Thayer School
MAJOR OCCASION of last month was, of course, the big Cornell weekend. However, since these notes had to be submitted just prior to the weekend, the score of the game and the score of the Thayer alumni who —I hope—visited the School and inspected our new buildings and facilities will have to be deferred to the January column.
Hardest working alumnus visitor of the weekend was undoubtedly Captain Paul Halloran '20 who came a day early to present a lecture, illustrated with motion pictures describing the engineering activities of the Sixth Naval Construction Brigade under his command in the Mariannas campaign. Captain Halloran gave his first lecture Thursday evening to an enthusiastic overflow audience of Thayer School students and visitors and was pressed into service again for a continuation lecture and more pictures Friday morning. Both films and commentary were of the high order of excellence which we have come to expect from this speaker.
Incidentally, Captain Halloran's trip to Hanover gave him a visit with his son, Richard, who is a member of the freshman class.
Congratulations are in order to Shirley and Dick Livingston '4} on the arrival of Miss Susan Joan born October 28. The three Livingstons live at sjqo Richmond Avenue, Buffalo 13, N. Y.
John T. Hanley, second-year student and Teaching Fellow in Engineering, has been elected President of the Student Chapter of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers for this year. He is also President of the Civil Engineering division of the Society with John H.McNamara as Secretary-Treasurer. Presidents and Secretary-Treasurers of the Electrical, Mechanical, and Tuck-Thayer divisions respectively are Veryl J. Wagner Jr. and Roy W.Murray Jr.; Robert D. Oldfield Jr. and Mayland P. Lewis; Robert H. Snedaker Jr. and Robert C. Tracy.
At a meeting which I attended in Washington last month of the Administrative Council of the A.S.E.E., one of the principal speakers on the program was Thorndike Saville '15, Dean of Engineering at New York University, whose topic was "Salaries of Engineering Teachers."
The annual meeting of the Association for the Protection of the Deer Population of New Hampshire Forests and the Promotion of Longevity among Our Four-Footed .Furry Friends was held at Peak's Camp in the College Grant on November 1 and 2. Present were John Minnich '29, your correspondent '29, Dick Olmsted '33, Dan Drury '38, and laymen Bob McKennan, John Dickey and Ross Mclienney. The rules of the APDPNHFPLOFFFF were religiously observed and its objectives fully realized.
Larry Falls '43 has recently accepted an appointment as Instructor in Civil Engineering at Clarkson College of Technology at Potsdam, N. Y. Larry was formerly with CharlieJost's ('27) firm of sanitary engineers in New York City.
Via Jack Hanley, we have a good report from Glenn Duba '47 who's attached to the Helena, Montana, Office of Luther S. Oakes' ('00) Winston Brothers Company. Glenn's work is largely in connection with a gold dredge which the company operates near Helena. He has recently been joined by wife Martha and their four-month-old heir.
I notice (ALUMNI MAGAZINE, November 1947) that Jesse Chadwell '47 is running a competing column. This is probably a good thing, for competition should stimulate both columns, but when he publicly announces that he got all that Thayer School news by "scraping the bottom of the barrel," I really must rise in protest.
But, in a friendlier spirit, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
