Thayer School
The following officers for 1960 were elected at the October 13 meeting of the DSE: President, Barney Tomlinson '36; Vice President, Bob Barr '42; Secretary, Bob Egelhoff '39; Treasurer, Bob McIlwain TT'51; Executive Committee, Gerry Sarno CE'51. Principal speaker at the meeting was Robert E. Slaughter, vice president of McGraw-Hill, who chose as title for his talk "The American Economy of the '60's." The optimistic prospects outlined by Mr. Slaughter stimulated an interesting question period spearheaded by the more skeptical members of the Society. Dean Bill Kimball '29 gave his customary report upon the activities, personnel, and prospects at Thayer School. Herb Grant TT'60, President of the Student Chapter, also spoke to the group outlining the current activities and the program of the undergraduate engineering society.
Among those present at the meeting were: Dutch Schroedel '26, Shaw Cole '31, Ed Elsenhans '36, George Franson '31, Ed Brown '35, Barney Tomlinson '36, Bob Egelhoff '39, Pat Gorman '39, George Bailey '40, Hugh McLaren '40, Bob Barr '42, Jack Devor '42, Don Amy '43, Jim Skinner '43, Charlie Weinberg '43, Sam Florman '46, Steve Olko '47, Bob Price '47, Rube Samuels '47, Tom Gustenhoven CE'48, Tom Streeter Tl'48, Don Armitstead CE'49, Foxy Parker ME'49, Tom Barr CE'50, Mike Pender CE'50, Gerry Sarno CE'51, Bob Mcllwain TT'51, Dana Low CE'55, Bob Portland EE'60, Joel Ash EE'58, Larry Schwartz EE'59, Ray Freud TT'55, Charlie Acker TT'55, Jack Woods ME'52, Dekkers Davidson CE'53, Bill Wheeler CE'49.
On October 21 the annual meeting of the Tri-State Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers was held at the Thayer School with Prof. George A. Taylor serving as chairman.
Among the pleasanter memories of the Brown Game Weekend were visits to the Thayer School by Mayland Lewis ME'49 and Joe Baute ME'54. Both Nipper and Joe are very active members of the school boards of their respective towns, Nahant, Mass., and Keene, N. H. Nipper reports that he holds a Professional Engineer's License in Massachusetts and is currently working in the Gyroscopic Division of the General Electric Company. Joe reports that Fritz Geller TT'48 has joined Joe in the employ of the Markhem Machine Company in Keene.
From Anchorage, Alaska, Jack Bennett CE'50 writes that he is getting his engineer's license there and is enjoying his work with a contractor there. Jack remarks that he is much impressed with the new state but it is not clear whether or not he has yet had the pleasure of the experience of an Alaskan winter.
On August 15, Miss Nancy Low Eberhardt of Summit, N. J., was married to Bill Bonneville CE'55. The Bonnevilles are living in Cambridge while Bill attends Harvard Business School.
The engagement of Miss Margaret Cramer Coxshead of West Orange, N. J,, to Lindley Hall CE'59 was announced in mid-August.
We have word that Bill Davidow EE'58 was graduated from Cal Tech last June and is now enrolled at Stanford University in pursuit of his doctorate.
The American College of Life Underwriters has annuonced that Bill Fetzer TT'49 has been awarded the professional designation of "Charter Life Underwriter" (C.L.U.).
George Neely ME'57, after eight months in Europe, is enrolled in the Stanford Business School.
During the past year a heat transfer laboratory has gradually been assuming form on the second floor of the north wing of the School. The equipment for the laboratory has been designed by Prof. Joe Ermenc and has been largely built by Larry Goldthwaite, our ingenious and industrious technician. It consists of table-size equipment for investigation into heat flow from fins, thermal conductivities of solid materials and gas films, parallel and counterflow heat exchangers, nucleate and film boiling, relations between electrical and thermal conductivities, and transient heat flow. In line with the College policy of encouraging independence in learning, the investigations are intended to be solo efforts and the student is encouraged to exert the initiative in setting up and planning his experimental work.
