Thayer School

In our usual prompt style we wish to record the visit of Joe Gilchrist CE'51 to Hanover last July. Joe informs us that he has been transferred to the San Francisco office of Bechtel Corporation where he is serving as Senior Engineer assigned to hydroelectric work. On the domestic scene, Joe and Caroline report that Kit, Jane, Jody, and Bill have acquired a new "pup" — a 115 lb. Great Pyrenese.

From Dean Hildebrandt TT'55, we have a note informing us that he and Bob Johansen TT'56 are working in the Methods Department of the Industrial Engineering Division of Kodak where they are developing an automation system for film handling.

Esther and Don HerdegTT'52 have reported the arrival of a new son on December 19. Don is with the United Shoe Machinery Corporation assigned to the Advanced Development and Systems Department. The sophisticated nature of his work is evident from the following list of assignments: design and fabrication of triode microwave cavities, vibration test equipment for doppler radar calibration, studies of rhodium flashing, and the deicing of radomes. According to Don, he has found that all of his Thayer courses have proved helpful in dealing with these problems.

A consolidation of the Anderson-Nichols Offices has resulted in an impressive broadening of responsibilities for Warren DaniellCE'50. Warren has now full supervision, technical and administrative, office and field, of building projects ranging up to $3,000,000.

Bob Prasch CE'57 is completing his engineering studies at the University of Maryland and has accepted a position with Armco as Sales Engineer in the northeast states.

In the last two monthly Notes, we have devoted some space to descriptions of new laboratories developed under the guidance of Professors Joe Ermenc and Carl Long. In addition to these developments, changes have been made in the Fluid Mechanics Course and Laboratory to include more work in compressible fluids and flow phenomena. We have acquired recently a small, variable speed blower and equipment with which the drag and lift of various objects, including airfoils, may be quantitatively studied. Work with this equipment has proven to be highly instructive and very interesting to the students this term and, undoubtedly, much more work in this field will be included in the Fluids course next year.