Thayer School

Lt. R. Carter Hall, USN BE'68: "I think my career situation might be an example of both the benefits and the problems one inherits as a result of a Thayer education. I now actually have a choice between banking and engineering, between business and technical research.

"ES 21, the sophomore "Introduction to Engineering" course set the tone of the program after the freshman year: how does one go about solving a problem with given resources? The approach works in all fields. That is the problem. One is still faced with a career choice after the five years! Of course, the benefit is the tremendous flexibility such an education offers.

"Thayer's problem-solving education has helped me in my work in the Navy, from the one year in nuclear reactor school, to a one and a half year tour on a destroyer, to teaching computer programming here in Washington, D. C., for the past one and one half years.

"What's next? Hopefully, I'll be in medical school in the fall of '73; perhaps I'll be able to influence traditional educational patterns with the Thayer philosophy!

"I feel proud about the calm, careful, creative, and collective approach that the entire Dartmouth community has taken towards solving its problems: coeducation, minority groups, finances—the myriad of problems and the constructive solutions tried and supported.

"I sound like an ES 21 instructor!"

Paul J. Henegan CE 49: "Thanks for your inquiry regarding my Dartmouth Society of Engineers prize paper, The Design of Nomographic Charts, and the effect it may have had on my career.

"It was certainly helpful, especially in the early job hunting years to have the fact listed on my resume, though half the persons who reviewed it did not know what a nomographic chart was.

"Having gravitated early into the construction field, my need for the design or use of such charts has been minimal. But if only I could design a nomograph which would yield the optimum bid on every job-low enough to win and high enough to show a profit!"

Paul is president of the Henegan Construction Co. in New York City.

Dr. Blair R. Osborn Jr. D'61, was one of the five "Angry Young Men" at the University of Washington's College of Engineering who was instrumental in loosening up the rigid patterns of engineering education there to accommodate new technological developments, new interests of the students, and new uses for a technological education. Osborn is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering.

His extracurricular activities include home-brewing, long distance running, a free medical clinic, and an environmental group; it is believed that these are not interrelated.

T. L. Lim D'72 did his undergraduate honors project in the Engineering Sciences with Professor Tom Laaspere (1961) of Thayer's Radiophysics Dept. This collaboration also resulted in the acceptance of an article to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research; it is entitled, "An Evaluation of the Intensity of the Cerenkov Radiation from Auroral Electrons with Energies Down to 100 ev."

Professor Laaspere also presented a paper on this material before the meeting of the International Committee on Space held last May in Madrid, Spain.

George N. Collins CE'35: "I am just about ready to hang up my slide rule after 20 years of consulting engineering for Ernst & Ernst, the first ten of which were in Industrial Engineering out of their New York office and the last ten doing economic development consulting in the country's redevelopment areas—chiefly Indian Reservations in the Far West. This involved trying to motivate the Indians to become self-sufficient by helping them to develop industry and recreational activities under one Federal program (EDA) while combatting the "do-gooders" who are trying to "preserve the Indian heritage" by keeping them in teepees under another Federal Program (OEO).

"I will soon be retired and expect to be piloting our 32-foot seagoing houseboat on a 'Great Circle' cruise to Florida via the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Great Lakes, Illinois River, Mississippi River and the Gulf, returning after 6 weeks to our Virgin Islands' hide-away at St. Croix and then on to Washington, D. C. via the East Coast Inland Waterway.

"If we haven't got cabin fever by then we'll ship our boat the 'Casa Chica' to Europe and do the canals of Belgium, Holland, and France. By then I'll be tired of not working and plan to join the Paunch Corps (Executive Service Corp) and direct some economic/industrial development projects in underdeveloped countries under the auspices of USAID.

"This all sounds great and certainly can be done if I can avoid accidents like I had last April when I fell down stairs and broke the fourth vertebra in my back. Fortunately, I am completely recovered. I am very happy here in Washington with my imported Belgian bride of ten years with whom I have been moonlighting in the practice of real estate.

"So, in general, the Game of Life has been good, is now better, and promises to be best as we enter the last quarter."

(Professor Ed Brown CE'33 recalled that George's Dartmouth experiences included extra-curricular activities that even today may be rated as extraordinary!).

Richard Wyckoff, ME'64: "Last year at this time I was in personnel research for RCA's now-defunct computer division. I started off in the computer side of things and ended up in the personnel or

"sociological" side; that transformation within my three-year tenure at RCA aptly summarizes the shift in my interests from physical to social-oriented study. At the present time I am enrolled in the graduate sociology program at University of Washington in Seattle, and if all goes well, will presumably devote my professional activities to the study of men and societies.

"I think that the Dartmouth-Thayer education provided an outstanding preparation for this field of study. I remember that my hope on entering as a freshman was to combine study in the sciences with study in liberal arts, and find it only slightly ironic that this goal may now be realized."

Aerial view of the Murdough Center, now under construction, linking Tuck andThayer Schools. River Cluster dorms and the river are in the background.

The Tuck School column usually included on these pages will be omitted due to the forthcoming issue of Tuck Today, the new Tuck Alumni Magazine to be published twice a year. Dartmouth alumni interested in receiving a copy of Tuck Today are encouraged to write to: Director of Alumni Affairs Amos Tuck School Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 with a request for the fall issue. The magazine will be forwarded at no charge early in December.