Thayer School

Newly elected Dartmouth Society of Engineers President Dutch Schroedel '26 and Executive Committee Member-at-Large BobEgelhoff '39 paid the School a visit December 13. Their mission was to explore ways in which the Society might serve the School during Dutch's term of office with projection into future years and they spent the day conferring with the dean, meeting members of the faculty, and lunching with representatives of the College administration.

The Board of Overseers of the Thayer School held a business meeting in New York City on December 21. Members present were President Dickey, Herbert F. Darling '26, Richard E. Pritchard '15, and newly-elected member J. Hartness Beardsley DC'37. Also present, by invitation, were Overseer-emeritus Frank E. Cudworth '02, Provost Morrison, and Dean Kimball. Hartness Beardsley is Vice President and General Manager of Bryant Chucking Grinder Company in Springfield, Vt. He has been keenly interested in the development of the mechanical and electrical engineering curricula at Thayer School from their inception and, though not a Thayer alumnus, has for a number of years been a member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.

The holiday season brought to Thayer School, among other things, a good crop of Christmas greetings and New Year's wishes including some welcome news items and vital statistics.

In the latter file is an announcement from Dekkers Davidson CE'53 that "another candidate for Thayer School named Dek Davidson weighed in at 8½ lbs. November 29th and all involved are healthy." The Davidsons' new home address is 130 Milton Drive, Thorn-wood, N. Y.

Announcement has been received of the marriage on December 30 in Manchester, lowa, of Miss Ann Rogers Thompson to Lieutenant Horace Frederick "Ace" Taylor III, EE'55.

Shaw Cole '31 notes that he has finished a busy year involving a number of business trips to South America, a vacation trip to Europe and finally, as of January 1, taking over "active direction of Pitometer Associates." That last sounds like an ex-vice-president's way of saying he is now president.

The Ed Bergethons ME'48 moved last summer from New Hampshire to California where Ed is Director of Engineering of the Reed Instrument Bearing Company, makers of miniature bearings for instrumentation, located in Los Angeles. The five Bergethons - Sondre, Kirsten, Stephen, Peg and Ed - now make their home at 217 Chateau Street, Playa Del Rey, Calif., "just two blocks from the coast and we love it."

A card from Molly and Barney Oldfield ME'48 announces that all is well on the farm, "busy as the devil in the screw products biz." and that the "M.E.Mailcall" might hit the streets again in the near future. This distinguished competitor of the Thayer School news column has suffered the fate of all upstart journals and has been defunct for many years now. Its reappearance would so startle your correspondent that, although he would not eat it in modern columnist fashion, he would certainly give it a plug in this column.

A greeting card from San Francisco brings us up-to-date on the activities of Eugene Jaroszevich CE'54 who is just about now completing two years of service in the Army. After a few months of civilian activity with the consulting engineering firm of Porter, Urquhart and Beavin in New York, Eugene joined the Army in January 1955 and for the past twenty months he has been stationed at Fort Winfield Scott in San Francisco.

Christmas greetings from the Jim Thomases '41 bring the news that Jamie has "had a wonderful year here - with Minute Maid and life in Central Florida is one of the best experiences." Their new home is at 1181 Whitesell Drive, Winter Park, Fla.

A card from Di, Rube (CE'47) and, now, Julie Samuels brings the word that Rube has recently been appointed treasurer of Thomas Crimmins Construction Company, "foundation contractors extra-ordinaire of New York City."

E. R. "Muggsy" Bly '41 writes that he has transferred out of the Construction Division of DuPont into Plant Maintenance at the Montague Plant in Michigan.

Excerpts from Christmas greetings from John Muchemore '44 from Subic Bay, Philippines: "When housing became available last spring, the four girls and Rosetta came over on a freighter to join me. ... I am senior office engineer for Pomeroy-Hawaiian Dredging Bechtel joint ventures on a Navy CPFF contract. ... The work is extremely varied, including dredging, waterfront, power plants, a POL system, as well as many supporting buildings and facilities for a rapidly expanding base ... columns, beams, roof panels are precast ... handling the panels by vacuum lift ... very economical. ... Nearly 100 million has been spent here since 1952 and about 40 million more on the books. ... Some of the Filipino engineers are very good and their drafting work is beautiful."

Tom Byrne '55, T'56 (left) and Wolfgang Thumb '55, T'56 (second from right) on the Dave Garroway TV show, on which they were interviewed about their marketing research project to determine the attitude of college girls towards make-up. Their Tuck School research last year was done in cooperation with the Toilet Goods Association.