Missouri S&T Magazine, Spring 1943

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MSM ALUMNUS Missouri School of Mines and M etallurgy ROLLA , MO.

SPRING,1943

VOLUME 17

Pres. Middlebush Addresses Assembly President Frederick A. Middlebush addressed the students and the faculty at the assembl y period on January 8. Introduced by Dean Wilson, and with the auditorium filled to capacity, talking on the subject of " Present W orld Crisis," Presiden t Middlebush made a plea for an orga niz.ation of some kind that would prevent uch catastrophies as are now engulfing the world. President Middlebush stated that with present conditions of transportation and close association it was impossible for the U nited States to keep out of any conflict. H e reviewed the history of the League of N ations, and while not advocating this as the sort of organiz;ation that should maintain peace, he did emphasiz.e that some organiz.ation of this kind must exist if the world is to avoid recurrent wars. His address was followed with keen interest by both faculty and the student body.

EASTERN ALUMNI MEET AT AIMME The Annual C ocktail Party of the Alumni of the School of Mines and M etallul'gy held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Institute of M ining and M etallurgical Engineers was held at the W aldorf A storia, N ew York City, on Feb. 15, 1943, on a call issued by James L. H ead, ' 16, V ice-President of the general Alumni A ssocia tion. Dean Curti~ L. Wilson of the School of Mines was present and addressed the asse mbl y, along with others. '0

ENROLLMENT REACHES NEW HIGH The total enrollment for the academic yea r of 1942- 43 has reached 955 registrants according to figures released by R egistrar N oel Hubbard. This is the largest enrollment in the history of the school. This includes a total of 32 1 freshmen, 175 sophomores, 2 12 juniors, 2 11 seniors, 12 grad uates, and 2') unclassified and special students. The enrollment for the academic yea r by departments include 122 in Mining Engineering, 111 in M etallurgical Engineering, 95 In CI vI! Engll1eenng, 188 in M echanical Engineering, 11 2 in Electn ca l Engll1eering, 146 in Chemical Engineering, 23 in C eramic Engineerin g, 124 freshmen whose special field has not yet been selected, 7 enrolled in the Science curriculum , 1 special student, and 27 unclassified students. Students actually on the campus for the second semester include 2 16 freshmen, 130 sophomores, 181 juniors, 84 seniors, 9 graduates, and 10 unclassified students for the total of 630. The abnorm al loss in enrollment at the beginning of the second semester was brought abou t by the graduation of 126 seniors on Jan. 19. T here was on the campus last year at this time a total of 77 4. .T he above figures do not include a total of 120 Signal C orps I tralIlee on the camp us, 30 Air Corps boys, and 48 students taking special work under the Engineering W ar Training Science Program.

ALUMNI AT NEW YORK MEETING The following attended the meeting of the N ew York Section, AIMME on Sept. 28 at which H on. H erbert H oover was the speaker: W.Rowland C ox, '96; George A. Easley, '09; John S. Stewart, ' 10; S. E. H ollister , ' 13; E. S. T ompkins, ' 16; James L. H ead, ' 16; Karl F. H asselmann, '25; Joseph H. R eice, '27; Boris N. Daniloff, '29. Mr. H ead, who is chairman of the Section p resided ' and introduced Mr. H oover.

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WINTER COMMENCEMENT 126 Receive Degrees The first mid-yea r comm encement in the School's history, held as a result of the accelerated program, designed to p ut engineers mto II1dustry or mto the armed service at the earliest p ossible moment, was held on January 19, 194 3 with 126 men receiving degrees. . The C ommencement p rogram started on Sunday, Januar y 17 , WIth the Baccalaureate address delivered by Bishop John ¡C . Broomfield , of the M ethodist C hurch, St. Louis. On M onday, January 18, 8 : 30 p.m ., the an nual Fac ul ty Recep tion to Students, P arents, and Visitors was held. In the receiving line were Dean and Mrs. Wilson, President and M rs. Middl ebush, Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. W olpers, Mr. and Mrs. H arold]. M oore and Mr. and Mrs. James A . Potter , of the Board of Curators, Leslie C owa n, Secretary of the Board , and members of the degree-granting departments. The reception was followed by the an nual C ommencement Ball. . At the C ommencement Exetcises on Januar y 19, Dean Wilson mtroduced Dew A. S. Langsdorf, of the School of Engineeri11g of W ashll1gton UI1lVerslty, St. Louis, who spoke on the subject, " The R oad Ahead ." Dean Langsdorf asked the class to look ahead to the post-war condItIOns m our country and the world ou tside our borders. The .LJean stated that one hears and reads so many conflicting theories and proposa ls that it is easily possible to be not onl y impressed by the obVIOUS anXIety for the f uture, but also confused by the ease WIth whICh arguments for one particular p lan may be twisted to s upp ort a n o ther dive r gent, or even d ia me tri ca ll y opposite, proposal. H e said it is contended by some that the emergency of war is so compellIng that all our fac ulties should be concentrated on the achievement of complete milita ry victor y in the shortest possible tllne, leavlI1g the problem of the subsequen t adjustments to those who will frame the peace treaties. There are others who insist that if plans for the f uture are not to be left to hit-or -miss improvisatIOn whIl e paSSIOns and hates are still seething, general policies should be marked out by such cool thought as can be mustered in the midst of world conflagration. Dean Langsdorf stated that he subscribed to the latter view, and expressed the belief that you ng people lIke the graduatll1g class are too keenly interested in the future, and w hat it will mean to their personal careers, to be willll1g to shut theIr eyes and p lunge blindly into the thick of the present fight without thought of what is to come after . The danger that must be aVOIded at all cost IS the repetition of past blunders, espeCIall y some of those t hat were made in the years immediately following W orld W ar 1. . " T hose of you who have studied electrical machiner y know that If ~ manu fac turer w<i. nts to t est a large generator , he can, if he chooses, dn ve that generator by an engine and a boiler , and consume the generator outp ut in a rheostat," the Dean said . " T hat is a costl y procedu re for all the generated energy is thrown away, to say nothmg of the p rohibitive.i nvestment in boiler and enai ne Engineers know a better way. They run the generator with a n~otOI: supp lIed fr om a SUItable source, and the genera to!' output is fe d back to the sou rce that supplies the motor . By thus circulatin a power, the test is completed at an expenditure limited to the com~ paratlvely small lasses of the system. (Continued o n Page 2)


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