Thayer School

Immediately following final exams in December, Prof. Fred Manasse and your reporter, together with a complete ES-21, student company - eight sophomores and one junior adviser, left arctic Hanover in a snowstorm to travel to Tuskegee, Alabama. Our assignment was to demonstrate to faculty and students from Tuskegee Institute and five other southern Negro colleges, in one day, the principles, procedures, and results of Dartmouth's sophomore course. Introduction to Engineering. This was a work- shop on Trends in Engineering Education, and we were eager to generate enthusiastic participation by the workshop attendees. By placing our student company in the center of the workshop group, where they carried out in capsule form the total project design performance from problem definition (Highway and Auto Safety) to final oral presentation of results, a very active discussion was obtained.

The most gratifying portion of the demonstration was the final hour and one half during which the southern faculty and students, with our students, carried out a short but meaningful exercise in problem solution and project proposal. This stimulating visit to Tuskegee was part of a rapidly growing program of interaction between Thayer School and Tuskegee Institute. Dean Myron Tribus participated in the last two days of the workshop and gave the principal talk. Prof. Tom Piatkowski, who was previously a member of the Tuskegee faculty, is leading the way in the development of a program to mutual cooperation in the use of time-shared computer facilities and software.

The August 1968 issue of "Consulting Engineer" presented a full cover photo of Richard Hazen, D'32, who is this year the president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. Dick, who is one of the country's leading experts in the field of water resources, is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fred Hooven, Adjunct Professor of Engineering, was honored by the Dayton, Ohio Engineers' Club with the 1968 Deeds-Kettering Memorial Award. This award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of science and engineering. Fred, an inventor and consulting engineer and previous to his retirement to Norwich, Vermont, a director of research planning for the Ford Motor Co., is a principal faculty member in Thayer's Internship in Engineering course, as well as consultant to students on project work.

Sydney Ruggles '09 has sent some interesting reminiscences about his Thayer School class, and particularly about the late Park Stickney '08 and Fred Munkelt '08, who lives in Montpelier, Vt. Many of you will recall with nostalgia your own summer surveying course at these words: "[Park Stickney] recalled the survey for the Mink Brook Bumper Railroad, part of a proposed system which our imaginative minds conceived for transporting coal up to the College boiler plant, along that well-known stream." Sydney continues his close association with the College as News Editor of "The '08'er" and Historian for the Class of 1908. He has moved from Laconia, N. H., to Danbury, Conn.

Many of you have seen the news items about President Nixon's appointment of Martin Anderson '58 to a post in the new administration described as "researcher on policy for internal development of United States affairs." He is an adviser to President Nixon and a member of the White House staff. For the past year Marty has been one of six talented and promising young men composing the President's "braintrust" formed to advise him on policy for internal and external problems found in ghettos, cities, education, civil liberties, poverty, transportation, and so on. Martin has worked many times in the past with Professor George Taylor, who provided the information above, in his annual Executive Decision-Making Programs held at Dartmouth and elsewhere.

Prof. Robert Dean has received further word from Bill Lamb '65 which corrects the name of his new firm, reported last month, to "Metridata Computing, Inc." His official title is Vice President of the Management Services Division which includes both applications of time-sharing computing and education in use of the computer. Marcia and Bill are also busy in church work with junior and senior high school children, as well as community discussion groups on social issues and problems. In addition, Bill has entered politics (Marcia was his campaign manager) and was elected Democratic Committeeman for their precinct. Jerry Port,land '64, Dick Portland '59 and Bob Portland '60 have now been joined in the Dartmouth family by brother Joe, D'72. Joe was intercepted in the Dartmouth Bank when your reporter thought he was one of his older brothers. He reports that Dick is with Kodak, Bob with Bell, and Jerry with IBM.

A recent letter from Mayland Lewis '49 reports that he is with General Electric in Lynn, Mass., as Senior Gyro Design Engineer, Flight Reference Systems Engineering. He attended the Thayer Bearing Conference last fall and expressed his pleasure that Dartmouth was undertaking this type of program which he found most valuable. Bob Prasch '59 has been with Tippetts-Ab-bett-McCarthy-Stratton in Nairobi since July 1968. He traveled in the fall to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for a week of meetings with the African Development Bank and The World Bank Mission to West Africa. Bob is Regional Manager Africa - TAMSNairobi, Kenya, overseeing airport reconstruction projects at Addis Ababa and Semara, Ethiopia, and highway projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi plus development of new business. He is certainly well traveled having been previously in Brazil and Western Australia.