Associated School News
Thayer School
WITH the end of the first semester a month ago and, after a suitable interval for exams, grades, and Winter Carnival, the opening of the second semester, another college year has passed the half-way mark. Mention has previously been made in this column of the participation of Thayer School men in ski meets and this year's Carnival was no exception. Ed Brown '35, Professor of Civil Engineering, John Hirst '39, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, and RussStearns '38 Stearns '38, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, acted as computers for the judges at the jumping tournament, their teamwork resulting in the immediate, on-the-spot announcement of individual scores which used to be available only after a long session of computing following the event. Your correspondent's part in that event is dignified by the title of Director of Tournament. John Hirst also acted as timer for the cross-country race. Ed Sherrard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been faculty advisor during the year on the Outing Club's Winter Sports Division, and acted as timer on both the slalom and downhill races at Carnival. DonPyke, Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics, has been faculty adviser on the Outing Club's Carnival Division this year. MillettMorgan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, served as timer on the downhill race and cooperated with the writer as a scorer of the eight-team, six-event meet. Ted Hunter '39 was Director of Officials for the meet. The participation of Dan Drury '38 was somewhat more vicarious this year, his son Herby DC'52 contributing as an exhibition jumper at the Carnival jump. At the undergraduate level, Olympic skier Brooks Dodge CE'54, captain of the Dartmouth ski team, upheld the fair name of Thayer School adequately by placing third in the slalom, first in the downhill, and first in the Alpine Combined results.
In a related sport, George Taylor, Professor of Engineering and Management, is president of the Hanover Skating Club this year.
Another Thayer man, Roger Simpter '43, concealed his age successfully at the Hanover Invitational Ski Jump last January when he placed second in a strong Class A field, bowing only to Jon Riisnaes, a University of New Hampshire freshman from Norway who has been winning jumping competitions all over the East all winter.
Congratulations to Bob Paulson EE'49 who has recently joined in the formation of a new corporation under the name of Special Effects and Equipment, Inc. Bob, who formerly headed the special effects division of Audio and Video Products Corp., is vice president in charge of operations of the new company. For any readers who share the writer's ignorance of this new field of activity, it may be explained that these are special effects and equipment used in staging television programs and include such items as projectors, photographic backgrounds, mirrorscopes, various trick effects, devices for producing smoke, fog, fire, snow (Carnival officials please note), etc., etc.
Norm Falkin CE'48 writes that he has been commissioned second lieutenant in the Air Force with first assignment to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Mrs Falkin accompanied him on that assignment and Norm, possibly as a result of something someone may have said, has volunteered the information that Mrs. Falkin was Judith Lanes up to but not including August 10, 1952, when their marriage took place in Brooklyn.
The Civil Engineering Bulletin of the American Society for Engineering Education for December, 1952, published an article by Professor Ed Brown entitled "The Role of the Laboratory in Teaching Fluid Mechanics." Brownie delivered the original paper at the meeting of the Society in Hanover last June.
Tom Gustenhoven CE'48 visited with us at Thayer School late in January while he and Mrs. Gustenhoven were visiting her parents in Island Pond, Vt. Gus has been on a rather prolonged sick leave from the firm of Louis P. Booz, consulting engineers in Perth Amboy, N. J.
A good letter from Bob Morse '36 shows that he maintains his active interest in Thayer
Tuck School
VINCENT J. LONARDO has joined the faculty for the current semester. He will help out in the accounting courses while Mr. Sargent is on leave of absence and Mr. Foster moves into first-year Finance temporarily. Lonardo has studied at Northeastern, and Fordham. He has been auditor for the Federal Milk Market Administration in Boston and economist in the Boston OPS regional office.
Mr. Duncombe is in charge of the course in General Management. He will be assisted by other members of the faculty.
Mr. Olsen attended a dinner in New York in January at which Dr. A. D. H. Kaplan presented a preliminary statement of the Brookings Institution study, "Big Enterprise in the Competitive System." Mr. Olsen participated in the field work in connection with the study, calling on executives in a number of corporations. Harry Condon T'31 represented his company, Massachusetts Investors Trust, at the dinner. Mr. Olsen has been granted a leave of absence for this current semester in order to give full time to his study of university education in hospital administration.
Enthusiastically received lectures were delivered to first- and second-year students in January by William A. Patterson, President, United Air Lines; Kenneth W. Fraser, Financial Vice President, J. P. Stevens Company and member of the Tuck Board of Overseers; and David Putnam, Vice President, Markem Machine Company.
Walter Sonnenberg, whose Tuck career was interrupted two years ago by a call back to active duty as captain in the Marines and who returned to Hanover last fall, completed his M.B.A. requirements in January and is already on the job with Scott Paper Company.
Captain Jack Jenness T'48 is with the 1805 th AACS Group, Pepperell AF Base, St. John's, Newfoundland, as Management Analysis Officer. He writes, "As such I am 'Chief Hair Shirt,' trying to promote internal efficiency and management principles. Job analysis, personnel management, office and radio facility layout, a little time and motion study, cost analyses, program monitoring and analyses, and the development of work standards all fall within my scope."
Carl Loewenson T'48, a recent visitor in Hanover, is still with the Hecht Company in Baltimore but has taken on the men's clothing department after a successful operation in housewares; Lane Dwinell T'29 continues his political success with election to the presidency of the New Hampshire Senate after a term as Speaker of the House. Bob Stevenson T'49 left his Duluth super market operation last April, married in July and went to Hawaii where he took two real-estate courses at the university, and is now with the George Elkins Company, real estate, in Beverly Hills, California.
Thorbjorn Thorsen T'47 has been much on the move since leaving Hanover with Price, Waterhouse in Venezuela, a lamp manufacturing company in Norway, and currently in New York heading up United States distribution of JLUXO, the "lamp of the century." When last heard from.. AI Karcher T'52 was leaving his Air Force station at Mobile for two months in the Supply School at Cheyenne - and for skiing. John Kelly T'52 is in cost accounting in Minneapolis.
Art Stukey T'42 leaves the Navy in April to join Thompson Products in Cleveland. Since the spring of 1951 he has been doing a second turn in the Navy and, as Lieutenant Commander, is responsible for all ammunition procured and manufactured by the Navy Department. Blair McClenachan T'48 is assistant sales manager of the Scintilla Magneto Division of Bendix Corporation at Sidney, New York.
