Thayer School
The midwinter snow now covers the Hanover Plain and skiing at the Dartmouth Skiway has been very good. The snow has not appreciably slowed down Phil Jackson'44 on the reconstruction of the Hanover Inn. The warm early winter made it possible for the Jackson Construction Company to move rapidly up from the foundations, and work on the third floor has been started as this is written. The snow and skiing noted above brought Ted Hunter '39 back from North Carolina to visit Loon Mountain in Lincoln, N. H., where Ted has been assisting Sherman Adams D'20 in the development of this beautiful new ski resort.
By the time these notes are read, Professor of Engineering John Strohbehn will have been in residence in the Soviet Union since early January. John is visiting Russia for the period January, February and March 1967 as part of the Scientific Exchange Program between the USSR and the USA. These scientific exchanges are arranged by the National Academies ,of Sciences but come under the regulations of the wider cultural agreement between the two countries. Professor Strohbehn will do research at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He will work with Dr. V. I. Tatarski in the area of the propagation of waves through a turbulent medium-atmosphere or water.
Information has been received that AndyUrqufeart '62 has left the U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships, where he was engaged in the development and test of fuel elements under Admiral Rickover. Andy has been a naval officer in the Nuclear Engineering Division, Washington, D. C. since graduation from Thayer School. His present location was not reported. Bill Conway '54 was recently described as one of the leading engineers in New Orleans. Bill is in charge of Modjeski and Masters' office there. The Daniell fam visited Thayer School recently while reunioning in Hanover. Warren Daniell '50, now a member of the Executive Board of the DSE, is vice president of Anderson Nichols and Company, Boston, and Sam Daniell '53 is located in Springfield, Vt., where he is busily engaged in the Yankee tool industry. Sam's and Warren's father, Warren Daniell Sr. D'22, has retired to Hanover but continues a busy consulting practice in the engineering and operation of paper mills both inside and outside the U.S.
Neil Drobny '64 has left the U.S. Navy to join the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He is engaged in the devolopment of systems analysis techniques for the planning and design of water resources systems involving whole river basins. Neil contributed considerably to the Navy's Polar Sanitation Program which now has applications in Vietnam. While at Battelle he will study for his Ph.D. at Ohio State. Dan Watts '64 is a production engineer for Procter and Gamble in Boston and expected to be a plant production manager by this time. Dan could be seen in the fall rowing on the Charles River, a carryover from his international competitions.
John Fondahl '48 returned to Stanford in October from four months in South America. Doris and the four girls accompanied John while he spent three months at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. They visited Jamaica, Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, and John gave lectures in Caracas and Buenos Aires. On the way home Peru, Colombia, and Mexico were visited and a lecture was given in Bogota. It was certainly a most interesting and valuable trip for the Fondahls and also for our South American neighbors.
Daryl Smith '64 was given an engineering assignment in Vietnam some time ago which took him from his previous operations research job at the Edgewood Arsenal and disrupted his graduate program in management at Johns Hopkins. He is now reaching the end of his active tour of duty and plans to enroll for graduate study in operations research either at the University of Pennsyl vania's Wharton School or at Purdue. Daryl's assignment was as construction supervisor and he traveled extensively in Vietnam. Carl Stormer '67 is now employed by Boeing, and he and Nancy have moved to Seattle.
