Thayer School

WITH this issue the Thayer School News suspends publication until October, which is another way of saying we are closing another school year next month. Thayer School graduation is scheduled for the morning of Sunday, June 10, and alumni are cordially invited to attend. Following recent custom, we expect to hold the exercises on the Stell Hall lawn and these will be followed by an informal reception, probably in Thayer Hall. Our graduating class this year consists of eight civils, four electricals, six mechanicals, and six Tuck-Thayers.

A delegation of several College administration and Thayer School faculty members will travel to East Lansing to attend the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education to be held at Michigan State College June 24 to 28. The increased participation in this meeting is in anticipation of the 1952 meeting to be held in Hanover, for which this indoctrination trip is considered desirable.

Al Richmond '15, Assistant Secretary of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was the official delegate of that society to a meeting held recently in Chicago of the American Lithuanian Engineers and Architects Society. Al sent us a publication of the Society which he said included a description of the meeting, but since the text was in Lithuanian I will not bother to reprint it here.

Feature attraction of a meeting of the New England Water Works Association in Boston late last winter was a paper entitled "Notes on English Water Works" by Charles Y.Hitchcock '39, project engineer with Metcalf and Eddy.

Larry Denton TT'49 visited the School briefly late in April with the news that he has been recalled to active duty in the Naval Reserve as an electronics officer. Larry has been with Pequot Mills since graduation and had recently been promoted to Industrial Engineer for the company.

Cy Sturm '34 has recently become associated with Fay, Spofford, and Thorndyke, consulting engineers, in Boston. Cy and his family still live in Rye, N. H., and Cy commutes from there to the Boston office.

William H. Allison '18, Professor of Civil Engineering at Clarkson College of Technology, has recently been named Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department which includes two other Thayer School men, LarryFalls '43 and Bill Harrison '44. Professor Allison is also Chairman of the Upper New York State section of the American Society for Engineering Education. He has been on the Clarkson faculty since 1929.

Bob Johnson '31 has recently moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he is Chief Designer for J. Stephen Watkins, consulting engineers, of that city. In his new position, Bob is in charge of the design for several million dollars worth of work in water and sewage works as well as some highway and building projects.

Ev Lyon '25 was a visitor at Thayer School early this spring. He is with Madigan-Hyland, consulting engineers, in New York City.

Al Miller CE*48, who has been with Stone and Webster since graduation, has been called back to active duty in the Naval Reserve. Al's brother, Bill, is in the electrical engineering graduating class at Thayer School this year.

Steve Olko CE'47 is Resident Engineer for Frederic R. Harris, consulting engineers of New York City, on a large construction project in Cleveland which involves many diversified phases of construction including pile driving, sheet pile cofferdams and retaining walls. Steve has recently been appointed Editor of the Harvard Engineering Society Bulletin and in this position must be a rival editor of the writer. I have written to Steve assuring him of his continuing good standing, nevertheless, as a Thayer School alumnus and congratulating the Harvard Society on its rare judgment in selecting a Thayer School graduate for this position.

In the spring, a young man's fancy etc. seems to be borne out by announcements which have poured into my office recently which are repeated in whatever detail is known to me in the following paragraphs. Congratulations to all.

To Fletch Ingals ME'51, married on April 28, who paid a brief visit with Mrs. Ingals to Thayer School on their wedding trip.

To Bob Keane CE'48, who was married on April 21 to Barbara Evelyn Darling at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in White River Junction. The wedding reception was held at the Norwich Inn following the ceremony.

To Ham Chase ME'49, who was married on April 21 to Dorothy Elizabeth Gorham in the Church o£ Christ at Dartmouth College. The wedding reception was held at the Dartmouth Outing Club House following the ceremony. (Note conflict with paragraph above!)

To Court Young TT'42 who was married on March 31 to Jane Elizabeth Post at the Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N. Y.

To Jack Wagner EE'48 who was married on March 31 to Jeanne Smith in Syracuse. Blair Watson and Jim Holway EE'48 acted as ushers at Jack's wedding. Jack and Jeanne spent an afternoon in Hanover on their wedding trip and will live at 152 Teece Avenue, Pittsburgh 2, Pa.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Thomas '41 on the addition to their family on March 2 of Miss Denise Powers Thomas, described as "six pounds, eleven ounces of feminine pulchritude." The Thomases live at 3 LaSalle Road, Upper Montclair, N. J.

Best wishes to all these above and also to all of you for a pleasant summer which I hope may include a visit to Hanover, where you will find the Thayer School open for inspection at all reasonable times.