Thayer School

As THE NEW CUSTODIAN of this column I take this opportunity to congratulate my predecessor, Bill Kimball, on his appointment as Dean of the Thayer School. Bill is eminently qualified for the job, and is assuming the responsibility of the office at the beginning of a new era, as the School is embarking on a program of expanding the engineering curriculum. The job ahead is a big one, but we can be assured that the destiny of the School could not be entrusted to any safer hands.

Construction has been started on the new mechanical and electrical engineering wings. The contractor, Trumbull Nelson Company of Hanover, moved in on the site and ground was broken October 29. At the present writing the excavation for the south wing is practically completed and forms for the foundation walls are being started. The Thayer School students are prepared to follow the construction work with an eagle eye, and do not intend to miss any part of this unique opportunity to view practical construction work at close range.

The writer, as a member of the newly created New Hampshire State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, has received a number of inquiries from engineers signify- ing their intention to register. For the information of those interested, the Board is still in the process of organization and registration forms are not available at present, but it is expected that registration will be opened as of January 1.

I would like to express the appreciation of the School for the gift of C. P. Richardson '08 of volumes 31 to 37 of the EREA Proceedings, completing the library file of this publication.

We were all saddened to learn of the death of Arthur V. Ruggles '03 on October 21 in New York City. Mr. Ruggles, a well known water supply engineer, will be remembered by Thayer Society members as a loyal supporter of the Society and a regular attendant at the annual meetings.

Thayer School alumni will be interested in reading the account of the large rocket plant job at Camden, Arkansas, which appears in the September issue of Construction Methods. Luther Oakes' Winston Brothers Company held one of the major contracts on the project. Mr. Oakes was in Hanover in October.

If there were any need to confirm the traditional loyalty of the Thayer School alumni and the close bond that exists between them and the School, the many letters received from alumni all over the world expressing sympathy on learning of Dean Garran's death, certainly have furnished that confirmation. One gets the impression of a surging wave.

Here are some bits of news picked more or less at random from recent letters. Ensign Tom Candler '44 writes from Cavite that he has been doing some combined mountaineering and surveying in connection with a mountain top hospital location. Lt. (jg) Don Amy '43 is in Pearl Harbor after a tour of duty in the Yellow Sea. Lt. Comdr. Will Pitz '41 is back in the States again at Camp Parks, California. Jack Guenther '42 is also at Camp Parks. Bob Barr '42 was reported in San Diego recently, just returned from Saipan. 800 Hayden '41 has been discharged and is working for J. E. Greiner Company, consulting engineers in Baltimore. Jim O'Mara is back from Pearl Harbor and is stationed in Washington.

it is a pleasure to welcome the many alumni hat are showing up more and more frequently in Hanover these days. Commodore Paul Halloran '20 paid Thayer School a visit in October He was last reported at Pearl Harbor but now is back on the East Coast. Edson Keith '11 "as here in September, he is with the Central Aguirre Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and had an opening for some Thayer School graduate. I do not know whether it has been filled. Dick Muller '43 and his wife paid us a visit early in October. Bud Daniels, formerly of the Thayer School faculty and lately commanding a D.E. under Admiral Nimitz, is now teaching mechanical engineering subjects at Annapolis. I saw Harry Gerber '44 at the reception given for President Dickey on November 3, just returned from a P.T. boat in the Pacific. Paul Knowles '29 was in Hanover early in November. Col. Bill Parkhill '40 and his wife visited Thayer School in September. Bill was a wing commander in the Troop Carrier Command E.T.O. Paul Breck '43 and his brother Bob dropped in this afternoon, November 12.

I am sure that several other alumni have visited us recently and I am sorry not to be able to recall them all at this time. I will try to do better on this point in the future.