Thayer School
Professor of Civil Engineering Ed Brown '35 was elected in March to the position of Selectman for the Town of Hanover. This is another in a long line of important contributions Ed has made to the community. In fact, at the same town meeting at which Ed was elected Selectman a resolution was passed commending him for his generous service as Hanover's Public Health Officer and as a long-time member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Ed has just retired from these two positions. At this same meeting a resolution was read and adopted extending the thanks of the Town of Hanover to Ken LeClair for his years of devoted service as Selectman. Some alumni will remember Ken as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering during the 1950'5.
Art Beatty '62 returned to Hanover last fall to enroll in the Tuck School as a first year student, and now reports that he has made the transition from industry successfully. Art was a design and development engineer for Chrysler in the Detroit Defense Engineering Group when he decided to extend his education into business administration.
Major Foster Blough transferred from the Thayer School administrative staff to become Assistant Comptroller at Dartmouth College on April 1, 1966. Foster, who joined us in 196.3 upon retirement from the Marine Corps, has served Thayer School well beyond the call of duty as Administrative Assistant. Although we will miss him, we are pleased to see his talents put to work for the benefit of all of Dartmouth.
Professor of Civil Engineering Bill Kimball '29 visited the University of Alaska during the latter part of March. Bill is a member of a panel of consultants appointed to evaluate and assist in planning the program of the Arctic Environmental Engineering Laboratory at College, Alaska. He visited Nome and Kotzebue in addition to Fairbanks. On April 3 Bill left Hanover en route to Ankara, Turkey for a six-week study of engineering education in Turkey, Iran, and East and West Pakistan. He is under contract to the AID Office serving CENTO to determine the needs and capabilities in engineering education there. He will organize and chair a conference to be held in Ankara in the fall to chart the future course of engineering education in those countries. Margaret plans to meet Bill in Turkey in May to travel back through Europe, visiting Mary in Switzerland on the way.
A card has been received from Bob Barr'42 who was visiting Moscow on his way to Armenia, a trip reported in these notes in February. John Scoville '55 has been elected chairman of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division of the Illinois Section, ASCE. John is with Harza Engineering Company in Chicago and, when last reported, was Assistant to the Middle East Manager. Art Pritchard '61 is now with the A. D. Little Company in Boston as a Research Project Leader. The student work that Neil Drobny '64 did at Thayer School, on paddle characteristics and their effect on mixing and flocculation, is reported in the new text, Water Supply and Pollution Control by Clark and Viessman (International, 1965). The original publication of Neil's paper was in the Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Div., ASCE, 1963.
Professor of Engineering and Management George Taylor has recently seen BillWoodson '57 and reports he is going up the ladder with Charles Pfizer Company in New York City where he has been given responsibility for designing improved systems in production, distribution, and management information flow. Gordon Lane '33 recently visited Thayer School to assist with a student project in transportation. He mentioned that he also attended the recent hearing on the Norwich Interchange on 1.91 as a representative of the Vermont Highway Department. Rick VanMell '64 has received the M.S. degree from Northwestern University in transportation and has accepted a position with the General American Transportation Corporation in Chicago. From the company brochure Rick left when he visited Thayer School in February, one would expect to find him travelling all over the world shortly.
Willy Pacheco '63 has written to Dean Myron Tribus from La Paz, Bolivia, where he is working for a Canadian Electric Power Company known as the Bolivian Power Company, Ltd. I guess this is an example of Go north, young man, to go south. Willy's background in communications has enabled him to take charge of the installation of a mobile radio-communication network for the company in La Paz. He expects to be in Bolivia for three years.
