Thayer School
Edward Brazil, BMechE'65, a consultant to the Pneumo-Dynamics Machine Tool Groups of Windsor, Vt., and on its behalf, is offering to financially support a thesis-project for some Thayer student dealing with a sound level reduction program for an automatic multi-spindle lathe.
Peter E. Brown, MS'72: "I plan to attend Tuck School. I have decided that I would like to round out my engineering training with a more complete knowledge of the business world.
"Coming to Dartmouth after attending a large engineering school such as Northeastern University was indeed a rewarding experience. I was impressed by the variety and depth of the courses offered at Thayer School, and especially by the amount of time which each professor devotes to the individual student and his problems."
Edward S. Poole, CE'12: "My most interesting 'engineering job' was the survey of Balch Hill area during the summer of my senior year. Since then my life has been spent in operating an insurance agency in Albany, N. Y., established by my father. While I never practiced engineering I feel the training I received with "Bobby" Fletcher (1871-1936) and "Ebo" Holden (1900-1968) was very helpful."
An announcement of a Thayer School thesis presentation:
At long last ... The much awaited BE presentation of ...
RONALD D. McCALLISTER (BE'72) Starring in "AN IMPROVED TECHNIQUE FOR CALCULATING THE AVAILABILITY OF DISTRIBUTED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS"
Everything you always wanted to know about systems ... but were afraid to ask:
Are two small heads better than one big head? 10:30 AM June 2, 1972 Room 106
Also featuring:
Two 3M projectors, a plant simulator, three pseudo-Markovian matrices, and many more thrilling extras!
NOT TO BE MISSED! YEARS IN THE MAKING! A COST OF THOUSANDS!
Produced and Directed by Prof. T. F. Piatkowski, Technical Assistance by Foxboro Co.
A THAYER SCHOOL RELEASE
(This report was one of the two winners of the DSE prize of $50 for the outstanding thesis written by a BE'72 candidate; the other winner was Gerald NiestemskiBE'72 for his paper on "The Utilization of the Off-Main Street Section of the Hanover Business District.")
Paul Meyer TT'52: "I was at the University of London for the 1971-72 academic year, doing both teaching and research, while on leave from my permanent position, which is Prof, of Math, at City Univ. of N. Y. (Lehman College).
"My research interest is in topology, which is completely unrelated to engineering. I won't try to explain how this came about because it is a long story and probably only of interest to me."
Dr. Robert B Evans Ph..D.'69 is assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. He writes:
"Prof. Russ Stearns CE'38 (1945) gave an excellent lecture here a year ago. Our faculty was most impressed by his grasp of engineering design and traffic control."
(Bob is a 'thermodynamics intellectual'. While at Thayer studying for his Ph.D. he wrote or co-authored 17 papers dealing with different approaches to thermodynamic analysis and their practical application.)
Nostalgia 44: A part of a letter from Dick Livingston MechE'44 from an island out in the Pacific during World War II:
"We had a problem—lots of beer but no cooler and a deep, deep desire for cold, cold beer in this hot, hot climate. We found a refrigeration box but someone had taken the machinery out of it. I found an air conditioner some general had left behind which I adapted to our box. I made all the fittings and charged the system with freon but there were freezing problems with water in the system which I fixed up with some airplane fittings and some silica gel. Our contrived beer cooler now works like a million and life on this tropical island now becomes more tolerable."
(Dick is now an Engineering Associate in the field of polymer chemistry with DuPont.)
Attending the Thayer breakfast at the Class Reunions last June were: Donald M. Armistead, CE'49; William E. Buckingham, MechE'49 Paul J. Henegan, CE'49; Robert E. Keane, CE'48; Kendrick A. Kelly, CE'48; Robert E. Price, CE'48; Reuben Samuels, CE'48; Gary L. Crellin, Mech.E'64; Neil L. Drobny, CE'64; Carl T. Lind, D'63; John D. Pearse, D'63; Karl F. Andrews, Jr., BE'67; Thomas E. Brady, Jr., MS'68; Hector J. Motroni, ME'69; Dennis C. Pollock, BE'68 Peter M. Fahey, BE'69; and Joseph P. Lowry, BE'70.
Ex-Dean Ragone (1970-1972), who has left Thayer to become Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan, gave a brief run-down of the 'year-that-was'.
Ed J. Bykrit, CE'47 moderated the session "Impact of Transportation Facilities on Natural Resources at the 1972 ASCE National Transportation Engineering Meeting in Milwaukee, July 17-21, 1972.
Ed is Deputy State Highway Engineer, Wisconsin Division of Highways.
Russ Adams BE'72, is with Metcalf and Eddy in Boston. He will be remembered by alumni as a stellar defensive back on the Dartmouth football team and by appreciative 7th graders at the Hanover Grade School as their coach in basketball and football during his graduate year at Thayer.
Russ presented his thesis analysis on solid waste management before a group of state officials and consulting engineers in Concord, N. H., last June. After fielding questions he was complimented by many for the excellence of his work and his presentation. His thesis mentor was Prof.Russ Stearns.
Lee Beyer BE'67, is an engineering applications specialist on computer timesharing with the General Electric Company in Bethesda, Mainland. He had an article on time-sharing in the Nov. '71 issue of Electronics World.
Dennis Bidwell D'71, along with JohnT. Hanley MS'72, Douglas Davies '70,William K. Hart '71, Thomas A. Henderson '71 and Thomas W. Lovell '71 have been awarded Patent 3,665,447 for a "Method and Apparatus for Preventing Inebriated Persons from Operating Vehicles". It is based on the fact that a light which appears flashing to a sober person will seem steady to a drunk.
This project was undertaken in ES 21, the sophomore "Introduction to Engineering" course, in 1968.
The faculty adviser of this group was Prof. Bengt Sonnerup (1964) and the course director was Prof. Russ StearnsCE'38.
Thorstein Gislason DE'72 (candidate), represented Iceland at the Munich Olympics in the 800 meter run. He was the bearded fellow in the outside lane. He came to Thayer from Princeton where he was an outstanding halfmiler; his best time was 1:50.1.
William D. Kint TT'57: "While Prof.George A. Taylor (1949) (who is retiring this year) was at his best when encouraging creative approaches in his Work Simplification Lab my most valuable lesson was learned from him in his Power Equipment Lab. We were assigned to trouble-shoot a starter panel for a DC motor. It was trouble all the way for two hours with GAT smiling benevolently at us all the time but making no moves to help us. The denouement came when we discovered we had been working on the wrong panel!"
