Thayer School

While Professors George Taylor, BobDean and Russ Stearns continue on leave through the spring term, Adjunct Professor Jim Browning, who has been on inactive status for some time, has returned to active duty for the term and finds himself with an overflow enrollment of 36 students in his Engineering Economy course. Exercising the newly available option of trading off a school-year term for the summer term, Professor Miles Hayes is absent this term and will return to teach the "computer" course during the summer.

My candidate for most prolific alumni author is Sam Florman '46 whose most recent article, "Can Modern Concepts Be Reconciled?" appeared in the December issue of Consulting Engineer. Refraining from answering his own question, Sam writes, "So the engineer's dilemma remains unresolved. If he is to maintain faith in the values of his profession, and at the same time reconcile himself to the truths of science, it will have to be in a way not yet fully explored or clearly defined." That his article was found provocative by his fellow engineers was shown by the fact that the February "Readers' Comments" section was devoted exclusively to reactions to his thesislt is highly recommended reading. In addition to being a philosopher, author and friendly critic, Sam is Vice President of the Kreisler-Borg Construction Company.

The paper which I presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in New Orleans last fall was published in the March issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology under the title of "Engineering Education and Accreditation." A limited supply of reprints is available and can be obtained by writing to the author (adv.). Also, the editors of International Science and Technology magazine found a publishable quote in my February paper to the New York ASCE Section and inserted it in the "Men With Ideas" column of their April issue.

Ed Wirth '63 has written Professor Taylor that his first term at Northwestern Business School was a busy one what with getting married, remodeling the apartment, and study which he finds challenging and rewarding. He notes that a third of the business school students are engineering graduates. His address is 2640 North Springfield, Chicago 47.

The skiing season has brought glimpses on more than one weekend of Pris and FredHart '60 who happily find the trek between Kensington, Conn., and the Dartmouth Ski-way not too formidable.

Les Tenn-Lyn '59 has been a very busy man back in his Jamaica homeland and only rather recently found time to report that he was engineer for his company on the construction of the Sheraton-Kingston Hotel completed in ten months "in time for our independence 6 August 1962"; that "on 9 December 1962 I lost my independence: I got married"; and that he was currently engaged in constructing a concrete wharf for Esso in Kingston.

Tom White '30 is engineer in charge of all maintenance for the New Hampshire Department of Public Works and Highways. He makes his home in Plymouth and his business headquarters in the new State Office Building outside Concord. I enjoyed a visit also during the winter with Fred Auer '28, Chief of the Planning and Economics Division of the Department, in his office at the same location.

"Our BOAC Comet lifted off the field at Entebbe, Uganda, at midnight December 21, 1963, thus ending our career of teaching in East Africa." If space permitted, I would like nothing better than to share with you all three pages of Dick Lemke's '61 recent letter to Professor Joe Ermenc. As a reporter, however, I can only relate that he and wife Martha Gaile then spent two months traveling through Europe, returned to visit Martha's parents in North Carolina and by now will have settled in Berkeley where they will both enroll in the University of California, he in electrical engineering, she in political science.

A letter from Jim Allison '63 informs us that he, wife Joyce, and daughter Julia live at 1530-D Harvard Street, Santa Monica, Calif. Jim is taking a training program with Hughes Aircraft Company in preparation for a position as project engineer which will involve him in both technical and administrative work. On the side, he is enrolled in a review course for the state engineer-in-training examination after which he plans to take the Graduate Record Exam and enroll in night school courses in electrical engineering.