Thayer School

October 1964 will be remembered not only for its beautiful weather, foliage, fraternity rushing, bonfires, and the high-speed start of classes, but also for the first visit ever of a Princeton football team to Hanover. By the time these notes are read, this game, and several more, will be past history, but at this moment the Dartmouth- Princeton football game is foremost in nearly everyone's mind here. I hope that many of the Thayer alumni in the sell-out crowd will visit the Thayer School at this or a later time to see the extensive remodeling of offices and labs. Of special interest is the satellite station for input to the GE 235 digital computer now in full operation on the campus. In the third floor Computation Center, Thayer School has four teletype machines linked to the computer for use by students and staff, making this the largest satellite station on the campus.

The 1964-1965 Catalog of the Thayer School lists four new faculty members to bring the total to 32. Leif Owren is both Professor of Engineering and Professor of Astronomy in the Dartmouth College Department of Physics and Astronomy. A native of Norway, he comes to Thayer from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska. He earned his B.S. at the University of Oslo, and his Ph.D. at Cornell.

Dr. Mohammed I. Dessouky, Visiting Associate Professor of Engineering, is a native of Egypt and holds degrees from the University of Cairo, Ohio State University, and Purdue University. He is on leave from the National Institute of Management Development in Cairo where he is an Associate Professor.

Bengt U. O. Sonnerup, a native of Sweden, is Associate Professor of Engineering. A graduate of Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden, he earned his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1961. Bengt comes to the Thayer School from the Institute for Plasma-physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Peter W. Runstadler will join the Thayer School faculty at the start of the winter term as Assistant Professor of Engineering. He has taught at Harvard since earning his Ph.D. at Stanford.

Dean Myron Tribus has "signed on" as a consultant to the Federal Office of Saline Water, Department of the Interior. He will direct his attention to the economic and thermo-dynamic problems of making fresh water from the sea. Myron is at this moment on a speaking trip to Oregon. His travels in November will take him to the New England ASTM Meeting at the A. D. Little Co., in Cambridge, Mass. on November 5, and to the annual meeting of ASTM in New York on November 30.

Professor Sidney Lees took an extended camping trip around the country last summer. He visited many schools, and reports that the Dartmouth system is getting a good press and is well received in many places. He saw Jim Allison '63, at Hughes Aircraft, Culver City, Calif. Sid has received a long letter from Ray Daugherty '64, who is at the Goethe Institute in a small town near Kassel, Germany. Ray is taking a highly concentrated course in German with nationals of many countries. He finds the course demanding and his fellow students most interesting.

John Willis '62, is now employed by Camp, Dresser, and McKee in Boston. His home address is 49 Summit St., Newton, Mass.

I report with regret the death of FredericW. Welch '08, on July 3, 1964. Professor Welch was a long-time member of the faculty at Washington State University in Pullman, and was City Engineer there from 1930-1936.