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MSM Alumnus Iss ued bi-month ly in the interes t of the g raduates and form er students of th e School of Mines and M etallurgy. S ubscription price $ 1. 50, included in A lumni Dues. Entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1926, at Post Office at Rolla, Mo., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Officers of the Association Ka rl F. Hasselmann '25 Pres ident H arry Pence '23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V ice Presi dent James L. H ead '16 ..... Vice Pres iden t H oward M. Katz '13 ...... . Secretary-Treas urer Board of Directors F. C. Schn eeberge r '25, Chai rm an Barncy N uell '21. M. E . N ickel '38. }. M. Wan enmacher '23. R. G. Proug h '38.

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Contents

About Town and Campus 9 New Constitution, ByAth!etics ... ..... . 10 Laws&TrustAgreement 11 Alumni Personals . ..... 13 President's Page .. .. .. 3 C a mpus News .. . . . . . . .. 6 Section News .. . . ..... . 4 Erin Go Bragh ! .. . . .. . . 2 Vets' Observation Post 10

The President's Column

1 t is a n honor to be pres ident of your A lumni Association. I w il l se rve all of yo u to th e very bes t of my ability, and I ho pe that with the ass is tance of the other officers and the :five members of the Board w hich you have elected I w ill be ab le to maintain th e hi g h s tandard w hich our past president, Mr. F. C. Schneeberge r, set durin g the pas t two years. The s hoes left by F reddi e are large ones a nd will be difficult to fill.

Scvera l years ago, the membership of the Association was a pprox imately 200; in 1946 this number had been increased to over 1000. This is the largest members hip the Association Jns cver enj oyed, and we hope that the inspiration Freddie g ave all of us w ill help us carryon so our organization will g row to eve n greater proportions.

F re ddie ass is ted in organizing numerous Alumni Sections throug hout th e country by vis itin g these section s personally and clari fy in g many of the ques tions w.hich existed in the minds of th e alumni. H e made a careful s tudy of the basic, overridin g principles, rul es, and regulation s which govern our A lma Mater; he had several meeti ngs with our B oard of C urators with w hom he talked openly, frankly, and in a s traightfo rward manner, and all who know him reali ze there a re few his equal in this respec t; he had m any conversations and m eetings w ith Prcs ident Middlebush and D ean W ils on at Colum bia, St. Louis, and Roll a, and as a res ult of these frank meetin gs a nd co nversations he has been abl e to advise <I II of us of the actual exis tin g conditions. H e has in my opinion bro ugh t about a greater understandi ng between the A lumni and the A dminis tration.

T he A lumnus was fo rmerly abou t an eig ht page magazine a nd was iss ued quarterly. For the pas t two yea rs it In s been averagi ng thirty to thirty-s ix pages and has been iss ued bimonthly. The magazine has g iven us names and addresses of our friends and, information about the various departm ents in the school as w ell as interes tin g and informative articl es by our alumni .

Freddi e worked di li gently with all of his committees to brin g abou t the many changes w hi ch have taken place, and I think it is noteworthy of mentionin g that the Curricula a nd R esearch Committee, w hose Chairman was Mr. I. W. A lcorn, made a very comprehens ive s tudy and report. O ne of this Committee's recommendation s was that a Humaniti es Department be form ed. Whether or no t this was respons ibl e for the Hnma niti es D epa rtment being fo rmed at MSM, I am not in a pos ition to s tate, however, a Humaniti es D epartm e nt was formed and P rof. Sam Lloyd is its h ead.

Freddi e was instrumental 111 makin g' a v a i I a b 1 e to the School certai n equipm ent to w hich few schools in the country can claim an equal:

In 1943 he was abl e to obtain a n X -ray machine from Wes ting house as a dona- tion to the Departmen t of E lectrical En g in eerin g. T i s was done on a no

KARL F. HASSELMANN, President charge" basis. T his e quipment is very valuab le for the examin at ion of m etal castings and fo rg in gs, for the determination of interior voids and other defects not vis ibl e from the s urface. I t can also be u sed to determin e the s oundness of welds. The machine works on exactly the sam e principle as those used for X- rayin g th e i1llman body, but has many times the pen etratin g power of the ordinary doctor' s or dentis t' s X -ray. A special l ead lined room has been buil t for this equi pment to confine thc dan ge ro us X -rays . A course is bein g taug ht in the department of M etallurgical En gineerin g to in s truct the students in th e application of X -ray technique to m etallurgy.

A lso, in the latter part of 1943, the W es tin g house Company made a few "Electronics Laboratories" for selected t eaching ins titution s, and throug h Freddie's efforts a deal was offered to MSM on the basis that, if they took the entire " packaged" lab w ith a regular. net price to teachin g in s titutions of vVestinghouse would make them a price of $2500. This offer was accep ted by the Schoo l. This E lectronics Lab consis ts of the following : 1. A n as sortment of E lectronic Tub e s, R ectifiers, I g ni trons, etc. 2. Precipitation U nit (Electros ta tic A ir- Cl eaner ). 3. I g nitron R ectifi er - th is is a hig h encr gy rectifier used in num erous industrial processes. 4. P hoto T roll eyLig ht SCllsitive D e

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5. A utomatic Synchronizer. 6. Hi g h Tens ion Oscillator. 7. Genera tor Volta ge R egul ator. 8. Compl ete Hig hvo ltage Industrial Xray Mac hin e. 9. MO - T - TROL

FRED C. SCHNEEBERGER, Retiring President

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