Thayer School
The Christmas season brought the usual welcome crop of greetings from Thayer alumni in widely scattered locations, permanent or otherwise, around the girdled earth.
Addressed to Queridos Amigos, a Spanishstyle card brought greetings from StephenOlko CE'47 in Madrid where he is Port Engineer on the new Spanish bases. He expects to be on this job until next summer.
Ed Tray lor CE'48 and family are located in Washington where Ed is working with the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
Joining Inge and Merle Thorpe ME'53 and daughter Karon Ann in sending Christmas wishes is Merle Lee III who was born last October 31. Merle and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jim Browning are coauthors of a paper on "Lateral Blowoff of a Bunsen Flame'' published in the October issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. A paper on "New Flames for Torches" by Jim Browning was published in the November issue of Welding Engineer.
Molly and Barney Oldfield ME'48 with daughters Becky and Holly are looking forward to their Big Tenth (reunion) in June. From the Winstonian, we have a picture of Lauren Valerie, ten months, daughter of the John Fondahls' CE'48 and a somewhat more recent picture of John attending the signing of the final contract papers on completion of the Nimbus Dam and Power Plant for which John served as Project Engineer.
From the same source, we have an on-the- job snapshot of Hank Parker CE'47, superintendent of the San Juan work front of Winston Brothers Company in Colombia. Hank is in charge of highway construction and maintenance between Gambote and Sincelejo, Colombia, a distance of 150 kilometers. According to the Winstonian editor, "I believe there are many occasions when he wishes he were twins, so that he could be in two places at once, or else have a magic carpet on which to travel over his work." No confirmation from Hank so maybe he is busy.
Elly and Gordon Ross ME'47 are joined byson Alan, 9, and daughters Christy, 5, andLaurel, o (born last November fifth) in theirChristmas greeting.
Ken Strout CE'53 writes from Pusan, Korea, where he has been stationed for the pastseveral months:
"Korea is filthy, diseased, and smells atrociously. I am with the Post Engineers. Right now I'm designing buildings for Pusan National University. It is one of the projects financed by the U. S. Army ... I have just returned from Tokyo where I had seven days' leave. It is a wonderful city compared to Pusan. Quite similar to a large city in the States."
Jack Martin - is Office Engineer forMorrison-Knudsen in Yuma, Ariz., where hehas been since early November after a yearand a half in Oregon. He writes:
"We have three contracts here with the Bureau of Reclamation for irrigation distribution systems plus a dirt moving job across the river in California. Our busy season is wintertime and summer is slack due to excessive heat in "Winter's Warmest City.'
Mary and Jim Kerley CE'44 bring us up to date on-their family consisting of Vincent, 3, Mary Angela, 2, and Catherine Marie who was born on the day before Christmas a year ago.
Bill "Ace" Bailey '40 has recently been appointed Chief Engineer of the Raymond Concrete Pile Company, New York City. Shortly after graduation, Bill served for two years as project engineer on high priority construction in Curasao, and has more recently been chief estimator for Raymond in New York.
Joe Gilchrist CE'51 is engaged in earth dam design for the Bechtel Corporation in Vernon, Calif. Joe has written:
"We G's are settled and very happy in this land of the sun and the smog. Our third daughter, Joanna, was born on December 24, 1953. Kit and Jane, our Hanover girls, are 5 and 3, respectively, and I'm assured quite 'normal' for their though life with them is a continuous circus."
