Thayer School
It is a great pleasure to present in these notes President Dickey's announcement, on January 10, of the appointment of Dr. Myron Tribus as Dean of the Thayer School, effective next summer. A native of California, Dr. Tribus completed his undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley (1942), and received his doctorate in engineering at UCLA in 1949. He is no stranger to the East, having hiked to the top of Mt. Washington in mid-winter while engaged in de-icing studies for the Air Force. He has received prizes from the SAE, ASCE, and AGU, for research in heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. He is well known also for the major part he played in the development of the unified engineering curriculum at UCLA. We welcome Myron Tribus into the Dartmouth and Thayer School family with sincere best wishes.
Dean Bill Kimball CE'29 will lead the civil engineering staff, after July 1, in the application of his new concept of engineering education to the reshaping of the present civil engineering curriculum into environmental engineering. In this program we propose to develop an engineering curriculum concerned with the adaptation of man's environment to his needs, uses, and benefit in such fields as water resources, waste disposal, transportation, and urban development. Environment, here, includes social, political, and cultural as well as the physical conditions in which man lives and works. We will all miss Bill in the Dean's office, but we look forward to our association with him in this exciting step forward in engineering education.
We are delighted to announce the establishment of the Philip H. and Sarah B. Winchester Scholarship Fund at the Thayer School. Mrs. Sarah B. Winchester created this fund for deserving Thayer School students in her will in memory of her husband, Philip H. Winchester CE'00. It will ultimately provide a substantial sum to fill a very real need—namely the support of Thayer fifth-year students. Philip Winchester was a long-time division engineer with the New York Central Railroad, and lived in Syra- cuse, N. Y.
Alan "Lefty" Terrill CE'55 reports the finest fishing and hunting in North America near Yreha, Calif. When not catching twelveinch trout, shooting quail, or skiing on Mt. Shasta, Lefty acts as office manager for the construction of 1,000,000 c.y. earth dam and power plant at Hornbrook. Col. Jim Decker CE'54 was married early in 1960, and is living in Charlottesville, Va. He is busy at the University of Virginia in traffic research for the Virginia Department of Highways. Jim wishes to explain to the class of 1954 that the questionnaire and resume of the class got out of hand. Since the information is not up-to-date now, he will attempt it again soon, and hopes class members will repeat their previous generous response.
We were very sorry to hear from Alan Wright ME'52 that his father, Howard Wright '20, passed away on November 29 in Winchester, Mass., where he had been in the roofing business for thirty years. Alan is with the DuPont Technical Group at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, S. C. He is not sure his wife, who is a southern girl, would enjoy the cold and snow of a Hanover winter. (We have just completed sixteen days of below zero cold, with one morning at thirty-five below.) The Wrights have three small children.
John Muchemore '44 sent a Christmas card from a warmer climate, Hawaii, saying he had been there since June, with a trip to the Orient thrown in. Also from west 01 here, Bill Davidow EE'58 happily announces that he has passed his doctorate orals at Stanford, and, if he finishes his thesis by April, may be able to graduate in June. Good' luck,' Bill, and also to Jon Allen EE'57 and Bill Macurdy EE'57 who are completing their doctorates at M.I.T. Jon, who has another year to go, is a teaching fellow, but he was able to break away from Cambridge to marry Ann Chase in the Church of Christ at Dartmouth on October 29. Ann is the advertising manager of the Harvard University Press.
A D.S.E. Executive Committee meeting was held in Boston on January 26, with the following present: President Bob Barr CE'42, Vice-President Bob McIlwain TT'51, Secretary Bob Egelhoff CE'39, Treasurer Dek Davidson '53, at large Fritz Geller TT'48, Paul Barnico ME'51, and Bill Kimball CE'29 ex officio. By the time this is read you will have received a letter discussing the business of this meeting.
Some time ago Jesse Chadwell CE'47 brought us up-to-date on his activities. For thirteen years Jesse has been in the construction industry, and now holds the title of Assistant Field Project Manager with both construction and administrative responsibility. His various jobs have included industrial, steam generating, and high-purity silicon manufacturing plants. Jesse now lives in Snyder, New York. James Thomas '41 writes from Florida that he is still with Minute Maid and living in Winter Park. He is very active in Dartmouth and Thayer School affairs in Northern Florida.
