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

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EIUEYHPUP OSEPH IMARREN B.XRKE'R'XV21S born at Lawrence, Mass., on june 17, 1891. He attended the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which latter institution he received the degrees of B. S. and M. S. in electrical engineering. On June 17, 1916, he married Mary Metcalf Perin of Brookline, Mass. In 1916 he joined the army, went to the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va.. and after being stationed as Instructor at the Field Artillery School of Fire, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, went overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces as a Captain of Coast Artillery, rising to the rank of major. He served as Battery Commander, Battalion Commander and General Staff Gfficer during active operations. -He remained abroad with the Peace Commission, the Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces and the Army of Occupation in Germany until 1923, when he returned to America. He attended the advanced course at the Coast Artillery School and then took his master's degree at M. I. T. Resigning from the Army in September, 1925, he remained at M. I. T. as associate professor of electrical engineering for four years. Due to the size of the department, in addition to his teaching and his work as principal research assistant in illumination of the National Research Council, he was assigned administrative and executive duties which laterled to his appointment at Lehigh University as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and director of the curriculum. A year later he came to Columbia to assume the duties of Dean of the Engineering School. In connection with his responsible position, Dean Barker has undertaken many varied activities. He heads a. committee of the Division of Engineering and Industrial Research of the National Research Council, which by means of regional conferences is making surveys of the research capacities of all engineering schools in this country seeking to bridge the gap between university and industry with a view toward greater efficiency and less duplication. He is a member of the Committee on Professional Recognition of the Engineers, Council for Pro- fessional Development, is chairman of the Committee on Production and Applica- tion of Light of the A. I. E. E., is a member of the Technical Program Committee, A. I.E. E., and is chairman of the Committee on Comprehensive Examinations and Aptitude Testing of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He is chairman of a committee of Deans of New York State schools of engineering which was appointed by the State Commissioner of Education at Albany for the purpose of standardizing degrees and requirements and of advising the department on licensing of the engineering profession. In accord with his belief that engineering schools can learn much from each other in the methods of teaching and administration, he has visited western and mid-western universities. and in the summer of 1931 went abroad to visit English, French and German universities. The same spirit has been further manifested in his contacts with professional societies. and he takes an active part in their annual conventions. Wfhile his greatest professional interest lies with the Ameri- can Institute of Electrical Engineers, of which he is a fellow, the Illuminating Engineering Society, of which he was president in 1932-33, and the International Commission on Illumination, he is actively connected with the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for the Pro- motion of Engineering Education and the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, of which he is a fellow. In the general administrative work of the University he is a member of the Advisory Committee in Educational Policy. which assists the President on matters of budget and policy and of the Executive Committee of the University Council which prepares legislation for the general direction of the University, He was a member of the Butler Commission on Economic Aiairs which presented its report to President Butler during the past winter. ln addition, he is chairman of the Committee on Men's Residence Halls, which has made a splendid start in the reorganization and rehabilitation of the dormitories at Columbia. He is a member of the Century Association of New York, Engineers Club, Columbia University Club and the Saltaire Yacht Club. A member of Phi Kappa Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi, Dean Barker holds the distinction of having been created an otihcer of the Order of Prince Danilo I of the Nlontenegran Royal House. etn tal fur ngineers DEAN loseiari NV. BARKER Tlzc1'e' are more things in herwen and earth, Horatio, than are dwfeamt of in your philosophy. -Slzakespeare. oiz .x NUMBER OF YEARS you have been subjected to an educational system calculated to lay the nrm foundation and to erect the naked steel work of your inental structure. Unlike a physical building this mental structure cannot be tested for ultimate strength with any degree of precision. Wfe shall never know precisely nor for many years even approximately whether or not we have turned out individual products conforming to specifications. The grades which you have obtained from us are purely subjective measures of our guesses as to your ability to absorb certain material after due exposure to its principles in class and laboratory. Wfe do know however that we have not, nor could we have, given you instruction in ewrytlzirzg necessary for progress toward being an engineer in the truest and highest meaning of that word. Even if it has been true in the past that the engineer has thought of his work in purely technical terms it is no longer possible for him to divorce himself or his work from the larger and more important problems of the society in which we live, At the same time that we owe a duty to ourselves, our family and our employer or colleague -we owe a more important duty to humanity at large and to the community about us. Vlfe must learn to take our responsibilities in the problems confronting our civilization and our share of the community activities. It is probably true that there is no method of teaching you how to do such things, it is certainly true that we have not done so. All we have done is to attempt to introduce the barest outlines of the development of this civilization, of the technical applications of science and of the economics of these technologies. It is up to you to determine the interrelationships as they develop in your own particular cases. Such a determination makes it essential that you learn to know your fellow men, that you broaden your contacts as widely as possible and that you keep your minds open and alert to the implications of the occurrences through which you will live. There are selish advantages in such things as well, for upon your breadth of contacts and the alertness of your minds will depend the opportunities for better employment and advancement. r Here in one of the largest metropolitan regions of the world you have had rich opportunities for contacts with the world of affairs and of men, the world of arts, science and technology, the world of literature, painting, sculpture, drama and music, the World of society in its largest sense. Do I hear you again shouting, Yes, but you've kept us too busy with reports and home preparation for us to have time to grasp these opportunities. VVe couldn't hnish the assignments, let alone do any of these other things. All that only goes to prove how much there is left for you to study. You know in your inmost hearts that you didnlt master all the technical material presented to you and that at the same time you found some opportunities for the other things. Your own student life has been a miniature replica of the greater life into which you enter on leaving Morningside. Some of the problems you have here encountered will be again presented to you on a much larger scale. lt is one of the drawbacks of a great urban university that so many of the students live at home, and have their student contacts limited to the classrooms and laboratories. It is one of the advantages of our L'niversity that we are not continually living on a small stage where student lite is the all-important thing but that we have been exposed to the ebb and How of life on one of its largest stages. As you leave us I ask that you study yourselves for your points of strength and weakness. loin your professional society to keep in touch with progress in your technology, become active in its affairs and contribute to its proceedings, broaden your contacts with your confreres. lVatch the work of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development to which your society already belongs and participate in the program of its Committee on Professional Training. loin the Engineering Schools Alumni Association to keep in active touch with Columbia and your brother graduates. And finally, come back often to Morningside and tell us, out of the wealth of your own experiences, those things We did Well and those things We did poorly or tailed to do. In your participation in business and in society remember the World will iuclcfe Columbia University and our School of Engineering by your accomplish- . fb ments. Wfe gladly entrust our reputation in your hands for We have done for and with you the very best we know how to do. Wfe have done our part, will you do yours? mn.,--9, i 2 Q 5 RI The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER mth nf . Qilass nf 1934 COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ' CLASS OFFICERS P1'eside1zf THOMAS C. HANA Sf1ICllC7'ZZL Comzcil CII.-XRD O. A. PETERSEN, P1'es17de1zt HENRY F. SIEGER GORDON v.xN B. IQING . E. NIORLEY XVEIR COLUMBIA ENGINEER Edifol'-'1'1-z-Clzief 191557.71855 .Ufmagcr IDIENRY E. SIEGER THOMAS C. I-IANA slssnczfafe Editm' Czf1'c11Zafi01L Nczzmger .ARTHUR I GLOSTER RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN FAREXVELL DINNER COMMITTEE AVILLIABI B. PEGRAM, Chai1'mcm GORDON VAN B. TQING .ARTHUR I. GLOSTER -RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN TIIOM.xs C. I-IANA E. MORI.EX' AWEIR PERMANENT CLASS OEFICERS Pl'USZ.dE7Zf SC'C7'61'U1':V FRANK NIORLEY XV EIR RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN View-P1'cs1'dzmt T1'eas1u'e1' ARTHUR J. GLOSTER PIOVVARD PEARSON SENIOR AXVARDS Darling Prize PVc1za'f?Il Riedel ELDRED L. RAUN A RUSSELL A. VVIAIITEMAN Te n The 1934 COLUIWBIA ENGINEER OLIVER E. APPLEGATE IIA.. 13.5 , EL. Ocean G1'0f,'e, N. J. Neptune High School FREDERICK G. AUER ILS., M.E. Bfzjalo, N. lf Hutchinson High School A.S.M.E KARAPET A. AVAKI.-XN B.s., E.I:. New York City Russian Gymnasium HERMAN HENDRTK MARTTNUS BERKHOUT Iss., M.s. IX 11.12. Brooklyn, N. 3' xXYC1'litL'llglCL1llCllgQ M.T.S., Amsterdam OSCAR BESSIO Bs. IN ILE. CCOPPER TSNION5, Ms. IN ILE. New York City Dickinson High School JULIUS BLAND B s. CROCHESTERD, II.s. IN NIET.E. Roclfesfelg N. Y. East Technical High School Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. Engineerls Club. E I even 4 . Nw :LF ' ,..'-Ku A fe ,cl I fy I 2, Q, 1 f .. 1 AV. 1,3 :,nww. S9 W m 44,12 The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER SAMUEL BOGEN us., 12.13. New York C ity Towsend Harris Hall A.I.E.E. HENRY JOHN CLUVER Is.s. IN CNOTRE DAMED, M s. IN N ew Y ark City Stuyvesant High School A.T.E.E. JAMES THOMAS COSTIGAN ILE. CSTEVENSD, M.s. IN 11.12. New York City Stevens Prepzlratory School Student Council 124, Phi Delta Epsilon, Tau Delta. H. XYVARNER DAILEY B.S., C.E. Jllozmf lfvC'l'IIOIl, N. Y. Mount Vernon High School A.S.C.E. ANTONIO DI LORENZO B.S., c.1a. lflfest New York, N. J. Memorial High School A.S.C.E. E. Delta Twelve The 1934 COLUIVIBIA ENGINEER MAURICE V. DONOVAN B.s. IN C.E. CMANHATTAND, M s. IN c.E. New York City Regis School Student Council '34, A.S.C.E. ALEXANDER H. EEDAK B.s., CH.E. New York City Stuyvesant High School ARTHUR JAMES GLOSTER B.A , B.s., cH.12. Holyoke, Jllass. St. Jerome High School Vice-President Student Chapter of A.l.Ch.E., Theta Tau, Junior Board 1933, Managing Edi- tor 1934 COLUIIBIA ENGINEER, Farewell Dinner Committee, Student Council '32, FRANCIS D. GOLDMAN B.s., M.E. New York City Evander Childs High School Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi. JOSEPH THEODORE GOLLUP B s. IN c.E. CC.C.N.Y.D, ILS. IN c.E. New Y 01'k City Monroe High School Delta Pi Epsilon JOHN H. GOOLSBY B.s. CTENNJ, 11.5. IN Mama. Chatfalzooga, Tenn. Franklin County High School Tllirfeeu The 1934 COLUJIBIA ENGINEER FRANK E. GRAPES, Ju. B.S.,C.E T1'GZl6I'56 City, lliftltfllgllll St. Francis High School A.S.C.E. JEROME HARRY GREENBERG Bs., New York City Evander Childs High School VINCEXT NNILLIAM HAEDRICH BMA., B.s, M.s. IN CHE. Brook-Iyn, N. Y. James Madison High School Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi, Correspond- ing Secretary of Student Chapter A.I.Ch.E THOMAS C. HANA 1s.s., .FIlfl.S'flil1g, New York Flushing High School Tau Beta Pi, Student Council '33, Class Presi- dent '34, Business Manager 1934 COLUMBIA ENG1N15121z, Radio Club, Farewell Dinner Com- mittee, :Xl E.E. GEORGE OSCAR HENNING 1:.s.C1v1.1.T.J, M.s.1N MET. Brooklyn, N. Y. Technical High School HERMAN HEPPENHEIMER, 31213 B.s., M.12. New York Cify Evander Childs High School Theta Tau, Varsity C Club, A.S.M.E., S.A.E. Fourteen The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER ROBERT J. HICKEY Bs., M E. - North Tozzuzvcmda, N. Y. North Tonawanda High School Dumbbells RAYMOND KENNETH HILDEBRANDT B.s., M.E. New York Cily Richmond Hill High School Alpha Sigma Phi, Spiked Shoe, Varsity C Club. GEORGE E, HYDE Bs. IN c.1z. CSOUTHERN METHODISTB, c.E Dallas, Turns Rockford High School A.S.C.E., Blue Key ROBERT O. IMHOFF 13.5, CL. fersey Cify, N. f. Lincoln High School Alpha Sigma Phi, President Student Chapter Civil Engineers. EMU., T. IOSS B.s., V New York City Jamaica High School GORDON V. B. KING B.A., B.s,, Mrs. IN LE. Colrvezzt, N. f. Lawrenceville School Dumbbells, Student Council '34 DAVID KOSH ns., c.1s. Brooklyn, N. Y. Boys High School Sigma Xi, A.S.C.E. Fifteen gggII. 1 4. 1 I f fzlw-:-Il.. feb.:-ul' Q-aggczgf' K ' Je 1 1 Y N I f The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER FRANCIS JAMES LARKIN 13.5, cH.12. Port lfVrzslzz'1Lgt0vL, L. I. Port Xlfashington High School FRANK N. MAGILL . IN c.E. QGEORGIA TECI-LD, M.s. IN C.II Ailc111.ln, Georgia Technical High School 1 13.5 f A.S.C.E. ' EDNVARD M. MASSELL B.A., B.S., New York City George Wlashington High School Sigma Xi, Epsilon Chi ROBERT C. MEDL, IR. M.E. CSTEVENSJ, M.s. IN cH.E. Brooklyn, N. Y. Bushwick High School hi Lambda Upsilon, 1' Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, P S tn cl cnt Council '34, Theta Upsilon Omega. RALPH MILLER ns., cH.Iz. New York Cify Evzincler Childs High School Epsilon Chi HARRY LOUIS MUELLER B.s. fPENN STATED, M.s. IN BE. Broolelylz, N. Y. Manual Training High School ARDUO LEWIS NICOLAI B.s., M.E. Niagara Falls Sixteen The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER JEROME O'NEILL Bs., Ms. IN I.E. Brooklyn, N. Y. Newtown High School Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi VVILLIAM B. PEGRAM BA., B.s., IvI.13. New York City Horace Mann Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Dumbbells CSecr.j, Theta Tau, Delta Chi, Student Council '32, .-X.S.M.E., Farewell Dinner Committee. RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN ns., M.s. IN M.E. New York City Stuyvesant High School Theta Xi, Dumbbells, Theta Tau CR6gCHt,34D, Student Council Treasurer '33, President '34, Circulation Manager T934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER, A.S.M.E. ELDRED LYLE RAUN BA. CMORNINGSIDI-1 COLLEGED, IIE. Sioux City, Iowa East High School Dumbbells CMajorj, Theta Tau, Sigma Xi. DONALD B. READ B.A., B.s., cH.I:. Port P17aslzingt0n, L. I. Port Wfashington High School Sigma Xi, Theta Tau, Varsity C Club, iA.I.Ch.E. THOMAS I. REILLY BA., B.s., M.s. IN LE. New York City Stuyvesant High School Varsity C Club Seziezzteen .. 3 c iw. rf- . 1- - :fin -V . . et .ii-f f '?i. -Q - wffw.-.1 .. ., -:zg:1:p:s:-N. Q 'gif . ' ' V .4 5' ' -1211517 fiiftf ,. i' : YEXff'3:-. fzi 1 1 . 1-2-IE' . f' N .1.f-TW' ' . . 12:21 . ,ii ir- , 11fi:s.2'.fE21sZz'?LiE:E - - '51':7:-' ' ' 0- WS' 'Q':f7j.I:-114'Elif . 7If'-:3g':':5I5: IV L? The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER LEO J. RICONDA B.A., B.s., M.E. City Islazicl, N. Y. Fordham Preparatory School Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Dumbbells, Student Council '33, A.S.M.E. HELMUT WY SCHULZ 11.3, C1-1.12. New York C iiy Brooklyn Technical High School Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Epsilon Chi, lileetrochemical Soc., A.l.Ch.E. GEORGE D. SHEMIN 13.5. Ccoomzn UNIOND, M.s. IN Broolelylz, N. Y. Alexander Hamilton High School A.I.E.E. JOHN P. SHERRON B.s.,M.E. Norwalk, Conn. Horace Mann School Theta Tau, Phi Sigma Kappa, A.S.M.E, HENRY FREDERICK SIEGER B.A., B.s., c.E. Hzzzltfiligtzm, L. I. Richmond Hill High School Tau Beta Pi CSecretaryl, Sigma Xi, Dumb- bells QT1-easurerj, Student Council '32, ,34, .-'X.S.C.E., Junior Board 1933 COLUMBIA EN- izmlzrzix, Editor-in-Chief 1934 COLUMBIA EN- mxlzlzrc. IULES G. SIMMONDS B.A.,C.E. New York City George Wfashington High School Tau Beta Pi CTreasurerQJ. Sigma Xi, Vice- President Student Chapter Civil Engineers. IULES H. SREB B.A., Bs., New York City Eieldston School Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Kings Crown. A.I.E.E. Eighteen The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER JOSEPH DANIEL STETKEWICZ B.A., B.S., eH.E. Jersey City, N. J. Dickinson High School Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, A.C.S., A.l.Ch.E. CHARLES H. SWAN - B.s., cH.E. New York City Stuyvesant High School Dumbbells, Spikecl Shoe WINTON ALLEN TICKNOR 13.5. CWHITEALAN COLLEGEJ, MJ2. Walla Walla, ll7asl1ingl0n Centralia High School Tau Beta Pi CVice-Presiclentj, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Theta Tau, Dumbbells. EUGENE TIGHE ns., cas. New York City Stuyvesant High School Dumbbells, A.S.C.E. ALBERT J. TOERING s.s.,E.M. New York City Franklin K. Lane High School Sigma Xi, Zeta Psi, School of Mines Soc. CP1'esidentj. ULYSSES N. VASSILAROS ns., c.E. .laclesmz I-leigllts, L. I. Stuyvesant High School , A.S.C.E. Tl-IEOLOGOS N. VASSILIADES n.s.,E.E. ' Saloniva, Greece' First Greek Gymnasium, Pnyx Society lXilIIC'f6'C'll ll 4, 4 5 'Q i 4 113 .IZ i The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER EDMUND F. VE SELY B.s. fN.Y.U.3, M.s. IN cH.E. New York City Stuyvesant High School X CS A.l.Ch.E., Electrochemical Society MILLARD F. voN HALLE Bs. CLAFAYETTEJ, Ms. IN c.1z. Hafleensacle, N. f. Hackensack High School CH XRLES F. VON HERRMANN, IR. is s. Cosoizoiix TECHD, M.s. IN ME. Atlanta, Georgia Technological High School l Tau Sigma, Southern Club, Acacia, X SMT S.A.E, ROBERT NN, NNARD B.S., cH.E. Hollis, L. I. De La Salle School A.l.Ch.E. FRANK MORLEY WVEIR B.A., B.s., C.E. Brooklyn, N. Y. Erasmus Hall High School Tau Beta Pi CPresiclentj, Sigma Xi, Dumb- bells Theta Tau, Varsity C Club, Class Presi dent 39 33, Student Council CTreasurerD '34 l 'neu ell Dinner Committee. XUSSELL A. XNHITEMAN as., O1'a-dell, N. J. Epsilon Chi, Sigma Xi XNILLIAM B. NVILKENS Bn., B.s., N ew York City Stuyvesant High School ia Nu, Varsity C Club, A.l.E.E, Twenty --MMG sank... 2-1 .wwf i 2 FAMILIAR SCENES 1 The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER The 1934 Qiulumhia Qingimzer PROFESSOR THOMAS I-I. PIARRINGTON H07Z0l'G7'j' Ealifor IIENRY F. SIEGER E0 fl'O7'-1.7L-ClI'f6f :XRTI-I UR I. GLOSTER ilfanagiazg Editor THOMAS C. HANA Bzrsivicss Manager RICI-I.XRD O. A. PETERSEN C'l.7'ClllU-lfI07'l Manager JUNIOR BOARD COLUIUBIA ENGINEER STAFF :lOI1X H, BOSE Bose 1605311 BURLEIGH BOYD Petersen Harrifigfou SIABQFI' Hana SIDNEY ROSEN hitnrial ASPECTS OF SPECIALIZATION IN ENGINEERING NGESTION WITHOUT DIGESTIUX means congestion in the field of ideas. To rela- tively few of us is accorded that divine gift of a mental digestive system which can assimilate the varied though not unrelated to such a degree as to cause the fortunate possessor to be reckoned an authority whose opinion is sought and respected. The demands for exhaustive knowledge in the many branches which the profession of engineering embraces might well tax gargantuan men- talitiesg it becomes, therefore. necessary for us to place a limit upon the activities which we can undertake and upon which we can hope to exert our sphere of inliuence. The advantages of such limitations from the viewpoint of society are mani- fold. We owe many of the advances made in the various fields of human endeavor to men who have clone specialized intensive work along a certain definite line. Thus, we cannot safely design a structure such as the Empire State Building piercing the sky, as it does, a distance of nearly a quarter-mile, without adequate knowledge of the stresses occurring in a building of such a height. which knowledge is not likely to emanate from one who has not devoted considerable time and thought to methods of analysis of stresses. XN7e cannot erect it at all without specialized advice on methods of construction for which no precedent exists. Nor can we safely devise a foundation without encountering new problems de- manding solution. Certainly the whole project. from conception to completion, calls into play the results of the efforts of many men along many lines. So it is with all the work which may properly be classed as engineering work,-civil, mechanical, mining, electrical. chemical and industrial-and a recognition of the Twenty-fwo The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER very wide field over which these branches range leads readily to the admission of the wisdom of choosing a very dehnite portion of the work and confining our efforts thereto. The era in which we are now living has been called the age of specialization, and concomitant with the appellation comes the accusation that it is tending to standardize our lives-to pattern after one mold a mosaic in which the individual is lost. Yet in the execution of a great engineering project we can have no general practitioner responsible for the whole: on the contrary, we need experts for each portion of the work. However, the line of demarcation between the various branches of engineering is not so sharply dehned that we may with security lay out the boundaries of each and place dennitely a given piece of work in its proper sphere. It follows that we must all have a knowledge of the branches allied to our chosen one, that we may see its relation to the whole and be able to estimate or at least allow for the effect of the other fields upon our own. The very inten- siveness of specialization tends to minimize the importance and preclude any con- sideration of these other branches. Entirely aside from these aspects comes the question of the possibility of the leading of the good life -a state of being which includes the liberal. cultural side of life as well as the prosaic technical. Unfortunately there exists no yard- stick with which we can measure the value of a liberal education-no gage by which to evaluate the returns to us of efforts expended along these Lines. A student is very apt to chafe at the requirements of an engineering school which demands apparent unessentials such as languages, literature, history, economics, and the like, if, indeed, he does not forsake the school entirely in favor of one applying itself more directly, as he considers it, to his interest. This again is in line with the idea of specialization, the application of one's whole self to a predetermined occupation to the exclusion of other worth-while though not directly applicable interests. Since his student days comprise the molding period of the engineer, it is- then that he has his best opportunity of laying the founda- tions of a well rounded out life and that school best serves the student which gives him the chance to make the most of his opportunity. The student merging into the engineer is next likely to carry with him the influences of hi-s formative period, and if now he should decide to specialize along a certain line, these influences may combat the tendency toward the abnegation of the good life which is inherent in the very quality of specialization. It would appear then that specialization tends to make one move in rather a narrow groove. Certainly the benefits accruing to the individual are not as apparent as those recurring to society as a whole as a result of his efforts. And yet there is something admirable in his splendid isolation. He lives, as it were, in a world of his own making, the essentials of a difficult, involved mental task now clearly lambent to him in the rehections of a flame kindled by his own efforts. To be a master of one thing worth while, to possess the ability to do that thing better than anyone else, to live with it constantly and further it along until it results in another boon to mankind-these are values of no mean order of magnitude. Wfhether we wish to specialize along any line is a question each of us must decide for himself, undoubtedly circumstances, opportunities, and abilities play a large part in the determination of our destinies, yet withal the will to do also becomes a powerful force when combined with the industry to support the will. ' H. F. S. Tzwuiy-tlzree SECOND YEAR CLASS The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER becunh Bear 01211155 CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Arthur George Appelboom Everett Auer Myron A. Coler Sidney A. Corren YVilliam Franklin Cothran Vincenzo S. de Marchi Charles B. de Maya Paul William Garbo John C. Kalbach Norman Fulton Linn Gaetano C. Marcotrigiano john I. Morrisroe Lester B. Pope, Ir. A. Niles Shoening Charles H. Sivan Albert UI. Wfasmuth CI VIL ENGINEERS Burleigh Boyd Richard Hazen Gerard Matthew I-Ieslin Theodore deF. Hobbs John Elmer Lahti George 'W. Langmus Theodore R. Lohr Thomas P. Quilty Vincent I. Ricigliano Mariano N. Sinacori George Henry Spath George S. Stringer Frederick C. Tonetti Frank D. Zuzzolo ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS John Henry Bose Odin V. Carlson Charles Albert Castillo -I. Paul Frampton J. Edward Greengard, Ir. 'William I-I. Kehrer Frederick A. Lindley, Ir. T-zveiily-fire Taft Mardirossian ,Iulius Masheroni Emanuel Maxwell Gustave Natapoff Roger C. Norton Dale Pollack Valentine P. Rader john A. Rado Alfred Skrobisch Dimitri Soussloff Frederick Charles Spellman Rinaldo V. Taborelli Alford L. Wloods INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS Frederick VVilliam Arnold Philip Eugene Fisher Arthur Mitchel Herman von Plonski Arthur C. Vlfilliams Arthur S. M. XV ood MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Irving .Ioseph Britz Frank E. Fowler VVilliam Geoghegan Wlilliam Pierson Hammond .Iohn T. Huels Wfilfred Julius Kinderman Sidney Rosen XV alter Scheel Morris A. Shriro William LI. Smith Wlilliam A. Wfilson METALLURGICAL ENGINEER Sidney VVilson Poole MINING ENGINEERS Arthur Beyer Robert D. Lilley Wfalter E. Scheer if FIRST YEAR CLASS The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER jfirst year Qilass CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Julius Thomas Ranchero Horace A. Berman George Emanuel Bucci Drought D. Davis IN alter I-I. Dittrich Everitt Frederick Grieh Victor A, I-lann James Norman Howard Sidney Kahan James McAndris John R. Miller John J. Ryan, Jr. Jerry Smerechniak Wfilliam Beverly XVestcott, Jr. Llewellyn Curt IVimmer CIVIL ENGINEERS . Nicholas V. Feodoroff Adolph Fischer, Jr. Irvine Gould Donald Henry Lomb Johj. O. Osterherg Rifat Vedjdi ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Wfilliam L. Auer W'illiam Milne Barker Edward C ahalan Rafael de Carrera Herman Goldstein Frank Jolm Hovorka Charles Morrison McCormack John Florindo Marotta Samuel Mason Eugene Anton Mechler Charles XV Nuttman Charles John Rigby Jose A. Rionda Irving Rowe ' 'Wfilliam Francis Shaughnessy Charles Sidney Small Albert Joseph Smith Finley XYomack Tatum Tzverz fy-.rc-z' zz Earl Nl. Underhill Ralph Wfilliam lVindrum Thomas A. lVright, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS Stanley Cumings Michael F. Demshar Milton Forman Anson Jansen Fowler Evald H. Gasstrom Alton A. Katz George IVI. Lehr Timothy John Mulcahy, XVilliam A. Patterson Conrad Hume Pinches Jesse Ratner Anthony Louis Sallette Jerome Sokolski Alexis V. von Goertz MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Alexander Joseph Albrecht Frederick Blumers Edward James Flavin Theodore Ley Frederick P. Mangels Carroll J. Marquard VVilliam Marshall, Jr. Hughes Francis Miller George Douglass Montfort James H. Potter Louis Rossetto Wfalter Suydam Arthur R. lVeismantle METALLUR GICAL ENGINEERS John O'Keefe MINING ENGINEERS Squire R. Barrett Joseph F. Holt George Falkner Hunt The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS AND EACULTY Dc Carrera, lfV1'lR671J, G1'ec1zbe1'g, Tatum, Cluoeir, IlfICC0l'7'lLl1Ck, Vart, Small, Aue-V, Skrobisclti, Illohan, Hama, Barleer, I-Iotforlecz, Goldstein, Smith, SLlClllg1'l'll6.S'Sy, Rionda, Applegate, lfV1l'lifCll'1fGl'l, Soussloyf, Joss, Vassiliades, Mason, Carlson, E1'a111ptou, Rader, Miclzler, Woods, Marotta, Maxwell, Azfaleicm, Natapojjf, Bogen, Spellfazoni, IVIashev'oui, Bose, Castillo, Rigby, Sreb, Baker, .A7'El'ldf, Slichteaf, Helzire, Bczl111,fo1'd, C1z1'v'y. Uilaustle while nu wait XV ALTER A. CURRY ANY YEARS AGO Professor Francis B. Crocker, who was then head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, received a large photograph of Thomas A. Edison as a gift from the inventor, upon the lower border of which Mr. Edison had written: My dear Crocker, A motto for your boys---All things come to him who hustleS while he waits. THOMAS A. EDISON. This photograph was one of the most prized possessions of the Department and up to the Spring of 1929, when it was presented to Henry Ford for his Edisonia collection, it hung in the south corridor of the 400 floor in Engineering. In this location it served as an inspiraton and admonition to hundreds of our engineering students. More recent classes have not had this influence and it seems desirable at this time to recall the photograph and the message which it carried. The exact origin of the motto is not clear, but it appears probable that Mr. Edison paraphrased the old oriental proverb All things come to him who waits, which presents a placid philosophy of life entirely inadequate to our Twenty-eight The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER present-day needs and environment. l-lence the aggressive and forceful modifica- tion which Mr. Edison has given us. At first reading, the motto immediately arouses one's interest because of its paradoxical phrasingg the words wait and hustle connote such diverse courses of action that they seem to be inconsistentg thus causing one to puzzle over the phrase and thereby imprinting it firmly on the mind. The young graduate may find it most difficult to set his feet on the road which he has hoped to travel and for which he has prepared himself. In many cases he has to accept work with little or no technical interest and Mr. Edison's motto is particularly applicable and pertinent for this reason. But if while he is thus waiting he Works aggressively and enthusiastically at the job in which he finds himself he will prove his ability and worth and will build himself up as an outstanding candidate for any opportunities which the future will offer. Thus the motto is not inconsistent, but on the contrary, states in simple language a philosophyof life which is a powerful aid to success and happiness. Even after the graduate is in the line of work which he has hoped for, the phrase applies with even greater force. One might say that everyday life consists in doing the things which need to be done in the present and looking forward to, or anticipating the needs of the future. The first-mentioned activity consists of enthusiastic work, of 'fhustlefl while the second is anticipation, or waitingf' It should be kept in mind that hope and enthusiasm are important factors in waiting, and without these hustle may become drudgery. The words hustle While you wait thus contain the thought 'Kwork as enthusiastically and as ably as you can in the present, while looking forward to the futuref' Therefore, as each of you leaves the University to begin professional work, carry with you this advice of a great inventor, and you will have added appreciably to your potential success and happiness. MOTOR GENERATOR SET IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY Twenty-nizze The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Gasstroilz F'l.SI167' W'iII1'a111s Kats dififchel Ratner - I I Ryan Reilly O'Ne1ll Ayars Livzfigsiolz Smith. 015132 il-Market late XNALTER RAUTENSTR.AUCII HE sUM ToT,xL of what is termed our national culture is derived from the composite of experiences in living, and the resulting patterns of behavior. These determine our point of view, or how We look at things, and judge them. If these experiences are well balanced, that is, give proper emphasis to all the needs and aspirations of mankind. then our behavior patterns result in an acceptable national culture. H, however, We emphasize some aspects of living more than others, our point of view becomes distorted, and We fail to understand the full and complete meaning of our experiences. The rapid development of our material resources in the past two generations, and the elaborate business processes dealing with these resources have demanded a considerable amount of human energy and attention. Thus the production of goods, and the many details of business concerned with goods, have been the major concerns of the majority of men. The Market Place has become the chief arena of lite experiences, and has established the patterns of behavior of mankind. Its standards have become the standards by which the issues of life are judged. The class of 1934 is about to take its place in this process we call civilization, and be absorbed in its activities. Its specific contributions will be to design, construct and operate the physical plant by which society supplies its material needs and comforts, and also to assist in the design, construction and operation of the economic system and business processes by which the products of manufacture are brought to effective consumption. In both these fields of profession service, Tlzirfy The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER the work of the engineer is judged by the test of the Market Place, and this test is: VVill it pay? If the result of the test is positive, the work is said to be successful,' and those who reap the rewards are known as successful men. Thus the Market Place sets the standard by which both the work and the workers of the world, including engineering and engineers, are judged. In fact. this influence has dominated engineering -instruction, and all problems in every field of engineer- ing teaching focus on the question, will it result in a satisfactory return on the capital invested: that is, will it pay? I Wonder sometimes if we fully realize what this test of the engineers work implies. Has the engineer been so absorbed in the techniques involved in obtaining a satisfactory answer to this question that he has failed to sense its implications? I trust every member of the class of 1934 will consider this question in the light of recent business conditions, and then ask himself: did it pay? P W, We J i.,ii. 2 Z 5 t Tlzirly-one Y' The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Qnnnuneing the Retirement nt Beufessut ati IB. iiuhell ARL BRINK LOVELL was born at Marathon, N. Y., on May 2, 1869. After preparing at the Marathon Academy and the Casadilla School in Ithaca, Professor Lovell was graduated with a C. E. degree from Cornell Univer- sity in 1891. For the two years follow- ing upon his graduation, he became as- sistant engineer on location for the Mich- igan Central Railroad, and in 1893 went ' to Lafayette College as an instructor in civil engineering. He joined the faculty at his alma mater in 1896, and 1898 came to Columbia. Professor Lovell's first work at Columbia had to do with building up the instruction in surveying and railroad engineering. He rebuilt Camp Columbia and practically reorganized the summer work in surveying. But he also gave the instruction in masonry construction and for years carried a major share of the department's teaching burden. Later his active life included the oflice of advisory engineer and manager of the survey department for the Lawyers Title and Guaranty Co., N. Y. In connection with these duties he has been a leader' in raising city surveying in Greater New York from a trade to a profession. He has cleared up many important titles to real estate in Manhattan and has been recognized as an expert in the real estate and title insurance field. He became chairman of the Association of Department Heads of his company and was elected president of the Association of Citye Surveyors, Greater New York, and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. A member of Tau Beta Pi and one of the charter members of the Columbia Chapter of Sigma Xi, Professor Lovell closes thirty-six years of service at Columbia with his retirement on July 1, 1934. DEAN JOSEPH XV. BARKER: After thirty-six years of service to the University, Professor Earl B. Lovell has requested retirement with its relief from the burden of duties. I-le has counselled his Department and our Faculty, he has advised his students, he has built Camp Columbia- he leaves his mark upon the School and the University. lille shall miss his sterling friend- ship and his guidance of affairs. He becomes one of the traditions of the School. FACULTY: A tall, athletic frame, topped by a bountiful crop of hair. Above a pointed beard and mustache. two piercing eyes. The housing of a human dynamo-you can almost hear the hum of the ever active mental machinery. In back of this, a nervous energy driving ever forward-never resting, yet ever ready. Kind and thoughtful friend, my teacher and colleague, 1 sat by your side and heard your idol, the lirst Rooseveltpthrow his hat in the ring back in 1912, But it is you, not Theodore, who shall ever remain to me the embodi- ment of the strenuous lifef' you, uncompromising advocate of truth and right as you see it, who, without let-up or release, plays the game of life with courage, force and honesty, hitting the line hardf' May you hnd well earned rest in your Sabine farm at Cortland. Praornssorz JAMES K. FINCH. Thirty-two The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER ALUMNI: For almost forty years Columbia Engineers have been introduced to the problems of surveying and railroad engineering by Professor Lovell's courses in Civil Engineering. With the news of his retirement, many alumni, some gray headed, will have their memories stirred to early days at Camp Columbia when the Prof taught us that surveying was real work and we worried him with impromptu parties of a more general nature. Always very earliest and intense, no student ever slept in Professor Lovell's classes. Generations of Columbia men recall his forceful ersonalit . Their an reciation of the Jart he has la 'ed in the makinff of the Columbia En-Tineer, toffether with their best wishes, I . ' . I b b B go with him on his retirement. EDMUND A. PRENTIS, Preszdeut, Columbia Enoineerinv' Schools Alumni Association. D D STUDENT BODY: , W'hen we came to Engineering School, we sat in our lirst course under the aegis of Professor Lovell. Through three semesters we continued under his guiding hand and with the tap of his ruler on our shoulders. Wie all remember vividly the flash of his eyes and our embarrassment when one of our numbers made an especially foolish remark. But no matter how he scolded, underneath his sternness he felt a deep affection for us and a great pride in our achievements. His text for railroad economics was Wlellington, published some fifty years ago. Of it he said, The figures may be antiquated, but the principles remain true forever. S0 the principles of Fighting for our rights, of straightforwardness, and of honesty, which Professor Lovell so well exemplilied, and which he taught us, will remain ours the rest of our lives. JULES G. SIMMONDS. MEMBERS OF 1934 CLASS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Your request for a word from me upon the occasion of your coming graduation from the Engineering School of Columbia University affords me the opportunity to express my appreciation of the honor and the great pleasure it gives me to review in brief the important values which you have in possession at the end of your course of study in this institution. CC011.1'i111zed on next pczgej CIVIL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Lolzr, illafske, 1.l'1llfjllIllSA, IllllI0j?, Gould, Spatll, Torzclli, Siuacori, Di Lorcizzo, Firclier, ,lI1'11dli11, Osfe1'l7c1'g. Lomb, Gnlfufs. Lahti, I-Iascn, Zussolo, llIagill, D0ll0T'UlI, Qzzllly, ll7FI'l', Kash, mm Halle, SlIllIIl0lId3, Dailey, He.vlz'11, Singer, licyer, Vzls.9ila1'0.r, Tlglzc, Korfvlrl, Finch. Tl1irly-Il1rz'c' The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Your entrance into the School of Engineering in September, 1931, after havingspent three years or more in collegiate training, came at a time when the Countrv was face to face with problems dealing with a financial depression world wide. Many parents. already hachniade great sacrilice to.enable their sons and daughters to pursue collegiatelstudies. Morepxinanyltinies more severe. was to be the calls upon some of them for financial aid if you weregtol enter: the professional school and meet all the expenses incident to three years' additional study at this University. Your decision to carry on your educational program under -such circumstances required not only great courage but it showed exceed- ingly good judgment. These are values of first importance. Moreover, you made your decision and your choice of a school voluntarily. That act emphasizes your own power of initiative. This also is one of the great values of life and the step then taken by you has lead onward and upward to this coming commencement. During your course of study emphasis has been directed by the Instructors in this school to the fundamentals of Engineering Science. You have been taught how to interpret nature, to find the truth, to know HOXIV and XVHY, to read the observations of others with understanding, to verify or disprove by your own research the conclusions andfindings of other I116l1lS minds. Such are the processes of education. I-Iereafter you will supplement this knowledge by that to be gained more expensively in the school of experience. The laboratory, the library and the lield have served you as centers for this intensive study. A working knowledge of how to use these resources is a powerful and valuable attainment. This you have achieved. Ability to observe accurately, to think intelligently and to interpret correctly is indispensable to -a successful engineer. To know the scientific why and how was necessary for your advancement. To anticipate the need of and to formulate a plan for 'fdirecting the forces of nature to the greater benefit of man is evidence of vision and is the special function of the engineer. Let this be your aim. By their works ye shall know them shall apply with telling significance to all that the engineer does. A ' -:-. But you may ask, How is success to be measured? Ultimately by the degree of happiness that shall be attained through ability to render more efficient service and from a feeling or realization of one's own indispensability in or towards the achievement of some chosen objective. A true and upright character is the most honorable and priceless reward ever attainable. All your efforts must lead to a better understanding of the real purpose and the real meaning of life, above everything else, to a better knowledge of yourself and of your relation to your fellow man. Let each one approach his task with confidence that honest work well done will receive deserved recognition, with resolute self control, with earnestness and with enthusiasm. Be master of yourself, show interest in your work and loyalty to your associates. Xhlatch for opportunity to be of greater service and be prepared to accept more responsibility whenever the call comes. Let not disappointments discourage you. Out of such happenings character is developed. Be faithful, honest and generous in your estimate of the merit and ability of others. In the words of the great philosopher, Work today as if you would live forever: Live today as if you were to die tomorrow. fCU'l1ff1l1lEd 011 page 48D TESTING IUAGHINE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY Tllirty-fain' PROFESSOR THQMAS HENRY HARRINGTON, C.E.,'89 FOR FORTY YEARS GUIDE, COUNSELLOR AND FRIEND TO COLUMEL-X MEN A Presented to The U1'zive1'sity, April, 1934, by the COLUIVIBIA ENGINEERING SCPIOOLS ALUIUNI AS'5OCl:1TIO.V Portrait by Michael DeSantis The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER MECHANICAL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Nicoiai, Razzzz, Pegram, fI6f7f7EIIhGIllIE7', Riicozzda, Goldmmz, Alter, Hz'rke3', FIaf,'z'1L, Sllydlllll, Potter, Illarquard, lflfcisallallflc, HIId8bl'Gl1df, Rosetta, BIIIIIIEVJ, Malzgels, lllozzifolf, Albrecht, Lvbauzzsky, Sclzzzl, Ley, Sznifli, Shriro, Ca.rt1'ga11, Bessie, Fowler, I-Iuels, Petersezz, Geoghegazz, von. PILUITIIIGIIII, LVIISUII, Rosezz, ICIlld67'77lHIl', BCl'kIIOZlf, Hicks, BU1l7Il6'ISfE1', Eridnzcm, Parr, Karelifs, D1'lfCIIEl'. uitanharhigatiun ur jfussiligatiunn T 1-1EoDoRE BlxUME1sTER, IE. NE ESTIMABLE ENGINEER has said. Standardization is the first step toward fossilizationf' The fixing of railroad gaugesg the establishment of accepted screw threads g the specification of wire sizes: the systems of weights and measuresg or even the Arabic tables of numerals have all done much to facilitate progress and to enhance the happiness of life. Great as are the advantages of standardization its institution precludes prog- ress in other respects. Railroad cars are limited in size, weight and carrying capacityg screw threads and wire gauges are limited in latitudeg weights and measures are awkwardg and the systems of counting unduly burdensome. Stand- ardization thus serves to limit the scope of progress. These limitations become apparent with the passage of time and with the natural developments in the art which can know no moratorium on progress. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the old standards to be altered or for new and better ones to be originated. p Standardization of machine members-or for that matter, mental attitudes and processes-may be expeditious for current problems but without flexibility it constitutes the most certain course toward stagnation, decadence, and fossil- ization. Thirty-sin' The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER thins CHARLES E. LUCKE DMISSION TO ,ax PROFESSION necessarily imposes obligations, and acceptance of the responsibilities is always implied, though in some cases directly ex- pressed in part, as, for example, when the physician publicly subscribes to the oath of Hippocrates. Be the profession what it may, its practice makes two different types of demands on its representative, common to all in prin- ciple, but appropriately different in detail: that of professional competence, and that of ethical conduct in its application. The engineer in the practice of his profession renders personal service based on special knowledge in one of the fields of useful application of its underlying sciences, and his competence is measured by the breadth and depth of this special knowledge at any one time in his career. This is axiom- atic, and it follows that ambition and individual capacity will combine to produce in some men that mastery which, when acknowledged by his fellow engineers, makes him an authority in his specialty. This is the demand for professional competence imposed by engineering on its people. It is inherent in the practice of enginering, the objective of which is always utility, that the engineer have relations with other men, and that these relations be honorable ones, This is the ethical demand. There are rela- tions with other engineers professionally competing or cooperating, with clients, employers or superiors for whom the service is being rendered directly, with subordinates, assistants, juniors, professional and non-profes- sional, whose contributions are necessary to the service. In addition there is always a relation with the general public, usually indirect, but none the less real, because utility requires that the product of the engineering effort be a public asset. The engineering profession expects but does not require of its recruits a formal expressed acknowledgment of its ideals of professional competence CC01ZfI71,lL6li on page 592 INTERNAL COIWBUSTION ENGINE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING L.4BOR.f1TORY T11 irlg'-sCt'c'1z The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Wasmiztlz, Linn, Stetlaetcrzrs, Wilhelm, Davis, Kollmcli, Wt7lLlll61', Scott, Read, Ridel, Kahan, Artese, McKee, Anev-', Berwzozzi, Bucci, Miller, Gloster, Coler, Swan, Vesely, Haedricli, Ditty-iclz, Bloom, Butler, Valle-main, llliller, lll0l'7'1'.S'l'0E, Dla1'cot1'igia11o, Pope Co1'1'en, Garbo, Banclzero, Bertie-Allen, de Marold, Appleboom, Mo-rgon, Jacksoiz, Hixsoiz, I7Vorle, Rogers, Cothran. .y Claus Babu LINCOLN T. VVORK The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, lorzglirezj, cmd zoork.-Elbert Hiibbard. NE or THE FIRST issues of this senior annual carried a cartoon entitled, The Seven Ages of an Engineerfl Beginning with the child and' his technical toys, it showed the happy days at college, the hard work of engineering school, the iirst job with pick and shovel. advancement to executive rank, and a contented old age. It was in effect the growth curve of a lite and it presented each stage as a different environment. The problems of transition between the stages in the life of any engineer are not primarily of a technical nature, but in a broad sense they involve personality, that quality of being which results from the harmonious balance of character, health, and knowledge. The cle- velopment of personality is a theme upon which many of our leaders lay the greatest stress. By that token it is worthy of special consideration in the building of a life. Through the work of Professor Rautenstrauch and his colleagues, many in this graduating class are familiar with the growth curves of industries. Dr. Red- man of the Bakelite Corporation has studied the earlier portions of such curves as they relate to the development of a process. The analogy to human lite is interesting. An industrial process begins with an idea. At that point no investment has been made. If the idea is impressive, a few preliminary ex- periments are carried out. Gradually the investment in the idea growsg and as it shows promise more extensive investment is made. Faith in the Tlzirty-eight The 1934 COLUJWBIA ENGINEER ultimate value of the idea becomes more iirmly rooted as obstacles are over- come in the early work. Great is the faith required to induce the heavier expenditures which are finally needed to establish the process on an industrial basis. In due course of time the first production begins. The early sales, although perhaps not prohtable, gradually change the direction of the indebt- edness curve. As production goes into greater and greater volume, and is thus more eeconomically effected, this development account is taken out of the red. If the process has been well studied and if it is well adapted to its time, it should have a productive and prosperous life. The devotion of the earlier stages of human life to education is in effect an investment of this type. just as the great development projects of industry require a heavy investment of time and money before they reach the productive stage, so the life that is to be most fruitful must be developed broadly and comprehensively. It is a challenge to any instructor to make an effective contribution to such development. On Alumni Day this year, Presi- dent Butler set forth in a living picture examples of those on the staff who have, through the force of their personalities, meant so much in the life of the University. Theirs has been a powerful influence in the building of per- sonality in others. Growth does not end with g'raduation. If it did, the investment would be a heavy loss. New values become dominant when an industrial process goes into production. In the same manner at the time of graduation, which may be considered the point where economic return begins, the problems of the engineer change in nature to meet his new environment. Since human life covers much more than purely economic values, it would be folly to predict the character of a graduate's growth curve. Each one will set it to units of his own choosing-units which to him represent the real values. The rapidity with which that curve rises will depend entirely upon how effectively the many phases of life are coordinated to function harmoniously in the direction chosen. The very title of former President VVoodrow W'ilson's book, Whe1i a Man Comes to Himself, implies the same thing, and its contents reveal in how many diverse ways this goal may be attained. cC07Lff7l1lEd on page 595 ROTARY FILTER IN CHEQUICJI. ENGI.VEERl.VG LABORATORY Tl11'r1y-:zine The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER 3lI1 a jar urner uf the wurlh CHARLES P. EER KEY NE DAY in the early summer of l922, after traversing the desert stretches of Central Asia for a thousand miles on the old Tartar trails in the native land of Genghis Kahn. within the borders of the prov- ince of Sain Noin in Mongolia, We members of the Central Asiatic Expedition came to a lone mountain. Its appearance arrested our attention at once. It was neither very lofty nor particularly beautiful, but its sharp-edged form and black crown and talus slopes hang- i ing like a drapery gave sharp contrast with the lighter and smoother slopes below, and a certain majesty that stirred our interest and led to closer inspection. That it was unusual and must have a special history was evident at once, but that it held mystery also we were yet to learn. Later we found that this was a very ancient natural shrine. To this mountain, generation after generation of men have come. not as we had come incidentally, but as pil- grims and worshippers and as inquirers into its hidden mysteries. Wfe were in the presence of one of the natural wonders of their world-the sacred mountain of Sain Noin. At the foot of the mountain stands a shrine guarded by a high priest of Buddha, a Da Lama, a descendant of the Khans or princes of Sain Noin. carrying in his blood the pride of centuries of authority and privilege. And only a few yards from the lama's yurt ran a sparkling spring, the waters of which, hot as the hand can bear, issue from beneath a Buddhist shrine. These are the far-famed healing waters of Sain Noin, credited for ages with miraculous properties, probably indicating connection with supernatural powers, such as these people believe reside in the depths of the earth. Otherwise, why should the waters be hot when the surrounding ground is frozen, and why do they heal the ills of men when there is no physician? Here is mystery. Here the course of nature is reversed. Here is a spot where the natural and supernatural merge. It is a holy spot. Doubtless this mountain has looked down on many a savage scene as the sacred rites of primitive peoples were performed, and some of the super- stitions of that early time still linger. Wfhen we asked permission to inspect the spring, to make a map. and to unravel the geologic story, the guardian of the place readily consented, but warned us that we must not kill anything on this ground. The place lost none of its charm because it happened to Ht our purpose to study it as a locality of Northern Mongolia. In due course we learned that a hot spring issued from the rock at the base of the mountain. A great fault fracture cleaves its way through the ground here, and on one side a great block of the crust of the earth has dropped down-we judged more than a thousand feet-so that the two sides of the fault do not match at all. CC07lfi7L1l8d on page 482 Forty The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Memorial jllllinute fur ijerufessur Zahn 39. Muretruft N j'ANU.rxRY twenty-sixth last, our valued colleague and friend, John Harold Morecroft, passed away at Pasadena, California. Desiring to record in its minutes a tribute to Professor Morecroftls excep- tional abilities, an appreciation of his quarter century of service to Columbia, and an expression of our sense of loss in the passing of a tried and valued friend and associate, the Faculty of Engineering hereby instructs its Secretary to record in the minutes of the faculty the following memorial, and to forward a copy to Professor Morecroft's family. Born in Staffordshire, England, September nineteenth, l88l, John H. Morecroft came to th-is country as a boy and settled in Syracuse, New York. Here he attended Syracuse University, graduating with the degree of Elec- trical Engineer in 1904, and, later, returning to his Alma Mater as Instructor in Civil and Electrical Engineering. Professor Morecroft's first contact with Columbia occurred in 1907 when he began studying problems of electrical circuits and communication under Professor Pupin. A year later he became a University scholar and, in 1909, he entered the department of Electrical Engineering as an instructor. His unusual abilities were quickly recognized and his advancement was rapid. He was immediately recommended for an Assistant Professorship, became an Associate Professor in 1914 and Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1923. During the entire quarter century of Professor lNlorecroft's service to Columbia his chief interest was in the field of alternating current circuits and in the development of radio communication. His keenly analytical mind and his experimental abilities placed him in the forefront in the development of radio science. During the Viforld War he served first in the United States and later in the Allied Navies, as an expert consultant on submarine defense. He became President of the Institute of Radio Engineers and was a member of many committees of that organization and of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. To the outside world John Harold Morecroft will be remembered as the author of important texts in the electrical Held. His books on electrical circuits and machinery, written jointly with Professor I-Iehre, are used in our own classes and at many other schools. His Principles of Radio Com- munication is recognized the world over as an authoritative work, and reached its third edition last year. The results of his experimental researches are embodied in his books on 'tExperimental Radio Engineering. on Radio Communication, and on Electron Tubes. To his many friends and colleagues at Columbia, however, Professor Morecroft's passing recalls those sterling qualities of character and personality which endeared him to the Columbia men of his generation. We record his Cctlllflillllfd 011 page 58D Forty-olze The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Scheer Lilley Hunt Toering Poole Blond Baldizzi Barrett Heuzzizzg Morrill Beyer Kern Pine! Foote Allen Read Taggart CCIIIIPIJFII Burley Ietfe To the Editor, Coimitbia Engineer. DE.'XR MR. SIEGER: Wfhile duly conscious of the honor of being asked to contribute to this yearis Engineer, I feel I must beg to be excused. I know I promised I'd give you something, but on looking over the articles that have appeared in the last half dozen issues I realize I am totally incapable of writing anything suitable. I had in mind Writing you something on the subject of a i'Plea for Poetry in a Practical Period, in fact of advocating that a course in rhyming be added to the pre- engineering schedule. You never know when you may need it. If asked to make an extemporaneous speech at a dinner, it is so handy to have tucked away in your cigarette case half a dozen limericks which are new to your audience. They go over wonderfully, especially since Repeal, e.g., Dlye ken 601' Professor Maciink, who invented the chromium sink, he plated out metals in all kinds of kettles, which always produced a strange stink. XV hen I was between six and seven I graduated from the Kindergarten to the Grammar School, so called because they started you out on Latin Grammar- and to make it more attractive we learned the rules in verse. Common are to either sex, Artifex and Opifexf' etc., and so forth. Like taking old-fashioned castor oil smothered in Hsassapai-ella. I suppose it was this early introduction that infected me, for I have always had a leaning towards poetry. VVhen I got to College I had the unhappy knack of getting elected to all the jobs requiring plenty of hard work but rewarded with more kicks than halfpence, such as Secretary of this, Treasurer of that, Manager of itother. My crowning glory was Assistant Editor of the University journal Ca monthly, thank goodnessj. That was some fun. The Editors, one from each School or College, used to meet and discuss the contributions on hand, mostly written by the said Editors, which discussion usually hinged around the question of whether the article was Forty-two The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER really libellous or not and how the Authorities would take it. But occasionally there would be space at the bottom of the page that required filling and that's where I came in. f'That little thing I found, on the ground. is an article I prize, since its size, makes it handy for the pocket, and when you gently knock it, on a house or tree or rock, it goes off with murderous bang, while you cut away or hang, and the answer is, a bomb. XYell, I didn't get fired even when I was raised to the pedestal of Science Editor in my senior year, and that was because I was a sneak. All the Editors were sneaks. That is to say, they told tales out of school. And this is how it worked. For instance, I wrote a doggerel entitled The Universal Expert, a libellous skit on the Professor of Garbage Disposal who really believed he was the Great I Am. But my friend jones, the Editor from the Medical School, made a copy in his own handwriting which I carefully filed away. The day after that copy of the journal appeared I got a note saying the Dean would be pleased to see me at 4 p. m. I-Ie spent fifteen minutes telling me what, a filthy rag the Iournal was and that the Senate ought to abolish it and all the Editors ought to be sent down, and finally came to the point that the feelings of the Professor of Garbage Disposal had been deeply hurt and we'd have to apologize on our hands and knees-and then I interrupted him by blurting out, But Mr. Dean, you've got it all wrong. The article was written by that bum jones of the Medical School and was supposed to be a take-off on Old Professor X, the man that teaches IrIomeopathic Surgery, and we all told him it oughtn't to be published. And I showed him the copy in -Iones' handwriting with his name at the bottom. Of course, there had always been great rivalry between Science and the Medical School, especially between the two faculties, and the Dean admitted that as applied to Professor X, the article was really very funny, I heard later that he had called in the Prof. of G. D. and told him what I had said and the latter on re-reading the article said it was the best skit that had appeared in years, for he c0uldn't stand Prof. X at all. But to return to the question of poetry, wouldn't it be wonderful if some of our difficult and abstruse courses could be dished up in verse! Wfhat an Epic one could write on Power or Strength of Materials! I once thought I'd like to write a summary of Physical Metallurgy in blank verse. 'Which shows how cC0lZfI'1l'Ill?lI on 7lP.1'fI7lZgCj LARGE CENTRIFUGE IN MINING LABORATORY Forty-three The 1934 COLUJIBIA ENGINEER great minds often think along the same lines, for shortly afterwards there appeared those thrilling verses entitled Science Simplified for Steel IVO1-ks Stenographersu by my friend, Captain Gerald Firth, of the Firth-Sterling Steel Company. At the risk of being accused of i'borrowing some of his lines I want to give you an idea of what might be done. Preceding Metallography I studied, first, Petrography lVhich deals with structures found in rocks and slags. I then applied this knowledge To some Ores I found in College lVhich the Miners used to stow away in bags. But the structures of the metals, Be they melted down in kettles Or rolled to sheet or drawn out into wire, Soon took my whole attention And I found that under tension The grains were elongated, but entire. I found in the beginning That annealing produced twinning Wfith a corresponding drop in tensile strengthg VVhile on reapplying strain Hardness returns again In proportion to the increase in the length. Then we took up the alloys Wfhich the engineer employs And found they had dendritic segregation, Which will often disappear On annealing, for it's clear Theylre, after all, a crystal aggregation. 'W e soon learned that Martensite Is minutely-grained Ferrite Wfith sub-microscopic Cementite in suspension. But it took us many years To find that this occurs In alloys far too numerous to mention. - Of course, I could run on in this way, taking up each topic we covered in Metallurgy l4l from Ambrac to Zimac, from Carbaloy to Wfidia, from I-Ionda's magnets to Copper-Beryllium chisels, but these few lines will show you what might be done, and you can imagine the application in other lines of Human Endeavor, I mean lecture courses. And so, apologizing once more for not being able to oblige with an article for your very admirable publication, I am, Yours sincerely, XVILLIAM CAMPBELL. The Idcs of rlfarclz, 1934. F01'fy-four The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER E X ierufessur jfink Beceihes Perkin Mahal 1-115 PERKIN RIEDAL FOR 1934 was presented to Professor Colin G. Fink of the Chemical Engineering Department on January Sth, at a joint meeting of the scientific societies under the auspices of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry in New York, N. Y. Professor Harold I-Iibbert, of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. described the accomplishments of the medalist, followed by the presentation of the medal by Professor Marston T. Bogert of the Columbia Chemistry Department. In his medal address which immediately followed the presentation, Dr. Fink spoke on Chemistry and Art, and told of the application of science to the preservation of marbles, ceramics, paintings, and metals. His work on the restoration of ancient bronzes is well known . The Perkin Medal may be awarded annually by the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry for the most valuable work in applied chemistry. The award is made to any chemist residing in the United States for work which he has done at any time during his career, whether this work proved successful at the time of execution or publication, or whether it became valuable in subsequent development of the industry. The Perkin Medal was established in l906 in honor of Sir 'William I-I. Perkin, the founder of the organic dye industry. and it was first awarded to him. The medalist is chosen by a committee of representatives from the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical Society. the Electrochemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. and the Societe de Chimie In- dustrielle. There is a notable list of recipients including Leo I-I. Baekeland, Charles F. Chandler, Milton C. VVhitaker. and Irving Langmuir who are par- ticularly well known at Columbia. Forty-five The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER a tepurt from murningsihe fEdifo1 s Note.-The followiifzg MS was found by Pop, colzciergc of the Ezzginceriiig Biziildiiig, CIIILOHQ some lfVf78'ZU7 lllL 7'L 1'10fCS in the trash bag which he maiiztailzs in the sal?-lyasemevit of the E7lg'll'LGE7'I'7Zg Bit'ild1'1zg. Due to the lack of cc1jJz'tal1'5at-ion, it was at first thought to bc an ojicial doczimeifzt, and was forwarded io the colii14zbia press. Latcif, lzowevcr, the complete' absence of jnimctziaitfiovi identified it as the prodiictioii, of some 0VLgl7l6'E7'1i1lfg school relative of Archiv, the sajvieiit cockroach, who made himself famoizs by lmttiiig out his literary f7l'0d'ZlClI'07l.Y on a typetwitci' belonging to Dori illa1'q1iis.Q turning its back disdainfully on barnard engineering stands facing the loney sycamore relic of bloomingdale days one foot in the innards of haremeyer the other prodding the soul and nose dispensary ' known as earl its head tangled in the wires of morecrofts radio enter please by - the right hand door and meet POD the bespectacled representative of b and g operating his ancient car on a schedule of his own passing out the while paper towels and chalk in single issues N straight ahead the den of our diminutive storage battery expert ever since the navy left columbia his voice has been husky now morton a is cooking up trouble for the makers of near telechron clocks to the right as the sign says is the c e testing lab here great bear water and a blue printing outlit are maintained pro bono publico surrounded by brinnell testers and other impedimenta bill and his cohorts guard the ante-chamber to the works which make little ones out of big ones to the left facing you down a long alley and past the committee on in solemn session is a green rug a humidifier and mrs jones shush this is merely the entrance to the ultimate instruction authority near at hand sits a benevolent walrus the gray haired friend of columbia men dumbbell theta tau alpha rho omega he can match each of nicks degrees with a traternity pm beyond under - the violet light is the marshal foch of engineering master ot our destinies and the teddy bear coat it takes two stenogs to keep up with his dictation if pop is busy you will walk to the next Hoor here is the home ot william stewart ayars and the department of civil engineering william tests new brands of cigarettes , while exercising his CO1'O1l2l nearby rauty the william jenuings bryan of industry interviews vice presidents and dismisses technocrats between bursts of riot and song from four fourteen directly opposite to the north is a row of cells the mechanics of fluids railroad spirals sewers and' foundations in rapid succession and dont forget our inspector sandwiched in between wyckoffs liling case and a map of bantam lake the cry of what what comes from the next cell occupied by the second mortgage expert of woodhaven the whirling derrish of curly integrals who differentiates between lip sticks and slip sticks Forty-sin: The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER down the alley you get locker keys and phone your next date before entering the rogues gallery on the right please have your cigarettes and matches ready there are weird doings on the third Hoor presided over by , steinmetzs little man friday imported direct from Schenectady his office is concealed behind the mens room left we have ' a d hinckley and the trap room V - of the electricall 'orchestra to the right is' 7 hehres schedule factory currys antique shop I and the electricians lounge the top floor, I 4, if you get - that far houses the little corporal and general lee experts in the confusions of descrip and the ventilation of drafting northward in cosy darkened igloos the photo metric spheres hold silent conclave aloft under the eaves the radio club punctures the ether with signals which interrupt my radio reception six floors below robert the c e robot mixes concrete while williams c es trouble man Forty-seven untangles the leads of purring dynamos to the south guarded by the hammerman who steals coats from miss meixells library is the school of mines home of doc Campbell tom read and the dusty miners you know doc he discloses the innards of metals with acid cogitating philosophically the while on the effect of a mixture of eutectic and scotch on on his own interior economy 'andf ' testing out his aberdeenian humor on daddy kern and tiny jette in the cellar bucky the cave man runs his scientific merry go round but i i keep away from the ore dressing expert he s a bear on punctuality and punctuation and would probably give me the flotation process exclamation point near on the north too near at times are hixson and morgan the houbigants of the chemical industry purveyors of olfactory delight to jaded engineering nostrils little link work and doc hnk the plating expert cl d jackson solemnly recording the paradoxes of trade wastes and companionate marriage among the colloids far far north just short of doc cooks best is the realm of the boiler makers in a great, , F brain factory- built from the proceeds of eno s potent salt crowned with eckerts copper derby mechanical engineering is sandwiched in between successive layers of astronomy physics and psychology the pousse cafe of academic housing but dont confuse thermodynamics or machine design ' the mental laxatives of doc lucke s power clinic with the love affairs of white mice or parr or eidmann baumeister or kayan hicks or dutcher specialists in the obstetrics of machinery with K the star gazers this would be worse tha being late for one of doc lucke s classes l envoi and yet they say that far from the whirl and strife of the city we lead a cloistered life no contacts with the varied temptations of the wicked world no human associations calculated to enlarge one s vision and endanger one s soul believe me the greatest show on earth has nothing on the educational pot pourri maintained on morningside heights by the trustees of columbia university in the city of new york Thr 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER IN A FAR CORNER OF THE VVORLD fC0llfl-IIHEH' from page LOD Wie soon learned that the granite mountain was capped with a black meta- morphic rock, the weathering of which gives the long talus slopes that in the distance looked like draperies. After our work was done we knew the meaning of the ground and the geologic storyg why the waters issue here. and the reason for the dark frowning features of the mountain, Furthermore, in a country where baths are almost as infrequent as solar eclipses, one came to see at least one good reason why bathing in these waters had beneficial effects. And so the physical story was soon solved. But there was a much longer story conjured up by the imagination and the religious groping of men. Race after race has dwelt here in the forgotten past and each has had its own reason for respecting this place, and the forms that some of their cere- monies took would doubtless seem barbaric nowg but it was at least a groping step. Here and there a finer mind had his inspirations kindled and his imagination tired and his resolve firmecl. For ages, god has succeeded god, each to inherit the magic springs from his vanishing predecessor. Buddha is probably only the latest of many masters. Here we were in touch with the beginnings. It must have been crude, but perhaps there is no other way to begin. The most magnificent edifices devoted to religion have no greater charm, and perhaps have had little greater influence than this lone mountain in the spiritual uplift of many people. Many long sermons have contained no more food for serious thought than the simple request of this Buddhist priest to be respectful of his sacred ground. Wfhen ready to leave, we made a parting call on the Da Lama, to thank him for the privileges granted to us and had explained that we had been greatly interested in the unusual phenomena and physical features of the place, and made known our wish to be of equal service to him and to his people. I-le responded in a way which gave us much reason for thought-- he simply said I would like an analysis of the water? This at first seemed a most surprising request. Here was a priest of Buddha allowing a foreigner to tamper with the sacred waters, hoping to get a reason for its strange magic. Not till long after did I see the significance of his request. Here was a priest with the mind of a scientist. And, don't you see, if he had been born in our own country, he would probably have been a scientist, and I suppose if I had been born in Mongolia, I might have been a Buddhist priest. RETIREMENT OF PROFESSOR LOVELL CCOIIIIIIIIEKI from page 345 You will go forth from this Engineering School endowed with the Columbia spirit, mastered by a will whose power is derived from that understanding which comes only to those who have been trained to appreciate those important values of life that lead to and command success. You will go forth at a time when the Country needs the best that you can give, when opportunity for service, if not already here, is waiting just around the corner. You will go forth with the good will and best wishes of all of your Instructors here, and with the certilicate of Columbia University that you are equipped to do your part in the work of the world. I congratulate you, each one and all, with earnestness and sincerity. E.-im. B. LOVELL, - Professor of Civil Engineering. Forty-eiglzi' The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER 32339 nba fur ngineering btuhents 9 o'clock classes are abolished, and laboratory periods shall end at 2:30. Professors shall supply themselves with rubber slide rules in order to illustrate bending moments and cantileversg this will also permit them to stretch a decimal point now and then. Professors shall be personally liable for glass slides broken on slide rules dropped by students during their quizzes. ' Two men shall be assigned to calculations involving two decimal places. Double integrals must be used sparingly: triple integrals and partial derivatives are abolished entirely. Hydraulic discharges of more than l,000 cusecs shall not be allowedg this is enough Water for any one. Should trouble arise on Saturday night because of this provision, the losers must wait until Sunday morning. Grading of M. E. reports must be radically changed: this business of tossing them into the air and assigning A to those sticking to the ceiling and B+ to those standing on edge must stop. Hereafter a pound of report shall count 80 credits. The noise in the M. E. laboratories, instructors present or not, must not at any time exceed 20 decibels. The number of current transformers allowed on any one experiment in E. laboratory shall not exceed 20, nor the total number of instruments 80. The sum total of lead wires is limited to 600 feet. Professors may not use jokes more than five years old, nor shall the reception accorded these so-called facetiae be made a function any longer of the length of the assignments. Chemical laboratories must be supplied with fragrant iiowers and other houbi- gantian appliances at regular intervals. 'Locomotive loadings greater than E50 may not be used, nor shall any indeterminate structure be allowed. If it cannot make up its own mind what it is, we should not be required to guess riddles. Tuition fees shall be reduced 50 per cent, and rebates of half this- amount calculated up to date of release shall be allowed. ENGINEERING BASKETBALL TEAM Forty-:zine 1934 Senior Ballot Average Average Average Probable Favorite Hardest to bluff ............. Age ........... Easiest to bluff ................,.. Most coiizscieiitiofus prof ...... Lea-st appreciated prof ......... Hardest coarse .................... Easiest coarse .................. Most valiiallle course ....... tlflost useless course ...... Favorite course .......... Best department ........... ,...... .... lVorst departnzent .......... Q ................. Height ........ ....... ...... VVe1ght ............................................. salary 5 years after gradization ...... Izzstructor ..........................,.............. ........2-1.5 years 5' 9.6 ......15S.7 pounds ................SB4000 Curry ......Bau1neister ............Lucke .......,.Curry ....,..Eid1nann 141 Favorite Philosopher on Faculty ........ Blast lilcely to succeed .................... Most respected ................. . Afost modest ...................... Most cohceited ...................... Least appreciated student ....... Best dresser .............................. Typical Colzfiizbia engiizeer ........ Best hatured ......................... Mlost energetic ............ Biggest grind JW ost versatile N oisfiest ............... Lazzest ............. Haizdso-mest .... Thinks he is ............ Most reliable ............. Best parlor athlete ................. Most izrzselfish .............................. Biggest drag with faculty ......... Needs it most ............................ Blast likely beuedict ................ Most likely bachelor .................. W'ill have the largest family ...... Biggest blfmfer ....................... Biggest politician .......... Strength of Materials 3 Thermodynamics 109-110 .......Shoudy .......,Petersen ......No one ..........Hana .................Schulz .......................Grapes ........Pearson, Wlard Favorite pastime ...................... . ..............., . Favorite dririle ................................................ The Efzgiueering Schools greatest Do you approve required courses?. Do you favor the si,r-year c01irse?. neezl ....... ..................Riconda ........Grapes .........Sieger .........Sieger .......Goldn1an XVeir Tighe XVa1'd Vassiliades Hana .........Ticknor Hana ........Petersen Petersen . ............... X uer ........S1111I1101'1dS ........Si1n1nonds Petersen Petersen ........Sleeping W'ater ......xVO111C11 No 'ffIffffi9eS Flo these the ldurelcs- ffl! 1 1 5 I J---- 'V ua Q ' ' Al DADDY' 1 sm :, 1 fl l ll -v l v l E Lxlii ' ' fl 1 l K l Alulllkg ' r -- l ll fy .ii r W ll 'LEM -4.,. H Wllllgfzg w a l l amaze U i l the best looking -thinks he 15. 51mmond 5 -most likely bachelor CA -The largest family. si f 'o -' A756 ' tl ll XZDZCZ 6 ' Qelsigistgfrof r en o , - -most drag wifh faculty u Tlghe . ,qdziest -needs 'll most. X l ll I , V j . , 2 Ruff. I? '15 will l E- A Out' favorile i ',, -1' drink. f mm Ve? vu-Y W - E165 D -Tlolglneat. -most enersjeblc . -blggest grmnd. fb4..Jh.45Jl- V50-A-Q The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER THE STUDENT COUNCIL Potfer AZbl'6L'11-ll Suydcml Dozzofxazz Rosen Carlson -Bose IfIIldEl'7llCI7l Hmm Weir Petersen Sieger Cosfigazz The Qtuhenf fdluunnil THIRD YEAR REPRESENTATIVES RICHARD O. A. PETERSEN, Prcsidezzt THOMAS C. I-IANA GORDON v.B. IQING HENRV E. SIEGER FRANK IXIORLEY XVEIR, Treasurer SECOND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES JOHN I-I. BOSE HGDIN V. CARLSON XVILFRED J. KINDERBI.-XN SIDNEY ROSEN, Sccrvtargf FIRST YEAR REPRESENTATIVES ALEXANDER -I. IALBRECHT JAMES I-I. POTTER ALBERT I. SMITH XVALTER SUYDAM I F i f ty-two The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Sigma Xi I-IONORARY SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY . V y ff humber of Chapters, 64 ft he, Kappa Chapter Est. 1902 W L H , Founded 1386 ENGINEERING MEMBERSHIP 1934 Initiates Souren Z. Avedikian Edward M. Massell Cecil E. Scott Kenneth L. Berkey Robert C. Medl Henry F. Sieger Allan Berne-.-Xllen, jr. Ierome O'Neill Jules G. Simmonds I-Ielmer Ludwig Blengsli XVilliam B. Pegram Jules H. Sreb Thomas Corinth Paul E. Queneau Joseph D. Stetkewicz .-X. L. Fentress Eldred Raun XVinton A. Ticknor Francis D. Goldman Donald B. Read Albert I. Toering Vincent XV. Haedrich Leo I. Riconda Ernst XV. Volkmann George B. Karelitz John Y. Riedel Frank Morley XVeir David Kosh I-Ielmuth XV. Schulz Russell A. XX7hiteman FACULTY Morton Arendt Frederick XV. I-Iehre Jerome J. Morgan William S. Ayars Edward H. Hempel Harry L. Parr Leo H. Baekeland Arthur XV. I-Iixson XXf'alter Rautenstrauch Joseph XV. Barker Daniel D. Jackson Thomas T. Read Theodore Baurneister, Jr. Eric Randolph Iette Raymond R. Rogers Charles P. Berkey Carl E. Kayan Lester R. Sailer Albin I-I. Beyer Edward F. Kern XVilliam A. Shoudy Donald M. Burmister Paul Francis Kerr Walter I. Slichter XVilliain Campbell William J. Krefeld Arthur F. Taggart XValter A. Curry Robert T. Livingston XVi1liam D. Turner Frederick H. Dutcher Earl B. Lovell Lincoln T. XVork James K. Finch Charles E. Lucke Charles R. XVyckoff Colin G. Fink Ralph H. McKee NATIONAL OFFICERS George Howard Parker Edward Ellery George B. Pegram P resid ent Secretary Treasurer i Harvard University Union College Columbia University COLUMBIA CHAPTER OFFICERS Marston T. Bogert H. XV. XVebb .-Xrthur XXI. Thomas Presidczzt IZIICQ-PI'CSidCIlf SCl'I'CllIl'X'-TI'6t1.S'llI'C7' Fifty-II1 ree The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER TAU BETA PI Qzliliy, Hazen, Goldmcm, Sieger, SillI7Il0lldS, Hana, FVi!.r0n, Pegram, Kiconda, O'Ne1TlZ, RGIlf6I1Sf7'G1lCll, faclesolzi, Hicks, BCIIITIIZZ-Sfl?7',, Hawizzgtou, Wei1', Sreb, Finch, B1-H'7ILfSf67', Fink, Paw, Barleer, Beyer, Hixsolz, Kafefeld. Number of Chapter, 65 Living Members, 20,500 Frank Morley NVeir, President Henry F. Sieger, Secretary CLASS OF 1934 Kenneth L. Berkey Francis D. Goldman Thomas C. Hana Jerome O'Neill William B. Pegram Leo J. Riconda Henry F. Sieger Jules G. Simmonds Jules H. Sreb XX'inton A. Ticknor Frank Morley XYeir au Esta ihi Founded at Lehigh Univ., 1885 New York Alpha Founded, 1902 OFFICERS 1953-193.1 Winton A. Ticlcnor, FII-C6-Pl'C5ldC71-f Jules G. Simmonds, Trcaszzrez' CLASS OF 1935 John H. Bose Richard Hazen Thomas P. Quilty Sidney Rosen Mariano N. Sinacori Frederick C. Tonetti W'illiam A. lfVilson FACULTY INITIATE Prof. Boris A. Bakhmeteff J. Arthur Balmford Joseph lNarren Barker Theodore Baumeister, Jr. Charles P. Berkey Albin H. Beyer Donald M. Burmister Charles H. Burnside Vvilliam Campbell Roy J. Colony Vlfalter A. Curry Guy R. M. del Giudice FACULTY Colin G. Fink James K. Finch Thomas H. Harrin James R. Hicks Arthur XV. Hixson Daniel D. Jackson Carl F. Kayan Edward F. Kern lVilliam J. Krefeld Philip Krieger Earl B. Lovell gton Charles E. Lucke Ralph H. McKee Harry L. Parr George B. Pegram X-V. Rautenstrauch Thomas T. Read Lester R. Sailer W'alter I. Slichter Arthur F. Taggart Lincoln T. Work Charles R. Vlfyckoff Fifty-foul The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER THETA TAU Siuacori Lohr Raimi I-Ieppmzlzeinzer Pegram Read Quilty Sltazzgluzessy ' Bose IiTGl'IT1lgf0l1 Glosfer llafasolz S11E'l'7'07l TTCIZILOI' lfVEZ.7' Ricolzda Sll'illgC'7' SPCHYILGIL Baldin Number of Chapters, 22 Founded at the University of Minnesota, IQO4 Living Members, 4,500 Theta Chapter, Established, 1914 249 if l CLASS OF 1934 .Hin CLASS or 1935 Arthur J. Gloster John H. Bose Herman Heppenheiiner Burleigh E. Boyd Hfilliani B. Pegram Irving I. Britz Richard O. .-X. Petersen L.:-T-.Z-:::5T-1 William Geoghegan Eldred Lyle Raun Theodore R. Lohr Donald B. Read E 1 EEE 5' Lester B. Pope Leo I, Rieonda Thomas P. Quilty john Sherron Mariano N. Sinacori llfinton A. Ticknor Ei ag Frederick C. Spellinan F. Morley Xlfeir E-gi ii? George S. Stringer William ,x. wilson CLASS OF lQ36 Adolph Fischer, Ir. Julius T. Branchero Rafael cle Carrera William Shaughnessy FACULTY MEMBERS Theodore Baunieister, Ir. Thomas H. Harrington .-Xlfrecl D. Hinckley Williain D. Turner Charles Mason OFFICERS, 1933-34 Richard O. .-X. Petersen Leo J. Riconda George S. Stringer F. Morley Wfeir Regan! Virc-Rcgezzt Tl'Cfl.flI7'E7' Scribe Fifly-Jive The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER SENIOR SOCIETY OF DUIWBBELLS IfVei1' Riconda Tiglie Ticlenor Hicks Pegrmn Kayan I-Iai'1'1'ngf0n Krefeld Mason Ca1npbeII Rann L7 U'Ii71gSZL01l- Siegel' Dntchevf Qeninr Sucietp nf umhhells CLASS or 1934 Robert Hickey Gordon VanB. King VVillia1n B. Pegram Richard O. A. Petersen Elclred Rann Leo I. Riconda Henry F. Sieger Wfinton Allen Ticknor Eugene Tighe Frank Morley Weir BBE! Q U5 Q FACUL' FY MEMBE RS CLASS OF 1935 John H. Bose Irving I. Britz Frank F.. Fowler X'VilliE1I1'1 Geoghegan john E. Lahti Theodore Lohr Arthur Mitchell George H. Spath Fred Spellman George S. Stringer Charles H. Swan hvilllillll A. W'ilson Theodore Baumeister, J Donald M. Burniister XX'illia1n Campbell Frederick H. Dutcher Thomas H. Harrington James R. Hicks I'. OFFICERS IM'Gj'U7' Dnlnbbell V Eldred Raun Junior Dzmzbbell Gordon V, B, King Alfred D. Hinckley Carl F. Kayan Wfilliam J. Krefeld Robert T. Livingston Charles Mason Long Green Dumbbell Henry F. Sieger Recording Dumbbell XVilliarn B. Pegram Fifty-.fix The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Qhhresses uf the Erahuating lass Ackerlind, Erik .......................,............. ................................................ 5 75A 6th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Applegate, Oliver E .......... ........... 9 2 Heck Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J. Auer, Frederick G .....,...... ........ 4 S8 Northland Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. Avakian, Karapet A ............. .............. 3 74 Wfadsworth Ave., N. Y. C. Berkhout, Herman H. M ....... ......... l O17 Wfinthrop St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Bessio, Oscar .......................... .............. 8 0 'Wfilson Terrace, Concord, S. I. Bland, Julius ........................ ......... I 02 Seminole VVay, Rochester, N. Y. Bloom, Edgar, Jr ........ ............................... 6 Z1 E. 86th St., N. Y. C. Bogen, Samuel ............ ................. 4 Z5 Riverside Drive, N. Y. C. Cluver, Henry J .......... .......................... l 61 IVV. 100th St., N. Y. C. Costigan, James T ......... ............................... 4 l Convent Ave., N. Y. C. Dailey, H. VVarner ......... .......... 1 8 Summit Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. deMaya, Charles B ........... ........................... 4 O Old Broadway, N. Y. C. Di Lorenzo, Antonio ......... ........ 5 55 10th St., IfVest New York, N. J. Donovan, Maurice' V ........ .......................... 5 03 E. 87th St., N. Y. C. Fedak, Alexander H ......... ....................... 4 16 E. 71st St.. N. Y. C. Gloster, Arthur J ............... ........ l 00 VValnut St., Holyoke, Mass. Goldman, Francis D ......... .............. Z 40' F.. Tremont Ave., N. Y. C. Gollup, Joseph T ............ ......... 1 555 Boston Rd., Bronx, N. Y. C. Goolsby, John H ........... .......................................... D icherd, Tenn. Grapes, Frank E., Jr ........... ........ R oute 2, Traverse City. Mich. Greenberg, Jerome H .......... ................... 5 35 'XV l5lst St., N. Y. C. Haedrich, Vincent WV ........... ........................... 9 84 E. 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hana, Thomas C ................ ......................... 3 4-19 Murray St., Flushing, N. Y. Heppenheimer, Herman... ..,...................................... 46 Chaffee Ave., N. Y. C. Hickey, Robert J ...................... ........ 4 25 VX7heatf1eld St., North Tonawanda, N. Y. Hildebrandt, Raymond K .......... ......................... 3 Blderts Lane, VVoodhaven, N. Y. Hyde, George E .................. ' ............................ 3734 Binkley St., Dallas, Texas Imhoff, Robert O ........... ......... l 30 Bostwick Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Joss, Emil T ........................ King, Gordon vanB .............. Korsmeyer, Richard B ......... Kosh, David ......................... Larkin, Francis J ........... Magill, Frank N ............ Massell, Edward M .......... Medl, Robert C., Jr ........... Miller, Ralph ....................... Mueller, Harry L ............... Nicolai, Arduo Lewis ........... O,Ne1ll, Jerome ................... Pearson, Howard ............... Pegram, Williani B ........... Petersen, Richard O. A... Raun, Eldred L ................... Read, Donald B .......... Reilly, Thomas J ........ Riconda, Leo J ............... Schulz, Helmut W ......... Shemin, George D. ...... .. Sherron, John P ......... Sieger, Henry F ......... Simmonds. Jules G ........... Sreb. Jules H ....................... Stetkewicz, Joseph D ....... Swan, Charles H ............... Ticknor, VVinton A ....... Tighe, Eugene ................. Toermg, Albert J .................. Vassilaros, Ulysses N ....... Vassiliades, Theologos N Vesely, Edmund F ........................... Von Halle, Millard F ........................ von Herrmann, Charles F., Jr ....... , Wfarcl, Robert W' ............................. Wfeir, Frank M ............................. 'vVhitemari. Russell A .......... VVilkens, I1Villiam B .......... Fifty-seoen ........9Z69 216th St., Queens Village, I. I Donnellan Rd., Scarsdale, Tomkins Ave., Brooklyn, L. N. . N. Y. N. Y. L .......I00 Murray Ave., Port IfVashington, . I. ............lll Harvard Drive, Hartsdale, VValbrooke Ave., Staten Island. N. Y. N. Y. Central Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Grand Concourse, N. Y. C. Community Road, Bay Shore, L. I. 17th St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. Ralph St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 77th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. .......45I3 Livingston Ave.. Fieldston, N. Y. C. E. 79th St., N. Y. C. Vine Ave., Sioux City, Iowa 9 North Bayles Ave., Port VVashington, L. I. Decatur Ave., Bronx, N. Y. C. Island, N. Y. VV. 114th St.. N. Y. C. ...............l856 48th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Main St., Norwalk, Conn. ........Schi1ler Boulevard, Huntington, L. I. ................l56O Amsterdam Ave., N. Y. C. Vyse Ave., N: Y. C. ............551 Jersey Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Sommer Place. Bronx, N. Y. C. I. Box 197, Centralia, VVash. E. 48th St., N. Y. C. .........l404 Hancock St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. ........34-37 75th St., Jackson Heights, L. I. K. 262 Toumba. Salonica. Greece 33rd St., Long Island City Overlook Ave., Hackensack, N. J. ........S85 Hardendorf Ave.. N. E.. Atlanta, Ga. Course, Hollis, L. I. ..............Z02Z Beverly Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. Lotus Ave., Oradell, N. J. XY. l36th St., N. Y. C. The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER MEMORIAL MINUTE FOR PROFESSOR MORECROFT KCOIZIIIII-16d from page 411 name in our minutes as that of an inspiring teacher and productive scholar whose labors added to the honor and fame of his adopted Alma Mater. IVe cherish his memory in our hearts for he was one of those rarepersonalities whose qualities for association and friendship meant so much to his students and colleagues on Morningside Heights. PROFESSOR .IAMEs K. FINCI-I. PROFESSOR FREDERICK XV. HEIIRE. PROFESSOR IXVALTER I. SLICHTER. MW Qcimutnlehgments HE EDITORS wish to express their appreciation for the gen- erous iinancial support of the Engineering Schools Alumni Association and of the Facultyg for the several articles written by members of the Facultyg for the excellent EX Libris design by Professor Finchg for help, advice and time given by Dean Barker and Professors I-Iarrington, Finch, Slichter and Wforkg for the timely assistance furnished by Mrs. Jones, Miss Curtis, Miss McNamara and Miss Burke g for the excellent photo- graphic work of VVhite Studiog and for the friendly cooperation of Mr. Silvers of The Silvers Company-Division of Garamond Press, and their New York representative, Mr. Paul Harwick. RESERVED FOR MR. 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QUO VADO Cffozztizzzzed from page 391 At a recent dinner Professor jackson related an experience from war days dealing with personality. A student somewhat untidy and disheveled slouched into his office. Casting a restless gaze about the room, he mumbled a request for a recommendation. I-Ie desired a lieutenant s commission. After getting him thoroughly angry by telling him that he did not have the personal qualincations needed for leadership, Professor jackson offered to give the recommendation because of his faith in the man's ability to develop. As a parting word, he expressed the hope that, should the man receive the commission, he would be no discredit to the school. Some months later the young man returned. I-Ie stood erect and looked squarely at the professor. I-Iis uniform bore the golden leaf, insignia of major's rank. Wfith a snappy salute he said, Sir, I have come to report progress. 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