Thayer School
THE opening of College on October 1 found the Thayer School with the lowest enrollment since the war. This predicament is shared with all the engineering schools in the country, but our prospects for the future appear to be more promising than is the case elsewhere. In contrast with our firstyear class of twenty students—the highest standing group scholastically we have had for many years—there are over forty students in the junior class with Thayer and TuckThayer aspirations, about fifty in the sophomore class and over one hundred twenty in the freshman class. Allowing for normal attrition, our enrollment in the predictable future still shows signs of approaching the numbers we are prepared to take care of
October is always a busy month in engineering circles and this is no exception. The writer is representing Dartmouth at the in stallation of a new president at Stevens Institute of Technology on October 12 and plans to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York and an informal Dartmouth Society of Engineers dinner scheduled for October 25. Professor Ermenc, as chairman of the mechanical engineering conference, will attend the annual meeting of the New England section of the American Society for Engineering Education at Rhode Island State College on October 13. Professor Pyke will attend the same meeting and will represent Thayer School at the annual meeting of the Engineers Council for Professional Development in Boston, October 19 and 20. The Thayer School overseers meeting on October 19 is expected to bring to Hanover Luther Oakes 'OO, FrankGudworth '02, Charles Goodrich 'O6 and Richard Pritchard 'is.
Bertha and Herb Darling '27 spent a weekend in Hanover when they brought their son Herb Jr. to college to start his freshman year. While here they visited Sally and Dan Drury '38, whose youngest son Herb is a senior at Dartmouth.
Al Richmond '15 represented the American Society of Civil Engineers at a centennial celebration at Norwich University on October 6 which the writer also attended as the representative of the American Society for Engineering Education. After the meeting, Al returned to Hanover with me and spent the next day renewing acquaintances on the Dartmouth campus before returning to New York.
Pvt. Lee Fancher EE'50 has been an instructor in the Eta Jima Specialist School located at the former Japanese Naval Academy on Eta Jima island just south of Hiroshima. When last heard from he was instructing in a course teaching electrical fundamentals, diesel and gas engines and electric motors. Lee's younger brother John is enrolled in the first-year electrical engineering class at Thayer School.
A card received recently from Steve Olko '47, one of our most traveled and most loyal alumni correspondents, from Vancouver, B. C., informed us that he was en route to Kitimat, B. C., near Alaska, on a pier foundation job.
Byron McCoy '34 sent us a postcard from the Festival of Britain last summer which he visited while en route to an engineering project in Turkey. He has since returned to this country. Byron recently forwarded a photograph which appeared, I believe, in Engineering News Record showing a group of top brass of the Lane Construction Company inspecting, with evident satisfaction, aggregate for an eight million dollar grade crossing elimination project in Corning, New York. Looking well satisfied with the job was Carl Parsons '33, project engineer.
Congratulations to Bob Treat CE'50 on his marriage September 8 to Norma Ruth Colby at St. Johnsbury Center, Vt. When last heard from, Bob was with the Vermont Highway Department.
Mina and Dick Nelson CE'50 have announced the arrival of Richard Kieth Nelson on September 1. Dick is with Winston Brothers Company in Minneapolis.
Jack Macdonald '14, vice-president of Walsh Construction Company, has been elected president of the General Contractors Association of America.
Bob Johnson '31 has been named a principal engineer and an associate in the consulting engineering firm of J. Stephen Watkins in Lexington, Ky.
John Fondahl CE'48, who has been an instructor in civil engineering at the University of Hawaii, has returned to this country and is on the engineering statf in the main office of Winston Brothers Company in Minneapolis.
Al Holmes TT'49 is now with the Lamson Corporation, makers of industrial equipment, in Cleveland.
