Thayer School

AT THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES held since May, 1942, three Thayer School students were awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Parkhurst Hall on April 2. At these exercises degrees were also awarded to 36 other students still resident in Hanover. The Thayer School students receiving the degrees were Calvin H. Gurney '46, recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, David E. Nassif '46, and Bruce R. O'Brien '46. All three are apprentice seamen in V-i2 and will complete their course in June. Owing to the heavy- engineering schedule, they had completed the College's reduced degree requirements as of the end of their seventh term in February.

In reply to his request, Dean Garran recently received a report from Com. C. R. Home Jr., Officer Training Officer at Davisville, R. 1., on the standing of the Thayer School group commissioned on January 6 at the Midshipman School (CEC). Out of the group of 11, five were in the top 10 per cent of the class of 366 members, and ten were in the top 30 per cent. Commander Home re marked that this is the best record of any group in that class.

Professor Ermenc has received a letter from Ens. Roy Briggs '44. Roy entered the Navy about a year ago as an apprentice seaman and completed radio training at Great Lakes. He was then commissioned in the Civil Engineer Corps and is now attached to a pontoon battalion in training at Davisville. Roy reports that most of the group graduated from there in January are on their way,to the Pacific with the exception of Cline Mann whose home is in Hawaii and who has been assigned to the staff at Davisville.

Ens. Ted Bush '44 is working in the Public Works Office at the Quonset Air Station, R. I. AI Richmond '15 reports that Carl Washburn '26 is now Chief Engineer of Fraser-Brace Engineering Corporation, 10 East 40th Street, New York.

A good letter just received from Roy Nevius '42 tells me that he is now a private first class in the Infantry. He received his conversion training at Camp Howze, Texas, and about the first of April was on his way overseas. Roy says he hasn't seen any of the Hanover crowd at all and would sure like to hear from a few of them. When he wrote me he had no over- seas mailing address; so the safest way to send him that letter is probably at his home: 34 Evergreen Lane, Haddonfield, N. J.

Edgar Hunter 'O2 commutes back and forth between his home in Hanover and his work in Concord where he is Chairman of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission and of the Public Works committee of the Postwar Planning and Rehabilitation Council of New Hampshire. He also continues in his position as Moderator for the town of Hanover. A pa- per by him entitled "New Hampshire's Ap- proach to Post War Problems" was published in the Journal of the New England Water Works Association last September.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. John Coggeshall '3B on the birth of a second son, Jonathan Wright Jr. on March 27. The Cog- geshalls live in Chappequa, N. Y.

We had a visit recently from the father of Ens. Dave Mann '3B, who is now in the Pacific with a construction battalion. Dave's battalion took part in the Normandy invasion last sum- mer and returned to this country briefly last fall before shipping out in the other direction.