Thayer School
As this is being written another school .year is drawing to a close at an alarming pace and the calendar for the coming month looks awfully full. First in line will be the annual meeting of Alumni Officers in Hanover this weekend. On the second-year Thayer program, are, in rapid succession, a wind-up stag party, a married couples picnic, a graduation dance, and finally on Friday afternoon, June 4, the Thayer School graduation exercises. Final exams are sandwiched in there somewhere. The Board of Overseers will meet in Hanover at the time of our graduation exercises. Then comes College graduation and last but not least alumni reunions. All these occasions will furnish opportunities for Thayer alumni to visit the School, and members of the staff are looking forward to the chance to show off the new buildings and laboratories.
At the April meeting, the Board of Trustees voted a leave of absence for the first semester next year to Russ Stearns '38, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. Russ will leave Hanover shortly after graduation for Lafayette, Indiana, where he will spend the summer and fall semesters completing his work in soil mechanics and related fields for Purdue's Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree.
Ed Brown '35, Professor of Civil Engineering, presented a paper early in May at a meeting of the New Hampshire Academy of Science, held in Plymouth, N. H. The subject of his paper was "The Engineering Aspects of Stream Pollution."
John Hirst '39, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, will spend the summer at Northwestern University completing the requirements for his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
A copy has recently been received here of a paper by Merit White '31 entitled "On the Impact Behavior of a Material With a Yield Point" which has been contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society next fall. Congratulations are in order both on the scholarly achievement which the paper represents and on the incidental announce ment that Merit holds a professorship at the University of Massachusetts.
Congratulations of a more personal sort to Charlie Marshall '47 on the birth of a daughter, Carol Ann, on May 7 in Peabody, Mass.
T.S. '47, under the direction of RubeSamuels, has inaugurated a class letter custom which, as far as I know, is unique among Thayer School classes. Rube was good enough to send me a copy of the latest edition dated 3° March 1948 (sic) and it contains more news of his Thayer School classmates than I have ever seen of any one Thayer class. Highlights from the class of '47: John Anthony works with M. A. Reidy, Boston, is engaged, date contemplated September. LeoCunningham has been located at a power plant job in New Bern, N. C., is now back in Kansas City. Casey and Joyce Drew are the proud parents of Lynda Joyce, born February 22. George Fellows was married last fall to Gloria Berry, Charlottesville, has been doing graduate work in structures at Johns Hopkins this year as a candidate for the Master's degree in June. Bob Russ planned to be married "in the middle of May", is working for Stone and Webster in Schenectady. Hjalmar Sundin has been studying this year at University of Illinois in sanitary engineering, has an appointment as an assistant in Structures there for next year while he continues his studies. Bill Caryl, same class, dropped in here for a visit last month. Bill has returned from about a year in the western states which included some graduate study in the University of Colorado.
Donald Derickson 'O2, head of the School of Civil Engineering at Tulane University from 1913 until his retirement in 1945, has recently been made an honorary member of the Louisiana Engineering Society in recognition of his "outstanding career in engineering education, his proariency as a civil engineer and his long record of service to the state society."
