Thayer School

Bob Mcllwain '51 gets the lead spot in this month's column because, as president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, he attended the Alumni Officers' weekend in Hanover at a time conveniently scheduled to give the alumni visitors a chance to see Dartmouth beat Bucknell - a near thing - and because I had a chance to chat briefly with him on that occasion.

The previous weekend I had the pleasure of a chance encounter with Dick Rice '44 at O'Hare Airport. Dick was on his way to Albuquerque and San Diego for demonstrations of "clean room" designs and installations. One of Dick's special interests as a project manager for the firm of Jackson and Moreland in Boston has become the design and construction of such spaces (which have become increasingly important in modern manufacturing and assembly operations) where dustfree air and controlled atmospheres are required.

When I asked Dean Myron Tribus for news of his own summer activities, which I knew to have been numerous, he said the most exciting news had been the many enthusiastic responses to the article "The Trouble with Engineering — An Interview with Myron Tribus" published in the March issue of "International Science and Technology." The editors have reported to him that the article has brought them more reader responses than any article they have ever printed. Many direct responses have been received at Thayer School too, and Myron has been asked a number of times to speak on Dartmouth's engineering program which, of course, was the subject of the article. If you are interested in reading this lively and informative article, well be glad to send you a reprint. On the side, he has presented lectures at Penn State and in General Electric's "modern engineering" program and was the commencement speaker when the company's first class in "creative engineering" was graduated.

A "Gordon-type" conference on urban transportation research, sponsored by the Engineering Foundation at Proctor Academy in August, which I was privileged to attend, featured three Dartmouth alumni: Dr.J. Douglas Carroll Jr. '38, deputy director of the Tri-State Transportation Committee in New York City; Robert S. Foote '48, supervisor of tunnels and bridges research for the Port of New York Authority; and Walter S. Douglas '34, partner in the New York consulting engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas. The September 1963 issue of "Civil Engineering," by the way, carried a picture of Walter as a member of a seminar panel held last spring at the United Engineering Center in New York on the subject "Who Pays for the Unexpected in Construction?"

We record with deepest regret the deaths during the summer of Thayer School alumni Harold Campbell '12, Harold Pease '12,Samuel Bartlett '08, and David Burton '60.

Long-distance travelers from Thayer School during September were Executive Officer Des Canavan and Prof. Millett Morgan. Des and Mrs. Canavan took a wellearned vacation trip to Europe where they toured in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. Millett, accompanied by wife Eleanor and their three daughters, traveled to Tokyo to attend the triennial General World Assembly of the International Union of Radio Scientists (URSI). Millett is secretary of the United States National Committee of URSI. The Morgan party traveled by Saab (adv.) to California and back, by plane over the water with a stopover of a few short days in Hawaii.

Alumni visitors at Thayer School during the summer included Walter Taylor '20, of Rochester, N. Y., Mike Kistler '60, and Gerry Caplan and John Scully, both '58

Mike has just completed his three years with the Navy and was on his way to Seattle where he will attend the University of Washington as a special student taking prerequisite courses for admission to medical school.

The Caplans and two sons, ages six and eight, live in Natick, Mass. Gerry describes his work as promoting and trouble-shooting for the Zonalite Division of W. R. Grace where he deals with special building materials, such as fireproofing and acoustics.

John Scully is a graduate student and parttime instructor in the civil engineering department at Purdue. He is both studying and teaching courses in soil mechanics and is well on his way to his doctor's degree.

The Thayer School and Dartmouth's Engineering Science program were well represented at a two-week student-faculty conference on engineering education held at Gould Academy in Bethel, Me., in June. Assistant Prof. Carl Long and Prof. Al Wood were accompanied by engineering science majors Robert Prescott '64 and Mark Tuttle '65. The purpose of the conference, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation, was to explore student-faculty working relationships and to develop new practices aimed at the fullest possible realization of the learning potential.