Thayer School
THE most interesting activity in the vicinity of Thayer School is the construction of nine housing units on Tuck Mall directly behind the School. These units are 50 x 96 and will provide a total of 104 apartments for married veterans. The C. J. Maney Cos., of Somerville, Mass., is the contractor and is making truly remarkable progress. The buildings are being moved from Portland, Maine, by the Federal Housing Authority. They are of demountable type and are brought to the job in sections and assembled by crawler cranes. The equipment on the job consists of a 37-B Erie crane with 60-foot boom, a y4 yard Koehring with 50-foot boom, a unit s/s yard truck shovel, a Caterpillar D-7 bulldozer, a Caterpillar 30 bulldozer, and several trucks and trailers delivering materials to the site. Really quite a collection of construction equipment for Hanover. The contractor started March 25, and, to date, April 10, has assembled six of the nine units.
The Thayer School addition is progressing slowly by comparison, the contractor being held up temporarily waiting for tile and steel. However, the foundations for both wings are now complete and when the needed material arrives the job is in a position to show rapid progress.
The procurement of laboratory equipment from government surplus has been proceeding fairly well as far as machine tools is concerned, and our requirements for the M.E. shop are essentially filled. We have assembled a group of machines that will provide quite adequate shop training. They are all up-to-date models and several are of a class far beyond the type that a shop of this kind could afford under normal conditions. The specialized equipment for the other M.E. and E.E. laboratories does not appear to be available in any quantity at present and the surplus property source will have to be supplemented by purchase from the manufacturers. However, we are not up against as great a problem here as would have been the case with machine tools.
Conditions are slightly chaotic because of the construction, but by next year we should have everything ship-shape and have a plant that will approach the ideal for Thayer School needs.
Dean Kimball is busy working on enrollment figures for next fall, and it looks as though many former Thayer School students would be back to complete their engineering education.
