Thayer School
WITH the January issue recently off the press showing Messrs. Richmond and Waterbury examining a coconut in Puerto Rico, I am momentarily expecting a deluge of letters asking when the former is going to stop growing up and when the latter started settling. For the composure of those concerned over this apparent phenomenon, let me assure them that it was just a typographical error in the picture's caption.
The School has received a gratifying number of cards bearing season's greetings from alumni and occasionally commenting on the sender's location, occupation, etc. Perhaps the pleasantest surprise came in the form of a check for fifty dollars enclosed with a Christmas greeting from the alumnus who, anonymously, has been establishing the Randolph D. White Fund "for loans to needy and worthy students in the Thayer School who would otherwise be unable to continue their studies." Although at present the G.I. Bill has practically eliminated requests for other student aid, it is clear that, with government support withdrawn, our funds which were just about adequate for a pre-war enrollment of thirty students will be woefully inadequate for our expected enrollment of two to three times that number. Gifts offered for student aid are therefore most enthusiastically accepted.
A good letter recently received from Malcolm (Garf) Car fink '43 brings us good news all around from that quarter. The Garfinks have moved from Boston down to Mt. Rainer, Md., where practically their first activity was to welcome "an addition to the family," previously noted in this column. Garf is currently working on a 1000-apartment project and shopping center and finds that his work involves surveying, road building and storm sewer layout, and even flood control. He was surprised on the job one day this fall by Jim O'Mara '43 who is working for Robert W. Sawyer, consulting sanitary engineer, on work for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Roger Simpler '43 has moved from Boston, where he had just finished building himself a house, back to his old home town of Greenfield, Mass., where he lives at 198 Leyden Road. Roger is Assistant Supervisor of Bridges and Buildings for the Boston and Maine Railroad.
Wayne A. Perkins '05 is still employed as Senior Engineer, having supervision of dams for the State of California and resides at 1180 Perkins Way, Sacramento.
Steve Butterfield '33 has had an interesting career in transportation engineering. After completing a fellowship at the Yale Bureau of Highway Traffic Research in 1939, he served as Traffic Engineer for the State of Connecticut for three years. Since 1942 he has held a commission in the Army, first in the Ordnance Department and more recently in the Transportation Corps. He is at present a Major in the Transportation Corps, located in Austria. His permanent address is 74 Newport Avenue, West Hartford, Conn. His present address is Transportation Section, Munich Military Post, APO 407-A, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Bill Gibson '37 missed the Thayer- School Register because our publication schedule didn't allow time for exchange of information between Rome and Hanover. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT in Marine Transportation, and Economics and Engineering, he was an engineer with the Dravo Corporation for two years. From 1941 to 1943 he served as Vice Consul in the U.S. Foreign Service Auxiliary in Rio de Janeiro, then for one year as Economic Analyst in Lisbon. After three years in the USNR, including duty of the USS Pensacola in the Pacific area, he was discharged as Lt. (jg.) in 1946 and entered State Department service at that time. He is at present Second Secretary of the American Embassy in Rome, Italy.
