Thayer School
The annual Dartmouth Engineers Dinner in Boston was held at the University Club on April 29, with a good attendance of 26. Paul Barnico ME'51 was in charge of arrangements which were made in accordance with the wishes of the Boston alumni as expressed in a poll earlier in the spring. The faculty was represented by Assistant Dean Charlie Reynolds, Professor Ed Sherrard, and the Dean who was called on for his annual remarks on the state of the School. Feature speaker of the evening was Bob Burns DC'37 who presented an interesting discussion of the "business climate" of Massachusetts. Alumni in attendance were Chuck Osborn TT'49, Paul Barnico ME'51, Warren Daniell CE'50, Dick Ellis '17, Howard Wright '20, Russ Rice '16, Dick Rice '44, Al Doolittle '37, John Minnich '29, Evan Wilder '29, Joe Baute ME'54, Phil Jackson '44, Henry Torpey EE'49, Charlie Hitchcock '39, Fritz Geller TT'48, Bob Price '47, Al Wilson '47, Al Miller CE'48, Phil Coykendall '26, Charlie Marshall ME'48, Paul Breck '43, Bert Melcher CE'54.
The annual Hanover meeting of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held April 18 and 19. Alumni who made the trip to this meeting were Society President Charlie Hitchcock '39, Vice-President Barney Tomlinson '36, Secretary Paul Henegan CE'49, Past President Rick Davidson '41, and Members-at-large Tom Streeter TT'48 and Bob Egelhoff '39. All day Friday and Saturday morning were devoted to business meetings. The committee also entertained the students at a cocktail party, the students and faculty at a buffet supper and the faculty at an informal evening gathering. Special features of the business meeting were a report by Student Chapter President Charlie Schneider TT'58 on the chapter activities of the year and a discussion of Tuck-Thayer proposals with Professor of Engineering and Management George Taylor and Tuck School's Dean Hill.
Your correspondent represented the Engineers' Council for Professional Development on a panel discussion of "Unity of the Engineering Profession in New England" sponsored by the Engineering Societies of New England in Boston on April 25.
A letter from Jonathan Allen EE'57, who has been studying mathematics on a Henry Fellowship at Cambridge, England, during the past year, brings the news that he has received a Ramo-Wooldrige Fellowship for graduate study in electrical engineering at MIT for the coming year. Jon's year abroad has ranged from graduate mathematics through punting on the Cam, studying tonal design of pipe organs, working on the design of an underwater radio for skin divers, to discussing machine translation with the head of publications for UNESCO.
The Bob McIlwains TT'51 returned from honeymooning in Jamaica to the news that Bob was to return to Venezuela where he spent several months last winter. They will be in Venezuela for about two months returning to this country late in June. Meanwhile, Paul Henegan continues to serve in the dual capacity of Secretary-Treasurer of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.
Bill Conway CE'54 writes that he continues to lead a busy life in Harrisburg where he is with the consulting engineer firm of Modjeski and Masters. He . reports that he has worked his way up from abutments, through piers, to the superstructure of approach spans for some major bridges which are being designed by the firm.
Western Construction Magazine for February carried a feature article on Stanford's master's curriculum in civil engineering construction, including a photograph showing "Prof. John Fondahl" CE'48 who joined the Stanford faculty in 1954 to lead in the development of the program.
Clem Burnap '40 has joined the Technical Sales Department of Atomics International, a division of North American Aviation, Inc. of Canoga Park, Calif. In this position, Clem will be concerned with licensing activities in connection with marketing nuclear reactors abroad.
Jim Kerley '44 is the author of an article on "Design in the Plastic Region" which appeared in the November 14 issue of Machine Design. Jim who was formerly with the Air Arm Division of Westinghouse is now a Consulting Engineer in Baltimore,
A letter in Civil Engineering for April by Steve Olko CE'47 discusses the "shortage of engineers" which he believes does not actually exist.
Robert Fletcher is one of fourteen civil engineers listed in a new volume of the Dictionary of American Biography series sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.
With this issue, we sign off at the end of another academic year. Thayer School will be open at least five days a week throughout the summer, however, and we'll be happy to see any readers of this column, or even of this MAGAZINE, who can include Hanover in their summer itinerary.
Medical staff members of the Hitchcock Clinic pictured above are front row, left to right: Drs. Ralph W. Hunter '31, Radford C. Tanzer '25, Sven M. Gundersen, Colin C. Stewart '23, John J. Boardman, John P. Bowler 'l1, Leslie K. Sycamore '24, John A. Coyle '24 M. Dawson Tyson, George A. Lord '30; second row, Drs. Reginald K. House, Walter C. Lobitz Jr., Rodger E. Weismann, William C. MacCarty Jr. '33, Stuart W. Russell, Morris L. Heller '35, F. Corbin Moister '37, Hanford L. Auten '32, William L. McLaughlin '36, John S. Lyle '34, Jarrett H. Folley and Jackson W. Wright '33; third row, Drs. Robert M. Krout, Frank W. Lane Jr., Franklin G. Ebaugh Jr. '44, Thomas P. Anderson, Otis F. Jillson, E. Elizabeth French, Robert C. Shoemaker Jr., Lawrence J. Morin, William T. Mosenthal Robert E. Quinn, Joshua B. Burnett, and Mr. Tustin M. Smith '37 (Executive Director); fourth row, Drs. Samuel C. Doyle '47, Richard H. Barrett, Lewis H. Lambert '40, T. Richard Watson Jr. '37, Frederic Rueckert, Philip O. Nice, Ernest Sachs Jr., John R. Dyke, John W. Schleicher '40, Modestino G. Criscitiello, Louis B. Matthews, Paul B. Sullivan and Robert J. Vanderlinde. Members of the staff not pictured are Drs. John A. Murtagh, O. Sherwin Staples, Ralph E. Miller '24, John Milne '37, William N. Chambers, Robert C. Storrs '40, Robert G. Fisher, Margaret Anthonisen, John B. McKenna, G. Winthrop Sands and Edward A. Tyler.
