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

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The 1933 COLUIIIIBIAI ENGINEER RECORD OF CLASS OF 1933 COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING CLASS OFFICERS President JOHN W. OLSTAD Student Council JOHN J. HUGHES, Chairman THOMAS MCGOUGH WILLIAM L. JENKINS ALVAN H. TENNEY ' COLUMBIA ENGINEER Associate Editor Editor RICHARD H. LUDEMAN PAUL E. QUENEAU Business Mzznager JOHN W. OLSTAD FAREWELL DINNER COMMITTEE PAUL E. QUENEAU, Chairman PRESCOTT H. BLATTERMAN, JR. VICTOR H. NORDSTROM ROBERT T. BROWN JOHN W. OLSTAD ARTHUR N. HIXSON I HENRY A. PERKINS, JR. PERMANENT CLASS OFFICERS President Secretary JOHN W. OLSTAD PAUL E. QUENEAU Vice-President Treasurer RICHARD H. LUDEMAN JOHN J. HUGHES SENIOR AWARDS Illig Medals Darling Prize Rhodes Prize ROBERT W. GUERNSEY FRANCIS GOODALE BERNARD R. QUENEAU RICHARD H LUDEMAN H ' Peele Prize Wendell Medal ENRY A' PERKINS' JR' PAUL E. QUENEAU JOHN J. HUGHES Fifty-four

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The 1933 COLUIIIBIA ENGINEER COLUlVIBIA'S ENGINEERING TRADITION fcontinued from page 440 Electrical engineering is a still younger branch but has been the most rapid in development., A graduate of the first class in this department at Columbia, and now a Trustee of his Alma Mater, Gano Dunn, '91, is president of the G. White Engineering Corporation. This firm built the transmission line for the world's first great water power development-the pioneer Niagara Falls plant of '95-and has been a leader in the field of power development. Dunn had as his professors at Columbia, Francis B. Crocker, '82, a founder of the famous firm of Crocker 85 Wheeler at Ampere, N. J., and M. I. Pupin, '83, who first successfully applied the loading coil, or Pupinization, in telephone circuits. Even the radio enthusiast of today recalls that one of our younger alumni, E. H. Armstrong, '13, is responsible for the introduction of the regenerative circuit. The Chemical Engineering degree was Hrst awarded at Columbia in June, 1910. Columbia's department of chemistry, however, under the leadership of one of the greatest teachers in Columbia history, Chas. F. Chandler, Hon. '11, had long been a force in American science and industry. It is probably dangerous to single out one or two names from an impressive roster of the celebrities but every student of today passes the beautiful memorial to H. Y. Castner, pioneer of electrolytic chemistry, particularly in the soda and chlorine industry, who began his work at Columbia in 1875, every time he enters Havemeyer Hall. Horne, '94, in sugar chemistry, Schieffelin, '87, in drugs, Gray, '07, in petroleum chemistry, and Kendall, '08, of the Mayo Foundation, represent this older tradition in Columbia's chemical efforts. The younger generation, which has received the Chem. E. degree, however, are making a great record. Landolt, '12, in dust separation, and Fogg, Burke, Soule and others will bear watching. The department also attracts many graduate stu- dents and these more mature graduates-Rittman, Ph, D. '14, and Alexander, '15, in the field of petroleum chemistry, for example-have already achieved notable suc- cesses both in the development of chemical processes and in the management of chemical industries. Finally we should not neglect the fact that the Columbia courses aim, as Pro- fessor Trowbridge stated many years ago, to first make our students engineers and then to make them a particular kind of engineer. Very frequently a graduate of one branch practices in another branch. This is well illustrated by the case of Irving Langmuir, '03, who graduated in metallurgy, but has devoted his life to elec- trical science and has just received the Nobel Prize. It is also true that a Very large percentage fof Columbia engineering alumni have gone into the administration or management of technical industry. Perhaps the name most prominently mentioned today in this connection is that of the Presi- dent of the American Car 55 Foundry Company, VV. H. Woodin, '90, who, as Secre- tary of the Treasury of the United States, has cleared our banking situation and, we all hope, opened to us a new era of confidence and faith in the soundness of the American economic system. Thus, when the Class of 1933 steps out into the Big World next June in the Fourth Year of the Current Unpleasantness, they carry a heavy burden of responsi- bility with them. VVe hope there will be a good number of future Perronets, Stevenses, Parsons, et al., among them, for professors modestly assume they have something to do with developing abilities and thus take pride in the accomplishments of their former pupils. No matter what the future has in store for the Class of 1933, however, we can rest assured that they found at Columbia that loyalty, that devotion to a worthy tradition of profession and school, which gives point and pur- pose to life and is an inspiration and guide to a full and useful career. Fifty-fifve