Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Labs occupy chem majors . . . It would be inaccurate to claim that chemistry students at Lehigh spend all their time buried in a labyrinth of test tubes within the innermost recesses of the chem building. However, if this state- ment were changed to most of the time, it would convey more than a modicum of truth. Lab courses have become more than an institution in the department and are now often considered a Lehigh tra- dition. Chem 4 and 5 are the most heavily populated of the departmental offerings. Introductory courses required for all en- gineers and by several other majors as well, more than 400 men venture into the old chem lecture room each week to see a series of only partially successful demonstrations conducted by Dr. Robert A. Sprague. Visitors often wander in also, intrigued by the wide ties that Dr. Sprague wears. Some wonder whether lab aprons have gone out of style. Probably wishing thai the set-up in front of him would turn into a still, a chem major whiles away the afternoon hours in a lab. CHEMISTRY First Row: Edward Amstutz, Head of Department. Second Row: Velmer Fish, Robert Billinger, Robert Sprague, Thomas Young. 76

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Weihuel heads department . . . The constant war of attrition waged by the Chemistry Department on Chemical Engineering students showed no sign of abatement this past year. A typical quirk of Lehigh scheduling found all Chemical Engineering students taking Chemistry 51 before taking any courses in their own department. The dropout rate in this course, and thus also in Chemical Engineering, is appalling. De- spite cries of anguish from the head of the Chemical Engineering department, the Chemistry professors have shown little sympathy for the luckless foreign- ers. While it is untrue that everyone fails the disputed course, carriers of wild rumors of C and above grades find few believers on the campus. But happily, some students do pass Chem. 51, and the Chemical Engineering Department con- tinues to be. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING First Row: Curtis W. Clump. Leon- ard A. Wenzel, Head of Department. Second Row: Alan S. Foust, Morton P. Moyle, William E. Schiesser. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS First Row: Kluy, Young. Heimberg. Enck. Amacher. Kowal- ski. Ritter. Kasch. Second Row: Trotta. Dale. Lynch. Duncan. Curtis W. Clump, Advisor; Schneider. McGowin. Third Row- Leonard A. Wenzel. Filbert. Kaplan. Martin. Lightner, Polash- enski. Shepard. Doughty, Rushong. Tomalesky. Fourth Row: Roush. Gamza. Depew. Heintzelman. Asam. Maxon. Day. Welch. Harrington.

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CHEMISTRY — James Diefenderfer, Jerome Daen, Roland Lovejoy, Irv- ing Borowitz. James Sturm. The organic chem lab is considerably more popular among the students than the regular course work. Titrations are the bone in the chem majors existence. 77