Thayer School
IN addition to the usual education opportunities in the Hanover community, we are enjoying this fall the opportunity to use some interesting construction projects for field trips. These include the New England Power Company's 5-million-dollar masonry dam across the Connecticut River at Wilder and a variety of minor relocation jobs necessitated by the 13-foot rise in the river level which will be created by the dam. At present, residents of Norwich are looking forward rather glumly to the prospect of Ledyard Bridge being closed for about a month, while it is raised sufficiently to permit the river at its new level to flow under rather than through the bridge.
Two Thayer School alumni are now in residence on the Wilder Dam Project. They are Bob Hooker '49, who represents his firm of Thompson and Lichtner at the concrete plant in West Lebanon, and Bob Keane '48, who is a field engineer at the dam site for United Engineers, Inc., general contractors on the job.
Belated congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Thomas '41, on the arrival of James Akin Thomas III on June 16; and for Jane and Steve Horner '48 on the arrival of Susan Jane on April 17. James III resides at 451 East 14th Street, New York City, and Susan Jane at 6 West View Road in West Orange, New Jersey.
Carl Washburn '26, Assistant Chief Engineer for Fraser, Brace & Company, has taken up his residence at a new location at 184 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 2, New York.
Frederic W . Welch '08, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Washington State University, visited the school on two occasions during the summer while on a vacation trip to New England. He presented the school with copies of the Progress Edition of the Spokane Spokesman Review, depicting the natural and manmade features of the State of Washington.
Roy Briggs '44, after an interlude at Tufts College in Boston, has been in California for the last two years where he is teaching at the City College of San Francisco. He and Mrs. Briggs live at 2515 Poppy Drive, Burlingame, and are thoroughly enjoying the California climate.
Dick Whikehart '47, after completing a couple of years instructing in the Civil Engineering Department at Case Institute of Technology, has moved to Cambridge where he will undertake graduate study in the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering.
The quiet of a mid-summer afternoon at Thayer School was shattered by the arrival of Norm Falkin, Tom Gustenhoven and RonSchiavone, all of the Class of '48. Incredible as it may seem, the vacations of these three happened to coincide and they were doing New England. During their brief visit, the atmosphere of Thayer School took on a substantially more cheerful aspect. When last seen, they were headed for Balch Hill to offer their guidance to the second-year Clvils in their summer-session field work.
On that same day I enjoyed a visit with the elusive Bill Hall '48, who confessed that he is with the firm of C. A. Bader Company at 229 Buckingham Street in Hartford, Conn., and living at 47 West Silver Street, Westfield, Mass.
A postcard was recently received from Steve Olko '47 from Buenos Aires where he has been sent by the firm of Frederic R. Harris to set up a soil boring and testing program for a new steel manufacturing plant.
