Thayer School

The Thayer School Open House was made an annual event this year. On May 3 the students displayed research projects and laboratory apparatus in action, together with exhibits describing the curriculum and general activity at Thayer School and Dartmouth. On hand were a display of the architecture of Professor Nervi, including a model of the Dartmouth Field House; the air cushion, or ground effects, vehicle; and the famous, or infamous, water faucet. A good time was had by all.

Professors John Minnich CE'29, Ed BrownCE'35, and Russ Stearns CE'38 spent the week of April 30 in New York with the fifth-year CE class. This trip was both valuable and enjoyable. Almost all phases of civil engineering were discussed and inspected with those closest to the actual work, including consulting engineers, contractors, and representatives of business and government. We sincerely thank these alumni for planning and carrying out such a worthwhile visit to New York: Bob BarrCE'42, Dick Hazen D' 32, Steve Olko CE'47,Mike Pender CE'50, and Gerry SarnoCE'51. Some of these alumni are planning to attend their class reunions in June, and will join with many more Thayer alumni at the Dartmouth Society of Engineers luncheon on June 15 at the Norwich Inn. So come one, come all.

In addition to the course on Information Theory to be given June 25 to July 6, 1962, announced in last month's notes, there will be a summer conference on "Introduction to Properties of Materials" held at Thayer School from July 16 through July 27, 1962. This course will be given by Professor D. Rosenthal of UCLA assisted by Professors Robinson, UCLA, and Colligan, Thayer, and Dean Tribus.

The Thayer School has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to support one faculty member in a detailed study of the present curriculum content. This study will be most valuable in the school's continuing development of modern undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Dean Tribus is maintaining his extensive travel schedule with lectures at Oklahoma State University, the ASEE meeting at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Philadelphia, and New York. From May 30 through June 6, Dean Tribus will participate in a conference at Athens, Greece, where the "Economic Preparation of Fresh Water from the Sea" will be discussed by scientists and engineers from all parts of the world. His talk in Philadelphia on June 20 will be on the same subject.

Emerson Houk TT'58 returned to Hanover in February to sit on the other side of the recruiters' desk. Emerson represented the Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis where he is deeply involved in acquisition and diversification studies, and long-range planning. The Houks have one girl, almost 4, and a boy, 1½. Dick Lemke D'61 writes from Bukola, Tanganyika, East Africa, where he is completing a graduate education course at Makerere College in Kampala, Uganda. He will soon begin two years of science and mathematics teaching. During this year in Africa Dick has been able to travel extensively mostly with a fellow African student. Also, and probably more important to Dick, he met Martha Gaile McCall from North Carolina, "a wonderful, beautiful girl, also on this American project." Dick and Gaile are now married and she will also teach in Bukola.

Sam Daniell TT'53 is with Bryant Chucking Grinder Company in Springfield, Vt., the scene of ME field trips. Sam is seen in Hanover with his family now and then. Jim Holway CE'48, who was reported in last month's column, passed through Hanover from the ski slopes of Northern Vermont on April 15. This is a good indication of the length of the ski season this year.

The Hanover construction activity continues unabated. New construction includes a Medical School dorm on Dewey Field, an addition to the White Church, and new college apartments on West Wheelock Street. The new Aquinas House for Catholic students is complete, and by November Hopkins Center and the Dartmouth Field House will be occupied.

The Thayer School faculty wishes you all a good summer and invites every one back to see the new Dartmouth.