Thayer School
As THIS is WRITTEN, our first postwar summer session is in full swing with forty-five second-year students enrolled in three summer session programs. Eighteen second-year civils are out in the fields alongside the Mt. Support Road optimistically surveying for an airport. Ten second-year electricals are painstakingly measuring amps and volts and ohms and watts in the new electrical measurements laboratory. Seventeen mechanicals and TuckThayers are industriously turning, drilling, grinding, milling, shaping, burning, welding and generally manhandling various sizes, shapes and compositions of a semi-precious metal called steel in the new manufacturing processes laboratory.
As indicated in the above paragraph, we are actually carrying on operations in parts of our new electrical and mechanical engineering buildings. By the opening of the regular school year the first of October, we shall be operating in all parts of the new wings. It should not be inferred that construction operations are complete. The contractor's forces and the college painters are still with us and will be, in gradually diminishing numbers, for some time to come, but our occupancy now has first priority and their operations are limited and guided by our class and laboratory schedules. We have had the most marvelous cooperation and thoughtful consideration throughout this building program from Myron Trumbull, the job superintendent, and all his subcontractors. Their willingness to give way piecemeal to classes and laboratory periods as the job has neared completion has set a standard for collaboration which carries none of the implications which have come to be associated with that innocent term.
The resignations of two members of the staff have been accepted during the summer: Ed Butler, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Management, who had held that appointment for one year; and Mrs. Delia Hall, whom recent students will remember as Secretary of the School for the past four years, and as Secretary of the CPT and ESMWT programs for two years previous to that.
Dr. Millett G. Morgan, appointed last winter Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, was appointed Assistant Dean of the Thayer School on July 1.
Byron S. Dague has been appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering and Management. Professor Dague, a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in the class of 1916, took graduate work both at the Naval Academy and at Columbia University. He received the degree of Master of Science for graduate work in mechanical engineering at the latter institution. During his service in the Navy he was for three years head of the Department of Engineering of the Naval Academy Graduate School. A wide variety of industrial and engineering duties was included in his assignments while in the Navy. After his retirement with the rank of Captain in 1945, Professor Dague taught in the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Florida. The School is most fortunate to secure the services of a teacher with so broad and varied an experience in engineering and industrial work.
Edmund J. Byrkit '47 has been appointed Instructor in Civil Engineering. Ed received his master's degree from Thayer School last June and will assist Professor Minnich in structural engineering courses and in a research project which is under the direct supervision of Professor John.
Foxhall A. Parker '48, a second-year mechanical engineering student, has been appointed Teaching Fellow in Engineering. Foxhall will carry on a half-time study schedule and will assist in laboratory and classroom instruction in first-year courses.
W. L. Goldthwaite, who came to Thayer School last winter on a temporary basis, has been appointed Technician for the School. Larry's services in setting up the manufacturing processes laboratory and in helping to equip other new laboratories have been invaluable and we are very fortunate to be able to keep him on our staff. He will teach manufacturing processes laboratory work, in conjunction with Professor Sherrard, and will continue to assist in the setting up of our other laboratories.
Miss Janice Peabody has been appointed Secretary of the School. Miss Peabody is from Springfield, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of the Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Maine, majoring in Secretarial Science. She came to Thayer School on July first.
We have enjoyed visits from many Thayer School alumni during the summer and look forward to the opportunity to show our new buildings and laboratories to many more during the fall. With the added attraction of important football games in Hanover, we are optimistic about the prospect of alumni visits.
Having used up all our space on School news, we regretfully postpone news of alumni to the next issue.
JOIN MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY: Dr. Jan Nyboer, left, new Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and Dr. Eugene Becker, formerly of Budapest, Hungary, who is Associate in the Physiological Sciences.
