Thayer School
LATE last month I received the following courteous note from the office of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MACAZINE: "We regret that the following material could not be used in the October notes.... because of lack of space." AS indicated in the following material, I was not unprepared for the notice. Here it is:
"And to present second-year students (Class of 1949): Ray Evans on his marriage June 19 in Woburn, Mass. to Hazel Virginia Reeves; Carlton Evans on his marriage August 21 in Nashua, N. H., to Janice Helen Barrett; Art Niederbuhl on his marriage July 5 in Bloomingdale, N. Y., to Norma M. Curran; Louis Kraff on his marriage August 20 in Cambridge, Mass., to Edith Marie Hanson: and to Jack McNamara on his marriage June 29 in Rock Island, 111., to Ella Judd Mitchell.
"And to all others who have taken the plunge and haven't told us about it."
In the same department of congratulations, the following are noted; the marriage on October 2 of Larry Goldthwaite, Technician at Thayer School, to Mrs. Edith Godfrey Campbell at Chelsea, Vermont; the marriage on October 9 of Cal Gurney TT'47 to Cornelia Pineau at Saint Patrick's Church, Natick, Mass.; the arrival on September 10 of a daughter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. HoldenWaterbury '48 (No. 2 on the diaper pee-rade, says Holden); the arrival on September 5 of Donald Murray Barr at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Barr '42; the marriage on September 19 of John Nacos ex' 49 to Evangeline Marion Chapalis at St. George's Church in Manchester, N. H.; the arrival on August 31 of Leslie Elaine Nichols at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Art Nichols '45.
An item in the Asbury Park (N. J.) Press of September 16 announces that William M.Birtwell '18 has been appointed by Acting Governor Summerill as one of three public members of a committee to study beach protection in New Jersey.
A release from Washington State College announces that Frederic W. Welch 'OB is retiring this fall from the civil engineering faculty of that institution where he has taught for more than 28 years. He plans to keep his residence in Pullman and engage in private engineering practice.
Ed Brown '35, professor of civil engineering, has been elected a Director of the New England Sewage Works Association for 1948-1949. Ed has been active in this and similar organizations in New England for many years, contributing to their activities in the form of papers and committee work.
John Muchemore '44 is with the California Water and Telephone Company, 19 West 9th St., National City, Calif., and writes: "My family and I are well and enjoying life here. My work is pleasant and I feel I am learning a great deal. I don't see any Thayer men at the local Alumni dinners which I attend regularly."
Walt Douglas '34 has recently been elected a Principal Associate in the engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and Macdonald, New York City.
The Devenco Corporation of New York has recently announced the appointment of JoeWalsh '30 "to Structural Checker of design drawings in the Power Plant Division of that company. Mr. Walsh will work on Engineering Projects directed by Mr. Theodore J. Kauffeld, prominent consultant for industry on technical, industrial and management problems."
Some time ago we received a copy of ASME Paper No. 48-APM-17, "The Propogation of Plasticity in Uniaxial Compression," coauthored by Merit White '31, who according to last report is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts.
A welcome visitor to the School last month was Ellsworth Weed '24 who is Head of the Drainage Section, Flood Control and Drainage Branch, Division of Water Control Planning, of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Some years ago he presented the School with four volumes of technical reports of the TVA and on the occasion of this visit he brought our Library collection of these reports up to date with a gift of four additional volumes describing the Hiwassee, Apalachia, Osoee No. 3, Nottely, Chatuge, and Cherokee Projects.
Millett Morgan, Assistant Dean of the School, and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, has recently been notified of the acceptance by the Office of Naval Research of his proposal for a research project to be conducted here under his direction on the electromagnetic wave polarization in the ionosphere. He will have four second-year electrical engineering students working part-time and one full-time technician on the staff for this project.
During September the School played host to a group of men from the machine tool industries in this vicinity. Present for the Outing Club House luncheon and the inspection tour of the School which followed were W. J. Bryant, D.C. '25, President, Hartness Beardsley D.C. '37, Assistant to the President, and M. H. Arms, Chief Engineer, of the Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Springfield, Vermont; K. H. Woolson, President, J. Lovely, Chief Engineer, and E. L. Huber, Personnel Director of the Jones & Lamson Machine Company; C. N. Safford D.C. 'OB, President, and J. Cameron, Sales Manager of the Lovejoy Tool Manufacturing Company; R. Jacobs, General Manager of Vermont Foundries, Springfield; and W. E. Farrell, Manager, N. P. Nichols, Superintendent, and W. Trerice, Works Manager of the Cone Automatic Machine Company of Windsor, Vermont.
