Thayer School

ALTHOUGH no formal graduation exercises . were held, three students received Master's degrees from Thayer School at the close of the first semester last month. HenryWhipple Parker, B.S. Summa Cum Laude, of Goffstown, N. H., received the degree of Master of Science for completion of the civil engineering curriculum. George Edward Dyke Jr., B.S. in C.E., of Ossining, N. Y., and HowardEarl Geer Jr., A.8., of Bellerose, N. Y., received the degree of Master of Science for completion of the Tuck-Thayer engineering and business administration curriculum.

The Annual Meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York Friday evening, January 17, with an attendance of sixty-two, reminiscent of the best pre-war meetings. Veterans of World War II were invited to the meeting as guests of the Society. Other guests included Dr. G. Edward Pendray, a Director of the American Rocket Society, Professor Ermenc, of our mechanical engineering department, Professor Stearns, of our civil engineering department, Clint Washburn, son of Carl Washburn '26, and the writer. The following alumni and society members signed the register: T. T. Whittier '00, P. H. Winchester '00, F. E. Cudworth '02, J. E. Porter '03, G. A. Sampson '03, W. A.Conley '06, C. F. Goodrich '06, H. L. Muchemore '06, F. H. Munkelt '09, F. E. Schilling '09, P.L. Thompson '09,B.H.Dudley '10,M. Ready'n.F.Rogers'ii, W.F. Kimball '12, F.A.Davidson '15, E. H. Elkins '15, W. C. Hands '15, R. E.Pritchard '15, A. P. Richmond '15, K. W. Ross '16, R. H. Ellis '17, R. H. Griffin '18, R. E.Adams '20, J. W. Guppy '24, E. B. Lyon '25, L. B. Stone '25, H. A. Schroedel '26, C. Washburn '26, C. F. Jost '27, E. R. Sullivan '28, E. S.Cole '31, G. E. Franson '31, R. Hazen D.C. '32, W. S. Douglas '34, B O. McCoy '34, G. E. Elsenhans '36, G. Spencer '36, J. J. Moulton '37, J.Coggeshall '38, D. P. Taggert '39, R. Elkins '40, H. McLaren Jr. '40, E. R. Bly '41, J. Hands '42, D. Warren '42, L. H. Falls '43, J. Skinner '43, C. Weinberg '43, F. T. Perley '44, G. Ehinger 45, W Kimball '45, R. E. Price '46, A. Schmidt '46, H. S. Sundin '46, F .S. Alschuler '46, W. C.Caryl '46.

At the business meeting following dinner, the following elections- were announced for 1947: To the executive committee: F. H.Munkelt '09, J. S. Macdonald '14, P. L.Thompson '09, R. Hazen, DC '32, F. A. Davidson '15; to the Advisory Board: Commodore P. J. Halloran '20, P. H. Winchester '00, E. H.Elkins '15. Continuing members of the Advisory Board are G. A. Sampson '03, A. H.Schilling '04, C. P. Richardson '09, and W. P.Kimball '29 ex-officio.

The Society unanimously nominated FrankE. Cudworth '02 for the vacancy on the Board of Overseers created by the expiration of his own term.

It was also voted at the business meeting to have a committee appointed to study possible revision of the constitution of the Society including a reconsideration of the appropriate name for the Society. This committee will be instructed to report at the Annual Meeting next January.

A meeting of the Board of Overseers was held on the afternoon preceding the Society meeting and was attended by President Dickey, Dr. Goodrich '06, Mr. Cudworth '02, Mr. Pritchard '15, and the writer. Action was taken at that time on the award of the Master's degrees mentioned above, and a full discussion of the affairs of the School was held.

Thayer School is very fortunate to be able to announce the return to the faculty at the beginning of the second semester last month of Millett G. Morgan as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Although Doctor Morgan's previous appointment to the faculty was cut short during the first year, 1941, by a call to join the Electrical Engineering Department at M.I.T. for the purpose of giving vital wartime courses in advanced radio and radar to officers of the Army and Navy, those who knew him here will remember their association with him with pleasure and respect. After approximately one year at M.I.T. he entered an even more vital phase of war work as designer of radar equipment for the U.S. Navy, in the employ of the Submarine Signal Company. Early in the summer of 1944, he was assigned by this company to a group working on fundamental research at the Seismological Laboratory at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. After completion of this project, he received the degree of Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and transferred, in January 1946, to the University of California at Berkely where he combined teaching and research on a Navy project.

Boston alumni up! A dinner meeting of alumni in the New England area will be held at the Engineers Club in Boston at 6:30 Tuesday evening, March u. All alumni and interested parties are cordially invited to attend. The School will be represented by John Hirst '39, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Joe Ermenc, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and the writer. The meeting -has been arranged by Byron McCoy '34, Charlie Hitchcock '3.9, and Charlie Main '39. Drop Charlie Main a card at 201 Devonshire Street, Boston, or phone him at Charles T. Main, Inc., and tell him you'll be there.

Owing to all the above organizational news, there seems to be no space for individual alumni notes this month. I'll try to make up for lost time next month.