Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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“Full professional stature is not attained through the mere acquisition of a professional degree followed by internship or similar supervised professional experience, but is acquired through carrying on personal postgraduate self-education from the experience which is provided by his work and life. Once formal education is over, each person in a working team must focus his attention and energies upon getting his work done, yet the lessons of experience which this work provides will be as powerful as those offered in his supervised undergraduate study. So long as the professional worker follows his profession, experience will influence him and strengthen or impair his professional stature. There is no escape. And what it does to him will depend upon him, and upon him alone. It is thus very important for all professional people, no matter how recently or how many years ago they have ceased to be students, to be sure that this postgraduate self-education is good. Elliot Dunlap Smith Provost, Carnegie Institute of Technology Dedication A member of the administration for the past fifteen years, Elliot Dunlap Smith has had a large part in the renaissance on Carnegie Tech’s campus. As Provost, his chief responsibility has been the development of all undergraduate education and the designing of a new social relations program which has contributed heavily to the development of methods in the new Carnegie Plan. Believing that constant improvement and expansion are necessary, he is delighted that the current expansion program emphasizes quality, not quantity. This program is the culmination of years of study and planning during which the Carnegie Plan as an actual thing has adopted its present form. Its social relations program and its emphasis on the creative use of technical knowledge are two of the factors which cause Carnegie to excel as an academic institution; it was largely through Provost Smith that these developments took place. Provost Smith's personal plans for the future include moving to New Haven, Connecticut where, as a fellow at Yale University’s Saybrook College, he will continue his writing and consulting. To him, one of Carnegie’s leaders whose contributions in education and administration have made this expansion program an actual thing, we gratefully dedicate the 1958 THISTLE. May his future be as rewarding and productive as his years here have been. 6 Elliot Dunlap Smith

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Table of Contents Dedication ...... Seniors ......... Administration Sports .......... Queens........... Sororities ...... Fraternities .... Organizations Campus Leaders Fall Activities Winter Activities Spring Activities Indian Students WRITE ........... Advertising 6 9 61 67 99 109 126 153 193 201 221 239 266 271 273 5

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