Thayer School
Between this writing and Commencement the officers of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers will visit Hanover to discuss with Dean Myron Tribus, the faculty, and the students programs and activities at Thayer School. The annual D.S.E. dinner given by the alumni for the faculty and the senior and graduate students will be thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated by all. This is a valuable opportunity for alumni, students, and faculty to talk together about the School and the profession ahead. No doubt the effect of the new draft procedures on Thayer School enrollment will be discussed, as will opportunities for summer employment.
As evidence that all is not work and talk during this visit, Warren Daniell '50 writes, "My golf is real sharp after the winter layoff. I hope you are equally ready for the annual contretemps." This is some indication of how far ahead spring is down south in Boston; snow has just left the Hanover Plain (April 5). Warren, who is Assistant Vice President of Anderson-Nichols & Co., is involved, among many duties, in the design and construction of a large building for the Fellows Company in Springfield, Vt.
Sam Daniell '53 is with Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. in Springfield, Vt., and is also president of the Ascutney Dartmouth Club. He acted as host to Russ Stearns '38, Tim Schad '70, and Bill Johnson '70, who talked there in April about ES 21, Introduction to Engineering, the Engineering Science sophomore course. Sam is also, I believe, on the Springfield School Board.
Ken LeClair, remembered by many as a member of the Thayer School faculty in the 1950's and presently a practicing engineer in Hanover, is chairman of the special School Board Building Committee for Hanover. This committee is doing what appears to be a remarkably thorough and detailed job in evaluating Hanover's elementary school needs and alternatives to satisfy both these needs and the articulate electorate which defeated the previous bond issue. Ken has insisted that all meetings be open to the public and press which has provided an excellent open forum for all. Bob Edgerton, who was a member of the Thayer School faculty until 1967. has initiated an "Energy Systems Master's Degree Program" at Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., where he is an Associate Professor of Engineering. In addition, Bob is contributing to the design portion of the Systems Engineering Program, and teaching thermodynamics to sophomores, using Dean Tribus's text, "Thermostatics and Thermodynamics."
Two new members have joined the Thayer School faculty this spring, Hans Grethlein is an Associate Professor of Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1962 from Princeton. He comes to Hanover from the American Cyanamid Co. where he was Manager of Systems Analysis. His major activities and publications have been in process analysis; technical computing, statistical analysis, and operations research. The Grethleins have two children. Fred Manasse, who also received his Ph.D. (Physics) from Princeton, is an Associate Professor of Engineering with principal interests in solid state devices and electronics. He will be involved mainly in electronics at Thayer to assist Professor Al Wood in this important and rapidly expanding discipline. Fred was an adviser to Ray Msrtonelli '63 in Ray's Ph.D. study on "Non Symmetric Laser Pumping." Ray has been a Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Princeton.
Thermal Dynamics Corporation of Lebanon, N. H., the firm founded by Prof. James Browning, has announced recently the promotions of two Thayer School alumni. Dan O'Hara '59, who has been with Thermal Dynamics since 1963, has been promoted to Engineering and Production Manager. He was a lecturer on the staff of the Space and Astronautics Orientation Course, Naval Missile Center, California, before joining Thermal. Dan has worked on the development of special torches for extreme temperature work, and was project manager on a specialized machining potential development study. At the same time, Dick Whitfield '64 was made Product and Process Development Manager. Prior to joining Thermal Dynamics Dick was a development and production control engineer at Whitfield Works, Union Carbide, and then Manager of the Coatings Dept. and staff metallurgist at The Boeing Co., Seattle. He returned to the Upper Valley last year to join Thermal Dynamics.
John Scoville '55 has been elected Vice President of HARZA Engineering Co., consulting engineers of Chicago. John has made an enviable record in heavy construction both in the United States and abroad. SamFlorman '46 is the author of "Engineering and the Liberal Arts," a technologist's guide to history, literature, philosophy, art, and music. We may have more on this book, one of the McGraw-Hill Series in Continued Education for Engineers, next month when Sam visits Hanover for the D.S.E. meeting.
