Thayer School
MR. M. H. ARMS, Chief Engineer of the Br) ant Chucking Grinder Company of Spi aiglie.d, Vt., presented motion pictures and a lecture at the School 011 March fifth, describing internal and face grinding methods in general and the development of high frequency internal grinding equipment in particular. in special inieresi. to tne mechanical engineering students who attended the lecture was a recently developed grinder operating at 100,000 rpm which has been used tor grinding holes as small as 0.04 inch diameter.
A prewar custom was revived at the Engineers Club in Boston Tuesday evening, March 11, when Thayer School alumni in the New England area met for dinner and the evening. In spite of a conflict with the Dartmouth-yale hockey championship playolf, attendance records were broken with thirty-eight alumni present. The School was represented by Professor Joe Ermenc and Assistant l'rofessor John Hirst '3g, who described the mechanical and electrical engineering facilities and program, and the writer, who just talked. Dr. Charlie Coodrich 'O6 who, with Mrs. Coodrich, is living temporarily with his sister in Dorchester, was called on lor a few words 011 the affairs of the School as seen by an Over- seer. Credit for the success of the meeting is due to the committee of three who organized and directed it, consisting of Byron McCoy '34, Charlie Hitchcock '39, and Charlie Main '39. The group was grateful for the financial assistance of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers which subsidized a portion of the cost of the dinner and the cost of the preliminary announcements. Those in attendance were:
J. G. Andrews '02, C. R. Chase '02, G. A. Sampson '03, C. F. Goodrich '06, N. H. Knight '08, S. C. Beane '12, R. J. Rice '16, R. H. Ellis '17, J. H. Wright '20, E. H. Lawson '21, W. P. Kimball '29, P. D. Rising '30, C. O. Parsons '33, R. T. Ley '34, B. O. McCoy '34, J. M. Scanlon '34, A. W. Doolittle '37, G. C. Capelle '37, H. S. Hirst '38, J. M. Hirst '39, C. Y. Hitchcock '39, C. T. Main '39, R. C. Tousley '42, L. E. Amy '43, P. B. Breck '43, C. P. Brown T-T '43, M. O. Garfink '43, C. A. Gibbons '43, R; U. Simpter '43, P. R. Jackson '44, A. Pratt '44, L. F. Briggs '45, R. S. Rice '45, J. J. Anthony '48, P. G. Blake '48, B. B. Brewster '48 and R. T. Harvey '48.
Congratulations are again in order for Morton O. Withey '05, Professor of Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin, who was recognized at the recent annual convention of the American Concrete Institute by being awarded the Henry C. Turner Medal "in recognition of forty years of outstanding contributions to our knowledge and understanding of concrete and reinforced concrete." Professor Withey is chairman of the ACI Committee 115 on Research. An open meeting of this committee was one of the features of the convention.
Charley Hitchcock '39, sanitary engineer with Metcalf and Eddy, has recently been elected to membership in the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
George A. Sampson '03, of the firm of Weston and Sampson, consulting engineers, has been elected President of the Boston Society lor the current year.
Bob Roberts '46 writes of some interesting work which he has had on his job with C. F. Haglin and Son, Building Contractor of Minneapolis. The particular work he mentions was on undisturbed soil sampling operations, the liist to be undertaken in Minneapolis.
Jim Eckeis '46 writes from Stanford University where lie is taking graduate work that he has found several fine courses but misses the personal contacts with the professors and their personal interest in their students which he remembers at Thayer.
The School had a visit during the winter from Stuart Gibbs TT'44 who is now Sales Manager of Tubing Seal-Cap, Inc., and Richmont, Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif.
Other winter visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Rick Davidson '41 who spent a few days of their wedding trip in Hanover late in January. Rick was married to Ellen Louise Burtt of Washington, D. C., in that city on January 18. I have a first-hand account of the wedding from 800 Hayden '41 who, with wife Betts, attended the ceremony. 800 reports that the wedding was a small and lovely affair. Although Rick is still in the Navy receiving medical care, he looked and seemed a hundred per cent better than he did last summer when he was here and he expects an early discharge from the service and is looking forward to starting his civilian career.
800 reminded me of an announcement which seems to have been overlooked from last fall; namely, the marriage last summer of Will Pitz '41 to Helen Louise Donohue in Manitowoc, Wise. The Pitz wedding trip took in Yellowstone and Glacier Parks and points west and included a visit with Classmate and Mrs. Bruce Espy in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Pitz are at home at 822 Hawthorne Terrace, Manitowoc, where Will is kept busy with the McMullen and Pitz Construction Company.
The author of the above news, 800 Hayden, is working for Baltimore (Md.) county on the design of storm drains which will run pretty close to two million dollars total cost. On the side, he is taking an evening course in City Planning at Johns Hopkins University.
Congratulations to Fred Schilling '09 and Nelson Doe '13, both of whom have recently been elected vice-presidents of the Turner Construction Company. These elections give Thayer School a majority of the vice-presidencies of the Turner Company, the third being Harry Ward 'lO.
A none-too-recent letter from Paul Breck '43, who is with Thompson and Lichtner, consulting engineers in Boston, gives miscellaneous intelligence about several of his classmates as follows: "I have seen Don Amy and Mai Garfink several times. Don has been with Stone and Webster since July. Mai started teaching structures at Wentworth Institute in September and seems to enjoy it very much. Bill Knoff wrote he was working with his father in their leather goods store in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, but was going to the Twin Cities soon to hunt an engineering job. Chuck Gibbons is an instructor in Sanitary Engineering at Tech (MIT) and is working for his Master's. Rog Simpter is with the B. & M. in North Station and living in North Reading."
While in New York in January, X had a pleasant visit with Charlie Jost '27 in the anteroom of the Am. Soc. C. E. annual meeting. Charlie is a member of the firm of Buck Seifert and Jost, consulting sanitary engineers in New York, and expressed his pleasure in having another Thayer man, Larry Falls '43, now in the office.
Still some news to catch up with, which I hope to do next month.
THE STAFF OF THAYER SCHOOL'S NEWEST CURRICULAR ADDITION, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, poses for its picture. Left to right, William J. Eckel, instructor; Millett Morgan, assistant professor, J. Albert Wood, assistant professor and John M. Hirst '3B, assistant professor. To house electrical and mechanical labora- tories, lecture rooms and equipment, two new wings are nearly completed at Thayer School.
