Thayer Dean Named

Carl F. Long, for 18 years a member of the Thayer School faculty, has been chosen as eighth dean of the 101-year-old graduate school of engineering.

He succeeds David V. Ragone, who resigned last spring to become Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Mr. Long, Associate Dean and chairman of the College's Department of Engineering Sciences since last year, was the unanimous choice of a search committee charged with recommending Dean Ragone's successor, President Kemeny noted in announcing the appointment. As dean, he will continue as chairman of the Department of Engineering Sciences, which is staffed by Thayer School faculty and offers courses to undergraduate students of the College.

An authority on elasticity and structural analysis and design, Dean Long came to the College in 1954 after two years of research at MIT, where he took both bachelor's and master's degrees. He earned his doctorate in engineering at Yale in 1964 following study on a National Science Foundation fellowship.

In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, Dean Long is a consultant to the New Hampshire Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission and to the U. S. Army Materiel Command. He has conducted fallout shelter analysis courses for the Civil Defense office on behalf of the National Society of Professional Engineers.

He has been chairman of the Hanover Town Planning Board for the past five years.