Thayer School
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ed Sherrard, has been appointed Professor Emeritus following twenty years of devoted service to students and faculty at Thayer School and Dartmouth College. Ed retired at the end of the winter term, January 1966, and he and Betty were honored by his colleagues at a dinner at Hopkins Center. He will be missed very much by us all, though I hasten to add he is planning a house in Norwich and will not be far away. Presently Ed and Betty are in Italy for a well-deserved vacation.
You have all now received the brochure describing the Thayer School short summer course on the use of Dartmouth's timesharing program and the GE-235 computer. This five-day course, June 27 through July 1, will introduce the Dartmouth computer language, BASIC, and will emphasize short problems of interest to practicing engineers. Professor Bill Kimball '29, Professor Carl Long, and your reporter as director of the course are looking forward to having you with us the end of June. This course is certainly not restricted to Thayer School alumni, so invite your associates to join you.
Professor of Engineering, Graham Wallis, has announced the offering of his course, Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer, to be held July 10-22, 1966. Shortly you will receive a brochure describing this two-week intensive summer course which was enthusiastically received in the summer of 1965 when given for the first time.
Bill Pierce '56 has moved over to Technical Operations Company in Arlington, Va., from Research Analysis Corporation. Bill is located at Tech Ops' Washington Research Center on Fort Myer Drive. Paul Breck '43 reports that he is still at the same place: Cleverden, Varney and Pike in Boston. He is doing structural work including research on new problems in the field of structural weld ing. Paul is presently involved with the new Massachusetts General Hospital, which has presented several unique problems.
Some time back Bill Batt '61 visited Thayer School and discussed with us the introduction of industrial engineering in the pharmaceutical industry. Bill, who is with Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis very enthusiastic about his work and speak highly of the opportunities and challenges found in this relatively new area of en gineering. Carl Struever '50 is with Kodak in the Apparatus and Optical Division. Ton,Nelson '50 is reported to be a real estate broker and owner-operator of a girls camp in West Pawlet, Vt. Stergios Spanos '50 is an Associate Civil Engineer in Los Angeles County, Calif., a long way from his home town of Manchester, N. H. John Martin'51 is a Project Engineer in Oakland, Calif with Kaiser International. Lee Fancher '50 is the Chief Engineer of Red Devil Took in Union, N. J., and Paul Barnico '51 is still at last report, with General Electric in Lynn' Mass.
George Breed '62 obtained the M.B.A. degree in the summer of 1965 at the Wharton Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania. His thesis was "Sale of Automatic Process Control Equipment to the West German Steel Industry by American Producers." George has now joined Bill Davidow '58 at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto Calif., where he will be on the international' marketing staff. Harris McKee '64 and Mary live nearby. I believe Harris is a graduate student at Stanford working for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Bob Monahan'60 was seen in Hanover recently visiting his parents with his family which now includes two children. Bob has moved from Dixfield, Maine to New Jersey where he is continuing his professional activities in the paper industry.
Jim Allison '63 has also changed positions and location. He and Joyce have moved back home to Oregon where Jim is a Senior Staff Engineer and Assistant to the Production Manager at Precision Cast Parts in Milwaukie, Oregon. This fast growing company makes high quality, high alloy steel castings by a ceramic-shell investment casting process. Tim Riffle '59 visited Thayer School last month to talk to graduates about the opportunities at Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana. Jim, as Manager of Product Performance, is in charge of a department of about 100 men. He is enthusiastic about the opportunities at Cummins for graduating engineers, especially for Thayer School graduates.
