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'WoreeeMr, Voln.me XLIV Numbu •
NoY. S, 19SS
WELCOME, PRESIDENT CORMENY INDUSTRIALIST, NAVY VET, LAWYER TO HEAD SCHOOL
President's Message
Mr. Cormeny Will Assume Office on December 1, Relieving Acting President Dean Roys to Become The Youngest President Since Charles Thompson
In an interview with a TEcH XEws reporter, newly-elected President Alvin E. Cormeny left these words for the student body. " Any one who undertakes to piliticipate 50 directly in shaping the
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pattern of men's minds and chltracter has a great responsibility. 1 am deeply conscious of it." •·We are fortunate that Tech has such a fine reputation built up over the years. Our principal efforts can be turned to keeping up the momentum, not chnnging the course. We
At Coltveution Recently Professor Sanger of the Civil Engineering Department attended the NaUonal A.S.C.E. con· venli<>n held in New York City and
are also fortu nate in having Dean Roys to break me in to this new field." " It seems to me Lbat your Trustees have indicated a continuance of Tech's close relationship as a private • pnvate • col Iege wtth enterprise. However, we do not expect support mere-
ly because we are a private insti· tution, but because we ex"""t to lake ·-~~ full advantage of the freedom of aclion it affords to maintain Tech's outstanding reputation for turning out sound, well qualified engineers." "Our faculty is outstnnding and our f11Uipml'nt is good. We nre proud of the calibre of our graduates and ou; .students. 1 ~m gr.ateful for the pnvllege or workmg With these. men, for r know that we are all Lrymg to m:tke Tech better than ever."
ROTC NEWS Usually twice a year a conference is held at Headquarters First Army, Governors bland, New York City, :\ew York, which Is attended by all Professors of Military Science and Tactics in the First Arn1y Area. Colonel Harris attended one of these conferences on October 19. Many items pertaining to the ROTC were discus.c:ed, particularly the quota sys· ttm for entrance into the advanced course and its operation in future year~. "Major General Hugh M . Mil· ton Jr., executive for reserve and ROTC i\ffairs in the Department of the .\rmy stated that any quotas which are to be imposed upon entrt\nce into the Advanced Course in subsequent years wiJl be published al least six months In advance or the effective date ()( the beginning or lhe t.<'hool year. This mea.ns that at \\'PI sophomores will be contacted rarly in the second semester to deter· mine whether or not they are intere•ted in continuing their ROTC training. All those who are interested will be first given a mental examination which they must pass in order to be coo~idered further. The students who (Continued on Page 4)
spoke on the activities of the Tech A.S.C.E. chapter. ' rhe large audi· ence wns impressed by the rttcls that the faculty attends all of the meet· lngs ; thttt most of the chapter work io done by the st•tdents·, th"t "1· "" ' " .. though membership is voluntary, all OUR NE'tl' I' IU!SIDENT
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The Worcester Tech HomecomingK --------weekend started off at a high pitch Arter the gtliDes, the Alumni were last Friday as the suddenly incited treated to music and refreshments Freshmen dragged the Sophs through al a Tea Dance in Alden. cold and muddy Institute Pond in One(• ugain the frnlernities rtdded the 11nnual rope pull. On Saturday the rlernent of undergrttd spirit with with a nod from the weatherman 1 th~ anuthrr line nssflrlment or homecampus was the scene of much merry coming displayll, featuring college activity as Tech men held OJ.>cn arms scenes, nnd "llcat R.'PJ." themes. to hundreds of alumni who rctumed Work pmddt'd by enthusiasm was once again to the scene of their un- curried on w1•ll into the early hours dcrgraduate days to renew old nc- or Saturday morning to mttke up for quaintances and to enjoy nostalgic timC' lost because elf a week or rain; memories of " what we did back in the results were an arrny of unex· '29''. pectedly outstanding displays, as The day was made even morr ~tood a variety a'l has been seen on memorable by the announcement of the campu5 in many years. the nppojntment of Alvin E. CorT op honors and a silver platter for meny as the new President of \V.P.I their display wrnt to Sig Ep, who and succe.c;sor or the late Admiral \Vat combined their talent in mechanisms Tyler Cluverius who died October and a familiarity with Tech life to 28, 1952. President Cormeny, who depict the four (or five} stages in the briefly addressed the members or thr life of an undergraduate engineer. faculty at noon in Boynton-19, will Dr. Frederick R. Butler made lbe assume his duties in December, re- presentation of the coveted award at Heviog acting President Dean Fran· the annual Homecoming Dance at cis \V. Roys. Alden Memorial. S.A.E.'s 3-D T .V. Uigblighting the day's activities scl and Theta Kap's st.nJled R.P.I. enwere three athletic contests-a croS.'I· J.'( inc which puffed smoke received country meet wilh Amherst, a soccer hcmorablc mention. As a group, Lbe Kame with Trinity, and, most popu- fratcrnitirs are to be commended for Jar on the program, the home-comln~ thrir contribution to the high spirit football game with arch-rivals R.P.J . which was in evidence throughout Although our crimson-and·gray-clnd the day on the campus. athletes could muster but a. tie in th~ All fraternities held open house for three contests-a well-played, hard· their alumni to gather, talk shop, and fought football battle with our col· recall the trials of the past. Most leagues in study from Troy- the popular among the Alumni was the home engineers showed up well in singing of old college songs, a pastheir 2.0 loss to Trinity and in their time which is missed most of all by loss to Amherst. "old grads."
or the Civil Engineering students at T ech a re me mber..• ; th a t 1arge au rl'1r nces, including many members of the Senior A.S.C.E. Society in the Worcester area, are present at meetings during which student papers are re.ad; and that ln the last four years the Tech chapter has been awarded a certificate of commendation and three letters of honorable mention. W.P.I. cun be proud of it-s Civil Engineering society because, through the discussiou l11at followed Professor Sanger's talk, the convention ex· p ressed its feeling~ that the Tech chapter contributes a praiseworthy ionuence to the campus as a whole, Rnd that all of the cb11ptcr's activities and dealings with Senior A.S.C.E . Societies are characterized by a high degree or maturity In both purpose and action. In addition to speaking, Professor Sanger scheduled, for a chapter meeting, the showing of a Olm on the giant new 11 Cerro Bolivar" iron ore project in Vene2:uela. lle aJso invited Mr. Prager, chief engineer of the New York State Public Works Department, to give a talk on the New York Thruway at a meeting of the Civil 'Engineering Association in this area. This talk is scheduled for the spring, and the meeting will be open to all Tech student$.
Masque Meeting THURSDAY, NOV. 5 At 9z00 tn the JANET EARLE ROOM All new men intereeted in acting, eet deelgn and bual· neu are urpd to attead.
The election of Alvin E. Cormeny, 41, of Haddonfield, N. J., as the eighth president of Worcester Poly technic Institute was announced at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Saturday, October 31. He is the youngest man to hold that offi e · tb fi t · 'pal IC Slnce e rs prmct • Charles 0 Thompson who was 3 1 · ' years old when inaugurated in 1868 at the college dedication. :Mr. Cormeny succeeds Adm. Watt Tyler Cluverius who died in October
or lttst year. M Co b 1 i i r. rmeny as >een v ce pres· dent nnd assistant to the president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N. ] ., since 1950. H e1olned the general counsel's office for New York Shipbuilding and its affiliated companies in 1941 and became an executive in 1947. In 1944 and 1945, he was a naval officer and commanded an LCI and LST in tbe Pacific Theater. He was for five months head of the research and legal department or the Navy's labor relations division. He is a Qative of Springfield, Ill., and was an honor student at ntlnols College, where be was graduated in 1933 with two years in engineering :md a major in business administratlon. He studied law for a year at University of lllinois and took hls law degree at Cornell in 1936. He did post-graduate Jaw study at Co· lumbia in 1938 and 1939. He practiced law in New York's financial districl with Chadbourne, H unt, Jaeckel, and Drown from 1936 to 1941. Mr. Cormeoy's duties with New York. Shipbuilding have included general business policy and administration and specific functions of sales contract negotiation and administration, public and industrial relalions and personnel work. Mr. Cormeny accepted the office of president of the Institute because he ~ in it an opportunity to be of service, to the school, its students, und industry. In an informal talk with a TECH News reporter, he said that Lhe problems of a privately endowed college like Worcester Tech in maintaining high standards in the quality of its graduates, who a re to compete with graduates or government endowed schools, are much the ~me as the problems of private in~ dustry without the aid of government subsidies. With all his experience in private industry, Mr. Cormeny is certainly the man to handle the problems of W. P. I .