Thayer School
Winter came late to Hanover this year and the result has been a generous two to four-foot depth of snow this March. The resulting extension of the skiing season has been appreciated by both students and faculty. John Minnich CE'29 returned to Hanover from Hawaii to find the Dartmouth Field House construction at a standstill. His steel erection arches are now in place at the west end, gracefully outlining the shape of the future intrados against the sky. John and Charlotte report a wonderful vacation in Hawaii particularly as a result of the hospitality of Cline Mann CE'45 and PeteNottage CE'51. We are very pleased to announce that John has been enticed back into teaching for the spring term when he will give a large part of the new planning and design course to fifth-year students.
At this writing, in early March, Bill Kimball CE'29 has successfully undergone a back operation and a most uncomfortable post-operative session. He is now feeling better and by the time you read this should be on his feet again ready to hit a golf ball. A recent note from Bill Batt TT'61 said that he had spent a month in the Naval Hospital with mono in the fall but is now fine. Sallyand Alan Terrill CE'55 have sent word of the birth of their first child, Susan Potter. Congratulations, Lefty. The Terrills are located in Yreka, California. Chuck Stuart CE'61 returned to New England from Texas having finished his special training there. Chuck is a 2nd Lt. assigned to Nike operations in Massachusetts.
Tom Laaspere, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science, has a paper in the February 1962 issue of Electrical Engineering, the magazine of the AIEE. The subject, "Radar Exploration of Space Using Incoherent Scattering," involves measuring properties of the upper ionosphere and the strength and direction of the magnetic field. Jack Hanley CE'48 has been in charge this year of a program at the University of Illinois to instruct engineers in the evaluation of public buildings for use as shelters in the event of nuclear attack. The Department of Defense, through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is in charge of the program and selection of participants for the course. lack, who attended a pilot course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has been studying and designing nuclear blast resistant structures for his doctoral work at Illinois.
Dick Livingston ME'44 has moved gradually, during the past year or so, from supervisory work to engineering planning and independent research, and is now an Engineering Associate. Dick likes the independence which has allowed him to become more involved in polymer chemistry involving the use of an analog computer. The Livingstons are presently building a cottage on Chesapeake Bay. Holden Waterbury CE'47, writing from New Braunfits, Texas, sent an interesting newspaper clipping about ownership of a little island in the Rio Grande, and commented on the multiplicity of precedents in the law on land ownership and water rights requiring a knowledge of not only English riparian law but also Napoleonic, Spanish, and good, old, western mining procedures. Holden's letter reminded ProfessorGeorge Taylor of the study by Dick DeVotoCE'57 of western water rights as his CE thesis. Holden also mentions various phases of his engineering business with the Air Force involving, in part, structures for atomic protection.
Professor Joe Ermenc has received news that Stuart Clark ME'59 is now working at MIT on temperature control for submarine inertial navigation systems. We would like to hear more about his work. Bob RhinesCE'61 stopped at Thayer School while between his job with the Kellogg Construction Company, which he has just left, and his arrival at a new job with Boeing on the west coast.
