Thayer School
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club, New York City, January 21, with 61 members and guests in attendance. Special guests introduced during the evening were Professors John Minnich '29, Russ Stearns '38, and John T. Hanley, Teaching Fellow in the School and president of the Student Chapter of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers. The toastmaster, President Fred Davidson '15, called for a few words from Messrs. FrankCudworth '02 and Charlie Goodrich '05, members of the Board of Overseers, and from Byron McCoy '34, who described the meeting of New England Thayer alumni held in Boston last spring.
Millett Morgan, Assistant Dean, presented information on the distribution of students among the four Thayer School curricula and spoke briefly on trends in engineering education and on employment prospects for this year's graduates. Your correspondent then spoke on the personnel of the School, students, faculty, and alumni.
Captain Pete Halloran '20 and Captain George Currier D'l7 were the feature speakers of the evening. Captain Halloran spoke on Seabee activities in the Pacific with particular reference to the origin, development and organization of offensive moves, and showed motion pictures of the Construction Battalions' work on Guam, where he was in charge of the CB Brigade. Captain Currier spoke on the continuing responsibilities of laymen and military authorities in preserving the peace of the world and showed motion pictures of atomic bombing from its inception in New Mexico through its use against Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the scientific testing of atom bomb performance at Bikini.
In addition to those mentioned above, the meeting was attended by the following alumni:
George H. Nolan '00, P. H. Winchester '00, Leslie B. Farr '03, J. Porter '03, Walter A. Conley '06, Harrie L. Muchemore '06, F. H. Munkelt '09, F. E. Schilling '09, P. L. Thompson '09, Ben. H. Dudley '10, Maurice Readey '10, Harry A. Ward '10, J. R. Kinney '11, Nelson L. Doe '13, J. S. Macdonald '14, H. Davidson '15, E. H. Elkins '15, R. H. Ellis '16, K. W. Ross '17, Wm. N. Birtwell '18, Robert H. Griffin '18, Robert E. Adams '20, Rudolph N. Miller '20, Philip Wilkin '22, John W. Guppy '24, H. A. Schroeder '26, C. T. Washburn '26, Herbert Darling '27, E. R. Sullivan '28, G. A. Updyke '30, E. Shaw Cole '31, F. Byron Tomlinson '36, John Moulton '37, Daniel B. Taggart '37, C. F. Burnap '39, Charles Y. Hitchcock '39, G. W. Bailey '40, R. E. Elkins '40, Hugh McLaren Jr. '40, C. E. Simmons '40, J. A. Thomas '41, Robert T. Barr '42, James P. Rogers '42, J. G. Skinner '43, Nathan Ward '43, George Ehinger '45, Robert Aldom '45, T. E. Candler '46, N. N. Waterbury '47, Captain G. C. Currier D.C. '17.
The following members were elected to the Executive Committee of the Society: P. L. Thompson '09, H. A. Ward '10, J. S. Macdonald '14, F. A. Davidson '15, Richard Hazen D' 32. Elections to the Advisory Board were: G. A. Sampson '03, A. H. Schilling '04, and R. T. Ley '34.
At a meeting of the Board of Overseers held in New York on January 23' and attended by Messrs. Cudworth, Goodrich, and R. E. Pritchard '15, and by invitation your correspondent, the following degree awards were approved as of the end of the fall semester: For the degree of Master of Science—Civil Engineering: Louis Fanning Blaisdell, David Ronald Ehrlich, John Walker Fondahl. Charles Nevins Howard; for the degree of Master of Science—Engineering and Business Administration: Robert Ernest Holmes, Robert Henry Kaatz, Donald Mortimer Sisson.
We learned with sorrow last month of the death at the age of 87 of one of Thayer School's most distinguished alumni, George H.Hutchinson '84. He spent 63 years of his life in full-time engineering work of various kinds up to the time of his retirement from the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Company in 1944. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1881 and Thayer School in 1884, he was actively engaged for many years in railroad location, and construction, dam and canal construction connected with hydro-electric developments, and the design of steel bridges and mill buildings. For 34 years his principal activities were in the field of ore and coal dock design and construction and ore and coal handling machinery. Much of this time was spent on Great Lakes facilities, and he was Chief Engineer of the Northwestern Fuel Company of St. Paul, pioneer coal distributors to the Northwest by way of the Great Lakes. Throughout his professional career he was active in the professional societies, having been a member of four national societies. He served as vice president and treasurer of the Minnesota Federation of Architectural Engineering Societies, and was active in legislative and public affairs committee work. He was the author of many technical papers among which were: "Lessons from America in the Handling of Coal and Iron Ore" which he prepared as a service in World War I for publication in a special material handling issue of The Electrician, a London magazine; "Coal Handling at the Head of the Great Lakes" which he presented at an annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; "Steel Mill Building with Details from Practice," originally presented before the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania and later reprinted in Johnson, Bryan and Turneaure's familiar textbook "Theory and Practice of Modern Framer Structures." He was listed in the 1943 edition of "Who's Who in the East" and was recently referred to by Skilling's Mining Review as the "Dean in engineering of the upper lakes." Thayer School has always been proud to count George H. Hutchinson among its alumni and now records with deep regret the passing of this distinguished engineer.
A letter from Bud Elliott '47 tells us that after several months in New York with a concern manufacturing specialized industrial tools utilizing diamonds, he is now back home in Boston in the retail diamond trade.
Although final plans have not yet been settled, Byron McCoy '34 and his Boston colleagues are planning a New England Thayer dinner again this spring and have tentatively set Thursday, April 1, as the date. So if you're anywhere within striking distance of Boston, keep that date open for a Thayer School reunion.
AN ELECTRiCAL MACHINERY LABORATORY IN ONE OF THE NEW WINGS OF THAYER SCHOOL.
