Thayer School
The end of the academic year brings the end of the publication year of this column. Since it would surely be pointless for the 1971-72 editor, whoever he may be, to have 1970-1971 news items, I'll try to clear the deck for him this month.
Jim Decker CE'54 and family have been in England during the year and presumably will remain there for some time to come. Jim's engineering-planning firm of Wilbur Smith and Associates owns half-interest in an Anglo-American firm of consultants and he represents the American half of the proprietorship in the London office, helping to manage various traffic studies in Britain, Europe, and other parts of the world. The work involves a good deal of travel but all the Deckers have been greatly enjoying London and environs. They can be found at 19 Kelso Place, London W.B.
Dick Whitfield BE'62 received his Doctor of Engineering degree from Thayer School in January. After experience with Whitfield Laboratories, Boeing, and Thermal. Dynamics Corporation, he has recently been named Director of Group Technical Planning and Development for the Materials Technology Group of the Howmet Corporation in Greenwich, Conn. The Whitfields and their two children live in Rowayton, Conn.
Chris Miller BE'67 ME'68 and wife Nancy have been stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, where Chris has been a Captain in the Headquarters of the Army Engineer Command for Europe. By the time this note appears they will be practically on their way home and out of the Army. In the meantime, they have managed to see a good deal of the Continent including Italy, Austria, Denmark, France, and Switzerland.
Charlie Main '39 writes from Charlotte, N. C., where he has been located for the past nine years as an Associate of Charles T. Main, Inc., that an angina pectoris condition has slowed him down a bit during recent months, principally by eliminating some of his strenuous travel schedule. However, he has had a chance to get back to his pipe-organ lessons and also is looking forward to spending July at their camp on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Geoff Mather BE'70 has been working on Data Processing in the Dartmouth Registrar's office and plans to enter Tuck School next fall. Classmate Tom GilmoreBE'70 is currently enrolled in Tuck School.
Paul Barnico ME'51 and son visited Hanover in March, shortly after the SST's defeat in the Senate which he expected might have repercussions in the Lynn General Electric Plant where Paul is Manager of Project Plans.
Fred Offensend BE '66 visited Thayer School in April after receiving his doctor's degree the previous month from Stanford's Department of Engineering-Economic Systems. Fred presented a seminar on Design, Control and Evaluation of In-Patient Nursing Systems.
George Ehinger CE'45 has been named General Manager of Dorr-Oliver's new global Process Equipment Division. George has been with the company since graduation, most recently in the position of U. S. Divisional Director of Marketing in the Process Division. The Ehingers live in Wilton, Conn.
Martin Anderson TT'58 has been appointed a Senior Fellow by the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford. Prior to accepting this appointment, Martin had served on President Nixon's staff, first as Special Assistant beginning in the fall of 1968, and since 1970 as Special Consultant to the President. In his new position, he will continue as a part-time Special Consultant, according to the White House, "on a wide range of issues and particularly in the domestic policy area in which he has been working recently."
Bill Conway '54, a partner in the consulting engineer firm of Modjeski and Masters in New Orleans, recently sent us a Design Team Report on the Scotlandville Bypass prepared by his firm. The report is notable in that it is the first multidisciplinary study undertaken by the Louisiana Department of Highways and that it was headed by an engineering, rather than an architecture, firm.
Jim Biegring BE'70 has been studying for his master's degree in Stanford's Environmental Engineering program and expects to graduate to a consulting engineering job in June.
Good letters were received during the spring with reminiscences of their Thayer School days from Dick Ellis '17, TedLonnquest '18, and Abe Winslow '21. The manuscript for the Centennial Book has, of course, gone to the publisher in the hope, and expectation, of an early September publication date.
And finally, plans are essentially completed for the Thayer School Centennial Convocation. The traditional College Convocation opening the school year on Thursday evening, September 23, will constitute the first event of the Thayer Convocation. Technical Sessions will follow Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning. A banquet and social evening is. planned for Friday. The full program will feature about ten distinguished speakers from a wide variety of disciplines, most of whom have already accepted invitations to participate. During the summer, invitations, together with a final program, will be sent to all Thayer alumni. In the meantime, it seems appropriate to present in this column a statement of Convocation purpose which has guided Dean Ragone's Centennial Committee in its program planning.
"The objective of the convocation is to stimulate a searching discussion of the future by engineers, scientists, social scientists, and humanists. From these points of view, we may gain insights into the world's social, environmental, and technological needs of the next hundred years. We may then be able to identify future challenges and responsibilities facing engineering education to assist us at Dartmouth and Thayer School, as well as others, to design programs which can give our engineering graduates the highest potential for growth and service in their world."
Come all and help us to achieve this ambitious goal.
