Thayer Installed in Hall of Fame

SYLVANUS THAYER, 1807, took his place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans at New York University on May 15. A bronze bust was unveiled at the ceremony by Dean Myron Tribus (left) of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and Dr. Gordon O. Thayer (right), headmaster of Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass., and a collateral descendant of the school's founder.

General Thayer's bust will be installed later in the open-air colonnade of the shrine for the nation's great men and women. The Greco-Roman colonnade, a semi-circular granite corridor, winds across the high ground of the campus overlooking the junction of the Hudson and Harlem rivers and the New Jersey Palisades.

The bust of Thayer will be the 89th to be placed in the colonnade, although the membership now stands at 93. Those elected along with Thayer last year were social worker Jane Addams, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and inventor Orville Wright. Wilbur Wright was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1955, and the Wright brothers are to be installed together.

The bust of Thayer was executed by sculptor Joseph Kiselewski of New York, who was selected by a Hall of Fame art committee for the assigment. The first imprint of the Thayer Medal, also created by Mr. Kiselewski and struck for the May 15 ceremony, was presented to General Eisenhower, who was represented at the ceremony by General Omar N. Bradley. The medal, one of a series honoring members of the Hall of Fame, is being issued in both silver and bronze, and depicts Thayer as an instructor in mathematics.