Thayer School
THE Dartmouth Engineers dinner held annually in Boston took place as scheduled Friday evening, April 4, at the University Club. In spite of the absence from town of some of our most regular attenders, we had a record attendance of 34 including a four-man delegation from Hanover. Millett Morgan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of research, described the changes which are proposed for the electrical engineering curriculum; Ed Brown '35, Professor of Civil Engineering, spoke on the instruction offered by the School under his direction in physical metallurgy; the Dean gave a summary of current-year events at the School and commented on various aspects of the School's operation.
The followng Dartmouth Engineers attended the meeting: S. C. Beane '12, I . K. Perley '13, R. J. Rice '16, R. H. Ellis '17, j. H. Wright '20, E. H. Law.son '21, L. P. Farnham '23, K. P. Coykendall '26, W. P. Kimball '29, J. H. Minnich '29, G. A. Hawkins '32, I. K. Besse '35, E. S. Brown '35, E. L. Hill '35, A. W. Doolittle Jr. '37, J. C. Proctor '37, R. M. Egelhoff '39, C. Y. Hitchcock Jr. '39, C. T. Main, 2nd '39, P. B. Breck '43, D. E. Nassif '46N, B. R. O'Brien TT'47, R. Samuels '47N, F. T. Comstock CE'4B, C. A. Marshall ME'4B, G. H. Tricco EE'4B, T. U. Chace ME'49, P. Lewis Jr. ME'49, J. M. Murray Jr. ME'49, H. R. Torpey EE'49, W. F. Daniell Jr. CE'5O, A. F. Wright ME'52, K. L. Strout CE'53, M. G. Morgan.
News from among those present: Tad Comstock CE'4B has bought a house in the country a few miles north of Concord, N. H., where Tad is an engineer in the office of AndersonNichols, consulting engineers. Warren Daniell CE'5O has left the New England Power Company and joined the engineering staff of Anderson-Nichols. He and Mrs. Daniell live at 5 Greenwood Avenue, Concord. John Proctor '37 is an engineer in the electronic computer division of the servomechanisms laboratory at M.I.T. His home is at 52 Prospect Hill Drive, North Weymouth, Mass. John Murray ME'4g, after a two-year tour of duty with General Electric, including an assignment with the "More Power to America" train, has returned to Boston where he is associated with Jackson and Moreland. John's home address is 9 Sheffield West, Winchester.
George Hawkins '32 has recently moved to New England to join the Brown and Sharpe Company in Providence as Product and Market Analyst. George's new address is 323 Rumstick Road, Barrington, R. I. Rube Samuels '47N is on the long rough road to a Ph.D. at Harvard, where he is studying under Doctors Casagrande and Terzaghi in soil mechanics Meanwhile, Rube's wife Di is working his way through school teaching nursery school in Lynn. The Samuels live at 8 Baker Road, Nahant. Ed Hill '35 has returned to this country, after a few years in Puerto Rico, and is now connected with the U.S. Engineers Office in Boston, as is Lew Perley '13 of Laconia, N. H.
A feature article of the March issue of Construction Methods and Equipment describes the improved method of support referred to as roof bolting which has been developed for the construction of the 25-mile-long East Delaware Tunnel being built for the New York Board of Water Supply under the direction of Jack Macdonald 'l4, who is in charge of construction for the contractors, Walsh Construction Company and B. Perini and Sons, Inc.
A good letter from Bob Johnson '3l recently tells about life in Kentucky where he has been associated with J. Stephen Watkins, consulting engineers, for the last couple of years. Bob enclosed a brochure of his company including an impressive list of jobs on the company's record; also a good biographical sketch of "Principal Engineer and Associate" Johnson. Bob writes, "We are finding this part of the country a wonderful spot in which to settle down. Esther has been busy with church and PTA work, Bobby is busy with school and Cub Scouts, and I am still trying to whittle down a two-year backlog of work we have in the office. Have been bitten by the model tram "bug" and am now planning to fix up my attic to set up an eight-foot long railroad system." A daughter, Nancy Ruth, was born to Edith and Bill Eckel on March 16. The Eckels live at Sunbar Terrace, Salem Depot, N. H.
