Thayer School
Your correspondent had the great pleasure of representing the Thayer School at the Hopkins Dinner in New York last month. The event will undoubtedly be reported at some length and in appropriately glowing terms elsewhere in this magazine. With well over two thousand people in attendance, it was very easy indeed to overlook one's best friends, but in one way or another the presence of the following Thayer School people was noted: Thomas T. Whittier '00, F. E. Cudworth '02, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Schilling '09, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson L. Doe '13, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Davidson '15, Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Pritchard '15, William M. Birtwell '18, Rear Admiral and Mrs. P. J. Halloran '20, Mr. and Mrs. Avedis Miridjanian '20, Overseer John C. Woodhouse D'21, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Darling '27, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Jost '37, Mr. and Mrs. E. Shaw Cole '31, Richard W. Olmsted '33, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Petrie, Jr. '34, Mr. and Mrs. John Arborio, Jr. '33, Robert T. Barr '42, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Gibbons '43, Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Geer, Jr. TT'47, Mr. and Mrs. A. Preston Moore TT'44, Mr. Richard H. Hinman ME'48, Thomas A. Barr CE'50, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson F. Bellesheim TT'52, Mr. and Mrs. Dekkers H. Davidson CE'53. S. Robert Jelley CE'53, Mr. and Mrs. J. William Scher ME'57.
A Christmas card showing the three cheery daughters of Faith and Ed Traylor CE'48 brings the following news of Ed's occupation: "After a really fascinating two years under Nate Newmark (Professor of Civil Engineering in charge of Ed's graduate study program) at the University of Illinois, I am now stationed with the Research Directorate of ARDC at Kirtland Air Force Base, specializing in protective construction. It involves new concepts in engineering and fulfills a very worth-while mission in the present allout cold-war - essentially massive structures based on ultimate-load-carrying dynamic capacity."
A good letter from Eliot Smith CE'56 tells about the interesting work he has been doing in Uncle Sam's Army and also brings news of his marriage last June to Pat Mullen, whom some of Eliot's classmates may remember. The Smiths are presently living at 4246 Raleigh Avenue, Alexandria, Va., and Eliot is stationed at Fort Belvoir where he has had a varied engineering experience: bridge design, analyses of railroad construction and destruction methods, and determination of weapons effects and methods of protection against these effects in the special weapons field involving analysis and design of structures under dynamic loading. He has recently received a Citation of Achievement in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in this work. On the side, Eliot has been teaching Thermodynamics at Catholic University. Sounds like a busy life as well as a challenging one.
Fred Munkelt '09 has sent a clipping from the Montpelier Argus for January 24 announcing the death of Julian Goodrich '12. Fred says, "Goodrich was not a Dartmouth man and spent only one year at Thayer to receive his Civil Engineer degree. Furthermore he remained in civil engineering but ten years. He was, however, a successful man in all his endeavors and one of my reasons for sending you this clipping is the high regard in which he was held by citizens of Montpelier." Most of Mr. Goodrich's business career was spent in the retail furniture business in Montpelier from which he retired, according to the Montpelier Argus "on January 1, 1955 after building it to a position of soundness not often reached in a retail business in Vermont." He was active in the Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange Club, the Apollo Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the Knights of Columbus. He is survived by his wife, two sisters, five children and sixteen grandchildren.
