Thayer School

Attending the spring meeting of the DSE in Hanover on April 24-25 were Barney Tomlinson '36, Bob Egelhoff '39, Bob Barr '42, and Bob McIlwain TT'51. This occasion was marked by the opening of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Room and dinner at the DOC House for all first- and second-year students.

The new DSE Room is located on the first floor and occupies space once used as part of the assembly room 106 and the surveying equipment room. The room is tastefully furnished with comfortable chairs, colorful drapes, pine paneling, and acoustic tile. Not the least of its attractiveness is a small kitchenette with a stove-refrigerator-sink unit, and a king-size coffee maker. A more popular facility has not been added to the School in memory!

On April 28 the annual Boston Meeting of the DSE was held. The meeting was addressed by Dean Kimball and Mr. William F. Ryan and attended by the following: Paul Barnico ME'51, Barney Tomlinson '36, Carl Washburn '46, Phil Coykendall '26, Dick Ellis '17, Russ Rice '16, Jon Allen EE'57, Al Doolittle '37, Gerry Caplan CE'58, Larry Freier EE'58, Bob Price '47, Roland Becker ME'51, Phil Jackson '44, Charlie Hitchcock '38, Charlie Main '39, John Minnich '29, Evan Wilder '29, Joe Baute ME'54, Fritz Geller TT'48, Jason Woodward '42, Paul Breck '43. Warren Daniell CE'50, Leroy Cahoon '47, John Hirst '39.

Two days later the Thayer School students staged their biennial Open House which was very well attended by students and others. One large delegation of high school boys came all the way from St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to see the displays. Some of the new features of the display included a demonstration and explanation of the School's satellite tracking equipment by Fred Hart EE'60, various dexterity tests in the methods engineering laboratory, strain gauge weighing of spectators, ear-splitting demonstrations of rockets, an excellent photogrammetry exhibition, and a smoke tunnel exhibit of air foils, etc. The student efforts in the Open House were ably directed by Larry Schwartz EE'59, president of the student chapter of DSE.

From Hawaii a fine letter from Pete Nottage CE'51 apprises us that he has been a Vice President and Chief Estimator for Associated Masons, Ltd. since 1954. Pete informs us, also, that Lois and he are raising a wonderful family including seven-year old twin daughters, a four-year old son, and a two-year old daughter.

Raymond International, Inc. has just announced that Ace Bailey '40 has been elected to a vice presidency and will take charge of a newly established heavy construction division organized to manage special domestic construction projects. Ace joined Raymond in 1940 and served as overseas project engineer, estimating engineer, and later as chief estimator.

Notice has been received that Bill Bonneville CE'55 has been admitted to the Harvard Business School as a member of the September class. It has also been learned that Jon Allen EE'57 has received the Ramo-Wooldridge scholarship for another year of study at MIT.

From distant Korea, Kisuk Cheung CE'54 has reported in the following letter:

It seems to be just yesterday that I left Thayer School, but it has been five years since the days of hard grinding (!) at Thayer. It has been three years since I came back to Korea, and I have been busy with family as well as engineering activities I am married to a Seoul girl, Kyung Hee, and now we have a son, Young Tae, 20 months old and a small tyrant at our home.

I have done many things in Korea and there has never been a dull moment. At first I worked nights and days to rebuild the largest hydro-dam, powerhouse, and transmission line here for two years, and presently I became the Chief of the Design Section for the U.S. Engineer District, Far East Corps of Engineers. My present job is great! I am very happy to be an engineer. We have many diversified projects, including tidal basins, locks, airfields, water distribution systems, sanitary sewer systems, housing.... These are all of a crash nature so that we are working many shifts to button up the projects. It is needless to say how much Thayer School training is helping me. The stiff training and the inspiration were the most important elements which enabled me to push through my difficulties here.

Lefty Terrill CE'55 writes that he and Sally are delighted to be located in Boise, Idaho, where Lefty is in the employ of Morrison-Knudsen.

Announcement has been received of the marriage on April 11 of Lydia Acacia Ludtke to Malcolm McLoud TT'47 at Scarsdale, N.Y.

From the Stanford Engineering News, it is learned that John Fondahl CE'48, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, was an invited guest at the Los Angeles Meeting of the Beavers, a national society of heavy engineering construction men.

Professor George Taylor is author of an article entitled, "The Analysis of Your Spending Decisions", published in the April issue of "The Controller."

The Department of the Army has just announced availability of a half-hour film for television entitled "Thayer of West Point," a story of an American whose greatness has touched many men and profoundly influenced the course of our history — Father of the Military Academy at West Point — Sylvanus Thayer.