Thayer School
Although the Sloan Grant of $1.5 million to the Thayer School has previously been announced elsewhere, we are so proud of this recognition of Thayer that we share the news again with our alumni. This award says to us, and to others in engineering education, that what the Thayer School stands for, as first stated by General Sylvanus Thayer, is most pertinent now, and for the future, in this age of rapidly developing technology. It also tells us that Dean Myron Tribus and the faculty, with the backing and assistance of Dartmouth College and the Thayer School alumni, have designed a curriculum that will prepare students well for the engineering profession by giving them an awareness and sense of values in regard to the engineer's responsibility to society. It is our thesis that the engineer will be required, more and more, to interpret for society the meaning and implications of the exploding technology, and to lead the way in finding the optimum utilization of new technological advances for the benefit of man. The Sloan Foundation grant makes it possible for us to continue the strengthening of our faculty, curriculum, and facilities to this purpose.
Harty Beardsley, D'37, who served as a Thayer School Overseer a few years ago, has moved to Deer Lake, Newfoundland, Canada, where he is the President and General Manager of the Bowater Power Company, Limited. Harty continues his exciting career in which he creates great power developments and whole towns in the wilderness of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Bill Kimball '29, Merit White '31, and Russ Stearns '38 attended a meeting of civil engineering educators from the New England and Eastern New York Region of the ASCE. Bill represented the ASCE as Assistant Secretary-Education, and Merit is chairman of the ASCE Committee for Engineering Education. Merit is Head of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Many alumni will remember Professor Harald Schutz, one of the first professors of electrical engineering at Thayer. Harry is with the Electronics Division, Westinghouse, in Baltimore.
The Packard Electric Division of General Motors has announced the promotion of Roger McArt '62 to assistant superintendent of Plant 10 in Warren, Ohio. Roger joined the Live Wire Division of Packard Electric in March 1964 in production control; since that time he has moved up rapidly carrying out the responsibilities of senior systems analyst, general supervisor, and general foreman of Plant 10. In 1963 Rog received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford.
We were pleased to hear from EphraimAniebona '65 who is much involved in the International Enterprise Fellowship Program, Commission for International Progress. This commission manages a practical training program in American firms for foreign students. After training in engineering management, they are assisted in getting a job at home. Ephraim was married in July, 1967, and obtained his M.S. in engineering from New York University. He is now in engineering with A.T.&T. at White Plains, N. Y. He hopes to return home to apply effectively what he has learned in the United States, but must wait until the situation in Nigeria is clarified since his home is in Biafra, formerly Eastern Nigeria.
Roger Gaskill '43 visited Thayer School last summer with his wife and three children. He told Professor Joe Ermenc he is currently Chief Engineer in charge of Advanced Body Design at the Chrysler Corp. He enjoys many new challenges constantly and the associated responsibilities. RonKappraff '67 is conducting research at the National Bureau of Standards on the characteristics and growth of fire. This program is actually for the Factory Mutual Companies for whom Ron works. He is directed by Dr. John Rockett who lectured to the Thayer sophomore course, ES 21, on our project area, Fire Protection and Control. Ron's research involves the study of the basic science of fire with emphasis on heat transfer and convection. David Browne '64 is a Navy Lieutenant in charge of contract construction in Nha Trang, Vietnam. David's father. Col. Browne, visited Thayer recently to discuss the present operations and plans at the Panama Canal where he is Chief Engineering Officer for the Panama Canal Co.
The September 1967 issue of Constructor announced that Henry C. Beck Co. of Dallas, Texas had received the Award of Honor, the highest safety award offered by the National Safety Council to industrial companies. Henry Beck Jr. '39 is president of Beck Company and is also an Overseer of the Thayer School. The company's safety record includes an amazing 2,643,990 manhours in 1966 without a lost-time accident. Congratulations, Henry, for this success of your company-wide program, "Striving for Excellence."
Dale Runge '65 writes from Universidad Tecnica, Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, where as a Peace Corps volunteer he is teaching math in high school, mechanics in the third year at the engineering school, nuclear engineering in the 6th year, and directing a computer study of the synchronizing of traffic lights. This points up Dale's versatility, and provides an interesting description of engineering education in Chile.
Although you will read this in February, we wish you now a most Happy New Year.
