Thayer School
The Westinghouse Company has been giving Dartmouth some pretty prominent nationwide publicity recently with a full-page magazine spread showing Harvey Graves EE'51 sitting fearlessly on the edge of a nuclear reactor over the caption, "Harvey Graves (Dartmouth BA'50, MSEE'51) discusses a reactor experiment at the Westinghouse Reactor Evaluation Center.... As manager of the Nuclear Design Section, Mr. Graves works with Dr. Wilfried Bergmann ... and other young scientists." The banner headline reads, "AT 30, HARVEY GRAVES DIRECTS NUCLEAR DESIGN OF TWO MAJOR WESTINGHOUSE REACTORS." To save Harvey embarrassment, and to avoid the editor's shears which are predicted to be especially sharp this month, the remainder of the page will not be repeated here.
A good letter from Jim Martin '26 gives his present address as PO Box 13, South San Francisco, Calif. It seems Jim has had some pretty intimate experiences with the soil mechanics of that region. He says, "With land for industrial use at such a premium we are cutting down some of the hills, dredging deeper in the Bay and floating the fill material on a sixty-foot-deep layer of what geology accepts to be 'Bay Mud.' Subsidence and mud waves are calculated risks for the developer but often permanent headaches for the tenant." And on the personal side, "Our boys are all fine. Nearly all through school now and not an engineer in the lot. Kit is fine but can't see why I prefer the coast fog and rain to Arizona sunshine. Frankly, neither can I."
Mr. and Mrs. Constantine Andros of Chicago have announced the engagement of their daughter Polytime (Paulette, Nick says) to Nicholas Constantine Costes CE'51 of Evanston, Ill. Nick has quite a lot of enthusiastic things to say about this development including a prediction that the wedding will probably be held in October which he refers to as "AG." To a SIPRE worker, AG, meaning After Greenland, is the equivalent of "next fall." Paulette was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has spent most of her life in Chicago where she is at present an art teacher in the public schools. She is a graduate of Monticello College and Northwestern University and has also attended the Chicago Art Institute and the Athens National University of Engineering Science in Greece.
