Associated School News
Thayer School
BY the time this is in print, all Thayer alumni and members of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers will have received a copy of the proposed new constitution for the Society. For many years, the Society has labored under a form of organization which was completely workable at the time it was established in 1904 but has become inadequate for the alumni group of the present. In order to correct this situation, and set up an organization which can function effectively, a constitutional committee was appointed by President Halloran '20 consisting of Rick Davidson '.(.i, chairman, Hugh McLaren '40, Bob Barr ' 42. and Paul Henegan '49. The proposals of this committee were referred to your correspondent and the Society's executive committee consisting of Pete Halloran '20, ShawCole '31, Jack Macdonald '14, Phil Thompson 09, and Harry Ward '10. With revisions suggested by this board of review, the proposed constitution has now reached you. It is hoped that you will read it carefully and submit your vote for or against adoption at the earliest possible date. If the constitution is approved it will enable the Society to go forward with an energetic program for the annual meeting and for the coming year.
In the meantime, the Student Chapter of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers has been reorganized for the current year under the guidance of Donald Pyke, Assistant to the Dean. At this writing, the following officers have been elected: John O. Foote '51 and Charles A. Sherman '52, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the civil engineering group; Harvey W. Graves '51 and William H. Miller '51, president and secretarytreasurer of the electrical engineering group; Jack A. Conners '51 and Robert E. Fiertz '52, president and secretary-treasurer of the mechanical engineering group; and Robert M.Mcllwain '51 and Arthur F. Worden, Jr. '52, president and secretary-treasurer of the TuckThayer group. These men form the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth Society Student Chapter and elect from their body a president and secretary-treasurer of the overall chapter. These latter elections had not been held at the time these notes were written.
We have had a gratifying number of visitors at the School during the summer and fall, some of whom, I regret to say, didn't find me in. Among these were Bruce Espy '41, AlpheusEnglish '16, Justin McCarthy ' 16, JamieThomas '41, Ken Langler '37, Russ Rice '16, Jim Skinner '43, and George Collins '35.
Others whom I had the pleasure of seeing when they visited the School included:
Pete Halloran '20, Vice-President of Foley Brothers, contractors in Pleasantville, N. Y. Pete's older son Dick is secretary-treasurer of the senior class at Dartmouth and his younger son Dave is a member of the sophomore class. Neither of the boys seems to be engineeringminded.
Allison Dunn '22, engineering with the National Park Service, presently located in Washington, D. C.
Bob Eckerson ME '49 and Mrs. Eckerson on their way from Buffalo where Bob spent a year with the American Optical Company to Brooklyn where he has accepted a position in the engineering department of the American Machine and Foundry Company.
Bob Neuberg ME '49 on vacation from Wessel, Dural and Company o£ New York City.
Charlie Jost '27 and son Charles Jr. Charlie is a partner in the firm of Buck, Seifert and Jost, consulting sanitary engineers in New York City.
According to a notice in Civil Engineering,Hardy S. Ferguson '91 has dissolved his own engineering concern, Hardy S. Ferguson, Engineers, and has joined the pulp and paper engineering division of the H. N. Ferguson Company, industrial engineers and builders of NewYork City, as a consultant.
Fred Welch 'OB, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Washington State College, was honored by a special ceremony held at the college's summer survey camp in eastern Washington on June 25. The ceremony was held to dedicate the camp as Camp F. W. Welch in recognition of Professor Welch's many years of service to the institution and the affection in which he is held by his former students and associates.
Dick Ellis '17 is the author of a paper "Public Water Practice Relative to Private Fire Protection" recently published by the National Fire Protection Association in the Proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the Association held in Atlantic City last May. Dick, a member of the Factory Mutual Engineering Division in Boston, is chairman of a committee of the Association concerned with' the subject matter of his paper. He has a son. Dick, in the senior class at Dartmouth.
John Guppy '24 and son Jack, who is taking a pre-engineering course as a junior at William and Mary, visited the School in June.
Chan Griggs '33 visited the School in July on his return from an extended tour of duty in the Philippines. Chan was accompanied by his wife, Emmie, and their two daughters Helen and Donna. Since 1946, he has been Air ways Engineer-in-Charge for the US Civil Aeronautics Administration's Rehabilitation Program in the Philippines. He is now trans ferred to the Washington office and his home address is 5895 North Four Mile Run Drive Arlington, Va.
Muggs Bly '41 visited the School early in June. He is in the engineering division of the DuPont Company and has recently been lo cated in Victoria, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Cat Curney '47 announce the arrival of a daughter, Paula Charlotte, on July 15.
Don Armitstead '49 was married on June 10 to Edith Edna Hamm in New York City. Don is an engineer with Fraser Brace Company in that city.
Stella and Chuck Way '48 announce the ar rival on September 13 of a daughter, Stephanis Rose.
Joan and Jim Sullivan '50 paid us a visit or September 30 when they were celebrating their fourth (week) wedding anniversary. Jim and Joan (Godfrey) were married in Swamp scott on September 2. After a short trip through the mountains of New Hampshire they returned to Boston where Jim is a civil engineer with the Fish and Wildlife Servici of the Department of the Interior. They live at 13 Russell Terrace, Belmont.
WILLIAM P. KIMBALL '2O
Tuck School
THIS is one of those beautiful fall days in Hanover. The color now is at its peak and your correspondent can hardly wait to gel out and walk through the leaves.
School is in full swing. Enrollment in tht first and second year is substantially as re ported last month, and we feel we have twe excellent classes. The Clearing House has been organized and that most important of events, the coffee hour, will burst forth in full fragrance on Monday.
It now appears possible that the Tuck School will play host to a second group of young French management trainees. We have been approached by the French Government the E. C. A. and the N. N. C. because of our experience this summer. Because we feel thai this is a very worthwhile undertaking, we will make the effort to do it again.
There are a number of reports on facultv activities. As some of you know, ProfessorWalters accepted the position of National Rapporteur for the United States at the National Conference on Job Evaluation held in Geneva, Switzerland, under the auspices of the Swiss National Management Committee with the sponsorship of the National Committee on Scientific Management. The completion of his report on job evaluation practices and procedures is a landmark, in this field and has been acclaimed a "splendid contribution to the advancement of sound management practices at the national level."
Dean Olsen attended a conference of higher education in the National Service on October 5, 6, and 7. This conference, sponsored by the American Council on Education, was attended by between 600 and 700 college and university officials. Dean Olsen participated in the discussions as consultant on military and other training practices.
Dean Olsen served as a member of the American Trade Association Executives Jury of Awards for outstanding activities for 1950. Professor Gruen assisted him in this project and represented the School at the Association's conference in Boston on September 26 and 27.
Professor Duncombe represented the school at the Boston meeting of the American Trans- portation Association. This meeting was spon- sored by the Tuck School in company with other colleges and universities in the New England area.
Professor Foster is still actively engaged in work for the Atomic Energy Commission and manages to carry on this activity with a full schedule of teaching.
The faculty of the Tuck School cooperated with the faculty of the Economics Department of the College playing host at the meeting of the Connecticut Valley Economists Association on Saturday, October 7. The meeting was attended by approximately one hundred economists in the Connecticut Valley area.
We are very happy to receive the announcement of the marriage of Fred Fuld Jr. T'4l to Gloria-May Cameron.
A letter from Carl Struever T'so reports that he is working in quality control for the Eastman Kodak Company.
Bill Bower T'4B is a sales trainee with Eastman Kodak, and Don Briggs T'so is in wage standards with Eastman.
Bob Munson T'49 writes from Boston where he is now engaged in the lumber and building materials industry.
Bob Gifford T'47 writes that he is now with the Bank of New York and the Fifth Avenue Bank.
Bob Pease T'47 writes that he is enrolling at N. Y. U. in the graduate school of business to work on his Ph.D.
Dick Hill T'42, who is with the First Na- tional Bank of Boston, is a member of the conference faculty on small business to be held at Bates College on October 10 to No- vember 2. Dick's topic "Finding the Money" ought to be of almost universal interest.
H. L. DUNCOMBE JR. K. A. HILL
