Thayer School
The fall foliage around Hanover this year has been the best in years. Perhaps the excellent supply of rain this summer and fall, plus the cool weather, supported the brilliance we now have. While driving to the N. H. Section Meeting of the ASCE in Concord with three students, Carl StormerM.E.'66, Usamah Abdus-Samad M.E.'67, and Karl Andrews D'66, I was asked why the leaves turn red, gold and yellow. Since I do not have the answer, perhaps one of our readers will supply this information. Incidentally, the M.E. noted above signifies Master of Engineering, and the two men are presently candidates. Karl is a B.E. candidate.
The October alumni notes briefly reported the September Bearings Conference at Thayer School. The objective of this Conference was to focus attention on important advances in both theory and practice relating to precision and anti-friction bearings. The Conference also provided a forum for communicating these advances to research groups, users, and manufacturers. Some eighteen leaders in this field in the United States gave papers and led discussions.
Bill Kimball '29, after spending the first two weeks of September getting settled in New York and in his new job at ASCE headquarters, spent a week fishing in the Connecticut Lakes region of northern New Hampshire with Margaret. It is reported by mutual friends who were with them that they caught a lot of good fish. Bill returned to Iran in late October to organize and chair a conference on the advancement of engineering education in the CENTO countries of Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan for the Agency for International Development. This is the follow-up to Bill's inspection trip to those countries last spring.
In August Bill was the organizer and chairman of a very successful conference sponsored at Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H., by the Engineering Foundation. The theme was interdisciplinary approach to complex problem solving. Jack Hanley '48,Dana Low '55, and Russ Stearns '38 attended this conference. Professor of Engineering Robert Dean gave a lecture on the subject of innovation and creativity in which he stimulated thought on how best to break free from convention and overcome the constraint of the usual.
Jack Hanley is introducing some of the aspects of the more broadly based curricula at the University of Minnesota where he is Associate Head of Civil Engineering. Jack's son John and daughter Joan were with him in New Hampshire. Unfortunately Mary and the rest of the family were unable to be here.
Dana Low, the manager of the Wheeling, W. Va. office of Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, has contributed a paper, "Air Rights and Urban Expressways" to the October issue of the Traffic Quarterly. He also presented a paper on "Cost Saving Techniques, Collection and Analysis of Origin-Destination Survey Data" at the Fifth International Road Federation Meeting in London, September 19. While in Great Britain, Dana spent two weeks in each of the TAMS offices in Ireland and Scotland.
Old news which still remains in the file includes a luncheon at reunion for Thayer alumni. Dean Tribus gave a report on recent events and plans at Thayer School. Professor Emeritus Eddie Sherrard and your reporter joined the following alumni: ArtBeatty '62, Art Givens '61, John Webb '57,Frank Killilea '63, Tim Hankins '63, EdAbt '57, Ted Johansen '60, Court Young'42, William Hahn '41, George Herman '41,Roy Gotshall '41. We plan to make this reunion luncheon an annual affair so please plan to come when you are here. Also seen at reunions were Tom Brock '61, AI Doolittle '37, Dan Drury '38, Herb Darling '27, and Peter Crumbine '61. Peter was leaving with his wife for two years in Italy for Mobil Oil. Dennis Crumbine '63 also went to Europe to represent Lever Bros. He is in production control.
Prof. George Taylor has been in touch with Lefty Leavens '54, who is with the Diamond Fruit Growers Association in Oregon. Lefty is one of three top-management operating executives with responsibility for developing methods engineering and for economic evaluation of proposed facilities. Bill Bonneville '55 was appointed an officer of the Nashua Corporation some time ago. As comptroller he is in charge of economic evaluation of proposed equipment, and also the chief industrial engineer reports to Bill. Professor Taylor has delivered papers at several society meetings including ASTME and ASQC. He is president of the Tri-State chapter of the AIIE.
Gary Crellin '64 is studying for his doctor's degree with Dr. R. S. Silver at HeriotWatt College, Edinburgh, and may have almost completed it by now. Dean Tribus took a picture of Gary tending bar in a small village on the Isle of Mull where Gary was relaxing for the summer. Phil Jackson '44 is again working in Hanover. His company has the contract for the demolition and reconstruction of that portion of the Hanover Inn on the corner. The dining room portion will be retained. Come visit us and stop to look at the hole where the Inn lobby used to be. John Minnich '29 is again representing the College for this construction.
Make your plans now to come to the Washington, D. C., Thayer Alumni Dinner in January at the time of the Highway Research Board meetings, January 16-19.
