Thayer School
THE PROPOSED CURRICULA in mechanical and electrical engineering at the Thayer School, announced in the February ALUMNIMAGAZINE, will get off to a modest start with the entrance in November of a class of 44 fifth-term students in the NROTC program. Indications are that this group will be about evenly divided among civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
Final drawings for the mechanical and electrical engineering buildings are nearing completion and it appears that construction will begin as soon as material and labor conditions make it feasible. Other plans for the new curricula are also receiving attention. Last summer a group of executives in the machine tool industries in Springfield, Vt.,.entertained Professor Ed Brown '35 and myself at their plants and in an informal luncheon conference at Springfield's Hartness House. This group, which includes Charles Salford D.C. 'OB and Hartness Beardsley D.C. '37, has indicated great interest in and approval of the establishment of a mechanical engineering curriculum at Dartmouth and has offered us valuable assistance in setting up and operating the program. Professor Ermenc, who is on leave for the present term, has reported visits to the mechanical engineering departments of several midwestern institutions, for the purpose of broadening our background for instruction in mechanical engineering.
A summer visitor here was Phil Rising '30 who dropped in for a few minutes on his way through with his wife and family. This was Phil's first visit to Hanover since his tenth reunion. His hair seems to be thinning a bit a condition which the writer considers honorable and distinguishing but he retains his old-time spark. He has temporarily left the Curtis Publishing Company in order to engage more directly in war work with Workshop Associates in Newton Highlands, and is at home at 28 Oak Knoll Terrace, Needham.
Lieutenant Colonel Carroll Edson '15 and his family also stopped in for a visit. The Edsons live in Arlington, Mass., and were spending a vacation at their summer home in Brookfield, Vt.
Other visitors during the summer included John Guppy '24, with his son, on vacation from American Bridge Company; George Beaton '44 who is an ART 2/c in the Navy and was on his way to the Naval Air Station at Norfolk; and Lieutenant Charley Hitchcock's mother who spent a few days in Hanover and reported that Charley was on an unidentified island in the west Pacific. Charley has really seen a bit of the world in the last three years, starting from the Panama Canal Zone, with a stopover to teach for a term at Thayer School, then by routes best known to the Seabees to Iceland, Normandy, and now the Pacific.
Frank' Cudworth '02, an Overseer of the School, writes that the Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard at Providence, of which he has been chief engineer, has launched its last ship. He is on
his way to Fontana, Calif., where his address will be Route 3, Box 1169. The Cudworths will spend the winter with their daughter whose husband is stationed at Victorville Air Field.
Congratulations to Lieutenant (jg) Jim Skinner '43 on his marriage June 25 to Avis Walker Grant in St. Paul's Church in Richmond, Va.
Lieutenant Will Pitz '41 writes that he is still on Tinian after 29 months overseas and relishes the idea of Stateside. According to Will, Commodore Paul Halloran '2O has been transferred from his Tinimanhat Club to a new assignment. Lieutenant Bob Barr '42 has been shifted to Saipan, but the ranks at Tinian have been kept up to par by the arrival of Lieutenant Cliff Simmons '40.
Lieutenant Bruce Espy '41 is attached to Fighter Squadron 29, c/o FPO, New York. Bruce and a couple of his buddies climbed into their Corsairs one day last summer and paid a visit to the school. They didn't stop, but judging by the number of passes they made over our roof they must have been counting the nailheads.
Lieutenant 800 Hayden '41 is stationed at Quonset Point where he has been in training as a CASU officer.
