Thayer School
It has become an old Thayer School custom to take a couple of days off between semesters to lend a hand to the DOC and DCAC in the running off of the ski meet and other athletic events of the Carnival weekend. This year, with three stalwarts, Professors Hirst, Sherrard and Stearns, on leave, the roster of officials nevertheless resembled the directory of the Thayer School faculty with Professors Brown,Browning, Ermenc, Kimball, Kingsley, and Morgan assuming various duties. The successful operation of the outdoor features of Carnival with a minimum of both snow and temperature, however, remains a masterpiece of effort by the undergraduates of the Outing Club and their fellow students.
Two Thayer School alumni were in the limelight at the Centennial Celebration of the New York University College of Engineering on January 29. Thorndike Saville '15, Dean of the College, was in charge of arrangements and one of the principal speakers at the formal exercises. Shaw Cole '31, chief engineer and vice president of The Pitometer Associates, New York City, was one of the "Distinguished Alumni . . . Honored for Their Achievements." We are willing to share Shaw with NYU provided it is perfectly clear to which school he owes his "distinction!"
A newspaper clipping has recently found its way to my desk showing a picture of the officers of the National Sojourners, Portsmouth Chapter, who were installed in office at the Portsmouth Naval Base Officers' Club. Prominent in the picture is Gil Tricco EE'48 who is second vice president of the chapter which is made up of active, reserve, and retired military commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces who are Masons.
A Christmas card from the Jack Hartleys CE'48 brings a greeting and a message to all alumni. Jack writes:
"As usual I am late with Christmas cards. However, the greeting is just as sincere. As you can tell we are presently located near 'Fabulous Las Vegas.' I am Public Works Officer and enjoy the work though not as much as research. Please give my regards to all at Thayer School. Our memories of the school are among our most pleasant. . . . If any one plans a vacation out this way we would enjoy their staying with us. We like to show the town. It's quite a spot."
Jack is a lieutenant in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps and he and his fine family may be reached at the Lake Mead Base, Las Vegas, Nev.
Lefty Leavens TT'54 is Work Simplification Engineer with Thompson Products, Inc., which serves six large Cleveland manufacturing concerns.
joe Baute ME'54 is in charge of the Industrial Engineering Department of the Markem Machine Company in Keene, N. H. Joe recently instituted a training course in the company, the kickoff being an all-day meeting under his direction at which he was the principal speaker. George Taylor, professor of engineering and management, attended the opening day as a special guest.
Recent travels have taken Professor Curtis to Knob Lake, Labrador; Professor Ermenc to a showing of special electronic and other instrumentation equipment in New York; Professors Kingsley and Wood to the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York; Professor Morgan to a meeting of an International Geophysical Year committee in Boulder, Colo.; and the writer to a General Assembly of Engineers Joint Council in New York and to a visit to the engineering school at Swarthmore College. On January 28 a delegation consisting of Professors Brown, Conway, Curtis, Ermenc, Kimball, LeClair, Minnich and Pyke and students Tom Tyler ME'55, Lefty Terrill CE'55 and Bob Lenker ME'56 attended a joint meeting of the New Hampshire Society of Engineers, the New Hampshire Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Green Mountain Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, arranged by the firstnamed society of which Henry C. Newell DC'30 is president. Also in attendance were Tad Comstock CE'48 and Warren Daniell CE'50.
