Thayer School

Neil Drobny CE'64: "The highlights of my activities for 1971 are as follows: "February: Appointed group leader, Environmental Planning Group, Battelle-Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, to conduct research on the impact of environmental problems on the economic and social well-being of people.

"April-May: Spent one month in South America on a project related to water quality monitoring.

"June: Testified before the Ohio Senate on the detergent phosphate problem.

"October: Elected to Board of Directors, American Water Resources Association.

"December: Received a Ph.D. from Ohio State in Civil Engineering; my dissertation was "Planning, Design, and Operation of Water Quality Monitoring Systems in Latin America.

"The primary thrust of my current activity is in the development of techniques for writing environmental impact statements."

Paul Stokstad, Mr. E.'68: "The thesis for which I received the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize concerned the design of a Vibrating Reed Electrometer for electrostatics demonstrations in the classroom. This unit was manufactured by my company, PASCO scientific, for a few years but was discontinued due to advancements in Field Effect Transistor technology. It was succeeded by two new models of MOSFET Electrometers for use in teaching electrostatics.

"Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this story is that a large hosiery mill in North Carolina wanted to measure the antistatic characteristics of their panty-hose. They went to one of the nearby colleges and were introduced to our equipment. As a result we developed special equipment for measuring the antistatic characteristics of fabrics, which is now used in several mills and by chemical manufacturers.

"And the moral of the story is: there is more to pantyhose than meets the eye."

Stephen L. Smith, BE-MBA'68: "Currently, I am Manager of Manufacturing Engineering for General Electric's Carbon Products Operation in East Stroudsburg, Pa. My responsibilities include plant layout, selection and development of new manufacturing equipment, methods, and standards, building and machine maintenance, and safety and health engineering. This is a broad spectrum but it's all challenging and exciting...

"I'm glad to see the go-ahead on the Murdough Center. Being a Tuck-Thayer and in manufacturing I feel there is a real need for interdisciplinary training.

"Jean and I have a four-month-old baby girl and are enjoying her tremendously. We were back for the Penn game and those Hanover hills are as beautiful as we remembered."

Michael F.X. Gigliotti, Ph.D.'70 and Andrew W. Urquhart, Ph.D.'71 are Research Associates at General Electric's Research and Development Center in Schenectady.

Peter C. Buhler, CE'56 has been named a vice president of Continental Investment Corporation, Boston, a financial services and real estate-oriented holding company which manages assets of over $4 billion. Peter, his wife and two children reside in Weston, Mass.

Myron E. Witham CE'06: A year after graduation he was Resident Engineer for the Laguna Dam Project on the Colorado River above Yuma, Ariz.,... After this he was in on the planning of the diversion of some of the water of the Colorado River from the eastern slope of the Rockies to California via tunnel... In 1920 he became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado and in 1932 returned East to become Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vermont which post he held until his retirement in 1946.

Malcolm McLoud (TT '47): "The most vivid of my remembrances of the good old days at Thayer occurred in your class in Thermodynamics: the day I got 17 out of a possible 100, including 10 points for neatness!"

(During World War 2, Malcolm became a lieutenant in the Navy Supply Corp. with duty in Honolulu. One day an LST pulled into port, fresh from the States with full stores of food and drink. Malcolm was asked by his superior to pay this craft a visit and see what he could get them to part with. He was greeted by the skipper of the LST, who in exchanging pleasantries, learned that Mai was from Dartmouth:

Skipper: "Did you ever meet Professor Ermenc there?"

Mai: "Did I meet him! Why that !*!!**!! almost wiped me out of a course I took from him. Do you know him?"

Skipper: "Yes, he's my brother."