Thayer School

To THE list of universally recognized signs of advancing years menus printed in small type, stairways steeper and higher, lights dimmer, sound-deadening building construction should be added the shortening of the academic year. By the time this appears in print, if indeed through some oversight of the Editor it does, another year at Thayer School will be all over but the shouting. The Board of Overseers will meet on June 6 to recommend candidates for their engineering degrees and the following day, after our customary brief and informal graduation ceremony, another Thayer School class will be on their way, their various and diverse ways, into the profession, industry, or the armed services.

The annual Boston dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the University Club on April 17. Speakers from the school included Jim Browning, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Don Pyke, assistant professor of applied mechanics and assistant to the dean, and your correspondent. The meeting was organized by an industrious and efficient committee consisting of Phil Jackson 44, Al Doolittle '37, and Howard Wright '20, chairman. Others in attendance included P. J. Barnico ME'51, S. C. Beane '12, I. K. Besse '35, P.G.Blake '47, O. E. Brainerd '29, P. B. Breck '43, W. J. Cairns TT'51, T. U. Chace ME'49, L. p. Farnham '23, R. T. Harvey '47, B. O. McCoy '34, R. J. Rice '16, G. A. Sampson '03, RSamuels '47, H. R. Torpey EE49, J. W. Whelden EE'51, J. H. Woodward '42. After short talks by the three members of the faculty, the meeting settled down to a lively give-and-take discussion with practically all hands participating.

The biennial Open House of the Thayer School was held Thursday evening, April 23. This year's event was organized and conducted by the Student Chapter of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers under the able leadership of President Craig Hausman TT'53. All firstand second-year Thayer and Tuck-Thayer students, without exception, assisted in the planning and manning of the event, as did the members of the faculty. According to all reports, the event, which attracted some five hundred visitors during the evening, was as successful as any Open House which the School has had.

Among the out-of-town visitors were Peggy Garran Bergethon and Ed Bergethon ME'48 who made the trip from their 350-acre farm in Hancock, N. H. Lest it be assumed that Ed is a farmer, it is noted that his full-time occupation is mechanical engineer with the New Hampshire Ball Bearing Company in nearby Peterborough.

Another welcome out-of-towner was GeorgeHartmann ME'50 who drove down from Burlington, Vt., where he is located with the General Electric Company.

The annual Hanover meeting of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held on Friday, May 1. President Gus Ayers '07 was prevented from attending by a business trip to Australia and in his absence Vice-President Nelson Doe '13 presided. Other members present were Dick Ellis '17, Rudy Miller '20, secretary, and RickDavidson '41. The activities of the day consisted of attendance at classes during the morning, a business meeting, an informal meeting with the Student Chapter, and dinner with the faculty. In commenting on the meeting, Nelson Doe has written: "You are certainly to be congratulated on the way the school is now being operated. It was a great pleasure for me to see such a high class of students so attentive to their work and so well instructed by what seems to be a most able faculty."

Jack Whelden EE'51 has recently gone into business with a partner as an Electronics Advertising Specialist. The firm name is Robert Hartwell Gabine, located at 136 Lakeview Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. Jack will be glad to have you place your electronics advertising problems in his hands.

Bob Elkins '40 did some public relations work in the Springfield, Mass., area in connection with the Boston meeting and reported, possibly with some tongue-in-cheek, "that the younger alumni lack the financial resources to make the trip outside of the Connecticut valley and that the older alumni are all tuckered out from developing those resources." Bob didn't say which category he's in, but he did say he's planning to get to his reunion in June.

A letter from Ensign Gerry Sarno CE'51 brings us the good news of his marriage on March 14 with the assistance of his brother Joe CE'51 as best man and Jim Lyons CE'51 as an usher. Mrs. Sarno is a Colby Junior College alumna. On a three-year leave of absence from the Bethlehem Steel Company, Gerry took an eight-week indoctrination course as a seaman apprentice at Newport, R. I., and was one of 28 commissioned in the Civil Engineer Corps from a class of 950. On their way to Gerry's present station, CEC Officers School, Port Hueneme, Calif., the Sarnos dropped in on Nick Costes '52 at North Carolina State College where Nick is taking graduate work and instructing in the civil engineering department. Gerry's expectations were to be assigned to the Public Work Department at Hingham, Mass., after completion of the officers' course late in May.

Announcement has been received of the marriage of Paul Locke EE'40 to Mary Jane Riley on April 11 in Johnstown, Pa.

Harvey Graves EE'51 is attending the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology to which he has been assigned by the Westinghouse Company. He is enthusiastic about his work and comments that "nuclear engineering becomes more fascinating the more I learn about it. There is so much being done and so much more to do that my sliderule just itches to be right in the middle of it." Harvey reports seeing John Foote CE'51 at Christmas time. John, who is an engineer with the duPont Company, has been inspecting equipment to be installed in the Savannah River Plant.

At this point, the Thayer School News suspends publication until next fall. Best wishes to all for a pleasant summer.

PROMOTIONS IN '52: L to r: Norman Jeavons and William Kay Jr., upon completion of a 4-months course, were recently commissioned ensigns in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve; while Cadet Ronald Scott, now assigned to Whiting Field, Fla., is a new graduate of the U.S. Naval School, Pre-Flight Training Program.