Thayer School

An informal meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York Friday evening, March 6, with an attendance of 36 members and guests. George Taylor, Professor of Engineering and Management, was a special guest and spoke briefly on the industrial engineering course which he has developed as part of the TuckThayer curriculum and the work simplification laboratory which he has established for the course. The writer was also present and described "the state of the School, 1953 " Eight per cent of the attendance consisted of Davidsons: Fred '15, Rick '41, and Dekkers CE'53. Longest distance attenders were BarneyTomlinson '36 from Brookfield Center, Conn., and Vic Smith '20 and Dutch Schroedel '26 from Philadelphia. This palm should have been won by Commander Phil Coykendall 26 USN(CEC) who made two attempts by air from Newport, R. I., and finally arrived by train a half hour after the meeting adjourned.

In the absence of President Gus Ayers 07, who attended the spring meeting of ASCE in San Francisco that week, Vice-President Nelson Doe '13 presided. Others in attendance were: P. L. Thompson '09, P. J. Halloran '20, G. J. Mohr DC'33, S. M. Olko CE'47, G. W. Sawyer '44N, H. C. Timbers TT'47, M. R. Pender CE'50, N. Ward '43, J. G. Skinner '43, R. T. Barr '42, N. F. Bellesheim TT'52, P. RMeyer TT'52, J. W. McLaren EE'48, G. E. Elsenhans '36, C. Y. Hitchcock '39, S. Horner CE'48, T. L. Gustenhoven CE'48, H. O. Dressel Jr. EE'48, R. N. Miller '20, A. C. Nichols '16, E. S. Cole '31, G. H. Farrington '13, C. T. Washburn '26, C. R. Paulson EE'49, A. J. Hendler EE'49, P. J. Henegan CE'49, and R. D. Eckerson ME'49.

Prior to the New York dinner, the Executive Committee met and took action on the following matters. Dean Kimball reported that $300 of the Society's 1952 gift to support the meeting of ASEE in Hanover last June had not been used, and the committee voted to add this amount to the principal of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Student Loan Fund. The committee set the date for its annual meeting in Hanover for Friday, May 1. A sum not to exceed $200 was voted to the student chapter of the Society for current expenses subject to the approval of the dean. The 1953 annual meeting of the Society was set for Friday evening, October 23, in accordance with a previous decision that the annual meeting should be held at the time of the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York.

The New England meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers has been scheduled for Friday evening, April 17, at the University Club in Boston. This get-together is being planned by a committee composed of Phil Jackson '44, Al Doolittle '37, and HowardWright '20, and is scheduled to begin at 5:30 in the afternoon.

AI Hazen '40 reports that Minneapolis has enjoyed an open winter which has lightened the snow removal activities of his department. Of this activity, he writes, "We do as much as possible by machine, of course, with the current emphasis on olf-track machines. We have found a rubber-tired road grader quite effective in clearing a yard, leaving a smooth surface everywhere level with the top of the rail, using cranes with enlarged buckets, front-end loading tractors, and trucks to haul away the surplus that can't be piled to one side." For several years, Allen has been subscribing for the Thayer School Library to periodicals on railway engineering.

We are indebted to Holden Waterbury CE'44 for a clipping from the Denver Post of February 25 announcing the retirement of Byron Matteson '04 from the U.S. bureau of public roads. He has been division engineer of the bureau for the states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. He has been in government service for the past 33 years and in 1952 was presented the department of commerce gold medal award for "outstanding work" in national highway development. The award was presented by then Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer and cited Mr. Matteson's efforts in promotion of the Denver Valley Highway, development of highway planning in the western states and effective highway improvement programs. Holden describes him as "a solid Dartmouth man" who has given many a Thayer School man a helping hand.