Thayer School
Members of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers will have received, by this time, the D.S.E. letter covering in considerable detail the activities of the staff and students in the Thayer School. At the risk of some repetition, a few items of special interest are included in this column for those readers who may not have received the letter.
On April 1, 1962 Colonel Desmond Canavan joined the Thayer School staff as Executive officer. Des retired that day from the United States Marine Corps after 27 years of service mainly in command of Marine aircraft groups and airbases. For the past four years he has been the NROTC Commanding Officer at Dartmouth. Also, Dr. George Colligan in the science of materials, and Dr. Graham B. Wallis in the field of heat transfer and nuclear engineering have been appointed to the faculty. Prof. Joseph Ermenc been granted a National Science Foundation Fellowship for study at University of London specializing in the history of technology which has occupied his attention for some time. Joe will do independent research with individuals and in museums in London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna.
Dean Myron Tribus has presented his new approach to thermodynamics through information theory at many universities and scientific groups in this country from Boston to California, and at Imperial College, London, and Manchester Universities in England. From June 25 to July 6, 1962 Dean Tribus will be joined by Professor E. T. Jaynes, Professor of Physics at Washington University and will present a course at Thayer School on "The Uses of Information Theory in Science and Engineering" to acquaint engineers, scientists and business administrators with the new approach to probability and statistical inference as applied in Kinetic Theory, Thermostatics, Thermodynamics, reliability engineering, and decision theory.
Prof. R. C. Dean's research project in fundamental studies in Plasma Arc Heat Transfer are well underway. Harris McKee ES'62 is the student research assistant on this project.
From halfway around the world comes word of R. C. Simpson TT'54 who is with Pfizer Chemical in Karachi, Pakistan. Neil Greene ME'60 is completing a two-year teaching experience at North Carolina State College and has decided to make teaching his profession. Neil is planning to enter University of Michigan this fall to study for his doctorate. He is principally interested in heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Don Ford TT'57 since completion of his tour of duty with the Navy has been with Peter Kiewit in the San Francisco office. Don is active in both field supervision and office cost analysis and estimating. Alex McPherson ME'47 was chosen to attend a Marketing Institute at Harvard last summer. He was one of six Americans who joined 50 men from all over the world in the six-week study. Alex hints, in his note, of some news about himself later. The McPhersons have two boys, Harry 9 and Brian 5, who appear to be exhaustingly busy.
We received a nice note from Jim Holway EE'48 who, with wife Harriette, lives in Elkridge, Md. While Harriette spends her time staying one step ahead of Karen (5) and Michael (3), Jim is busy in the Air Arm Division of Westinghouse. He has finished his degree in business at Johns Hopkins University and is working on some phase (electronic package for launching system and pioneering in oceanography) of the Polaris Submarine Program. Sounds very secret. Jim's work is mainly administrative, but takes him around the country to coordinate operations, cost control, and support functions. Jim says, "I have been interested in the general transition of the Thayer curriculum. The greater emphasis on the basic sciences is, I believe, the required approach."
Barry Mac Lean ME'61 is extremely busy with the engineering development of new products for the MacLean-Fogg Tock Nut Company. He is also advertising manager and sales engineer responsible for customer engineering and the advertising program. The Mac Leans have a rapidly growing daughter of seven months. Barry, TomBrock ME'61 and Wayne Givens TT'61 received the second-place award in the National Methods Improvement Competition for their project developed under Prof.George Taylor. Wayne is an ensign at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and joined Barry at the presentation. Tom, also an ensign, USN, is in San Francisco. Bob FogartyME'58 spent the summer of 1961 with Continental Can in the Industrial Engineering Department. He is now at the University of Chicago Business School.
Prof. George Taylor recently received an announcement of the appointment of ChuckQueenan TT'53 to membership in the firm of Kirkpatrick, Pomeroy, Lockhart, and Johnson, in Pittsburgh. Chuck will be remembered by recent students as the judge in the Moot Court of the Legal and Ethical Analysis course assisting Cy Quell, Chief of Appeals of the City of New York. DanWilder ME'59 has been with Army intelligence since graduation, and has spent two years in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dan's understatement is that the events of the past few years have made the work extremely interesting. He has become fluent in German and is becoming most interested in economic and political developments in Europe. As a result Dan is heading for graduate work in international business at Cologne University, and later in the United States.
The Thayer School alumni luncheon for reuning classes last June was so successful we would be remiss in not repeating the performance this year. Consequently, the Thayer alumni of the Dartmouth Classes 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952, and for that matter any other Thayer School alumni who can make it, are cordially invited to attend. The luncheon will be held in the Terrace Room of the Norwich Inn at 12:30 on Friday, June 15.
