McCarthy Fellowship

An endowed fellowship for graduate students at the Thayer School has been established through a gift of more than $145,000 from Henry J. McCarthy '31 of Marblehead, Mass., to the Third Century Fund.

The first Henry J. McCarthy 1931 Fellowship, supported by income from the endowment, is to be awarded for the 1973-74 academic year.

A former member of the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School, McCarthy went to the Harvard Engineering School after graduation and joined Sylvania Electric Products the following year. In 1941 he was named engineering manager for Sylvania in Salem, Mass., a position he held until 1947, when he and a partner founded Bomac Laboratories. He served as president and later chairman of the board of Bomac until 1963, when he left to organize Trimac Engineering, Inc. He retired from the presidency of Trimac in the late 1960s.

The Thayer School fellowship is only the most recent example of McCarthy's service and generosity to the College. In addition to his two terms, from 1961 to 1970, as a Thayer overseer, he was a member of the Alumni Council from 1964 to 1967 and served as 1931's 35th reunion chairman. A keen fisherman and hunter, in 1960 he gave the funds to build and equip a three-room camp, primarily for alumni use, in the Dartmouth College Grant in northern New Hampshire. In 1963, a gift of his made possible, for a three-year experimental period, an educational officer to work with students through the Dartmouth Outing Club.

Henry McCarthy's brother, the late George W. McCarthy, was a member of the-Class of 1922, as is his brother-in-law Leonard E. Morrissey. His son Robert is '60, and his eldest son, Father Leo McCarthy, was on the staff of Aquinas House until he was transferred to the Southwest.