Thayer School
FOR THOSE WHO READ last month's letter more critically than the proofreader, we hasten to note that Mrs. Sturm was accompanied on her visit to Hanover by her husband Frank W. Sturm '34 rather than by the purely fictitious Lieutenant Stearns. Along the same lines, Professor Ermenc assures us that he is training Deck Officer candidates, but there is still some feeling among his colleagues that perhaps the proofreader was correct in labeling them Desk Officer candidates. We were glad to welcome to the faculty last month Mr. Nathan H. Rich, as Instructor in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Rich was graduated from the University of Maine in 1940 with a mechanical engineering degree, worked in industry for one year and since then has been instructing in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Maine. He will be joined in Hanover shortly by his wife and children.
Congratulations are in order for and cigars have been received from Lee and Russ Stearns '38 on the occasion of the birth of a son, Steven James, in Hanover on March 29th. All members of the family are flourishing.
A good letter received by Professor Minnich last month from Dick Rice '44 Ensign (CEC) USNR tells about his work at Camp Peary where he is assigned to ship's company as an instructor in the indoctrination school. He expects to be moved to Davisville, R. I. next month when the Officer Training School is transferred from Camp Peary to that location. Dick was married to Sarah Jane Dunlap in Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 23. Malcolm McLoud '44, Ensign USNR, acted as best man at the ceremony.
Charlie Hitchcock '39 sent us a welcome variety of news some time ago from Davisville where he was at that time taking special training with his Construction Battalion. His specific duties at the time were legal and administrative. According to Charlie, Cliff Simmons '4O is attached to a Construction Battalion which had been taking stevedore training at the New York School and is probably by this time on foreign shores. Another bit of news from Charlie tells us that Pat Gorman '39 is now advertising manager for Pall Mall cigarettes, a job we'd like to hear more about direct from the coy Pat.
Congratulations to Bruce Espy '41, Lieutenant, USNR, and Marion Catherine Homan who were married in Newtown, Connecticut on April first. The Espys visited Hanover on their wedding trip, at the end of which Bruce reported for pilot training in the Navy Air Force. For the past two years he has been Maintenance Officer on an aircraft carrier trainer operating off thfe Atlantic Coast.
Kay and Byron Tomlinson '36 spent Easter weekend in Hanover, visiting their many friends on the faculty. Perhaps incidentally, Barney was on the trail of lumber for work his construction company in Bridgeport is engaged in for various war industries in that city. He reports that lumber is the real scarcity in the construction industry these days, steel and non-ferrous metals being relatively available.
Captain Paul J. Halloran '20 (CEC) USN returned to Hanover for a brief visit on March 21 with his son, who expects to enter Dartmouth with the class of '52. Captain Halloran showed construction movies of the Norfolk drydock to a large group of civil engineering students during the afternoon and presented a motion picture account of Seabee activities at a public showing in Dartmouth Hall in the evening.
