Thayer School

Whether it seems possible to me or not, the fact remains that the due date for the June issue of this column heralds the end of another academic year. Resisting the urge to try to recapitulate the year or to philosophize on various personal and institutional aspects of it, I will dispose herewith of the heterogeneity which has accumulated in the 1963-64 stockpile of "Alumni News."

Ed Bergethon '48, having returned himself and family to the East a couple of years ago after a sojourn in Disneyland, has recently been named Sales Manager-Instrument, Airframe and Air Accessory Applications for the Fafnir Bearing Company, New Britain, Conn. Ed, wife Peggy Garran Bergethon, and their three daughters live in nearby Simsbury.

Jim Dunn '35, who is Vice Director General of Costruzione Metalliche Finsider and makes his home at Via Carlo Tenca 7, Milan, represented Dartmouth at the Centennial Celebration of the Milan Politecnico in early April. Of the many colleges and universities represented, only Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT and Cal Tech were from this country. Jim wrote, of this experience, "I think you will be interested to know that the Italians were very kind and appreciative in their remarks to me because I first read the greetings in English and then translated it and gave them my own personal greetings in Italian." Jim further reports that he gets along comfortably in both the Italian and French languages and has professional contacts with many of the European engineering people.

Thorndike Saville '15 continues to reap the honors of a distinguished, and also continuing, engineering career long after his formal "retirement" as Dean of Engineering at New York University. He has now been awarded the U.S. Army's highest civilian award for "distinguished service as a member of the Beach Erosion Board from September 1930 to November 1963." He has also been appointed to a six-year term as one of three civilian members of the newly established Coastal Engineering Research Board.

Ed Byrkit '47 has recently been appointed Chief Design Engineer and transferred to the central office of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission in Madison. His previous assignments have been as District Design Engineer in the Waukesha district office for six years and as District Engineer in the Eau Claire office for one year.

Alan Jackson '53 is another friend who has made his home and established his business on the continent. He incorporated his company, International Research Consultants, Inc., in 1960 and now has fulltime corporate offices in Geneva, Milan, Detroit, and Princeton with prospects of opening offices also in Frankfurt and San Francisco. He has established a loan or scholarship fund for foreign citizens admitted to Tuck or Tuck-Thayer.

Gleaned from the Crouse Crow, First Edition, February 1964, Frank Crouse '63, Lt. (jg) CEC, USN, is stationed at the U. S. Navy Public Works Center, Subic, P. I. He says, "Our business is service to the fleet. With a work crew of about 5,000 Filipinos, we build new facilities, maintain old ones, provide utilities and transportation, maintain the grounds, etc. All you Dartmouth graduates know the type. I'm the friendly B&G man." He and wife Laraine lived in an off-base Nipa-type hut in Olongopo with the chickens, pigs, geckos, lizards and wild dogs for awhile but have since moved into the base. They were planning a spring leave trip to Bangkok, Thailand and India and if they got back they should publish the Second Edition of Crouse Crow.

Terry Newcomb '62 and Frank Killilea '63 are Thayer School's most recent contributions to the consulting engineering firm of Metcalf and Eddy in Boston.

Don Baker '62 has been discharging his military obligation in the Public Health Service in and around Philadelphia. His chief responsibility has been a report on a proposed water supply and low flow augmentation dam in the Lehigh River Basin. He says PHS refers to it as "Storage to permit flow regulation for water quality control." Everyone is busy building new vocabularies to go with the new ways of doing old jobs these days!

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 very challenging and rewarding. He notes that a third of the business school students are engineering graduates. His address: 2640 North Springfield, Chicago 47.

So long 'til October. Come and see us this summer at Thayer School if your vacation brings you this way - and how could it not?

Aerial view of Dartmouth's Biomedical Center and Hitchcock Hospital (right).