Thayer School
On December 4 seven student companies, of eight or nine men each, presented the results of their term design projects in the broad, important area of pollution. Most of the students are sophomores but this year, for the first time, six freshmen with special qualifications joined us. There were also several juniors and one senior economics major. The projects were ambitious, creative, and in all cases addressed to practical problems which are around us all: RWR (Research on Waste Reclamation), Prof. Fred Manasse, Faculty Adviser, Tom Lovell, D'71, student adviser; SOS (Systems of Separation), Prof. Hans Grethlein, Faculty Adviser, Rick Sawicki, D'71, student adviser; BURNITALL LTD., Prof. Peter W. Runstadler Jr., Faculty Adviser, John Hanley, D'71, student adviser; CRUNCH (Compaction Research in Urban Networks & Community Households), Prof. Barney Smith, Faculty Adviser, Tom McWhorter, D'69, student adviser; CLEARWATER REVIVAL INC., Prof. Thomas Laaspere, Faculty Adviser, Bruce Corson, D'70, student adviser; SMOG ASSOCIATES (Society for the Measurement of Obnoxious Gases), Prof. Bengt Sonnerup, Faculty Adviser; SEPTICO, Prof. Bob L. Smith, Faculty Adviser, Mike Mizan, D'70, student adviser.
An important phase of this course is the careful and critical review and constructive comment of a Review Board of experts. The men noted below met in Hanover for a day in October to review proposals, and for two days in December to read and hear final reports. Individual critique sessions with each student company concluded the final evaluation. This real review is essential if we are to meet one of the basic objectives of the course - to provide an authentic engineering experience. The members of this Review Board were: Robert C. Dean Jr., Professor of Engineering, Thayer School and President, Creare Inc., Hanover; Frederick D. Goode, Adjunct Lecturer, Thayer School and Attorney at Law, Manchester; Miles V. Hayes, Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School; Frank L. Heaney, Camp, Dresser & McKee, Boston; William A. Holmes, Polaroid Corp., Cambridge, Mass., Frederick J. Hooven, Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Thayer School; Nicholas J. Lardieri, Manager of Air & Water Resources, Scott Paper Co., Philadelphia; Thomas Murphy, R&D Staff, North Atlantic Water Quality Management Center, Edison, N. J.; Paul T. Shannon, Professor of Engineering, Thayer School and President, Digital Systems Corp., Hanover; S. R. Stearns '38, Professor of Civil Engineering, Thayer School, and serving as president of the fictitious company, Environmental Control Corporation, which requested the proposal.
Charlie Hitchcock '39 was in Hanover for these E$21 presentations. Charlie is partner and senior vice president of Metcalf and Eddy in Boston. One of his major responsibilities is in the area of handling and disposal of municipal waste and he has been in responsible charge of the planning, design, and construction of some of the largest waste disposal plants in the world. ... Fred Auer '28 retired last summer from the N. H. Department of Public Works and Highways where for a number of years he had been chief planning engineer for the fine New Hampshire system of highways. Fred says he has seen so many cold winters - early in his career he worked in Quebec on a power plant installation - he would like to try the south for a few months each year.... Ken Little '53 has been very busy applying and teaching the principles of systematic management and electronic data processing as applied to engineering, construction, and manufacturing. Ken is market manager for manufacturing for Honeywell, Inc. in Boston. He has appeared recently before conferences and work sessions dealing with computers in industry, particularly plant management.
The proceedings paper "Viscoelastic Properties of Snow and Sand" by YongS. Chae '57 has been published in the Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Div. ASCE. Yong has been active at Rutgers University teaching soil mechanics and conducting research on the dynamic properties of soil, snow and ice.... Also, in this same research and design area, Thayer's Adjunct Professor Fred Sanger and Lecturer Pieter Hoekstra have contributed papers to Special Report 103 of the Highway Research Board, National Research Council, on the subject of soils and frost action. Both these experts are at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover.... The College of Law at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, has written Professor George Taylor that Dan Watts '64 has successfully completed his first year of law study. Dan distinguished himself by winning first prize in the Moot Court there last year. We would guess that his previous experience in Professor Taylor's Moot Court was of considerable value.
Last July the wedding of Chris Miller'67 in Wellesley, Mass., was the occasion for a Thayer School reunion for DeanSpatz '67, who came east from Minneapolis, Hector Motroni '67, who was married in New York shortly thereafter, and Karl Andrews '67 and Bill Risso '67 from Washington, D. C. Also in attendance was SteveSmith '69 from nearby G.E. in Lynn but about to travel west for a new assignment. Chris and Karl are Ist Lieutenants in the Army Corps of Engineers following training at Fort Belvoir. Karl was assigned to the Engineers Strategic Study Group in Washington while Chris moved to Nashville, Tenn. Hector, Bill, and John Rollins D'66 are commissioned officers in the Public Health Service working at the Divisional Computer Research and Technology Division of the National Institute of Health.
Ted Pittiglio '67 has received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He concentrated on mathematical methods and ranked in the top 10% of the graduating class. Bill Boddie '69 is a research project engineer with the Research and Engineering Department of Rockwell Manufacturing Co. His specific assignment is a long-term project to provide a technical base for expansion of Rockwell's two-cycle engine business. Bill previously had completed a year of study at the University of Paris, France, under a Fulbright scholarship. The faculty and staff extend sincere best wishes for a fine year in 1970.
