Thayer School
THE fall meeting of the Board of Overseers was held in Hanover on the weekend of October 18. Members attending were President Dickey, Frank Cudworth '02, CharlieGoodrich '06, and Dick Pritchard '15. LutherOakes '00 was prevented from attending by illness. Following the formal meeting on Friday morning, the members of the Board spent the afternoon visiting Professor Morgan's research field station in Etna. By coincidence, representatives of the Navy Bureau of Ships were present and special tests were being conducted between the field station and a Navy B-17 which made several flights directly over the ground station to check the polarization of both the transmitted and received radio waves. On Saturday morning, Board members attended Thayer School classes.
On the weekend of November 1, a party of nimrods (actual and aspiring) invaded the College Grant making their headquarters in the new Management Center cabin. In addition to laymen John Dickey DC'29 and JackManchester DC'33, the party included JohnMinnich '29, Dick Olmsted '33, Dan Drury '38, Russ Stearns '38, and your correspondent. Breaking all precedent, we brought out some 270 pounds of meat consisting of one doe bagged by Russ Stearns, one bear bagged by Dan Drury, one patridge each felled by JohnDickey and John Minnich. This columnist shot a bear in what was obviously a tender region, but after a four-hour chase lost the track and even with the assistance of senior nimrod Minnich the following day never did find the critter. Although wounding game seems to me to be the ultimate disgrace of the hunter, if your life is humdrum, if your pulse is low, if you yearn for new experiences, if you're not sure whether you want to go on living or not, just try tracking a wounded bear through underbrush and spruce thickets for a few hours.
We enjoyed a visit last month from GordonRoss ME'47 and his father Kenneth Ross '17. Kenneth continues in his position as engineer for the Federal Power Commission and is currently located in the New York area. Gordon has been with the Timken Roller Bearing Company in Canton, Ohio, since graduation and is now Assistant Chief Works Engineer. In an earlier letter, he described his work as follows: "In case the term Works Engineer is not clear, to us it means something like the more common title of Plant Engineer building construction and maintenance, boiler house operation, service lines, utilities, heating, air conditioning, ventilation, materials handling, sound control, and work with all sorts of equipment and machinery facilities."
Great news has just been received from Lois and Pete Nottage CE'51 in Hawaii announcing the arrival on September 25 of twin daughters Lauren and Leslie.
A letter which dates back pretty far was received from Jim Kerley '44, who is an assistant professor of civil engineering at George Washington University. Jim had hoped to attend the ASEE meeting here last June but apparently was unable to make it. In addition to his teaching, which he finds is a pretty rigorous profession, Jim has been doing consulting work with the Corps of Engineers. He expects that some of his work on river hydraulics is to be published.
Jack Martin CE'51 writes from Casablanca, French Morocco, where he has been working with the Atlas Constructors since graduation, that he expects to return to the States in January to "renew old acquaintances for a week or so, particularly of TS '51's and Hanover, and eventually go back to work" in this country. He also writes that "My travels were extended this summer to Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland and England for a period of three weeks. Previously I had visited Lisbon, Madrid and Seville, and Tangier on weekends." I should say Jack has covered a good deal of territory from his North African base.
As an example of "late" news coverage, I should report the marriage last May 17 of Pauline Martha Whitaker to Henry WhippleParker CE'47 in Westminster Chapel, Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Hanque proceeded almost immediately to Bogota, Colombia, where Hanque is "an engineer for construction work of the Winston Brothers Company.
A good letter from Kevin Travers TT'52 tells us he is settled in Aiken, S. C., where he is employed at the Savannah River Plant of duPont. Only normally nostalgic for Hanover after three months away, he writes, "South Carolina itself isn't too vastly different from N. H. The climate is a little warmer, the country a good bit flatter, the taxes a little higher, and the snakes and bugs a bit more numerous (we've killed two of the former right outside our back door)."
Nick Costes CE'5l, on a summer job from his graduate work at North Carolina State College, contributed his own analysis of Carolina fauna in a postcard received during the summer. "Greetings from the jungles of Eastern North Carolina. The situation thus far is as follows: Killed in action either by pistol or bush axe: Four rattlers, three poplar leaves, three copperheads and two cotton-mouth moccasins. Squadrons of yellow flies and other bugs are continually attacking our lines. Vast acreage of virgin land has already been surveyed. No baby alligators have been sunk or sighted as yet but traces of black bear and deer have been followed. Our men are fighting ferociously against thirst and the burning sun. We are still holding our outposts trusting in God. A very pleasant summer to you all."
And a merry Christmas and a happy new Republican year to you all from the staff of Thayer School.
Thayer School Contributors
This list includes the names of only those ThayerSchool men who are not also listed with the regular College classes. The names of all other ThayerSchool contributors are listed with their respectiveundergraduate classes. Dow, Peter S. '11 Lyness, Charles V. '46
