Thayer Dean Elected

PROFESSOR WILLIAM P. KIMBALL '28' of the Thayer School was appointed Dean of the school on November 1 to succeed the late Frank Warren Garran. The appointment was made following votes of approval by both the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and the Board of Overseers of the school. Dean Kimball has been acting dean of Thayer for six months and before that was assistant dean.

A graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1928, Dean Kimball received his Civil Engineer degree from the Thayer School in 1929 and taught there for one year before going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to do graduate work. In 1931 he joined Moran, Proctor, Freeman and Meuser, a New York firm of consulting engineers, and remained with them until he came back to the Thayer School in 1933. He has been a full Professor of Civil Engineering there since 1939 and holds a Masters of Arts degree from Dartmouth.

As an authority on soil, Dean Kimball serves on the Soil Committees for the American Society for Testing Materials, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Highway Research Board of the National Research Council. He has been a member of the New Hampshire State Planning Board's Advisory Committee on the Pollution of Public Waters and is now chairman of the Hanover Postwar Planning and Rehabilitation Commission. He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and the author of numerous articles for technical journals.