Thayer School
Watching the bonfire before the Holy Cross game, we remembered that senior Gordie Rule, an Engineering Science major, is the key defensive back on the Dartmouth football team. He is following in the footsteps of a number of engineering students who starred in football in recent years. The bonfire was particularly significant to the students in ES-21, Introduction to Engineering. for the class project this fall is Fire Protection and Control. The 68 students, in eight companies, will attempt to develop new and better fire detection or suppression devices for residential areas. The faculty, each of whom advises a student company, are Professors Ed Brown '35, Carl Long, Peter Runstadler, John Strohbehn, Graham Wallis, and visiting professors Jim Christensen, John Tryon, and Charles Wakstein. Russ Stearns '38 is course director for this fall.
Two new professors have joined the Thayer School faculty. Assistant Professor Thomas Piatkowski came here from the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1963. His major field of interest is Computer Science. Associate Professor Robert Wolfson was a Staff Scientist at the P. R. Mallory Laboratory for Physical Science. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1965, and his major field of interest is metallurgy.
Don Muzyka, Ph.D. '67 has joined the Carpenter Steel Company in its Materials Research Laboratory. John Moxon, D' 29, President of Carpenter Steel, has announced the appointment of Dean Tribus as a member of the Board of Directors.
Dean Tribus has served since January 1967 on the Electric Powered Vehicle Panel of the Civilian Technical Advisory Board in the Department of Commerce. The panel was appointed to recommend the role of the federal government in the development of electric powered vehicles as a possible answer to the air pollution problem. Hundreds of individual engineers, scientists and businessmen and dozens of organizations have participated. Dean Tribus was chairman of the subpanel on energy storage and conversion systems. Fred Hooven, Adjunct Professor of Engineering, also served as a consultant.
In another direction, Dean Tribus has continued to exhort engineering educators to new efforts. He has served as adviser to the Commission on Engineering Education in its development of the high school project "The Man-Made World," designed to introduce engineering to high school students. As a consultant in engineering education he has visited the University of Alabama, Swarthmore, and UCLA as an adviser in their educational programs.
Jim Skinner '43 visited Thayer School during his 25th Reunion and expressed interest in the many changes. Jim is President of Skinner and Cook, Inc., in New Jersey. Bob Tracy '49, who runs his own construction company in Buffalo, N. Y., also paid us a visit in June to report that he was building the new computer facility for Graphic Controls in Buffalo. This computation center will house the GE235 computer system, including the software, sold to them by Dartmouth College this past summer. As a result, Graphic Controls will have one of the most modern time-shared systems in the country to offer to their clients.
Professor George Taylor presented a lecture at the University of Massachusetts to the Institute on Effective Teaching sponsored by the New England Section, ASEE. The theme of the conference was Measurement of Teaching, and Professor Taylor's subject was: "The Relation of Creativity and the Objectives of Engineering Education."
We were very pleased to hear recently from John Brewster CE '14, who is retired and living in Dallas, Pa. He attended the 55th Reunion of the Dartmouth Class of 1912 in June, and reports to us about the occasion. "We were so busy, that we did not have a chance to visit the new Thayer School. We all had the old degrees of B.S. and C.E., those of us who were in the old Thayer School of Bobby Fletcher. There were 18 of us who went to Thayer School. Eight are gone, and all ten of us remaining were at the 55th Reunion a college record I think, and a tribute to Bobby Fletcher and his staff." Those present, in addition to John, were: Harold Baker CE '13, HarryBrown CE '14, Nelson Doe CE '13, GeorgeFarrington CE '13, Samuel Hobbs CE '13)Roy Lewis '13, Lew Perley CE '13, MarkSnow CE '13, and Lewis Waterbury CE '13. Congratulations to these alumni and thanks to John Brewster.
Rick Davidson '41 received a fine and well-deserved honor last May when Mayor Lindsay appointed him the First Deputy Commissioner and General Manager of the Department of Public Works of the City of New York. He has been president and general manager of the Chesebro-Whitman Co., and vice president of the Patent Scaffolding Co. Rich brings extensive experience in construction planning, design, and supervision to this new position of great responsibility. In addition he has been a member of the New Rochelle Board of Education. Bob Egelhoff '39 has been elected president of the Fishers Island Utility Company. He was previously vice president and general manager of this New York utility, following a number of years with the Ley Construc- tion Co., whose president is Robert Ley '34. Congratulations, Bob.
