Thayer School

Last month I reported receiving assists from a number of alumni on my Centennial Book job. Among them was Rear Admiral Paul J. "Pete" Halloran '20, USN. On February 14, just a few days after composing a long letter to me, Pete died at his home in Yorktown Heights, N. Y. A more complete record of his remarkable career will appear elsewhere in this issue but his longtime continuing interest in Thayer School should be recorded here. Our records contain a wealth of information about his many innovative, creative engineering accomplishments during his 25- year career in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He gave numerous lectures at Thayer School and responded eagerly to Russ Stearns's invitation to make suggestions for ES-21. He was an active member of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers and served as its president from 1949 to 1951. Thayer School has lost one of its most accomplished and productive alumni.

The list of alumni who have sent me memoirs of their days at Thayer School now includes, in addition to those listed last month, Harold Morse 'O4, Verney Russel'07', Sam Hobbs '13, Vic Smith '20, and Lowell Holway '23.

Recalled to active duty during the winter term "by popular demand" was Ed Sherrard, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, to teach Engineering 151, Machine Engineering.

A special section of the Manchester (NH) Union-Leader, without benefit of editorial comment by that organ's editor, was devoted to engineering during National Engineers' Week. A feature was a full-page article by Prof. Russ Stearns '38 headed "Dartmouth's Thayer School 100 Years Old" and describing, briefly, the origins and, more fully, the present program of the School.

Alumni members attending the winter meeting of the Thayer School Board of Overseers in Hanover were Henry Beck '39, Bob Barr '42 and John Schlachtenhaufen ME'63.

Ev Lyon '25 retired last November from Madigan-Hyland Inc., consulting engineers in New York City and designers of much of that city's express parkway and highway system. Ev, who had been with the firm since 1934, was its Chief Engineer of Construction. He now lives at 82nd Pierce Ave., Hamburg, N. Y., near two of his sons and six of his grandchildren.

Ken Ross '17 retired from his career with the Federal Power Commission in 1965 and, between travels, lives in Port Washington, N. Y. Of his visit to Italy, he mentions swimming in the bay at Naples and speaks with admiration of the beauty to be absorbed in that country and of its "rapid and quiet electric trains and its people with soft language and engaging manners. We have much to learn in the USA."

Chan Griggs '33 has also retired from federal service, having spent some 33 years with the Federal Aviation Administration. His assignments included the building of airfields and radio stations in Alaska during World War II and in the Philippines shortly after. Since then he has been in the Washington office. The Griggs have two married daughters.

Clint Holton CE'47 visited Hanover recently as a representative of his firm, Consolidated Constructors and Builders, Inc. of Portland, Maine.

We have been scooped! When I wrote to Doug Keare TT'57 for news of his life in Dacca, East Pakistan, he sent me a copy of the letter he wrote in January to Bill Miles, Secretary of Doug's Dartmouth Class of 1956. When I offered to share the publication of the letter which I consider "one of the finest alumni news letters I have ever read," Bill, apparently sharing my opinion, replied that he had already submitted it for publication in full in the March Class of '56 News. If you missed it, by all means look it up. Doug is Assistant Resident Representative of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and obviously a very unugly American.

A recent issue of Civil Engineering magazine pictures Steven Olko CE'47 with other officers of the ASCE Metropolitan Section of which Steve is currently vice president. Steve is also Olko Engineering, a consulting engineering firm in New York. The picture looks as though Steve is thriving in the state of matrimony which he achieved not too long ago.

Dana Low CE'55, head of transportation planning in the TAMS consulting firm, has been scheduled as one of the feature speakers in ASCE's National Specialty Conference on "New Approaches to Urban Transportation Needs."

Neil Drobny CE'64, Associate Division Chairman of Battelle Memorial Institute, has co-authored a paper on "Process Alternatives Available in Packaged Waste Water Treatment Plants" which appeared in the November issue of Water and Sewage Works magazine.

Bill Bailey '40, Vice President and Chief Engineer of the Baltimore Construction Co., will preside at a session on "Project Planning and Construction Education" at the ASCE National Structural Engineering Meeting in Baltimore in April.

Another recognition of Thayer School faculty distinction is the recent selection of a paper by Associate Professor Graham Wallis for the Lewis F. Moody Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Graham's paper, "Annular Two Phase Flow—Part I: A simple Theory," has been judged "an oustanding original paper on the practice of mechanical engineering."