Thayer School
Attention, Thayer School classes of 1916, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1945- Be sure to get an early start to your college reunions in June so that you can include the pre-reunion Thayer School reunion June 16 and 17. The tentative program calls for an assembly and informal get-together at Thayer School about 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, June 16, with members of the Thayer School faculty, to give you a chance to get acquainted and reacquainted with your fellow-alumni, the faculty and the School. This will be followed by an alumni-faculty Softball game at 4, weather and physical condition of the alumni permitting. Thursday evening we'll assemble with our ladies at the Outing Club House for cocktails and dinner. Friday morning at a reasonable hour there will be a round-table discussion of the Thayer School program. It is our hope that a program of this kind will serve as an added incentive for alumni to come to Hanover for class reunions and that this year's event will establish a pattern and precedent for future years. Let's all make it go.
The executive committee of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers met in Hanover on April 29 and 30 for get-togethers with the student chapter and the faculty and for a business meeting. In attendance from out of town were Herb Darling '27, president of the Society, Rick Davidson '41, vice-president, Hugh McLaren '40, treasurer, Bob Barr '42, secretary, and Charlie Hitchcock '39, member-at-large.
Al Richmond '15 writes that his oldest son Pete - Captain A. P. Richmond 3rd, Corps of Engineers - was to complete work last month for his Master's degree in Administrative Engineering at New York University, part of his career plan in the Army. He then was to be assigned to the 6th Armored Division in Missouri. Pete received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He is married and has four children.
Congratulations to June and Don Jorgensen TT'52 on the birth of son Roger Scott on April 22.
The engagement has been announced of Miss Mary Manning MacLellan to JamesPhelan Lyons CE'51. After graduating from Thayer School, Jim worked for the J. E. Greiner firm of consulting engineers in Baltimore, leaving them to join the armed forces for a two-year stretch. Back in civilian life, he is now a student in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Eric Haessler TT'43 paid a visit to the school in April while on a business trip to the East. Eric has forsaken engineering for law and has his own law office in Portland, Oregon.
An article in a recent issue of CompressedAir Magazine describes a major tunnel project being constructed by Herb Darling's construction company for the town of Tonawanda, New York. The principal feature of the project is a 5800-foot water supply intake tunnel under the Niagara River to take water from the middle of the river near the, international border to the pumping station on the New York bank. Improved tunneling methods made possible the setting of a record performance for this type of tunnel when in five days last winter the tunnel was advanced a total distance of 204 feet, with a single day's progress of 46 feet, also believed to establish a new record.
A good letter from Bert Melcher CE'54, now an ensign in the Civil Engineer Corps of the Navy, brings the news that he is now located in London, England, where he is Transportation Officer in the Public Works Department. Bert remarks that the contracts with English contractors never contain any reference to time or liquidated damages and gives some interesting examples of why this should be so.
Ed Bergethon ME'48 writes from lowa City where he is an instructor at the University of lowa. He is also taking graduate work in management as a candidate for a Ph.D. degree. He is enthusiastic about the work and the men with whom he is studying. Peggy and the children plan to spend the summer at Canaan Street, N. H. - a wise decision as any Iowan will agree — while Ed carries a full-time course of study in summer school.
Ed Brown '35 received a card some time ago from classmate George Collins of Louisville where he was engaged for his firm of Ernst and Ernst, management consultants, on a consulting job for the Reynolds Aluminum Company.
Ron Rose ME'53 is employed in the Atomic Power Division of the Westinghouse Company in West Mifflin, Pa. His work is specifically in the Analysis and Computation Section of the Physics Department.
Jack Hanley CE'48, Lieutenant in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps, has been appointed Public Works Officer at Lake Mead Base in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is our swan song for 1954-55, but the Thayer School will be open all summer and we look forward to visits from a lot of you alumni. We don't guarantee to be on hand 168 hours of the week but hope you will drop in while we are.
