California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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Chemical Engineering GERALD JACK ARENSON Ricketts, Honor Key, TBP, Gerry has had a lot of big moments since he came to noble C.I.T. but the biggest was when Judy said I do . His other big moments occurred when he was elected ASCIT Treasurer, Junior Class Presi- dent, Soph Class Treasurer, Beaver Club and the Drize office of all, Chemical Engineering Club Secretary. He did all of this and still had time to keep an enviable G.P.A. and win three J,V. soccer letters. After graduation Gerry will attend grad school here in Chem. Eng. ARNOLD I. GOLDFORD Fleming Taking on the social chairmanship in Fleming is a iob involving many perils, However, dauntless Arnold took it on, and soon discovered most of those perils, but, risking lite and limb, he carried on valicintly to ci magniticant conclusion on election night. He gave more concentrated ettorts to the Drama club, in which he was Treasurer-manager, Secretary, and President without once striking his nose into a play, He also was active in the ACS, being Junior representative and vice-president, and was a member of the SAE despite his austere '56 Chevy. He has restricted his athletic endeavors to bowling and ping-pong, and those people who have been unfortunate enough to come up a- against him in these will vouch for his perserver- ance and trained tactics. He plans to work for a few years, and then return to graduate study. ROBERT HANGEBRAUCK Throop- This Glendale product, a natural Throop-ite, graced its basketball team and many of its social events. Much of his time was spent in connection with the American Chem Society chapter, while off hours were spent with photography, hi-fi, and fishing . . . a real lite! Bob plans to work for industry or government it possible.

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Perhaps The mosT imporTanT acTiviTy for sTudenTs, in facT, is To peneTraTe deeply inTo Their sfudies, boTh humaniTarian and scienTific, so ThaT They may ad- vance as Thinking, evaluaTing men and as creaTive scienTisTs. For The firsT Three years of iTs sTay aT Cal- Tech The class of 59 has had more men recognized for academic honor Than any oTher class, and This will probably conTinue To be True in Their senior year as well. There will be a higher percenTage of enTer- ing freshmen graduafing wiTh This year's class Than wiTh any class in The pasT and seemingly in The immediafe fuTure. This inTellecTual eminence mighT lead you To suspecT ThaT The class would suffer from a lack of wild flaming characfers. And ThaT probably would be a fair generalizafion. BUT who can forgeT Wild- eyed Lango, leader of The Open Forum, or Noisy Norm Velinfy wiTh his big, lovable friend, Dick Middleman? The class will never forgef The sTudenTs who have passed on To oTher insTiTuTions, among whom we musT menfion simple, gullible Eric Rix and Mike TalcoTT, The original Eager Beaver who lefT To wriTe The GreaT American Novel wiTh his broken pencil, And whaT oTher class we ask, could boasf The like of Dan Killoran, boy poTaTog Larry The Emu Elmore, modesT, unassuming Hal Yura, FaT'Ty Arbuckle, Madman Clarke Bell. Ah, There are names To leave To posTeriTy. A large parf of class spiriT in any college Tends- To be cenfered around achievemenTs of iTs ouTsTand- ing aThleTes. ln This respecT The class of i959 had only moderaTe success. There have been no really o-uTsTanding aThleTes in sporTs and only a few very good ones. Fred, Newman was probably The besT single aThleTe, he made all-conference Teams in The sporTs of fooTball, baskeTball, and baseball. Along wiTh Newman, Russ Pifzer and John Conover were sTand-. ouTs of The fooTball Team. ln soccer, BrenT BanTa, Larry Tenn, and Luis Baiz DuarTe were ouTsTanding. BrenT and Larry made The all-conference Team and Luis received honorable menTion. The class showed greaT sTrengTh in swimming, where Don Owings, Bob Blandford, and KeiTh Brown combined 'To seT several school and conference records and To lead The swimming Team To a con- ference championship This year. This year Don Owings seT a SouThern Pacific AAU record in The 220 breasTsTroke. Tony Leonard was ouTsTanding in Track and holds The school 880 record while Frank Cormia has been far and away The besT man on The Tennis squad for The pasT four years. A classmafe who cannoT go unmenTioned was M. James Wilkinson, Vice PresidenT, refired, who was a friend of us all. Jim quiT school To seek a purposeful life, only six monThs before his pending graduaTion, lesT he become iusT anoTher cog in our ever-rolling wheel of life. These years ThaT The class of i959 has spenT aT Calfech have been relaTively quief. There have been dances, and games, and peTTy squabloling, and reforms, and pranks and wild nighTs-buf no really passionafe crusades aT all. STill, There is ci, TradiTion of independence and change in This class- a sTirring of dissaTisfacTion. While The class has been aT Tech, The space age has begun, The world's populaTion has burgeoned, ICBM's have become a commonplace. Counfry afTer counTry has achieved independence, some have losT Their freedom as well. The world's problems are piling up. They may be solved by humaniTarian, dedicaTed, scienfifically Trained men such as The class of 1959 has a good chance To be.

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Chemical Engineering CHARLES RICHARD JOHNSON Dabney, Honor Key Dick has been an active member of the student body. Academic Honor Standing, Band, Glee Club, YMCA, Beavers, TBP, ASCIT Veep, Dabney Veep, Jr. Class Veep, Ex. Comm., Co-HV. Dick plans to go to grad school at Tech and then study liberal arts in Europe. Dick was very well de- serving of all his honors. DON OWINGS Dabney, T3 Don hails from Rolling Hills California near Marine- land, lt seems that the water so nearby had a disturbing effect on poor Don for he turned into one of the best swimmers that CIT has ever seen. His specialty, 'the breast stroke, served him well on other less aquatic occasions. Don was also very active on the dry land portion ot the Caltech campus serving as ASCIT Rally Commissioner and as a member of the YMCA. He plans to continue on to grad school unless some catastrophe occurs. We are sure that the competitive spirit which made him a champion swimmer will make him o cham- pion at the game of lite.