Thayer School
THE REOPENING OF SCHOOL on January 8, after the first full-fledged Christmas vacation since 1941, found Hanover at its winter best with beautiful, cold, clear weather, nearly two feet of snow, and drifts piled deep along the roads and walks.
Your correspondent attended a meeting of the Administrative Council of the American Society for Engineering Education in Chicago last December and listened to various reports including one from Thorndike Saville '15 on universal military training. Dean Saville is chairman of the Society's committee to cooperate with governmental agencies in the study and formulation of plans and legislation concerning this subject.
The Christmas season brought welcome cards of salutation from many of the School's alumni including Carl Washburn '26, Sy Sturm '34, Muggsey Bly '41, Charlie Weinberg, Jim Skinner, Dick Muller, and Nate Ward '43, Roy Briggs '45, Art Nichols and Cline Mann '46, Sam Florman '47, and Bill Caryl, John Anthony, Roy Chenderlin, Rube Samuels, Chuck Howard, and Bob Pretat '48. Incidentally, the acceleration of the past few years did strange and wonderful things to class designations as, indicated above for men who graduated as much as a couple of years ahead of their class numerals.
A recently published directory of the Bureau of Reclamation lists, among others, the staff of Harold Comstock '04, who is Regional Director of the Bureau for Region VI with headquarters at Billings, Montana. As previously reported in this magazine, Mr. Comstock has been Director of this Region since 1943.
Steve Horner '45 who left here in 1943 for active duty with the Navy and returned to School last summer to complete the requirements for his AB and MS degrees, returned after Christmas vacation with his bride, the former Jane Elizabeth Ball of Newark, New Jersey. The Homers were married at the Saint James Episcopal Church in Newark on December 27 and are making their home in Wigwam Circle, a stone's throw from both the Thayer School and the Connecticut River.
Other nuptials of recent date include Phil Jackson '44 and his bride, Shirley. I am lacking statistical data, but can report the receipt of a postcard from the groom from the Sheraton Plaza at Daytona Beach in which he records that the weather and the swimming are wonderful.
In the same category, both faculty members and former classmates enjoyed a visit with Craig Cain '46 and his bride who visited Hanover recently on their wedding trip. The Cains were married in Westport, Connecticut on De- cember 28th. Mrs. Cain was Jocelyn Mason of that city and is a graduate of Wellesley. Craig is working for the Continental Concrete Pipe Corporation in Chicago on the development of several new products and reports interesting experiences in his job. They have a home under construction in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and while the unions are deciding who should build what part of it and when they (that is, the Cains) will make their home with Craig's parents at 6253 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois.
Congratulations are in order for Dick Seidman '41 and Mrs. Seidman on the birth of a son, David Andrew. Dick is Assistant Plant Engineer for the Polaroid Corporation and lives at 15 Everett Street, Cambridge. He is responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the mechanical plant equipment and has been involved with many interesting, new developments in the field of application of polarization.
H. B. Morse & Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the subject of a writeup in Kreolite News recently. The two heads of the firm, Harold Morse '04 and Bob Morse '36 were pictured, Bob in his Engineer Corps Captain's uniform, looking particularly snappy. We have recently had a good letter from Bob telling about some of his work since retiring from the Army. With regard to the latter, he says, "Despite my five years in the army, I emerged without a scratch (he spent six months in combat including Okinawa), wasn't sick, and did get some valuable engineering experience, if only learning that the army way was wrong."
This seems like a good note on which to close until next month.
