Thayer School
Those of you who have not, in recent years, attended a Dartmouth football rally would be impressed by the size and structure of the bonfire. Each freshman class, guided by the upperclass Interdormitory Council members, attempts to break earlier records and, hopefully, reach a height in tiers of railroad ties equal to their class numeral. The shape of the bonfire, in horizontal cross-section, is a star, for stability. The number of railroad ties required has become larger and larger at the same time that the supply has dwindled. This past summer an enterprising student committee arranged for ties to be shipped to Hanover (Lewiston) from the Maine Central R.R. This appears to be the last source of supply, another result of the dropping of rail passenger service in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Next weekend we expect to watch the biggest bonfire ever built, courtesy of the class of 1972, 72 tiers high.
Jack Frankel, Associate Dean and Professor of Engineering, has left Thayer School to become Dean of the Faculty at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. We regret Jack's move but congratulate him on his appointment to this important position in which we wish him every success. Professor of Engineering Bernard E. Smith has joined the Thayer faculty to teach in the area of industrial development and decision theory. He has just returned from three years in India where he was Visiting Professor and Project Leader of the M.I.T.- Ford Foundation team at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Following undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, Barney obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations (Operations Research) at Stanford in 1961. His extensive industrial and consulting experience, and his publications, cover a wide range of mechanical and industrial engineering, research, and management.
Otis Hovey '17 visited Thayer School in September. He lives in Carlisle, Pa., where he is the proprietor of "The Stock Rating Index." Marty Anderson '58 is one of the new, bright young men in the Nixon campaign. As "Special Assistant to Mr. Nixon," Marty helps develop themes and issues particularly in the area of urban problems and domestic policy. The Wall Street Journal calls him a braintruster who had an important hand in the formulation of "black capitalism," Nixon's proposal for Negro self-help. Marty is on leave from Columbia where he is an Associate Professor of Business, teaching economic theory and corporate finance. It is possible that the leave will be continued to permit Marty to go to Washington, if... . Bob Rhines '61 has moved to central New Hampshire where he is coordinating engineer for the Waterville Valley Ski Corporation, Tom Corcoran's rapidly growing ski area. Bob's responsibilities cover, the gamut of new construction and maintenance operations to keep the big ski bowl in top condition.
Bill Bonneville '55 again spent his vacation in August on Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vt., and stopped by to see us. He reports extensive world travels in his job as Comptroller of the Nashua Corporation. He is not alone in such travel, for his classmate DanaLow '55 is also reported to have visited London, Tokyo, Australia, and New Guinea to supervise urban transportation studies and give papers at international conferences. Dana is now head of the Department of Engineering Planning and Economics at Tippetts\Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton in New York. At the 64th Annual Convention of the Amer- ican Concrete Institute held in Los Angeles, Samuel Hobbs '13 received the Henry L. Kennedy Award. This honor was conferred on him "in recognition of his outstanding service to the Institute in establishing ACl's first local chapter in Southern California, and for his diligent efforts in promoting the chapter movement in ACI and educational programs at the local level." Mr. Hobbs is presently associated with the firm of Kennedy Engineers, Los Angeles, as well as performing the duties of secretary-treasurer of the ACI Southern California chapter. Congratulations on this fine award.
We were pleased to meet George Capelli'37 recently at an A.S.C.E. conference in Portland, Maine. George is the very busy chief engineer for the City of Portland. The description of his efforts to satisfy the needs of urban renewal, new transportation systems, and services for new industries, leaves one wondering when he finds time for the relaxation and recreation he also manages to fit in. Hunt Curtis, formerly Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and presently adviser to the Vice President for Research and Development at IBM, has sent a NASA Tech Brief describing a "Concept for Automatic Doppler Compensation in Two-Way Communication Systems." This development, in the conceptual stage only as of December 1967, is described by RonMiller '56, head of the Electronic Instrumentation Section, Advanced Development Division, NASA.
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