daughters in service. Margaret Mary is an ensign in the Waves stationed on Long Island, and Frances Elizabeth is a recreational worker with the American Red Cross stationed in New Guinea.

Congratulations to John '44 and Mrs. Muchemore on the birth of a daughter, Anne Horton, on September 13, in San Diego.

Paul Breck '43 visited Hanover last month on leave following ten weeks' boot training at Bainbridge, Maryland. Paul had not received orders for his next assignment at that time but thought he might be assigned to radar training.

Tommy Thomas '32 writes that the firm which he and his brothers organized, Thomas Brothers— General Contractors, in Middleboro, Massachusetts, has completed most of its war contracts but finds plenty of work under private contracts. News from Tommy has been scarce since his graduation, so it was doubly welcome. He has two sons, Jerry aged four and Marshall aged three, who are already looking forward to coming to Thayer School so they can help the old man in his. business. This is the good old Thayer School spirit, which Tommy possesses in abundance.

Lieutenant (jg) Jack Roseboom '43 and Ensign Dorothy Ryan were married at Millburn, Massa- chusetts, on September sixteenth. They spent part of their brief leaves and wedding trip in Hanover before returning to the Naval Proving Grounds at Dahlgren, Virginia, where both are stationed. Jack has been at this station for about a year and a half and is officer in charge of the velocity section.