Thayer School
THE STUDENT CHAPTER of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers held an organization meeting in November under the direction of John Minnich '29, faculty adviser, and elected the following officers: Civil Engineering: President, Paul J. Henegan '49; Secretary, Warren F. Daniell Jr. '50; Electrical Engineering: President, William R. Weir '49; Secretary, Blanchard Pratt '50; Mechanical Engineering: President, Robert D. Eckerson '49; Secretary, Thomas S. Nelson II '50; TuckThayer: President, Grant A. Paterson '49; Secretary, William R. Davis '50.
Bob Barr '42 has recently been made a partner in the firm of Barr and Barr, formerly Barr and Lane, engineers and contractors with offices in New York and Boston. Bob has been with the firm since his discharge from the Naval Reserve in 1946.
The Bulletin of the General Contractors Association for November announces the selection of Luther Oakes 'OO as a recipient of the 1949 Moles Award for outstanding construction achievement. The award will be presented at a meeting of that group in New York in February. The Bulletin contained the following sketch: "Luther S. Oakes has been president of Winston Brothers Company for 27 years. Vermont-born and a graduate of Dartmouth, he joined Winston in 1907 and after seven years as a railroad construction engineer, becoming a director in 1913 and president in 1921. The firm is a pioneer railroad builder of the Northwest, and has specialized in road, dam, flood control and drainage work throughout North and South America."
From Allen Richmond '15 we have received a clipping from the San Juan, Puerto Rico, newspaper El Mundo showing a bird's eye view of the construction of a 30mgpd water purification plant for that city. Designers and supervisors of construction of this project are Buck, Seifert and Jost, consulting engineers of New York, the last named being Charlie Jost '27.
Visitors at Thayer School during November included John S. Macdonald '14, Vice-President of the Walsh Construction Company; Robert M. Dewey '23, Vice-President of Arex Indemnity Company, New York City; Park W. Stickney '09, District Manager of Warren Webster & Company, Chicago.
A letter received some time ago from JohnFondahl '48 announced his move from Pittsburgh, where he was with the American Bridge Company, to Honolulu, where he is now instructor in the civil engineering department of the University of Hawaii. The Fondahls are most enthusiastic about their new surroundings, and John's description of their arrival in Honolulu may give some indication of why: "The chairman of my department, Mr. Holmes, greeted us with ginger flower leis and later at his house presented Doris with more than a dozen orchids which he raises in the back yard." He also says, "I would appreciate having correspondence addressed here to my office (Engineering and Mathematics Dept., University of Hawaii, P.O. Box 18, Honolulu 10, T.H.) and would like to hear from any of the fellows."
A good letter from John Arborio '38, whose home is in Clinton Corners, New York, gives a pleasant picture of his personal and business situation: "All goes well with us. My wife and I have a boy nine months old now and we think he is a prize. His name is Timothy more or less in remembrance of Timson whom you do doubt recall. At present I am vice-president of my dad's construction company in charge of construction; which means I'm in the field most of the time doing the dirty work. Thanks be, though, we landed a parkway job close to home so next year I'll be at home more. Now our jobs are pretty well spread out and it keeps me hopping.''
Congratulations to William John (Bill)Eckel, instructor in electrical engineering, on his marriage, December 19, to Edith Margaret Spooner at the Central Methodist Church in Brockton, Mass. The Eckels spent their Christmas vacation on a wedding trip to Bermuda.
Heber Ashley '20 whose home is in Grand Island, New York, is County Assistant Engineer of South Erie County with headquarters in Hamburg, New York. During the war he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Eric Burgess '30, who lives at 236 Harcourt Drive, Akron, Ohio, is in the Engineering Purchasing Department of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in that city. During the war he was a Major in the U. S. Marine Corps for five years with service in the South Pacific Area.
Henry Pierce '38 has his home at 17 South Rockburn Street, York, Pa., where he is Supervisor of Personnel and Public Relations for the General Electric Company and editor of the York Works News.
THAYER REUNION IN PUERTO RICO: Al Richmond '14 Th'15 (left) shown visiting Larry Waterbury '12' Th'13, at Central Machete this fall. Al was there making a survey of engineering personnel in government service. Larry is manager of the Central Machete Company, sugar refining firm.
