Thayer School

The completion of the new Wigwam dormitories, west of the Thayer School, has brought the school once again inside the outskirts of the campus. One recalls the move of just half a century ago from Thayer Lodge on Allen Street to Bissell Hall on the campus. There is now a stream of students moving through the end of Tuck Mall, not only to the dormitories, but also to the parking lot south of Thayer. Construction is underway on new tennis courts south of Thayer School on the brow of the hill overlooking Wheelock Street.

The annual meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held in Boston on October 10. Bob Barr CE'42, president, and Paul Barnico ME'51, chairman, arranged a most informative and pleasant evening. Dean Myron Tribus gave a stimulating talk touching upon his impressions of Dartmouth and Thayer School, and his plans for the future. Myron, in emphasizing the need for increased endowment and enrollment, asked for the strong support of the D.S.E. in these areas. He mentioned the recent growth of individual project research which is rapidly replacing the standard class laboratory exercises of the past, and the plans for sponsored research to be conducted by the faculty and students.

Also present were: Roger McArt ME'62, president of the Student Chapter, who presented a fine picture of the extensive student activity at Thayer, Pablo Gomez ES'62, Vice President, Professors Ed Brown CE'35, Joe Ermenc, Russ Stearns CE'38, and Bob Egelhoff CE'39, Fritz Geller TT'48, Charlie Hitchcock CE'39, Byron McCoy CE'34, Gerry Sarno CE'51, Nip Lewis ME'49, Russ Rice CE'16, John Hirst CE'39, John Scanlon CE'34, Grafton Berger ME'59, Ken Little CE'53, Al Doolittle CE'37, Charles Main CE'39, Tom Barr CE'50, Al Wilson CE'47, Art Pritchard TT'6l, Dick Rice '44, Charlie Marshall ME'48, Pete Roos EE'55, Phil Jackson CE'44, Bob Treat CE'50, Paul Breck CE'43, Lansing Reed CE'47, Ed Abt TT'57, a fine turn-out.

About this time of year, late October, word filters through concerning the progress of a few of those continuing in graduate school. Dick DeVoto CE'57 received his D.Sc. in Geology from Colorado School of Mines in June. M.I.T. has written that "Jonathan Allen EE'57 is continuing his excellent work in the electrical engineering Ph.D. program while carrying a research assistantship in the Research Lab of Electronics." Jon's minor is in Physics. Bill Macurdy EE'57 has a splendid rating in his E.E. doctoral work, also at M.1.T., while continuing a C.D.T. fellowship from Bell Telephone Laboratories. Jim Picken EE'60 has received a second N.S.F. fellowship for study in electrical engineering at Stanford. We also understand that Bill Davidow EE'50 has completed his doctorate at Stanford, but we would appreciate verification.

Some vacationing visitors to Hanover in the past few months, who stopped long enough to be identified, include Bob Tracy TT'49, owner and operator of his own construction company in East Aurora, N. Y. The Tracys have their hands full with three children. Bob reports that the construction company activities of Paul Henegan CE'49 are as busy as his own. Bill Bonneville CE'54, following Navy duty and two years with Esso in New York, has now finished Harvard Business School and joined the Nashua Corporation, in Nashua, N. H., as budget director. Bill is happy to get back to New Hampshire, bringing with him his wife and one child. Pete Roos, mentioned earlier, has also received his degree from Harvard Business School.