Thayer School
Early in May the faculty and students gathered in front of Thayer School for the annual class picture. This event, which warns of the fast approach of the end of the college year and the due date of project reports, is well remembered by many of us. The famous, or infamous, comprehensive exam for Engineering Science majors was also held that same week. However, the form of the exam was a departure from previous years in that the Graduate Record Exam was used.
Tony Ibarra '53 was on hand at the picture-taking and introduced his pretty wife to members of the faculty. Tony is located in Mexico City, busily engaged as Manager of Industrial Relations for Ford-Mexico. Professor Ed Sherrard reports a recent visit by John Sirois '53 who is representing the Worthington Corp. in New England. John lives in Scituate, Mass., and works out of Boston.
Visiting Associate Professor of Engineering Mohamed I. Dessouky left Thayer School and Hanover in mid-April to return to Cairo, Egypt. He will be at the National Institute of Management Development, P.O.B. 136, Cairo, U.A.R., and extends a cordial invitation to Thayer alumni who are in that country to visit him. We all regret Mohamed's departure, but recognize the higher priority of the national needs of the U.A.R. His instruction and discussions in the field of operations research were most stimulating to students and faculty.
George Leyser '27 has written to Professor Bill Kimball '29 that the Leysers had a fine visit with Adele and Al Richmond '15 in Darien, Conn., in February. He reports that the Richmonds are hale and hearty. Al was in Hanover last June for his 50th Dartmouth Reunion. The Richmonds and Leysers bumped into Walfred (Shorty)Bengtson '27 on the way out of the restaurant. Shorty is described as feeling "as tall as ever, and much more solid."
John Fondahl '48 has changed houses and is now in a larger one in Los Altos, Calif., overlooking a walnut-covered hillside with Sari Francisco Bay just beyond. In addition to his busy teaching and research schedule at Stanford, and extensive traveling and lectures, John has completed his latest book in the field of construction planning and schedule control under a Navy research contract. John reports that Doris and the four children have been equally busy.
A picture in The Raymond Record, March 1965, shows Jim Lightner '48 speaking at a gala dinner in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Jim is a General Superintendent for Raymond International in Puerto Rico. Steve Olko '47 has sent us an announcement of a meeting of the New York City Post, Society of American Military Engineers, at which Walter S. Douglas '34 was the guest speaker. The resume in the program adds to the brief mention in this column last month that Walter has been a partner of Parsons, Brinkerhoff, Quade and Douglas since 1952. He is in charge of the development of the San Francisco Bay Area Transit System, and recently directed studies of regional transportation needs in Southern New Jersey, Baltimore, and the Puget Sound Area in Washington.
On the weekend of April 30 the Thayer School was visited by the six participants in the "Design Education Workshop for Engineering Teachers" for an intensive, three-day, pre-workshop conference. These men will be the instructors, along with the Thayer faculty, in the Summer, ES 21, sophomore course, Introduction to Engineering, which is the laboratory experience for the workshop. They are: Professor D. W. Bradbury, Mechanical Engineering, Clemson Univ.; Asst. Professor W. S. Chalk, Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Washington; Asst. Professor M. M. Lih, Chemical Engineering, Catholic University; Professor T. W. Price, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State Univ.; Instructor F. G. Sheppard, Civil Engineering, Duke University; Professor and Dept. Head W. Shewan, Electrical Engineering, Valparaiso University.
The faculty and staff take this opportunity to wish you all a most pleasant summer.
