Clarkson University - Clarksonian Yearbook (Potsdam, NY)

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EMINENT ALUMNI EDMUND H. FALLON Class of '31, B.5.M.E. Presently Chief Administrative Officer of Agway, Inc. of Syracuse, New York and member of Clark- son Board of Trustees. GERRIT D. FREMOUW Class of '31, B.S.C.E., M.S. Presently Director, Facilities Engi- neering and Construction Agency, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. ROBERT N. WAGNER Class of '31, B.S.E.E. Presently Vice President, Engi- neering, Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. RICHARD N. PARKS Class of '32, B.S.M.E. Presently Senior Vice President of Shulton, Inc., and President of Jacqueline Cochran, Inc. of New York City. WALTER E. VROMAN Class of '32, A.B. Civil Engineer Presently Vice President and Gen- eral Manager of Big Rock Stone and Material Company of Little Rock, Arkansas. CHARLES E. CLARRIDGE Class of 1930 Presently a professor of Civil En- gineering at Clarkson College. FREDERICK A. RAMSDELL Class of 1933 Presently Director of Placement at Clarkson College. 11

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L ----S. I1 Joseph Eugene Rowe President 1928-1932 In the fall of 1928, Joseph E. Rowe became the new president of Clarkson, as Dr. Brooks became president emeritus. In March, two Clarkson hockey players were chosen for the All-American team: Freddy Dion and Buzz Williams and the Phalanx society was formed. Tuition was now up to $250 a year. Term grades of the time were reported in letters H, C, P, D, F (take re- exam) and FF. In April of 1930, the Integrator gave the results of a poll on prohibition: Favoring present pro- hibition 13, strict enforcement 52, modification of present laws 133, repeal 63. The June graduating class included Charles Clarridge a student who later joined the Clarkson Civil Engineering faculty and is still an active member of the staff. The Chemistry department was installed in the fall of that year. It is at this time that tentative plans for the Clarkson hill campus were revealed. At the end of 1931, work had begun on a permanent uncovered hockey rink on the site of the present arena. In June of 1932, the former President Brooks re- turned as acting President of Clarkson as President Rowe left. Among the graduates of the 1933 Com- mencement was Frederick A. Ramsdell who became registrar in 1934 and is presently director of Place- ment. Pictured below are the store fronts on the West of Market Street as they existed in the late twenties. The picture on the right is Market Street looking South towards the river. bn: » 10

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John Shelby Thomas President 1934-1940 The Arlington Inn as it appeared in the early 1930's. An exterior face lifting had been com- pleted earlier, in which the familiar Potsdam Sand- stone front replaced an older style wood and brick facade. Pictured to the right are king Pinky Ryan and queen Virginia Melius of the 1934 Ice Carnival. At the end of 1933, Dr. John S. Thomas replaced President Brooks as the new President of the college. Romance entered the 1934 Ice Carnival when that year's king, Philip J. Pinky Ryan, later married the Ice Carnival Queen, Virginia Melius. A 1935 graduate, Pinky returned to Clarkson in 1946 and is still on the Phys. Ed. staff. Clarkson's enrollment was con- tinuously falling from a high in 1931 of 420 to 346 in 1934 due to the great depression. In 1936, the trustees were ready to build on the hill as soon as $350,000 had been raised. Woodstock was already being reconditioned for a dormitory. It was also this year that a unit of the Reserve Officers Train- ing Corps was established at Clarkson and was offered as an elective. The 1937 Ice Carnival King was William Fiesinger a student who graduated in June and re- turned to Clarkson in 1960 and is presently Director of Development and Alumni Affairs. The school's colors were proclaimed as green and gold as chosen by the Clarkson sisters because of their brother's fondness of the goldenrod. The hockey rink was enclosed in the summer of 1938, but artificial ice was not installed un- til 1952. The college was presently housed in five buildings: the Main Building; the Administration Building, a house just west of Main which also housed the library on the second and third floors; the gymnasium, which is presently the library; Southerland Hall in back of Main, which housed the Chemical Engineering lab and the maintenance woodworking shop (presently the Chem Annex); and Recitation Hall, a wooden structure east of Main which contained class rooms, offices and a large Civil Engineering Drafting room. The 1937-38 hockey team justly claimed the U.S. Championship with a record of 13-1-1. 12