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Volu nw XXXV II
Professor Cltarles M. Allen, '94 Retires From Active Teaching To Remain Director Of Alden Hydraulic Lab in Ch affins " Tiw Jf'ort:Prler Pol,·t••thuic } tm mol'' W rillf'll by Pro/I'Uor Pnul R . Swnu
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Carl G. Johnson Tech Trounces Holy Cross in Is Promi11eitt Rousing Pugilistic Encounter
•Navy Releases New Metallurgist Bulletin Concerning Future of V-12
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KuykendaJI and
GagIiardo Win by Knockouts
Tech 'M. E. Proff'ssor Is E ngage(l In l\1<•thoclt~ Of Powclcr MNullurgy
Ry Carol Burtner
J n a number of sparkling, hardfought boxing contests held at the Professor Charles 1\1. Allen, for 51 Holy Cross Armory on Friday, April years an instructor in mechanical 6, Tech's newly formed ring team tive metallurgist in the f1eld today. engineering, and especially bydr:wllc On March 30, I 945, thr Bureau of defeated the Cross men by the score rnf{ineering at the Worcester PolyHe is at present working (ln a 45 mm. Naval Personnel released a bulletin 4-3. The fights, which consisted of technic Tnstihllc, retired frum active Reising ~u h-marhine gun and imthree 1 ~-minute rounds were the teaching ~larch firsL. At the request thal is or vital concern to all in t h(• proving the design or a hl'licopter result of a chnllenge hy Holy Cross. of the Board nf Trustees, Profl's- V-12 Program. l n this bulletin the clutch, that is, whl•n he isn't troubll·One of the highlights of the evening sor Allen will conllnue as Director Navy announced the desire to ex- shootlng Americun Bosch's new air· was the appearance or Jack Sharkey, of the .1\lden Hydraulic Laboratory tend l he V -12 contract with pnrtici- craft fuel pump or porin~-t over drafts former world's heavyweight charnin Chaftins. Professor :\llt'n's con- puting colleges for lhe term begin- of his fortllcorninH metallur~y tc•xtpion. Iinuous ~ef\•ice o£ 51 years of teuch· ninl( July I . The Administration book. Powder nwtallurgy occupies in~ at \\'orcester l'vlytechnic Insti- here ut Tech has off1cially nccepted some of his time too, nnrl wlwn quesThe T ech ringmen did very well tute is the longest in the rcwnls of this contract, thus mnldn!( secun• tioned about rerent d(lvrlopments in for themselves, scoring two TKO's and two decisions, and losing two the college. th(l locution and standing o£ thP .Jfn- this lielrl, Professor Johnson rlrrw 11 Professor Chark~ )1. Allen WIL" gineers of \V. P. I. fOr :Ull>l her term. washer used in the Garand rilll• frolll decisions and one default. In the born nt Walpole, 1\lass., December fm;t bout of Ule evening Tech's Pete hi!; pocket. " i\ few months a~(l,'' Part of the text ran as follows: 12, 1971. His early education wa'\ ":\11 trainees are to be aP-Sure<l that he Rititl, '' this cxldly-shnped wn!<her Vozzola, weighing 13S, faced J ack received in the local schuols and n fter their future status as described in required 17 machine nprrn tlons to Hadley, weighing 138, In three rounds of good boxing. Vozzola's graduation from the \\'alpole HiKh the original plan for transfer to R. achieve its tin:tl shnpe; toduy it is Last Semester experience and stamina was too much School he enteretl the Worce,.ter 0. T. C. is not chongcd in ~lilY ma- stamped fmm powder In nne opt•raSophomore Class Leads Polytechnic Jnstitute, from which he terial wny by the present ~tnnouncc tion.'' ' rhis washer is reprc~entntiYl' for the younger Hadley- he fought In Sclwlnre~ltip With. received the bachelor's degree in mcnt. l~very stucient who is sched· of many small metal parts which a game fight, but was no match 1 with ~11tirty·i1Cvcn PlncCtl l\It•chanical Enginecrin!( in 1894. H~ uled und qualif1ccl for transfer to R. were once marie by many shnpinf( Thirty-six m'en mode first honorR the result that Vozzola won the de· received the dej:tree of Master nf Sci- 0 . T . C. wlil be tmnsfcrrrd at an ap- operations but arc now producetl by and sixty-three ml)de second honors cJston. The second bout saw Bob ence at Worcester in 1899, ant! nn propriate lime, nnd will bc eligible one biClw of a press and 1\nished by this last term. ~·irst honors are Kuykendall, weighing in at 143 with Honorary Doctor of Engineering in tv re<:eive his commission at the some heat treatment. Professor Johnson based on 85-100 per cent. The aver- <t three-pound deficiency, run circles 1929. time as if the provisions of th1· also exhibited a porous metal or iron ag.-s are weighted average::~. No around his partner, Art Lairvy. In Professor Allen was an instructor ori~inal £1nnounccment had been car- and grnphitc which may be filled student is included on the honor the first round, Kuykendall bounced in :Mechanical En~~:inecrinl!: at W. P. ried out/' with oil. t•ressure causes the uil lo lists whose schedule is less thun 90 around Lairvy, driving home his I. from 1894 to 1902, rtssistant pro- The significance of thi~ announce· now from the pores and cover the per cent or a Cvll schedule for the powerful right when Lairvy was unfcssdr of cxpcrimenwl engineering ment affects all (If us here at Tech. surface. The rrsull is n sclr-lubri- class and course for which he is able to follow him. Kuykendall was from 1902 to 1906, professor from For the Engineel'll it means that their eating bearing. too fast for his opponent, and in the rcAistererl. 1906 to 1909, and vrofessor o r hy- education wlll continue at this school early part of the second round he The following is a list of tht> First On l'rofessor Johnson's ocsk ure draulics since Lbe Iauer date. knocked him groggy with a fast for at least another term. At the several 20 and 40 rnm. steel shell Honor rnen : Seniors-Richard 11. ),J uch of this time has been given right ; the fight was stopped and casings with a story behind them. Anshult7., Georgr E. Comstnck, present I ime ther(l are hut eight men to consulting practice in hydraulics, eligible for the R. 0 . T. C. Program, In World War I, as now, copper t)C· Abraham A. Gammel, j oseph H . Kuykendall was given a TKO. with special ntlenlion to lhc testing and although their future stat inn hns cupied first place on our list of criti- Johnson, Carl F . Simon, Leonard 1. In the next fight , Leo Geary, of water wheels and the measure- n()t been determined it has been dc- cal metals. Substitutes were nvidly Smith, William T. Wells, John H. weighing .147, lost a decision to Har· ment of the A.ow of water in pipes cided that they will take the regu- sought by metallurgists, whOile main Barrett, Walter W. Gleason. )union1 old Sullivan, weighing 1 49~. The and t hnnnels. He originated the lar R. 0. T . C. cQurse. point of attack wn.'l a search f11r :i - Robert N. Hnm il ~on, Albert E. first munrl was give and take, with "salt-velocity" method of measuring shell casing metal lhal mi,:tht be used Rockwood, Robert S. Tamblyn, Geary probably on the better side. tlow, which has received interna· instead of brass. Steel was tried Howard B. France, Philip R. Loshin , But in the second round, Sullivan, tiona! recof{llition and use. For his • bul proved to be unsaLisfactury. The Floyd A. Wyc;,alek, Donald I .. Le- who has fought many amateur bouta work on experimental draft tubes, cold working and shaping of steel land, Walter N. Hatch, Peter n. in New England Golden Glove Conhe received in I Q2 5 the Jame<; Laushell casin~s left a coarse, brittle Myers, Roy E. Stillwagon. Sopho- tests, used his ability and experience rie prize of the American Society of structure which might break down mores-Alexis N. Charest, Frank A. to get an edge on Geary. In the C'ivil Engineers. Jn 1928 he refrom concussion. Professor John· Gross, Max E . Underwood, Robert third round, Geary tired, and was On April I 1, 1945, il will be our son and other metallurgists sought t:eived the Clemens Herschel Award E. Hull, Myer Krulfield, Daniel G. unable to offer much resistance to from the Boston Society of ~1cchani honor to hear lhe prominent Chinese a way of overcoming this fault. New .Lewis, Willlam Longmuir, Thomas Sullivan, who was thought by many cal Engineers. J n 1936 he was philosopher, author, economist, and methods of quenching and temper· M. McCaw, Yazbcck T. Sarkecs, to be the best boxer on the Holy awarded the Worcester Reed Warner raconteur, Or. Tehyi R asieh at a ing were tried. A normalizing proc· Robert B. Scharar, George A. Cr<lss team. medal of the American Society of student assembly in Alden Meml)- ess was perfected which improved Schupp, Edward F. Supple. Fresh- Johnny Longo, weighing I SJ , and :'.lcchanical En~~:ineers, " for the per- rial. Dr. Hasich will address the the internal structure and mechani- men-Robert E. Begley Leonard W. the only Tech man to have a weight 1 manent value of his papers on the students on the lopic of the oppor- cal properties of the steel. This Fish, William ]. Rice, Morrel H. advantage over his opp()nent, faced development of methods or testing tunities for young engineers in the process consisted of raising the tem- Cohen, John W. Luoma. the Cross's Bob Ducey, weighing lar~e hydraulic turbine instnlla· Orient. H shall be of special inter- perature slightly above the critical Second H onors: Seniors-Nestor I SO, in the fourth bout of the evetion~." The Franklin Institute of est to Tech men 1 for few ()( us have range long enough to heat the steel Brown, Rodney S. Chase, Calvin F. ning. Tt was a boxing match, with Philadelphia in 1942 awarded him any delinite ideas about his native throughout. The casing was then Long, Floyd T . Miller, William R. no slugging. Longo took the first the Elliott Cresson Medal for his country, or of the opportunities removed from the furnace and al- Potter, Frank E. Schenk, Walter F . round and the second probably was offered to engineers in China. work in hydraulics. lowed to cool rapidly in air. T his Conlin, Robert B. Hayward, Charles a dra w. The third was give and take A man of magnetic personality, resulted in a dispe;sal of impurities B. Miczek, Richard H. Martin, John until Longo's shoulder Professor Allen is a member of the dislohonorary societies of Tau Beta Pi Dr. Hasieh has Lhe power usually from the inter-crystalline bounda- C. Metzger, J ohn K. Petry, Robert cated, and he- lost the fight by deand Sigma Xi, a member and past denied to Orientals of speaking per- ries, where they form embrillling cell N. Hot.cbkiss, Carl W. Bergman, fault. vice-president of tbe American So- fect English, his whole discourse walls, into comparatively harmless William R. Grogan, Jackson L. Hay~ The "Brooklyn Bombshell" Frank ciety of Mechanical En~ineers, of showing remarkable understanding minute globules. Professor j ohnson man. Juniors-James R. Davis, Ed- Schenk, faced the "Bronx Bomber," (Continued on Page 2, Col. S) of the vagaries of our tongue. (Con tinued on Pa~e 2, Col. 4) (Conlinucd on Page 41 Col. 4) (ConUnued on Page J, Col. 3)
Dy Ct?orl('' llmvk f' No New ROTC U nits Wi11 Professor Curl Johnson of thr l\1 . K Be Formed on July 1 , As Department is probably the most acStutc(l in N€'w Order
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