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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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RE: ENGINEERING DEFENSE TRAINING
FIRST TERIil BEGINS MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY
6, 1941 - FORI.IAL E^IROLLMENT
RELEASE: FOR I.IONDAY, JANUARY 6, 19^1
ED. NOTE: SEE ATTACHED liEvIO FOR TIME AND PLACE OF K-IROLLMENT ACTIVITY.
1000 ENROLLEES WILL ASSEIfflLE AT THAT TIME TO RECEIVE OFFICIAL
NOTICE OF THEIR ACCEPTANCE FOR COURSES, LOCATION OF CLASSES,
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS, INSTRUCTORS, ETC.
One thousand metropolitan Chicagoans will, actually speaking, roll up their
sleeves and go to work tonight, Konday, January 6th, 194J-, starting at 7 o'clock, in
the nation's gigantic defense program.
The one thousand men are those who have enrolled for the tuition-free engineer-
ing defense training curricula organized and presented by Illinois Institute of Tech-
nology as its contribution to the training of men v>rith technical backgrounds so vi-
tal to defense industry. These men v/ill be taking short-term, highly specialized
courses designed for men now in engineering industries who have basic engineering
training and whose efficiency cs-n be raised by this intensive training.
This engineering defense training program is one annotmced several weeks ago
by Illinois Tech, and planned under the auspices of the United States Office of Edu-
cation. H. T. Heald, v;ho is President of the Institute and regional advisor for Dis-
trict #15 to the United States Office of Education, made the announcement for the In-
stitute.
This prograjn is the largest carried on by any engineering school in the United-
States, according to advices received from 'Washington. And it was also learned tivi?
additional courses are already being planned to start on or about February 1st, fo:
a second group of two hundred persons.
This program, originally organized by Professor J. B. Finnegan, who has been
relieved of his duties because of illness, has been planned to fill the needs of the
Chicago industrial area. Its prime objective is to provide educational training upon
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. A600
RE: BASKETBALL - LAKE FOREST AT ILLINOIS
TECH - 1/5/a - A: 15 P.M.
108th ENGINEERS ARMORY
RELEASE: FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 19a
After two weeks' vacation for the Christmas holidays, the Techawk Cagers have
resumed practice for their first game of the new year. This will be a return match
with Lake Forest College, Thursday, January 9th, at 4.sl5 P.M. on the Engineers' home
floor, the 108th Engineers' Armory, 34- th and Wentworth Streets.
The record of one win in six games for Illinois Tech is quite unimpressive com-
pared with the Foresters' four v/ins and a 33-31 defeat at the hands of Millikan Col-
lege; however, the Techawks have amassed 176 points to their opponents' 209 tallies
in six contests which is not dishonorable.
The first encounter this season against the Lake Forest five resulted in a 4.0-
32 defeat and two black eyes for the Techawks. The game might have gone the other
way if the Engineers had been familiar with the additional four feet under the bas-^
ket provided ty the Rules Committee at Lake Forest. And so the Techawks look forward
to their first van in four years and six games over the Jaybirds of Lake Forest.
Leading the Forester five will be veteran George Harrison, rated as the finest
the Jaybirds have seen in 10 years. He has averaged 12 points per game while serv-
ing as the team Captain last year. His running mate at the forward position will be
junior Floyd Gates, the only man on the squad with three major letters. He is the
fastest man on the visitor's team and specializes in rebound shots.
The Techav^rks did have a veteran in Captain Henry Sliwa. But Tech's Captain
Jinx of five years standing put him on the sidelines for the remainder of the season
with a trick knee. All of Tech's present squad is in the first year of varsity com-
petition, and their Coach, Remie Meyer, is in his first year of College coaching af-
ter retiring from the active professional ranks.
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Sparking the Techawk offensive will be Captain Sliwa' s running mate at guard,
sophomore Jack Byrne, by far the most outstanding player of the squad. His tricky-
ball handling and deceptive dribbling are a pleasure to watch, and his push and hook
shots with either hand have accounted for 53 points, nearly one- third of Tech's to-
tal. Still trying to find a satisfactory replacement for Captain Sliwa, Coach Meyer
will start John Brierly, senior reserve. John's alertness is responsible for a
great many pass interceptions, and the accuracy of his apparent haphazard shooting is,
at times, remarkable.
Tech's starting center, 6'4-" sophomore, Ray LaGodney, who has been hampered by
illness all season, should be well rested and ready to go.
In selecting the forwards, Coach Meyer draws them out of a hat, figuratively,
for such is his wealth of materifil. Most likely to get the Jaybird assignment are
juniors Mike Carey and Bob Neuhaus.
The probable starting line-up:
LAKE FX)REST
Gates F
He.rrison F
Johnson C
Rhein G
McKenna G
ILLINOIS TECH
Carey
Neuhaus
LaGodney
Brierly
Byrne
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - CHICAGO
VICTORY 4600
RE: BASKETBALL - LAKE FOREST AT ILLINOIS
TECH - 1/9/iU - 4:15 P.M. 108TH ENGI-
NEERS APJilORY, 34.TH AND WENTliVORTH AVENUE
RELEASE: FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941
On Thursday, January 9th, the Illinois Tech Engineers T;ill play host to the
Lake Forest Jaybirds in a return match of a home and home series. The game is to be
played at the 108th Engineers Armory, the Techay;ks' home floor, at 4:15 P.M.
It v/as decided late last night, by Coach Remie Meyer, that Captain Henry Sliwa
will have recovered sufficiently from a knee injury to start the game. Sliwa is the
fifth Captain in as many years to be incapacitated by injuries for a portion of the
season.
Handsome Hank's runring riate at guard for the Techawks will be sophomore Jack
Byrne, current high scorer vdth 53 points in six contests. Jack's deceptive dribbl-
ing and unorthodox passing have brought cries of "uncle" from his opponents, ?/hile hit
ambidextrous hook and push shots command the praises of the team at large.
This pair will have for their defense assignment senior George Harison and ju-
nior Floyd Gates of the Jaybirds. Harison maintained a 12 point per game average
while Captaining the team last season and is acclaimed by many as the best that Lake
Forest has seen in ten years. Gates is the only man on the squad with three major
letters in his possession, all of v/hich he earned during his sophomore year.
This particular match is somewhat of a grudge affair for the Techawks since thej
haven't beaten the Jaybirds since 1937. In that time Lake Forest has nosed out Tech
six times. In their previous encounter with the Engineers this season, the score was
Lake Forest 40, Illinois Tech 32.
Rounding out the Engineers' lineup will be sophomore Ray LaGodney at center, a
budding "Mike Novak" who is just beginning to click in intercollegiate competition.
Supporting him on the offensive positions are Howard Pendlebury and Robert Neuhaus.
Pendlebury, a transfer student from Valparaiso University, is styled more tov/ard a
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center's type of play, being very effective on rebounds, v/hile Keuhaus is more of the
guard type, a good ball handler and excellent at long shots. So, in reality. Coach
Meyer is putting a team on the floor consisting of tv/o centers and three guards - a
somewhat unusual combination.
Probable starting lineup v. ill be:
LAKE FOREST
Gates F
Harison F
Johnson C
Rhein G
McKenna G
ILLINOIS TECH
Pendlebury
Neuhaus
LaGodney
Byrne
Sliwa
ED. NOTE — TVro ADDITIONAL GAI.IES HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE ILLINOIS TECH SCHEDULE,
AS FOLLOWS:
Feb. 7 Friday
Feb. 18 Tuesday
Illinois Tech at Lawrence Tech
Illinois Tech at North Central
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FROM: ALEXAflDER SCHP^IBER RE: FRESffilAl^ SCHOLARSHIP EXMINATIONS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SArURDAY, JANUARY 11, 19a - 9:00 A.M.
TEcmroLOGY - VIC. 4600
RELEASE: FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 19a
Culminating almost two months of preliminary investigation, Illinois Institute
of Technology will give a v/ritten examination to high school students tomorrow, Satur-
day, January 11th, 1941, starting at 9:00 o'clock. This examination will be the fi-
nal factor in the awarding of scholarships amounting to Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500
to the Armour College of Engineering Division of Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Institute expects approximately ninety male high school graduates of Febru-
ary, 19a, to take the mid-year scholarship examination. It was pointed out by Pro-
fessor Stanton E. V/inston, Chairman of the freshman scholarship committee, that un-
like the June examination, the candidates this year will all be graduates of Chicago
high schools. V/ith few exceptions high school graduations throughout the country are
held in June only, and hence the scholarships av/arded this month will be exclusively
to graduates of accredited public and private high schools in the Chicago area.
The complete scholarship examination consists of tv/o parts, since all candidate,
taking the three-hour Vifritten examination will have had a personal interview vjith some
member of the scholarship committee before they take this examination together. This
personal interview is very important and is taken into consideration before the av.-arde
are made. As mentioned, the written examination vdll be three hours in length, last-
ing from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon, and v/ill be held at the Armour College of Engineer-
ing Division, 3300 Federal Street, Chicago. It will cover mathematics, physics and
chemistry. The mathematics portion of the examination v/ill be primarily in algebra,
including such topics as factoring, fractions, exponents and linear and quadratic
equ^ions. Questions in plane and solid geometry may be included also. The examina-
tion in physics and chemistry vdll be of the objective type in the main, but vdll in-
clude a short essay upon an assigned topic. It will be general in scope and based
upon textbooks of physics and chemistry commonly used in secondary schools. There
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will be no written examination in English. The candidate's ability in effective Eng-
lish expression v/ill be judged by the personal interview and the short essay prepared
in connection with the written examination in physics and chemistry.
There will be five scholarships av/arded for Three Hundred Dollars ($300) apiece.
They will provide for one year's tuition at Armour College and vdll be applicable to
any of the courses in engineering and architecture.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600
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RE: SOPHOMORE "SNOT/ BALL" DANCE
1/2^/a - 9:30 P.M. - HOTEL BEH-JIONT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
In the school's first major social affair of the new year, the sophomore class
of Illinois Institute of Technology will act the part of gallant and gracious host
at the annual sophomore dance, this year to be held on Friday evening, January 24.th,
in the distinctive Empire Ballroom of the Hotel Belmont.
Arrangements for the affair are in the hands of two students, one each from the
former Armour Institute and Lewis Institute - the two now merged to form Illinois In-
stitute of Technology.
Beginning at 900 P.M., the collegians and their friends will swing out to the
danceable tunes of "Pee-Wee" Johnson, one of collegedon's favorite dance band lea-
ders. "Pee-Wee" was featured this last summer at the Campus Club.
Appropriately enough, winter in all of its glory will be the motif of the even-
ing. The sophomores have dubbed their forthcoming social effort the "Sophomore Snow
Ball'] and have made plans accordingly. Carrying out the frosty theme is the attrac-
tive bid to the dance, which students at both schools have proclaimed "tops" in de-
sign. The bid, three inches in diameter, features the school's colors - scarlet and
gray - and opens up to form a realistic snowball. The dance vdll be informal and
will not only be the first major event of the year on the school's social calendar,
but will represent also the first major combined social effort of the tv^o divisions
of Illinois Institute of Technology - the Armour College of Engineering and the Lewis
Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Chairman in charge of arrangements is John E. Peterson, 153-4 North Leavitt St.,
sophomore in the school of fire protection engineering at the Armour College of En-
gineering. Charles is also Social Chairman of the Armour College class of '^43. As
a freshman he was also class social chairman and performed his duties in such a ca-
pable manner that his fellov; students unanimously reelected hira to the post this
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year. A graduate of Carl Schurz high school, he is at present active in intramural
sports and is a member of the v/restling team.
Co-chairman, and representing the Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences, is Myra
Eileen Robinson who resides at 1911 Summerdale Avenue. A member of the student coun-
cil at the west side campus, this capable and attractive young Miss v/as recently
elected by her classmates to the position, of Social Chairman of the Arts Sophomores.
The committee in all consists of sophomores from both campuses of the Insti-
tute. They are:
ARMOUR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, 3300 federal Street:
John E. Peterson, Chairman, 1534^ North Leavitt Street
160 North Laramie Avenue
310U North 78th Avenue Elmwood Park
2508 South Christiana Avenue
5216 Lind Avenue
910 North Springfield Avenue
^-32 Armitage Avenue
LEWIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Madison at Damen Avenue:
Myra Eileen Robinson, Co-chairman, 1911 Summerdale Avenue
John A. Cameron,
Refert D. Croon
Walter R. J. Gow
Richard Guetzov/
Walter Hawrysh
Ted F. r^einhold
Patricia Ams
Mary Knirsch
Helen F. Marzullo
Joseph W. Nowak
Arthur Petterino
Grace Taglieri
4-618 Patterson Avenue
2021 Grove Street
613 South Leavitt Street
402 155th Place
A820 V^est Kamerling Avenue
909 South Bishop Street
Blue Island
Calumet City
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: M. VL FODOR AT THE WISCONSIN (MILWAUKEE)
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE - I/IA/AI -
TECHNOLOGY - CHICAGO MILWAUKEE TOWN HALL
VICTORY 4600
RELEASE: FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 19A1
M. W. Fodor, professorial lecturer in social science at Illinois Institute of
Technology, eminent foreign correspondent and novelist of European power politics,
will appear before The Wisconsin (Milwaukee) ^tate Teachers College to give them the
"lowdown" on Hitler's current war moves. Mr. Fodor is scheduled to lecture beflfore
that organization on Tuesday evening, January 14.th, 19A1 at the Milwaukee Town 'Hall.
Mr. Fodor's topic v/ill be "The Shape of Things to Cone", Dr. J. M. Klotschle is
chairman of the program.
Eminent as a novelist of European power politics leading up to World War II,
Mr. Fodor served a lifetime upon the European continent as foreign correspondent for
the Manchester (England) Guardian and several American newspapers, one of which was
a prominent Chicago paper.
According to John Gunther, correspondent and novelist, Mr. Fodor "has the most
acutely comprehensive knowledge of Central Europe of any journalist living today. He
is better informed than the British in Central Europe and the foreign office pays
close attention to his dispatches."
Bom in Budapest, Hvmgary, Mr. Fodor was educated as an engineer who gave way
to an overpowering desire to learn the "ins and outs" of European politics. Well
conversant with the forces back of the present world-wide convulsions and extremely
familiar with v/ar tactics, Mr. Fodor is a student of and has a wide knowledge of the
"Blitzkrieg".
Early in his career he became associated with the Manchester Guardian and se-
veral American newspapers. It vras v/hile serving as roving correspondent for these
papers that he travelled so extensively through Central Europe and the Balkans, meet-
ing and becoming acquainted v/ith such men as Hitler, Mussolini, Laval, and others.
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During the past few years, Mr. fodor covered the fall of Vienna, the fall of
Prague, and he was in Warsaw when invasion was imminent. He also traveled through
Spain, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Northern Africa.
Vilith the German "Blitz" machine on his heels, he observed the invasion of the
Low Countries and fled the scene of the Axis' successes iii order to save his life,
for he was quite unpopular with the Dictators.
In outlining for this group the current moves of the Hitler-Mussolini war ma-
chine, Mr. Fodor expects to touch upon such points as the c-bvious failure of the
Nazi forces to invade England - and the necessity of turnir.g to the Near East for
oil. He will also explain the Axis' strategy in moving into Rumania and the possi-
bility of crossing Bulgaria in its strategic winter moves toward Tiirkey and the oil
fields of Iraq-Iran.
In touching upon these points, he is expected to reveal the necessity for Bri-
tish support to Greece, his conference vd.th the former premier of Turkey - Ataturk -
and the plan of defense when the Axis moves in the direction of Turkey, and the ul-
timate clash with Russia.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^1^600
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RE: BASKETBALL - ^/"HEATON AT TECH - 1/13/41
4:15 P.M. - 108TH ENGINEERS AEITORY,
V'/EN'KjORTH AVENUE AT 34TH STREET
RELEASE: FOR MONDAY, 1/13/41
On Monday, January 13th, the Illinois Tech cagers will play host to V/heaton Col-
lege in a return engagement at the 108th Engineers Armory. In their first meeting
this season, V/heaton trounced Tech by a score of 41 to 29 in the VvTieaton College Gym.
Facing their eighth start this year, the Techavjks are still seeking their se-
cond v/in, their lone triumph being over Grand Fiapids University 43-31. Meanvthile
IVheaton is looking for its third van in six starts.
When the Techawks step out on the floor against the Crusaders, among other things
they will remember the 22 points scored against them by the team of McCarrell and Ev>(-
ing. Nor will the Crusaders forget sophomore Jack Byrne and his 12 tallies in the
previous tilt. Thus far this season, Byrne has garnered 64 points in seven contests.
However, "Jackson" is looking forward to the pending match in eager anticipation for
it is to be played on his home floor which contains several times the area of the 7,'hea-
ton court, greatly increasing the effectiveness of deceptive dribbling.
Coach Renie Meyer, nev/ly initiated into collegiate coaching ranks from the pro-
fessional playing field, is still at a loss to select a team which he v;ould definitely
label as the first team. There are approximately tv^elve men v;hich comprise the "first''
team for such is the distribution of skill. Those most likely to get the nod from
Coach "Remie" will undoubtedly include Byrne and Captain Henry Sliwa at Guard. As for
the remaining three men, they might as well be chosen by lot. Reasonable guesses say
that sophomore Ray LaGodney, 6' 4" will be the tip-off man with juniors Mike Carey and
Hovjard Pendleburj' as companions in the starting offensive combination.
Probable starting line-up:
V3HEAT0N COLLEGE
McCarrell F
Schultz F
Hoisington C
Edv/ards G
Evri.ng G
ILLINOIS TECH
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Pendlebury
LaGodney
Byrne
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RE: "T\'¥0 ON M ISLAND" - DRAIvlATICS CLUB
PRESE'^TATION - LE?.T:S AUDITORIUI/i,
MADISON & DAIffiK AVE., 1/31/41 - 8 P.M
FOR IfliEDlATE RELEASE
Getting the school's drana season off to a flying start, the Lewis Drama Club
on Friday evening, January 31st, will present a three-act play entitled "Ivjo on an
Island". Carr^-ing on in the best traditions of the college stage vdll be a number of
local students.
The first play to be presented by the students since the formation of Illinois
Institute of Teclmology by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis In-
stitute, it vvill be given in the auditorium of the Lewis Institute of Arts and Sci-
ences Division, Madison and Damen Avenue. The curtain will rise at 8:00 P.M. Sneak
previews confirm the promise of the Drama Club that the play v/ill be a big hit.
"Two on an Island", currently popular with theater-goers, is a drama of metro-
politan New York. It retells in dramatic, fast-moving sequences, the popular Ameri-
can tale of country folk Vifho come to the Isle of Manhattan to v/in fame and fortune.
Foremost of their ambitions is to be accepted as typical New Yorkers. To tell this
story, the play takes the lives of two people - a boy and a girl - unknown to each
other, who come to the big city determined to become successful actors. The two
come together in a most unusual manner while visiting the Statue of Liberty. They
soon fall in love and get married, promising each other to beat the v;orld together.
The trials uid tribulations that can beset a young couple in the country' s largest
city becomes the main theme of the play.
In addition to the considerable acting talent, the eight scenes of the play v;ill
feature some of the most lavish scenery ever attempted by ambitious college students.
Among the many sets will be an elaborate subv/ay scene and one representing the Sta-
tue of Liberty.
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The direction of the play will be in the capable hands of Mrs. Olive Pierce Ha-
zel, 6336 Sheridan Road. Mrs. Hazel is instructor in physical education at the west
side campus.
The cast of characters includes the following, all men;bers of tlie drama club:
Arthur Petterino, -ii.820 \7est Kamerling Avenue. He is a sophomore in tlie school of
arts and sciences and is president of his class. A member of the Dance Committee and
the Student Council, he has also been active in intramural atliletics since his fresh-
men days. Lately he has found time to be a sv/eater representative for his class.
Arthur will act the part of a taxi driver in the play.
Robert Weyer, 832 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, a junior in the arts and sciences,
will also act the part of a taxi driver. Vice-president of his class, Robert's acti-
vities include being a member of the News staff, the Annual staff, the Student Coun-
cil and the Badminton Club. He is a member of Gamma Rho fraternity.
Playing the part of Mary Ward v/ill be Miriam VJalker, 1706 South 5th Avenue, May-
wood, Illinois, a senior in the arts and sciences department. Miriam is president of
the Lewis Drama Club. In addition, she is on the staffs of the Nev;s and the yearbook,
a Student Council member, president of the Glee Club and a member of Kappa sorority.
John Perkins, Jr., IhLM, South Sangamon Street, will play the role of John Thomp-
son. John is a junior in the arts and science;; department and the treasurer of the
junior class, a member of the Student Council, the News and Annual staffs, and the
Badminton Club. He is a member of Gamma Rho fraternity and at present is taking fly-
ing lessons under the government's Civilian Pilot Training Plan.
The role of Clifton Ross is played by Charles Reinhardt., Jr., 45^6 Sheridan
Road. Charles, a student of the arts and sciences department, is vice-president of
the senior class. He is a member of the Student Council, the Nev;s staff, and the
Badminton Club.
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Steven Mendak, 2013 West Iov;a Street, a junior in the arts and sciences depart-
ment, plays the part of Lawrence Onnand. Steven is president of the junior class, a
member of the Student Council, the News staff, the Annual staff and a star player on
the school's basketball team.
Alda Kairis, 315 South Kostner -^^venue, senior co-ed in the department of arts
and sciences, vdll play the part of Dorothy Clark. A member of Lambda sorority, Alda
is president of the Pan-Hellenic League, School Activities chairman and a member of
the Student Council. She also belongs to the Glee CiuL and is on the staff of the
News .
The role of Grace Mueller will be taken by Jane Goelet, 1827 V.'ashington Boule-
vard. A student in the arts and science department, Jane is secretary of the senior
clciss, a member of the Student Coiincil, the staff of the Nev/s, the Glee Club and
president of Lambda sorority.
The role of fred Vifinthrop goes to a freshman, V/illard Fisher, 4-715 Monticello
Avenue .
Richard Barnes, 5350 North Glenwood Avenue, will act the part of the sightsee-
ing guide.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEVv CAMPUS PLANS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600 RELEASE: AFTER 1:00 P.M., Monday, l/l3/a
Trustees of Illinois Institute of Technology today (Monday) announced plans for
expansion of the school's physical plant at an estimated cost of $3,000,000. In ad-
dition, the trustees hope within the next few years to secure, through additions to
endowment and the development of other sources of support, funds sufficient to as-
sure the Institute an anniial operating income of at least $275,000 in excess of cur-
rent figures.
The plans for development of "a great technological center" were outlined to
more than 100 civic and business leaders of the city at luncheon in The Chicago Club,
by President Henry T. Heald of the Institute and V/ilfred Sykes, assistant to the
president of the Inland Steel Company and chairman of the policy comjnittee of the
board of trustees. Serving vdth Mr. Sykes on this committee are James D. Cunningham,
Meters
president of Republic Flow " / • Company and chairman of the board of trustees;
Charles S. Davis, president of the Borg-Vi/'amer Corporation; Sydney G. McAllister,
president of the International Harvester Company; and Charles B. Nolte, president of
The Crane Company.
According to the annoiHicement, Illinois Institute of Technology has already
made preliminary arrangements for the expansion designed to provide adeouate modem
accomodations for 7,000 students in engineering, arts and sciences. This step will
equip a single campus for those enrolled in Armour College of Engineering and in Lewis
Institute of Arts and Sciences, the merger of which was formally completed last July.
V/hile the entire program contemplates progressive steps over a period of time,
certain definite projects are outlined for completion within the coming few years.
These include the erection of a new mechanical laboratories building, an engi-
neering and science building, a library and humanities building, a student union, a
field house and a power plant. No interruption in campus activities is involved as
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existing facilities v/ill be utilized until replacement is complete. This means that
both the Lewis and Armour campuses of the Institute will continue in operation for
the present.
At today's (Monday's) Toncheon, Chairman Cunningham of the Institute's board of
trustees presided. The general development plan was outlined by Chairman Sykes of
the board's policy committee, ;vhile details of present campus activities and future
plans, illustrated by slides and motion pictures were given by President Heald.
According to President Heald, one of the problems Vi'hich beset Armour Institute
for years was deterioration of the neighborhood in which it was located. Numerous
proposals were made to move the campus to another section of the city. More than
three years ago, however, the trustees, after careful study, concluded that "the ad-
vantages inherent in the present location of the school, readily accessible from all
parts of the city and splendidly served by all forms of transportation, v/ere so great
that it vifas not practical to contemplate development on another site."
As a result, steps were taken to secure sufficient property adjacent to the
present Armour campus to provide for future grov;th. Six blocks of land surrounding
the campus, extending from 32nd to 34-th Street and from State Street to the Rock
Island Railroad tracks have been gradually acquired. Follov;ing the merger with Levi/is
a re-survey of the area indicated that ample space for a joint campus was available.
Architect' s drawings for the required buildings and campus plan were prepared by the
late Alfred S. Alschiiler, prominent architect and a member of the board of trustees
of Ai'mour Institute from 1926 until his death last year.
Part of the campus expansion plan is already in operation, it v;as pointed out by
President Heald. This consists of a small laboratory building recently completed on
Dearborn Street just south of 33rd. This structure was erected by the Institute in
conjunction wich the Research Foundation, v/hich will continue its service to industry
from the new campus.
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FROM: ALEXAWDLK SCHIl^IBER RE: GRADUATE STUDIES
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SECOND SEMESTER BEGINS 2/10/4I
TECHKOLOGY - VICTORY
4600 - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS RELEASE: FOR MONDAY 1/20/4I
In line with its recently announced campus and educational expansion pro-
gran, Illinois Institute of Technology will offer several neiT graduate courses
for engineers during evenings. These courses will get under way "vrith the
beginning of the second semester of the acadenic year 1940-41 on February
10th., 1941.
Designed primarily to serve engineering personnel now employed in Chicago
industry, according to Dr. L. E, Grinter, dean of graduate studies who made the
announcement, these courses are also projected along lines necessary to assure
defense industry a sufficient number of highly specialized engineers, "This
program therefore, is two-fold in that it serves it purpose of providing highly
trained scientists and research engineers for defense production and develop-
ment progress, he said, "as vrell as satisfying the need for graduate study
during evenings for those interested in advancing their education."
Am.ong the several new courses listed, never before offered in the Chicago
area is one having direct application in the airplaine design and construction
industry. Eno■l^m as a course in aerodynamics, this course for graduates is
augmented by two others formdng, "so to speak, short-term curricula in the
advanced study of airplane design and construction," explained Dr. Grinter.
"The first of these," he continued, "has reference to the two-dimensional
theory of the airfoil and the three-dimentional theory of the v:ing. • The
second of the courses referred to, structural and mechanical vibrations, has
direct-application in the determination of proper engine mounts, etc., and
vibrational conditions of high speed plaines in flight under varying conditions."
^ An especially important course to the aeronautical engineer is that of
thin shell construction. This course is the counterpart of one given last
summer by the Institute during its highly specialized graduate program designed
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for "key men in defense industry."
In all, 45 seperate courses are now listed in the expanded graduate divi-
sion curricula. These courses range from higher raatheriiatics to sanitary eng-
ineering and enconpass all phases of industrial and highly scientific problems.
/jiother of the courses never before presented in Chicago is that of
traffic engineering. Filling a long felt need of the highway engineer, this
course is developed along the most advanced traffic engineering lines including
traffic survey methods and analysis for urban and rural highway planning. It
also includes motor vehicle laws, regulations, and traffic control methods as
well as design principles for super-highv/ays and traffic channelization.
Professor S. M. Spears of the Institute faculty, a leading expert in this field,,
will present the course,
Dr* Ernest Schvfarz-Kast, research expert of the Armour Research Foundation
will present a course on industrial electric drives and motor controls. This
course is another of the group specifically designed to meet the needs of de-
fense indsutry. Predicated upon the highly technical problem of electric
motor usage in industry today. Professor Schv/arz-Kast xvill consider all funda-
mental principles involved in correct m.otor design, construction and appli-
cation as well as motor controls.
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FROMj ALi^'JlijDEK SCEUEIBEK K£: FILST COxMEWGEIILiMT EXEHCISES
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF FIRST COOP GltADUATING CLi-^SS
TECIIONOLOGT - VICTORY 4600 YffiDLIESDAY, JAN. 29, 1941-8:15 P.M.
FOR IMvlEDIATE RELEASE
First Illinois Institute of Technology graduation exercises, since
amalgamation of forty-four-year-old Arraour Institute of Technology with Lewis
Institute last July, featuring the first graduation class of five-year coooera-
plan
tive plan students since the 1936 inception of the revolutionary were announced
today hy H. T. Heald, president of the Institute,
The exercises, during which sixty-seven students will receive diplomas,
v;ill be held Wednesday, January 29, 1941 in the auditorium of the Museum of
Science & Industry in Jackson Park (at the foot of 57th Street), They will
begin at 3:15 P.I.'I.
Alfred Kaufmann, President of the Link-Belt Company of Chicago, one of
eighty-one large industrial corporations cooperating with the Institute in
this special alternating vrork-and-study program, will address the graduates.
Dr. Harold W, Ruopp, minister of Central Church, Chicago, vdll deliver the
invocation and benediction. A student choral group and an orchestra will perform.
A novel aspect of the exercises vrill be found in the fact, that in addition
to parents and friends of the students, employers of many of the fifty-seven
graduates who are taking degrees in mechanical engineering under the five-year
cooperative plan are expected to attend.
In an oblique sense, these employers are part of the "faculty" of Illinois
Institute of Technology. As ormers of plants and factories in vriiich Institute
students v/ork twenty-six weeks of each of five undergraduate years while they
spend twenty-four weeks annually in the schoolroom, they contribute greatly to
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the finished scholastic product,
Yfages paid in the respective industrial shops to undergraduates are more
than su.-^ficent to offset tuition and incidental fees of the school. Only
highly-qualified freslinen, enrolling mth superior marks and other reconiJTienda-
tions, are allovred to ^Tork under the cooperative plan.
Ten of those receiving diplomas -.Till be graduates of regular four-year
courses of Armour College of Engineering division of Illinois Institute of
Technology, a program in no r:ay minimized since the cooperative plan v/as
established.
President Eeald vri.ll confer the diplomas after the candidates are presented
to him by Charles Austin Tibbals, Dean of Armour College of Engineering of the
Institute. Institute rriarshals of the exercises v.'ill be Professors Charles A,
Hash, William A. Colvert and Arthur '.Y. Scar.
Two honor-students from each undergraduate class of the cooperative plan
enrollees vrill be student marshals, assisted by five honor-student marshals
from the regular four-year course classes. The four-year course marshals are:
James D. Brovm, rtobert H. Harmon, Leonhard "iV. Holmboe, Roy E. Jacobsen
and Leo Stoolman.
Follovring is the list of five-year plan cndidatcs (Bachelor of ocience
degrees in mechanical engineering):
AHLSTROMi^K, MGIIUS JOM 1625 Grace Street
ANDERSON, G. MONTGOMERY 4332 Day-ton Street
2323 Melrose Street
4548 3, Rocb/rell Street
7630 Yernon Ax^enue
4725 Florence Street
321S iJ. Racine Avi^nue
ANTHONY, VflLLIiJ.! R. , JR.
APPELT, LEOMRD
BECKIv'Air:-:, PAUL G.
ELalDA, AliDREW S.
BURFJAND, ROY
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Dovmers Grove, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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CHUEINSKI, GILBERT
COLAIJTINO, ARl'JOLD M.
GADEELUND, KAMtY A.
GAEVEY, KEIffiY M.
GUSTAVSOII, liAROLD P.
HA^TKIIJS, MILTOII G.
EEIKDEHIiICH, FKANK J., JR.
HELIHG, HJ-.RCLD E.
HILL, CPLiil-LLES F.
HILL, JOHN C, JR.
HOLLOVnCH, GAEI^ISON G.
HUTCHINGS, YJARREII
JOmiSON, BIRGER E.
JOHIiSOK, ROBERT N.
JOKES, DONALD
K;iLL£VIK, BEK. E.
KLEIN-r/'ACHTER, KEiraETH J.
K03LEY, EAYr,IOND W.
KRiiHULEC, FRED
KR^'JITZ, HERIvUiN F.
KRUSE, HAROLD H. , Jr.
IvUCERi., JOElV^ J., JR.
lOTLIEKE, FREDERICK C, JR.
L/lEIKOFF, ^ilCKAEL
Lr'.VOLD, GEfALD P.
LEVERENZ, ERNEST G.
MCKEOK, THOMS F.
2841 N. Spaulding Avenue
5002 Arraitage Avenue
4911 N, Koyne Avenue
3328 W, 65th Place
1533 Chestnut Street
205 S, 'Tashington Street
Bex 285
2715 ',"/. 23rd Place
10646 Avenue F
6925 OttaxTC. Avenue
3220 '.7, Leland Avenue
4315 Van Puren Street
1107 N. Leamington Avenue
1024 Country Club Road
356 '.'Vhittier Avenue
1021 S. Fourth Street
5064 Sunnyside Avenue
1522 K# Liayfield Avenue
2507 Pddgeland Avenue
807 Aurora Avenue
11030 Vj'allace Street
2750 S, Koman Avenue
5838 N. Kostner Avenue
15256 "Talton Avenue
3305 W, Diversey Avenue
3119 N. Kilbourn Avenue
7643 Drexel Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Western Springs, 111,
V/estmont, Illinois
Clarenden Kills, 111.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
BcT;rjn, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
C'nicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Han/ey, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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IGYEIiS, 3T.JIP0RD WALTER, JR.
IffiLSOI-I, BERT EL S.
ITIGF£LLIA, B. J.
OLINGER, D. RICa'i.RD
OLSEIJ, STUART T.
PARKER, GECRGE E.
R-.RKER, VliuvIC'II H..LD01J
R.'.DVILLAS, STANLEY G.
RUIIE, ED"fi.RD ',7.
SCHf^i^'X, PALR-I J.
SCffillDT, EWARD W.
SCmilDT, ROBERT F.
oCHOEFFL'Ami, LiV;«EEIJGE G.
SMITH, LEON
svj-eitzer, JOICJ H.
VrdlTTIITGa;:;!, DAVID
^HERZEICKI, ED-'CRD
\nU.iS, Ci'JlL I..
'mc-wm, j.jffis
?ro0DS, PETER H.
ZALKfA, ST.JJLEY F. , JR.
ZY/fOT, ^TALTER
Follov.'-ing is the list of
C0N1\I0RS, E. C.
ENDER, JOKEfH J.
JOHNSON, 7/ALL.-GE A.
5341 S, Hoyne Avenue
2443 Leland Avenue
1433 N. Kolin Avenue
2921 S. T/allace Street
221 N. LoclaTood j;venue
4223 "Tashington Boulevard
302 Hinin:.n Street
3149 S. Normal Avenue
1227 Sunnyside Avenue
29 Carroll Street
923 Michigan Street
119 Y'larrcn Avenue
3812 N. Oakley Avenue
3563 W, Fifth Avenue
629 Stone Avenue
5456 Ferdinand Street
5417 S, See ley Avenue
1623 N. Kcdvale Avenue
10157 Lowe Avenue
1144 Woodrow Street
4933 "1, 12th Street
3920 S. Lake Avenue
^our-year course graduates:
4850 Quincey Street
1545 S, Tripp Street
1822 Junev/ay Terrace
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Counce, Tennessee
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Heights, 111.
Hammond, Indiana
Kanimond, Indiana
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
La Grange, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Lombard, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois
Calumet City, 111.
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
•Mechanical Engineering
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iroRL.ND, JEROIIE J.
W:ZB, LCTJIS
MOHSON, DGN..LD
PLOmOI, mLSCN
PAVEL, iL'JlOLD J.
RIESER, DCUBL/iS L,
5508 S. i,.bcrdeen Street
1608 S. Llillard Avenue
1659 ".Tr.shburne ii.venue
4926 Kimbark Avenue
3524 S, llichigan Avenue
2301 S, Hcman ^.venue
628 Fox Street
Aurora, Illinois
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Architecture
Fire Protection Eng.
Chemical Engineering
Cheraical Engineering
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECEKCLOGY - VIC. 4600
141-27
RE: B..SKETBiJi - LL!IHUi.ST COLLEGE AT
ILLINOIS TECM - I/21/4I - 4:15 F.H
lOSth ENGINEERS ^-JIIGRY
RELii^SE: FOR MOIID;.!, J^JULJ^Y 20, 1941
On Tuesday, January'- 21, 1941, The Illincis Tech Cagers v/ill vrind up their
home season against Elmhurst College in the 103th Engine-. rs i.rnory at 4:15 P. II.
This -"/ill be the tenth start for the Techav;ks. They 7n.ll be seeking their third
vrin.
Squaring off at 6 feet 4 inches for the tip-off v/ill be sophraore Ray LaGodney
of the Lnrinei. rs and the Blue Jay Captain, senior I;enr>' Hake\vill. LaC-odney, in his
first year of college ccnipetition has averaged 5.1 points per game in nine contests
7/hile rlakev;ill, Elmhurst 's scoring ace cf the past season has average 4.6 points in
the first five games f'is year. A pair as evenly matched as this promises an cxcit-'-
ing battle, especially under the basket on the rebounds.
For the Elmhurst contest "Remie" I-Ieyer, Techa'.vks r.cntor has nominated a
pair of G'l'' juniors, Hornrd lendleburj'' and V^ally Futtcrer. Pendlobury creels at
rebounding and Fvitterer speciallires in push shots. The only "regular" regulars
will be found at the guard positions in Captain henry Slivra and sophmore Jack "Irish"
Byrne .
Slivra has been the true leader of the squad and his driving step in shots
'rave been timely, Ke has that scoring punch vrhen the chips are down.
Byrne is the outstanding star of the team. "Vith his faultless dribbling and
ball handling, combined with a deadlir hool: shot, he has maintained a nine point per
game average, "Irish" comnits very few personal fouls, but rarely agress v/ith an
official.
Elmhurst' s coach Fred Heine -■riLll round out his starting lineup with for-
vrards, Richard Racche and Jack VonVoorst, Clifton Harm and Gilbert McKinley will be
at guard. Harm is the visitor's current leadinr^ scorer.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Of
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 4.600
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RE: SWIMMING - iJORTH CENTRM. AT ILLEIOIS TSCK
BARTLETT POOL, U. OF C, l/25/a - 2 P.M.
RELEASE: FOR FRIDAY, JAJFJARY 2U, 19^1
On Savarday afternoon, Janui.ry 25th, at 2:00 O'clock, the Illinois Tech tank-
sters vdll play host oo Uorth Central College of 'laperville in the first of a hone
and hone series in Bartlett G^Tn on the University of Chicago campus.
The Cardinals' talent, centers about Harold Henning, v;ho if it were not for the
ruling prohibiting a sv/imr.ier from participating in more than three events, could win
a meet all by hii/.self . Last year iTni-oney Pearson, of the Techav/ks, nosed out Henning
in the 100 yd. freestyle, but at the present ti;ae he is ineligible. The Engineers,
therefore, have conceded three firsts to Henning in his specialties, the 4-0 and 100
yd. freestyle events and the 100 yd. backstroke. Tho Techav/ks, hov.'ever, are prepared
to take runner-up honors in all three events with Captain Arnold Blur.e swimming the
freestyle events paired off with Lawrence Rademacher in the 4-0 and Dick Taylor as his
companion in the 100 yd. events.
Henning' s shadow in the 100 yd. backstroke will be either Earle Huxliold or Dick
Talcott of the Techawks. The two have taken turns at winning thus far this season,
and they will be expected to finish two and three.
The ace of the Techawk breastroking stc-ff, Karl K. Koos is at the present time
in the hospital. But the Engineers are blessed by a \.'ealth of material in this de-
partment and it is anticipated that Vic Svagdis and James Bell should nose out Mullen
of North Central for honors. Svagdis swirns the route under water while "Mo" Bell is
a Butterfly artist.
Perhaps the most welcome addition to the Techa\/k squad is John Tregay, who at
present ia undefeated in collegiate diving. It is a matter of controversey as to
v;hether or not he vdll meet his match in Ostro of the Redbirds.
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slight edge and it is here that the Techav/ks are plc.nning their coup. North Centrr 1
has alv/ays been knovm to be vulnerable in the relay events, v/hile for the Techav.ks,
the relays have proven to be their greatest point maker. The iv'edley Tean composed of
Huxhold, Svagdis uid Raderaacher I'^av^, strictly spe^Jciig, been undefeated in the preseni
season (they were disqualified in one ueet thou^ v/iniiing decisively). And the sprint
relay team v;ith ituaenacher, Wahl^'ren, Taylor i-nd Blume should v.in easily and provide
Illinois Tech with their margin of victory.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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RE: ENGINEEREIG DEFEI'JSE TRAINING GOITRSES
IN WAU}:EGA.N, ILLINOIS
RELEASE: FOR VvEDNESDAY, l/29/iU
Illinois Institute of Technology'- last night, Tuesday, JaBuary 2Sth, inaugurated
three courses for the training of engineers in defense industries in the Tfaukegan area.
The announcenent, mc.de by Mr. H. T. Heald, president of the Institute, revealed
that an organization meeting v/as held last night in the Arrry and Navy Y.M.C.A., 224.
North County Street, at 7:30 P.I/;. The meeting v/as for the purpose of acquainting stu-
dents and instnjctors vvitii the necessary procedures and to obtain formal enrollment
as required by the United States Office of Education.
This Engineering Defense Training progran is one carried on exclusively in the
Chicago area by Illinois Institute of TechTiclogy. It is planned under the auspices of
the United States Office of Education as part of the governr/ient' s huge defense program.
The Institute is expending $100,000 for this program in the Metropolitan Chicago area.
The courses projected for the Waukegan and North Chicago area are for the train-
ing of foremen. Instructors, according to Professor John I. Yellott, Chairman of the
comniittee in charge of Engineering Defense Training for the Institute, will be V/. K.
Burchard, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, V/illiam Shermari, Intei^naticnal Harvester
Company; aiid Joseph Zachary, CoriuT.onv/ealth Edison Company. Richard Starr, Internation-
al Harvester Corapcuiy, is in charge of foreman- training for the Institute's Fngineer-
ing Defense Training program and v.'as present last night to supervise enrollment of
personnel.
One of the courses in foreman training, according to James E. Maxv/ell, general
secretary of the Waulcegan City Y.M.C.A., v;ho has been instrumental in arranging the
Waukegan program, v/ill be held in the Army and Navy Y.I.LC.A. quarters. Another of
the courses will be conducted in the North Chicago area, vjhile the third course v/ill
be conducted in the plant of the American Steel & Wire Company.
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foremen in the following industrial firms have enrolled in this series of
courses:
Abbott Laboratories Joians-Kanville
Chicago Kai'dv/are Foiir.dry Public Service
Oakes Products Zion Bakery
Air.erican Steel & Wire Greiss-Pfleger
National Envelope American Can
Johnnon Motors Bell & Gossett
The program for the Chicago area v.-as developed after two weeks of intensive
study by administrative officers and faculty menibers of the Institute, in cooperation
v.'ith representatives of industry, the Illinois I.ianufacturers Association and the Chi-
cago Association of Commerce. The result of tliis study, consisting of a recommenda-
tion for 16 specific courses, was sent to Washington and received the approval of the
United States Office of Education, authorizing the Institute to enroll students in the
courses outlined. This program is the largest carried on by any engineering school
in the United States, according to advice received from V/ashington.
"The courses," according to Professor J. I. Yellott, "are strictly upon a col-
lege level and not of the vocational or trade school type. They do not in any way in-
terfere with the regular college-credit evening sessions v;ork currently offei'ed by
the Institute for persons studying for a degree,
"It is not oui' intention, in offering these courses," he emphasized, "to drav;
persons from the group interested in degrees. It is our belief, and that of the
United States Office of Education, that the best job that engineering schools can do
is to continue graduating regular quotas of engineering students each year from ovx
day and evening classes. In fact," he added, "ver;/- few persons have attempted to
drop their regular evening studies to join these classes^ and we have discouraged
those who have considered doing so."
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listed was the ability of the person interested to handle the course, all 2,000 appli-
cants were personally interviev/ed by members of the facultj'- of the Institute.
It is estinated, according to Pi-ofessor Yellott, that the program necessary to
effectively serve the needs of the Chicago area in this phase of the defense program
v/ill necessitate an approximate expenditure of ^100,000.
"These funds," he stated, "will be used to provide the professorial talent as
v/ell as to purchase limited equipment required for some of the courses. A certain
part of this fund will be used, al.so, to defray part of the expenses for physical
plant operation. The student, therefore, pays no tuition fees whatsoever - the Govern-
ment reimburses the Institute for the expenses it incurs in this connection.
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RE: REGISTRi.TIOII OF EVENING DIVISION
CLASSES i^B NF»( COOP REGISTRATION - 2/3
FOR imZDIATE FILEASE
Isi up;vard surge of enrollment in the evening sessions of Illinois Institute of
Technology was forecast yesterday by H. T. Heald, 58/^A Stony Island Avenue, presi-
dent, in an announcement of registration for evening classes to begin to.-r.orrow and
to continue through February Sth. Registration for day classes will be held Febru-
ary 6th and 7th. All evening division classes start February 10th, ending June 7th.
"Early indications both at Armoui' College of Engineering anri Lewis Institute of
Arts and Sciences divisions show that Chicago has become increasingly aware of edu-
cational opportunities offered by Illinois Institute of Technology," Heald said.
"The registration '..ill be the first midyear sem.ester enrolLnent since the mer-
ger last July of Armour Institute of Tech-nology and Lewi^ Institute. Last semester's
evening enrollment of 3,600 students should be exceeded, though our classroom and
laboratories are taxed at present."
A trail-blr-izing program f oi' students interu sted in a five-year course ^hich pro-
vides for alternate training on the job and in the classroom is set up in the cooijer—
ative courses in business administration ;jnd industrial management, leading to a
bachelor of science degree, to begin at the Lewis Institute division tomorrow* (2/3).
Similar in working pattern to the much-publicized cooperative courses in mechan-
ical engineering at the Armoui' College division, these courses vill place students in
jobs provided by the firms cooperating with the Institute.
One group of students will start school ton;orrov.- and another v.lll start v;ork
for firms paying prevailing v;ages, from which tviition and otlier school expenses can
be realized. The school group will exchange places with the second group on pjlarch
31st and an alternating process will take place through five years of undergraduate
training.
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The business administration curriculum covers the fields of retailing, \.'holesal-
ing, office or personnel raanagenent, advertising and related interests. Basic stud-
ies in humanities, science and economics are oupplemented by courses in motion and
time study, factory layout and equipment, production management, cost control and in-
dustrial marketing.
One hundred and twenty-three courses, including forty-three in the graduate de-
partment, are offered in the evening division, according to Mr. H. P. Button, 2242
Pioneer Road, Evanston, dean of the evening division.
"The life of the average citizen has begun to be touched by the problems of in-
dustry and national defense, and our courses are a reflection of this v/idespread
trend," Mr. Dutton said.
Classes in public speaking, utilizing recording machinery to reflect the nu-
ances of voice tones, are listed. Courses in public policy, embodying principles of
community organization and leadership, psychology of perceptual education, industri-
al sociology, vocational and industrial psychology, personnel administration £ind in-
spection procedures are offered.
M. '<V. Fodor, 1205 Sherv/in Avenue, former European correspondent and expert on
Balkan problems, nov/ professorial lecturer in social science, vdll conduct a course
in "Nev/ Govemm.ents of Europe". "Social Politics and Modern Movements" v/ill likewise
be a course in contemporary affairs.
\'i. Dean Keefer, 220 Myrtle Street, V/innetka, assistant vice president in charge
of engineering for the Lumbermen's Mutual Casulaty Company, v/ill instruct a class in
safety engineering. He was formerly in charge of the Chicago division of the Nation-
al Safety Council.
A novel course in color measurements v;ill be taught by J. C. Adams, 704 East
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81st Street, / engineer for the Federal Electric Company. Advanced ceramics will
be jointly taught by Marie E. Blanke, 1718 North LaSalle Street, and Barney S. Rad-
cliffe, 804 South Kenilworth Avenue, Oak Park.
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"Students v/ho in the past have contented themselves v/ith spare time v/ork in en-
gineering and related fields, without being particularly anxious for a degree, are
nov/ capitalizing on their engineering backgroiinds and enrolling as undergraduates,"
said Dr. C. A. Tibbals, 55A1 Everitt Avenue, dean of the Armour College of Engineer-
ing.
"This action is caused, no doubt, by the demand for advanced scientific training
accelerated by international conditions."
Graduate evening classes range througli chemical engineering and cheraistr;/, ci-
vil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics
and social science.
Dr. Ernst L. Schwarz-Kast, 551 Surf Street, research electrical engineer of the
Armour Research Foundation, v/ill conduct a course in industrial electrical drives and
motor control. Dr. Roy Kegerreis, 235 North York Street, Elmhurst, will teach X-ray
analysis.
Addition of classes to the program of engineering defense training which has its
largest national unit at Illinois Institute of Technology, cannot be announced at the
present time, according to John I. Yellott, 5000 Cornell Avenue, director of the de-
partment of mechanical engineering of the Institute and chairman of tlie committee in
charge of engineering defense training.
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ILLINOIS niSTITUTE OF STRUCTOR IN SAFETY EIIGINEERING FOR
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 46OO EVENUIG SESSIONS
FOR B-aiEDIATE RELEASE
W. Dean Keefer, assistant chief engineer of Luxaberinens Mutual Casualty Companj'-,
and for twenty years chief engineer and director of the industrial division of the
National Safety Council, has been appointed to the faculty of the evening sessions of
Illinois Institute of Technology.
This was announced today by H. P. Dutton, dean, 'Afho said Keefer would instruct
a class in safety engineering, a field in which he is an eninent American authority.
Evening registration v/ill take place Februarj'- 3rd tiirough 3th and classes coirmence
Febiruary lOth.
Included in the course will be discussion of safety practices, prevention of
industrial diseases and protection against v/ar-tino hai^ards, according to Dean Dutton.
Keefer, a graduate of Syracuse University in 1915 with a degree in electrical
engineering, assumed his present business post fo^xTteen months ago. He is author of
a twelve-booklet series, widely-knov/Ti among shop managers and viorkers, "Safety in
Foreman ship" .
Prior to assumj.ng his post with the National Safety Council in 1919, Keefer had
industrial experience with the V/illiamsport (Pennsylvania) Furniture Company, the Sol-
vay Process Company, the Aetna Insurance Company, and the Four V/heel Drive Company.
He v«'as a member of the casualty council of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (Chicago),
Keefer, bom in V/illiamsport, Pennsylvania, is a member of the American Stan-
dards Association, the National Silicosis Conference, and a former national secretarj"-
of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He v^as business manager of the National
Safety Council from 1921 to 1924,. It is estimated that he has been em.ployed as con-
sultant by more than 1,000 business and industrial firms.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECffiJOLOGY - VIC. ^600
RE: FIRST CO-OP GRADUATION, IvIUSElUvI OF SICENCE
AJID INDUSTRY - 1/29/ Al - 8:15 P.M.
FOR RELEASE: VJEDKSSDAY, 1/29/ Al
The first graduation class in Chicago's collegiate history no coinraencement spea-
ker could reasonably v/am of "the cold, cruel world" and "life's stormy perils" will
sit tonight in the auditorium of the iluseuD. of Science and Industry fifty-seven strong.
H For the graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology's first five-year coopera-
tive course in mechanical engineering, who at 3:15 P.!.'., complete an argosy that took
them since 1936 through uncharted educational seas, have survived in the cold, cruel
world and outfought at least some of life':; stormy perils in order to have qualified
for graduation.
Each of them has had an employer as well as a school to be accountable to since
he enrolled as a fledgling in the school's pioneering plan vjith the knowledge that he
was to spend twenty-six weeks of each year in a raanufacturing plant, factory or busi-
ness establishment and twenty-fo^jr v/eeks in the classroom or laboratory.
Chicago has not been the only locale of their practical educations. Illinois,
Indiana, V/isconcin, I.Iichigan, Iowa .-.Jid Ohio, with the industries of Peoria, Aurora,
Moline, Joliet, Davenport, Gaiy, East Chicago, Hairir.ond, I.tLchigan City, Kenosha, Cin-
cinnati and Vii'aukegan have seen their Ivmch pails.
At the open hearth furnaces where the foreman was not called "Professor" but
"Butch" .... in the plant v/here tl:ie onl:,' fraternity was the sort that lines up at
the time-clock .... and in the office where every day was examdnation day have the
fifty-seven demonstrated their right to degrees of Bachelor of Science in mechanical
engineering.
Some v.lll take them from President H. T. Heald Virith homy hands and among those
v/atching will be parents and friends, and employers as well. Each graduate has earned
his tuition and incidental school fees from these employers during the vreeks he alter-
nated at plant and school.
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ty of each neir.ber to cross the five-year hurdle. The success of the cooperative plan,
hailed by some persons as '/isionarj'' and impractical for schoolboys, vdll have been
completely vindicated.
Mk Each member of the graduating class has a job to report to tomorrov/, either the
one he has worked at for five years or some other equally good one. And each man will
be regarded as having won his spurs as an engineer in the employ of one of the one
hundred tv/enty firms cooperating v;ith the iichool.
Thf.t a student could be an efficient cooperative course member and still retain
his identity as a member of the general student body will also have been demonstrated.
Such rigid enrollment deraajids were placed on those entering in 1936, it was natural
class leaders should develop conong those accepted.
David I. Vihiittingham, president of the graduating class and of the Cooperative
Club of the course members, has spent five years with the American Steel Foundries.
His average is 2,86 of a possible 3.00 highest in the class. In addition, he has been
a member of the editorial staff of the Cycle, school yearbook. He has been a member
of the student union board of control, a member of the American Society of Mechaiiical
Engineers, student cha.pter, a sponsor of the Coop Club dance, a school honor marshal,
and a member of three frateiraties.
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Paul G. 3eckmann, graduating with an average of 2.82, has worked for Republic
Steel Corporation and taken a part in school life approximating that of Vfliittingham.
He graduated from Tilden Technical High School in January of 1936, fifth in a class
of 230 students. This high school class standing could be boasted by many of tlie co-
operative course graduates.
Peter H. Woods, editor of Technology News, undergraduate weekly, found time not
only to have a hand in virtually every campus publication but to play in the orchestra,
earn a Red Cross life guard rating, and belong to fraternities. He has been made edi-
tor of the house organ of the Link-Belt Company after first working at straight engi-
neering projects.
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Robert F. Schmidt, vice president of the class, an honor Earshr.l as a jT^nior, a
member of the basketball teaiT: for two years, also engaged in fraternity activities.
He has been employed by Lyon Metal Products, Inc.
Edward J. V.'ierzbicki, v/orking for Arzerican Steel Fc^jndries, was on the school
paper for tv/o years, a meinber of the i;undergraduate theatrical group for four years,
president of his fraternity and a class officer.
Stanford V/alter Meyers, Jr., graduating fror.: Lane Technical High School in 1936
third in a cla^s of 357, has maintained his leadership as a student and indulger in
extra-curricular activities, though a member of the cooperative course working for
the Chicago Screw Company.
Diploma- will be awarded also tonight to ten graduates of the regular four-year
courses in mech^mical, chemical, electrical and fire protection engineering, and ar-
chitecture.
Alfred Kauffmann, president of Link-Belt Conrany, Chicago, will address the
graduates on "Opportiinities for Teclmically Trained i.len in the Business Battle Ahead."
Dr. Harold W. Ruopp, minister of Central Church, Chicago, will deliver the invo-
cation and benediction. The invocation vail be followed by a tenor soloist, Robert J.
Mead, singing "Panis Angelicus" by Franck. Sixteen voices of the Illinois Institute
of Technology Glee Club will accompany him. Follov.dng Kauffmann's speech there v.dll
be a violin solo, "Cavitina" by Raff, played by i.iclvin Korrell.
John A. Briggs, Howard A. Dvorak, Ove Green, Gerhart A. Guckel, Edward P. Hanus-
ka, Frank D. McGinnis, Bertram J. Milleville and Fred C. Sternberg, are student honor
marshals chosen from each of the four cooperative undergraduate divisions.
The new official insignia of Illinois Institute of Technology, formed by the mer-
ger last July of Armour Institute of Techjiology and Lewis Institute, vd.ll be used for
the first time formally on the diplorias awarded graduates.
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A circular backgroi^-id villi incliide t. shield upon v.-nich are combined a torch of
learning, emblen of Armour Institute, irA the tree of learning, enblen of Levn.s In-
stitute, v/ith all print in engineer's lettering, a tvpe also used for the diplomas.
The design was effscted by the department of architecture of the Institute.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF GPJiDUATING CLASS, WEDNESDAY, l/29/Al
TECHNOLOGY - ViC. 4-600 8:15 P.fu.
RELEASE: FOR THURSDAY, 1/30/41
KuriQJi rel, tionship betv/een employer and employe as a paramount factor in indus-
trial progress was outlined last night, l/ednesday, Janut^ry 29, 194J-> by Alfred Kauff-
mann, president of the Link-Eelt Company of Chicago, to graduates of the first coop-
erative rr.echanical engineering co-arse of Illinois Institute of Technology.
Fifty-seven cooperative students v;ho had completed a five-year shop-and-class-
room course, and ten seniors completing a regular four-year course, sat amid parents,
friends and employers in the auditoriur;. of the I.!useun of Science and Industry in Jack-
son Park to hear Kauffnann's address, featuring graduation exercises. It v.-as titled
"Opportunities for Teclrinically Trained Men in the Business Battle iihead".
"If you aspire to be foreman or superintendent, chief draftsman or chief engi-
neer, head of sales or finance, manager or president, a knowledge of men, and tin ap-
preciation of their problems and needs, and of the factors making for their content-
ment and happiness, vdll supei'sede knowledge of teclinical processes, or salesmanship
or finance," Kauffraann said.
"The handling of men is one of the m.ost difficult problems in industry. Indus-
try buys more labor expressed in dollars for wages than ali;,ost all the commodities
that enter into the product tliat is being manufactured; and changes in labor effici-
ency contribute more to profit or loss thjin any other single factor.
"Treating men as m^en, keeping faith with them, consulting them in matters that
involve changes in hours, wages and conditions, are all factors in gaining and retain-
ing that confidence v.'hich is so essential to satisfactory operations," Kauffraann de-
clared.
Giving facts and getting cooperation is better policy than "treat 'em rough and
tell them nothing," he added.
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"Never hand out any bunk, because the nen can detect that faster than ycu can.
Not that soft dealing is required. I.Ien don't v/ant that, but they do want to know
what it's all about. Most workmen today are intelligent enough to comprehend the
facts and to use them constructively. Furthermore, in my opinion, iJiey have a right
to practically all the facts."
Knowledge of the facts concerning industry is growing a:-d fallacies and wilful
misrepresentations .concerning industry are less frequently encountered, according to
the spealcer.
"Labor is going into business and is getting first-hand information as to the
conditions that prevail, and the economic laws that govern it. I dwell on these in-
dustrial relations problems because of their importance, and also because as you
climb higher up the ladder in vo'-lt chosen field you will learn to realize what is
meant by the employer's responsibility to his workers.
"When, as the years go by, you reach a position where you have to meet fifty-
two payrolls a year in the face of keen competition, you will realise the responsibi-
lity is by no means a light one."
Scientific management, as developed by Frederic Taylor, the engineer, shows that
engineers no longer confine themselves to design iJid development but have invaded the
field of industrial relations, Kauffmann said.
''V.xthout fear of contradiction, I can say to you tonight tllat right now American
industry, in its determined search for its leaders of tomorrov;, is putting a premium
on brains," he added.
"Big and little m.anufacturing concerns are constantly spending enormous sums of
money to find and train promising young talent for the key positions of tomorrow. Re-
member, keen business men are much more interested in creating a useful and lasting
business than in merely making money. How the business will be iiin when they are no
longer at the helm is of great concern to ^hem. The only real insurance is the de-
velopment of younger men like yourselves.
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■ "You young men whc are graduating this evening from the Cooperative '-'ourse in
Mechanical Engineering are going forth better equipped than v*e were, because of your
sound cooperative training in classroom, laboratory and shop. Because for the last
five years you have alternated between industry and college, you have acquired a fun-
damental knowledge of the problems which you v.lll face in your chosen v.'ork.
"Your cooperative college training has given you the opportunity' to mix with
your fellow nen in the h'ar'ly-t'^-ly of life as well as college activities, to learn to
judge them, to learn './hat their aspirations are and to govern yourself accordingly.
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operative training.
"As Charles Pratt said to our little graduating class of 1901 - 'Be true to
your work and your work will be true to you'."
Each of the fifty-seven cooperative course graduates rpent twenty-six weeks in
industry and twenty-four weeks aitomately in a classroom each year. Manufacturing
plants in five middleweatem states, one hundred twenty in number, cooperated in pro-
viding employment for the students thus giving the course its name. At the sane time,
the regular four-year course, which also was represented by graduates, htjs not been
minimized because of the cooperative program.
Each cooperative graduate earned his tuition aiid incidental fees from prevail-
ing wages paid in the industries in v/hich he was employed.
No one of the graduates of the cooperative course leaves school for a period of
unemployment, often the fate of graduates, since he has already worked for five years
in a given industry. He is regarded as a qijialified engineer who, as well as possess-
ing a degree, has the technique afforded only by practical experience.
David J. VJhittingham, president of the graduating class, made a 2.86 average
out of a possible 3.00. Paul G. Beckmann, also a prominent participant in school ac-
tivities, had an average of 2.82.
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■ The axiom that gentlemen prefer blondes, the belief that some of them, cherish
redheads, t-nd other related data were given concrete illustration today by none other
than a highway er^gineer.
He is Professor Sholto M. Spears, associate professor of civil engineering at
Illinois Institute of Technology, v/ho addressed 500 members of the Mississippi Valley
Conference of State Highv/ay Departments at 2:00 P.LI, in the Stevens Hotel,
k His subject "Tho H-oiiit.n Factor in Highv/ay Design a:id Traffic Control,", Profes-^
sor Spears spoke knov/ingly of concrete highway pavenents and how their colors na}:e
gentlemen into sane, happy drivers or •anhappy roadiiogs.
Vihite concrete shoiald be used on the cuter travelling lanes of four-lane high-
ways since it attracts the heaviest traffic, according to Professor Spears, who said
it is a psychological truth that this color has allure for drivers.
Black, however, should be used for the central passing lane since the chief traf-
fic load will be on the outer white lane and in this manner drivers in the passing
lane will not be trapped behind slov/er vehicles, a most frequent source of irritation.
"Observations v/hile driving have convinced me that this pavement color contrast
is a very practical solu^oion to the passing lane problem," Professor Spears said.
"Very seldom is a driver observed remaining on the black s'orface for any appre-
ciable distance greater than that required to pass cinother vehicle."
Every truck driver is fond of something in red, according to the professor.
"Slower moving transport vehicles can grind through their gear changes while
passenger vehicles continue at a high speed on their usual lanes if a colored siding
lane or grades are used. Red concrete has been effectively used for such hidings."
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Other psychological facts are of increasing importance to the highv/ay engineer
desigriing a road for the motoring public. Professor Spears observed.
"7/ith the present state of perfection of the roadbuilder' s science, tiie atten-
tion of the highv/ay engineer must be directed as much upon the operator of the vehi-
cle as upon "che mechanics of the moving vehicle itself.
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experiences Eome increased effort in steering, he v/ill be tempted to alter his curved
pathway to suit hiriiself," he declared.
Professor Spears further alibied for generations to come in striking a blow
thax will challenge arresting speed cops v'ho claim in court a motorist could see how
fast he was going.
"The speedor:eter in most vehicles is inaccui-ate," he said.
"Through observation of his speedometer, .the average driver learns the noise
level corresponding to his usual driving range. Most motorists tend to judge speed
more by the noise level of the vehicle than by any external indication.
"Anyone v*ho drives a vehicle equipped with 'overdrive' can test himself on this,
for invariably after driving in the ordinary geai'S for a considerable tine and then
getting in'LO the 'overdrive' in open country, one starts hunting for the old familiar
engine roar and suddenly discovers that the speed is much higher than he expected."
Of importance in highv/ay desig-n is ^he psychological fact that motorists, after
having driven over considerable distances at high speeds, generally have the sensa-
tion of travelling at a low rate of speed when the decrease in speed has been only
ten to fifteen miles an hour, the professor declared.
Professor Spears stated that the follovving is "an interesting but seldom real^
ized point brought out in connection v/ith svudies of vehicle action", that "the driv-
i]ig force on the rear wheels has a radial component opposing centrifugal force and
that braking forces have a radial component in the direction of the centrifugal force."
He said tiiis means that "slight power application on a curve assists in reducing the
skidding tendency."
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apparent weight of the car and ihe passengers, '..hich in the case of sharp suiamits can
be sufficiently large to cause a vehicle actually to leave the road¥/ay surface and
elicit a gasp of suirprise fron the occupants of tlie vehicle. Professor Spears said.
' As a result of this principle, quite an appreciable number cf overpasses have
been built which give a pronounced "take-off" effect at the usual highway speeds, he
declared,
P "An interesting hui^an t-rait is the tendency to continue an activity once it is
instituted. This trait is related to the mental set or fixation of l- decision made
in any situatiou and the difficulty -..ith v.iiich fuch a decision is changed. The no-
table tendency of drivers to overrun curves at night is partly due to this effect."
Attractiveness of a v/rong patii of travel cause many accidents in the traffic
engineering world. Professor Spears said.
"Street lights and advertising signs ha.ve been Icnovm to cause di-ivers to assume
no turn was present," he concluded.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: SVai/J^ING - CHICAGO TEACHERS AT BARTLETT
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF 2/3//U - 2:00 P.M.
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 46OO
■ RELEASE: FOR SUNDAY, 2/2/41
Tomorrov/ afternoon, I.!onday, February 3, 1941, at 2:00 P.M., Illinois Tech's
tankmen v/ill seek their second v/in of the season in five starts. The visitors will
be Chicago Teachers College and the meet will be held in Chicago's Bartlett Pool. It
is the final of a hcme-and-home series between the tv/o Chicago south side schools.
In the previous encounter earlier this season, the Teachers nosed out the Engi-
neers by three points Vihen the Tech medley relay combination was disqualified in the
final event.
To date the Engineers' record has not been ver;.'- impressive. The opening meet
was the one mentioned \/ith the Profs. The next contest was at Bloomington vdth Illi^
nois 7iesleyan wherein the Engineers suffered their second defeat of the season. This
again v;as partly due to being disqualified in the relay event. The third defeat was
suffered at the hands of Beloit college v*hen the Techmen attempted to meet a strong
aquatic combination with a team shriveled to but six men . . . sickness had taken its
toll of the best men on the squad.
A glance at the record of the squad, one win in four starts, although not im-
pressive, reveals that the matches were lost by very narrow margins. This same record
shows jimior Earl Huxhold as current high-scoring individual, with 20 points to his
credit. Captain Arnold Blume, a senior architect '.student, is close behind with 18
points scored in three meets.
The junior Earl Huxhold has ammassed his total points as an outstanding Techav/k
in the backstroke events as well as one of Dhe unbeaten medley relay combination.
Cap-Gain Bliime, on the other hand, is Tech's chief threat in tha 40 yarc'. tz:l 100 yard
free-style events. Blume alr-o swims a lag in the free-style relay events.""
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Pacing ths Teachers in tomorrow' s encovjiter vd.ll be Harold Havlicek who is ex-
pected to v.'in tne 100 yard free-st;rle ev-sr.t 'r/ithout any trouble or even serious com-
petition from the Engineers. Or. the other h£,nd, xhe versatile Havlicek Vvlll definite-
ly havr; trouble in trying to take the 100 yard breast stroke with the competition ex-
pected frojT! veteran Techav.k Vic Evagdis. S\'agdis uses the v/ell kiioYvn but very tiring
"butterfly" stroke to verj' good advantage.
The remainder of the events, and the outcoTne of the match, are clothed in uncer-
tainty. Proof of tills is the narrow margin v.ith -./hich the Teachers defeated the Engi-
neers in the first meet of this series. /:ncl naturally, during this time the Techaivks
have improved considerably, getting over their jittery condition which disqualified
their relay combiiiation in tv/o Keetc end triLaaing a strong Korth Central comoination
last Saturday.
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TECHIIOLOGI - VIC. ^600
RE: OPEMING OF SECOND SE^iESTER, MONDAY,
2/10/U; ENGIwEErlING DEFEfJSE TPJiIIIING
FOR i:.]!.lEDIATE RELEASE
The second semester of Illinois Institute of TeCiinolOj^', in its Arniour College
of Engineering Division day, evening and evening gra-duate schools, will open tosorrov;,
according to C. a. Tibbals, 55AJ- Everitt avenue^ dean.
Entering the freshman class will be five v/inners of one-year tuition scholar-
ships, victorious in a field of seventy-five honor contestants frora the public and
piivate high schools of the metropolitan area.
In these past, these scholarsiiips v/ere awarded semi-annually by Arraotir Institute
of Technology, which corabined \.ith Lewis Institute last July to form Illinois Insti-
tute of Technology.
Winners of scholarships and high schools they attended are as follows:
Theodore C. Anderson
Richard R. Carlson
Alfred G. Erickson
Robert F. Hornbeck
Hal T. Hum
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2041 V.'est Addison Street
7621 Maryland Avenue
7610 Maryland Avenue
5717 Dorchester Avenue
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Hyde Park
Candidates took the four-hour exair. JiOiuaiy 11th. Scholarships will provide the
winners with $300 tuition each during the academic year 19/|l-42. The awards are
based upon a v/ritten competitive examination, personality, high school scholastic re-
cord and general fitness.
Theodore C. Anderson, '.-ho v/on two other scholarships, maintained an excellent
scholastic rating in high school and was elected to the National Honor Socieiy. Se-
lecting chemical engineering for study, he plans to earn most of his tuition after
the scholarship award has been used. A brother is an Armour College graduate.
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Richard R. Ct^rlson, one of tne top niembers of his graduating class, is a member
of the National Honor Society. Kis hobtr,'- is matheraatics cjid v;:iile in high school he
belonged to the Math Club. For relaxation, he plays the guitar. Ricliard plans to be
an electrical engineer.
Alfred G. Erickson, while he ranked third in the Hirsch High School graduation
class and v/as elected to the National Honor Socieiy, fo-und time to be active in many
extra-curricular activities. He vvas a meniber of the choral club and mal-:e-up editor
of the school paper. His chief interest outside of school is railroad engineering.
Erickson is planning to enter mechanical engineering.
Robert F. Hombeck, also of Hirsch High School, was second in his graduating
class. He was treasurer of the National Honor Society and member of the Biology Club.
In the R.O.T.C. he attained the rank of second-lieutenant. He plans to make his pro-
fession chemical engineering.
Hal T. Hum v/as in the upper tenth of the Hyde Park High School graduating class.
Six feet two, Hal is very fond of i.he arts and one of his chief hobbies is music. He
Vifon a scholarship to the Art Institute for free-hand drawing. Hurn plans to enter
chemical engineering.
In the event that any of the regular winners of the 19A1-4-2 av/ards cannot ac-
cept a scholarship, the scholarship coi.jr:ittee of the Institute has chosen the follow-
ing to serve as alternates:
Donald H. Asire 1537 South Spaulding Avenue Farragut
Leonard D, Berkovitz 3812 West Gladys Avenue Crane
Jerome Cohen 856 Ainslie Street Marshall
Louis L. Czyzewski 1502 North Daraen Avenue Lane
Wjnnan K. Ender 634.3 Bryn Mawr Avenue Taft
Evening classes at Lev;is Institute of Arts and Sciences Division of Illinois
Institute of Technology, also on a semester basis, v/ill begin tomorrov;, it Vifas
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announced. Day sessions of Lev/is Institute, arranged on a quarterly basis, have been
in progress since Janui.ry 2nd.
Adniission of more than 1200 citizen enrollees in the federally-subsidized Sngi-
neering Defense Training program, a second batch chooen frou severcl thousand wishing
non-credii, engiiieering training on a college level, v;ill be -ondertaken within the next
week, according to John I. Yellott, 5000 Cornell Avenue, chairi:uin in charge of the
committee on Engineering Defense Training.
The non-credit courses offered under tJiis program include design of bomb-proof
shelterc, tool and testing equipment, diesel engines, drafting :Jid elemsntary design,
industrial management, inspection rcetliods, machine design i<nd metallurgy.
One hundred and tv.enty-three courses will be offered in the day school and the
same number in the evening division. I'ev; courses at jirmour College of Engineering are
applied and experimental stress analysis, problems in tIierraod;,Tiamics and heat trans--
fer, problems in machine design and "Growth of the Amoricsn Language."
The graduate school, among forty-three subjects, offers courses in chemistry,
civil, electrical, mechanical cind chemical engineering, mathematics, physics and so-
cial science.
They include new courses in industries electrical drives, x-ray tjialysis and
traffic engineering. The last will be taught by Professor ^holto K. Spears, 1720
West 105th Place, whose recent paper on human factors in highway design and traffic
control was sensationally received by the Mississippi Valley Conference of State
Highway Departments.
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TECroiOLOGY - VIC. 46OO
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RE: HAROLD VAGTBORG
RELE>\SE: FOR I.IONDaY, 2/3/41
Hj.rold Vagtborg, direc::or of the Armour Research Foundation, affiliate of Illin-
ois Institute of Tec'rmology, has been appointed a nenber of the National Research
Ccancil Conirdttee in connection wiT.h an industrial s>:ploration tour of South America.
This ir.forniation was confirned by W. L. Batt, chairman of the division of engineering
and industrial research of the National Research Council,
The tour, v,-hich begins L'iarch 17th, will be 'ay v/ay of Pan Ajiierican Mr\:ays from
Miami throughout the entire South American ccnt.inent. Its purpose is to assist in
the speeding up of industrialization of the more progressive South American countries.
In brief, according to a staLement released by the National Research Co-oncil,
this will be a tour of inaustrial exploration seeking industrial raw material which
may find more extensive markets in this country, particularly of vegetable oils, fi-
bers, minerals, pharmacei.itical products and native South American v.'oods.
Members of the Committee, all industrial research and scientific executives,
will prepare a composite report of their observations during the South American tour.
This report will be based upon their opinions of industrial possibilities as ivell as
limitations cjid will be submitted through the National Research Council to the various
govemmeni, agencies.
Chief objective, according to Mr. Vagtborg, is the preparation of this report
for presentation to the Inter-Arrierican Development Commission and the Department of
Commerce.
The entire span of the tour is to include seven weeks approximately, from Karch
17th to May 3rd. Most of the trip will be by air, via Pan American Airways, v;ith
stops ranging from one to seven days at various industrial centers in Columbia, Peru,
Chile, Brazil and Argentine. The longest stop-overs for investigation bj'- the Commit-
tee will be at Cali, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Side trips vjill be
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made v.ith each of these points as centers of operation to such places as Vina del Mar,
Barranquilla, f/iontevideo and Sao Paulo.
In all, forty major executives of United States industry Vvill make the tour,
although only a very small niinber will form the NationeJ. Research Council Committee
to report findings on industrial possibilities to the government. Representatives of
the follov/ing coiai.">anies vill participate: ilmeric;in Locomotive Corporation, Atlantic
Refining Company, 3udd L'lanufacturing Company, Golgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Good-
year Tire & Rubber Company, International Business I.Iachines, Standard Oil and United
Fruit. Names of other cooperating companies have not as yet been releb.sed.
One of the main reasons for the selection of Harold Vagtborg as a representa-
tive from the Chicago f^rea centers about the prominence gained by the Armour Research
Foundation as a leader in this field. The Foundation, it was learned, has since its
inception in 1936 as the Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Teclinology, served
well over 4.00 corporations in industrial research and development ivork.
Since 1938, its director has been Harold Vagtborg. A native of Copenhagen, Den-
mark, and only 35 years old, Kr. Vagtborg obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in
1926 at the University of Illinois. His experience has been both along pi'ofessional
and educational lines. From 1931 to 1938 he served as professor of municipal and
sanitary engineering at Armoui' Institute of Technology. At that time, he relinquished
his teaching duties to devote all of his efforts to direction of the Foundation.
His engineering experience includes construction work v;ith C. J. Carlson Company
of Chicago, as well as tlie development of the companies oi Allen and Vagtborg, Inc.,
and Vagtborg & Associates, Inc., famous for design and construction of sanitary engi-
neering, municipal and industrial plants.
A Reserve Officer, he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Western Society of Engineers, Illinois Society of Engineers, Central States Sewage
Works Association and the South V.'est Water Works Association.
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ILLINOIS IKSTITUTE CF AT LAV.T.EI'ICE TECH 2/7
TECnXLCGY - VIC. LiOQ AT DETROIT TECH 2/8
FOR liOliDAY, 2/3/41
uvdi-gixig into the final third of the season, the Illinois Tech Cagers v;-ill
resuj.ie play on Thursday, Fecrucjry 6th, at Grand Rapids University- v;hich va.ll he
the first contest of the spring terr. for the Techav;ks»
Follovmig Grand Rapids, the Engineers v.'ii.! travel to the Lotor City v.'here
they v/ill try the Hospitality of Lavrence Tech and Detroit Tech on Friday and
Saturday Evenings, respectively.
It v/as against Grand Rapids University that the Techav.'ks chalked up their
first of tliree v.'ins this season. To even the score v.dth the Grand Rapids five
for the two defeats last season, one r.ore victory is necessary.
In tills return meeting, the TechavA:s v/ill he especially' careful of -tiie long
range sharpshcoting of Fred Grainger, guard. He accounted for one third of iheir
total score in the previous meeting*
The match vdth lav.Tence on Friday evening vn.ll place both teams on an equal
basis v.'ith respect to physical condition. For although the Techav;ks vdll be
slightly travel v;orn and playing their second game in tv;o nights, the Blue Devils
have contests scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday at De Sales of Toledo and at
St. Mary's-- of QrchEurd Lake, Ontario.
Tlie povverful L3-:rrence outfit v:hich plaj^ed Long Island University a fev/ vreeks
ago, defeated the Engineers by a 6l to 36 score in their arjiual meeting last yearc
Detroit Tech is a nev/comer to the Techav;k schedule of v/hich very little is
Icnovm. Last year the DjTiamics v.'on 15 and lost 2.
From a review of the current scoring data it is revealed that Tech's tvra
leading scorers are sophmores, Jack Byrne and Ray Le.Godney v/ith .80 and 55 points
respectively. They have collaborated, to account for 43% oi" Tech's total score.
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v/ith 6» 4" "Slim" LaGodney's eiTicient rebounding are e:^ected to exact a deadly
toll fron tiie Llichigan legions. Byrne's ball handling is of exceptional nerit
and it is the opinion of coach "Reir.ie" Leyer that Byrne could have a berih on any
Big Ten team for the asking*
laGodney , vathin tl-ie 2:s-st fev.- v;eeks has developed hi£ long shot game to the
point v.iiere it compares favorably v;ith his pivotliue and rebounding v/ork v/hich
makes him a real triple threat man.
In the first encounter -.j-ith Grand Rapids ih is season, the Techav:k*s Captain
Jinx of five years standing caught up vdth Kenry Slivra., He suffered a wrenched
kiiee vAiich kept him out of action for several v/eeks ,
In spite of the injury, "Ilanl:" has managed to score 34 points v.-hich is good
for fourth place in the Engineer's scorebook.
To date, in vanning 3 of 10 encounters, the Techav;ks have scored a total of
312 to their opponents 368*
Should the Techavdcs return liome v;ith a perfect record and talce V/heaton and
Elmhurst once more, they vdll finish their first season under the tutorage of
Coach Robert E. lu'eyer, vath a better than .500 average {\:an 8, lost 7) as
contrasted v^ith last season's embarrassing total of 2 v/ins and 12 losses.
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FROM: ALE:aiN'DER SCHREIBER fLE: TRiiCK - TECK AT N. CEIJTRaL
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECraJCLOGY - VIC. -4600
FELEASE: FOIl THUP.SDAY, 2/6/41
On Saturday evening, February- Sth, 194.1, the Illinois Tech Track Team
will open the 194J- season at Naperville, guests of traditional rival. North Central
College.
With a sruad dangerourly decimated by graduations and najr.erouG scholas-
tic failures so coranon to the engineering school. Coach Norm Root is building his "
team around so;ae very promising freshmen. Leading this parade of talent is a trio
consisting of Robert Osborne, George Erkert and Edv/in Johnston.
Robert Osborne v/as a dashmon for Oal: Park high school. Out of sheer
whimsy he decided to run the .'Uarter mile. Nov; it appears that he will begin to
smash records v/ithin a fev; short months.
George Erkert Si^eclalize^ in the mile with the half mile as a v.armup.
He has been clocked at 4:30 for the eight laps of the University of Chicago Field-
house — a time that should defeat all nilers in Tech's comipetition excoj^jt perhaps
Max Lenover of Loyola. Edwin Jolinston is perhaps the most versatile of the trio
in that he can present a satisfactory shcv/ing in any of the track events including,
hurdlesj for Saturday's performance ho;/evcr, he will confine himself to the half
mile and the hurdles.
Still listing freshmen v.e find posted for the tv/o mile run Charles Row-
bothan and Nathaniel Ratner a pair that eventually may take turns at winning the
event to conserve <jn'_rgy. _ Rounding out the fr'rishraan representation on the track
squad \ie find an ex-football star from Lane Tech, Robert French, putting the shot.
Among the returning lettermen are Co-Captains, Karry Heidenreich and
George Mathe\;s; Heidenreich is the workhorse of the squad, competing in all field
events plus a few distance runs if the occasion demands. His true specialty is
hurling the Javelin which is not scheduled during the indoor season. But his pole
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majorit;^ of Tech's opponents. George Mathews is a quarter miler. Frcn all early-
indications he vdll iTin second to freshmai; Osbome.
Other veterans include the hurdle conibination of Richard Barry and
Don Kiegherj Charles .McCullough another versatile lad listed for the half mile,
mile, pole vault and shot put; and Hank Jackcwski, distance nan.
North Central defeated the Techawks lact year in their annual rr.eeting
principally because the Engineers v.ere not accustomed to running the Kaperville
eleven lap track, noted for its suicide turns. The runners have been practising
running the turns for the past fev; weeks end feel themselves up to tlic task of
beating the Redbirds at their ovm g£'-j-ne.
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NE';S STrLfE FOR 1941.
FOR mS-lEDlATE RELEASE
A new mani-ging board £.nd editorial staff of TgchnolOfCj^ Ne\;p^ ynrir.-r-jr.-if^ii^.trt
weekly of Illinois Institute of Technolcg;-, \,ere i'-r.novjicod today by r.'alt!:;r Heii-
driclis, 709 Foster Street, EvLinston, chairman of tiie department of laii~-i£.ge and
literature and faculty cdviser of the ;jublication.
The jnanaging board for the 19A1 school season will include Thomas E. Brovm,
4.334 Ellis Avenue, editor-in-chief, Di--r.iel Ercv<n, 914 Schubert i.venue, manaying
editor; Patricia I\ms, 4*^18 Pitterson, associ.atc rafjiaging editor;; Artliur I.iinvvegen,
5940 N. Fairfield, feature editor; liarren Spitz, 7405 Berjiett Avenue, sports editor j.
and Robert Fuiik, 233 S. Lincoln Avenue, Aui'oi-a, business r.anagcr.
Though soi.ie appointir.ent.-: to the editorial staiT have not yet been made, those
named are Edward Hanuslca, 6653 S. Clciremont Avenue, Saturday news editor; Ed\;ard
Farrell, 2741 V;. 69tli Street, Saturday headline^ editor; Paul Leopold, 1357 iV.adison
Park, and Hugh Stcr;,', 0^' ego, assignment editors, yirr.our campus; Eileen Robinson,
1911 buniDierdale Avenue, and Joseph I.'inga, 222 W. 7£tli Street, assignment editors,
Lev/is Cijnpus. Gordon '.Valtor, 7124 S. ir^.irie, ivill fill the por-t of desk editor.
Charles Ball, 4227 M . Ashle.nd Kvenue, ha;^ been ntmed rewrite editor; Edv;.ird
Doran , 6423 0. Ti-lmtin J-venue, and Stephen !i:endak, 2013 W, lov/a Street, copy edit-
ors;; Mary Fli.jher, 631 S. Taylor i-venue, Oak Park, associcLte fe:.ture editor;
Eu\<ard Center, 1125 Holly Court, O^k Park, photography editor; Julian Bov;ers, 30 W.
Chicago avenue, office laanager; Robert Meyer, 332 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, and
Charles Teller, 3019 Oglesbj- avenue, advertising managers; and R.^rry VI. Carlson,
Jr., 1100 i'L Humphrey jivenue. Oak Paik, circulation manager.
Editor-in-chief Brov/n succeeds Peter H. Woods. A graduate of Hyde PL.,rk High
GcV-col, Bro\jn "s a j^Linior and member of Eta Kap^a Ku- honorary electrical enrin-
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eering fri^ternity. Belonging to the fecturs staxT of Tech Viex;s ^ince his freshmui
ye^.r, he became fet-ture editor lc-:-:t yet^r. Ke is \d.ce-ure5ident of the Arr.our
College student unit of the iiinericcn Institute of £lectric-l Engineers and a r.eiii-
L-T of the fencing club.
Ivk.rii.ginj/ editor Daniel Erov.n, u -pri.duc^te of Lcne Tec/iniCiJ High Cchcol, suc-
ceeds Joseph C. Ab^rer. A junior, he becExie i. reporter for Tech y.e\!C uz a fresh-
man and last year served as an ar^sitT-ir-ent editor, a mechanical engineering sxu-
::._r:t, he ic a raer.'.ber of the /jnerican Institute of J.iechcjriical Engineers,
p Associate ii;anaging editor I'atricia ^vrns is a sa_horaore in tiie Lewis Institute
divisi';n of Illinois Institute of Tschjiologj^. A gradui to of Siena High School,
'cir^ was ^.. feature editor of Tjch Ne"..'s i.s it freiihra^-n. She is a inember of the tjrinu-
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al stuff of Lewis I::::titvite, vice-president of the .sophomore class there, belongs
to Kappa Phi Delta sorority, is a member of several" sport;-; groups and served on
dance corir.dttees. She succeeds Lilli^-n Snodgrass.
feature editor Arthur Minv/egen, a junior chemical engineer, succeeding Killiaui
Spoth ao business muioger, is a rneiriber of G{.ani7.a Theta, honorary drur;atic fr:-t.-;r—
nity, and is coach and a niember of the ca; t of "The Front Fago," forthcor.inti pro-
duction of the iarmour Players of Illinois Institute of Technology'-. He it a gradu-
ate of Loyola /Xadei.iy. He hao appeared .since iiis freshnan ysj..r in plays ai'id has
been a merabei- of the Glee Club, a feature editor la. t year, his pest has been
made for the firt;t tine a port of the managing board. He serves en the jui:ior
ring committee.
Sports editor Varren Spitz, a graduate of Hyde Park High School, is a jionior
..rchitect. He became a member of Tech LIc-.v/o' staff as a freshman rev.T'ite editor
and served as a Satujrday editor also. He entered the Institute on a freshjnan scho-
Ictrship cind enjoys a Oc.rtial scholarship at present. He has been active on the staff
of the Cycle, school annual.
Buslr.aoo nt.n&ger Robert Funk, a grL.dui.te of Ec.r.t aurora High School, ccme
to the Institute on u fire protection engineering scholarship, k sophomore, he
worked in the. circ-oli-tion deix^rtment of the publict^tion lost year. He succeeds
li.'illi.-.ja Speth.
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ILLI!10I^ IW:^TITUTi:; CF NEBRiiGKi. - LINCOLIJ, NE3rU.SKA 2/li/j^
TECHIIOLOGY - CllICkGO
VICTORY - 4600
RELEj.oK fori iffillDi.Y, FEB. 10, 1941
I'l. \"i. Fodcr, ^.rox'eosoricl lecturer in soci^^l science lX Illinois Institute of
Technology, euinsnt i"oreign correspondent i..nd novelist of Eurci..ecin pov/er -^olitics,
•.■ill c.ij..ei.r before UniversiLy of Nebr^.ska students c,t Lincoln, Nebr^iskf, to give
their the "lov/dovm" on Hitler's current \;;_r :;.oves. lir. Fodor is scheduled to lec-
ture Tuesdc^y, February 11, 1941^ J-t 11 c..:z. His topic \;ill be "The Shape of Things
to Come."
Enuncnt u:. i novelist oi' Europe:^! ;.o-.,er politico le: ding up to World Vrii- II,
Mr. Fodor served i. lifetime upon the ^^uiopeiJi ccntiiient cc- i. foreign corret^.-ondent
for the I.lc.nchester (Ei'jglc.nd) Gui^rdiiin e^d several Ajr!eric;.n ne.."SiJ':^pers, one of
v;hich v.i ;; u prominent ChiCi-go pcper.
According to John Gunther, correspondent uid novelist, Mr. Fodor "hus the
most ucutely comprehensive loio^/ledge of Central Europe of iTiy joum.-.list living
todc.y. Ke is better informed than the British in Central i'urope £aid the foreign
office paj^s close attention to his dis atches."
Bom in Budapest, Hungary, L'.r. Fodor \u:l educated as an engineer v/ho gave v.ay
to an overpowering desire to learn the "ins axid outs" of European politics. \;eli
conversant v;ith the forces back of the present '..orld-v.ide convulsions iJid extreme-
ly fasniliar v/ith v/,.r tt.ctics, L.ir. Fodor is a student of c>nd has a Vidde ^aiowledge
of the "Blit<.krieg."
Early in his cireer he bec£-jne associated with the Ilanchostar Guardian tjiid se-
veral iiirierican ne-vspapers. It Vix v;hile serving as roving correspondent for these
papers th;:t he travelled so extensively through Central Europe and the Balkans,
meeting and becoming acraiainted v.ith such men as Hitler, ivlussolini, Laval, and
others.
Duxing the past lev/ years, f!r. Fodor covei-ed the fall of Vienna, the fall of
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Spain, the Iberitji ienins-^J.;., Italy ar.d i'lorthem iifriea.
"i'ith the Gemcri "Elitz" machine en !ais heels, he observed the invasion oi"
the Lov. Countries cjid fled the scene of the Axis* successes in order to save his
life, for he v/as quite unpopular kdth the Dictators.
r In outlining for this group the current moves of the Hitler-I,lussolini war
machine, Ur. Fodor expects to touch upon such points as the obvious lailui-c of the
Nazi forces to invado England - and the necessity of turning to the Near East for
oil. He \.'ill also explain the /o:is' strateg;^.' in moving i!:to RrjticLnia yjad the pos-
sibility oi crossing Bulgaria, in its strategic \.'inter niovos toi/ard Turkey and tlie
oil fields of Iraq-Iran.
In touching Uj.iOn these points, he is expected to reveal the necessity for
British support to Greece, his conference vvitii the forner premier of Turkey-Atatirrk
and the plan of defense v. hen the iVxis moves in the direction of Tui^ktj'-, and the
ultimate clash \.ith Russia.
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ILLIIIOIS INSTITUTE OF FRONT PAGE," 2/21^1; 3 ?.:.!.
TEGIiNOLOGY - VICTORY ^600 2/22/41^ " " "
FOR RiiEASE: SlHcDAY, 2/io,^41
Sho.des of Ilildy Johnson, i^nd reascn:-blj-- uccurute fixsirdles of Jir;uay i.urphy.
Buddy McKugh Ljaa i.l Baensinger, and the genercition who used to smoke up a crimin-
al courts building pressroom that had no pinjx-pong tables i-nd leather chairs;, Vvdll
ride again.
This tine it will be in the auditoriu;.; of Illincis Institute of Teclmology
v/hen the iirnour Flayers, ^.'resenting "The Front :-age" Feb. 21 and 22 at 8 F.I,;., put
Ben Hecfit's and Charley Maciirthur' ;-; three-act ccniedy through its ink-atuined paces.
In che city v.here it v/as born, a fev< miles from "Clark and Lladison Streets"
to which it viuv dedicated, ^he play that sent its authors to fabuloua Hollji.TOod
careers, that "made" cinema star Pat O'Brien and provided the text of Rosalind
Russell's late movie, "His Girl Fi'iday," will on tiiec.e nights be ^.cted by the
2,000th amateur producing groui- to use it since its origin;. i ^jreseiitation.
In honor of the occasion, Jimmy Llurphy, Chica^'O Daily Times reporter and
dean of active Chicago police reporters, -..nd Leroy "i^iiddy" iiicHugh, king-^^in of the
Chicago Herald-American' s police reporxers, v/ill be present for the Frid^.y, Feb-
ruary 21, performance.
They will see Albert C. Sanov/skis, 2633 W. 44- th Street, a senior chemical en-
gineering student, portray the role of Hildy Jolmson. i.'urphy, a City riev;s ^ureau
cub in 1892, for a total of a mere forty-nine yeart in the nevjSjjaper business, has
seen some good and bad actors in his tim.e.
He and McHugh, a veteran of -chirty-three years on the beats, both of whom
are the origin^^ls of characters \.'earing their n;:unes in the play, h: vo helped to
coach Sanov.'skis c.;. Hildy, v/hom they played cards Y/ith every day in the flesh.
They have also given a few tips to students v/ho act the parts of Kuri^hy imd
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chenicL-d engineer, v.'ho doublss '..s co^ch of tho plt-y. Koy Eocdecker, 11739 E%'j.:leoton
Avonuc, ireshi..i.n electriCc.1 cngineei-, v/ill ttict; the pc..rt of t!ie latter, ;:nci vjill
uttor thi-.t cii'-E.oic line, "i»';.-.da:,!, i.-. it true you'vo- been tho victi;n Cj? a jjai:.jjii-g-
tcn?"
IXvo Chlc^.go Teachers' College coQdo_, seu.-oneci from r....rjy school cjid _ju£.tfcur
groui. i-oles, vd.1.1 tako the pcrbs ci"" Peggy Cirr..nt^ Hildy't; 3v,-oethe£.rt3 :^id liolly
:..c.lloyj blio fiirl of the .'streets :.lth coan^.^sion for f.c,rl '.VillicMnr, condemned ir.ur-
deror ;.nd j:-:.ilbroikcr.
i'.eGpectively the'-;e pr.rtc v.iD.l be o..ken by blonJe Dorothy Keimedy, se?:iior,
ii'ui Ellon Iv'.oorGj fi-e;:;htn;;,a. lC.-..rl •.•'liiL.iju-; a:..kes h±u dush for fioedcn. in the per-
son of Mj.rvin '.VoolfbO}-, 6o34 I'^.-xton i.v.rate, ir.eclic--r:ic:.l ungin^:erinr: sochouore,
Al r,.\ensinger v/ill be i'0j.'tr-..yed by Je.c.'. Kof^In^jl, eleotricul cn;^anccring Jh-f'shman.
Sanov.SKiic, v;ho i'Lv-yi: tlie Ici-.d, ii> u gT.ud-.;o.te ef Lindblooi.: Ili^h School, c.
ntiDhor of the wreatlin.j tj:.n;, puts the >/i\ot foi.- thi, trLCJc to-.u, io .■-•. wenber of
the Ajriieric'^n Institute of Gheipici'.l Enj^ino. rs, i.vA "belong- to the .-jenj.or s.rjiual
coL-ir.ittoe. a member of G; miiie il'ifet;;;, honcrc'.r-y dj.-;.i..nuitic freternitVj ho ho.& onkan
V^rts in :^:..zt productiona of "ileon; Servie.;:," "Drcther Rat," "C£~,:tc.in Apple J^ck,''
...nd "Journey'.: End."
i'.rJ.nv/G.'jen, tlie cot-.ch-ector, !■: i. gr; dii:.to ox Loyole ii.c:.de:;".y, a .'iienibe.r of
Gua::-.:'. Thot:.^ honor::-ry drr.).;atic irc:tei-r:ity, . ':iar:ber of the Glee Club, is f(i;.tuie
editor of Tech IJo".3, undergraduate -wee ^ly, :a:d belong';-, to -„he Junior rin^; coij:;;iittee.
Kocco I.h P.eStef:.,no, o54- N. I.c.v. ler A'-re-mio, .;, tcpiionori;' fire prott-xtion engin-
eer, ^.l.eying the purt of >.jlter ^^ui'ns, rniJiiLjint; editor^ is ■-. grL.duete of St. Ig-
natius High ochool, ;.. representative of his clirS in xhe s talent council and a
pledt.e to G:-i:u;;a Theta.
Milton F, Pleva, 24.10 So Plarding ii venue, a junior cheiiiici.l engineer, v/ill
tifrsur-e the purt of '■'heriff Har''" lcji; Ph.' lip ?o: rke, 7412. Oakley iivenue , ■■"opho-.ore
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.^cp.iOLiort; chwr.-ict.l cnr^inai-T, vviil appev.r cs DiarioncI Louie; iobfiit Kl.jin, B55 S.
Grove Avoime, O^.k i'rrk, ..ill portrc:y Fjidicot^ 01 'Jht; i'oot; hobtrt i^-^mdstroi::, 5024
::. Kedv^lo i:ve;rae, ^uiuor ci\il ..■n.^-xn.-'.^r, vill bt. . :.lson of Th^. i-j:;eric;^-i ; Fr.-iik iV.
i:e;.u.eto, 44^0 :.;onroe Gtroet, soj-honore ohei^ic^l ;.ngi;:eer, v^ill plcy Schv;artz|
Byrun V^lis, Jr., 924 !'. H^-rvey ivvonue, Da.-: F.-rk, junior cneEical en^dnoer, v,^ll
-rci.ont Krug>-!r of the •Jcam-.i of CoiiL.".iercu^ uil • enon Pruie, 4921 S. jiver.s ^-.vuxiue,
.senior choiric; 1 en^lTieur, -..ill t^ppour ^.^ V,oodon.^,h'..iec Eichhorn. Holer- F.i.io.'-jr., 11^
C-cx-c id i-.venui, P:.i-k Ridgu, scphcmor.3 c.rchitcrct, tht- only girl in tlv- Cc.st v;h:; is a
-tudent of Tllir-oif: Institute of Tochnolugy, i^ u i:v3i.iber of GaiuiL.. Thetc., cJid a
veteran of lust year's production, "Roci:; Sorvice."
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FROM: /iLEXiJIDER SCHREIBER HE: CIVILI^J'J PILOT TFvfJNING UNDER
ILLIIIOIS niSTITUTE OF C.h.A.; CLASSES BEGIN ;:/l7/4l &
TECraOLOGY - VICTORY ^600 2/18/a.
RELEi.SE FOR; THURSDAY, FEBRUiiRY 13, 1941
Vdth the tctcl cuotr. for Etudent fliers £et ut 4.0 for Armour College of En-
gineering and Lev/is Institute of i^.rts c-nd Science^ divisions of Illinois Institute
of lechnology, clc.i)ses for civilii:-n student fliers sponsored by the Civil Aeroni.u-
tics Authority bt.gir. Llcnd^.y, February 17 ut Arr.our and Tuesdc.y, Febru^^cry IS ^.t Lewis.
At the latter caiupus, Y;here the :uotfc ic virtually filled, with one coed
availing herself of the opportunities seized spiritedly by r.:ale student^.. Laid at the
former, v/here a fev/ vacancie;; may exii-t for outside student:, or laymen post:-essing
neces;)ary collegiate requirements, preparation.^: are being made for a semester of in-
tensified training at the recuest of tl'ie government ctUtliority.
Both divisions of the Institute have maintained flier training units since
tiic student pi'Ogi-ai.i mus set up in September, 1939. E^ch ca:npus offers ground school
of the prirnarj'- or "private" grade, with -^ansing, Illi:iois, airport serving i.rmour
College st-udenti- as a flying base and Elmhurst airport off ei-ing simii; r facilities
for the Lewis Institute a.spirants.
Each enrollee is required to s-eud 7-i hours in groimd school instruction at
the Institute and IS hours at the airport for engine study, parachute study and re-
lated subjects. Thirty-five hours of flying tiine are the mininuji for flight train-
ing qualifying for a "^^Tivc-te'' license. During the 1939 season, ajid during the past
summer, more than three-foui'tiis of all students entering the program, finished it
and qualified thereby for secondary, or advanced, courses in ground school \jhich
\tere offered at iirmour College.
Some of these students, having earned a "private" operator's license, and
having completed thereafter the secondary training," are eligible, v,ith 200 hours of
flying experience, for cor-mercial pilots' licenses. The secondary course, in ad-
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flying f-bcve 3,500 feet.
T-vVuiity-four hourt of neteorology, und the sane nujTibsr in both navigaticn and
civil L.ir reguli-tijns, nalce up tiie ground school period of primary instruction.
So accelerated h:.: the pace of instruction becone that last semester' 3 course of-
fered the full schedule given during the v/hole of tvo semester's last year. This
stepped-up schedule \,ill be re cated tliis soi;.ester.
Last sciT-ester's ground school included irstruction in histon' of aviation,
parachutes, aircraft and cheory of flight, engines, instruinents, radios uses and
forms as well as the three principal units of ii;struction mentioned as particularly
stressed at the non-airport classes.
Students who have not rec.ched their tv.-enty-sixtli year as of Fobruar^/ 1, of
the current year, \.ho are eighteen years old, v/ho can furnish the school a labora-
tory fee up to $/t.O for physiccl exaiuin^ticns, insurance, ]iospitali::ation plan and
reimbursement insur^Lnces, r.ay, as United States citizens, cualify for the program.
Professor Melville Baker '^-ella, emeritus orofeLsor of civil engineering, is
director of civilian pilot training for ia-CiOur College, Ki.aself a flier, aad a
pioneer in the teaching of aerodjTiiraics and plijio construction, having since 1910
specialized in those fields at Armour College., Profesf.cr t.'ells is eminently ruali-
fied for his post.
At Lewis Institute, Paul G. ^ndres, assistant professor of electrical en-
gineering, heads the program since its introduction. The Lar<sing drport detail is
in charge of W. T. BroiTnell i.nd that of the Eliriiiurst airport of Henry Douglas and
Harold Harbican, all licensed pilots i.;id instructors.
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i'T.OI.:: iJ.E:-/i::DEP. SCHREIBER RE: SWIIvMIKG AT NORTH CENTRAL
^ ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF COLLEGE, 2/15/^1
ff TECHNOLOGY - VICTORY ^600
RELEASE FOR: FRIBAY, k/U/Al
With a yen to prove greater superiority over North Central College of Naper-
ville that v/as shov/n by their 38-37 victor;,'' of a month ago, Illinois Tech svanmers
v.'ill take on the sarie foe at Naperville Sat\irday, February 15, at 2:30 p.m. in
Merner fieldhouse pool
The win over North Central at Bartlett gyra pool v/as the first Techawk achiev-
cnent of the season. It remains the only victory to date in five neets and is ex-
pected to provide background for a bitterly-contested neet Saturday.
Opposing North Central's pace-setting Henning in the forty-yard freestyle
will be Blume and Rademccher of the Techawks. The forr.er Techav;k is expected to
push Henning to cancel out his time of 19.3 seconds in the recent encounter.
In the breast stroke century Illinois Tech will send Svagdis against Muellen
and Strieb, both of whom trailed him last tine out. Either Koos, wbo has recovered
from an illiness that kept him out of the previous encoxxnter, or Mankus, v;ill
team v/ith Svagdis.
In the 220-yard freestyle, Po\;ere and Gage, the lat.ter a promising freshman,
will be entered. In a recent meet against Chicago Teachers College Gage showed
fine form and a fighting heart though losing the event,
Vi'ith Henning again to be met in the 100-yard backstroke, the Scarlet and Gray
villi depend on Talcott and Huxhold, v.dth Strieb of North Central alv/iys a close
threat.
The 100-yard freestyle will pit Illinois Tech's Blmne ajid Taylor against Hen-
ning and Koeller. The 120-yard medley relay vdll send Huxhold, backstroker, Svagdis,
breastroker, and Walilgren, in the freestyle, into competition that v;as hot last
month but from wliich Tech emerged winner. The IbO-yard freestyle relay, ¥/on by the
Engineers last time, with the outcome of the race hanging on its finish, will see
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Tregcy and Condon of the Techav/ks are expected to be in fine fettle for
diving events against iJorth Central's Ostroth and his partner.
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FROrA ALEXiJIDER SCHREIBER RE: 19-^1 JLTNIOR FROM, CHICAGO
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TOWERS CLUB, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28,
TECm^OLOGY - VICTORY ^600 1941, 8:30 P.M.
I^'GR HtUVlEDIATE RELEASE!
IVill it be Sally, Irene or Mary? Nobody knows. But the Junior class of
Illinois Institute of Technology, in throes of choosing a beauty queen to reign at
its formal prom at Chicago Towers Club Friday, February 28, a-reeo she will have
to be as smooth as the chijnpagne music of Lawrence k.elk.
For when that maestro sv/ings his bi.ton for the fanfare that vd.ll herald tin-
nouncement of the queen's nsxie, he will call ■-. halt to feverish speculation of
Armour College and Lewis Institute students that has raged for weeks.
Included among the entrants for the title are Mary Spies, l/U-^. E, 59th St.,
junior architectural student, the only girl member of the junior conjnittee sponsor-
ing the affair, v;ho will be escorted by Hugh Story, sc^.honore mechanical engineering
student; Ruth Early, MlA. E. 59th Street, blonde University of Chicago coed, v;ho
will be escorted by Roman Mankus, 6030 S. Rock\;ell Street, mechanical engineer stu-
dent, comiaittee merriber and swimming teara ace; Rita Castino, 12A5 North Shore Ave-
nue, Mundelein College graduate, who v/ill be escorted by Jcjnes J. V/alker, 154-2 Cor-
nelia Avenue, fire protection engineering student, a member of the committee; and
Dorothy Duncan, 80^0 Oglesby Avenue, University of Chicago coed, who will be es-
corted bj' Richard Talcott, 32-40 S. I.'.ichigan Jivenue, fire protection engineering stu-
dent, committee member and swimming teajn star.
Also included are Darlene Van Derheyden, 4313 Schubert Avenue, to be escor-
ted by Charles Lachman, 4-156 Belmont Avenue, chemical engineering student and chair-
man of the committee, and Jane Klirmnick, 6213 Glenv;ood >>-venue, who virill be escor-
ted by Donald Ely, 1132 E. 4-6th "^treet, junior fire protection engineering student.
In addition to the dance music of Lawrence V^elk, a strolling string quartet
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will entertr^in guests'. The prom v/ill tuke the form of i. dinner dcaice, cjid is con-
sidered the most iKporteJit social occasion on the Illinois Institute of Technology'
calendar.
Other membcrE of the junior conimittee are frank Jencius, 827 V,. 33rd Street,
mechanical engineering student, Jorma Leskinen, 3226 Kenmore i-venue, electrical en-
gineering student, and Gustav Sti.;^ ts, 13-4- Ashland avenue. River Forest, electrical
engineering student.
Lachraan, in o.ddition to being chairman of the prom comrdttee, is in:ji;.ger of
the basketbLll teani and a stxidont ner.ber of the American Association of Cheirdcal
Engineers. Walker, a member of the comniittee, is junior class secretary, manager
of the v/restling team, a meir.ber of the Glee Club and of the Fire Protection Engin-
eering Society. Talcott, a committee meiTibor, is on the staff of the Armour Engin-
eer and Alumnus.
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FROM: ALEyJillDER SCflEEIBER RE: EASfCETEALL -
ILLINOIS lUSTITUTS Of TECK AT ELI.iHURST 2/l8
TSCmiOLOGY - VICTORY ^600 TECH AT KORTFI CEi^ITRAL 2/l9
RELEASE FOR: LMNDAY 2/l7/^
Tlie Illinois Tech Basketball Teair will wind up their present season \,ith the
tv/o engagement:-, to be played this v/eek. On Tuesday, February 18, they •..ill rr.eet
ELxhurst in a return game on the Elsihurst hose floor, having v.-on the first encounter
by a score of 35 to 30. V/ednesaay evening v/ill find Captain Sliv.a playing his last
game for Illinoi.'? Tech in llaper-'/ille when the Techav.'ks meet the Cardinals of North
Central.
Thu£ far this season the ruintet ha:-- turned in its best performEince against
the r.ore powerful opponents. The first indication of this strange phenomena v/as
the 27 to 22 defeat at the hands of the University cf Chicago's I.iaroons and the
latest creditable showing v/a^ in J^etroit against Lawrence Tech, a team ^aiich had
previously lost to Long Island University in i/.adison Scuare Garden by a scioit nine
points. The Lawrence gcoi-.e w^.s in the bag for the Techav/ks 'j-.til the last minute
and a half of i^lay, for until that time they had never lost the lead, then a freak
shot v.'as scored from the comer. Free throws made the final score 4-'^ to 36.
Hero of the tliree day road trip tc the motor city v;as junior Ploward I'endle-
bury. In ten previous games he had scored 39 points but at the expense of Grand
Rapids, Lav/rence Tech and Detroit Tech he rolled up ^1 to place himself in the
number two spot in the J^'echawk scoring coluimi second oaly to sophomore Jack B^aTie,
ace of the Techawk tally staff v/ho has 91 counters to liis credit at the present.
Techavvk's Captain Kenry Sliwa in his final season was severely handicapped
by a shoiilder injury which benched him for two games and hampered his style through-
out several others but managed to gather 55 points during the year. A graduate of
Kelly High School, Hank spent his freshman year at the University of Illinois trans-
ferring to Armour Tech in his second year v.here he became an important cog in the
basketball machine. A reg-ular for tiiree years. Hank is the only first stringer to
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The only other stnior on the squad is reserve forward. John Brierly, one
of the ciuickest men en the squad v/ho by his alertness mcjiaged to score nine
baskets in the course of the season by pass interceptions. i''res tln-ov; conversions
man?.ged to bring his season score to 23 points to date.
In the Eli-nhurst engagement the Tcchav.-kr. v:ill have their eyes peeled for
Ecnr-j B.-kev/ill, 6' A" senior center and the nain stay of the tari who accounted for
one thii'd of the Blue Jj-y score against the Techr.va-cs in the first meeting.
North Central also hi.s a potent center in 6' 3" sophonore Jiia Bates but the
real threat on the Cardinal sr;uad is Bill Shatzer; between the t\t'o of them they
manage to salvage quite a few gardes for the Redbird corabinaticn.
North Centr.l's Shati^er-Bates co-.-.briiation has its counterpart on the Techawk
quintet in Pendlebury :ind 6' 4-" sophomore center It.y LaGodney. V.'hen these two are
in the gcjne the rebounding is in the cxclu£.-ivc control of the Engineers.
Should they win their final two gaii;es as predicted by Tech's ne^; coach,
Robert E. Meyer, ex Marcon md pro -ctai- they will \.'ind up their first season under
"Remie's" direction with a record of 6 von, 9 lostj about three timcb better th/m
last yeart' tv»'c v/ins.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECaiOLOGY - VIC. U(fjO
2A1-2Q
RE: TRACK - V.ILSCN VS. ILLINOIS TECH -
U. OF C. FIELDrlOUSZ - 2/20 - 4.: 00
RELEASE : FOR TKUI'.SDAY, 2/20/a
On Thursday afternoon, Febn.iary 20th, the Illinois Tech track team v.-ill shoot for
their first victory of the season against ..ilKcn Junior Col.lege in the University of
Chicago Fieldhousfe at ,+:0G o'clock.
The strength of the Tschav/k squad received a severe blov; the other day \;hen x-
T&Y examination of the right nrJcls of '.'.'alter Srkert revealed a calcivjn growth v/hich may
put- him out of action for the remainder of "oh'-. inioor season. Erkert, a freshman che-
mical engineering student, v/as, ir the eye?: of Coach Nor-nan Root, a natural niiler and
has been developing rapidly.
Vi'ith Erkert ou'o of the ;^dct"ure, Coach Root is nov; devoting all of his attention
to the development of Rober~ O^-^borne, fresrjiian quarter-r.iler. Bob was tht; champion
dashman of the suburban conference '.;hen he ran for Oak Park High School and v/ith a lit-
tle training and experience is expected to spriiit the ^40 yds. in fifty seconds before
the end of the season. Tachav;k Co-.Captain Georg-- L.'ithe'.vs, having batter than normal
proficiency in the same race is expected to malco this perhaps the deciding event of
many a meet.
The Engineers arc- traditionally strongest in the field events and Tech's other Go-
Captain leads the parade in this section. Harr;/ Heidcnreich has recently developed his
vaulting to a winning state meanv/hile retaining his lead in the high juj/.p. V/lien the
outdoor season rolls around, Harry is expected to better the Tech record for the jave-
lin throw.
Other Engineers v/orthy of mention include Jolon El'.'ood, veteran pole vaulteri Dick
Barry, premier hurdler; and versatile Chuch McCullough who does everything well. In
competition, hov/ever, he confines himself to the niie, half-mile, high jump and tlie
loole vault.
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The Wilson Junior College squad his been ^he state junior college chainps ever
nee the cvvard was made for the first tine some six j'-ears ago. For the past four
:ars, they have sponsored the state chanpior.ship junior track meet.
Leading the Y/ilson contingent v/ill be dashir.an Lewis Taylor. In the 12th Annual
ch Relays, held lust spring, it was Taylor who beat out the rest of the college en-
ants to win the 70 yard da^h in :97.2 seconds to equal the existing records.
Other cor;:petitor3 upon -..-hich Coach Smith •.'ill rely to score against the Techawks
,cluds Kenry Bledsoe, bardies :r.:i the high junp; half-cilers, McKeon end Mills; Gamble
, the r.ile; and IilcClov/iy v/hose 37 feet in the shot should better Tech's best.
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FROM: iiEXiiKDER SGHREIBIiR RE: SmiaililG - ILLIIICI3 TECH AT MARYYILLE
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF CCLLEC-E, ;v:ASr\?ILLE, TENK. - 2/22/^
TECHIIOLOGY - VIC. ^^600
RELEiiSE: FOR FRIDAY, 2/21/AI
This v.'eekend the Illinois Tech S7:iii:..ing team v.-ill hit the trail for the \7armer
climes, narx-ly, '.'arj^ille, Tennessee v;here they are to meet the Marj-^ville College
squad in u dual contest on Satui-daj afternoon, February 22nd, 1941.
This meet v/ill rr.ark the reappearance of Ke.rl Koos, ace of the Techawk breast-
stroke staff who has been cor.fined \,o a hospital bed siace the early part of the sea-
son. Though badly oi;t cf ccvidition, riarl is expected to regain enough of his old form
to bolster the medley relay teair. in additicr. to evening things up in the breaststi'oke
event. Hov/evor, the Techca^.-k squad will suffer the loss of their other topnotch
breasts"croker, Victor Svagdis, who has been dropped from the squad due to scholastic
deficiencies.
This meet being in the south, will be governed by the intercollegiate rules. The
races are of somev;hat longer distixces thitn under the interschclasLic i-ules the Tech-
av;ks are accustomed to, justifying the squad of fifteen men \;hich are to v.cke the trip
The 440 yard freestyle, v.'hich is one of the events not norraa.'Lly carded by the
Engineers v/ill be svnim by V/'illiari Pov.ers and freshman Elliott Gage; the latter has the
ability to clip off i. forty yard sprint in :23 seconds after swirjning aiiy distance
over the 100 yard event.
In the 150 yd. backstroke, juniors Earle Huxhold and Dick Talcott are expected
to battle it out bevw-een themselves for the supremacy of the event. In addition, Earli
svdms tne initial leg of Tech's highly successful medley relay team; Dick swim.s number
three on the freestyle relay team.
For years the only weak spot on tJi otherwise wll balanced squad vir.s the fancy
diving event. That \/eakness is no longer v.'ith the Techav/ks. Freshman Jolin Trejay has
managed to v/in m.ore times than he has placed second. He has never fared i.orse.
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ILLINCIS lUSTITUTi] OF
■ TECm^OLOGY - VIC. ^600
2^-23
RE: Ai-Ii-njiiL SCKOLAPiSHIP EXi'liS - CITY AKB SIT]
URBM SCHOOLS - 5/j/A1; ARV.GUR CAIvIPUS
^Wl I?.aviEDIATE RELEASi;
Opportunity to attend an ace engineering college in a tiue of national emergen-
cy, v.lth clamor for trained engineers counting as Army, IJav;,r and privj;.te industry
raid superior teclmical schools seeking talent, is soon to be in the grasp of Chica-
goland's briglitest boys.
This development api^eared on annouiicement today by H. T. Heald, 5844 Stony Is-
land Avenue, president, that Illinois InstiLute of Tecimology would offer ten one-
year tuition scholarships, of $300 value each, a^d eight four-year fire protection
engineering scholarships, totalling ^-9,600, to graduates of accredited public or pri-
vate high schools and academies.
These eighteen prize av/ards arc to be laade for Armov.r College of Engineering di--
vision of Illinois Institute of Technolog}'-. In the near future complete details co-
vering thirty additional scholarships for the Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences di-
vision of the Institute will be announced.
Though enrollment in each division of the Institute has been swollen by hea-ry
matriculation in both September and February'' semesters, and in the quarterly day di-
vision of Lewis Institute, authorities decided to continue the tradition of affording
prospective students of superior attainments a chance for free tuition.
Scholarships are to be effective for the school year of 194J--4-2, except for the
four-year fire prouection engineering grants underwritten by stock fire insurcince com-
panies of the nation.
Competitors from the Chicago area vj-ill be among high school seniors of nineteen
states, from Arizona and V/est Virginia to Montana and 'viichigan especially invited.
All male graduates in the United States are eligible. Special arrangements are being
made for students living outside of the metropolitan zone, «Yho would have difficulty
in visiting Chicago, to take scholarship examinations.
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Saturday, ii!ay 3, 194-1 j is tihe date oi" exaniinations on the Armour College caiapus
of ttie Institute, A percona.1 interview is required of each ccmpe'oitor and those in
the Chicago district are asked to apply for it at Armour College, 3300 Federal Street,
before I/Iay 1st. This interview is necessary'- to establish eligibility for the vnritten
examinations. Inter-'/iews '.vill be given beginning Llcrch 31&"^s from 10 A.:.I. to 4-: 30
P.M. each schoolJay, and on Saturdays from 9 A.i.l. to 11:30 A.I,!.
Requiremenos for adnission to Illinr-is Institute of Techiiologj^, as set forth in
its General Information BiiLlet.in v.'ill obtain in the case of all scholarship contes-
tants. This Bvilletir. ma;; be had on application to V;. E. Kelly, registrar*
Students corapeting in scholarship exar.:inations last February'' are not e].igible
for ? second try.
Scholarship ratings ure based on three hours of written exatninations beginning
at 9 A. A!, on l.iay 3rd, az v/t.ll as considerations of personality, high school scholas-
tic record, extra-curricular activi'^ios and general fitness of candidates.
Written exairdnations consist of mathema-cics, phvtics and Ghemistr;/- and will to-
tal three hours. T"ne examination in mathematics v.'ill be primarily in i^lgebr?., vdth
some questions in plane and solid geometry- as a possibilitj'-.
The exa;;iination in physics and chemistry will be of the objective typo, but v/ill
include an essay on cOi assigned topic, and 'vvill be bc.sed on cex tbooks currently used
in secondary schools. There \;ill be no separcte 'written English extjnination since
ability in English expression will be judM:ed from tiie personal interviev* f.-nd from a
short essay prepared as part of the physics r.nd chemistry ex;.jrdnation.
Personal interviev,'s Lire to be h'.d -.vith en. individual member of the Institute's
scholarship committee. Members of the comrrdttee are; S. E. Tinstoii, >401 S. Cuincy
Street, Hinsdale, 111., associate professor of mechanical engineering, chairmf^n, C. A,
Tibbals, 5541 Everitt Ave., decn and ex-officio member; I?. E. Kelly, 2/+/3 E. 7Sth St.,
registrar^ A. W. Sear, S515 Constance Ave., assist;.nt professor of electrical engineer-
ing! S. F. Bibb, 2053 E. 31st St., associate professor of mathomaticsj W. M. Davis,
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8520 Euclid Ave., assistoit professox-- of mathematics: H= K. Giddings, 7S61-C Sov.th
Shore Drive, Jissistcait professor of r.:.then:^tics; 7'. R. i'lanne, 93- Hyde Park Blvd.,
assistant professor of physicsj Ti. J. LTcLamej, 154-6 N. LaSalle St., instructor in
mechanical engineering; A. L, Liell, 'L^^2 N. Sedg\'n.ck St., instructor in architectural
design; I/I. J. Murray, 7619 Crijidon Ave., associate professor of ci:er.iistry; R. H. San-
ford, 2303 Sheridan Rd., Evc.r.ston, 111., instructor in English; \i. H. Seegrist, S54-3
Maryland Ave., associate professor of riachine design; S. 1.1. Spears, 1720 V/. 105th PI.,
dissociate professor of civil engineering; vxid Saul 'Winsteii-i, 741-6 Phillips Ave., in-
structor in chemistry.'.
ROM: ALE}[xiNDEK 3CHPJEI3EII
ILLINOIS INSTITJTE OF
TECHI-ICLOGY - VIC. 46OO
2^1-25
RE: TRI^JJGULAR TRACK T.IEET - MOEETON AND
CHICAGO TEACHERS AT U. OF C. FIELDHOUSI
2/26/a - 4:15 P.M.
RELEASE: FOR VjEDNESDAY, 2/26/4I
In the first triangular track meet of the current indoor season V/ednesday aft°r-
oon, Febraary 26th, Illinois Tech v/ill be pointing for xts first victor;'. The /aeet
ill be v/ith Lloreton Junior College and Chicago Teachers College in the University of
hicago Fieldhouse, starting at 4.:15 0' cloci:.
In Chicago Teachers College, the Techinen ; ill be meeting c coir.bination of track-
en coached by the same Inr. 3iri-:,h \iho brcugiit a superior V.'ilson college contingent to
hat same fieldliouse last iieek for a 4-5-33 '.'in over zr^e Engineers. Snitli, hov/ever,
as been having trouble with his Chicago Tec.chers Squad because of insufficient raa-
erial.
In the last analysis, hov^ever, the Teachers combinaT,ion v.-ill be depending great-
y upon a one-man triple-threat to carry the t-eet to che Techmen. He is a youngster
y the name of Springs who travels the hurdles ajid dash events and competes in the
Igh jump to earn the lion's share of points for Teachers.
Moreton, or. the other hand, has been runner-up to pcv.erful V.'ilson squad, the
tate junior college champions for several years. They are expected to provide the
eal competition for the v/eakened Tech squad.
The Techavvk handjnnan, versatile i/ajme i.;cCullough, a junior cooperative student,
s the present leader in points earned during ccinpetition. His exceptionally fast
ames in the distance runs, plus his ability xn the pole vault, shot put and high
urap, make hxn Tech's chief threat in Wednesday's triangixLar encounter.
Co-Captain Harry Heidenreich and miler George Eckert, both slightly incapacita-
ed by minor ailments, are expected to be back in shape bj V/ednesday. Heidenreich
.as failed to do his host in the high jijmp tnd shot put due to a severe head cold.
rkert has been bothered considerably by a calciiim grovrth on his ankle, and by
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)een clearing up rapidly t-nd he is expected to be back in tr-e running v/ednesday.
On Saturday, the entire squad v/ill travel to Ilaperville, Illinois for North Cen-
tral College's I.lid.;est Intercollegiate track carnival. Kcst probable v/inner for Tech
In this meet will be a two n;ile relay coLibination tade up of half-milers fvicCullough,
irkert, Joi'inson and Ratner.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. .^600
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RE: SECOND EI^GINEERING DEFETJSE TRAINING
PROGRAIjI - REGISTRATION NOW UNDER WAY
ENROLLMENT - 3/10-15/41, INCL.
FOR ILITffiDlATE RELEASE
Chicagoans working in "key" industries, those qualifying as engineers and tech-
nical men, T;ill have another opportunity to take "up-grading" engineering training de-
signed to raise their efficiency for specific jobs in the United States' expanding in-
dustrial defense program.
I' This was learned today from H. T. Heald, President of Illinois Institute of Tech-
nology, who said that confirmation had just been received from 7/ashington authorizing
the south side engineering school to proceed Y.lth the training of a second group of
approximately 1500 persons under the supplementary engineering defense training pro-
gram.
The Institute in Jcinuary of this year enrolled 1600 persons under this program
sponsored by government funds through the United States Office of Education. The
courses v^ere designed to forestall a shortage of highly trained men and engineers
whose talents were vitally important to defense industries. Sixteen courses given in
60 separate sections were begun January 6th. i.lany of the courses are being presented
in South Chicago areas as well as in Kaukegan and North Chicago, in addition to the
Institute's tv/o campuses.
The second program, which is now in process of organization, will contain in its
curriculum many of the courses listed in the first program. This, according to offi-
cials of the Institute, is due to the fact that Chicago industry is sorely in need of
the type of trainedinen which those courses will provide.
Some of the most apparent shortages are in trained personnel who can cope with
inspection methods, personnel selection end training. Other shortages are: foremen of
excellent caliber, tool, jig and die designers, and time and motion study experts.
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In addition to the recurrent demand for men v/ith such training, riany others vvho
have knowledge of explosives, stearn pov/er plants, diesel engines and others will be
trained under the second program shortly to be organized.
j_ Pre-registrations for the second program are now being taken in writing by the
Defense Training Coiamittee of the Institute, of which Professor J. I. Ysllott, he«.d
of mechanical engineering, is chairman. This will be followed by personal letters to
the applicants advising them of dates of interviews and fomal enrollnent. Formal en-
rollment, according to Professor Yellott, will be held during the week of March 10th
to 15th, from 7 until 9 o'clock in the evening, except Saturday when the hours will
be 1 to 4. o'clock in the afternoon. All persons interested id.ll be required to ap-
pear at the Institute's south side campus, Armo'or College of Engineering, 3300 Federal
Street, for a required personal interviev;.
No tuition will be charged of the study for any one of the courses. The entire
cost of the program at the Institute, which is e:qDected to be in the neighborhood of
$50,000 for the second program, will be underwritten by the Federal Government i-hrough
a $9,000,000 Congressional appropriation. The student, however, must provide his ovm
drafting instruments and textbooks.
The courses will be given only during evenings so as to serve the purpose for
which they were initially organized in the Chicago area. That is, to up-grade the
efficiency of the defense industrial worker who is currently emploj'-ed in the Chiceigo
industrial area so that persons with lesser experience and limited engineering or
teclinical training can be used at the bottom of the personnel structure.
An explsjiation of this "up-grading" program v/as given by President H. T. Heald.
He said: "We are expecting to effectively train young chemical engineers, for in-
staiice, in the handling and inspection of explosives so that the older man, the one
vdth more experience, can be freed of the task of such inspection for more worthivhile
application of his specialized knowledge. V/e, among other things, are training men
in the job of carrying out detailing of designs prepared by experts so that the
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designer can proceed v;ith continuous design v/ork. Sinilarly, our problem is the train-
ing of foremen in correct techniques, and electrical sngineers in the specific prob-
lems of coKimunications, as well as many other highly specialized fields.
"Our program," he explained, "is designed to cope ■..dth the problem of inadequate
supply of such men. The engineering colleges -doroughout the United States will gradu-
ate some 12,000 engineers in June. This is but 2% of the expected demand. l<e must
do something to solve this problem and this is but one step towards its solution."
- The courses included in this second group are i:i many instances duplicates of
courses in the first group now under "»vay. They are similarly on a college level and
tuition-free. In many instances, the pre-requisitss require of the enrollees as much
as a full four years of college engineering study or the equivalent in industrial ex-
perience. Other course'j require trainir.g in college through mathematics| while others
require only graduation from a technical high school.
According to Professor J. I. i'cllott, the program does not provide a general en-
gineering education and it is not designed to supplant the regular four year engineer-
ing curricula of the Institute. No college credit can be given or vail be given for
any of the courses. Ke emphasized the fact that "the student is under no obligation
to the Federal government other than to apply hiuself diligently to his studies and
that there is no change in the student's DRAFT STATUS other than that which his local
Draft Board sees fit to make.
Courses projected for this second program itnd which will begin March 17th, are:
advanced testing methods j diesel engine theory; electronics and communications; ele-
mentary chemical engineering; mechanics and machine design; EXPLOSIVES; foreman train-
ing; inspection methods and quality control; introduction to electrical engineering;
metallography; introduction to strength of materials; materials testing laboratory;
metallurgy; personnel training and selection; plastics; production methods; SAFETY
EJGINEERING; steam power plants and automatic control; time and motion study; and
tool design.
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Because of the fact that many persons with excellent qualifications for certain
of the courses listed do not have the necessary pre-requisites, the conunittee urges
that all persons interested present theniselvef: at the Institute fcr a personal inter-
view v/ith a faculty counsellor. In the last ejialysis, student entrance to the course
will be determined by his ability to handle th-j v;ork to be oaught.
According to Professor J. I. Yellott, "i.he Institute and the United States Of-
fice of Education are especially desirous of receiving applications from persons not
currently engaged in defense industry v;ho have had f unds-jiien tal engineering training.
It is hoped that such personsj, ^cy tclcing intensive training, caii qualify for vrork in
defense industry."
Upon conipletion .of a specific course, uhe student may qualify for immediate en-
trance to defense industry. No jobs are guaranteed, although tlie excellent services
of the Institute placement department and the services of the Federal and State em-
ployment agencies and the Civil Service Commission v/ill be made available.
Members of the Institute defense training committee includes Professor Yellott^
emeritus dean of engineering, F. A. Rogers; head of civil engineering, Phil Huntleyj
and vice-president, L. E. Grinter.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIB?Ji REs ILLINOIS TECH TRACK'lEN TO ivlIDVEST MEET
ILLINOIS IMSTITITTL OF NOR'TH CSIJTRaL COLLEGE, NAPERVILLE, ILL.
TECHHOLOGY - VIC. 4 600 3/1/-U
RELE^^SE: FOR SATURDAY, 1>/\/LX
For the coming Midwest Invitational Tri^ck meet to be held at Naperville, Illi-
nois, on Saturday, Mtrch 1st, sponsored by North Central College, Coach Norm Root of
Illinois Tech is sending seniors George i,Iatthev/s and John Elv/ood| jiiniors Harry Hei-
djnreich, V*ayne IvlcCullough and Dick Barry; and sophomore Don Keigher.
IVayne McCullough is perhaps the more versatile of the group. In a triangular
meet held last Wednesday, he scored in the sile, half-mile, high jump and pole vault.
In addition to this, he is a member of the relay team, puts the shot, runs the two-
mile and both hurdles if occasion dtmands.
John Elv/ood will probably be more apt to score than any of the other contestants
since his pole vaulting is outstanding. Co-captain Harry Haidenreich in the present
season has developed his vaulting to a point equal to that of Elwooa and it is quite
possible that he vdll beat out his teammate in this event.
Tech's othei- Co-captain, George Matthev/s specializes in the quarter-mile sprint
but of late he has been nosed out in the Engineer's past two meets by Techav;k Bob Os-
borne who will be ineligible for the meet because of his freshman status.
For the hurdle races, Coach Root is sending his timber- topping combination of
Dick Barry and Don Ktigher. This combination, vAile not sensational, has presented
a fine showing over the general run of com.petition and the possibility of scoring is
not out of the question.
The freshman eligibility rule is responsible for the rather sketchy group that
Tech is sending and were it not for that ruling Tech would most likely make a very de-
cent showing in the team st£Jiding. Hoi/ever, as it is Tech vdll not have a relay team
entered.
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FROM: ALEXAITDER SCHREIBER RE: i-_Ti-IU/\L ".,T:NTEP. COIJCERT OF LIUCICAL CLUBS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHMCLOGY
TECHNOLOGT - VIC. 46OO 3/lU/Ui- ~ 3:30 F.I.I. - GOODMM THEATER
FOR liU-IEDIATE RELEASE
The first annual concert of the combined, musical clubs of Illinois Institute of
Technology will be presented at Goodnai-i Hiec.~-.er Friday, Ilarch 14-, at 8:30 P.M.
For five ;/earG 0. Gordon Erickson, 510 Bavis Street, Evanston, Illinois, con-
poser and coach of the Illinois Tech Men's Glee Club .ind Orchestra, has offered his
Armour Institute of TecJrmology r^iusical clubs in a 3i:.:ilar annual affair. When Armour
Institute merged last July with Lewis In;.titute, Professor Erickson continued at his
post, this time with the complement of a Lewis girls' glee club in an advanced state
of organization.
This year two draraaLic tableaux, presented by members of tb.e Girls' Glee Club,
will lend color to the progTarii. The first, based on Brahm' s Hi-ingarian Dance, No. ^,
to be played by the Orchestra, v/ill group H^angarian peasant girls about a aieguneur
or gypsy fiddler (the first violinist) as ho plays an interpolation of the czardas
strains of the muvoic.
The second will interpret the exotic Archer' s Dance of Borodin, with the beauti-
ful legend of th^j three queens slain by an archer coming to life against the vocal
background of the combined Glee Clubs.
Both choral units of the merged schools had often been presented to the public
through road tours, radio appearances and sporadic school and organization programs.
Their union has formed perhaps the most effective and popular cultural link to result
from the physical merger 01 the two institutions. Student interest at both south side
and west side campuses has flared to an unprecedented peak.
V/ith but a handful of coeds to call on for soprano parts a year ago this time.
Professor Erickson now commands forty trained women's voices. They are the pick of
some 2,000 available.
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Professor Brici-cson' s range of choica of musical literature has been increased
iioineasurably thereby. Ths traditioneJ. hobby of engineers has been the several forms
of music. Armoior College of Engineering, as the south side lonit of the Institute is
now called, has bred a deep regard for extra-curricular luusical activity th^t might,
in another school, be devoted to an athletic team.
A measure of this devotion to sharps and flats as well as wrenches and slide-
rules can be instanced from "Lhe daily classical record reciteils conducted at the noon
hour as a fixed part of undergraduate life at Armour College. This feature has late-
ly been inaugurated at Lewis Institri.te.
An ambitious musical season, planned for next year v/hen male and female elements
of larger choral v*orks v/ili have been thoroughly articulated, vdll have its provievv'
at the forthcoming v/inter concert.
The Orchestra will number forty players and the Men's Glee Club seventy-five
voices. Robert iVlead, 723-4 North Clark Street, a senior cher.ilcal engineer, vdll be a
tenor soloist; Robert Hemm.cii, 204,8 North Sa-,,yer AvenuQ, a junior electrical engineer,
will be a baritone soloistj Gus Kustcikas, 3236 South Michigan Avenue, a senior chemi-
cal ongineer, will be a violin soloist; uid Roy Hrubes, 4-339 V/est 23rd Place, Cicero,
will be a trombone soloist.
The Men's Glee Club president is Jiones V/. Murray, 5633 South Sangamon Street, a
Senior mechanical engineer, .-vhoso voice coi.jTicaids both baritone 'Jid tenor registers.
Ho is active in several school societies and is a columnist of Teclinology No'A'S, under-
graduate vreekly. He belongs to Pi Tau Sigma, honorjiry mechanical engineering society
and Pi Nu Epsilon. honorary music society.
Maru.ger of the Men's Glee Club is i',!elvln Johnson, 7544 Sangsunon Street, a ju-
nior civil engineer. A member of Pi Nu Epsilon, honorary music society, and the Ameri-
CiJi jnstitute of Civil Engineers, he is responsible for bookings of the group and de-
tails of radio and concert appearrnces.
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Elmer Ratzel, 7133 Normal Boulevard, is presidem: of the Orchestra. A senior
civil engineer, he plays bass viol or bass horn in the orchestra, to ?;hlch he has be-
longed since his freshman year, is president of Pi Nu Epsilon, honorary music society,
belongs to Chi Epsilon, honorary civil engineering fraternity, and is a member of the
American Institute of Civil Engineers. He v/as a member of the Junior Prom Committee
last year.
Edward Malela, 3337 South L'dchigan Avenue, a senior chemics-1 engineer, is trea-
surer of the Orchestra. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, of Pi Nu Epsilon, honorary
music society, and performs in the horn section of the orchestra.
Richard Stoneham, 7113 Clyde Avenue, a jixnior science major, is manager of the
orchestra.
The combined iViusical Clubs are presided over by Gus Kustakas, 3^26 South Michi-
gan iivenue, a senior chemical engineer. He is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma, of Pi Nu
Epsilon, honorary music society, of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and
of the Dcnce Club Committee. He is first violinist of the Orchestra. Lee Niems,
524.9 Lake Street, a. senior mechanical engineer, is secretary-treasurer of the group.
He is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering society and Pi Nu Ep-
silon, honorary music society.
The Girls' Glee Club is presided ovur by I'.Iiricjn 'a^^lkcr, 1706 South 5th Avenue,
Maywood, a senior arts iund science student at Lev.ds Institute. Daughter of E. T.
Walker, assistant professor of education at Lewis Institute, she is also president
of the Leviris Drtjna Club, is on the staffs of Technology Neviis» undergraduate v;eekly,
and The Polygon, school cainual, :nd is a member i-nd officer of Kappa sorority.
Jeannette M-acLuckie, 65O P.-rsons Street, Desplaines, is secretaiy-treasurer of
the group, is a mem.ber of the Drcjna Club, belongs to the staff of The Polygon, school
annual. Kappa sorority, of which she is an officer, and has been a reporter on Tech-
nology Nevjs, undergradu^.te weekly.
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Patricia Arns, 4.613 Patterson •"■venue, sophomore arts and sciences student, scho-
larship winner, associate mrjiaging editor of Technolog/" Kev.s, undergraduate v/eekly,
member of Kappa sorrority cor^d of the So>hc;aore Dance coranittee, is librarian of the
group.
Soloists perforrin^ at the GoodmiJi Theater concert will be Robert 'i-lead, 7234
North Clark Street, a senior cLemic.-.l engineer :md. tenor, \,ho will ping "Just. You" bj
Burleigh, supported by the Glee Clubj Robert Heainan, 2043 Ilorth 5av;;'-er Avenue, a ju-
ri)r electrical engineer and a baritone, v.ho ■..•ill sing "On T-he Ro^-d to MandcJay" by
Spe£.ks5 Gus Liustakas who v.lll perforia "Fraeludiu:.. and l^lle^ro" by Pugnani-Kreisler
on the violinj ; nd Roy Hrube:?, 4339 ^'est 23i'd Place, Cicero, a senior fire protection
engineer, v/ho will present "The Patriot" of Pryor as a tronbone solo.
Hadley' s "Concert Overture" will open up the progrfin and the Lien's Glee Club
will follow with "Pilgrim's Chorus" ('ijagner), rjid "V.lien All Is Still" (Miles), "Clair
de Lune" (Debussy), "Hungarian Dance, No. 5" (Drvjims) ," Introduction and Thome" (Puc-
cini), "Southern Suite" (Nocode) will be other orchestral numbers,
"Music v'hon Soft Voices Die" (i.iatthevvs) , "The Lost Chord" (Sullivan), "The Volg;
Boat Song", "Cossack Lovj Song" and "The Sleigh" by Kountz, "Ezekial Sav/ de Viheel"
and "Dark-Eyed Susie" by Bartholomew, vlll be presented by the Men's Gloe Club.
The Girls' Glee ^lub will sing "The Clouds" (Charles) r.nd the combined Glee
Clubs, a medley of "Old Favorites" (Herbert), as the concluding number,
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHlv^OLOGY - VIC. 4.6OO
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RE: DR. L. E. GRINTER AT TRIMGLE LIONS CLUE
THURSDAY, 3/20^1 - 12:15 P. Li.
RELEASE: FOR SLT)JDAY, 3/1 6/U
Dr. L. E. Grinter, 1321 East 56th Street, vice-president of Illinois Institute
of Technology aaid dean of the graduate school, will address the regular vveekly meet-
ing of the Triangle Lions Club at Irving Park Y.M.C.A., ^215 V.'est Irving Park Road,
Thursday, March 20th, at 12:15 P.M.
Supplementary^ engineering defense training courses, set up under government spon-
sorship to "up-grade" efficiency of Chicagoans in key defense industries will be the
topic of Dr. Grinter' s talk.
Illinois Institute of Teclmology maintains an engineering defense training pro-
gram for the Chicago area and, as a member of the Institute's committee on the pro-
gram. Dr. Grinter is an authority on the subject. A second section of training courses
for 1500 persons will begin tonorrov.', March 17th, 19/^1.
"The Institute in January enrolled 1,600 persons ui-ider the United States Office
of Education-sponsored program," Dr. Grinter said.
"The second section of the program i.ill contain in its curriculum many of the
courses listed in the first. Chicago industry btill is greatly in need of trained
men. There must be no shortage."
Among shortages now existing, vaich only trained personnel can relieve, are in
inspection methods, personnel selection and training, forenanship, design of tools and
dies, and time and motion study.
Dr. Grinter v;as educated at the University of Kansas and the University of Il-
linois, and combines experience in the engineering departments of large corporations
with experience in educational institutions. He has made outstanding contributions
to basic knoivledge in structural engineering. From 1928 to 1937 he was Professor of
Structural Engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, carrying
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on research and teaching structural engineering, rie came to Arnour Institute in 1937
as Director of the Department of Civil ^Engineering and Dean of the Graduate Division.
Dr. Grinter is a raeaber of vSigna Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Americrm Society of Civil En-
gineers, and Society for Promotion of Engineering i-ducation, and is a registered Struc-
tural Engineer in Illinois. He is the author of a standard series of textbooks, as
\iell as many technical papers, and although only thirty-nine years of age, has already
been an officer of many national and local engineering societies. Under his direction,
the graduate cours?.s at Illinois Institute of Technology have developed rapidly, and
his leadership has proved an inspiration to the highest scholastic attain-ient on the
part of students and faculty.
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FROM: ALEXMDER ECHREIBER
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RE: MIDWEST POV,^R CONFEREI^ICE - APRIL 9-10
PALMER HOUSE; 9 A.M. TO CLOSE
FOR IIvUvIEDlATE RELEASE
p With the opening of the Lliclvjest Power Conference only a month av/ay, preprations
for record-breaking attendcjice based on requests for representc^tion are in full sv;ing,
according -co Professor Stanton E. Winston, ^01 South Quincy Street, Hinsdale, Confer-
ence Director £;jrid associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute
of Technology.
I The Conference, to be held <'odnecday and Thursday, April 9-10, is the fourth an-
nual one under the sponsorship of the Insti~oute and seven cooperating raidv;estem uni-
vtrsities and colleges.
Power production, transmission and conr;uraption will be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before approximately 1,000 engineers, utilities
experts, teachers, technological editors cjid government and civil technologists, Pro-
fessor v/inston sc.id.
"In the past, at last 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year we must provide for tv;ice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national
emergency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and weeklies for copies of pa-
pers read, and talks given, at the Conference has been on the increase from year to
year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material," he said.
"In some cases, vjhere an official of a large company of organization has been
listed to address us this year, ve find that his superior company executive has re-
quested to come instead. These shifts have resulted from eagerness of leaders of the
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country's pov/er industries to be on the spot when vital subjects are discussed."
f. H. Rosencrants, vice president of Conbustion Engineering Company, Inc., New
York City, v;ill replace \L H. Armacost, chief engineer of the superheater and econo-
mizer division of tha'c corporation, as a speaker on the subject of "Forced Circulation
in Anerican Po'^.er Plant Practice", V/inston stated.
This address will be given at 2 P.M. VJediiesday, April 9, under the panel heading
of "Central Station Practice." The same panel heading will include C. C. ■^"'rank, engi-
neer in charge of central station turbines for V/estinghouse Electric and Manufactur-
ing Company, Philadelphia, speaking on "Modem Steam Turbine Design" and G. V. Edmon-
son, district hydraulic coupling specialist of American Blower Corporation, Chicago,
speaking on "Variable Speed Drives for Power Plant Auxiliaries".
Opening at 9 A. I;!, each day, sessions will feature a total of nineteen speakers,
with question periods after talks, and after-luncheon and dinner speeches and discus-
sions.
Among subjects of talks not previously listed is "Construction of 4-8,000 Horse-
povirer Kaplan Turbines for the Pickv/ick Landing Dock of T.V.A." by Vj'. J. Rheingans,
test engineer of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, :,:ilwaui:ee, V.'isconsin. It v/ill
be delivered at 3:4.5 P.M., Wednesdajr, April 9. "The User Wants to Know" v;ill be the
subject of Aldred Iddles, application engineer of Babcock and V.'ilcox Company, New
York City, when he speaks to the joint luncheon meeting with the AmericfJi Society of
Mechanical Engineers at 12:15 P.M. that day. Iddles, among some other speakers at the
Conference, has stated that he will not speak from manuscript and will prepare no
v/ritten remarks. The opening session will hear Philip Harrington, 4-34- Melrose Street,
commissioner of subways and superhighways, Chicago, give a v/elcoming address.
Dr. Harvey N. Davis, president of Stevens Institute of Technology, v;ill talk at
the "All-Engineers" Dinner at 6:45 P.M. VJednesday. His subject will be "Priorities in
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dent 01 that suburb for seventeen years. He is a mernber of the Zoning Appeal Boai-d,
Masonic Lodge, and the Union Church of Hinsdale.
A meniber of the Acerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for the
Promotion of Engineering Education, and Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechcinical engineering
fraternity, he is a graduate of the Colorado School of i.iines, the University of Den-
ver and Krraour Institute of Technologj.-, and holds degrees of bachelor of arts, bache-
lor of science, master of arts and nechanical engineer.
Associated with Professor If^inston in proiuotion of the Conference is its secre-
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tar^'. Professor C. i^. Kash, 4.715 North Spaulding Avenue, associate professor of elec-
trical engineering at Illinois Institute of Teciinology. He has been a member of the In-
stitute's faculty for tv.(;nty years. Ho graduated from the University of Illinois vdth
a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1919. He belongs to the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Society for the Promotion of Engi-
neering Education.
Schools i-Yid groups associated with Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include Iov;a State College, I.lichigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State Universiti'' of lov/a. University of Illinois, University of Michigan,
University of lasconsin and the Chicago sections of the Americui Institute of Chemical
Engineers, the American Institute of Eloctrical Engineers, the American Institute of
Mechcjnical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
ter of the Aiaerictoi Society of Heating and Ventilj-.ting Engineers, ^aid the t»estern So-
ciety of Engineers,
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RE: HiU^.OLD VAGTBORG, SOUTH MiERICM TOUR
Release: FOR THURSDAY, 3/6/-a
Harold Vagtborg, Director, Arncur F-esearch Foiindation, affiliate of Illiiois In-
stitute of Schiiology, selected as one of six persons to form a cohiruittee to report on
South Auerican coromercial and industrial conditions, v.dll leave Chicago to conftr vvith
government officials on March 1/ith, prior to a tour of South Anerica. The conference
will be held in Washington's Shorehaci Hotel.
■ Invitation to the conference was extended by s.. L. Batt, Depuity DirecLor of the
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production division of t,he Office of Production h.ar.agecent; Jesse H. Jones, Secretary
of Commerce, and llelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Rela-
tions bet.\,een the American Republics.
The committee of six \dll leave 'Washington March 15'th for MicuT.i where they will
join a group of 40 industrialists for the projected National Rese'arch Council tour of
South Araeiica.
Broadly, the purpose of the South Anoric£:n tour, according to Mr. Vagtborg, "is
to assist in speeding-up of industritlisation of zhe more progressive South i\raerican
countries."
The tour, which begins March 17th, i,ifill be by v;ay of Pan American Air»;ays from
Miami throughout the entire South Americjoi continent. In brief, according to a state-
ment released by the Kationi.l Research Council, tnis will be i. tour of industrial ex-
ploration seeking industrial rav/ raateria.ls which may find more extensive markets in
this country, particularly of vegetable oils, fibers, minerals, pharmaceutical pro-
ducts and native South American vfoods.
Members of the committee, all industrial research and scientific executives,
will prepare a composite report of their observations during the South .American tour.
This report will be based upon their opinions of industrial possibilities as v.ell as
limitations and vdll be submitted through the Kati.onal Research Council to the various
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The entire span of the tour is to include seven v/eeky approxiiaately, from Mcipch
th to May 3rd. Host of the trip will be by air, via Pan AmeriCc-Ji Airways, '..Ith stops
nging from one to seven diiys at various industrial centers in Columbia, Peru, '-'hile,
azil and Argentine. The longest stop-overs for investigation by the Corjnittee vdll
at Call, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Kio de Janeiro. Side trips will be made vdth
ch of these points as centers of operation xo sucn places as Vina del Mar, Barran—
ilia, L'lonte video -ind Sao Paulo.
In ell, forty major e::GCUtives of United States industry will make the tour, al-
ough only a very small nuriiber will form the Nations. 1 Research Council Committee to
port findings on industrial possibilities to the govemnent. Rcpri^suntatives of the
llov/ing coiiip,anieE v.'ill participate: ALterican Locomotive Corporation, Atlantic Refin-
g Comprjiy, Budd I/Uiiufacturing Compijiy, Colgate-Palmolivo-Peet 'Company, Goodyear Tire
Rubber Comp-.-ny, Intern;. tional Business Machines, Standard Oil and United Fruit,
mes of otht,r coopera-cing compcjiies have not us yet been released.
On -J of the main reasons for the selection of Harold Vagtborg -: s a reprosenta-
,ve from the Chicago area centers i.bout the prominence gained by the Armour Research
undation as a leader in this field. The Foijuidation, it was learned, has since its
.ception in 1936 as the Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Tecluiology, served
:11 over 400 corporations in industrial research and development "..'ork.
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TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 46OO
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RE: SVai'/n>.HNG - ILLDiOIS VJESLEYM AT ILLINOIS
TECH, BmiTLETT POOL, U.OF C.
2:30 P.M., SATURDAY , 3/S/^
RELEASE: FOR FRIDAY, 3/7/4-1
Illinois Tech's tanksters v.lll play host to Illinois ■-'esleytoi in a return en-
gagement Saturday, March 3th, tlie ls.tter having nosed out Tech in a January encounter
36 to 30. The dual meet is scheduled to be held in Bartlett Pool on University of Chi-
cago campus at 2:30 P.M.
Earle Huxhold is the Techav/ks' uainstay and learieing scorer at the present time.
A junior, Earle has backstroked his Vi^ay to this position o In a recent meet ivith De
Pauw University, Earle v;as the only Engineer to garnei' a first place. The 150 yd.
backstroke was the event in \;hich he v/as victorious.
perhaps the most improved of iny of the Tecu:.Vtfk spJ.ashers this season is junior
Lawrence Rademacher in tl-ie shoroer freestyle distar:ces. V/ith the "esleyeji meet com-
ing up. Coach McGillivray rates him as the. squatd's n'omber-one freestyler and a poten-
tial point winner in the 4-0-yd. event. In the lOU-yd. freestyle he v.dll compete with
Alderson, ace of the l^esleyan tecan, v^ho also s'.'ims the 220, Both lads are component
parts of their ref-.poctive relay teiLms, Radeiiiacher being number-one man of the Techav/k
quartet while Alderson is anchor maji for Wesley:ai.
One of the toughest of raany bad brocJcs suffered by the Engineer squad this sea-
son was the hospitalization of its star broastroker Karl Koos. Junior Koos has en-
tered the tank once again, hov/ever, and is rapidly regaining his strength. By Satur-
day, Karl should be in the condition necessary to win the brcciststroke event as well
as providing a comfortable margin for the anchor man on the medley relay team.
All in all, the Engineers expect to v/alk off with the meet since the previous
c:.;e was swum under the most, adverse conditions for the Techawks.
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ILLINOIS IKSTITUTE OF
TECm^OLOGY - VIC. 4-600
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RE: TRACK MEET Y/ITK LOYOLA - 3/7/4J-
BOXING IJIEET ?JITH VALPARAISO - 3/7 Al
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Illinois Tech's new scarlet and grey uniforms vdll be on parade as a pre-Spring
fashion note \/hen the Techav/ks engage t;vo foes Friday, March 7, in track and boxing
respectively.
Coach Norm Root's human htybumers '.Till take on the track team of Loyola Univer-
sity of Chicago at -4:30 P. LI. that day at University of Chicago fieldhouse on the fa-
mous clay track v.'hich has seen so many records broken.
Fistic tui,or Bernard "Sonny" Weissnan v;ill send his leather-pushers out of tovm
to meet the Valparaiso University in an evening fiffair for their first thoroughgoing
competition since the Techawks figured in the novice and open division of the recent
Golden Gloves Tournament.
Loyola University is expected to offer strong competition to the Techawk track-
sters in nearly all events. V.'inner in a triangular meet against Chicago Teachers Col-
lege and Morton Junior College fuid loser to V-'ilson Juiiior College, and v»'ith an indif-
ferent showing to their credit in last Saturday's invitational neet at North Central
College at Naperville, the Illinois Tech team is out to shoot the v/orks against Loyola
and set a pace to be maintained for the season.
With no adequate ansv/er to what could be done to stop Loyola's Lenover in dis-
tance runs. Coach Root is nevertheless counting heavily on the shorter distance events
and the hurdles and pole vaulting for a heavy point pickup.
Versatile Ms.yne McCullough, a junior cooperative student, who performs in the
pole vault, high jump, the mile, the half-mile, and vjho can, if necessary, put the
shot, is the chief of Coach Root's threats.
Harry Heidenreich, junior chemical engineer, who is acting Captain, v/ill be en-
tered in the high jump and pole vault. He has occasionally picked up shot put points.
The standout competitor in the last event is Al Sanowskis, senior chemicaJ. engineer.
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John Elv/ood, pole vaulter and third-year cooperative student, and Robert Osborne,
fresliman hopeful, who vd.ll be entered in the 60-yd. dash and the auarter-nile, are
champing at the bit after minor cuccesses in previous meets. A sophomore mechanical
engineer, Bill li'atson, v/ill also try in the 60-yd. dash.
Another cmarter-railer, George I.'.atthev.'s, senior electrical engineering student,
and miler and half-miler George Erkert, a freshman chemical engineer, can be depended
on for points.
A possible entry in the ty;o-mile run is Hank Jackov/ski, junior electrical engi-
neer.
The boxing picture can be predicted v.lth clearer outlines. Coach VJeissman's
boys should v/in handily, particularly if Ivo Buddeke, freshjnan chemical engineer vfho
fights as a light heavy^veight and Kenny Young, junior electrical engineer, fighting
at 128 pounds, are in good physical condition. Both sustained minor injuries in prac-
tice during the Ifst i'evi weeks. Buddeke vjent through t?ie novice division of Golden
Gloves like wildfire but a bad heel kept him out of the open bracket.
Captain Ernie Colant, senior mechcnical engineering student, has shoi/m himself
able to take anything anyone weighing 123 poi.inds can pour on him in collegiate cir-
cles. Art Ellis, flashy fresliman arts and science student, will fight at 118 pounds,
Jerry DeGiorgi, juriior mechanical engineer at 12o pounds, Roy Erickson, senior cooper-
ative student, at 135 pounds, Leroy Simpson, third-year cooperative student at 14.7
pounds. Bob Merrick, freshman chemical engineer, at 160 pounds, and Chester Swann,
second-year cooperative student, weighting 190 poijinds, as a heavyweight.
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One thouco.nd guests of the i.lid-est Po-er Conference, to be held at the
Pi.iT.er House, '.'edneodc-y end Thursdt-y, April 9-10, -ill be vdcozied by Philip
H^-rrington, Coa-iiiGfioner of Sab -ays and Suoerhigh-ayc.
This as c^nnc-onced tod^y by Prcfersor Stanton E. Vinston, Ccnference
Director and a;_t:ociate professor of r.ie-.:;hanicul engineering at Illinoi:, Institute
of Technology. The Institute, together ''ith reven coo ■eratine: universities and
colleges, it sponsoring the Conference for the fourth year.
"In the past, at lea^t 500 persons 'vere i-ccoi.nocated at each j^^eLSion of
the Conference but thi:; ye-.r e must provide for tivice as in^-ny due to
unparalleled interert in the natur^.l rei:ources of the countr;/ ana allied fields
in this time of national ei.ier£jency," '. 'inctcn said.
"Dei.iand of the technical and utilities .uonthiies and '-eekliec for copies •
of papers read, and talks given, at the Conference has been on the increase froni
year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological
intere.'t credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
Harrington, an t-lujimus of iirraour Institute of Technologj'' in 1906, r'ill
keynote the two-day session that 'ill attract leaders of all br cinches of the
natural resources and public utility fields in A:uerica i-ith an outline of the
history of pO'"rer trans.nis.-ion and development from colonial 'times. It is expected
he v.ill t^ioo explain the unique position of pC'-er indur tries in time of national
defense.
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In addition to the b-ch..icr ci science degree he holds from Araour
Institute, Harrington is poESecisor of a la'" degree froa Kent College of Lav and
of a license to practice. Ke '^us for many years chief engineer of the Sanitary
District of the City of Chicat^o.
P Harrington is a native of V.'crcester, .'.kcsachupetts. liloving to Chicago
at an early age, he received raost of hit eleaentary and secondary education here,
graduating fro.r. Lakevie- High Cchcol. Ki:. c.recr 'vith the banitary District
began as a rodman, continuing until 1933 ■vhen he beca:ac chief engineer.
He has bcbn made special traction enginet,r for the Coraiiittee on Local
Tran:^;jortation of th^ city, h lac.nbor of the V'-i stern Society of Engineers and the
Chicago Athletic association, H-^rrington resides at U3A Melrose Street.
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RE: SPtbCH OF EDVvIN CILbLnK, LEWIS
LIVILIUiJ, To blCkviii LELTa EPblLUK,
t-COTT HaLL, N. U., 3/loAli 8 P.M.
RELEiibE FUR: oATaRDKl, liiaflCH 8, 19^1.
A joint meeting of Northv/estern University and University of Chicago chapters
of Sig.aa Delta Epsilon, VJoinen's scientific society, will be addressed by Ed'wln S.
Cieslak, 5237 Argyle Street, instructor in biology of Lewis division of Illinois
Institute of Technology, Monday, March 10, at 3 p.m., in Scott Hall of Northwestern
University, Evanston.
His subject vdll be "i«1arine Ecology and Ecology of the V^'est." It will be based
on detailed movies of marine life at the Oceanographic Laboratories on San Juan
Island in Puget Sound, under direction of the University a -• ^''ashington.
Produced in color, the movies vdll sho'f; vertebi'ates .and invertebrates of the
sea in their native habitats. A great diversity of marine plants and animals, many
filmed at lo'v tide, 'vill be shoi'n.
A thirteen-foot intertidal :^one, in '.vhich many organisms live, rocky shores,
where barnacles live, and the lower stratifications where snails, limpets, sea
urchins, sponges and other marine algae exist, will be explored.
Various vertebrates such as sea gulls, sandpipers, and snakes who feed on
these animals ivhen exposed, will be presented.
A 6 p.m. dinner will precede the lecture.
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FROM: ALEXAITDER SCHREIBER RE: SBCOrn) SECTION OF BUSIIIESS ARIINISTRATION
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF COOPERATIVE COURSE BEGINS IvIAHCH 31, 1941
TECHNOLOGY - "VIC. 4600 AT LE^.'IS riYISION
RELEASE: FOR MONDAY, 3/l0/41
An unusual form of scholarships for students v/illing to v/ork their vays through
school conos to light v/ith an announcement today of Hiss Kathrjm Judkins, 1260 North
Baarborn Street, coordinator of the "business and industrial management cooperative
courses at Lev/is division of Illinois Institute of Technology.
In a statement r/hich outlined plans for matriculation of the second section of
recontly-installcd cooperative courses at Lewis Monday, i.iarch 31, Miss Judkins re-
vealed that eighteen students who have spant eight v/ooks since Fc'bruary 3 in studies
at the Institute v/ill begin a similar hitch in 'busin'-ss and industry March 31, all
employed at wages that pa^' tuition costs r.nc\ incidental school expenses.
"Students enrolling tt.rch 31 at Lev/is for the cooperative course will he follov/-
ing on the heels of those v/o arc sending out to guaranteed jobs at good wages," she
said.
"In effect, v;e provide scholarships for any persons v/e accept in the husiness
and industrial managC'mcnt courses hy finding them johs at which they alternate v;ith
periods at school through five years-.
"At the end of five years, the students g-raduato from our courses v;ith a Bache-
lor of Science degree in "business administration and industrial rar.nagement and a
training in the husiness \/orld that puts them well on their ways to junior executives
and other superior positions," she declared.
"Each school year is divided into six alternating periods of eight weeks each.
A student spends his first period at school taking fundrjnental studies in science,
economics, and the humanities as well as courses in salesmanship, purchasing, market-
ing, advertising, office raa.nagemont and other related fields.
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intervals throughout each year. Students are paid only for the time they are em-
ployed but they make enough to carry thenselves through the periods spent in school."
B. The course completed by the cooperative nethod is the same as "Chat taking four-
jrears in the regular manner. Kiss Judkins ejqplained.
m Cooperating business enterprises, struck by the so-Lindness of the plan, are has-
tening to request '.vorkers from the cooperative program students, she said.
"Our course is the first of its kind to be offered in the Chicago area and bus-
inessmen and leaders in several branches of coLimercial life have invcstig;, ted us and
announced their approvt.l."
"The succe.;s of tne mechanical engineering cooperative plan begun at /irnour Col-
lege of the Institute five years ago led to the initiation of a similar program in
the business field and in :.iany cases the sane cooperating industries that assisted us
in -ohe 1936 experiment have hastened uo support us in this second pioneering v;ork."
iunong early supporters of the cooperative business adrainistrc tion and industri-
al relations courses were banicing houses, packing coiapany officials in production
fields, and the office managing sections of variegated types of x'ii-ms.
Paul A. Mertz-, director of company training for Set.rs, Roebuck and Company,
Vlalter Knoop, secretary- of the Cook County Retail Council, Joseph T. Meek, executive
secretary of the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, J. P. Curry, public re-
lations counselor, and Miss llabel i-leek, executive secretary of Altrusa International
Association \.'ere of great aid in backing the program from its inception.
At present employers are deluging her with calls for v;omen students in the coop-
erative progr::.m and the dem£.nd will likely continue for many m.onths, she indicated.
"The plans business has made for the national emergency period call for the re-
placement of men in many large industries by women, fully-trained or partially-trained^,
but all of them willing to devote themselves to a real career in business.
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ness v/orld but definitely,' coniiiitted to the policy of working to the top of tlieir re-
spective companies. That is one rei^son v.hy our wlarch 31 enrollment is expected to
grei-tly excede that of last February."
Tuition of $24.0 per year, plus a ^50 yearly budget for incidental fees, books,
papers, and other school equipment, are easily met by the amount of money earned by
individual students during their working h:.lf-year, Miss Juoicins asserted. Only high
school graduates and those v/ith qualities of leadership and scholastic aptitude are
admitted to the cooperative courses,
"Our problem nov; is to allov; each firm only one team of our students, the stu-
dent at work i.nd the student at school who replaces him at vork, because of uhe in-
creasing demand for cooperatively-enrolled men taid women."
Of those enrolled at present, Miss Judkins revealed, many students are past
twenty years of age and the group rtTiges from eighteen to twenty-five. The follow-
ing are currently enrolled in the cooperative co'orse:
Joanna Altenkamp
Lorraine iinderson
Charles Bindig
Jerome Bradley
Carl Buehler
Ray Dav/son
V/alter Eichenberger
John Fitzgerald
Lawrence Gale
Kenneth Giles
Russell Komen
Elmer Lake
Walter Landini
7345 Green Street
826 West 77th Street
645 I'orth Central Avenue
5052 Wilson Avenue
Barringtcn, Illinois
4.110 Kagoun Avenue
44.01 Drexel Boulevard
6305 North Lenox Avenue
434.0 North Spaulding Avenue
4230 North Oketo Avenue
6ISO Berenice Avenue
724.8 South Park Avenue
IIlLA Ellis Avenue
Calumet H.S.
Calumet H.S.
Austin H.S.
Taft H.S.
Elgin Academy
Roosevelt H.S.
Englev;ood H.S.
Taft H.S.
Roosevelt H.S.
Lane Tech. H.S.
Steinmetz H.S.
Mt. Carmel H.S.
Tilden Tech H.S.
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7349 South Michigan Avenue Calumet H. S.
3100 South Kiribark Avenue Hirsch H.S.
121 Washington, Oak Park Oak Park H.S.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: OUT-OF-TOVJN FRESm>iAI\^ SCHOLARSHIP AY/ARDS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF FOR 19U-4.2
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. /^600
Chicago, March 00, 19/+1 — (Special) — Interviews of male high school and aca-
den^ graduates as a first step for entering competition for 13 scholarships to be
av;arded to ArifiOur College of Engineering division of Illinois Institute of Technology,
will begin Llarch 31st, 19/U-, it was announced today. The exajnination for the awards
includes a personal interviev; and a three-hour v/ritten examination.
H. T. Heald, President of Illinois Tech, in making the announcement, stressed
the point that any graduating male high school or private school senior is eligible
for the competition, no matter how far rem.oved geographically he may reside from Chi-
cago v/here the school is located,
"Speoial arrangements," said President Het.ld, "will be made for the personal in-
terviev; and the v;ritten examination in the home city for those v/ishing to compete for
the awards who cannot con'.'eniently comanute to the Chicago campus. Seniors of
High School need only communicate v.lth tiie Institute registrar, signifying their inten-
tion to compete, and arrangements v/ill then be made with their principal,
or with a representative of the Institute v/ho may be in the ■rficinity, for the examina-
tion."
The exeuninations must be com.pleted by May 3rd, i/ith all requests for the exami-
nation in the hands of the Institute registrar by May 1st. The av.'ards consist of
ten one-year tuition ($300) av/ards and eight four-year tuition awards in fire protec-
tion engineering, each valued at $-;l200.
Scholarship ratings are based on a three-hour vrritten examination and a consider-
ation of the candidate's personality, high school scholastic record, extra-cujrricular
activities, and general fitness. The latter items are determined mainly by considera-
tion of the personal interview.
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will be three hours in length. The examination in natheiaatics v/ill be primarily in
algebra, with some que^stions in plane and solid geometry as a possibility.
Tne examination in physics and chemistry v/ill be of the objective type, but v^'ill
include an essay on an assigned topic and will be based upon textbooks currently in
use in secondary schools. There will be no separate vnritten examination in English.
The candidate's ability in English expression will be determined from the personal in-
terview and from, the short essay prepared in connection with the written examination
in physics and chemistrj'-.
Requirements for admission to the Institute, as set forth in its general infor-
mation bulletin, v/ill obtain in the case of all scholarship applicants. The bulletin
may be had on application to the registrar.
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FROM: /iEXiV^IDER SCHREIBER RE: INTERVIEV/S Of HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FOR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ILLINOIS TECH SCHOLARSHIPS - BEFORE 5/l/4
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600
Chicago, March 00 — (Special) — Intervlev/s of male graduates of high schools
and academies as a first step in competition for 18 scholarships to be av/arded for
Armour College of Engineering Division of Illinojis Institute of Technology vdll begin
March 31st, 19/k1, it was announced today.
Examinations will be held Saturday, May 3} 19/+1 at Armour College campus, 3300
Federal Street, according to President H. T. Heald, He added that seniors contemplat-
ing competition for ten one-year tuition ($300) awards, and eight four-year av;ards of
$1200 each for courses in fire protection engineering, should either communicate with
the Institute' s registrar before May 1st, or present himself at the Armour College cam-
pus prior to. that date for the necessi.ry personal interview, Interviev;ing hours are
from 10 A.M. to 4.:30 P.M. except Saturdays, when hours are from 9;00 to 11:30 A.M.
Seniors of higla school are urged to see their princi-
pal, , for further information relating to the necessary
personiil interviev/ and the v^ritten examination.
Students in communities removed from Chicago may take written examinations on
May 3 also, if they have first written to the registrar and made arrangements for an
interview and examination through their high school principal. Either the principal
or some responsible person named by the Institute will conduct both of these in the
home city.
Each personal interview of candidates to y/hom Chicago is accessible v.lll be con-
ducted by a member of the freslinian scholarship committee, of ^^'hich S. E. V/inston, 4-01
South Quincy Street, Hinsdale, associate professcirof raech^Jiical engineering, is chair-
man.
Requirements for admission to Illinois Institute of Technology, as set forth in
its General Information Bulletin, will obtain in the case of all scholarship winners.
This Bulletin may be had on application to the registrar's office.
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for a second try.
Scholarship ratings are based on tliree hours of written exajrdnations beginning
.t 9 A.M. on May 3 and on considerations of personality, high school scholastic recoi-^d,
extra-curricular activities and general fitness of candidates.
Written exairiinatiors consist of mathematics, physics and chemistry and v/ill to-
tal three hours. The examination in mathematics v/ill be primarily in algebra, vvith
some questions in plane and solid geometry as a possibility.
The examination in physics and chemistry'- v.'ill be of the objective type but v.dll
include an ecsay on an assigned topic, and '.vill be based on textbooks currently used
in secondary schools. There will be no sep-^rate v.ritten English examination since
ability in English expression v.'ill be judged frou the personal interviev/ and from a
short essay prepared as part of x,he jhysics and chemistrj'' excjiiinations.
Also m.embers of the freshman scholarship committee are the following: \i. E.
Kelly, 244.8 E. 7Sth St., registrar; A. V/. Setjr, 3515 Constance ^'ve., assistant profes-
sor of electrici-1 engineering; S. F. Bibb, 2053 E- 81st St., associate professor of
matheraaticsi Tj'. M. Davis, 8520 Euclid Ave., assistant professor of mathematicsi H. K.
Giddings, 7361-C South Shore Drive, assistant professor of mathematics; VY. K. Kanne,
931 Hyde Park Boulevard., assistant professor of physics; A. L. iVlell, 14A2 N. Sedg-
wick St., instructor in architectural deaign; M. J. Hurray, 7619 Crandon Ave., asso-
ciate professor of chemistry; R. M. Scmford, 2303 Sheridrji Ed., Evanston, 111., in-
structor in English; V/. K. ^eegrist, 854-3 I.Iarj'-land Ave., associate professor of mach-
ine design; S. M. Spears, 1720 Vs. 105th Pi, aE::ociata professor of civil engineering;
and Saul ft'instein, 74^-6 Phillips Ave., instructor in chemistry-.
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Four handrec i^thletes, ht-iling from the North "oocls of '• itxonsin aad
Minnesota,, from the State of ulichigan, fro.ii Kani^as and from Illinois and Indiana, /Ith
still one 'veeK remaining, have already signified their intention of competing in the
thirteenth running of Chicago's track and field classic, the ILLlIJOlS TLCH KLL^iY
GiuilES •
Formerly knoim as the Ar;r.our Tech Relays, and renamed after the merger of
Armour Institute of Technology'' and Lewis Institute last summer, the 194-1 finale to
the current indcor season, viii be held Saturday afternoon and evening in the
University of Chicago field house, jlarch 15th, 19/+1. The preliminary events are
scheduled for the afternoon, v. ith the final events beginning at 7 o'clock in the
evening.
Characteristically kno-.Ti as the only middle-p.-eitern meet in rhich colleges
and universities can compete in separate sections without the killing competition of
an open meet, the Illinois Tech Relajr Games afford the small college with top-flight
talent competition with the higgler school.
According to John Schoramer, all te;--m entries are classified into tv.o separate
and distinct divisions according to tiie rating of the school and the competition in
which it curtomarily engages. The smaller schools are placed in the college division,
while such schools as North'-^estern, Kani-ji^c, and Illinois are placed in the University
division. No university contestant may compete in the college division, "'hile a
college division athlete, having exception':^! ability, m.ay compete with the better
talent in tlie university division. At the same time, several events, inciuding the
field events, the mile run and the half mile run are declared open events, in vmich
all entries, irrespective of classification, may compete.
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The Gajnes are "onder the direction of John Schoiiiiaer, famous athletic official
and Tech athletic director. Asiiisting him are B. "Sonny" V.'eissman, assistant athletic
director and boxing and r;Testling coach; George S. Allison, treasurer; Norman Root,
track coach; T. Nelson Jletcalf, University of Chicago athletic director; and
Alexander Schreiber, public relations director for the Institute.
■ Thus far, thirty colleges and universities have entered the best of their
athletic .naterial for corapetiticn in the preliminary events Saturday afternoon. V'ith
one v;eek remaining before the stcrter's gun sigrials the beginning of the first event,
the total na^ber of athletes ii, AOO, and indications are that another hundred athletes
from at IttiSt 10 additional colleges and universities may be expected.
Aiaong the more fa:.ious entries are full tearas from such ''idely-rmo' n schoola
as Drake of Des Moines, entering for the first time in many years. There are also
teams from tlie University of Illinois, I/iicnigan State, Chicago, Marquette end North-
western, all competing in the laniver^•ity division.
In the college division, rL.turning to the scene of repeated tetun championships,
are such popular combinations as those of Michigan Normal, last year's winners;
North Central, recognized as the most outstanding small college entry from this area;
Northern Illinois State Teachers of De Kalb o s veil as V.'estern Illinois State
Teachers of Macomb; V'estern State Teachers of michig:.n; Carleton College of North-
field, Minnesota; Mil'-'aukee Teachers; Coe College; lo-.va, Dubuque and Io"-a Teachers of
lo'va; and Monmouth and Knox College, both reentering the Games after. several years
absence.
And from these colleges and universities come athletes many of v.hom are
defending champions in the scheduled track and field events. North'-estern University',
Joe Finch, daring hurdler 'Tho has been making a n^mie for himself in the Big Ten
conference this year, '.■ill be defending his 73-yard high hurdle record ag^^dnst several
Marquette timber-toppers. Another of Marquette's runners, '/.'alter Shslton, dashman,
(A'hipoed in a photo-finish last year by little "Gene" Littler, Nebraska star, will be
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returning to regdn hi:; hold on this 70-yard event. Shelton is co-holder of the
record in thi£ event '-ith Littler, t--o foriaer University of Illinois athletes and one
from Cc^rleton College of Minnesota.
Another returning defending chanpion is Ter- illiger of De Kalb Teachers rho
von tne ..uarter mile in the college field -/ith a ti;ae of 51.5 seconds, ''.-hile Jenlvins
of lo-'a Teachers '.vill defend his cro' n in the one-iuile run.
In the tean charipionship coupetition, both of last 3'ear's ',':inners are returning
I'.Tiile there is no actual artrd in the university division for total teair. points
gained, the highest scoring team is alvays recognized c.e the v.inner in this division.
Marquette University of r.lilv,aukee rated this honor iu 194.0 by virtue of an especially
well-balunced teai;i in all events as '.veil as fast-running co;ribinations in the relty
eventc. Murouette placed first in the t'-o mile event, nosing out Illinois by a
scant ;:iargin and then trailed the latter in both the sprint medley and the one-mile
events for second places, to pile up the largest university division point total.
In the college division, little-kno'.n but highly respected by its opponents
in tr^ck and field, ..lichigan Normal of Yp^ilanti ran up a totc-l point score of 65
and 5/6 points to beat its nearest riva.l, highly-touted Kansas State Teachers of
Pittsburg, by 25 points. By experience, it is i,.ipossible to rate the Normal contin-
gent. In the 194-0 competition the Hurons were not expected to do better than a third
place becccuse of a completely reva-.iped teaiS and they came in first. Similarly this
year, 'ith practically a nc" combination, it is h-rd to deter-^ine vhat its status may
be. Chief among the contenders for the college division crovn 'vlll be Loyola of
Chicago, vdnners of the Mid-e.:.t Intercollegiate at Naperville a "/eek ago; North "cen-
tral of Naperville, Iowa Teachers, and La";rence College of Appleton, V.'isconsin
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The best athletes of the vest's "Bix Six" Conference, the niddlev.'est' s "Big Ten"
ind"Central Intercollegiate" Conferences, and the Midv/est meet, including stars from
the "Little Nineteen", according to infor.T.ation released late last night by John J.
chommer, athletic director, have s\/elled the entries of the thirteen tti annual renewal
of the Illinois Tech Relay Gaines (formerly Armour Tech Relays) to a total of 35 teams
and 450 athletes.
Ripe from competition in their respective Conferences over last week-end and
flushed with handsome victories, many of the schools will renew rivalrj'- this Saturday
night, March 15th, 194.1, in the U of C Fieldhonse as the Tech Games get under way.
The final events in tnis meet, considered as Chicago's crowning climax of the
annual indoor track season, are scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock in the evening. The
preliminary events are scheduled for the afternoon, beginning at 2:15 o'clock.
What is more important from the competitive stcindpoint, according to leading
track and field experts in this area, is the fact that the Tech games will afford an
opportunity for the best teams of the Conferences mentioned - the Big Ten, the Big Six,
the Central Intercollegiate and the Midwest - to get together to match prowess for in-
door collegiate championship of the middlev/est. This is the only meet of the indoor
season ?/herein athletes from schools so widely separated geographically and who ov;e al-
legiance to such a variety of conferences, have &xi opportunity to match their talents.
For the first time in a great number of years, Drake University of Des Moines,
Iowa is sending a full complement of track and field stars to compete in the universi-
ty division. They will be m.atched against such powei^ful com.binations as those of Illi-
nois, Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan State, and Marquette, the 194-0 Tech Relays' Vifin-
ner.
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tille two weeks ago, v.lll compete against highlj'^-respected Michigan Normal of Ypsilan-
i, college division \vi:mer of last year. A nearby Chicago hopef\il vvill be famous
-lorth Central College, while vVisconsin's Lav/rence College as well as Minnesota's Carle-
ton College of liorthfield -./ill be hopeful contenders.
Among the individual contestants, ciirrently resting upon their laurels by virtue
of charupionship performances in the twelfth running of the Games, are six prominent
track and field stars v;ho are scheduled to defend their Crovms. Perhaps the most promi-
nent of these is little, red-headed "Gene" Littler of Nebraska. He has earned the
title of "fire-ball" as a result of his speedy taxtics in the dash events all during
the last outdoor season and during the cvtrrent indoor season. Rated as one of the
best dash-men in the United States, Gene carried av/ay top honors in the 70 yd. event
in 194-0, and in so doing, tied the relay record-tine of 7.1 seconds for this event.
The second defending chaiapion is Northwestern' s Joe Finch. A consistent place
winner in the hurdle events in Big Ten Conference meets, Joe Finch repeated his 1939
performance in v/inning the 194-0 meet. Tlrils year, however, he is expecting stiff com-
petition from Illinois' Den Olsen tnd Marquette's George Foster, both expert timber
toppers.
In the quarter-mile event, noted for its killing pace, Nebraska's Gene Littler
is again the defending champion. In this event he is not a record holder although he
traveled the coux-se in 194-0 in the time of 51 seconds flat.
Vi'ith Joe Finch as defending champion of the high hurdle event. Northwestern Uni-
versity has a corner upon "reputation-saving" since tv/o other V/ildcats v/ill also be de-
fending records and marks established in 1939 and 1940.
The first of these is young Edward Thistlethv/aite erratic pole vaulter v/ho cur-
rently holds the Tech Games' record for this event. Thistlethwaite established this
mark in 1939 with a vault of 13 feet, 11 ejid 1/8 inches, although he could do no bet-
ter thcin tie for third place last j'-ear. According to N orthv/e stern ' s mentor, Frank
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The remaining Northv/estem defending champion is dusky Jim Smithy high jumper who
on in 194-0 v/ith a leap of 6 feet, 1 inch. Knovm to top the bar at 6 feet, 4- inches,
3ut in a particularly bad slump this season from \Yhich he has not as yet been able to
emerge, Smith is having stiff competition from his tet-mmate and namesake, Don Smith,
iach is rated in the 6 foot, 1 inch class, and Oi^ch is rapidly improving to the point
where serious competition may result in spectacular jw.ips next Saturdaj)- night.
In the running of the team relay events, both college cind university divisions,
probable \/innerE are hard to forecast. Defending records established last year will be
Marquette University and Michigan Normal, each v/ith relatively inexperienced combina-
tions and neither having more than one returning vctero.n of last season's v/inning tetjiis.
Each will be defending records established for the two mile rela.y event, while Michi-
gan Normal will have the additional task of defending its \dnning time of 3 minutes,
28.5 seconds in the college one mile relay.
On the other hand, the University of Illinois will have its toughest assignments
in attempting to defend v/inning times in both the sprint medley and one mile events.
Officials whose duty it is to keep the records and conduct the meet are: Dr. W,
J. Monilav/, referee and Starter; Ge rge Donoghue, Chicago Park District, head finish
judgej J. J. Lipp, famous timer of many v/orld renovmed sporting events, head timer;
James Lightbody, famous years ago as a University of Chicago athlete, head inspector;
Dr. IV. H. Droegemueller, head judge of the pole vault; Dr. J. F. McNamara of the Insti-
tute, physician in charge; J. Kyle Anderson, University of Chicago, clerk of course;
Harry Frieda, clerk of course; and chief marshall, B. V/eissman, Tech assistant athlet-
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The Vho's Vino of raidv.-estern univercity and intercollegiate track competition,
with several revised standings follo'.-ing last Saturday's meets at Purdue and Notre
Daae, will have its next public unveiling Saturday at U. of Chicago fieldhouse when
the 13th annual Illinois Tech Relays (kno'.n in the past as the Armour Tech Games) are
n.
Stars, greater and lesser, all of them blazing ac:!ording to time or distance
standards set in these veekend and previcuc trials, are expected to come to their full
glory in the Tech Relays on the fast clay track at the I'/iidway and in the climactic com-
petition coming out of this seasonal •.■indue of the indoor meets.
Illinois, Northv/estern, V/iscunsin, and Chicago, trhose combined total of 163.5
points is seven-tenths of all points scored at Lafayette, will be represented in even
fuller galuxy than they "ere in the Big Ten meet.
A ne"/ name flaring bright on the tracx hori.'on is Don Olsen of Illinois, who won
the 70-yard lov hurdles and then came back to take second in the highs.
He broke the American mark of tv.-enty yetrs standing in the first event and pushed
an Ohio state competitor to a ne^- American record in the highs. His lov/-hurdle record
vdll like".-ise stand for the Big Ten as tho.t event never had been held under its "dng
before.
Another entrant in the Tech Relays v/ill be Charlie Horvath of North'.ve stern, who
should be at his hurdling peak Saturday night. He took third in the 7G-yard high and
low hurdles and gave evidence of being one of the most improved timbertoppers of the
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His tearaK£.te, Joe Finch, v.ho v/cn laSt year's highs, will be very much in evi-
dence, according to those "^o have been '//etching him all year. His fourth in that
svent at Lafajette may spur him to sensational efforts.
Myron Piker of the V.'ildcats ".as nosed out by Franck of Minnesota in the Big-Ten
SO-yard dach finals. If he is in good physical condition for the Tech Relays, he might
lang up a record for the 70-yard dash as he is kno n to be a strong finisher.
Bailey of Illinois in the ^uarter-::lile, Randall of Chicago in the half-mile,
l^-choenike of V/'isconsin in the mile and the Illini mile-relay team, on the basis of
point-garnerings Saturday night, 'vill be predictable factors in the Tech Games.
In the shot put Paskvan of Visconsin, '"inning i:aturday vith two inches less than
le made at last year's Tech Gicnes, 'ill be trying in v.-hat '■/ill be probably the last
of the indoor meets of his spectacular college athletic career. Anything can happen
under such stimulus, and probably v.lll.
University of Chicago's Rendleman, taking a fifth in the same event, has been
picking up experience all year and may be set for his big act next Saturday. Le'vis
of Illinois, McFadcean of V/isconsin, Stout of Illinois and Foster of T'isconsin,
placing second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Big Ten high jump, '-vill
be on hand to fight it out once more.
Vj'illiams of i'isconsin, '"inner of last weekend's pole vault, and Thistlethv/aite
of Northivestern taking fourth, .-.ill have plenty of pushing from collegiate entries,
as their event is an open one.
At the Central Collegiate meet at Notre Dame last Saturday Michigan Normal,
Mar'^uette, Drake, Kansas State and Michigan State scored a third of all points against
redoubtable foes such as Notre Daine and Pittsburgh.
Wyman, Drake, and Vielch, Marquette, in the high jump, Quinn and Brzensinski,
Michigan Normal, and 7/ickersham, Marquette, in the mile run, Rosens'-eig, Michigan
Normal in the shot put, Vosberg, Marquette, Kaulitz, Michigan State, in the quarter,
Darden, Kansas State, Sommerfield, Michigan Normal, and Egbert, Marquette, in the
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTL OF I3TH i^NU^L ILLINOIS TLCH KLLi.IS
T£Chi-iUi.UGY-VIC ^600 IN CHIG..G0, ivlixhCH 15, 3:30-10 P.M.
FOR IijIMEDIaTE RtLtASE
Chicago, Illinois. — (Special) — Seventeen ivlinnesota athletes, the crearri of Gopher State
college competition, rill be among ^^.50 members of approximately 4-0 track teams from
universities and colleges of eight midwestern states v;ho vlll gtrive hell-bent for
glory in the 13th annual renewal of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday,
Garleton College, Ncrthfieid, entering a do'en men, and Minnesota State Teachers
College, Viinona, '•••ith five entrants, neither of whom were entered last year v.hen the
Games v.'ere kno'/m as the ArJiour Tech Relays, are expected to be among leading contender
in the college division.
Two grt.des of competition vill be on exhibition. The universities, heavy with
stars whose names have been made in national me._ts, and the colleges, in many cases wit
men who could step out in any company, "dll be grouped separf-tely.
Some events will be open to university and college entrants. They are: the 880,
the mile, and all field competitions.
In those open events point totals for colleges will be counted independently of
the general result so that the smaller schools -."ill knor how they st»nd against each
other.
Garleton College has entered the follovving:
Vilalter Anderson, one-mile relay and 70-yard dash; Arltnd Ghript-Jenner, tv:o-mile
reltiy and one-mile run; Dv.-ight Culver, tvo-mile relay and S30-yard ran; Richard Gaarde,
70-yard lor and high hurdles j V.arren Grunert, 70-yard lov and high hurdles,* Robert Kar-
atz, one-mile relay and 70-yard dash; Donald Pfeiffer, one-mile relay; Corse Pollock,
one-mile relay and /^^.O-yard run; V.'illiam Reynolds, two-mile relay, 830-ytrd run; Harry
Speakes, shot put; Ned Stearnes, high jump; and Elmer V'ood, tv;o-mile relay and one-mile
run.
Minnesota State Teachers College, Winona, has entered the follovvdng: Kalbrenner,
sprint medley, 70-yard dash, 70-yard lo'- hurdles; Montgomery, sprint medley, 70-yard
dash; Sulack, sprint medley; Walters, sprint medley, and Zimmerhakl, sprint medley.
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fieldhouse v/ill be the scene of the Game?. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.M.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to tiiis year's Games by the fact that they '.'.'ill come as a
natural climax to the midv/estern indoor track season. Tro weeks ago the Big Six Ccnfe:
ence championships were run.. Last veek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Cei
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Dame were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
nois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of ;.Iil?.'aukee and ivlichigan Normal of Ipsilanti, last year's
champions in the univer:;ity and college divisions respectively, v.'ill be on hand to
attempt repetitions of their trii-unphc.
They v;ill receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, leva; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, iViissouri; Drake University j Elmliurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi
nois Institute of Technology; leva State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, lova; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, ualesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, I'.'isconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Chicago; Maine To'/Tiship Junior College, Desplainet, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Michigan; Mil-^aukee Teachers College; ivionmouth College, Monmouth, 111
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northv^t stern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; Univ-^rsity of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, Missouri; Vestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; l.'fticaton College, Y.lieaton, Illinois
and lYilson Junior College, Chicago.
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ILLIwOIc li^bTITUTL UF iiMU/iL ILLIIiUl^ TECH REL/^YS IN
lEGriNOLOGY-VIC. 4.6OO CHICaUO, ijURCH 15, 3:30-10 P.M.
FOR liiiiwEDlATE RELEiiSE
Chicago, Illinois. — (Special) — Fifty-three Io'-:a athletes, the cream of Hav/keye State
university and college competition, will be aaong 4-50 members of approximctely 40 track
t'.ams from universities and colleges of eight midv/estern states 'vho v:ill strive for
glory in the 13th annual renewal of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday.
Drake University, Desriloines, entering fourteen men, loi'-a State Teachers College,
Cedar Rapids, entering ti«felve men, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, entering sixteen men, and
University of Dubuque, entering eleven men, are expected to be ^jnong leading contenders
T/.'o grades of competition ivill be on exhibition. The universities, heavy with
stars v;hose names have been made in national meets, and the colleges, in many cases ^.'it
men ".'ho could step out in any company, will be grouped separately. Only Drake of Iowa
contenders rill be in the first bracket.
Some events vdll be open to university and college entrants. They are: the 880,
the mile, and all field competitions.
In these open events point totals for colleges vill be counted independently of
the general result so that the smaller schools ;; ill kno'-v ho'.v they stand against each
other.
Drake University, DesMoines, has entered the follov.'ing:
Baldwin, sprint medley, 70-yard lov- and high hurdle sj Burch, tv;o-mile relay, one-
mile run; Cobb, sprint medley, 70-yard dash and 70-yard 1o;a' hurdlesj Griffith, tvra-
raile relay, one-mile run; Jennings, one-mile relay; Jensen, one-mile relay; Kennedy,
tv/o-mile relay, sprint medley and half-mile run; Korona, sprint medley, 70-yard lov: and
high hurdles; Meskan, t'vo-mile relay, sprint medley, half-mile run; Nugent, pole vault;
Pollet, one-mile relay; Saur, one-mile relay; Stonecipher, one-mile relay; and Wyman,
high jump.
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fieldhouse '//ill be the scene of the GameF. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.M.
Saturday and the last for 9^50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they will come as a
natural climax to the .-nidwestern indoor track season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Ccnfei
ence championships were run. Last v/eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Cer
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Deune were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
nois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of r.Iilv.'aukee and Michigan Normal of xpsilanti, last year's
champions in the univernity and college divisions respectively, v/ill be on hand to
attempt repetitions of their trii-Uiiphs.
They will receive compftition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
uAichigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, loiva^ Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri; Drake University; Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi
nois Institute of Technology; Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, lov/a; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, Vlisconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Ciiicago; Maine Toi'Tiship Junior College, Besplaines, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Michigan; Mil"'aukee Teachers College; Monmouth College, Monmouth, 111
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois, North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northwestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, Missouri; V'estern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; I'^/heaton College, f.Tieaton, Illinois
and VJilson Junior College, Chicago.
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lora State Teachers College, Cedar Rf pids, has entered the follo"d.ng:
Robert Brovm, t'vo-mile relay, one-mile run; Vern Bredoc', 70-yard low and high
hurdles; Russel Bradford, pole vault; John Clark, one-irdle relay, sprint medley,
quarter-mile run; William Jenkins, two-mile relay, sprint medley, one-mile run; Robert
Keyes, 70-yard low and high hurdles; Lionel Leiberman, t^'o-mile relay, and half-mile
run; Juck Meyer, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, 70-yard lov; hurdles;
IfVilliam Rogell, one-raile relay, t'vo-mile relay, sprint medley, quarter-mile run, half-
mile run; Claude Sentee, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Vi'esley V.'arner,
high jump; and James Vaughn, shot put.
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, has entered the follo'-ing:
John Altfiliish, one-mile relay, tivo-mile relay, sprint medley, quarter mile;
Vsillictm Arnett, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, pole vault; Robert Cullen, one-mile relay;
Williain Davis, tvro-mile relay, sprint medley, one-mile run; Francis Flanagan, one-mile
relay, two-mile relay, half-mile; VJalter Kinch, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard
lo'/. and high hurdlea Irvdn Nelson, one-mile relay, tv.-o-raile relay; Robert Nicholson,
one-mile relay, sprint medley, quarter-mile run; Ralph Pilgrim, 70-yard lov'^ and high
hurdles; Jack Ranpelberg, one-mile relay; Dale Sage, Everette Stoutner, sprint medley,
70-yard high and low hurdles, high jump, pole vault; Kieth Sedore, two-mile relay,
one-mile run; Kieth Teague, two-mile relay, one-mile run; Carl Van Evera, one-mile
relay, tvro-mile relay, sprint medley, one-mile run and half-mile run; Fred Verink,
sprint medley, 70-yard dash, high jump and shot put.
University of Dubuque has entered the folloi.'ing:
Elv'.'in Davis, one-mile relay, sprint medley; Jack Dieter, 70-yard lov and high
hurdles; Charles Feutz, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Bruce Freeman, shot put; Clarence
Hirsch; shot put; Ken Rohl, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; George Steffens, 70-yard dash;
Bob Stoneburner, one-mile relay, 70-yard lov- and high hurdles, high jump, pole vault;
Hercules Tirapton, 70-yard low and high hurdles, high jump and shot put; Jake Thoman,
one-mile relay; and Bob Wilder, one-mile relay, sprint medley and quarter-mile run.
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FR'ji.l: HhLljrAruhii bCHhLIBiiii RE: LAv.RENCL GGLLEaE ATHLETES IN 13TH
IbLIi^'OIt INSTITUTE OF himUhL ILLINOIS TECH KELiil'k IN
TECHNOLOGI-VIC . 4.6OO CHIU/^CiO, lAhRGE 15, 3:30-10 P.M.
EOR L.k.ii.DIiiT£ KELr^iibE
3hici-go, Illinois. — (Specid) — Fivi Lav.Tfvncc College c^thlfcteti, the croun of a s^Ui-d
ending ono of its iV.ost successful seasons, rill be tjnong 525 members of approxir.u.ctely
i^O track ti^ains from universities and ccllegcs of eight ;;iidv.'e stern sti-tes vho v/ill striv
hell-bent for glory in the 13th annual rene'.val of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here
Saturday.
Tv'o grades of competition will be on exhibition. Th« universities, heavy with
stars, Cv-hose na;aes have been made in ni tional meets, and the colleges, in mt^ny cases
ivith men v'ho could step out into any co;iipany, "111 be grouped separately.
Somi. events "111 be open to ■oniversitj'- and college teams. They are: the 380 yard
run, the mile, and all field coL":petitionE.
In these open events, point totals for collegeti rill be counted independently of
the general result so that smaller schools vill knov: hO''. they stand against each other.
Lawrence College, Appleton, has entered the following:
Ralph Colvin, half-mile run; James Fiereger, 70-yard Iok' and high hurdles, high
jump, shot put; Vincent Jones, shot nut; James Orvdg, 70-yard lov; and high hurdles,
pole vault, high jump; James Sattizahn, 70-y&rd dash.
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The lightening-fast clay track and the huge arena of University of Chicago's
fieldhouse '.7111 be the scene of the Gar.e?. The first event is scheduled for 3: 30 P.M.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to tiiis year's Games by the fact that they '.vill come as a
natural climax to the .-aidv/et'.tern indoor tracK season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Gcnfei
ence chainpionships were r^on.. Last ••eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Gei
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Darue were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
nois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of Aiilwaukee and Llichigan Normal of Ypsilanti, last year's
champions in the university and college divisions respectively, y:ill be on hand to
attempt repetitions of their triiiiiiphs.
They v.ill receive cor.;pttition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, lora; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, i/iissouri; Drake University; Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi
nois Institute of TechnolOfy; leva State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, lov.'a; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, ualesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, Tisconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Cnicago; .Maine Toi"ni:.hip Junior College, Desplaines, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Michigan; .'ilil''^aukee Teachers College: .vlorunouth College, Monmouth, II]
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Korthvestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
lefferson City, Missouri; Vestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kc^lama^oo, Michigan; '//hcaton College, T.heaton, Illinois
and VJilson Junior College, Chicago.
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luLINuIo liJtiTiTUTL OF
TiCHrJOLOGY-VIC. ^600
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RE: .,I:iCO;jtIi\ ATHi^hThc CO..u^hTL IN
I3THL iJJNUAL ILLINOIS TECH RELaIS i.T
U. Of CHICaGC Fli^^hhUiibh, WuvhCH 15,
3:30-13 P,?J.
FOR Ii/L«^I^.TE REi^LnLE
3hic^go, Illinois. — (Speciol) — Fifty central V.'isconsin i-thletes, the crsLjn of Badger
Stote competition, '.vill be cjnong 525 raenbers of c.pproxi:nutely ^-0 track teams from
lanivT.rsitics and colleges of eight rnidwestern states "'.ho '111 strive hell-bent for
glory in the 13tii annual renev.al of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday.
Ib University of V.'isconsin, iMadison, entering fifteen men, '.'ilvfaukee Te£.chcrs Colleg
yiil''.'aukee, entering seventeen men, and :'.kr';uette University, ..lil'.vaukee, entering eight-
een men, are expected to be leading contenders.
Tv;o grades of competition '■•111 be on exliibiticn. The universities, hea\'y "-ith
stars, vhose naxes have been made in national iiie^.ts, and the colleges, in many cases
with men v/ho could ;jtep out in any coapioiy, "ill be grouped separately. Mil'-'aukee
Teachers College v,ill be in the second bracket. Marvuette '•••ill be defending champion
in the university section.
Some events rill be open to university and college teams. They are: the 880 yard
the mile, and all field competitions.
In these open event;.., point totals for colleges v.ill be counted independently of
the general result so that smaller schools vill know hov' they stand against each other.
B Of the fifteen entrants from the University of ""isconsin, three stand out. They
are Paskvan, shot putter, f-.'ho -as second in that .:vent last year with A9 feet, eight
inches; Viilliams, pole vaulter, '//ho 'von the Big Ten Championship last Saturday at Pur-
due \',ith 13 feet, 10^ inches; and Shoenike, distance runner, whose one-mile at Purdue
gave him a fifth place there.
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The lightening-fast clciy trc.ck and the huge c^rena of University of Chicago's
'ieidhouse '.vill be the scene of the Ganes. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.ivi.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they '.'dll come as a
latural climax to the ."..idv.'e stern indoor track season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Confer
nee championships were run. Last v.eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdu'^ ana the Cen-
tral Collegic^te me_t at Notre Daa.e were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
lois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of ."Ailwaukee and i/iichigan Normal of Ypsiianti, last year's
jhampions in the university and college divisions respectively, v;ill be on hand to
ittempt repetitions of their triiunphs.
They ivill receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
lichigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Io'.-:a; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, i;Iissouri; Drar.e University; tlmhurst College, Elrahurst, Illinois; Illi-
loir Institute of Technology; lov.a State Teachers College, Cedc.r Rapids, Iov;a; Kansas
5tate Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Jal^esburg, Illinois; LaGrange
runior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence Coileg'e, Appleton, l"isconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Ciiicago; Maine Township Junior College, Besplaines, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Liichigan; »vlil"^aukee Teachers College; ivionraouth College, Monmouth, Ill-
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois, North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois, Northern Illinois State Teachftrs College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northvestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois, University of Chicago; Univtrsity of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
Jniversity of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
[efferson City, Missouri; V.'estern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
"estern State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Vv'heaton College, V/heaton, Illinoisj
ind Vvilson Junior College, Chicago.
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iililvaukee State TeaCliers College, r/iilv,'£.iakee, hb.£ entered the following:
Aschenbrermer, one-.r-ile rday, sprint medley; Burtch, t.-'o-nile relc.y; Cebro',"ski,
iwo-mile relay; Cro'.vley, VC-yi.rd dash, 70-yard lor hurdles; Dunst, shot put: Eckenrod,
ligh jump; Edwards, pole vault; Frank, 70-yard lo'- and high hurdles; Hopkins, one-;.;ile
flay; Kariovis, shot put; Knofc:^nski, t-o-,~ile relay; IJallue, tv.-o-inilc relay; McBrair,
>ne-nile relay, sprint ir.edley; Rosin, snot put; Tetzlaff, s^Tint r.iedley, 70-yard dash,
'O-yL-rd lov; hurdles; Triable, one-ruile relay, sprint i;iedley; V.inn, high Jurip.
Marquette University, ;\Iil-'aukce has entered the folloving:
Harvey Baerwald, pole vault; Don Btrtsch, pole vault; i'.rthur Egbert, sprint nied-
Ley, 73-yard lev: and high hurdles; Leonard Fitzgeiald, one-uile relay, quarter-mile
run; George Foster, 70-yard higli hurdles; Ralph Gelhar, pole vault; Frank Gcralts,
ligh jui;ip; Gene Grocho'.cki, one-.v.ile relay, sprint medley, onc-raile run, half-nile run;
il Klug shot put; H.'jnry Lorisch, one-;.ule rim, lialf-rjilu run; Ho;.ard iJillen, sprint
nedlcy, 70-yard dash; Ervin Eic;., shot put; Toin Tiernan, one-nile relcy, sorint nedley,
juarter-raile run; Don Vcsberg, one-;..ilo run, sprint laedley, qu:.rtci--nile run, half-
flilu run; Enimett '..'elch, high jujup; Richard Vdckershaju, one-mile relay, one-nile run.
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ILLINOIS IMSTITUTE Of
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600
RE: MISSOURI ATHLETES COLIPETE IK 13TH MIJUAL
ILLINOIS TECH RELi.YS IN CHICAGO
LlARCH 15, 1941 - 3:30-10:00 P.M.
FOR IM.iEDIATE RELEASE
Chicago, Illinois — (Special) — Ei^t Missouri athletes, the cream of H'lule
State competition, v/ill be among A50 members of t^pproximately 4.0 track teams from uni-
rersities and colleges of eight midv/estem states who v/ill strive hell-bent for glory
.n the 13th annual renev/al of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday.
Culver-Stockton College, Canton, entering five men and Lincoln University, Jef-
ferson City, entering three men, are expected to be leading contenders.
Two grades of competition \dll be on exhibition. The univei'sities, hea-vy v/ith
stars, whose names have been made in national meets, and the colleges, in many cases
with men who could step out in any company, \/ill be grouped separately. Both Missouri
sntrants will be in tiie latter bracket.
Some events v;ill be open to university and college teams. They are: tlie 880 yd.,
the mile, and all field competitions.
In these open events, point totals for colleges v/ill be counted independently
af the general result so that smaller schoole v;ill knov/ how they stand against each
Dther.
Culver-Stockton College, Canton, has entered the follov.dng; Edv/ard Bash, sprint
medley, one-mile run| Bernard Cline, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, 70-yard high and low
hurdles, quarter-mile r\in| Lov/cll Kronecke, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, 70-yard high
and loviT hurdles, high jump, shot put; Charles Larson, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, 70-
yard high and low hurdles, high jump, shot putj and George Shouse, sprint medley, one-
mile run.
Lincoln University, Jefferson City, has entered the follovdng: Charles Harris,
''O-^a.rd dash| Hov;ard Lawton, one-mile runj and Y/inston Rogers, high jump.
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fieidhouse -/ill be the scene of the Gane?. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.ivi.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to t>.is year's Games by the fact that they will come as a
natural climax to the midwe stern indoor track season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Gcnfei
ence championships were r^on. Last -..'eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Ger.
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Dame were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
nois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of iJilr/aukee and i/lichigan Normal of Ypsilanti, last year's
champions in the university and college divisions respectively, v/ill be on hcnd to
attempt repetitions of their trii-inphs.
They vdll receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, i;iis;rouri; Drai:e University; Elmhurst College, Elrahurst, Illinois; Illj
noir Institute of Technolof^y; leva State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, Io'-;a; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, V'isconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Ciiicago; Maine Toraship Junior College, Desplainet, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Liichigan; dil^'aukee Teachers College: ionmouth College, Monmouth, II]
inois; Morton Ju^'iior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teacher? College, DeK&lb, Illinois; Northvestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, .Missouri; V'estern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Wheaton College, T.Tieaton, IllinoiE
and I'.ilson Junior College, Chicago.
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'ROiA; KLEiUNDiJl oCiiHLIBER RL: wIICrilG/uN ATHLETbb CUulPLTt IN 13TH
ILLIIJUIS IN:.IITUTL OF ^^UkL ILLIi.OiS TECH ti^L^IS IN
T£Cru,OLOGY-VIC. ^600 CHiC/.au, uluRCH 15, 3:30-10 P.I'i.
FOR L.bihLIr.IL RLi^h^bE
ihicc^go, Illincis. — (Special) — Forty-nine Michigan athletes, the cream of V."olverine
itate college competition, v;iil be among ii50 members of approximately 4-0 track tcaas
'ron universities and colleges of eight mid'vestern stc^tes vho 'ill strive for glory in
.he 13th annual renev.al of the Illinois Tech Relay Ganes here Saturday,
\i'e::tern State Teachers College, KaltuT.azoo, entering nine men, Michigan State Coll-
ge, Lansing, entering sixteen men, Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
;ntering eleven men, and i-lichigan State Noniial College, Ypsili.nti, entering thirteen
len, are expected to be leading contenders.
T'"0 grade;:' of competition '"ill be on exhibition. The univer.-ities, heavy '^ith
;tars, whose names have been made in national meet?, and the colleges, in many cases
Ith :nen vho could step out in any company, './ill be grouped separately. Only Michigan
itate College of the Michigan entrants "ill be in the first bracket. Michigan State
lormal is the defending college chajfipion.
Some events v.lll be open to university and college entrants. They ^^re: the 380,
.he mile, and all field competitiono.
In these open events point totals for colleges ■.vill be counted independently of
.he general result so that smaller schools '/ill icno'- ho'. they stand against each other.
Yi/estern State Teachers College has entered the follo'//ing:
Anderson, one-mile relay; Branson, tvo-mile relay; Coleman, one-mile relay, sprint
ledley; Cru/a, one-mile relay, t'/o-mile relay; Finkbeiner, t'/^o-raile relay; Halstead, two-
lile relay, sprint medley; Ker'/.in, sprint medley, quarter-mile run, one-mile relay;
>hoberg, 70-yard high hurdles; and Stxikkie, 70-yard dash.
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rieldhouse "/ill be the scene of the Gar.es. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.M.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they 7:111 come as a
natural cliraax to the .uidivestern indoor tracK season. Tro weeks ago the Big Six Ccnfei
ence championships were run. Last -'eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Ger,
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Dame were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
nois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of :,lil'.vaukee and Michigan Normal of Ypsilanti, last year's
champions in the university and college divisions respectively, v:ill be on hand to
attempt repetitions of thoir triii-'^iphc.
They ivill receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iov,-a; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri; Drake University; Elmhurst College, Elrahurst, Illinois; 111.
noir Institute of Technology; leva State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, Iov;a; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, I'lsconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Cnicago; Maine Tov-nship Junior College, Desplaines, Illinois; Michigan State
[Jollege, Lansing, [.'lichigan; ;vlil"-aukee Teachers College; ioninouth College, Monmouth, II]
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northvestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois| University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
lefferson City, Missouri; Vestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; \'^/heaton College, V,lieaton, Illinois
and VJilson Junior College, Chicago.
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Michigan Etc^te College, Lunsing, has entered the following:
BuECi-unc^n, 70-yard lo"; end high hurdles; Ce^dy, one-mile rele-y, sprint medley,
.alf-;aile run; Doren, one-ailt: relay, sprint medley and 73-yc.rd dash; Drynan, pole
•ault; Harris, pole vault; Kauiitz, one-niile relay, sprint Medley, 70-yard lo"- hurdlt-s,
uarter-rnile run; Liggett, sprint uedley; Macon, one-aile relay; Mader, one-mile relay;
IcCarthy, sprint laedley, 70-yard dash; Ralph i.lonroe, sprint .nedley, one-aile run;
iordan, one-nile relay; Rosenbauin, one-mile relay, sprint siedlcy; Smith, one-mile
•elay, sprint laedleyj Stevens, 70-yard lov and high hurdles; and Vonch, pole vault.
Central State Teachers College, ivlt. Pleasant, has entered the follo'.ving:
1 Burns, t'vo-mile relay, Richard Daron, tv.o-inile reloy; Ed Kreps, shot put; Ken
lOop, sprint medley, high ju;;ip; JanieS Nesbitt, 70-yard io- hurdles; Casmer Rakowski,
iWo-mile relay, sprint meciley, on^-mile run; Ray Richardson, sprint medley; Rosilett,
iprint medley, quarter mile run; Smith, t'--'0-mile relay; and iindre^-'f Stone and Clark
lldred, unas signed.
Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, has entered the following:
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! Robert Archer, t-o-nile relay, half-mile run; Elmer Burnie two-mile run, one-
lilc run; Ben Clark, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash, high jump, quarter-
lile run; Frank Durham, tivo-mile relay, half mile run; V.'arren Johnson, tv^'o-mile relay,
me-mile run; Don James, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Louis Kagan, one-
lile relay, sprint medley, quarter-mile run; Robert Lee, one-mile relay, t"'o-ralle run,
Iprint medley, one-mile run; Eugene Lucarelli, 70-yard lov- and high hurdles, high jump;
,d Rosensr/eig, shot put; Don Eoiuraerfield, 70-yard lov and high hurdles; Harold Stein,
lole vault; and Ted Webb, pole v^^ult.
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ROM; iiLiXhlii^Er. bCHRLIBLR RE: K^ii^^L. x^'IiiLLTLL COwPlTE IK 13TH
ILLINUIi. IWi^TITUTL OF ^^'SUhL Ij^LIim'-jIS ThCri rJLLhlt Ii^
TECHIJULUGY-VIC . ^600 CHIG..UU, Al^cCH 15, 3:30-10 P.M.
FOR Ii^UEDIkTE RLLi^.bt,
hicago, liiiixcis. — (Special) — Nineteen Kansas atnletes, the crea;.- of Jayhark State
;ompetition, "ill be anong A50 nienbers of approxioiately ^0 track tea.iis froni universitie
Jid colleges of eight nidwcstern states 7;ho will strive hell-bent for glory in the 13th
jinual rener/al of the Illinois Tech Relay Gaaec here Saturday.
Kansas State College, Manhattan, entering nineteen men, is making a determined bi
'or recognition after alio' ing last year's events to pasc it by.
Tno grades of competition 'ill be on exhibition. The universities, heavy 'Ith
itars, 'hose names have been made in national meets, :nd the colleges, in rnc-ny cases
1th men '-vho could step out in any corapany, •111 be grouped separately. Kansas State
College rill be included in thu first bracket.
Some events vlll be open to university and college entrants. They are: the 880,
.he mile, and all field competitions.
In these open events point totals for colleges '.'ill be counted independently of
.he general result so that smaller schools vlll kno-.j hov they stand against each other.
Kansas State College, Manhattan, has entered the follovlng:
Don Adee, t'vo-raile relay; Louis Kkers, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Don Borthwick
me- mile run; Wilfred Burnh^.m, one-mile relaj"-, t'vo-mile relay, sprint medley; Ed Dar-
len, 70-yo.rd lo;' and high hurdles; D^le Dietz, one-mile relay, t-'/o-mile relay; Gilbert
)odge, 70-yard lo"' and high hurdles; Kent Duv.e, shot put; Henry Haeberle, one-mile re-
.ay; Thaine High, one-mile r\in; James Johns, one-mile relay, t'vo-mile relay, sprint
ledley; Sammio Johnson, one-mile relay, ti;.-o-raile relay, sprint medley; Don Kastner,
me-mile relay, sprint medley; Dean Lill, nigh jurap; Ken wlakalous, shot put; Rufus
liller, t'70-mile relay, half-mile; Loyal Payne, one-mile relay, t'-o-mile relay, sprint
ledley, half-mile run; Merrill Rockhold, sprint medley; and Janes Uphara, one-mile relay,
3 print medley, and quarter-mile run.
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ieidhouse v/ill be the scene of the Ga.T.es. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.IiI.
Saturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they vdll come as a
latural climax to the midv/e stern indoor track season. Tv-o weeks ago the Big Six Gcnfei
3nce championships were run. Last ••.•eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Ger
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Dame were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
lois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of i'<lil7/aukee and Michigan Normal of xpsiianti, last year's
champions in the univer.iity and college divi:iions respectively, vdll be on h:.nd to
attempt repetitions of their triiuaphr:.
They will receive corapttition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, leva; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri; Drake University; Eimiiurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi
noir Institute of Technology; lo'va State Teachers College, Cedar Rapids, Iov;a; Kansas
State Teachers College, .Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, V'isconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Ciiicago; Maine Toraship Junior College, Desplainet, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Michigan; Mil'"aukee Teachers College; Monmouth College, Monmouth, II]
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois; Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northvestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
lefferson City, Missouri; V'estern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Wheaton College, Y-Taeaton, Illinois
and V.ilson Junior College, Chicago.
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B.M: i^LLXtu^LEK i:,CrifujIB£-R RE: Ht-BR^.^i^ aTHLETE COwiPETES IN
ILLINOIS INu,TITUTE OF I3TH /uWUitL ILLINOIS TECH REL^^YS
TECHiJUWuY-VIC. 4.600 IN CxilCiiaO, ftl^iCH, 15,3:30-10 P.M.
F'JR ljli-AL,Llt^iL RELiEi'.EE
hiccigo, Illinois. — (Special) — One Nebraska athlete, the cream of Cornhusker State
orapetitors, rill be among A50 members of approximately 4.O track teams from universi-
;ieE and colleges of eight midwestern states who will strive hell-bent for glory in
ihe 13th annual renewal of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday.
He is Gene Littler, sometimes knovn as "Red," because that is the shade, no doubt
)f his opponents faces after he finishes in his events against them.
"Red" is a two-time Big Six indoor and one-time Big Six outdoor champion. He
loldfa the Sugar Bowl and Cotton Carnival quarter-mile record. He has gone that route
Ln 4.7.3. He is a second-place vdnner in the National Collegiate meet, iilso, he is a
former Big Six indoor 60-yard dash champion.
But his greatest distinction v.'as in the Chicago and east-of-Nebraska area where
lis well-remembered performances in ^-aiking off ".ith the university 70-yard dash and
i4.0-yard run at last year's Armour Tech Relays, as the Games used to be known, will
lelp to bring fans out en masse.
Littler is entered in the 70-yard dash and the UAO-javd run this year once more.
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The lightening-fast claj track and the huge arena of University of Chicago's
'ieidhou&e v/ill be the scene of the Gar,e?. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P.iVu
Saturday and the last fcr 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they 7;ill come as a
latural climax to the .Tdd'.7e stern indoor tracK season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Ccnfei
jnce championships were run. Lact ■/eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdue and the Ger,
tral Collegiate meet at Notre Dair.e were reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
lois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of .Milwaukee and Michigan Normal of ipsilanti, last year's
champions in the univeroity and college divijions respectively, vdll be on h:.nd to
attempt repetitions of their trii-uriphr.
They v.lll receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe Collijge, Cedar Rapids, Iov,-a; Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri; Drake University; Eimliurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi
nois Institute of Technology; lo'.va State T'^achers College, Cedtr Rapids, Iov;a; Kansas
State Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
Junior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, V'isconsin; Loyola Uni-
versity, Chicago; Maine Toraship Junior College, Desplainee, Illinois; Michigan State
College, Lansing, Michigan; Mil'-aukee Teachers College: Monmouth College, Monmouth, 113
inois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois; North Central College, Naperville, Ill-
inois, Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northve stern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa;
University of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, Missouri; Vestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
Viestern State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; V'/heaton College, Vlieaton, Illinoi;
and v.iison Junior College, Chicago.
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ILLINuIb INSTITUTE OF IN 13TH mMNU.hL ILLINOIS TECH RELAYS
Tt-Crii'IoLOuif-VIC . /t600 IN CHICauO, ivl/JlCH 15, 3:30-10 P.M.
FOR IwiVlELIi-.TE KLLEiibE
hiciigo, Illinois. — (Special) — T':'ienty-three southern Illinois athletes, the cream of
ectional competition in that area, v.'ill be amcng 4-50 members of approximately 4-0 track
earns from universities and colleges of eight midwectern states 'vho will strive for
lory in the 13th annual rene'val of the Illinois Tech Relay Gaaies here Saturday.
Knox College, Galesburg, entering nine men, '.''estern Illinois State Teachers Col-
ege, Macomb, entering nine men, and Monmouth College, Monmcuth, entering five men,
re expected to be leading contenders.
Two grades of competition are expected to be on exiiibition. The universities,
eavy with stars, whose names have been made in national meets, and the colleges, in
any cases vdth men -ho could step out in any company, '.vill be grouped separately. The
hree southern Illinois sectional entrants vill be in the second bracket.
Some events will be open to university and college teams. They are: the 830, the
lit, and all field competitions.
In these open events point totals for colleges 'vill be counted independently of
he genei'al result so that smaller schools '-.-ill kno?. hov: they stand against each other.
Knox College, Galesburg, has entered the follov.ing:
John Campbell, unatsigncd; Bob Feldman, one-mile relay, spring medley; Cliff
eller, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard high and lO'. liurdles, high jiirapj Maurice
ocpv.ood, one-mile relay, £;print medley, quarter-mile run; Claude Olmstead, one-mile
slay, sprint medley; Rus Petrick, one-mile relay, sprint medley, quarter-mile run;
an Roberts, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Jack Rule, sprint medley; and
lickie S';;ise, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash.
Monmouth College, Monmouth, has entered the follo'/ing:
Leslie Armstrong, one-mile relay; IVilliam Barbour, one-mile relay; Currie, one-
die relay, half-mile; Donald Green, one-mile relay, one-mile run; Robert Raivson,
lieh ium-n.
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ieldhouse 'vill be the scene of the Gar.e?. The first event is scheduled for 3s30 P.ivi.
aturday and the last for 9:50 o'clock that evening.
Special color is lent to this year's Games by the fact that they v;ill coine as a
atural climax to the ;-idv;estern indoor track season. T'-o weeks ago the Big Six Ccnfer
nee championships were run. Last '..eek-end both the Big Ten meet at Purdu- and the Gen-
ral Gollegic^te meot at Notre Darx.e were reeled off. Echoes -of the University of Illi-
ois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marquette University of .Vlilwaukee and Michigan Normal of Ypsilanti, last year's
hampions in the university and college divisions respectively, v;ill be on hand to
.ttempt repetitions of their trii-i^aphs.
They will receive competition from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
ichigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, lovi.; Culver-Stockton
ollege, Canton, i/lisfiouri; DraKe University; Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi-
,oir Institute of Technology,''; Io'>va State Teachers College, Ced^r Rapids, lov.-a; Kansas
'tate Teachers College, IJanhattt-n, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
unior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; Loyola Uni-
ersity, Chicago; .Maine TovTiship Junior College, Besplaines, Illinois; Michigan State
ollege, Lansing, iMichigan; .vlil-^aukee Teachers College; Moniiiouth College, Monmouth, 111-
nois; iMorton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois, North Central College, Naperville, 111-
.nois. Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois; Northwestern Univer-
sity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, lova;
'niversity of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
.efferson City, Liissouri; Vestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
'estern State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Wheaton College, Ilieaton, Illinois;
md v.iison Junior College, Chicago.
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7'estern Illinois Teachers College, Mt^conb, hLL entered the follc^dng:
Alphonse Anders, 70-yard d_sh, quarter-aile run; Eldon Atv/ood, high jump;
t.rold Boven, 70-yurd lo-^ und high hurdles; Ronc.ld Cook, 73-yard lor and high hurdles;
ed Ford, 70-yard dash; Jack Harn, Phot put; Jini Levis, 70-yard lo'v' and high hurdles;
mdrev; Peterson, 70-yard dash; Alfred Ru.'^h, high jump.
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TECHNOLOGY-VIC. ^600
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RE: CEKTRiiL ILLINOIb ATHLETLb COiViPETE
IN 13TH Jt^WhL ILLINOIS TECH RELAYS
IN CHlCnGC^, iJiiJlCH 15, 3:30-10 P,M.
FOR LlvlEDIiiTE RELE.-.bE
Chicago, Illinois. — Sixty-four central Illinois athletes, the creajn of sectional compe-
tition in that area, v.dll be among 4-50 members of approximately AO track teams from
miversities and colleges of eight midwestern states who will strive for glory in the
.3th annual renei-.-al of the Illinois Tech Relay Games here Saturday.
Elrahurst College, Elrahurst, entering tv;elve men, North Central College, Naper-
'1110, entering tv;enty-three men, Vlieaton College, V.'heaton, entering t',velve men, and
lorthern Illinois State Teachers College, Dekalb, entering seventeen men, are expected
io be leading contenders.
Two grades of competition are expected to be on exliibiticn. The universities,
leavy ;;ith stars, ■•hose names have been made in national meets, and the colleges, in
lany cases v.-ith men v.-ho could step out in ai;y company, vill be grouped separately*
'he four central Illinois sectional entrants vill be in the second bracket.
Some events '111 be open to university and college teams. They are: the 880,
;he mile, and all field competitions.
In these open events point totals for colleges -■ill be counted independently of
/he general result ro that smaller schools '.vill know ho • they stand against each other.
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, has entered the folloving;
Donald Auten, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Ted Braun, high jumpj
lobert Clevenger, sprint medley, 70-yard low hurdles; E&rl Gerfen, one-mile relay, sprii
ledley, 70-yard d ash; Ralph Jans, sprint medley; V-'erner Lueckhoff, one-mile relay,
sprint medley, 70-yard dash; Ted Pilauoh, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dash;
Gilbert McKinley, sprint medley, 70-yard high hurdles; Darrihard Schierhorn, unassigned;
Fames Simonson, shot put; Ho":ard Varney, one-mile relay, sprint medley, quarter-mile
'un; George Winkley, 70-yard high hurdles.
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The lightening-fast clay tr&ck and the huge c^rena of University of Chicago's
ieidhouse -.vill be the soene of the Gane?. The first event is scheduled for 3:30 P. LI.
aturd^y and the last for 9:5C o'cIock. that evening.
Special color is lent to tiiis year's Games by the fact that they '.'.-ill coine as a
■itural cliraax to the .■uid\ve;-;tern indoor track season. Tvo weeks ago the Big Six Confer
nee championships were run. Laiit v.eek-end both tiiS Big Ten rr.eet at Purdu'j and the Gen-
ral Collegioete me-..t at Notre Dan;e ^r-ere reeled off. Echoes of the University of Illi-
ois relays a month ago are still being heard.
Marnuette University of wlilwaukee and ivlichigan Normal of Ypsilanti, last year's
hci.-:ipions in the university and college divisions respectively, v/ill be on hand to
ttempt repetitions of their triiuaphs.
They will receive co.TiOetitian from Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant,
icliigan; Chicago Teachers College; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, lov.-a; Ciolvc-r-Stockton
ollege, Canton, Missouri; Drake University; Eliriiurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Illi-
oif Institute of Technology; lo'.va State Teachers College, Cede. r P-apids, lov.-a; Kansas
tate Teachers College, Manhattan, Kansas; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; LaGrange
unior College, LaGrange, Illinois; Laivrenct College, Appleton, V'isconsin; Loyola. Uni-
ersity, Chicago; Maine Tornship Junior College, Desplainet, Illinois; Michigan State
ollege, Lansing, [.iichigan; .;iil'"aukee Teachers College; .vionniouth College, Moniriouth, 111-
nois; Morton Junior College, Cicero, Illinois, North Central College, Naperville, 111-
nois; Northern Illinois Sti^te Teachr.rs College, DeKalb, Illinois; North'.we stern Univer-
ity, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago; University of Dubuque, Dubuque, lova;
Iniversity of Illinois; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln University,
efferson City, Missouri; V'estern Illinois Sti.te Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois;
v'estern State Teachers College, Ko.laniazoo, Michigan; Wheaton College, V.Tieaton, Illinois;
Jid Wilson Junior College, Chicago.
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Arlen, one- mile rtl^-j, t-/?o-raile relay, sprint medley; Bates, high jump; Beams,
70-yard low and high hurdles; Dailey, VO-yard lo^- and high hurdles; Divine, tno-mile
relay, one-mile run, half-milt rjn; Houden, 70-yard dash; Kulce, 70-yard lo'v i.nd high
lurdles; Lester, one-mile relay, t-c-mile relay; Mazza, pole vault; McLean, 70-yard
iash; Morrison, pole vault; Preston, Pole vault; Riebel, one-mile relay, tv;o-raile relay
sprint medley, quarter-milt run; Russell, high jUiUp; uChendel, one-mile relay, tv;o-
nile relay, sprint medley, one-mile run, half-mile run; Schmidt, shot put; Cchmitz,
t<vc-raile relay, one-mile run, half-mild run; Ghatzer, high jum:^; Smith, -tv/o-niile relay
Spenser, shot put; Stanger, one-mile rclt-y, sprint medley; Gtark, one-mile rel&y, sprin'
nedley, 70-yard high ;tnd lev hurdles; Etone, one-mile relay, sprint medley, 70-yard dasl
ViTieaton College, ?'heuton, has entered the follcving:
Gordon Clauson, tv.'o-mile relay; Dayton Cooper, t;;o-mile relay; John Cottone,
sprint medley, 70-yard dtish; Carl DcVrics, 70-yard lo'v and high hurdles; one-mile relay
Vally Grigg, tv;o-mile relay; Tom Harris, t.vo-mile relay; Scott Kerr, one-mile relay;
riiniuy iVlcCarrell, one-mile relay, sprint medleys Don Patterson, t^vo-mile relay; Ray
Scott, one-mile relay; Duncan L'te'-art, one-mile relay, sprint medley; Chot V:ulff, one-
nile relay and sprint medley.
Northern Illinois w^tate Teachers College, Dekalb, has entered the follo'-dng:
Leonard Alms, sprint medley, 73-yard dash; Russell BaumLn, 70-yard high hurdles
.nd high jump; Charles Behan, shot put; V.'illiam Cianton, one-mile relay; Eldridge Davis,
sprint medley; George Dakan, pole vault; John F arney, sprint medley, two-mile relay;
Edv.-ard Gerhardt, t'.-o-mile relay, one-mile run; Richard Hazelton, 70-ycrd lov/ hurdles;
Joe Heaton, one-mile relay, t o-mile relay; Thaddeus Ka alek, shot put; Henry Knell,
shot put; Varren isIcKinstry, pole vault; JJcMillian, 70-yard lor. and high hurdles; Tarver
Perkins, tvo-mile relay, one-mile run; Don Riley, one-mile relay, sprint medley;
i<illiam Ter'Uliger, one-mile relay, 70-yard dash, quarter-mile run.
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iOU: iiLEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: S\/IK,iING - BELOIT AT ILLINOIS TECH
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF BaRTLETT POOL, U. OF C, 3/li^ - At30 P.M.
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 4-600 DE PAUVJ AT TECH - 3/l5 - 7:30 P.M.
RELEASE: FOR FRIDAY, 3/U/A1
The Illinois Tech ^irtiinming Team v;ill \;ind up its present season this coniing v;eek
id wiLh dual meets on Friday, March 14.th, against Beloit, and Saturday against DePauw
liversity of Greencastle, Indiajia.
Both contests v/ill be staged in Bartlett Pool on the University of Chicago caiTi-
iis; Friday's encounter is scheduled for ^^30 P.I.i. while the DePauw tilt is to be run
ff at 7:30 in the evening, when the Illinois Tech Relays vdll be in full swing.
As yet, the Techav/ks have not beaten eithei' te^-ir. in previous meetings this year
ut are confident of a victory over Beloit.
About the middle of January the Techav/k squad of SIX men traveled to Beloit.
The remainder of the team was ill) . The outcome v/as disastrous. However, the Engi—
leers managed to win both of the relays which accounted for t\/o-thirds of their total
icore. Adding insult to injury, Beloit' s ace freestyler, Morton, proceeded to shatter
iwo pool records in the -40 and the 100 yd. freestyle events.
In the pending Beloit meet, the freestyle events have been all but conceded to
Beloit. Extremely close decisions are expected in both the back and breast stroke
events between Beloit' s Michael and Tech's leading scorer, Earle Huxhold. Karl Koos,
ill for more than half of the season, should be in top form to touch out Oldendorf of
Beloit in the 100 yd. breast stroke.
Much of Tech' s success in the past season has been due to a fine diving pair con-
sisting of John Trejay and Ifiilliara Condon. They have alternated in placing one-tvro
in almost every meet in which they have participated. And if any one factor is respon-
sible for the Engineers being on the profit side of the ledger, it is because of re-
markably consistent relay teams.
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ILuINuI.^ IwbTITUii:, OF i-'Oh-ii^RLx iiRiiiOUR TECH RELaYS
TECriiJULOuY-VIC. ^600 U OF C FIELD tiOULh, 3/l5Al
RELEiitE: FUR '/."ELNEi^D/.Y , 3/12AI
Beset by injuries suffered over & -.veek-end of stiff ccmoetition, tv;o cf the more
prominent tei^ius entered in the tairteenth c-nnut-l Illinois Tech Relay Gijnes, v.lll be
sorely ht.ndicapped in their battle for university division championships.
Tjhen the Games get under -ay Saturday afternoon, iwurch 15th., 194-1, at 3:30
o'clocK, Northv.-estem University of Evaiiston and Marauette of ;<lilwaukee vill be minu-
the services of their aiore brilliant performers. North'- estern University has lost
Myron Piker for at least tv.c weeks, "hile Marouette '..ill be minus the services of Art
Sch'.TOpe as veil as V'altcr Shelton, dash man.
ulyron Piker, kno-n as the undefeated dash cha-ripion of the Big Ten for tv/o years
met his first defeat Saturday night at Lafuyette at the hcnds of Franck of Minnesota.
According to 'i'ildcat Coi ch Frank Hill, Uyrcn .ill be out of competition for ct least
t'A'o '"eeks recovering from this injury vhich caufjed his defeat. This r-ill be the second
time that Piker has been unable to compete in the Tech Gfjnes because of a similar
injury.
Vialter Shelton, co-record-holder of the 70-yard ash event v.'on his laurels in the
1933 meet, but v;ill not compete in the 19/+1 Games. The loss is keenly felt by the
Marquette Coach in vie-/ of the fact thc.t Shelton has been one of the most consistent
point-scorers for the •.iilnt.ukee contingent. According to Buster Shimek, Marquette
mentor, Shelton i''ithdre'.v from track competition bscause of outside '"ork.
The other Marquette casm Ity i.'-: Art Sch;;ope, hurdler and high-point-man of the
squad. He ivi.s injured at the Notre Dame dual meet a w-eek ago and is not expected to
recover in time to enter Saturday night's competition.
Accordingly, it appears evident that the field is left entirely clear for the
19/i.O defending champion ^"ho travels a good 1000 miles from Nebraska to make the meet.
He is little, red headed "Gene" Littler, spectacular dark-horse of the 194-0 Games of
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Stiff t-Et competition for the red hei^d ill prob£.bly co:ne fron t.n unkno" n Ho'."ard
illen of Marquette ho taKes VJalter Shelton's place. He trailed Carter of Pitt to a
econd in the CIC in the 63 yard event, whether he has enough stcj-.iina to travel the
0 yt^rd event at top speed './ill reaain to be seen although Marquette's Coach indi-
ates that the youngster has aefinite posLibilities.
In v.inning the 19^0 7Q-yard dar;h, Littler demonstrated not only his remarkable
peed, but also the remarkable stamina that carries him to exceptionally good times in
.he 4-4.0-yard event. Most meets have 60-yard dash events. In lasting out the extra
,0 yards of the Tech 73-yarQ event, Littltr ccnclu^iveli'- demonstrated hie exceptional
.alents by tieing the existing relay r.-.cord of 7.1 seconds for this event. In so
Icing he defeated famed Walter Shelton of ivlar'.uette, also a co-record-holder for this
ivent and Chicago's highly-touted John Davenport,
The record for the 70-yard dash 'vas fircit established in 1933 by a small-college
mtront, Johnson of Illinois Normal. The record v.as tied for the first time in 1934
3y Herman of Ci^rleton, Northfield, Liinnesota, and again tied in 1936 and 1939 by
Iriove of Illinoi;-: and Shelton of Mar.mette respectively. Littler tied the record
E'er the fifth time in 19-^0.
The red-headed youngster from Kebrasxa comes to his fame by dint of pure hard
vork. He is not only rated as the country's number-one dashraan, but is also considered
3ne of the best quarter-railers coning out of the west. His best time for the 440 is
^7.3 seconds - 1.1 seconds faster than the existing record time for this event estab-
lished in 1939 by North Central's (Naptrville) Wagner.
Littler won the 440 of the Tech Games in 194.0, but he ivas not pushed to a record
time in this event because competition '-as not stiff enough to v;arrant a better time
than 51 seconds flat. By virtue of this victory, ho is the only athlete in the univer-
sity division defending ti-''o titles.
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Besiaes being the Big Six indoor dc.sh chonpion for t"o set-sens, f.nd the Big Six
lutdoor chcjnpion for one season in the dt-sh events, Littler i.lso holds the quc^rter-
iile records for the Sug:-r Bowl i-nd the Cotton Carnival.
Competition in the IMo, ho-ever, is not going to be so easy this jeixv for the
estc-rner. Place-rinners of the Big Ten meet at Lafayette and the Central Intercoll-
;giate, each ;;ith times of 51 seconds or better, will be pushing him for honors.
The first of these ic veteran i.lil aukean, Don Vosberg ■-ho trailed Roy of Nctre
)a:ric to a second in the CIC last -veek-end. Vosberg ii' noted for his stamina and
ioes the quarter in 51 seconds easily. Another CIC place vinner v/ho vill be in the
■unning, battling Vosberg more than littlt.r, '.vill be Dale KaulitJ- of Michigan State.
le is also rated in the hUO at an easy 51 seconds. Others are Don Bailey of Illinois
nd Jerry Schneider of Northvestern University.
V.liile the dash and quarter-mile events in the university division seem to be all
"Gene" Littley, the college division events are more problematical, vith tv;o former
lef ending chamoions as possible '.vinners.
Le"'ds Taylor and Evans V'alker, both Chicago negro lads 'vho have made names for
themselves in Tech Games in former years are expected to return for the 194-1 Games.
Each has ivon the college division 70-yard dash college division cro^m. V'ialker,
formerly of V'right and nor of Loyola, -on this event in 1939 vith a time of 7.2 sec-
onds, 1 second less than the existing record time. Taylor of 7^ilson von the event in
19^0 with the same time - 7.2 seconds.
V'/ith these tco dusky lads pitted against each other, it is highly probable that
even a sixth co-record-holder for the 73-yard dash cro'n vill be created. Barring the
possibility, of course, that "Red" Littler gets pushed to an entirely new record in tha
event in order to take home first honors in the university division.
In the college ^-^-O-yard event a nev/ name looms on the horizon as a possible winner
He is Robert Osborne of Illinois Tech, a freshman who has been 'developing rapidly. In
dual engagements beti"een Tech and mid'i.estern colleges, Osborne has been a consistent
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etes us Ter-illiger of Northern Illinois: Teachers, Ker'"in of vVestern L'lichigi-n, and
lark of Michigan Normal, the favorites, stiff competition.
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'::: ALEyo-lJDER SCHBilBER RE: FIELD EVENT STAIcS COMPETING IN ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS EJSTITUTE Of TECH RELAY GAI/iLS, SATURDAY, 3/15 Al
TECHI!OLOGY - VIC. ^600 3:30 - 10:00 P.M.
RELEASE: FOR THURSDAY, IJARCH 13, 1941
Converging on Chicago I'rom all parts of eight midwestem states, trailing records
ke banners in their wakes, are small amies of that special breed of track chairipion-
lip crov/d-pleasers, the field events performers.
They are all hell-bent for glory and heading for the same encariprjent, the Univer-
ty of Chicago's Fieldhouse, hcadquaiters for 525 athletes Saturday afternoon and eye-
ing vjhen the 13th arjiual Illinois Tech Relay Ganes v/ill be held.
Eig-muscled boys v/ho have been watching each otlier through a frenzied indoor
eason of shot-put records in danger, lithe-linbed pole vaulters who have been seeking
he stratosphere from meet to meet, high iui.ipers as skittish as dancing girls — all
f them will be together in one fieldhouse at last.
All field events, as wrll as the SBO-vard r^Jin and the mile, v;ill be open to en-
trants from great universities and colleges and j-onior colleges from the comfed com-
lunitics.
This arrangement is made in order tlict competitors from small schools can tell
low they stack up with university stars they only read about but never see, except in
the Illinois Tech Relay Gaj.es. Points for colleges will be counted independently of
the general result.
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" All field events \.-ill take place during the evening session of the Games, the
afternoon being given over to prelindnaries of the dashes, hurdle events, and the col-
lege two-mile relay, which is a final event.
The pole-VcLult field at first gltnce looks as if it will be among the tv/o most
interesting event competitions of the entire Games, the hurdles being the other.
V/illieims of V/isconsin, who did 13 feet, lO-g inches, to V;in last Saturday's Big
Ten meet, will be out to gain an undisputed first in this same event he shared vdth
Hunt of Nebraska in the 194-0 Tech classic. His mark last year was 13 feet, 9 inches.
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The record for all-time Tech Games tries is 13 feet, 11 and one-eighth inches,
done by Ed Thistlethwaite, Northwestern, in 1939. The Wildcat ,Ace, placing third last
jrear, will be back to boost his ante in the direction of his record achievement. This-
tlethwaite has been doing in the neighborhood of 13 feet of late but has been .known to
be brilliant when least expected.
Stein of Michigan Normal, last year's college division champions, v/ho does over
13 feet easily, won a third place at Notre Dame last Saturday. He v/ill probably be
head man in the colllege points group again and may be second to r.'illia,ms in the gen-
eral scoring.
V/onch of Michigan State, v;ho does in the vicinity of 12 feet, 8 inches, Gelhar
of Marquette, who does the same, and Vthite of North Central, who has hit 12 feet, 9
inches, will be very much in the running to show in this event.
Husky George Paskvan, a perrenial favorite of audiences, who won this year's Big
Ten shot put, did 4-9 feet, S inches for a second place in last year's Tech Gsjues.
Hackney of Kansas State, who beat him, vdll not return this j'-ear.
Ed Rosens'weig of last year's Michigan NormaJ. college division ch;jr.pions, will be
back this year, trying for something better thaj:i the third pltice he copped at Notre
Dame Saturday when the Central Collegiate meet was run off. Hugh Rendlemian, of the
University of Chicago, taking fifth in the recent Big Ten meet, can expect to excel
the 4.6 feet, 3^ inches he did at Purdue.
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lege, Appleton, Wisconsin, Behan of Northern Illinois State Teachers, Vaughn of Iowa
State Teachers and Kavialik, a teammate of Behan' s. Feiv;eger, of Lav/rence College, a
versatile performer, may be in the money.
The Smiths, mighty m.en are they, both of Northwestern, are expected to dominate
the high jumping at University of Chicago Fieldhouse. James Smith, defending champion
in this event, has done 6 feet, 4. inches but seem.s to Icnock the bar off at anything
over 6 feet, 1 inch these days. Don Smith, v«ho ci.\n always be counted on to mtdce
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natters interesting for sport copy-deskman, tied him ut 6 feet, 1 and 3/A inches at
the Big Ten meet. That gave thern third place.
Another Big Ten luminary, v/ho tied vath the SmithvS in their Big Ten third place,
Ls Jim Ray of the University of Chicago . He will be present on his home grounds Sa-
turday trying to better his habitual 6 feet, 1 and 3/4- inches.
A Drake entrant, Wjrman, took third at Notre Dcjne Saturday vdth 6 feet, 1 inch.
Ciely of Loyola, Fievreger of Lawrence, Vernik of Coe, Eckenwood of Milvi/a.ukee Teachers
and Orwig of Lawrence vi/ill undoubtedly head off the rest of the college points compe-
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FROMs ALEXj'JMDER SCHREIBER RE; ILLINOIS TECH RELAY GiJviES
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF x^CRIviERLY kEIvIOUR TECH RELAYS
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. i^oOO U. OF C. FIELD HOUSE 3/l5Al
RELEASE: FOR FRIDAY, 3/UAl
Perhaps most spectacular of events staged in any track and field meet are the
mile run and the 380-yard run. For here the contestant must have a thorough knovirledge
of the science, conserve his energy, run a precisely-paced race uiitil the final stretch
to come home the winner.
And in the thirteenth annual renev/al of Chicago's classic Illinois Tech Relay
Games, formerly knovm as the Armoux Tech Relays, plenty of competition will be in evi-
dence in these tv/o events. The Games will be held this Saturday afternoon and evening,
March 15th,, 194-1= Preliminary events, not including the 880 toid mile runs, Virill begin
at 3;30 o'clock in the afternoon with final events beginning at 7 o'clock in the evenir.
And at the same time, paired v;ith talent in the open events of championship cali-
ber, vjill be several college and i.miversity entrants in the hurdle events. These in
combination hold the greatest promise of record-breaking performances.
Chief among contenders for the crovm in the SSO-yard run as v;ell as in the one-
mile run is the University of Illinois entrant. Park Brovm. He is a senior of Glencoe,
Illinois, and one of the best distance men the Illini have been able to send to the
Games for some time. Brov.Ta ran an especially good race in the 880 against veteran
Campbell
/Kane of Indiana last Saturday to take second place at the Big Ten meet. Kane's time
of 1:54-. 8 was 7-tenths of a second faster thcin the existing record time for this event
established at 1:55.5 by Marquette's Beckett in the 1936 Tech Games.
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Brovm will be after the cro\ini won last ye^^r by/Bfaier of Wisconsin and will have
competition from Ray Randall of the University of ChiCc.go, fifth-place vifinner of this
event in the Big Ten meet at Lafayette, and Lorence Stout of the University of Illinois
In the one mile run, the picture is somewhat changed, with the Badger State
making the strongest bid for first place honors. The University of Wisconsin, v;ith
Hov/ard
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many places they are expfjcted to tako towards vanning the university division champion-
ships. Park Brovm of Illinois and Ray Itandall of Chicago, favored as runners-up, Y;ill
be battling with Marqutrute University's Dick V/ickersham for places.
The greatest upset of Big Ten hopes, however, nay come in this, the most gruellii
of all track events scheduled. While it seems highly improbable that any of the con-
testants from the University of Y/isconsin, Illincis or Cnicago could posbibly set a
pace that would break "Chuck" Fenske's 4.:08.9 record time established in 1938, a small-
college entry from Michigan Stt.te Normal may carry away first place honors should he
compete. The Huron's name is Quinn, and, tlthough Iv'ichigan Normal has entered a full
team to defend its college division championship won last year, definite information a£
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to/Quinn's entiy in thti one-mile rm. hc.s not as yet been recoivod. His time of 4- niin-
utes, 16.5 seconds for the mile run, v/inning tiiae for this event in the Central Inter-
collegii-.to m.eet held at Notre Dame last Saturday, seems to be better than aiiything
entries from the Big Ten have to offer in the v;ay of competition.
In the hurdle events, the most promising of the entrants come from Northwestern
University. In these events, the 70-yard lo\/ and high hurdles, the V/ildcats boast eui
American College Indoor low-hurdle record-brei ker in the person of Charles Horvath.
And in the person of Joe Finch, the 1/Vildcats hi.ve a two-timo high hurdle defending
champion. In thi^se events the fieldhouse as v;ell ts the Tech Gam.es records are held
by former stcirs from Purdue, Kcinsas State and fJajme University, with a time of 7.6
Edv;ard
seconds in the case of the lov/ hurdles, and 8.6 seconds by/Smith of (jisconsin in the
highs.
The hurdles crovms, however, are not going to be awarded with only a small flurry
of "hop, skip, and jump". For in the high hurdles, Horvath will have plenty of compe-
tition from his teammate Joe Finch, from George Foster of Marquette, tJid Arthur Egbert
of Mcirquette. Finch, it will be recalled, placed behind the highly- touted Horvath at
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indoor record. According to consistent results, however, the high hurdles are a
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favorite of defending cht^mpion Joe Finch and it is u kncvm fact that/Horv£..th generally
trails the forraer in this event.
With competition such as this to reckon v/ith, and vvith Foster and Egbert of
Marquottc-, the latter a place winner in the CIC and the former a place v;inner in the
194-0 Games, it is highly prob^.ble that on^ or the other of the North"ivestej n lads may
be pushed to a nev; record in the 70-yard high hurdles.
In the Iovj hurdles, on the otlier hand, Charles Horv„th seems to have a clear
field v;ith the vdthdrav/al of Don Olsen of Illinois from the GtmeE. Olsen, originally
scheduled to run both hurdle events in the Tech Gaines , has been withdrai/vn by Coach
L. G. Johnson of the Illini'.
Charles Horva.th comes to the Games in the "best condition of his hui'dling career'
according to Wildcat Coach Frank Hill. In c ualifying for the Iovj hurdles event at
Lafayette last Saturday, it will be rememibered that Horvath breezed the distance in
8 seconds flat to establish a new iuncrican indoor record for this event, even though
Olsen in the finals upset this new-set record in order to place first.
In the college division, competition v/ill be equally keen, with times closely
approximating those of the university division. Entered are such consistent lov;
hurdlers as Robert Keyes of lov/a Teachers, viho ran second in the recently-held Midwest
meet at Napervillc. Also entered are Everrette Stoutner of Coe and North Central's
Pa.ul Stark.
In the high hurdle event a quartet of entries from the middle west will be
renewing their efforts towards the college crown. Jaiiiec Fiev;eger of Lawrence College
is the most probable winner by virtue of his best tim^e in the Midwest 60-yard event.
Should he be able to continue his fast pace for the extrs. 10 yards, he should v;in
"pulled-up" ov^r his te-ximate James Ormg, Don Sommerficld of Michigan Normal, v/ho
placed 4.th in the CIC meet, and Robert Keyes of Iowa Teachers.
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In the college division hurdle events, it is still probleraatical as to whether
the defending chcLmpion v/ill retiorn to defend hie crovm. He is Chi^rles Hlt.d of Michigcir
Normal, v/ho ¥;on both events "iDulled-up" during the 194-0 meet, cjid vmo has been beating
even the best of competitors throughout the State of Michigii.n since this tine last
year. His most recent accomplishment is a 7.6 time for the high hurdles, 60-yard
distance, in the Central Intercollegiate meet held at Notre Dame last Y/eek-end.
Should he enter the Tech meet, just as much of a scramble for places v/ill be created
as vjith the deltiyed entry of Quinn in the one-mile rim.
As the entries for the Games closed last night, a field of 550 athletes coming
from 4-0 colleges ijid universities vjas assijred for the Saturday classic, according to
John J. Schomner, chairman of the committee in charge of the Games.
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FROIihALEXMDER SCHPJ^LIBE?, RE: IvTUSICAL CLUB CONCERT - GOODHM THEATER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF FRIDAY, S/UAl - 8:30 P.M.
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^^600
FOR IivE/EDIATE RELEASE
The first annual concei-t of the combined musical clubs of Illinois Institute of
Technology v;ill be presented at the Goodman Theater Friday, March l^th, at 8? 30 P.?.!,
That the clubs v;ill play to a capacity crov/d is affirmed by the fact that ad-
vance ticket sales have been ovei'vmelmingly greater than anticipated and it is expec-
ted that every available seat v/ill be occupied, '"hen the curtain goes up.
Prior to the merger of Armour Institute of Technology and Lev/is Institute, Armour
Institute of Technology musical clubs presented a similar annual concert.
As it has been for the past five years, the concert \7ill be under the able di-
rection of 0. Gordon Erickson^ composer a.nd coach of the Illinois Tech Men's Glee
Club and Orchestra. This year he will complement his organization v;ith the Lewis
Girls' Glee Club.
The concert will be distinctive for unusual visual charm as veil as for that of
a musical nature. For a munber of years one of Lir. Erickson's chief studies and hob-
bies has been the use of light and color to interpret and enhance the beauty of music.
That certain colors or combinations of colors are synonjinous v.dth certain pieces of
music is a recognized fact. Light, scintillating dances; beautiful, soulful spiritu-
als; stately marches and even the "purest" of music; all create colorful pictures,
hov'Sver vague or unreal, in the m.ind of the listener.
Despite the fact that musicians as far back as Beethoven recognized the impor-
tant connection betv'een music and color, no outstanding experimentation has been done
along this line. Fait Disney's "Fantasia" is an exception to this statement inasmuch
as the listener, and watcher, receives a definite and breath-taking picture through
the combined medium of music, color and animation.
Mr. Erickaon has made an intensive study of music and color and, an electrician
of no mean caliber, he is v;ell able to execute his ideas. Friday night the extensive
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ancl modern lighting system of the Goodman Theater r.nd ths fresh fiill-hearted music of
young men and v/omen will combine under the skillful direction of the Institute's
geni^.l musical director to give the listener a unique and uniorgetable experience.
Soloists on the presentation will include Robert Mead, a senior chemical engineer
vfho vill be a tenor soloistj Robert Hemnan, a junior electrical engineerj ?dic v'ill
be a baritone soloist j Gus Mustakas, a senior chemical engineer, v/ho v;ill be a violin
soloist; and Roy Hrubes, who will be trombone soloist,
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fROMs ALEXANDER SCHREIBER REs 13TH AI>JNUiJ. ILLINOIS TECH RELAY GAMES
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FIELDHOUSE,
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. /+600 SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 19A1; 3:30-10 P.M.
FOR RELEASE; SATURDAY, MiiRCH 15, 1941
A parade of big names from the Big Ten, Big Six, Central Intercollegiate Confer-
ence, Little Nineteen and of ambitious favorites from smaller universities and college!
scattered over nine nidwestern states vd.ll be off vdth the starter's gun Saturday
(tofflorrov/) afternoon and evening when the Illinois Tech Relay Games take over Univer-
sity of Chicago fieldhouse.
Late entries have brought the total of contestants to 550 athletes from 4-0 in-
stitutions in Illinois, V^isconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, lov/a. South Dakota, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska. Two types of competition, university and college, will take
place in all events except the half-mile and mile runs and the field events, which
will be open.
The Games, 13th annual classic of the south-side school and known until this
year as the Armour Tech Relays, will be the climax of the midwestern indoor season and
a number of records should be broken on the basis of performances of individual com-
petitors during the current season.
Typical of the color-element that attaches to each running of the Games is a
late team entry, that of Vifestern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, headed by
no less that Alphonse "Flip" Anders, Negro athlete, who as a Moline, Illinois high
school boy ran the 100-yard dash in 9.8 axid entered the University of Illinois in 1939
hailed as a second Jessie Owens.
Nov; a sophomore at the Normal school, having withdravm from the University of
Illinois after a football and track career filled vdth broken-records and vicissitudes,
Anders will be making his first indoor appeartjice since leaving the Illini and has
announced he is on his v;ay to a comeback. He will be entered in the college division
70-yai'd dash and 440-yard run.
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^Defending champion in the 70-yard dash, college division, vjill be Levfis Taylor,
Negro, of Wilson Junior College, rated one of the best dash men at this distance in th.
country. He has done it in 7.2.
In the university division, with Marquette University, last year's Games univer-
sity division champion, withdrav/ing Walter Shelton, ejid with Northvife stern University
removing Myron Piker because of injuries, the 70-yard dash field is topped by Eugene
"Red" Littler of the University of Nebraska,
Last year he took firsts in both the 4-40-yard run and 70-yard dash, with times
of 51.0 and 7.1 seconds respectively . Ho'ward Millen of Marquette, a new Games contes-
tant, took second in the 70-yard dash at Notre Dame's Central Collegiate last week,
and might be a threat to Littler. Don Vosberg of Marquette in the 440-yard rion,
should be heard from.
Big Ten champions, nev/ly-cr owned last v/eek, vjill be present to strut their
stuff. Bill Williams, University of V/isconsin pole vaulter, v/ho did 13 feet, lOf
inches at Purdue Saturday, and George Paskvin, shotputter of the Badgers, v/ho made
4.9 feet, 8 inches to v;in the same d ay, v.'ill be on tap.
Thistlethvifaite of Northvife stern, v/hc took fifth in the Big Ten meet vdth 11 and
1/8 inches less than his 1939 Gcanes standing vaulting record of 13 feet, 11 and I/8
inches, Jim and Don Smith of Northwestern, who tied there for third in the high jump,
and Captain Jim Ray of Chicago, also tieing for third in the same event, are expected
to be at their bests for the season.
The story of the high and lovir hurdles at the distance of 70-yards vdll probably,
at least in the university division, be the story of hov/ tvro Northwestern University
entrants perform. One of them, Charlie Horvath, v/ho took a third place in the Big Ten
highs, and a fourth in the lows . in the same meet, will probably find his chief opp-
osition from Joe Finch, who took a fourth in the Big Ten highs and virho last year did
s08.7 to win the Tech Games highs.
The college division of the high and low hurdles vdll bring Jim Fieweger and
Jim Orwig of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, dovm the lanes against Don Sommer—
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field of Michigan State Normal College, v;ho took a fourth place at the recent Central
Collegiate meet, -
Art Egbert of Marquette, Clyde Halt of ihe University of Illinois, Bob Cobb of
Drake University and Ed Darden of Kansas State may break into the point columns in
the university section of the hurdles. Bob Keyes of Iov;a Teachers and Art Lancaster
of Loyola University, both of whom are capable of bettcr-than-good performances on
occasions, must be watched in the college section of the same.
The college section of the Games habitually provides upsets and there seems
little likelihood this year the Michigan State Normal, last year's vdnner, v;ill
repeat. The shov/ing of Robert Osborne, sophomore from Illinois Institute of Techno-
logy, in the 70-yard dash and the qu£trter-mile run, is expected to provide the dark-
horse fillip of the meet.
Of the small colleges in the Chicago urea North Central of Naperville, entering
tv/enty- three men, seems to have a v/ell-balanced squad. Lyn Schendel in the 880-yard
run and the mile vdll probably be among those close to the tape as it bretJcs. Bill
Tervdlliger of Northern Illinois State Teachers College, Dekalb, who took a first in
the quarter-mile last year, v;ill try hard to repeat.
The university 880-yard run is one of the enigmas of the Games with Park Brov.n
of Illinois, who took a second place in the Big Ten meet, the likliest contestant.
Ray Randall of Chicago, talcing a fifth in the Big Ten showiip, and Lorence Stout of
Illinois may figure in this event.
In the shot put, pole vault, high jiim^-i, 880-yard and mile runs, all open events,
points made by colleges will be counted separately from the general scoring, allovdng
the small schools to grade their respective efforts.
The device v/ill allov; good college shotputters such as Vince Jones of Lav/rence
College, Appleton, and Ed Rosensv/eig of Michigan Normal to fight it out for division-
al honors. The latter took a third place in the Central Collegiate meet at Notre
Dame recently.
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George Kiely of Loyola University, v/ho should since vjinning the Midv/est invita-
tional meet at North Central College, Naperville, a few v/eeks back, be among top men
in college points for the high jiinp, may h:.ve serious competition from Jim Fiev/eger
of Lawrence College, Appleton, Fred Verink of Coe College, and Jim Orvvig of Lawr'jnce
College.
Entered in the uxiiversity division ere; Marquette University (defending cham-
pion). University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Univer-
sity of Webraski., Northv;e stern Universitj^, Br,:,ke University, Michigctn State, Kansas
State, and Wayne University of Detroit.
In the college division are:
Illinois Institute of TechnolOf^-, V'/right Junior College, Wilson Junior College,
LaGrange Junior College, Morton Junior College, Chicago Teachers College, Loyola Uni-
versity, Main Township Jimior College, North Park College, Wheaton College, Elmhurst
College, Carleton College, Cuntral State Teachers College (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.),
Coe College, Culver-Stockton College, Iowa State Tea.chers College, Knox College,
Lav;rence College, Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.), Michigan Sti.te Normal
College (defending champion), Milwt.ukoe Teachers College, Monmouth College, North
Central College, Northern Illinois State Te...chers College, University of Dubuque,
VJestern Illinois Teachers College, Western State Teachers College (Kaltjaazoo, Mich,),
liVinona Teachers College and Yankton College (YcXikton, South Dakota.)
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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REs SPRING QUARTER REGISTRilTIOK AT LEF'IS
INSTITUTE DIVISION FOR NEF STUDENTS
MilRCH 2^-29, 19A1| NET'/ COURSES
FOR IMi;SDIATE RELEASE
Registrction of new students for the Spring quarter at Lev:is Institute division
)f Illiiiois Institute of Technology -^.'111 take plfice Monday, ilarch 24-th through Satur-
lay, March 29th, according to C. L. Clarke, Northfield, Illinois, Dean.
Registration of old students has been under ';va.y since ivk.rch I^th, Y;ith indica-
tion that the day school, meeting on a quarterly basis, unlike the evening school of
Lewis and Arraour College divisions and the day school of the latter r'hich raeet on the
semester basis, vill maintain the record-setting enrollinent of some 500 students
gained last Septenber.
The current or "inter quarter, vrhich began January 2, ended Friday, March 21.
Spring vacation extends through this v'eek and the Spring quarter begins Blonday, March
31.
A total of eighty-odd courses will in.ake up the curricula for the nevi quarter, ex-
cluding many others of a training type and in the extra-curricular category.
Among new ccarsos offered will be "The Eccnoniics of Far Preparation" by Profes-
sor V. B. Chamberiin, 3l6 Taylor Avenue, Glen Eliyn, assistant professor of economics,
which will cover problems involved in changing a national economy to a war-defense ba-
sis and back again to a peace basis.
Man power, capital goods, raw materials, priorities, foreign trade, finance,
prices and public v/orks in light of the nation's present national emergency will be
considered.
Publications of the Brookings Institute, concerned with fundamental economic is-
sues in national defense and wartime control of prices, together with the joint Army
and Navy voliune on M-day, "Industrial Mobilization Plan of 1939", will be studied.
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A lecture la-boratcrv coiiPGe for the student •■•.iio owas a camera out has had no
raining in its use Till be called "Elements of Photography". The course includes
onstruction and use of a pin-hole camera, the siiiinle phjsics and chernistr;?" ox photo-
graphy and sufficient practice that a student may take, develop, print and enlarge
Dicture.?. It vrill be offered "oj f.L Alden Counti'^nnan , 64.I North oLone A^'enue, LaGrange,
ssistant professor of physics.
"A Third Course in Chomistxy" j s-n advanced study, vill be offered by ?'illiam R =
McMillan, 224, South 20th Avenue, May-i'Tood, graduate scholar in chemistry.
Final .warning that Monday, March 31, 'Jould be matriciolation day for cooperative
courses in business and industrial manageri:ent, ws.s sounded by Ivliss Kathryn Judkins,
1260 North Dearborn Street, coordinator.
iln innovation in the preparation of students for top positions i.n the business
and industrial -"orld, the cooperative com-'ses are taught at the Lei'.'is division of the
Institute. Modeled on the v,'idelj''-hailed five year coopex'f.tive course in mechanical
engineering^ taught at Armour College division since lv'36, t)ie new cooperative co'orses
had their first enrollment on February 3.
At that time eighteen students enrolled for a five-year course givJ.ng a bache-
lor of science degi-ee in business and industrial management. As a part of their
study -and-Y.'ork plan^ they v'ili leave classrooms. Monday, Iiaving spent eight ■'.■eaks stu-
dying, for another eight-vreek period in the business r.'orld. This alternation r;ill
take place through forty-eight weeks each year of fi.ve.
Those matriculating Monday 7/ill take the places of the business-bound group.
This type of study derives its name from the term '■cooperative" as applied to the nu-
merous business and cormnercial firms assisting the Institute hj hiring enrollees tnd
paying them prevailing v/ages.
■ A striking for^ture 01 the cooperative plan is tiie abil.it:/ of students to pay
their i-iay through school, taking care of incidental ezcpenses and of their general ex-
penses during the periods the;'- return to classrooms.
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ng to i.!isc Judkins.
"The national eriergencjf period has made tt necessarj^ that lirins metke plans to
'eplace men leaving for military training and other govornraent-creoted occupations by
:raining intelligent and efficient woinen to fill exacting capacities," she said.
"Naturall-/-, knovdng of our cooperative plan, basinessrnen seek to engage our stu-
lents because they feel we are enrolling only those vho c.re buf-lness careerists in
the best sense of that term,"
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF 19^1-/,2; LETTERS AWARDED, SLIFA,
TECMOLOGY - VIC. ^600 BRIERLEY FINISH SPAN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hov;ard "Duck" Pendlebury, 5353 South Roclosell Street, has been elected captain
or the 194-1-4-2 basketball vseason, it was announced today ^ay Coach Robert E. Meyer of
llinois Tech.
A graduate of Lindblom High School, Pendlebury v/as basketball captain there as
senior. He is a junior in electrical engineering at the Institute. Enrolled at Val-
>araiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, as a freshman and sophomore, he transferred
0 the Institute last autumn.
Pendlebury' s seasonal scoring total of 101 points Vi'as amassed after a scoring
pree of 62 points in his last five games, giving him second place in individual stand-
ings on the team, A leader in many student activities, he is also a hig2i:-ranking scho-
lar.
Jack Byrne, 6710 Lakev.-ood A. venue, sophomore, upon vhom Coach Meyer is pinning
lopes for next season, led in scoring v.dth 104- points. In his first season as coach,
Meyer's charges v.ron six and lost ten of their regula/r games, winning tvjo c^nd dri'ppin^
one practice tilts.
TTith a stiff schedule shaping up for next year, the Techawks '--ill lose only t^'o
3107 V'est Pershing Road,
men. Captain Henry Sliway4nd John Brierley, 1508 BjTon Street, reserve forv'a.rd, rill
be June graduates.
Slivra, a graduate of Kelly High School, spent his freshman year at the University
of Illinois. As a sophomore, he ".'on a Techav'k varsitj'' letter at gi-iard, making a repu-
tation as a.n accurate passer and a brilliant dribbler. In the season past he ras han-
dicapped by a knee injury and missed, two games. He rated third as a tea-m scorer on
the basis of number of games played. Enrolled in chem.ical engineering, he is presi-
dent of "Honor I", honorary athletic fraternity.
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Brierley, a graduate of Lake View High School, played forward during the past tv;o
ears. His ability vjas marked by sensational long-shot marksmanship but erratic floor-
ork kept him in reserve status. He earned a major and two minor letters and vdll gra-
uate as a civil engineer.
Meyer, 6137 Kenvrood Avenue, former University of Chicago and professional star,
redicts a flood of capable replacements coming up from last season's freshman squad
nd that loss of Sliv;a and Brierley ?n.ll be somev.-hat mitigated thereby.
The following have earned major letters for the past season:
Captain Henry 31iwe.j John Brierley; Robert Schmidt, Aurora, Illinois; Mike Carey,
520 Fest 72nd Street; Wolfram Futterer, 7U Fullerton Avenue; Ray LaGodney, 1830 Fest 1
.7th Street; Robert Neilhaus, 70-1+3 Vernon Avenue; Hovrard Pendlebury; Harry Sieg, 8611
allace Avenue.
The following have earned minor letters for the past season:
Jack Newell, 4-111 Ivj-- Street, East Chicago, Indiana; Kmil Galandak, 2801 South
t. Louis Street; Richard Bergstrom, 112/^8 Indiana Avenue; W. titer Meehan, 6352 South
Francisco Street; and Thomas Clark, 7117 Dobson Avenue.
A mang.ger's letter v;as awarded Judson Doane, 555 South Lincoln Avenue, Aurora,
Illinois.
ROM: ALEXAI-IDER SCHKEIBER RE: 'MJOR CHALRES U. LEIKY, F.A., CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS IMSTITUTE OF TO THE MIDYJEST POV^K CONFERENCE, PALMER
TECICJOLOGY - CHICAGO HOUSE, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 194-1
VICTORY ^600
Chicago, Illinois, March 00 — (Special) — One tliousands guests of the Midwest
ov/er Conference, to be held at the PaLner House V'ednesday and Thursday, April 9-10,
ill be addressed by Tiajor Charles V,' Leihy, F.A., United States /vrmy, Chicago.
This r:as announced today by Professor Stanton E. Finston, Conference Director and
ssociate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. The
nstitute, together with seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsoring the
onference for the fourth year.
Leihy, at present a resident of Chicago, was bc"rn in Portland, Oregon, receiving
lis B.S. in E.E. fror.i Oregon State College at Corvallis. Ha will address a 12:15 P.M.
.uncheon jointly sponsored v;ith the ilmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers on April
0. His subject v;ill be "Aspects of the Wt.tional Pcvor Pool, Defensively and Afterwards
Por.-er Production, transmission and cons-OEption, v/ill be discussed in various as-
)ect3 by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
hers, technological editors and governinant and civil technologists. Professor VJinston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons v.'ere accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference, but this yea.r we must provide for twice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national emer-
gency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and v-eeklies for copies of papers,
read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to ye.ar.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit paj^ers read at the Conference as source material."
Leihy, a member of Delta Kappa, Ta.u Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Tsu, during
1926-27 was employed in the test course of the General Electric .Company, Schenectady,
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)artraent. lie v/as made commercial enf:ineer in 1928 and the lollov.'ing year became sales
mgineer. The IvIcC-rav;-Hill Company, New York City, employed him as an editor of Eloc-
,ric Light aiid Por.-er in 1930.
Major Leihy is a member oi the Ajnerican Institute of Electrical Engineers and the
Ingineers Club of San Francisco. His army commission is in the field artillery reserve.
Schools and groups associated v.dth Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference Include lor.'a State Ccllege, Liichigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State University of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of iviichigan,
Jniversity of Wisconsin and the Chicago sections of the American Institute of Chemical
ngineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the ilmerican Institute of
feciia.nical Engineers, tjie American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
ter of the American Society of Keating and Ventilating Engineers, and the V.'estern So-
ciety of Engineers.
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■ROM: ALEXANDER SCHRZIBER RF,: ARTHUR T, KITTFllDGE, CHIEF ENGINEER,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF THE COGHMNE COPi^ORATION, AT MIDVffiST
TECHNOLOGY - CHICAGO PO^'ER CONFEISNCE, CHICAGO
VICTORY At>00
Chicago, Illinois, Llarch 00 — (Special) — One thousand guests of the ivlid?;est
^o'-er Conference, to be held at the Palmer House ^'ednesda,y and Tliursday, April 9-10,
■Jill be addressed by Arthur E. Kittredge, chief engineer of the Cochi'ane Corporation,
Philadelphia.
This v;as announced today by Professor Stanton E. I^'inston, Conference Director
nd associate professor of niech;:jaical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Institute, together v;ith seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsor-
ing the Conference for the fourth year.
Kittredge, born in South Portland, I-iiaine, receiving his second education at South
Portland High School, later graduating from the University of M ine at Orono, uill
speak on "Removal of Gases from Boiler Feedv;ater", April 10 at 10;/^$ A.M.
Povrer production, transmission and consumption v.'ill be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities e::perts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil technologists, Professor VJinston
said.
"In the past, at least fJOO persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year vie must provide for tvjice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national
emergency," he declared.
"Dem.and of the technical and utilities monthlies and v.'eeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or tecimological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
Kittredge, from 1923 to 1926 was assistant engineer with IVestinghcuse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and during 1926-27 v.'as
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hanical engineer since 1926 .
Noted as an inventor, Kittredge has devised a deaerating heater, a spray heater,
dome reinforcement, and air displacement acid feed and a steam trap.
Schools and groups associated vith Illinois Institute of Teclinologj" in sponsor-
ship 01 the Conference include Iowa State College, I.Iichagan State College, Rirdue Uni-
ersity, State University of loiva, University of Illinrjis, University of I'.'iichigan,
Fniversity of T/isconsin and the Chicago sections of the /uaerican Institute of Chemical
Ingineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Ar.-.erican Institute of
Jechanical Engineers, the American Society of Kochanical Engineer^ the Illinois chapter
)f the American Society of Keating and Ventilating Engineers, and the V'estern Society
)f Engineers.
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FROfJh ALEXANDER SCHF£IBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. -4600
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
SHERflAN LL WOODWARD, CHIEF PATER
CONTROL PLANIilHG ENGINEER, TENNESSEE
VALLEY AUTHORITY, AT MIDYTLST PO^'^ER
C0NFEKE13GE, CHICAGO
Chicago, Illinois, Iioarch 00 — (Speci6.l) — One thousand giaests of the Midwest
Poi7er Conference, to be held at the PaL-ner House ^'ednesday and Thursday, April 9-10,
ydll be addressed by Sherni&.n M. V'oodward, chief iTater control planning engineer of
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tenneesee.
This was announced today by Professor Stanton E. Pinston, Conference Director
and associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Institute, together vfith seven cooperating universities and colleges^ is sponsor-
ing the Conference for the fourth year-
Foodvrard, born in iviinneapolis, P.iinnesota, received his I'.I.So from V'ashington Uni-
versity, St. Louis, Klssouri and an M.A-. fro.7. Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. Ke nill speak
at 3:'45 P.M. April 9 on "The Operation of the Multi-Purpose Projects of the Tennessee
Valley Authority,"
Pov'er production, transmission and consujnption y:ill be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of nationa.1 repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
chers, technologica.1 editors and government and civil technologists. Professor Winston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons ivere accoirrnodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year ve must provide for trice as many due to ujiparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the coujitr^/ and allied fields in this time of national
emergency," he decla.red. \
"Deme.nd of the technical and utilities monthlies and v/eeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference hjis been on the increase from year to year,
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as soivrce material."
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WoodTi-cird, a necber of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau and Triangle, in 1393 be-
came a teacher of science at Raven High School, YoungstovTi, Ohio, and two years later
secame professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
He held this position for eight years and then became professor of steam engi-
leering at the University of Iowa, Io'.;a City, which he left in 1905 to become irriga-
tion and drainage engineer of the United States Department of Agriculture at Denver,
'dorado . Woodv/ard returned to the University cf lov.-a in 1908 and stayed until 1934-
IS professor of mechanics and. hydraulics.
FTien the §25,000,000 flood prevention project v/as launched in Dayton, Ohio, in
L913 he was appointed constru.ction engineer of the Miami Gonservance District.
In 1925 he became construction engineer for the Chicaro Sanitarj^ District and
Iso president of the Iowa City Savings Banic. Ke held the fcrmer post until 1929 and
the latter until 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Ivlississippi Valley Coinmissioner of
Public Tiorks Administration, Y;ashington, D.C., and in the same year construction en-
gineer of T.V.A., Knoxville, Tennessee.
Toodward is author of various government bulletins relating to hydraulics, flood
control, irrigation and drainage. He is a member of the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and the Cosmos
Club of Washington, D.C.
Schools and groups associated v:ith Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include Iov;a State College^ Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State Unix'-ersity of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of Michigan,
University of Y^isconsin and the Chicago sections of the Ajnerican Institute of Chemical
Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the ilmerican Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, the Ajnerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
ter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the Western So-
ciety of Engineers,
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MM: ALE}jU'IDER SGHREIBER EE: ALFRED IDDLES, APPLICATION E1>JGIIjEEF.,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF BA3G0GK Al^ID V'lLCOX GOI.^PMIY, NEv^ YORK,
TECTLIOLOGY - CHIGAGO AT I.IIDrJEST POT'SR GCNFEREIICEj CIIIGAGO
VICTORY 4.600
Chicago, Illinois, r.Iarch 00 — (Special) — One thousand guests of the Midv/est
Dr;er Conference, to be held at the Palmer House VJednesday and Thursday, April 9-10,
ill be addressed by Ailfred Iddles, application engineer of Babcccic and VJilcox Company,
3W York City.
This v:as announced today by Professor Stanton E. Winston, Conference Djj^ector and
ssociate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technologj^. Tlie
tistitute, together vdth seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsoring the
onference for the fourth year.
Iddles, a native of Gasco, Michigan received his 3.S. in mechanical engineering
com Michigan State College, Lansing, ivhsre he vas a member of Beta Pi. His speech
ill be "The User Fants to Know" and v.dll be delivered at a 12:15 P.M. luncheon meet-
ng sponsored jointly vdth the Ajnerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, April 9th.
Pov.-er production, transmission and consumption villi be discussed in various as-
ects by speakers of national repute before 1,00C engineers, utilities ei-rperts, tea-
hers, technological editors and government and civil technologists, Professor Vdnston
aid.
"In the past, at least 500 persons vjere accommodated at each session of the Con-
erence but this year \ie m.ust provide for tv.dce as many due to unparalleled interest in
he natural resources of the country and allied fields in this "oime of national emer-
gency, " he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and weeklies for copies of pa-
)ers read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to year.
"Several score of the la^test textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
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Iddles from 1912 to 1914- was superintendent of tlichigan Light Company, Jackson
and Flint, Llichigan, when he \ms appointed instructor and assistant professor of me-
at luichigan State College
chanical engineering/ v/here he stayed for six years. In 1916-17 he also rrorked as a
private construction engineer.
In 1918 he served r;ith the Chemical Warfare Service and v;as in charge of public
utilities at Englewood, New Jersey, arsenal. The v'ar over, he became fuel engineer
for the United States Bureau of Mines, I'^'ashington, D.C.
Iddles has also served v.-ith Day and ZimiT.erraan Engineering and Construction Com-
pany, Philadelphia, as vice-president; as construction manager of United Engineers and
Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia; and I>,7ight P. Robincon Company, Inc., Philadelphia;
and held a similar position v/ith United Engineers and Constructors, Ltd., of Toronto,
Canada .
Iddles is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has been
manager of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is a member of Franklin
Institute.
Schools and groups associated with Illinois Institute of TeclinologT,'- in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include Iowa State College, Michigan State College, Rirdue Uni-
versity, State University of lov.'a. University of Michigan, University of Uisconsin,
University of Illinois and the Chicago sections of the American InstitAite of Chemical
Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Ajnerican Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chapte:
of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the TJestern Society
of Engineers.
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FROM: ALE}L/\HDER SCHKEIBER RE: A. G. CHRISTIE, JOMS HOPKINS PROFESSOR,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SPEAKS AT MIDVvTiST POV'ER CONFERENCE AT
TECmiOLOGY - CHICAGO • CHICAGO
VICTORY 4600
Chicago, Illinois, March 00 — (Special) — One thousand guests of the Midyrest
Power Conference, to be held at tne Palmer House V'ednesday and Thi_irsday, April 9-10,
v;ill be addressed by A. G. Christie, professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hop-
kins University, Baltimore, f.iaryl;"..nd .
This was announced today by Professor Stanton E. V'inston, Conference Director
and associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Techjiology.
The Institute, together v-ith seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsor-
ing the Conference for the fourth year.
Christie, born in i'lanchester, Ontario, Canada, attended the School of Practical
Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He vill speak on ''A Resujne of Present
Day Poorer Trends", April 9th at 11:30 A.M.
Pov/er production, transmission and consui.iption v/ill be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil tecimologiBts, Professor '",'inston
said .
"In the past, at least 500 persons v.-ere accor.iEiodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year vje must provide for twice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the counti^y and allied fields in this time of national emer-
gency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and v;eeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and tallcs given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
Christie, coming in 1901 to the United St-^tes and working for Hestinghouse Ma-
chine Company, Uest Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for three years, then became an instruc-
tor in mechanical engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for a year.
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when he join^Jd the steam, turbine department of the Allis-Chalmers Company, Milvjaul-iee,
lYi scons in.
In 1907 Christie accepted the post of mechanical engineer v.dth the u'estern Cana-
da Cement and Coal Company. In 1909 he returned to this country to become assistant
ssociate professor of steam a.nd geis engineering st tlie University of IVisconsin, L'iadi-
son, where he ras successively made associate professor and professor of mechanical en-
gineering .
Since 19L4 he has held that last post at Johns Hopkins University and since 1916
the post of night director in teclinology courses at that school. Christie practices
s a consulting engineer in the United States and England, and recently v/as chairman
of the feryland State Board for Registration of Professional Engineers und Land Sur-
veyors, Baltimore. A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was
manager of that organisation from 1922 to 1925 , vice-president from 1925-27 and in
1939 7{&.s elected president.
Christie is a member of ti^e Society for tbe Projr.otion of Engineering Education,
National District Heating Association, Sigma Xi, Tau Eetr Pi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi
Tau Sigma, Engineers' Club (New York) and the Engineers, Johns Hopkins University.
His v;ork as an author includes the steam turbine section of Kent's Mechanical
Engineering Handbook and the steaiH turbine section of Starling's i.larine Engineers'
Handbook and many other scientific articles a.nd papers.
Schools and groups associated T;ith Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include lov/a State College, Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity/, State University of Iov;a, University of Illinois, University of ?.1ichigan, and
University of V'isconsin and the Chicago secoions of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, the ilmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers, the jlm.Grican Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
ter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the V'e stern So-
^ ciety of Engineers.
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^ROH: JSiEXANDEP. SCHREIBER RE: DR. HAPIVEY IJ. DAVIS, PRESIDENT, STEVE1>IS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AT MIDV'.'EST
TEGKNOLOGI - GHICA 0 POV-ER GONFERENCE, CHICAGO.
VICTORY ^600
Chicago, March 00 — (Special) — One thousand gnests of the T,!idv;est Pov;er Conference
bo be held at the PaLTier House Vfednesday and Thursday, A.pril 9-10, v/ill be addressed
Dj Dr. Harvey N. Davis, president of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jer-
This vras anncvmced today by Professor Stanton E. Winston, Conference Director and
ssociate professor of niechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Teclinology. The
[nstitute, together with seven cooperating imiversities and colleges, is sponsoring the
Donf'erence for the fourth year.
Dr. Davis, born in Providence, Rhode Island, receiving his secondary education in
that city, von his A.B. from 3ro\rn University, Providence and his A. 1,1. and Ph.D. from
Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He v/ill speak at a 6:4-5 P.i.'I. dirjner April 9, on
'Priorities in Men."
Pov-er production, transmission r^nd cons^omption vrill be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities e::perts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil tccimologists, Professor "'inston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year v-^e must provide for ti;ice as many due to unparalleled interest in
the natural resources of the country and allied fields in thi;3 tine of national emer-
gency," ho declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and weeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or teclmological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
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Dr. Davis, a member of Delta Phi, Sigrna Xi, Teu Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa, began
3 an instructor in physics at Brovm University in 1901. In 1904.-10 he held the same
josition at Harvard, in 1910 becom.ing assistant professor of physics, in 1919 becoming
)rofessor of mechanical engineering, and in 1928 receiving his present appointment. In
928 the honora.ry degree of doctor of laws v;as conferred by Rutgers University, Hev;
Brunswick, and that of doctor of science vras given by Bro^m in the same year. In 1936
lav; York University conferred upon him the degree of doctor of engineering.
Dr. Davis has to his credit several inventiovis in the liquif action field, and to-
ether vith L. S. Marks, is the autmr of Steam Tables and Diagr;ims, Practical Phy s i c s
'or High Schools , chapter 15 of Beard's T'OTjard Civilization (Spirit and Culture in the
Jodern Age series) and various papers on thermodynamics.
He has served as construction engineer for the Fi-anklin Railv/ay Supply Company,
exj York City, and the Air Reduction Sales Com.pany, Nofj York. During the V'oi'ld I7ar he
vas active in helram investigations of the Army, Kavy and Bui^eau of Llines, Washington,
D.C. Later he served as aeronautical engineer in the division of science and research
of the Hr Corps. His research has been chiefly in therr:od;/namics.
Dr. Davis is a fello": of the /Imerican .Association for the A.dvancement of Science,
serving as vice-president in 1939; a member of the Axierican Physical Society; A.m.erican
Academy of Arts and Sciences; /jnerican Societj^^ of Mechanical Engineers (vice-president,
1930-32); life member of the American f.Iathsm.atical Society; of the Life Covjicil, Ameri-
can Association for Adult Education; (vice-president, 1933-39), Society for the Promo-
tion of Engineering Education; Franklin Institute; Y'ashington Academy of Science; The
NeT/comer Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology; the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society and the Hotaoken Cliamber of Commerce,
Schools and groups associated ivith Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include lon^a State College, Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State University of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of '/iicliigan. Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and the Chicago sections of the Ajnerican Institute of Chemical
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?echaniccal Engineers, the i'jnerican Society of Mechrjiical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
:er of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the T'estern So-
ciety of Engineers.
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'ROM: ALE}r;il'JDER SCilREIBSR RE: H. E. TTILFIKG, ENGINEER, COrvHIOm'nCALTH
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF EDISON COLtPMY, CHICAGO, AT MIDVfflST
TECmiOLOGY - CHICAGO POUER CONFEPiCKCE, CHICAGO.
VICTORY ii600
Chicago, Illinois, March 00 — (Special) — One thousand r^-uests of the Midrrest Power
onference, to be held at the Palmer House V'ednesday and Thursday, April 9-10, v.rill be
.ddressed by H. E. r.^ilfing, system development engineer of the Ccmraonwealth Edison Cora-
)any, Chicago.
This v:as arjiounced today by Professor Stanton E. T'inston, Conference Director
Lnd associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Che Institute, together v>rith seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsoring
he Conference for the fourth year.
Vvulfing, at present a resident of Chicago, was born in Birchland Center, Wiscon-
sin, receiving his B.S. in E.E. from the University of VJisconsin, Mactison. His speech
;ill be "The Limitations Placed on Pov;er Transmission ]jy System Stability" and v;ill be
lelivered at 9:15 A.M. April 10.
Power Tjroduction, transmission and eonsum.ption will be discussed in various as-
lects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
hers, technological editors and government raid civil technoj.ogists, Professor V'inston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year we must provide for twice as many due to unparalleled interest in
the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national emer-
gency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical aaid utilities monthlies and v/eeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technoloeical intnrpst
credit papers read at the Conference as source niaterial."
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ITulfing became superintendent of the outside plant of the Cosmopolitan Electric
ompany, Chicago, in 1910 and four years later superintendent of the overhead lines at
ouimonvrealth Edison Company, serving in that capacity until 1916, when he became field
ngineer. In 1928 he became engineer of the electrical engineer's office and in 1931
eached his present post.
A nuriber of noteworthy inventions to his credit, V'ulfing is particularly noted for
he supervisory control system for substations. He is the author of several articles
nd technical papers for engineering societies.
IT'j.lfing is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the VJes-
ern Society of Engineers. He is president of the Edison Club.
Schools and groups associated v;ith Illinois Institute of Teciinology in sponsor-
hip of the Conference include Iov;a State College, Michigan State College, Fardue Uni-
ersity. State University of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Uni-
versity of Uisconsin and the Chicago sections of the American Institute of Chemical En-
ineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Lle-
hanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chapter
Df the American Society of Heax.ing and Ventilating Engineers, and Uie Western Society
Df Engineers.
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'ROM: ALEXAIIDER SCHREIBER RE: RANSCLl S. KAT'LEY, ACTING CHAIRI:1AI-I OF
ILLIKCIS INSTITUTE OF DEPARTMENT OF I'.lEGHAiJiGAL ENGINEERING,
TEGHNOLOGY - CHICAGO UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAI.% AT MIDVffiST
VICTORY ^600 POVSR CONFERENCE.
Chicago, Illinois, Iferch 00 — (Special) — One thousand guests of the Midv;est Power
lonfersnce, to be held at the Palmer House Wednesday and Thursday, April 9-10, v/ill be
.ddressed by Ransom S. Hav/ley, acting chairman of the department of mechanical engineer-
ng at the University of Michigan, Ann Ar)Dor.
This was announced today by Professor Stanton E. Vinston, Conference Director and
issociate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology/'. The
nstitute, together v/ith seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsoring
he Conference for the fourth year.
Haviley, born in Ludington, Michigan, received his B.S. in M.E. at the University
)f Michigan. His speech v/ill be "Increasing Pov;er Production with Present Boiler Fa-
ilities" and will be delivered at 9:15 A.I.I. April 10.
Power pi'oduction, transmission and consuiription vdll be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil teclniologists, Professor Winston
3aid .
"In the past, at least 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
Ference but this year v;e must provide for tv;ice as man;" due to i^iparalleled interest in
the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national emer-
gency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and v/eeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference has been on the increase from yea,r to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
In 1907 Hawley was appointed instx-uctor and assistant professor at Grinnell Col-
lege, Grinnell, Iowa, and in 1910 v/as made assistant professor of mechanical engineer-
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.ng at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, becoming professor and head of the
iepartraent in 1917.
Havrley is a member of the American Society of Llechanical Engineers, the Detroit
Engineering Society, the Ann Arbor Exchange Club, the University and the Michigan
Jnion. He is also a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mn Ai-bor.
Schools and groups associated v;ith Illinois Institute of Teclmology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include Iowa State College, Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State University of lora. University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Uni-
versity of V^isconsin and. the Chicago sections of the /jnerican Institute of Chemical En-
ineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American ■'■nstitute of Me-
hanical Engineers, the Araerica.n Society of T/lechanical Engineers, the Illinois chap-
ter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the Tfestern So-
iety of Engineers.
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I'ROM: ALEXANDER SO-IKEIBER RE: HUBER 0. CRQFT, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SPEAKS AT MIDUEST POVSR CONFERENCE,
TECHNOLOGY - CHICAGO CHICAGO
VICTORY 4600
Chicago, Illinois, March 00 — (Special) — One thousand guests of the Midwest Poivei
■■■onference, to be held at the Palmer House VJednesday and Thursday, April 9-10, will te
iddressed by Huber 0. Croft, head of the department of mechanical engineering of the
tate University of lov/a, lovja City,
This YJcis announced today by Professor Stanton E, r'inston. Conference Director
md associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Institute, together v/ith seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsor-
ing the Conference for the fourth year.
Croft, born in Denver, Colorado, received his B.S. from the University of Colo-
rado, Boulder, and his M.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbs.na. He v;ill give the
response for the cooperating institutions to the welcoming address by Philip Harring-
ton, Commissioner of Subways and Superhighways, Chicago, at 10:15 A.M., April 9,
Povrer production, transmission and consumption will be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national nspute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil technologists, Professor Winston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year we must provide for twice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national
emergency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and vv'eeklios for copies of pa-
pers read and talks ■ given at the Conference has been on the increase from year to
year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers read at the Conference as source material."
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Croft, after expei-ience v.dth the United States Air Service at Post Field, Okla-
noma, and a 1919-1920 term v;ith SY:ift and Company, Denver, as assistant to the chief
engineer, became assistant to I>arbin Van Lav;, construction power plant engineer, Den-
ver, leaving this position to liecone assistant professor of mechanical engineering at
the Universitj'' of Illinois in 1922.
In 1927 he became associate professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford Uni-
versity, Palo Alto, California, and tv.'o years later accepted the post he holds at pre-
sent at the University of lov/a. Croft is author of Bulletin No.168, "Heat of Transmis-
sion of Boiler Tubes," Engineering Experimental Station, University of Illinois; "V.Tiat
Scale Does to Boiler Heat Transmission Coefficients," Journal of the American Society
of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, volume 33, number sevsnj "Effects of Radiating
Surfaces in Boilers", the Telegi-aph, vol^urae 39, number four, bulletin eight, Univer-
sity of lovaj a.nd "Heat Transfer in Boiler Furnaces".
A lieutenant in the naval reserve. Croft is also a member of the iunerican Soci-
ety of Mechanical Engineers, Sigma Chi, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta. Pi, Sigma Psi, /jneri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science, Iowa Engineering Society, Triangle
Club and Iowa City Engineers' Club.
Schools and groups associated with Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
ship of the Conference include Iowa State College, Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State University of Iowa, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Uni-
versity of Y^isconsin and the Chicago sections of the American Institute of Chemical En-
gineers, the American Institute of p]lectrical Engineers, the American Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Illinois chapte
of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the V'estern Society
of Eiigineers.
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ROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: ROGER McV.^ORTER, CHIEF ENGINEER, FEDEFIAL
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF POTffiR GOL/inSSION, AT LIIDVSST POVffiR CON-
TECHI'IOLOGY -- CHICAGO FERENCE, CHICAGO
VICTORY -4600
Chicago, Illinois, I.ferchOO — (Special) — One thousand guests of the Midvrast Povor
onference, to be held at the Palmer House IVednesday and Thursday, April 9--10, will be
•ddressed by Roger McT'iTiorter , chief engineer of tlie Federal Power Conunission, Washing-
ton, D.C.
This was announced today by Professor Stanton E. Winston, Conference Director
md associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology.
[he Institute, together with seven cooperating universities and colleges, is sponsor-
ing the Conference for the foui'th year.
"Hydro Pover and the National Emergency" is the subject of McITliorter's speech,
to be delivered at 3sA5 P.I'u April 9.
Pov/er production, transmission and consumption will be discussed in various as-
pects by speakers of national repute before 1,000 engineers, utilities experts, tea-
chers, technological editors and government and civil tocl-mologists. Professor IVinston
said.
"In the past, at least 500 persons were accommodated at each session of the Con-
ference but this year vie must provide for twice as many due to unparalleled interest
in the natural resources of the country and allied fields in this time of national
emergency," he declared.
"Demand of the technical and utilities monthlies and weeklies for copies of pa-
pers read and talks given at the Conference has been on tlio increase from year to year.
"Several score of the latest textbooks of scientific or technological interest
credit papers reo.d at the Conference as source m.aterial."
Born in Riverton, Alaska, and receiving his B.S. in C.E. from Alabama Polytech-
nic Institute, Auburn, and later receiving a proJ?essional C.E. degree from the same
school, Mc1/liorter took a rodman's and inspector's job with the Colbert Shoals Canal,
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ennessee River, Ilnox^/ille, and the following year was a United St-tes Engineer at the
les Bar Dam and Muscles Shoals, Kiioxville, Tennessee River. From 1916-23 he v/as
ssiotant engineer and division engineer of the Miami Conservance District of Dayton
nd Hamilton, Ohio.
Mcr.liorter then served for tv;o years in the capacity of general superintendent of
onstruction at the I^ilson Darn Kydro-electric development at Uascle Shoals, i^j.scles
hoals, Alabama. Diaring 1925-26, he v/as United States engineer at the St. Lavrrence
aterr'ay project, Montreal, As a meraber of the United States engineering; service, he
av; service in the construction engineering department at Nov Orleans and in 1930 oc-
upied a similar post at the Great Lakes division, Uashington. In 1931 he vvas appointed
0 his present post as chief engineer. Federal Fov.-er Conriission, Uashington, D.C.
A member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the /aierican Society of
lechanical Engineers, the V;ashington Engineering Society, McHiortGr is also a lieuten-
nt colonel of the Engineer Reserve Corps.
Schools and groups associated rith Illinois Institute of Technology in sponsor-
hip of the Conference include Iov;a State College, Michigan State College, Purdue Uni-
versity, State University of lova, University of Illinois, University of Michigan,
Jniversity of V.'isconsin and the Chicago sections of tho American Institute of Chemical
ilngineers, the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Me-
hanical Engineers, the Illinois chapter of the /unorican Society of Heating and Venti-
lating Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the V'estern So-
ciety of Engineers.
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MLI: ALE:(AWDER SCKPxIB::?. RE: three TEAIvIS elect C/JF'TAINSi f-lAJOR, I.IINOR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF LETTEFAIEN FOR BOXING, rTffiSTLING, SUItBdlNG
TECHNOLCGY - VIC. 4.600 PICKED
FOR ILff.IEDIATE RELEASE
Election of captains of three teams, and selection of athletes for sixteen major
nd si:-:teen minor letters comes as a v:ind-up to the \vinter sports season of Illinois
nstitute of Technology, according to John J. Schomjr.er, athletic director.
In elections held yesterday co-captains for the first time rare elected by both
oxing and vre-estling teams, r;hile a single sv;imraer v.'as chosen to lead the 194-2 tanlanen
ollov/ing traditional practice.
Jerry DeGiorgi, 1533 Ridgeland Avenue, BeTYryn, and Roy Erickson, 444-1 North Da-
len Avenue, were selected to head the boxing team. Fred Till, 3841 Y'est Adams Street,
nd John Bu.ticus, 3151 South Halsted Street, rere named to lead 1942 v.T.-'es tiers. Earle
luxhold, 5436 Walton Street, v;as chosen captain of the swimming team.
Retiring captains in these sports are Ernest Colant, 524 South Humphrey Avenue,
)ak Park, boxing; Biagio Nigrelli, 2921 South VJallace Street, vrrestling; and Arnold
31une, 1295 Des Plaines Avenue, Des Plaines, ST7im,::;ing.
Lettermen are as follows:
BOXING - Captain Ernest Colant, major; Jerry DeGiorgi, Roy Erickson, Ivo Buddeke,
519 Grcenv-'ood Avenue, Arthur Ellis, 1347 South Union Avenue, Robert I.!errick, 7340 Sa-
inaw Avenue, Roy Simpson, 6625 Lakev-food Avenue, and Chester Sr-an, 3424 South Bell
Avenue, minors; and Richard Grinndal, 9547 South Leavitt Street, manager.
r.TESTLING - Captain Biagio Nigrelli; Fred Till, John Ritlcus, Talliam Daly, 5019
Washington Boulevard, Donald i.'Iaihock, 24-34 Limt Avenue, Goodwin Steinberg, 7372 North
Jinchester Avenue, Gerald Golden, 1250 South Kceler A-</neue and Harold Hurvitz, 5514
Drexel Boulevard, majors; Joseph DePinto, 903 South Locmis, Ra.lph Jahnke, 344^6 South
Elmwood, Bervryn, Albert Sanowskis, 263S Uest 44-th Street, Erail DeBoo, 1310 North Spring-
field Avenue, and Guenter Baura, 1089 Rose Avenue, Des Plaines, minors.
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Sl?IIl!inG - C:ptain Arnold Elume, Earle Hujchold, Lavrrence Radciaacher, 5024. Uest
:uron Street, William Pov.'ers, 1240 Hood Street, Roman i.Ianlcus, 6030 South Rockvrell St.,
lichard Talcott, 3240 Soutia Michigan Avenue, and Ife.rl Koos, 6134 Kimbark Avenue, ma-
orsj John Tregay, 631 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, Richard Taylor, 3236 South Llichigan
venue, Uilliam Condon, 800 South Karlov Avenue, and Donald Uahlgren, 725 Kinman Ave-
lue, Evanston, minorsj and Richard A. Larson, 1307 T'est 9oth Street, manager.
Ellis, junior boxer, and DePinto, sophonore vrrestler, r/inners of minor letters,
re the first athletes to get monograms as stiidents of Lev.'is division of Illinois In-
titute of Technology. Merger of Armour and Ler/is Institutes last July resulted in a
new corporate name for both divisions.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECffilOLOr-Y - VIG. ^600
3^1-72
RE; MIDPEST POWER CONFERENCE HOLDS RECORD
SESSIONS AT PAIJffiR HOUSE: I'/EDSESDAY -
THURSDAY, APRIL 9-10, 1'%!
FOR liVMEDIATE RELEASE
V'ith production for defense and problems kindred to povfsr and utilities fields
moujiting to a crest each day, plans for the f,iidTJest Poiver Conference, sponsored by
Illinois Institute of Technology", mark it as the most important public gathering of ex-
)ert3 in these fields in the nation, according to its Director, Professor Stanton E.
finston.
The Conference will be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 9-lC at the Palmer
iouse .
Professor IVinston, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois In-
stitute of Technology.', for four 7/ear3 host to the Corxference with cooperation of se-
ven other universities and colleges, said that normal attendance at the tv/o-day ses-
sion would be doubled this year.
"A thousand experts in pov/er production, transKiission and cons'aiiiption activities
twice the nuisber we have accominodatod in past seasons, "ill bo on hand to hear tv»'enty
speakers of international reputation," ne stated.
"With the nation tror.'!bling on the bria^c of unpredictable days, the Conference
nay be the last opportunity many of these nien, associated intimately xvith federal or
private agencies sparking the drive to make America ready for any emergency, may get
to discuss at arms-length their mutual problems and the public v/elfare."
Some of the speakers and gxiaste, unceasingly occuTjied at their desks since "ali-
out" signals from the ITaite House, v;ill pass up regular vacation periods during the
summer to make the trip to Chicago, Professor lYinston assorted.
Engineers, utilities experts, teclinological editors and government and civil
technologists are among those who have indicated they will be present. A great bene-
fit of past Conforencos is the informality of discussion that prevails, according to
Professor Winston.
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;alj careerist prof'^ssions moet for such outspoken discussion," ho said.
Besides the Institute, and seven universities and colJ.eges y;ho are co-sponsors,
;he Chicago sections of the American Institute of Choaical Engineers, the iviTiorlcan In-
stitute of Eloctrical Engineers, the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the
Uiierican Societj' of Mechanical SnginuB^rs, the Illinois chapter of the Anierican SL-ciety
f Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and th.-; Western vSociety of Engineers are inclu-
led in the plaiming conraittee,.
Registration will take place 'iednesday, April 9, at 9 AJL in the Palmer House.
Chairman of the opening session v;ili be iDr. L. E. Grinter, vice-president of Illinois
'nstitute of Technology and dean of its graduate division.
Dr. Grinter is also one of c cOir^mittee cf luiiversity representatives acting in
idvisory capacity to the Conference. Other mejahers are M. ?. Cleghorn, Iowa State
k'llege; H. 0. Croft, State University of lov/a^ Ben G. Elliott, University of Wiscon-
3in| C. Francis Harding, l\irdue University; Hugh E. Keeler, University of Michigan^
3. A. Loiitwiler, University cf Illiuoisj and L. G. I^-lier, ];/Ii.chigan State College.
Following presentation by Dr. Gvrinter V.'ednesday morning, Philip Harrington, corn-
aissioner of sulr/.-ays and suxjsrhighvrays^ GhicrigOj v;ill v-elcoine guests to the Conference.
The r'odnesday raorning panel includes the follc'ring speaVers;
Dr. Huber 0. Croft, of the university representaiivo coimnittee and head of the
iepartment of nochnnical eng-ir.ocring at the Stat.e University of Iowa, v;ill respond to
larrington's welcome.
C. 7s'. Kellogg, chief consul.tant of the Povrer Unit, Office of Production Manage-
nent, Washington, D. C, wili speak on "Power Facilities and the Defense Program".
A. G. Christie, professor of mechanical engineering. The Joims Hopkins Universi-
ty, will speak on "A Resume of Present Day Pov.'er Trends".
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There will be a luncheon at 12; 15 P.M. Wednesday , jointly given with the Anieri-
an Society of Mechanical Engineers. Its chainucn V7ill be L.M. Ellison, nho 7ri.ll in-
roduce /ilfred ladles, c.pplico.tion engineer of the Babcock Wilcox Comp.any, New York
ity. The latter v.'ill speak on "The User VJants to Know" .
The first Wednesday afternoon panel, having the general theme of "Central 3ta-
ion Practice", wnth IvL P. Cleghorn as ch?i.irraaii, includes the follovmig speakers:
F. H. Rosencrants, vice prosident of the Combustion Engineering ConiToany, Inc.,
low York City, v«ill sp3ak on "Forced Circulation in /iirierican Povrer Plant Practice."
C. C. Franck, engineer in cliarge of central station turbines, Westinghouse Slec-
tric and Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, r;ill speak on "Modern Steam Turbine De-
ign. "
G. V. Edjnondson, hydrauJ.ic coupling division, American Elo-,;er Corporation, Chi-
cago, will speak on "Variable Speed Drives for PovTer Plant Auxiliaries."
A discussion will follow the Edmonson speech and each panel of the Conference
thereafter .
The late T'ednesday afternoon p-'niel, having the general theme of "Hydro Power"
vjith Ben G. Elliott as chairrnan, includes the follcnving speakers:
Roger B. MciTjiorter, chief engineer of the Fedora], Por-er CoLTirJ.ssion, Vfeshington,
D.C., will speak on "Hydro Power and the National Emergency".
Sherman M. roodv/ard, diiof -ratiir control planning engineer, Tennessee Valley
Authority, Knoxville, Term., will speak on "The Operation of the L<i.-lhirpose Project
of the Tennessee Valley Authority."
W. J. Rlieingans, test engineer of tiie Alxis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Mil-
waukee, ITisconsin, v;ill speak on "Constiraction of 48,000 HP Kaplan T^ar bines for the
Pick?-ick Landing Dam of the T.V.A."
An informal "All-Engineers' Dinner", to which Chicago area engineers and their
wives are invited, will have as its toastraaster James D. CunniugharA, presiient of the
Republic Flow Meters Company, Chicago. The featured speaker. Dr. Harvey N. Davis,
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'resident of Stevens Institute of TechnoJ.ogy, Hoboken, Nevj York, pill have as his sub-
set "Priorities in Men" .
The morning panel ox rnursany, April 10, having the general theme of "Electric
ower Transmission", with C. Francj.s Harding as chairman, includes the follov;ing spea-
ers:
H. E. Wulfixig, system development engineer. Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago,
fill speak on "The Limitation Placed on Pov/er Tr:-.nsmission by System Stability".
W. J. McLachlan, engineer in charge of appo-r-'atus line sponsor section of the
ieneral Electric Company, Sclienectady, New York, v;ill speak on "Trends in Equip-ment
)esign in Relation to Economics and Defense".
Runriing concurrently^ with the first Tliursday morning pariel will be a second on
;he theme "Industrial Pov;er Plant;?."." Its chairman v/ill be Hugh E. Keeler. The spea-
:ers are:
R. S, Plavvley, acting chairman of the department of mechanical engineering of the
Jniversity of Michigan, r/ill speak on "Increasing Po;<er Froduction '-ith Present Boiler
j'acilities".
Charles TT. Parsons, of the Republic Flov; Meters Company, Chicago, will speak on
'Instruments and Controls Increase Boiler Output" .
John T. Davis, superintendent of the heating division of the Indianapolis Power
md Light Company, r.ill speak en " Inter ch-r.nge Contracts betvreen Industrial Plants and
Jtilities".
A third Thujrsday morning panel, h .ving as a theme "Feed';ater Treatment", rith H,
S. Hollensbeo, editor of Industrial Power, as chairman, wj.ll begin at 10:45 o'clock.
Ihe speakers are:
iirthur E. Kittredge, chief engineer for the Cochrane Corpor:-.tion, P?iiladclphia,
7ill speak on "Removal of Dissolved Gases from Bciler Feedwater" .
Frederick G. Straub, research associate professor of chemical engineering of the
Jniversity of Illinois, v.dll speak on "l^ater Treatment Problems in tho Steam Power
Plant".
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;itute of Electrical Engineering, having Frfmk V. Smith as chairincii, r.nd v/ith liijor
larles '". Lcihy, F.A., of Chicago, fornerly editor of Electric Li:i'ht r;nd Pov-er £i3
)ea.ker. His subject vail be "Aspects of the National Po-Tor Pool, Defensively and Af-
r^irards".
At l:/f^5 P.M. a bus v/ill leave the hotel for un inspection trip of the tractor
jrks of the International Harvester Company , 26C0 Uest 3l3t Street, iin 8:00 P.M.
noker vfill end the fjoc.i.al functions of the Conference.
Profescor Charles A. KiSh, associate profosEor of electrical engineering at II-
Lncis Institute of Technology, is Conference secretary'.
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'ROM; ALEXMDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECMOLOGY - FIG. ^600
3^1-7/4
RE; OPENING QF BASEBALL SEASON; SCHEDULE
OF GAIAESj PLAYERS TURNOUT; FIRST
SEASON FOR COACH YffiISSMAW| IN NORTH.
ILL. COL. CONF.
RELEASE FOR; KOKDAY, MARCH 31, 19A1
T£.king to Ogden Field for the first outdoor drill of the 1941 baseball season,
'orty-five Illinois Tech candidates, including a nucltms of fifteen men virho have gone
;hrough indoor paces for three weeks, greeted Coach Bernard "Sonny" Vifeissman as he
:alled practice today in preparation for a gruelling seven-week fight.
The schedule opens on Wedi:iesday, April 9, with a tilt against Lake Forest College
3n its home fields Several intengibles, as much as the fact of only eight days to
prepare his pitchers and hitters for such a jjovjerful collegiate foe, have made hard
vork imperative for the Techawk squad in Weissman's view.
Wiether memories of 194-0' e eight losses as against five wins, the challenge of
being the first baseball team to compete under the name of Illinois Institute of
reclinology, or the fact of working under a new coach ?;ill add up to winning infspira-
tion, is yet to be seen.
VlTeissmcn, De Paul University baseball star of the late 'taventies, now boxing and
wrestling coach and assistant athletic director of the Institute, has an optimistic
outlook.
"We need hitters rjid, after the middle of April, should have developed enough of
them to hit the best pitching we will run up against," he said.
"The fact that I have Lewis division of the Institute to draw material from this
year has not, as yet, appeared to be a great advrjitage. However, it's too early to
prophesy. All of our v/inter sports hi^ve gained a great deal from merger of the tv;o
schools."
Return to the Northern Illinois College Conference after an absence of two years
vdll bring a surge of competitive spirit to his team, Weissm.-ji declared.
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Elmliurst College, North Central College, Concordia (River Forest), and V:Jhe:-.ton
lollege iivill be Conference foes. Eight of seventeen games for theaeason villi be played
.n this group.
Non-Conference opponents, in addition to Lake Forest, v/ill be LaviTence Tech
Detroit), Michigan State Normal College(Ypsilantl) , Chicago Teachers College, Northern
Illinois State Teachers College (DeKalb) , and University of Chic-.go, Only Chicago
eachers College cxid Northern Illinois State Teachers College of these will be home-
jid-home competitors.
Major letter winners from last year, upon whom Coach VJsissman pins hopes for
mproved team performance this season, include Co-captains Bill Bauch and Bill Krause.
'he former is a catcher c,iid has been a regular for three years. The latter, also a
■egular for thi^ee years, has played all field positionvS and probably will take over
eft field this spring. Both hit .333 in 194-0, Krause making a n;jne as an extra-base
titter.
Outstanding pitcher of the squad is Alex Yursis, who last season also led the
quad in hitting with ,350. His pitching average in 1940 was .500, in spite of indiff-
erent batting support from his mates. It is expected that Al Dambros, a sophomore, in
ds first year at the Institute, ?d.ll prove to be almost.- as proficient a slinger as
'ursis. Dambros is a southpaw, v/ith plenty of v/eight behind his heaves. If this duo
;an take turn and turn about, and the Techav/ks hit behind them, Weissman's squad will
lave the makings of ii championship contender.
One spot in the infield and one in tiie outfield ere expected to give the Engi-
leers vifhat headaches they will experience. With Krause in left field, and Fred Lukens,
.289 hitter last season in Center, Charley Achinakian, v;ho took a minor letter last
spring, will return to right field. His hitting v/as poor and perhaps a nev/ face will
36 seen there this year.
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im Thodos, who has had two years vath tlie- squad as a utility infielder and v;ho last
ear won a major letter for work at third base, will probably h:.ve first call on the
)03ition.
He is not a spectacular hitter but has the advantage of seasoning by work with
.he remainder of the probr.ble infield. Just what freshjnen will develop as practice
swings into full gear, to mtice a good fight for the right-field and shortstop spots,
s problematical.
At first base Vv'eissman will be giving first cc.ll to Marvin "Hod" Carrier, viho
/on his letter last year at thit position after starting the season as an outfielder,
rrier is a good fielder and a smart batter, one v;ho can hit Vi^hen needed and manage
[-0 get himself on base in a number of wayp.
Roger Mueller, regular second-basemaxi for two years, will be back to cover his
jeat. He made only one error during 194-0, At third base Bill Grosse, a major-letter-
Bfinning veterejTi of two Cijnpaigns, will again be in evidence , Ho has a fine tlu-owing
irra, can hit fairly well, and as a senior will be playing his hardest.
As yet no outstanding substitute for Co-captain Bill Bauch ajjpears among nev/ men
f;ho hope to succeed as catchers. Outfielder Lukens can take on the task of backstopp-
Lng creditably, as he did so last year when Bauch' s fingers were injured. Leland Olsen
a sophoiaore, who v/as a bull-pen catcher last season, if his whip improves may be in for
some active duty. His hitting is an unknovm quantity as yet.
One left-handed pitcher, in addition to Danbros, will get hif; chance to make good
this season. Herb Bay, the southpav;, and George Lykowski won minor letters in 1940 and
with control and change of pace should come along nicely. A third pitcher, a novice, is
Bill McDonough, of whom little is predictable as yet. Roman Mankus, whose pitching
v/on a minor letter in 1940, will be Virorking hard for a regular miound assignment.
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:jule of gaKGS is as followc:
April 9
Lake Forest
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El.nihurst
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Lawrence Tech
There
19
Michigan State Normal
There
23
North Central
Here
26
Concordia
There
May 1
Chicago Teachers College
Here
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IfnTieaton
Here
7
North Central
There
10
Chicago Teachers College
There
13
DeKalb
Here
15
Concordia
Here
17
Au.^ustana
Here
21
Elmhurst
There
2K
Chicago
There
27
Vfiieaton
There
30
DeKalb
There
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ROM: ALEXANDER SGHP.EIBER RE: SPEECH OF M.W. FODOR TO AMERICAl
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ACADEMY OF POLITICiiL iJ^D SOCIii
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. .^600 ' SCIENCE, PHILADELPHIA, ^AAl
RELEivSE FOR: MONDiiY, MaRCH 31, 19-^
M. Vif. Fodor, professorial lecturer in social science of Illinois Institute of
Bchnology, will speak at the annual meeting of the Anerican Academy of Political and
ocial Science in Philadelphia, Friday, April 4-, at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel.
_ "The Revolution Is On" vdll be his subject. An authority on new governments In
iirope, Fodor has been lecturing in the Lewis division of the Institute on the basis
f observations during a career as a newspaper correspondent in all parts of Europe.
Particularly noted for his penetrating analysis of Balktoi affairs, Fodor came
0 his greatest fane as a writjr for The Manchester Guardian, The Chicago Daily Nevfs
nd American syndicates. He hi.s produced novels and numerous articles have appeared
a The Nation, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly and Fortune.
According to John Gunther, correspondent and novelist, Fodor "has the most acute-
Y comprehensive laiowledge of Central Europe of any journalist living todays he is
etter informed than the British in Central Europe and the foreign office pays close
ttention to his dispatches."
Born in Budapest, and educated as an engineer, Fodor as a young man bcciJiie in-
ensely interested in the rise of the modern "power" state. He was equipped with se-
ei-al languages and set out x.o investigate us a journalist the phenomena of communism,
ascism and the men v;ho made them exist.
It was at the peak of a brilliant post-war career, in the early 'thirties, that
e became the most-cuoted correspondent in the English press. Hitler, Mussolini, Laval,
alazar, Petain, Goebbels and many other statesmen of the nev/ order became his news
ources.
The fall of Vienna, of Prague and the fate that overtook Warsaw and other Europ-
an cities came as major shocks to much of the world. But to Fodor, who had predicted
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,vere only a confirmation of his hypotheses.
His reactions to the situation of the United States eis this juncture of its
li&tory, his analyses of the American plcce in the v/orld power-politics scheme, are
sxpected to provide one the chief topics of discussion of sessions of the iui^-erican
i,caderay of Political and Social Science.
Axis strategy with the coming of spring and suiiimer months v;ill be notable develop
nents of the war abroad that Fodor v;ili attempt to interpret. He vdll also comment
3n the situation of It:ily in Africa and the complexities of the Greek problems of
combined defense ijid offense.
The role of Yugoslavia as a late-arriv,- 1 ally of the Axis, iJid the v/ide economic
jid military scope of Ballaji participation in the wax, vdll be covered in fodor' s
:cddress.
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^ROM: ALE>:ANDEn SGHREIBER PE: ELECTION OF K. T\ MEAL.D VICE PRESIDENT
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF OF ROTAI^Y CLUB OF CHICAGO
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. //dOO
FOR IIV&IEDIATE RELSi.SE
Henty Tcvmlej Keald, president of Illinois Institute of Technology and at thir-
ty-six ^^eai-s of age one of the youngest heads of a .aajor educational institution in
ihe United States, has been elected vico-president of the Rotary Club of Chicap;o, it
fas announced yesterday.
President Heald, (5844 Stony Island Avenue) last Deccrnber named one of ten cut-
jtanding youn,; men of 1940 by the nagazinc; of the United States Ji-nior Chainber of Coiii-
lerce, will be inducted for a t-^ra to beghi July 1 and run a year.
A recent appointinent as i-egicnal advisor of the United Staoes Office of Educa-
tion for engineering defense training, and anotiier as a raembor of the coinnittee for
levelopment of a lake-front airport for (Jhicagc, iuarked the fiirtl'.or emergence of Presi-
lent Heald as an outstanding civic fii-jare whose importance is national.
With the merger of /jr-mouj:' Institute of Technology and Lev/is Institute in July,
.9-40, President Heald conmianded the attention of the United States in incorporating
ihat is the largest enE-ineering and liberal arts school in point of onrollraent in the
Jountry, Its gradu.v.te school is rated as one of three best in the land.
President Keald .gr;iduated froia Uashington State College in 1923, taking a B.S.
Ln civil engineerixig . I\'?o years l.-^ter he •;7ori an .vLS. in civil engiriocring from the
Jniversity of Illinois. Ho is a irierriber of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering frater-
lity, and of Sigma Tau, Phi Kappa Phi and Chi EpsLlon.
His ujidergraduate sujiuuers \^or-..; spent in t;ie state of Y-feshingto'i in the einxjloy
)f the federal govern;rient as a raernber of £urva;,-"ing parties. In the sujnmer of 1923 he
3ega.n as a jionior engineer of the United States Bureau of Reclaniation. He worked
:hiefly on McKay Dam.
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In Jime of 1925 President Heald tegan a ten-month period with the bridge depart-
nent 07? the Illinois Central Railroad, vjorking on bridges at Jackson, Mississippi. In
March of 1926 he bocaine employed as a stnictriral engineer for the bureau of design of
the board of local improvements of Chicago. He J.ater vrorked as a construction engineer
in Pallraan, Washington.
Beconing assistant professor of civil engineering at Armour Institute in Scptem-
bor, 1927, President Heald advanced rapidly. In 1931 he r'as made associate professor
and assistant to tlio dean. In 19.33 he bacaine dean of freshj:Gan. For four years follov;-
ing September, 1934-? he was professor of civil engineering and dean of the Institute.
The ostablish;;iont of a research division and the nucleus of a graduate program rrere
formulated under him.
Made acting president i;i October, 1?37, Prc:gidont Keald was appointed to his
present position in Llay of the follo--'ing year. Puapid groutli and continued high stan-
dard of adruinistro.tion of tlie Institute, culminating in formation of Illinois Insti-
tute of Teclm.ologj' in 3.94-0, are greatly attributable to him.
President Heald has held a variety of offices in the r^estern Societj^ of Engineer
and the Society foi' the Promotion of Eni;xnoering Educaticjn. lie belongs also to the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the iiiaorican Public 'Jork Association, American
Association for the A.dvancenent of Science, Adult B/ducr.tion Council of Chicago, Illi-
nois Engineering Council, Industrial Relations Association of Chicago, Thota Xi, Chi-
cago Engineer's Club, University C]ub of Chicago, and A.?, and A.M.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. ^600
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RE: JUNIOR WEEK MARSHALS AND OPEN HOUSE
CELEBRATION AND DISPLAYS; FROSH-
SOPH RUSH I OPEN HOUSE, MY 6-7;
JR. 7ffi., MAY 6-9.
FOR RELEASES SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941
Junior Vfeek at Illinois Institute of Technology, traditional festival time of
burly engineers, vri.ll this year vdtness shattering of precedent as the first girl
junior marshal elected during thirty-five years of the observance steps into a nan's
size job.
She is pretty Mary Elizabeth Spies, a junior architect from Fayetteville, Arkan-
sas, living here at IAI4. E. 59th Street. She is among six. junior class marshals
chosen, one from, each major department, to take charge of activities during four days
of extracurricular activity beginning Tuesday, May 6.
Just how v;ell a coed will be able to referee a class rush between fresbjnen and
sophomores, alvvays as dangerous a post as being involved in the scrimmage itself, is
a question-mark. Head junior marshal, John Butkus, civil engineering student and next
year's v/restling team co-captain, says Miss Spies is determined to meet each diffi-
culty as it arises.
Assisting Butktis, in addition to Miss Spies, v/ill be the follovdng;
Robert Sullivan, mechanical engineering department| Frank Keminet, chemJ.cal engi-
neering department; Carl Sparenberg, fire protection engineering department; FJilliam
Dres, electrical engineering department; and Charles I. Ball, civil engineering de-
partment.
Aside from the day on v/hich the class rush takes place, and the general atti-
tude of disrespect for constituted authority that results in the "depantsing" even of
junior marshals themselves, uiidergraduates devote themselves their classes adjourned,
to genteel cjid constructive pursuits at which Misg Spies and her colleagues vdll
officiate.
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Tuesday and Wednesday, Mc.y 6-7^ are celled "Open I-Iouse." On those days visitors
from all parts of the United States, including alumni and parents of present students,
will be on hand. Special prograjns of activities, featured by de.Tnonstrations of lab-
oratory f.-cilities of the entire campus i-Xi<l Armoui' Research Foundation, an affiliate
of the Institute, are open to the public.
Famous scientists, attached either to tiie Institute or the Foimdation, will per-
form classroom demonstrations cxd give explanatory lectures. Work in architecture,
engineering dravdng, mathematics and fire protection engineering will be on display.
Stunts and contests, ranging from pie-eating, egg throwing and treasure hunt-
ing, through intramural baseball and track combats, to fra tensity sings and a Glee
Club and orchestra presentation, will take place. Dances each night of the week,
sponsored by individual classes or fraternities and clvtbs, will occupy the majority
of students and their guests.
Chosen by classmates for lec^dership and extent of school activities, jui'dor mar-
shals exemplify an ideal combination of scholastic and extra-curricular interests,
Butlcus, a three-yeai' veteran of the v/restling sduad and a co-captain next year,
is assistant sports editor of Technolo,g:>" Nev/s, undergraduate v;eekly. He belongs to
the American Society of Civil iingineers, the Western Society of Engineers, and the
Glee Club, He is a graduate of Tilden Tecbjiical High School. As head marshal he \;ill
have chief authority during Jimior Week.
Mary Elizabeth Spies, one of five girls enrolled in Armour College division of
the Institute, is representative of the architectural students in her class commission
She is a mem.ber of Kappa Kappa Gijmna sorority. Her home is 239 Di-incan Strcijt, Fay--
etteville, Arkansas. She attended the University of Arkansas High School.
Robert J, Sullivan, a graduate of Sullivan High School, is a member of the Glee
Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pi Tau Sigma, mechanical engineci'
ing honor societj*^, and was student honor marshal as a freshman and sophomore.
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William Dres, v/ho attended Tilden Technict:l Hieh School, ia a member aiid officer
of Theta Xi frs.ternity, works on the -^^rmom- Engineer and Alu.;:mus, and belongs to the
Society for the Advancement of Manageirient and the Araerictm Institute of Electrical
Engineers c
Frcink Kemmett, a member of the Araericcji Institute of Chepjical Engineers, took a
prominent part in the 194-1 production of the Armour Players, "The Front Page." He
is a graduate of St. Mel High School.
Carl PI. Sparenberg, v/ho lives in Centralia, Illinois, at 524- W. Third Street,
is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and has been active in intramural athletics
and on numerous dance and social committees. He attended Centralia Tovmship High
School,
Charles I, Ball, who attended Lake View High School, is a member of the American
Society of Civil .Engineers, the Glee Club, and has been editor of Chi Epsilon's paper,
a student honor marsha.1, and rev^rite and feature editor of Technoloffl^ Nevjs, under-
graduate weekly.
Open House events vdll get under way at noon I'uesday, May 6, vfhen classrooms,
laboratories and research facilities vdll be opened to the public. By evening of the
same day fraternity and club dances that dot the week will have begun.
at 1 p.m. VJednesday, the first athletic cuntest, a pentathalon to be competed
in by athletes from all classes and the regular track team, vifill commence. It some-
tim.es last until noon of the next day.
At 8s30 p.m. Wednesday a large, all-school dance vdll take place in the Student
Union. Thursday will be crowded with intramural baseball games, a game between the
faculty and seniors, an intei'fraternity track meet, the winners of which will receive
a cup the following day, and Thursday evening will be devoted to the annual spring
concert of the Glee Club and orchestra.
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The Glee Club concert, to be given in the auditorium of the Student Union, v;ill
have u long intermission during v/hich an interfraternity "sing" vjill take place, the
winning group to be rewarded with a cup. Each fraternity will sit in the auditorium' e
balcony, arranged by colors in a huge semicircle.
Morning events -Friday include a pie-eating contest, m:,.rbles tournament, the con-
clusion of the interfraternity relays, and the running of interclass relays.
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Friday afternoon fraternity and independent groups v.dll assemble in Ogden Field
for a pageant, including the presentation of a humorous or patriotic dramatic skit
by each, the winner to receive a prize. High point of the athletic events of Junior
Week will be the Freshman -Sophomore class rush, a traditionally gory grudge battle
which ends with both sides bruised and minus adequate clothing. All awards of cups
and plaques will be made following the rush by President H. T. Heald and Acting Dean
J. C, Peebles.
Crowning social event of Junior VJaek will be the Junior Informal dance, to be
held in the Student Union, Friday night. Festoons and colorful decorations of many
types will beautify the Union end adjoining parts of the campus.
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FROM; ALEXMDER SCIiREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHTJOLOGT - VIC„ 46OO
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RE; MIDWEST POV^ER CONFERENGE| PHILIP
HARRINGTON, A. G, CHRISTIE SPEAK |
MORinKG PA-NEL, V.TiDNESDAY, APRIL 9,
194.1 ; PiiLMER HOUSE.
RELEASE; FOR PM'S OF WEDMESDilY, APRIL
9, 1941.
HOLD OVER TO 4/IO/4I FOR Mi'S
America's standard of living is at stake imless engineers plan ably for a post-
v/ar as vrell as war-tiiae world, Philip Harrington, commissioner of subways and super-
highways, this morning told more than 1,000 guests of the Midv/est Pov/er Conference at
the Palmer House.
A graduate of Illinois Institute of Teciinology, which is for the fourth year spon
soring the Conference v.lth seven cooperating universities and colleges, Harrington
opened the two-day meet v/ith an address of vrelcome. Public utilities experts, engi-
neers and technologists from over the nation made up the audience.
"In the nation you are playing a most important role in all phases of the de-
fense program," he said.
"All our ingenuity and ability are now being required to adapt our economic mach-
ine, virhich vjas built for peace-time pui'suits, to produce with speed not only our every-
day needs but the materials and equipment essential to rearmament and defense.
"?Jhile this gigantic task is forging ahead sv/iftly and smoothly, other t^ngineers
are tilready engaged in formulfLting a progrcm and detailed plans for shifting the vast
rearmiament program back to peaceful pursuits ^^vhen the threat of war is finally repelled
"In many respects, this job may be even more difficult than gearing the plants
of our economic system for arming the nation. Upon the skill of our planning, and the
vigor and understanding v/ith \;hich these plans are carried out, rests in large measure
our ability to cushion the shock of a cessation of hostilities not only as to our own
economic system, but to the v;orld economic system as well.
"At stake for us is our American standard of living. Yet I have no fear of its
being wrecked in the aftermath of the present conflict, because I am confident that
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our task, can be relied upon to do our part."
Never before, not excepting T/orld War I, has the nation in preparing for defense
attempted such a gigantic job, tjid the engineering profession is accomplishing its
work expeditiously and v/ithout fanfare, Harrington declares.
Praising e:xperts in pov/er production, trtjismission and consumption for contribu-
tions to the development and progress of ChiCcLgo, he traced the engineer's role in the
growth of the city.
"Vflien Chicago was but an outpost in the v;ildemess, engineers built fort Dear-
born, which gave the city security and azi oppor-ounity to survive the hazards that sur-
rounded it," Harrington said.
"^iTnen Chicttgo bec^one a thriving town, by virtue of its energy and strategic lo-
cation on the water highways provided by nature, engineers built the Illinois-Michigan
canal to integrate these natural routes.
"V/hen inventive genius provided the steam locomotive, engineers made Chicago the
rail transport-ition center of the nation.
"As Chicago grew and expanded, engineers kept pace vjith its development, contri-
buting their skill ai'id energy/ and counsel to the city's grovvth and progress. Tiiey
pulled the city out of the s^;amp in \.'hich. it v/as foixoded; they tapped Lake Michigan to
give Chicago a first-class, ine>diaustible MiXev supply,
"Engineers provided sanitation by reversing the Chicago river, by building a
labyr-inth of intercepting tunnels to divert sev/age from the l;..ke water supply, tJid a
system of sewage disposal vrorks second to none. In this area was developed the m.odern
conception of povrer trcinsmission and power pooling. Parks caid bathing beaches vrere
created, schools built, institutions established for the study of the arts and science
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Details of the Chicago subway and superhighway systems depend basically on the
engineer for their luruherance, Harrington declared.
Following the Harrington address, Dr. L, S. Grinder, vice-president of Illinois
Institute of Technology and dean of its graduate school, acting as chairnit'Ji of the
Wednesday morning panel, introduced Ruber 0. Croft, head of the department of mechan-
ical engineering, the State University of lov/a, who responded to the welcoming talk.
"Power Facilities and the Defense Program" was the subject of C. If'J. Kellogg,
chief consultant cf the pov/er unit. Office of Production Management, Washington, D.C.
His remarks vrere impromptu, no written copies having been made availaDle.
"i^i Rtisume of Present Day Power Trends" was developed by A. G« Christie, profess-
or of mechanical engineering of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
This was the concluding talk of the morning panel.
The fate of electricity as motive power for United States industry during war
will be bound up with the success of auxiliary steam, Diesel engine, gas turbine and
other methods of generating power that occupy less conspicuous geographical positions
and are less susceptible to bombing from the air than the hydro-electric plonts that
furnish it, Christie said.
"From a military point of view, hydro-electric pleunts are -Ailnerable while long-
distance transmissions lines are subject to interruptions. These considerations em-
phasize the necessity of steam stand-by service in the corm;rjnities served. Also trans
mission lines should be located so that these can be easily patrolled in case of war.
"Great central stations have been built and others will be planned. But one m.us
consider factors which may influence their size. Difficulties arise where too mtny
large feeders must radiate from a single point, A large station makes an excellent
target foi aircraft attack.
"A number of smaller stations feeding into vt'rious portions of the distribution
system would make the system less liable to complete outage. The large stations emits
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Mch raises problems. A number of smaller stations e;r.itting the sarae total gas volume
it widely scattered points would lead to more satisfactory dissipation.
"Finally, the practice of unit construction of one-boiler-one-turbine permits
ihe design of smaller plants with efficiencies practically equal to the super-power
Dlant. A trend towards more scattered stations of moderate size may be considered a
['uture possibility."
Baring untimely strikes, sabotage or dislocation of labor in plants building
Dlant equipment, electric utilities appear able to meet all demands due to the defense
emergency, Christie declared.
"In 1937 a noticeable improvement in business made it apparent that can early
pick'-up in industry would require additional generating capacity," ho said.
"This has proved a fortunate circumstance for the equipment ordered at that time
is now available. The start of the war in 1939 and the I'apid rise in industry since
then have greatly increased the dem.ands for power.
"Fortunately, new hydro-electric capacities no\/ available, together with the
resurves of the public utiliti.is, have been sufficient to meet all demands to dax,e,
with a ruasonable stund-by. In the meantime, additional equipment aggregating a large
kilov.'att cap^.city h;.s be.jn ordered or is being installed, r.nd this will add to -avail-
able power as demands increase."
Latest availablu figures, according to Christie , show thi^t 26 per cent of the
kilowatt-hours output of public utilities ciime from hydro plants though th..^ installed
capacity v;as 28 per cent of tlio total of hydro and steam capacity in ^11 public util-
ity pov/er plants.
"Canada possesses m;..ny large undeveloped sites ranging from Labrador to the Paci-
fic Coast which can be developed as needs arise in the future. By means of remedial
works in the rapids of Niagarc Falls, additional water ctai be diverted for power
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levelopment on both sides r.t a centri..l f.oint vrtiei'e it can be of mf^ximura vt.lue."
Following conclusion of the morning puiel, a luncheon jointly sponsored vdth the
nericQn Sbciety of Mechanical Engineers, v;ith S. M, Ellison as chairman, took pla.ce
it 12:15 p.m. Alfred Iddles, application engineer of Babcock axid V/ilcox Company, Nev;
rork City, spoke on "The Ussr War.ts to Knov/."
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TIOM: ALEXiJJDEF. 3CHREIBER RE; MIDWEST POWER CONfERLNCE: C.C. FRANCK,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF S.M. WOODWARD, V/.J. PHEIIIGjil^IS SPEAK;
TECtlNOLOGY-VIG. /+600 AFTEK'IOON PMELSj WED ., 4-/9/41 j PiiMER
HOUSE.
FOR RELEASE; THlliSDAY, APRIL 10, 19a
Operation of Tennessee Val.ley Authority projects, ijnd design rnd construction of
turbines for electriCL.1 and Gteijn utility at the nation's largest power centers, were
liscussed by three outstanding uuthoritier yesterdiy at the Midvrest Power Conference
In the Palmer House.
The Conference, a two-day meeting of more than 1,000 utilities experts, engineers;
Ljid technologists ending tonight, is sponsored ty Illinois Institute of Technology
and seven cooperating loniversities md colleges.
Sherman M. Woodwt.rd, chief water control pl'uu.:ing engineer of T.V.A. , W. J.
Rheingans, test engineer of Allis-Chalaers Manufacturing Company of r7lilvifaul<ee , and
C. C, Franck, engineer in charge of contra! station tux'bines o£ Westinghouse Electric
nd Manufacturing Company, Phil:.delphia, v/ere speaKers on Cifternoon panels.
?ifoodi.7ard, under the panel heading of "Hydro Pov/er," spoke on "The Operation of
the Multi-Purposo Projects of the Tennesset; Valley Authority."
Power production, navigation taid flood control on the Tennes-.ee River from its
mouth at Paducch, to Knoxville, by dcias cxid reservoirs, laid similar uses of the lower
Ohio cjid Mississippi Rivers were provided for under enactment of T.V.Ax's program.
Woodward reminded his uUdience.
"Six of the reservoirs along the Tennessee are now in operation and three more
are under construction and will be completed within the next three or foui' jrears," he
said.
"The nuiriber of dams has been kept to the smallest possible and still a.ccomplish
their purpose. Hence, the dams are so spaced along the river tiiat each succeeding
one is close to the upper limit of the preceding reservoir, but they are separated a
little farther thsua would have been needful to provide full navigation deptiis at the
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apper ends of the Reservoirs. It has been necessary, therefore, in order to provide
for full nine-foot draft of vessels throughout the year to deepen the channel just be-
lov; each dam by a limited c-jnount of dredging."
The course of the Tennessee River, formed by junction of the Holston .nd French
Broad Rivers, winds some 65O miles through Tennessee, Al'-brana and Kentucky before it
joins the Ohio at Paducah, Wood-ward explained.
"In each reservoir the maximum water level is limited by the locations ca^.d ele-
vations of cities, railroads :aid highways along the river, .vith the head developed at
various dams different for each site but averaging between 50 uid 60 feet," he said.
"In addition to the mt.in stretmi reservoirs the Authority has several storage
reservoirs on tributary streams. Operation of main strecan reservoirs, because they
present in v;hat m.y be fairly considered' to be t^rpical fundeai:ental form the general
principles of multi-purpose operation, are my main concern here. The tributary reser-
voirs will be used to store water during the wet season for release during the dry
season. This use bears a general resemblance to the method of use of the main stream
reservoirs, and contributes to the main objectives of navigation, flood protection und
power production."
Total river flow at a given point in the Tennessee Valley in the wettest year is
over two and one-h...lf times the flow in the driest year and it cji be demonstrated
there is no regularity in alternation of dry and wet years, Woodward declared.
"Although ma>dmum floods on the Tennessee River come rarely, they are tremendous
in size when they occur and constitute an important part of large floods on the lower
Mississippi River. Although the area of the Tennessee River drainage basin is only
one-fifth of the Ohio River drainage basin, the Tennessee supplies about one-fourth of
the total flow in the Ohio River.
"The Ohio River area is only one-sixth of the total Mississippi River drainage
area, but the Ohio supplies more than half of the whole flow in the lower Mississippi
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)n the Tennessee River is shovm."
Small floods muy occur cjiy month but the largest are all confined to a period
beginning .^ith January and ending v/ith April. Yfiieeler ReGervoir, in operation for
E.bout four years, has a yearly cycle of operation that Cc.n be described as typical for
nost, according to Woodv^ard.
"Beginning v;ith the winter season, the reservoir will be held at an elevation
.round 550 feet above sea level? during periods of lov. flov« in the river the water
surface stands practically level throughout the length of the reservoir," he said.
"The actual elevation will not be constant during these months; but every time
a flood occurs, the reservoir will be filled more or l-.ss, and will then be gradually
dram doim again after the flood is past. After the first week of April, according to
past records, there is nc serious danger of a maximum flood occurring.
"The water level will then be held at the top of the g<'..tes for a fev; days in or-
der to permit floating debris to strand on the banks of the reservoir as fully as
possible. After that, the reservoir wi].l be held at a level of about 550 feet for
several \.'eeks until the end of the fish-spa'.ming season, which may be considered to be
around the middle of May.
"Beginning about that tim.j, the water level v;ill be given a weekly fluctuation,
still maintaining the maxiraum level as high as possible. This is for the purpose of
preventing mosquito breeding along the reservoir m^^rgin and also to retard the develop-
ment of vegetation at the edge of the water.
"Beginning at some time in June or July, the water level in the reser'voir will
be slowly drawn down in addition to having the weekly fluctuations. The seasonal
drawdown permits the stored water- to be used for the development of power during the
low water season, extending from July to December, and also assists in the control of
malaria-disseminating mosquitoes. The menace of the malaria-bearing mosquito is
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supposed to be over for the siumner season about October 1. Subsequent to that, there-
fore, the reservoir may be either dravm down further for power production, if needed,
or it may be used to store water from the rather rare, heavy fall rains."
Follov/ing '"'oodward in the "Hydro Power" panel, Rheingans spoke on "Construction
of ^8,000 HP Kaplan Turbines for the Pickwick Landing Dam of T.V.A."
Tv/o units of six projected 4.8,000 HoP, Kaplan turbines, installed at Pickwick
Landing Dara as part of the Tennessee Valley ■^'■uthority on the Tennessee River, are the
largest built in the United States and are a close second to the largest in Europe,
according to Rheingans.
Now under construction are two turbine units of the remaining four, to be com-
pleted at the Allis-Chalmors r^1il\Taukee plant for service in 194-2. Evolution of the
Kaplan propeller-type turbine is of paramount interest in the field of design for
utilities, Rheingans asserted.
"The first propeller-type turbine was installed in 1916. The first adjustable
blade runner installed in 192,4 required unwatering of the turbine fliunc, because the
adjustment vfas made at the runner hub, A year liter, this was .improved upon by having
the adjustment made at the coupling between the turbine shaft r.aid generator shaft,
which did not require unwatering the flujne but required stopping of the unit. This lei
to the next logical step of a motor-operated arrangement in which the blades could be
adjusted at v/ill vxth the lanit in oper.-..tion.
"In the mean time, the Kaplcai turbine in x/hich the runner blades are adjusted
automatici.lly, depending upon the position of the guide vines, v/as being developed in
Europe, and the first installation in this countrj^ was made in 1928," PJieingans said.
i Speaking under the panel heading of "Central Station Practice," franck titled
his talk "Modern Steam Turbine Design."
"The metallurgical aspect in the design of m.odei-n steam turbines probably holds
the center of importance," he said.
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"The 'creep' or grov/th of metals ^onder elevated teraperatiires and permanent de-
formation ss a fimction of tenperature and allov.'able stress provided the necessary
tools to enable the designer to develop adequate structures.
"'Relaxation' of bolting was carefully inve.stigated and suitable raaterials deve-
loped. The development of bolting has been a major problem and materials v;ith high
'relaxation' stress values v;ere in the majority of cases found lacking in other essen-
tial properties.
"Compromises v/ere necessary and, while high teB;perature bolting is performing
satisfactorily^ it is under careful scrutiny. Particular care is taken in the design
and manufacture of this class of bolting to establish precision of finish in order to
eliminate all influences other thfjn the direct action of the members being held to-
gether. Experience has dictated that high temperature bolting should not be subjected
to heavy wrenching ajid the general practice is accurately to set up bolts by the use
of 'heating elements' and light wrenching," Franck stated,
"Metallurgical development hi.s also contributed in the investigation of material
by the X-ray and Gairima-ray processes. Casting flav;s in relatively thick walls are
readily disclosed by such investigations.
An informal "All-Engineers" dinner, at which Dr. Harvey N. Davis, president of
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, spoke on "Priorities in Men,"
was held at 6;4-5 p.ci.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREI3ER REj FIRST GIRL JUNIOR MAilSHAL AT ILLINOIS
ILLTNOIS INSTITUTE OF INSTITUTE OF TECID^-OLOGY WILL OFFICIATE
TECHNOLOGY - VIC.46OO DURING JUNIOR YfEEK., LiAY 6-9, 194.1
RELEASE: FOR MONDAY, /iPRIL 7, 194-1
Architectural students of Illinois Instj.tute of Technology, in a bold move raock-
ing thirty-five years of tradition have elected a girl as junior marshal to represent
their department during Junior T'eek, May 6-9, on Armour College campus.
Junior Week is the stisraial celebr?.tion period of the Institute, a tLnie of spring
recess, nuraerous scholastic ez-chibits, games, athletic contests and social affairs.
The public is invited to inspect the campus, and alumni 3.nd friends come from afar.
It has alwa;.'-s been a time vhen husky engineers luled the roost.
But Mary Eliz.abeth Spies, Ll'^14- East 59th Street, v.-hose home is in Fayetteville ,
Arkansas, and who is one of fi-."a girls in tlie entire /irmour division, is the innocent
disturber of cobwebbed custom. Of course, each of five other departments has elected
a male marshal as usual.
Former junior marshals scattered over the vorld - in China building e. bridge, in
Africa perspiring over blueprints of a dam, at Little America in the Antarctic shiver-
ing over a Diesel contraption - v.'ill stare incredulously at the alumni magazine that
blares the ne^vs.
1 For in the old day, and they were there to witness, junior marshals had to be as
rough and ready as could be obtained. 7 hough officials of J'unior V-'eek, they were usu-
ally subjects of pranks of fellow-students.
Solicitous junior marshals of 194-0, informed of the architectural department
vote, have warned beautiful Miss Spies of the following.
Junior marshals .must referee tJie armual freshiraan-sophomore rush, in v.'hich each
class battles for possession ox straw dumjnies set in the middle of Ogden Field. Stu-
dents of other classes stand on the sidelines and pelt the contestants with rotten
eggs, old tomatoes, hoarj' cabbages. . . . Could she take it?
Junior marshals have been knov-ii to disappear during the height of festivities
and to be picked up by the coast guard as they floatvid in Lake Michigan, llovj about the
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to shag foul-balls during batting-practice . He was hit In the head by a pop bottle .
v:alk
A few years ago, a junior marshal had to/atop the length of the spike and pick-
3t board fence surrounding Ogden Field, a process taking some three hours.
And then, of course, junior marshals have traditionally been "depantsed" some-
time during a solemn event, such as the presentation of athletic av;ards on Ogden
Field. Well, how about it?
Miss Spies, the pride of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, a member of the junior
class commission, a graduate of University of i^rkansas High School, Little Rock, had.
only one ansv/er to make, it is reported (in a southern drawl):
"Brothers, I can take it I"
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF MCLACHLM, R . S . HA'.iEY SPEAK; IfffiDNES-
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4.6OO DAY MD THURSDAY, APRIL 9-10, 194.1 1
PALMER HOUSE.
FOR RELEASE: THlIRSDivY, APRIL 10, 194-1
Factory assembly or prefabrication of electrical equipment as an outgrovrth of
tandardization has been a large factor in per::iitting the national defense progrejn to
)rogress, W. J. McLachlan, engineer of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, New
brk, declared at this morning's session of the Midwest Power Conference at the Palmer
[ouse.
The Conference, a two-day meeting of more than 1,000 utilities experts, engineers
md technologists ending tonight, is sponsored by Illinois Institute of Technology and
even cooperating universities and colleges.
"Trends in Equipment Design in Relation to Economics and Defense" was the subject
Df his speech. McLachlan has charge of the apparatus line sponsor section at the Gen-
ral Electric plant and the heading of the panel on which he spoke was "Electric Power
Transmission. "
"This country has gone through a period of several years when virtually no sub-
stations viTere built and the considerable forces ox engineers v>/ho devoted their energies
before 1930 to the design and construction of substations have long since turned to
other fields of endeavor," McLachlan said.
"It seems safe to say that, had not the advent of the factory-assembled station
occurred during this period, this country v/ould be faced with a bottleneck of serious
proportions due purely to the lack of experienced substations designers,
"The same situation wou].d probably be com.plicated by lack of personnel experience^
in the construction of such stations. Major defense plants are reouiring the construc-
tion of up to twenty-five substations per plc/jit, quite commonly. Individual shipyards
are installing many large substations simultaneously. Other defense activities create
a com.parable demand.
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"The factory assembly of complete equipments hj.s been z. lifesr.ver in this emer-
gency. An engineering nucleus, such as that retained by the substation manufacturer
through the depression, can be expanded rapidly.
"That is because of the assistance which can be rendered by the experienced engi-
neer in training nev« men. More iraportcjit,, these engineers deal in standiLrdised desigiis
ivith ST^andard m^-thods, so that the education of new men is simplified and therebj'- enor-
nously expedited, and the output per men is greatly increased."
Few persons realize fully the extent to which a demand is being levied on the
electrical industry in connection with the present defense program, McLaclilan asserted.
"Today, ive live electrically — today, v/e prodiice electrically — today, electricity
is vital to the very operation of every defense plan, shipyard, air base, navi.l base
and army camp.
"As these defense institutions spring up, the demands for poiver pyramid. Much
has been said regarding our ability to meet the needs from the standpoint of generation
Some discussion of transmission facilities has ensued. But, I vronder how many have
considered the problems of the distribution systems, and parti cult.rly the substations
v/hich are required for the supply of every one of these new power loads.
"Transfer of skill, from persons using tools to the machines, has permitted rapid
training of mcjiuf acturing personnel, and to the extent that such Icbor has supplanted
construction crews in the field, the much longer training periods for the skilled arti-
sans in the field has bean made unnecessai-y," he said.
"The benefits of quantity production stand out in bold relief in times like these.
The factory-built substations are being fabricated from duplicate component parts. In
fact, many of the complete stations are exact duplic;..tes. This means maximum produc-
tion in minimum time, v/hich is now so vital."
The country hc-s only awakened to the possibilities of mess production of defense
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"V/e have only begun to recognize the opportunities for expediting defense 'work
of this type through standardization. There is no reason why plant after plant cannot
be supplied with virtually duplicate substation equipments. It is being found econo-
nical (and desirable froni the standpoint of physical diversifications of supply routes)
to locate several substation units throughout plroats and buildings, rather than to use
one large stepdo?m substation of a size dependent on the individual plant.
"The number of units, rather th---n the siae of the unit, varies vath the size of
the plant. These distributed units can be factory-assembled and ctai be standardized
in a small range of sizes. These same principles can be applied in the supply of air
bases, naval bases, army training camps and other defense institutions.
"Another approach of value in defense v/ork is the use of mobile substations which
can now be obtained complete from the manufacturer in capacities generally comparable
with the stationary assembled substation. Such equipments can be used to supply in-
dustries Y;hich spring up overnight.
"They caji furnish pov/er during constx'uction and early operation. Of even greater
importance, they can be used as the reserve for stationary units. One mobile unit can
move in and ttilce over in case of failure in any one of ma.ny stationary units. The
opportunities are truly great in the use of portable equipment.
"Thus, we are finding that the factory assembly approach in this area, not only
is economical, but is of great value in the defense program, V«'e have much more to
learn to obtain the maximura benefit from this approach — but, the start has been made,
the nucleus is there and American ingenuity v/ill carry us forward— not only in this
field, but also in others as factory fabric.. tion is found to be economically justifi-
able."
"Increasing Povrer Production 'with Present Boiler Facilities" was the subject of
address by R.S. Havjley, acting chairmim, department of mechanical engineering of the
University of Miehigaoi. Under the panel heading, "Industrial Povrer Plants," it was
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"The industrial steam boiler plant or the povver plant can be thought of as a
factory which b'jgina its process with certain raw materials and converts these mater-
ials into manufactured products," Havaey said.
"Every plant manager recognizes the iinporta.nce of purchasing high-grade raw mater^
ials if he v/.'-mts a high-grade j finished product and also realises the practical necess-
ity of analyzing factoiy methods and conversion costs.
"Unfortunately not all managements are willing to give even a reasonable amount
of thought to the boiler room V/hich serves their plt.nts. Activities in recent years,
tiov;evGi', are an indication that pl'-Jit owners are rapidly becoming aware of the savings
that can be made in the power house by the use of properly selected, fuel, high-grade
equipment and good opert.ting methods.
"Since the raw materials used in the proctoction of steam are fuel, air and water,
biny study of operation must necessarily include one or all of these three items, and
the proper selection and treatment of the ra.w materii.ls must affect the pl^nt economy
and capacity,
"Some will recall tha.t in 191B the Cjovemment crea.ted a Fuel iidministration and
that one of the regulations was the zoning of coalj that is, cos.l mined in certain
fields w-us to be distributed for use -within rather definite areas. Little thought was
given to the type of equipment in the power pli-.nts of ea.ch are^. ond the results v/as
that many plant ov.Tiers were compelled to purchase and use coal not at all suited to
their particular equipm.ent.
"Under the regul£.tion of the Fuel Adjnini strati on they were compelled to use a
low-grade coal with a high ash content, low ash softening temperature ajid a considerable
amount of dirt. Because of the pla,nt demands it v as necessary to operating it at as
high ratings as possible.
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the grates '^nd impinged on the boiler tubes. In three 'j/eeks operation the gus pt^ss-
iges between the boiler tubes were reduced to such an extent that the boiler hitd to be
taken off the line. Thi;j c.se is cited merely to shov; the fallacy of ^:tter;.pting to
ise coal that is not suitable for the particular pl.nt equipment."
Any attein;^it to improve boiler plcjit efficiency .and incre^.se capacity necessarily
Degins v;ith the selection of coal, Hav.ley said.
"These fi.ctors should figure in the buying of coal for pover pliiits:
"Cot^t f.o.b., freight and doliverj- cost, hGt:;t concent, volatile content, ash
lontent, moisture content, hydz'Ogen content, sulphur content, ash x'using ter.iporature,
jrindability, swelling and caking chc racteristics, aiae and uniformity of siae, stor-
ing characteristic, reliability of source of .supply, uniformity of ouality and regular-
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: MIDWEST POVJER CONFERfJNCE
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF PALMER HOUSE - ^9 & VlO/Al
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. A600
RELEASE: TUESDAY, 4/8/41
One thous£.nd guests of the Midwest Power Conference will gather here tomorrov;
iind Wednesday to het^r the nation's outstanding experts in the field of power produc-
tion, transmission and consumption.
Sponsored by Illinois Institute of Technology in cooperation with seven middle
western colleges and universities, the Midwest Pov;er Conference will be held in the
Palmer House tomorrow ajid Thursday, April 9 tnd 10. The first session vdll begin at
10 o'clock and the first day of the conference vdll be concluded with the traditional
"All Engineers" banquet in the evening.
The conference is in its fourth year under the present sponsorship and service
to engineers interested in power problems. Until the formation of Illinois Institute
of Technology last summer, the conference was under the sponsorship of Armour Institutf
of Technology.
Co-sponsors of the meeting : re Iowa State (Ames), Michigan State (Lansing),
Purdue, Iowa (lowr. City), Illinois (Urbana) , Michigan (Ann Arbor), and VJisconsin. Alsc
cooperating are the several Chicago and State engineering raid scientific societies.
According to Professor Stanton E. Winston, conference director and associate
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professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Tech, "One thousand experts in pov;er
production, transmiscdon, and consLimption, t';,ice the num.ber accommodated in past years,
will be on hand to hear ti.-onty experts of r.ational i.nd international repute discuss
power problems.
"With the nation on the brink of unpredictable d:;ys, the Conference may be the
last opportunity that these professional men may have to discuss intimately their mu-
tual problems bearing so heavily upon the nations defense efforts."
The conference v;ill be opened by Dr. L. E. Grinter, vice-president of Illinois
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hici.go.
Highlighting the morning session will be an address by C. W. Kellogg, chief con-
sultant of the povjer unit. Office of Production Management, Washington, D.C.
The afternoon sessions of the conference will be divided into tv;o sections with
!the first scheduled for 2s 00 o'clock and devoted to a discussion of Central Station
Practice. M. P. Cleghcrn, representative from Iowa State College vdll chairmsm the
session and speakers will include: F. H. Rosencrants, vice-president of Com.bustion
Engineering Company, Inc., New York Cityj C.C. Franck, Engineer in Charge of Central
Station Turbines, Viestinghouse Electric, Philadelphia^ ai:,d G.V. Edmonson, American
Blov/er Corporation, Chicago.
The second afternoon session v/ill be devoted to Hydro Power v,'ith B.G. Elliot,
representative from Wisconsin as chairman. Speakers vdll include R. B. McVfhorter,
chief engineer. Federal Power Comirdssion, Washington, D. C.; S. M. Woodward, chief
water control planning engineer TVa, Knoxville; and W. j, Rheingans, test engineer,
(working on TVA) Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwauicee,
The "All Engineers" dinner will begin at 6s4-5 o'clock in the evening. Jamies D.
Cunningham, chairman of the Board of Illinois Tech and president of Republic Flow
Meterg Company, Chicago, will be toastmaster. Dr= Harvey N. Davis, President, Stevens
Institu"Ce of Teclinology, Hoboken, New Jersey, vdll be the featured speaker and he vdll
address the guests on "Priorities in Men".
The purpose of the power conference as set forth by its founders, is to provide
sxi opportunity for ull person.; interested in povjer production, transmission and con-
sumption to meet together .^.nnually for the study of mutual problems free from, the re-
strictions of recuired membership in technical or social organizations. Academic spon-
sorship, such as is a.ffected by the co-sponsorship by the eight midwestern colleges
and uidversitics, provides a freer discussion ranging through the technical and into
the economic and social aspect of power. .
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E. Grinter, Illinois Tech, C, F. Hording, Purdue; H. E, Keeler, Michigan (Ann
rbor)j C. A. Leutwiler, Illinois| and L. G. Miller, Michigan State (Lansing).
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Of SEiiSOK aT LAKE FOREST V9Al
TECIINOLOGY-VIC ^600
RELE.-iSE: WEDNESDAY V9//+1
In the opening gume of the 19A1 Reason the Illinois Tech Baseball Tear, will meet
juke Forest College in the North Shore Suburb on Wednesdi^.y, April, 9th in a non-league
contest .
In all probability the Techav.-k team that takes the field against the Jaybirds
vill be composed of nine m<..jor lettermcn, all of whom remember quite vividly the two
S-3 defeats of last year at the hands of the Foresters. A newcomer to the scene how-
ever will be the Engineer coach, Bernard "Sonny" Vj'eissman.
"Sonny" came to iirmour in 19^9 as coach of v.Testling and boxing from DePaul Lavi?
School v;here he excelled in athleticfi while earning his degree. In the succeeding
years he has become manager of the student union and assistant to Jolm J. Schonmier,
athletic director. He holds licenses from both the Illinois State Boxing Commission
end the National iunateui' Athletic Association as a referee. His appointrnx-nt as base-
ball coach came last fall.
It will be a long time before a batter;^ is uncovered that will comp£-re with the
combination of Alexuider Yursis and V/iliiiim Bauch. In 63 innings of nine games "^lex"
struck out 61 batters for a better th^n .500 ^.verage in games won. His true value is
not realized however until the batting averages are consulted. Alex batted an even
.350 to lead the Techawk squad last season.
Bill Bauch, the receiver of the combination, iJid Co-Captain of the team, is the
spark plug of the squc.d. .aid with a batting average of .333 no one ccn accuse him of
merely "talking" a good gciie though he does the latter quite proficiently. Both of
these IcLds are seiiiors and their loss will be a severe loss to the Engineers.
The other Co-Captain is William Krause, a product of Lane Tech's Ptrcy Moore.
?rnile patrolling left field for the Techawks last season Bill batted .333 in the clear
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uost likely Cc.ndidate to fill the shoes of Itist year's Captain frank Leonard at
;hortstop.
The rei;.ainder of the infield will be conposed of juniors Marvin "Hod" Carrier on
the initial sack; Rodger "Red" Mueller at sccondj and J-:;_Tne3 Thodos at third.
Dean's office perirAtting, Fred Lukons v/ill be the Techawk center fielder ;aid
lOst poiwerful slugg^-r of the entire squad. "Luke" v/as ill for a fev/ v^eeks vxid soae
□f the professors believe that he should not be permitted to play until all of his
back school v.'ork hfi.s been brought up to date.
;■ Right fielder Charles Jiciiinakian conpletes the Techav/k lineup, h junior, he
earned a major in his freslruatJi year.
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FROM; ALEXyJDER SCHREIBER RE: MIDWEST POl^fER CONFERENCE? M/uTOR C. W,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF LEIHY, F.A., SPEMSj 12:15 P.M.
TECHNOLO&Y-VIC. ;i600 LUNCHEON, APRIL 10, 194-15 PALMER HOUSE.
FOR RELEASE; THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 19^1
The electrical power industry is a leading factor in defense efforts since it
supplies the essential ingredient of industrial expansion. Major Cherries Wa Leihy,
F.A. , of Chicago, formerly editor of Electric Light and Power, said today in an address
before the Midwest Power Conference at the Palraer House.
At a noon luncheon, jointly sponsored with the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, Major Leihy was presented by Frank V. Smith to more than 1,000 guests. His
subject was "Aspects of the National Poiver Pool, Defensively and /afterwards."
Stressing that his remarks did not officially represent the ?ifar Department,
Major Leihy outlined the position of electrical utilities today,
"Fortunately the industry is well-prepared to meet the requirements of the de-
fense program and our power pool, virith the reserve that such a connotation includes,
is one of the most important single elements in our defensive strength," he said.
"In the old days, military power was reckoned in man-pov/erj today military pov;er
is measured by man-power multiplied by machine power. Therein lies the strength of
the country's productiveness as the arsenal of democracy, for here each v;orker com-
mands or controls some 5 ho p. of production machinery compared v/ith the European aver-
age of 1.2 h.p, per worker.
"Just what is this power pool? Briefly it consists of some 900 large, modern
pov/er stations, supplemented by numerous smaller plants and industrial power stations
which aggregate at present slightly over 4.0,000,000 kilowatts in available capacity.
"The plants vriiich comprise this reservoir of power vary from the modern, high-
efficiency station vjhich turns out a kilowatt-hour for every pound of coal burned to
the technically-obsolete standby plant, the operation of which makes the compcaiy
treasurer moan v/ith anguish," Major Leihy declared.
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tively short notice, vdth 7,000,000 kilovjatts of nevi plcJits being built, which, added
to present capacity, ^vill aggregate an approximate total of 4-6,000,000 kilov/atts by
the end of 194-2, allowance being made for depreciation of equipment.
"Defensively this capacity is a tremendous asset, primarily because it is v/ell-
distributed geographict.lly," he said.
"Early this year the Federal Power Commission initiated a study of the rela-
tionship betvreen availc.ble capacity and peak requirements for approximately 50 arecLS
v/hich in total comprise the forty-eight states.
"The relationship of this c-apacity to defense needs and requirements of ead:i of
these areas involves consideration of the transmission facilities v/hich, in effect,
makes capacity available when, where and in the quantities needed for practically a,ny
locality.
"Thus geographic distribution of capacity plus transmission facilities provide
a flexibility that aids defense pltJining, eliminating restrictive considerations in-
volving the availability of povjer. It makes possible advantageous location of defense
production facilities solely from the standpoint of the proximity of fuel, ravi mater-
ials, labor or other important factors."
The country east of the Mississippi River is organized into five great regional
networks, each network being the outgrov/th of economic dictates for better operations,
Major Leihy stated.
"Careful engineering and economic considerations concerning reliability, reduc-
tion in reserves, conservations of peak reqiiirements, balance between stefoii and hy-
draiilic facilities, all have contributed to the formation of these va^st electrical
integrations.
"There are certain interesting aspects in the development of this huge system of
power supply that iimneasurably improve its utilization from a defense standpoint.
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iistance transmission lines are concerned. Thus it is that these various networks
lave grown up largely on the basis of economic characteristics such as effecting an
3conomic balance between steam fjid hydro, taking advantage of diversified peaks, de-
ireloping steam capacity at points advantageous from fuel and water stfjidpoints and
improving reliability for service to concentrated load centers,
"There ha-s been a tendency, well-justified economically, to make each locality
nore and more self-sufficient as regards its own po¥/er supply to the end that, instead
of concentrating capacity at a few points, the general level of available povrer in
each locality has been raised."
The enormous building program of utilities will tc^ke care of weak links, giving
sufficient capacity where any demand may come up, he said.
"Defense plants c:in be assured of access to cunple power facilities vdth a min-
imum of system construction. Of course, it is practically Impossible to detemiine in
advance just what defense loads will require in the v/ay of additional peak capacity.
"It is fairly easy to estimate hovj much additional peak ie involved by an in-
crease in steel productive capacity, by an increase in electric furnace load, by
doubling or tripling the aluminum capacity and quadrupling airplane production. It
is almost impossible to estimate either the increase in load in smaller plants which
accept sub-contracts for parts and supplies or the total diversified peak demand as
a result of this coordinated defense production program."
Sabotage may be in the offing in a time of peak defense production. Major Leihy
warned.
■ "Should hostilities develop, there may be expected man-made troubles in the form
of sabotage to which certain portions of the electric system are particularly vulner-
eible. What information as is available on European combat indicates that sabotage is
to be more dreaded than bombing.
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stations. Un£:ttended substations, transmission lines, ma.in distribution stations,
underground systems cannot be protected as effectively without prohibitive costs, and
future operations under such conditions may v/ell take into consideration measures
ii/hich will ameliorate difficulties developing from hostile acts aga,inst the nation's
povifer supply.
"Some measures necessarily take the form of limiting the area of trouble.
Patrol crews offer considerable possibilities and should be given attention by both
the operators rind the regulatory agencies which allocate frequencies for emergency
services of this type."
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FROMs ALEXMDER SCHREIBER RE: HORROR TESTS BY DR. DAVID P. BODER AT
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ROOSEVELT THEATER; TUESDAY, APRIL 7,
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 46OO MIDNIGHT.
FOR RELEASE; TUESDAY, /J^RIL 8, 1941.
Last night, v^hile the city slept, forty adventuresome students and a fact-find-
ing, horror-probing scientist of Illinois Institute of Technologj'- indulged in an orgy
of graveyard gambols, murderous mysteries and spine-shocking sensations. And all in
the interest of science.
Doctor David P. Boder, professor of pEycholog;^' at Levd-S division of the Insti-
tute, his fingers at the controls of complicated testing apparatus and devices, sat
v/ith his students in the balcony of the Roosevelt Theater during almost two-hours of
unremitting analysis of cinema horror in the raw.
Tv;o moving pictures were shoT/m. One, "The Mad Doctor," featuring Bf.sil Rathbone
and Ellen Drev/, had a fictional background. The second, "Third Dimensional Murder,"
was an unvarnished shocker from real life with anonymous characters.
Reactions of two students, who were harnessed to horror-recording equipment,
were closely studied by Dr. Boder during shovdng of the films. He will examine their
classmates at school today, as a secondary step in his investigation.
Viforking for many years on a study of horror and its psychological effects,
Dr. Boder believes he vdll some day be able to establish what facts influence memory
as a contribution to legal research bearing directly upon reliability of witnesses.
Horror as an element entering into the mental condition of spectators to crimes of
violence has never adequately been probed, he believes.
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understanding of the gravity of a situation in 'flhich a given character finds himself
as one factor and the actual gruesomeness of that situation as another, is of para-
moiint importance to his researches. Dr. Bodor stated.
Human guinea-pigs for last night's experiments under recording devices were
Alda Kairis, senior at Lewis division of the Institute, and Edv;ard Collender, junior
chemical engineer of Armour division.
Miss Kairis, a pretty brunette, sat imi.'.obile in her seat with a pneuraograph
strapped to her chest. It measured the rate and depth of her breathing, A blood .
pressure device strapped to one leg measured the rise and fall of presstire.
Dr. Boder, with an instrument called the "Maico affectometer," tested her emo-
tional stress crises. The affectometer indicates stress through measurement of elec-
trical skin resistance.
Collender, in addition to undergoing tests Miss Kairis was subjected to, had
attached to him a recording cardio tachometer, which gave a continuous record of heart-
beat and emotional intensity.
As an epilogue to the film display. Dr. Boder this afternoon vdll examine each
member of his class as to memory of specific events shovm in the films. Each dealii
shovffi in the pictures, with attendant details and individual backgrounds, v.'ill be ana-
lysed by students.
Ability to retain facts, relating them to the main themes depicted by the films,
is likely to reveal m.uch of genuine scientific benefit which his training as a
psychologist will help him to interpret. Dr. Bodor explained.
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ROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: EDTIJLRD F. HAIWSKA, SPEECH V'/INl^ER, IN
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF A.S.M.E. CONTEST AT DETROIT j REPRESENTS
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 4-600 ILLINOIS TECH, VU-15Al
FOR IWEDIATE RELEASE
Edward P. Hanuska, fifth-year mechanical engineering cooperative student at II-
.inois Institute of Technology, a consolidation of Armour and LcTis Institutes, v/ill
epresent the Institute at the midwest section meet of student units of the American
ociety of Mechanical Engineers in Detroit tomorrov/ and TViesday.
V'inner of the recent public speaking contest of the Illinois Tech unit of the
LSoM.E., Hanuska will compete in contest finals against representatives from several
technological institutes and universities. His prize-?/inning speech, entitled "Exter-
ior Ballistics" will be repeated.
Included among schools sending speakers will be University of Michigan, Universi-
ty of Minnesota, and Northwestern University. Thirty mechanical engineering students
and several professors will make up the Illinois Tech delegation.
An inspection trip through a Ford Motor Company plant, a banquet at the Detroit
Yacht Club, a trip through Chrysler Corporation research laboratories, luncheons e.nd
several sightseeing trips are included in the schedule of events.
Second in the Institute contest was Don Creagan, 6128 Dorchester Avenue, senior
mechanical engineering student, and third was Morris Honvitz, 1400 South Komensky Ave.
junior mechanical engineer. Each Illinois Tech finalist v.'as presented with a book on
a scientific subject of special interest to him.
Prominent in student activities, Hanuska, 6653 South Cla.remont Avenue, is a nevfs
editor of Technology Nev/s, undergraduate weekly, and columnist foi' the cooperative sec-
tion. He be.longs to the Cooperative Club, Pi Ts.u Sigma, national honorary mechanical
engineering society, Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering society, and the Rifle Club.
Hanuska has also been a student honor marshal, ch£'.irman of the I^ranglers, coop-
erative student group, and is an employe of the Goodman Manufacturing Company as part
of his "v7ork-and- study" function in the cooperative section. He is a 1936 graduate of
Crane Technical High School.
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five-year cooperative mechanical engineering course , is assured of a position on gra-
duation. He may 'vork at the company that has esnployed him for tpenty-four v;eeks of
each of his undei-graduate years, or he ir;ay take advantage of other offers.
The cooperative course aliors each student alternately to spend eight weeks at
school .and the same time at v/ork for forty-eight vreeks of the year. Money earned in
industry is more than sufficient to allov: the student to meet his tuition and inci-
dental expenses.
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FROM! ALEXMDER SCHREIBER RE: TffiEK Of SPORTS AT ILLINOIS TECH-4./1A-
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Of Vl9
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4600 BASEBiiLL - Elratiurst Here -4/16
At Lawrence Tech 4./I8
At Michigan State Normal 4/r
TENNIS - Loyola Here Vl5
TRACK - Triangular Meet, North Park
and Morton Here 4/19
RELEASE fOR: TUESDAY, 4/15/41
This week vdll find all branches of Illinois Tech's spring athletic program in
full svdng, the golf team excepted. Highlights include the baseball squad opening its
Northern Illinois College Conference schedule against Elmhurst College, trackmen gettin
off to a running start in the outdoor season with a triangular meet scheduled against
North Park and Morton colleges, and the ijjidefeated tennis team seeking its third vdn
in its first tilt v;ith Loyola.
Though pitching admirably, Alex Yursis dropped the initial game of the season for
the Techawks diamondmen when his teammates gave him but one supporting hit and made
five errors against Lake forest College last V/ednesday. The facts that Tech indoor
practice vvas confined to a sixty-foot-square gymasium and bad y/eather banned outdoor
workouts handicapping the Scarlet and Grey. Under a new coach, Bernard "Sonny" V/eisman
and newly returned to a league, the Northern Illinois College Conference, the Engineers
expect to keep above the .500 mark this year. Games scheduled for this week include
the league opener against Elmhurst, V/ednesday, April 16, on Ogden field (33rd and
federal Streets), and a road trip to the Vfolverine State, where Lawrence Tech on friday
April 18, and Michigan State Normal College the following day will be net.
Led by Captain Harry Heidenreich, the Illinois Tech trackmen take on North Park
College and Morton Junior College as a warm-up for the outdoor season Saturday. VJith
the advent of spring, Captain Heidenreich has begun to show versatility, specializing
in the javelin and discus throws, as well as offering stiff competition in the pole
vault, high jump and shot put. He can also run the half-mile and the mile in a pinch.
Having bettered the existing school record several times in practice, Harry is expected
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Tech netrnen, t?;o victories under their belts, are virell on their way to a brill-
iant season, viith nineteen matches scheduled against the best of competition, includ-
ing Purdue. Comprised of two freshmen, a sophomore, a junior and a senior, the squad
should be even better next year. It is scheduled to play Loyola University today on
University of Chicago courts, home of the Techav^ks. Present seeding by coach Hal
Davey, places a junior, Mike Schultz, number one, freshman Jim Ferguson, number tvro.
Captain Bob Lange, number three, sophomore Earl Sherman, number four, end junior Dick
Dunworth, number five. The first doubles team is Captain Lange and Dick Dunworth,
while freshmen Jim Ferguson and Dick Larson comprise the number-tv;o doubles combinatior
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?ROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: ELECTION Of ALFRED KAUFMaNN, PRES.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF LINK BELT COMPANY, TO BOARD OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4600 TRUSTEES.
FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE
illfred KcuUffraann, President of Link Belt Company and one of Chicago's leading
industrialists was elected to the Board of Trustees of Illinois Institute of Technology-
today, April 14.5 1941.
Announcement of the election v/as made by James D. Cunningham, Chairman of the
[nstitute's Board and President of Repv lie Flov/ Meters Company just after today's
Luncheon meeting at which the election took place. The meeting was held at 12;15 P.M.
in the Chicago Club, Van Buren Street at Michigan Avenue o
According to the anno-oncement made by Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Kauffmann was born in
Sermany in 1897 t'Jid received his major education at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New
fork where he had conferred upon him the Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1901,
Alfred Kauffmann is in the true sense, a man of the v;orklng people. He began his
career as an apprentice for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, Nev; York in
1894 and joined the staff of the Robert Hoe Company, manufacturers of printing presses
in 1895, remaining with that company until coming to Link-Belt in *98.
His period of employment with the Link-Belt Company reads something like the
"Odyssey of American Businessmen" - "From Office Boy to President" of which this free
leountry is so proud. When he joined the Link-Belt Company, he took a position as
draftsman and graduated successively to positions of superintendent of construction,
sales engineer, assistant to the president, manager of the Philidelphia plant, vice-
president in charge of Beljnont ixnd Dodge plants, and finally President, a position to
which he was elected in 1924 after 26 years of effort.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 4-600
4.^1-22
RE: FUI^D RAISING PRCGRAil^ TRUSTEES ^lEETING
FOR imiEDIATE RELEASE
An immediate appeal for fimds to finaiice the first phase of a $12,000,000 devel-
jpraent program for Illinois Institute of Technology was authorized by the Tmstees of
hat institution at their annual meeting held in the Chicago Club at noon today, Mon-
lay, April U, 19A1.
The 194.1 phase of the prograja aims to secure $1,500,000 to erect and equip a
letallurgical Engineering building, a Meclianical Engineering building, and Library and
lumanities buildings, while at the same time assuring the addition of at least $150,000
bo existing income resources, it was announced by James D. Cunningham, chairman of the
3oard of the Institute and president of Republic Flow Meters Company.
Action of the board at this time constituted formal approval of plans evolved by
that body's policy committee, consisting of Uilfred Sykes, assistant to the president.
Inland Steel Company, chairman^ James D, Cunningharaj Charles S. Davis, president, Borg-
Pfarner Corporationi Henry T. Heald, president, Illinois Institute of Technologyi Syd-
ney G. McAllister, president, International Harvester Company; and Charles E. Nolte,
president. Crane Company.
Illinois Institute of Technology, which v/as created last summer by the merger of
Armour Institute of Techjiology and Lev/is Institute, now enrolls more engineering stu-
ients than does any other college in this country. In addition, the institution is
undertaking the major responsibility for cooperation v/ith the government in its pro-
gram of engineering defense training in this region. In January it enrolled 1,600 men,
most of them engineering graduates, in special engineering courses connected with the
defense prograjn; and 1,5*3 have been added to that total this month. The total stu-
dent enrollment at the Institute, including the arts and sciences and evening classes,
approximates 7,000 this year.
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The development program aims to consolid-te all day-student activities of the
rraour- and Lewis divisions of the Institute upon a single campus at the earliest pos-
ible date. Land adequate to provide, for such consolidation has alreadj?- been purchased
djacent to the existing Armour campus on the south side. Six blocks of land, extend-
ng from 32nd to 34-th Streets and from State Street to the Rock Island Railroad tracks
ave been acquired for this purpose.
The complete program of development is progressive, covering the next several
ears, ¥jc. Cunninghsjn explained today. It involves the financing of building construc-
tion and equipment totalling some $3^000,000 and the addition of $2755 000 to annual in-
:ome other than that anticipated from tuition, fees and existing endovraient. In addi-
ion to the buildings scheduled for the 194-1 phase of the program, the following are
Jontemplateds a Civil Engineering and Ifetorials Laboratory, a Chemical Engineering and
iheraistry building, an Electrical Engineering and Physics building, a Student Union, a
hysical Education building and a Power Plant.
Development program offices have been opened at 79 West Monroe street, and or-
ganization of volunteer personnel to prosecute the appeal for funds will get under way
Immediately, rvlr. Cunningham revealed.
At the same time Mr. Cunningham announced the election of A.lfred Kauffraa.nn,
president of Link Belt Company and one of Chicago's leading industrialists, to the
Board of Trustees.
■■ Mr. Kauffmann was born in Germanj^ in 1879 and received major education at Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, New York where he had conferred upon him the Bilechanical Engineer-
ing Degree in 1901. He began his career as an apprentice for the General Electric
Company, Schenectady, New York, in 1894 and Joined the staff of the Robert Hoe Company,
manufacturers ox printing presses in 1895 > remaining with that company until coming to
Link Belt in '98.
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YJhen he joined the Link Belt Coinpanyj he took, a position as draftsman and gradu-
ated successively to positions of superintendent of construction, sales engineer, as-
istant to the president, manager of the Philadelphia plant, vice president in charge
5f Belmont and Dodge plants, and finally President, a position to which he vas elected
In 192-4- after 26 years of effort.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF MONDAY, .^RIL U, 19/+1 - 6:00 P„M.
TECm-IOLOGY - VIC. A600
RELEASE: FOR TUESDAY, ^/l5Al
The training of men in engineering and technical skills is the li.fe-blood of
usiness and industry today, according to F'?ilfred Sykes, assistant to the President of
land Steel Company, Chicago.
Mr. Sykes was one of three prominent Chicagoans ~;ho addressed industrialists,
xecutives and engineers gathered in the Sherman Hotel last night, Monday, April 1/+,
94-1, for a NATIONAL DEFENSE DINNER sponsored jointly by the u'estern Society of Ehgi-
eers, the Chicago section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
eers, and the Chicago section of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. Other
peakers included K. T. Heald, President of Illinois Institute of Technology', and E.
), Martin, assistant chief metallurgist of Inland Steel.
"The training of our technical men," according to Kr. Sykes, "should be considerec
IS a business investment ... a very necessary expenditure. A trained roan is certain-
ly more important than a ne;? machine in our plant, r/iachines can be created by our
trained men and only by them, but they become obsolete, ^A'hereas our engineers continue
bheir creative abilities to keep pace with our increasing requirements.
"Oar plants may be destroyed," he emphasized, "either by fire or by some cataclysi;
but as long as ;':e retain our organizations those plants can be rebuilt and continue to
function. But if vre lose our organisations, or they become inadequate, then our ma-
chinery, no matter hoi" good, will be of little use to us and our enterprises vdll die."
Sykes pointed out that the new man or recently graduated engineer must be con-
sidered as much a piece of rav/ material as the bar of steel entering the machine vShop
for tixrning into a crankshaft. Pointing out that Chicagois rapidly becoming the indus-
trial heart of the United States, he listed six points substantiating his belief that
□hicago can and is in the process of providing industry -vvith the young recruits it
aeeds to man its industrial and defense progrsjn. These points are:
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1. The demand for trained engineers vidthin the co-ontry varies by areas with
the extent to \?hich the working population is engaged in the manufactiir-
ing, communication, and transportation industries.
2. Over 255^ of all those engaged in tnese industries v;ere located in the
east north centi^al district, of vhich Chicago is the hub.
3. The Chicago area is t>ie second largest concentration of Industries in
the United States,
/+. There are approximately twice as many individus.ls engaged in m.anufactur-
ing, communication, and transportation industries in Chicago as there
are similarly employed in any city in the comitry except Nevj York.
5. Approximately 20,000 engineers are employed in the Chicago area.
6. The number of engineers employed per v;orker in Chicago has increased
more rapidly than in any other city in the United States.
"It is rather startling that in viev; of these facts the number of men technically
rained yearly in Qiicago is only a small fraction of the natural absorption capacity
f this area. In the past v-ie have depended upon other areas to supply our engineers,
ut the possibility of successfully continuing this course in the future, I think, is
ather remote. As a result, of increasing technical development throughout the country,
he large manufacturing concerns are making more intensive dri-/es to obtain the pick of
)ur technical schools, vith the consequence that those who come to our doors seeking
3mployment are the ones that have been passed up by the larger companies. This is an
intolerable condition and the only ansvrer is for us to develop our o-'m technologists,
frho will naturally remain in this territory if opportunity offers,"
I.Tr. ^.rkes' address came upon the heels of an announcement yesterday, April 14- th,
by Illinois Institute of Teclinology Board of Trustees outlining an "immediate appeal
for funds to finance the first phase of a 012,000,000 development progi-am."
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The 194-1 phase of the program aims to secure $1,500,000 to erect £i,nd eqjiip a Me-
talliirgical Engineering building, a Mechanical Engineering buildingj and Library and
Humanities building, vfhile at the same time assuring the addition of at least ."p.SOjOOO
to existing income resources. (The fund raising program v/as announced by James D. Cun-
ningham, chairman of the Institute's board and president, Republic Flov; Meters Company)
The development progre.m of Illinois Tech will to some extent, according to Ivlr.
Sykes who is chairman of the Board's policy committee on development, relievo the dan-
gerous shortage of trained engineers in this area. The program, he stated, aims to
consolidate all day-student activities of the Armour and Leriis canipus upon a single
campus o.t the earliest possible date. Land adequate to pi-ovide such consolidation has
already been purchased in the vicinity ox the old Armour Institute of Technology cam-
pus, 33rd and Federal Street.
"It is characteristic," he continued, "of most of our business enterprises, es-
pecially those of a ma,nufacturing nature, that they have been developed from sm.all be-
ginnings by men who had ability but little in the way of financial resources. As
these businesses developed, changing conditions, new methods of manufacture, and in-
creasing competition have required more intense technica.l development, and each year
the necessity for such development becomes more evident. Those enterprises v/hich have
retained their virility are the ones which have recognized the increasing need for
technological development. The tempo will prombly increase in the future.
"There is no doubt that we need to develop m.ore techjiically trained people in thit
area if we are to maintain the position which we now hold as a manufacturing center,
and, therefore, I feel that our training facilities are essentially a matter that con-
cerns the men directing our indtistries.
"I do not believe that we can, or should, depend upon large individual benefactior
to do the job for us. I think v/e must all put our shoulders to the ?/heel and realize
that it is our job to support the institution which supplies the trained men we need".
In closing, Mr. Sykes explained that the complete program of development of Illi-
is Tech to meet the needs of industry is progressive in nature.. It involves financ-
,ng of building construction and equipment totalling some 03, 000,000 and the addition
f 0275>OOO to annual operating income. In addition to buildings scheduled for the
3LX phase of the progi-am, a chemical engineeringj civil engineering and materials
,esting laboratory building are contemplated as well as buildings for chemical engineer-
ng and physics, student union, plysical education, and pov;er plant.
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ILLINOIS INSTITaTE OF
TLGHl i OLOGY-VIU , 4-600
RE: GRiDIJATi: 3CHGCL REPORT REVEALS GRO'^THj
DISTRIBUTIOl! OF STUBEI'TS INDICi;.TES KA-
TIOiL-.L I.:i?OriTj iiCEi STATISTICS, U/Vo/Ul,
FOR RELEASE; FRIDAY, i^PRIL 25 j 19A1
iin inde:: to the far -reaching influsnca Cliic>„.^,o averts as a center of advanced
technological educ;,tion is revealed vith isBu^^ncs toc.c:'j of the r^raduc-.te school baxletin
of Illinois Institute of Techjaolo-:,y.
Dependence of engine eri.nti sciiools ox the nation on ptron,^' ^_;rc-.du£fce schools for
training of faculty iaernbers and the absolute reliance of inaustr;/ on reC'ej^rch and e::-
jperinental scholarship proper to /_raduats studv vrare eiBphasised bj/' Dr, L. S. Griuter,
vice president of the Institute and dean of tiic g'rada.i.c. to schoolj in releasing the
bulletin .
"The national defense drive, much as it is coneerntd v/ith utilising the best
skills and brains of engineers holdiu;:; bachelor degrees j r<.;sts ultimately on the capa-
citjr of the graduate school to produce ivien equipped to teach in engineering schools or
to tackle the problem^ of technological r^vsearclij" he said.
"Today the cry for engineers '.'.'ith advanced tri.ining is trev.iendous. Industry is
raiding the schools for faculty ■'rieabers rho are expei'ts in specific fields and the
schools have taiten on evar-ricunting teaching burdens in order to jroduce graduates ■ho
are trained to acplj- the latest scientific develojjraents to the raost complicated pro-
blems.
"If ihierica is the arr;enal of devnooracy, then the gr-^daate enginooi-ing school is
the pov: :>r-plant of that arsenal."
T>.irty-five stetes are represented by universities, institutes and colleges '-liose
graduates have been enrolled for advanced 3ta;ly at the Institute during the school
year of I'MO-^-lj the bulletin shovs.
Nine foreign counti'i^s are lik'::-,vise repi-esent-d. Scilgiujn, Cs9chos3.ova'.:.i.a, Den-
mark, lloinvay, France and Italy, oi' countries nor coiug'ietely or ix/rtkilly under control
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Df Germany, are among them, and China and Palestine as vrell. Each of these, vvith the
xception of France which has graduates of tv-o schools enrolled, is represented by one
nrollee= Employes of American firms comprise this foreign-trained groups
C2.nadian institutions sent three graduates into Institute ranks. The total for
i^'ht foreign nations and Canada is twelve students.
l?ith the total graduate enrollment at 4-5'- 5 "the number of ,f.:raduates from American
institutions is 4-26, since fourteen persons adiiiitted to graduate study are auditors or
students nho attend clasj.es v/ithout intention of taking credits or a degree. In each
case they are not holders of under gradiiate degrees.
The 4-26 students from schools in thirbj^-f ive states scattered through the nation
broadly illustrate the centralizing attraction of the Institute as a mecca of graduate
study, according to tne bulletin.
Ninety-nine institutions, eighty-seven of them in the United States, have sent
graduates to the Institute. Every iriajor engineering or technical school in /jnerica
is among them.
Seventy per cent of the graduate students come from schools other than the under-
^'raduate engineering division of the Institute; Armour College of Engineering. This
is regarded as an unusual development since un'.'.ergraduate technical schools are ordin-
arily majority feeders of their graduate departments.
One hundred and forty-one Ai-rao-i.r College of Engineering alumni h^ve continued
work at their alma mater, the bulletin deraoi:stratc;s. This is the largest group 01
enrollees from any undergraduate scarce.
The Univei'sity of Illinois ranks second in this respect v.ith fifty-tv.o graduates.
Purdue University, v;ith a bloc of tvfenty-four, ranks tnii-d, and Leivis Institute, since
last July consolidated with Armour Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology,
ranks fourth vrith tv.'enty- tv.o graduates.
In respective order, the next dozen schools represented are Central Y.iv'i.C.A.
College, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, lovra State Coxlege,
fessachusetts Institute of Teclmology, University of Michigsji, University of California ^
South Dakota State School of Mines, Cornell UnivervSity, University of Wisconsin j
ii.ichigan Stats College , and Carnegie Institute.
I'^^nile preference of f^raduate studentr; as a. whole for certain fields of study
varies from semester to semester, either civil or chemical engineering are most popu-
lar among those working for master's degrees. A general naster of science degree,
followed closely by that in electrical engineering, is ne::t in demand.
Oi'ganized formally under the adn^inistration of a dean in 1937, the Institute's
graduate school shows an enrollment gain of more thi^n 3C0 per cent in four years, a
record among engineering graduate schools, it is believed.
Day and night sessions are part of the graduate school pi'ogr-am, with work for a
doctorg.te ordinarily taking place in the daytime, klaster's degrees, hov/ever, are
worked for during day and evening sdiool periods.
Further development of the gra.auats school ?u.ll be greatly accelerated by the im-
pending construction of the projected "Teclmology Center" campus of the Listitute on
the site of the present Arncur College of i^igineering, Dr.. Grinter believes.
Included in objectives of the 19^41 phase ox' this ."12,000,000 development program,
vAich aims to secure at least <;lj500;000 drawing the current yoar, are intensification
01 graduate a,ctivities, with the addition of working Laboratory and classroom space.
At present, master of science degrees in chemical-, civil, electrical and mechan-
ical engineering are offered, with sp-ecial provision made in science aad fire protectior
engineering. Major work for an undesignated science degree j.iay be done in chemistry,
mathematics, mechanics, physics and m.etallurgy.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC, 4-600
4^.1-24.
RE; TRJlCK MIET WITH fi'lORTON JUNIOR COLLEGE
AND NORTH PAPK COLLEGE, A/IS/A-I,
GOLF lEAlil mr/HS TTAYNE U, AND BR/\DLEY
HERE.
FOR IIvtvIEDIATE P-ELEASE
Opening of the outdoor track amd golf seasons of Illinois Tech on notes of op-
timism this week end develops from pre-season ssarveys of prospects in both sports.
Today Coach Sam Bibb's golfers will meet Wayne University of Detroit in matches
beginning at noon at Southmoor Country Club. At the same time tomorrow (Saturday,
ipril 19)5 over the same fair;Tays, the Techawks v-'ill battle Bradley Tech of Peoria.
A triangular track meet, nith Morton Junior and North Park colleges as foes, v'ill
:hristen the season at Stagg Field tomorrcw (Saturday, Api-il 19) at 2^30 p.m. This
rill be the sole home engagement of the Techav--ks in Track.
Coach Norman Root's thincieds, whoso practice times and distances in the open
lir shov.f marked improvement over lethargic indoor season performances in the case of
several squad members, will be out to s'hov their hoels to ;»iorton and North Park, as
bhey did in a number of events of th.e indoor Illinois Tech Relay Games several weeks
back 0
Morton earlier had been decisi'rely defeated at the opening of the indoor track
season last v.'inter in a triangular meet in v.-hich Chicago Teachers also Yrers crushed by
the Engineers.
Though little trouble in dealing y;ith Morton or North Park is anticipated, Coach
Root is anxious to dig \ip tv.'o or three men v;ho could be depended on to furnish points
regularly in field events, particularly in the shot-put and high jump.
Alf Bauman, former ail-American football star of Nor thv,-e stern University and
weightman of the V'ildcat track squad, nov; a student at Lev;is division of Illinois Tech,
may be prevailed upon to toss the shot for the Scarlet and Grey, r'h.ether he T.dll -"ish
to take time from his studies, or %'hether he will decide his standing in the Big Ten
might be jeopardized therebj' should he later return to North'vestcrn has not as yet been
indicated.
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Captain Harry Heidenreich vfill represent the Engineers in the discus and javelin
iroFS, as v;ell as in the shotput and high. jump. Parks of Illinois Tech should r^in the
t event vdth little trouble. No single outstanding candidate for the broad jujip has
ppeared .
Techawk freshman Bob Osborne v/ill be hard to beat in the 70-yard da.sh and will be
rying for a record in the 220-3'"ard dash^ his strongest event, George Matthews in the
prints, Barry in the high and low hurdles, and Wajaie I/IcCullough in the pole vault or
a]i"-mile run, should also garner points.
Returning to the 19/;1 golf squad are co-captains Al Bredlau and Melvin Korrell,
he former outstanding of the 1940 squad veterans. Last year's tea.m vron seven and lost
hree matches and, despite the loss of 194-0 captain Harry Schuial oj graduation, v:ill
resent a strong front against most of the Techav/k's traditional opponents.
Winners of minor letters last season, Bredlau and Korrell will have help from
wo other minor-letter winners of 194-0. They are Harry Sieg and Adam Jemsek. A "B"
eaiii, composed of Dick Taylor, Bob Sundstrom, Halter Rusanowski and Joe Prasinski, will
leet three opponents during the season, while the "A" group takes on eleven.
The golf schedule for the "A" team includes the following matches;
April 18, T^ayne University (here)j April 19, Bradley Tsch (here); May 3, Illinois
formal (here); May 5, WesteiTi State Teachers (there). May 6, V'ayne University (there);
lay 7, Detroit Tech (there). May 8, Calvin College, Cedar Rapids (there), May l6,
Illinois Normal, Biooraingtom (there); May 17, Bradley Tsch (there); May 24-, Alumni;
;Iay 29, Western State Teachers (here).
The "B" team schedule is as follcu'ss
April 26, Indiana State Teachers (here); I;Ia.y 1, 7'abash College (here); I.Iay 3,
1/Oyola Universit^r (here) .
The outdoor track teani schedule follov?ing today's meet is as follows:
April 26, Elnliurst College (there), Maj 2, Beloit Colligc Relays (there); May 3,
Bradley Tech (there); May 16, Loyola University (there), and .",Iay 19, VJheaton Cello ge
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF FIELD, 33rd iU\'D FED'LiRAL,
TECffiJOLOGY-VIC. 4-600 3.30 P.M.
TEWinS AT CHICAGO, 2.30 P.iJ-
RELSASE FOR. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941.
On Pednesday, A.pril 23rd3 the Illinoi-S Tech basoball team v"Lll f's,ce their first
opponent in the Northern lilinois Collegiate Piiseball Conierence.
North Centra.! College of NaperviD.le will be the opponent on tiie Techawks home
grouiids, Cgder. Field, starting at 3;;3C P.M. The Tennis Team meets the University of
Chicago on the Varsity Coui'ty of the !.!aroon Campus the same day.
Thus far this season rain has dogt^ed the basocallers every footstep and poor
weather has caused cancellation of one game and postponeiricnt of another of their first
four scheduled contests. Coach Sonny V/eisman, took his nev.' team to Lake Forest for
tlie first tilt of the year and though senior Alexander Yursis had n.o earned runs to
his credit, his teamir.ates gave him but one hit and committed several errors to yield
the final score of 4 - 0 in favor of Lake Forest.
On the road trip to Michigan the story v/as much the sarae r/ith a definite improve-
ment noted however. Against Michigan L'ormal in Y"pailai'tl the Techaivks garnered six
hits v;hile losng 9-3. High spot^ of the game included a ninth inning home nin over
the center field fence by pinch batter Al Dambros, sophomore hurler vho is slated to
start the North Central Assifr.nm.ent ,
The Road trip, vaiile not successful from the point of games "i-'on (none) or games
plaj^ed (one of two scheduled), v.'as valuable in ligh.t of the fact that Coach "Scmiy"
TJeisraan found a smooth working infield combination. The newest additions to the in-
fielding personnel include sophomore Raj'' jjaGodney and senior Frank Pf offer.
La.G-ociney, 6 '4" star center of the basketball tesm, has used his hei,ght quite
effectively in snaring poor th.rowrs to the initirl sack and his po'.-erful fram.e renders
him a potent hitter. Pfeffer, a converted outfielder, shows remarkable ability in
covering the shortstop position and has an uncanny eye •"hile at the plate, a virtue
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",'hich i.';ill probabl;/' grant hiiri more liases on ballr^ than any otbcj.- .neiiibor of the squad,
Fne rems-ining infield positions are held bj vetertAis Rodger "Red" Mueller at second
ind senior Bill Grosse at third.
The stai'ting pitcher for tiie Techavdcs, c.s previously inentionedj vdll be sophouiore
hi Darabros, southpa^^r hurj.er late of f'ilson Junior College v.-here he triumphed ovsi' two
31 Tech'o corf ere/ice foes last se^.son. His battery nate vdll be Co-captain Bill Bttuch
^'ho is catching his fourth season for the Engineers.
The only veteran to patrol the outfield is Co-Captain Pill Krause yho rill take
hargo of center vhile batting in the clean-un position o His cohorts '"'ill be Wilbert
xckbarth in left and Raj'" Sv/anson in right field.
The Netrnen on the other h'.:nd have enjoyed e:^:tenGiv-e uorkouts in the lOSth Sngi-
leer's armory vith no regard for the ■/e.^ther . Being fully conditioned at the very
tart of the season has enabled the Teclxveks to Y;in three of their firct four starts,
ncluding lyins over Loyola, Do Kalb, and "abash !=-hilj losing^ 4--3; to Chicago Teachers.
At the present tiinej Coach Hal Da.voy is playing jurh-or Tvlike Schults at nianber
ae position, ™ith freshj'iian Jiia Ferguson C-t na-nber" tr'o^ and Captain Bob Lange number
hree- Sophoinore Earl Sherinan o.nc junior DiC:: D-unv/ortli round out the team-.
Tl;e Maroons for this contest r/ill play Captain Ct.l Sa-n/yier, sophoraores Walter
eneticKs Bob Lifton, Bill SeJ.f, and Dc.ve Martin in that order.
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FROLh ilLEXAKDER SGfEEIBSR R£: POLL 3H0"'3 ILL-TNOIS INSTITUTE OF TECH-
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF NOLOGY STUDENTS, /uRJ/iOUE GGLLSGS
TEGI-mOLOGY-VIC. 46OO DIVISIGM, APPROVE LOWERING DRAFT
ACGEPTi'iiJCE AGE.
FOR RELEASE. SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1941.
k cross-sectiou of opinion o f Illinois Institute ox Technology students of
Armour College division favors lov.'ering draftee acceptanr.e age to eighteen years.
This result of a "Galloping Poll" 3 conducted by TECI-&'OL,OGY NE^'S, undergraduate
weekly, on burning issues of ilrrierican life, '-/as reported in the current issue on the
basis of questioning of 110 niale students irom all sections of the campus.
Exemption of engineers from the draft, and the advisability of high school grad-
uates volunteering to serve their term of one-year militu.ry service before entering
college, v;ere also heavily approved.
Discussion by Gongres,^; of lov;ering of the age limit for the nation's az^ny en-
rollet-s and the dcfez-ment of college students from the armed services brought about
taking of the poll, Thomas E. Brovm, electrical engineering junior and editor of the
per, said a complete explanation of each querjtlon vjas given prospective voters and
that utmost accuracy v.-ss sought in obtaining replies.
To the question "Do you approve the nev; registrL.ti.on idea for men 18 to 21 years
of age?", 68,2 per cent of the voters ansvered "yes". Many admitted they were pre-
judiced because they rrould not be taken by this nev age limit.
Others believed draftees younger than twenty-one r/ould be too young for the sol-
diering demande-d by the training program. A general opinion was that the present
selective service lavr brought the best material of Auerican raanhooa to be utilij^ed
and, as such, was a challenge to any other nation in the world.
To the qu.estion "Shou.ld engineers be e.;:empted from the draft?", 88,3 percent
voted "yes." Ma.nj'- stated they vjere prejudiced by the fact they 'vere engineering stu-
dents bat a majority felt that engineers Vv'ere sorel;- needed by the United States in
capacities other than under arms or in the services.
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Several cited the fact 50,000 engineers v/ill be in demand by industry during the
oming suiTimer and onlj^ 12,000 are graduating from engineering schools of the nation in
^ane. Most of the students voting against exemption s'J-d engineers should not be pri-
ileged -vhen other professional men were accepting armv duty.
To the question "^Jould you advise the graduating seniors of high school to volun-
eer and serve their year before entering college?", 88.6 voted "yos". Coiiiplications
n the life of a young man would be best avoided by this step, jii?Lny voters believed,
jpecialized training, college study, position in the business v/orld and marriage ''jere
.isted as complicating circumstances.
Some voters declared high school seniors would be benefitted by cairying on a.s
isual since many factors might interfere viith induction and that even a semester spent
t college r,'as so much credit gained tov;ard eventual graduation.
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^ROM: ALEXMD5R SCHREIBER RE^ BASEBALL, TRACK AHD T£r'NI3 TEAMS OF
ILLINOIS IMSTITUTP] 0? ILLINOIS TECH r.KET CONCORDIA, ELMURST .
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4-600 MD LAXL FOREST RESPECTIVELY.
FOR RELEASE: FRIIiAI, A:pRIL 25, 1%!
Back fi-om a roadtrip over last ?/eek end that vi-as stciined Ey a 9--3 defeat at the
lands of Michig?.n Mornial at Yrsilanti i.nd ti-.-o raincutf oT a ga.ae ■;.-ith Lavrence Tech,
[llinois Tech's baseball tea-n engages Concordia Teachers to/acrrcv' (Saturdaj'-y April 2&)
at River Forest. . •
The Tech£''7K: tennis tea'fi takes oii Lake Forest f.'ollege in the ncrther-n suburb to-
norrov,' at 1;30 p.ri. The Elmhurst College Invitational Ti-cicA iieetj set for Saturday,
.lay IO5 is the inag^net o! fev'jrish preparations of the Scarle"'; and Grey track squad, but
a preview in the form of a dual meet •.-jth SL-nliurst takes place i,t 2.00 p. in, tomorrov;
at Elnihurst.
Coach Bernard "Sonny" ■'.■eissman' c diari'iond squad, t,he result of its scheduled
?Jednesdaj'-, JMy 23, ^ame viith North Centra], unicno'-^i at this va-iting, of its four sche-
duled games has lost t'-vo and has had t'. o TveaLher postponements. In addition to the
bad-Vv-eather break against LavTrence Tech. last vSunday, a tilt with Elahurst College had
to be postponed lavSt week because of rain.
Thus with the season in its third "eek Coach T'eisSjaan has little evidence on
which to base a judgment of hj s team. Scarcely three da./s of practice ^^ere permitted
by vreather before the opening game on April ?, and with long periods of layoff occas-
ioned b\- game and practice postponements, the team's natural hitters, ■•ith solid record
behind thein last sCt'ison, have had thi ;j year little chance to get their stance.
Techarai runs against Michigan Normal ',v8ro scored Dy pinch-hitter Al Dambros, v.iio
hit a homer rith tr;o men on base. Dambros -'-ill likely be starting pitcher against
Concordia tomorrorr. He is a southpa-iv, whose hitting is good enough to recommend his
being turned into an outfielder. Hcvever, vvith only one dependable right-hc-nd pitcher
available. Coach ^"eissman is reluctant to make this change.
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Shortstop continues to be :-i bugbear position in the iiiatter of fieldinr, for the
carlet and Grey, Dick Guetzov:, .:■. hc'.rd worker with a fine throv/ing arin, is ne?.' to the
josition and Coach Feissmcn is trying to give him seasoning ho deserve;:.. As soon as
}uetzov; hits his fieldinc; stride ^ the infield will probably prove to be air-tight.
Decisi've defeat of North ParK College and Morton Junior College Sc^turday at Stagff
Field gives the track team a p&ycholo^';;icf;,l advantai^e in its meet vrith S]ahurst College
In the suburb toKorrovi.
Bob OsL^orne, freshriian quarter-rnil."-!-, Dick Barry^ hurdler, and Jack Trega;^", weight
vents man J are shaping up as a trio of reliable point -getters. Harry Keidenreich,
aptain , vdll undoubtedly be close to the top of the points colurai in high .junip;, pole
vault and javelin thror against Elmhurst.
George Matthev'S, George Erkert and Osborne^ together v-ith VfejTie McCullough, a re-
lay team veteran, have been h:.rnessed for vihatever relay distance will be run tomorrow
and should turn in a snappy pet-f oriaance ,
Coach Hal Davey' s tennis squad, smarting under its first defeat of the season by
Chicago Teachers College last vfeek, will be loaded for bear in taking on Lake Forest
College tc-ncrrov.' . The Techarks first three meets ; vion v>"ith ease against good combina-
tions, gave them an attitude of team carelessness against the Teachers, Individual
players wlio had performed desultcrily in their singles matches came back '.•ith vigor to
sweep the doubles sets the^'' played. The fi.nal 4--3 score of the Teachers game is a sore
spot that only a heavily victorious performance nt Lake Forest is likely' to eras^.
Mike Schultz, junior, continues as nuinber one squad meiiiber, being the sole single,-
v/inner against Chicago Teachc;rs. Sehultz and Dick Larsen, freshman j were one y/inning
doubles team., and Captain Bob Lange and Dick DunForth v/ere the second. They hope to
repeat tomorrow,
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'ROMs ALEXANDER SCHRSIBER RZ;; OPPJN HOUSE - IvlAY 5, 6, 7, 19^1
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF JUNIOR WEEK ENDS MAY 10, 19A1
TECHI'IOLOGY-VIC . 46OO
FOR lilBJEDIATE RELEASE
Miracles of modern science and engineering, from talking light beams, sensitive
nsii'uruents to test the intensity of a kiss, to the latest sprint'; models for dresses
,nd hats for v.'omen v.-ill be the crovming feature of a 'veek at Illinois Institute of
'echnology devoted to extra.-curricular activities.
Riondreds of alTomni, alumnae, friends and gr.ests of the merged i^irmour Institute of
technology and Lev:is Institute, -ill visi.t the two campuses of tiie nov^ Illinois Tech
luring the week of May 5th., to iOth., incJusive for the series of events that are
narely "out of the ordinar;.''" - that period wnen classes ave dispensed 'v-^ith in favor of
)PEN HOUSE, SPRING CCNG£IRT, INTEKFRATERNITY SING, IKTRi..;,IU;:AL ATHLETICS, ;JJD THE ROUGH
iND TUMBLE "FRESHi^iAM-SOPHOHORE RUSH".
Leading off this v^'cek of extra cui-ricular activities T.'ill be annual OPEN HOUSE.
)n Monday May 5th., the \K-'est side campus, located at r.Iadison and Damen Avenue and
3io;m as the Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences division of the Institute, will be
)pen to the public during the hours from 1;00 P.ivl. to lOsOO P.M. All of the various
.aboratories and departments of the vrest side campus \7ill be open and on parade, so to
speak, for the benefit of the visitor.
During the next t^'o days, open house activities v-ill shift to the Armour College
)f Engineering Campus, located at Dearborn and Federa]. Streets at 33rd. On T^aesday
;he hours for inspection of this south side criapus -i-ill be from 7^ to 10 in the even-
.ngj on" the next day, ■.','ednesday, the hours r/ill be from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until
.0 o ' clock in the evening .
The balance of the week will be devoted to athletic activities, interfraternity
)ageant, dances, concerts, shovzs, and freshman-sophom-ore rush in v.'hicli both cajnpuses
fill participate. The v/eek is concluded with an inter-campus informal dance at the
5outhmoor Country Club on Friday evening.
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Featured dujring opeii house on the Levis division campus v/ill be the v/ork in non-
igineering departraents and It-.boratories. These will include the work in applied art,
tudent designs, interior decoration and costume design.
One of the most interestj.ng e>±ibits on the Levels campus I'/ill be that in biology
lerein inter-relations betv/een enir.als and plants as denonstrated oy parasitism and
Tmbicsis will be on display.
Featured as the outstanding ejdiibit will be that presented by Dr. David P. Boder,
sychologist of the Institiate . Ee v/ill exhibit the only existing psychological niusetun
1 the rorld and demonstrate techniques used in standard psychological tests, aptitude
tings. Tliere v'ill also be on displa;/ the famous lie-detector equipment.
On the Armour College of Engineering campus during Tuesday and Ved.nesaccf vrill be
ound the basic studies in engineering and sciences, including architecture. These
andamental studies will be correlated to the present national defense effort and illus-
rate some cf 'he "extra-scientific" effort in vhich students engage.
In organic chemistry a g-coup of experiments \ill ilJ.uotrate hoiv rayon and plastics
re prepared - essential materials used in complicated processes for the production of
omen's hose, va-ist vratch bands, suspenders. Tliere v.'ill also be demonst'rated the fimd-
inental processes in the making of an explosive, and a medicinal. In general, the ex-
ibits and experiments of organic chemistry rill be directed tovv'ard the purpose of ill-
strating how commonplace things of world- \Yide use today are made from, basic materials
uch as coal, wood, oil and cellulose.
Perhaps one of the most spectacular unit laboratories on display vdll be that of
lectrical engineering v/here all ramifications of the "vratt" vrill be directed to amaz-
ng the spectator. Short wave therapy, to indicate its effect upon the hum.an body,
ill be employed to fry "country sa^^sage" - all in thin air rdthout a fire or frying
lan. Light coming from a flash light, -'ril]. act as a carrier for the spoken v.-ord - no
fires, no coils, - the spoken word v.'ill be transmitted from one side of the room to the
>ther .
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In physics labcre-tory steel filings --ill be made to "grovf and stand on end" ea-o^and
steel core - alnost like niaking hair grov: on a billiard ball. Also in physics laoor-
tory, by means oi' a stroboscopic light, a fly \vheel, turning at 2000 revolutions per
inute, will be seemingly made to stand still.
In civil engineering, a hundred old maps of the city, the r-jork of the ti-sific
ngineer, the transits and levels of the surveyor, and the models of the bridge Milder,
ill be on display. Also 5.n civil engineering vdll be found a "pilot" 'ivater filtration
lant, capable of providing filtered, pure watei- for a community of 1000 people.
Last but not lea,st, the latest in television -.vill also be on display in the nev
ut not highly developed television research laboratories of the Institute. There '■.'ill
Iso be open for inspection the Jirmour Research Foundation, research affiliate of the
nstitute "."herein are housed the United States Arm;' Ordnance guage laboratory, a.nd the
any research laboratories, some of vhich are doing National Defense v;ork.
Annually, one of the most popular of the quasi-educational features of OPEN HOUSE
-S the work of educational tests and measiirements. This year. Dr. W. C. Krathwohl,
)rofessor of raathematicG and head of this department, xaking advantage of wide popular
.nterest in radio programs of the "quiz" tj/pe, will conduct short periods of research
.nto the psychological testing of adults and adolescents by means of questions common
;o "INFORMATION PLFASE, QUIZ KIDS, ETC.".
The signal honor for conducting and directing the activities of Junior Week, in-
cluding those of special planning for OPEN HOUSE, is av/arded to seven junior students
sleeted by their claEsm.ates. Ea.ch major department is represented by one fflarsha.ll and
they in turn select one of their number as "head junior marshall". Head junior raarshall
is John Butlcus, 3151 S. Halsted Street, civil engineering student and co-captain of the
194-1-4-2 virestling team. His aids are Charles Ball, 296 Forest Avenue, Finnetka, mech-
anical engineering student j Filliam J. Dres, 1501 Y' . 72nd. Street, electrical engineerint
student; Frank W. I'vemmett, 4V+0 ?'. Monroe Street,, chemical engineering student^ Robert
J. Siillivan, mechanical engineer, 707S N. Folcott Avenue; Carl Sparenbcrg,
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begins to take on the aspect of an immense circus tent, v;lth. a specialty track event of
some kind in every corner.
Competing foi" hilarity honors this Junior Week rill be a troupe of singers, dancers
and hot-cha artistes from Lewis division cam.pus. At least t^'o nights, Ttaesday and
PJedneaday at 8:30 p.Tn., they 7/111 take over the stage of the Student Union auditorium
and define extracurricular aspects of "coeducational," a term thii.t has been associated
in a minor r/ay with the Institute for many years trat v/hich, vfith the coming of several
hundred coeds of Lewis campus to the student body, lias brought a tidal vrave of color to
the Institute .
Sorority sisters will step thorough lively numbers v.'ritten hj/ undergraduate talent,
clad in a sunlxirst of lovely costumes designed and executed by coeds themselves. A
piano-sitting sophomore coed, vdth an opera-length personality, vdll be accompanied by
chorus of jive voices, through a gridiron-dinner-type m.U£i/>al satire on the school
and its personalities.
A skit coiimiemorating the merger of Armour and Leivis Institutes, in the form of a
mock marriage, 'lill highlight this musicaS. re'/uie. Men of Lev:is campus, clad in iron
derby and checkerod-trouser ensem.bles, and adorned with handlebar mustaches, T;ill sing
the barroom songs of old.
Following presentation of the Lev/is skits and revue on Wednesday evening there
will bo a dance in the Student union auditoriwr;. It will be a carefree, midweek affair
hardly as elaborate as the smart Junior Informal P'riday nJ.ght at the SoutiimLOor Country
Egg
Club. Billed as "The Good/Scramble," the latter dance will be the cuLminating social
event of the week.
Tl'xursday baseball games, pitting fi'eL-jjnen against sophomores, seniors against
juniors, and a special game bctvreen faculty m.embers and seniors, vrill provide thrills
and laughs for campus throngs.
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That evening a sort of sentimente.l reverie vidli grip the audience packing the
Student Union auditorium v/here the Glee Club and Orchestra, under the direction of
0. Gordon Erickson, will give their joint Spring Concert. An intermission betv/een
groups will be devoted to a rousing Interfraternity Sing, A dance will follovr this
event .
The follov'ing day v,'ill be a mad jumble of athletic events, stunts such as a pie-
eating contest a.nd a greased-pole climbing contest and the traditional interfraternity
and interdepartmental pageant on Ogden Field. Picturesque tableaux and small floats
will be utilized, by competing fraternities and division of the school to illustrate
clever or spectacular comiT.entaries on school life.
With the presentation of cups and medals to v:inners of games, contests, the inter-
fraternity sing, the pageant and other incidental competitions by President H. T. Heald
and Acting Dean J. C. Peebles, the week v/ill be concluded, except for the delicious
excitement of the Junior Informal.
There the rustic of chiffon and silk of coea forraals, and the scraping of hepcat
feet, v'ill be the theme song of another incomparable Junior ',?eek speeding to a happy
close.
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FROM: ALEXMIDSR SCHRIUBER RE: HIGH SCHOOL SEMIORS COfffETE FOR 18
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SCHOLARSHIPS: APavIOUR COLLEGE OF
TECffiJOLOGY-VIC. ^600 ENGINEERING DIVISION OF ILLINOIS
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SATURDAY,
5/3/41
Chicago, April 00, 194-1 — (Special) — The cream of the scholastic high school crop
of the i/Iiddlewest, East and Far West will compete Saturday, May 3, for eighteen
scholarships offered to male students ty Armour College of Engineering of Illinois In-
«
stitute of Teclinology.
More than 250 seniors are expected to take examinations in mathematics, chemis-
try and physics, personal interviews already having established their fitness for
examination. A majority 7J-ill take tacts at Armour campus of the Institute but those
living in districts removed from Chicr/ro 7.-ill be examined in their home schools by
principals or persons aiithorized by the Institute to conduct the examinations.
Scholarships consist of ten one-year tuition ($300) a?;ards and eight four -year
tuition avi'ards in fire protection engineering, each valued at $1,200. Considerations
of the candidate's personality, high school scholastic record, extra-curricular acti-
vities and general fitness helped to detarmine his right to examination.
Written examinations v;ill total thr-ee hours. That in mathematics will be prim-
arily in algebra, T.'ith some questions in plane and solid geometry as a possibility.
The examinations in physics and chemistry v;ill be of the objective type, but
will include an essay on an assigned topic and vill be based upon textbooks currently
in use in secondary schools. Tliere will be no separate ViTitten examination in English.
The candidate's ability in English exprension \"ill be determined from the personal
interviev/ and from the short essay prepared in connection '/ith the rrritten physics
and chemistry examination.
A partial list of candidates outside of the city of Chicago is as follows:
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ILLINOIS
Robert Nev?ton Mills, 304- Virginia Ave., Normal, Illinois; University High School
Eugene Oestreicher, 4/(4- Second Ave., Aurora, Illinois,- East High School
Egon G, Guba, L+32 S. Cicero, Illinois 5 Luther Institute
Thomas J. Pawloski, 1805 S. 49th Ave., Ciceroj St. Ignatius High School
William Mayer-Oakes, 325 S. Fourth St., Pekinj Pekin Goriimercial High School
James f.furrin, Liberty/illej Libertyville Toi^mshj.p High School
Charles Todd, Joliot; Joliet Tovmship High School
Edv,dn Hamilton Vause, 4-10 N, Hamilton St., Lincoln; Lincoln Community High School
David L. Chamberlin, 4-12 S. Vermilion St., Streator; Streator To\^Tiship High School
Ellsworth Zqoyer, Yorkville; Yorkville High School
James F. Burton, 34-29 Madison St., Brookfield; River side-Brookii eld High School
Richard Goldstein, 3228 Suruiyside Ave., Brookfield; Riverside-Brookfield High School
Robert F. Negele, 3827 Morton Ave., Brooki.'ield; Riverside-Brookfield High School
Lyndon De Young, 91 P-ine St., Riverside; Riverside-Brookfield High School
Frank E. Liev^ehr, 311 i'^anklin Ave., River Forest; Luther Institute
John De Klyen, 1185 S. L\aclid Ave,, Oak Park; Oak Park High School
Russell F. Loomis, Jr., II56 S. Clinton Ave., Oak Park; Oak Park High School
Cameron D . Leavenworth; 911 Washington Blvd., Oak Park; Oak Park High School
James W. Ratzer, II66 S. Clinton Ave., Oak Park; Oak Park High School
Robert Reck, I6O8 S. Ninth Ave., May^vood; Proviso Tovvnship High School
Thomas B. Reve, 5150 Carpenter St., Dovmers Grove; Dmmers Grove High School
Chester A. Monson, 5536 Middaugh Ave., Do^mcirs Grove; Do^A-ners Grove High School
Glenroy G. Grewo, 310 IT. Belmont Ave., Arlington Park; Arlington Heights High School
Richard Pronger, 12910 S. Highland Ave., Blue Island; Blue Island High School
Donald R. Rhodes, 9110 Keating Ave., Skokie; Nile.^ Tovmship High School
James H. Tillotson, 702 Duane St., Glen Sllyn; Glenbard High School
C. G. von Fredersdorff, So. Resell Rd., Roselle; Glenbard High School
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Charles J. J. Krippes, 1112 Sheridan Rd., WiLnettei Loyola Academy
INDIANA
Richard A. Halsted, 44-56 Washingt.on St.j Gary; Wallace High School
KAt^SAS
Robert Grant Gentry, 243 Old Manor Rd., Wichita; Wichita High School
Arthur Ballou, 4-120 Garfield Ave,, Kansas City^ Wyandotte High School
MICHIGAi^J
Eugene Malanyn, 6975 Parkwood Ave., Detroit| Charles E, Ghadsey High School
Jack Kulgie, 150 W. Superior Sto, Ishpemingj Ishpoining High School
James Vorhes, Jr., 436 N. Johjison St., Pontiacj Pontiae High School
MINNESOTA
Lloyd Prochnov, 1675 Palace Ave., St. Paul
MISSOURI
Groff Collett, 2117 Lovers Lane, St. Joseph; Central High School
NEBRASKA
Jack Graham, Father Flanagan's Home for Boys, Eoys' Tovm
Eugene Luce, Bayard; Bayard High School
NEW JERSEY
Fred Levine, 417 E. 40th St., Paterson
OHIO
Fred Neraecek, Jr., 2801 E. 120th St., Cleveland; East Technical High School
Boris Ragent, 3390 E. 134th St., Cleveland; John Adams High School
OKLAHOM
J. Elmer Schott, 6lO Coliiiribia St., Lavv^ton; Lav/ton High School
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PENNSYI.VMIA
Thomas Kamperski, 101 Burson St., East Stroudsbarg
WISCONSIN
Douglass Sn3'-der5 2537 N. 52nd St., MilFaukee; 7feshington High School
L. liVilliam Schmidt, 2-430 N. 6lst St. ,W£.uwatosa5 Y'lauwatosa High School
Linus Ruffing, Rural Route, Marshfield
COLORADO
Carroll A. Wood, Bristol^ Granada Union High School, Granada Union, 0.
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FROM: ALEXiiNDilR SCHREIBER RE: WEEK END OF SPORT -
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF BASEB/iL - CHICAGO TEACHERS HERE
TECia\-OLOGY-VIC, /+6OO 5/l
ELi«HJRST HERE 5/2
IvKEATON HEPi: 5/3
TRACK - AT BELOIT RELAYS 5/2
AT BRADLEY 5/3
RELEASE FOR: THURSDAY, 5/l/^l
Beginning Thursday, May \, the Illinois Tech Baseball Team 7vill entertain tliree
foes in three successive dcys v/hile the Track Team leaves Friday for the Beloit Relays
to be held on Friday evening and a dual meet rith Bradley Tech on Saturda;/ afternoon.
To date the baseballers have dropped three games while winning one and their
league standing is vron one and lost one. Thursday is to be a non-league exiiibition
against Chicago Teachers College while Friday's contest v/ith Elmhurst and Saturday's
encounter v;ith V^e..-:.ton College are leagvie games.
To take the place ox senior Y,'illi3.m Grosse, Tech's star third baseman who broke
his leg while chasing a foul in the North Central battle, Coach "Sonny" Weissman is
converting sophomore pitcher i;iario Silla, Silla is very fast in the field and on the
bases and his throws to first still retain the pitchers accuracy. General observations
predict that Silla will be no slouch with the stick and he is already the best bunter
on the squad.
Other revamping in the Techa-.-V. infield places senior outfielder Frank Pfeffer at
shortstop £.nd the replacing of Mike Carrier by flay LaGodaiey, sophomore 6 '4-" star
center of the basketball team, on the initial sack. Junior Rodger "Red" I.Iueller,
veteran of three seasons is the only man to retain his position.
Alexander Yursis, as usual is the mainstay of the Techawk pitching staff but
this year he has a most able understudy in sophomore Al Dam.bros. The two vdll divide
the pitching assignments for the remainder of the season.
The trackmen will converge en masse upon the Beloit Relays but will concentrate
on one particular event, the freshman sprint medley relay. Bob Osborne will start the
ball rolling v.-ith a 52 second quarter followed by tv'o 25 second 220 's which will be
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run by ths two freshmen to survive Wednesday's trials (Coach Root has four or five
freshmen capable of so doing) . George Erkert •■-ill anchor vrlth a 2 minute and 5 second
half mile and Tech's time is expected to be a full second under last years v:inning time
in thiG event.
In the individual events Captain Harry Heidenreich will strive to perfect his
footwork v/hich vvill enable him to get off a virinning toss in the javelin tiirowj v'hile
cooperative student Wayne McCullough attempts a victorious mile. VMth McCullough the
policy is double or nothing. Ths.t iSj ragaixiless of the field, he will stay with the
leader until he crosses the tape or drops from exitiaustion.
A nev/comer in the field events is John Ti^egay. His best efforts so far include
a 39 foot 6 inch shot put and a 115 foot discus thro?;. He is improving rapidly from
day to day and better performances would not be surprising.
Following the Relays the Techav;ks travel to Peoria for their scheduled dual meet
V7ith Bradley Tech on Saturday. The Braves are traditionally strong in the field events
and have an exceptionally fine hurdler. The net result is that Illinois Tech will
either lose by 20 points or win by five points depending entirely upon the breaks of
the day and the condition of the squad.
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FROM: /iEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: ARI/iOUR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OF
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ILLINOIS TECH SCHOLARSHIP EXAIvIS,
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. -4600 ■ 9 A.M., 5/3, ARIilOUR CMPUS AIvfD
THIRTEEN STATES.
FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, IvUiY 1, 194-1
Illinois Institute of Technologj'' Fill be offering awai-ds totalling ^-12,600
Saturday, May 3, 194-1 vjhen more than 250 male June high school graduates compete at
Armour campus and in thirteen states for scholarships covering tuition at Armour
College of Engineering.
Beginning at 9 a.m., approxim.ately 200 candidates will assemble for -"ritten
examinations in m.atheraaticSj physics and chemistry in the main building at 33rd and
Federal Streets. Principles of high schools, at the Institute's direction, will ad-
minister the same examinations to candidates barred by distance from coming to Chicago
Approxim.ately 50 seniors are included in the latter classification. The states
they represent are Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, F/iichigan, Minnesota, Missotiri,
Nebraska, Nev; Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and ?.'isconsin.
Eighteen scholarships are being awarded. Ten are one-j-'ear tuition grants valuer'
at $300 each. Eight are four-year fire protection engineering grants of $1,200 value
each. The latter are underwritten by stocK fire insurance companies of the nations.
Today, (Thursday, Ifey l) is the last day personal interviews will be granted by
the scholarship committee at the camipus. This interview is necessary to establish
the candidate's eligibility for the examination. In the case of out-of-tovm seniors
the interviev/s have been conducted by persons aprjointed by the Institute in the home
locality.
Ra.tings will be based on three hours of ivritten examinations ending at noon.
The examination in mathematics will be primarily in algebra, with some questions in
plane and solid geometry as a possiblity. The examination in physics and chemistry
villi be of the objective type, but will include an essay on an assigned topic. The
candidate's ability in effective English expression will be judged by the personal
interview and the short essay prepared in connection v.dth the v^rritten examination in
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physics and chemistry.
Members cf the scholarship committee, 'A"ho will be in charge of Saturday's exa-
minations , are :
Stanton E. Winston, associate professor of mechanical engineering, chairman^
J, C. Peebles, acting dean and ex-officio member; VJ. E, Kelly, registrar j S. ?. Bibb,
associate professor of m.athematics; W= M. Davis, assistant professor of matliematicsj
I-L K. Giddings, assistant professor of mathematics^ ^'. R. Kanne, assistant professor
of physics?, W, J. McLarney, instructor in mechanical engineering; A. L. Blell, instruc-
tor in architectural design; M. J, ?/!urray, associate professor of chemistry; K. M.
Sanford, instructor in English; ?^ H. Seegrist, associate professor of machine design;
S. M. Spears, associate professor of civil engineering and Saul V'instein, instructor
in chemistry.
A luncheon for participants in scholarship ezcuninaticns I'.dll be given in the
cafeteria of the Student Union at noon. II. T. Heald, president of the Institute, v^ill
make a speech of welcome to the seniors. Dean J. C. Peebles v;ill also talk.
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FROM : ALEXANDER SCliREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEG-INOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
441-36
RE: JLfNIOR WEEK AT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGKNOLOGY, 5/5-5/lOAl, OPEN HOUSE,
LEWIS CM'IPUS, MONDAY, 5/5, AR}/IOUR
CAIJDPUS, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, fJIAY 6-7
FOR RELEASE ■; SUNDAY, f/iAY 4, 19^1
A ceaseless flov; of visitors will crov/d stairways and jar.i elevators of Lewis
Institute Campus of Illinois Institute of Technology tomorrow (ivlonday. May 5) v?hen
the forty-six-year-old home of learning at 1951 Vv\ Madison Street holds a one-day
"Open House" to begin Junior Week at Illinois Tech,
Students, faculty, alumni and friends, cooperating with their counterparts at
Armour campus, will transfer attentions to the Armour campiiS after Monday's observance
which begins at ]. p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. Open House begins Tuesday and extends
through Wednesday at Armour, locs.ted at 33rd and Federal Streets where it has been a
tradition for thirty-six years. Junior Week itself begins toraorrovf and ends Saturday.
Tomorrov;'s program at Le-f'is Institute will be pitched to scientific, technologi-
cal and liberal arts displays of a popular nature. Faculty members and student
assistants from chemistry, physics, applied art, psychology, biology, English, social
sciences, home economics and cooperative business administration departments will pre-
sent these displciys.
Though its Open House phase is of scholarlj^ character and of quasi-educational
interest, Illinois Tech's Junior YTeek program for Thursday and Friday is dominated by
lighter undergraduate interests. Dances, athletic contests, a class rush, musical
events and various rough-housing outlets of campus enthusiasm v.dll take place .
Among Lewis Open Hoiise exhibits will be the widely-known Psychological K'luseum
originated by Dr. David P. Boder, professor • of psychology. His recent experiment in
a Loop theater demonstrating effects of horror movies on undergraduate subjects
brought him to attention of the press.
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The Museum is equipped to test for fatigue syiy.ptons in E-nimals and human beings
md to promote experiments in the psychology of industrial occuiisations. Lie detection
md the reactions of manj' human organisms under psychological stresses will be measured
by Dr. Boder v/ith m.embers of his audiences as subjects.
The testing of individual differences and the emotional reactions to music v/ill
llso be on exhibition. Dr. Boder 's virtually unique explanatory lecture on backgrounds
of mother-in-law phobia.s ^vill be included in his programs.
Physical chemistry in the study of gaseous, solid and liquid states will be on
parade in the laboratories of Dr, Lee F. &apple and his assistants. The role of energy'
in chemical reactions will be one important sector of investigtations conducted before
visitors.
Modern analytical procedures, such as the tensile strength and yarn counts of
dress materials, the identification of natural and synthetic fibres, the chemistry of
processing, scouring and bleaching of vrools and cottons, and a thorough-going analysis
of s^Tithetic materials such as rayon, lanital and nylon v/ill be am.ong subjects
developed .
Students interested in cheraisti^^, under the auspices of the Lewis Chemical Society,
v/ill act as laboratory specimens for purposes of chemical experiments with biological
overtones.
A veriety of plastic adaptations to evei-yday life will be shoi".'n and their compo-
sition explained. The field of plastics as a factor in industrial and commiercial
markets will be surveyed. Housewive's dependence for kitchonw8.re and pantry knick-
knacks on the field of plastics and the chemiea.l factors entering into the use of
these materials will likewise be analyzed.
A biology department display will interpret the story of human life from the par-
allel of chicken emteyology. Various other animal embryo forms, especially concerned
Vfith displaying facial developments at various stages, xvill be used.
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Bactoriology, zoology, comparative anatomy^ physiology, parasitologj- and micro-
technique will have their place in the display. Unsterilized bacteria foi^raatione', con-
taining life that ha.s developed from pre-existing life, v.'ill be analyzed. Malarial
organisms in the human red blood cells, originated by mosquitoes, v/ill be explained.
Perhaps of most popular interest of the entire Open House e>±ibits vjll be a
sTOi'king model of Old Faithful, widely-knovm geyser of Yellorstone National Park. Dubbe;
"New Faithless" by Dr. M. Alden Countryiuan, professor of physios, who built it, it
erupts every ten minutes :ji a spectacixlar fount of boiling '.:atcr and steam..
Dr. Countryman's assiste.nts will be in charge; of some thirtj'- other exiiioits,
mong them an electro-static smoke precipitator, used in saving coal elements that
usually drift ai,?'?y in exliaust smoke, ^nite light and its ramifications in the spec-
trum will be enlarged on.
Textures and contours of the human voice, measured by use of Cl fluorescent light
against a white background, vnlJ. be a ph.^Asics departm.ent piece de resistance. V'ould-be
operatic singers will get their chance to find out xfhat their voices look like, scienti-
fically, by me£ins of the cathode-ray oscilloscope, .-.s the measuring instrument is callec
Coeds in the classes of Mai'ie Elsa. Blanke, assistant professor of aPplisi^ art,
will be living models for her lecture, repeated several times during the daj^, on the
"Do's and Don'ts of Design." The proper outfitting of a house from the pantry to the
guest bedroom vidll be explained. Choices of furniture pieces according to income and
general rules for interior decorating will make up much of the advice of Miss Blanke.
Girl pupils of Miss Blanke T;ill also model drfjsses and forraals they made. All
hues of the rainbow will be displayed on the lovliest undergraduates of Lewis. Some
tableaus, showing how a gi.rl of average income can outfit herself completely, will be
enacted.
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Much of underp-aduata festivity during Junior Week at Armour Ccunpus vfill be con-
tributed to by Lewis division students. They will attend the dances, take part in
umerous contests, participate in the Spring Concert and the Orchestra and Glee Club,
and be spectators to the Interfraternity Sing and other events.
At least two nights, Tuesday and Wednesday at o;30 p = m.j the;v will take over the
stage of the Student Union auditorium and define extracurricular aspects of "coeduca-
tional," a term that has been associated in a minor way v;ith the Institute for many
years but v.'hich, with the coming of several hundred coedo of Lev/is campus to the stu; -
dent body;, has brought a tidal v;ave of color to the Institute.
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mOM: ALEXANDER SCKREIBEE
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECMOLOGY-VIC, 4-600
5^1-1
RE: JUNIOR WEEK AT ILLINOIS TECH, 5/5-5/li
OPEN HOUSE TODAY AT LETJIS GAIvIPUS ; OPEI^I
HOUSE 5/6-5/7 AT ARMOUR CAIvPUS: EVENT-'
A three-ring academic circus came to tovm today and vfill be here for a week. Not
elephants but dignified professors and learned instructors, not zebras but uninhibited,
!"rolicsome undergradu-ates, have taken over the v;est and south-side campuses of Illinois
[nstitute of Technology,
Elephants a.nd zebra^s of the collegiate vvorld ai^e normal citizens fifty-one weeks
i year., Bat Junior Vveek, reigning jointly at Let-is and Armou'r divisions of the Insti-
tute, is responsible. Some one sa.id Junior Ueek is a state of mind. Many believe
3uch a state of mind is more terrible than a state of war,
/in orgy of scholastic exhibits, demonstrations in laboratories and class rooms,
the fruits of more than a hundred professorial brains of the Institute, is in session
tods.y at Lev;is division, 1951 I?- Madison Street. It is politely called "Open House",
It begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. It will exit there after a furious one- day
stand, and transfer its devastating energ;,' to Armour campus, 33rd and Federal Streets,
for a tv.'o-day stand of Tuesday and ''Wednesday, To all this, alurmii and the public are
nvited.
Junior Week activities of non-scholastic nature get under v/ay uith conclusion of
Open House at i\rmour. Beginning Thursdaj^, and lasting to Saturday morning's last
milkman, through the rocket's red glare all the flora and fauna of devilish undergrad-
uate minds xvill rock the Armour campus in one long spasm of individual mayhem, class
fights, fraternity jousts, duckings in the lake, kidnappings of campus "big-shots,"
pageants vjith floats, boy-and-girl revues with student-vrritten music sung by Spring-
goofy engineering students and their coed accomplices.
And "and. so forth" means class baseball gsmies, track contests, a whisker-grov.dng
contest, a pie-eating contest, a gxeased-pole climbing contest, a faculty-senior class
baseball game, a Spring Concert by the Glee Club and Orchestra and, above all, the
recurrent public unveilings.
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These public unveilings are indigenous to the Arnour campus, \vhere they have been
tylish for thirty-six Junior Weeks. For no reason at all, all of a sudden a crov;d of
ndergraduate mobsters is likely to be seen taking the trousers off of somebody. No
cod reason. Just for fun. There have been historic "depantsings," notablj^ the Spring
f '27 when a trustee, young enough to appear a graduate student, lost his striped
lorning trousers.
The serious side of Junior Week, the solid scientific achievenient of faculty mem-
)ers of the Institute and investigation of moijibers of the Arraour Research Foundation,
ffiliate of the Institute, is evidenced this week, by more than two hundred separate
>±iibits and demonstrations on Lewis and i\rmoi;r campuses.
Today at Lewis notable displays of the physics, che:nistr;r, biology and applied art
partments may be seen, A sheet-metal gayser, imitating Old Faitr^ful of Yellowstone
lational Park, will erupt every ten minutes, Chemdcal reactions of explosives at high
eraperature ?/ill be watched. The human voice will be measured by a device that gives
candid camera shot of it. 0?rganisins that make the humciii body what it is will be under
lass for members of the public. A lah-de-dah dress and style show, with ir:anneG;uins
hosen from campus beauties, will intrigue the ladies.
Tomorrow and Wednesday at Armour campus a magic carpet of brilliant teclmological
md scientific displays wijl be spread before visitors.
Domiinating the entrance hall of the administration building villi be a recently-
constructed model of the projected 5>35000,OCO Institute campus, with m.ore than a dozen
isuildings in m.iniature. The design, a sensational departure from conventional archi-
tectural forms, embodies the functional construction ideas of Ludwig Mies von der Rohe,
internationally-celebrated head of the architocture department.
Other interesting architectural department displays will be found, v.'ith emphasis
on student and faculty work of an original nature. Work in progress in all types of
modern construction problems, from cottage to skyscraper, will be shown.
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The organic ch^^stry exhibits, showing ;-:ork in plastics 3 synthetic dress mater-
als under e>3.mination5 will be lectivred on by members of the department and their stu-
ent aides. Hov.' explosives are made, and hou' r.iany medicinals are originated, v^ill be
xplained. Chemical elements of the every-day universe, from vhich many products in the
verage home are fabricated, will be traced in their evolution.
The electrical engineering laboratories will be on parade under the title "F^nat
s the Watt?" The possibilities of fi7,'ing sm.all sausages by means of heat produced
rom a short-wave generator, and witho-at the use of a frying pan or a regulation fire,
ill be made public.
Physics department experiments v/ill explore basic principles of light, heat and
ound as they affect daily life. A fljr v/heel, ms.king 2,000 revolutions per minute,
ill be given the appearance of being motionless, the device of a stroboscopic light
eing used. Television developments, insofar as they are within the scope of presenta-
ion of the Institute, \?ill be demonstrated.
The approach of the engineer to groat engineering problem.s by means of plants and
aps, many of them dravm from historic maps of the city of Chicago, v^ill be indicated,
ills v.'ill bo within the scope of the civil engineering department.
The vast resources of the Institute in relation to defense training '"ork will be
utlined by tours of various shops and laboratories rhere they are housed. The United
tates Army Ordnance gauge laboratory is at pro33nt located in the i-'irmour Research
oundation.
Dr. W. C. Krath'vohl, professor of mathematics and director of the department of
ducational tests and measurements, Y/ill conduct short periods of research into psycho-
ogical testing of adults and adolescents by means of questions from radio "quiz" pro-
rams, most of r;hich have already been asked of fresliman entering the Institute. A
tandard of judgment for intelligence has thus already been set up for those ansuering
aestions with which visitors to Junior Week may compare their ovm intelligence •
uotients.
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A triok feature of Open House this ye>ir will, be the "kisscneterj" a machine v/hich
coords emotional intensity of kisses. It has proved in seasons past one of the most
)pular of undergraduate displays.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGI-iNOLOGY-VIC . A600
5A1-3
RS. TENNIS - LME FOREST HERE
RE. TENNIS - LAKE FOREST HERE 5/5
GKICAGO TEACHERS HEPvE 5/6
AT INDIMA STATE TEA. 5/7
AT BUTLER 5/8
AT PURDUE 5/9
RELEASE FOR: MONDAY, 5/5/4-1
With Junior Week coming up all of Tech's athletic teams display an abnormal
schedule taking advantage of the week's dismissal from classes. The tennis team, how-
ever, has the toughest assigr^ment of them all - five matches in five days - meeting
Lake Forest and Chicago Teachers here on Mondajr and Tuesdf.y at the University of
Chicago courts, then embarking on a tour of the State of Indi.-?.na 7,'here they vidll meet
on successive days, Indiana State Teachers College, Butler, and Purdue,
Having a seasonal record of five Y;ins and t-;o losses, the Engineers will have a
"lust for blood" yjhen they meet Chicago Teachers. The Profs dealt Tech one of its two
defeats, 4--3. Lake Forest has been registered 7-0 in the Engineer's win column for
one meeting.
Mid-seasonal adjtistments in the Techav/ic lineup move Captain Bob Lange into the
number two spot following junior Mike Schultz. Fresbjnan Jim Ferguson has been dropped
to number three and sophomore Earl Sherman, formerly number four, and junior Dick
Dunworth^ form.erly number five, have switched places in the lineup.
The Techavxks number one doubles combination of Mike Schialts and freshma.n Dick
Larson has a record of six victories and not one defeat to mar the record.
Misfortune befell the Techawk squad last year on their annual road trip to
Indiana when Lange, then playing number two, became afflicted with a lung ailment in
his first match necessitating the forfeiture of one singles match and greatly weakening
the doubles matches with the consequent loss of all three encounters.
According to Coach Hal Bavey the Netmen should win four of the week's five matche
including both home meets, Indiana State Teachers and either Butler or Purdue. Should
they perform this task their record would stand at nine v-dns with three losses and all
of their major opponents will be out of the way with seven comparatively easy matches
remaining.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF INFORAIAL AT SHAFNSE COUNTRY CLUB -
TEGMOLOGY-VIC. 2^600 9 P.M., 5/9Al.
RELEASE FOR; THURSDAY, MY 8, 19-41
What Bastille Day is to the French, v;hat Fourth of July is to the United States
at large, is Friday of Junior Peek to hordes of undergraduates and alumni of Armour
division of Illinois Institute of Technology who tomorrov,' x^'ill v/ind up the thirty-
sixth annual Spring festival period on that campus.
Junior Week at the Institute, beginning Monday with a one-day Open House obser-
vance at Lewis division campus, continuing with a two-day Open House period at A^rmour
that ended yesterday, comes to Its stratospheric peak tomorrow at 9 P.M.
At that time a clarinet will blow a bar of music hot as dry ice and "The Good
Egg Scramble," vmich is the name of the Junior Class Informal dance, will jitter into
being at Shavmee Country Club, near Wilraette. It will still be a matter of record
well into Saturday morning or when ever "Home Sweet Home" gets itself played.
The last day of Junior ii"Jeek, being what it is, begins at approximately 3 A.M.
Fresliman and sophomores, skulking in little bands about the sleeping campus at 33rd
and Federal Streets, will begin preparing strategies and aminunition for their class
rush beginning at 3 P.I/I. on Ogden P'ield.
They will make up "kidnap lists," the unofficial tabs on ?/hich members of the
opponent class must be removed from circulation long before the class rush actually
starts. Usually the huskiest, or the most resourceful, of the enemy is spirited to
a distant forest preserve or public park and left there -without his trousers. In
some cases, when the kidnapee gives imdue resistance, he is left vrithout any clothes.
Also, considerable time is necessary for mixture of stench tombs, small explosive
caps and other chemical devices used in the rough-and-tumble braxvls that interrupt
the regular order of the dray's events.
Officially, all who have rested sufficiently from the dance of the preceding
night following the Glee Club and Orchestra Concert in the Student Union, are to be on
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hand for a greased-pole c3.imbing contest in Ogden Field, A specie.1 grease compoundj
prepared in the laboratories of the Institute, and containing the lowect degree of
viscositj'' possible, v;ill be smeared on a thirty-foot pole for ambitious climbers.
At 10 A.M. a pie-eating contest will be conducted on the field. Rumours reach-
ing Arm.our campus state a bevy of coeds from Leri'is division, dressed as engineering
students, v'ill attempt to enter the contest.
One of the most colorful of all undergraduate activities of Junior T7eek is the
interfraternity and Interdepartmental pageant. Ten fraternities and six departments
of the Institute will be represented by floats a.nd stationary exhibits illustrating
individual themes. Ogden Field will have the appearance of some great circus tent
dressed up brilliantly as engineers and architects can manage.
A tug-of-v/ar bet-',7een junior and senior class teams will open the afternoon. At
1 P.M. fifty members on each side v.'ill begin to svieat and haul for ten minutes to a
decision. By this tim.e an immense cvovrd vrill have circled Ogden Field, A greater
mingling of students from Armour anc'l Le-^ is campuses ;-;ill occur tl-ian at any other time
during the year.
The stage will be set for the freshman-sophomore rush at 3 P.M. Available m.em-
bers of each class vrill line up at opposite ends of Ogden B'ield. At the barking of a
gun they v/ill charge toward the field's center where a dozen strav; d-ummies will have
been placed in a row. For a half an hour each group will contend, v.'ith the idea of
bringing lja.ck to its starting point as many of the dunijnies aB possible.
^ Junior class marshals, selected by vote from each department, are authorised to
police this feud. They chiefly must distinguish betv.'een murder and mayhem.
The fact is usually brought out at such a time that a policeman without his pants
is quite like a.n ordinary person, in fa.ct, much more ludicrous. A certain delicate
problem in propriety presents itself this year that never before reared its ugly head.
One of seven junior marshals is Mary Elizabeth Spies. Elected by the architec-
tural department of the class, she is the first girl ever to have been voted a marshal
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Since Mary Elizabeth accepted her position in good faith, and after sufficient \mrning
of its consequences during the rush, some may come off the like of v/hich has never
been seen on Ogden Field.
At approximately 2:30 P.M. a procession headed by H. T. Heald, presidait of the
Institute, and J. C. Peebles, acting dean, will walk on the battlefield and declare
it neutral ground. They "'ill present cups and raedals to persons, fraternities and
departments winning them in competition during Junior \Veek.
A feature of the "Gi^cd Egg Scramble" or Junior Informal Dance v,-ill be a contest
for "the handsomest male legs of an Illinois Tech undergraduate," Bea Mathev/s, chorus
beauty of Mike Todd's Theater Cafe, r,dll act as judge. Miss Mathev's has announced
she accepted on the condition no boF-legged gentlemen were entered. An eye-straighten-
ing operation as a child left her liable to i-elapse, she stated.
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FROM: ALEXiU^IDER SCKREIBER RE: JUNIOR WEEK UNDERWAY AT ILLINOIS TECH:
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SCHEDULE FOR 5/8; OPEN HOUSE CONCLUDED
TECroiOLOGY-VIC. 46OO 5/7; EVENTS.
FOR RELEASE ^ WEDNESDAY, f,lAY 7, 194-1
A day-long vmirl of social and athletic events 5 rising to a crescendo with an
evening Spring Glee Club and Orchestra Concert, '.-/ill set the rhythm of Junior I'Jeek
activities tomorrow, Thursday, May 8, 1941 at Arrriour campus of Illinois Institute of
Technology, 33rd and Federal Streets,
From Monday, --.'hen Open House exhibits and demonstrations at Lex'/is camms,
1951 1?'. Madison Street, drei- hundreds of visitors, to Friday night's Junior Informal
dance at Shavmee Country Club, the Institute ' s thirty-sixth annual Junior Week \7ill
have rushed along on an unprecedented scale to applause of the greatest crowds in its
history. :
Today the last stage of Open House celebration is in full-swing at Armour campus
Open House, after its one-day observance at Lewis, yesterday moved to Armour, with
facultj'', students, alumni a.nd friends of both divisions of the Institute joining in
inspection of exhibits of laboratories and classrooms. The Open House phase of Junior
Veek ends tonight.
Tomorrov; at 9 a.m. freslaman and sophomore baseball teams will clash. At 10 a.m.
junior and senior teams Y;ill meet. The school championship will be at sta-ke when
rdnners of these games play at 1;15 p.m.
An interfraternity track m.eet v/ill get under way at 11 a.m. Greek letter soci-
ties will be vj'ing for possession of a cup o,warded annually to the keeping of the
dinner. At 2 p.m. a faculty-senior class baseball game will be played. These^athle-
ic events will occur on Ogden Field of the campus.
Tho auditorium of the Student Union will be crowded to the rafters by 8 p-m.
rtien the Glee Club and Orchestra, under the direction of 0. Gordon Erickson, take the
Jtage. A program of an houi- a.nd one-half, with numbers selected from those used in
ecent radio broadcasts and on the midwestern tour 01 the Glee Club, will be heard.
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The Orchestra v.'ill begin v;ith Gomez' Overture "II Guarany." A group of three
numbers by the Glee Club will follow. They are the Welsh marching song, "Men of
Harlech," Miles' "^en All is Still," and Grode's "Song of the Dark."
The Orchestra will then accompany the Glee Club in its renderings of Grieg's
"To Spring," Handel's "Largo," and "Finlcindia" by Sibelius. At this half-Y/ay ma.rk in
the prograa, the annual Interfraternity Sing Vi'ill be introduced.
Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi, Rho Delta Rho,
Sigma Alpha Mu, Theta Xi and Triangle fraternities vill be competitors in the Inter-
fraternity Sing. The membership of each nill be seated in the semicircle of the audi-
torium's balcony dressed in light summer formal clothes.
Unlike any other undergraduate event at the Institute, the Sing holds a special
place in the memory of each frater^nity man who has ever participated. It approximates,
in its sentimental significance, the May Morning ceremony or Easter Sing at Chx'ist's
Church College, Oxford, as a part of British university life.
Special efforts have been taken this year to make the Sing memorable. The re^
pertoire of each fraternity has been enlarged and each group will sing contrasting
arrangements of now school songs vrritten by 0. Gordon Erickson and several undergrad-
lates.
Because this will have been the first Sing conducted under the name of Illinois
Institute of Technology, formed last July tlirough the merger of Armour and Le?;is
Institutes, the prize cup v/ill hold greater significance than ever before.
Parents and friends of undergraduates, many from far corners of the United State^'
will be in the audience. Coeds in bright colored evening dresses, some of them wear-
ing fraternity pins and school rings acquired during Junior V'eek, will be intent on
watching individual singers. Strains of "St. Patrick Fas i\n Engineer" boomed forth
by deep, fresh voices, will find many a long-lived faculty member, many a usually in-
sensitive freshman, misty-eyed.
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The Glee Club and Oi'chestra Conoert will resiorne ?;ith the former presenting
Barlett's "Sweet Little Poman o'Mine." "Absent," by Metcalf, and the "Armourer's
Song," by Nevin^ will follow.
The Orchestra alone will offer a group, composed of "Valse Triste," by Sibelius.
'Trees," by Rachbach, and Gliere's "Russian Dance." The concluding group will be
luhn's musical setting of Henley's poem, "Invictus," and Rachm-aninof f ' s "Prelude in
} Minor." These numbers vvill have orc?iestral accompaniment.
Shortly after conclusion of the Concert, a dance sponsored by the combined mus-
ical clubs Vi'ill begin in the auditorium. Fraternity houses along Michigan Boulevard,
d joining the campus, will be open to visitors and for parties.
Davm will find a few hardy souls loping off to bed, to fortify themselves
igainst Friday's program of events, the fullest of Junior Week,
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i-ROM: ALEXANDER 3CHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TSCHNOLOGY-VIC. /;600
541-9
REs AHIVIOUR C/J;IPUS OPPl^ HOUSE BEGINS TODAY;
EXTENDS THROUGH WEDNESDAY^ LET.'IS OPEN
HOUSE YESTERDAY; JUNIOR WEEK 5/5-5/10/4
FOR EELE/iSE; TUESDAY. MY 6, 1941
What makes the largest technological school of the Midwest go round, v/ill be on
mblic viev; today and tomorrow vrhen Open House observance at ALrmour carapuri of Illinois
[nstitute of Technology puts on display laboratories, classrooms and research facili-
ties as an educational function of Junior Week.
Junior Week, which began yesterday vjith a one-day Open House at Lewis division,
nds early Saturday at conclusion of Friday's Junior Informal Dance at Shar/nee Country
Jlub, near WiLniette, The two-day Open House at Armour campus, 33rd and Federal Streets
las been a tradition for thirty-six years =
Prominent faculty members, among them leading researchers of various engineering
md scientific field in the United States, will give short lectures and explanatory
;halk-talks on demonstrations and exhibits in their respective spheres.
Visitors who v/ish may be televised. Latest vrrinkles in television, in its labor-
itory fionctions, will be explained. A reception room \?here friends of those televised
aay view proceedings will be established.
A student conducted, but faculty-constructed, machine measuring emotional inten-
3ity of kisses is eirpected to be a leader in drawing po^ver. Wagers made "ay various
sororities of Lev/is campus of the Institute indicate a private pool has been establish-
d to determine the sorority whose aggregate intensity is greatest.
I'ftxat happens to the intelligence of the brightest students after graduation will
oe determined in a degree by an exliibit of the educational tests and measurements de-
partment. Forty questions, of the type asked cominonly in leading radio quiz programs,
will be offered to groups of alum.ni.
Their ansv/ers will indicate how they compare with the current freshman class, who
gave answers that measured their intelligence at the time of entrance to the Institute.
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The kind of answer given, aside from the point of its actual correctness, v/ill help
Dr, W, D. Krathvrohl, head of the educational tests and measurements department, make
his diagnoses.
The mathematics department will give all visitors a psychological shock. In a
room covered with a million tiny dots in pencil or ink, a lecture on "How Much Is A
Million?" will be presented. Popular errors in the thinking of most individuals on
the extent of great mathematical figures will be exploded.
Organic chemistry will offer a fascinating demonstration of "cold light," An
oxidyzing reaction of nascent oxygen and a compound, mixed v>'ith a reducing agent,
gives a blue, intense light, A book can be read if intensity is great enough. Such
intensity ?/ill be the aim of those conducting the exiiibit.
Coal, ViTood, oil, cellulose and other bs.siG materials, and the manufacture of
every day articles from them, will be explained by chemical experts. Women's hose,
wristwatches, men's suspenders and many household articles resulting from recent re-
searches in plastics will also be commented on. Fundamental processes in the compo-
sition of an explosive and a medicinal will be included among subjects of organic
chemistry programs.
In electrical engineering an amazing display of potentialities of light coming
from a flash light will be sho^^m. This light can be made to act as a carrier of the
spoken word though no coils or wires are used. In the dynamo laboratory a general
outline of electrical engineering v/ill be given. Pedal-power meters, selsyn motors,
an oscillograph and a stroboscope v/ill be exhibited.
One of the most notable displays of each Open House is the annual one of the
fire protection engineering department. All tj'pes of fire fighting, particularly in
the preventative stages, v/ill be pointed out. Explosions from dust bins, from faultj^
wiring, from spontaneous combustion sources, v/ill be diagrammed and explained, A
movie, "Approved by the Underv/riters," v/ill also be shov/n.
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The mechanical engineering department will featare various types of internal com-
justion machines. Fairbanks Morse Diesel, International Harvester Diesel, and Hercules
)iesel, and their practical applications in rearming America, will be explained.
The physics department will be represented by experiments sho-wing the spectrum
,nd colors developing frcra it, polari;-',ed light, liquid air, short wave radio, electro-
lagnetism, electrical discharges in gases, optics and photography.
In a physics laboratory steel filings v/ill be made to"gro?; and stand on end" about
, steel core, with the general effect of hair growing on a billiard ball. A fly
rheel, by means of a stroboscopic light, though turning at 2,000 revolutions per min-
ite, will seem to stand still.
Civil engineering will have a shov.- containing one hundred old maps of Chicago,
ith accompanying plats that explain most of the great engineering developments of
!hicago. How the Chicago River Vifas raade to reverse its course, not alv^ays imderstood
ilearly by Chicagoans, will be thoroughly explained.
Among events calculated to dramatize manly rivalry between fraternities and diff-
srent departments of the school, which participate in social activities during Junior
feek, will be a whisker-growing contest. It will be judged today at 1 P.M. The winner
rill be subjected to a public shaving ty friends.
This afternoon, sharply at 1 P.M., a pentathlon will be conducted in Ggden Field,
i3rd and Federal Streets. It v/ill include e. 70-yard dash, mile run, high jump, and low
lurdles events and lettermen of the track squad will not be excluded from the contest.
A note of hilarity v;ill be brought to the campus today at 8 P.M. when a boy-and-
;irl troupe of singers and dancervS from Lewis division of the Institute present a revue
In the Student Union auditorium. Songs v.-ritten by undergraduates, with lovely coeds in
:rick dance formations Y/ill be included. A skit marking the merger of Armour and Lewis
iivisions will highlight the humorous background of the revue.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC 46OO
5-^1-11
RE; TRIANGULAR TRACK ffiET AT ELMHURST
ILLINOIS TECH, WHEATON AND ELIiiHURST 5/7
RELEASE FOR: WEDNESDAY 5/7/4.1
Illinois Tech's trcck team will meet Wheaton and Elmhurst Colleges on Wednesday
afternoon, May 7th, in a triangular track meet to be held at Elmhiorst.
The Engineer's have defeated Wheaton and Elmhurst in indoor meets this past
winter but were nosed out by ELnhurst in a dual meet held a few days ago. On this
basis it appears that the Techawks have a better than even chance of winning the meet.
An analysis of the meet leaves the winner of the 100 yard dash undecided but the
220 and the UUO are almost certain to be taken by Tech's freshman Bob Osborne.
Another of the Engineer's flashy freshmen, George Erkert is good for a 2:07 half mile
which will undoubtedly win that event.
The mile run promises to be a real fight between Tech's Wayne McCullough,
Wheaton' s Captain Dayton Cooper and Elmhurst 's Captain Ted Mauch. In the Beloit Rela;
which '#ere held last Friday evening McCullough covered the distance in -4:4-2, ample
time to nose out the Wheaton and Elmhurst Captains.
The two mile will be a similar duel betireen Mauch and Cooper, except that
McCullough will be replaced by Tech's less talented Hank Jackowski.
Illinois Tech is notoriously weak in the field events this season but shows
promise of great improvement. Captain Harry Heidenreich carries the colors for Tech
in the high jump, pole vault, and the javelin throw. His most serious competitors wi]
be Chistiansen of Vfiieaton in the high jump and the pole vault and Rauh of Elmhurst in
the javelin throw.
Heidenreich was destined to start breai-iing records in the javelin this season
but foul line difficulties have nullified his efforts.
Jj^, One of the latest finds of Coach Norm Root of Illinois Tech is John Tregay, star
diver of the swiiraning team who has been converted into a discus hurler and shot
putter. His most recent efforts have been 115' and 39 '10" respectively in the tvro -"'
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possible that the outcome of the meet may depend on the final relay and it is here
that the engineers shine. Their freshman medley relay team placed third in the Beloit
Relays with one but exceptionally slow 220 yard leg.
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FROM; ALEX.WDER SCKFJilBER RE: BEST iVJiE LEGS AT ILLINOIS TECK TO
ILLIIMOIS IxNSTITUTE OF BE CHOSEN TONIGHT AT
TEGHilOLOGY-VIG, 4-600 JUNIOR INFORi'ML, SHAM^JEE COUNTRY CLU3.
FOR RELK'ISE: FRIDAY, l^A'l 9, 1941
Curves may help to make a v/oinan's legs v«hat px^^ets v;rite about but do curves in
a man's legs mean anything other than he is bovdegged?
This profoimd question rnaj'- be settled tonight at the ShavTiee Country Club, near
Wilraette, when Bea Mathevs, strip-tease star of Michael Todd's Theater Cafe, where she
has succeeded Gypsy Rose Lee, chooses the ovmer of the best male legs among Illinois
Institute of Technology students »
J'ifty contestants in this manly gam derby ivill be among three hundred students
and their partners '.'.rho v^'ill be enjoying the "Good Egg Scramble," or Junior Class in-
formal dance. All contestants will be barred from v/earing opei-a-length silk hose, an
expedient of lissome ladies, according to Richard Talcott, junior fire protection en-
gineer, chairman of the dance comjiiittee.
The committee confesses to puszlem.ent regarding what other ground rules to en-
force in the contest, Talcott says.
Should OTiTiers of very sv/arthy legs be classed separately from red-haired or
blonde competitors? Should a pair of knock-knees that are outstanding be awarded a
booby prize?
The contest winner v^'ill receive a pair of blue garters, ¥;ith her name worked into
the design, from Miss Mathews, The dance will be interrupted at 10:4-5 P-rHo to allow
judging to take place.
The Junior Class informal dance will come as the crovmlng event of a week-long
celebration on the Institute's Lewis and Armour campuses of Junior Yfeek, a tradition
for thirty-six years. A one-day Open House observance took place at Lewis Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday Open House was observed at Armour.
Yesterday and today a schedule of athletic and social events involved under-
graduates. Class baseball games, the winning class team to be awarded a cup.
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jentathlon and an interfraternity track meet, a faculty-senior class baseball game
md the Spring Concert of the Glee Club and Orchestra follo^ved each other yesterday.
The Interfraternity Sing took place between groups of the Spring Concerto
Today a greased pole contest, a pie-eating contest, an interfraternity and inter-
iepartraental pageant, vdth floats and stationary e:doibits, a tug-of-war betv;een junior
ind senior classes and a fresliman- sophomore class rush are listed. The class r^lGh
vill begin at 1 pom. in Ogden Field, 33rd and Federal Streets. At 2:30 p.m. a pre-
sentation of awards to contest vrinners of Junior Week will take place.
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FROM: ALEXAiiDER SCHRiilBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECKNOLOGY-VIC. .^600
RE: ILLINOIS TECH BASEBALL TEM MEETS
CHICAGO TEACIIERS COLLEGE THERE; TRivCK
TEM AT EL?iiIiUR3T INVITATIONAL MEET;
BOTH TODAY, 5/loAl
FOR RELEASE^ SATURDAY. MAY 10 , 194.1.
Meiaory of a 7-6 defeat in ten innini^s, suffered eight days ago at the h^.^ds of
Chicago Teachers CoU.ege, v;ill nestle in back pockets of Illinois Tech baseball play-
ers next to tobacco plugs when they engage the same foe today at 2:30 p,ra, in Ogden
Park, 69th Street and Racine Avenue.
For 'though they outhit the Teachers in their last meeting, the Techams couldn't
claim a moral victory since they coranitted more infield and outfield errors, and on
their home diamond, than in any txvo previous games of the season.
Simply on the strength of feeling they are, normally, a better team, the Techawk;
will this afternoon pick up their bats v.'ith a burning desire for revenge. They have
shovm in their last four games they can hix any kind of pitching. They have indicated
against teams they can get the ,j"ump on, they can play like a high-powered unit.
But the Engineers have also demonstrated they are laggard, for innings at a time
when an opponent scores heavily in early innings. The desire to respond in kind
seldom seems to take hold before the seventh inning. Coach Bernard "Sonny" Feissman
will send out his boys today with instructions to hit everything, and imined lately.
Though the Teachers College tilt is not a game in the liorthern Illinois College
Conference, the Techav4cs v«.ll use Alex Yursis, first-line hurler, to mow the enem.y
dovm. Al Dambros, clever port-side slinger, Kill relieve him if necessary.
At first base "Hod" Carrier seems to have supp].anted Raj LaGodney, v/ho, though
a better hitter, has trouble fielding infield bunts. Mario Silla, entering the line-
up at third base two weeks ago when regvilar Bill Grosse broke his leg, is the star of
the infield combination. Fielder Bill Kackbarth continues to lead the team in batting,
smiting the apple at a .54-1 clip.
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An annual standout, event on the Techarlz's outdoor track calendar is the Elmhurst
College Invitational meet. The Techav;kSj represented by a full squad, v/ill be at
major seasonal strength. Weiinesday's three-way mset at Fneaton College, in v/hich
Illinois Tech placed second to its hosts and beat Elmliurst College, v;as a thriller.
Wheaton's margin of victory vras a fraction of a point. Tl'.e times of -.vinnsrs in
the ;44-0-yard dash, the mile relay, and the lov; hurdles, event taken by Tech, show
that Coach Norman Root's men are in fine fettle.
Though not ranked likely to place among the first three competing schoolCj, since
strong Loyola Univei'sity, North Central and Northern Illinois St3.te Tea.chers College
teams are enter:jd, the Scarlet and Gray may be in the points coluBin in field events,
witn Jack Tregay putting the shot, throwing the discus and hurling the javelin.
Captain Harry Heidenreich rill also perfoi-m the latter two chores. Bob Osborne, vrho
will be a man to bes.t i.n the /j4.0-yard run and century, will run the anchor leg on the
one-mile relay tes.m, Wayne MoOullough will run tho mile and v/ill have to compete
against a strong field, many of his opponents having made better times in the Illinois
Tech Relay Games last winter.
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FROM: ALEXAI'IDER SCHREIBER RE: ATHLETIC AW/iRDS OF ILLINOIS TECH
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF SPORT YE/iR MDE AT STUDE1^IT ASSN.
TECffiTOLOGY-VIC . -4600 BANQUET: LAKE SHORE ATHLETIC CLUB
6:30 P.tl. TODAY, 5/l3Al
FOR IMffiDIATE RELEASE
Forty-nine letters and other awards will be presented to raenbervS of teams in
five sports tonight at 6:30 o'clock, Yi'ednesday, May 13, 194.1> when the Illinois Tech
Student Association plays host to the school's athletes at a banquet in the grand
ballroom of the Lake Shore Athletic Club.
Ed Cochrane, of the Chicago Herald-American, and Marvin McCarthy of the Chicago
Daily Times, will be among sports editors who spealc. Hal Totten, NBC, and Pat
Flannagan, WJJD, radio sport personalities, are other speakers. Bob Elson, WON
sports conu.ientator, is likevjise e:;pected to talk.
John Schommer, athletic director and director of placement of the Institute,
will introduce speakers and present major, minor and manager's letters to undergrad-
uates. This year's banquet, first of its kind since merger of Armour and Lewis Insti-
tutes into Illinois Institute of Technology, will combine features of traditional
Fathers' and Sons' and Athletic Association dinners, vdiich it will replace,
^, In addition to awards for athletic achievement, distinctions merited by school
"leaders v;ill be cited. Among those honored will be men and Vv'oraen students of both
Armour and Lewis campuses. Fathers of students will accompany them.
Awards for all sports, except track and baseball, which are still in season,
will be presented. They will be divided as follows:
For basketball, ten major, five minor and a me,nager's letterj for freshman bas-
ketball, ten freshman and a manager's letter; foi* boxing, one major and seven minor
letters; for wrestling, eight major, five minor and a manager's letter; and for
swimming, seven major, four minor and a manager's letter.
Sweaters vi?ill be given ten members of the Rifle Club's team.
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The following latternen are candidates for graduation this Junes
Basketball, Henry fJliwa, John Brierley, Robert Schinidt: boxing, Ernest Colantj
wrestling, Biago Nigrelii, Albert Sanovrskis; swimming, Arnold Blurae, William Powers.
Announcement is made by the athletic department of the illness of Coach Norman
Root, since 1935 mentor of indoor and outdoor track teams of the Institute. He is
inder observation at the Municipal Tuberculosis So.nitarium s.nd vrill be relieved of
lis coaching duties for the be'.lance of the track season.
A great middle dist;.nce rujmer of the University of Chicago during the early
thirties, Root was a member of the record-setti-ng Maroon relay team of 1930 which
iazzled spectators at the Penn Rela^/s. His record as coach has been highly success-
ful, many of his runners having competed brilliantly in the heaA-'iest of competition in
the Institute's Relay Games and in meets against much larger schools.
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FROM: ALEXAITOER SCHHEIBER RE: BASEBiiLL - CONCORDIA HERE 5/l5
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TRACK - AT LOYOLA 5/l5
TECffiJCLOGY-VIC. -4600 TEIflJIS - AT EtARQUSTTE 5/l5
RELEASE FOR; THURSDAY, 5/l5Al
Thursday, Lfey 15, will find most of the Techav.'k athletes engaged in competition
as the baseball team entertains Concordia at 3 P.M. ?;hile the trackmen travel to
Loyola and the netmen battle Marquette in Milwaukee.
The luckless baseballers seem to have everything e:>:cept that vital y.'inning spark
to put across the v/inning tally. Coach Weissman's boys are hitting and the fielding
is good except for the first few innings when the opposition 'ouilds up a lead that the
Engineers could protabaly overtake if the game v;ere permitted to continue past the
ninth inning. A ray o£ hope exists, however, in the fact that Concordia is the source
of the only Illinois Tech win this year.
Reserve pitcher Bill McDonough will most likely get the starting assignment in ■
place of regular Alexander Yursis who had to replace M Dambros in the second inning
of Tuesday's encounter with De K3.1b. His receiver, Captain Bill Bauch has been hot
with the stick of late with seven out of ten hits in the last two games, including two
doubles and a three bagger.
The trackmen, v/ith a superiority in the field events 'will match their talents
against the Rejnblers and depend heavily upon Fresliman Bob Osborne, in the 220 and AAO,
and VJajTie McCullough, distance man to make serious indentations in Loyola's tradition-
ally strong events and possibly win the meet. Captain Harry Heidenreich in the pole
vault and javelin throw and John Tregay putting the shot and tiirowing the discus are
counted as certain scorers for the Engineers.
Tech's netmen have been by far the most successful of any of the Techawk teams
this year with nine v;ins as against three losses, University of Chicago, Purdue and
Chicago Teachers. Yvith seven games left on their schedule, Thursday's encounter with
Marquette is the only one that gives them any concern.
Tne cream of this outstanding crop, however, is the number one doubles combina-
tion of junior Mike Schultz and freshinan Dick La.rson who have bowed to "out one oppon-
ent, Purdue, 6-4., 6-4-, in the tv^elve matches played to date.
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FROM; ALEXiU'IDER 3CHREI3ER RE: BASEBALL TEAlvI wIEETS AUGUSTMA
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF COLLEGE AT OGDEN FIELD, SATURDAY,
TECtffiOLOGY-VIC. 4-600 5/l7Alj 2:30 P.M. 3 LAST HOKE GAIffi,
FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MY I6, 194-1.
Turning to the home stretch in its sixteen-game season, Illinois Tech's baseball
team plays Augustana College of Rock Island tomorrow, Saturday, 5/17/4-1, at 2:30 p.m.
at Ogden Field, 33rd and Federal Streets, in its last 194-1 home game.
After tomorrow only three road tilts remain to be played and the season will be
\vrapped in mothbc.lls. Elmliur-st, V.heaton and Northern Illinois State Teachers (DeKalb)
Colleges compose this trio.
Against Augustana Coa.ch Bei'nard. "Sonny" Weissman \7ill probably start Eouthpa?;
Al Dambros, in the hope that if v/arm weather prevails he will come through with the
sparkling performa.nce he has hinted at several times earlier this Spring.
Dambros vas driven off the mound in a second-inning barrage of nine hits Tuesda;/
vhan DeKalb met the Scai^let and Grey at Ogden Field. Cool vfinds from Lake Michigan
kept the field too breezy for Coach Weissman' s sophomore hurler and he hardly got undei
ViTay vfhsn the Teachers began to hit him repeatedly.
Still troubled by the problem of adequata first-- base coverage, Coach Weissman
has shifted Jack Byrne, a sophomore basketball flash to that post. Ray LaGodney and
Marvin "Hod" Carrier, contesting the place from opening of the season, had hobbled so
badly in several contests that Byrne, an inferior hitter, had to be given his opportun-
ity.
At this stage of the season a Imckv/ard glance reveals infield errors have been
the nem.esis of the Engineers. Pitchers Alex Yursis, Dambros and Bill McDonough, with
support in critical moments, x'^/ould have a .500 per cent higher pitching averages and
the 'binning average of the team would have been immeasurably higher.
Lett fielder ^ill Hackbarth, though benched Tuesday for a desultory performance
at bat against De Kalb, is the team's leading hitter and Y:ill likely remain so. Lead-
off man and caicher Bill Bauch, co-captain, with a batting average of .34-6 does not
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pproach Hackbarth's .500-odd mark but has the commendable habit of hitting in pinches,
rank Pfeffer, shortstop, as well as the team's three pitchers, hits v;ell above the
300 level.
"vhat hope for development at this time of promising material for next year
hiefly concerns Bambros, a catcher to replace Bauch, graduating in June, and hitters
,0 replace outfielders Bill Krause and Bill Hackbartho
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FROMiALEXidlDER SCHREIBER RE: T^'EEK OF S^oORT AT ILLINOIS TECH
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF 5/l9 - 5/24
TEGMOLOGY-VIC . 46OO
RELEASE FOR: MONDAY, 5/19/41
The vreek ending May 24th will see the Illinois Tech track team completing the
current season. The baseball team plays a double header against a conference oppon-
ent and a single game against Big Ten competition. The highly successful tennis team
seeks three more victories to add to the present string.
The traclcmen travel to 7Jheaton for their final engagement on Wednesday, May 21,
where they v/ill be i;;ithout the services of their coach, Norm Root. Coach Root was
compelled to retire indefinitely due to illness.
Captain Harry Heidenreich will rely iipon Bob Osborne to carry the heaviest burden
of point gathering in this contest. Bob was voted the most outstanding freshman ath-
lete in the school by the honorary athletic societj^ last week for his performance in
the dashes. Captain Heidenreich is expected to score heavily in the pole vault, high
jump, and javelin throw.
Their first game being rained out, the baseball team is compelled by league rul-
ings to play a double header of t\?o seven inning contests at Elmhurst on ?fednesday,
May 21. At the present tim.e the Techar/ks have defeated Concordia twice and bowed to
Wheaton and North Central in games of the Northern Illinois Collegiate Conference for
a .50c average. The big game of the year of course is the University of Chicago con-
test to be held on Saturday, May 24, and from present indications the Engineers
stand ready to give the Maroons a real battle,
A somewhat shaky team at the start of the year, the Tech nine has seasoned to the
point v/here fielding is almost flawless. Kitting has alv/ays been good against all
pitching and the pitching staff is considerably above the average.
Entertaining Northern Illinois State Teachers college of DeKalb on Wednesday,
May 21, and traveling to Concordia on Fridsiy, May 23, and Loyola on Saturday, May 24,
the netmen expect to coast along while annexing three more victories to their present
string of nine. The racketeers have previously defeated Loyola and DeKalb decisively
and Concordia is conceded to be a "soft touch."
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FROM; ALEXAl^DER SCHRSIBER RE: HAROLD VAGTBOHG, DIRECTOR OF APuMOUR
ILLINOIS a^STITUTE OF PJISEAP.GH FOUNDATION, RIi:.TURNS FROM SOUTH
TECmJOLOGY-VIC . 4.600 AMERICAN TOUR OF NATIONAL ItESEARCH
COUNCIL.
FOR RELEASE: SUNDAY, MI 25, 194-1 =
South i\merica is an a',7akening colossus whose favor is being curried by the
United States, Great Britain and Germany in a bitter trade fight of which hemisphere
defense is an important overtone but Yxf no meo,ns the dominating reality.
This is the basic conclusiou of Harold Vagtborg, youthful director of Armour
Research Foundation, affiliate of Illinois Institute of Technology, on his return
last week from a fifty-day investigation of jiiTierica's "good neighbor" continent as a
member of a comiiiittee under auspices of the National Research Council,
Vagtborg was one of tliree Chicago3-ns picked for the conamittee. It included
twenty-one leading industrialists, technologists and research experts of the nation,
and was sent with joint be.cking of the National Research Council of National Academy o:
Sciences, Nelson A. Rockerfeller, Coordinator of comiaercial and cultural relations
between the Americas, and Jesse H. Jones, secretarj" of commerce.
"The majority of the ten South American republics look on the United States as
a friendly political force, desire increased trsde relations vfith us and are fervent
in hopes for heavy capital and technological investments of ilmerican firms in the var-
ious countries," he Sc'iid.
"But they are amazed by vigorous British ass^-imptions that the United States will
be at v.'ar Very soon, backing up a British Empire', when that Empire is not only attem.p-
ting to hold its o^^m in South A'lierican shipping and commerce, but aggressively com-
peting with American firms.
"It is somewhat of a shock for an /imerican to return to this country and hear
the cry that our merchant shipping, in part, should be turned over to a nation that it
a prime competitor, so to speak, for commerce in South America, v/hen that nation
(Britain), actively carrying on shipping operations in .South American waters, should
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life-line effort.
"British interests control the greater part of the English-language newspapers
of South America, These papers confidently reflect the English by-word in South
America: 'Bu.siness as usual.'
A large English department store in Buenos Aires had in its display windows a
bale of goods from a ship shelled on its way from an English port to South America.
Bullet holes perforated it. V<hen one sav; the 'business as usual' stamp on this goods
he realized what was meant, i'vs far as these shippers were concerned, there was not
only to be no relaxation of their trade, but benefits of iLmerican capital, pumped into
the veins of South American commerce at this time, are welcomed to the Empire at an
increasing rate .
British craft line the harbors of South American ports, Vsigtborg said, gi^eatly
outnumbering American and other nationals' vessels. He made a particular point of
visiting harbors of Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, he
declared, aftei' this anomaly of the international traffic situation struck him.
"Our commercial competition with Germany is another matter," Vagtborg pointed
out.
"There are sections of or groups in South American republics that are heavily
Nazi in sjTnpathy. Chile, for instance, has the famous Industrial Institute of Sa.nta
Maria, near Santiago, which has unsurpassed equipment and a very competent faculty. A
few years ago, a fortune being left by Santa Maria, a philanthropist, almost an entire
faculty and all equipment -were imported from Germany.
"Wherever there has been teclinological or scientific advance in South America,
German influence has had much to do with it. However, it must be remembered that
American political idealism is the original of most of the constitutions of the ten
republics and their sympathies are much closer to American ways of life."
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Araerica's delinquency in the matter of "good neighbor" relations with South
American republics, though it has allov.'ed England and Germany to get a head start in
sections that might as easily have been susceptible to American overtures if any had
been made, villi net prove to be an insuperable handicap, Vagtbcrg stated.
"The United States has always, thi'ough some of its banking and industrial circles
been represented in South American commerce on a sizable sca.le. The nitrate deposits
of the Guggenheims in Chile alone represent a $200,000,000 investment,
"Heavy industries which South America lacks so badly can be best supplied by
"Jorth American interests » Recently our government subsidized Argentina and Brazil,
The former ras advanced $110,000,000, the latter $25,000,000 for a steel industry with
the provision that another $20,000,000 for this enterprise be raised in Brazil,"
im amazing fact of industrial life in South America is the reluctance of familiee
firith imm.ensc fortunes to invest them in types of businesses other than that ^■ihich
earned their wealth, Vagtborg declared,
"This slowness to discover means of investment for accumulated capital has i^rovec,
unhealthy for the republics in general," he observed.
"This feeling is reflected partially in the attitude of the peasant Ycorkman, who
is difficult to persuade to adopt large-production methods for manufacture and market-
ing of his products. In Colombia a maker of art objects from kiln materials, for in-
stance, clings i-igidly to his conception of himself as the individual artist, lavish-
ing overmuch time and care on his product.
"VJhile this may be adn;ir2.ble as an aesthetic conception, it has meant the ab-
sence in the real sense of a middle class, v.dth the extremes of peasantry or virtual
serfdom on one hand and concentrated patrician wealth on the other. Y^ere the indivi-
dual v/orker has learned modern methods of production, and his t^/pe is rapidly in-
creasing, the rise of a self-sufficient, well-provided-for middle class is seen,"
Lack of proper conimunication and transportation betv/een a South American republic
and its neighbor has been a great handicap which North American impetus will help to
overcome, Vagtborg said.
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"In all the time I was in South America I don't remember having seen a single
soal-tauming locomotive, rvood-barning locomotives are common. Braailians utilize some
3f their coffee surplus by burning it as locomotive fuel. Corn is used \rj Argentina
Cor the same prurposo. Peru has coal and it is mined on a small scale elsevdiere. Oil
is pleritiful in several of the republics but little industriaj. adaptation of it has
been effected generally.
"Much building in cement, which is a common product in most of the republics, has
been done. It must be remembered , hov/ever, that the great proportion of the population
which is Indirm or of mixed origin, lives under conditions similar to the worst parts
of the south of the United Sxates.
"Peru is most advanced as a builder but is woefully lacking in roads by a North
Araerica,n standard. The Pan-/unerican high\»;ay stretches, in its unfinished stage, dovm
a good part of the west coast, and provides pleaj^ant riding.
"So poor has transportation been, both as to roads and railroads, that there has
been relatively little commerce between many of the republics. The coming of the war
meant loss of European markets for many of these governments that should have been
engaging in greater commerce with one another.
"Colombia, for instance, is relatively undeveloped as an agricultural country
when we consider what a supply— bin it could be for its sister republics. It has sever-
al variations of climate and fine soil in many sections.
"Brazil, for example, iro;ports a large supply of melons from Portugal, even though
fine melons ai'e groi'Ti in Chile, as v/ell as in Peru and /irgentina. These and m.any other
agricultural products must be transported sloAvly in South America, . since passage from
one republic to the next is often by coast-wise vessels. A product is tediously
brought from deep in the interior do?m to a sea.-port tov.Ti and then sent by boat north
or south to the next port destination."
With Brazil as an exception, no extensive scientific or engineering application
in industry have been made on the continent, Vagtborg claimed. Chile, Vv'ith Santa Alaria
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[nstitute, and the superior University of Chile at Santiago, is well-thought-of educa-
tionally throughout the other republics. There is a great demand for graduates of
"hilean schools.
"All South American schools are extremely anxious to exchange students 5 though
Lt has been shown South American students in North iimerican schools often are unhappy
)r unsuccessful in these foreign backgrounds," Vagtborg declared.
"The ideal situation from the South Ajnerican vievrpoint is to import professors,
md I believe at le8.st 500 of them could be placed at once. It is v.'ith great diffi-
;ulty, though, that Arn.erican professors can be persuaded to raise their families out
)f the United States and thus many are not anxious to stay for any length of time in
South America . "
Most progressive city in the industrial sense is Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a pop-
ilation of approximately 1,500,000 and a variation of manufactured products that ex-
;eeds any tvm competitors in South America, Vagtborg said. Its seaport is Santos,
;reat coffee-e^rporting center,
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541-25
FROM: ALEXAI-IDSR SCHREI3ER RE: LETJIS DIVISION SEIIGR CLASS GIVES
I^ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF MIFJAL SEIZOR INFOPiML PROIJ JUiNE 7 AT
TECffiTOLOGY-VIC. 4-600 STEVEInIS HOTEL TOWER ROOMS-POPULARITY
QUEEK AI^'NCUIiCED.
FOR IIvUvIEDIATE RELEASE.
The nicst popular girl of Le?^is division of lilincis Institute of Technology,
chosen by secret ballot, T;ill be announced at the anntxal Lev;is senior class informal
prom Saturday, Jiu.s 7, 194-15 at the Tov,-er Rooms of the Stevens Hotel,
Divu-lging of the popularity queen's name Y.dll bring to an end speculation rife
during days follov/ing June 2, vdien voting vrill co.iirrisnce. Feverish buttonholing, horse-
trading and other bandwagon carr.paign tactics v/ill accompany the election, peak of
school year soi'ority and fraternity politics.
Hope that Llainbocher, famous couturier, late of Pari.s and nov; of Hollj'TA'ood, will
be on hand to present the popularity queen with a govra of his design v'as expressed by
John Ferraro, prom chairman. The designer, a Lewis alumnus, may be prevented from
attending by press of his v.'orking schedule, it was ].earned.
A "povrderpi.iff parade," in which outstanding candidates for the popularity title
will take part, will be staged before announcement of the ?vinner. Ten rules for a
coed's attaining popuia.rity \'/ill be read by a male member of the prom committee, the
men members of y/hich i,7ill drav: up the rules.
Assisting Ferraro en the prom committee are Lov/ell Stevenson, Thomas Gafcas,
Bernard Silver, Florence Alder and Miriam Walker.
John Ferraro, 2933 West /u"thington Street, a liberal arts a.nd sciences student,
is president of Lef/is Chem.ical Society, a membex' of Ler^is Rifle Club, treasurer of the
senior class, a mom.ber of Daedalians fraternity and of Pi Lambda Epsilon. He is a
graduate of Crane Technical High School.
R Cafcas, 8250 South Bishop Street, a liberal arts and sciences student, is a mem-
ber of Lewis Rifle Club, is active in intramural sports, a member of Daedalians frater-
nity, and Lewis Chemistry Club. He is a graduate of CalLunet High School.
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Stevenson, 24-57 Jackson Blvdy a gradurte of Austin High Schoolj is president of
jevris Ririe Glut, vice president of LeT^is Chemistry Society and a member of Saedalians
"raternityc
iiiiss Alder, 4-938 North Hamlin Avenue, a heme economics major, is a member of the
Js'-'^is Glee Club, Lewis Drama Club, Kappa Phi Delta Sorority, and the Home PJconomics
]lub. She is a graduate of Von Steuben High School,
i'/liss Walker, 1706 South 5th Avenue, May«ood, a liberal arts and sciences student,
LS a member of Ksppa Phi Delta sorority, is president of Lewis Glee Club and has been
L staff member of Techjiology Nev/s , undergraduate weekly. She is a graduate of Proviso
Covmship High School.
Silver, a member of LeT,vis Rifle Club, has been accompanist for the Varsity Sho\7,
mdergraduate song-and-dance group. He is a graduate of Lakevievj" High School. Re lives
it 820 Addison St >
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE: FIRST AI'INUiA BACCAI.AUREATE SERVICE OF
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ILLINOIS TECH; ORCHESTRA HALL, SUNDAY,
TSCHI'IOLOGI-VIC, 46OO JUI>IE 8, 11 A,LL) DR. KAROLD X"J. RUGPP,
FOR RELEASE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 194-1
CoiTunen cement week at Illinois Institute of Technology r.dll open next Sunday
(June 85 194.1) with delivery of a baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Harold W. Ruopp, minis-
ter of Central Church, at Orchestra Hall (ll a.in.).
Rev. Ruopp v;ill address the first graduating class of the Institute, represent-
ing both Armour College of Engineering and Le^-sis Institute of Ajrts and Sciences divi-
sions, on the subject "He Took It Upon Himself."
A-ppro:riiaately 379 graduates, vmose commencement exercises take place Thursday,
June 12, at 85I5 p.m. at Civic Opera House, vdll assemble in ce.ps and go\vns for the
baccalaureate sei^vice, ths first occasion on rhich they will ha\'e met in a body during
the current school year.
Rev. Ruopp, since a 7>''ear ago September holding the pulpit of Central Church, wii;
at the request of Institute authorities, be repeating the first sermon he made on
coming to his Chicago pastorate.
Included among men and v/omen students in his audience ?n-ll be forty-eight grad-
uate degree candidates of Armour division, 206 bachelor of science candidates of the
same division, and 125 bachelor of science candidates of Levd-S division, Officers of
the administration and faculty will attend in a body.
Rev, Ruopp will develop his theme on tiie broad outline of the realization every
man must have of his obligation to his fellow man. This obligation inust ex^jress it-
self, Rev. Ruopp xvill contend, through acts of brotherly love and noblesse oblige.
"All humai: beings must sooner or later face the fact of need in the world," he
will begin.
"Persons you and I knov/ classify themselves for us by the manner in vifhich they
react to the fact of human need. This classification is inescapable since man is
prominently a social being, with dependence on his fellow-man and interlocking acti-
vities that presuppose kindness extended to and "oy that fellov; creature.
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"Sorae persons we obsex-ve over the years apparently never see this obligation to
face the fact of need. They act, not only immorally but amonally, as if it need not
touch upon their existences. Others respond hj raising silly questions about the
manner of procedure they will adopt to alleviate an ill or blot out an injustice.
"Still another group says, 'Somebody ought to do something about this situation
bat I vron't because it is none of my business.' Just vjhat they define as their busi-
ness no rational person could say. It seems as if anything, or everything, is a
selfish person's business until he finds he v/ill lose something by extending himself
to do a kindness.
"At a time when the vrorld again seems headed for ages of darkness, the individual
anarchy caused by selfishness seems to have taken on a concrete, collective meaning
and expression, ITnole nations, and international groups of mankind, have assumed the
prerogatives of God and have succeeded in denying not only everyday kindnesses to their
fello\7-men but even the very breath of liberty, which the dignity of the individual
soul demands.
"Yo'ong men and women about to embark on the journey of complete living, for v/hich
rigorous and selective educational facilities he.ve fitted them, must be put in m.ind
of the experience of the ages in these matters.
"You must, each one of you, resolve to watch for the fact of human need in every-
day life. You must resolve to become technologists of the human spirit, perfection-
ists in the matters where human good will and kindness are the oils that allow the
wheel of daily intercourse to function.
"You must become, not merely remaining v/hat you a^re, the bachelors of sciences,
the masters of sciences, the doctors of engineering and the like, but bachelors of
human dignity expressed through self-respect and self-extension in kindness, the mas-
ters of the arts and sciences of living nobly through good v;orks, and the doctors of
engineering that probe problems of the human heart and spirit in charity."
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mOMs ALEXAIJDER SCKREIBER RE: TENNIS - AT CONCORDIA 5/23
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE 0?
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4-600 FOR IIEfflDIATE RELEASE
With thirteen victories to their credit, the Illinois Tech netraen villi seek num-
ber fourteen in a contest at Concordia College tomorrow afternoon. May 23rd.
The powerful Techav/k squad has lost three matches this season, ti70 to Big Ten
schools - University Chicago and Purdue - and a third to Chicago T-achers College. This
Last loss has since been avenged by a 5-2 conquest by the Teehawks in a return match.
Among those conquered by the Engineers are Loyola, DeKalb, Lake Forest, and
[ndiana State Teachers College, all victims of two defeats and Tech has single decision;
igainst Wabash, George VJilliams, Butler and Marquette.
Playing number one for the Teehawks is junior Mike Schultz. Due to the uniform-
ity of quality of the Engineer squad, hov/ever, Mike has won but about fifty per cent
)f his m^atches. Nevertheless, he is still seeded as Tech's best man.
Captain Bob Langc plays the number two spot for Tech. Lange, a senior in fire
)rotection engineering, has made a marvelous recovery this season from the illness Vi"hicl
3efell him at mid-season last year.
A freshman, Jim Ferguson, is playing number three, 'with sophomore Es.rl Sherman
md junior Dick Dunworth com.ploting the group of singles contestants.
Another freshinan, Dick Larson, has been setting the vrorld on fire as a result of
lis doubles play while teamed with Mike Schultz. To date, they have lost only to a
strong Purdue combination.
The remaining doubles m.atch has been played by almost every combination possible
m the squad, and the most successful seems to be that of Captain Lange and Jim Fergusoi
Following the Concordia tilt the Techavrks have two gam.es, a home-and-home series
7ith Whoaton. Here on Tuesday, May 27, and there on Saturday, May 31 =
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FROMi ALE}L!'J]DER SCHREIBFR RE; LAST WEEK OF SPORT SEASON FOR TENNIS,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF BASEBALL AND GOLF TEAI^IS^ NETMEl^ CON-
TECffilOLOGY-VTC 46OO T'llfJE T7INNIKG STREAK.
■For 'RELEASE: MONDAY, MY 26, 194.1-
With graduation activities approaching and the hot bteath of draft claims on
their necks, Illinois Tech athletes this week swing into final contests of the Spring
sports program,, the baseball and tennis teams moving out of toi-m and the golf team
winding up at home.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 27) Coach Bernard "Sonny" FJeissman will send his Scarlet
and Grey baseball team against WheE4tQn College at iTheaton and Thursday (May 29) will
accompany his boys to Northern Illinois State Teaclisrs College (DeKalb) for the
season's concluding tilt.
After a disastrous early season, in which out of nine games only one was a vic-
tory, the baseball team has geared itself to a winning pace, having defeated Concordia,
Augustana, and Elmhurst (both games of a double-header), meanwhile shox^ing amazing
hitting and fielding strength.
Tomorrov/' s meeting with Wheaton v/ill determine the ultimate place of Illinois
Tech in the Northern Illinois College Conference league, in which opponents beating
the Techavv'ks have been North Central (tv/ice), and Wliec.ton (once). As Concordia has
been beaten twice, and ELmhurst the same number of times > these victories plus a win
over Wheaton tomorrow will moan a .500 league average for the Techawks.
Coach Hal Davey's tennis aggregation has been the talk of Tech's campus and beeirs
one of the most remsjrkable seasonal records in recent annals of Scarlet and Grey sports,
Friday's X7in against Concordia at River Forest by a 7-0 score vfas characteristic of
Davey's netraen, vjhose total at this date is thirteen victories out of a possible sixteei
Today (Monday, May 26) they play Chicago Teachers College as a return engagement
with a foe that beat them barely at the beginning of the season. Tomorrow (Tuesday,
'.lay 27) ITlieaton will be engaged here and Saturday (M&.y 31) the same foe -/ill be met
an its home grounds.
Tech's golf team v.*ill journey to Western State Teachers (Kalamazoo) Thursday,
fey 29 to close a season vjhioh has been desultorily played, since frequent rainouts
tiave occurred.
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FROMt ALEXANDER SCHREIBER RE;; ALUiffll BAl^IQUET
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF KinCKERBOCKER HOTEL, 5/27 Al - 6:00 P.W
TECm^IOLOGY-VIG. 4-600
RELEASE-. FOR VJEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 19^1
The Aliunni ^-sociation of Armour Institute of Teclmology, asserubled last night,
Tuesday, May 27, 194-1 in the Knickerbocker Hotel, held v;hat may turn out to be the last
annual get-togethei' of that venerable association.
For many years the Alumni of Armour Institute of Teclinology were in the habit of
holding an annual meeting and bestoviing av^ards upon distinguished alumni of that fifty- .
year old school. This year, however, although tribute was paid to ilrraour alumni, and
an award of merit was given to a graduating senior of Ai'mour College of Engineering
division of Illinois Tech, the occasion v/as much in the nature of a farev.'ell party to
the old association.
According to J. Warren McCaffrey, '^prominent loop patent attorney and ali;imni
president, the association as a whole took action to foiTa a negotiating committee for
the express purpose of dissolving the present Araiour Alumni group in favor of forming
a nev; organization to be knovvTi as the Alur^ini Association of Illinois Institute of
Technology, merging the former with the Lewis Alumni Association,
The v;hole affair may be traced back to the summer of 1940 when the trustees of
Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute took final action to merge the tiTO
to form Illinois Institute of Technology. Following this action the separate alumni
organizations undertook to study the situation so far as alumni affairs were concerned,
and the committee taking such action, reporting last night, recommended that represent-
atives of both organizations and representatives from classes of the merged schools
already graduated, notably the classes of Illinois Institute of Technology graduated
in February 1941 and those graduating in June 1941s meet to formulate plans for the
formation of the Alumni Association of Illinois Institute of Technology. The recom-
mendation was accepted and it seems reasonable to expect that action will be taken
shortly to form the new association.
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Speakers at the meeting included James D. Cunningham, chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Illinois Tech, who explained the action currently und3r-.my to raise suff-
icient endcment to construct a new ^3;000j000 campus for Illinois Tech, H. T. Heald,
President of the Institute, explained the combined educational program of the Institute
and its effect upon the community. Nathaniel Leverone, noted Chicago hujnorist, enter-
tained the guests. The combined Glee Club and Orchestra of the Institute presented
a short concert.
Awards for distinguished service both to the conimunity, the school, and to indus-
try v/ere made to three alumni and a senioi' of Ai'mour College. The Armour Alumni
Service Award Key was presented to Roy M. Henderson, class of 1902, electrical engi-
neer, and vice-president of United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Chicago.
According to J. Tfarren McCaffrey, President of the Association, the award was made in
"recognition of the loyal and v.'illing service he has rendei'ed in the interests of
the Alumni Association of iii'-mour Institute of Technology."
Robert I, Wischnick, prominent President of fiischnick-TiiTipeer, New York City,
and William F. Sims, chief electrical engineer of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison
Company, received joint s.wards for "distinguished service" to their pi'ofessions. The
citations, according to President McCaffrey, were for "distinguished services that
reflected credit upon themselves and their alma raa.ter by outstanding accomplishments
in their particular fields."
Robert Wisciinick graduated from Armour Institute of Technology as a chemical
engineer in 1914 and built the largest industry in existence today in the carbon
black field. William Sims gl-aduated from Armour Institute in 1897 as an electrical
engineer, served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War, and has
served with Commonwealth Edison since 1916,
The final award of the evening was made to Charles McAleer, Jr., chemical engi-
neer, June 1941. The award was made in recognition of his outstanding abilities as
a student, both from the standpoint of scholastic ability and extra- corricular acti-
vities, as a student in the Armour College of Engineering division of Illinois
Institute of Teclinology,
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FROM: iiLEXi-iJDER SCHREIBER RE? ILLINOIS TECH TRACK TEjJJ ELECTS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF CO-CAPTAINS FOR 1941-/^2
TECHNOLOGT-VIC. 4-600
RELEASE: FOR SATURDAY 5/3/4-1
In a post season meeting the IlliriOis Tech track team named Wayne McCullough,
6650 Van Buren Street, Hamriiond, Indiana, and Richard Barry, 2201 W. Cortez Street,
Chicago, to serve as Co-Captains for next year's campaign.
V/ajTne McCullough is the first of Tech's co-operative students in mechanical
engineering to achieve this honor. V<hile attending Hammond High School in Hamjnond,
Indiana "Mac" ran the iaile in 4-s37 and the half mile in 25 04,.3. To date, he has not
broken those marks in collegiate competition but has vron the majority of his races,
showing the excellence of his high school records. Wayne might easily be called a
coaches dream for he does almost everything, and does it well. He fills in the teams
weak spots.
In the track events, one may count on "Mac" to run a 56 second quarter, 2; 08
half, 4;4-2 mile, and a lOt/^6 ty<o mile. In the field events Y/ayne vd-ll high jump
5' 6", and pole vault 11 « .
Reporting for practice late in the spring of 194-0 McCullough scored 22^ points
in three meets and has scored seventy points this past season. A refinement to his
old high school conditioning would undoubtedly iriike hi;n a standout star but his fichol-
astic progrfun on the co-operative system of eight alternate weeks of work and school
restrict his workouts. While working, Wayne is employed in the maintalnence machine
shop of the American Steel Foundries in Hammond, Indiana, On the campus, he is an
active member of Alpha Sigma Phi social fraternity,
Richard Barry, a j^jJlior in chemical engineering, shares the Captaincy, and
should prove to be a great organizer. ?Jhile a student at McKinley High School in
Chicago, Dick organized, coached, taid managed McKinley' s first track squad besides
playing tackle for the football squad. In those days Dick specialized in the pole
vault but competed in everything. Nov/adays, however, he confines himiself to timber
topping.
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In three years of collegiate competition. Parry has developed to the position
of Tech's second highest scorer while competing in only two events, the high and lov/
hurdlesc In scoring 76 points this year he averaged 6 2/3 points per meet rimning
two events, or in other Vifords avert.ged better than second place every tine he competed^
3is best recorded time for the past season was a 26.5 second 220 yard low hurdle race
at Elmhurst.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4-600
COfflEI'jCEMEI\rT EXERCISES
SECOND ANNUAL - ILLINOIS TECH
JUNE 12 - CIVIC OPERA HOUSE - 8:30PM
FOR IfffiEDlATE RELEASE.
Albert IL Havi/kes, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, President
and Chairman of the board of nationally known Congoleum-Naim Corporation of New
Jersey, will deliver the commencement address to 360 graduating students of Illinois
Institute of Technology. The exercises will begin at 8:15 P.M. Thursday, June 12, 194--'
in the Civic Opera House.
This announcement was made by President H. T. Heald, who revealed the fact that
this commencement will be the first of the recently formed Illinois Tech.
Because of the exceptionally large class of graduates. Institute officials,
according to President Heald, found it necessary to change the locale of Commencement
Exercises to the Civic Opera House. In former years, each of the separate Institu-
tions v/ere in the habit of holding exercises in school assembly halls or such places
as the Goodman Theater and the Museum of Science and Industry. IVith the merger, how-
ever, the combined senior classes totaled such, a large number that it was necessary
to make arrangements for a larger auditorium.
Baccalaureate Services, traditionally one of the most colorful services preced-
ing actual commencement will be held in famous Central Chtirch. Tlie Reverend Harold
Ruopp, minister of Central Church, ?;ill deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon. The theme
of his Sermon will be "He Took It Upon Himself".
Albert Hawkes will address approximately 360 graduating students during commence-
ment exereises. Among these are included 125 students in arts and sciences of the
Levds Institute of Arts and Sciences division, 207 students of the Armour College of
Engineering division, and 27 graduate students in engineering. In addition to this
number, the Institute will also present three honorary degrees. The names of the
recipients of the honorary degrees have not as yet been released.
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Mr. Hawkes is nationally knovm for his interest in industry and business in the
United States as president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Besides being
President and Chairman of the Board of Congoleum-Nairn of Kearney, Nev; Jersey, he is
President of Bonded Floors Company of Canada, a Director of Michael Nairn & Greenwich,
Ltd. , of London, Director of Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, and Director of
Technicolor, Inc.
Mr. Hawkes is also Director of the Nev/ Jersey State Chamber of Cofflm.erce, Nation-
al Association of Manufacturers, and Metropolitan Junior Achievement, Inc. He is a
member of the Board of Governors of the Union League Club of New York.
Born in Chicago, Mr. Hawkes received his undergraduate training in the Chicago
College of Law (the Law department of Lake Forest University). He resided in Chicago
for 37 years before taking up residence in the East. He also spent several years in
night study at Lewis I., ^titute, one of the two schools merged last summer to form
Illinois Institute of Technology. His present residence is Montclair, Nev/ Jersey,
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PROM; ALEXAI'TDExH SCI-KSIBER REi HOMOR STUDENTvS M-ID HIGHEST AVEMGES
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF AT ILLINOIS TECHj .'LRLIOUR ilND LS'^S
TECmiOLOGY-vIC. 4-600 DIVISIONS; STATISTICS.
FOR lE&iEBIATE RELEASE
Fruits of scholastic trees of Armour and Levis division campuses were picked
,resterda.y rdth release of class averages for the school term since February by the
:'egi3trar's office of Illinois Institute of Technology,
Seniors were led by Norman Friiner, 34-28 Grenshaw Avenue, political science major
3f Lev-'iSj v.'ith 2.90, An Armour division mechanical engineer^ Leo Stoolinan,
?719 W. Gunnison Avenue, ran second vrith 2.84 =
Tliese tvro scholastic leaders v;ill be among 360 candidates for degrees T/ho will
lear Albert W. Kawxes, president .ad chairman of the board of Gongoleum-Nairn, Inc.,
leliver the co.Tiinen cement address at Civic Opera House, Thursday, June 12, 194-ls as
3art of exercises beginning at 3il5 p^iri.
Robert Harmon, 809 Talma Street, Aurora, Illinois^ fire protection engineer of
\rmour division, v-as tiiird with 2. S3. Wells Mori, 821 Cornelia, business and econo-
lics major of Lewis, achieved 2o82.
Leonard Holmboe, 2508 E. 73rd Street, electrical engineer of Armour, follo^ved
tori v;ii:h 2.79. One girl to intrude on the masculine privacy of the highest ranking
lalf -dozen seniors v"as Lillian Snodgrass, 520 N. Central Avenue, sociology major of
ksv.'iso Her average was 2.76.
Departmentally ranked, fire protection engineering students were brightest on
rmour campus. They averaged 1.6-4, as against 1.54 for their closest competitors, the
rchitectural students, Sigma Alpha Mu, social fraternity of Armour, with 1.97, topped
ts class, ?-hile Alpha Sigma iviu ran second with 1.83.
At Leuis division women students averaged 1.91 against the I.64 of men students,
liberal arts students as a group, v-ith 2.02, outdistanced other departments, the
losest being ch-eraistry majors, who averaged 1.96,
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Frimer, a inember of Daedalians, social f'raternitys and of the Political Science
Club of Lewis division , is active in intramural sports, StooLnanj a member of the
?festern Society of Engineers, is a member of Tau Beta Pi^, honorary fraternity. He has
been an honor marshal for four years.
Harmon is president of Salamander, honorary fire protection engineering fraterni-
ty, is a member of the Glee Club and is trasurer of the senior class of Armour divi-
ion. Mori is a member of the Lewis Political Science Club of Levas division, belongs
to Daedalians fraternitj", and is a member of a championship ping-pong team,
HoLmboe is a member of VJestern Society of Engineer's , jlmerican Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers and the Glee Club. Lillian Snodgrass, a member of Sigma Omicron
uambda sorority , is Lev.ds t. .itor of Pcl^/'gon , Institute student annual. She has been
Dn the staff of TechnolOifty News, undergraduate weekly, is a member of the Glee Club,
ind danced in the chorxis of the Varsity Shor- of Lewis.
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i-ROM; ALEXAl-JDER SCHREIBER RE: GOLF BALL RESEARCH PROGR/Ji BY
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ARf/IOUR RESEARCH FOUNDi'.TION FOR
TECHKCLOGY-VIC. 4-600 UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION
FOR RELEASE: AFTER PRESS CONFEREI-ICE
9; 30 A.IvL - 6/2/41
Every golfer's gcLfne in the United vStates, including the "dub" as vrell as the
jiournament player, will eventually be influenced by a series of researches currently
mdenvajr by scientists of the Armour- Research Foundation at Illinois Institute of
rechnology-
Today, Rlonday, June 2, 1941, the scientists revealed that for the past tvro years
bhey have been cariyi^-6 o^'t researches on golf balls to determine their carrying dis-
bance, upon irons to determine standards for loft, on golf ball covers to determine
:hGir thickness and qiialities to resist cutting by irons, and a host of other studies.
Announcement of the v;ork that the Foundation has been carrying on at Illinois
Cech for the United States Golf Association \-;as made by Harold Vagtborg, its director.
le revealed that the United States Golf Association called upon the Foundation to
arry on a scientific program of research for the express piirpose of eliminating "the
iiscrepancies that exist in the performance of golf balls."
According to Mr. Vagtborg, as a result of these researches, "the rules of the
J.S.G.A. will control the distance qualities of the golf ball by providing for a fixed
neasure of actual performance. This control ?dll result in 'freezing' the carrying
qualities of the ball at approximately the present maximum of most fi.rst grade balls
low on the market."
The freezing of the ball, according to the Association, at approximately its
present limit of flight should accomplish several objectives which the Association has
Long had in mind. They are as follovi-ss
1. It should check further outmoding of golf courses as regards length. Thus,
it should prevent clubs (and therefore, their individual members) from, having to
pay more for golf on the score of redesigning and lengthening courses, which in
the past has sometimes required purchase of more land and payment of larger taxes
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2. It should restrict the distance walked and the time required to play a round
of golf to the point of the player's comfortable endurance.
3. It should result in greater emphasis on individual playing by promoting uni-
formity in the manufactured elements of the game.
U' It should tend to standardize golf and golf courses by controlling a factor,
which, if not controlledj could distort the whole game as now laio^iTi.
The golf research laboratories of Foundation affiliate at Illinois Tech are in
:he main, Standards La.boratories. In order to provide adquate testing equipment,
i'oundation scientists found it necessary to design and develop proper equipment. This
fork was carried out under the direction of Dr. Carl G. Anderson, research mechanical
jngineer. Most notably accomplishment of Dr. Anderson and his associates is the design
md construction of a cSri'^'ing machine which automatically "tees" the bail, drives it,
Lnd measures its velocil^' and then segregates the ball according to speed.
Assisting Dr. Anderson, specifically in the design and construction of intricate
electrical circxiits used to measure the speed of the ball was D. E. Richa.rQson, researcl
jlectrical engineer for the Foundation.
The machine according to Dr. Anderson, consists of thi'ee main units, each serving
I distinct and separate purpose. The first unit is used to automatically "tee" the
3all tyid drive it with a "sock" comparable to that of a good golfer. The second unit
:onsists of a twelve (12) inch diameter tube, fifteen (15) feet long, through which
:he ball passes after being hit. This unit also includes the electrical timing equip-
lent for measuring the speed of the ball. The third unit is a receiver which "absorbs
'h.& energy of the ball and drops it into a collector wherein there is located the
lutomatic segregating device used only in cases where large volumes of balls are rtm
-n a continuous test.
^, The performance of the machine is a very simple operation, relatively speaking,
ilthough its design required many hours of labor and its operation required many hours
:.o perfect. Balls are dropped into a hopper at random a,nd not touched by human hands
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mtil fired and segregated in the collector. A tjpical ball, for example, is lifted
!"rom the hopper by a notched rotating disk and dropped onto an inclined runu-ay. From
here it rolls onto a moving chain equipped v/ith pairs of fingers that hold the ball
just as on a tee. This chain moves the ball into position in front of the driving head.
The driving head is rigidly attached to a rotating heavj' disk T/hich revolves at
I speed of 1800 revolutions per minute or at a linear speed of 145 feet per second,
[lirough a system of delicate gearing the chain V'/ith the fingers carrying the ball is
jynchronized to the motion of the disk carrying the driving head, so that the ball is
.n the verj'' center of the head when it (the ball) is struck.
After leaving the face of the driving head, the ball passes through the 15 foot
;ute to the receiver vvhere it is segregated. On its v/ay to the receiver the ball
nterrupts delicate photo-elocti'ic light beams at pre-deterrained distances and thus the
;peed of the ball j.s measured. Even thougJi balls of varying degrees of hardness travel
varying trajectories, the timing device is so designed and constructed that regardless
>f the relative trajectory in which the ball travels, it is possible to time its flight.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ARivIGUR MD LEWIS DIVISIONS liiiVE FIRST
TECKKOLOGY-VIC. ^600 JOINT GRADUATION j CIVIC OPERi. HOUSE,
6/12/4-1-85 15 P.M.
FOR RELEASE; SUITOAY, JUNE 8, 19-41.
Fir.=3t joint cormnen cement exercises of -t'lrrnour and Lewis divisions of Illinois
nstitute of Technology vill be held Thursday^ June 12, at 8:15 p.m. in the Civic
para House, v;ith three honorary and 360 academic degrees being av/arded. Albert W,
avrkes, president of the United States Chamber of CoiKnerce, vill make the commencement
dctress.
Kav.'kes, for several years an evening division student at Lenis Institute, v/hich
erged a year ago Pith Armour Institute to become Illinois Institute of Technology,
s president and chairman of the board of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc.
Honora.ry degrees of doctor of engineering v/ill be besto7;ed by President H. T.
eald on three notable indust::ial and engineering figures, tv;o of then alujimi. Charles
onald Dall&.s, of the Armour class of 1392, president of Revere Copper and Brass
ompany, Nev; York, and Richard Henry TThitehead, of the Lewis class of 1907, president
nd general manager of The Nen Haven Clock Company, Nei; Haven, Conn., rill be return-
ng to alma mater. Joshua D'Esposito, famous Chicago engineer and builder, v.-ill cora-
lete this trio.
At 11 a.m. today (Sunday, Juno 8, 194-1) Rev. Harold F. Ruopp, minister of Central
hurch, Chicago, will deliver a baccalaureate sermon in Orchestra Kail. "He Took It
pon Himself" is the title of the address, for v/hich all candidates for graduation
111 be assembled.
TiYO hundred .and four candidates for degrees of bachelor of science in engineering,
'hree candidates for degrees in bachelor of science in engineering science, plus twanty-
ight candidates for gi-aduate degrees, v:ill comprise the Armour College division student
'epresentation seated on the stage of the Opera House Thursda.y night. By departments
■hese graduation candidates have the following distributions
Mechanical engineers, 64.; chemical engineers, 4-9; electrical engineers, 39;
ivil engineers, 24.3 architects, 15^ fire protection engineers, 13; and science majors,
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Graduates degree awards ^ by departraentG, are as follows;
Master of science in chemical engineering, 12; master of science, 6; master of
:ience in mechanical engineering, U\ master of science in electrical engineering, 3^
ister of science in civil engineering, 2^ and m;aster of science in architecture, 1.
Lewis division graduation candidates nur-iber 125, all to receive degrees of bach-
Lor of science in arts and sciences.
The six highest-ranking seniors, for the scholastic pei'iod since February, 194-1,
Lth the average they have earned out of a possible 3.00, are;
Norman Friraer, 34-28 Gren.shaw Avenue, Lewis political science major, 2.9O5 Leo
toolraan, 2719 W. Gunnison Avem.ie, Armour mechanic ,1 engineer, 2.84-; Robert Harmon,
)9 Talma Street, Aurora, Illinois, Armour fire protection engineer, 2.83; Fells Mori,
21 Cornelia Avenue, Lewis business and economics major, 2.825 Leonard Holmboe, 2508 E.
3rd Street, Armour electrical engineer, 2.79j and Lillian Snodgrass, 520 N, Central
renue, Lewis sociology major, 2.76.
The coriTOiencement program will begin r-'ith a processional of capped-and-govmed can-
Ldates, followed by the faculty and its officers, v,'ith the honorary degree winners and
le commencement speaker accompanying the president, kc^ invocation will be read by
Bverend Harold W, Ruopp, minister of Central Church, Chicago.
Robert J, Mead, 7234 K, Clark Street, senior chemical engineer, a tenor, vdll sing
Just You" \tj Burleigh, accompanied by the voices of sixteen graduating members of xhe
Lee Club, following the invocation. Gus f/fustakas, 631 Ad.am3 Street, Gary, Indiana,
resident of the Combined Musical Clubs of the Institute, vill play a violin solo fol-
Qwing the commencement £.ddress, which will come after Mead's solo.
President H. T. Heald will then a^rard departmental honors to graduates of the mech-
nical, electrical, civil, chemical and fire protection engineering departments, the
rchitectural and the engineering science departments.
The medal of the Am,erican Institute of Ai'chitects for the highest scholarship
ecord for four years •■rill go to Leonard H. Reinke, 7411 Dante Avenue. For the second
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highest architectural scholastic record for lour years an aw?:.rd vdll be made Ludwig
Blumberg, 1831 Orleans Street, who 7;ill also be ai^arded the Charles L. Hutchinson
medal for the highest record in architectural design.
A junior membership in the ilrnerican Society of Civil Engineers, av/arded by the
Illinois sections will go to John Frederick Donoghue, 5201 South Park /■ venue. Junior
nisinber ships in the Western Society of Engineers v/ill go to Roy E. Jaccbsen, 1711
Belle Plaine Avenue, and Henry E. Y/essel, 4-201 N. Mason Avenue.
Ka associate membership in the iimerican Institute of Electrical Engineers^ award-
ed "ay the Chicago Section, v^'ill go to Ben Pi.. Cole, 119 Prairie Avenue, Park Ridge,
Illinois. A junior membership in the ilrnerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, a-jard-
80 by the -Chicago chapter, wi].l go to John E. Sauvage, 510 Lake Avenue, Y'^ilmette, 111.
An award b;,- the National Fire Prevention Association r:ill go to Robert H. Hai-mon,
809 TaLma S treet, Auroi^a, Illinois, as the ranking scholar of his dexDartment. The
i''ilumni award of merit, for a senior first in school acti'/ities and scholarship v:ill
go to Charles D. ".IcAleer, Jr., R.R. #1, Box 175s Des Plaines, Illinois.
Conferring of degrees vrill then taKe place with President Heaxd officiating and
Vice President L. E, Grinter making presentations to graduate students.
A recessional will be played after- singing of the ALma Mater Song.
Honor marsiials, chosen from the ranks of undergraduates who arc distinguished
scholastically, will be as follows:
Robert Sullivan, 7078 N. ?'olcott Avenue; Charles I. Ball, a227 N. Ashland Avenue;
J. W. Harnach, 1147 S. Grove Avenue, Oak Prrk; G. ~, Staats, 1134- Ashland Avenue,
River Forest and G. T, Popp, 1135 h'. Lcrel Avenue, juniors; R. J. Mahassek, 1138 Forest
Avenue, Oak Park; R. L. Rose, 726 Erie Street^ R. M. Moore, 4-526 Drexel Avenue;
P. R. Bochtolt, S2^^6 Kimb-ark Avenue^ and Gunnar P. Oliman, 4148 Cornelia jivenue, sopho-
mores; G. L. Landsman, 4-828 N. Avars Avenue; Richard 3. Larson, 8209 3. May Street;
P= J. Colombo, 264 11. Kilbourn Avenue; .^llen Dovinati , 1534 S. Tripp Street, and
R. E. Kraft, 2230 N. Lowell Avenue, freshmen of Armour.
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Harriet S. Kott, 76^.0 W. 63rd Street; Jean Michels, 5074- Pensacola Avenue; Mary
). Green, 6428 Langley Avenue; Sidney Camras, 14-18 So Karlov Avenue; and Ira
ilaghter, 9550 S. Homan Avenue, Evergreen Park, from Lewis.
Faculty marshals v;ill include J. H. Smale, 321 S. Kenilvv-orth .ivenue, Oak Park,
)rofessor of philosophy, chief marshal; W. F. Colvert, 1624 E. 86th Street, assistant
rofessor of physics; D« R. Mathews, 54-0 3. Humphi'ey Avenue, Oak Park, professor of
listory; and C. A. Nash, 4715 W. Spaulding Avenue, associate professor of electrical
engineering,
P.ichard Henry TTnitehead vras born in Chicago, receiving his mechanical engineering
[iploma from Le?7i3 in 1907. He v;as an instructor in that institution during 1908-12.
[e vfas employed by telephone utilities, becoming testing engineer of Coim-non'A-ealth
Idison Company in 1910. From 1912 to 1916 he had charge of operations on the Pana.ma
lanal, Pacific Locks. He was successively superintendent of constiniction for Otis
.levator Company and industrial engineer for George !'V. Goethals Company, the latter
)etween 1918 and 1920, He became vice-president and general manager of the New Haven
>lock Company in 1922, He became president and general manager of that firm in 1929.
le has vvritten many volumes on hydraulics and related subjects.
Charles Donald Dallas vras born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ilfter graduation
'rom Armour in 1902, he v/as employed by the America.n Br3.3S Company for manj'" years,
fith his father he organized the Dallas Brass and Copper Company, of vj-hich he v/as
)resident and treasurer. It managed with other companies to form Revere Copper and
3rass Company, of which he served as president. He v;as a member of the World Far
lilitia. He is also president of the Hadley Correspondence School for the Blind.
Following are the candidates for degrees as noted:
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ilRivroUR DIVISION
DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIEIICE IN ARCHITECTUIffi
LUD:?IG TliECDiORE BLUl'.IBERG
ARI^OLD ELMER BLUiiE
LELAIID KING G:iRDWELL
GEORGE EDWARD DICKEL
ALDRICH JOSEPH KUBIEKA
CHARLES EDWiURD KULIEKE
CASIMIR P. LSNiiRT
DANIEL MILLER
ROBERT JATiES O'BRIEI^
WILLIM CIDiRLES PEHT/i
EUGEIJE CLEl\ffil\TT POINTEK
LEON/iRD HExSiYlilll REINKE
HARVEY SCH;j?FER
FLOREf-fCE SChUST
GUY STEIKTJEG
H. THTRBER STOYJELL
DEGREE I B.
1831 Orleans Street Chicago, Illinois
1295 Des P3-aines Avenue Des Plaines, Illinoj
6258 N. Taliikin Avenue Chicago, Illinois
30 ■■', Chicago Avenue
2,425 3. 6lst Avenue
5838 N. Kostner Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
4.050 Letrdngton Avenue Chicago, Illinois
3038 iu'drnors ^.venue
6305 Kenir.ore Avenue
2913 N, Long Avenue
5C10 Oakdale Avenue
74-11 Dante Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
57L4 Blackstone Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Saginaw, Michigem
9240 Hoiuan Avenue
502 Lake Street
Evergreen Park, 111
Oak Park, Illinois
iCHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CHEMICii ENGINEERING
LOUIS EPllEST AJIDSRSON
JOHIN' LEONARD B^^R, JR.
ALFRED GLEN BiiPilY
ELIvIER JOSEPH BAUER
GEORGE PERSHING BuUllANN
K..YDEN HENRY 3EDD0E
EDK;jm JOHN BO.VRINI
JOHN WILLI/Jvi BRIERLY
ARTHUR IfcllAxRD CxLRLSON
516 I!, 15th Place
11153 3. Park Avenue
2201 Vh Gortez Street
7SU S. Ada Street
2517 Gunnison Street
8 114 Maryland Avenue
6921 Hobiirt Avenue
I5O0 BjTon Street
I8O5 N. Nordica Avenue
Chicago Heights, 111.
Ciiicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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CHET^ICAL MGINKri^UING continued
EDWARD JOHN DOST, JR.
JOHN B, DOYLE
SiilvlUEL ODIN Fi'iLK
JOSEPH JOHN FIRSZT
ALBERT LEO FURCH
FRED CHARLES GEHLE
HOWAP.D EDWi'JlD GORlWiI\[
JOHN DMIIEL GRIGAS
RICFLARD ERIC GRINNDAL
WILLIMl HENRY GROSSE
JOSEPH GPJJ^IT FJiRTi\/LiVtI
LEROY PAUL HOLEXi^
EARL FRANCIS KUEBNER
M/J.SHALL KAHN
DONALD VJILLIAM LONG
CHARLES D, MCiiLESR, JR.
ALFRED CARim MCINTOSH
EDWARD JOSEPH MAJKA
EDWARD VINGEj:JT lit'iELA
WLLLlim FREDERICK MASSiMN, JR.
ROBERT J. IfflAD
HENRY SIGIvIUND MIRROF
WiiLTER PETER MOLDA
GUS C/-RL IvIUSTaKAS
LLOYD WILLIiill NOBXUS
ROBExRT E. PINCUS
WILLIiU'J JOHN POWERS
2616 ill- gyle Street
21 N, Union Street
3126 N. Spaulding Ave.
22-^2 T". 21st Place
35^1 Pollt Street
3-420 W, 6lEt Street
1451 N, Luna Avenue
7513 i.'Ierrill Avenue
9547 S. Leavitt Street
131c Thoi-ndale Ave.
3522 Bosvrarth Avenue
5207 B^vTon Street
7932 Langley Avenue
76I8 Kingston Avenue
2&34- Farragut .^venue
R. R. 7-^1, Box 175
10259 St. Charles Ave,
2021 W. ?«alton St.
919 Sth Street
5733 Mid". /ay Park
523^^ N. Clark Street
2930 Milyro.ukee Ave.
9821 Throop Street
631 Adams Street
7252 Merrill Avenue
6020 Kimbark Avenue
12A0 Hood Street
Chicago, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago J Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chica-go, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Des Plaines, 111.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Fauke gan , 1 11 ino i s
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Gary, Indiana
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
m
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DHEMICAL aiGINEERING continued
ZENON MICHAEL PI^^MS
&LBERT CLaEENCE SAIiOV'SKIS
iJYii.OUR K. SI-L'lPIRO
EIENRI JOHN SLI'^^A
JOSEPH WALTER SMITH
RmLLH HERBERT SMITH
MIVID TIENSON
DOMINIC VM.LINO
JACK CLA-RS^iCE VAMDER WOUDE
JAJ-IES TH0I.1i\S WABER
lENRY ERICH I'T^SSEL
iaLLIiil,/! Y^ILSON, .FR,
4.921 3. A^'ers Avenue
2639 W. 44. th Street
4.84.2 N. Talman Avenue
3107 T7. Pershing Road
2320 W.. Iowa Street
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago J Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
3236 S. Michig-an Avenue Chicago, Illinois
6131 N. Folcott Avenue Chicago, Illinois
1615 S. 51st Court
10814- Normal Avenue
9307 Laflin Street
4201 N= Lfeson Avenue
2346 No Cicero Avenue
Cicero, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
DEGREE: BaCHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
3TT0 ERIC BiJlTELDSS
fJILLIiU'I FREDERICK BAUCH
3LE.-.VER HENRY BRINKSPJIOFF
EUGENE EDP'ARD DAILEY
JOHN FREDERICK DONOGHUE
FREDERICK J.J.ffiS EHLERT
lEORGE STiJ^LEY ELLIS
JOm^ GILIBERTO
LE ROY ALBERT C-OSTZ
ARTHUR GH.\RLES I-LIUSW/lLD
UIIL T^JILBUR IL^l^^lCINS
fllCKj^RD JOSEPH HRUDA
IRVING JOSEPH
JOHN THOMAS KIRKLiiND
ROY EDGaR Ji.C03SEN
1958 Roscoe Street
81L4 S. Ada Street
7301 Princeton j.vsnue
522 FL Harrison Stree'^
5201 South Park Avenue
7028 S. Oakley Avenue
355c N, Keelsr Avenue
208 f?. 24th Place
6210 S. Troy Street
lOM Be lief or te Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Cak Park, Illinois
Chicago, IlJ.inois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
16 08 Fairviev,' Avenue
2115 S. Ridgeland Avenue Chicago, Illinois
5236 No Mnthrop Avenue Chicago, Illinois
1352 W. 77th Street Chicago, Illinois
1711 Belle Plaine Ave« Chicago j Illinois
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•l-il-V,' V.''I:.
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CIVIL ©JGINEERING continued
GEORGE STANLEY LYKOWSKI
.JGHIJ PIEPi?E llli'JlTIN
ROBERT WESLEY OLSON
CPJSOSTOMO PiiSOK
ELMER ALFPliD R.fl.TZEL
HERBERT EDf/IUND R0CK£U141«1
HARRY ROLE
JOSEPH B. SADILSK
ROBERT r.'ILLi;j;I SAIGH
KARRIS ZIMLIERIMi^
DEGREE: Bi-\CKE]
10727 Prairie Avenue
1239 N. Clark Street
3735 Wayne Avenue
126 Broadv/ay Avenue
7133 Normal Blvd.
3307 0f.k Park Averrae
5915 N. Keating Avenue
1910 Elm',vood Avenue
lllb Columbia Avenue
5312 Jackson Blvd.
,0R OF SCIEI^^CE IN SLECTRICi
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Filmette, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chi cago , 1 11 ino i s
Berviyn, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
EiJGINSERING
JOSEPH CH/JILES .iBERER
STEPHEN JOffiJ BilRTHA
Di\LE MERLE BEBB
JAJAES David brov,i.i
WALTER J/illffiS CLriPX
BEN R. COLE
JMES PATRICK CORCORM'J
WILLIAJJI JOHN DECKER
HENRY VICTOR DRYER
CHAPiES EDWAFtD DURIvEE
VITOLD LEOPOLD EDUTIS
ROY GUSTAF FR/iNZENE
JiJlES CAPJ.ilEN GaJDIO
RAYiffiijD fr;vncis m;jitin getz
LELjII;D JAI.1E3 HALL
LEONA.RD VILFORD HOLMBOE
215 S. North Avenue
3326 7;. Cry^-tal Street
l63S W. 63rd Street
4.9/-7 W. Grace Street
7117 Dobson Avenue
119 Prairie Avenue
3S19 Us-ypole Avenue
625 E. 70th Place
30C2 Divers 03^ A\'enue
4245 Els ton Avenue
1111 S, Mozart Avenue
5812 Race Street
120 7J. llSth Street
5250 W. Deining Place
4-949 BjTon Street
2508 E. 73rd Street
Elmhurst, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Park Ridge, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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ELECTRICii ENGINEERING continued
JOM VEPIjON JOHN'SOK
CHMDIxER FINDLEY KETTWER
HARRY LEVIN SON
NEIL iiLEXANDER MaCDON/lLD
CHF;IS FPiJ^'K M/iLLSRIG
GEORGE JOSEPH MATTHET^S
IiELVIN fffiCNDELSOrffl
LOUIS MONEOU
LIONEL HEJJRY NAUH
NICHOLAS Ci\RL Pi-lVACICK
ROBERT AUGUST PETERSON
ROBERT LOUIS RM?
JOHN FRjiNCIS RING
JAMES ARNETT RUMr,lELL
Ei\!IL SALINE
MILO fir\THIAS SGHALLA
OKA
FREDERICK SCHROEDER
MRVIN SKOLLSR
f-'ilRREN EDWARD STANCE
WILLIAM FULTON V/INGET
ALEXi\NDER YURSIS,JR.
Wj^XTER ROBERT ZIMERllIM
JOHN FRiiNK ZWASKA
EARL R.:.YMOi>)D EDTJIW
222 Lakewocd Place
104-6^ Ai'gyle Avenue
11702 Wallace Street
5100 So Western Avenue
7222 Indiana Avenue
2904 Cullom Avenue
U55 W, 63rd Street
UU E. 59th Street
9615 S. Hoinan Avenue
4.3O8 N. Keystone Avenue
E~ College Avenue
6221 Wajme Avenue
308 Washing*: on Blvd.
/+821 Wrightwood Avenue
5959 So California Ave.
1536 W. 70th Street
5210 WoodlaTm Avenue
2336 S. Harvey Avenue
133 N, Seoville i.ve.
10657 St. Louis A.venue
114.0 Ont;irio Street
4.04 Touhy Avenue
4.505 N o Cj if tor Avenu'"
Cannon Falls, Minn.
Highland Park, 111.
Chicago J Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Evergreen Park, 111.
Chicago, Illinois
Dov.Tiers Grove, 111.
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicstgo , Illinoi s
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Berv.'yn, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois
Park Ridge, Illinois
Ch i cago , 1 1/ ino i s
ill
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DEGRSEs BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IK FIRE PROTECTION EIIGINESRING
FRED WILLIM DE MONEY
BSKJAJvIIN EDfiAfiD FLOOD
ROBERT lUmm C-RESMBERG
ROBERT ILiRRISON H.-J?i-iION
EDWIN LivVERI^ KE3S
DON/iD SKERFIN MISFF
ROBERT HOT^ARD LMGE
RICiUJlD i.DOLPH LARSON
GEORGE RAYMOND IVLHN
HOVJARD EDW^iRD lilEYER
WILLIi-JvI fvL SPETH
ROBERT T/;.LTER Sr^EENEY
RUDOLF ADOLF ZOELLNER
533 N. Humphrey Avenue
339 Franklin Avenue
501 Jaines Place
a09 Talma Street
324 E. 58th St.
4-47 No Lombard _-. venue
8728 So Lai'lin Ave.
1307 ?;. 98th St.
6709 S. i.berdeen St,.
5255 N. Kimball .tve.
726 V'iliiain Street
7206 Indiana Ave.
3346 Berteau St.
Oak Park, Illinois
River Forest, 111.
Rockford, 111.
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, 111.
Oak Park, 111.
Chicago, ill,
Chicago, 111.
Chicaso, 111.
.go,
River Forest, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chica,<5:o, 111.
DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SGIEl^CE IjI LIECHiinCAL ENGINEERING
CARL MERLIN MDERSON
WILLIAIJ ORION ANTHONY
ROBERT DAVID BiJ^ilETT
GUENTKE.P BiJJM
ilLBERT ED?//\RD BERGER, JR,
MELVIN HENSEL BOSE
JEROME BPavlTN
LEE BULLEInI
ER1\IE3T JOi-IN COLANT
DONALD FR^JJK CREGO
EDWIN R/.Y CRCUSE
JACK ED'iY/iRD DAVIS
OTTO FREDERICK DREFFEIN
7135 S. May St.
6414 Kiiubark Ave.
617 N. Cicero Avenue
1C&9 Rose Avenue
5339 Oakdale Avenue
3518 Reta Street
6945 N. ivshland ..ve.
7614 Crandon Avenue
524 S .. Hu.mphrey Ave ,
612s Dorchester Ave.
7753 Crandon Ave.
1151 S. Spaulding Ave.
319 K St. Lottie Ave.
Chica;,o, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Des Plaines, 111.
Chicago, 111,
Chica.go, 111,
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Oak Park, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111,
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MECHMICAL ENGINEERING continus
M.EXiu^iDSR DRUSGHITZ
HENRY DULKIN
EDW/iRD DARE FLOREEK
WILLIAIil EmARD FUffilNSR
PETER ERNEST GIVuMJINI
CHESTER GINS3URG
ROBERT FELIX GOLDEN
WILLIM GEORGE H/l-ffl
ELtiER JOSEPH HiuNKES
WILLIi\J/i EDWARD HELLER
WILEERT IvlELVIN EEhUI'M
HOWilRD JOSEPH HERZOG
ROBERT LESLIE HULETT
WALTER JENSFll
EDWiLRD I. KNOFJ^ING
f^ILLIAIv'I FRAMX KSA.USE
WARREN ERNEST KUEHL .
THOMAS DANIEL LEWIS
ROBERT ANTHONY MLLEK
ARTHUR ADOLPH MAP.KS, JR.
GEORGE HENRY TfeRTIN
ROBERT tlENRY iTiA'fflEE
ELIffilR AJJDREW MATSON
JAies niLLiM mmLkY
LEE HOUSTON NIEMS
RICHARD B. NOLTE
HOVfAxRD HERBERT OBERGFELL
274-9 S. Millard Avenue
2657 W. Evergreen Avenue
300 N , Grove Avenue
372 Sunny side .nvenue
2161 DeKalb Avenue
3919 "■. Jacks on Blvd.
/.714. Adairis Street
5713 N . Y'ashtena-v" Avenue
4.8O2 S= Throop Street
764.7 Paxton Avenue
15900 Carse Avenue
3432 N. Norrnandj^ Ave.
12950 Maple Avenue
5115 S. Tripp Ave.
212 S. 18th Avenue
4846 N. California Ave.
4552 Parker Avenue
3402 S. Green Street
4539 N. Francisco Ave.
774- Wrightwood Ave.
2538 W. 66th St.
4.327 XL Harrison Street
73^.7 S. East End Ave.
5633 S. Sangamon St.
524-9 Lake Street
6718 South Shore Drive
617 Clinton Place
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Oak Park, 111.
Elrahurst, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111
Harvey, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Blue Island, 111.
Chicago, 111,
Maywood, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111,
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
River Forest, 111.
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MECKANICil, .eWGTKEERING continued
CHESTER EDI^/iRD OZIMEK
RICfliJlD .\LVIK PETERSON
FR.j:JK peter PFEFFER
GEPJLxRD Jv'L'JlTIi\' REII.IER
ALEtCu'IDER TliOiMS REYNOLDS
WILLI/dki FP^DSRICK RGEHI.'!, JR.
EBMEST IfrJlTIN RUN QUI ST
FALTER PETER RUSiU'IOWSXI
JOM GEORGE SAINICK
ALLEN CHESTER S.ilPSON
JOm^ EDWIN 3AUVAGE
LEOPOLD STEPHF2I SITKO
RAY MOPiEY SMITH, JR.
OLE INGViVLDSON 3TANGSL;i1\TD
HAROLD PETER SOFiEl^lSEN
STEPiiEi'j stef;j^jsky
LEO ST00Li:I/J^
AP:THUE WILLIM STRUTZ
THOKli'iS JOSEPH SF'EEi-JEY
EUGE-NE PAUL ?fASZ
ZBIGNIEF WESOLOV'SKI
J/AES DURH^y^ VEST
KURT GEORGE TJiNTSPriEYER
EDTu'iRD JOFJl YOmiG
18C3 lU Giiicaso Ave.
2321 N= Larnon Ave.
610 Granville Ave,
6525 S. Paulina St.
Box 22
1205 Chicago r.ve.
371 Ernst Court
24.5 S. 13th Ave.
139 N' . Honan iive .
1346 N. Kedzie Ave.
510 Lake Ave.
1037 N. Francisco Ave.
U51 F. 103rd St.
2128 N. Kostner Ave.
105^8 Leavitt St.
2172 N. Mci-rimac Ave.
2719 F. Gunnison Ave.
2726 V, 2I,th St.
624a N. 0akls;r Ave.
2326 N. r^cVickers nve.
L^CO N. Artesian Ave.
4734 Dorchester Ave.
7304 S. Union Ave.
1504 Olive Street
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Flossnoor, 111.
Evanston, 111.
Chicago, 111.
May\irooQ, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
f/ilmette, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
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DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
CLAUDE IRVING PENW
BERHAIiD MSOF
10359 Lowe Avenue
4.93^1. N. Kimball Ave,
Chicago J Illinois
Chicago J 111.
THE GFADUATE SCHOOL, ARMOUR DIVISION
DEGREE: MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
CH/iRLES SM.1USL ITORLEI Z^926 S. Kimbark Ave. Chicago, 111.
DEGREE i MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY
HERi/liA' OTTO B;.UERMEISTER
EDWARD WELSBY Ciiill'IAN
DONOVAN RUSSELL ELLIS , JR.
RUSSELL TRUE GRIFFITH
CHARLES WALL;iCE H/uMILTON
HjIROLD mills F^F'KINS
ROBERT LEE rfUELLER
HENRY FREDERICK NE^vlAN
JACK PJCIDEL
CHARLES JOSEPH RYMT, JR.
SEYiroUR SCHVIi^TZ
li;.25 Rbiode Island iive. Washington, D. C.
P.O. Box, 87, Waverly Rd Chesterton, Ind.
59 Mountain Vie;v Ave. Nutley, New Jersey
559 Pennsylvania Ave.
55-^1-1 Kenraore Ave.
311 N. 11th Street
694-1 S. Princeton Ave,
712 Cornelia Ave .
2922 N. Albany Ave.
716 W. 82nd St.
8703 Thii'd Avenue
Gary, Indiana.
Chicago, 111.
Lake Forth, Florida
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
BrookljTi, New York
DEGREE; MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGIN£?]RING
DONilLD RIGGS 125 M. Poplar Ave. Pierre, South Dakote
JMTES GEORGE SMIDL -4210 VJ. 21st Place Chicago, Illinois
DEGREE: IiliiSTSR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ilMGIKExERING
RUPERT KENNETH BEACH
WILLIM ROSCOE FAUST
HAPJIY HOLUBOW
819 University Ave.
915 E. 4.2nd Place
1112 N. Ricliwond St.
Laramie, Wyoming
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
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DEGRSE: MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECH/^NICAL ENGINEERING
ED?/IN ROBERT LMGTRY
PETER JOSEPH LINK
JMf.ES ADDISON MOGLE, JR.
GER;lLD GLEN CARNE
HO?«iRD VINCEI\IT HESS
ARTHUR FORGES
FRANCIS ARCH R;>NS0M
ROBERT KiiRRIS SAUNDERS
CHARLES ROBERT STEIN
12726 Broad Street
AA05 S. Ellis Avenue
15^16 Norinandy Ave .
DEGREE. flASTER OF SCIENCE
915 E. iiZnd Place
575 S. Seventh Ave.
6211 Kimbai-'Ic Ave.
915 E. 42nd Place
1838 Di'.vis Avemje
Box U8
LEWIS DIVISION
Detroit, Michigan
Chicago, 111.
Detroit, Mich,
Chicago, 111.
Bo z eman , Montana
Chicago, 111.
Chicago, 111.
TOiiting, Indiana
Miles City, Montana
DEGREE. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARTS AND SCIENCES
FLORENCE MAY ALDER
MRG/iRST EV/lNS ifflDERSON
KATE LEE ATKINS
RICHARD MEPJIITT BARJ^jES
I/iiiRIE ELEMOR BilRON
AHARON BASKIN
MILTON JOffiJ BAUMAJi
GEORGE GP.EGORY BERNjiRD
THOMAS i'J.BERT BISHOP
THELMil PERKINS ROLLING
HYTvliU^ DAVID BRAITBERG
WALTER XYSTUS BROM
GEORGE EVANS BUCH.\NiUl
HARRYETTE LAUPii BURNETT
LOUIS HOWA.RD BUSTILL
Z.938 N. Hamlin Ave.
5025 W. Erie Street
15 S- 7Jood St.
5350 N. Glenwood Ave,
1717 W. Congress St.
1516 S. L^illard Ave.
2537 N . Sxjaulding Ave .
2348 Augusta Blvd.
R.F.D., Box 375 D.
3961 Lake Park Ave.
4764 N, Virginia Ave.
6964 Eberhardt Ave.
819 Fashingten Blvd.
4944 S. Michigan Ave,
4S5I S. Champlain Ave.
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4RTS AND SCIM^iCES contimaed
ilARRY JOSEPH BYSTRICKY
KENNETH MILLER CALHOOTJ
DLARil AGNES Ci^J^'TRELL
SARAH CHODOSH
BESSHART COLE
MARGUERITE NB'?ELL CONLON
SHAURICE B/iER COOK
BETTY DEITZ
LOUIS WALDffllilR DE KRiiUZE
LEONA ANITh DEKISON
ELIZABETH JUNE DOFNS
JOSEPH i^NTHONi DOY'LE
THERESA DROBINSKY
iALTER STANLEY DRUZ
PEARLE R0CE700D DUNBA_R
LILLi;iN RABINOVIGH EiNGEL
AGNES FASIG
BERI^IICE FELDIVIAJI
JOHN R/iLPH FEP-RimO
PAUL KREESE FLASK/ul?
RAYMOND MYRON FRIEDKIN
NOPllAN E. FRIMER
WALTER NICKOLAS GILLEN
ALDONA ELIZABETH GLAZ
JAiJE GREY GOELET
¥!1LLII^A TTILL GOLD
JOSEPH LLOYD GOLDMjJI
59/4-5 N. Knox Avsnue
6^05 Stewart Avenue
38 E. 159th St.
3839 Wilcox Street
59/^5 S. Parkv;ay
8218 Sangamon Street
1259 Granville Ave.
Li59 S. Hamlin J^ve.
764.8 ". 63rd St.
6149 Indiana Ave.
3S3U Cj'lumet Ave.
170Z. W. 10l3t St.
533 N. Hornan Ave.
2915 N. Daiuson Ave,
34.27 Grove iivenue
1102 S. Re.cine Ave.
2258 N. Kimball Ave.
2934. W. Arthington St,
1158 S. Clinton Ave.
3206 Dickens Ave.
L42O S, Christiana Ave
34-8 N. Center St.
2409 S. Hoyne Ave,
1827 Washington Blvd.
U25 S, Drake Ave.
1407 S. Avers Ave.
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Chicago, 111.
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Berwyn, 111.
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Martinsville, 111.
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Chica^;o, 111.
Oak Park, 111.
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Bradley, 111,
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EMiU^IUEL GREEN
JACK PERSHING GREENER
JEROME FPJUNCIS GREGOR
NORMAIJ EDWARD GRIFFIN
FRED YIILLIM GUNDERIVlj-itJ
WIIIJAM GODFREY HEIMBERGER
JOSEPH JOHN HEJtIA
IRVING .iLBERT HOKIN
Alil/J'ID;. JANE KOLLIS
H/uHPJ LIONEL KOOTNICK
JMET liELEN HOUSE
MARGAPJBT MARY HYT^JES
FR^OMCIS H;iRRIS JAMES
HEPiiLiN FRITHJOF J0M30N
JOSEPHINE HURT JOHNSON
IlL'iBEL DAVIS JOHIs'SOM
RICIUJiD OWEN JOfflJSTONE
EARVENE CONSTiJ-JCE JONES
ESTHER MIRi;jii KilHN
ALDA ELIZABETH KAIRIS
DORTHEii ivlARIE KALBO?/
LESLIE SHELDON Kvd^LilN
EUGE1#] GEORGE KEY
JOHN f.ilCHj-LEL KRASNIETJSKI
ANliIA ISABELLE LEE
JUDITH R15BECCA LEVINSON
DEBOR^iH LOCKS
L44.3 S. So.-.'nr&r AvGo
614.3 So Alb.'u.ny Ave.
5255 N. Pulciski Rd.
630 N. Martin Ave.
6036 S. Roci:v;ell 3t .
17-4S N. Throop St.
2637 T.. 21st Place
1225 N. Maplewood Ave.
1952 Jionroe St.
55A2 N. Mason Ave.
2109 No LoClaire Ave.
9225 S. Lailin Ave,
5634. S, Michigan Ave,
64i|.3 Harvard Ave .
584.7 Prairie Ave,
325 Hyde Park Ave,
6002 W. 28th St.
5700 S. Michigan Ave.
1233 N . Hoyne Ave .
315 3, Kostner Ave,
264.5 S. Komensky Ave,
207 S. Racine Ave,
3544 N. Fieta Ave,
3051 W. Cerraak Rd,
4706 Beacon St.
462 W. Briar Place
1630 S. Springfield Ave
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ARTS MD SCIMCES continued
CLARA ALM LONGFIELD
JEANJITTE READ MCLUCKIE
ROBERTA ANDERSON MALONEY
EDWARD EAIffiS ?../IANCtERSON
MUDE BEASLEY-IilANN
ADELE IDA MAZER
IAARY C.lRi.'iEL MCKITTRICK
ROY PAUL JffiYER
ELMER HERiM! MOLLER
LORETTA BAi-^NES MGR^'iN
WELLS MORI
PAUL WOO MOY
MOLLIE BIRRENHOLTZ NITKA
CANUTE ROALD 0L3EN
OLGA ALLffiDA OSBACK
BEm^ICE PERDZIM
IRMA HERTHA PIGORSZ
GUSTAV /iNASTASIUS PRODROMOS
RUTH CAROLYN REEDER
CHilRLES HEimY RHEINHARDT, JR.
ROBERT FILLIM1 RETTZ
THOMjIS RIGHAi^DSON
JUNE ROLAI^IDSON
MEYER ROSEI>IWEIG
LEON MORRIS ROTTMAN
JEiJ*! DOROTHY RUSKIN
TORIBIA DORAl^ SALVADO
2334. W, 121st Place
650 Parsons Ave.
/;901 S. Parfeay
8123 S. Carpenter St.
57 E. 46th St.
1252 S. Konensky Ave.
601 Deming Place
8910 S. Hermitage Ave,
1705 N. Laramie Ave.
4.058 Kamerling Ave.
321 Cornelia Ave .
156 W. Cerniak Rd.
2320 Farwell Ave.
5057 K. Keeler Ave.
15 W. Davis St.
1900 W. Polk St.-
1133 Marengo Ave,
850 E. 52nd St.
2/4I7 S, 52nd St,
4-54-6 Sheridan Rd,
5AU Fulton St.
GOAJ, South Park Ave.
2473 Burr Oak Ave.
2917 Leland Ave.
A211 N.. Troy St.
1421 N, Dearborn St.
925 Irving Park Rd.
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ROBERT C;JIL SCKRj\GE
LLOYD PHILIP SEASTROM
ABPaiHM AJlRON SEGAL
ASAY H07JARD SHSjiR
ELSA RUTH SIEDSGHLAG
Mm SIEGAL
BERiLARD JERRY SILVER
SISTER IvIARY GaUDIA, FSLICI/J>I
KATHRYTi FRANCES SlelALEK
WvRGAiLST VIOLA SMITH
LILLIAIJ jiLENE SKODGPJ.SS
MILDRED SNYTER
RUTH LOUISE SPPJIGUE
THEODORE STSISICAL
RUTH E. ST0R2
SYLVAN TAl-INER
PAUL PIEBER TAYLOR
MARIAi/l GRETTii PALKER
RUTH ELIZABETH WEISS
JiJ'IET EVA WEST?.yiI.T
JE;-N LOUISE rJILLIAJvISON
RALPH IGNATIUS WOJAICIE^^ICZ
IJIARGiiRET ENRIGHT WOOD
ARTHUR EDWjJlD MIGHT
EUGENE CiiESAR WRZEGIOKKOFSKI
lyL'iRTHA I^a^AUEFJLAZE ZIE!#iJ
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301 N. First St.
1504^ S. Kolin Ave.
2927 Gustave St.
2875 T^. 19th St.
1620 S. Trumbull j.ve.
820 Addison St.
3800 Peterson Ave.
959 N. Western Ave.
317 Wendell St.
520 Nv Central Ave.
3504. Lake Park Ave,
211 3. Bell St.
2733 S. Homan Ave.
77-41 S. Eabash Ave.
5215 N. Winthrop Ave.
2916 f.avererie Ave.
17C6 S. Fifth Ave.
6094- A.vondale Ave.
4-137 N. Ridgeway Ave.
5850 Indiana Ave.
5224- Fullerton Ave.
4.600 Douglas Road
24.16 W. Cor tea St.
1131 N. FJinchester Ave,
8A39 Loorcis Blvd.
6330 Woodlavm Ave .
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?ROM= ALEJLAIIDER SCHREIBER RE: CHARLES DONALD DALLAS, RICH>mD HSl^RY
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF FSITEHEAD AJiD JOSIiUA D'ESPOSITO TO
TEGHl^OLOGY-VIC. /^600 RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES AT ILLINOIS
TEGK COMMENCEMSIIT-CIVIC OPER/i HSE.
6/12/41
FOR IIIffiDIATE RELEASE
Three leaders in American top-strata industrial and engineering fields will
receive honorary degrees of doctor of engineering at the first joint comniencement of
Armour and Lewis divisions of Illinois Institute of Technology Thursday, June 12, at
B;15 p.m. in the Civic Opera House,
President H.T, Heald will present the degrees to Charles Donald Dallas j of the
Armour class of 1902^ president of Revere Copper and Brass, Incorporated, of New York|
Richard Henry \?hitehead, of the Lewis class of 1908, president and general manager of
The Nevj Haven Company, New Haven, Connecticut; and Joshua. D'Esposito, famous Chicago
engineer, now project engineer for the city subway system.
This presentation will follow awarding of 360 bachelor and graduate degrees
and a commencement address by AJ.bert I^. Kawkes, president and chairman of the board
of Congoleum.-Nairn, Inc., and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
Dallas, ?(hitehead and D'Esposito will be receiving the first honorary degrees
awarded by Illinois Institute of Technology, formed a year ago ijy merger of Armour
Institute of Teclmology and Lev/is Institute. It is novj the largest engineering school
in the country, enrolling approximately 10,000 persons.
Dallas, who v7orked even while attending school, stcirted in the business i^orld at
$3.00 per v;eek as an office boy. Ee was employed by the Anerican Brass Company for
many years. In 1908 he and his father, with a capitalization of $10,000, incorporated
in Chicago as A. C. Dallas and Son, acting as sales representatives for several east-
ern copper mills.
The original firm bega.n with two desks and one stenographer, growing until, in
1912, it began to roll some of its ovm metal. 'When young Dallas became president in
1913 and the firm's name v/as changed to The Dallas Brass and Copper Company, the first
modem casting and rolling mill of the company was built.
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The company capitalization now increased to §1,300, 000,, merged with several
)ther companies to form what later became Revere Copper and Bx'-ass, Incorporated. In
L931 Dallas was made president of this corporr.ticn, which did a ISVjOOOjOOO business
In 194-0, and one of whose five plants is in Chicago.
Author of "You and Your Money," Dallas is president of the Federation of Church
lubs of the Episcopal Church and an officer of the National Industrial Conference
Board and the Copper and Brass Research Association. He was president, also, of the
ladley School for the Blind.
Wliitehead, who took an academic certificate from Lewis in 1905 and mechanical
3ngineering degree in 1908, taught in the Lewis evening school from 1908 to 1912.
He was a facility clerk for the Chicago Telephone Company from 1905 to 1909 and
1 shop superiiitendent for the next two years of the Ackerman Boland Telephone Company,
ommonwealth Edison Company employed hiln as a testing engineer from 1910 to 1912. In
L912 he presented a paper before the Merican Institute of Electrical Engineers vrhich
ivon the plaudits of Dr. Steinmetz and introduced nomenclature into the electrical
engineering field.
For the next four years he v.'orked as a testing engineer, finally assuming charge
3f operations, on the Pacific Locks of the Panama Canal. Gen. Goethals' book on the
Panama Canal includes his paper on its hydraulic system. Today tliis paper is being
ased in connection with work on the third set of Canal locks.
Whitehead becam.e general superintendent of the Otis EJ.evator Company in 1917
and for the three following years worked with Gen. Goethals as industrial engineer.
He transferred to the banking firm of George H. Burr as industrial engineer in 1921.
F^om 1922 to 1928 he served as vice-president and general manager of The New Heven
Dlock Company, Nev- Haven, Connecticut. From 1929 to the present he has been president
and general manager of that firm. He is the author of several scientific papers.
D'Esposito, a consulting civil engineer, took his academic training at the Royal
Eautical Institute of Sorrento, Italy, He became a United States citizen in 1907,
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aving come to this country in 1898. He began v/ork for the Pennsylvania Railroad as
, draftsman in 190-4} advancing to chief engineer in 1913, in which year he was put in
harge of terminal developments in Chicago.
From 1917 to 1919 he was assistant general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corp-
ration of the United States Shipping Board, Washington, D, C. In 1919 he returned
0 Chicago and assumed charge of the Union wStation project until its completion in
925. He then v/ent into private practice.
In August of 1933} D'Esposito vfas appointed state engineer of the Public Works
.dministration. He v/as resident engineer of the S&.nitary District of Chicago from
934- to 1939. From 1939 to the present he has been project engineer of the Cliicago
ubway development. He is a member of many professional bodies and lives at
11 Linden Avenue, ?filmette.
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'ROM; ALEXAiroER SCHREIBER RE; LEY/IS KLUmi DINNER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF 1951 Madison Street
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. /^600 6AAI - 6:00 P.M.
FOR IMffiDIATE RELEASE
ED NOTE: Lewis Alumni meet tonight, 6//^/4.1. They are expected to
take group action paralleling that of Ax^mour alumni.,., appoint
conmittee to meet jointly for purpose of consolidating to form
Alumni Association of Illinois Institute of Technology/. If such
action is successfully taken, this department will 'phone results
to CITY NE?/S BUREAU.
Lewis Alumni, some three hundred in nujnber, assembled last night, Wednesday,
/4./4.I5 in the class rooms and recreation halls of old Lewis Institute, Madison and
lamen Avenue, for v;hat may be their last annua.l meeting as such.
Since the merger of iirmour Institute of Technolog;^ and Lewis Institute last
.uromer, to form Illinois Institute of Technology, the two groups have been meeting
eparately e<.nd have now reached the point where action is expected to be taken to form
n alumni association of Illinois Institute of Technology.
Formal action in this direction has been already taken by the Armour group who
oted at their annual m.eeting last v/eek to elect a coraraittee to meet with the Lewis
roup for the purpose of considering plans for the formation of an Illinois Tech alumni
ssociation.
According to Arthur Lake, President of the Lewis alumni, last night' s meeting
as the first in over tv/o years. Mr, Lake emphasized the importance of the m.eeting
n the light of proposed action of aluimii merger to coincide with the merger of the two
echnical schools, '
Addressing the Lewis A.lumni were James D. Cunningham, chairmian of the Board of
llinois Tech;; H. T. Heald, President of the Institute, and Wilfred Sykes, President
f Inland Steel Company and chairman of the Institute's special comm.ittee on policy
armed for the express purpose of guiding Illinois Tech's campus development program.
In addressing the alumni of Lewis Institute, Mr. Sykes said:
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"Illinois Institute of Technology, in coiroion with other schools of its type,
is today an active and essential partner of government and of industry.
"Let us look for a moment at the picture on this campus. During the current year
the Institute is enrolling more than 4-, 000 men, most of them graduate engineers in
special engineering courses as part of the national defense program. President Heald
Ls our regional advisor for .fiigineering Defense Training. Here you have a partnership
iirith government which assumes particular significance 7)hen we learn that your school
Ls shouldering the major load of this training in the midviest.
"Industry is the third partner in our program, and just as the government is
iepending on industry for the production of material e;:33ential to our defense, so is
industry depending on our technologica]. schools for the trained human product.
Today, nearly 1,000 Chicago industries and firms, aside from employees vjho are enrollec
is cooperative students and in evening classes, have thousands registered in these
ingineering Defense courses. Here again Illinois Institute of Technology is proving
Its value as a partner in the tremendous job that faces us all."
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5E0M; ALEXi*iIDER SCHREIBEH RE: COfffilENCErMri' ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT tLT.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF HEALD OF ILLINOIS TECH AT EVMSVILLE
TECIINOLOGY-VIC. 4-600 COLLEGE, EVaNSVILLE, IKDIMA
6/6 Al 5 8 P.M.
Educational values of tradit.i.onal patterns are soon to be sharply scrutinized and
tieasured by demands of a practical society, the existence of which is geared to utili-
tarian ends.
This T<as an indication of the nature of "The College and the Community," as out-
Lined last night by Henry Tovmley Keald, president of Illinois Institute of Technology,
0 the graduating class of Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana. Commencement
xercises v/ere held in the college suditorium, beginning at 8 p.m.
"I have an idea that during the next few years the educational services rendered
3y our institutions are going to be carefully measured and analyzed," President
leald said.
"We have gone through a period when the public has accepted higher education as
m end in itself, 'with a certain naive belief that if we had enough of it, everything
fould be all right. The results have not tome out this belief,
"It seems to me that those edvicational institutions which survive will be those
rhich are rendering a real service. This, after all, is as it should be."
Comments made in 1941 about the place of colleges in the community or about res-
)onsibilities of college graduates m.ust be made in the light of the defense program,
16 declared.
"The function of the college in the process of education and what the college
loes for those who devote several years of their lives to college studies has been a
subject for continued argument," President Heald pointed out.
"William James has said, 'The bast claim that a college education can possibly
oake on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this:
that it should help you to know a good man when you see him.'
"If this be taken as a fundamental objective of college education, I fear that
nany of our graduates have not demonstrated their attainment to it. Certainly v/e do
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hope to develop those intellectual, moral and spiritual qualities which are so necess-
ary for a useful existence in a dernc cratlc society.
"This requires a familiarity with the v:orld in ?;hich v/e live as well as a know-
ledge of past human experiences dorm through the ages," he added.
"Most important of all, in ray opinion, our graduates should have a sense of voca-
tional direction T.'hich will enable them_ upon completion of their studies to adjust
themselves readily to the realities of life and to take their places as active and
productive members of a dynamic democracy,"
National defense makes education v^dth vocational direction doubly important,
but its importance cannot be overemphasized in peace tim.es or in times Fhen there are
defense problems, President Heald stated.
"Industry grows only because it renders a service to the community in which it
lives," he pointed out.
"Colleges look to the commujnity for financial support, and to an increasing de-
gree, private institutions will have to depiend upon v/idsspread support rather than
occasional large benefactions from a few individuals v;ho may be actuated by sentimental
attachments or the desire to build a monument.
"Education institutions will have to compete with many other worthy causes for
this type of support, and the best argument x\'ill be in the form of services rendered
through the preparation of young people for useful citizenship," President Heald said,
"The increasing complexity of modern civiliz?.tion, the grci-rth of technological
developments, largely makes the world one of the engineer's building, yet it is often
said that the engineer is less well-prepared to understand the world in which he lives
that are his contemporaries from the arts colleges.
"Perhaps it is true, but I am inclined to think that the confusion and lack of
understanding which exists in the minds of so many people today is no more evidenced
by engineers than by other segments of our population.
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"Our national defense program has served to emphasize anew the importance of the
complete and rapid development of technolorical resources along with human resources,"
tie declared.
"Cei-tainiy the engineer who conplotely lacks understanding of the
social and political implications of his ^vork cannot properly be expected to make the
greatest contributions to local or national welfare in time of dire need, but neither
can people with a general education \vho are completely ignorant of the world of
technology in v/hich they live, be considered truly enlightened citizens."
President Heald graduated from Vfeshington State College in 1923, taking a B, S.
in civil engineering. THvo years lator he v.'on s.n M.S. in civil engineering from the
Jniversity of Illinois. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity,
3.nd of Sigma Tau, Phi Kappa Phi and Chi Epsilon.
Becoming assistant professor of civil engineering at Armour Institute in Septem-
ber, 1927, President Heald advanced rapidly. In 1931 he was made associate professor
and assistant to the dean. In 1933 he became dean of freslirnan. For four years
following September, 1934-, he was professor of civil engineering and dean of the
Institute. The establishment of a research division and the nucleus of a graduate
program were formtilated under him.
Made acting president in October, 1937, President Heald v/as appointed to his
present position in May of the following year. Rapid growth and continued high stan-
iard of administration of the Institute, culminating in formation of Illinois Institute
Df Technology in 194-0, are greatl;;- attributable to him.
President Heald has held a variety of offfices in the i'testern Society of Engi-
neers and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He belongs to the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Public I?ork A.ssociation, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Adult Education Council of Chicago, Illi-
nois Engineering Council, Industrial Relations Association of Chicago, Theta Xi, Chi-
cago Engineer's Club, University f .. b of Chicago and A.F. and A.M.
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FROM: ALEXiU-'IDER SCIIREIBER RE; POPULARITY Q.UEEI^ OF LEF/IS DIVISION OF
ILLINOIS INSTItUTE OF ILLINOIS TECH /iffiOtlNCED AT SENIOR CLASS
TECmroLOGY-VlC . A60C INFOPliAL FROM LAST NIGHT, STSVEi\T3 HOTEL.
FOR RELEASE; SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 194.1.
A stately Hellenic beauty, Alda Kairis, 315 S. Kostner Avenue, v;as announced
winner last night (Saturday, June 7) among 135 contesta.nts for the title of popular-
ity queen of Illinois Institute of Techinologj'- from Lev/is division. She is graduat-
ing Thursday.
Results of secret balloting, conducted during the past v/eek by Lewis students,
were made public at 11 p.m. at the annual senior class informal prom in the Tovfer
Rooms of the Stevens Hotel. More than 1,500 ballots ivere cast.
Jolm Ferraro, 2933 W. Arthington Street, chairman of the prom committee, in
making the announcement listed ten requisites for popularity that had influence on
the contest vote. They were assembled by male members of the coirmiittee.
According to Le?/is men, a popularity queen must have the follov/ing:
1. Intelligence.
2. Her o^vn cigarettes.
3. A figure good enough for a sweater but not too good for overalls.
4-. The ability to hum on key ?/hen she is dancing.
5. A bowling average of 110, if she bowls at all.
6. The habit of locking straight at men vithout rolling her eyes or indulging
in "come hither" sigr^als.
7. Willingness to sit out a dance occasionally.
8. No diary-keeping habits.
9. Hair in its ovm or fairly-authentic shades.
10. A good-night kiss.
Miss Kairis, a member of Sigma Omicron Lambda sorority, of which she is vice-
president, is a business and economics major. She has specialized in personnel
study and investigation. She graduated from Austin High School in 1937.
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A member of the Lev/is Glee Club, she belonged also to the Drama Club and acted
the past year as president of Pan-Hellenic Council, She was a 194-0 Saturday editor
of Technolopy Nevjs, iinder graduate weekly, and took prominent parts in productions of
"You Can't Take It with You," "Ladies of the Jury," "Counselor at Lav;," and "Two on
an Island,"
Members of the prom committee assisting Ferraro Ts/ere Lov/ell Stevenson,
24.57 Jackson Blvd.| Thomas Cafcas, 8250 Bishop Street; Bernard Silver, 820 Addison
Street; Florence Alder, 4-938 N. Hamlin Avenue; and Miriam Walker, 1706 S. 5th Avenue,
MayATOod, Il|inois.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER REs DR, C. L. GLAPiKE, DEAN OF LEWIS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF DIVISION OF ILLINOIS TECK, COMENCE-
TECmiOLOGY-VIC. A600 MENT SPEAKER AT ALFRED U., ALFRED,
NEW YORK - 6/9/4-1
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941.
The paradox of losing in oi'der to gain, on the hiunan scale, is the secret of a
successful life, Dr. Clarence L. Clarke, dean of Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences
of Illinois Institute of Technology, last night told members of the graduating class
of Alfred University, Alfred, New York=
One hundred and fifth commencement exercises of the school v;ere held in the uni-
versity auditorium. Dr. Clarke, an Alfred graduate of the class of 1906, spoke on the
subject of "Losing or Saving a Life." He was av.'arded a doctor of laws degree by
Dr. J. Nelson Norwood, President, a classmate.
"Evei-y human being has an incurable longing to live sigrtif icantly, " Dr. Clarke
said .
"To do so he must lose his life in various vital, growing, developing institu-
tions. An institution is but a form of associated or group activity by means of which
needful services or desired goals or human values are produced or rendered to or for
life.
"They may take the form of a home, a community, a political or economic or edu-
cational organisation."
Self preservation is generally accounted the first law of life and seems to be
the only law of life in periods of desperate national danger or in moments of dire
necessities in an individual's existence, Dean Clarke observed. These times of ab-
normal pressure should not be sam.pled as the normal or regular state of affairs, he
counseled.
"Some of the very best things in life are more securely achieved by not striving
for them directly, and by not straining too strenously for them. These are the by-
products of other consuming interest and activities. Of human institutions we can say
much that we have said for human lives.
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"Every human institution of any stage of history or human development may
struggle to preserve itself, strive to save itself and lose its life. Or it may lose
itself in the process of the outgoing more and more abundant life and save itself.
"Its continued existence depends on its growing 'vith life. The focussing of
luman attention and energies upon the task of preserving an institution, 'vhether it be '
Dne of educational, economical, civic, political, religious or domestic channels, in
i firm status quo, means death eventually for the institution. An institution, to live
nust lose itself. To survive it must continually remake itself to be ever a readier
aeans to the end of the more abundant life . ■'
Instead of planning one's life for a long-term existence, he may prefer the
temporary securities and plea,sures of the present, Dean Clarke pointed out.
"'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die,' maj' be selected as the guide of
Life and living by some. Those x"ho choose it certainly vrill die. And like the beasts
)f the field dubiously leave as a mark of their having lived only a microscopical effec
m the faima and flora of the future and perhaps a fossil remains for some millenial
eologist to decipher."
Dr. Clarke, a native of Friendship, N. Y., received his Ph.B. from Alfred in 1906
md his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1928, He was professor of education
md philosophjr at A.lfred from 19C3 to 1910. Since that time he has served on the facul-
ties of the University of Washington, Idaho State College, Beloit College, University
of Chicago and the University of Michigan. He has been a professor at Lev/is Institute
since 1928 and became dean of its School of /irts and Sciences in 1936 =
He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and the
author of "Tenure of Teachers in the Professions." His address is Post Office Box 232,
57innetka, Illinois,
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FROM. ALEXMDER SCHREIBER RE; COMffiNCEMEJIT EXERCISES - 6/12/41 -
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF CIVIC OPERA HOUSE - 8:15 P.M.
TECHNOLOGY- VIC . ^600
RELEASE: FOR THURSDAY ^ 6/l2//il
Commencement exercises of Illinois Institute of Technology, to be held tonight,
Thursday, June 12, l?^-!, in the Civic Opera House, will signify the completion of the
merger of Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute. Merged just a year
ago, the tvro schools will tonight graduate 360 students in engineering, architecture,
and arts and sciences. In addition, honorary degrees of Doctor of Engineering will
be conferred upon three of the nations outstanding industrialist and engineers.
The commencement address, according to announcement by President H. T. Heald,
will be delivered by Albert W. Hawkes, nationally kncfni as the president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce. T^lr. Hawkes, who is also president and chairman of the
Board of Congoleum-Nairn Corporation of Kearney, New Jersey, will address this, the
first joint graduating class of Armour and Lewis on, "PRESENT OPPORTUI«TY FOR
TRAINED YOUTH" .
President H. T. Heald will confer honorar3r degrees of Doctor of Engineering
upon three notable industrial and engineering personages of the United States. T-.vo
of them are alumni of former Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute.
The recipients of the honorary degrees are Charles Donald Dallas, graduate of
Armour Institute of Techjiology, class of 1892, President of the Revere Copper and
Brass Company of New York> Richard Henry Whitehead, Lewis Institute alumnus, class of
1908, president and general ma.nager of the Ne7ir Haven Clock Company, Nev; Haven, Conn.^
and Joshua D'Esposito, famous internationally as a consulting engineer and p>roject
engineer in the construction of the Chicago subwaj^.
Each of the honorary a?7ards of Doctor of Engineering will be made in "recogni-
tion of special and noteworthy'" contributions to profession and to civilisation" .
Charles Dallas was instrumental in the consolidation of several large copper
and brass companies to form the Revere Copper and Brass Company; Richard Wliitehead did
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iiuch of the preliminary engineering study 'A'hich resulted in the successful completion
jf the Panama Canalj as a consulting engineer, Joshus D'Esposito has been particularly
Instrumental in construction and design work in connection with the Ciiicago subway.
Two hundred and four candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in cngi-
leering, plus twentj^-eight candidates for graduate degrees will be presented to
'resident Heald. These candidates will be presented by acting Dean, James Peebles as
;andidates from the Armour College of Engineering division of the Institute. From the
jewis Institute of Arts and Sciences division will come 125 candidates for the science
legree in the arts and sciences. These \Yill be presented to the President by Dean
]. L. Clarke.
Top scholastic honors for the year vrill go to tv/o seniors, one each from the
irmour College division and the Lewis division. For the Armour College division, the
lighest ranking senior is Leo Stooljnan, mechanical engineering student ..,.,..
le averaged 2.84. for four years of scholastic effort out of a possible 3.00.
In the arts and sciences, top honors for the Lewis division go to Norman Frimer,
lolitical science major who averaged 2.90 scholastically out of a possible 3-00 for
!'our years of study.
In addition to honoring the top ranking men students of each of the divisions of
:he Institute, President Heald announced that top scholastic effort for the female
3ex V7ill also be honored. This honor will go to Lillian Snodgrass, candidate for the
iegree for Bachelor of Science in sociology. She will be designated as HONORWOMAN
^OP. ALL DEPARTIiffiNTS OF LEWIS INSTITUTE DIVISION OF ILLINOIS TECH.
Norman Frimer is a member of Daedalians, social fraternity, and of the Political
Bcience Club; he is active in intrajnural sports. Leo Stoolman is a member of the
Cech student chapter of the Western Society of Engineers, Tau Beta Pi, national honor-
ary engineering fraternity, and he has been an honor marshall at comm.encement exer-
cises for four years. Lillian Snodgrass is a member of Sigma Om.icron Lambda sorority,
jewis editor of the Polj^gon, student yearbook, and a member of Technology Nevjs, stu-
lent weekly nev/spaper. She is also a member of the Tech Glee Club.
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A phase of tonight's commencement exercises that will come very much as a surprise
ill be the comnissioning of 18 of the graduating students of engineering as Ensigns
n the United States Naval Reserve, iinnouncement of this action v&s made by Captain
dward A. Evers, USNR, Commandant of the Illinois Area Naval Reserve. Captain Evers,
uring the commencement exercises, will svjear in the eighteen seniors who a,re to
eceive commissions as ENSIGNS,
Captain Evers stated that one of the seniors had already been sworn in due to the
act that he could not be present at commencement exercises tonight, imother of the
raduates will not receive his com.mission tonight due to the fact that he has not as
et recovered from a broken leg. Fourteen others who are to receive commissi. ons from
he Navy, have deferred acceptance of their Ensign ratings because they have not as yet
ompleted school.
The Ensign Commissions, according to Captain Evers, are of the "special volunteer
ype in the engineering phase of naval work" , The recipients may be called to active
aty at any time and will enter Naval services as engineer officers in such divisions
f the navy as the procurement division of aviation: in the ordnance division; or in
he engineering division.
Although the greatest number of students to receive degrees are the regular four-
ear engineering, architecture, and arts and science candidates, special mention must
e made of those vjho have spent as much as 10 years in obtaining their honors, Forty-
ine of the recipients of degrees will be candidates from the evening sessions of
llinois Institute of Technology. Of these forty-nine candidates, four are from the
rmour College division while forty-five are from the Lewis Institute division,
Tv'rent3^-eight graduate degrees will be conferred by president Heald upon students
ompleting two years of post graduate study in engineering. These degrees vdll be
or work in architecture, science, and chemical, mechanical, electrical, and civil
ngineering.
The comiriencement program will begin ?fith the processional of candidates for de-
gree,3 followed by the officers and facu].ty of the Institute. The invocation will be
read by the Reverend Harold W. Ruopp, minister of Chicago's famous Central Church.
Special recognition will be given talented graduates. Robert J. Mead, chemical
engineer, will sing "Just You", by Burleigh, he will be accompanied It/ a double octet
of seniors of the Glee Club. Gus Mustakas, chemical engineer, will deliver a violin
solo; he will play Provost' popular INTERTAEZZO.
After the cormnencement address by Mr. Hawkes, the President will confer degrees.
The Recessional will be preceeded by the Benediction to conclude the commencement
exercises.
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'ROM: ALEXi\ATDEF{ SCHREIBER RS; COlvUffi^IGEiiiaiT EXERCISES OF ILLINOIS TECH
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF AT CIVIC OPEPJi HOUSE; ALBERT W, HAvrKES,
TECfflTOLOGY-VIG . 46OO PRES., U.S. GHAIL COLftL vSPEMER; HONOR-
ARY DEGREES AYJARDED.
FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JUl^E 13, 19^1.
Continuance of the Aiiierican way of life depends in part on determination of the
.94-1 graduate to announce its value to the world, Albert vJ. Ha-i'ykes, president of the
nited States Chamber of Commerce and Congoleum-Nairn, Incorporated, last night,
i/12/4.1 declared.
Speaking at commencement exercises of Illinois Institute of Technology at Civic
ipera House, Havfkes outlined his plea for vigorous jliaericanism, to be exemplified by
iroducts of the nation's schools. His speech was titled ''Present Opportunity for
■rained Youth . "
Three hundred and sixty degrees were awa.rded to students of Lewis and Armour
.ivisions of the Institute, including 28 e.dvanced degrees to graduate students. Honor-
ry degrees of doctor of engineering ;vere bestowed on Richard Henry Whitehead, Charles
lonald Dallas and Joshua D'Esposito.
"One of your greatest opportunities," Havfkes told the graduates, "is to help
lake a satisfied people, on r/hich a continuance of our iimerican way of life must
.spend ,
"You can do it by fully Informing yourselves a.nd ty sound thinking. This
ihould lead you to a determination to make every other citizen with whom you come in
ontact realize that each of us has obligations. We must each make a contribution in
bought and v:ork if vie can expect to partake of the benefits of our great orgi^nizaticn,
he United States of ;\inerica, rtaicn r)roduces the American way of life."
Citing Helen Keller as an example of accomplishment in spite of odds, Hawkes
aidi
"Let us never forget the lesson Helen Keller has taught the world. Even though
he v;as born blind and deaf and therefore v/as unable to speak, still she sensed an
pportunity as it touched her finger tips and lips.
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ause she has helped to transmit to others afflicted as she vfas a great opportunity to
.0 things. She therefore not only benefitted herself, but has done the greater thing —
he has served humanity in a way that, until her time and accomplishment, was consider-
d impossible."
Praising Lewis division of the Institute, v;here he studied at night for several
■ears, Hav-rkes predicted rapid progress and expansion for Illinois Institute of
'echnologj'-. He emphasized the importance of schools in the democratic ord.3r. No lack
if opportunities for trained youth exists today, he declared,
"In a nation of free people there alv^'ays has been, is, and alwaj^s will be,
ipportunity for every youth who is willing to pay the price of success. In 1896, I
an remember, I came home and told my parents I wished I had been born forty years
ocner because all the good opportunities in the United States v/ere gone.
"There v/as nothing left but a steady, slow grind to make a living, I added. It
as difficult for me then to believe there vras as much or more opportunity in front
f me as had ever been open to anyone in the preceding years of our nation's history.
"So it is just as certain that the opportunities that are in front of you are as
reat as a.ny that have been in front of any generation in this country. Opportunities
ticrease alm.ost in proportion to the increase in population, the congestion of living
onditionc, and the complexity of our society."
James D. Cunninghajn, president of Republic Flow Meters and chairman of the board
f trustees of the Institute, cited Dallas, B'Esposito and Wliitehead before President
T. Heald presented their honorary degrees.
Dallas, of the Armour class of 1902, is president and a director of Revere
apper and Brass, Incorporated. He began in the business world as an office boy at
3.00 per week. He xvas made president of Dallas Brass and Copper Company in 191S and
l" his present firm in 1931.
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D'Esposito, a graduate of the Royal Nautical Institute, Sorrento, Italy, came to
the United States in 189S and became a citisen in 1907, having in 1904 become a drafts-
nan for T,hs Pennsylvania Railroad. He was in charge of engineering operations of
Chicago's Union Station from 1913 to 1925, v^hen it was completed, Troi.i 1934- to 1939
f-esident project engineer of Pt).blic Works Administration , D'Esposito became Sanitary
)istriet Engineer and is noi; project engineer of the Subvjay Developm.ent.
Fnitehead, a native Chicagoan, took a degr:-e of mechanica,! engineering in the
jevds class of 1908, was an instructor at iievjis for the next iour years, becam.e asso-
dated in construction of the Panama Canal, ending up in chaa-ge of operations of the
'acific Locks of the Canal. Later associated \'^ith General George Vi. Goethals as an
ndustrial engineer, he had, by 1929, risen to president and general mana-ger of The
lew Haven Clock Company.
A feature of graduation exercises was announcement of commissions, and the
ommissioning itself, of eighteen gTraduating engineers of Armour division as Ensigns
.n the United States Naval Reserve. Captain Edward A. Evers, U,3NR, commandant of the
llinois Area No,val Reserve., vsvjore in the studeiits. Procurement, ordnance and engi-
eering divisions of the navy vn.ll absorb them.
Forty-nine of t.he 360 students receiving diplomas were gradu.atGs of the evening
ivision of the Institute. Forty-five took bachelor of science in arts and sciences
egrees from Lewis and four earned bachelor of science in arts and sciences degrees in
arious branches of engineering from Armour.
Honors awarded undergraduates by President H. T. Heald were as follovs;
Lewis Institute of Arts and Sci.ences'. Honor Ma.n of A.11 Departm.ents, Norman E.
'rimer, 34-28 Grensha.w Avenue, Honor Foman of i\ll Departments, Lillian Snodgrass,
20 N. Central Avenue j Awards for the Second Highest Scholastic Record for Four Years,
'ells Mori, 821 Cornelia Avenue, and Ruth Sprague, 211 S. Bell Avenue.
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Arinour College of Engineering; Honor Man of All Departraents; Leo Stoolman,
2719 W= Gunnison Avenue; for the Department of Chemical Engineering, Richard Hruda,
2115 3. Ridgeland Avenue, 3erv/ynj for the Department of Civil Engineering, Roy
Jacobsen, 1711 Belle Plaine Avenuej for the Department of Electrical Ensineering,
Leonard Holmboe, 2$0S E. 73rd Street; for the Department of Fire Protection Engineer-
ing, Robert Harmon, 809 Talma Street, Aurora; for the Department of Mechanical Engi-
neering, Leo Stoolman, 2719 W. Gunnison Avenue; for the Department of Science, Bernard
Rasof, 4-939 N. Kimball Avenue i and for the Department of Ai'ohitecture, Leonard Reinke,
Jr., 7A11 Dante Avenue.
First and second prizes of the Merican Institute of Architects for high scholar-
ship went to Leonard Reinke, Jr., 7/+11 Dante Avenue, and Ludwig Bluraberg, 1331
Orleans Street. The latter also v/on the Charles L. Hutchinson medal for architectural
design.
A junior membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, awarded by the
Illinois section, went to John Frederick Donoghue, 5201 South Park Avenue, Junior
memberships in the Western Society of Engineers went to Roy E. Jacobsen, 1711 Belle
Plaine Avenue, and Henry E. Vifessel, A201 N. Mason Avenue.
An associate membership in the Ajnerican Institute of Electrical Engineers, award-
ed by the Chicago section, t^-ent to Ben R. Cole, 119 Prairie Avenue, Park Ridge, 111.
A junior membership in the American Society of ffechanical Engineers, awarded oy the
Chicago chapter, went to John E. Sauvage, 510 Lake Avenue, Y'ilmette, 111,
An award bj"" the National Fire Prevention Association went to Robert H. Harmon,
809 Talma Street, Aurora, Illinois, as the ranking scholar of his department. The
AlujTini award of merit, for a senior first in school activities and scholarship went
to Charles D, McAleer, Jr., R.R. #1, Box 175, Des Plaines, Illinois.
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'ROM; ALEXMDER SCHREIBER RE.. AWARD OF SCHOLiiRS?IIPS TO i'PJ^IOUR IdiB
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF LLTIS DIVISION I'JINNExRS; EIGHTEEN
TECMOLOGY-VIC. 4-600 STUDENTS FROM JUNIOR COLLEGES, HIGH
SCHOOLS.
FOR IIiMEDlATE RELEASE.
Eighteen winners of one-yoar tuition scholarships to Armour College of Engmeer-
ng and Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences of Illinois Institute of Technology were
nnounced today fcy H. T. Heald, president.
Applicable to the scholastic year of 194-1-4-2, the awards were competed for by
ore than 300 high school seniors of the metropolitan area a.nd thirteen states,
ritten examinations and personal intervie-'-s deteriuined winr.era.
Armour College of Engineering scholarships went to ten high school seniors of
he Chicc^go district. They are.
Benjamin Borgerson, 4032 Ytellington Avenue, Schurz High Schoolj Leonard Chase,
158 S. Aberdeen Street, Lindblom High School, Richard Christian, 2L41 Bradley Place,
ane High School, Robert Dahl, 5959 F. Division Street, Austin High School; Robert
naedinger, Jr., 64ii. N. Elniwood Avenue, Oak Park, Oak Park High School, Charles Hall,
r., 1253 Elmdale Avenue, Sonn High School^ Richard Kelley, SL49 Jeffrey Avenue,
arvard School for Boys, Harold Kimball, 14-55 S. 69th Place, Leo High School, Ronald
ind, 622 3. Euclid Avenue, Villa Park, York Conirnunity High School; and John Reed,
838 S. Union Avenue, Leo High School.
Lev/is Institute of Arts and Sciences scholarships went to eight persons, five of
hem high school seniors, two junior college graduates, and one with one year of junior
iollege, all from the metropolitan area. They :-.re:
June Eaehuy, 4-329 N. Troy Street, and Jeanette prjterson, 4-715 Belmont Avenue,
raduates of Fright Junior College; Gloria Klousar, 1421 S. 57th Court, Cicero, one
ear, Morton Junior College, Joseph Dalton, 203 N, Pulaski, St. Mel High School, Charlet
arner, 3S32 F.^ Polk Street, St. Mel High School; Ann Mossner, 1804- S. 12th Avenue,
.ay\vood, Proviso Tovmship liigh School, Virginia Pochelski, 271.7 N. Sacraiaento i-.venue,
■•'churz High School, and Viola Sievers, 3108 77th Avohuc, Elmwood Park, Schure High
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TiiTO special scholarships were amiouiiced at the sains time. One^ donated by the
5th Central Civic Assembly for National Youth P'eek, vrent to Raymond H, Rickhoffj
017 N. Mcnticello Avenue, Crane Techjiical High School, and will be a one-year tuition
ward to Lev/is division. The second, v/on 'ay 7/estly Ruther, 6517 Greenvier; Avenue,
ullivan nigh School, was given by Armour College of Engineering at re.,uest of
itisens of Tomorrov; program of the Chicago Daily Tribune,
June Rachuy, Wright Junior College, is a graduate of Little Rock High School,
ittle Rock, lov/a, where she won numerous scholastic awards. At V'jright Junioi* College
he has been a coliomnist on the student rjaper, '?rrites literary criticism for the
chool magazine, and has contributed verse to a. nuir.Der of national poetry reviev/s.
Jeanette Peterson, Wright Junior College, is a graduate of Tuley High School.
he is principally interested in chemistry, mathematics and English leading to a pre-
edic course. Winner of several scholastic honors in high school, she is a class
eader at ^/right.
Gloria Klouzar, Morton Junior College, is a graduate of Liorton High School, where
he was a mem.ber of the national honor society. At Morton Junior College she won a
etter for tennis and was a leading student. She is interested chiefly in dietetics
ad will take a course in hom.e economics.
Benjamin Borgerson, Schurz, hopes to take a chemical engineering course at Armour.
e liked chemistry, mathematics and physics best in high school. He was a member of
he Laurels, honor group and was in the upper seven per cent of his class. He played
irst violin in the orchestra, was an R.G.T.C. captain, and was a Boy Scout, star rank.
Leonard Chase, Lindblom, hopes to take an electrical engineering course at Armour.
e won tiiree scholarship certificates at Lindblom, belonged to the honor society and
njoyed chemistry, physics and mathematics. He ranked 27th in a class of 25C students.
Richard Chirstian, Lane, hopes to take a chemical engineering course at Armour.
e was editor of the Lane Tech Prep, associate editor of the annual, played trombone in
ae band for three years, and was interested in photography.
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Robert Dahl, A-ustin, hopes to take a civil engineering course at Armour. In a
lass of S76 students he ranked first scholasticall.y. He won high rating in his
chool Latin contest and was interested in mathematics and scientific subjects.
Robert Gnaedinger, Jr., Oak Park, was nineteenth in his class of 750 students,
'or thi'ee and one-half years he was on the high school honor roll. He won a manager's
Letter for sports, v;as on the safety council as coiriiiiittee chairman and v;on a first
ilternateship to Oberlin College for physics. He was a meruber of the debating club,
the radio club, and worked in the advertising depai^tment of the school paper.
Charles Hall, Jr., Senn, hopes to take a chemical engineering course at Armour,
fe '.ms a member of the national honor society, liked mathematics, physics and chemdstry
and ranked in the hignest ten per cent of his graduating class. He belonged to the
nathematics club, stamp club and Greek club, and was active in intramural sports.
Richard Kelley, Harvard School, hopes to take the electrical engineering course
at Armour. He ranked first in a class of tv/enty, belonged to the national honor
society, was on the staff of the school pa.per and was associate editor of the annual.
Harold Kim^ball, Leo. hopes to take a chemical engineering course at /jr-m-our. He
attended Leo on a scholarship, won first prize in the school essay contest, was in
the upper five per cent of his class, received debating honors and was on the staff of
school publications. His chief interests were chemistry and mathematics.
Ronald Lind, York Community, hopes to take a science course at Armour, Chiefly
interested in chemdstrj* and mathematics, he was president of his section of the nation-
al honor society, won a m.ajor football letter as center, was in the drama club and
earned an appointment to the United States Naval Academy.
John Reed, Leo. hopes to take a course that will allow him to become a research
chemist or a chemical engineer. He was in the upper ten per cent of his class of 200,
He played on intramural baseball and ba.sketball teams and in the orchostra. He was on
the honor roll for four years.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGy-VIC. 4-600
6-41-28
R£: FOPJilATION OF "GAS INSTITUT:^" AS Mi
AFFILIATE OF ILLINOIS TECH -
$1,000,000 PR0GRAI.1.
FOR I?,IMEDIATL RELEaSS '..
Illinois Institute of Technology, as a resvilt of an extensive survey conducted
among the leading colleges and universities of the United States, has been selected
to be the site, and its staff and administrative officers, the administrators of a
projected INSTITUTE OF GAS TECHNOLOGY. The new "Gas Institute" ^.vill be located on
the present campus of Illinois Tech in Chicago and Ysdll involve an expenditure of
more than $1,000,000, exclusive of necessary additions to plant and existing equipment.
This new program vrill provide for the creation of a separate unit at Illinois
Tech (its pi-esent south side campus), for the purpose of conducting primarily a com-
prehensive program of graduate instruction leading to th.e Master of Science and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees. There will also be conducted and encouraged under this
graduate program of instruction, fundamental and applied research pointed toY/ards the
betterment of the future of the gas industry, according to H. T. Heald, President.
President Heald returned yesterday from Nev; York City v.'here he had attended the final
organisation meeting of the Trustees acting upon the affiliation of the "Gas Institute"
with Illinois Institute of Technology.
"Initial financing will provide funds for operating and maintenance expenses in
the amount of at least $100,000 per year for a period of ten (10) years," eaid
President Heuld. "These expenses will include instructional costs and regular main-
tenance costs," he added.
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Additional provision v/ill be made for funds to erect the necessary buildings to
house the instructione.1 and research activities under this program.
Actual operation is scheduled to begin September, 194-1 concurrent v/ith the open-
ing of Illinois Institute of Technology for the regular academic year of 19A1-4-2.
From five to ten felloYJships will be granted students for the first year of operation o
The prcgranij however, when in complete operation, contemplates a student body of
graduate level of from 50 to 60 students with a v/ell qualified faculty chosen for
their competence in research and graduate instruction.
Plans for the "Gas Institute" include the erection of buildings to house its
activities. These buildings Virill be in addition to the new structui'es planned by
Illinois Institute of Techjiology under its current ejcpansion program,
T7hile not a part of the $3,000,000 special development program of Illinois Tech,
The INSTITUTE OF GAS TECHNOLOGY project directly supplements it, according to Wilfred
Sykes, presiderit of Inland Steel ei.nd chairman of the development com.mittee of the
Institute's board of trustees.
"The fact that leading gas companies across the country have chosen Illinois
Institute of Technology as the site for this important project is, we believe, largely
attributable to the plans which our trustees have laid for developing on this campus
a technological training center second to none. f7e .are proceeding to launch an early
effort to assure funds for the most urgent of our "building needs, Metallurgical,
Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineering buildings, a Library and Administra-
tion building, and a Humanities building," said Mr. Sykes.
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of the organization group. The decision to create the INSTITUTE OF GAS TECHNOLOGY
at Illinois Tech came as a result of two years of investigation on the part of a
committee of the gas industry, headed by Frank C. Smith, President of the Houston
Natural Gas Company (Texas) ,
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F. H= Lerch, Jr., President of the Gas Companies, Inc., of New York and chairman
of the coTiimittee on university affiliation of the gas companies, confirmed the
announcement of plans to create the new Institute, lb-. Lerch also formally announced
selection of Illinois Institute of Technology' from" :he group of colleges and univer-
sities in the United States under investigation as to capability to handle the project.
In making announcement of the selection of Illinois Institute of Technology as
the sponsor of the nen project, Mr. Lerch said:
"Illinois Institute of Technology.'' impressed the gas industries' committee by its
willingness and excellent ability to cooperate in this project. The "Gas Institute"
will have as its primary objective the training of man power specifically for the gas
industry. Trained exclusively on the graduate level, these men vdll have the benefit
of the highly respected graduate school novif in existence at the Institute.
"The scope of the curriculum, the excellence of its faculty, the character of
the fundamental research to be underts.ken for the degree, Y.-ill be designed to make
available the highest type of scientifically trained personnel and to broaden the
scientific knowledge feipplicable to the solution of the problems of one of the nation's
most important industries."
"Such an institution as the 'Gas Institute,' said President Heald, "must necessar-
ily have the highest standards. This v/ill necessitate a. carefully selected student
body and faculty."
Six principle objectives have been laid dovm to form the basis of operation of
the "Gas Institute". First of all the founders of the nev; Institute expect it to
be operated to "train qualified young m.en, college graduates, for entrance as valuable
employees to the gas industries. The other five objectives are: conduct fundamental
research; conduct applied research^ collect and distribute scientific information
pertaining to gas research, development, investigation, and processes; as a central
organisation to stimulate research throughout the gas industry; and, as a central
organization to coordinate research in the gas industry."
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Upon completion oi four years of study, the student under this program vrould
receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, avrarded by Illinois Institute of Technology
The course of study, ?;hich requires college graduation for admission, would in-
clude three years of academic training based upon the fundamental sciences and funda-
mental research. The fundamental science studies include organic chemistry 5 engineer-
ing mathematics J physics j fluid flow and heat transfer 5 physical chemistry; gas techno-
logyj chemistry of polymerization and depoljonerizationj and catalysis and surface
chemistry.
The curriculum also includes the equivalent of one year of academic work designed
to give the ba.ckground of the gas industry, including operation, managem.ent and regula-
tions of public utilities^ equipment and materials for the manufacture, storage and
distribution of gas^ by-products of the gas industry; management problems of the gas
industry; and other related tubject matter.
The fourth year of the student's training will basically consist of research of
a fundamental nature of interest to the gas industry. In addition, the student shall
be expected to have spent at lea,.st three summers 01 r;ork in some phase of the gas
industry.
The administration of the "Institute of Gas Technology" will be vested in a board
of trustees made up of representatives of the gas industry and trustees of Illinois
Tech. At the New York meeting the following officers were elected: For chairman of
the Board of trustees, Frank C. Smith, President of the Houston Natural Gas Company
(Texas); for president of the Gas Institute, H. T. Heald, President of Illinois Insti-
tute of Technology. For members of the executive committee, in addition to the chair-
man and president, the following: Herman Russell, President, Rochester Gas and Electric
Corporation (New York); F. H. Lerch, Jr., President, Gas Companies, Inc., New York;
Frank H. Adams, vice-president, Surface Combustion Corporation, Toledo, Ohio; Thomas
Drever, President, American Steel Foundries, Chicago and member of the Board of
Trustees of Illinois Tech; and Wilfred Sykes, President of Inland Steel, Chicago and
member of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Tech.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Or
TECHl'iOLOGY-VIC. ^600
6^1-32
RE: 55 ASSI3T;J:rrSlIIPS, FELLOIYSHIPS, GPJiD-
UATE AND UNDERGPJiDUATE SCHOLARSHIPS,
A17ARDED FOR 19A1-42 BI ILLINOIS TECH.
FOR IMIEDIATE PilLEASE.
Av7ards totalling approximately $3^,000, distributed amonG' fifty-five students ,
have been made for the school year of 194-l-42j K. T. Heald, president of Illinois
Institute of Technology, today announced.
Twenty- seven of these, to the sua of i;.;l35900, went to men engaged in graduate
study, as teaching assistants, fellovrs or scholars. The remainder ?/as shared by
nineteen Armour division, and nine Levds division, winners of scholarships from high
schools and jumior colleges chiefly in the Chicago area.
Appointments of eleven half-time teaching assistants vrarking for higher degrees,
with average individual av;ards of I;-850, is as follows:
Chem.ical engineering, Natha.n iviuller, 1435 Central Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky,
and Uarren L. Plunkett, 303 Oakridge Blvd,, L^'-nchburg, Virginia; chemistry, LeRoy
Bromley, 2004. W. "F" Street, Napa, California, and Plobert VL Pjasmussen, 1104 N.
Armstrong Avenue, Kingsville, Texas.
Civil engineering, 3tefa.n J. Fraenkel, 2S33 S. 32nd Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska^
electrical engineering, Waldemar Schapira, 3152 Douglas Blvd., Chicago, mechanical
engineering, Jerome Baiter, 1027 Y/alton Avenue, Bronx, Ne?; York City, Ernest G.
Chilton, Guggenheim Aeronautics Laboratory, Pasadena, California., and Lee Van
Cunningham, Jr., 223 E. 6oth Street, Shjreveport, Louisiana; physics, David B. Dekker,
2524 E. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale, California; mathematics, Albert L. Latter, 83 N,
Catalina Avenue, Pasadena, California.
Appointments of eight third-time teaching assistants working for higher degrees,
with average individual awards of ^>700, is as follows;
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Chemical engineering, Frank W. Sirdth, 4-17 Perxnsylvi:.nia Avenue, Prospect Park,
Pennsylvania, and Carl Bisesi, 615I Liebig Avenue, Nev; York City^ chemistry, Irving
S. Goldstein, 10 Spring Street, Monticello, Nev.- York, and Robert Saunders, lS3fi Davis
Avenue, Y&iting, Indiana.
Civil engineering, Herbert Gray, Route #2, /inton, Texas, and Pa,ul F. Rice, Solen,
North Dakota 5 electrical engineering, Jol'in Sulcup, 184.4- N« 28th Street, Milv«aiakee,
Wisconsin; physics, Marvin H. ^likening, Oak Ridge, Missouri.
Appointment of six fellovvs ;vorking for higher degrees, v/ith average individual
aTfards of si'450, is as follovrs:
Chemistry, Plarold Pokras, 831 N= Alta Vista Blvd., Holl:^Ai."rood, California, and
Theodore Sobel, 17-07 Boston Road, New York City; civil engineering, Clytus L. Parris,
546 N. Reagan Street, San Benito, Texas, and Elia Sternberg, 35 S, Eastiield Avenue,
Trenton, New Jersey; mathematics, Frank Lane, Box M, Mountainair, New Mexico; and
Sherwin Chase, 4|.335 S. Drexel Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Appointment of tx;o scholars v;orking for higher degrees, with average individual
awards of $300, is as follows:
Chemical engineering, James l^.'aber, 9307 Laflin Street, Chicago; a.rchitecture,
Derald M. West, 6205 S. Mayfield Avenue.
Eight fire protection engineering scholarships, each for four years at tJOO value
per year, have been given by Armour College of Engineering. The winners have been
chosen and will be announced shortly.
Armour College of Engineer ijig scholarships, each valued at $300, ?;ent to ten high
school seniors of the Chicago district. They are:
Benjamin Borgerson, 4032 Wellington Avenue, Schurz High School; Leonard Chase,
7158 S. Aberdeen Street, Lindblom High School; Richard Christian, 214-1 Br-adley Place,
Lane High School, Robert Dahl, 5959 W. Division Street, Austin High School; Robert
Gnaedinger, Jr., 644- N. Elrawood Avenue, Oak Park, Oak Park High School; Charles Hall,
Jr., 1253 Elmdale Avenue, Senn High School; Richard Kelley, 814-9 Jeffrey Avenue,
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Harvard School for Boys) Harold Kimball, Li,55 2. 69tli Place, Leo High School;, Ronald
Lind, 622 3. Euclid Avenue, Villa Park, York Community High School;, and John Fteed,
5838 S. Union Avenue, Leo High School.
Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences scholarships each valued at ^22^^ went to
eight persons, five of then high school seniors, tr.'o junior college gradus-tes, and
one with one year of junior college, all from the i.ietropolitan a.reac They are:
June Rachuy, /+329 N. Troy Street, and Jeaaette Peterson, 4715 BeJjiiont Areniie,
graduates of V/right JuniorCollege; Gloria Klouzar, 14.21 S. 57th Court, Cicero, one
year, Morton Junior College; Joseph Dalton, 203 N. Pulaski, St. Hel High Schoolj
Charles Marner, 3332 W. Polk Street, St. Mel High School, Aim Mossner, 1804- S, 12th
Avenue, Mayi'rood, Proviso Tovnship High School; Virginia Pochelski, 2717 N. Sacramento
Avenue, Schurz High School j and Viola Sievers, 3108 77th Avenue £lmv/ood Park, Schurz
High School.
T^/.'o special scholarships were announced at the same time. One, donated by the
15th Central Civic Assembly for National Youth Feek, ivent to RajTnond H. Ricklioff ,
1017 N. Monticello -ivenue, Crane Techmical High School, and '.--ill be a one-year tui-
tion award to Lewis division. The second, r;on 'oj V'estly Ruthsr, 6517 Cireenviev>' Avenue,
Sullivan High School, 'jas given by /irmour College of iingineering at request of
Citizens of Tomorrow program of the Chicago Daily T'ribune.
Half-time assistant MiiLler will study for a chemistr;- PH.D. During the past year
he has been an instructor in chemical engineering at Alabama Polyteci'inical Institute,
Auburn, Alabama. His m! S. in chemical engineering was received in 1939 from the
University of Louisville and his B.S. in the same subject in 1938 at Mississippi
State College, State College, Mississippi,
Half-time assistant Plunkett T.dll study for an M.S. in chemical engineering. He
graduated in June from University of Virginia, University, Virginia, rdth the degree
of B. Ch. E. Half -time assistant Bromley will study for an M.S. in chemical engineer-
ing. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley in oTune witn a B.S. degree.
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Half-time assistant Rasmussen v;ill study for an M.S. in chemical engineerings
He graduated -dtli a B.S. in civil engineering in June froni Texas College of j'\rts and
Industries, Kingsville, Texas. Kalf-tiiae assistant Fraenkal will study for a Ph.D.
in civil engineering, his M.S. in the same subject having been received in June froa
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, where he received his B.S. in civil engi-
neering in 194-0.
Half-time assistant Schapira will studjr for an M.S. in electrical engineering,
having graduated in June with a B.S. in that subject from Lafayette College, Eastcn
Pennsylvania. Half-time assistant Baiter r:ill stucly for an M.S. in iiiechanical engi-
neering, having gi'aduated in June from the school of tecrmolog;:' of City College of
New York with d bachelor of mechanical engineering degree.
Half-time assistant Chilton v.dll study for a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering,
having received his M.S. in the same subject from California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, in June. His degree of B.S. in Aeronautics was received in 194-0 from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Half-time assistant Cunningham, Jr., vrill study for a H.S. in mechanical engineer-
ing, having received a B.S. in that subject in June from Louisiana Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Ruston, Louisiana. Half-time assistant Dekker --ill study for an M.S. in
mathematics, having received his A.B. in that subject from the University'- of California
Berkeley, California, in June.
Half-time assistant Latter will study for a Ph. D. in mathematics, having .
received an A.B. in that subject from University of Southern California, Los /mgeles,
in June. Third- time assistant Smith will study for a Ph..D, in chemical engineering,
having graduated in June from Villanova College, Villanova, Pennsylvania, with a B.S.
in chemical engineering.
Third-time assistant Bisesi will study for an M.S. in chemical engineering,
having received in June a bachelor of chemical engineering degree from Pratt Institute,
Brooklyi-i, New York. Third-time assistant Goldstein will study for a Ph.D. in
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chemistry, having received a B.S= in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York, in June.
Third-time assistant Saunders v;ill study for Ph.D. in science, having received
his master of science degree from the graduate school of Illinois Institute of
Technology in June.
Third-time assistant Gray vdll study for an M.S. in civil engineerintj', having
received his B.S. in civil engineering in June from Texe.s Technological College,
Lubbock, Texas. Third-tin:e assistant Rice villi study for i.'I.S. in civil engineering,
having received his B. 3. in that subject from North Dakota State Cjllege, Fargo,
North Dakota, in June.
Third-tiriO assistant Sukup \i±ll study for an M.S. in electrical engineering, hav-
ing received a B.3. from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1940, and
having done graduate v-ork in electronics at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts,
during the past year.
Third-time assistant Wilkening will " study for an M.S. in physics, having received
a B.S. in June, 1939, from Missouri State Teachers College, Gape C-iro.rdeau, Missouri,
and having acted as a science instructor in Jackson High School, Jackson, fiSissouri,
during the past year.
Fellow Pokras will study for a Ph.D. in chemistry, having received a D.A. from
the University of California, Berkeley, California, in 194-0, and an M.A, from that
school in June, Fellovr Sobel will study for an M.S. in chemical engineering having
received in June a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Maine, Orono,
Maine .
Fellovf Parris will study for a M.S. in civil engineering, having received a B.S.
from Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas, in 1939, cind having served vith the
International Boundary Commission since that time. Fellow Sternberg will study for a
M.S. in civil engineering, having received a bachelors degree in civil engineering,
and having studied previously at the University of Vienna sjid the University of London.
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Fellow Lane vrill study for a M.S. in mathematics having received a B.A. degree
from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June. Felloi^f Chase, having
received an a master of science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology in June,
will studjr for a Ph.D. in that subject.
Scholar Faber v/ill st-ady for an M.S. in chemical engineering, having received a
B.S. in that subject in June from Illinois Institute of Teclinology. He is a graduate
of xlorgan Park High School, Chicago. Scholar V:^est rill study for a M.^. in architec-
ture, ha.ving received a bachelor of architecture degree in June from the University
of Minnesota.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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RE J ILLINOIS TECH DELEGATION TO S.P.E.E.
ANN ARBOR MEET HEADED BY PRESIDENT
H, T. HEALD, VICE PRESIDEI^T L,E,
GRINTER,
FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 19^1.
Tvrelve members of the adininistration and faculty of Illinois Institute of
Technology ?rere in r.ttend8.nce today (Monday, June 23, 194-1) as the forty -ninth annual
meeting of the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education convened at Ann Arbor
with the University of Michigan as host.
Led cy President H.To Keald, a member of the National Council of the Society,
and Vice President L. E. Grinter, official Institute representative to the meeting,
the Institute party prepared to take an active part in the five-day deliberations of
the group .
"Science a.nd Technology in the Engineering Curricula," the theme of the confer-
ence, vfill be subdivided into separate meetings related to aeronautics| chemical,
civil, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering; comprehensive examinations:
cooperative engineering education; English; evening engineering education; engineering
drawing, economy and research; junior colleges; labor relations; mineral technology;
and personal development.
President Heald took part at 9 a^m. today (6/23/4-1) in a ten-man symposium on
engineering research, under the subheading of "Industrial Aid in Research." Industry's
need for research, the special services a research foundation can accomplish for in-
dustry, and problems relating to cost of subsidized research for industry in connec-
tion with an educational institution were outlined.
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At 2 p.m. today (6/23/4-1) a panel discussion on physics as a part of engineering
education was pi^esented by Vice President Grinter, with the assisttince of J. S.
Thompson, 5710 Blackstone Avenue, professor of physics and chairman of the depai'tment
at the Institute, in the form of popularized dialogue concerning civil engineering
aspects of the subject.
The values of physics for the student civil engineer as a technical or profess-
ional subject and as a cultural norm ?7ere discussed. Study of theoretical mechanics,
strength of materials, hydraulics s-nd structural analysis, as covering much of the
same ground a physicist covers in study of mechanics, was considered.
Included in the party accompanying Heald and Grinter v/as Dr. R. C. Kintner,
3833 Dante Avenue, of the chemical engineering department, who will speak at a general
session Wednesday (6/25/4-1) on photographic exliibition of chemical engineering equip-
ment laboratory.
Others attending were Professor Harry McGormack, 44-0 Sun.set Road, Finnetka,
Illinois, head of the chemical engineering department. Professor L. R. Ford, 56OO
Dorchester Avenue, head of the department of mathematics^ Professor Joseph B.
Finnegan, 1400 E. 56th Street, head of the fire protection engineering department^
Professor B.B. Freud, 5853 Magnolia Avenue, head of the department of chemistry^
Professor Phil C. Huntly, 281 Northwood Road, Riverside, Illinois, head of the depart-
ment of civil engineering; Professor H. P. Button, 2242 Pioneer Road, Evanston,
Illinois, head of the social science department and dean of the evening division;
Lloyd H. Donnell, 5525 Kimbark Avenue, professor of m.echanical engineering, o.nd
Sholto M. Spears, 1720 W. 105th Place, associate professor of civil engineering.
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FROM: ALEXMDER SCH.REIBEP.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Oi
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. /,600
6^1-35
RE: RETIF£PM\fT OF PROFESSOR G. E„ PAUL
33 YEARS ON STAFF OF INSTITUTE,
FOR PlELEASE: SUNDAY, 6/22/4-1
Professor G. E. Paul, GhaiiT.ian of the Department of Mechanics of Illinois In-
stitute of Teclinology, is retiring frou active duty, according to announcement made
yesterday by Ho T. Heald, President. Professor Paul, v?ho resides in Chicago at
1528 Farwell Avenue, also held the position of Director of the Science Curricula of
the Armour College of Engineering.
According to the President's announcement. Professor Paul has requested retire-
ment in line with the Institute's policy of permitting departmental heads to retire
from executive responsibility upon reaching the age of 65 years « He will res-ch the
age of 65 years shortly after the beginning of the next aca.demic year (194.1-4-2) .
Professor Paul has been one of the most active m.embers of the faculty of i^'irmour
Institute of Teclinology^. His record in brief states. He v/a.s head of the Department
of science and director of the curricula... he was head of the department of mechanics
....at one time, he was chairman of three departments simultaneousl3^. . . .he compiled
the original tables for basic lumber sizes upon which American Lumber Standards were
established.
' He came to iVrmour Institute of Techjiology in 1908 as Associate Professor of
Mechanics. Born in Belfast, Maine in 1876, he attended Belfast secondary schools
before going to Chauncy Hall preparatory^ school in Boston. He received his undergrad-
uate training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he had conferred upon him
the degree of S.B. in mechanical engineering.
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1903 lie joined the staff of Ksmsas State College ; in 1905 he served as a department
head on the staff of Nevf Mexico State College; and from 1907 until 1908 when he
joined the staff of Armour Institute of Technology, he v/as on the faculty of
Pennsylvania State College as Professor of Mechanics.
Throughout his career as an exceptionally well-liked tcia-cher, he continually
engaged in professional consulting 7;ork. Before entering upon his teaching career, he
served for tvro years (1900-02) as a designer and sales engineer for the James W.
Tufts Company of Boston. As a consultant, he specialized in industrial construction
and building materials.
From 1915 to 1921 he was construction engineer for the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association and in this connection he did a large amount of original research
leading to the present American Lumber Standards. Among his other prominent profess-
ional engineering positions was that of consulting engineer for the Weyerhaeuser
Timber Company, St. Paul, Minn., 1920-30,
From 1910 to 1915 he was Associate Editor of the iUnerican Builder ajid the Cement
?JorM, both of which have since merged with other publications having nev; names. He
is also author of many books, pamphlets and technical articles relating to building
construction, concrete, lumber, estimating, and contracting. At one time he wrote a
series of sixty consecutive articles on building construction and matericils for one of
the leading construction magazines. He has also '.rritten the larger part of tliree
volum.es of an encyclopedia of building construction, as well as a handbook of estimat-
ing and contracting.
He is a member of the /jnerican Society for Testing Materials, having served as
chairman of the sub-cormnittee on timber specifications for many years; the National
Fire Protection Association, serving on the committee on building construction; the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, the Western Society of Engineers;
Tau Beta Pi, National honorary engineering fraternity^ Theta Xi, national social
fraternity; and Sphinx, literary fraternity.
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FROM; ALEXMIDER SCHREIBER KKi APPOINTivIEirT OF DR. RUTH GOWAIJ CLOu'SE
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF PROFESSOR OF NUTRITION MD CHAIRI;^AN
TECfflJOLOGY-VIC. -C600 OF HOME ECONOMICS IN LEFTS DIVISION,
EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1; /iPPLIED ARTS
r/iERGED .
FOR RELEiiSE. THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 19/i^l
Dr. Ruth Covran Clouse, 56/t.3 Blackstone Avenue, nutrition expert associated vjith
the Council on Food and Nutrition of the American Medical Association, has been
appointed professor of nutrition and chairman of the home economics department of
Illinois Institute of Technology'", it v.'as announced today by H. T. Keald, president.
Prior to 1935? when she assumed her post rdth the medical body as nutrition con-
sultant on the headquarters staff of the Council on Food and Nutrition, Dr. Clouse had
wide experience in teaching and research fields. Her appointment is effective Septem-
ber 1, and Vvdll make her the only vroman department chairm.an of the Institute.
Expansion of the home economics department, a part of Lewis division of the
Institute, to include the applied art department, v/ill m3.ke for an educational realign-
ment expected to prove of signal benefit to students. President Heald stated.
"For many years Lewis Institute, merged a year ago v/ith Armour Institute of Tech-
nology," to become Illinois Institute of Technology, has been iridely knov/n for its
home economics courses," he said,
"Integration of courses of the enlargened home economics department with the
curricula of Le^vis division will be greatly emphasized by the program Dr. Clouse vjill
put into effect. Absorption of the applied art department slioula aid this end. De-
mand for professional training of students for careers in the field of home economics,
as well as the equipping of women for the task of expert home-making, v'ill be ansv/er-
ed by the Institute's accent on this type of education."
Born on Chicago's West Side, not far from Le'vis Institute, Dr. Clouse attended
Hyde Park High School. She received a B.S. in chemdstry from the University of
economics,
Chicago. Both degrees were in home/ and the major field of study in each case v/as
food nutrition. Dr. Katherine Blunt, no^^- head of Connecticut College for Fomen,
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formerly chairman of the department of home economics of the University of Chicago,
under whom Dr, Clouse did much of her research, wa.s a collaborator on "Ultra Violet
Light and Vitamin D in Nutrition," a book published in 1930.
Dr. Clouse also vorked under Dr. Lydia J. Roberts, successor to Dr. Blunt at the
University of Chicago. On gaining her bachelor's degree, she became an instructor of
home economics at the University of Arks.nsas (Fayetteville) . In 1922 she became
assistant professor in the same subject at Michigan State College (East Lansing) .
In 1927 Dr. Clouse returned to the University of Chicago, becoming assistant to
Dr. Blunt. Chemistrj'' of foods , chemistry of nutrition and related, problems that in-
cluded graduate classes vrere among courses taught. Dr. Clouse had the year before held
the Ellen H. Richards scholarship and vjas thus able to mix research and classroom
activities.
On becoming associate professor of home economics at the University of Tennessee
(Knoxville) in 1931, Dr. Clouse was to be engaged in the final span of teaching before
she began vrork in 1935 for the America,n Medical Association. The sumraer of 1934- was
spent in the depressed area of Key West, Florida, v/here first-hand contact with commun-
ity rehabilitation aspects of nutrition gave her. valuable experience. At that time
she y:as employed by the Florida Relief Administi^ation as home economist.
Not only will standards of the American Dietetic Association and other profess-
ional standard-making bodies be met but supplementar;'' training designed to give stu-
dents the v:idest grasp of home economics practices of professional nature will be in
force. Dr. Clouse announces in outlining the policy of her department.
"An effort to utilize late equipment, with adaptations brought about by trends
In large-scale cooking as well as new home methods, v/ill be made," she said.
During Augu.st Dr. Clouse xidll make a survey trip through prominent schools of
lome economics and institute if dietetic study on the Atlantic seaboard before assum-
-ng duties at Lewis division.
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Ampliiying President Keald's words on integration of the home economics program
with other parts of the curricula, Dr. Clouse said she hoped sacli freshman girl might
arrange her schedule to include one or more courses in home economics. Instead of de-
clinittg in a day of prepared foods, the attention of women in the home to dietary and
related problems must necessarily be on the increase, she stated.
In line with the shift at Lewis division from quarterly to semester arrangement of
class hours effective in September, courses in home economics will be on that basis.
■ Classes in introduction to nutrition, food study, selection and costs of food,
food for the family, tearoom management, food preparations in large quantities,
dietetics, experimental cookery, institutional accounting and pui^chasing, nutrition in
disease, clothing, study of clothing materials, millinery, problems in textile buying,
dress design, hom.e nursing and sanitation, plan, selection a.nd care of the house, child
study, the family and its relationships, child welfare, vocational home economics,
methods in home economics education and consumer education movements v;ill be taught.
Courses in the past proper to the dep3.rtment of applied art, now to be taught as
part of the home economics curriculum, are drawing and composition, design, costume
desigri, interior decoration, applied design, color theories, ceramdcs, model and
model making, and origin and properties of clays.
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ILLINOIS INSTITOTE OF
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.RE; DR, L. E. GRINTER, VICE PRESIDENT OF
ILLINOIS TECH 5 ADDRESSES MEGHAIvHCAL ENGI-
NEERING i'/lEET AT PURDUE, THURSDAY, 7/3/4-1
FOR IMvIEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. Linton E. Grinter, 1321 E. 56th Street, vice president and dean of the grad-
uate school of Illinois Institute of Technology, will be a speaker Thursday (7/3/4-1)
at the closing meeting of the Slimmer session on mechanical engineering education at
Purdue University.
His address, to be delivered at 11 a.m.,, will be titled "Encouraging Selected
Students to Graduate Study." Leading figures in the Aivierican mechanical engineering
field have been convened since Sunday under triple sponsorship of the Society for Pro-
motion of Engineering Education, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and
Purdue University. *
In addition to his graduate school function, Di'. C-rinter has been recently named
acting head of the department of mechanics, to succeed Dr. Charles E. Paul, lately
retired.
The nature of graduate study, the lack of emphasis on graduate study in mechani-
cal engineering, what persons that should take gradua.te study and 'Nhj, what a graduate
school can do for a student, how graduate classes should be conducted, emd the role of
research as a part of graduate study will be toucJied upon by Dr. Grinter.
"Students ordinarily undertake graduate study because of one oi' the follov.-ing
factors — the urge to learn, the economic advantage and prestige inherent, the en-
couragement of a company for which they may work, and dissatisfaction with a situation
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in which they find themselves," Dr. Grinter believes.
"It is not too often clearly understood that graduate study is not a fifth year
of undergraduate work, not an opportunity to study new fields in a search for culture,
and not a substitute for actual practice of the profession in the field.
"It is, hov;ever, a fundamental study of the scientific background of engineering
with applications, and should always be regarded as such."
Graduate study is able to perfol'm certain services for the institution which
Sponsors it. It can, and does, develop research specialists, prepare teachers, develop
ability to investigate and stimulate professional consciousness, Dr. Grinter declared.
Dr. Grinter was educated at th6 University of Kansas and the University of
Illinois, and combines experience in the engineering departments of large corporations
with experience in educational institutions. He has made outstanding contributions to
basic knowledge in structural engineering. Rc'om 192S to 1937 he was Professor of
Structural Engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, carrying
on research and teaching structural engineering. He came to Armour Institute in 1937
as Director of the Department of Civil Engineering and Dean of the Graduate Division,
Dr. Grinter is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, /iraerican Society of Civil
Engineers, and Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, and is a registered
Structural Engineer in Illinoisj He is the author of a standard series of textbooks
as well as many technical papers^ and although only thirty-eight years of age, has al-
ready been an officer of many national and local engineering societies. Under his
direction, the graduate courses at Illinois Institute of Tecl'inology have developed
rapidly, and his leadership has proved an inspiration to the highest scholastic attain-
ment on the part of students and facility.
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RE; ilPPOINTIdEKT OF NEH FACULTY TO LEWIS
DIVISION OF ILLINOIS TECH; NEW EQUIPIffiNT
AND CURRICULUM CHMGES.
FOR IMffiDIATE RELEASE,
Preparations for orjening of the forty-sixtli scholastic year of Lewis division
of Illinois Institute of Teclinology in September are in full svmig as laboratories
and classrooms are nevvly outfitted and curriculum and faculty additions are announced.
Dr, C„ L. Clarke, P, 0. Box 232, Winnetka, Illinois, Lewis dean, in 8.miouncing
the schols.stic year would open September 15, 194-1, also disclosed the quarterly divi-
sion of the school year had been discarded in favor of the semester division, once in
force at Lewis,
This change in structure of the school year will bring Levids classes into con-
formance with those at Armour campus, where the semester system is traditional, he
said. Aside from the benefit of unanimity of class schedules effected, the undergrad-
uate body is expected to gain greatly in having a common holiday and social calendar
vjith Armour students.
Appointm.ent of a home economics department head and consolidation of the depart-
ment with that of applied arts will be major developments of the new semester.
Effective Septem.ber 1, Dr. Ruth Cowan Clouse, 564-3 Blackstone Avenue, nutrition
consultant on the headquarters staff of the Council on Food and Nutrition of the
American Medical Association, will become professor of nutrition and chairman of the
home economics department.
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Dr. Clouse, vfho v/ill be thus the only woma-n department chairman of the Institute,
has had wide experience in teaching and research fields. A native of Chicago's West
Side, Dr. Clouse attended Hyde Park High School. She received a B.S. in chemistry
from the University of Chicago in 1918,
Dr. Clouse had been encouraged by teachers to take as many home economics course:
as possible and thus she was ready for graduate viork in the field of dietetics and
nutrition. She received an M.S. in home economics in 1922 and a Ph.D. in the same sub-
ject in 1933.
Under Dr. Katherine Blunt, now president of Connecticut College for Women and
formerly chairman of the department of home economics at the Unii'^ersity of Chicago,
Dr. Clouse vras able to establish herself as an authority in the field of vitamin study
They collaborated on a volume, which ?/as standard in its field and is now out of print
called "Ultra Violet Light and Vit^amin D in Nutrition." It was published in 1930.
' Dr. Clouse also worked under Dr. Lydia Roberts, successor to Dr. Blunt at the
University of Chicago. On gaining her bachelor's degree, she became an instructor of
home economics at the University of Arkansas. In 1922 she became assistant professor
in the same subject at Michigan State College.
In 1926 Dr. Clouse held the Ellen H. Richards scholarship at the University of
Chicago and was enabled to pursue graduate work at that tim.e. She became assistant tc
Dr. Blunt the following year, teaching chemistry of foods, cliemistry of nutrition and
related subjects. She was able also at that time to mix research work with her teach-
ing career.
On becoming associate professor of home economics at the University of Tennessee
in 1931, Dr. Clouse was to be engaged in the final span of teaching before she began
v;ork in 1935 for the American Medical Association. The summer of 1934- was spent in
the depressed area of Key West, Florida. At that time she was employed by the Floriut
Relief Adjninistration and received first-hand contact with community rehabilitation
aspects of nutrition.
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Next month Dr, Clouse v.'ill aake a swing through eastern collegiate campuses in an
effort to check on latest developments in the hoDie economics field.
The department of applied arts, for many years autonomous, v«'ill be combined with
that of home economics at the opening of the semester. The following classes will
be taught in the enlarged home econom.ics department:
Introduction to nutrition, food study, selection and costs of food, food for the
fa.mily, tearoom management, food preparations in large quantities, dietetics, experi-
mental cookery, institutional accounting and purchasing, nutrition in disease, cloth-
ing, study of clothing materials, millinery, problems in textile buying, dress design,
home nursing and sanitation, child study, the family and its relationship, child wel-
fare, vocational home economics, methods of home economics education and consumei-
education movement sj
" Drawing and composition, design, costumie design, interior decoration, 3.pplied
design, color theories, cex'amics, model and model making, and origin and properties
of clays.
Complete refurnishing of the organic chemistry laboratories, vdth the addition
of equipment for m.icroscopic study, and the supplementing of thj.e biology laboratories
with specialized measuring and filing instruments, are prominent features of the
school's refurnishing.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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REs NEW EQUIPfiENT FOR LABS OF ARIffiUR
COLLEGE OF HnIGINEERING OF ILLINOIS
TECHj ADDITIONS TO FACULTY, CURRI-
CULUM CHANGES o
FOR IMIEDIATE RELEASE.
Operations that vfill leave the physical plant of Armour College of Engineering
of Illinois Institute of Technology with a shiny, morning face and curriculiam changes
that will answer student demand for more intensive study, featured a report yesterday
of H. T. Heald, president.
When incoming freslimen, some of then sons and grandsons of graduates, walk dovm
campus paths in September, they will see a campus without too strict a resemblance to
^ that of their sires. Innovations likevirise will extend to courses of study,
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President Heald's report details a campus beautified by planting of more than
one hundred Ainerican elms. More than three hundred per cent increase over last year
of shaded, greensT.irard area, extending north, east and south of 33rd and Federal Street,
is noted. Complete refurbishing of classrooms and laboratories is itemized.
Most important physical additions, however, are la^boratory accretions v^hich wi^l
modernize much existing equipment. The mechanical engineering laboratory of venerable
Machinery Hall and the foundry shops have been particularily benefitted.
One curriculum change is in the architecture department, where a four year
course, granting a bachelor of science in architecture degree, viill be replaced by a
five-year course granting a bachelor of architecture degree. At present, two other
five-year courses exist at Illinois Tech. One, a cooperative course in mechanical
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engineering, is taught at Arraour campus. Tlie other , a cooperative course in business
administration, is taught at Lev/is cajnpus.
Constant demand by students for a five-year course in architecture led to adop-
tion of the longer study plan. Difficulty in absorbing theory while paying sufficient
attention to actual designing and structure \Tas the basis of complaints. Little time
for specialization ivas permitted by other requirements of the architecture course, in
the view of students.
Specialization during the fifth year will be in architecture and design or city
and regional planning, the latter subjects arousing great interest because of architec-
tui-al tendencies in those directions and because of municipal rebuilding as ci probable
'consequence of present destruction in Europe and Asia. The new architecture progre^m
will allow students to adopt one or more elective subjects each semester during the
last three years.
Tv/o other important curriculiim developments are announced. For the first time
a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering ?/ill be given. Also, civil and
mechanical engineering students, interested in aeronautics, will be able to receive
bachelor of science degrees isi their fields with axi aeronautics option introduced to
meet demand caused 'Oy defense prcgr^im activities.
Henrj'- Post Datton, 2242 Pioneer Road, Evanston, Illinois, professor of business
management and dean of the evening division, has been named head of the department of
industrial engineering and administration. Receiving his B.S. in electrical engineer-
ing at University of Michigan in 1914- , he taught at Northv/e stern University from that
date until 1933. In 1933 Dutton became a lecturer at Armour Institute and was soon
named professor, business and management comprising his field.
Special tra.ining in problems of production and the ever-increasing variations
of scientific business administration, particularily as they effect engineering, v;ill
be accented in the new department's courses. Business law, organization and control,
statistics, cost analysis, marketing and labor problems will be related to the degree
in this program.
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clamor by undergraduates to allow civil and mechanical engineering students, once
basic training in the first two years is completed, to acquire background in classes
where aircraft design, aeronautical engines, aeronautical laboratory, meteorology,
airplane stress analysis and related subjects can be studied.
Rounding out changes in engineering curricula, a degree in electrical engineer-
ing will be provided with an option in communications, again indicating that another
plane of studs'- has been made impera.tive by national defense efforts. Certain courses,
required in the past for the electrical engineering degree, can be replaced by those
concerning radio, television and related = phenomena.
English requirements for freshmen and sophomores have been changed. Freslimen
will be required to take English for three hours per week, instead of the previous two
for a single year. Sophomores will be required to take three hours a week for one
semester, these to be devoted to an elective subject chosen from the history and back-
ground of literature, science or a foreign language.
Additions to equipment in Machinery Hall include a turbo-generator, pipes to tes'
pressure drop in pipelines, and instruments for measuring loss of heat from pipes
covered with various types and thicknesses of insulating material.
Three one-hundred-foot pipes have been installed along the ceiling of pressure
rooms for measurement of pressure drops in transmission of liquids or gasses. Four
sections of pipe have been installed to measure heat transfer through insulation.
I Change of objective of a course in foundry has been followed by addition of
equipment to fit the new patterns. Engineering aspects of foundry work, rather than
traditional manual arts connected v/ith it, call for a concentration of physical tests
with a minimum of moulding practice. Testing of foundry raw and unfinished material,
together with the control of molding sands, chemical composition of cast metals, and
most economical and efficient methods of handling materials, are covered.
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Recent equipment added includes a tensile strength testing machine, a transverse
strength testing mach_ine for metals and sand cores, a gas melting furnace for ferrous
metals, a gas--fired oven for cores, a tool crib for storing of patterns and tools, and
a new moulding bench. ■ '
The civil engineering department i-ecentlA?" installed a 60,000 pound Reihle testing
machine in a laboratory, where shortly a 120,000 hydraulic testing machine will also
be housed- They total about $14,000. In the cement laboratory of the department
autoclave for testing soundness of cement has been added. For use in the aeronautics
option course, a stripped-doi\Ti Waco plane, recently added, v.'ill be used,
A new, completelj^-equipped organic chemistry laboratory, situated in Chapin Hall,
has been furnished for the chemistry department. The physics department, one of whose
teachers is working with a colleagnae of the chemistry department, has furnished an
infra-red spectrometer at about |;5,000 cost. An electrostatic pressure tank generator,
which effects bombardments of atom.s, is in progress with a.n estimated final cost of
$7,000. Various equipment for study of electronics has been added.
Approximately $2,000 worth of equipment for study of catalytic reactions has been
put in use in the electrical engineering department.
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RE: OBIT
MOTHER OF G. S. ALLISON, TECH
TRE/iSUHER Pj^SSES AhKl.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEiiSE
Mrs. Barbara Allison, mother of G. S. Allison, treasurer of Illinois Institute
of Technology, passed away early Thursday morning, V/lO/^-lj at the home of her daughter
Mrs. J. F. Raraier, 156/^p Tutwieler Avenue, Memphis, Tenn., after several months of
illness.
Mrs. Allison came to Chicago with her parents in 1870, before the Chicago Fire,
from the Shetland Islands where she was born on April 21, 1862. She vas 79 years of
age v/hen she passed away.
Mrs. Allison spent most of her life in Chicago and in later years she made her
home in Memphis with Mrs. Ramier.
She is survived also by another son, K. ?;. Allison of Riverdale, Maryland, and
another daughter, Mrs. ?J. B. McCreary of South Orange, N. J. She is survived by eight
(8) grandchildren and one (l) great-grandchild.
Interment will be at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, at Mt. Hope Cemetery, 7/l2Al, from
the Chapel at 2700 E. 75th Street.
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Wtdlt at a concert at Ravlnta • « • one in a series of &inday afternoon concerts
presented e&ch samaeT tgr l^e Chicago north-suturban cxrganiz&tion « • * Dr. SaTid ?•
Boder, ^ainimt ps^chologiet at lUlnoia Institute of Teehnolog^j orex^ard an argucient
between a imaic Xoving father and hie yoong eon* The argusientf carried on during inter*
■ission, centered about Amerieata favorite non-seheduled j%J.atG tickler - the iee oreaia
eone - and the appx>eeiation of a Aiite from Biset*s Caroen.
It seeats ih&t the father and his young aa& vere in disagreement on the subject
sf the cospetabilli^ of good ausic and the Kijoysient of an ice cre&si cone, fhirarting
porsistwtit requests tar the "cone", t^^a father again and again bashed hie young off-
Ipring and refused to buy the delicious palate tickler* After several minutes of
observing and listening to the arguaent for aiu! against l^e dignity of eatixig an ice
ere^a cone at a concert) Car* Boder suggested politely but firmly to the young s»n*8
father that he "let ttie kid have the ice eream cone . • • let hia enjoy hiaself," he
said, "and he aay o(»iditioa hiaself to the appreciation of i-'ood music."
Is ttie eyes of the father, according to Dr. Boder, it was apparent teat an iee
ireaa cone did not correspond to the dignity of a concert. The fatJier evidently felt
that ice creaa ecmes and county fairs mized well ~ that iee cream cones and concerts
■ere definitely a thing apart, even if consuaMd during intemiesion.
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Dr» Bodar, ifho has don© such in the field of p^cholo^, himaelf likes & good
«©unty fair and ie« eroaa is hia fftvorite after dinner treat. His eatperience prompted
grgi-ng the father to provide his son with th« desirad ice oreejs const "For," he e&id^
•providing the ^lild yfitk the ice eresra cone uttuld maJce him eajoy hisigelf - and thae
«i joying: hiaself, he as-y condition hiaiself to ih« appreeiatton of good amsie*"
Bie psychologie&l reason behind this Btat«B«tit isj according to Br* Boder, "the
jphenoaanon of the eoEw3itioned reflex *hieh teaches us that th® eoabination of a new
or imlmown stlajulus wiiJi an old one of definite pleasurable character, such as in tiio
ease of eatiiig a good, IusoIoub ice ereais eoue, wa.f le&d to -Uie transfer of the pleach-
arable feeling of ttie old stlEHilus to the ne^r, unknown stlsmlas*"
Psychologically speaking^ Br* Boder e:^lalnedy ^e basis for such reaao&i^ cotass
froia an \intdld lUEEber of laboratory experiments, oise of whicli is a classic. Hxb
Blassic :referred to by Dr. Boder is '^e one having to do with rabbits, rate, or snakes
md youog infants* It Is as follows: "If," says Dr. Boder, "a young lafaBt is stroked^
^ttad or fed while ixresented wi-t^i a rabbit, rat, or even a snake, he trill in time
lisplay a behavior of plea mire at the sight of Hmm animals. On 'Uie other hand, if
% load noise « • . a noise which cusitcsaiarlly iteakes ^e infant cry . . • is made in the
presence of these animalS| it is also a known fact that aft^ a few trials the infant
iill exj at the mere sight of the anisials,
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FROM: .^iEXj'ATDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGHNOLOGY-VIG . 4-600
74.1-30
RE: GALI? /JII.IOUR, NORTFF.'OODS CLASSROOM OF
ILLINOIS TECH AT MINOCQUA, WISCONSIN,
CLOSES 27th SEASON.
FOR IMiiEDIATE RELEiVSE
Modern applications of t;cienco hr.ve made the v.rorld smaller, armies of modern
diets, tors have made continents lose their vastness, but the earth will be measui'ed by
civil engineers as long as it can be surveyad.
The force of this trvitn hangs like a halo over Camp Airmour, TJisconsin northvroods
summer classroom of the civil engineering department of Illinois Institute of Techno-
logy. Thei-e last vveek, in the primeval stillness of pine and oirch forests that rim
Upper Trout Lake> north of Minocqua, the twenty- seventh season of the camp came to an
end.
Seventeen civil engineering students of the Institute bade farevrell to an inten-
sive six-weeks course of what the school catalogue calls, prosaically, "Field Practice
in Siirveying, Civil Engineering 203." For them, as it had for more than tlx hundred
student predecessors at Camp i^J^mour, the most romantic and colorful e^rperience of
school days had come to an end.
Little of the prosaic was s.ttached to long days spent deep in the timber coun-
ncver
try's lovely patchwork of lakes and rivers. Per haps /again, as it had never before,
the pursuit of credit hours would be so intimately linked with the physical sym.bols
of the good, the true and the beautiful.
Presiding genius of the camp, which has always been regarded by undergraduates
of Armour College of Engineering as something liko the Institute's spiritual capitol,
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is tallj solid, serene John Corne].ius Penn, 10120 Lafayette Avenue, professor of civil
engineering, a graduate of Armour's class of 1905,
A teacher at the Institute since graduation,. Professor Penn is a 60-7ear-
old native Hollander, who came to America as a child, grer; up in the Middle West,
and rsmembers when the civil engineering department of vhat is now th.3 largest engi-
neering school in the United States had tx^o raeir-bers other than himself, both of whom
had been his teachers.
Civil engineering, and particularly the surveying facet of it, make up the
heart of Joiin Cornelius Penn.
Engineers a^'e 3. proud race, none more so than civil engineers. Tney survey
the e.arth, measuring its contours, deviations and scope, and of all their profes;;ion
they are most prone to feel they ov>m it. After militc-ry engineering, which dates to
ancient times, civil engine aring is the oldest branch of the general field.
Professor Penn, a patriarch with a schoolman's patience and precision and
none of his fustiness, to a remarkable extent is Camp Armour. It was founded by the
lato, legendar7y" Professor Alfred £. Phillips, ^'.'hose local career began with the
school's in 1894- .
Melville Baker Wells, novr emeritus professor of civil engineering, succeeded
Professor Phillips as depa.rtment chairmsji, and vras in turn succced.ed by Professor
Penn, who had sat under both as a student.
Dr. L. E. Grinter, 1321 E. 56th Street, now vice president of the Institute,
eaid Professor Phil C. Huntly, 2c:;l Northwood Road, Riverside, Illinois, present
chairman, and mayor of Riverside, followed Professor Penn as heads of the department.
Though nominal charge of Camp Armour resides in the head of the civil engi-
neering department, Phillips, TTells and Penn have been the trinity supplying its
vertebrae. Since 1934- the last has been in continuous stev,'ardship of the camp, and
for m.o3t of the years Phillips and Wells were in charge, he was their first assistant.
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The present site oi' Gair.p Armour, a triangle 01" land leased from the state
conserx'^ation commission j whose broadest hypotenuse, about half-a-block long, faces
west from a seventy-foot bluff on the upper portion of Trout Lake, occupies terrain
belonging in the 'nineties to a lum.ber compc.ny„ Its one-track railroad ran diagonally
through where is now situated the dining room of Alfred E. Phillips Hall, largest of
the camp's eight buildings.
Under the direction of Phillips, and from Penn's design, erection of the
m.ain hall in 1914., named for Phillips since his death in 1931, was begun. It was com-
pleted the following year, but modern history of Camp /irmour is reckoned from 1914- ,
;vhen tents were pitched to house students and faculty. When the six-vreek term of
instruction v^as over that summer, every hand in camp vrorked on construction of the
main hall.
Pre-modem history of Camp Arm.our begins with the first civil engineering
department camp, pitched at Luddngton, Michigan, in 1908. T^:jo short periods were
spent in other sections of Michigan.
One v;as at Faithorn, another at Kremlin from 1909 to 1912. Death of a stu-
dent bj drovming beneath a dam at the latter campsite ended the Midhigan period. No
fatality has ever marred the Wisconsin years.
Lower Tomahav;k Lake, near Minocqua, attracted Professor Phillips in 1913,
his work-and-play caravan follovvdng him. there to laaJce a fresh start for Camp /irmour.
An inspection of the entire n3lghborhood, stretcli-ing to the bordering peninsula of
Michigan on the north, discovered Upper Trout Lake as the promised land. There in
1914- a stout oak was cut to a flagpole, painted Tvhite, and flags of the United States
and Armour were run up.
All permanent buildings now standing vrero completed in 191^-, excepting the
main hall, v/hich was of tile block construction, unfinished, then believed to be the
latest in fireproof construction. Other buildings built of wood included a large boa+
house, which housed a good-sized launch and several rowboats and canoes.
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Because before the VToi'ld War lack of paved roads mp.de much of the Ic^ke country of
northern Wisconsin almost inpenetrahle for average use. Camp Armour depended on its
launch to carry food and supplies from a railroad depot many miles south on the lake.
Overland passage was possible but discouraging.
The original boathouse, once the launch passed out of need and service, was cut to
half its size. No other important change h_as been made in the physical properties of
the place. Phillips Hall, a two-stars'" structure with eaves open at the top for hot-
Y/eather ventilation, connected from the beginning to a large annex used for a kitchen.
The Hall's dining room, able to seat forty persons com-fortably, is almost one-
half of the large dovmstairs floor, also given over to an office, bedi'ooms, the stu-
dent social room v;ith fireplace, various nooks and crannies.
The upper floor, opening off broad stairs at the rear of the Hall, is in effect
a large dormitory, though its eight wood partitions reaching half vuay up to the
V-roof, form separ3,te rooms, securing rjrivacy to occupants. Students ordinarily
occupy four cabins grouped about the Hall, each accomjnodating five or six persons.
Professor Penn and his teaching assistant, student stev/ards and resident cooks, togeth
with non-student guests, are housed in Phillips Hall.
An ice house has a roof in common with a carpentry shop and lies close to a "kill'
house, where student batchers prepare whole sides of beef or lamb or sides of bacon
and pork for attention of the kitchen. Freshljr- caught pike, bass or muskellmige share
space in the ice house. Like an excl:.mation point to emphasize rusticity, the inevit-
able well lies across the diameter of the circle form.ed by the buildings.
Student esprit, often thought to be an elusive quality in engineering colleges
where class progTams minimize student recreo.tion and social life, flowers at Camp Armoi
like the wild vines matted across and around the exterior of Phillips Hall. Names of
those v^ho have belonged to the good feli.ovrship of the camp since its first days stare
down from the Hall's wood plaques, ornamented fireplace lintels, the tops of hard-oak
tables and, in fact, from every spot where wood can be carved to protest against Time.
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The present summea-'s generation of Canp Ai'mour residents observes a regimen identi-
cal to that of the earliest. Forty-five hours of school work a week, vvith several
hours of note preparation a few nights of each week, is the rule for students. At
present the field course in surveying is offered to those who have completed their
sophomore year of engineering studies. Years ago it was tied to the end of the fresh-
man year.
The average age of an undergraduate who spends his summer at Camp Armour is
eighteen. Hov.'ever, it often happens that juniors, and, on occasion, seniors, are to
be found among those present. Since this course is compulsory, no would-be civil
engineer ever tries to dodge it. Circumstances sometimes make it necessary that a
student take it later tha.n his sophomore year and alloifance is made in given C3.ses.
There is no prevailing sanity test for admission to the civil engineering depart-
ment. But if a student should O/cpress dislike of the Camp Armour summer course in a
public place he woul.d probably be adjudged insane by his felloes.
Professor Penn's course, which he has in past years taught vcith the aid of one
or two department colleagues, this year had for an assistant teacher Richard J. llruda,
2115 S. Ridgeland Avenue, Berv.ryii, Illinois, a June honor graduate of Armour College of
Engineering of the Institute. As a juT'-ior, Rruda spent his undergraduate compulsory
hours at Gs.mp ili'mour; a.s a senior, he returned to be one of two camp stewards whose
duty it is to conduct much of the administration of the campj and this summer, as a
graduate, he returned with his recent bride to demonstrate what he could teach in the
tradition of Professor Penn.
Four semester hours of credit are given for the follov/ing program at Camp /irm.ours
Running and measuring lines x\'ith the transit^ practice in leveling; running a
traverse v.dth the transit^ testing and adjusting the level and transit; practice in
cross-sectioning; taking topograph;/ v.'ith hand-level and note-book; topographic survey-
ing with transit and stadia, and with plane table; locating bridge piers, and batter
boaj?ds :
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Determinatioii of meridian and latitude by solar observation ^ and laying out a
meridian from observation upon Polaris; problems in higmvay and railway location, in-
cluding running of preliminary lines, taking topography, running in lines from paper
location, and laying out simple curves and spirals »
The formal outlines oi phases of a course in surveying give little hint of the
large adventure and zest of conquest to be experienced in the field. Tlie entire
Northern Highland State Forest tract, of which the immediate ten square miles sur-
rounding Upper and Lov.'er Trout Lake are Gamp Armour's classroom, is sometimes called,
laughingly, "Pennsylvania," as a reflection of the tremendous influence Professor Penn
has had on the eritire neighborhood.
This part of Wisconsin is overlapped by the Paul Bunyan legends that have come
doOTi from Minnesota, vjhere the Big Lumberjack and Bess, his co?j, trod the mythical
ePorth, It is still lumbering country in much of its spirit j some of the forests have
been cut-over^ there havi been forest fires from time to time that have scarred the
lake countrj'-. But nothing has touched its essential spirit.
So it is that Camp Armour men, though they have traditionally done much of the
surveying of the entire countryside, have never been felt to circumsci-"ibe it. It has
remained untamed, almost wild. In the early days of Camp Armour the University of
Wisconsin's forestry school, nor,- defunct, sent msxrj of its fstudents to study under
Phillips, Wells and Penn.
Several forest rangers, on active duty in the vaiinity of Upper Trout Lake, are
former students of Professor Penn. A son of one of these ?/ill be enrolled at Camp
Armour next season.
In Minnesota Paul Bun3''an's Bess, ivith h:3r mighty hooves, battered the earth so
that indentations on its face, filling with water, became lakes. The scientific
spirit of Camp Armour has so pervaded Vilas County and the lake region of northern
Wisconsin, however, even the oldest settler vrould be afraid to say its lakes resulted
from anything but geologically-formed "kettle holes," filled with the tears of midnight
oil- burning students of surveying.
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Before Professor Penn's students ventui'e from the security of Camp Armour each
morning an unvarying rite is performed. Instead of throwing salt over each shoulder.
Professor Penn stamps the cold earth tentatively a few times and for five minutes
becomes the Knute Rockne of surveying.
In a crisp voice, v;ith an upward inflection, he tells what he wants done during
the day. True, though it is only 7 o'clock at that time, he talks to his boys as if
they were fully awake. And they are. A first bell at 5:^5 a.m., a second ten minutes
later, and the knall that kicks the day av/ake with breakfast, at 6 o'clock, seera to
come in rapid order. Breakfast, in which student waiters Jeeves-about like dervishes,
is histor;^'- by 6:30 a.m.
A common working unit is that of five men, with all units engaged on separate but
related aspects of a given problem. A problem, book, compiled by Professor Penn, is
a standard work for the course, together with other contemporary volumes.
A what-ho spirit seems to emanate from the bands of embryo surveyors as they
trudge out of camp each morning. Axes slung across hips, transits over shotilders,
lines and other gear arranged with elaboi'ate skill over leather or lumber jackets,
every mouth carrying a pipe heavy enough to guarantee its omier is no dilletante —
Professor Penn's boys will sing some slightly obscene ballad as they fade away into
the forest. The spectator is reminded somehov/ of Morgan's men unhorsed. Imd that
there is no strength through joy where first there is not joy through strength.
By some m.ysterious Atlantis instinct students stream from valley, hummock, hill
and field, from swamps and brakes, from lakes and rivers v:here they have been taking
soundings, back to camp v;ith magical precision at 11:30 a.m. Lunch is announced by
a bell that rings crazily. At 12:30 or 1 P.M., they are back at work. Dinner is at
5 p.m. and generally is so elegant as to provide an asterisk for each day of the
calendar .
From time to time, depending on the burden of work in the field, there is
svfiraming before dinner. Generally, the day's boating, fishing or swimming occur
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before the sun fades, in the golden, magic time after the evening meal.
Professor Penn has seen the evolution of camp social life, from the period when
lack of roads, and dependence on foot travel, necessarily confined his boys to the
vicinity of the camp most nights. A t present, though three or four older students
might have automobiles at camp, only on Saturday nights may they leave v.'ithout per-
mission. Functions of camp life are so interdependent, the shadow of each social
activity being intimately associated v/ith the borrowing of a shirt, tie, or even a
suit, that rarely does an individual student find a girl that does not prove to be the
cam.p's girl, in the sense that everyone knows her and has stepped on her toes v/hile
dancing.
Camp discipline is practically student-controlled, moving v/ith a quiet efficiency
that is democratic, a process in vdiich the cool waters of Upper Trout Lake play the
chastening role of judgment seat. Chiefly, there are no fights, no petty bickerings
even, because there is no time, 8.nd because such a life as Camp Armour offers mili-
tates against moral v^eaklings or weak sisters.
Saturday night is Saturday night, of course. It is probably the only night when
it is hea-d to get together a five or six-piece orchestra about the upright piano to
the right of the fire place. Into Minocqua for the movies, into '?foodruff or Boulder
Junction, but particularily into Shrimps 's Place, a super- juker joint, with four-piece
orchestrc and friendly college girls who work by day as v.'aitresses at nearby resorts,
the population of Camp ia'mour streams.
Coca-colas or malted milks are about what most of the boys can a.fford for one
couple. The girls knovif enough not to ask for more. Camp i»rm.our fJ.edglings, aside
from, the aura of learning and dignity their tradition has given to the neighborhood,
have leaiTied aJ.ways to mention the cabbalistic sylla.bles "joimschoinmer" if they get
in a tight spot.
For big Joiin Schomm.er, professoi'- of chemistry, athletic director, director of
placement and front-line personality of Illinois Institute of Technology back in
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ChicagOj is virtually burgomeister of the ivhole northern la.ke country. He has caught
the biggest fish, told the v.ddest yarns, lonows more of the indestructible natives than
any man around. Tlie past summer his picture occupied the frontespiece of the descrip-
tive folder issued by the busiest of the resort towns.
Parents of students find a more than 4-00-mile-drive, or train ride, to Upper Trout
Lake no considerable barrier to visiting their sons. Week-ends and the Fourth of
July are marked by pilgrimages to camp. Noth..ng, however, is allowed to disturb the
strict scholastic atmosphere of camp precincts. Sunday morning finds most of the
students awake for 7 o'clock breakfast, half of them hurrying off to church in nearby
Sajmer.
Student stewards employed at Cami) Armoui" for the suimner were Raymond S= Leibrandt,
7939 Prairie Avenue, a senior in September j and Robert Smidstrom, 5024. N. Kedvale
Avenue, likewise a senior.
The folloT;ing students v/ere enrolled at Camp iii^raour during the past summer;
Arthur Iv'invregen, 594-0 N. Fairfield Avenue; Vance F. Zdarsky, 5138 S. Artesian
Avenue i Jolin S. Jackimiec, Id 51 S. Troy Street; Tliaddeus R. Maslanka, 34-35 N. Spring-
field Avenue; Herman Tachau, 6S23 S. Chappel Avenue; John C. Kasman, 5418 Wilson Ave.;
Mario Silla, 2153 ^. Ohio Street; IrT>.dn Lachman, 3910 Congress Street; Albert Schinitt,
244.3 First Avenue, River Grove, Illinois; Robert V. Gerth, 5560 1". Adams Street;
Melvin E. Johnson, 7544- S. Sangamon Street; Anton J. Groh, 1834 Ho've Street, Herbert
T. Schumann, Jr., 12037 Wallace Street; Raymond U. Sauer, 7738 S. Paulina Street;
Frank £. Nelson, 734k6 Phillips Avenue; Isadore E. Kriesberg, 2717 W. 63rd Street;
and Charles A. Fenster, 1824- Lincoln Parkway.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC, A600
7-41-33
RE: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUIJ
AKNOUtJCED BY ILLINOIS TECH PRESIDENT
H. T. HEALDi H. P, DUTTON, DEPT, liEAD.
FOR IMffiDIATE RELEASE
Establishment of a course in industrial engineering and administration at Illi-
nois Institute of Technology was announced today by H. T, Heald, 58/+4- Stony Island
Avenue, president, with Henry Post Dutton, 2252 Pioneer Road, Evanston, named chairman
of the department o
The course will be taught in Armour College of Engineering of the Institute and
is designed to widen the horizon of engineering students so that they may intelligently
direct business from responsible positions, Heald said.
Dutton, since 1933 a lecturer in business and management at the Institute, the
follo7/ing year became chairman of the department of social science and professor of
business management. He is as well, since 1933, dean of the Institute's evening divi-
sion including both Armour 3.nd Lewis campuses.
^. "Engineering schools over the country are adding courses made necessary Irj the
increasing dependence of engineers on knowledge of good business methods and of business
men on knovjledge of engineering processes," Dutton said.
"The average industrial engineer has to knovr a great deal about tool design and
shop operation. At the Institute, under the new course requirements, he will get
about the game toraihing in machine design the average mechanical engineer gets.
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"He v.dll then get courses in time study., industrial management, accounting and
costSj marketing, financial administration, labor management, business law and econ-
omics, that v/ill give him a fairly thorough grasp of business operations,"
The first t;vo years of study for the bachelor of science in industrial engineer-
ing and management degree will be virtually the same as those for the civil, mechani-
cal, chemical, fire engineering, electrical and science degrees in engineering.
Button explained.
Sophomores, ho^fever, \7ill be given classes in accounting and business administra-
tion and industrial management. Requirements for adiHission to the department v.'ill
not differ from those of other engineering courses. The nev; department will be en-
tirely separate from the five-year cooperative course in business and industrial
management, taught at Lewis division.
"In the new course we want men who have analytical training and ability of engi-
neers and v7ho have been taught to apply them to basiness problem^Sj" Dutton declared.
"There is a continuing demand for supervisory, staff and department-managerial
personnel, v.'ith industry getting better trained men as a result," he said.
"The fact that labor and price relations are so critical as problems in the con-
temporary business world is a good reason for the economic training students in the
new department will receive,
"Any man handling labor in his shop, factory or business should understand the
fundamentals of economic theory."
Under a new relation between the depa.rtment established ',7ith Dutton as chairman,
the department of social science of which he is at present head, and the department
of history, political science and sociology, headed by Jolm Day Larkin, associate
professor of political science, political science and economic management courses
v/ill be taught under Larkin.
Dutton, who received his B.S. in electrical engineering from University of
Michigan in 1914, taught at Northvrestern University from that date until 1933. Ke was
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bom in Holland, Michigan and attended Hope College (Holland) before transferring to
Ann Arbor.
Among many professional connections. Button has been affiliated with Arthur
Anderson and Company, The Pullman Company, Arthur Young and Company, Factory Management
and Maintenance and predecessor magazines (associate editor), NM (Committee on Company
Script) , and Machinery and Allied Products Industry Code Authority (Administration
Member) .
He is a member of the j\merican Management Association, the Institute of Manage-
ment, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Western Society of Engineers, Illinois
Manufacturers A.ssociation, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Society
for the Advancement of Management, and the Indtistrial Ma.nagement Society, of -.vhich he
is secretary"" and director.
Button is author of Factory Management (Macmillan, 1925), Business Organization
and Management (McGraw-Hill, 1925), Principles of Organization As Applied to Business
(McGraw-Hill, 1931), and of numerous articles in periodicals,
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FROMi ALEXAI'IDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. ^600
341-2
RE, DONALD MONSON, ILLINOIS TECH GRAD^
FEB. 5 'Al, AFARDED EDHARD L/iNGLEY
SCHOLARSHIP OF AlffiRICMI INST, ARCHS.
RELEASE FOR; MONDAY, AUGUST A> 19.41
Donald lionson, /+926 Kimbark Avenue, a graduate of the architectural department
of Illinois Institute of Technology in February, 194-1^ has been avjarded a 194-1 Edxrard
Langley scholarship of the American Institute of Architects.
This announcement was made today, Monday, 8/4/4-1 j ty Jerrold Loebl, 333 N.
Michigan Avenue, president of the Chicago chapter of the organization, who said the
award totalled $600, It v;as one of six given in the nation and is the first bestowed
on an Illinois Institute of Technology graduate applying as a senior.
ivlonson, a draftsman for the firm of James B. Black, 520 N. iJlichigan Avenue,
structural engineer, held a Bartlett Memorial scholarship as a junior at the Institute.
He graduated from Waupaca High School, Waupaca, Wisconsin, in I73I5 and attended
Northwestern University, before enrolling at the Institute as a junior.
A native of Kenosha, Monson is ti'-enty-eight years old and married. Continuing
specialization in the field of city planning, for vrhich he received his bachelor of
science in architecture degree, Monson has pursued graduate 77ork under Mies van der
Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer of the Institute.
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The latter, international authority on city planning, directed ?^ork on a region-
al plan of Chicago shovm at the school's Open House last Spring. Monson was among
student assistants directing the exhibit.
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A written resume of a study Monson indicated he hoped to accomplish as part of
graduate work his scholarship ivill facilitate follows, in part, as announced by Loebl,
under the title "The Settling of Illinois";
"The proposed study is intended to evaluate the effect of the topography and soil
conditions, the changing means of transport, and ner; sources of productive pov.'er upon
the settlement of Illinois.
" It is put forward as the first step in the formulation of a regional plan
inasmuch as such a plan must take into consideration the forces behind the present
urban pattern.
"IVith each new development in transportation — from the canoe to the sailing
vessel and the steamboat, from the v/agon to the railroads and the automobile — there
were important changes in this pattern.
"The location of cities v,'as effected. Some died as a result of the change, the
physical layout and organization of all of them were altered.
"These changes were conditioned by the land itself, "ijy the soil and the waterv/ays.
With the d.evelopment of new sources of power further changes occured. For example,
the need for coal called into being a new industry, while the subsequent developm,ent
of the electric motor and the substitution of other fuels have, in turn, affected the
coal industry, ftiese changes are reflected in the cities of the coal-producing areas
as well as in the cities vfhere it is consumed,
f "The candidate submits that a study of these various forces and changes in urban
organization ought to bring out more clearly the problems with which city and region-
al planning must deal. With definite principles in mind, it vjill be possible to
evolve a future plan for this region which will provide an enduring basis for future
building."
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. A600
841-3
RE; 35 YEARS AS THE "VOICE" OF LEI^ilS DIVI-
SION OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECm^fOLOC^!
TO BE m\RYiED BY MISS ELIZABETH CADIGAN.
FOR It1!/[£DIATE RELEASE
How would you like to sit in one place every day of the year and be able to
tell friends of your memories of Dorothy Thompson, Benny Goodman, Luther Adler, Samson
R3,phaelson, Mainbocher, and a host of others claimed by fame?
Of course, if you were Miss Elizabeth Cadigan, 4226 West End Avenue, who on
October 15 will have been sitting virtually in the same place for 35 years, you would
have to intei-rupt yourself from time to time to tend to business. Particularly if it
was a sort of business that had made you famous in a special sort of way.
"Illinois Tech, Lewis," delivered into a black mouthpiece, is Miss Cadigan' s
salute to the outside v;orld. Until a year ago, when Lewis Institute became a part of
Illinois Institute of Technology, she had had the consummate pleasure, since 1906, of
saying "Lev/is Ins-ti-tute," very deliberately a few hundred times each day.
And so that the last syllable never sounded like "toot."
Like a priestess at an altar. Miss Cadigan has been an oracle at her switch-
board on the second floor of the grey island of learning on Chicago's grimy West Side.
She has been the nerve center, from the day she arrived in the school's tenth year,
of the hull<ing building at 1951 W. Madison Street.
To much of Chicago calling for infoi-mation about the school, to professors,
calling from their homes about this or that, to undergraduates who hailed her as
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"Cadi," slender, cameo-faced Miss Gadigan has been the "Voice" of Lewis.
A person who gets close to 200 remembrances each Christmas, including gifts,
cards, and letters from far parts of the vrarld, is likely to be counted as much of an
institution as the institution of v-hich she is part. Such a separation of identity is
a luxury Miss Cadigan never has allov/ed herself.
What, more than mortar, holds the granite blocks of Ler:^j,s in their places, is
somehov; expressed by the personality of Miss Cadigan 's voice. She is part of a trad-
ition that has seen a score of celebrated professors, half a hundred famous students
and 4-5 graduating classes come and go.
iYesh from a year at the Palmer House, Y;herc she has been one of tliree switch-
board girls to ho.ndle overseas;, long distance and local calls of sv/ells whose patent-
leather shoes clicked nicely on the silver-dollar inlaid lobby floor of the Old Palmer
House, Miss Cadigan came to an academic switchboard that was the first of its kind in
a young institution.
ta No one has ever supplanted her. Several dozen student assistants thorough the
years have found her a patient instructress, whose r-ales came out of no book, and whose
gentility could overcome any snarl that a novice had created.
9 "Lady Cadogan" she had been dubbed by the late Dr. Sdv;dn Herbert Lev/is, deon
of the faculty and head of the Eriglish department for many years at Lewis. The savant,
aTjare that "Cadigan" vfas a corruption of the name of the ?Jelsh earls that figure in
literary and historic annals, made courtly use of the fact.
The Mr. Chips and Miss Bishops v/ho ornament most schools have their counterpart
in the unsung office employes of their respective institutions. Miss Cadigan, holding
the history of her school so that it can be opened like a tom.e of spoken words, is the
echo of that rank.
"I suppose I have from year to year heard 10,000 voices," Miss Cadigan said.
"If I sit quietly now I can remember the sound of the voice of the late Dr.
George Noble Carman, for AQ years director of Lewis. Dr. Edwin Herbert Lev'is, and any
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number of retired or deceased teachers, come back to me clearly. A voice is never
emeritus . "
The innumerable inflections of the human voice are her gre&t auxiliaries in
identifying the personalities that accompany the voices, Miss Cadigan declared.
"I don't have to hear a voice very often, if the tone and pitch are characteris-
tic those times, to be able to identify it. People over the years have become more
and more hurried, take less time to speak easily and correctly, but one is somehow
able to categorize them anj^.7ay.
"I would say that, though the world is so busy commercially, a.nd the pace of
life is unnecessarily stepped up, the function of a good operator is to make it appear
that she has time to speak casually. This is very often hard to do since, when any-
thing important or exciting happens in an institution, every one reaches for his phone
at the same moment . "
With a smile, Miss Cadigan recalled s,n instance of how she was made to appear a
heroine because she refused to get excited in a time of crisis.
"In the early days of Lewis during a school term, I received a frantic call
from outside telling me that a large building opposite the school on Madison Street
WS.S on fire," she said.
K "Tlie swarm, of men students who ran across to form a bucket brigade that helped
put out the fire had been mobilized, according to the nev/spapers, by me. It is true
I had made a few calls in the school but nothing in the form of a Paul Revere perform-
ance. But no one would believe I hadn't suimnoned the boys individually."
The contemporary generation of Lev/is students in student publications marvels
at Miss Cs.digan's facility in locating teachers and students in the vast reaches of
the labyrinthine building when they are wanted to answer incoming telephone calls. To
her, the ability is an acquired one and not mysterious.
"I make a habit of knowing each professor's class schedule and as many of those
of the students as is practicable," she declared.
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"I usually know vdiat teachers and students associate in groups and ivhich are
likely to be alone. Of courv^e, through the students 5 I know of al.^lost every activity
on the separate flooi's of the buildiiig.
"Then, too, because to a remarkable extent I have been the confidante of the love
sick hearts of thirtj^-f i'v e cla^:ses of students, I can pretty v/ell anticipate vvho is
waiting for a phone call and ■.-■bo is not."
An amazing fact, that never fails to give importance to each new student face
as she acquaints herself with it, is that, of the famous alumni and plumnae of Lewis
whom she knew as undergraduates, none suggested particularly its owner wasi bovrnd for
celebrity after graduation.
"I sat in a box at a Loop theater recently wratcliing Luther Adler and his wife,
Sylvia Sydney, play in Accent on Youth," she remarked. "Luther, who y/as one of the
most delightful undergraduates I have ever encountered, had presented me with the seats.
"As I sat pondering on the enigma of fame, I remembered the play had been
written by a second ex-Lewis student, Samson Raphaolson, who, like Luther, has been
just one of the undergraduates years before.
"Benny Goodman, not long av.-ay from tlie orchestral endeavors he involved himself
in as a Lewis student, had a feiv months earlier been playing not far from that theater.
Each of the boys had been talented, of course, but vrho was to say ahead of time v/hich
would make his name?"
Miss Cadigan remembers an undergraduate whose name was Main Bocher. In Paris
years after graduation, in the post-v/ar deiys of salons filled with beautiful women
wearing artistic go^ms of groat cost, the name Mainbocher was that of a leading
stylist.
■ Dorothy Thompson, a moon-faced, sensitive undergraduate, who told eveiyone she
would someday be a great writer, is presented in an amusing portrait by Miss Cadigan.
fe: "Dorothy, like her friends, imna Drummond, later to becom.e a well-kno'.-na English
teacher, and Isabel Drummond, now a lawyer, was part of a literary clique in a class of
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Dr. Lev/is c Dorothy was something of a basketball player and one of our old Lewis
annuals shorrs her in uniform.
"Dr. Lewis' da.ughter, Janet, was herself to become widely iaiovin as a poet,
novelist and writer of stories for children. She is married to Yvor I^inters, West
Coast professor, translator and poet."
Innujnerable lawyer::; ;, doctors f^nd engineers, some of them sons and daughters of
wealthy families that had occupied aristocratic bro^'mstons mansions of Ashland Boule-
vard in their heyday, trip through reminiscences of Miss Cadigan.
Each coraiaencenient week finds her remembered by graduates who had fallen out of
touch with the Institute after graduation and v.'ho approach her by way of re-establish-
ing contact with the Institute, she s^^.id.
Richard Henry 'Whitehead, president of the New Haven Clock Company, Nevf Haven,
Connecticut, recipient of an honorary degree at the June Illinois Institute of
Teclinology graduation, v/aved to Miss Cadigan from the stage of Civic Opera House
gra.duation night. She was sitting in his box, wearing an orchid he had sent her.
W Another freshman class will storm into Lewis division of Illinois Tech in
September. Almost before they have left the registrar's office, before they have
found their ways into classrooms, they ^-ill have pr.ssed the office of Miss Ciidigan.
Whether it is to make a phone call, pick up mail or leave a m2ssa.ge for a friend,
they ',-.dll have given their names to the little lady at the switchboa.rd. Then, in a
manner of speaking, their careers at Lewis will have begun.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECI-MOLOGY-VIC. .i,600
8^1-5
RE; FATHERS AI^D SONS PUNCHING SAIffi TIME-
CLOCKS THROUGH ILLINOIS TECH BUSINESS
AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEFiENT COOPERATIVE
FOR imiEDIATE RELEASE
Chipping off the old block has taken a novel form r.-'^i--:itly at Illinois Institute
of Technology Vifhere, through agency of the business and industrial management cooper-
ative course, two pairs of fathers and sons are setting forth on partnerships covering
office and classroom.
Two Lev'jis division students, in the first year of the cooperative course, Carl
Buehler, Barrington, and Syles R. Fralick, Jr., 830 Sunset Ridge, Northbrook, are
studying for bachelor of science degrees in business and industrial managem.ent.
Victor Adding Machine Company, 3900 N. Rockvell Avenue, and the Kwikon Company,
1850 W. Washington Blvd., are among 20 firms cooperating with Miss Kathryn Judkins,
coordinator of the course, employing its students at prevailing vrages so that tuition
and other school expenses are net.
A. C. Buehler, father of Carl, is president of the former, while Syles R. Fralick.
Sr., is president of the latter. Both have had the pleasure of v;atching their sons
punch timeclocks in their ovm plants as part of the work-and-study plan set up by the
cooperative course.
The course is arranged so that each of its five years is divided into six eight-
week periods. One month of vacation yearly is allotted a student. Each enrollee in
the course, on entering, is given a partner. This partner vrorks in industry, at the
same job at xvhich the second partner has been employed, while the latter is in school.
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Partners exchange workshop ox" office for classrooms every eight weeks. The part-
ner leaving school for his job in industry picks up where his mate, vYio at the same
time returns to school, left off. Thus each employer is assured of steady, intelligent
response from whichevor half of a v;ork-and-study unit is in hi.s employ at a given time
Students draw pay only for the time they spend in industry. However, a suffi-
cient amount is earned by each that, usually, more than mere school expenses are rea-
lized from the twenty-four weeks spent at work during a year.
In the cases of Carl Buehler, v'ho is now in a day-shift work period in the Victor
Adding Machine plant, and Syles Fralick, Jr., who last "leek left the Kwikon Companj'-
plant after eight weeks to start a classroom period at Lewis division of the Institute,
neither is actually dependent on working for tuition in order to go to school. Their
fathers are considered well-to-do.
Both Carl and Syles, Jr., however, have partners that, like most of the coopera-
tive students, depend on an income to keep them in school. The average enrollee is
not from a home of v-ealth, the requirements of the course being based on high school
background, a high scholastic standing, with character and appearances acceptable to
Miss Judkins, course coordina.tor,
B Miss Judkins, who introduced the cooperative course to Lewis division last year,
has interviewed heads of firms and their personnel officers throughout the metropolitan
region. Given exact information ty them as to the t^npe of employee desired, she is
able to serve industr^A by selecting the most promising material for its business and
management phases.
In another direction, she has served students hy selecting positions for them
that will give chance of advancement to junior executive and superior adm.inistrative
positions. A graduate of the cooperative course is of incalculable worth to an em-
ployer because he has already been trained by that employer to the task he takes over
year-round after graduation.
Miss Judkins' pithy summ.ary of the value of the course is in the nature of its
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"I have more jobs to be filled by cooperative students than I can take care of,"
she said.
"Business firms have shovm themselves more than willing to take our students on
the cooperative basis. The great problem is to secure students who will meet our
standards. Once our students are hired by a company they stay v/here thejr are placed.
So rigorous is the examination of each cooperative student as a prospective employee
mid judgements as to his ability and character are almost negligible."
Syles Fraliek, Jr., in his Lev/is division classes at present takes the elementary
courses in a study plan that, over five years, embraces fundamental studies in science,
economics, humanities and courses that prepare for junior executive positions.
Retailing, vdiolesaling, office or personnel management, advertising, purchasing,
marketing, time and motion study, factory layout and equipment, production management,
cost control and industrial marketing are among subjects studied in the cooperative
course,
A. G. Buehler, president of the Victor Adding Machine Company, believes the busi-
ness and industrial management course to be the best medium of preparation of trained
personnel for industry.
"I knovi of no other school-and-shop enterprise in the Chicago region \=7hich tries,
and accomplishes, the training of boys who can be put into men's jobs, brought up in
them as they learn in the classroom, and so they emerge actually prepared according to
the employer's ideal," he said.
Three sets of partners in the Leiris division cooperative course are employed at
the Victor Adding Machine Company plant, Baehler added.
Equally enthusiastic concerning the cooperative pl&n is Syles R. Fralick, Sr.,
Kwikon Company head.
k "The great fault of most graduates of institutions of higher learning is that they
are not orientated to the demands of actual vrork in an office or plant," he declared.
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"They have little feeling for the work in front of them for Fl long time after
they start. However, a cooperative course studant is a picked man from the beginning,
can be entrusted with responsibility, and can be shovm to be a leader in his work
from the first."
Fifty-five students are at present enrolled in the Leris division cooperative
course. At iii'nour campus, where last February sixty-seven students composed the first
graduating cleiss of the mechanical engineering cooperative course, success in that
course in the more than 100 plants cooperating v/ith the Institute led to a demand that
a similar course in the biisiness and office administration side of industry be inaug-
urated. Such dems.nd caused the Lev/is division cooperative to be set up. Many employ-
ers have hired students from both types of cooperatives.
Tv/enty comp5.nies ha.ve thus fa,r been affiliated in the Lev/is division cooperative,
with many more offering to be allied formally v/ith the Institute as soon as students
can be provided for them. Large department stores, banks, packing companies, steel
industries and their subsidiaries are among firms cooperating.
Graduates of Austin, Hyde Park, Schurz, Northbrook, Morgan Park, St. Rita, Fenger,
Calumet, Kelv^m Park, Englewood, Leo, Taft, Sullivan, St. li/kl. Villa Park, Marion
(Indiana), Do^vners Grove, Lane Tech, Steinmetz, Tilden Tech, Kt. Carmel, Roosevelt,
Waller, Hirsch, Oak Park High Schools, and Long^-food and Elgin academies, are enrolled.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC . ^600
84.1-6
RE: APPOINIMI^IJT OF DR. B. B. FREUD,
CHAIR['/lAl^I OF THE DEPARTiffiNT OF CHEMIS-
TRY OF ILLINOIS TECH, TO ARIW POST.
FOR imiEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. B. B. Freud, 5858 Magnolia Avenue, professor and chairman of the department
of chemistry of Illinois Institute of Tecimologyj has been granted an indefinite leave
of absence to assume an army post, according to H. T. Heald, president of the Institui
Dr. Freud will enter ijnrnediately upon extended active duty as a colonel in the
chemical v/arfare service. His assignment will be in the sixth regional office of
civj.lian defense as a corps area liason representative.
During the World War, Dr. Freud served as a captain in the chemical ?;arfare ser-
vice and was in charge of field gas experimentation at the Advanced Chemical Warfare
Station of the A.E.F. In 1932 he was made commanding officer of the 304- th regiment
of the chemical warfare reserve, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In March, 1939
he was promoted to colonel.
Receiving his B. S. degree from the University of Chicago in 190/+, Dr. Freud
obtajjied his B.S. in chemical engineering from Armour Institute in 1915. His Ph. D.
was taken from the University of Chicago in 1927.
In 1904. his teaching career at Armour Institute began vdth an instructorship.
In 1937 he was made dean of the evening division, from which post he retired after a
year .
A consulting chemist and chemical engineer since 1910, Dr. Freud became a major
in the chemical warfare service reserve in 1925, advancing in 1931 to the post of
lieutenant colonel.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American Chemical Society, the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education , and the
Chicago Chemists Club.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCHREIBER y RE; CHICAGO DEFENSE TRAINING PROGRAM -
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF ' COLLEGE LEVEL - i\LL COLLEGES AfID Ul^I-
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 46OO VERSITIES TO COOPERATE UITOER AUSPICES
""' OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF EDUCA-
TION.
RELEASE; FOR FRIDAY, 8/8 Al
College level, tuition-free training of defense industry personnel will be ex-
tended to include not only engineering colleges and universities in the Chicago area
during the academic year 19-41-4-2, but also science and arts schools. This announce-
ment was made ty H. T. Healdj president of Illinois Institute of Technology and I'e-
gional advisor for district #15 engineering, science, and management defense training
to the United States Office of Education «
According to President Heald, recent legislation by Congress, authorizing an
expenditure during the coming academic year of approximately v'lVjOOOjOOO for defense
training, will permit the training of personnel for defense jobs in the fields of
engineering, science and management. The title of the training program will be change
from eng;ineering; defense training, carried on now in the Chicago area exclusively by
Illinois Tech and Northwestern, to engineering, science and management defense trainin.
Quoting from a mem.o froin John W. Studeba-ker, U= S, Commissioner of Education,
Mr, Heald explained that,
"Under the new act the training is to be provided by degree granting colleges
and universities. Degree granting as used therein has been interpreted to mean that
the institutions, in recognition of satisfactory completion of curriculvim of four
years or longer beyond high school graduation, during the academic year 194-0-4-1
granted degrees with a major leading to a professional career in engineering, chemistr
physics, or production supervision. Institutions will be eligible to conduct courses
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ohly in those fields named above in wliich they have suitable facilities in staff and
equipment,"
Those colleges and universities of engineering who have been cooperating with the
United States Office of Education during the parit year in presenting the engineering
defense training courses, will continue to do so during the academic year 194-1-4-2.
These courses have included tool and fixture design, engineering drav.'ing, airplane
engine testing, production inspection, metallurgy, and many others. The nevr program
will now provide for the cooperation of the non-engineering schools to give such non-
credit, tuition-free, college-level courses as management, physics and chemistry.
In Chicago, Mr. Heald explained, The Universitj'- of Chicago expects to cooperate
in the new program for science and management defense training. The fall courses are
expected to conmience on or about Ocftober first. Sufficient notice will be given by
all schools in the Chica.go area concerned so that enrollment will be possible.
Mr. Heald also emphasized the fact that such training vfill be caj^ried on exten-
sively throughout Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Wisconsin, knoym as district
#15, of which he is regional advisor. Schools in that district cooperating in engineer-
ing defense training are; the University of Illinois, Bradley Polytech (Peoria),
Marquette (Milwaukee ) , the University of Wisconsin (Madison - with extension courses
throughout the State), and North\restem Technological Institute (Chicago), Other
colleges are expected to cooperate in the science and management defense training pro-
gram ,
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FROM. ALEXAl^SDER SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC . 46OO
8^1-11
RE. AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE
TO BE OFFERED BY ILLINOIS TECH;
FIRST CLaSS TO GRADUATE IN 19/U.
F'uR H*.1SDIATE RELEASE
Illinois Institute of Tochnology, whose Armour College of Engineering division
pioneered in the teaching of aerodynamics 30 years agOj will next month inaugurc.te a
program leading to the bachelor of science in aeronciutical engineering degree.
Announcement of this innovation, '."hich x?ill make Illinois Tech the sole engi-
neering school in the state and one of fer: in the Middle West to offer such a degree,
is made today by H= T. Heald, 5S/+4- Stony Island Avenue, president, YJork in the aero-
nautics field vjill be under joint sponsorship of the civil and mechanical engineering
departments.
Since the first two years of vrork for the degree vtLll be that of the freshman
and sophomore curricula of either civil or mechanical engineering degrees, actual
setting up of courses for the nevi program ;?ill not take place until September, 194-2 =
At that time, students now sophomores in the t-^-o branches of engineering ceai elect
the aeronautics option.
First graduates with the aeronautical engineering degree v.'ill leave school in
June, 19A4-- It is expected a full complement of student \7ill register in the course
at its inception, because of widespread demand for its introduction.
"About one-third of students registering for enrollment at the Institute during
the past tx=fo years ha.ve been vitall;- interested in establishjnent of such a field of
study," President Heald said.
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"Industry demands three general types of men for its needs in the aeronautici.1
field - designers, production men and teclinicians.
"Designers can be trained in the civil engineering field, production men in the
mechanical engineering field, and technicians by such program as the engineering de-
fense training course the government established for that purpose at the Institute. "
The present problem of army and navy experts, attempting to solve needs for high-
grade personnel in an all-out effort to step-up aircraft production, is that civil
or mechanical engineers must be remade to the particular patterns demanded by the
airplane industry.
Marked advantages will be possessed by graduates of the aeronautical engineering
program over either civil or mechanical engineers in that they vrill have been trained
to step from classroom to aircraft plant on graduation, Heald stated. .
From the pioneering days of Professor Melville B. Wells, noiv emeritus professor
of civil engineering and former head of the department, who in 1911 taught what is
generally accepted as the second course to be taught in the nation in aerodynamics, to
the incumbent aeronautical engineering experts of the faculty, Illinois Tech has been
close to the design, production and research of all types of aircraft.
Hans Reissner, 5110 Hyde Park Blvd., research professor of engineering, who is at
present designing a Y;ind tunnel to be used next year, Lloyd H. Donnell, 5525 Kimbark
Avenue, associate professor of mechanical engineering, vmo for several years was conn-
ected I'dth the field of dirigible building, and other aeronautical resesrehitits are
numbered among the faculty.
In addition to Professor Wells 'who, though 70 years old, last year taught himself
to fly though he ia- hpndiccpped hy having only one arm., some members of the aeronauti-
cal engineering faculty will be men who have served their hours in the air at the con-
trol of a ship.
Admission to the new course will be granted only to students of high scholastic
standing, especially those who are capable mathematicians. A prospective aeronautical
engineering student vfhose marks in calculus, for instance, are lower than "B", will not
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECm^JOLOGY-VICo ^600
84.1--12
RE: 1ST AIMCUAL FALL SI^IGINESRING CONFEPilNCE
SPONSORED BY ILLINOIS TECH, THURSDAY;
FRIDAY, OCT, 30, 31, PALMER HOUSE.
FOR IIvuv'IEDIATE RELEASE
"What is believed to be the first conference on a national scale called by an
engineering schoolj at which phases of airport construction^ operation and mainten-
ance will be discussed by experts > will be sponsored by Illinois Institute of
Technology at the PaLner House Thursday through Friday, October 30 and 31.
"Airports" will be the formal then.e of the :Tieeting5 v^hich will be the first
Fall Engineering Conference of the Institute, It is plar.ned to Biake the Conference
an annual feature, balancing the annual Midwest Pov.-er Conference sponsored by the
Institute each Spring.
The latter is confined to problems of the power industry but the former each
year will concern a separate aspect of tiie engineering field. Intense interest of
professional figures and laymen in developLient of airports and rela.ted problems as an
offshoot of national defense, coupled with prominence of Chicago's airport through
its expansion program^ heightens topical appeal of the Conference, the Institute
believes.
J. B. Finnegan L400 E. 56th Street, professor of fire protection engineering
and chairman of the department, will be Conference Director. C. 0. Harris,
8509 Euclid Avenue, instructor in mechanics, vjill be Conference Secretary, and other
committee members a.re S. M. Spears, 1720 W. lU5th Place, associate professor of civil
engineering, and YJ. T. Prie:3tley, Jr.. I/iiller Road, Harrington, Illinois, assistc.nt
professor of architecture.
Airport grading, drainage c--nd paving, lighting and signaling, capacity and oper-
ations prcblem.s, airport layout, raanagernent , plane servicing arrangements, buildings
and fire protection v/ill be among subjects discussed. Other subjects ara to be
announced shortly.
Approximately 20 speakers r.'ill be heard in morning and afternoon sessions and
in after-luncheon addresses, /imong those scheduled in an incomplete list are William
A. Alclous, iinn Arbor, Michigan, senior engineer, soils paving unit, technical develop-
ment division. Civil Aeronautics Administration, H. J. Corey Pearson, Yb.shington, D.C.j
lighting engineer, technical development division, G.A.A.; and C. 3. Donaldson,
Washington, D. C, acting director, airport division, C.A.A..
Others are Ro'bert Aldrich, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., supervisor of airports,
American Air Lines, and £. H. Sittner, plant engineer, of the same city and company,
Ro Yb. Schroeder, 2126 Thornvood avenue, Wilaette, Illiiiois, vice px'esident in charge
of safety. United Air Lines, and A. F, Bonnslie, 4IQ S, Grove Avenue, Oak Park,
Illinoi-S, assistant to the executive vice president in charge of operations of the
sam.e company,, F. B. Quaekenboss, /4-23 Greenleaf iivenue, Svanston, Illinois, fire pro-
tection engineer of the Rollins Burdick Hunter Company, Chicago, i.. E. Blomquist,
Nev; York City, Nev/ York, chief airport engineer. Eastern Air Lines, Filliam Schv/arz,
Transcontinental snd Western Air^ Inc., and John Groves, Fashington (D. C.) Ns Lional
Airport .
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. A60C
8^1-13
RE. 10 FELLOV.'SHIPS OP'FERED FOR 19-41-4-2 BY
THE INSTITUTE OF GaS TECMOLOGY OF
ILLINOIS TECH, $1,000 VALUE EaGH OF
FOUR YEARS. •
FOR RELEASE. MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 19^j.l.
Fellowship awards totalling $40,000 to ten engineering school graduates i^'ill be
offered for 194-1-4-2 by the Institute of Gas Technology at Illinois Institute of
Technology it was announced today (Monday, 8/18/4-1) by H. T. Heald, president of
Illinois Tech.
Also president of the Institute of Gas Technology, Heald said work as students
Tech's graduate school v/ill be started September 22 by fellowsl^ip winners, whose
grants will provide $1,000 for each of four years during which they will pursue pro-
grams leading to masters and doctors degrees.
The Institute of Ge.s Technology, a separate unit on the Armour College of
Engineering campus of Illinois Tech, v-'as created in June b;^ a million dollar appro-
priation of seventeen leading gas producing companies ox the United States.
Buildings necessary to house activities of the Institute of Gas Technology v.dll
be built eventually as part of a plan distinct from the existing 03,000,000 develop-
ment program of Illinois Tsch. Tlie financing of instruction, maintenance and related
costs of the gas research project will proceed at the rate of at least ;i;100,000 a yeaj
for the next ten ye^rs.
Fundamental and applied research pointed to bet"^,er.',ient of the gas industry will
bo the aim of fellovs and i'^culty of the Institute of Ga^ Teclinology, Heald stated.
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Peak enrollraent, to be reached gradually so tnat selective caution as to enrollee may
be exercised, ?.-ill be from 50 to 60 stucents.
Fellows remaining for tiae entire four year program envisioned by trustees of
the Institute of Gas Technology v/ill receive Ph, DJs in subjects already part of the
highly-developed graduate school of Illinois Tech. Summer vacation einpiojTnent, at
$125 psr raonthj Fill be available to each fellovr.
The course ox study vfill include organic chenistry, engineering mathematics,
physicsj fluid flov; and heat transfer, physic-.l chemistryj gas technologs^, chejnistry
of poljTnerization and depolymerization, catalysis and surface chemistry.
Also offered will be curricula including the equivalent of one year of academic
vrork in the ba,CKground of industrial gas problems, including opertition, management
and regulations of public utilities. Equipment and materials for manufacture, storage
and distribution of gas, by-products of the industry, management problems, and related
subjects vfill be studied.
In his fourth year a fellow will concern himself v/ith research fundamentally of
use to the gas industry. His summer employment period v.'ill be connected T.'ith some
phase of gas technology.
Formal objectives of the gas technology endovmient are as follovrst
Education at the graduate level v/ith a prograjn leading to a Ph. D. in four 3''ears.
Fundamental research for the gas industry.
Organization and dissemj-nation of scientific information pertinent to the gas
industry.
Specific research projects for individual companies in the gas industry.
Engineering graduates from schools other than engineering colleges are eligible
for fellowships. From each $1,000 grant ^325 is deductible for tuition, fellows thus
receiving f;75 per month for nine months after tuition is paid. Appli.cation should be
made to the Institute of Gas Teclmology, 3300 Federal Street, Chicago, Illinois.
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C. Smithy president of the Houston (Texasj Natural Gas Coriipany. Members of the exe-
cutive coinmittee, in addition to Keald and Smith, ar-e, Her-Tian itus&eli, President,
Rochester Gas and Electi'ic Corporation (Nev; York);., F. H, Lerch, Jr.^ President, Gas
Companies^ Inc., Nev; York. Frank K. Adair.s, vice-president, Surface Combustion Corpor-
ation, Toledo, Oh-io, Thoni-oS Drever, President, ajnerican Steel Foundries, Chicago and
member of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Tech, and ^'''iifred Sykes, President of
Inland Steel, Chicago and meiaber of the Bo^^rd of Trustees of Illinois Tech,
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECmiOLOGY-VIC, 46OO
RE, ELECTION OF J, H., COLi.ISR, PRSS.,
GRAINS CO. 5 TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
J.LLIKOIS TECH„
FOR RELEASE HEMESDAY, 8/'20/Zl
John H. Collier, President of Grar.e Co., ha<.s been elected to the Board of
'rustees of Illinois Institute of Teohnology. i-mnouncement of the election v.'ss ms.de
y Ja.ues D, Cunningham, Chairman of the Board of Illinois Tech, and President of
:epublic Flor Meters Cor:ipa.n7 of Chicago,
Mr. Collier, according to the announcement, has been elected to the Institute's
loard to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. E. Nolte^ long-time, staunch
upporter of the Institute and one of the prime-movers of the Institute's net-?
3,000,000 building campaign.
The election of John H. Collier to the Presidency of Crane Co. at a special
eeting of the Board of Directors on May 5, 194-1 culminated a career that began 38
ears earlier, when, as a young man of 19, he entered the employ of Crane Co. as a
ore-maker's helper - almost the bottom, of the industrial ladder. Through his ovm
bility, perseverance, dependabilj.ty and honesty he successfully ran the gamut of
Dundry practices and manufacturing processes which led to plant m.anageraent, both here
id abroad, and finally as executive head of one of our countrj'-'s loading manufacturini
id distributing organizations.
The first few years of his Crane experience brought hiin in intimate contact yath
3veral different ina.nufac taring sections including core room, pattern shop, pop valve
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3ection, moulding foundry, tool section, iron valve department, and machine designing.
7ith such a practical background, he v/as given his first really important assignment
Ln January, 1908, vrhen he was made assistant superintendent of the brass foundry.
Mr. Collier was appoi.nted by president R, T. Crane, Jr. as general manager of
the Bridgeport, Conn, manufacturing division (August, 1917) vjhich position he held
twel'/e years. From Januai-y, 1922 until 1929, inclusive, he also served a.s a Director
jf Crane Co., but v/as not re-elected in January, 1930, because six months prior to
that time he pjas sent to Europe as president of Cie Crane, Paris, France, and chair-
nan and director of Crane, Ltd,, London, England. He served in those capacities until
;he middle of 1933, when the economic depression was at its lowest ebb and made neeess-
iry various changes in the com.oany. It was then that Mr, Collier returned to Chicago
,0 be elected vice-president in charge of manufacturing vrith headquarters in the great
hicago works he helped to build nearly twenty years before. In March, 1939, he was
ain elected a dii-ector of the company. The top rung of the ladder was reached vrhcn
e was made President, May 5> 1>'4-1"
Ifr, Collier was born in Chicago on September 22, 1884- , a son of Frank Howard
nd Fanny (Brovm) Collier. In 1919 he married Virginia MacMakin. They have a son
MacMakin) and a daughter (Joan), and live at 900 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECrlllOLOGY-VIC. A600
841-15
RE, CURRICULUM OF HOME ECONOMICS DEPART-
MENT AIJINCUNCED BY DR, RUTH COWAN
CLOUSE; CHAIR.MM, IDA DIDIER NiilvIED
ASSISTMT PROFESSOR.
FOR. IMEDIaTS RELEASE
Ida fHarie Didier, for the past five yeara head of the departinent of hoip.e econo-
lics of Marygrove College, Detroit, v;ill join the faculty" of Lev^is division of
llinois Institute of Technology as assistant professor of home economicSj it v^as
.nnounced today by Dr. Ruth Govan Clouse, 564-3 Blackstone Avenue, chairman of the
lepartment .
Outlining the curriculum of the expanded home economics department, Dr. Clouse
aid the addition of Hiss Did.ier, a specialist in cloth.ing and textile subjects, which
ill be given great stress in the new departnent program, would signalize the absorp-
ion of the applied art department by that of home economics =
Hiss Dialer, a graduate of North Dakota State Agricultural College , Fargo, in
923 with a bachelor of science in home economics degree, received a master of science
n textiles and clothing degree from the University of Chicago 5,.n 1931- She has done
urther graduate work at the University of Chicago, Colorado State College, Fort
ollins, and VJayne University, Detroit.
Her teaching experience was- gained at Little Falls (jlinnesota) High School from
92-4 to 1926, Colorado State College from 1931 to 1936 as assistant professor, the
harlestoY.Ti, Illinois, extension of the University of tllinDis from 1926 to 1930 as
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tiome advisor, and at Harygrove College «
Miss Didier ^.vas assistant to the dean of women at North Dakota State Agricultural
College in 1923 and 1924.. A supervisor of canning for a state project with headquar-
ters in Denver, Colorado, in the sununer of 1934- , she was special agent in the Colorado
State College extension the following sununer.
Dr. Clouse, a specialist in the study of vitamins, whose appointment as chairman
3f the department was announced this summer, ?/as for six years nutrition consultant on
the headquarters staff of the iUneivLcan Medical Association before assuming her Lewis
iivision post.
Her aim for the i-eorganized home economics department is a versatile staff v/ith
i wide selection of courses offered, Dr. Clouse observed. She coiranended the service
3ver a great period of years of Miss Maria Blanke;, since Lewis opened in 1896 a teacher
)f applied art of x^xhich she is novf assistant professor, and Miss Laura Winkelman,
issistant professor of home economics, as having made for a strong foundation on which
;o build a completely modern department.
Dr. Clouse will specialize in classes concerning vitamins, nutrition and foods,
liss Didier in clothing and textiles, i'.liss Winkelman in food studies and Miss Blanke
.n costume design and interior decoration.
Formal a.iras of the home economics department, as Dr. Clouse outlined them, are
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Courses will provide training for students who wish an integrated course in arts
.nd sciences fundamental to successful home making, for those who wish to become
-eachers of home econom.ics, including teachers of vocational hom.e economics in high
ichools receiving state and federal aid for promotion of vocational education, and for
■hose preparing for business or professional service in home economics.
The last category of students may take work fitting them for cafeteria or tearoom
lanagement, dietetics work in hospital or clinic, home economist or nutritionist work
n public work or social welfare agencies, work as home economist in demonstration
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citchen or testing laboratory, or woric as home economist vith a business organization,
)r. Clouse said.
Also, students who tdsh to make a study of the genera], principle of foods and
lutrition c.nd of clothing so as to make a more rational personal use of them, those
)reparing for social service, and those entering a business requiring knowledge of
'cods, textiles or applied art will be accoiiimodated, she stated.
An analysis of content of home economics courses was offered by Dr. Clouse as
'ollows o
Food and nutrition includes a study of food composition, methods of cookery,
"amily meal planning and meal service, quantity cookery, laboratory practice in
;afeteria or tearoom management, hiiman dietary requirements in normal health and in
lisease, the essentials of an adequate diet, and the effect of cooking and processing
>n the nutritional values of foods.
Clothing and textiles include garment constructJ.on, analysis of clothing mater-
als, budgeting and the selection of clothing suitable in color, line and design to
he individual. Advanced courses in textiles and dress design, also are offered.
Household administration covers v/ork in house planning, iiome furnishing, econo-
lic and social problems of family life, child care and child iveifa-re, and consumer
iroblems in the purchasing of household materials and ec[uipment.
Home economics education courses are offered for those students ''.-ho Yw-ish to enter
.he teaching profession «
Applied art includes basic courses in drawing, design, and color theories,
ipecial courses in applied design, costuiae design, and interior decoration are fur-
Ishedo
The home economics curriculum provides for both evening and day classes in home
conomics subjects lea,ding toward the degree of bachelor of science in a.rts and science
n home economics.
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TSGHNOLGGY-VIC. ^600
RE.
8A1-16
SIX ILLINOIS TECH SENIORS OF AilMOUR
COLLEGE DIVISION WIN SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR Y)U1-U2,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASf
Six seniors of Armour College of Engineering div.ision of IllinoivS Institute of
Technology are v/inners of tonor scholt.rships for 194.1-4-2 it v"as announced today by
H= T« Heald, 5844- Stony Island Avenue, president.
Unlike scholarshirjs offered to fresliinan entering the Institute, provided either
by the school or, in the ca.se of fire protection engineering freshman, by stock insur-
ance corapanies of the country, tliese traditional senior honor avv'ards are set up by
endowaent of friends of the Institute,
George tv, Stors, 9644 S, Fin;jton Avenue, and Warren Spitz, 7405 Bennett Avenue,
architectui-al studentsj George Orescan, 304 Cleveland Street, Gary, Indiana, chemical
engineering student j Robert J. Sullivan, 707S N, Wolcott Avenue, mechanical engineering
student; Charles I, Ball, 4227 N, Ashland Avenue, civil engineering studentj and
Robert V, , Kerney, 174-2 W. 95t}i Street, fire protect:' on engineering student, are award
winners.
Considerations for winning an honor scholarship are scholastic record, persona-
lity, extra-curricular activity, and general fitness.
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F Storz and Spits are recipients of Dora T. Bartlett Memorial Scholarships. The
Bartlett fund was established in 1937 by Frederick Clay Bartlett, Jr., in architectural
graduate of Armour in 1934. It memorializes his mother, providing for selection by
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:he President and architectural faculty.
Crescan is recipient of a Bernard £. Sunny Scholarship. Tiie Stmn;^ x'und ";as
stablished in 1909, the gift of a ti-ustee of the Institute, with provision of selec-
tion bjr the President,
Sullivan is recipient of the Malek A-. Loring Scholarship.
Balx is recipient of the EdvTard G. Elcock Sciiolarship, established in 1921 for
recognition of a junior or senior civil engineering student, vith provision of selec-
tion b3" the President.
Kerney is recipient of a Chicago Mechanics' Institute Fund Scholarship, through
provision of the Chicago Co;n:uun<ty Trust for deserving Armour students residing in
JhicagOj The President iTiakes selection.
Stor:!,, a graduate of Luther Institute, is a membar of Scarab, honorary architec-
lural fratemiity. His scholastic average for the second semester of his Junior year
vas 2.Li out of a possible 3.00. Spitz, a graduate of Viyde Park High School, is a
aeinber of Rlio Delta Purio fraternity, of Sp-hinx, honorary journalistic fraternity, and
WELS sports editor of TECHKOLCGY NET'S, undergraduate vveekl:/, last year. His average for
the second semester of his junior year T;as 1.91.
Orssean, thirty-four years old, married and father of a tvrelve-ycar-old son,
entered Armour College of Engineering in 1933, having graduated from Proebel High
School, Gary, Indiana, in 1924.. Employed at night and a home orrner, he has ma.naged to
maintain high grs.des through his 7/'ea,rs at the Institute, His average for the second
semester of his junior year was 2, .76, He belongs to Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering
fr^.ternity, t.nd Phi Lambda Upsllon fraternity.
Sullivan, a graduate of Sullivan Kign School., is a member of the Glee Club, the
iimerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pi T£-u Sigma, p.echanical erginee.ring honorary
fraternity, and was student honor marshal as a freshjnan and sophomore. He vas also a
junior marshal in 1940-4.1, v;ith an average of 2.95.
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Ball, a graduate of La.ke VievJ High School, is a member of the AraeriCcon Society
of Civil Engineers, the Glee Club, and has been editor of Chi Epsilon's paper, a
student honor marshal, and reT,rrite and feature editor of TECHNOLOGY NEWS, undergraduate
Yv'eeklyo He v;aE also a junior marshal!, in 194.0-/11, wi.th an average of 2.79.
Kerney, a graduate of Morgan Pari-: High School, is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi
fraternity. His average for the second semester of his junior year was 1.85=
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FROM, ALEXiiflDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. ^600
8^1-17
RE; EVENING CLASSES IN FIRE INSURANCE
SUBJECTS OFFERED BY ARi^lOUR DIVISION
OF ILLIiNOIS TECH; FIRE PROTECTION
ENGINEERING COURSE.
FOR IliMEDIATE RELEASE.
Tivo courses in the evening division of Armour College of Engineering of Illinois
Institute of Technology/ of special Lnterei;t to students preparing for fire insurcuice
careers are announced today by J. B. Finnegan, professor of fire protection engineer-
ing and director of the department.
Fednesda.y, October 1, sevsnteen-weel: courses in elements of fire protection engi
neering and in fire insurance practice will begin. Both v;'ill be offered Fednesdciy
evenings, the former at 8 o'clock and the latter at 6';20 o'clock.
Building construction, municipal and private Vifater supplies, public and private
fire extinguishing apparatus a^nd methods, and fire alarm systems v/ill be covered in the
fire protection engineering course.
Principles of fire insurance, types of insurance companies and associa.tions, the
standard fire policy, and outstanding forms and clauses of policies virill be covered in
the fire insui-ance practice course.
The registrar's office of Armour College of Engineering campus is located at
3300 S. Federal Street, a block v;est of Dearborn Street., Tuition is ^20 per course.
A general fee of $4- per semester is cha.rged evening division students.
Fire protection engineering has been taught in Armour College of Engineering
since 1903, vfith bachelor of science degrees in fire protection engineering a^varded.
No other engineering school in the United States offers such a degree.
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ILLINOIS institu:f 0?
TECHNOLOG-I-V IC , 46OO
8Z.1-18
RE: WEY FaCULTY iJIEIjIBERJ IK ARJ.10UR COLLEGE
OF EKGINESRIMG DIVISION OF ILLINOIS
TECHj DR. !,:. J. LIURPJiY SUCCEEDS
DR. B. B. FREUD AS CHEMISTRY DEPART-
iVlENT CHAIfilM-I .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Replaceraent of departeent heads and naming of no;- f.j.culty merabers in Arriiour
College of Engineering of Illinois Institute of Technology feLitured i.ai announcement
todr~jf ;3;/ IL T. Has Id 5 58A4 Stony Island Avenue, president.
Dr. M. J. Murray, 7Gl) Grandon Avenue^ is acting chaiman of the cheaistry de-
partment succeeding Dr. B. 3. Freadj who left recently on extended active duty as
colonel in the chemical varfc.re service. Br. Murray, appointed in 1939 as o^ssistant
professor 5 v/as last year mtide associate professor.
I Dr. J. £. Hobson, 30-year-old central station engineer of the Tifei.'tingjiouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was named professor
of electrical engineering and department chairman to succeed Dr. E. H, Freeman,
professor of electrical engineering, a teacher at ilrmour since 1902 and department
chairman since 1909. The latter ivill remain as professor.
H. C. Spencer, 6139 3. Kenwood Avenue, formerly head of the department of engi-
neering drajving at Texas Agricultural a.nd Mechanical College, is chairman of the
newly-created engineering drariing department. Dr. Victor L. Streeter, for six years
employed by the U. S. Burerau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado, vn.ll be associate
professor of hydraulics, teaching in the civil engineering department.
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Dr. Willi.-":'.ra A. Fxicoi\, i'c;r the pa-st four yearf employed in Bell TeJ.ephone
Laboratories, riew Yorl: City, Nev Yoi'k, as tai electrical engineer. Fill be an assist-
mt prcfeiiSor of electrical engineering. Dr. LeVan Griff is, a June v-'inner of a
doctorate in mechanics at California Institute of Technology, Berkeley, will be an
assistant professor of rr.echanics.
Dr. Otto Zmeska,l, a June v^inner of a doctor of science in metallurgy degree at
fcssachusetts Institute of Technolcgj', Ca.;nbi-idge, will be an assistant professor of
metallurgy in the chemical engineering department. R. 0. Loving, who becomes a.n
issista.nt professor of engineering drawing, has held the same position at Texas
A. and M. College since 1936.
Dr .Herbert Bernstein, H-ast year a national research fellow at Princeton Univer-
sity, Princeton, N. J.j Fill be an instructor in organic chtmistrj^. Dr. Robert F.
Christy, a June vjinner of a doctorate in physics at the University of California,
Berkeley, y;ill be an instructor in physics-
Russell T. Griffith, 559 Pennsylvania Street, Gary, Indir.na, assistant chief
cho'i.Mst of the Cities Service Gil Company, East Chicago, Indiana, vrlll be an mstinictor
in chemical engineering. Harold Mi.nkler, "dio this month receives a bachelor of
science in engineering draiving degree from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana,
will be an instructor in engineering drawing.
Albert K3.1ff, for tvro ycs.rs an instructor in the engineering dep3.rtuent of Tex-'S
College of Arts and Industries, Kingsville, v.'ill be an instructor in civil engineering.
Dr. I'lurray, assuming the chemistry department chairmanship, is a brilliant
research chemist as vjell as a I'ecogniaedt teacher and adi-ninistrator. A native of
Moran, Indiana, he is thirty-seven years old, Ke received a.n A.B. degree itoKl
DepEuw University, Greencastle, Indiana, in 1925 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University,
Ithaca, Ne?J York, in 1929. He did further graduate work at the University of
Illinois, Urbana, in the summer of 1937.
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A teaching fellovi at Cornel?i- from 19.^5 to I9285 Dr. lAuvrvy was an instructor of
quantitative analvBis tliere during the next t\"0 years. He trensf erred to Lynchburg
College, LjTichburgj Virginia, &nd. from 1930 to 1939 was head of the deps.rtment of
cheiriistry at the institution. He came to ^irmour College of Engineering of Illinois
Institute of Techuiolog:/ "^n 1939 =
Research grants fror.: the ijnerican Academy for the Advancement of Science, and
the Virginia Academy of Science in 1938, hs.ve been made to Dr. i/Iurray. With Dr. F. F.
Cleveland, novir of the Institute's faculty, he received the Virginia Academy of Science
award in 1939.
Dr, Murray is a fellov; of the American Academy for the Advrancement of Science, a
member of the Airierican Chem:cal Society, the Virginia Academy of Science, the Airier ican
Association of University Professors, the Piedmont Chemical Society, Alpha Chi Sigma,
Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi,
He was the author of Introductoi-y Qualitative Analysis (r.dth P., B. Corey) in l?3ii
and has contributed frequently to chemical journals.
Dr. Hobson, vfho becom.es chairman of the electrical engineering department, A^oted
"The Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer for 1940" by Eta Kappa IJu fraternity, was
born in filarshall, Indiana, in 1911. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering
degree, vjith distinction, in 1932 from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indi5.na, and
earned a master of science degree in the same subject the following year.
A magna cum laude doctors degree from California Institute of Technology/, after
tivo years of study, wa^s received b/ Dr. Hobson in 1935. At Purdue Dr. Hobson had been
editor of the Engineer and a member of the orchestra, ijnong honors he has received
are the Tau Beta Pi research fellowship, 1932-335 the Charles A, Coffin Foundation
Fellowship, 1933-34-, an honorable mention for the Eta Kappa Nu Recognition of the
Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer for 1939.
Dr. Hobson is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Delta Chi,
The American Institute of Electrical Engineers (associate membership). Triangle
fraternity; and Hasonic, F. and A.ivL Ke is a. member and secretary of the /iiaerican
Institute of Electrical Engineers subcor^iinittee for the Investigation of ju"c I^rnace
Overvoltages and a member of the .^.I.E.E.'s committee on science.
D'c, Hobson has taught at California Institute of Technologjr as a graduate assist-
ant from 1933 to 1935; at Earlhara College, Richmond, Indiana, during 1935 ^nd I9365 as
a.ssii-itant professor of mathematics^ at Armour College of Eiigineering of Illinois
Institute of Technology.', from September, 193b, to February, 1937, as instructor in
electrical engineering;, at University o f Pittsburgh, from 1937 to 194-1 as a lecturer
in electrical enigineering, and as a lecturer in electrical engineering at Nortlive stern
University in 1939-4-0.
Dr.. Hobson' s industrial experience beg.an "/ith the Kelmian Electric and Manufactur-
ing Company in the summer of 1/35 j ".'hen he v;as supervisor of h^gh voltage porter fre-
quency and surge acceptance tests on ci.rcuit breakers for the Builder Qim-Los Angeles
tr.ansm.is3 ion line. He assisted, also, in dasign-i.ng and building a 1,000,000 volt
surge generator for tlie CalifcrnJa Institi.to of Technology in 1935^
Dr Hobson beg.v.n in" February of 1937 at his present position as engineer in the
central station section of the industry engineering department of V^estinghouse
Electric and ilanufacturing Conpa.ny, East Pittsbui'gh, Pennsylvania. Since August, 1938^
Dr. Hobson has beer, stationed at headquarters for the northv-re stern di.strict with
Chicc.gO; Indianapolis, Minneapolis, MiJ.waukee and Madison as part of his itinerary.
He ;i-as contributed vridely to prof essi.onal publications.
Spencer, who takes the post of chairma/n of the nev.rly-created engineering d.r.a-ing
department, is lately nead of the 3a.me department at Te.xas A., and M. College, College
Sta.tion, Texas. A '.7ell~knov.'n conr;ereial art.st, he is the author of standard engineer-
j-ng drav'ing textbooks. Born in llfc.ngum, Ckla.homa, in 1903, he received his A,B. in
1929 from Baylor University, T'aco, Texas, t.nd an M.S. the follov.'ing ye...r from Texas
A. ...nd iW., where he also received a bachelor degree in arch'tecture last year.
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Spencer studied art .m the Chicago Acade.ay of Fine Arts In 1924. '--.nci at the /a-t
Students League in Ne-" York City in 1925. He vras active as a proi'es.sional artist and
engineering draftsman in Dallas, Texas, during 1920-21, in Waco for the next three
years, in Chicago in 1925, and again in Waco the following year.
His teaching career began at Eallinger, Texas, ivhere h.e taught in the local high
school as instructor of mechanical dra;";ing for three years. From 1929 to 1937 he vms
an instructor in mechanical dr^-j^'ing c^t Texas A. and I;i. College, becoming associate
professor in 1937 and department head in 194-0«
Spencer's paintir.gs have been v.'idely odiibited, soine of their, hanging in South-
western gc,.llerie3 iincl museuMS, He is a member of the Southern States Art Leag-ue a.nd
a member of the executive coirimittee of the drav^ing division of the Society for the
Promotion of Engineering Education, He is co-^ruthor of "Tecimical Dr.iV'ing," "Techni-
cal Drav'ing Problems," "Technical Drav^ing for High Schools,'' and ''Lettering Exercises."
Dr Streeter, assuming the post of associate professor of hyciraulics, is a n^.tiV3
of Marcellus, Michigan = He gr.iduated from, the local high school in 1927, attended
Festern State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1927 to 1929^ in 1931
receiving a B.3„ in ci.vil engineering v/ith an hydraulics option, from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Streeter, earning his doctors degree in science in 1934? spent tr.-o years as
a university fe.llow. He t-"on the Colling^^ood Prise of the iamerican Society of Civil
Engineers in 1936, From June, 1934, to Julj^, 1935, Dr. Strer-^ter \7as employed in the
hydraulics laboratory of the U, S.. Birreau of Reclamation, Denver, and in July, 1935 j
was appointed o-f the fmierican Society of t/iechaniccl Engineers as a Freem.an Scholar.
Touring ten European countries, Dr , Streeter studied at the University of
Gottingen r.nd the Karlsruhe Technische HocA3chuJ.e„ Fro.m 1936 to the present he has
been employed bv the Bureau of Reclamation at Denver. He belongs to tlie Junior
AJRerican Societj- of Civil Engineers, Junior .-anericaai Society of Mech.Ai Icl.i Engineers,
Sigina Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Iota Alpha.
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Dr, .Sdsori;, named i\3sistt.nt professox- oi electrical engineering, was born in
Burchi-.rd^ Nebr-^ska, receiving Ms B. S. end M..S= in electrical engineering from the
University of Kansas, L^vrence. Harvard ar'arded Dr-, £d£on his doctor of Science in
Electric Corrdnunications degree in 1937. Ke is e. member of T;;U Beta SigTia, Sig/na Tau,
Pi lV;u Epoilon, Sigip.a Xi and is a.n associate member of the /jnericrn Institute of
Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Edaon' s working experience has been chiefly with Bell Telephone Laboratories,
Nea- York City, Mev; York, rhere he has been a nembcr of the telephone staff, engaged
in clsyelopment of terminal faci.lities for carrier telephone sj'steins for tirree and
on e -h:..lf ye ;-.r s .
Dr, LeVcin G-riifis, appointed an assistant professor of mechanics, taught in the
srrie department at the Institute in 193v ^nd returns a^ith a ?h. D, in mechanics won
at California Institute of Technolojjf last June. Ho received hi^ B, S. in engineering
from the same school, as veil as his M.S. in civil engineering in 1938. He is a
m.emi)er of Tau Beta Pi.
Dr. Otto Zmesko.l, £.ppointed as assistant professor of metullurgVj received his
B, S. in chemici 1 engineering from >J:"mour Gclxege of Engineering of the Institute in
1936, an lil.S. in aetdlurgy from the same sclaool in 1938, t.nd his doctor of science
in metallur^!^" degree from iiassachusetts Institute of Technolo;^, Boston, last June.
He lives at 105 Sixth Street, T^ilmette, Illinois.
Dr. Zrueskal's teaching experience has been gained at ^\rmour where he was an i-n-
struetor in chemistry in 1936-57, and un instructor in metallurgy in 1937-38, and at
ilassachusetts Institute of Technology v;here he w<r.s an assistant instructor in m.etallo-
graphy from 1938 to 19A1. Ke ^.Iso v'as an assistant instructor in metrallogr-apiiy from
1938 to 1)41 at Lowell Institute,
R. 0. Loving, appointed an assistant instructor of engineer.ing drawing, received
a B.S= in electrical engineering from Te":as a, and iii, in 1936, r-xi ?LS, iii mathematic-
,, was bestoi'ed on him Ix" the same school in 1740.. He ranked fourth in his graduating
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clsss in 19365 belonging to the scholarship honor society, f..nd the bi'.nd.
At Texas A. and M= Loving vras an instructor in engineering drc-^'ing and doacrip-
tive geometry, illusti-ating textbooks on these pu ejects, not:.bly a st^ndi.rd book in
the field. Technical Praying, by Giesechej Mitchell and: Spencer, He worked also at
the engineering exporiruental station of the College under Dr. F, E, Gieseche.
Dr, Herbert Bernstein, appointed an instructor in org.anlc chemistry, is a native
of Philadelphia. He attended University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) from 193-^ to
lr/33, and received his B„A. degree vith highest honors from Sr'artlxnore College,
S^-^arthinore, Pennsylvanlaj in 1936.
An M. S, v^^as Fcn at Pennsylvania State College in 1937 and a Ph. D. from the
latter school in 1940. Dr, Bernstein vas a graduate assistant fello'v, scholar and
instructor succeflsively .j.t Pennsylvani.a State Collage, State College, Pennsylv:.nia.
In 194C-4-1 he was a nation..j.l research fello-v et Princeton University, Princeton,
Nevr Jerse;^, He oelongs to the Amer'.can Cnemlcal Society, pj.ii Beta Kttppaj Sipia Xi,
and Phi Lambda Upsiion.
Dr. Christy, appointed to the physics department as an instructor, ?vas born in
Vancouver, British Colunbia, GE,nada„ He gained a B. A, fro.n the University of
British Columbia, 7^ith first class honors in mathematics and ph;y"sics, in 1935- He
iras awarded the Governor General's gold medal for leading his class. During the next
two years he attended the same school, acting as p. teaching assistant, taking his
masters degree in physics in .1937, a felloaaship brought h-i;m to the Ura^versity of
California, Berkeley, in 1-37, where, during 1938-39, he vras a teaching assistant
in physics and the follovdng year a I'Tiiting fellovv in physics, and where, in 194-1?
he rais av/s.rded a doctors d.egree in theoretic^.! phj'sics.
Dr, Edvard J, Bicek, appointed an instructor in chemistry, r-:.s iMi^n in Tracy,
Minnesota, in 1915 and received a B.A. in chemistry from C<^rleton College, Northfiel':
Minnesota, in 1937. Tliis degree ':vg3 cum laude = Kc ■•as an associc.te member 01 Sigma
Xi, a member of the orchestra and 0. pudlic^-tions odi-coi". Ke is i. member of Phi
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Lambda Upsilorij Alpha Chi Sigma and the iiineric-^n Chemistry Society, Kis doctors
degree v'as gained in analytical chemistry from the University of Illinois in Tune.
Griffith, appointed an instructor in chemical engineering, v/as born in Moni'oe-
yille, Indiana. He v/on a B, S. in chemical engineering at Purdue in 1933 and received
an M.S. in the sam3 subject from the Institute in June. He belongs to the American
Institute 01 Chemical Engineers, /imericcn Chemical. Society, the Gai*y Junior Chamber
of Comiiierce and Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. He entered tlie employ of Cities Service
Oil Compan]', East Chicago, Ind.iana, in 1933, and at present is employed as assistant
chief chemist.
Halff, appointed an instructor in civil engineering, graucluated from Su them
Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in 1936 v-'ith a B,S, in civil engineering and took
a masters degree in tlie same subject the follor-jing yed'. His home is in Eicjiardson,
Texas. He T'fas assistant office engineer from 1937 to 1939 for the Koch and Feeler
Company, consulting engineers, of Dallas. Then he became an instructor, from
December, lr)39, to June, 194-C, at Te;.;,:,s College of Arts and Industries, Kingsville,
where he has been stationed until the present. He belongs to Tiieta Alpha Omega
fraternity and the Technical Club of Dallas.
Minkler, appointed an instructoi" of engineering drav.'ing, received his a-xhelor
of science in mechanical engineering degree in August from Purdue, having spent two
years at tliat school and one at Texas A. and il. as a student assistant i.n engineering
dravring. He graduated in 1933 from Waukegan High School, Waukegan, Illinois, spent
a year of night study at Armour College of Engineer J.ng of the Institute, a:, year at
Bradley Folyteclini c Institute, Peoria, Illinois, and tlie remainder of his und€;rgrad-
uate period at Piirdue a.nd Texas -.o iind M.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC, 4-600
841-19
EE: DR. M. ALDEN COUNTRBiHAN, ASSIS5MT
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, PLANS NOVEL
PePULAR SCIENCE TALIJS, BUSIIESS, LAY
GROUPS AS AUDIENCES.
FOR BftlEDIATE RELEASE
Dr, M, Alden Co-untryman, 64I N, Stone Street, La Grange, Illinois, assistant
professor of physics in Lewis division of Illinois Institute of Technology, will in
October embark on a novel "science-at-yo-ur-door" instruction program designed
particularly for lay persons, it Yias announced today by Dr. J, S. Thompson, chainnan
of the physics department of the Institute,
Dr, Thompson will himself, as occasion demands, accompany Dr. Countryman on his
round of demonstrations before club groups, luncheon meetings of businessmen and
businessxTOmen, and various lay organizations whose members have evinced interest in
the program, the former said.
The basic appeal of Dr, Countryman* s talks on the simple lawa and essential
facts of scientific truth that v'ork in the v;orld every day, but which are for the
most part unlcnown to the average person, v/ill be brevity.
Demonstrations Tivill make up about one-half of each tvrenty-minute tallc. Mater-
ial and equipment for demonstrations rdll be so simplified they will pack neatly
into a small suitcase,
fallacies of the popular belief tliat science is mysterious will be disproved
by his demonstrations and accompanying talks. Dr. Countryman said.
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examples I show that the common experience is fully as mysterious as science — and
actually that science is not at all mysterious," he declared.
What is science? Dr. Countryman says it is an attempt to order eJcperience and
to enlarge the ordered sequence of experience, rather than to attempt to eiq^lain:
"v;hy" — except insofar as breaking up large experience into small parts is telling
"¥;hy."
To take the mystery out of science is the fuQction of evei-y v/orthv/hile
scientist, Dr. Countryman said,
"Tlie point of vieu I speak for is just the reverse of that of magicians, who
attempt to create an aura of mystery about the simple, to frustrate the simple and
logical. Whatever mystery there appears to be in scientific processes is inlierent
i& nature itself.
"Actxaally, as far as procedures go, the most profound truths may have the
simplest explanations. On the other hsmd, some of the processes of scientists are
those which have not been commonly observed,
"Through long daily contact of our environments v/e come to thinlc of things,
which in themselves are mysterious, as familiar. We nov; have tools available for
observing scientific situations, that wliile they are natural, have been hitherto
unexperienced by the average person,"
Typical of demonstrations of a concrete sort Dr. Countryman will employ in
his instructions is one that is used to malce graphic the fact of physical inertia,
Ti70 eggs, one boiled, the other iinboiled, are put on a table. Inertia can be
demonstrated by spinning the rav; egg, v/hose Interior is liquid, and will not easily
rotate. The outside doesnH spin as the interior does because the latter tends to
rotate slightly and to v/hatever. eoctent the outside rotates the interior continues to
do so when the exterior stops.
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again. The boiled egg, however, gives an entirely different performance, interior
and exterior being one in motion,
Tlie fact of surface tension in water would be demonstrated by taking a glass
of water, putting some device, such as a needle or a razor blade, on the surface
to float.
The floating is the result of surface tens ion© There is a difference in. miole-
cular spacing betvreen the body of the liquid and the surface, hence the surface has
characteristics different than the body.
Other simple demonstrations such as the conservation of energy as shoiivn through
the rolling of a child's "kumback" cylinder on a table, the cylinder rolling back to
its starting point after it is pushed in an opposite directionj the stroboscope
demonstration, in which a flashing light at intermittent intervals is timed to flash
in syncronism with a rotating object, so that it appears to stop rotating, even
though it continues to do soj a demonstration on the nature of white light, etc.,
will be among Dr. Countryman's bag of scientific commonplaces.
Organizations wishing to secure Dr, Countryman for a talk should phone
Victory 4-600, the Armour College of Engineering division of Illinois Tech, and ask
for tlie lecture ^bureau,
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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BEi ILLINOIS TECK DELEGATION AT JOINT MEET OF
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IMTH£I'.1ATICjlL ASSOCIATION OF AtlERICiv -
U. OF CHICAGO,
FOR RELE/lSE: TOESDaY, SEPTET'IIBER 2, 1941
Six members of the mathematics department of Illinois Institute of Technology
are among delegates to the annual s^'ommer meeting of the American Mathematical Society-
beginning today (9/2/4.1) and continuing through Friday at the University of Chicago,
Br. L= R. Ford, 5600 Dorchester Avenue, professor of mathematics and department
chairman; an associate editor of The American Mathematical Monthly, heads the group.
He is a member of the board of govei-nors of the Society and spoke at 9 a.m. today on
"Proper Fractions."
Dr. R. C= Krathwohl, 6211 Kimbark, professor of mathematics and director of the
department of educational tests and measurements, a member of the board of governors
of Tlie Mathematical Association of America, yesterday took part in the one-day meeting
of the Association at the Midway. Membership of this group is 3.ffiliated v;ith the
Society.
Dr. Rufus Oldenburger, 1635 E-ast Kydo Park Blvd., associate professor of mathe-
matics, made a leading address of the Association's meeting, speaking at 2 p.m. His
subject was "Matrix Methods in the Solution of Algebraic Equations."
Dr. John J. DeCicco, L4M £. 59th St., spoke today at 9 a.m. on "Geometric
Characterisation of Function of n Complex Variables." He is an instructor in mathe-
matics. Di-. I. £. Psrlin, 5510 Cornell Avenue, instructor in mathematics, spoke at
2 p.m. today on "Calcuras of Variation Problem with End Points as Functions of the
Curve." Friday at 3 p.m. Dr. Lee R. Yifilcox, 1511 Elrawood Avenue, WiLnette, Illinois,
instructor in mathematics, will speak on "Complementation and Modularity in Lattices."
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ILLINOIS IKSTITOTE OF
TECHNOLOGI-VIC. 46OO
94.1-2
RE: MMOV.R COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OF ILLI-
NOIS TECH 194l~-42 DAY CURRICULA 5 NE-
COURvSES MD TSACiiKRS; REGISTRATION
9/15 Ai.
FOR IMIJEBIaTS RELEASE
Registration for day and evening division courses at Illinois Institute of
Teciinology begins tomori^ov; (Monday, 9/i5/-4l) , with the prospect of record enrollment
for opening of day sessions September 22 ajnd evening sessions September 29, it was
announced today by J. C. Peebles, 984-6 3 Iio;/ne Avenue, acting dean.
Boasting the broadest teaching program in its history, Arnour College of Engi-
neering (South-side campus) enters the scholastic year of 1941-4-2 v;ith a greatly
aiigmented faculty. T'.Tenty-two nevf teachers have been added to the roster and one
returns from a leave of absence.
Tvvo departments have been created, a.n aeronautical engineering option has been
adopted, four department heads have been appointed and extensive equipment and facility
changes have been provided. A five-year course replaces the present four-year course
in architecture.
Engineering dravving and industrial engineering departments, nev-ly set up, tfill
be headed respectively by H. C. Spencer, 6139 3. Kenwood Avenue, associate professor
of engineering drav:ing, and H. P. Dutton, dean of the evening division of tiie
Institute.
■ Spencer was formerly head of the engineering drawing department at Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College. Datton has been associated v;ith the Institute
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since 1933. Dr. J. £. Hobsorij 30-year-cld central station engineer of the Westing-
house Electric; and I/knufacturing Company, will head the electrical engineering
departraent. Dr. M. J. I,'!"array, 7619 Crandon Aveuvio, associate p3.'"ofessor of chemistry,
has been named acting head of the chemistry department.
Inauguration of a program loading to the bachelor of science degree in aeronauti-
cal engineering, T;hich v.dll make Illinois Tech the sole engineering school in the
state and one of few in the Middle West to offer such a degree, will necessitate
slight CLirricula adjustm.ents.
In September, 194-2, actual setting up of classes will take place, as fi*eshman
and sophomore years of the program will be virtually identical ivith the first two
years of the civil and mechanical engineering programs. Present sophomores in mech-
anical or civil engineering may elect the aeronautical option next :/ear.
The fifth year of the architecture course vdll be devoted to specialisation in
architecture and city design or regional and city planning, the latter subjects
arousing grent interest because of arcuitectural tendencies in those directions.
Repeated requests of students for the longer course was greatly responsible for its
adoption .
The departinent of electrical engineei-ing, in addition to Dr. Hobson, will have
Dr. William A. Edson as a nevfcomer. He has been employed for the past four years in
the Bell Telephone Ls.boratories, Nev: York City. In addition to Spencer, P., 0. Loving,
appointed assistant professor, and Harold Minkler, appointed instinictor, will be
attached to the engineering dravi^ing department.
The mechanics department vrelcomes t^o nevi teachers. Dr. Victor L. Streeter, for
six yeai-s employed by th.e U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, ?/ill be an associate
professor of hydraulics. Dr. LeVan Griff is will be an assistant professor of
mechanics. Dr. Charles 0. Harris, an instructor in mechanics, on leave of absence
last year, is retui'ning.
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The chemical engineering department has as additions. Dr. Otto Zmeskal, assistant
professor of metallurgy, and Riissell T. Griffith, 559 Pennsylvania S+. , Gai^y, Indiana,
instructor in chemical engineering.
Dr. Herbert Bernstein and Dr. Edi/ard J. Bicek, appointed instructors in chemistry,
and Irving 3. Goldstein, 10 Spring Street, Monticello, New York, holding a B. S. in
cheraistry from Rensselaer Polyteclmic Institute and made a departmental assistant,
will be additions to the chemistry department.
The civil engineering department v/ill be joined by Albert Halff as instriiCtor.
The mathematics department will welcome Albert Latter, 83 W. California Avenue,
Pasadena, Ga.lifornia, June graduate of the University of Southern California at
Los Angeles v/ith a E.S. in mathematics, as a departmental assistant. Dr. TJalter Snyder
becomes an instructor in mathematics.
The physics department is adding Dr. Robert F. Christy as instructor and William
R. Kennedy, 1211 Sixth Avenue, South Great Falls, Montana, as a departmental assistant.
The political and social science department has a new member in Dr. Victor Jones,
formerly lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley, who becomes assistant professor.
Dr. Frederick R. ^'Thite, last year a teaching fellow in English at the University
of Michigan, Ann i'lrbor, will be an instructor in English in the English and languages
departm.ent. Dr. Allen Walker Read, holder of a Guggenheim fellowship for the last two
years, holding degrees from Anerican schools and Oxford, will be an instructor in
English. Dr. Donald Schier, 1304. Avenue A, Fort Madison, Iowa, last year a teacher
at Bemidji State Teachers College, Bemidji, Minnesota, will be an instructor in romance
languages. Dr. Frederick Richter, for tliree years director of the Roclcj^ I.Iountain
School of Lang^aages, Colorado Springs, Colorado, will be an instructor in German.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIG. ^600
RE 5 LE^/IS IN
ILLINOIS TECH TD^^l-,
COURSES; NB7 TEACHER;
FOR DMEDIATE RELEASE
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Registration for daj and evening division classes at Illinois Institute of
Technology begins tomorrow (Monday, 9/15/4-1), with a spurt in attendance for the Fall
semester indicated by freshman class gains, according to Dr. C> L. Clarke, dean.
Noting large additions in teaching personnel and laboratory and classroom
equipment, and citing a completely reorganized home economics department expected to
prove a magnet for coeds, Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences division (West-side
campus) will be functioning close to capacity, Dr. Clarke said.
Sixteen nev? faculty members will be associated with Lewis day division this
year. One teacher returns from a leave of absence. A strong impetus for harmonizing
work of individual departments of the liberal arts curriculum has led to notable
faculty additions in English, languages, chemistry, physics, business and economics,
and mathematics.
Tv?o new department heads have been appointed. They are Dr. Ruth Cowan Clouse,
formerly a nutrition expert of the American Medical Association, and Dr. M. J. Murray,
associate professor of chemistry, named acting head of the chemistry department.
Dr. Clouse' s department viill be s'taffed by two members of the present home
■e'febaDnics faculty in addition to Miss Ida Marie Didier, like Dr. Clouse a newcomer.
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Miss Didier, formerly head of the home economics department of Marygrove College,
Detroit, is a specialist in clothing and textile subjects.
F. C. Holmes, 1359 N. Hudson Ave., assistant professor of economics, returns
from a one-year leave of absence after gaining a doctor of jurisprudence degree from
Northtve stern University in June. He had taught for eleven years at Levvis.
Applied art courses, taught since Lev/is opened in 1896 b-f Mss Marie E. Blanke,
this year vfill be incorporated in the general program of the home economics department.
Dr. Herbert Bernstein and Dr. Edv^ard J, Bicek, appointed instructors in chemis-
try, and Irving S. Goldstein, 10 Spring Street, Monticello, Ner: York, holding a B.S.
in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and made a departmental assistant,
will be additions to the chemistry department.
The mathematics department will v,'elcome Albert Latter, 83 W. California Avenue,
Pasadena, California, Juno graduate of the University of Southern California at
Los Angeles with a B.S, in mathematics, as a departmental assistant. Dr. Walter
Snyder becomes an instructor in mathematics.
The physics department is adding Dr. Robert F. Christy as instructor and
William R. Kennedy, 1211 Sixth Avenue, South Groat Falls, Montana, as a departmental
assistant. The political and social science department has a new member in Dr. Victor
Jones, formerly lecturer in the department of political science at the University of
California, Berkeley, who becomes assistsxit professor.
Dr. Frederick R. White, last year a teaching fellow in English at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ?rill be an instructor in English in the English and languages
department. Dr. Allen Walker Read, holder of a Guggenheim fellowship for the last two
years, holding degrees from American schools and Oxford, will be an instructor in
English.
Dr. Donald Schier, 1304. Avenue A, Fort Madison, Iowa, last year a teacher at
Bemidji State Teachers College, Bemidji, Minnesota, viriil be an instructor in romance
languages. Dr. Frederick Richter, for tiiree years director of the Rocky Mountain
School of Languages, Colorado Springs, Colora.do, will be ssi instructor in German.
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FROMs ALEXANDER SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC, ^600
A staff reorganization of the Armour Research Foundation at Illinois Institute
of Technology, resulting from its very rapid expansion, was axmounced today,
Monday, September 8, 194.1, by its director Harold Vagtborg.
Tlie reorganization, according to Ivlr. Vagtborg, takes the form of appointment of
three new staff members to handle new research projects, and the promotion of tv/o
regular staff members to more responsible positions.
New appointees to the staff include Dr= Claj^on 0. Dohremrend, 2322 W, 119th
Place, expert in stress analysis) Dr. Richard Belkengren, 7123 S. Clyde Avenue,
bio-chemist and plant histologist| and Dr. Charles A. Coffey, 8343 Riiodes Avenue,
research expert in oils and fats.
Promotions have been given to Dr. Francis W. Godwin, 6731 Chappell Avenue,
formerly head of the chemical engineering department of the Foundation, who becomes
assistant director of the Foundation. Dr. Martin H. Heeren, research e^rpert in
chemical engineering, who has been appointed chairman of chemical engineering research.
In order to more effectively use the talents of the entire research staff of
the Foundation, there has been established what is knovm as the Armour Plan for
Industrial Research-. This plan, as the name implies, tends to produce a completely
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blem insofar as that staff members special abilities can contribute to the whole.
Departments originally created to handle the various research projects presented
by industry have grown to such an extent, according to Mr. Vagtborg, that it was
necessaiy to modify research administration under the Plan. To this end the old
departmental organization of the Foundation has been abandoned and four closely
coordinated sections have been established. These sections are: physics, chemical
engineering, metallurgy, and experimental engineering. Each section has a chairman
rather than a department head.
Dr. Godwin, newly appointed assistant director of the Foundation, was bom in
Washington, D. C. and educated at San Diego State College, (San Diego, California).
He received his Master's and Doctor's Degrees from the State University of Iov:a
(Iowa City). His parents reside in Spring Valley, California.
Dr. Godwin joined the Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology,
now the Armour Research Foundation at Illinois Tech, in 1938 as director of coal
research. He is famous for developing "colloidal fuel" (liquid coal) which has been
used experimentally to heat homes and run automobiles. He also developed the equip-
ment and technique for the taking of still pictures at exposure times of one-one-
miUionth of a second.
Dr. Clayton 0. Dohrenv/end, who is a noted civil engineer and formerly on the
staff of Armour Institute of Technology, is a native of New Britain, Connecticut, and
comes to the Foundation from a position as assistant professor of advanced mechanics
at the University of Connecticut, (Storrs) . Since 1939, Dr. Dohrenwend has been
associated with the Pratt and Whitney division of the United States Aircraft graduate
engineering school at Connecticut in research and teaching. His parents reside at
139 Lincoln Street, New Britain, Conn.
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Dr. Belkengren is a native of Willmar, Minnesota, ydiere his parents now reside at
211 E= 28tli Street, Ke received his undergraduate and graduate training at the
University of Minnesota (1939-194-1 respectively) . Since receiving his Doctorate, his
work has been in absorption spectroscopy, anaerobic germination of seed-s, and the use
of the heavy carbon isotope as a biological tracer.
Dro Coffey was born in Chicago and received his training at the State University
of Iowa (Iowa City) . He has done research vrork at the State University of lov/a.
Rock Island Arsenal (War Department), Moline, and held a position with Wilson and
Company in the investigation of fats and oils before joining the staff of the Armour
Research Foundation o
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FROM: ALEXMDKR SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHI^IOLCGY-VIC. A60G
RE: REGISTRATION BEGINS - NEW COURSES AND
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RELEASE: FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEIviBER U, 19/^1.
Illinois Institute of Technology, beginning its second year under the new name,
will open registration for engineering, architecture, and the arts and sciences
tomorrov/, Monday, September 15, 194.1. Registration for day school students will take
place during the day and until 5 o'clock in the evening. Night school students will
register from 6 o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening on both campuses.
Early registrations for day school studies in engineering indicate an increase
in enrollment for the Armour College of Engineering division, xvhich is located on the
south side campus. This is the old campus of Armour Institute of Technology. It is
expected, according to Registrar W, £, Kelly, that there will be an advance in regis-
trations amounting to 10 per cent.
According to the new plan for the Levris Institiite of j"irts and Sciences division
of the Institute, located on the West Side cajnpus, formerly that of Lewis Institute,
before the consolidsition of Armour and Lev/is Institutes, the semester plan will be in
use. Formerly, Lewis Institute operated on the quarter system. The change has been
made to facilitate registration and operation placing both divisions of the Institute
under the same system.
All new students in engineering, architecture, and the arts and sciences will
J?egister tomorrow; This includes fre'shmen and those coming to the Institute with
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On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thtirsday, all nevv students will take orientation exa-
ninations and receive assignments to student orientation groups for familiarization
with institutional activities, policies and programs. On Friday, September 19th, all
returning students vrill register. Classes begin the following Monday, Sptember 22,
Registration for night school classes, in a v/ide variety of subjects ?;ill con-
tinue tbjToughout the coming tv70 weeks. Faculty counsellors Tfill be available each
svening from 6 until 9 o'clock for the puirpose of assisting students plan their
3tudies either for degree work or for special study leading to knowledge of a specific
field in which they are employed. Registration on Saturdays closes at 4- p.m.
According to the Dean of the Evening Session, H. P. Button, the Institute again
vill offer a program of evening study, extending over a period of seven to eight
/"ears, during which the student may, exclusively through night study, obtain the degree
3f Bachelor of Science in engineering, or the arts and sciences.
Collectively therefore, this is the broadest teaching 'program in the history of
the Institute. Enrollment of some 7,000 day and evening school students is expected.
En order to meet the demand for increased facilities, staff and equipment, the summer
Df 194-1 has been spent in adding replacement to equipment and staff and augmenting
curricula to meet the need for new studies. Ti'fO new departments have been created
and a third has been completely reorganized.
The new departments are engineering drawing and industrial engineering. Head of
the engineering drawing department v/ill be Dr. H. C. Spencer, 6139 S. Kenwood Avenue,
vho comes to the Institute from the position as head of engineering drawing at Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College ( College Station, Texas), H. P. Button, with the
Institute since 1933 and Bean of evening sessions, professor of business management
and chainnan of social science, becomes head of the department of industrial engineer-
ing.
Completely reorganized is the department of home economics of the Lewis division
of the Institute. New department head is Dr. Ruth C. Clouse, former nutrition expert
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for the American Medical Association.
On the Armour campus, where all engineering studies have been centered, vjith the
exception of a few freshman courses to be given on the Leviris campus, a new option in
aeronautical engineering has been established. This makes the Institute the sole
engineering school in the State of Illinois and the middle-west to offer such a pro-
gram leading to the Bachelor of Science degree. Present sophomore engineers
(civil or mechanical only) may elect the aeronautical option next year.
In the architecture department, a fifth year has been added to the degree program,
calling for specialization in architecture and city or regional and city planning.
The vrork in city or regional planning will be conducted under the supervision of
Ludwig K. Hilberseimer, world authority on the subject.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4-600
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REs PLACa®JT FIGURES FOR 19^1 GR.1DUATIHG
CLASS OF ARIJIOUR DIVISION OF ILLINOIS
TECHi 99.^45o PLACED^ MOST OFFERED MAl^IY
JOBS.
FOR RELEASE: THUflSDAY, SEPTEIiilBER 11, 19^1.
Like a famous brand of toilet soap, the 194-1 graduating class of Armour College
of Engineering division of Illinois Institute of Teciinology can claim to be 99.44-^
pleasing to its public.
This appeared today on announcement of John J. Schommer, director of placement,
that such a percentage of the Institute's Jiine class of the South-side campus had
received positions in industry, with a majority of members offered at least five jobs.
Only one man, a graduate of the chemical engineering department, remained
unplaced, and he of his ovm volition. His parents refused to allovir him to work in
Washington, D. C.
Architectural students, and civil, electrical, fire protection, mechanical
engineering and engineering science students v/ere placed lOO/o according to their
departments. One hundred and ninety, in a class v;ith one coed, had received diplomas.
The average initial monthly salary was $139.90, as against $100 paid in 193S,
$110.82 in 1939 and $119.20 in 194-0. Architects average pay this year vras $14-2.78,
chemical engineers $139.93, civil engineers $136.92, electrical engineers $137.47, fire
protection engineers $135, mechanical engineers $14.2.68, and engineering science
students $130.
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Average initial salary paid 16 graduate students placed was $156.77. One hundred
and fifty-six firms interviewed the 194-1 graduates. Exclusive of the class of 194-1 j
596 positions, only 82 of which were part-time, were found for other Armour division
students.
"The Institute's placement department has broken several of its records this
year," Schommer said in releasing the statistics.
"The largest number of placements in the history of the college have been made.
The highest initial, average monthly salaiy has been obtained. The largest number of
potential employers visited the placement office. The largest nuinber of alumni
placements were made . "
In the alumni placement field, many job changes involved positions of greater
responsibility and, in many instances, greatly increased salaries, Schoimner said.
Often the offer of another position brought to the placement office registrant
advancement in rank, increased salary and bonus.
Success of the placement department this year was due the emergency arising from
total rearmament of the nation, Schommer declared.
One student, Donald Crego, 6l28 Dorchester Avenue, who graduated in mechanical
engineering, had twenty interviews and fourteen offers of positions. He chose the
Crane Company, 4-100 S. Kedzie Avenue, where he is employed in the research department.
No member of the June class, hov/ever approached the record of a student who
graduated in February, 194-1, after a five year mechanical engineering cooperative
course and took employment in a Michigan automobile factory as a. die designer at a
salary of $325 per month.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCKREIBEP.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECmTOLOGY-VIG, 4-600
9^1-10
RE: EVa^'ING SCHOOL OF ILLINOIS TECH
OPENS NEXT 7JEEK; GRADUATE DIVISION
FJiS Vi>ilI£TY OF EVEI^IING CLASSES.
FOR IM'IEDIATE RELEASE
School bells livill ring out for approxLTiately 3,500 students of the evening
division of Illinois Institiate of Technology beginning Monday, September 29, to mark
opening of the 194-1-4-2 Fall semester.
Both at Armour College of Engineering (South-side) and Ler-is Institute of Arts
and Sciences (West-side) campuses evening division registration began last Monday,
(9/15/41), to continue until Saturday (9/20/4-1), at i,. p.m. Graduate division regis-
tration begins tomorrow (9/22/4-1) and continues through Friday, including evening
classes.
A sizable gain in enrollment is predicted by H. P. Dutton, 2242 Pioneer Road,
Evanston, Illinois, dean of the evening division. Architecture, chem.ical, civil,
mechanical, fire protection, industrial and electrical engineering courses will be
among subjects offered at Arm.our division.
The Armiour campus is located betv/een Dearborn and Federal Streets at 33rd Street.
.Architecture classrooms are located in the Art Institute at Michigan A.venue and
Adams Street. The Lewis cam.pus is located at 1951 W. Madison Street, at the corner
of Damen. Day school opens at both Lewis and Armour tomorrow.
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At Lewis canpus metallurgy, as a part o£ chemical engineering, basic mechsjaical
engineering subjects and mechanics v;ill comprise engineering subjects offered. Kov;-
ever, physics, chemistry and mathematics, prominent ai the Armour curricula as well as
its full scope of engineering subjects, will also be taught at Lewis, accenting the
full liberal ai-ts program given.
Pre-professional, vocational and business courses nave been traditionally popu-
lar in the evening division at Lewis. The newly reorganized home economics course,
containing this year for the first time applied arts classes, will be featured for
business girls v;ho wish to learn at night.
Earliest classes at Armour start at 6:20 p*:*;.. and at Levjis at 4-:20 p.m. Graduate
school classes on the average begin at 7 p.m., som.e commencing at 6:30 p.m. For a
few graduate subjects instruction is on Saturdays from 10 a.m., to 12 noon.
Reflecting the addition of industrial engineering and engineering drawing depart-
ments as new degree-earning fields at Armour division, a large demand for classes in
both is expected. Dean I>atton said that national defense demands will cause increased
interest not only in all engineering subjects and related sciences but in such courses
that relate to the marketing, production and m.anagement phases of industry.
Among architecture courses, that in analysis of function, planning and design
is likely to prove of great popularity. Taught by Ludwig Hilberseimer, 3017 E. 78th
Street, professor of city planning, the course will have immediate relation to pro-
blems concerning reconstruction of urban areas.
Hilberseimer, famous throughout Europe when connected with development of new
housing projects ia great German and continental cities, came to Illinois Tech's
faculty in 1938. The vast upbuilding of European cities to be called for following
the current war, and the general rehabilitation of American cities called for under
national zoning commissions, will create a market for architects adapted to modex-n
methods, authorities believe.
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General engineering subjects, considered difficult for study even by full-time,
day students, are taught at Armour division evening school on a seven-year plan that
is, on its record, more than successful.
Since union of Armour and Lewis campuses in July, 19-^0, quite commonly students
have taken the first three years of their seven-year course at Leyris division and then
switched to Armour. This has proved to be an immense geographical advantage to poten-
tial engineers living on the West gide.
Elements of fire protection engineering and insurance practice i?.'ill be two courses
taught in the department of fire protection engineering. Industrial management, begin-
ning and advanced economics, time and motion study, and business policy will be taught
in the industrial engineering courses.
For students wishing to pursue ";ork but not take credit for it, Armour evening
courses have alv^ays been adaptable. In the last six montns, however, some of this
type of student have enrolled in free, non-credit engineering defense training courses
sponsored by the Government.
There will be no evening engineering defense training classes beginning concurr-
ently with the first evening semester this Fall, however, and regular courses in
mechanical engineering such as machine tool work, rjelding, mechanism and adva-nced
machine design, will serve many high-school graduates anxious to advance themselves
in their respective factories and plejits.
A. large portion of night students at Lewis each year are school teachers an^cious
to complete degTee programs after graduation from normal schools. This year a wide
variety of education and psychology courses v/ill accormaodate them.
"Adjustment and Guidance of Secondary School Pupils" will be taught by Butler
Laughlin, 74-01 Bennett Avenue, nationally-famous educator. "Production of Radio
Programs," "Radio in Education," and "Radio Yifriting," will be a trio of subjects
streamlined to offer the latest techniques for progressive pedagogues.
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"Methods of Teaching Kobbycraft" e.nd "Ediacational Psychology," as v;ell as three
courses in home mechanics laboratory, will be given.
Dr. Victor Jones, former Ijr lecturer of the University of California on government
problems and a consultant nationally on civic adininistrations, will teach a course at
Levris campus in the political and social science department on "fvtanicipal Organization
In the same department Marcel W. Fodor, 1205 Sherrrin Avenue, professorial lecturer
in social science, v/ill offer "Problems of Reconstruction," Famous as a European
journalist, having worked for The Manchester Guardian and as a correspondent for the
Chicago Daily Nevjs, Fodor is an outstanding authority on Balkan issues and the socio-
logical significance of the current continental struggle.
T^,7ent3^-ninG courses, covering the field of phj^sics and chemistry, civil, electri-
cal, mechanical and industrial engineering, Vvdth some research subjects in mathematics,
vfill be offered in the evening graduate school.
Dr. L. R. Ford, 56OO Dorchester Avenue, professor of mathematics and department
chairman, will give a course in differential equations. Professor W M. Davis,
assistant professor of m.atheraatics, ?7ill conduct a course in "Mathematics of Statistics
Professor John I. Yellott, 5000 Cornell Avenue, professor of mechanical engineer-
ing and department chairman, will teach steam power plant engineering.
A course in food tecbjiology will be taught by Dr. C. flobert Moulton, 5172 S.
Kenwood irenue, consulting editor of The Mational Provisioner. Dr. P.. E. Schaad,
182 A>:enside Road, Riverside, Illinois, research chemist for the Universal Oil Products
Company, will give a coui-se in chemistry of petroleum hydrocarbons. A course in
organic plastics ivill also be offered.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHITOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
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REs UNIQUE ALU!;INI GROUP FORIVlED FROM ENGI-
NEERING DEFEI^^SE TRAINING COURSE AT
ILLINOIS TECH; lilEETS MONTIiLI.
FOR IffflEDlATE RELEASE
A most unusual alumni group has come into being among men of the Chicago area
who sang no school or fraternity songs together, paid no tuition for the privilege of
knoxving each other, received no credits for their school work, and vrould not have been
seen with a prom queen if bribed o
Ties that bind members of the Industrial Management Forum of Illinois, as the
group calls itself, were formed in classrooms of Illinois Institute of Tecimology.
The Institute and the United States Office of Education were their scholastic god-
parents. The fraternity they belonged to was that of hard work.
They were twenty members of Class 15 C in the first engineering defense training
Program at the Institute,, It began January 6 and concluded fifteen vreeks later o Each
Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. they met at LeV'jis campus, to sit for t;70 hours during
a course ±11 industrial m.anagement.
All of them holders of day jobs as supervisors or foremen in plants and factor-
ies ?;ith defense orders> they were alv/ays tired and sometimes almost enervated by the
time they had rushed to school. But something in the manner of J. V. Swanson,
M-1 Clinton Avenue, Elnihurst, Illinois, their teacher, riveted their attention. He is
employed by International Harvester Company as director of training.
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Today A. £. Stahrike, 6750 M. Oconto Avenue, president of the Forum since its
organization in June, and by day a methods engineer for the Bell and Howell Company,
attributes the inspiration of the group to Svianson.
"He taught his class so well it decided to keep on meeting after graduation,"
Stahnke says.
The Forum gathers once a month at the Oak Park Arms Hotel. Dinner and monthly
dues cost a dollar. Soup is served at 6:30 p.m. and each meeting is concluded by
9s30 p.m. Since all but one member are married men, the broaking-up hour is rigidly
adhered to, since, as a Fci''amite put it, "there is no such thing as domestic
engineering,"
Featuring each meeting is a conferHncc of a pair or more members, or a lecture
by a single one, on a phase of industrial managem.ent. A blackboard is used, the
speaker, or speakers, adhering to strict classroom attitudes to convey the subject.
Topics covered thus far have been typical of the sort these adult minds, devoted
to self-improvement and steady in convictions that America is the domain of the enter-
prising and resourceful, vmuld interest themselves.
"Hov»- to Conduct /ji Intervievf," "Are Accidents Sabotaging Your Defense Orders?",
and "Do Incentive Wage Plans Favor the Management or the Worker?" have helped to send
Forumites home, the meeting over, still arg'aing their respective convictions.
Learning to think on his feet, the ability to express abstract thought in con-
crete, graphic fashion, and facility in holding attention of his audience are among
benefits each derives from these extra-ciirricular educational soirees.
The educational portion of a meeting is so balanced each member ra\ist, by reason
of his presence, contribute some thouglit to the general discussions. No textbooks
are employed but notebooks in front of listeners are often extensively employed to
catch an outline of each point.
Swanson's v/illingness to compile his notes for the engineering defense training
■course in the form of s. mimeographed booklet has spurred members to keep complete notes
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on meeting discussions.
Many employment officers and other officials of companies over the nation have
requested copies of the booklet, Intex-est in the Forum , on the part of men who have
heard of it only by word of mouth, is such that several applications for membership
have been made.
Bylav;s of the group allov; "outsiders" to join if they are, or have been, "engaged
in the direction of any phase of shojp management." The "improvement of its m.embers
as industrial executives and the advancement of shop management" are the formal aims
of the Forum.
The enthusiasm of Stahnke and other Foriomites for the programs of engineering
defense training conducted at the Institute is unbounded.
Vernon Stahnke, his eldest son, a Juno graduate of Schurz High School, entered
a course in metallurgical inspection during the third or summer engineering defense
training program offered at the Institute. Very soon he expects to take a position in
an airplane engine manufacturing plant in the Chicago area.
Others of the Forumites have rccom-mended engineering defense training courses to
friends and relatives. A few of them, time permitting, plan to enroll for impending
evening courses. More than h.alf of them have gained increased salaries or some form
of bonus or reward for having completed the training received free at the Institute.
Officers of the Forum otlier than Stahnke are D. J. McGinnis, 3121 79th Avenue,
Elmwood Park, vice president j Robert 0. Goold, 56O4. Middaugh Avenue, Doy.iiers Grove,
Illinois, secretary^ and Ernst F. Engstrom, 1/^10 S. 3rd Avenue, Majnvood, Illinois,
treasurer .
Goold, a 1937 graduate of Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, and holder of
a masters degree from the school of business education of the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, is a supervisor at the Goodman Manufacturing Company.
McGinnis is a supervisor at Electrical Research Laboratories, Inc. A similar
position is held by Engstrom at the Everhot Manufacturing Company,
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A board of control for the Forum, which selects topics of discussion for meetings
and reviews administrative matters, is composed of Stahnke^ En^trom, McGinnis and the
following s
J. Q. Mosbarger, 1828 W. Civersey Avenue, the Steivart-Warner Corporation j
W. R. Norton, 24-48 1.', Major Avenue, Continental Can Company j and H. W, Reeve,
14-35 Guyler Avenue, BerT,7yn, the Gregory Electric Company,
Other Forum members, and their respective employment affiliations, are;
A. H, Anderson, 1340 HolljAvood Avenue, Powers Regulator Company; R. L. Becker,
4716 Belle Plaine Avenue, Electrical Research Laboratories, Inc.| 13. M. Bell,
1309 Barry Avenue, Ever sharp, Inc.; A„ H. Bergstrora, 2017 Ridge Avenue, Electrical
Research Laboratories, Inc.; J, L. Conaivay, 363 E. 70th Place, Russell Company;
H. S. Courtney, 4821 Pensacola Avenue, Eversharp, Inc.;
E. A. Davison, 4-600 S. Savjyer Avenu.e, Pilson and Bennett Manufacturing Company;
C. H. Deffner, 4721 Greenleaf Avenue, Eugene Dietzgen Com.pany; Marino Malone,
2404. W. Superior Street, Electrical Research Laboratories, Inc.; A. B. Schneider,
705 N. Mayfield Avenue, Crane Companj-; C, 3. Schmidt, I615 S. Eetst Avenue, Berv/^Ti,
Illinois, International Harvester Company; J. A. Stehno, 1417 S. Kostner Avenue,
Crane Company; and J. J. Weighbill, 4228 S. Riclimond Street, Crane Company.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
RE; DR. VICTOR JONES, AUTHORITY ON TAUNIC-
IPAL GOVERIsflvIEI^ITS, GIVES COURSE AT
LEWIS DIVISION OF ILLINOIS TECH.
FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEivffiER 17, 1%J
"fi/tunicipal Organization in the Chicago Metropolitan Area" is the title of a
course to be given in the evening division of Illinois Institute of Technology during
the Fall seraester by Dr. Victor Jones, assistant professor of political science.
To be taught at Lewis division of the Institute Tuesdays from 6; 20 p.m. to
8 p.m., the course v;ill begin September 30. The evening division semester begins
Monday, September 29, at Lefjis and Armour campuses.
Dr. Jones will explore the social, economic and historical background of
Chicago's many goverrjnents. The organization, functions and interrelationships of the
United States, Illinois, Cook County, sanitary district, park district, and city wards
will be examined minutely.
Traction, transit, consumer prices, priorities as they relate to the city's
industry and politico-socio patterns, the city manager plsn, the place of nev/spapers
in Chicago's municipal progress, parties and elections and the relation of local pro-
blems to national defense v/ill be considered.
The place of a board of education in the life of a metropolis, and the govern-
ment of Chicago's suburban municipalities v-dll be developed.
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Dr» Jones was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1909. He received an A.B. from
Howard College, Birmingham, in 1932. His doctorate in political science was given Isy
the University/ of Chicago in 1939. In 1939 and 194-0 he was lecturer in the department
of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and an insti-^actor in
its extension division.
First teaching as an instructor of English in the preparatory school at Coyoacan,
Mexico, from January to November of 1931^ lie resigned to become instructor of politi-
cal science at Hov/ard College, where he remained to 1934.
Dr. Jones came to the University of Chicago for graduate ?/ork in 1934-, doing
research under Dr. Charles E. Merriam. In the summer of 1935 he taught in University
College of the University. He was an instructor in the home study department of the
same institution from September, 1937, to the following August.
In September of 1938, Dr. Jones came to the University of California as a research
associate in its Bureau of Public Administration. He is a member of Pi Kappa Tau, the
American Political Science Association and the American Society for Public Administra-
tion.
A frequent contributor to political science and general publications. Dr. Jones
is author of ''Metropolitan Government," scheduled to be published by the University
of Chicago Press in January.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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R£; REGISTRATION WEEK AT ILLINOIS TECHj
FPu£.3"ffl/lEI\i TME ORIETJTATION TESTS 5 STUDENT
ASSEMBLIES; FRAT RUSHING.
'FOR DfffiDIATE RELEASE
A booming fresliman enrollment, eclipsing past attendance records as na.tional
defense needs spur engineering studies, is indicated today (9/19/4-1) as a frenzied
registration week comes to a close at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Freshmen, ?;ho Monday reported for registration and enrollment at An^raour and Lewis
campuses, matriculated in numbers that will exceed by 10 per cent the figure for the
comparable semester last year, W. E. Kelly, registrar, said,,
Tlie I94.O-4.I figure was 4.26 for Fall semester fresr^nen v.^hile that of the incoming
class r/ill probably reach 470 by the time school begins Monday morning.
A majority of ne?/ students, except incoming graduate students, T'fill have regis-
tered by tonight. The major portion of the ;7eek, hov;ever, has been occupied 'oy acti-
vities designed to orient fresrmen to scholastic and social realities of the Institute.
One fi'eshm.an, slightly less bevjildered than his nates, is Earl Simanek,
3412 N. Avers Avenue. A gi-aduate of Lane Technical High oCj> -jil's class ci 1>33, Earl
in 1940 finished a tvfo-year liberal arts course at Wright Junxor College, he came to
Armour College of Engineering because he \vants to be a civil engineer.
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"If a fellow is vj-illing to work hard, he can today take at least one course of
study of greatest benefit to himself and the country," said Earl, a thoughtful-
20-year-old, who v/orks evenings in a Loop clothing store as a salesman.
"I think that to bo an engineer in times like these is the most adventurous, and
probably the best-paid, professional job one could have."
Earl's mind, though it has a firm grip on facts of the business v/orld in v/hich
he earns his tuition, is that of the normal undergraduate in its enthusiasms. Sports,
fraternity life and student activities beckon as a means of satisfying his craving
to be a prominent-man-on-campus •
With other freslimen Earl lined up Monday in the long queue running to the desk
of W. E. Kelly, registrar. Checking of academic credits, filing of application forms
and receipt of tuition, laboratory breakage and student activities bills took up
about twenty minutes of each student's time.
Further registration with his department he.Md, who advised him of classes to take
or omit depending on his scholastic backgi'ound, kept Earl busy the balance of the
forenoon. In the afternoon he was part of a line stretching the length of the second
floor of Armour's Main building. Earl counted and recounted items of his fee sheet.
Finally, when the line by fits and starts had moved Earl up to the wicket vfindow
of Henry B. Watson, business office assistant^ the perspiring frestuuan pulled his
check book from his coat pocket and cancelled financial obligations to his nev; alma
mater .
"I vrorked hard for this dough," Earl said to Watson.
"Tnen you'll know how to make it count," Watson replied.
Tuesday morning Earl sat in one of several lecture halls and underwent the first
of a series of exlaaustive tests that proposed to orient niu.i scholasticalTy. Wi.iat liis
mark will be, he won't know for several weeks. Each year 'cha intelligence derominator
of the fresliman class is a topic of conversation for students as vrell as faculty.
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Tuesday morning Earl also heard President H= T. Heald address a freshman assembly
in the Student Union audi tor iiini. In the afternoon he took further orientation tests.
Concluding tests of the same stripe were held Wednesday until noon.
At noon Wednesday fraternity luncheons and other Greek letter social events got
under v;ay in earnest. Earl, v/hose class average in high school and junior college
was among those of leaders j, and v/ho at Lane Tech won a major letter as a half-railer
in track and v;as captain of the fencing team as well, seems a likely prospect for any
of eight fraternities at Armour campus.
Earl had lunch at the Pi Kappa Phi house, 3337 S. Michigan Avenue, early in the
week, ?;as pledged by them, and v;ill v;ear their pledge pin during the first semester.
If his scholastic progress satisfies the office of the dean, and he is acceptable to
the fraternity, he will be made a full-fledged member in Fehniary.
When any freshman, such as Earl, \Yeighing approximately 170 pounds and about
5 feet 10 inches in height meanders about Ai-mour campus he is likely to be accosted
by Bernard Weissman, assistarit athletic director. Earl, v/ho looks like the athlete
he v;as in high school, has promised Weissman to turn out for trf^ck and fencing.
Earl ViTas among squG.ds of fresiii'nen put under a group leader, v:ho conducted his
yearling cha.rgGS about the carapus and explained points of interest and matters of
tradition a.nd procedure. He learned of the proposed $3,000,000 v;orth of buildings
the Institute is contemplating and inspected two square blocks of property now being
cleared of old buildings prior to the erection of Technology Center, as the new carapus
will be known.
At the Pi Kappa Phi house Earl was put to polishing the somewhat stained 'Greek
letters that identify the building. It is among the many menial tasks he and other
pledges will be asked to perform before they are admitted to complete membership.
But the real business of his coming to Armour College of Enginesring of the Insti-
tute, school work, will occupy Earl completely beginning Monday, September 22. At
8:30 a.m. that day he v/ill be among a motley group of green-capped freshmen who stroll
into classrooms and take their seats in a v/hat is a new world.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
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RE; ATOM SLIASKSR AT ELECTROCHEMICAL E}aiIBIT
OCT. 2, 3 , 4., 1941 - Knickerbocker Hotel
FOR livllEDlATE RELEASE
Because a man said to himself, "I JUST WMT TO KNOW", Illinois Institute of
Technology's physics department is spending some $5)000 on the initial cost of an
electrostatic generator, more com:iionly Imorm as an ATOM SflA.3HER.
The man is research physicist, Dr. Yf. R. Kanne, 931 Hyde Park Blvd., assistant
professor of physics at the south-side engineering school. He had ideas about the
nucleus of the atom that started him on his investigations in the middle 1930' s and
led up to the construction of an apparatus that looks v.eird, promises to be excep-
tionally effective and weighs about 4- tons. It will probably come closer to being
the world's smallest, rather than the vrorld's largest ATOM SMASI-IER.
When the apparatus is completed, Dr. Kanne will bombard the atom with a stream
of energy in the magnitude of 10,000 miles per second. He will learn, he expects,
more about the mechanical properties of the nucleus of the atom, what holds it to-
gether, and what happens when certain forces are upset v/ithin its being. From such
investigations, with sufficient factual data, it may be possible to predict nuclear
actions for a host of varying conditions.
He is a tall, lanky individual wlio talks about theory of nuclear physics with
the ?;ords of an ejrpert, yet he doesn't miss the importance of its practical applica-
tion. He emphasizes the point however, that he is primarily interested in learning.
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by means of experiment and fact-finding, about the properties of the nucleus of the
atom.
Dr. Karaie explains that, at the present time^ ATOL'I SLlJlSHfilS have a good field of
application in medicine, biology and in chemistry - he plans investigation upon the
nucleus of the atom itself, not especially directed tovra.rd industrial application.
However J factual data, experimental facts may, during the process of his investige.-
tions, result in certain important and startling industrial applications.
A model of Dr. Kanne's ATOM SMSKER is no?/ almost complete and will be on display
next vjeek during the 80th meeting of the Electrochemic.:.! Society. The meeting will
be held in the Knickerbocker Hotel, October 1st to UVi.-, '.vitn many of the members
exhibitir.g equipment and processes used in the electro-chemical field. Illinois
Institute of Technology v/ill be one of several colleges and universities represented
with the educational exhibits.
Dr. Kanne began investigating the action of the atom nuclet;s while studying for
his doctorate degree at Jolms Hopkins University in 1935- At that time he worked
with a natural source of radiation, POLONIUIil, bomba.rding alumninum. Later, he joined '•■
the staff of the University of Wisconsin and for a while vjorked with the famous
theoretical physicist. Dr. Gregory Breit. His work at the Badger State school was a
direct investigation of "the forces triat hold together the nuclear particles of the
atom." He joined the staff of Illinois Institute of Technology in the fall of 194-0
as an assistant professor of physics and began his research work at the Institute at
that time .
Just what his "electrostatic generator" v/ill accomplish in the investigation of
the nucleus of the atom, Dr. Kanne is reluctant to admit - for, he says, "I don't
knowl " Several of his colleagues throughout the United States are conducting investi-
gations, each directed tov:ard a specific objective. Thej^ are all more or less in the
dark, so to speak.
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Dr, Kanne e>rplains his researches by drawing an analogy betv;een "atom- smashing"
physicists and blind men v.-ho, not having an adequate sense of feeling, grope for know-
ledge by, relatively speaking, bouncing balls against a wall, and by the type, shape
or form of the rebound, draw a mental pictuxe of what shape the walls may be= "Atom-
smashing", he reiterates, is somewhat the ss-me process.
"Tte generate a stream of energy particles, accelerate them to very high velocities
and bounce them against certain materials v;e knov;, and by the deflections or rebounds
we attempt to determine some of the properties of the atom. This is one of the
important types of nuclear experiments."
Just how Dr. Kanne will conduct his experiment is illustrated to some extent by
the model of his ATOM SfclASHER, to be exiiibited this Treek at the Electro-chemical
Society Shov; in the Knickerbocker Hotel. The real thing, housed at the Institute's
south-side campus, is a much more impressive-looking piece of apparatus. Looking much
like a decompression chamber, it weighs a.pproximately 4- tons, complete with electrical
equipment. Costing thus far some $5,000, it is expected to develop a stream of con-
centrated energy of from one and one-half to two million volts.
Tlie high voltage and the relatively small size of the appa.ratus are euiiong its chief
unusual general characteristics. Its chief scientific characteristics, so far as planne
investigations are concerned, is the fact that the speed of enmiission of the energy
can very accurately be determined and controlled, and varied according to the taste of
the investigator.
Contrary'- to common belief, the scientist investigating the atom bj^ means of elec-
trostatic generators, in which class the famous CYCLOTRONS fall, is not looking for a
large spark. Tliis latter, in fact, according to Dr. Kanne, is just v/hat the scientist
is guarding against.
The apparatus developed by Dr. Kanne is small because of the fact that actual
energy accelerating and prodtiction is carried on a tank where a pressure of some 150
pounds per square inch is maintained. Tliis makes it possible, without the use of huge
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equipnient, to develop energy in the order of magnitude of one to tv/o million volts
necessary to bombard the atom.
Although the actual process of developing the high voltage is a complex one, a
fev/ of the principles should be jr.entioned. E>:ternally created energy of a.pproxiiTiately
50,000 volts is introduced to the tank, sprayed upon an ordinary canvass belt, and
carried the length of the tank to the high voltage electrode at the other end. The
entire system, perfectly balanced electrically, permits the development of the high
voltage in a small space. The stream of energ;.^, concontrateP by vvhat Dr. Kanne calls
an ''accelerating tube," is drax^n from the electrode anc"' directed to^vards the control
end of the apparatus at a speed of approximately 10,000 uiiles per second.
The "tagged atoms," produced by the techniques of nuclear physics, according to
Dr. K8.nne, have particularly u.se v/here minute quantities of material, or great d.ilu-
tions are involved. Metallic diffusion and self -diffusion have been given consider-
able study with these techniques.
"The corrosion factor in steam boiler tubes, the rate of reaction in the formation
of slag in blast furnaces, and the rate of solution of carbides on high temperature
annealing have been studied," according to Dr. Kanne. "Tracer isotopes have been
useful in rapid, and accurate routine analysis.
"The radiations produced by such high voltage apparatus has miade industrial rad.io-
graphy far more versatile than heretofore,'' he em.phasized.
The field of nuclear physics has brought the solution of many problems in remote
fields. The gaps in the periodic table have been filled, and. siirprising chemiical pro-
perties of the nei'7 elements have been discovered. The action of vitajnins have been
studied.
"The importance of this field," according to Dr. Kanne, "will undoubtedly be more
far reaching than that of X-rays, and it is hoped that the work being developed at
Illinois Institute of Technology will contribute to this rapidly growing technique."
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FROM; AL.E>L^ANDER SCHRSIESfi
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 46OO
9^.1-19
RE: LI..ST WEFX OF REGISTRATION FOR EVENING
DIVISION CL. 'SE3 AT ILLINOIS TECKj
FODOR COURSE NOTABLE.
FOR RELEASES MONDAY, SFPTEl-iBSR 22, 194-1
TliO last week of registration for classes in the evening session of Illinois
Institute of Technology coioinences today (9/22/4-1) as an inviting array of courses
awaits students for whc;!i school starts ne.K.t in'cnday evening.
Notable among ap .proximately 185 classes to be divided into undergraduate sub-
jects at Levvis campus and undergraduate and graduate subjects at Armour campus is that
to be offered in the department of history, political science and sociology under the
title of "Problems of Reconstruction."
Marcel W. Fodor, professorial lecturer in social science, v;ill teach the course,
to be given Mondays at Lewis division, 1951 W. Madison Street, from 6:20 p.m. to
S p.m. DOROThT THOMPSON, WILLIM SHIRER, PAUL van Z££Li\ND and GRAHAM tlUTTOH vdll
compose a quartet of guest lecturers, each to appear singly for one class session
under Fodor's sponsorship.
Miss Thompson and Shirer, famous foreign correspondents and political and radio
commentators, and van Zeeland and Hutton, the former the last "free" Belgian prime
minister and the latter an internationally-famous figure as editor of The London
Economist, have not as yet set dates for their lectures because of the press of heajy
schedules. Amouncement vjill be made shortly of individual appeari.nces.
Immense interest centers in circumstances by which the appiearance of the gueat
lecturers was made possible, Fodor, famous correspondent from Vienna, Bucharest
and Budapest and other v;orld capitalaj for Tlie Manchester Guardian, The Chicago Daily
News and other publications, came to know each in the line of journalistic duty. He
joined the Institute's faculty in 19A0.
Dorothy Thompson, whose \?ritings have reflected the influence of Fodcr's thought,
particularly where they have concerned the Balkan section of Europe, aclcnowledges
Fodor as fostering her inspiration.
She attended Levris Institute (a year ago joined with Armour Institute of
Technology) in ].910-11. By a coincidence, she will be teaching in the same classroom
where once she was a pupil.
William Shirer, forraer Chicago . Tribune foreign correspondent, well-laioivn for his
commentating over Columbia Broadcasting S^/stom. since 1937, and author of the best-
selling Berlin Diary, is a native of Chicago. His latest book refers to Fodor and
the letter's wife, Martha.
Paul van Zeeland, former prime minister of foreign affairs and exterior commerce
of Belgium, and notable for his wide experience with practical econom.ic problems, is
now living in the United States as a refuge efrom Either teri-or.
Graham Hutton, recently made director of British press information in Chicago,
has had a distinguished career as a journalist, author and economist, practical and
theoretical. Under Sir ?felter Layton he was assistant managing editor of The London
Economist for many ye^irs.
Many interesting courses will be given at Armour campus, located between Decrbor'
and Federal Streets at 33rd Street.
Reflecting the addition of industrial engineering and engineering dra?njig depart- -
ments as new degree-earning fields at Armour division, a li-.rge demand for classes in
both is expected. National defense demands have caused increased interest not onl.: ■'
all engineering subjects and related sciences but in such courses as relate to the
marketing, production and management phases of industry.
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Among architecture courses to be taught at the Art Institute, that in ani.lysis
of function, planning and design is likely to prove of great popularity. Taught by
Ludwig Hilberseimer, professor of city planning, the course v/ill have imiTiediate
relation to problems concerning reconstruction of urban areas.
Hilberseimer, famous tliroughout Europe when connected Y,'ith development of nev;
housing projects in great Germ.an and continental cities, came to Illinois Tech's
faculty in 1938. The vast upbuilding of European cities to be called for following
the current war, and the general rehabilitation of Air.erican cities called for under
national zoning coniiTiissions, '''ill create a market for architects adapted to modem
methods, authorities believe.
General engineering subjects, considered difficult for study even by full-time,
day students, are taught at jh'uour division evening school on a seven-year plan that
is, on its record, more than successful.
Since union of Armour and Lev;is campuses in July, 194-0, quite comiTionly students
have taken the first tliree years of their seven-year course at Levis division and then
switched to Armour. This has proved to be nn iiiuaense geograjihical advantage to poten-
tial engineers living on the West Side.
Elements of fire protection engineering and insurance practice will be two courses
taught in the department of fire protection engineering. Industrial management, begin-
ning and advanced economics, time and motion study, and business policy will be taught
in the industrial engineering courses.
For students wishing to pursue vrork but not take credit for it, Armour evening
courses have always been adaptable. In the last six months, however, some of this
tj^De of student have enrolled in free, non-credit engineering defense training ccur^j-
spon sored by the Government.
There will be no evening engineering defense training clu.^S'^'S begir.:?iug concur;-
ently with the first evening semester this Fall, however, and regular courses in
mechanical engineering such as machine tool vrork, welding, mechanism and advanced
machine design, will serve many high-school graduates anxious to advance themselves
in their respective factories and plants.
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FROM 2 ALS:iMB£R SCIiREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4.600
GAL. 2/^09
941-21
RE; RUSHING WEEK ACTIVITIES AT LET'IS
CMIPUS OF ILLINOIS TECH; COEDS IN
SOCIAL .AND ACTIVITIES YIBIBL^ CLASS
ELECTIONS.
FOR I»IEDIATE RELEASE
Fever-heat social and undergraduate activities marking the early-seme e.ter cycle
of events of Illinois Institute of Technology at Lewis campus subside this week
leaving sororitj'^ rushing class elections and other high spots part of school history.
Coeds, fresh from apparel shops of the Loop and fitted out in the latest of
collegiate attire, have foi- three weeks scrutinized the freshjnan class for likely
sorority prospects. Sorority teas at which frestiman girls v;ere guests v;ere held by
Kappa Phi Delta, Phi Beta Pi, Sigma Beta Tlieta and Sigma Cmicron Lambda.
The Pan-Hellenic Council, a union of all sororities, V?ednesday (IO/I/4I) soon-
sored its annual tea, vdiere good-sistership flowed \-i±th the punch. A reception line
in which Violet Takich, 13521 Brandon Avenue, president of the Council, was the main-
stay, ran the length of the applied art"; department's beautiful social room.
Sorority activities will be in a state of suspension until tiie middle of
November when pledging am:iouncements will be rxide. Meanwhile, determination of
school leaders for the year became clear with announcement of results of class elec-
tions held Thursday (IO/2A1).
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Stephen Mendak, 2013 W. Iowa Street, was naned senior class president Other
senior officers ares Florence Moss, 7830 S. Morgan Street, vice preddentj Anne
Ander-son, 5025 W, Erie Street, secretary- treasurer; and Sylvia Wcislo, -4156 /rcher
Avenue, student activities chairman.
Ai^tliHT Fetter ino, 4-820 W. KaiTunerling Avenue, was named junior class pre.-ident.
Other junior officers are; Harry ¥. Carlson, Jr., 1100 N. Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park,
Illinois, vice president; Violet Tiikich, 13521 Brandon Avenue, secretary; John
Halloran, 4-643 Emerald Avenue, treasurer; and Dorothjr uiambelliica, 44-16 Dovei' Street,
student activities chairman.
Richard Johnson, l632 15tb. Avenue, Mayaoou, Illinois, V''as named sophomore class
president. Other sophomoi'e officers are: Florence Bartusek, 2537 S. Dra'ie Avenue,
vice president; Blanche Fried, 5639 i'. 26th Street, secretar;^; Richard Kerns,
104^12 Hamilton A.venue, treasu.rer; and Marilynn Johler, 2536 Pra,irie Avenue, Blue Islan
Illinois, student activities chairman.
Jolm Schaffer, 6450 Kenmore Avenue, i7as named iresliman class president. Other
freshmen officers ares Helen Gordon, 6751 Hiavatha Drive, vice president; Irene Ptak,
1613 VJ. 19th Street, secretaiy; and Bert Goldman, 815 Drexel Square, student activitie
chairman .
Ajnong coeds enrolT.ed at the Institute who came from considerable distances v;ere
twins, Louise and Jacqueline Cadr/ell, who are living in the women's dormitory of Lewis
cam.pus at 1952 W. Monroe Street.
Natives of Chicago, the girls are eighteen years old. They graduated from.
Harper High School, spent their fresi'jnan year at Me:-:ico City College and the summer
semester at the University of Mex'^.co, Me::ico City. They are sopiicaore liberal ^.rts
students at Lewis.
Each is an expert archer, having studied the sport in Mexico City, r.Lere it is
commonly practiced. Both have considerable ability as linguists and hope to teach
Spanisb and English when graduated. They are members of Kappa Phi Delta Sorority.
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Among fre3l'iiaen women students is Viola Sievers, 310S 77th Avenue, .Slmwoocl Park,
Illinois. Thinner of a scholarship to Levris from Schurz- High School, Viola ra-iked
eighteenth in her high school class of 710. She v'as active in dramatic socieh^es and
acted as director as well as player. Her high school average v.'as 96,2 for three and
one-half years. She will take the home econoiaics course.
4nother outstanding fresliman is Ann Mcssner, ISOA S. 12th Avenue, Mawood, Illi-
nois. A graduate of Proviso To\^TiShip High Scnoc/., Ann vfcs r"'cipient of a scholarship
to Lev,'is, where she will be a chenistry major. At Proviso she ranked ninth in a
class of 816, was assistant manager of the yearbook, and won a gold medal for scholar-
ship. She was president of the Girls' Athletic Association,
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FROM; J1.LEXA1JDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGHITOLOGY-VIC . 4-600
941-23
RE; ILLINOIS TSCIi FACULTY WOMEN'S CLUB
HOLDS FIRST tlEETING OF 1941-42 SEASON j
SCHEDULES OF PROGfiAIvlS AND EVENTS.
FOR IMviEDIATE RELEaSE
The Faculty TComen's Club of Illinois Institute of Technology opens its 1941-42
season ?fith a meeting followed by a tea Wednesday (lC/by4l) in the Student Union of
Armour campus of the Institute.
This vfas announced today (IO/5/4I) bj' Mrs. Lester R. Ford, 56OO Dorchester
Avenue, president, who said also the meeting probably would have the largest attend-
ance in the club' s history. Addition of approximately two dozen faculty members with
the Fall semester has brought membership past last season's tvro hundred and fifty,
mark .
Details of first semester programs of two units within the club, the Literary
Forum and the Welfare Service Group, were anrtounced by Mrs. Ford. At a pre-season
meeting of the orga.nization' s board of directors two ?;eeks ago committee chairmen
formulatea plans extending through January.
Wednesday's meeting begins at 2:30 i^.m., vjith tea poured at 4 p.m. Mrs. Rufus
Oldenburger, l635 £• Hyde Park 31vd., an accomplished musician, will speak on the life
and compositions of the late Ignace Jan Paderev;sl:i . Faculty members may attend the
tea, to be held in the East Room of the Union.
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Regular meetings oi the club are held on the second Weclnesday of each month.
The Literary Foriar;i meets the last Thursday of each month and the IVelfare Service Group
monthly each second Monday.
The program of the Foinam includes a meeting October 30 at the home of Mrs.
Oldenburger. I.Irs. Bernard r^Jeissman, 14-51 £• 86th Street, v/ill review an opera to be
seen by the Forum's me'mbers.
A play review, preceding attendance at a legitimate drama to be determined, will
take place in November. As there will be no Fomm meeting in December, a. January
book review meeting, at v;hich Dr. S. I. Hayakavra, 1715 E. 67th Street, assistant
professor of English at the Institute, will speak on semantics, will be the following
event .
Dr. Hayakawa's recent book, Language in Action, will be the subject of his
review. It has been chosen Eook-of-the-Month for December.
The Welfare Service Group opens seasonal activities with a meeting at the home
of Ivlrs. IVIyril B. Read, 6529 S, Kenwood Avenue, chairman of the unit, October 20.
Mrs. Lloyd H. Donnell, 5525 Kimbark Avenue, is chairm.an of the Literary Forum.
Miss Charlotte Garr, head of Hull House, is scheduled to address the y-Lole
organization at its November 12th meeting in the Student Union. Mrs. J. S. Thompson,
5710 Blackstone Avenue, xsill have charge of the annual Christmas program, to be held
this year on December 10.
Officers for the current year are as follows s
President, Ivlrs. Lester fl. Ford, 56OO Dorchester Avenue j vice president,
Mrs. C. L. Clarke, Post Office Box 232, Winnetka, Illinois; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Baymond J. Spaeth, 8301 S. Langley Avenuej recording secretary, ¥jrs. Donald E.
Richardson, 8I46 Champlain Avenue^ and Mrs. William. N, Setterberg, 8136 Lafayette
Avenue , treasurer .
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Committee chairmen for the current year are £is follows i
Program, Mrs. J. B. Finnegan, I4.OO £.. 56th Streetj ways and means, D/Irs. H. A.
Giddings, 7861-C South Shore Drive; membership, Mrs. C. L. Clarke; social, Ii'Irs. J. H.
Smale, 321 S. Kenilv/orth Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois; and t/irs. Joseph Marin,
10234- Rliodes Avenue, house.
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FROMs ALEXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECmiOLGGY-VIC. ^600
10-41-3
REt APPOINTIM^TTS TO STAFF OF
INSTITUTE OF GAS TECHiroLOGY,
RELEASE FOR; SUl^lDAY lO/S.-V
H. T. Heald, president of Illinois Institute of Tecknologj'", today snnounced the
appointment of Harold Vagtborg to the Directorship of the nev Institute of Gas
Teclinology. Kir. Vagtborg is also director of the Armour Research Foundation at
Illinois Institute of Teclinology.
The Institute of Gas Technology is a separate unit on the Armour Campus of
Illinois Institute of Technology, established last June 'ay a million dollar appropria-
tion from seventeen leading natural and artificial gas producing companies of the
United States. Its purpose is to conduct primarily a comprehensive program of graduate
instruction leading to the Master's and Doctor's degrees. The appropriation provides
for operating and maintenance expenses for a miniinum period of ten (10) years.
Illinois Institute of Teclmology was selected as the site, and its administrators
and educational staff selected as the vrorking organization of the Gas Institute last
June after an extensive survej^ of the leading colleges and universities of the United
States. Actual operation of Institute begins this semester v.dth the appointment of
four graduate students.
In addition to the appointment of Harold Vagtborg, President Heald, who is also
president of the Institute of Gas Technology, announced the appointment of Dr. Lincoln
Thiesmeyer, geologist, to the staff of the Gas Institute as geologist and student
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advisor.
ether members of the staff of Illinois Institute of Teclmology who are associated
with the new Institute in a teaching, advisory j or organizc^tional capacity are asso-
ciate professor of chemical engineering, R. C. Kintnerj research professor of
chemistry, V. I. Komarewsky, research professor of mechanical engineering, Max Jacobj
instructor in chemistry, Bruce Longtinj assistant professor of mathematics, J. ¥..
Calkinj assistant professor of english, S. B, Meech; and associate professor of
hydraulics, V. L. Streeter. The organisation of the graduate program in Gas
Technology is under the direction of Dean L. E, Grinter of the graduate school of
Illinois Institute of Technology.
Fundamental and applied research pointed tov/ard the betterment of the gas indus-
try will be the aim of the fellows and faculty of the Gas Institute. Peak enrollment,
to be reached gradually so that the students may be selected for unusual promise of
research ability will be from 50 to 60 students.
Fellows remaining for the entire four year program v.'ill receive the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy v/hich has been granted to students as a part of the highly deve-
loped graduate program of Illinois Tech. The annual stipend to a fellow is $1,000.
In addition, summer eraplojTnient in the gas industry each summer at the minirmam rate of
$125 per month is virtually assured.
Harold Vagtborg, v/ho becomes Director of the Gas Institute received his
Bachelor's Degree from the University of Illinois and his Master's Degree from Armour
Institute of Technology. He was professor of sanitary engineering at Armour Institute
of Technology before assuming the post of Director of the Armour Research Foundation
in 1937, one year after its founding. Under his direction, the Foundation has served
more than 1000 companios, individuals, and associations in experimental and develop-
mental research.
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Dr. Lincoln Thiesmeyer comes to the Institute from a post as associate professor
and chairman of the department of physical sciences and mathematics at Lawrence
College (Appleton, Wisconsin)., He is a native of Brooklyn, Nev; York and a graduate
of Harvard University where he obtained both the Master's and Doctor's degrees in
geology in 1933 and 1937 respectively. His parents (Rlr. and Jirs. J. D. Thiesmeyer)
reside at 27 Crescent Avenue, Summit, N, J. where he attended high school. His
undergraduate studies were conducted at Weslcj^an University, MiddletoVvTi, Conn.
(192^-28).
The fellows thus far appointed to the Institute of Gas Technology are:
G. J. Lubin, University of Detroit^ A. K. Mikulski, Fenn College (Cleveland);
R. M. Newhall, Tufts College (Boston) j and H. £. flobiscn, Washington University
(St. Louis) . Tliese men were of high scholarship since each graduated in the upper
quarter of his class in college. They are all graduate chemical engineers — a pre-
requisite to the study of gas technolog-yo
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FROMs i'LLEXi'ilTOER SCHilEIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITOTE OF
TECMGLOGI-VICo 4-600
1041-4.
RE: MILLION DOLLAR INSTITUTE OF GAS TECH
NOIDGI OPENS DOORS J FOUR FELLOWS
BEGIN STUDY 5 FACULTY.
FOR" IMvLRDIATE RELEiiSE
Fulfillment of the gas industry" s drean: of a scientifically-trained research
corps, vihich '."Tould have edticational functions as a public service, have taken a long-
awaited step toward realitj- with opening tliis semester at Illinois Institute of
Technologj'- cf the Institute of Gas Teclmology.
A million dollar gxant, to be spent in mininum yearly amounts of $100,000 for
ten ye.ai's, was last summer advanced by seventeen leading gas companies of the nation
for the specific purposes of training scholars for the gas industry, collecting and
disseminating scientific information, and encouraging research within the industry.
Robert M. Nevrhall, 11 Keene Street, Stockton, Massachusetts, a '41 graduate of
Tufts Collegaj Henry E. Robison, 3753 Gravois Street, St. Louis, Missouri, a '41 grad-
uate of Washington University! Alexander K. MikTilski, 9232 Rosev'.'ood Avenue, Cleveland,
Ohio, a '41 graduate of Fenn College; and Gerald J, Lubin, 5004 Parker Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan, a '41 graduate of the University of Detroit, are the first recipi-
ents of four-year fellowships at the new Institute.
A program of stimulating research and findijig trained personnel has its concrete
applications in the selection of these college graduates for study under experts at
the Institute of Gas Technology. Eventually sixty similarly-selected fellovirs v/ill be
at school, working for M.S. and Ph.D. degi-ees in various fields of gas teclmology,
when the full fellov/ship plan evolves.
The four fellov;s livej like mcaiy students doing graduate work at Illinois
Institute of Technology, in the school's Graduate House, 3254- S. Michigan Avenue.
Each receives $1,000 per year, for four years. Tuition, valued at $325 per year, is
deducted from the av;ard. Summer ?rork at a minimum of $125 per mouth will be furnished
by the gas industry.
Bulldingsto house the Institute of Gas Teclinology as a separate unit on the
Illinois Tech campus are contemplated. At present, a section of a recently-constructed
research building fronting east on State Street j.n the 3300 block has been remodeled
to serve as headquarters and classrooms for the project.
Members of staffs of tv/o pre-e:d.sting units on the Illinois Tech's campus are a
major part of the new gas research faculty. Dr. Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer, appointed
student advisor of the ne?; Institute by Harold Vagtborg, its director, is a fsinous
geologist. Harvard- trained, and lately chairman of the department of physical sciences
and mathematics at LawTence College, Apple ton, Wisconsin. His a3sista.nts will be
exports dra\im from the graduate school of Illinois Tech and the Armour Research
Foundation at the Institute.
Equipment of classrooms and laboratories will be in several respects a departure
from standard or routine uses. Because the gas industry supports no other similar
institute in America, and chose the locale of Illinois Institute of Teclinology from
among engineering schools of the land, traditions likely to influence greatly the
applied as v;ell as the theoretical phases of natur-al and artificial gas production
and consumption are expected to be set.
The first academic use of the newly-announced "hydrobot", a $2,500 fractional
analysis apparatus, equipped with high-efficiency, heli-grid packed bellows-type
super-cool columns, siiaplifyi.ng many ordinarily separated techniques of gas analysis
and treating them in a cormected process, will be made at the Institute of Gas
Technology,
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Complete absorption gas analysis £p2oaratus will also be installed, total equip-
ment cost being brought to approximately |5jOOO. Some functions of the hydrobot v/ill
be analysis of gaseous and liquid products, natural gas, cracked refinery gas, poly-
merizing plant gas, water gas, producer gas and gasoline storage tank vapors.
The curriculum vifill include three years of academic training based on fundamental
sciences and funda.mental research and the equivalent of a year of academic work in the
background of the gas industry. Operation, management and regulation of public utili-
ties v;ill be stressed.
Equipment and material for manufacture, the storage and distribution of gas, by-
prod^^ct3 of the gas industry, and management problems of the industry will be treated.
Gas chemistry will be taught by Dr. R. C. Kintner, 8833 Dante Avenue^ associate
professor of chemical engineering of Illinois Tech, and Dr. V. I, Komarev.'sky,
54-39 Lake Park Avenue, research professor of chemistry a.t that institution.
Heat transfer will be taught by Dr. Max Jakob, 5-412 East Vieyj Park, research
professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Tech. Professor Komarewsky -will teach
catalysis, while chemical thernodjTiamics will be in the hand of Dr. Bruce Longtin,
4-335 Drexel Avenue, instructor in chemistry.
Dr. Victor L. Streeter of the department of mechanics of IllinorLw Tech will teach
a course in fluid flov.'. Dr. J. ¥. Calkin, 1153 E. 54-th Street, will teach advanced
mathematics. Dr. Thiesmeyer Y/ill teach geology in several phases and Dr. Sanford B.
Meech, assistant professor of English, will teach English cind technical v;riting.
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FROM: /iECill^IDER wSCIlREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
T£GHiroLOQY-V IC . 4-600 ,
10^1-7
Rfi; -1500,000 IN GIFTS OBTAINED
FITND fLilSING PROGfLUI
TRUSTEES iJ^INOUNGElJiEl^JT .
RELEASE: HOLD FOR EDITIONS
APPEAfllHG ;i?TER 2:00 P.M
10/9/a
Trustees of Illinois Institute of Teclinolog;/ today announced first efforts to
raise funds designed to e^'uip a nev; physical plant for the school at an estimated cost
of $3,100,000. According to Ra;/raond J. Koch, as a result of onl;;- two week's v;ork by
the Special Gifts Conmittee of the Board, $500,000 in gifts has already been obtained
for this purpose. Ivlr. Koch is chairman of the Special Gifts Consiittee and President
of Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company.
The announcement of the vrark accomplished by the Special Gifts Coimnittee was
made today, Thursdu,y, October 9 before approximately 100 civic and business leaders
of the city at a luncheon in the Chicago Club. Today' s meeting ivas the f ii'st report
meeting of that special coiimiittee which began functioning officially tvo v/eeks ago.
Oi'iginal plans for the development of "a groat techaiological center" vfere first
outlined last January by President Keald, James D, Cunningham, Cnairman of the Board
of Trustees and President of Republic Flow Meters Company, and Wilfred Sykes, Chairman
of the Trustees' policy committee and President of Inland Steel Company. The fund-
raising program calculated to create in Chicago this great "technological center" is
under the direction of It:. Sykes, as chairman of the policy committee. Serving -.vith
Jilr. Sykes on this committee are Mr. Cunningham, Fir. Heald, Charles S. Davis, President
of Borg-Warner Corp., Sydiiey J. McAllister, chairman of the Board of the International
Harvester Con;pa.ny, and Harris Perlstein, President of the Pabst Brewing Company.
According to announcement of tiae expansion program of Illinois Institute of
Tecl-inologj'' made last January, preliminary arrangements in the foi-m of acquisitj.on
of six blocks of ground on the south side campus had already been made. This expan-
sion is designed to provide adequate modern accominodations for some seven thousand
stLidents in engineering, arts E.nd sciences and architecture. The end result of this
program riill equip a single campus for those enrolled in i-ii'mour College of Engineering,
and Levfis Institute of Arts and Sciences, the tv;o divisions of Illinois Institute of
Technology.
According to President Heald the gifts totalling $500? 000 have been received
from industry in the Chicago metropolitan area and are already in hand. Realization
of the erection of Teciinology Center, annoimced in January as the name by v'hich the
nevf Illinois Tech campus with its 03,100,000 building program would be knovm, finds
its first expression in the one-half mAllion dollars in gifts, he added.
Architectural plans "ay Lud'.vig Mies van der Rohe, director of the Institute's
architectural school and Holabird & Root, Chicago archj.tects, fore shade?; Techno3-ogy
Center as th.e outstanding example of modern architecture in the United States, /irchi-
tect van der Rohe's plans call for the completion of 12 buildings on the six blocks of
ground acquired for this purpose. Tlae area is bounded en the north by 32nd Street,
on the soutli by 34-th Street, on the east by State Street, and on the west by the
New York Central-Rock Island tracks.
TiHaile the entire progrE.m contemplates progressive steps over a period of time,
certain steps are outlined for completion during the coming fev: years. These include
the erection of the following buildings: m.etallurgy, mechanical and chemical and
electrical engineering buildingsj a humc.nities building, and a library and administra-
tion building. No interruption in cam.pus activities v.dll be involved as existing
utilities are and v,dll continue to be utilized until replacement is complete.
Proporty supplementing the oldest portions of the former Armour Institute of
Technolcg}/ campus, nov; the south side campus of Illinois Institute of Tea'anology,
comprises the major footage on which "Technology Center" ivill arise. Additional
property to make up the six blocks of territory which "Teciinology Center" 'Till occupy
was acquired during the tv-o years preceding the building program and endowment fund
drive announcemient of last January.
At today's luncheon, chairman Cunningjiam. of the Institute's Board of Trustees
presided. The general development plaji was outlined by President H. T. Heald of
the Institute and the ¥;ork of the committee on special gifts v;as announced by
chairman R. J. Koch. Colonel Willard Chevalier, editor and publisher of BUSINESS
WEEK, addressed the assembled trustees and civic and iDusiness leaders on current
business trends. The title of his address v/as "Business on the March".
FROMs ALEXAtlDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECriNOLOGY-VICo 4-600
104.1-12
RE; FRESHIiKN CLASS OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR
INTERIM AT ARMOUR COLLEGE CMIPUS OF
ILLINOIS TECH; CLASS ACTIVITIES.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The old, giving way to the nev:, has a particular expi'ession at Armour College
of Engineering campus of Illinois Institute 01 Technology this Autumn v/here not only
are old structures on nev/ly--acquired school property being I'azed but a freshman class
exceeding all predecessors in size dominates the school scene.
With one hundred of its engineering raembei's shifted to Lewis campus of the
Institute because of lack of accommodations at Armour, south-campus freshmen still
number 353, a sizable gain over last jear. Green caps and excesses of undergraduate
dress, mild hazing and the rush of fraternities to garrier choice men, are mixed up
in a melange of calendar events.
Freshmen class officers, elected for an interim period after which perme.nent
officers are to be chosen, ai-e;
Norman Dasenbrook, 3236 S. Michigan Avenue, Delta Tau Delta pledge, president;
James Gibbons, 794-S Luella Avenue, vice-presidenti Herbert Post, 10525 S. Drew Ave.,
secretary- treasurer; and Harold Skinner, 3154 S. Michigan Avenue, Alpha Sigma Phi
pledge, Illinois Tech Student Association representative.
Dasenbrook, a mechanical engineering student, graduated from Rockford Senior
High School in February, 194-0. His parents live at 120 Lavm place, Rockford, Illinois.
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He enrolled last March, as a mechanical engineering cooperative student for a five-
year course, but changed this semester to a regular four-year course.
Dasenbrook vfas president of his high school German Club as a junior, and was a
member of Hi-Y. He is currently in charge of arrangements of class events, to include
several social functions notably a smoker, and with other officers vrill schedule team
competitions for his class.
Gibbons, a graduate in June of De La Salle High School, is a mechanical engineer-
ing student. .He was an honor student for four years, class secretary as a senior,
played end in lightweight football and guard on bantamweight, lightv/eight and heavy-
weight basketball teams. Ho will be turning out for iresliman basketball.
Post, a civil engineering student, was a graduate of Tilden High School's class
of last June, in v/hich he was secretary of the school's chapter of the national honor
society, treasurer of the student a-ssociation, maintaining a four-year average of
92,75 per cent. He is a brother of George Post, senior mechanical engDJieor.
Skinner, whose petrents live at 1117 N. Columbian Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois,
graduated from Central High School, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in February, 194-0, He was
class vice president as a senior, played tv;o years on the football squad, and attended
Western State Teachers College for a semester,
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FROM; ALEXMDEH SGHREIBEP,
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHEOLOGY-VIG. ^^600
104 1-U
REs SIC-M BETA THETA SORORITY HOLDS
SWEETHXfmT DANCE AT LAKE SHORE GLUE
FRIDAY,, OCT. 2U\ HAROLD SHAW PLAYS,
FOR ILMEDIATE RELEASE
The FaU. semester social season of Lev;is division of Illinois Institute of
Teclmology opens brilliantly xvith the Sweetheart Dance of Sigma Beta Theta sorority
Friday^ October 24., at the Lake Shore Club.
A serai-formal evening affair, the dance v/ill depend on Harold Shav; of Fitch
Bandwagon fame for music and the combi.ned ingenuity of sorority members for a dis-
tinctive "sweetheart" decoration motif and a floorshov matching the decorative
pattern.
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart," a skit presenting gov/ns worn by coeds since the
'nineties, together with songs popular with successive undergraduate generations,
will be directed by fresJomen pledges.
The woaens' dormitory of Lewis Gs.mpus, 1952 W. Monroe Street, v/here Sigma Beta
Theta regularly holds its meetings, and v;here some of its members reside, has been
the scene of skit rehearsals during the past two weeks.
Betty Kennedy, 11 S. Austin Blvd., a junior liberal arts student, is president
of the sorority. She attended Austin High School, is active in intramural sports
as a member of the badminton team, and has been on the staff of Technology News,
undergraduate weekly.
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Violet Takieh, 1952 '.7. Monroe Sti oet, a junior lioEe economics student- is vice
president. T.ie attended Bov/en High Schoolj is president of Pan-Kellenic Coimcil, a
coordinating group for all sororities, belongs to tiie Hoiae Economics Club and the Glee
Club.
Dorothy Giejnbelluca, 1952 W. Ivlonroe Street, a junior liberal s.rts student, is
recording secretary. She is a member of the Glee Club, has served on the staff of
Technology Ne\7s, and has appeared in productions of the Ley/is Dr^'jna Club. She attended
Lakeview High School.
Grace Taglieri, 909 S. Bishop Street, is treasurer. A junior in home economics,
she is a member of the Glee Club, is active jji intramural athletics, aiid took a lead-
ing part in fashion shov/s sponsored by the home economics department last year. She
attended St. Patrick's Academy.
Mercedes Brovm, 1952 W„ Monroe Street, is chairman of the sorority' s comm.ittee
on the Sweeth.eart Dance. She is a senior liberal arts student and a member of the
Glee Club. She attended Lakeviem^ High School.
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10-41-23
FROM; ALSXiilTOEH SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS IK3TITUTS OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. ^^600
RE: .'APPOINTMENT OF R. S. IffiYER
AS TRi\CK COACH
RELEASE FOR: TTJESDAYj 10/2lAl
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R. E. Meyer, University of Chicago athlete and for one year basketball coach at
Illinois Tech, has been appointed to the position of track coach of the Techawks.
This announcement was made late yesterday by John J, Schominer, 8.thletic director of
Illinois Tech who stated that the track vacancy was created at the close of the seasoi
last spring when Coach Norman Root, also a University of Chicago star, ?;as stricken
with tuberculosis. Root has been coat'ined to the tuberculosis sanitarium ,"ince that
time ,
Since the track and basketball seasons overlap to a certain extent, Meyer will
be assisted in his track duties by Johji J. Schommer, noted National Professional
Football official, and Bernard "Sonny" Heissman, assistant athletic director of the
Institute widely knoxim. as a boxing official.
Track is not a nev/ field to "Remie" though he viras not given a.n award in this
sport in his outstanding collegiate career. Miile at Chicago he garnered nine athlet-
ic letters for participation in football, baseball, and basketball. He was captain
of the latter two teams in his senior year. Some time in that final year, (open
dates on the baseball card) he found the time to run the hurdles for the Maroons. Hif.
hurdle racing dates back to Hinsdale High School where he was one time holder of the
ftest Suburban Conference 120 yard high hurdle mark of 15.8 seconds.
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Meyer's appointment to this post is undotibtedly due to his success with last
season's inejcperienced bc^sketball team. Under his direction the squad finished the
year V7ith five victories on a twelve gajne schedule. He is very popular with the
students.
In the "Pro" field "fiemie" is also well 1-cnov.Ti, hp.ving captained the LaSalle
Hotel basketball team, the Cavalier. His undergraduate affiliations include member-
ship in the Iron Mask and Alpha Delta ?h± Fraternity.
Norm Root, Tech's track coach for the past nine years, was a member of the
victorious University of Chicago ^40 yard sprint relay team in the Penn Relays of
1930. His present illness is expected tc clear up in the near future enabling him
to retuna to his post at the Institute next year.
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FROM; .\LKXiU^rDER SCHKEIBiDR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECaiOLOGY-VIC. /!^600
10^1-30
REs CHA.RLES DONALD DaLLaS MD HAiiOLD SINES
VANCE ELECTED TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
ILLINOIS TECH.
FOR IICvIEDIATE REIxEASE
Two industrial leaders of national prominence, Charles Donald Delias, president
of Revere Copper ana Brasa, Incorporated, of New York City, and Harold Sinea Vance,
chairman of the board of the Studebalcer Corporation, South Bend, Indiana, hav3 been
elected to the board of trustees of Illinois Institute of Teclinology.
This v;as announced today by James D. Cunninghaai, president of Republic Flow
Meters Company and chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute. Addition of
Dallas eaid Vance brings the total of trustees to fifty-five.
Dallas, a recipient last June of an honorary doctor of engineering degree at
commencement exercises of Armour and Lewis divisions of the Institute, is a member of
the j'jrmour class of 1902. He is a native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada o
iiS a $3.00 per week office boy, Dallas began a busijiess career he was never to
relinquish even v;hile a student. His first important position was r:ith the American
Brass Company, for r-hon he worked many years. In 1908 he end his father, with a
capitalisation of $10,000, incorporated in Chicago as A. C. Dallas and Son, acting as
sales representatives for several eastern copper mills.
The original firm began Tifith tV';o desks and one stenographer, growing ■until, in
1912, it began to roll some of its ovm metal. 'When young Dallas became president in
1918 and the firm's name was changed to the Dallas Brass and Copper Com.pany, the
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first modern, casting and rolling mill of the company was bu'Mto
The company capitalization now increased to ^^1, 300, 000, end the firm merged with
several other companievS to form \?hat later became Revere Copper and BravSS, Incorporates
In 1931 Dallas was made president of this corporation, which did a $67,000,000
business in 194-0, and one of \fhose five plants is in Chicago.
Author of You and Your Money. Dallas is president of the Federation of Church
Clubs of the Episcopal Church and an officer of the National Industrial Conference
Board and of the Copper and Brass Research Ascoci:ition. He was president, also, of
the Hadley School for the Blind.
Vance was born in Port Huron, Michigan, fifty-one j^^ears ago. His elementary' and
high school education were gained .in the public schools and et the age of twenty he
began vrorking for the Studebaker Corporation as an apprentice mechanic. His promo-
tion was rapid.
In 1912 Vance i^as tr'aisferrod to the specifications department and three years
later was made assistant treasurer. In 1916 he was made director of purchases. A
leave of absence in 1917 found him as prodviction engineer for the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, ^vherc he contri'Duted to the remarkable record made by that company iai war
production at the time.
Vance returned to the Studebaker Corporation as assistant to the president^ t?/o
years later he was transferred to sales v;ork in the capacity of manager of the e:srport
division. From 1923 to 1926 he served as general sales manager of the company.
■ ■-' It v;as in 1926 that Vance, fully experienced in various phases of production and
sales, vras made vice president in charge of production. With reorganization of the
corporation in 1935 j he was made chairman of the board.
One of the earliest requests by William S. Knudsen of President Roosevelt was for
the appointment of Vance to head the critical machine tool division v;hen the former
assumed his defense capacity. Vance served in this government capacity until in
November, 194-0, when defense activities immediately concerning the Studebaker
Corporation made his return imperative.
FROMs ALSXAl^DExR SClIRElBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
lOAl-32
REs ILLINOIS TECH RIFLE CLUB El^ROLLS RECORD
MEMBERSHIP A3 IT SMTFilS 20TH SEaSOKj
IEj'M MEJffiERSPJCFJiffllSH INDOOR RMGE.
FOR imiEDIATE RELEilSE:
In an engineering tichocl the reflexes of a nation rearming are many, but at
Armour College of Engineering of Illinoi;:; Institute of Technology even a minor
sport, rifle range shooting, has attracted in its ti'/entieth season so many enthusi-
asts it threatens to become a major sport.
With sixty students, many of them first semester freshjiien, turning out for
indoor and outdoor practice sessions, Illinois Tech's selected ten-man rifle team
squad, a unit separate from the Rifle Club but functioning as part of it, promises
to be the most expert of many seasons.
Responsible for this burst of enthusiasm among student engineers who normally
find little time to spare for sport is a non-sport mctive. Student engineers are the
young men-behind-the men-behind-the-guns and as siich claim exemption from draft law
provisions that would place them in the army, v/here guns would replace bunsen burners.
However, finding skill in the use of arms desirable as a matter of patriotism
and individual self-sufficiency, the engineers-to-be are making every shot count on
the rifle range as in the classroom.
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In the basement of venerc.ble Physics Hall a fifty-foot rifle range, open nine
hours a day six days a v;eek, has been completely refurnished this semester to
accommodate the inflTx;<: of Rifle Club members. Complete white-washing and painting
schemes, executed v/ith an eye to improving visual conditions, new lighting and heating
accoraiT.odations, modern target backgrounds, and numerous smaller improvements have been
installed.
Raymond 11, Sm.ith, junior, fire protection engineering student v,'ho lives at
3154- S. Michigan Avenue as a. member of iilpha Si:_;ma Phi fratornity, is president of
the Illinois Tech Rifle Club. He won a four-year fire protection engineering
scholarship from loungstovm, Ohio, High School. A member of the rifle tea^ii squad,
he participated in all teeaa matches last season.
Robert Cwiak, sophomore architectura.l student and member of Triangle fraternity,
324.0 S. Michigan Avenue, is secretary of the Rifle Cli;b. Tedvjard (correct) A.
Dum^etz, Jr., 5730 S. Calumet Avenue, is treasurer. The former a.ttended Von Steuben
High School and the latter Englewood High School and both, siiot as members of the
1940-41 team,
Robert Bell, 6328 S. Morgan Street, junior electrical engineer, a graduate of
Parker High School, is range officer, iimong other team members are Robert Zelin,
3S37 Ti. 63rd Place, junior fire protection engineer, a graduate of Lindblon High -
School, and Korman Carey, a member of Alpha Sigina fraternity, 3154- S. Michigan Avenue,
a graduate of fi!ockford, Illinois, Central High School, v;hc vvill next year as a junior
become a member of the aeronautical engineering option course.
Traditional opponents of the Techark rifle team, are Stevens Institute of
Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, BrcoKlyri Polyteclmic Institute, Drexel
Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Tecb-nology, Missouri fcoool of
Mines, Universit7>^ of Indiana, University of Illinois, the University of Chicago and
Wneaton College.
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Few of these teams will be engaged shoulder-to- shoulder during the current
secugon, or ever were, since those at considerable distavace are "postal" matches,
scores being sent by mail and the virinner decided a week sfter actual shooting at home
ranges of each teajiu
/onnual Midv-.-est rifle charr,pionships sponsored by tlie University of Chicago, the
largest indoor :neet of the shooting season, each year finds the Techawks i-eprosented
by at least three four-man teams. The T' chaT.-ks have seldom, during six years of this
meet, been outranked by collegiate opponents.
Standard v'eapon used 'ay the jRifle Club is a Winchester ,52 costing $70.
Telescopic sights, oach costing (i>30, to be used in examining target scores from a
distance, are provided for four of the rillcs. Shooting jackets, easily adjusted for
standing, kneeling, sitting or prone positions, are provided for team members.
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mOl&i ALEXi^DER SCIlREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGMOLOGI-VIG. A600
10/;.l-35
REs Ca^vIISTRY CLUB OF LE^IS DIVISION OF
ILLINOIS TECH ELECTS ANNUAL OFFICERS^
FRESHiVLm BUII'DS UNIQUE WORK UNIT.
FOR IliftlEDIATE RELEASE
A pedant once called cheiuists "the poetu of tae la-boratory . "
At Lewis division of Illinois Institute oi'' Technology, v:here the Chemistry Club
has elected rnemherK for forty-cix years r.ith a "B'- average as minimiim requirements,
there are no long-haired young me:; or elfin young women among its thirty members.
All seem essentially, hov/ever, imaginative creators.
A serious yet collegiate-looking group, the fingers of many steined slightly by
acid and material residues, the undergraduate chemists are a heterogeneous gathering
as they sit in the school cafeteria after a busy day in the laboratories.
Ranging in age from fifteen to forty, some married, nearly all v/orking outside
school for living and school expenses, they form a solid bloc among thei.r fellov/s.
Their interests are highlj* specialized — they talk shop and little else. The govern-
men and industry have a big role for them to play on graduation and they kno?/ this.
A freshman, Gordon Campbell, 6330 N. Tonty Avenue, Edgobrook, this v;eek will
cause an inviolable canon of the Chemistry Club to be shattered. He viill be elected
to membership, the first freshman to merit the distinction. The son of a physician,
Gordon hopes to folloiv in his father's profession. He graduated from Amundsen High
School in June, 1939.
Gordon is being elected to the inner sanctum of Lewis undergraduate chemists
because he sim.plified, in one amazing step, chemistry instruction of a basic type.
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He built a three-dimensional v/ooden model of what chernists know as "the periodic
chart."
As learning the arithmetical tables is to an elementary school student, so is
learning the periodic chart to an embryo chemist. Standard representation of the
periodic chart is that of a flat, map-like sheet of cardboard on which are printed in
a long, agonizing rows the symbol and atomic niomber of each of the 92 knovm chemical
elements.
Many a student who liked to fuss with test tubes would fall short of the grim
task of learning the periodic chart. To Norman Kharasch, 120 Main Street, Park Ridge,
instructor in chemistry at the Institute, this had been borne out m-ore than once.
Helen Skinner Mackenzie, assistant professor of chemistry and collaborator
with Kharasch on A First Survey of Chemistry to be published in December, and the
latter had puzzled for months over how best to represent graphically in their text-
book the idea of the periodic chart. Gordon Campbell heai-d of this difficulty and in
a conference with Kliarasch outlined a method by which the youth could turn his
knowledge of wood-working to a practical account.
Made of dowels and sphe.-es, the xvooden periodic chart was a month in building.
It accurately represents the spatial arrangement of the elements in a thjree-foot cube
superstructiire mounted on a swivel stand. Each element is represented, by a painted
red ball labeled with its symbol and atomic number. Set inside the main cube is a
smaller one, holding those elements Icno'.m as "the inner ring."
A picture of Gordon's creation, adequately explained, will be featured in the
forthcoming volume of his two teachers. E>:perience as an X-ray technician, gained
during the interim between his high school and college study, encouraged the youth to
find his chemical short-cut, he believes.
Officers of the Chemistry Club, elected last week, are as follov/s:
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Tliomas Cafcasj 8250 S. Bishop Street, president^ Thaddeus Kov/alski, 1621 W.
Divi,sion Street, honorary president; Florence Moss, 7830 S. Morgan Street, vice
president; and Ernest Lilek, 3l^■3^ W. 62nd Place, secretary-treasurer.
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FROM:ALEXMDER SCIIREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4-600
10/^1-36
RE I DEFEtJSE FORM, A. L. OLSON, FEDERAL
RESERVE 3ANI{ SPEAIIER, TUESDAY, 10/28^1
FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, 10/27/4-1
The Chicago Foriam on Defense Production Problems will present as its principal
spe:.ker, Arthur L. Olson, Assistant Vice-President of the Federal Reserve Bank
tomorrow evening, October 28, 194-1, at SsOO P.M., at 176 W. Washington Street.
Tomorrow' s Forum is one of a series of eight currently being presented hy
Illinois Institute of Teclmology and the Chicago Commission on National Defense as
a "service program" to aid manufacturers who have or may have defense contracts. The
Forum is part of the Institute's Defense Itaining Progrs.m authorized by the United
States Office of Education.
Ml". Olson, who is in charge of loans and credits and defense contracts officer
for the Federal Reserve Bank will speak to a gathering of manufacturers and business
men and lavjyers on the vital subject, "Financing Defense Industries."
^ith the Federal Reserve for 24- years as lawyer, economist and banker, Wt. Olson*
knowledge of finance is singularly authoritative. He will tell the business men
Tuesday evening how the Federal Reserve Bank and the Reconstruction Fino-nce
Corporation along with the commercial banks are cooperating with the siaa,ll manufac-
turers in solving complex finance problems which frequently arise from defense
contracts. IJIr. Olson plans to devote ample tiirie in explaining emergency plant
facility contracts and the financing of supply contracts. In addition, he will
discuss the Defense Plant Corporation and Vidll explain the proper procedure in
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amortizing defense costs of building construction and machinery.
Discarding the lame notion that the financing of a defense contract is a puzzling
procedure, ?,1r. Olson states:
"The iatmdling of a contract is a relatively simple procedure if the manufacturer
is prepared to anticipate future problems arising from that contract. The primar;/
purpose of ray talk is to aid the manufacturer in anticipating problems, which, if
not foreseen, would prove to be most difficult."
Scheduled to speak on Tuesday evening, November 4-th, is W. G. Bailey, Head of
Priorities Division, Office of Production Management, Chicago.
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FROM: ALEXMDER SCHREIbER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY— VIC . 4-600
FOR RELEASE FRIDAY P.M., OCT. 31
MJD SATURDAY A.M., NOV. 1, 1941
104-1-37
AIRPORT CONFERENCE SPO'.JSOiGD BY
ILLII-IOIS 1,Nl:TITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
PAL.:ER HOUSE, CHICAGO, 10/30-31/41
Y;'ithin the next four or five vears, airports at such cities as Nevv Yox'k and
Chicago (.'ill be handling about 735 air transport plane movements a day during peak
travel :;eason3 as contrasted with the 200 more or less, v/hich they are experiencing
in 1941, it v/as predicted today by Allan F. Bonnalie of United Air Lines, speaking
at the fall engineering confer--nce of the Illinois Institute of Technology Jji Chi-
cago.
Discussing "The Capacity of Air Carrier Terminals", Bonnalie declared a 25
per cent annual increase in airline business for the next fev/ years "is not at all
out of order" .
"It is reasonable, therefore, to e:qD0ct a demand four years hence for about
735 plane movements for the maximum day at a city like Ne';i York and for Chicago a
ye3.r or tv/o later," he said. "Nev; York's peak traffic can then be expected to be
something over 60 airplanes an hour and, at Chicago, about 90 an hour a yetx or ti-io
later. It is probable that, by that time, the increased size of airplanes v/ill flat-
ten the growth curve of airplcjae movemont.s . "
Bonnalie 's studj/ s'no'jed Chicago nou^ has approximately 190 air tro.nsport
pj.ane movements a day, with as high as 23 during a peak hour, and Nev; York City's
LaGuardia airport, 24-4 airliner movements daily v.'ith a peak ox 21 dui'ing any one
hour.
At the conference's opening session, Vfilliam A. Aldous of the Civil A.eronau-
tics Adi'uinistration declared o.iri)ort construction \/il]. rapidly develop into a special-
ized field for engineers.
Noting that present nation-v:ide airport development is so large and has
developed so much faster than any one could sjiticipate, Aldous said the inuaediate
t-achnical problem is not "hov/ to get more airports, but ho\/ to properly and effi-
ciently build tho ones under construction or in preliiiiinari,' stages".
Other speakers included V. C. Lundquist, Korthwest Airlinec| H. J. C. Pea.r-
:ron, Civil Aeronautics Administration; John Backer, Chicago Mxinicipal Airport; A.
E. Blomquist, Eastern Airlines; Karry Baumer, City of Chicago; John Groves, V.'ash-
ington National Airport; K, L. Cheney, Public Buildin[;s Administration; L. L. Odell,
consulting engineer, Pan American Airvsfays, and I;!. B. V:ell3, professor emeritus, 111-
aois" Institute of Technology.
The Chicago conference is under the airoction of Professor J. B. Finnegan,
Illinois Institute of Technology, assisted by C. 0. Harris, assista-nt professor of
civil engineering, conference secretary and S. M. Spears, associate professor of
civil engineering. Attending v/ere ever 500 executives, engineers, operating persom- .
nel, architects a.nd professional men fr;.-m tho major airlines, Federal and State avi-
ation commissions, schools and consulting engineering concerns.
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FROM: ALEXMDEE SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE 01
TEGl-CI OLOGY-^ IC . A600
1041-39
KS; AIRPORT COKFERi:.NGE OPEiNS
PALMm HOUSE - 10/30, 10/31/41
FOR IIMEDIATE RELEASE
The firLit annual fall engineering conference sponsored by Illinois Institute of
Technology v.;ill open toi'iorrov;, Tiiursclay October 30, 1941^ in the Pti-lmer House. The
theme of the eaginaoring clinic sfill be "AIRPORTS - CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION lislD
MAINTENMCE". ■
According to Professor J. B. Finnegan, conference director, Illinois Institute
of Technology inaugurates this fall the first of a series of aniiuaj, fall engineering
conferences designed to present from year to year specific subjects that have special
importance in the light of current develo'jincuts. In viev/ of the tremc'iidous impor-
tance being placed on aviation, private, co'.nincreial, and military coinbi.ned, a.dminis-
trators have chosen as the theme for the current conference, AIi-:pORTS.
This confci-ence v.'ill offset the annual L'lidv/est Pov-er Confei'ence hield each
spring under sponsorship of the Institute. Miat the subject of the fall conference .'
for next year v?ill bo, has not as yet been decided and vill depend upon world engj.n-
eering and econoiiiic conditions.
Participating in tcmorroi>:'3 opening session of the Airpoi't Conference are tvo
disting-uishcd airport and aviation exprjrts. Tnese are r'ixli;..m >!. Aldoup, technict.l
development engineer of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, ..rid V. C. Lundquist
and Carl Larson of Northwest Airlines, Inc. The paper's to be presented are respec-
tively, "Grading, Drainage and paving", and "Plane Servicing .^ri'angements" .
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A subject of most importance to the aviation industry^ according to Profbcisor
innegan. Fill hold the attention of the confei-ees at the l.uncheon meeting. This will
I. "Fire Hasardo and Fire Prevention", presented Ir/ F. B. Quackenboss of Rollins
e.rdich Hunter Company , Chicago.
The afternoon sessinn vdll consider various phases of a,irport lif.hting, econo-
mic f.vctors of tlie lack of instrument landing systems, and control tower operation.
Ivlr. Jack Vilas, ch<iirman of the Chicago Association of Ccmnierce a\''iation corfamittee,
¥»-ill be chairman of the afternoon session.
Professor M. B. ^'ells, 72 year uid professor emeritus of tJie Institute, himself
a flyer, one of tlie first to realize the importemco of aviation training, and instruc-
tor of aeronautics at the Institute until his retirement, -Yill tell of "The Sc-rly
History of Aviation in Illinois" during the smoker th.j.t v/inds up the first dia^y of the
conference. The secord day of the conference v;ill be concluded "'itli an inspc^ction
trip of Chicago Municipal Airport.
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FilOM: ALEXAlTDEfi SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4-600
10^1-4^
RE: A. E, BONNaLIE, UIWTED AIE LINES
iyjDx"a:;SSES Fi\J.L ET^TtINEERING CONFER-
aiCE OF ILLINOIS TECK AT PALMER
HOUSE.
RELEASE FORs EDITIONS i\JTER 10 A.M,
IO/31AI
Approximately 735 transport plane arrivals and departures will be the order at
Chicago's municipal airport by 194-7 or 194-8 v.dth as many as 90 plane moveiaents, II56
passengers and 48-3- tons of cargo being handled at peak periods, it was predicted
today by Allan E. Bonnalie of United Air Lines, speaking at the fall engineering
conference of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
DivScussing 'Tne Capacity of Air Carrier Terminals", the operations executive
declared a 25 per cent annual incretise in airline business for the next fci years
"is not at all out of order". At present, Chicago's airport handles 190 transport
arrivals and departui'es, vjith as many as 23 an hour, during peak periods.
Foreseeing a considerable grov;th of airports, Bonnalie cited some facilities
which v/ould be required at Chicago to accommodate such air traffic increases. He
mentioned the present need for a larger terminal building, then complimented Chicago's
airport on its system of parallel runways, enabling a complete separation of landings
and takeoff s.
R,eferring to his figiJire of 1,156 passengers handled in a peak hour at the
Chicago airport, Bonnalie said approximately one thousand of these would be "through"
travelers, stopping only briefly at the airport and two-thirds would arrive or leave
the field by ground transportation, about 80 per cent in private cars or cabs and the
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bala.nce in about ninety arriving or departing limousines.
".In addition," he said, "several post office and express company trucks \7ill be
necessary so the road vehicle loading facilities y^rill have to accoimnodate a total of
about 100 road vehicles within one hour, or something over thirty at one time." He
predicted that about 50 aii-port loading positions would be required for the n.i.ne,ty
planes handled in the peak hour.
A minutely-detailed history of planning and development of Washington, D. C,
National Airport, first project of its kind owned and operated by the government, v/as
also given to the conferees. The man responsible for much of its success, from blue-
print stage to completion, spoke at the morning session. Ho is H. L. Cheney, con-
sulting architect of the Public Buildings Administr-xtion in the Capitol city.
"There are but few cities in iiinerica where such an opportunity coiild be found
to secure or construct an airport site so advantageously located, in close proximity
to the large community it must serve, as the new airport in Washington," Cheney began.
Ti-acing historjr of the authorization, choice of site, and early stages of con-
ception of the field, Cheney said it was mandatory to establish a location v/ith a
suitable adjoining area to be dei'-elopcd for accommodatio;i of seaplanes. The site
chosen was also important, he added, because it was strategically located in relation
to the Army's Boiling Field and the Na\'y' s Air Station directly across the river.
Following approval of the site by the President, pls,ns for iminediate constructior;
were announced. The Fablic Buildings Administrrition was to prepare the site plan, the
design of buildings, and the landscaping. This included roads, passes and underpasses.
Particular attention was paid to space allotment for visitors in automobiles.
"The master pla.n of the airport provides for an extension of the flying field
up and doTim the Potomac River, porm.itting the nortli-south instrument landing in.m'.vay to
be extended an ultimate langth of 8,000 feet," Cheney said.
"It also provides for development and constniction of an auxiliary system of
parallej. runways for future installation, to be used to he^ndle increased traffic and
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make it possible for planes to land on one runway while others are taking off in the
sane direction from an adjacent inimvay. /unple provi:-:.ion has also been laad-e for a
large adjoining seaplane base imraediatelv south of the present airport o"
A 12; 15 p.m. luncheon meeting group heard Captain L. L. Odell, consulting
engineer and chief airport designer of Pan Amoriccn Airv-'ays, New Yorl^ City, speak on
"Integration of Requirements in Airport Design." A trip to the municipal airport hy
bus left the Palmer House at liA.5 p.m.
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FROM: AL£:(MDKR SCHREIBEF.
ILLINOIS liiSTITUTE OF
TECroiOLOGY-VIC. 4^00
io/a-/+5
REi AIPuPORT CONFERENCE OPEIiS
PALI^'IER HOUSE - IO/30AI
PjilLEiiSS ; FOR P . M . ' S 5 10/30 Al
A.M.'S HOLDOVER TO
IO/31A1
EDITOR'S NOTES PLEASE DISREGARD PJ^LEASE #10/^1-^^1
The desire to promote and plan an airport today, build toraori-ovr , and complete
yesterdo.y, according to William A. Aldous, is tiie cause of iiiost errors in airport eon-
straction, maintenance and operation. This v/as stated tliis raorning, Thursday,
October 30, 19^1 by Aldous at the first fall engineering coniei^ence sponsored by
Illinois Institute of Technology at its opening session in the PaL'ier House, Chicago.
The theme of the conference this year is AIRPORTS - their construction,
maintenance and operation. Aldous was one of tv/o airport specialists rho addressed
the opening session this morning .... lie is engineer for the technical development
division of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Washington, D, C, and he spoke on
"Grading, Drainage and Paving ox Airports". On the same panel with Aldous was
Professor H. L. Nachman of the Institute '.110 read a paper entitled "Plane Servicing
Arrangements" prepared by V. L. Lundquist of Noi-thwest Airlines who was unable to be
present.
Aldous stated in his opening remarks that airport construction is rapidly
becoming a highly specialized field for engineers. He emphasized that engineers,
particultirly A;. erican engineerts, their associations (professional societies), their
schools eaid colleges should become thoroughly aware of the influence aviation's
development will have and has made upon their field of endeavor. Ho urged them to
become dominant leaders in the present and future program of planning, designing and
constructing airport facilities.
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Pointing out that prelirainaiy planningj adequate and comprehensive study of
all phases of airport constructionj has not been of tlie highest \rhich the magnitude
of the job requires, Aldous remarked that "the responsibility for improper airport
constructionj loca.tion, layout, end subsequent operation is due to urgency » , , the
desire to plan today, build tomorroYf. and complete yesterday .... promotes con-
ditions not vjholly satisfactory".
Noting that the present nation-v/ide airport development program is so large
and that it has developed so much faster thnji anyone coLild anticipate, Aldous said
that the irai'iiediate technical problem is not "how to got more airports, but hov; to
properly smd efficiently build the ones that are in the construction or preliminary
stage now."
"The Civil Aeronautics Administration, teclinical development division", he
added, "is in an unusuo.lly favorable position to assist in the solution of such
technical problGm.s."
In making plans for an airport, Aldous emphasized a 7 - point program -.Aich
is necessary before earth\;ork plamiing of cdiy kind can be uiidertalcen in the con-
struction of an airport. These are:
1, ITnat functions v/ill the airport have in State, Regional, or National
Plans,
2, What v;ill be the type of operation - local, conimurcial, military,
3, Typo and extent of airport sui^faco,
4-, Designation and locations of run\7ays - present and future,
5, Assignment of definite areas for operations, buildings - present and
future ,
6, Obstructions to air traffic flov;.
7, Drainage requirements,. .
Other speakers for the first day of the conference includ.e, James D,
Cunningham, chalrma.n of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Tochi F. B. QuToCkonboss,
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Rellins Bm-dick Hunter, Chicago; K, J. G; Pearson, Civil Aeronautics Administration,
Washington, D. C,; A, E, Blomquist, Eastern Airlines, Nev/ York| Harry Baumer, City
of Chicago; and M, E, Wells, Professor Emeritus, Illinois Tech, early professor of
aeronautics and acqiiaintance of Chanute, Laird-Turner, the Wright Brothers,
The conference is under the direction of J, B, Finnegan, professor and
chairiaan of fire protection engineering at the Institute; assisting are C, 0, Harris,
assistant professor of civil engineering, conference secretary; and S, H, Spears,
associate professor of civil engineering. Five hujidred engineers, executives,
professional men and students were expected to register before the first day of the
tvro-day conforence was completed.
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FROM; ALEXa^DER SCHflEIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
T^.CffiJOLOGY-VIC. 4600
REs JOM BECKER, CHICAGO JJUinCIPAL
AIRPORT, MI) A. E. BL0MQUI3T,
EASTKRi'I AIRLINES, AT F.ILL
ENGINEERING CONFERENCE OF ILLINOIS
TECH.
FOR RELEA.SE; EDITIONS /iFTER 2; 00 P.M.
10/30/41
EDITOR'S NOTE: PLEASE DISREGiuRD RELE/iSE #1041-4.2
An ainvays traffic cop and an outstanding aviati.on theorist were among eight
speakei's today, Thursday, October 30, 19/4.I, at the Pa]jrier House where the first annual
Fall Engineering Conference of Illinois Institute of Tecimology began a tvvo-day
session.
Edward Kajnpv/ith, chief control tovrer operator of Chicago's municipal airport
and A. E. Blomquist, airport engineer of Eastern Airlines, New York City, addressed
500 delegates during the Tliursday afternoon panel. The theme of the conference is
"Airports". Kampwith presented a paper written by Jolm Becker, former chief control
tower operator of the municipal airport who just recently v:as transferred tc
Santa Monica, California, as a control tower inspector for the Civil ^.eronautics
Administration, entitled "Control Tower Opei-ation''^ Blomquist spolce on "Economic
Factors of the Lack of Instrument Landing Systems".
"It has been found bj insurance statisticia.ns that it is far safer to ride on
a transport airplane than to ride in the family automobile," Becker said.
"Aviation has gro\7n from a hazardous occupation to one of the safest modes of
travel. The government, through the Civil Aeronautics Adrainistration, is coming to
the aid of airport control further to improve its fine record of safety snd efficient
operation, "
Automobiles travel at tv/enty-five miles or more per hour in congested city
traffic, while airplanes must travel at much greater speeds witli consequently closer
traffic control, Becker stated.
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"The f"und.amental rules aiid equipment of automobile traffic control are also
utilized in aircraft control—red and green lights have identical significance,
"A green light means 'proceed' — a red light means 'stop,' Airplanes fly on
the right side en an airway, and traffic officers are in cha^-ge \Jho direct traffic.
From here on similarity stops, due to speed necessary, and to the fact that three
dimensional movements are required, while automobile traffic is confined to t'..o
dimensions,"
The slowest airplanes move at speeds dovm to a hundred miles per hour,
¥;hile the fastest move up to two hundred and fifty miles per hour, naccs3ito.ting
special means of control and special rules, Becker said,
"The highways of the air are termed airways and are officiallj'- designated
by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, They run bet\^/oen airports and start five
hundred feet above the si.U"face of the earth and extend up to the highest altitude
that aircraft can fly,
"These airways are marked by light on the groimd cind also by I'adio beams.
Radio markers indicate turns in an airv;ay and also distance to an airport, convoying
information to a pilot, somew'hat like that fiurnishod by markers along highv;ays,"
Becker said that in order to separate traffic, in addition to flying on the
right side of an airv;ay, pilots on flights in the east'jrly half of the compass use
odd altitudes, •jhilo those in the \7cstcrly half use even altitudes. These simple
rules \7ould probably be sufficient were there only a few airplanes, but at Chicago's
airport aUone 90,000 planes arrived or departed last year,
"To handle such numbers safely, two organizations have boon set up— one,
under airport supervision, called an airport control tower, and the other under
government control, termed Ainva3rs Traffic Control,
"It is expected that, within a few months, all airport control, as well as
airv/ay control will be combined into one unit. This movement has cooperation of the
pilots and the airports,"
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The alfport control operator, according to Becker, must be completely
familiar v;ith lighting, radio beam, rimway, airway and related forms of control. He
must understand, also, automatic recording devices vjhich put on vjax plates the con-
versations of pilots and control tower opera.tors as the former cone into airports,
"Long experience and a nuraber of governnient certificates are necessary
before the operator is permitted to instruct pilots in traffic," Bec'.er said,
"The government requires tv;o licenses and a special rating before an
operator is permitted to assume his duties. This assures handling of traffic by
competent operators. The first requirement is a third class radio license,
"Hov/ever, in Chicago the airport specifies a still higher radio license,
either second or first, i/hich are the highest obtainable yrith e:!rjiiinations requiring
3,t lease tv;o days to complete. The other goveriimont I'oquiremont is a control tov/or
operator's certificate and is classed along v;ith the highest airmen's certificates,"
Bloraquist, discussing "Economic Factors of the Lack of Instr^'Ji'/ient Landing
Systems," gave 'i?ll,000,000 as the minimum araoimt lost by airlines ox the United States
since 1936 in passenger fees cancelled,
"It seems like a sizable sum to throvir in the street but it represents,
certainly, not more than twenty per cent of the indir;"jct costs of the hundreds of
cancelled flights and must be small indeed comppxod v.dth millions lost by 'stacking,'
holding at v/ay sto.tions for a few ho-ors and ovex*night, and other forms of traffic
delays . "
The chief cause of revenue losses tliL-"ough cancelled passengers and ground
delays of various sorts is weather, with potential passengers saying, "I have an
appointment I must keep, so I'm going by train," when difficulties are encountered,
according to Blomquist,
"Low ceilings, poor visibility and icing conditions, severe storms .and
other mcteorlogical conditions fail to interfere \:ith eighty-five p^-r cent of all
schedules operated by Eastern Airlines,
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"The ansT/er to existing conditions is the irimediate installation of some
reasonable instrijiment landing systen at most airline airports ?Jid the gradual re-
duction of Civil Aeronautics Administration ceiling and visibility rainiinui'as as flight
crews become proficient in the use of the system and the system itself is brought to
perfection,
"We, in this country should be ashamed of the record on development of
this particular type of flight aid. The science of scheduled operation has been
vastly improved, save in regard to instrument Ic^ndings,
"As long ago as 1932 several systems v/ere proposed cuid demonstrated. Since
that tii'.e there ha\^e been hs.lf a dozen systems, any one of which might have been
developed to a reasonable point of operating stability,"
Successful use of a number of instrument landing systems abroad, parti-
cularily the Lorenz System iii leading Europegji airports, is evidence the United States
has been laggard in introducing this method of obviating cancelled flights. Air linesj,
individually or in concert, should have made progress 3.n this matter, according to
Blomquist,
"The actions of the Civil Aeron^'-utics Adiiiinistration tind its prodeoessors
appear to have been entirely ineffectual in performing a task with which the en-
abling act charges them," he concluded.
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YROMt ALlCXAtffiER SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE 0?
TSCm^OLOGY-VIC. ^600
11/a-i
RE: ESTABLISfflilSNT OF FIELD HOUSE FUND
?plO,000 CONTRIBUTED BY STUDMTS
RELEASE FOR: TUESDAY, llAAl
Students of Illinois In;jtitute of Technology today revealed that they have
sanctioned the creation of a FIELD KOUSE fUND and th^.t ^lOjOOO in accamulated reserves
of student activity fees iiave been officially allocated to this fund,
Announceiiient of the creation of the fund and the alJ.ocation of the $10,000 was
made by Earle Huidiold, president of the student association. Hu:ihold said:
"By a una.nimous ballot, the Illinois Tech Student Association, Board of Control,
last Friday passed a rescJution voting tlO,000 for the establishji.ent of a FIELD KOUSE
FUND. This money is the accumulated excess of funds over pact years tmd represents
a contribution of the student body to the development program of a greater Illinois
Tech,"
Illinois Institute of Technology subsequent to the mergjer of Armour Institute
of Technology and Lewis Institute one je3.T ago le,st July, aimounced plans for th.e
creation of a nev/ campus estimated at $3,100,000. A fund-raising program, designed to
raise the necessary funds for the initial expenses rec;;aired to erect some of the
contemplated 12 units of new bxiildings was announced last January. Initial effort
during the past month, the first active period of solicitation under the program,
To-suited in over :i^30,000 in gifts. .The new campus and physical plant wHi be locate'''
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on the foraei" Armour Institute of Technology?- canpus whers all necessary land has been
already purchased for the contemplated expansion program prior to January, 194-1 • The
field huuse program is to be entirely separate from the general fund-raising program.
According to Huxhold, the resolution passed by the Board forms the first
official step to'.vards the attainment of a field house so sorely needed for Illinois
Tech teams. i"ne field house resolution v.^as passed under a clause of the nov.ly
.dopted Illinois Tech E'tudent Association constitution x?hich states? "Any balance
left remaining at the end of the school year, after all bills r^ave been paid, shall
be placed in s. fund to be paid at the discretion of the Board for any purpose contri-
buting to tlie general vfclfare of the student body."
Illinois Tech's many-fold needs for a modern, efficient field house have been
sorely felt for many years. Tech teams nov/ use the facilities of other schools,
armoric-t, and practice fields for there v/ork-outs and meets. For example, basketball
teams practice in the 108th Engineer's Armory at 34tji and Wentyjorth, where all home
games are played^ the track and sv.dmuming teams use the facilities of the University
of Chicago under contract; boxing and vnrestling teams vrork-out in a small "bandbox
type g;/ra"; tennis teams, lacking proper indoor facilities, also v;ork~out at the
Engineer's Ai'moryj and golf te-ms use a practice net set up in the small g^Ta.
The necessity for the formation of this fund has long been recognized and cited
by Jolm J, Schomjiier, athletic director of the Institute and famous athletic figure in
Chicago. Mr. Scb.cmmier v.-ill be very active in thiO promotion and perpetuation of the
fund. Students, faculty, officers, and alumni of Illinois Tech are expected to
support the movement.
The Student /.ssociation "."ill be the receipient and guardian of all monies donated
to the Field House fund. The .Association ?/ill designate the kind and size of struc-
•or.-e to be built and I'lhen construction will begin.
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Although at present no plans have been jTepared for the con.itruction of the con-
templated field house, it v/ill undoubtedly be designed by Ludv/ig Mies van der Robe,
famous architect v;ho is head of the schools' architecture department in coilaboi'ation
with Holabird and Hoot, architects, who are jointly proceeding vn'.th the d''.:A!~a and
detailing of buildings contemplated for the nev; IllinoivS Tech canipus. Ho\; much the
field house will cost has not been determined, although it has been revealed that
J:5r. Schomjner has for several years been investigating the best possible tyfje and
size of structure to accoimnodate the athletic activities of Illinois Tech students.
It must be remembered, in tliis connection, that Illinois Tecl:. sponsors each year
the famous "ILLIilOIS TECH RELICf Gjd^IES", the largest indoor track and field meet in
the middle west, and that consideration of seating space and i'acilities for this
meet must be taken into consideration in planning a field house,
When built, according to the student board, the field house v:ill provide housing
facilities for basketball, track, swimming, tennis, badi^iinton, squash, and all other
components of a fully-equipped and modern athletic plant. There r^ij.l also be
founded full fox-ilities for undergraduate sport which may include boxvling and all
facilities xoi'- coeducational sport.
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FROM; ALEXMDER SCHREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 4-600
114.1-2
RE; CILiRLOTTE CARR - HULL H0U3E
FACULTY WOMEN'S ivIEETING - ll/l2//,l
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Charlotte Carr^ fcaous director of Ch5_cago's r nowaed IIULT, PiOUSE, vdll be
principal speaker at the monthly meeting of the Faculty Y'oraen't; Club of Illiuois
Institute of Technology Y'e6nebd:ij aft.irnoon, November 12, 194-1'. The meetin^;, one of
the Licre important of the clu.i-i cslencb.r of the academic year of 1941-42 , v.dll begin
at 2;30 p.m. and will be follc-.vGd by tea to uhich the faculty of tiie Institute are
invited .... the meeting uill be held in the Student Union of the Institute on the
south side campus, the Armour College of Eng:.neering division at 3300 Federal Street.
According to Mrs. J. B. Finnegan, 1^00 E. 56th Street, Cnarlotte Carr ',"111
address the clubv/oraen on the subject of HULL HOUSE of T.iiich she is director. It is
understcod Chicago's HULL HOUSE is by far the most popular, progressive, and inter-
esting than any of the others in the United States.
Tiie Faculty Women's Club of the Institute was organised to cre..;.te motive force
in making the wives of facult"^' members more interested, in the Institute and in pro-
viding a means for bringing the v;ives together more frequently. Mrs. Lester R. Ford,
5600 Dorchester Avenue, is president.
In addition to the regular monthly m.eetings of the Club, according to
Mrs, C. L. Clarke, Winnetka, club publicity chairman, the Club also has a "service
gi .--up and a literary forum" meetings of vdiich are held every third Monday and every
last Thursday of the month respectively.
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General meetings of the Club are held eveiy second YJednesday of the month either
on the Armour or Lev/is campuses of the Institute.
In selecting Charlotte Garr as principal speaker of VJednesday's meetings the
Club desires to learn more about HULL HOUSE which is recognized as a national force
in liberal politics and social uplift vjork. Hull House is considered one of three
most important settlement houses in the United States, partly because of strategic
position in mid.dle of one of Chicago's toughest river v/ards and partly because unaer
Jane Adxlams it became Y/orld-renownod as home of revolutiuna;'y approaches to problems
of ciiild delinquency, -./omen's suffrage, neighborhood reclamation a.nd all types of
settlement problems <, More famous social v/orkers trained there unu.er Addams tha,n at
almost any other two.
li?hoever v.'ould succeed Addai^s rould naturally be a marked Yro;r£.n. Ylhen Cha.rlotte
Carr v:as chosen, slie get v-;hat vii?.:^ equivalent to the key post in Ariierican private
social service work. Povcrful political elements plugged for a v;eaker cliaracter
because some reform movement is likely to originate at Hull House from year to j^etir,
gumming up a perfectly good ward, Democratic or Republican as it may be at a given
time,
Charlotte Carr vffis born in Da-yton, Ohio, in 1S90, received A.B. from Vassar
College, 1915, was a graduate student at Columbia during 1916-1918. She received an
honorary' degree of doctor of humane letters at the University of Permsylvania in 1939.
She v;as a personnel manager from 1921 to 1923; assistant director of ^Jomen and
Industry division of the Nevi^ York State department of labor from 1923 to 1925;
director of the Bureau of Women and Children of the Pennsylvania State Department of
Labor from 1925 to 1929; secretary of Labor and Industry, Pennsylvania State
Department of Labor, 1930 to 1934-1 executive director of the Emergency Relief Bureau
of New York City, 1935 to 1937.
She has been head resident at Hull House since 1937, when she succeeded AddamiS.
She was made director of Hull House in 1939. A contributor to national periodicals,
s he is a member of the National Women's Trade Union League; tite National Consumers'
jj!: 3:-:,ue; the League of Women Voters.
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FROMs /iEXANDER SCtHlEIBF.R
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE CF
TSCffiTOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
REs fclARIE ELSA BLMKE, FORTY-FIVE YEARS AT
LEHIS DIVISION OF ILLINOIS TECH,
HOLDS ESIIBIT OF OILS MD WATER
COLORS.
FOR IMIVIEDIATE RELEilSE
Marie Elsa Blanke, 171& N, LaSalle Street, for forty-five years avSeista.nt
professor of appliad art at Leris division of Illinois Institu.te of Teclonology, is
represented by two dozen paintings in a three-man shovv at The CLicago GaD.leries
Associacion continuing until November 22.
Fourteen oils and ten water colors, totalling last summer's output based on
urban, landscape, marine a.nd flower subjects, compose her offering, m-hich went on
display November ]., Manistee, Michigan, a picturesque tomn slumbering in memories of
its vigorous lumbering days, and its neighborhood are the locale of her pieces.
The v/ator colors are devoted to flov/ers — the datura, phlox, red dahlias,
Jane Cowl dahlias and several types of hollyhocks being found in exactly-detailed,
vivid reproduction. A strong leaning to tree subjects, rural rivers and somnolent,
red-and-grocn roofed villages runs tlirough her oil subjects.
Miss Blanke, the sole remaining member of the original Lev/is facility, coming to
the west-side campus when it opened in 1896, has e>diibited annually for many years in
Chicago and environs. The Union League Club, the Illinois State Art Museum, and
collectors in Chicago and Milwaukee o;vn her wor]:.
A graduate of Lakeview High School, and the first vvdnner of a three-year tultx.>
schola.rship to the ^Tt Institute offered by the Chicago Women's Club, Miss Blanke
graduated from that institution and studied in London and Munich ateliers.
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Among Chicago masters undei" whom she practiced were CharleB Woodbui'y, Herman
IXi.dley Murphy and Fred Richardson, the last for manj' years a popular and distingiaished
member of the Art Institute's faculty.
fi'hile possessing advantages of Earopean study and close observations of foreign
methods and jud.graentj Miss Blanke has been a reporter of tjmical midwestern scenes
from the start of her artistic career.
Her Manistee po?:"iod is merely the latest reflection of enthusiasm for soil and
the sun, trees and vrat^r backj-rounds, simple hamlets ai.r. the unsophisticated folk who
live in tnom. A case-hardened teacher, she never paints likr. a school-marm but has wc-
critical encoiuiuias for seeing life as it is.
Illinois counties along the north bank of the Ohio River, the tor.Ti of Ijladison,
Indiana, the Indiana Dimes an*: northern Wisconsin have supplied Miss Blanke y^^ith
backgrounds. Her use o:'' color varies, occasitnally the softer notes of rivor-toiArxi
nostalgis. yielding to vivid impressions such as a i.tOon-day sun can make on a church
steeple clcse-up.
Her current show is an honest preview of her entire scale. Harbor Springs,
which shov/s the noted resort village with picture-postcard fidelity but hag character
and essence, v.'ill evoke memories in many Chicagoans. Hill Tovm, an impressive
geometrical arrangement of familiar country elements, is honest and solid.
Birches and Pines, in r/hich f irst-gro'vvth northern Michigan trees are hei-oic
against a lake background, is the center piece of the she?;. Priced at #250, it is an
ambitious reminder of an earlier day of forest painting, when America's trees did not
have the look of being pairrted by city slickers.
A grand can-vas, a glimpse from Ggden /avenue over-'che- shoulder at St. Jolin
Cantius church, is a brilliant, dun-colored Chicago scene. It is titled., simply,
St. John's Church. Of the vrat-.;r colors, Datura -r/ould be T;elcome in any home, i7ith :" ,i
delicate faithfulness, its unstarchy, inmiaculate vigor not often to be found in v/ork
of a painting teacher.
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As growth oi utilitarian standards for art became proncunced with the end of the
•forld War, Miss Blanks sav a decline in. the nuriber of students studying to become
artists in the accepted sense. Most boys and girls began to study in courses connected,
i^rith d>^sign and homemaking.
Subjects taught in the applied art course this semester, the entire department
having this year been absorbed bj.^ an enlargened home econoiiiics dopartnent , ares
Draiving (primary and advanced); dra^oiing and compositions design; ccstTime design;
interior decoration: applied design; interior d<.ecoration (ad-'-. ..^iced) ; and color
theories.
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FROM; ALEXMDER SCIiPi^IBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECffiJOLOGY-VICo /,600
RE: INDIMilPOLIS ilLUMI [;!EET
11/10/41 - WASHINGTON HOTEL
7s CO P.M. - B4ii3BOO ROOM
RELE.1SE rORi FRIDiiY, ll/V/^l
Tlae distinction of p.olding the first meeting of alninni of Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, will go to Indianapolis.
Residents of Indiana,polis, foraer Armour Institute of Technology and Leviis
Institute students uill meet Monday, November 10, 19/+1, in the Washington Hotel,
Bamboo Room at 7s00 P.M. to hear about the consolidation of their respective scnools
from President H, T. Heald, his assistant, Bernard P. Ta.ylor, and Vferren J.
McCaffrey, President of the Armour A.l-Limni group, all Chicagoans.
Sponsors of this, the first alumni group meeting of Illinois Tech alum-ni, are
two prominent Indianapolis business men . . . graduates of former j^Lrm.our and Lewis
Institute's respectively. Tnej are Edward E. McLaren, 4-715 Park Avenue, a partner of
the W. E. Barton Agency, a graduate of Armour Tech in 1924.J and Elmer !?. Hildetrand,
who resides at the Michigan Hotel, acting general commercial engineer for the Indiana
Bell Telephone Company, a graduate mechanical engineer of Lewis Institute in 1917.
Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute were m.erged in July of 194-0
by a linaj. court decree. In January of 194-1, a development s:.na fund raising program
for the expansion of the merged schools vjas announced by the board of trustees to
provide a "technological center" in Chicago and the middle vrest second to none in the
country, A ff3,100,000 building program, embodying designs by x'.'orld fam.ous architect
Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture, providing for a completely
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functional plant, is in prospect within the next lev/ years.
According to the co-sponsors of the Indianapolis meeting, President Ileald ?dll
speak about the consolidation of the two Chicago institutions, tlieir combj.ned iinportancf
to industry in the middle west, and the effect the development program ;?ill liave in
general on education. The various activities of the schools of engineering, architec-
ture, and arts and sciences will be outlined^ the vrork of the Armour Research
Foundation, an affiliate in industrial and development research at the Institute,
will be ejrplainedj and the importance of the nexv In3titL;te of Gas Technology, also an
affiliate of Illinois Tech, supported by the leading natural and artificial gas
companies of the United States by a s?l?000,OOC appropriation, will be explained.
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FROM: ALSIMihm SCHfii^IBEfi
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE 0?
T.niGMOLOCrY-VIC. ^600
lUl-7
RL: HAROLD Vi.uTBORG, DIRECTOR OF ilRMOUR
RESEARCH FOUNDATION AT ILLINOIS
TECH 5 ADDRESSES CHTCA(}0 V:OMAN'S
CLUB, ll/].9/4l.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Harold Vagtborg, /703 Haniiltcn /.venue , direct.jr cf Armoijr F.e;:earch Foi.ind^tion
at Ill:'rioi,s Inotituta of Tschr.clog-^ and of the Institute of Ges TechnoD.Oj^y, vjHI
lecture on "GliLipses of South i-u.iorica" before the Chica,_:o TTonau' s Club Wednesd.ay
( 11/19 Al) at 2 p. IK,
The club is located a.t 72 E. 11th Street. Three reels of natural-color fil^aj
taken by the speaker on a recent South .tear lean tour, v;'ill be shorri during the lec-
ture, which Tfill la^t approxiraat v-ly one hour.
Member of a group cf tv.'enty-one leading industrialists, technologists and
'research experts of the nation, Va.gtborg visited ten cour/trles during a fift;'-day
trip sponsored jointly by the National Research Council of the National Academy of
Sciences, the office of Nelson A. i^cckerfeller, coordinator of coniiiercial and cultur-
al relations bct'.raen the Americans, and Joe.-.ve h. Jv^nes, secretary of commerce.
A deta.iled report, supplemented in many aspects ^oy portions of the fiLns, v,'ill
be given on the sociological, political, economic and cultural state of the South-
American republic s .
Indications the majoritj" of the ten republics look on the United States as a
friend and desire increased trade relations v,dt]a us will be Ijurne otit by his lecture,
Vagtborg believe s .
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"Heavj'- capital and technological investnents cy Ajiierican fii-ii"is in the va-rio-as
countries are more than welcoi.ie. The bGauty, ciiari;; and romance of the republics are
well-puhlicisGu virtues but few of us knov/ the considerable resources for creating a
better life, based on a higher standard of living, that South iarierica has vithin its
poi/vei- to develop,"
Vagt'oorg says the attitude of the state to?jard the family and tlie education of
children will be touched on in his lectiu"u.
"Education as a branch of .r.'c'orrxieut is not in its infancy in South ihieric^. but
to a gr^^at extent a lack of public instruction, based on progressive, up-to-the-
minute methods, is accountabJ.e for the vast number of illiterates in several of the
ccuntries," he says.
"Technolccfical education is not v;idespread though in some larger cities a very
excellent engineering education can be oi^tained. IIov;evcr, the introduction on a
large scale of mass-production methods lias still to get under v;ay„ Products that are
manufactured cheaply a,nd successfully have not the distri'ieution they should have due t(
the lack of acceptance on the part of the public of th.e iiev;, technological life.
Education of the public to advantages forthcoming from many products not before used
¥'ill go hand in hand V'rith the development of the '.vhole educational syster.i."
The Latin cast of mirid of the average peasant, v;hich inclines him. to xiand-'-crk,
and to the devious livelihood gained in an artistic bat impractical existence, must be
dispelled, or at least mitigated, before cnj considerable progress can be saade,
Vagtborg thinks.
'h'r.'ierican higher education is held in high regard by much of the thinking seg-
ment of the South Aiaerican population," he sajrs.
"A determined J sustained effort to bring iLmerican college professors to teach
in the Tjrincipal schools of the larger republics is being made. Tlie idea oj? exchange
schole.rs, while it is theoretically of advantage to these instJ.tutions, has not ••.'orked
well in many cases.
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"It has been found the average South Airiarican student, in a North American
scholastic enviromnent, does not prosper. The soliition of the problem is to staff
South ii:..;rican schools with a reasonable number of Nortli Ai-aericans vjillin>j to live
for periods of several years at a time abroad."
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FROM J ALEXA1\[DER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4.600
lliJ-U
RE; TTJO PHOTOGfii^iPHIG EXPERTS, $7,000
VfORTH OF OMiZBA mMD LABORATORY
EQUIPIiSENT, ELECTRON DIFFRACTION
CAI^EPJl, ADDED BY ARJ.IOUR RESE/iRCH
FOUNDATION AT ILLINOIS TECH.
FOR RELEASE; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, i%:i
Expansion of scientific camera and photographic laboratory facilities of Armour
Research Foundation at Illinois Institute of Technology, making Chicago a national
center of research photography, was announced today (II/17/4.I) by Harold Vagtborg,
director.
Clai-ence Mitchell, famous technical photographer, formerl;^ director of photo-
graphic research at Northwestern University School of Medicine, v/as named photographit
consultant. He will be assisted by Norme.n Bartley, formerly a Chicago Parks District
photographer .
Installation of a completely-equipped laboratory for making, developing and pro-
jecting all forms of still and notion pictures, containing more than $7,000 worth of
camera gear for aiding research on technical problems of the Foundation, is under v;ay.
Three air-conditioned darkrooms are to be set up. Photo-microgrraphs of all
types, including high speed, ultra-violet and infra-red photographs, high-speed
motion and still pictures, in all knovm color variations, will be produced. Special
research problems, never before investigated by camera, will be attempted.
Mitchell, who lives at 179 Lake Shore Drive, is a native Chicagoan v/ho became
interested in photographic work as an exhibiting ce^mera portrait artist and later
was intrigued by detailed, scientific photo processes. He is a brother of
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John J. Mitchell, vice president of Universal Oil Products Company, a trustee of
Illinois Institute of Technology.
Educated at the Middlesex School, Concord, Connecticut, and Yale University,
from which he gi-aduated in 1932, Mitchell is an associate of the Royal Photographic
Association of Gi'eat Britain, a member of the Chicago Camera Club and othei* profession-
al groups.
He exhibited pictorial camera work in London and Paris galleries for several
years and at the Chicago Century of Progress shoves in the Illinois Host Building in
1933 .
Mitchell did camera research vrork for California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, during 1936 and 1937 and was a research associate in photography at the
Field Museum from 1937 to 1939, affiliating v.dth Northvrestern University in 1939.
Bartley was for five years employed by the Eastman Kodak Company in its motion
picture section before taking his Chicago Parks District post a yes.r ago.
Armour Research Foundation v/ill shortly, according to Vagtborg, be the first
laborator^^ and research unit in Chicago and the eleventh in the United States to own
an electron diffraction camera.
Drs. Frank Trimble and Carl Gamer tsf elder, associated with the Foundation since
last Spring, began construction of the camera in August and hope to complete it by
January.
The camera will be used to study the surface structure of various substances by
passing a beam of electrons through a thin sheet of a given material so an accurate
photograph of the diffraction pattern will be recorded on an ordinary photographic
plate .
The apparatus is enclosed in a housing from which practically all air is
exhausted by means of a pump designed to create high vacuum. If a given material is
too thick for the electronic beam to pass through, the camera can record the diffrac-
tion pattern produced by the beam reflection from the surface of the sample.
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Studies made possible by this camera v/ill give the same kind of inforraation on
the Liolecules in a surface that X-ray diffraction methods give on the molecular
arrangement throughout the human body. It v/ill also be possible to study gases by
means of the camera.
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FROM; ALSX"1IDER SGHREIBER
ILLINOIS IKSTIIUTE OF
TECIiMOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
],U1-19
R£; LATE GEORGE NOBLE CARlLy>^, /^O YEARS
LSIJ^IS DIRECTOR, TO BE HONORED AT
MEf.!ORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY, NOV, 30
3:30 P.M.
FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, IIOVEIJBER 21, 19^1
The memory of George Noble Carman, from lo95 to 1935 director of Levels Institute
and a pioneer in the North Central Association, will be honored by dittinguisned
educators, public figures, friend.s and alumni of the school Sunday, Nov. 30, at
3:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 1951 W. Madison Street,
Carman, v/ho died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in June at eighty-five, retired from
his Ler/is post in June, 1935j boccming emeritus director. Lewis Institute in July,
194-0, b'-'came a division of Illinois Institute of Tecnnology.
John Derrey, Robert M. Kutchins, Walter Dill Scott, Henry T. Heald, C. L. Clarke,
Charles W. Gilkey, John A. Bartky, Nelson B. Henry, Aaron J. Brumbaugh, George A.
Works, J. B. Edmonson, C. 0. Davis, and Fred A. Rogers, among educators, have
accepted membership on the Carman Memorial Service Committee.
Also serving on the ConiTdttee are Lee Deforest, z^eno-j^med scientist, r-hc teught
at Lewis under Carman, Horace J. Bridges, head of the Chicago Ethical Society and
life-long companion. Dr. James B. Herrick, physician and Lewis trustee, and
Dr. Ernest £. Irons, Carman's personal physician.
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other committee racmbers, incliiaing Lewis and Illinois Tech trustees, liicnbers of
civic vigilance oomnittecG on the Chicago Rihlic schools, aluimii, and leading Chicago
citi::.enfc5 are:
Trevor Arnett, Bicn J. iirnold, Willian Bachrach, Dr. Charles vS. Bacon,
Alex Dc Bailey, Laird Bell, Flora J. Cook, William i--. Greeson, Craig B. Ka;;lc-.vcod,
George B. ilov/land, ?urs. George B= !iov;land, Benjaniin ?. Langi-.'orthy;
Mrs. Bonjanrin F. Langr.'orthy, J. Raleigh Nelson, Le'-is C. Vva.ilcei', LIrs. E]?.ile
Levy, lltrs. Samuel T. Lav/ton, Kenry P. Chaiidler, Charles P. Ivlogan, Fran:: J. Loesch
and Dora Wells. .
Dr. Gilkey, dean of the University of Chicag'^ chapel, will deliver an invoca-
tion and remarks to open the service. Trevw;r i''>rnett, trustee of the University of
Chicago and protegee of Carman, in whose home .he lived as a yoi^th, v/ill speak on
"Mr. Carman's Contribution to Education."
Dr. J. B. Edmonson, aoan of the department of education of the University of
Michigan, associate of Carman in the early struggles of the North Central Association
to establish itself, 7d.ll speak on "Mr. Carman Througli the Years."
Johji 11. Smale, professor of philosophy in Lev;is division of Illinois Tech, vdio
graduated from LevrLs .in 1902 and taught uninterruptedly under Carman for thirty-three
years, will deliver the alumni tribute. Dr. Gillcey v.rill close the service -.vith a
benediction.
Sonia Sharnova, famous diva of the Chicago Opera, Company, 'vTho was registered by
Carman as a student in the class of 1919, will furnish a musical inter liide in the
service. A contralto, she will sing "Over the Stars T.here Is R^^st."
i Johji Dewey, regarded as dean of modern iln;erican education, notified the
Committco he \?ould not be able to be present at the memorial function, because of
advanced age and distance involved in traveling to Chicago. Carman, friends sajr,
introduced the late Mrs. Dovrey to her husband, having Ioiov.tl her since childiiood.
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Carmen served as president, treasu.rer and secretary of tlie North Central
Association, and racexved numerous educational distinctions.
More than 100,000 students passed through Le'vvis during the incumbency of
Cannon, H. T. Heald, president of Illinois Institute of Teciinology, estimated.
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FfiOK: AL£X/aiD£R SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
T£CHj^IOLOGY-VIC. ^600
lUl-20
RSr. AmiOUR RSSSilRGH FOroiDATICN BEGINS
^250,000 METALLURGICAL RESEARCH BUILDING
FOR IPffiEDIATE PFLEASE
The Armour Research Foundatioiij at Illinois Institute of Teclmolcgy, today
announced the letting of a contrs-ct to R. C. riebolcit for the constructiun of a
metallurgical research building. The building, tc be located on Federal Street at
3^;.th Street, fully equipped, v/ili cost $250,000 and provide the riiiddle west v/ith the
largest and most complete of facilities for the conduct of developmental and indus-
trial research in this field, according to Harold Vagtbcrg, director of the
Foundation who made the announcement for the Foundation.
Located as the building wij.l be on the V^est side of Federal Street at 34-th Stree
it virill be built around an existing foundry and metallurgical reseai'ch building which
has become too small to carry on and service the many research projects contracted
for by the Foundation, having to do v.'ith steel, alloys, and non-ferrous metals. The
construction job in itself vrill be an unusual one, since the nev/ building, designed
by Luavrig Mies van dor Rohe, head of the Institute's architectural department, vfith
Holabiri and Root, a Chicago concern as associate architects, v:ill have to be built
around the eld building v^ith research Y:ork being conducted simultaneously with con-
struction v'orh. After tv'O bays of the nev; unit have been completed, the old unit
•udll be torn dovm and the building completed.
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According to Mr. Vagtl: )rg, the nev inetal].urgics.l resec.rch building ?/ill conform
in architectural style v/ith that of the planned new campus buildings of IlJ.inoiG
Institute of Techi;ology to be laiovm as "TeclmolGgy Center". The funds for this and
otiier research buildings for tiie Foundation to be erected in the future will not,
ho-'Nev3T, come from those currently being raised for Illinois Tech' s "Technology
Center" ... .The Foundation is securing separate funds to construct such buildings.
Actual construction of the buildings and subsec;\ie^'.t equipping of the metallurgi-
cal reseai'ch section signifies the advances made d uring the past tv/o years by the
Foundation in providing the middle-west with outstanding facilities for metallurgical
research. In 1939 the Foundation became active in this field conducting for the
Vfetherill Research Company an investigation cf counter-gravity die casting. Since
that time metallui'gical investigations have increased to the point whore in addition
to the one mentioned, there are eleven others. These are; Polomites, heat treatment
of steelsj die-casting of ferrous and non-ferrous raeto.ls; open nesirth slags| wire
alloys and drawi-ngj metal polishing raaterii.ls; non-ferrous forgingsj foundry moulding
materials J hard-tipping alloys]; core oils 3 anu. free-machining metals. Among the many
companies sponsoring the metallurgical research projects are; /anerican Steel
Foundries, Inland Steel Company, V'ehr Steel Company, Revere Coppoi- & Brass Company,
The National Standard Company and the Pfanstiehl Chemical Company.
The 500,000 cubic foot building, having a ground floor of 11,000 square feet,
will house the most modern of metallurgical research equipment. Tro cupolas, one
having a capacity for the melting of iron of 3,000 pounds per hour and the other having
a capacity of 1,000 pounds per hour, v;ill be installed (the 3,000 pound per hour unit
is nov; in use in the old structure) . In addition there will be installed one Bessemer
type converter, two electric furnaces having a 500 pound and a 10 pound per hour
capacity, respectively, and the myriad cf equipment for chemical analysis, physical
testing, machining and metallogTaphy. There will also be installed a steel ingot
rolling unit.
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According to Mr. Vagtborg, this unit of the Foundation, ivhile it will be used
to service the many metal projects under investigation by the Foundation, will by no
means immediately reach capacity operation. In constructing and equipping this unit,
the d:""ectors of the Foundation have in raind long-term metallurgical research for
the middle y/est and the metallui'gical experts of the Foundation liave designed tne
unit and purchased equipment so that additional projects can be conducted with ease
in the unit.
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FROM: ALEXAITOER SCHREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGMOLOCtI-VIC. 4-600
lUl-24.
R£: S. Mo SPEARS - ADDRESS BEFORE
NATIONAJ. RESEMCH COUNCIL - DEC. 3,
1941 - BALTIMORE
FOR IfffiEDIATE PJCLEASE
Dr. S. M, Spoars, 1720 W. lOJtii Place, Chicago, associate professor of civil
engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has been invited to present a paper
before the Highway Research Board of the National Research Council at its annual
meeting in Baltimore on Dec. 3, 1941. Professor Spears will preseiit a paper on
"The Evolution of Design Data for Crossover Distances", the thesis of his resea.rch
Vifork in highwjiy engineering o
Dr. Spears is kiiovm throughout the mid;?est as an authority on highv;ay engixieer-
ing. His research has been concerned with the application of ph"/siological factors
to highway desij^n problems, a field he shares with. a.n extremely small number of
scientists. He is one of three scientists in the United States v;ho have completed
doctoral work in traffic phases of highwa;/ engineering .
Prior to the Ba.ltifflore meeting. Di'. ,Spears vrill address the Western Society of
Engineers, Chicago, in their l'7aeker Drive head'raartors (Engineering Building),
Thursday evening, November 27, 1941 on the subject "Fsychologj'- in Highway Design".
In the Beverly community v.-here Dr. Spears resides, he j.s lcn.ovm for his activi-
ties as a boarci member and elder of the Morgan Park Christian Church; he is a
community leader in religious education; and he is .. trustee of the Morgan Park
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FROM: iu.EX.UIDE?. SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
T£CH>IOLOGY-\TC. Z.6OO
lUl-25
RE: MSlViORIiiL SERVICE FOR LATE GEORGE
NOBLE CAfSIM, AC YEARS DIRECTOR 01
LSraS INSTITUTE I L£G.SI^-D.IRY FIGURE.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Education, the leading American industi-y, villi pause in a sentiiiiental i.iood L.i
Lewis division of Illinois Institute of Technology today (II/50/4.I) to pay tribute
to the memory of one of its first great industrialicts.
/;t 3s 30 p.ni., the golden-oak-panellsd auditoriun of Lei-is at 1951 ^» Madicon
Street will hush is the first syllables of an invocatory prayer open a memorial
service honoring the late George Kcble Carcan, for forty years director ox Lev/is
Institute.
From 1895} vjhen the school opened, to 1935 > when he retii-ed, George Koble
Carman xias Lev/is. A procession of eirdnent speakers will take to the audito:rium' s
platform, where so often he had stood, to make a hundred points that support that
Distinguished figures in education and public life, alumni and friends of the
school vdll overflow 1,200 seats. Each will be listening to a recitc^l of chapters
in the eighty-five-year span of a. man who had always been too busy, too self -depreca-
tory, to x«j'rite his ov.n achievements into the permanent record.
allien George Noble Carman died on June 24, 194-1. in ^Ann Arbor, Michigan, he vfas,
in an autobiographical sense, intestate. He had made Lewis the first junior college
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in ilmerlca. Other schools picked up the tvro-year, ctsgree-granting college idea which
he introd-jced with opening ox' his institution, and ga^-e it e nameo
Nothing in print, \^ritten '^ay hirn.> boars out this pioneerings Nothing he vrote
tells of his role among the founders of the North Central Association. Ke had served
as president, secreti-'.rv and treasurer of tliat bcdv. Nothing records his intiiaate
association with the fabulous YJilliain Rainey ilrrper and of their collaboration v/hich
Tv'ent to shape the Mierican educational pattern.
He left nothirig but a legend, and his contempt for an;rthing Uit deeds x'uns
through the legend like lightning thx-ough a sunimer sky.
George Noble CarKcn "-as born in Ual\.-orth, New York, in 1S5q. t.Ioving to a rural
Micliigan community as child, he Ci'.me into a life based on hard work, wiiere horiieljr
encomiums supplemented the Ten Conmiandments as rule of life.
An important step in his teaching career ?;as the A, B, he received from the
Univei-sity of Michigan in 1381. The degree co.me somoFhat as an anticlim.ax, hoviever,
in a manner that v&s to prove tjnpiceil of his life. Ke had been principal of the
Ypsilanti High vSchool, ivhere he also carried the entire burden of English instruc-
tion, during an entire year before taking his sheepskin.
There \-'as a good reason for staying at his Ypsilanti post during the year after
he lv?ft college. She rras A.da J. MacVicar of Toronto, Canada, daughter of the
president of Michigan State Teachers College of that tovai. In 1SS3 they were
married, launching a companionship ended by her death in 1916.
Carman, apparently initiating himself to his life-long habit of vjorking sixteen
hours per day, took on the superintendeney of schools in Union City, Michigan, in
18o2. By 1885 his abilities caused some talk and led to his appointment as principal
of Grammar School No. 15, in a pullulating, polyglot v/ard of Brookl;)Ti, Nev,-- York.
The serious country boy, carrying 195 pounds on a 6 foot, 1 inch frame, v.'as a
success, even in BrookljTi. He eax-ned an educational plum by appointment to the
principalship of a high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1839. He was advancing
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xvith the migratory ruthleasnes^ of a cyclone.
Then cane the groat daj' four years later- Morgan Park Accdeniy, on the outskirts
of Chicago of Columbian Ejrpos'.ition fanfare, v<as created by Yi'illiam Rainey harper as
part of his University of Chic-ago dream.
Nothing would do for Harper but to get the best man possible for rocking the
cradle of this first test-tube baby of the Mid^'ray covenf..nt. It ras his habit, it
seemed, to pick his bright young men from the sticks on occasion. George Nob].e
Carman brought his wife, his stiff celluloid collars and his energy to Morgan Park
Academy.
In 1895 George Noble Carman was a handsome man, Lewis Institute an imposing
battleship of a building; bright with brass and soft y.'ith beautiful flooring and
fine vTood trimming. Carman wore flo'i'ing ties, grey suits, and tlie proud mamas of
Ashland Boulevard's brovm stone mansions brought their boys and girls into hiin vifith
their hearts beating vigourcusly as their bustles s?."ung.
George Noble Carman was a man,ever;y' testament agrees.
lie began to take on habits, subtly express at first, that m^irked him as a
supreme indix-idualist. He patrolled the h-alls of five floors, shooing giggling girls
and mu^'tache-proud boys into the library, if they happened to be loitering. Even
betv;esn classes, he insisted, an educational institution T"as what the catalogue said
it v.vas.
He took a firm, hand in the school cafeteria. At first, when it '.vas passing out
of the eoffee-and-doughnuts stage, a ver"y good institutional soup was the piece de
resistance, Kov-ever, before many semesters, a full menu attracted most of the stu-
dents living outside the immediate neighborhood as regular diners.
Carman was slightly formal vdth his faculty. Ho kept his distance in public bat
could be tender, if occasionally sarcastic, in private. He had a classic reply to
younger, raise-hungry instructors, for use about the third time, v.dth the look of
drorming m.en in their eyes, they came in for more moneys
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"A inc?.n is no good iiuleiLS he earns twice u^ laucii as he gets."
Cc'.riiian was in the habit, however, of walking up casuaily to a teacher he hadn't
seen for a while, coming to an abrupt stop, a.nd saying;
"1 like your v/ork very much,"
Always thouglit ;,. strict disciplina.rian by students, Canaan ]!ad bO manj' qualities
that wen respect he v/as obeyed vifithout question, A coed, ii.ow an imp'Ortant personage
in AiTiorican educational circles, hid in a full-length locker one day the former came
in vwathful search of students roughhousing in a corridor.
She stayed in the locker for ti?enty niinutes, hoping ii; thc,t tiiae Carjaan would
ha\'e gone his way dovm tJie corxaidor to other laatters. Hoifevor, on stepiJ:l.ng frora her
hiding place, she found bira confronting hor with blaraing eyes^
She staramered: "I'm so-oh surprised, Dr. Carman."
?Ie was ice Incarnate.
"Surprised, young woman — I'm shocked. You kept me v^aiting twenty minutes for
you to come out of tho.t locker."
The teams of the Institute were top-notch, especially in basketball and track.
Touns were sent to the Princeton Invitational track tourneys and some were wiriuers.
Such football star? as Pat Page propped at Leads. But the high point of each
athletic year was the footbal.l game with Ai^mour Institute, a bell.igeront south-side
riva 1 .
There are police off icors still living who could boast of having seen the second
half of every Lewis-Armour game between 1395 and 1910.
The whole thing was pi-ea.rranged ^oj Fate.
As an adverti-:dng stunt, the Armour company, whence .Irmour Institute capital had
come, each year stocked markets selling its products v/ith he.^''/;/ oil-cloth hams,
sawdust-stuffed, that dangled from stout cords. They were painted Black and Gold,
to match the scliool's coJ-ors.
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Every half-time, so bitter was the rivalry of the two young Inctitutes, a full-
fledged riot r'as likely to occur in midfield between non-playing students, v/ith
spectator friends asGisting.
Yeai- after year, with the Armour hams proving a fori:iidabl3 Y;eapon in tlie cause
of righteousness, these inproniptu battles took place.
The police, v:ith a nice feeJ.ing for the sociological problems of college boys,
began to arrive in time to take part in the rnid-half fracas and still see the last
htU.f after order had been restored.
The Chicago Literary Club, the Union League Club, the City Club, The Chicago
Ethical Society — these were the places Carman mot his friends. He could quote Ruskin
a.nd Shakespeare to fit aL,iost any occasion. He took fe;v suiiurier vacations, spenaing
his sumKier '.ireekends at a farm ne;. r Fennville, Michigan.
Car-man remembered v'hen i:;, 1503 the athletic field in back of the Lewis main
building had been broken up so an engineering building could be built. He remembered
the many happy, married years he had spent in his flat at the Hov/ard Apartments,
located at Marshfield Avenue and Jackson Boulevo.rd,
Then one day in Juno, 1935? as if tired, of rem-embering, he called a moving van
to the dormitory back of Lewis, supervised the piling of his furniture accuL-iulated
over fifty-tv.ro years, and moved out for Michigan, He rode on the front seat v;iih the
driver. Friends had tears in their eyes as the:y watcned this bravara performance.
He rras seventy-nine years old.
Creorge Noble Carman cam.e back in 1937 to receive an honor arj' degree, Lee De
Forest having been the sole recipient of such rin ay/arc'. before that time.
This afternoon Sonia Sharnova, famous contralto of the Chicago Opera GornpcLny,
will sing "Over the Stars There is Rest." She went to Lewis in 1919 and Carman
registered her personally.
This afternoon Trevor Arnett will speaic on "Mr. Carman's Contribution to
Education," A trustee of the University of Chicago, a former financial ?.dviEor to
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John D, Rocker feller, Jr. 5 Arnett p,s a youth pas befriended hy Garraan.
This afternoon Dr. Charles i'. Gilkey, dean of the University of Chicago ciiapel,
"iiill deliver the invocation and remarks, and later, the benediction. J. B. Edmonson,
dean of the department of education of the University of Michij^ian, r/ill sper k on
"Ivlr. Carman Tlirough the Ye art;."
This afternoon Jo'nn H. flmale, Leivis philosophy profescr:r, vfho graduated from
Lev.dc and t.aught for thirty-tliree years under Carman, 'vvill represent the aluraii \^fith
his remarks.
A committee composed of forty of the most prom.incnt names in American education
and Chicago civic life, headed ty John Dewey, Robert M. Hutchins, T'alter Dill Scott
and lienry T. Heald, had charge of arrangements for the memorial service this afternoon.
This afternoon a great me.n vill live again.
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FROM: ALEXAlTDER SCHRSTBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECIIITOLOGI-VIC. .^600
lUl-30
RE? ME!\iIOBi;a, SERVICE FOR LATE GEORGE
NC?:.o CARIvi;j^I, AO YEARS DIRECTOR OF
LEASTS INSTITUTE; LEGENDARY FIGURE],
FOR IM!\EDIATE RELEASE
Education, the leading American industry, vdii pause in a sentimental mood at
Le^.'is division of Illinois Institute of Technology today (ll/30//,l) to pay tribute
to the memory of one of its first great industrialists.
At 3:30 p.m., the golden-oah-pc'.nelj.ed auditorium of Le7.ris at 1951 W. Madison
Street v;ill hush as the first syllables of e.n invocatory prayer open a memorial
service honoring the late George Noble Carman, for forty years director of Lewis
Institute,
From 1895, when the school opened, to 1935, vdien he retired, George Noble
Carman was Lev;is. A procession of em.inent speakers '..ill take to the auditoi^ium' s
platform, v/here so often he had stood, to m.ako a hundred points that support that
fact.
Distinguished figures in education and public life, alumni and friends of the
school will overflow 1,200 seats. Each will be listening to a recital of chapters
in the eighty-fiva-year span of a man who had always been too busy, too self-depreca-
tory, to vtt-ite his ov-tti achievements into the permanent record,
Vrnen George Noble Carman died on June 24-, 194-1, in /inn ilrbor, Michigan, he was,
in an autobiographical sense, intestate. He had made Leviris the first junior college
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in America.. Other schools picked up the two-year, dcgree-grariting collego idea which
he introduced v.dth opening of his institution, and gave it a name.
Nothing in print, written by him, bears out this pioneering. Nothing he ;vrote
tells of his role a,mong the founders of the North Central Association. He had served
as president, secretary and treasvirer of that body. Nothing records his intimate
association with the fabulous TJilliajn Rainey Harper and of their collaboration vdiich
went to shape ti^e American educational pattern.
He left nothing but a legend, and his contempt for anj^hing but deeds runs
through the legend like lightning through a sununsr s\cy.
Georgo Noble Carman was born in IValworth, New York, in 1856. Moving to a rural
Michigan community as a child, he came into a life based on hard work, v;hore hoiaely
encomiums supplemented the Ten Coiiraiandmonts as rule of life. An important step, in
his teaching career was the A, B. he received from the University of Chicago in 1881.
Carman, apparently initiating nimself to his life-long habit of v/orking sixteen
hours per day, took on the superintendoncy of schools in Union City, Michigan, in
1882. By 1885 his abilities caused some talk and led to his appointment as principal
of Grarrmar School No. 15, in a pullulating, polyglot ward of Brooklyn, New York.
The serious country boy, carrying 195 pounds on a 6 foot, 1 inch frame, was a success,
even in BrookljTi.
Then came the great day four years later. Morgan Park Academy, on tiie outskirts
of Chicago of Columbian Exposition fanfare, vvas created by William Rainey Harper as
part of his University of Chicago dream. Nothing vrould do for Harper but to get the
best man possible for rocking the cradle of this first test-tube baby of the ididway
covenant. It v/as his habit, it seemed, to pick his bright young men from the sticks
on occasion. George Noble Carman brought his vrife, his stiff celluloid collars and
his energy to Morgan Park Academy.
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In 1895 George Noble Carman Tjas a handsome man, Lewis Institute an imposing
battleship of a buildingj oright vdth brass and soft ¥;ith beautiful flooring and
fine wood trimraing. Triat was the "year he was appointed director of Leivis.
George Noble Gc^rinan was a man, every testament agrees.
He began to take on habits, siibtly express at first, that marked him tis a
supreme individualist. He patrolled the halls of five floors, shooing giggling
girls and mustache-boys into the library, if they happened to be loitering.
Carman jvas slightly formal vv'ith his faculty. He kept his distance in public
but could be tender, if occasionally sarcastic, in private. He had a classic reply
to younger, raise-hungry instructors, for use about the third time, rith the look of
drowning men in their eyes, they came in for more money;
"A man is no good unless he earns t?;icG as much as he gets."
Carman Vifas in the habit, hovrever, ol i//alk;ing up casually to a teacher he hadn't
seen for a v.liile, coming to an abrupt stop, .arid sayings
"I like your vjork very much."
Alv^rays thought a strict disciplinarian by students. Carman had so many qualities
that v-on i-espect lie was obeyed without question. A coed, no'7 an important personage
in ^viorican educcati.onal circles, hid in a full-length locker one da];^ the former came
in wrathful search of students roughhousing in a corridor.
She stayed in the locker for tv;enty minutes, hoping in that timiC Garm.an v/ould
have gone his vray dorm the corridor to other matters. Hovjever, on stepping from her
hiding place, she found him confronting her v;ith blazing eyes.
She stammered; "I'm so-oh surprised. Dr. Carman."
He ¥;as ice incarnate.
"Surprised, young uoraan — I'm shocked. You Kept me v/aiting tuenty minutes for
you to come out of that locker,"
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The Chicago Literary Club, the Union Leauge Club, the City Club, The Chicc.go
Ethical Society — these v;ere the places Carnan met his friends. He could quote Ruskin
and Shakespeare to fit almost any occasion. He took fev7 surimier vacations, spending
his r^ummer weekends at a farm near Fennville, Michigan.
Carman remembered vvhen, in 1903, the athletic field in back of the Lerds main
building had been broken up so an engineering building could be built. He remembered
the many happy, married years he had spent in his flat at the Hoviard Apartments,
located at Marshfield Avenue and Jackson Boulevard.
Then one day in June, 1935, a-s if tired of remembering, he called a moving van
to the dormitory back of Levis, supervised the piling of his furniture accumulated
over fiity-tv.ro years, and moved out for Michigan. He rode on the front seat with the
driver. Friends had tear,:: in their eyes as they watched this braviara performance.
He was seventy-nine years old.
George Noble Carman came bacJc in 1937 to receive an honorary deg-ree, Lee De
Forest having been the sole recipient of such an award before that time.
This afternoon Sonia Sharnova, famous contralto of the Ciiicago Opera Company,
will sing "Over the Stars There Is Rest." She went to Lewis in 1919 and Carman
registered her personally.
This afternoon Ti-evor Amett vail speak on "Ivfr. Carm.an's Con ori^outi on to
Education." A trustee of the University of Chicago, a former financial advisor to
John D. Rockerfeller, Jr., Amett as a youth was befriended by Carm.an,
This afternoon Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, dean of the University of Chicago chapel,
will deliver the invocation and remarks, and later, the benediction. J. B. Edmonson,
dean of the department of education of the University of Michigan, v;ill speak on
"ivlr. Carman Through the Years."
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This afternoon John H. Sinale, Levis philosophy pro.fssnor, who graduated from
Le'"is and taught for thirty-three years under Canaan, will re^jresent the aluinni x-rith
his remarks,
A GOiiunittee composed of forty of the most prominent names in American education
and Chicago civic life, headed by John Dewey, Robert M. Hutchins, Walter Dill Scott
ana Henry T. Heald, had charge of arrangements for the meiaorial service this afternoon
This afternoon a great man ',vill live again.
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FROM; ALEXANDER SCHREIBF.R
ILLINOIS institute: of
TSCHIIOLOGY~VIG, 4-600
lUl-31
RE: ILLINOIS TECH OFMS BASKETB/iLL SMSON
i'J/iFRIGAl>I COLLEGE OF PtIYSICAL EDUCATION
AT 108 Hi RmmRY, I-'IONDiJ, DEC. 1, 4.^15 pa.
FOR RELEASES MONDAY 12/1/41
Opening v;hat promises to be oiie of their most successfiil seasons in a decade
the Illinois Tech basketball tea;:: will r.eet the American College of Physical Education
quintet on Monday, Decei';:ber 1, at -iilS p.m. in the lOSth Engineer's A_rmorjr-, home of
the Techav/ks.
Boasting of three complete teams of about equal ability, or shouJ.d v-.-e say
enough stars to build throe complete teams, Coach Robert E= "Remie" Meyer is in a
quandry when it comes to making a selection of the starting lineup for the opener of
his second season as coach of the engineers.
Perhaps the only two players sure of a starting assignm.ent are Captain Howard.
Pendlebury and junior Jac': Byrne. %rne v/hile playing g-aard for the TecV:aivks last
season led the team in scoring, m.ostly as a result of his deadly left hand hook shot
from any position of the court. Pendlebury gained his maximum efficiency on rebounds
and shoi-t step in sliots to come within tv.'c points of BjTrne's season total of 117.
Undoubtedly the biggest scrap for position this season will be for the tip-off
spot with junior Ray LaGodney, 6'4"> senior Dick Bergstrom, 6'4"> and sophomore coop
student, Bob Kidd, a 6' 3", all making a strong bid for the bei^th. LaGodney held doT.'n
the assignement for the majority of the past season with a slight edge ovei- Bergstrom
while Kidd sparked the freskmen to a successful year.
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At the fonvai-d end "Remie" has four red hot prospects and quite a few in the luke
warm stage. If the "age before beauty'' method of selection is followed, senior Mike
Carey and junior coop studentjlivally Futterer xvill have to flj.p a coin to deterruine vfho
will be Captain Pendlebury's running matei both won their major av.'ard;; last year.
Replacing them v/ill be "Slinging" Danny O'Connell, right hrjided coun'berpart of
Jack Byrne, and standout star of last year's frosiiinen, and Bill Smart, sophomore
coop, a transfer student from Oberlin College, v/ho is especially brilliant under the
basket.
The gua.rd position also remains doubtful.. Bob Neuhaus and Harry Sieg, both
seniors, in addition to senior Eiiiil G-alandak, a minor av:ard viinncr of last season,
senior Wilbert Hackbarth, si southpaxv transfer from Wright Junior College, and last
but not least, sophomore coop, ITarren Sor.i.riers, perhaps the fo'eatest dribbler and
floorman on the entire squad, are bidding for the job of running Fiate to Jack Bj^-rneo
Coach Meyer starting his second season for the Techa\;ks, v.'as considered ;/, 100^.
success last season. Starting froifi scratch a few short weeks before the season opened
he developed a team that won six gajiies of a sixteen game card. In his undergraduate
days (Chicago '39) he starred in baseball, football and basketball, garnering tl'jree
awctrds in each. His latest promotion is to that of tro.ck coach of Illinois Tech's to
fill a vacanc;/ created by the illness of Norm Root.
The schedule of the season follows;
Dec. 1 American College of P. £,. Here
Dec. /^ Chicago Teachers Here
Dec, 6 University of Chicago There
I&c. 9 Lake Forest There
Dec. 11 Whoaton • There
Dec. 17 North Central There
Jan. 6 Lake Forest Here
Jan. 9 Detroit Tech Hero
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Jan, L4 Chicago Teachers There
Jan. 17 Concordia Thei^e
Jan. 22 Grand Rapids U, Eere
Jan. 23 i'LTierican College of P. £, There
Feb. 5 Grand Rapids U . There
Feb. 7 Detroit Tecii There
Feb. 17 Concordia Here
Feb, 19 LavTence Tech Here
Feb. 24. George Williams Eere
Feb. 26 Fneaton Here
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FROM; AI.£yj.KDEK SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - VIC. 4-600
1241-1
RE I WINTER INFOfill/U. TO PiilSE FUNDS FOR
FIELD HOUSE - 12/12/41 -
SHFi^iVlAiN HOTEL, GRAND BM.,LROOM
FOR IM/iEDIATE RELEASE
Supported and planned by undergraduates, and augmontsd by aluiani, students of
Illinois Institute of Technology vjIII hold a benefit "?.ll-school" winter informal nexi
Friday night, December 12, 1941, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sherinan Hotel. Pro-
ceeds of the event, expected to di-'av; an attendsaice of 3000 people, v;ill be donated
to the student association sponsoring a drive to raise funds for a new fieJ.dhouse
at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Tlie dance is sponsored by all classes of the Institute and has a coinraittee on
arrangements composed of the social chairmen of all classes, and representatives of
the Illinois Tech Student Association Boe.rd of Control and the Int&r-fraternity
Council. Chairman of the combjjied committee is George Pedersen, 5136 North Bernard
Avenue, senior mechs-nical engineering student.
A feature of the dance will be the selection of a "Queen" by Alvino Rey,
orchestra leader v^hose band vj-ill perform for the students o The queen will be
selectr-d fi-om Le^ris division coeds.
Simultaneously, students of the Institute announced througii the Board of
Gonu'ol of their Association, that -^'lOjOOO in accumulated reserves of student .. cti-
vi"'yy fees, had been officially allocated to this fund, comprising the f:'.rst large
contribution. The a.nnouncement was made by Earl Huxiiold, president of the
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Association vmo saidr
"3y a unaniiiiouy bcillot, tli.3 Illinois Tech Student Association Board ox Control
passed a resolution voting the ^?10,000 for the express purposs of e;3tablij;ii:ig
a lieldhouse ffTid. This money is the accuuiulatiou oi' excess stadent activity
funds ovor yiast years and x'spx-eeents a contribution of the student body to the
development progran of gi-eater Illinois Tech,"
Illinois Institute of Technologyj it will be r'^^calledj, rubseqiient to the ;aerger
of Ariiiour Institute of Teclrriologjr and Lewis Instj.tute one year ago last July,
an?iounced plans for the creation of a no?; campus at an estiiautcd' cost of ,'-;3 j 100 , 000 , -
A fund raising program designed to r-aise the necessu.!"^/ funds for ti'io Initial construc-
tion effort for the new 12 unit campus, xvas annot^ncod last January. Initial effort
of the actual solicitation progTain arjiounced one month ago resulted in over ^600, 000
in gifts.
The campus and -phyi^loel plsmt vrill be located en the Armour College Campus
where all necessar;'/- land has been already purchased for tlie cuntemplat(?d building
expansion prog:ram. Thie fieldhouse pi-ogram will be eritii'ely a separate eff'oi'o from
that of the general fund progrf:irj>.
According to Ku:rhold, the resolution passed b;;- tiie student Board, forms the
first official stop towards the attairjnent of a fieldliouse so sorel;'" needed for
Illinois Tech tecans. The fieldhotise resolution was passed under the clause of the
newly adopted constitution v;hich states: 'h''iny balance left at the end of the school
year, after all bills have been paid, shtill be placec'. in a fund to be at the disposal
of the Board for ciny purpose contributing to tiie general welfare of the stadent body."
Plans for the new fieldhouse will be drawn 'ay world famous Ludwig Mies van der
Robe, head of the Institute's architectural department. Professor van der Fuohe's
fame coiaes from i-ecognition here and abroad of his inception of "ivhat is nov.- aal!i.ed
the"modem architecture . "
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Architect van der Rolie has be3n contTiissioned. to design the entire cr.riipiis of nev;
Illinuif^ Institute of Tecimoiogy waich is to be laiov;n as "Teclmologj'- Center".
Preliminary plans have aix'eady been submitted and soae constiniction v.-ork is a.lrov.d:,"
■una erv.-ay .
Vrui der Rche'rj general plan calls for thoroughly iunct:i on.-:.l buildings, Y.dth a
mininum of exof^nse for "frills and marble halls." Desigried to accommodate the acti-
vitie:; of an engineering school^ thore tTili be an abi-nrlance of i-.-indov/s ami:! modern
construction, embodied in a CL.mpus that is a,t the s'lme time open and aii-y so far as
layout is concerned, anri yet a unit T.'ithin itself, so far o.s tnc location is concerned.
Tills design technique will be ineorp'orated in the netT lieldhouse. Associate archi-
tects are Holablrd and Root, Chicago.
According to the comrnittoe in charge of th^e dance, it is expected that at least ,
one thousand dollars vrill be i"'ealizGd from the "vdnter informal," This v;ill, in a
sense, open the cam.pr.i,gn to raise tiie necessary func's, although no specific limit of
goal has been established. The Student Association v/ill be the recipient of all
funds raised for the purpose and v/ill designate the hind and sise of structure to be
erected and Tfhen such construction vill begin.
Ydien built, according to the student board, tlie fieldhouse ^.-ill provide housing
facilities for basketball, tr.ack, sv/iraraing, tennis, badminton, s^yuash, and aJ.l other
components of a fully-equipped avid modern athletic plant. There v.d.ll also 've
included full facilities for undergraduate sports, v±Lich msiy include bowling, and
facilities for co-educational sports.
Bfembers of the coirLmittoe in cliarge of the dance are; George pedersen^
Raymond Kaeding, 536 N. Lom.bard Avenue, Oak Park, mechanical engineering student;
Williajn Dunlap, 4-949 N. heavitt Street, architectural stuctontj Bi^uce T'orcester,
10/|.0 veslej Avenue, Oak Park, fire protection engineering; James IklcNerney,
64.49 K. Ne\/land Avenue, chsmical engineering; Sylvia 17cislo, 4-156 /jrcher Avenue,
liberal arts; Dorothy Giaiabelluca, 44|.l6 Dover Street, pre-medical| Maril5'n Jchli r,
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253!3 Prairie Avor.-ue, hoii'-s econoif.ics; Bertraiid C-oldnaiij 85-1 Drexel Aveiiue, liberal
arty; and flobert, Creagan, 32.40 South Biichigan A.venue^ fire protection engineering.
FROM: /I.Svi^J)IDSfi SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS IIISTITUTE OF
Tj^CMOLOGY-YIC . /;6oo
12^1-2
REs ILLINOIS TECH BASKETBALL TEi'J'^ ATTEIVEPTS
SECOND Y;IN vs= CHICAGO ' TEACHERS COLLEGE
THUR. DEC. in, U p.m., 108TH ENG. /iPJvIORI
FOR IlfflEDIATE RELEASE
I'fith a decisive victory over -'American College to their credit, the Illinois Tech
basketeers look lor their second ?,"in froiri the Chicago Teachers College on Thursday,
Deceniter 4- at 4- p.m. in the 108th Engineer's Armory, home of the Teehav;ks.
On the basis of performance in the opening contest it appears that one of Tech's
stars this coming season will .TOst certainly be junior Ray LaGodney, 6'/i" center, one
of those tall boys that has jtist learned hou to handle himself. Besides giving an
almost perfect account of hiir.self in both offensive and defensive rebounding, Ray had'
developed a deadly pivot line shot and proved an excellent floorman.
Tied for runner-up scoring honors in this initial encounter were a pair of guard;
junior Jack B;/rne and sophomore coop, TJarren SoLmiers, from the Techav:k's fast break
unit. Byrne, last season's top scorer, makes all of his tallies from out on the
court wliile the majority of Scmi'aer's counters are of the short step-in variety.
Due to the v:ealth of material rhich has confronted him this season. Coach Robert
E. Meyer has subdivided his squad into tliree units of approximately equal ability to
obtain three smooth functioning units of high scoring potentialities. Against
j\nerican College 17 men v,-ere used, of which three played less than two minutes. Yet
13 men entered the scoring column to roll up Tech's 4-1 points while the opposition
was held to 16 "ooints.
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The game Thursday is a particularly irritating thorn in the side of the Techawks,
for during the course of the previous season the Teachers viere responsible for two of
Tech's ten defeats, and both squads are reasonably intact.
Possible starting line-up for the Techa\-±s include Captain Hov/ard Pendlebiiry and
senior Harry Sieg at forvrard. Pi.ay LaGodney at center. Junior Jack Byrne and senior
Bob Neuhaus to do the guarding,
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FROM: ALEXAIJDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TEGS^OLOGY-VIG. 46OO
12A1-3
RE 5 ROCKFORD AND BI^LOIT AJ.UrMI MEET
TO FOfu'i'l ILLINOIS TECH iLLUIviLNil
CLUB - I2/9AI - 6s 30 P.M.,
NELSON HOTEL.
FOR FJSLEASE: FxRIDAY, 12/5 Al
Alumni of Arnour Institute of Teclmology and Lewis Institute, residents of
Rockford and Beloit, will meet Tuesday, December 9, 194-lj in the Nelson Hotel at
6;3C F M. to discuss plans and proceed with the establish: snt of an altuimi club of
that area.
The meeting will be a rather unique event since these alumni of the two
Chicago schools v;ill be meeting to form an organization which will be an alumni club
of Illinois Institute of Tecl'mology. However, in the words of Jens D. Larsen, Lewis
8.1umnus of the class of '34, who resides at 3308 W. Gate Parkway, Rockford, and Paul
T. Abrsumson, Armour alumiius of the class of '32, Rockford, v.'ho is a,-jSociated with
the Woodvrard Governor Company, the men who are in charge of arrangements for the
meeting, the purpose of the meeting is to bring about a consoJ.idaticn of the alumni
of the two schools in much the same manner as the actual consolidation of the tv/o
Chicago schools was aceom.:3lished in 19/+0. The meeting will hear from H, T. Heald,
President of Illinois Institute of Technology, Bernard P. Taylor, his assistant, and
J. Warren McCaffrey, President of the Armour Alumni group, all Cjiicagoans.
Armour Institute of Techaiology and Lewis Institute were merged in July of 19-40
by a final court decree. In January of 194-1^ a development and fund raising program
for the e;rpansion of the m.erged schools \;as announced by the board of trustees to
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provide a "technological center" in Chicago and the middle vrest second to none in the
country. A $3,100,000 'ixiilding progi'am, embodying designs by vrorld famous architect
Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture, providing for a compietely
functional plant, is in prospect within the next few years.
According to the co-sponsors of the Fockford-Beloit meeting, President Heald
will speak about the consolidation of the txYO Chicago institutions, tJieir combined
importance to industry in the middle \'-iest, and the effect the development program,
will have in general on education. The various activities of the schools of engineer-
ing, arcidtecture, and arts and sciences vjill be outlined j the work of the Armour -
Research Foundation, an affiliate in industrial and development I'esearch at the
Institute, i-dll be explained; and the importance of the new Institute of Gas Teckno-
logy, also an affiliate of Illinois Tech, supported by the leading natural and arti-
ficial gas companies of the United States by a $1,000,000 appropriation, ^Adll be
explaijied.
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FPDUt AI_,E7J'a'JDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHl-IOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
RE 2 NORTHWESTERN TAU BETA PI CHAPTER
INSTiiLED - ILLINOIS TECH AND
NORTHYv'ESTERN PLEDGES INITIATED
6 P. M.5 12/6^1 - ELECTRIC CLUB.
FOR D-'MEDIATE RELEASE
Initiation of pledges from Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern
Technological Institute tomorroYi night, Saturday, Decenber 6, 194-1, (starting at
6^00 o'clock), in the Electric Club of Chicago (Civic Opera Building), into Tau Beta
Pi, will signify the creation for the first time at the North side school of a chapter
of the national honorai-y engineering fraternity that is so hi.gh a coveted honor for
engineering schools. The ceremonies are under the auspices of the Tau Beta Pi alumni
club of Chicago.
The ceremonies tomorrow night are under the direction of R. E. Ilattis, consult-
ing engineer, Chicago, secretary of the Club. W. G. Arn, engineer for the Illinois
Central Railroad, is president of the clubj Lyman Flook, superintendent of 'ouildings
and grounds at The University of Chicago, i s vice-president; and L. F. Bernhard,
engineer for the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, is tres^surer.
According to ii'Ir. Hattis, the formal program of the evening vj-ill be the formal
installation of the Tau Beta Pi chapter at Northv.-estern Technological Institute,
Engineering colleges and universities, in the main, are considered to be of the best
in the country when a chapter of this national honorary engineering fraternity has
been installed at such a school. Former Armour Institute of Teclinology, a.nd now
Illinois Institute of Teclinology, has had such a chapter for many years and the
officers of the latter are assisting in the installation of the Northwestern chapter.
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Signifying actual installation will be the initiation of pledges to this frater-
nity for the present academic year for both the Illinois Tech and N or th\",'e stern chap-
ters. Toastmaster for the evening will be Alex D. Baile/j trustee of Illinois Tech
and chief operating engineer of the Commonwealth EcUson Company. Speakers ares
H, T. Ileald, president, Illinois Institute of Teclmologyj John J. Schomi-aerj director
of placement, athletic director, a.nd professor of industrial cnemistry, Illinois
Institute of Technology^ and 0. V= Eshbach, dean, Northvv'e stern Techjiological Institute =
Students to be initiated for high scholastic standing and extra-curricular
activities, prerequisites for pledging to the fraternity are , , FOR ILLINOIS INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY: R. N. Eergstrom, senior civil engineer; G, P. Grlebel, senior mechani-
cal engineer J Joseph Kunst, senior electrica.1 engineer^ B. J. Milleville, fourth year
cooperative mechanical engineer; H. G. Pendlebury, basketball captain, senior electri-
cal engineer; G. T. Popp, senior mechanical engineer; B. P. Sarasin, senior electrical
engineer; R. A, Simonsen, senior civil engineer; P. F, 'Zander Ploog, fourt.h year
cooperative mechanical engineer (all B.re from Chicago) =
FOR NORTilWESTEFN TECHNOLOGIC/lL INSTITUTE: Harry E. Albright, senior mechanical
engineer, 3638 Central Street, Kansas City, Mo,^ VJallace R. Giedt, senior industrial
engineer, Chicago; Joseph Love, Senior civil engineer, Chicago; Edward McMillan, senior
civil engineer, A3 Harwood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.^ Stephen Ronzheimer, senior
electrical engineer, Chicago; Stanley Skaiseis, senior mechanical engineer, Chicago;
Leonard Sloma, senior mecha.nical engineer, Chicago, Aubrej'- A. Smith, senior electrical
engineer, Chicago .
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FROM : AI:EXMDF,R SCHREIBER
ILLINOIvS INSTITUTE OF
TEGHIIOLOGY-VIC, /^600
12^1-5
RE: FIELD HOUSE FUND
FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE
Stipported and planned by undergraduate stv.dents of Illinois Institute of
Teclinology today officially opened a drive to raise funds for a new field liout'e for
the south side campus. Led ty student board membors, 1300 day school students
cavorted and cheered in the rain on Tech's Ogden field around a bonfire and then ad-
journed to the student auditorium to listen to addresses 'uxj John J. Schommer, Tech
athletic director, central figure in the drive for the new field house, and student
leaders.
As part of their plan to raise funds, students are conducting a "vjinter informal"
dance at the Sherman Hotel, Friday, December 12, 1941 - proceeds from Y;hich v:ill
augment the field house. Three thousand couples are expected to attend.
Simultaneously, students of 'Ohe Institute armounced through the Board of
Control of their Association, that $10,000 in accumulated reserves of ctudent activity
fees, had been officially allocated to this fund, comprising the first large contri-
bution. The annotincement was made by Earl Huxliold, president of the
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A3SOciat?-on v/ho said?
"Bj- a unanLiiou.3 ballot, the Illinois Tech Student Association Board of Control
passed a resolution voting the $10,000 for the express purpose of establishing
a fieldhouse fx-'nd. This money is the accuiaulcition of excess stmdent activity
funds over past years and represents a contribution of the student body to the
development prograrr; of greater Illinois Tech."
Illinois Institute of Technology, it T;ill be recalled, subsequent to the merger
of Armour Institute of Teclmoiogy and Lev;is Institute one year ago last July,
announced plans for the creation of a nevi campus at an estimated cost of ^;3, 100, 000. -
A fund raising program desigxied to raise the necessar:/ funds for the initial construc-
tion effort for the nev; 12 unit cainpus, v,'as announced last January. Initial effort
of the actual solicitation prog-raLi announced one month ago resulted in over ;|,600,000
in gifts.
The campus and physical plant v.dll lie located on the i-\rmour College Campus
where all necessary/' land has been already purchased for the contemplato^d building
expansion program. The lieldJiouse progi^am will be entirely a sepsirate effort .from
that of the general fund program.
According to Kuidnold, the resolution passed by tlis student Board, forms the
first official step tov:ards the attairiment of a fieldhouse so sorely needed for
Illinois Tech teams. The fieldhouse resolution was passed under the clause of the
nev.'ly adopted constitution v/hich states: 'hiny baia.nce left at the end of the school
year, after all bills ha.ve been paid, shall be placed in a fund to be at the diwSposEi.1
of the Board for ciny purpose contributing to the genera.1 \";elfare of the student body."
Plans for the nev.' fieldhouse rill be drami bj^ v'orld famous Lud'jig Mies va.n der
Rohe, head of the Institute's architectural department. Professor van der Piohe's
fame com.es fi-om recognition here and abroad of his inception of -.liat is no'.7 called
the"mode.rn architecture . "
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Architect van der Rohe has been contiiissioned. tc design the entire c^japus of nev;
Illinuis Institivoe of Techjiology which is to be ltno\^;n as "Techjiology Center''.
Preliminaiy plans have already been submitted and some const-'-uction work is already
■underway.
Van dier Rohe'rj general plan calls fox- thoroughly iunction?.l builddngs, with a
rniniraum of expense for "frills and marble halls.'' Designed to accomraodate the acti-
vities of an engineering school, there will be an abundance of T.-indov/s amid modern
construction, embodied in a ciinpus that is at the sam.e time open and airy so far as
layout is concerned, and yet a unit T.'ithin itself, so far o,s tho location is concerned.
This design technique vrill be incorporated in the nev; fieidhouse. Associate archi-
tects are Holabird and Root, Chicago.
According to the cc-.imittee in charge of the dance, it is expected that at least _
one thousand dollars vrill be realized from the "winter informal." This "/ill, in a
sense, open the cam.pai,gn to raise the necessary funds, although no specific limit of
goal has been established. The Student Association v.dll be the recipient of all
funds raised for the purpose and vdll designate the hind and sise of structure to be
erected and v/hen such consti^uction will begin.
Waen ^built, according to tlie student board, the fieidhouse will provide housing
facilities for bashetball, track, swimjning, tennis, badminton, squash, and all other
components of a fully-equipped and modern athletic plant. There will also be
included full facilities for undergraduate sports, which may incl.ude bowling, and
facilities for co-educational sports.
Members of the committee in charge of the dance arej George Pedersen;
Raymond Kaeding, 536 N. Lom.bard Avenue, Oak Park, mechanical engineering stucient;
William Dunlap, ^^94-9 N. Leavitt Street, architectural stucicntj Bruce T'orcester,
104.0 Y.'esley Avenue, Oa,k Park, fire protection engineering; James McNerney,
64i;,9 N. Newland Avenue, chemical engineering; Sylvia Wcisio, 4156 ijrcher Avenue,
liberal arts; Dorothy Giambelluca, 44-16 Dover Street, pre-medical; Marilyn Johlcr,
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2536 Prairie Avonue, horr.e economics; Bertrand Goldinan, 851 Drexel Avenue, liberal
artsj and Robert Creagan, 324.0 South Michigan Avenue;, fire protection engineering.
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FROMs ALEXAIIBER SCHREIBilR
ILLINOIS II-ISTITUTP OF
TECIiNOLOGY-VIC. /i600
12^1-7
RE; ILLIIIOIS TECH AT LAi'LS FOREST COLLEGE,
12/9/41, 8 p.m.
FOR IivK.!£DIATE
IT-^Jjiliiltiij
On luesday evai.iiig at S p.ra. the Il^^inois Tech lj?,sl;etl)fc-i± tea::! vill dtteinpt to
even their ron and los":. percenti.ge ^-hen the/ invade Lake Forest College. It -.'n-ll be
the opening collegiate contest for the Jaybii-ds.
Finning thsir opene_- against /u:ierican Collegej the Techci/rks v.-'ore highly elated
over vrhat qv.ite possibly could have been an undefeated season. Then the Chicago
Teachers College burst the bubble and humbled the Engine rrs to the tune of 40 - 25.
Saturday night's performance against the bniversity of Chicago v-as humiliating. It
■;7as STT-ply a bed case of stagefright. Even the veterans, and Tech has seven of them
on the squad, T;ere e:>ctreinely jittery before the huge crov/d.
From the busis of th^e Maroon contest it appears that YJarren Soix^iers, a sophomore
cooperative student in mechanical engineering, and the smallest man on the squad
5 '9" and 150-;7-) J is the most consistent player on the club,
A marked man ±v. this contest v.as a junior guard. Jack Byrne, I'liom the Maroons
remembered only too vividly frora last year's encounter. ?laj,-ing the spearhea.d of a
zone defense for the first half also seriously sapped his strength.
The North Shore aggregation headed 'o^r Coach Evert Larrson r-dll present a starting
lineup composed entirely of returning letter-men from last year's team vniich ron 14
while losing 3, to place second in the Illinoic College Conference.
Starting forwards for the Foresters v.ill be "ilxiam Bell and Robert Patterson
77ith 6' 3" Lyle Johnson at center. Guards will be Floyd Gates and Robert Fliine.
l?41-7-2
Opposing them v,rill be Yially Fatterei- and Captain HoT:ard Pendlebury at forv-ard
for the Techavrlcs ••;ith 6'/^" Kay LaGodney at center ai:.d diminuitive 5 '9" pair of t,r;a.rd£
Jack B'-L-ne and '^':arren Sorarners,
PrlOBABL5 STARTING LINE-UP
LAKE FOREST
Bell
Patterson
Johnson
Rliine (Gapt)
Gates
PCS
F
ILLINOIS TECK
Pendlebury '^Capt)
Futterer
LaGodney
Bj'rne
Sorrners
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FROM: AL£Xj^JTDj]]fi SCIirlEIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TPXHNOLOGY-VIC. /,-600
12^1-11
RSs ILLINOIS TSCK RELAY GMSS
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FIELD
HOUSE - MARCH lU, 19/^2
FOR ir.IivIED"rATE fELEASE
John J. Schorraner, athletic director at lilinoiC' Institute of Techinology, toda;/
announced the date for the Illinois Tecii Relt.y Garass o . . . the fourteenth o." the
series .... as Saturda;/ afternoon and evening, March 1/4, 194-2. Invitations
announcing the date and m^fKing possible tjrej.iminary registration are being mailed to
500 colleges and. universities in the United States.
According to Llr, Schomiiier, tiie Gar.3s, for^ierly knovm as the iirrnour Tech Relay
Games, v/ill be held the 7;eek-snd follov-.dng the Big Tan meet. As has been the custom,
the Tech Games V7ill cl:jiia;: the indoor track and field season in the midvest and will
be held in the University of Chicago fieldliouse.
Und.er consideration ^oj the committee in charge of the Ga;mes is the complete
segregation of teams into two divisions- although this has been the practice to a
limited extent during past years, it has been the custom to maintain the field events
and tf.'O track events as "open events" vaith both college and university talent competing
as a group. If the d.ecislon of the cormnittee in charge is towards complete segi-ega-
tion, the "open" competition -'ill be eli'.ainated and tv/o complete and distinct compet-
itions will be held - separate cups and medals v/ill be offered in each division vrith
team championship com.potition in each field. In previous years cups for college
division championship only were av;arded^ hoivever, mythical champions for t:ie division
\7er5 picked.
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At the .saiiie time, iilr. Scliorrmier announced a tentative schedule of events for
competition in et.cji division as follov7s: 70 yard dash: 70 yard hi/rh and low hurdles;
4aO yard run; one mile vdu; hign jumpj pole vaultj shot put,- one nile relavj t\'c riiile
relayi &nd sprint 'iTiedley relay. In addition there will also be the junior college
special relay and the Chicago high school special relay.
The connittee in charge of the Gauies assisting Mr. Schonimer, chairman, are:
G. S. AlliGOUj Illinois Tech treasurer; T. N. Metcalf , athletic director. University
of Chicago; R. E. Meyer, "^rach coach, Illinois Tech.; Eernaro 7;eiSvSman, assistant
athletic director, Illinois Tech; an.: Alexander Schreihor.
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FROM: ALEX^illDiCIi SGHREIBSR
ILLINOIS INCTITTJTE OF
TLCffiJOLOGY-VIC. A600
1241-13
RE;BASK£TB/iL - mE/.TON AT ILLINOIS TECH
4; 15 PJvI. - 12/llAl
FOR IMvIEDIATE RELEiiSE
Still looking t'oi'" the second win of the seajonj Illinois Tecji's Vj.'i.;:ketball
squad will play host to l^heaton Collego on Thursday afternoon, Dscember 11, 194-1 on
Tech's homo court. (The original schedule called for this ganie to be j.-layed £-t
I'tlieaton - THIS IS A HOLIS G.:'uYi£ - tlie game at I'lhsaton will be played there Febru-ay 26,
19A2) .
The WAR has finally ccught up pith Illinois Tecli. 1^'arren SoEmiers, current
leading scorer of the Techay/K. quintet and one of the finest defensive players, has
enlisted in the Navy, and Great Lakes gets another star.
Somruors, one of Tech's coopera.tive sti;dents that spend altexniate eight v/eek
periods at school and in industry, v.'as sent to Detroit by his employer at the beginn-
ing of last year's season. This eight vresk vrork period nicely blanketed the basket-
ball season so that h'j did not see action. This ye:-r, his second on the sqtiad, he
made I4. field goals and five free throws for 33 points in four games, one fourth of
Tech's total, to lead all Tech scorers. His free throw coversion was better than 70^.
Y/arr.:;n, although th.; smallest man o)i the squad physically, is 5 '9" tall and
Tireighs 150 pounds. He is beyond a doubt the big^'cst man in ability. As a ball thief
he probably has no equal in the Big Ten. In the last games against Lake Forest and
the University" of Chicago this trait was capitalized on with tiie i.rrangement being
made for his teammates to cover up for him if he should miss the interception and
lose his m^an. The Maroons v/ere the victims of four 01 these onslaughts, anvi coupled
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with one rebound shot for 10 points. ¥arren Sominers was the only creditable
performer for the Techavvks.
At any rate the Techar;ks will raiss him. To plug this gap Coach "Rei/iie" Meyei-
17111 probably shift another co-op, T?ally Futterer to Sornriier's position as mate to
Captain Howard Pendleburj^ at the forward positions. Juni.or Rl-.j LaGodnej/ v;ill retain
his tip-off job and senior Harry Sieg is the most likely raan to take Futterer' s
place along side of junior Jack Byrne at gua.rd in the starting line-up.
Probable starting line-up;
WIIEATON
Baptista
De Wolfe
Foster
Edwards
£v/ing (Capt.)
POSITION
F
F
C
G
G ■
ILLINOIS TECK
Pendlebury (Capt.)
Futterer
LaGodney
Byrne
Sieg
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FROM: ALE}CAiraER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS lilSTITUTE OF
TECICIOLOGY-VIG. >4600
12^1-15
RE; ILLINOIS TEGII BjiSKETBiVLL lEuM AT
WORTH CENTRiiL, TTEDNE3DAY EVENING,
I2/17AI
FOR IMvIEDIATE R^ilLEASE
On Wednesday evening, December 17th, the Illinois Tech basketball team v.dll
travel to Naperville ';7here they are to meet the North Gentral Cardinals at 0 P.IvL
T"he last time the Tech£.\';ks entered the fledbird Fisldiaouse in Naperville was
February 19, 19'41j the final game of the season for the Engineers and one that v;ill
never be forgotten, for North Central ran up a record score of B5-28 against them.
Tl'iis time it is different. The Engineers are gunning for their third win in
six starts while it is only the second start for the Cardinals. The line-up remains
practically unchanged with four of North Central's major lettermen in the opening
lineup and all but one of the Engineers intact.
North Central's Coach Len Bieber will start junior Glen Mast and senior
Tom Wedsworth at for-^ards, with junior Jim Bates at center and seniors VJalt .Anderson
and Harrj.' Smith to do the gT.iarding. Mast, the only non-letter:ian, is a transfer stu-
dent from Purdue University where he made quite a name for himself on the freshman
team. Injuries kept him out of the game last season.
Captain Howard Pendlebury will lead the Techav;ks from the foriivard position
where he holds the team's scoring honors at the present time with 33 tallies, "'c.lly
Futterer, a fourth year coopex-ative student should start at the other forward position.
Futterer got off to a fine start this season when he suffered a broken finger in
practice. He hsts played the last few games with the injured member in splints ivhich
has slowed him doivn somewhat.
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JunJ.or Ray LaGociney is still holding dovm his center position foi- the Engineers
although, sophomore coop, Bob Kidd is giving him plenty of competition for the
sto^rting berth.
Jack Byrne, a junior guard has begun to hit his stride and may be e:q:;ected to
walk off with top score as he did tliroughout the past season. Harry Sieg will most
likely complete the starting unit of all ietxermen for the North Central match.
Having an abundance of ma.terial at the start of the season Coach Robert £. Meyer
had some difficulty in getting any sort of team play from a large aggregation of
stars. They finally found themselves and against Vfheaton, plays wei-e carried
through vuith precision and the fast break, Tech's standl:y, was flawless.
Probable starting line-up;
North Central
Mast
Wedsworth
Bates
Anderson
Smith
Pos,
F
F
C
G
G
-EHG-
Illinois Tech
Pendlebury (Capt.)
Futterer
LaGodney
byrne
SiGg
FROM: ;>1JLXA1JD£R SGKRSIEER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. .^600
124-1-16
RE: APPOINTMENTS TO ARIiiOUR RESEARCH
FOUNDATION
FOR iraffiDIATE RELEASE
Harold Vagtborgj Director of the Ajrmour Research Foundation, a.t Illinoits
Institute of Teclinclogy today announced five new appointees to the research ytaff and
the promotion of a sixth to care for exp3.nded industrial research projects in the
midvjest. Three of these appointments are in the Metallurgy Section of the Foundation j
and i7ill coordinate rrork in chemistry and metallurgy' under the recently announced
$250,000 e:qDansion program of this section. The other three appointments are in the
rapidly gro-.ving Chemical Engineering Section.
Late in October, Mr. Vagtborg announced the letting of a contract for the con-
struction and equipping of a new metallurgical research unit to supplement existing
facilities for vrark in this field. At that time he pointed out that $250,000 would
be spent for plant and facilities to conduct existing metallurgical research problems
and to provide for future demand. The vjork includes rcseaa-cH in dolomites, heat
treatment of steels, loundi'-y moulding raa.terials, wire alloys and dravdng, to mention
oxxly a few, for such companies as American Steel Foundries, Inland Steel Company,
Wehr Steel Company, Revere Copper and Brass Company and the Pfanstiehl Chemical
Company .
To direct the activities of the metallurgical research section ?.Ir. Vagtborg
today announced the promotion of Dr. R. G. Spencer, research physicist of the
Foundation to the position of CHAIRI'.IM OF MSTAiLURGIC.'ili RESEARCH. Dr. Soencer resides
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at 554-1 Everett Avenue in Chicago, and v/as on leave from Albion College (Albion,
Michigan) in June, 194-lj when he joined the staff of the Foundation as research
physicist. He was professor and head of the Department of Physics at Albion. His
undergraduate degree v/as a»?arded at Kansas State College and he received his Master's
and Doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago in 1926 and 1932 respectively.
He is 4-3 years old and his parents, i«Ir. and lirs. A. M. Spencer, reside at
1100 Constitution Street, Emporia, Kansas.
Assisting in the metallurgical section will be two new appointees who are:
Dr. YL H. Earhart, Columbus, Ohio, a graduate of Ohio State University^ and George
Stern, Kev; York City, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and the
University of Michigan, Added to the Chemical Engineering Section are Dr. Clyde W.
Leaf, New York City, a graduate of Columbia University and a native of Evansville,
Indiana^ Clark £. Thorp, Cleveland, Ohio, a graduate of Fenn College of that city;
and Robert C. Bour, Chicago, a graduate of the Central Y,M=C,A. college here.
Dr. Leaf was formerly with Givaudan-Delav/anna, Inc. New York City. He received
the A.B, degree from Evansville College (Indiana) in 1934 and completed his graduate
studies at Columbia University (Ph.D.) in 194-1. His research v;ork will form a link
betvYeen i^roblems in chem.istry and metallurgy. He resides at SlOo So. LaSalle Street.
His parents, Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Leaf, reside in Evansville (R.R. #3).
Dr. Earheart joins the staff as ceramist in the metallurg;^ section. He received
his training at Ohio State University in chemical engineering, obtaining the Ph.D.
degree in 1939. He comes to the Foundation from the Edward Orton, Jr. Ceramic
Foundation in Columbus where his parents, Mr. & Ivlrs. W. W. Earhart, reside at
86 Chittenden Avenue. He resides at 63rd & Woodlawn in Chicago.
Clark E. Thorp is a graduate of Fenn College (Cleveland) and comes to the
Foundation from the Ozo-Ray Process Corporation in Chicago. His parents, H'lr. & Mrs.
A. C. Thorp, reside at 2010 Natchez Avenue in Cleveland. He resides at 1519 N. State
Parkway in Chicago.
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George Stern served as assistant metallurgist and research metallurgist for the
American Electro Metal Corporation in Younkers, Nevi York, before joining the staff of
the Foundation. He is a graduate of the College of the City of Nev; York (chemical
engineering) and the University of Iviichigan (master of science in chemistry and.
metallurgy) . His mother resides at 1326 Grand Concourse in Ne?/ York City. He has
been appointed as metallographer at the Foundation. He resides at 564-9 Dorchester
Avenue, Chicago. ^
R. C. Bour was fonnerly development chemist for Ditto, Inc., Chicago. He
resides at I8O4. W. Congress Street, Chicago,
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1
FROM: ALEXANDER SCPIREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. ^600
12A1-18
RE; ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY PJ^Uimi SECRETMY
FOR IMvlEDIATE RELEASE
Arthur E, Vfrigiit (ll].inoi,5 Institute of Teclinologj/ '4,1) has been appointed
executive secretary of the Alumni Association of Illinois Institute of Technology".
This announcement vias made today by President K. T. Heald.
Mr. Wright, at the time of his appointmcntj was associated ?"ith the Young
Men's Christian dissociation in Indianapolis, Indiana. His office for the present
is at 79 West Monroe Street, Rooi:) 4-00.
Though the new secretary has only recently conpleted his college training, he
comes to the college with an unusually oroad e?rperience in tiie business lA^orld. At
the close of his first 7^ear in high school it beca^ne necessary that he find e:nploy-
ment. He went to -work and entered evening school at Engleirooa High School, Chicago.
He continued this routine until he was i-sady for college.
He entered day school at Lewis Division of Illinois Tech and worked at night.
During these years he vTorked for various firms in such capacities as shipping room
office boy, messenger boy, life-saving examiner and clerk, s'^inuaing instructor,
collector, salesman, switchboard operator, recreational leader, waterfront director,
physical education insti'nactor, post-office clerk, 3.nd officer in the United States
Department of Justice.
Mr. Wright holds a bachelor of physical education degree from the American
College of Education in addition to the bachelor of science degree which he received
from Illinois Tech last June.
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In his nevi position Mr. ITright will act as liaison officer betreen the Institute
and the alumni. Kis duties vill include giving assi 'tp.nce to officers of the Aliimni
Association by maintaining a permanent alumni office vrhich will serve them by per-
forming ail routine alumni office duties. He will adrrdnister the alumni progra.m and
form contacts v;ith alumni clubs and divisions.
A comprehensive alurmii progTam is being projected which includes the organiza-
tion of alumni cluos in principal cities tVircughout the country. The new secretary
plans to inaugurate a plan for the cooperation of the alumni in a new student program
and to put into operation an annual plan of alumni giving.
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
T3CI-S0L0GY-VIC. <f',.60O
124.1-20
RE.i MINNEiiPOLIS AWMl MEfiT TO FORfJl
ILLINOIS TSCH ALmmi CLUB
12/29/41 - 6; 30 P.M.
CURTIS HOTEL, SOLARIUM ROOi/..
FOR IIMEDIATE RELEASE
Alumni of" .tirmour Institute of Technology and Lev.ds Institute, residents of met-
ropolitan Minneapolis J -rill meet Monday evening, December 29, in the Curtis Hotel
(Solarium Room), at 5;30 P.M. to discuss plans and proceed with the establisl^ment of
an alumni club of Illinois Institute of Tecrmoiogj- (Chicago) for the metropolitan area.
The meeting Tvill be a unique event since the Minneapolis alumni of the tv.'o
Chicago schools will be meeting to form ari org£ni::ation \7hich will be an alumni club
of Illinois Institute of Technology. Kovrever, in the words of George L. Shoppe,
Levds alumnus of the class of '17 who resides a.t 3123 Cleveland Street, Minneapolis,
and Carl H. Johnson, Arm.our alumnus of the class' of '29 who resides at 534-0
Pennsylvania Avenue, South, Minneapolis, the men who are in charge of arrangements
for the meeting, the purpose of the meeting is to bring about a consolidation of the
alumni of the two schools in much the same manner as the actual consolidation of the
two Chicago schools v,'hich v-as accomplished in 1940. The meeting will have as guest
spea.:ers Joseph B. Finnegan, Professor and Director of Fire Protection Engineering,
and Bernard P. Taylor, assistaat to the President, all Chicagoeins and mem.bers of the
staff of Illinois Institute of Technologjr.
Armour Institute of Teclinology and Lewis Institute were merged in July of 1940
by a final court decree. In January of 1941? a development and fund raising program
for the expansion of the merged schools was announced by the board of trustees to
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provide a "teclinological center" in Chicago and the middle west second to none in the
country. A $3,100,000 building program, embodying designs b^'- world famous architect
Mies van der Kohe, head of the school of architecture, providing for a completely
functional plant, is in prospect Tifithin the next few years.
According to the co-sponsors of the Minnoapoiis meeting. Professor Fimiegan
and Lit. Taylor vfill speak about the consolidation of the two Chicago institutions,
their combined im.portance to industry in the middle west, and the effect the
development program will have in general on education. The various activities of the
schools of engineering, architecture, and arts and sciences will be outlinodi the
-.vork of t;.e Armour Research Foundation, an affiliate in industrial and devel.cpment
research at the Institute, will be expltiinedj and the importance of the nev; Institute
of Gas Technology, also an affiliate of Illinois Tech, Erappor ted by the leading natural
and artificial gas companies of the United. States by a .*;1, 000,000 appropriation, v.dll
be explained.
Carl H. Joh-nson is a special agent for the Crum and Forster Company, 1/.06
Northwestern Bank Building, Minnoapolis. He graduated from Armour Institute of
Technolog;^ in 1929 as a fire protection engineering student.
George L. Shoppe, Shoppe Engineering Company, 2118 Lyndale Avenue, South,
Minneapolis, is a mechanical engineering graduate of Lewis Institute, class of 1917.
It is expected that the 64. alumni of th.e two schools residing in the Minneapolis
area will attend this meeting. ■
FROM: /\LEyjy^ro£fi SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. ^600
U2-2
REs BASKETBi^iL - LhI^E FOREST HERE
TUESDAII/6A2 ^;15 PM
FOR RELEASE; MONDAY, 1/5/4.2
On Tuesday afternoon ( 1/6/42) the Illinois Tech basketball team will play host
to Lake Forest College in an effort to even up the seven point defeat which v;as dealt
to them in their first meeting this season.
Individual star of the first, game, hovi-ever, was Techawk Captain Hovcard
Pendlebury who tallied seven field goals and a free throw for fifteen points before
he was retired from the game on personal fouls. He is expected to be the spearhead
of the Techawk assault on the Jaybirds from the North Shore. Running mate to
Pendlebury at the starting forward position will be junior coop student, Wally
Futterei*, Futterer, handicapped in the early part of the season hy a broken finger,
got off to a slov/ start, but his terrific speed and deadly accuracy from within the
pivot line may be a deciding factor in the coming tilt.
Coach Everett Larson's Lake Forest quintet does not seem to depend upon any one
individual for scoring but rather free shoooting by all members of the starting five,
and none by replacements for it is in -felais department that the Foresters are notably
weak. In the first contest the Jaybirds used seven men, and the two substitutes did
not score.
Leading the North Shore aggregation from the gua.rd position will be Captain
Robert Rhine with senior Floyd Gates as his running mate. Junior Lyle Johnson will
handle the tip-off assignment for the Foresters and seniors FrP-ncis Dishinger and
Robert Patterson are to work at the forvirard positions.
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Most probable starting center for the Engineers is junior Ray LaGodney vilth
sophomore Bob Xidd ready to take over when the Foresters are worn dov.n to size and
the fast break style of play becomes an effective offense for the Engineers. LaGodney
uses his height to advantage j but Kldd is the faster of the two.
Techav.'k's Coach "Remie Meyer's selection for starting guard assignments will
undoubtedly include junior Jack Byrne and senior Harry Sieg. Sophomore Warren
Sommers T;as the Engineer's standout star in this department s.nd was leading in team
scoring with one-fourth of the total points v.'hen the war broke out - he enlisted in
the United States Nav;/-. Bj-rne led 3_n team scoring last season but hasn't seemed to
hit his stride as yet this year. Perhaps the vaca.tion of the last two weeks vj-ill
permit him to return to form. Sieg is a highly dependable player and especially
valuable when the going gets rough vrhen his 185 pounds act as a firm anchor.
PROBilBLE STilRTING LINEUP
L/JCE FOREST
Dishinger
Patterson
Johnson
Rliine (Capt.)
Gates
POS.
F
F
C
G
G
ILLINOIS TECH
Pendlebury (Capt.)
Futterer
LaGodney
I^/Tne
Sieg
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FROM; ALEXAlNiDEH SCHREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TZGffiTOLOGY-VIC. -4600
11,2
RE; BASKSTB.hLL - DETROIT TECH AT ILLINOIS
TECH, 4.; 00 P.IA., FRIDAY, JAl.TJiiRI 9TIi
FOR IffiylEDIATE RELEASE
On Friday, January 9th the Detroit Tech basketball team '.viH travel to Chica-'o
miere they will meet Illinois Tech in a contest to start at 4-;00 P.r.I. in the college
gym. This v'ill be t^ie first meeting of the tvro teams in Chicc.go, the first of a. home
and home series. In other years it was merely a single contest plej'ed in the Motor
City.
To date tiie Chicago Engineers have won but t'vo of their seven starts but shoi"ed
good recuperative powers in their second half drive aga.inst Lake Forest Tuesday night=
Trailing by 12 points at the halftirac, the Techav;ks cajiie vjithin threo points of the
Foresters vhen a skillful stalling game drew fouls upon which the victors ca.pitalised
to strengthen their lead.
Coach Julius Goldman's Detroit team may be summed up as tJie long and short of
things for their two leading scorers are 5 '4-" Leo Poladian forv/ard and 6 '4" guard
Ted Rybicki. Other teammates include Ce.ptain Joe Slezinger, forwardj center
Joe Steventon and giaard Bill Litt.
The starting lineup vdiich has y3roved most effective for Coach "Remie" Meyer' s
Illinois Tech team is composed of Captain Hov/ard Pendlebury, leading scorer, playing
at forward along x.'ith Bill Smart sophom-cra cooperative student, jhiother coop, junior
Wally Futterer plays £t.t guard as running mate to Jack Byriie, southpav/ push shot
artist. Junior Ray LaGodaiey 6'4-" handles the tip-off assignment for the Chic, goans.
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PROBaELE STiJlTING LIKSUP:
DETROIT TECH
Poladian
Sle z inger ( Capt = )
Steven ton
Rybicki
Litt
POS.
F
F
C
G
G
ILLINOIS TECH
Pendlebury (Capt.)
Smart
LaC-odney
B;rrne
Futterer
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FROM: ALSZAIIDER SCHRErBEH
ILL BIO IS IITSIITUTE OP
TECEl-TOLOaY-VIC. 4500
143-3
RE: WASHINC-SOil, D. C. ^J.IJl-::;TI MUST
TO EORH ILLINOIS SUCH ALUIiHI
CLTIB - 1/8/42 - 6:30 P.M.
COSMOS CLUB
EOR IMCEDUTE RELEASE
Alniniii of Arnour Institute of Tecionology and Lewis Institute, residents of
Washington, D, C,, ^vill meet ThursdajA evening, Jaxoiary 8, 1942, in tlie Cosmos Club
at 5:30 o'clock to discuss plajis and proceed with, the establishment of an aliironi cluh
of that area.
The meeting will he a rather unique event since these alumni of the tvjo Chicago
schools will he meeting to form an organization which vrill he an alumni cluh of
Illinois Institute of Teclinologj^, However, in the words of D. P. HoltLian, Armour
alumnus of the clo,ss of '12, v;ho resides at 5616 Western Ave,, ChsYj Cha.se, ilaryland,
and E. G-. ilourse, Lewis alumnus of the class of '04, 26 Jackson Place, Washington,
the men who are in charge of arrangements for the meeting, the purpose of the meeting
is to hring ahout a consolidation of the alumni of the two schools in much the same
manner as the actual consolidation of the tv/o Chicago schools was accomplished in
1940. The meeting viill hear from H, T. Eeald, President of Illinois Institute of
Technology.
Armour Institute of Technolos'" and Le\fis Institute were merged in July of 1940
hy a final court decree. In January of 1941, a development and lujid raising program
for the expansion of the merged schools was announced hy the hoard of trustees to
provide a "technological center" in Chicago and the middle west second to none in the
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country, A $3,100,000 "building program, entiodying designs Tsy world fpjnous arcliitect
1-lies van der Roiie, head of the school of architecture, providing for a completely
functional plant, is in prospect ^idthin the next few years,
Accordin.g to the co— sponsors of the Washington meeting, President Heald will
speak alDQut the consolidation of the two Chicago institutions, their comhined inport-
ance to industry in the middle v;est, and the effect the development program will
have in general on education. The various activities of the schools of ongineering,
architecture, and arts and sciences will he outlined; the work of the Armour Research
Joundation, an affiliate in industrial and development research at the Institute,,
will be explained; and the importance of the new Institute of G-as Technology'', a].so
an affiliate of Illinois Tech, supported "by the leading natural and artificial gas
companies of the United States "by a $1,000,000 appropriation, will "bo explained,
Mr, Holtman, first of the co— sponsors of the Washington, D. C. meeting, graduated
from Armour Institute of Technology in '12 v;ith the Bachelor of Science degree in
civil engineering. He is now Washington representative of the H. M. Bylleshy Co.,
744 Ja.ckson Place, Mr, ilourse is Director of the Institute of Sconomics of Brookings
Institute, 722 Jackson Place, N.W, and he completed his studies at Lev/is Institute
in Chicago in '04,
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FROM: i^iffiLMDER SCHREIBER
ILLIHOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECKNOLOGY-VIC . 46OO
L42-12
RE: SulIfliING - ILLINOIS TECH AT DEPAUl,',
GRES^CASTLE, INDIANA ^ SATURDilY,
JAI^^UilRY lOTK.
FOR IMiiEDIATE FiiLEASE
The Illinois Tech swiioining team viill travel to Greencastls, Indiana, ^vhere they
vvill meet the DePauv/ tanlanen in the first of the traditional home and l\o.;ie series of
some years standing.
The Enginsers have v;on their only start to date, defeating Illinois YJesleyan
^6-20 in Bartlett Pool on the Uni'^ersit;/ of Chicago campus^ i:ome of the Techa?.ics.
DePauw in their hone tank swim the longer collegiate distances and al-vays present
tough opposition for the poorly conditioned Engineers. In last years series the
Greencastle team was king of the roost defeating Illinois Tech in both meets of the
series.
One C-ood reason v-'hy Illinois Tech shou.ld vdn this meet, however, is the return of
Vihitney Pearson, v.'ho v/as absent from school for one year. After going tiiirough his
fresliman season undefeated in the 100 yd. freestyle, he vas bettered only in the
shorter sprint by Harold Hemiixig of North Central, ranking A.A.U. champ. Pearson
learned the fundamentals of the sport as a member of Lane Tech' s citj^ and state
che^mpionship teams in '39. His father is Lane's diving coach.
First to enter tiie tank for the Engineers v.-ill be Ga^rbain Sarle Huydiold on the
first leg of the medlejr relay, sTvimming the backstroke. Huxnold was the leading
Ecorei- for the Techavks last season, consistently winning his event and sparking the
medley relay team to a high percentage of viins.
His principal opponent ?i"ill be Rod.ger Johnson, junior from Chicago. Joimson
holds the DePauw varsity record in the I50 yd. oack stroke.
The one event in which DePauv.- is most likely to be victorious is the 200 yd
breast stroke. Tech has nn capable breastrcker, hiving lost three exceptional men
via graduation or scholastic inability from last season' s squad. This leaves an
open path for Greencastle' s senior Jolm Jokjison of Chicago.
FRO! Is i-lLKCAlTO£R SCIifiSIBEIi
ILLIKCIS INSTITUTE OF
TECffilOLOGY-VIC. 4d00
142-13
REs PHILADELPHIA ALUI.IKI MEET
TO FOPJvI ILLINOIS TECH AILMII
CLUB - 1/19/A2 - 6:30 PJ;L
LT^JION LEAGUE CLUB
FOR IMIffiDIATE REL£I^SE
Alumni of Armour Institute of Technologj^' and Lev/is Institute (Chicago), resi-
dents of Philadelphia, will meet Tuesday evening, January 19, 194-2, in the Union
League Club at 6 5 30 o'clock to discuss plans and proceed xvitn the establisliment of an
alumni club of this area.
The meeting will be a rather unique event since Philadelphia alumni of the two
Chicfigo schools vdll be meeting to form an orgajiization vmich will be an alumni club
of Illinois Institute of Technology. However, in the words of Mr. H. L, Strube,
Armour alumnus of the class of '06, who resides at 5631 Wissahickon Avenue,
Philadelphia, and wir. Frank J. Tise, Lev;is alumnus of the class of '14, 200 North
Landsdowne Avenue, Lansdovaie, Pa., the men who are in charge of arrangements for the
meeting, the purpose of the meeting is to bring about a consolidation of the alumni
of the two schools in much the same manner as the actual consolidation of the two
Chicago schools was accomplished in 194-0. The meeting will hear from H. T. Heald,
President of Illinois Institute of Techjiology, and B. P. Taylor, his assistant.
Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute were merged in July of 194-0
by a final court decree „ In January of 1941? a development and fund raising program
for the e:-qDansion of the merged schools was announced by the board of trustees to
provide a "technological center" in Chicago and the middle ?rest second to none in tlae
counti-y. A $3,100,000 building program, enbodying designs by world famous architect
Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture, providing for a completely
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functional plant, Is in p'r^ospect within the next femr years.
According to the co-sponsors of the Philadelphia meetingj President Heald y.'ill
speak a^xiut the consolidation of the txro Chicago institutions j their combined import-
ance to industry in the middle west, and the effect the developmsnt prograra -/.'ill have
in general on educatioi"!. The various activities of the schools of engineering:,
architecture, and arts and sciences will be ou"tlined| the vrork of the Armour Research
Foundation, an affiliate in industrial and development research at the Institute,
vjill be explained; and the importance of the ne?- Institute of Gas Technology, also
an affiliate of Illinois Tsch, supported by the leading natural and a.rtificial gas
companies of the United States by a $ljOOO,000 appropriation, ?ri.ll be explained,
Ivlr. Strube graduated from Araiour Institute of Technology'- as a mechanical engineer
in '06 and is chief engineer of the Philadelphia branch of the Link Belt Comxjany,
204.5 Hunting Park Avenue. Mr. Wise is an insurance broker i.vith offices rn -the
Public Ledger Building. He grad-aated from Lev.as Institute v/ith the Bachelor of
Science deg-ree in mechanical engineering in '14-.
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FROK; ALEX^IDER SGHREIBES.
ILLINOIS IW3TITUTS OF
TECHTTCLOGY-VIC. /.bOO
^2L% PITTSBURGii ALUI,ta MEET TO FOIM
ILLINOIS TECH ALUMNI CLUB
1/23/4.2 - HOTEL FT, PITT -
6; 30 P.M.
FOR II.3/1EBIATE RELEASE
Alunmi of j-jmiour In;ititute of Tecliiiology and Lev.'is Institute (Chicago) , resi-
dents of. Pittsburgh, will meet Friday evening, January 23, 194-2, in the Hotel Fort
Pitt at 6;3C o'clock to discuss plans and proceed vfith the establishjaent of an
alumni club of this area.
The meeting vjill be a rather unique event since these alumni of the txvo Chicago
schools vnMl be meeting to form an organization which will be an o-lumni club of
Illinoie Institute of Teci-iiiology. However, in the v/ord? of Mr. H. P. Richter, Armour
alumnus of the class of '32, fv!r. H. A. Strain, Armour class of '15, and Mr, G. D.
Bradsha',-;, Lewis A cademy cls-ss of '00, the men who are in charge of arrangements for
the meeting, the purpose of the meeting is to bring about a consolidation of the
alumni of the two schools in much the same manner as the actual consolidation of the
tv^o Chicago schools was accomplished in 1940. The meeting V7ill hear from H. T. Heald,
President of Illinois Institute of Technology.
Armour Institute of Technology and Lev;is Institute were merged in July of 1940
by a final court decree. In January of 1941? a development and fund raising program
for the expansion of the merged schools was announced by the board of trustees to
provide a "technological center" in Chicago and the middle west second to none in the
country. A $3,100,000 building program, enbodying designs by ?/orld famous architect
Mies van der Rohe, head of the school of architecture, providing for a completely
func
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f-unctiona]. plant, is in prospect v;it.hin the next few years.
According to the sponsors of the Pittsburgh meeting, President Ileald v/ill speak
about the consolidation of the tv.'O Chicago institutions j their combined imjJorG:...nce to
industry in the middle west, and the effect the development program will have in
general on education. The various activities of the schools of engineering, architec-
ture, and arts and sciences will be outlined; the vrork of the Armour Research
Foundation, an affiliate in industrial and development research at the Institute,
will be eicplained^ and the importance of the nev; Institute of Gas Technology, also
an affiliate of Illinois Tech, supported by the leading natural and artificia.! gas
companies of the United States by a $1,000,000 appropriation, will be e:<plained.
Mr. Richter, vfho resides at 125 Baywood Avenue, Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and vvho is
iffith the Real Estate Department ox the Carnegie-Illinois 3tee]. Corporation, graduated
from iurmour Institute of Technology v/ith a civil engineering degree in '32.
Mr. Strain, A naour class of '15, resides at 311 Jefferson Drive, Pittsburgh and
director of raw mateirial, fuel, and pov/er for the Cai^negie-Illinois Steel Corporation,
rjlr-. Bradshaw is an academy ga-aduate of Lewis Institute and an alumnus of the class of
'04- of the University of Michigan.' He resides at 186 Beaver Street, Beaver, Pa.,
and is President of 3ra.dshaw and Company, 530 Fourth Street, Pittsburgh,
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FftOM: AL£]OLNDER SCIiREIBEfi
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. /i600
U2-15
RE: ACCELERATION OF EDUCATIONAL
PR0GFJU\J - SENIORS TO GMDUATE
MAY 15, - ONE MONTH AHEAD
OF SCHEDULE.
FOR IJMHSIATE FuELEASE
H. T. Heald, president of Illinois Institute of Tecliiiology, today announced
specific action 'talcen by the faculty de£;ig:aed to ACCELERiiTE the graduation of engi-
neers so vital to the defense effort. The Faculty decided to eliminr.te bet7een-
semester holidays, spring circus week, Easter holidays, to give final examinations
during the last v/eek of instruction rather than to set aside a separate vveeK for this
purpose. This makes it possible for the Institute to av/ard degrees to senior stu-
dents on May 1^., 194-2 rather than the planned awarding of degrees on June 11th, 194-2.
In making announcenrvnt of acceleration of the teaching progrcun, Mi". Heald
pointed out that in the opinion of the faculty of the Institute, the most important
job of Illinois Tech v/as the training of competent engineers - engineers just as well
equipped professionally nov: and during the continuing period of the emergency as in
years past. To this end, the teaching prograin of the Institute ivill NOT be varied
greatly for on competent engineers does ultimate victory depend.
Dean L. E. Grinter, Vice President of the Institute, explained that in order to
make possible the graduation of seniors one month in advance, the schedule of the
Institute has been revamped. Ttie current semester final examinations will begin
January 19th as compared to the scheduled date of January 26. Registration for the
second semester v/ill be January 29th and 30th, and classes will begin on February 2nd.
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?Jith speeding-up of the lirot semester and the elimination of spring recesa and
junior Week (devoted to student stunts and open house), and the making of final
examinations a part of the regular instructional period during the v^eek of May 11th,
it vrill be possible to hold the Baccalaureate Services and the Commencement exercises
so that seniors can be gi'aduated on Thursday, Hay 14th. In this v/ay one month will be
cut from the second semester span.
Although the elimination of holidays and the speeding-up of betvreen-semester
clerical operations v/ill undoubtedly v:ork hardships on students and staff alike,
Itr. Heald pointed out that this is ^U\B.. , . .and that every effort of the Institute
v'ould be directed tov;ard final victory. To this end, the Institute will place
increasing importance on the well established aiGIKESRir-'i, SCIMCE, MD fclill^JAGEMMT
DEFS'JSE TRAINING program v;hich has been in operation for more than one year.
Wiat the future will bring, so far as rianning the Institute on a 12 month oasis
is concerned, vjas not voiced by the president. Hov.'ever, ho did point out that should
the necessary steps be taken by the a.dministrators in Washington, the Institute stands
ready to cooperate in every nay possible. As a matter of fact, preliminary'" steps are
nov7 being taken to reorganise the entire teaching program so that it will be possible
to graduate present juniors in January of 1943 and present sophomores in September
of 1943.
So far as the current evening program is concerned, no change in schedule will
be made. Registration for the second semester for evening students v;ill be held
during the week of February 2 to 6 inclusive.
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FRCM; ALEXMiDER SCKREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECaiOLOGY-VIC. /i600
U2-17
R£i ILLINOIS TECH PICKED TO GIVE DEFEI-JSE
GOUflSE IN ULTflii SHORT r.'AVE TECSHQUES
NORTHWESTERN A]}ID CHICAGO TO COOPER:iT£.
RELEASE FORs MONDAY , \/\2/l,2
J. I, lellott. chairinan of defense training tcaajr announced that Illinois
Institute of Tecl'inologi" has been chosen to present a highly specialised course in
"ultra high radio-frequency tochnique" as a specific contribution to the T:'£.r effort.
The course, in which other colleges of this area nay cooperate;, v.dll be given exc].u-
sivel^'' in the Chicago area "uj Illinois Institute of Techjiology. It "vill be a regular
college credit course for current student;; of electrical engineering or graduate
students as well as a defense ti'aining course not carrying college cx'edit for men In
industry and will be given both during the day and eveningc It is sponsored aiid
authorized by the United States Office of Education^ es part of the regular
Engineering, Science, and Management Defease Training program of the Institute and
YJill entail an expenditure of over $10,000 for new equipment and laboratory facilities.
The Vcilue of the course to the defense effort was outlined \y/ Dr. Jesse E.
Hobson, head of the Institute's electrical engineering department, vjho pointed out
that a large number of electrical engineers having training of this type are essential
to the Government ?;ar effort. TiiesG men are required hj various government plants in
the design, manufacture, operation, and m-aintenance of equipment used by the Govern-
ment and by manufacturers m-orking on the development and fabrication of special elec-
tronic equipment. Tlie specific applications and operation of this equipment will not
be covered in the course, but Dr. Hobson emphasized the fact that the program as out-
lined "dll provide necessary basic training in the fundamentals of the theory under-
lying these devices.
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Irhen the possibilities of ultra short wave techjiique were first realized, there
were biit a few engineers and physicists in the United States who v:erc auaiified to
begin developmentax studies and research on the subject. One of these was Illinois
Tech staff men, Dr. Robert Sarbacher. Doctor Sarbacher returned to the Tech ca:apus
November 15, 194-1 aft.:r spending all summer instructing a select group of iirmy officert:
in ultra short v;ave tecliniques at Harvard University. He recently attended a confer-
ence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology'' v;hich v:as devoted to a discussion of a
syllabus for this course. Tliis conference v/as attended by representatives of the
forty scliocls throughout the United States T/hic]i had been selected ]y/ the United.
States Office of Education to present the course during the second semester of this
academic year.
Dr. Sarbacher and Dr. William A. Edson v/ill be in charge of the course. Dr, Edsor
was formerly with the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Me-.r York City where he has been
actively engaged in development and design of modern high frequency equixjaent.
Mr. Arthur B. Bronwell, A3sista.nt Professor of ElectrJ cal Engineering, at Northwestern
University will collaborate in the course, f.tr. Arthur rJohaupt, instructor in
electrical engineering, Illinois Tech, is assisting in the preparation of the
laboratory.
The course v/ill consume t?JO days of instruction for current seniors in electrical
engineering. All instruction rjill be given on the Lewis campus of the Institute
where the m.ain electrical engineering laboratory is being remodeled to house nev.'
equipment costing more than ^^10,000 as well as much equipment already in the possess-
ion of the Institute,
The registration for this course is exj^ected to exceed 125 students.
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FRCIJ i'lr.EXANDER SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTIOTTE OF
TSCmiOLOGY-VIC . 4-600
L42-18
RE: FIRE PROTECTION H^'GINEERING
FOR IfflilEDIATE RELEASE
In 1906, Armour Institute of Technology conferred its degree upon the first
students who had ever taken a standard engineering course intended specificalli.y to
prepare young men for work as fire protection engineers. Since then, more than
4.00 men have graduated from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, and the
school, now Armour College of Engineering of Illinois Institute of Teciinology, is
still the only college providing such a four-year course. Arrnour graduates, over
the period of thirty-five years, have become well-known in the field of fire insurance
The curriculum has never been narroTfly specialised, because it has been recog-
nized that a fire protection engineer should have sound training in the basic
sciences, familiarity with the principles of other branches of engineering, adequate
knowledge of economics, and proper introduction to cultural studies which will be
important in his future development as a man as well as an engineer.
For many years the Institute did not offer evening courses in Fire Protection
Engineering, although its evening division has large registration in other depart-
ments. During the first semester of the present school year, a course in the elements
of fire protection was offered, with Richard E. Freeman of the engineering stai'f of
the Illinois Inspection Bureau a& instructor. The number of applicants for the
course was satisfactory, and the course has been successful.
At the request of students in this course, and of some other prospective stu-
dents, it is intended that an evening course in special hazards shall be given in
the second semester, beginning in February, 194-2. The instructor Vidll be Malcolm E.
Jenckes, who is a supervisor in the underwriting department of the Western
Insurance Association. Mr. Jenckes is a graduate of Brown University and of
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he has had experience vath DuPont, and -. -ith
the Grinnell Company , and has been with TL F. I. A. since 1931.
Registration for the course in special hazards vrill be at Illinois Institute
of Techjiolog-y, 3300 Federal Street, Chicago, February 2 to February 7, 194-2, inclu-
sive. The class v.dll raeot Wednesday evenings, 6:20 to 8:00, for seventeen 'veeks,
the first session being Wednesday, February 11. Tuition and registration fees are
e2A.
The evening courses mentioned above are under the Enipervision of Professor
Joseph E. Finnegan, ;.'ho has been j?or laanY years director of the department.
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FROM: ALEXAI-IDER SCHREIBEfi
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHMOLOGY-V I C . .46CO
U2-20
RE; BASKETBALL - ILLINOIS TECH AT
CHICAC-0 TEACHERS COLLEGE,
i/UA2 - 3; 15 P.M.
FOR BMEDIATE RELEASE
The IllinoiB Tech backetball squa.d will travel to Chicago Teachers College on
Wednesday, January 14th in an attempt to even the score betv/een the respective teams
for this season. The Teachers won the first contest played at Tech, 4-0 to 25, but
the Engineers have renewed hope of victory with a decisive 55 to 4-1 win over Detroit
Tech, a topnotch tearii.
Leading gunner in the basket barrage on Detroit v/as a Sophomore cooperative
student. Bill Smart of LaGrange v/ho dropped in 10 field goals and a free throv/ to
lead the attack. A newcomer to the Techawk lineup. Bill gained valuable experience
while playing freshman ball at Oberlin College. The most treasured item in his bag
of tricks is his ball stealing ability to set up the fast break. Playing at the
forward position his offensive rebounding is exceptional.
Coupled with tliis "Smart" forv/ard is Captain Ko'<vard Pendlcfcury, current high
scorer for the Engineers, averaging about Vg- points per game. The majority of
Pendlebury' s scoring has been from the pivot line with a left hand hook shot that is
hard to stop.
Junior Ray LaGodney has finally found himself at the center position. Formerly
he was attempting to force his way clear v;hile under the basket in his rebounding
vrorkjnow he merely tips it to a teammate for an easy pot shot.
Two of the most competent guards in the local circuit are to be found in
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juniors Jack Byrne and cooperative student Wall;- Futtorer. Byrne led the En.gineGrs
in scoring last eeason and is in the runnerup position at the present time v/hile
Futterer is proclaimed to be one of the finest defensive players in the history of
the school, and it is not vrise to allow him a clear shot fron any angle.
The Teachers quintet is the same aggregation that have been playing together
for some years, namely, Joe Podraza and Marion Szewczyk, Captain of the ter-m, playing
at forrrard; Sy Mazur at center j and Newljj'' and King at guard. To date the Teachers
have von five out of nine starts, their latest contest ending in defeat at the binds
of Eureka College, 29 to 26, Illinois Tech on the other hand has won but three of
eight starts.
Probable starting lineups
CHICAGO TEACHEfiS POS. ILLINOIS TECH
Szev;czyk (Capt.) F Pendlebury (Capt.)
Podraza F Smart
Masur C LaGodney
Wewby G Bji'ne
King G Futterer
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FROM: iiLE>Lai^TD£R SCIIREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE Us:''
TECmraLOGY-VIC. AoOO
142-21
REi N£l:l YO.RK ^B£A ilLUMWI MEETING
1/20/4.2 - TENNIS CLUB - 6i30 FJ!.
FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE
Aluimii of Arraoui" Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute (Chicago), resi-
dents of the New York Metropolitan Area^ mrill meet T'aesc'c.y evening, Janiaeiry 20, 1942,
at 6; 30 o'clock in the Tennis Cliab to discuss plans and ir.roceed mth the egtablisliment
of an aliinaii club of this area.
The riieetint-T "'ill be a rather uiiique event since these alurnni of the tr;o Chicago
schools vjill be meeting to forra an organization Y/hich v;ill be an alurani club of
Illinois Institute of Tec/.nology. Hovx-verj in the words of tlr. K. I. VJishnick, i'lrmour
aluinnus of the class of 'li^, the r.ian v^ho is in charge of a.rrangenients for the meeting,
the ijurpose of the meeting is to bring about a consolidation of the alurriii of tiie tY;o
schools in much the same manner as the actual consolidation of the two Chicago schools
was accomplished in 194-0. Tlie meeting will hear from II. T. Heald, President of
Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr. L. E. Grinter, Vice-president, and B. P.
Taylor, assistant to the President.
/iTiuour Institute of Techinology and Lewis Institute were merged in July of 1940
by a final court duocree. In January of 1941 j ^""^ development and fund raising program
for the ejq^ansion of the merged schools was amiounced. by the boaro. of trustees to
provide a "toclTnological center" in Chicago a.nd' the middle west second to none in the
country, A $3,100,000 building program, enbodying designs by world faincus 3-rchitect
Mies van der Rohe, head of the Echc~l of architecture, pro-/iding for a completely
functional plant, is in prospect within the next few years.
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Accoi-dlng to the sponcor of the New York meeting^ President Heald will speak
about the consolidation of the t~:o Chicago institutions, their combined importance to
industry in the middle west, and the effect the development progri^jn will have in
general on education. The various activities of the schools of engineering, architec-
ture, and arts and sciences will be outlined^ tiie v'ork of the Armour Research
Foundation, an affiliate in industi'•i^cl and development research at tjie Institute,
will be explained^' and the importance of the new Institute of Gas Tecrmology, also
an affiliate of Illinois Tech, supported by the leading natural and artificial gas
companies of the United States by a $1,000,000 appropriation, will be explained.
Ivtr. '.Yishnick, who resides at 2L4 Trenor Drive, Ne^v r^ochelle, Ne:-; Yori-:, is
President of VJislmick-T'jmpeer, Incorporated, with offices at 295 Madison Avenue, in
New York City. He graduated from Armour Institute of Technology in 1914 receiving
the Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, lie, V.ishnick is noted among
alumni of the Institute for his exceptionally- brilliant careei-, especially in view of
the fact that he eai-ned all of his college expenses during his jjeriod of undergra.duate
study.
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FROM: ALEXANDER SCIIREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY- VIC. 4-600
14.2-22
RE: HOCKEY - ILLINOIS TECH OPENS THE
SEASON AT milVSRSITY OF CHICAGO S P.M.
1/16/4.2 UNDER NORTH STMD OF STAGG
FIELD.
FOR IIvS/iEDIATE P^ELEASE
On Friday evening, Jan. I6th3 the Illinois Tech hockey team will open their
third season of intercollegiate hockey playing the Univ.ex-sity of Chicago at 8 P. LI,
under the north stand of Stagg Field. The contest 'i:i~s originally scheduled for
Wedne.sday evening, Jan. 14. th, out conflict vith the University's defense courses
necessitated the postponement.
The series between the tvio schools is a i-enewal of a contest inaugurated v/ith
the founding of the sport at Illinois Tech tl.ires years ago by Dr. Harold I'V. Davey,
faculty member and hockey coach.
Composed mainly of veterans the Techa.wk sextet consists of sophomore Jack
Eulitt and junior Dick Metcalfe at left and riglit V-dng positions respectively; junior
Bill Watson at centerj junior Jack Weidenmiller at right defense; freshraan Dick Osberg
at left defense^ and junior cooperative student Glen T^Jittekindt, bespectacled goalie.
Yifith the exception of Osberg the group have been playing together since the
freshman years and form a well coordinated teajn. Bill T/atson and George Crarfford have
several seasons of Canadian competition to bolster their ability^ hov/ever, Crawford
will not be in the starting lineup. He is a coopera.tive student, vdio spends alternate
eight vieak periods in school and in industry. He Y-ias the star of last year's squad.
Tvro more of the Techawk Canadian Stars have left to join the Royal Canadian
iiir Force, namely George McKechnie and "Casey" Jones. The gap they leave is large but
perhaps adecuately filled by reserve freslxmen. Ken Du Broff and Don Wolter and sopho-
mores Brian Broi'm, Ed Johnston, and Bill Parks.
The University of Chicago received a severe setback by the death of their Coach,
faculty mem.ber Dan Hoffer, last May. The team is now under the direction of Athletic
Director, T. Nelson Metcalfe. Leading the Maroons to battle will be Ralph Rov.^e,
veteran csapaigner.
Other opponents slated to meet the Engineers this coming season include De Paul
and Nptre Dame, and the city amateur teams of Yfaukegan and Lake Forest.
FROM: ALEXANDEP. SCHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. ^600
RE: BASKETBALL - AT CONCORDIA 1/17/7+2
7:15 P.M., CONCORDIA GYI.1, RIVER
FOREST, ILLINOIS
FOR IffiidEDIATE RELEASE
The Illinois Tech basketball team v/ili travel to River Forest on Saturday-
evening, Jan. 17th, v^here they are to play Concordia Teachers College at 7:15 PM for
the benefit of the Americcn Red Cross.
The charity match has captured a large following in the suburbs of Rive" Forest
and Oak Park and an attendance of 1000 is expected. To help sv«ell the purse, the
students are paying a nominal admission charge . . . ordinarily their a.thletic passes
admit them gratis. Fifty percent of the gross v/ill be turned over to the Red Cross.
Tech's Coach, "Reinie" Meyer had quite a time finding a starting lineup in the
early part of the season, consequently the Engineer' s play was rather ragged in the
first few games. The present first team, which has started as a unit in the last
three games, lost a close decision to Lake Forest, whipped Detroit Tech by a large
margin in a high scoring thriller, and then met the new fan— shaped backboards for
their first time at Chicago Teachers College - net result CTC 31,IIT 21. The teanis
most dependable pot shotters missed the backboard completely, only two rebounding
baskets were scored out of innumerable attempts and Tech's free throv/ average, normally
between U5 and 50^ was only 30fo - 7 out of 22.
Nevertheless the Illinois Tech quintet shows good form at the present time and
should soon begin a pronounced v/inning streak. Leading the Engineer's on the court
will be Captain Howtird Pendlcbury, top scorer, cjid sophomore Bill Smart at forwards^
junior Ray LaGodney at centerj juniors Jack Byrne and TJally Futterer vtill handle the
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guard positions, with Byrne doing most of the offensive work leaving Futterer to stop
the fast breaks.
Concordia has but one win this season, over Aurora, as against four defeats.
The majority of their scoring has been done by forwards Warren Schmidt and Lyle
Stieger, both juniors. Sophomore Dick Braim is now playing his second year with the
Varsity at the center position, while Captain Art Scheiwe sparks the team from guard
with Bill Lorenz as a running mate.
As a preliminary to the main event the Illinois Tech freshmen term v;ill play
Concordia's Intramural Champs composed chiefly of freshmen who won their final game
with a margin of better than 90 points.
PROBABLE STARTING LINEUP:
CONCORDIA
Schmidt
Saeger
Braun
Scheiwe (Capt.)
Lorenz
POE
F
F
C
G
G
ILLINOIS TECH
Pendlebury (Capt.)
Smart
LaGodney
Byrne
Futterer
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FROI'^: AL£X;uNDSF. 3CHREIBER
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-VIC. 46OO
L42-27
RE: COOP COrMENCEAIENT, 1/2S/A2
FOR laSiaEDIATE RELKA.SE
Illinois Institute of Teclinology, on Wednesday evening, January 28, 194-2, at
8;15 P.M., in the auditorium of the fifuseura of Science and Industry, foot of 57th
Street in Jackson Park, will graduate 77 engineers, men and vonen, vmo v/ill be most
essential to industjry. As a matter of fact, approzLTiately 64. of these graduates,
coop students in mechanical engineering, will be the most highly trained and most
highly skilled engineers that vdll be going into industrial ivork today — for during
the past five years they have been serving dual roles, scholars and apprentices at
one and the same time.
Commencement speaker Wednesday evening will be Mr. R, J. Koch who villi address
the graduates on "GOURA.GE". He is President and Treasurer of Felt and Tarrant
Manufacturing Company, Chicago.
Mr. Koch is a trustee of Illinois Institute of Technology and an alumnus of
Armour Institute of Technology (Civil Engineer, '18). Upon graduation from Armour
Institute, he served for eleven years as credit manager and assistant treasurer of
ILG Electric Ventilating Company, Chicago. Since 1930 he ^as been treasurer and,
since 1934- he has been President of Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company, manufac-
turers of business machines. He is a member of the Academy of Political Science
(WYC) , the Union League Club, the Skokie Country Club, and he was President of the
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Employers Association of Chicago.
The importance of these graduates to the defense effort is self evident e.nd
does not require supporting affidavits from their employers. Here is the ansY/er:
In February of 1937, these boys enrolled as cooperative students in the five-
year mechanical engineering program at what was then knovn as Armour Institute of
Technology. There was planned for these students a progre.m of study and work of
alternate eight y;eek periods .... on a twelve month basis, with only two weeks per
year for vacation as compared to the two ,T.cnths the regular college student enjoyed.
The students spent eight weeks in school studjr under an accelerated program
. . . then they v/ent to work in plants such as Foote Brothers Gear and Machine Company _.
Inland Steel Company, Crane Company and others. They \-orked at lathes, as helpers
on blast furnaces, as milling machine operators. They worked with grease and oil.
They cut their fingers - burned their liands. They got grease and smut and dirt in the
fingernails and between their toes; they got smudge on their faces and wore overalls.
They did dirty, back breaking labor and probably went to night school besides. Tliey
hobnobbed with Slavs and Poles, with Greeks and Italians and Mexicans . . . they
sweated, hard, honest perspiration. Tlien, after eight ?;eeks they returned to the
Arm.our College Campus to English and algebra, to economics and physics and mechanical
drawing.
The next time they went to the plant they probably had another job, perhaps a
little cleaner, or perhaps more highly skilled, or as draftsmen or junior engineer
trainees.
They follov/ed this schedule day in and day out for five years, always drawing
their weekl;/ pay check vmile on the job, or drawing their weekly class grades while in
school, . . . working to finance their education.
Now, according to H. T. Heald, president of the Institute, who, in 1935, was
instrumental in the original planning of the cooperative course, there are sorie 4-50
such mechanical engineering students taking the course. Over L40 Chicago and out-of-
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town industries, large and sraall, are cooperating in the venture and are highly
pleased with the success of the program. Each company is anxious to have more such
student-employes, for tliey find them alert, v/illing to work, ambitious and valuable.
Their real importance today cannot be over-estimated, but it is certain that
industry finds them too valuable to T.et them go. Thoir importance con be moj^suz^ed by
the fact that, according to J. J. Schommer, Placement Director at the Institute,
engineering schools in June will turn out approximately 15,000 engineers . . .
50,000 to 75,000 vdll be required . . . 15,000 engineers T/ho have had, in the main,
only scholarly exoei-ience . . . engineers who will have to go through a.n "in-service"
training period of 3 to 6 months duration . . . at a time v/here the nation is in dire
need of seasoned and capa^ble engineers.
The cooperative students will not necessarily need such a training, for they have
been developed in the plant from a t'^chnical and practical standpoint. At the same
time they have been getting the scholarly viewpjoint as students. Tlie combination of
the two, practical and scholastic training over the five-year period, makes of them
excellent material for tlie NATIONAL DEFENSE EFFORT. To the last man, these students
currently have jobs and will, in most instances, remain v.dth the company in v/hich they
have received their practical training as students.
At the present time ^50 such students are in training. Approximately 64- of
these men are candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering next \7ednesday night. In February approximately 225 new students will be
admitted to the course, after having passed a battery of 3 standardized intelligence
tests and a review of their high school standing has placed them in the upper quarter
of their graduating class.
Illinois Institute of Technology, which is the consolidation of i\rraour Institute
of Technology as of July 19-40, also conducts a similar program in Business and
Industrial Management on the Levels campus.
Tlie candidates for degree are as follows;
BACHELOR OF SCIEUCE IN COMICAL ENGINEERING
Marshall Kahn
Walter Otto Krueger
Milton Sherman
7618 Kingston Avenue
5927 S. Mozart Street
3304. Lexington Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago 5 Illinois
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
John Francis Dillon
29A7 S. Halsted Street
Chicago, Illinois
BACHELOR OF SCIMCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
George Russel fimrath
William Zoltan Spierer
6704 No Hermitage Avenue Chicago, Illinois
2224. W. Division Street Chicago, Illinois
BACHELOR OF SCIEl'^CE IN I.lECRJiNICAL ENGINEERING
Harold Porter Adams
Henry Grey Alder son
Anders Krist Andersen
Edward Alberg Anderson
Edvrard Armstrong
Howard Lief Berg
Donald Dixon Bickell
Gilbert James Bickell
Fred Charles Boardm.an
William David Bobco
Charles Perry Boyer
Stephen Cibira
Loui^ Thomas Cuculic
2234- Logan Boulevard
7133 3. Rockwell Street
4-300 N. Hamlin Avenue
10712 Avenue F
526 Thatcher Avenue
1059 N. Mayfield Avenue
1109 Beacon Street
44-3 Conkey Street
1031 W. Bryn M8.vjt Avenue
2635 Augusta Boulevai'd
3531 Fifth Avenue
28U W. 23rd Place
3821 Main Street
Chicago, Illinois
r Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
River Forest, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
East Chicago, Indiana
Hammond , Indiana
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
East Chicago, Indiana
James Edward P^artlov/
-George Kfurrs-v Post
VJalter John Powell
John William Rapp
Rudolph jiloyBius Rieder
Paul iMo.rvin Sanduskj'
Donald Rossiter Sno\7don
John Er.iil Staroba
Daniel Victor Stone
Clarence Theodore Strait
Hillard Charles Stryz
Ralph Bernhard Stuecheli
John Patrick Sullivan
Carl Alex Sv;anson
James T/illiam Swedler
Fred Till
i\nthony Frank Valaitis
Thomas Kich.ael VJalsh
Bernard Eugene Wasisco
Arthur Harry Yielsch
Joseph Allan T^^estphall
Ted John Wierciak
Robert Franklin Windstrup
Chester Stephen Y?right
Norbert Leopold Wright
90^5 S. Cai-penter Street
10525 S. Drew Street
5337 Dorchester Avenue
1507 E. 69th Street
913 W. 86th Street
10853 Vernon Avenue
6610 N. Maplev/ood Avenue
24.58 S. Si-.aulding Avenue
3444. Druramond Place
932 Mountain Street
6914 S. Western Avenue
2031 Summerdale Avenue
4.0 18 Wo Nelson Avenue
6549 S. Seeley .ivenue
5727 W. 22nd Place
3841 W. Adams Street
3014 W. 63rd Street
7703 Ridjeland Avenue
1306 Albion Avenue
1343 S. Kedvale Avenue
330 S. Spencer Street
2403 Moffatt Street
47232- Ellis Avenue
24^30 W. Cullom Avenue
2430 W. Cullom Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illincis
Chicr^go, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Aurora, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
-"- non-cooperative student
Walter Frederick Cunny
Jolin Oliver Dan son
-A-B. Pearson De Lany (female)
Hoy £. Erickson
Hsnry Robert Fischer
Cht-rles Vaughan Fitch
Robert Dunlop Gibney
William Groen
Frank Richard Grote
Richard Louis Kanneman
Edward Paul Hanuska
Dudley Ward Hayes
Russell Richard Hoffman
Peter Jasis
Roy Harvey Kallas
Robert Stanley Kecourek
Paul Robert Koenig
William Stephen Kozica
Martin William Kraegel
William Elmer Loben
Charles Joseph Lombard
Fraiilc Darrel McGinnis
John Richard. Mangan
William Edmund Manstrom
George Nathan Miles
Victor Thomas Mileivski
Richard Apps Noyes
Joseph U. Olchawa
-" non-cooperative student
16-41 Edgewater Avenue
7316 S. Aberdeen Avenue
Sutton Road
4.441 N. Damen Avenue
7323 Lunt Avenue
5308 S. Neva Avenue
907 W. 111th Street
820 N. Grove Avenue
3109 Schubert Avenue
1522 Thome Avenue
6654 S. Clareaont Avenue
3325 W. 63rd Place
8OO5 Ingle side Avenue
4935 S . Kominsky Avenue
624 S. Tripp Avenue
384 Kent Road
6756 Wentv/orth Avenue
5240 S. Troy Street
2509 Indiana Avenue
10212 S. May Street
815 W. Addison Street
8430 Euclid Avenue
650s Lov.e Avenue
11359 Lothair Avenue
7234 S. Talman Avenue
63 Lincoln Avenue
2323 W. Cullerton Street
Chicaro, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Barrington, Illinois
Chicago J Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Oal: Park, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Riverside, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Glen, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Willow Springs, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Riverside, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
MASTER OF SCIiCNCE IK CHEMICAL EilGIiiEERINC
Charles H. Cuthbert
139 Monroe Street
Peters'ourg, Pennsylvania
MSTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL EI.'GINEERING
Raymond Edgar Glass
1320 Fillmore Street iunarillo, Texas
MASTER OF SCIHICE
William Robert McMillan
Harvey James Tan fen
224. S. 20th Avenne
/44-65 Ellis Avenue
Ma^n^ood, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
DOCTOR OF PHILCOPHY IN CIVIL EUGINEEPJKG
William M. Simpson
Norman J Oklahoma
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FROM: ALEXillv'DER SCHREIBER RE; BASKETBiiiL - GRMB RP^im AT ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECH, l/22, AOO PM. ILLII'OIS TECH
TECaiOLOGY-VIC. 46OO AT AlvlERICMJ COLLEGE OF PHYSIG>iL ED.,
1/23, 8 PM
FOR IiaiEDlATE RELEASE
This week the Illinois Tech b-; 3ketbs.ll team will attempt to even up theix- sea-
son's record against Grand Rapids in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 22, at ai-;30 PB
and traveling to iunerican College of Physical Education on Friday evening, Jan. 23 at
8 PM.
To date the Engineers have won four while loosing six engagements. In tlie last
start, against Concordia College, the Techavrks displayed fine form in a IJ+-3A victory.
Current leading scorer for the Techav^ks is Captain Howard Pendlebury who has capita-
lized on his pivot line position to the tune of some 69 points.
Pendlebury' s running mate at the forward position is sophomore coop student,
Bill &nart, who tallied 21 of Tech' s points in their 55-41 defeat of Detroit Tech
last vieek. If Bill is "on", he may be expected to repeat this pex"f ormance .
Completing the forward line is junior Ray LaGodney at center. .R&-y has suddenly
discovered the art of using his height to an advantage and has been a deciding factor
in the recent upv/ard trend of the Techav/ks, He has undisputed possession of the ball
in all rebounds and acts as a feeder for his teammates.
A brace of juniors. Jack Byrne and coop student Wally Putterer, do the guarding
for the Techawks, Coach ''Remie" Mejrer has adapted a modified form of the old standing
guard in which the guards take turns at the safety position to stop the fast break
offensive. This has proved most effective.
Grand Rapids University v/as the victim of a double defeat by the Techax-;ks in
a home-and-home series last yearj the Engineez's took the first game in stride in
Chicago A3 to 31, and fought to squeeze out a 51-4-8 decision in Grand Rapids. A
return match v/ith Grand Rapids is scheduled for two vreeks later in Grand Rapids when
the Engineers take their mid-season jaunt into Michigan.
American College of Physical Education was the source of the Techawks first
victory in the opening game of the season, 41 to 16.
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FROM: /iEXilllDER SCHREIBSR
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO
142-29
RE; MIDFEST POWER CONFERENCE
PALiliER HOUSE, CHICAGO
APRIL 9, 10, 19^:^2
FOR IMffiDlATE RELE/iSE
The next annual met-.ting of the Midwest Pof;er Conference will be held on
April 9-10 at the Palmer House, Chicago. This Conference is sponsored by the
Illinois Institute of Technology vdth the cooperation of the nine other inidwestem
universities and colleges and the local sections of the Founder and other -engineering
societies.
The directorate of the Conference, according to Stanton E. 7'instoh, Director,
cognizant of the fact that the need in the present war effort is pox7er, and even more
power, is doing its utmost to provide a program for this annual meeting vvtiich will
not cnly uphold the tradition of the Conference but will also proi'ide a stimulus in
the present emergency. It is the opinion of the directorate that the present emer-
gency makes the annual meeting of the Conference more urgent than ever before.
The prelijj'iinary program of the Conference will contain, in addition to the
opening meeting, sessions on Electric Power Transmission, Industrial Po?/er Plants,
Hydro Power, Fuels and Combustion, Diesel Former, and Central Station Practice. The
latter is sponsored by the Chics.go Section of the A.S.M.E. and all arrangements for
it are being made by the section's chairman of its Power and Fuels Division,
Mr. J. R. Michel, In adf-ition to these sessions, the Conference program will include
two joint luncheons, one with the Chicago Section of the A.S.M.E. and the other with
the Chicago Section of the A.I.E.E. A high light of the Conference will be its
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All-Engineers Dinner on the evening of April 9.
The Conference will be opened by President H. T. Keald, of the Illinois Insti-
tute of Tecimology and Dr. A. A. Potter, Dean of Engineering of Purdue University,
/unong the papers and speakers of the Conference program are the following:
Boiler Circulation Problenis, by A. A. Markscn, Member A.S.M.E., Nev-f York
Recent Field Experience with Natural Lightning by C. F. Wagner, Manager, Central
Station Engineering, Westinghouse Electric and Iilfg. Co.
Lightning Proof Line Design by A. C. Monteith, Manager, Industry Engineering
Department, Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co.
Power in the Four Milling Industry, by A. R. Ulstrom, Engineer, Cereal Engineer-
ing and Construction Co., Minneapolis
Feedwater Treatment in Small Povier Plants, by E. P. Partridge, Director of
Research, Hall Laboratories., Inc., Pittsburgh.
Power Setup at the Aviation Plant of Buick Motors by H. S, Golden, Assistant
Chief Engineer, Buick Aviation Division.
Preventing and Extinguishing Electricc^l Oil Fires, by H. W. Eales, Chief Elec-
trical Engineer, Public Utility Engineering and Service Corporation, Chicago.
Radial Diesels by Professor E. T. Vincent, University of Michigan.
The Prelirainary Program., when issued in the latter part of February, is also
expected to include the following papers:
Experience with Priorities for Equipment and Maintenance
Industrial Production and the T^elfare of the Nation.
Furnace Design Developm.ent.
Prevention of Outages on Transmission System.
Minim.izing the Effect of Faults on Transmission Systems.
Water Power Development in the Light of War Industrial Activity.
Silting of Water Power Reservoir.
Results Obtained by Spreader Stokers with Continuous Ash Discharge.
Procurement of Fuels.
Diesel vs. Steam Locomotives.
The Preliminary Program vjill be distributed toward the latter part of February.
Everyone interested in the field of Power is cordially invited to attend the Conference
AJ.1 inquiries v/ith respect to the Conference may be addressed to either Stanton E,
Winston, Conference Director or Charles A. Nash, Conference Secretary, c/O Illinois
Institute of Techjiology, Chicago.
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