Thayer School
RECENT visitors at Thayer School have ineluded Paul Halloran '20, Byron McCoy '34, Phil Coykendall '26, and Ray RichardTT'49.
Paul was in Hanover to attend a father-son weekend with son David who is a senior in college this year.
Byron was on his way back to Boston from building a dam or two in northern Vermont.
Phil, a Commander in the Civil Engineer Corps, USN, has been transferred from Newport, R. 1., to San Diego where he will be Public Works Officer at the Navy Yard.
Ray is completing a two-year stretch of duty as lieutenant (jg) in the Navy Reserve. During most of this time, he has served on the aircraft carrier USS Leyte which is now in the process of decommissioning. Ray plans to return to Tuck-Thayer next fall to complete second-year work.
A letter from Ray Snell TT'44 brings the news that he is now with the Tractor and Industrial Engine Division of the Ford Motor Company. He reports that "Ford continues to be a terrific organization to work for."
Mr. and Mrs. Tad Comstock CE'48 are the proud parents of a daughter born March 22. Tad is an engineer with Anderson-Nichols and Company in Concord, N. H., and makes his home in nearby BOSCH wen.
Announcement has been received of the marriage of Virginia Elizabeth Murphy to Gerry Sarno CE'51 on March 14 in North Reading, Mass.
Sid Lishner ME'48 writes that he is still in the design department of Allied Chemical and Dye Company in New York.
Jack Macdonald '14 lias been located in Wiesbaden, Germany, since early last fall traveling between there and France where he is supervising the construction of nine air bases. Jack reports that the Germans have done a great job cleaning up the country and getting back on their feet economically and that they are great workers. His comments on the French were probably not intended for publication. Jack hopes to get back for his 40th reunion in June.
Gus Guslenhoven CE'48 is now with Lee T. Purcell, Consulting Engineer in Paterson, N. J. The Guslenhovens are living temporarily at 222 Water Street, Perth Amboy.
The March issue of Civil Engineering is devoted to a number of articles concerning the new Venezuela Superhighway, an eleven-mile artery connecting Caracas, the capital city, with the port of La Guaria. For topographical reasons which required, for instance, the construction of thirty miles of access roads, this project is called "the most expensive highway in the world," the final cost being about six million dollars per mile. Among the major features of the highway are the Boqueron tunnels built by Morrison-Knudsen of Venezuela, under the direction of E. Donald Phinney '34, chief engineer, who contributed the article describing the construction of these two tunnels really four, since each is a twin-tube.
A recent release from the University of Wisconsin News Service announces the forthcoming retirement, at the end of the academic year, of Morton Wilhey '05, dean of engineering at that institution. In recognition of Dean Withey's 48 years of service to Wisconsin engineering education and research, his portrait is being painted by Charles W. Thwaites, noted Wisconsin portrait artist. The picture will be hung in the University's engineering library.
The many friends and admirers of HarrieMuchemore '06 will be saddened to learn of his death on March 26 at the Fish Memorial Hospital in DeLand, Fla., where he had been a patient for three days. He and Mrs. Muchemore had lived in DeRary, Fla., since his retirement from the Turner Construction Company in 1951. During 45 years of active engineering practice, he was connected with a large number of important projects. Before and during World War II he was Chief Engineer of Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases, whose remarkable construction accomplishments have been recorded in David Woodbury's book, Builders For Battle. A loyal Dartmouth and Thayer School alumnus and a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Harrie Muchemore will be long remembered as a great engineer and builder.
Don Symer ME'4B has left the New York Central System, where he had worked on maintenance and operations since graduation, to become a design engineer with the Symington-Gould Corporation in Depew, N. Y.
