Thayer School

The recently published 1970-71 Graduate Student Directory of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Thayer School of Engineering makes interesting reading and its individual photos of Dartmouth's 190 graduate studerits, interesting viewing. Medical School and Tuck School students are not included. Engineering Sciences leads the ten graduate programs covered in the Directory with a total of 67 students. Of this total, 24 are Bachelor of Engineering degree candidates, all having received the AB degree from Dartmouth. Master's degree candidates number 19, divided 9 and 10 between the Master of Engineering and the Master of Science programs. The remaining 24 are Doctor's degree candidates, divided 9 and 15 between the Doctor of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy Programs. Nine of the Master's degree candidates and four of the Doctor's degree aspirants are Dartmouth graduates. End of vital statistics. Postcript: 66 are male.

A letter has come from Jim Martin '26, executive secretary of the Arizona Society of Professional Engineers, asking for information on ES-21. Jim is one of the judges in the finals of a competition in an Arizona State University freshman engineering bourse on the ES-21 pattern, developed were after a professor and four students from that university spent the summer of 1965 working in Thayer School's course. One of the devices which Jim and his fellow judges will rate is a gravel lawn sweeper, of which Jim comments "a New Englarider wouldn't understand that one." I guess he's right.

After spending five years in Italy, JimDunn '35 and family have returned to Pittsburgh where Jim is General Manager of Structural Operations for the American Bridge Co., a position which encompasses direction of all the company's plants turning out fabricated steel for monumental structures. The new U. S. Steel headquarters building at 600 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, which was opened for occupancy in December, was one such and ongoing jobs include the Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia, the new Chesapeake Bay and River Crossing near Baltimore, and the new Sears, Roebuck and Standard Oil Buildings in Chicago, both of which "will come closer to the clouds than the World Trade Center in New York City." The Dunns' civil engineer son and wife have presented them with two red-headed grandsons and live in Fort Worth. Daughter Kathy is a junior at Dickinson.

Cathy and Doug Kerr ME'70 have announced the arrival of Brian Alexander Kerr, weighing in at a not-so-modest 8 pounds, 7 ounces on December 7. After completing degree requirements last fall, Doug joined the civil engineering firm of Tippets-Abbet-McCarthy-Stratton in New York City. The Kerrs are at home at 769 Pelham Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.

Some forty years ago, Carroll Davis '03 acquired forty acres of unimproved land which he has turned into half-acre lots for retired people in Paradise (yes, that's the post office address), California. During the forty years, the community has grown from a population of 1,000 to 20,000 and, understandably, Mr. Davis writes "Now approaching 94, I am really living the life of Riley. Sorry have nothing better to report." (Ed. what better is there?).

Joseph Lowry BE'70 and Diana Lea Johnson were married in Woodstock, Vt. on November 14. After a wedding trip to Quebec, the Lowrys took up residence in Arlington, Mass.

Since receiving his Master's degree from Thayer School, Yong: Suk Chae CE'57 has been active in the field of soil mechanics, first with Howard-Needles-Tammen and Bergondoff in New York City, later as a graduate student at the University of Michigan where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1964, and most recently at Rutgers University where he is presently Associate Professor of Civil Engineering. Most recent in an impressive list of some 25 publications is a paper on Dynamic Behavior of Embedded Foundation-Soil Systems which appeared in Highway Research Board Committee on Foundations of Bridges and Other Structures.

Nick Costes CE'51 is another alumnus with an impressive publications record. As Head of the NASA Lunar Soil Investigation Program, he co-authored an article on the "Apollo 11 Soil Mechanics Investigations" in Science magazine of January 30, 1970.

J. Franklin "Bondy" Bond '29 is principal owner and president of Henry C. Neff Associates, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors in Adams, Mass. Our deep sympathy to him in the death of his wife last October. Their son John graduated from Norwich University in 1959 and is an Army major. Daughter Clara Jane, a 1962 graduate of Simmons College, lives with her MIT-graduate husband and their two children in Burlington, Vt.