Thayer School
The practice of leaving Hanover during the summer months in search of new fields to conquer has been spreading through the Thayer School faculty in recent years. The late lamented summer has been no exception. Alaska claimed the attention of Professor of Civil Engineering Ed Brown '35 and Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Carl Long, both of whom were employed by the Western Electric Company, prime contractors for Dew Line and White Alice radar and communication networks. Greenland was host to Professor of Civil Engineering Russ Stearns '38 and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Huntington Curtis. Russ was in charge of research for the Army Engineers Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE) at operation Fist Clench which was described in Time Magazine for September 9. Curt served as a consultant to an Air Force Research project located at Thule under the direction of Dartmouth Professor of Geology John Lyons. He also spent some time at Frobisher Bay where he established an observation station for the International Geophysical Year project on "whistlers" under his and Professor of Electrical Engineering Millet Morgan's direction.
Dartmouth men are where you find them but one of the best places to look these days is in the far north. Via Russ Stearns, we know: that Leman Lane TT'55 was stationed at Thule for about a year attached to an anti-aircraft battery guarding Thule Air Force Base; that Nick Costes CE'51 was project leader of a research project at Fist Clench (see above) aimed at developing information for the design of pile foundations on the ice cap; that two present second-year students, Gerry Caplan CE'58 and John Scully CE'58, summered on the ice cap, the former taking core samples of snow and ice to depths of 1300 feet and the latter on a team studying the effect of explosives in ice.
In view of the foregoing activity, it is not surprising to learn that the Army Engineers will combine their SIPRE and ACFEL laboratories, presently located in Winnetka, Illinois, and Boston respectively, in a single unit to be located in Hanover under the title of Cold Regions Experimental Laboratory. Construction of a large super-million-dollar laboratory for CREL at a Lyme Road site two miles north of Hanover is expected to start next June with occupancy scheduled for i960.
Not all members of the Thayer School faculty had to look to the north for their challenges. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chi-Neng Shen summered in Pittsburgh conducting research for the Westinghouse Company, while Messrs. Browning, LeClair, Morgan, Taylor, and Thorpe centered their research and consulting practice in or near Hanover.
Shaw Cole '31, President of The Pitometer Associates, Engineers, in New York City, left his card under the door one evening in September when he was in town to enroll son Bruce in the Class of 1961.
Congratulations-some of which are pretty late by now — to Dana Low CE'55 on his marriage August 10 to Anne Elizabeth Eshelman in Philadelphia (the Lows conformed to accepted Dartmouth practice by including Hanover in their wedding trip); to Fran andMike Pender CE'50 on the arrival of Richard Anthony Pender on July 26; to Dianeand Reuben Samuels CE'47 on the arrival of Adam Henry Samuels on July 21; to Annand Jim Westergaard, Tuck '57, on the arrival of Kimberly Ann Westergaard on June 14; and to the Adolph Bergers TT'52 on the arrival of Mark David Berger on May 14.
Thorndike Saville '15 was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from New York University on June 6. He retired from his post as Dean of Engineering at NYU last June.
The General Electric Company has announced the appointment of Don Herdeg TT'52 as sales specialist for military products of their power tube department with Schenectady as his base of operations. Don first joined General Electric in 1953.
