Thayer School

A transatlantic conversation between Dean Tribus and Dartmouth's G.E. 235 computer received top press coverage in Great Britain and the United States in September. Myron, while visiting "lecturer at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh, Scotland, presented a demonstration of computer timesharing t o industrialists and educators from all over Britain. Using the Transatlantic Telex cable for his 3400-mile communication link to the GE 235 computer in College Hall at Hanover, Dean Tribus asked for, and received within seconds, the answers to mathematical problems, historical information and statistics. The demonstration served to show how multiple, dispersed users can be linked independently to a single computer, on an automatic, time-sharing basis, to obtain stored information and solutions to mathematical problems, simultaneously.

Bill Kimball '29 attended the fall meeting of the Accreditation Committee, Engineers Council for Professional Development, in Clearwater, Fla., the first week of October. Bill has been a hard-working member of this important national committee for a number of years and is presently the Junior Past Chairman.

Professor Millett Morgan, Director of the Radiophysics Laboratory at the Thayer School, is Chairman of the U.S. National Committee for U.R.S.I., the International Scientific Radio Union (U.R.S.I. is for the acronym formed from the French translation of the full name). In this capacity he served as chairman and organizer of a three-day technical meeting held in Hopkins Center at Dartmouth early in October. It was attended by some 400 leading radio scientists from the United States and Canada who presented and discussed their present work. The underlying purpose of these national meetings, held twice a year in the U.S., is to present current scientific progress without the usual publication delay. Approximately 100 technical papers were presented including two based on Mariner IV observations of the Martian atmosphere.

Professor of Engineering Leif Owren, who concurrently is Professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth, presented a paper to the meeting titled, "V.L.F. Observations at the Geomagnetic Poles." John D. Jacobs, graduate student at the Radiophysics Laboratory, Thayer School, was co-author of this paper. Huntington Curtis, previously Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Thayer School, and presently Director of Government Technical Liaison, I.B.M., attended the meeting. Hunt is now located with I.B.M. in Armonk, N. Y., and lives in Chappaqua.

Dana Low '55 visited Thayer School on October 8 to present a seminar lecture on "The Why and How of Comprehensive Urban Transportation Studies." Dana is now an Associate of Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy & Stratton, New York, and is busily engaged in urban transportation studies and planning. He is Manager of the firm's Wheeling, W. Va., office, but spent time in several other locations during the past summer. Duncan Hughes '65 worked for TAMS this past summer on transportation studies prior to entering Harvard University in September to study City Planning.

Larry Schwartz '59 was seen from a distance in Hanover in September while attending the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club Officers' Association. Larry was elected to its executive committee. He is president of the Dartmouth Club of Long Island which, I seem to recall, Mike Pender'50 recently served as president. Mike has by now completed his work for the New York World's Fair, with which he was associated almost from conception.

An article in the July 1965 issue of the Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers cites Hardy Ferguson '91, who as a young engineer of exceptional skill and judgment was responsible for the success of the initial development of the Great Northern Paper Company. Jon Kropper '56 writes that he is still working for Polaroid and will live outside of Glasgow, Scotland for the next few years. Jon is now Manager of Engineering, Manufacturing Division, Polaroid (U.K.) Limited in Vale of Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland.

Jim Allison '63 reported in May from Hughes Aircraft that all was well in Santa Monica, Calif., but recent rumors indicate that he has moved to a new location. A verification would be welcome. David N. LillyD'39, president of the Toro Manufacturing Corporation, has arranged for the support of Mike Billone '66, for his project, the design of a starting system for a two-cycle engine. Professor of Engineering AI Converse will supervise the project, which is an example of the fifth-year Bachelor of Engineering projects underway.