Thayer School
Those alumni who are nostalgic for Hanover and Carnival may be interested to know that at this moment it is 20 below zero outside Cummings Hall. The crunch of feet on snow and frost on the windowpane are a reality. By the time you read this the mud season will be not far away with its duckboards and its potholes in the north country roads and streets. In the warmer environment of the swimming pool one will find Professors Ed Brown '34, Carl Long, and Jim Browning officiating at swimming meets. Jim Wooster '60 and EmersonHouck '58 were seen at the pool recently while attending the winter Class Agents meeting. Em continues to move up in the Eli Lilly Company and I expect he will be in Hanover again this spring looking for future employees for the company.
One of the eight sophomore student companies from last term's ES21 course showed and described its underwater device at the evening presentations before the 300 Class Agents and the Trustees. This company, named DAME (Dartmouth Aquatic Mobility Engineers), was one of about fourteen student acts to present the varied student activities and academic opportunities at Dartmouth today. That Sunday, Dean Myron Tribus and your reporter, on our way to Washington for the Thayer alumni meeting there, were joined on the plane for New York by Herb Darling '27 and Clark Griffiths '58. Herb was also in Hanover for the meeting and, while there, worked hard and successfully to help the Dartmouth crew gain official team recognition and financial support from the College. Clark, who is with Split Ball Bearing in Lebanon, N. H., says he makes a flight almost every week from the Lebanon Regional Airport. As a plug for our local transportation facility, Northeast now uses 44-seat Fairchild Hiller 227 aircraft, a turbo-prop airplane, on all Boston and New York flights.
George Collins '35 arranged a fine dinner meeting on January 16 at The Touchdown Club in Washington, D. C. Dean Tribus showed slides and discussed the Thayer School program and activities - past, present, and planned. He described the student projects and emphasized the innovation and creativity displayed by students at all levels, sophomore through graduate work. Those alumni who were present to join in the discussion were Bill Pierce '56, Ed Wiesman '19, Nelson Doe '13, Ben James '64, Jim Decker '54, Bob Foote '48, Chuck Way '48, Jim Picken '59, Ted Hunter '39, Joe Wattleworth '60, Wayne Van Leer '31, George Collins '35, and Russ Stearns '38. If I have missed someone please accept my apologies and let me know.
Jerry Greenfield '62 is now staff assistant to the program director of the Fault Loc. and Audio-Warning System Project at Teledyne, Inc. Jerry is at the Radar Relay Division in Los Angeles where he will be involved in the initiation of their reliability program. He will also look after some contract administration and technical management. Jerry and his wife have realized their goal of returning to her native California following two years at Tuck School. A series of news items about Ralph Adams '54 has filtered in, principally a full page of newsprint presenting Perini Corp. and its organization at work constructing the Amestad International Dam on the Mexican Border, Brackettville, Texas. Ralph has his picture shown as one of those in charge and was seen at the luncheon for the President in December eating off Gold Seal china flown in from Mexico City. He is married and is lucky to have his family with him at Fort Clark.
Clem Edgar '65 is planning to return to graduate school and has applied at Stanford and MIT. His latest assignment was as Detachment Commander of the 508 th located in Vietnam about 100 miles southwest of Saigon, but by now he has probably returned to the States. The detachment does everything from construction in hostile territory to transportation and staging of materials. Clem says he truly has been learning planning and management the hard way in the field. George Kinzie '66 is busy making feasibility studies on Air Force modifications to existing radar systems. He is now Assistant Project Engineer, Electronics Branch, Sacramento Air Materiel Division, McClellan Air Force Base, California. What are the rest of you doing?
