Thayer School

By THE TIME this appears in print, another academic year will have drawn to a close and another group of potential engineers will have been added to the Thayer School alumni body. Although there has been a considerable tightening of the job situation for engineer- graduates this year, with over 50,000 of them going forth this month, our students seem to be in a favorable position. Probably not all will have definite jobs to move into at graduation time, but the large majority will and the others will have pretty definite prospects.

The Green Key weekend of May 6 brought several recent graduates of Thayer School back to town and we enjoyed visits with HamChase '49, who is a mechanical engineer with Pratt and Whitney, and Paul Henegan '49, who is with the construction firm of Barr and Barr in New York City. Heard of as being in town but not seen were Buck Buckingham •49, also with Pratt and Whitney, and Roy(Bear) Davis '50, who is with a firm of heating and ventilating engineers in Boston.

Our sympathy is extended to Bob Barr '42 and Tom Barr '50 in the sudden death of their father Joseph R. Barr at his home in Bronxville, on May 6. Mr. Barr had been senior partner in the New York firm of Barr and Barr and had been active in professional and civic affairs.

We enjoyed a short but pleasant visit last month with Bob Ley '34 and his oldest son. Bob is with the Ley Construction Company in Springfield, Mass.

Another welcome visitor to the School last month was Philip H. Chase DC '07, Chief Engineer for the Philadelphia Electric Company. Mr. Chase received his electrical engineering education at MIT and Harvard but remains a loyal Dartmouth alumnus and Thayer School supporter.

This seems to be-the season for class news- letters, two of which have been received here. Number 2, Volume 11, of Barney Oldfield's Mecca Mailcall for the ME's of 1948 brings news of three of the gang who are winding up training programs: Andy Ten Eyck with Ford, and Fritz Geller and Tom Streeter with American Optical. I can add a word about Tom Streeter who dropped in for a visit early in May on his way (permanently) from American Optical in Southbridge, Mass., to the Diehl Manufacturing Company, a part of Singer Sewing Machine Company, in Somerville, N. J., where he has accepted a position as an electrical engineer or a mechanical engineer (he'll know better in a few months).

The other newsletter bears no title but includes a lot of news items about members of the Class of 1947 gathered and disseminated by Rube Samuels. Culled from Rube's encyclopedia: Jess and Audrey Chad-well are the proud parents of a daughter, Elizabeth, born on January 27. Chuck Howard was married to Janet Lehmer on February 2. Chuck is a mining engineer in a coal mine located at West Columbia, W. Va. Moon Sundin, having acquired master's degrees in structures from RPI and in sanitary engineering from the University of Illinois is still at it studying for his PhD and teaching at Illinois. Also academic minded is Dick Whikehart studying for his DSc at Harvard after acquiring his master's degree and doing some teaching at Case. Dave Wilcox is with New England Tel and Tel and was married last fall to Phyllis Dana, a graduate of Colby Junior College. Thanks for the help, Rube. These newsletters are a good idea and lend themselves to intimate glimpses and pithy comments better than my column does.

Thayer School will be right here at the end of Tuck Mall throughout the month of June, and in fact all summer, and it would be a real pleasure to have a visit from each and every one of you who can manage to get to Hanover for a reunion or on a vacation trip.