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Thayer School
Holden N. Waterbury CE'47 is a structural engineer at the Randolph Air Force Base in Texas: "Just received the new Thayer Bulletin. A reading of it made me realize how fast some of us post WW-2 grads are becoming archaic."
Dr. Dick W. Whitfield DE'70 is director of planning and development of the materials technology group of the Howmet Corporation of Greenwich, Conn. The Group consists of six highly diversified divisions. Dick's work includes the direction of R&D projects, cost reductions, new products, environmental considerations, technological forecasting, strategic planning, and growth plans.
Dean Spatz BE '67, MrE'68, president of the Osmonics Inc. of Minneapolis has an article in "Products Finishing," August 1972, on the reclaiming of electro-plating chemicals from electroplating wastes for reuse via the process of 'reverse osmosis.'
Spatz began working on reverse osmosis during his sophomore year and continued with it to a master of engineering thesis. Osmonics Inc. is a company of his own creation to exploit his expertise in this new and not completely understood field of technology.
Tom E. McWhorter BE '70: The picture and biography of Tom occupies one page of Westinghouse's university calendar for '72-'73. He is their example of what an aspiring young engineer can do at Westinghouse. Under the Westinghouse Advanced Degree Program Tom got his MS in ME in '72 from Carnegie-Mellon University and also taught an undergraduate design group at C-M.
He is a development engineer in the Infilco Division in charge of shipboard waste systems. In addition he has a project of his own underway which is to develop designs for future waste treatment plants for laundries and homes. For instance, he is investigating other water-removing processes than centrifuging and reverse osmosis applied to laundry wastes.
He has recently been appointed to Waste Water Committee of the National Automatic Laundry and Cleaning Council which helps to set government effluent standards for commercial laundries.
Lt. Bob Fagan MrE '69, is in the Naval Reactors Division of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C.
Whitney Eastman CE '11, 'retired,' was awarded a citation for dedicated work in the field of conservation by the Minnesota Ornithologists Union.
Whitney was a leading figure in the development of the linseed oil and soy bean oil industries in the U.S.
Dr. Harvey W. Graves Jr., EE'5l has been named a "Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS)." Harvey is being honored for his "leadership in the physics and engineering
development of pressurized water reactors, for his contribution to the engineering design and evaluation of operating characteristics of power reactor cores, for the development of components and concepts for the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor and for his significant contributions to the teaching of reactor core design."
He is presently a part-time lecturer in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, and an independent consulting engineer. He started his career at the Westinghouse Electric Corp. as a nuclear engineer. He subsequently became manager, nuclear engineering, Westinghouse Atomic Power Division, and was appointed manager, advanced reactor development, upon formation of the Advanced Reactor Division in 1966.
He is the author of six publications and has also served as a member of the USAEC Advisry Committee on Reactor Physics.
Robert W. Dickgiesser BE'70: "Special delivery to Nancy and me was a daughter, Holly ... I have left the Toro Company to work for father at the Chas. J. Dickgiesser & Co., Derby. Conn. Since then father has elected semiretirement, leaving me manager and chief broom pusher."
Overseer Gordon Brown has been named Institute Professor at MIT. This title is awarded to scholars of special distinction and gives him freedom to teach what and when he chooses. Dr. Brown was a pioneer in the development of servomechanism theory and practice, principles of feedback control, computer technology, and automatic control systems for machine tools.
Professor Ed Brown CE '33, has been elected to the board of directors of the New Hampshire Lake and Stream Association, a private, nonprofit corporation established to promote the wise use of New Hampshire's lakes, ponds, and streams.
Ray Becker TT '6O has been appointed as the Raytheon Company's member of the '73-74 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Program at MIT Ray, who is Administrative and Data Processing Manager for Raytheon's Bedford Laboratories Missile Systems Division, will join 49 other Sloan Fellows in a twelve month program leading to a Master of Science in Management.
Douglas Kerr BE '69 is now with the U.S. Department of Transportation in New York City and is busy working on a bus study and helping take care of a female addition to the family.
Phil Jackson CE'44 erstwhile guard on those Dartmouth football teams of long ago and now boss of the Jackson Construction Co. working out of Needham, Mass., was awarded the contract for building Dartmouth's Rupert Thompson Arena — the new multi-purpose building which will include the new ice hockey facility. Ground was broken last August. Phil just finished the new Science Center between Wilder and Steele and connecting with them. Roy Stifler CE '47 is on the job with Phil.
George Passano ME'54 is with Union Carbide in the field of environmental protection.
Sam Hobbs CE'13 was honored last March by the Southern California Chapter of the American Concrete Institute in two ways. First, he was made an honorary life member in recognition of his past devoted services to the Institute and the concrete industry. And secondly, as an incentive for future members of the Institute, a Sam Hobbs Service Award was established as an annual award for the Chapter member "who exemplifies the virtues of service so long personified by Sam Hobbs."
Sam was a Phi Beta Kappa in the days when that was a meaningful distinction.
