Thayer School
SOME FIFTY present and former Thayer School students gathered at the Engineers' Club in Boston on Thursday evening, April 1, for the second annual post-war New England Thayer Dinner. The committee-George Sampson '03, Dick Ellis '17, Byron McCoy '34, Charlie Hitchcock '39, Charlie Main '39, and Dick Tousley '42—had thought-fully scheduled the meeting during spring vacation and about fifteen students took advantage of this opportunity to attend the alumni function. The Engineers' Club served a good meal and the speakers made it a lively evening afterward. Ed Traylor, second-year civil engineering student, spoke on student attitudes; Rex Moulton, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, described the mechanical engineering "summer school" in manufacturing processes which parallels the civil's advanced surveying summer course. Dr. Charlie Goodrich '06 outlined the duties and functions of the Board of Overseers. Your correspondent spoke on the state of the School. All this was preliminary to the principal feature of the evening, a talk by ArthurD. Weston D'08, Director and Chief Sanitary Engineer, Engineering Division, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Mr. Weston gave a lively and interesting talk on engineering as a career, pointing out many pertinent dos and don'ts of the profession and illustrating each point with an actual incident drawn from his own wide engineering experience.
The following attended the meeting: Lydon E. Amy '43, John J. Anthony '47, Wade Barnes '47, Paul G. Blake '47, Benjamin B. Brewster '47, Edward S. Brown '35, Charles R. Chase '02, F. A. Davidson Jr. '41, Richard H. Ellis '17, L; P. Farnham '23, Malcolm O. Garfink '43, C. F. Goodrich '06, Allen Hazen '40, Charlie Hitchcock '39, R. P. Johnson '31, W. P. Kimball '29, N. Hobbs Knight '08, E. H. Lawson '21, C. T. Main II '39, Robert T. Ley '34, Byron. O. McCoy '34, David E. Nassif '46, R. E. Parker '11, L. K. Perley '1.3, Amasa Pratt '44, Richard S. Rice '44, Russell J. Rice '16, George A. Sampson '03, Leonard Sommer '47, R. C. Tousley '42, Joseph B. Vitalini '47, Albert G. Wilson Jr. '47, James H. Wright '20.
Students: Kim Ayers '48, Ham Chase '49, Jim Davis '48, Jack Hanley '48, Paul Henegan '49, John Kibbe '49, Mayland Lewis '49, John Lovewell '48, Al Miller '48, John Murray '49, David Pearson '49, George Spinney '49, Tom Streeter TT '48, Ed Tarca '49, Ed Traylor '48, Gil Tricco '48, Bill Weir '49.
A good letter from Mac Corner '44 brings us up-to-date on his activities during the past couple of years. Of first importance is the news of the arrival, almost two years ago, of Mac Junior. The Corners are living at 100 Leon Road, Pittsburgh. Mac is in the Commercial Research Department of the U. S. Steel Corporation. His preparation for this position consisted of a year and a half with the American Bridge Company, a subsidiary of U. S. Steel. After six months in the drafting room of this company, he was transferred to the Contracting Department in Baltimore, From there, he transferred to his present position back in Pittsburgh.
Word has been received through his classmates of the death on February first of Charles Straub '47N who attended Thayer School for a short time in the Navy program. Our sympathy goes to Charlie's family.
Ted Schwartz '48 paid a visit to the school in March during his spring vacation from Notre Dame where he is taking graduate work in Industrial Engineering.
Engineering News-Record, for April 1 carries a letter from Sydney Ruggles '09 describing rock slides on very flat slopes in Alaska, apparently precipitated partially, at least, by the lubricating effect of glacial rock flour. Mr. Ruggles in 1943 was inspector and progress engineer on the Haines Military- Cut-Off to the Alaska Highway.
Bruce O'Brien TT'47 has recently nioved to New York City where he is residing at the Dartmouth Club and has a position with Associated Reciprocal Exchanges. Incidentally, Thayer School has three Vice-Presidents in this company: Robert Adams '20, PhilipWilkin '22, and Robert Dewey '23.
Lew Perley '13, who attended the New England Thayer dinner, is continuing his civil engineering practice in Laconia, N. H., where he settled shortly after graduation from Thayer School. His work includes surveys, real estate developments, title abstracts and water supply and he reports that all this keeps him busier than one man ought to be.
Dan Drury '38 has recently added a couple of retaining consultant contracts to his civil engineering practice in Hanover. He is consulting engineer for the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain and the Barre and Chelsea Railroads and consultant for the Precinct and Town of Hanover. In his latter capacity, he will be responsible for the design and construction of a new sewer for Hanover's notorious east side. Dan and Sally have just moved into their beautiful new home in Norwich.
