Thayer School
On October 19 Dean Myron Tribus, Russ Stearns '38, Carter Hall '68, and Chris Miller '67 attended the annual D.S.E. meeting in New York. Myron described the activities and growing graduate program at Thayer School. He called attention to the prominent place the professional schools, especially the Thayer School, have been given in the Third Century Fund. You have already received some announcements about these plans. Chris and Carter described student research and the important function played by the student D.S.E. Chapter at Dartmouth. Chris and Dean Spatz '67 have continued the development of the home water demineralization device their sophomore student company had started in 1963. They have obtained a grant from the Office of Saline Water large enough to support their thesis work for the M.E. degree and to support three students assisting them. A number of tests units have been placed in service, one of which is in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dean left on November 10 to visit Fairbanks and the field unit which has been under the surveillance of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Labs.
These Thayer alumni attended the New York dinner meeting: Bill Kimball '29, Sam Florman '46, Rube Samuels '47, Gerry Sarno '51, Tom Barr '50. Bill Olmstead '39, Mike Pender '50, Ed Elsehans '36, Jim Skinner '43, Jack Woods '52, Shaw Cole '31, Bob Egelhoff '39, Dek Davidson '53, Warren Daniell '50, Hugh McLaren 'SO, Paul Henegen '49, Burton Elliot '48, Dick Seidman '41, Don Amy '43, Charles Gibbons '43, Joe Gilchrist '51, Fred Davidson '15, Rick Davidson '41, Steve Olko '47 and Harlan Fair '54.
New D.S.E. president Bill Olmstead announced the election of Harlan Fair and Al Schwartz '59 to the Executive Board of the D.S.E. A list of those who attended the annual Boston meeting in October is not available, but Duncan Hughes '66 reported it was a fine get-together. Duncan greeted this writer outside the Harvard stadium after the game while on his way to the post-game festivities at Briggs Cage. He is attending the Harvard Graduate School in City Planning and also working vacations for TAMS on transportation planning. Paul Henegan '49 reports the steady growth of the New York firm, Henegan Construction Company, Inc. He has constructed many interesting buildings in the northeast, among them computer rooms for Bache & Co., Wall Street, and St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Upper Darby, Pa.
Associate Professor Carl Long attended the International Congress on the Application of Shell Structures in Architecture in Mexico City, September 3-7. This conference, sponsored by Mexican Institute of Cement and Concrete and the International Association for Shell Structures, was attended by architects and engineers representing almost all the North, South and Central American countries as well as Japan, India, Australia, and Europe, including Russia and Czechoslovakia. Carl presented a paper entitled "The Nathaniel Leverone Field House at Dartmouth College." In October he also attended the 45th Annual Fall Meeting of ASEE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he presented a paper and participated in a panel on Honors Programs. He described the present honors program at Thayer School.
On September 19 Dean Jack Frankel gave a talk "Rural Industrialization in Underdeveloped Countries" before the luncheon meeting of the International Economists' Club in Washington, D. C. Associate Professor Al Converse has been retained by the State of Vermont to prepare a report, recommending procedures in regard to possible thermal and atmospheric pollution which might result from the proposed Yankee Nuclear Power generating plant in Vernon, Vt.
Cliff Simmons '40 has returned to Raymond International to become District Manager in the Boston office. Walter DouglasD'33 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, an honor which recognizes his fine contributions in the engineering profession. Walter is the senior partner of Parsons, Brinkerhoff, Quade & Douglas, and is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the planning of mass transportation systems and facilities. He was the original planner of the billion-dollar San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system, now under construction. Dick Rice '44 gave a talk to Thayer School students last spring in which he described opportunities, and the various responsibilities of the engineer in a consulting firm. Dick is a project manager with Jackson Moreland in Boston. Amin ElWary '65 has written from Jordan to report a busy career in the steel and iron industry. He spent five months in the U.A.R. steel mills in Cairo in 1966 before returning to Amman, Jordan, to reorganize a 30,000ton steel mill there. The study of the economics of the steel industry there has occupied much of his time, particularly the lack of skilled labor and materials. BrianWalsh '66 continued his studies in City Planning at Columbia last year. He spent the summer traveling in Europe and observing city planning in various cities there, and has returned to Columbia for his second year of study. Sam DeCamp '61 has moved from the Goddard Space Center to San Francisco to join Electronics Associates in Palo Alto. He is now deeply involved in the design and utilization of hybrid, digitalanalog computers.
The last news received indicates that Coleman Colla '56 has left IBM to join a west coast consulting firm. Coleman has specialized in the use of computers by consulting engineering firms on a time-sharing basis. Ken Ragland '58 completed the masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics a the University of Michigan, and has since been working on his Ph.D. in gas dynamics. His dissertation for the Ph.D. is an experimental study of the propagation and structure of two-phase detonation. By now Ken expected to have completed his work for the degree. He spent three years previously an aeronautical research engineer at the U.S. Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, Calif., conducting experimental studies on solid propellant ramjet fuels and ramjet engine design. Tad Comstock '48 has moved back to Concord, N. H., as Division Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads.
