Thayer School

Earlier this year, mention was made in this column of the travels of various members of the Thayer School staff. Professor of Electrical Engineering Millett Morgan is in the process of topping all the rest of us on his present two-month trip to Antarctica. Leaving Hanover December 15, Millett headed for Capetown with stopovers at Lisbon, Acra in Ghana, Ibadan in Nigeria, Durban in Natal, and Johannesburg, visiting universities and meeting with their science faculties. At Johannesburg, he was introduced by Professor Arnold Trevor Lloyd, brother of Dartmouth's Professor of Geography Trevor Lloyd, to the faculty of the University of Witwatersrand. He sailed from Capetown shortly after Christmas on the "USS Wyandot" on a resupply mission to Deepfreeze. He hopes to return by way of the Palmer Peninsula, Ushuai in Argentina, and Huancayo in Peru, visiting "whistler" stations at those locations which are cooperating in Dartmouth's IGY research project on atmospheric noise. He expects to be home about the middle of February.

Allen Richmond '15, who retired from his post with the American Society of Civil Engineers last spring, has been honored by election as a Chapter Honor member of Chi Epsilon Fraternity at Cooper Union. On his retirement, Al was presented with a scroll by the ASCE Committee on Student Chapters which read, in part, "In paying tribute to Allen the recent members of the committee ... symbolize many student generations as well as all the members of ASCE. God speed you on your way, Allen. We shall never forget you."

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Joe Ermenc recently received a letter from Ed Quinn ME '55 announcing that starting the first of the year he would be in the Advanced Development Section of Westinghouse, Steam Division, at Philadelphia, working with electronic computers and their utilization in the design of steam turbines.

Harlan Fair CE '54 has recently left the Navy Civil Engineer Corps and joined the Turner Construction Company in their New York office. Classmate Tom Unkefer passed through Hanover shortly after New Year's looking for snow. We directed him to the North Pole but he planned a stopoff at Mt Tremblant.

Letters have recently been received from graduate fellowship holders Jon Allen EE '57 and Dick DeVoto CE '57. Jon, who holds a Henry Scholarship for study in England, is a research student at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He writes, "I am having a very stimulating time here, in many ways. I am taking pure math courses In addition I have taken up skin diving using compressed air, and have enjoyed some studies of sand motion due to tides (this involves some elegant hydrodynamics) and methods of fish propulsion. The social life is tremendous Well, I have to go to Hall (evening dinner) now, my B.A. gown flowing in back of me in the breeze. (Prof. Shen predicted I would look like a crow.)" Jon omits to remark on the accuracy of Prof. Shen's prophecy.

Dick DeVoto, who holds a National Science Foundation Fellowship, is studying engineering geology at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, where he and wife Jane are resident supervisors in an 85-man dormitory. Dick has found that although he misses Hanover and feels "quite fortunate at being able to spend last year at Thayer School... my interests, my background and my future have met exactly in the field of Engineering Geology... a direct combination between Civil Engineering and Geology."

And finally, I have been happy to discover that there is a reader of this column, and an intelligent one at that. In response to my plea in the December issue for a Muttnik recipe, reader Frank Marsh '02 noted on his card of season's greetings, "Your reference- to Muttnik in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE leads me to suggest 'Dogonit'."