Thayer School

The annual meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York City Tuesday evening, October 25. The good turnout of some fifty alumni included Bill Allison '18, Don Armitstead CE'49, Bill Bailey '40, Secretary Bob Barr '42, Sam Bartlett '08, Ex-President Shaw Cole '31, John Coggeshall '38, Randy Cooper EE'54, Overseer Frank Cudworth '02, President Herb Darling '27, Ex-President Fred Davidson '15, Dekkers Davidson CE'52, President-Elect Rick Davidson '41, Ex-Vice President Nelson Doe '13, Executive Committeeman Herman Dressel EE'48, Ed Elkins '15, Bob Elkins '40, Ed Elsenhans '36, George Franson '31, Ray Freud TT'55, Bob Griffin '18, Ex-President Pete Halloran '20, Paul Henegan CE'49, Executive Committeeman Charlie Hitchcock '39, Pete Johnson '27, Charlie Jost '27, Deane Lamson '36, Sid Lishner ME '48, Ken Little CE'53, Joe Lux ME'52, Treasurer Hugh McLaren '40, Frank Marsh '02, Ex-Secretary Rudy Miller '20, Dick Nelson CE'46, Foxhall Parker ME'49, Bob Price CE'47, Lansing Reed CE'47, Ken Ross '17, Fred Schilling 'OB, Jim Skinner '42, Vice-President-Elect Vic Smith '20, Vic Smith Jr. CE'46, Executive -Committeeman-Elect Tom Streeter TT'48, Jim Sullivan CE'50, Ex-Treasurer Phil Thompson '09, Executive-Committeeman Barney Tomlinson '36.

Emissaries from the Thayer School home ground were Joe Ermenc, professor of mechanical engineering, Russ Stearns '38, professor of civil engineering and administrative assistant, Norman Fine EE'56, president of the student chapter, and your correspondent. Each of these representatives spoke briefly except the dean whose remarks were more extended.

The program for the meeting included reports by the treasurer and the president, the former showing a healthy bank balance at the end of the year in spite of the latter which showed considerably stepped-up activity by the Society and increased support of the School's operations.

Ex-President Pete Halloran was called on to present Ex-Treasurer Phil Thompson with a memento of his many years of service to the Society. The memento took the form of an original water color by Dartmouth's Artist-in-Residence Paul Sample depicting a fishing scene and bearing a plate inscribed "To Philip L. Thompson '09 in Grateful Recognition of His Service as Treasurer of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, 1920 to 1954."

Secretary Barr announced the results of the balloting as follows: New officers for 1956 are President, F. A. (Rick) Davidson '41; Vice President, Victor C. Smith '20; and Memberat-Large of the Executive Committee for a three-year term, Thomas W. Streeter TT'48. Ex-President Herbert F. Darling '27 was nominated to the Thayer School Board of Overseers for a four-year term beginning in 1956. All proposed amendments submitted to the membership for approval were adopted.

The writer had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of the Engineers Council for Professional Development in Toronto in October and the opportunity of good visits with Al Richmond '15 and Thorndike Saville '15. Dean Saville - dean of the College of Engineering, New York University - has served during the past year as President of Engineers Joint Council and in October was further honored by election to the presidency of ECPD.

Ed Elsenhans '36 is now technical director of Metropolitan Sand and Gravel Corporation in Port Washington, N. Y.

Don Herdeg TT'52, having served his stint in the Air Force, has entered civilian life in the electronic power tube sales department of General Electric. He reports,

"There is nearly as much mechanical engineering, chemistry, and general engineering to our field as there is electrical. In my particular work I find it necessary to use human relations, law, report and letter writing, and a critical, probing attitude."

Don also writes that Don Jorgensen TT'52 is with the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory of General Electric in Schenectady and "has been a father now for some time."

Best wishes to Maurice Readey '11 for a speedy recovery from a coronary thrombosis which kept him from attending the New York meeting in October.

Bob Neuburg ME'49 has recently gone to Lima, Peru, South America, as field sales engineer for Fairbanks, Morse and Company.

We were saddened to learn of the sudden death by cerebral hemorrhage of Joseph Arakelian '20 on October 21. He was chief engineer of the construction and repair division of the General Service Administration of the Federal Government in the Boston area at the time of his death. As an engineer for the government, he worked in many locations throughout the United States and its territories. Our sympathy goes to his four surviving sisters and two brothers.

Duncan E. (Buff) Williams '43, after several years as a member of the civil engineering faculty at the University of Wisconsin, has moved to California and gone into business for himself. Buff's firm is the Recreation Engineering Company located at 3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. His business is "developing new ideas in recreation facilities and equipment." He took a couple of days off in October to represent the Dartmouth Society of Engineers at the San Francisco enrollment conference reported in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last month.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hope to see you in 1956.