Columbia University School of Engineering - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The 1933 COLUJUBIA ENGINEER Spalh Olxtad JWcG0ugh Ricorzda Jenkins . Weif' Hughes Petemen THE STUDENT COUNCIL THIRD YEAR REPRESENTATIVES JOHN HLIGIJES, ClzJ:'rman WILLIAM L. JENKINS, Secretary THOMAS MCGOUGH I. WALTER OLSTAD ALVAN H. TENNEY SECOND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES THOMAS C. HANA RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN, Treaszzrm IJEO I. RICONDA FRANK MORLEY WEIR FIRST YEAR REPRESENTATIVES WILERED I. KINDERRIANN SIDNEY ROSEN GEORGE H. SPATH FREDERICK C. TONETTI Forfy-jffve Tonetti

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The 1933 COLl.'iWBI.J ENGINEER as advisor for many engineering works, including the famous liflorris Canal, and as expert counselor to the engineers of the day who needed mathematical or mechanical assistance or just good engineering advice. ln 1823 Horatio Allen left the old col- lege halls, then located just west of the present Woolxvorth Building. A few years later he brought over from England the first full size locomotive used in America and operated it on the tracks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. Alfred XV. Craven graduated in 1829 and later took up the task of operating through twenty troublesome years the first Croton water supply of New York City. Pinallv we should mention VVm. Mitchell Gillespie of the Class of 1834, whose book on surveying was the standard text for almost half a century. Since the establishment of the School of Mines in 1864- and the civil engineer- ing course in 1869, there has been a long record of distinguished service and achieve- ment by alumni of Columbia. 1 cannot mention by name all the mining engineers who have made Columbia's name known in mining centers the world over. Among the mining geologists there come to mind R. D. Irving, '69, who was a pioneer geologist in the Lake Superior area, Bailey VVillis, '78, interpreter of the earth's structure, and our own Uncle Jimmy Kemp, '8-l, who was an expert on ore deposits and a joy to all his friends. John A. Church. '67, whom l knew as a boy, was always my ideal of the American mining engineer, a forceful and imposing personality. He was the main- spring of the great Comstock lode. J. Parke Channing, '83, transported Lake Superior methods into the Southwest, and was a pioneer in the improvement of the conditions of mine workmen. Columbia mining engineers went all over the world and among other notable wanderers was T. H. Leggett, '79, who carried American mining methods to the great South African Rand. The American mining industry has many examples of Columbiazation, such as that due to the work of Aldrige, '87, who has made America supreme in the sulphur industry. Among the metallurgists there are many alumni who have made notable con- tributions to the development of modern metallurgical processes. Devereaux, '78, in the cyanide process, Hone, '79, in the metallurgy of zincg Klepetko, '80, in cop- per blast furnace practiceg Wa.lker, '83, also in copper refining, Dwight, '85, in sintering fine ores, are but a few among many Columbia men in this Held. Nor should we forget Moldenke, '85, who made a modern science out of the ancient art of cast irong Monell, '96, of iron and nickel fame, or Mattheyvs, '95, a pioneer in the development of corrosive resistant alloys. ln civil engineering, Columbia men recall that General William Barclay Par- sons, '82, built New York's land America'sj first subway, that Daniel E. Moran, '84, is dean of American Foundation experts, and that Charles G. Curtis, '81, invented the Curtis turbine. We are particularly proud, however, of our younger graduates-Steinman, '09, the suspension bridge expert, Beggs, '10, Professor at Princeton, who knows all about stresses, Grover Loening, '12, whose amphibian plane was a pioneer in this field, and Gavin Hadden, '12, who has been called by Pennsylvania, Cornell and Brown to show them how to build stadiums. The establishment of mechanical engineering came later at Columbia but the mechanical engineering student of today can easily find among these younger alumni men whose careers exemplify that ideal of progress and service for which our school stands. Pigott, '03, assisted Curtis in the development of his turbine, and is now director of the famous shipyards at Clydebank in Scotland. Pond, of the same class, is manufacturing manager of Pratt and Whitneyf, one of the pioneer, and still one of the greatest, American Hrms of tool builders. ln this modern age of power it is natural that many of our alumni should turn to the problems not only of central station but also of gas and oil power. Another Pigott, this time '06, has established a reputation in this field, and there are many others including lVIyers and Sage of the CIHSS 01' 1901- fC'0lI1'.'lllll'fi on page 55j Forty-four

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Founded 1886 Number of Chapters, 56 Prescott H. Blatterman Charles F. Bonilla Leonard Carlsmith john F. Conlon Kenneth W. Coons Lawrence Debing Richard Dehmei Thomas T. Eoyang Frank Foote Morton Arendt William S. Ayars Leo H. Baekelancl George W. Baker Joseph VV. Barker Theodore Baumeister, Jr. Albin H. Beyer Donald M. Burmister William Campbell VValter A. Curry Frederick H. Dutcher James K. Finch Colin G. Fink The 1933 COLUZMBLJ ENGINEER SIGMA XI HONORARY SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY III 'Al 1 by IE . ---- KN.LJ1 'w,P ENGINEERING MEMBERS HIP 1933 Initiates Basil G. Gerapostolou Francis Goodale Robert W. Guernsey Paul Hartman Francis H. N. Hawkins Emil Hladky A. Norman Hixson George F. Jenkins Richard A. Marcus FACULTY Frederick W. Hehre Edward H. Hempel Arthur W. Hixson Daniel D. Jackson Carl F. Kayan Edward F. Kern William I. Krefeld joseph W. Lang Robert T. Livingston Earl B. Lovell Charles E. Lucke Ralph H. McKee john H. Morecroft OFFICERS Dr. Marston T. Bogert H. W, Webb President Vice-Prerideni Living Niembers, 25,000 Kappa Chapter Est. 1902 john C. Munday Charles R. Newbaker Victor A. Nordstrom Henry A. Perkins, Jr. Robert J. Philipps George M. Powell, III Bernard Queneau Earl D. Smith Julian J. Wycall Jerome J. Morgan VValter Rautenstrauch Thomas T. Read Raymond R. Rogers Lester R. Sailer William A. Shoudy VValter I. Slichter Arthur F. Taggart Edward D. Thurston, jr William D. Turner Lincoln T. Work Charles R. Wyckoff Arthur W. Thomas Secretary-Treasurer Furry-.vi.r