Thayer School
The annual Boston Dartmouth Engineers dinner was held at the University Club on April 5. Total attendance of alumni, students, and faculty numbered 26 as follows: Paul J. Barnico ME'51, Sydney C. Beane '12, Irvin K. Besse '35, Louis F. Blaisdell CE'48, Paul G. Blake '47, Paul B. Breck '43, E. S. Brown '35, James C. Davis EE'48, Al Doolittle '37, Robert H. Egelhoff '39, Norman Fine EE'56, Robert T. Harvey '47, Charles Y. Hitchcock '39, Phil Jackson '44, John H. Kennedy ME'54, William P. Kimball '29, Jon Kropper ME'56, M. P. Lewis ME'49, William B. Macurdy EE'56, Russell Rice '16, Fenwick Salter TS'57, Donald M. Snell ME'52, Henry R. Torpey EE'49, Gilbert H. Tricco EE'48, Herbert L. Watson '00, J. Howard Wright '20.
The meeting was arranged by a committee consisting of Paul Breck, Al Doolittle and Henry Torpey, the last-named acting as master of ceremonies. Talks by the two faculty representatives were followed by a lively question-and-answer discussion.
Your correspondent attended a meeting of American Society of Civil Engineers Local Section representatives in Hartford, Conn., and presented a paper on the organization and operation of sub-sections and branches. This was followed by a one-day conference organized by the ASCE New England Council which was attended also by four members of the second-year civil engineering class.
John Minnich '29, professor of civil engineering on leave this year, and wife Charlotte left Hanover the middle of March on a three-month trip to New Zealand where they expect to enjoy fall hunting and fishing together with more general sightseeing. Mil more general
Millett Morgan, professor of electrical engineering and director of research, has recently been appointed chairman of the lonosphere Panel for the International Geophysical Year, preparations for which in 1957 are well under way throughout the world. Professor Morgan's observations of a recently discovered occurrence of atmospheric "swishes" have received publicity in the national press and on Dave Garroway's television program during recent weeks. Continued observations to determine the nature of these audiofrequency signals will form a part of the International Geophysical Year program of scientific observations.
Harrison Roby '06, head of the Hydro Power Branch, Civilian Works Office, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, was the author of a discussion published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in March. In this paper, Mr. Roby traced the remarkable development of lowhead turbines in hydroelectric power plants during the past forty-five years.
Joe Vitalini CE'47, an engineer with Tompson and Lichtner, Boston, is now located in Madrid, Spain, where he is working on the Spanish Air Base project.
According to a recent issue of Pacific Starsand Stripes, Ken Strout CE'53 is making his contribution to engineering education in Korea in a thoroughly tangible manner. The article reports, in part: "Thirty-five miles of reinforced steel, two-thirds of a mile of glass and enough concrete for a one-and-one-half mile road will go into an AFAK project of the 8113 rd Army Unit. The project, an addition to the engineering college of Pusan University, was designed by Pfc. Kendall L. Strout in association with Richard R. Shepard and Kim Huk Dong, Korean civil engineer. The $109,000 addition located at Tongnaue, a Pusan suburb, includes an administration building, five large shops and a heating plant."
Two members of the second-year class brought brides back to Hanover after spring vacation. Dean Hildebrandt TT'55 was married to Dorrit Licht on Saturday, March 26, in Mount Vernon, N. Y. John Scoville CE'55 was married to Elizabeth Wade on Saturday, April 2, in Minneapolis.
Paul Lacke EE'48 is a field engineer with The Electric Controller and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh. After three years with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Johnstown, Paul joined his present company where he is now doing sales and engineering work in the Pittsburgh office.
Friends of former Dean Frank Garran and Mrs. Garran will be interested to learn that Mrs. Garran was married to Mr. Earl Burgess in the Emmanuel Church, Boston, on April 1. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess will make their home at 75 Stanton Road, Brookline, Mass.
