Thayer School

As will appear below, it has been decided . to discontinue the practice of recent years of listing separately all Thayer School alumni contributors to the Alumni Fund. Since the names of college alumni appear in their college class lists, this will not detract in any way from the credit given to individual contributors. The list appearing at the bottom of this column, therefore, includes only those Thayer School alumni contributors having no college class affiliation.

The annual meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York, January 20, with a good attendance of some 65 members and guests. John Hirst '39, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, and the writer represented the School. The feature speaker of the evening was Mr. Edmund H. Driggs, Vice-President of Marsh McClenan, one of the major insurance firms of the country, who spoke on applications of insurance in the construction industry.

Rick Davidson '4l reported for the Executive Committee on proposals for reorganization of the Society and revision of the Constitution. He suggested that the newly elected Executive Committee appoint a Constitutional Committee to make recommendations this spring to be mailed to all alumni for comment and, subsequently, for letter ballot with the expectation that a new constitution might be established before the election of officers for 1951. These suggestions were approved by the members attending the meeting.

Immediately after the meeting, the new Executive Committee met and elected the following officers from the membership of the committee: Paul J. Halloran 'so, President; John S. Macdonald 'l4, Vice-President; P. L. Thompson 'O9, Treasurer; E. ShawCole '3l, Secretary; Harry A. Ward 'lO, Member-at-Large. President Halloran then proceeded to appoint Frederic A. (Rick) Davidson '4l chairman of the Constitutional Committee.

A. H. Schilling 'O4, S. L. Ruggles 'O9, and R. T. Ley '34 were elected to the Advisory Board of the Society for two-year terms.

Richard E. Pritchard 'l4 was nominated by the Society to succeed himself for a fouryear term on the Board of Overseers from 1950 to 1954.