Thayer School

WITH A FEELING of gratitude and satisfaction, I wish to announce a gift which has recently come to the School as a memorial to Charles Reed Main '08. Always devoted to the interests of Dartmouth and the Thayer School, Mr. Main's contribution to the affairs of the School culminated in his position as an Overseer from 1936 to his death in 1942. It is therefore most appropriate that a memorial to him be established in the School. For this purpose, Mrs. Main, and her sons, Charles T.Main '39 and Samuel F. Main '38 have shared equally in providing the School with $750 "to be used to obtain some much needed instrument or piece of equipment."

Congratulations are in order for Ed Elsenhans '36 on his marriage, January 31 to Miss Jane Williams of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ed and Jane spent part of their wedding trip in Hanover before and during Carnival. Ed is Technical Service Engineer for the UniversalAtlas Cement Company. He is responsible for the middle-Atlantic district operating out of Philadelphia and extending as far south as North Carolina. The Elsenhanses will live at 108 Windermere Avenue, Wayne, Pa.

A plan for a five-year engineering program for New York University has been proposed by Thorndike Saville '15, Dean of the College of Engineering, according to a report in the February issue of Heating, Piping and AirConditioning. Further information provided to me by Dean Saville indicates that there is little resemblance between his proposal and the Thayer School plan, though it, too, accomplishes considerable broadening of the curriculum beyond the scope possible in the conventional four-year course.

Visitors at Thayer School this winter have included: Len Sommer '47, who is enrolled in the Westinghouse Graduate Training Program and is currently located at the Sturtevant plant in Boston, taking an air conditioning course; Paul Breck '43, who is with Thompson and Lichtner in Boston; Ted Bush TT'47, who is in the Mortgage Loan Department of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company in Hartford; Fred Davidson '15, attending a class reunion; Roy Stifler '47, now in the New York office of the Raymond Concrete Pile Company but about to be assigned to a project of this company in the Caribbean; PaulHalloran '20, attending a father-son gathering; Harry Graves '47 and Clint Holton '47, spending a weekend in civilization for contrast to their work on the huge airport being constructed under the direction of Army Engineers near Limestone, Maine.

Chan Griggs '39 has been in the Philippines for about a year, according to indirect reports recently received here. He is reported to be in charge of the first office of the Civil Aeronautics Administration to be opened in the Islands. His assignment has been to represent all functions of the CAA in connection with the establishment of airways aids under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act.

Congratulations are indicated for Ed Byrkit '47 on his engagement to Miss Sally Ann White of Auburn, Maine, which was announced last December. Since Ed is an Instructor in Civil Engineering at Thayer School this year, this report might have been expected to appear in an earlier edition of this column. But if people won't tell me these things, how can I tell you?

Congratulations also to Lt. Comdr. BillNorcross '39, CEC, USN, on his marriage, February 7, in Washington, D. C., to Miss Geraldine Campbell St. John. The Norcrosses are living at 414 South Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Va.

To close this column on a challenging note —and I speak advisedly—your correspondent has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the Great Issues course.