Thayer School

As of the time this is written, the date for the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers has not been set, but all alumni will receive announcements shortly after the first of the month and if the usual schedule is followed the dinner meeting will be called for Friday evening, January 20, at the Dartmouth Club in New York. So save that date for the Indian engineers' pow-wow.

In the activation of the student chapter of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers here this fall, the following officers were elected: In the civil engineering division of the chapter, Warren Daniell '5O, was elected president and John Martin '5l, secretary; in the electrical engineering division, George Gendron 50, president and William Miller '5l, secretary; in the mechanical engineering division, JohnHelsell '5O, president, and Walter Lane '5l, secretary; and in the Tuck-Thayer division, William Davis '5O, president, and RobertKrom '5l, secretary. With the accreditation of the electrical and mechanical engineering curricula, it has become possible to establish student branches of the AIEE and ASME within the chapter. The ASME branch has already been organized and the AIEE branch is in process.

The big weekend of the fall season in Hanover, featured by a quite satisfactory afternoon on Memorial Field, took place shortly after the notes for last month's column were written. We had a good reunion of Thayer alumni at the school that Saturday morning —a practice which we are pleased to observe is becoming established on a broader basis each year. Among those present, in addition to the permanent fixtures in the School, were John S. Macdonald 'l4, Thomas Candler CE '45 and TT '47, Robert S. Foote CE '4B, M. P. Lewis Jr. ME '49, Allan H. Gasner TT '49, and Ralph S. Roth TT '49. A recent letter from Charlie Hitchcock '39, tells us that he was in town but the arrival time of the special train from Boston was too late for him to pay us a visit.

Tom Candler is temporarily located in Buffalo, New York, where he is project manager on a job for the Detroit firm of Candler and Bass, Inc.

Bob Foote received his Master of Arts degree in City Planning at Yale last June and is now a member of the training program of the Port of New York Authority.

Nipper Lewis is employed in the test program of General Electric in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Al Gasner is in the engineering department of Lindy Heaters at 2370 Hoffman Street, New York City, where his duties include engineering, advertising, and sales promotionjust the kind o£ thing for a Tuck-Thayer, he says.

A feature article in the November issue of Civil Engineering entitled "Government Hydro Power Plant Construction" was written by Harrison G. Roby 'O6. In this article, based on a paper which he presented at the fall meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Washington, he outlines the broad policies of the Army engineers in determining the economic feasibility of large, multiplepurpose hydroelectric power projects. Mr. Roby is Chief, Hydro Power Branch, Engineering Division, Civil Works, with the Army Engineers and is located in Washington, D. C.

Frank E. Cudworth 'O2, Thayer School overseer, and Mrs. Cudworth are spending the winter at 336 Fourth Avenue, North St. Petersburg, Florida, where they expect to remain until May.

Barney Tomlinson '3,6, reports an active season in the contracting firm of Tomlinson and Hawley, of which he is Executive Vice-President and Treasurer, in Bridgeport, Conn.

Bob Stokes '44, is purchasing agent and production manager for Plastic Molding Corporation in Sandy Hook, Conn. The Stokeses, with one-year-old daughter Nancy, live on Church Hill Road, that town.

The School had a visit early in December from William H. Ham '9B, General Manager of the Bridgeport, Conn., Housing Company. Mr. Ham, in connection with his activities as secretary of his college class, has been studying various features of the Hanover scene, including the effects on the river, scenically and recreationally, of the new Wilder Dam.

We were pleased to have a visit last month from Fred Munkelt 'O9, long-time former secretary o£ the Dartmouth Society of Engineers. Fred spent several days in New Hampshire and Vermont visiting personal and business acquaintances. It was his first visit to Hanover during class time for many years, and he was impressed by the appearance of the college as a "going concern," in contrast with the Hanover of commencement and reunion dates.

Jack Hartley '4B, Lieutenant jg CEC, USN, has been stationed at Port Hueneme, California, where he has been both a student and instructor in specialized technical courses in radiology and nuclear physics and in related military and civilian protections and relief. Through a visitor at the school a short time ago, it appears that-Jack may be getting into some pretty "top secret" work.

I hope to see many of you at the annual meeting this month.