Thayer School
Associate Dean and Professor of Engineering George Colligan will receive the Thomas W. Pangborn Gold Medal of the American Foundrymen's Society on April 8, 1970 at the 74th AFS Congress and Exposition in Cleveland, Ohio. This award, the highest recognition given by the Society, will be presented to George "for outstanding technological contributions to the Society and the industry, particularly in the area of metal refractory reaction studies." The Thayer School family extends to George its warm congratulations on this recognition of his many important contributions in metallurgy through research and teaching.
Graham Wallis, Associate Professor of Engineering, whose pioneering book, "One-Dimensional Two Phase Flow," was published at the end of 1969, will spend the academic year 1970-71 at Warwick University, England. Warwick is a new university, and its engineering department has a novel educational philosophy which closely resembles that at Thayer School. Graham expects to teach thermodynamics, fluids and design as well as perform research with the British Atomic Energy Authority, and with the automobile industry. Dr. Christopher Alty of Warwick will come to Thayer School as an exchange professor.
A picture showing a solid waste disposal landfill (dump), and a caption describing the "Porteous-Principle" of Andrew Porteous'67 appeared in the February 10 issue of a German paper, Die Zeit. The Porteous-Principle, developed during Andrew's doctoral work at Thayer School, is described as a profitable method of distilling alcohol from municipal refuse. From 120 tons of waste 75 tons is cellulose which can be converted into 24 tons of alcohol. Andy's work at Thayer was continued by Robert Fagan'69 who shifted the direction successfully toward the making of sugar from waste paper. Several graduate students are continuing this work under a grant from HEW. Also of interest in connection with the disposal of solid waste, one of the major pollutants, if not the major one, is the continuation of a recent ES-21 sophomore project of last Fall. Charles Klimmek '71 is researching uses of waste glass as a building material. This project work was started by Associate Professor Fred Manasse's student company. Reclamation of Waste Materials, in the fall of 1969.
Bill Conway '54, a partner of Modjeski and Masters, manages that firm's New Orleans office which is rapidly expanding to accommodate the growing staff and a new computer. Bill reports an increasing volume of work centered around major bridge facilities for the lower Mississippi River Region. Joe Nwude '69 was the co-author of a paper, "Aerodynamic Drag on Vehicles in Tunnels," presented at the Applied Mechanics and Fluids Engineering Conference, A.S.M.E., in June 1969. David Wilcox '47, one of Thayer's V-12 Navy students, is District Accounting Manager for New England Telephone in Boston, Mass. David Browne'64 spent four years in the U.S. Navy during which his responsibilities grew to the supervising of multimillion-dollar overseas projects. Dave is now in Oakland, Calif., with Kaiser Aluminum. If our memory is correct, Jack Martin '51 is or was in the Oakland Kaiser Office.
Duncan Hughes '65 is working in the field of City Planning in Boston with Leyland Systems, Inc. Tom Jester '64 is also in Boston, having joined Metcalf and Eddy shortly after graduation from Thayer School. We have recently learned that Dick Rice '44 has been appointed vice president of Jackson Moreland in Boston. Jon Eastman '68 stopped at Thayer School recently with his bride, a new set of Navy wings, and a certificate that proved he had graduated from the U.S. Naval Justice course at Newport, R. I. The Eastmans were on their way to the Naval Air Station, Miramar, in San Diego for duty with the Carrier Replacement Air Group. Jon reported seeing FredMoore '68 who had just finished a Naval Reactor course and was on his way to Pearl Harbor. Jon and Fred may meet Lt. jg Peter Lamprou '68 in their travels, for a recent letter from Pete places him in the Navigation Department, USS Bon Homme Richard, FPO San Francisco.
Adjunct Professor Bill Kimball '29 has not been idle since his return to Hanover. He recently traveled to Texas as a consultant in engineering education, and is participating in E.C.P.D. accreditation visits to other campuses. Prof. Ed Brown '35 was the Director of Officials for the Dartmouth Carnival Ski Meet and for the N.C.A.A. Ski Championships held at Cannon Mountain. Franconia, N. H. The heavy snow in December caused the collapse of the Lebanon High School gym roof. There were no injuries. John Minnich '29 spent many cold hours inspecting the damage as a consultant to the City of Lebanon. His recommendations were followed in reopening the undamaged rooms for classes.
It is now March; snow and ice remain everywhere, and the temperature this morning was 10 below. By the time these notes are read, spring will have arrived in Hanover, we hope.
