Thayer School

The due-date for notes for the June issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE startles your reporter each year with the realization that another academic year is finished. It is actually the first week of May as these are written, but Green Key is here, comprehensives are just ahead, and this column will be read at commencement time. Younger alumni will be interested to learn that this year the famous Tuck bicycle races at Green Key were replaced by chariot races on the campus, a unique and hilarious activity. The following morning, May 8, the dates were greeted with three inches of snow.

This is the last chance to call to your attention the one week computer course to be held at the Thayer School, June 27-July 1. Although the initial mailing was to alumni only, the course is open to all those interested. So, if you are unable to get back to Hanover yourself, bring the course to the attention of your colleagues and friends. The intention is to provide an opportunity for individuals to follow their own interests and pace, since one of the great advantages of the Dartmouth time-sharing program is the access each person has to the computer.

The cover story of Assembly, the United States Military Academy alumni magazine, for the Winter 1966, dealt with General Sylvanus Thayer, Great American Educator, who was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans on October 25, 1965. In describing General Thayer as a "Man of Destiny" mention was made of his concept of engineering education, embodied in the founding of the Thayer School, as well as his better-known contribution to the West Point educational principles which still stand.

Professor of Civil Engineering Bill Kimball '29 has reported in from Ankara, Teheran, and Karachi on his inspection tour for AID to evaluate engineering education in the CENTO countries of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. It is now with regret, but also with pride, that I must announce that Bill will join the headquarters staff of the ASCE in September as the new Assistant Secretary-Education. ASCE, in creating this new position, and in picking the best man in the country for it, is taking a large step forward to meet its obligations and responsibilities in career guidance and in engineering education for undergraduates, graduate students, and practicing engineers. In addition to conceiving and coordinating Society activities in academic and continuing education, Bill will facilitate communication with educators at the administrative level, and consult on Civil Engineering curricula, course content, and new programs. Thayer School does have the pleasure of retaining him as an Adjunct Professor for guidance and periodic lectures. We all congratulate Bill on a well-deserved honor, and extend to him our best wishes. Perhaps, as a bonus, the alumni will see quite a bit of Bill in his new job.

Mr. Fred Faber visited Thayer School recently with his son, Fred, a Dartmouth freshman who has expressed an interest in engineering. Mr. Faber is a partner of VicMacomber '52 in the Harrisburg, Pa., firm of Macomber and Faber. Vic has a high school senior who has expressed an interest in Dartmouth. Jack Hanley '48 is the author of the paper "Interaction Between Sand and Cylindrical Shells Under Static and Dynamic Loading," published in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Soil-Structure Interaction, University of Arizona, Office of Civil Defense, September 1964. I had the pleasure of visiting Mary and Jack in March when Jack invited me to give a seminar talk to the civil engineering students at the University of Minnesota where Jack is Assistant Head of the C.E. Department.

Roy Stifler '47 has formed his own firm, Stiller Foundation Company, Canton, Mass., specializing in piling, underpinning, and special foundation projects. Roy reports sufficient business to keep him running, but he still finds time for special projects of his own. Mike Pender '50 has moved from New York World's Fair to Hempstead where he is the Town Public Works Commissioner. Mike will be faced immediately with the basic spadework of organizing a new, 1600 member Department of Public Works, in which professionalization of all Hempstead's services will be carried out to the maximum. Incidentally, Hempstead is the largest township in the U. S. - population over 825,000.

Fred Hart '60 was recently on leave from the Connecticut Light and Power Company to attend a 15-week product service course given by General Electric in Phoenix, Arizona. He represented the Connecticut Valley Electric Exchange group which has chased a G.E. process-control computer to update their economic dispatch facilities Fred will set up the maintenance procedure and schedules for the GE/PAC system. Pris and the kids made the trip also. John Wal. kup '63 is hard at work at Stanford on a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He passed the qualifying exams in January and anticipates two more years of work on his dissertation and as Research Assistant in the Applied Electronic Labs. John married Patricia Ann Hagbom last June in Palo Alto. Johhas seen Steve Lasch '63 also at Stanford working on his Ph.D. Coleman Colla '56 has written a most interesting and infonnative letter about his part in the development of IBM's time-shared, remote computing system and language, QUIKTRAN. After three years with Hughes Aircraft Company, Coleman joined IBM in Los Angeles. He has been concentrating primarily upon timeshared computer service to private consulting engineering and architectural firms with emphasis on structural and Civil Engineering problems.

Our best wishes to all of you for a fine summer. Plan to make Thayer School a stop during your travels.