Thayer School
Professor Joe Ermenc was invited recently to visit the General Electric Company plant in Lynn, Mass. Joe reports as follows: "This visit was an all-Dartmouth affair. It was arranged by Charlie Marshall ME'48, manager of manufacturing and personnel for the Steam Turbine Division, and brought together all the Thayer men at Lynn except Joe Sarno CE'51, who was in San Francisco helping the natives out there solve a baffling steam turbine problem.
"Harlan Jessup TT'56, in the Manufacturing Training Program, saddled with the responsibility for the planning and production of an 85,000 KW steam turbine to be installed in a destroyer, was doing an impressive job on this, his first assignment. PaulBarnico ME'51, Superintendent of Product Producibility, showed me about the largely automated gas turbine facility with its unusual production methods. Nipper LewisME'49, involved with gyroscopic instrument design, impressed the visitor with the design finesse of those small, delicate, and intricate assemblies. Gil Tricco EE'48, in the Sales Engineering Department at the West Lynn Plant, and otherwise working for his Master's in business administration at a local institution, was getting up steam for the promotion of a new G.E. mass-flow meter. JohnAnthony '47, engaged in gas turbine marketing, met the group at lunch in the G.E. Country Club, where Thayer tales of long ago were bandied about in a convivial atmosphere."
Dean Kimball has been invited to participate in a 3-day conference supported by the National Science Foundation and to be held at the Cooper Union Green Engineering Camp at Ringwood, New Jersey. It is expected that about thirty civil engineers and civil engineering educators will attend this conference.
The award of a Life Membership to W. Henry Allison '18 has been announced by the ASEE.
From a recent issue of SIPRE SNOJOB we have gleaned several items: Russ Stearns '38 is collaborating with others in the preparation of a Polar textbook or manual. Nick Costes CE'51 has left SIPRE's scientific ranks for graduate studies at Harvard. On October 11 a daughter, Susan Elliott, was welcomed by Liz and John Scoville CE'55 John has been in Pakistan designing a dam and was expected back by Christmas.
The Bell Telephone Laboratories has recently announced the award of a BTL Fellowship for Advanced Study to Bill Macurdy EE'57. Bill and his family will be at MIT for two or three years while Bill pursues his studies.
The Industrial Management Society has announced the results of the 1959 Ralph H. Landes Methods Improvement Competition. As usual, Thayer School men have made very creditable showing. Certificates of Merit were awarded to Dave Maryatt TT'59, Gershen Abraham ME'59, Bruce Barber TT'59, Jim Riffle ME'59, Dan O'Hara ME'59, SteveDunn ME'59, John Scully CE'58, and AllenErtel TT'59. Professor George Taylor is soon going to require a trophy room to store all of the hardware his students are presenting to him from this competition.
