Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 168 of the 1939 volume:

COPYRIGHT I939 WOLFGANG KASSNER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NAT RICHMOND BUSINESS MANAGER 1939 CABLE COOPER UNION: I859-I939 6 The 8O'rh Anniversary of Cooper Union? Eoundalion Building: I'IewiJr'r Building: Trus- Iees: Direclor: Dean: Engineering Eaculiy: Birrh of 'rhe School: Ari Direcior: Ari Eaculfy: Crysiallizaiion SENIORS 23 The Ins+iI'uI'e of Technology: Nigh'I' School of Engineering: Ari School: Graduaiion: Sieel Bindings: The Ins+aIIa+ion in Piciures TI-IE CLASSES SI Day Tech '42: Day Tech '4I: Day Tech '4O: NigIw+ Tech '44: Nighl Tech '43: Nighi Tech '42: Nighr Tech '4I: Niqhf Tec. 40: Day Arl- Eirsi Year: Second Year: Night Ar+ School: Tony Goes Io Cooper ACTIVITIES H I 89 Slrudenf Council: The Cable: The Pioneer: Ivlalh Club: Annual Dance: I'Ionor Awards: Dramafics: Dancing Club: ArIis+s' Affairs: Open I-Iouse and Ari Exhibil: Blankel Fee: Camera Club: Newman Club: Expansion ATI-ILETICS II7 SOCIETI ADVERTI A'rhIe+ic Associalion: Baslceiball: Inierclass Spor+s: Rifle Team: Alhlefic Awards: World Chaos E S 129 Ex Posf Eaclro: Lambda Tau: Mu Alpha Omi- cron: Pries'rIey Socieiy: A.S.C.E.: A.S.M.E.: A.I.CI1.E.:A.I.E.E.: Phi Sigma Omega: Omega Della Phi: Alumni: And Tomorrow: Senior Rosier S I N G ISS UEUIE TED TU Dr. Clarence S. Sherman has always been very popular wilh sludenls ever since he came +o insrrucf al' Cooper Union. As soon as sludenls realize his amazingly profound knowledge of general and organic chemisfryq as soon as lhey observe rhal he has been and is always willing 'ro help Them, l'hey,canno'r buf feel 'Friendly loward him. ln Organic Chemislry, he malces a 'Faclual dry course infer- esfing and dramalic, by relaling +he lexfboolcs' ideas 'ro popularly-represenled advancemenls in Organic and Bio- chemisfry. Alrer his Ph.D. degree in Chernisrry, Dr. Sherman enlered DuPon+ Company, To research on plas- ricsg and he was responsible for lhe developmenl of glass- lilce resins lmelhyl Meihacrolalel which appear commer- cially loday. An accidenl al DuPonl convinced him +o lurn lo leaching: hence he enlered Cooper Union, work- ing conscienliously and unselfishly for lhe sludenls. Thus lar, lhe school has apparenlly lillle appreciaied his exfra- elllorrs which are indelibly imprinled on sludenls' minds. Wilh Jrhis in mind, we dedicale lhe I939 Cable lo malce il lcnown lhal we Jrhe Sludenls, al leash appreciale his silenl ancl unsellish worlc EUUPEH UNIUN1959-1999 T is TiTTing and proper ThaT in I939, The eighT- ieTh anniversary oT The Tounding oT Cooper Union ThaT The Cable be cenTered around an accuraTe hisTory oT This insTiTuTion. For eighTy years The Cooper Union has TuncTioned as a cenTer oT learning Tor Those who Toilp Tor a shorTer Time The Union has opened iTs doors To young men and women who did noT worlc and were ThereTore able To aTTend The Day School. Born in The mind oT The greaT humaniTarian, PeTer Cooper, a man whose very liTe made him lceenly aware oT The culTural needs oT The indusTrial worker, The Union Tlourished under The guidance oT greaT men oT The succeeding years. Cooper, l'iewiTT, T. A. Richards, G. W. PlympTon, AnThony, Pumpelly, R. W. Raymond, Francis lvl. l'larTmann, George BaTeman, Purvis, all names ThaT meanT some change in The Cooper Union, ThaT led Toward iTs presenT high sTandard. ATTer iTs period oT concepTion and birTh, The courses in Cooper Union gradually crysTallized as iTs purposes crysTallized in The minds oT iTs Founder. General absTracT courses were concreTizedg The aim oT The Union changed Trom providing a general educaTion in science Tor worlcingmenu To providing Tech- nical educaTion in arT and engineering Tor people worlcing in The ArT or Engi- neering Tields or Tor men and women who inTend To enTer These Tields. Indeed a lesson in The crysTallizaTion oT a philosophy! The success OT This philosophy was evidenT by The growTh in sTudenT aT- Tendance aT The insTiTuTe. Each year The aTTendance nearly doubled unTil Tinally The geomeTric size oT The quarTers became sTeel bindings ThaT prevenTed TurTher growTh oT The sTudenT body. DrasTic acTion had To be Talcen To cuT down The number oT sTudenTs admiTTed. Whereas beTore adverTising was necessary To aTTracT enough sTudenTs now iT was imperaTive ThaT mosT oT The applicanTs were Turned away. Finally These sTeel bindings were brolcen when The Armory on Third Avenue was renTed To Talce care oT some oT The classes. OuT oT This Armory grew The l-lewiTT Building. Perhaps noT as large as was planned, buT The Tunds raised did noT go as Tar as was expecTed. However, Tor a while, The T-lewiTT Building Took care oT The increased regis- TraTion. The pressure was released, The sTeel bindings loosened. A period oT expansion occurred. The NighT School was divided inTo Tive specialized lines oT sTudy. Over ThirTeen diTTerenT courses oT sTudy were being pursued in The Union. ln The midsT OT These improvemenTs and expansions, This period when The philosophy oT The Union had reached iTs peak oT clariTy, a world conTlagraTion Took place ThaT involved even Cooper Union. Keep away Trom Trouble and Trouble will keep away Trom you, some people say. The Cooper Union and iTs many sTudenTs cerTainly never meddled in Toreign aTTairsg yeT when The world was consumed in a ruThless, meaningless war, when Tlames oT paTrioTism led sane men To ThrusT Themselves inTo a bloody melange oT TorTure- Then aT Cooper Union Too, men wenT To baTTle, men sTudied how To desTroy insTead oT how To creaTe. BuT even during This chaoTic period The high sTandards oT The Cooper Union were mainTained. The courses were iusT as cliTFiculT, alThough a STudenTs Army Training Corps pracTised here. The homework was iusT as long alThough TrequenT boncl buying speeches were made in The classrooms. IT is diTTiculT even Tor sane, unemoTional engineers To keep ouT oT The sound and The Tury ThaT accompanies war propaganda. Perhaps iT is even more diTTiculT Tor The engineer who never has had any Training in recognizing and evaluaTing propaganda To resisT iTs drum and TiTe appeal. The war ended wiTh iTs ArmisTice, iTs Peace and iTs VicTory Tor nobody. The Cooper Union reTurned To The more peaceTul business oT Turning ouT ArTisTs and Engineers. The counTry, wounded and baTTle-scarred, scrapped iTs millions oT dollars worTh oT unproducTive war equipmenT. The people became biTTer, haTing war, haTing The powers ThaT broughT Them war. They became a nervous, shell-shocked people. The Jazz age was here. The chemisT played in his laboraTory wiTh TesT Tubes and burners. l-le Took a wasTe producT and made The elemenTal necessiTy oT The Jazz Age-brighT dyes Tor The ladies' cloThes7 a TesT Tube Tull oT wood and a new Tabric ThaT could be made in a chemical planT insTead oT grown on a Tield: rayon, cellophane, unbreakable glass: sTrong meTals ThaT weigh liTTle: medicines ThaT save lives, sulpha-pyridine, a magic pill ThaT kills The germ buT noT The paTienTg The chemisT plays wiTh his TesT Tube and anoTher hundred lives are saved: anoTher indusTry developed. The Trankness oT The PosT-War Age was reTlecTed in The ArT. Realism and iTs reacTion Surrealism waxed and waned. CriTics argued, painTers painTed, arTisTs ToughT. The Age-oT-The-AdverTising-Agency developed. Li++le children cried Tor WeT- Ties, The Ace BreakTasT Food: ArTisTs spenT days drawing commas so ThaT Junior will be delighTed wiTh his liTTle Red Book oT Red-Blooded Americans which he received Tree in reTurn Tor IOO box-Tops. BeauTiTul girls were creaTed To sell cigareTTes: beauTiTul ThoughTs were employed To sell Chewing Gum: GreaT ArTisTs were hired To design packages Tor Soap. The GreaT Commercial Age is Here! And aT Cooper Union resounding To The cry oT The Times are prospecTive engi- neers and arTisTs, sTudying, sTudying, sTudying. Finding guidance Trom a new DirecTor who knows These new Times. And looking Toward Edwin Sharpe Burdell To recharT Their lives aT Cooper Union according To The Times and according To The long Tour score year old TradiTion of This greaT, unique insTiTuTion-The Cooper Union. 7 NU I UILU B UN I U!-XT N UU or P Elilj, L FL if rig QL I I ' In ILW 1, 1 4 - I r I 'FF IFF Learning and knowledge Of p com ass and paleHe Do you dissipale. A dream you were once l y lower Thai' poin+s 'Io +l1e cloudless sky Bul now you sfand ln solid wifness Thaf dreams can slill be filled. M.D.W Shori and solid You s+and in fhe shade Of +I-ue rumbling El'. In your rooms The answers To Hue mysieries Of space and fime. In your door Go Hue Curious Ouf come Hwe knowing. M.D.W. HEWITT B ILUI G W' i Q GANO DU N N Presidenf TH STEES Gano Dunn, PresidenT oT Cooper Union, is one ol: The besT known engineers in The counTry. He received his BS. aT C.C.N.Y. and his lvl.S. aT Columbia. For many years he has been aTTiliaTed wiTh The J. G. WhiTe Engineering CorporaTion. J. PierponT Morgan has been TrusTee OT Cooper Union since I9I2, Mr. Morgan received his AB. aT Harvard and has been Thrice honored wiTh an LL.D. Elihu RooT, Jr. has been TrusTee oT Cooper Union since l929. AT HamilTon Mr. RooT earned his Phi BeTa Kappa and has been honored wiTh an LL.B. aT Harvard. Percy R. Pyne, Jr. has been Treasurer oT Cooper Union since I925. He began his college career aT PrinceTon and received boTh his AB. and lvl.S. aT New College, Oxford, England. Barklie Henry became a TrusTee in I935. He also serves in This capaciTy Tor The ST. Georges School, NewporT, R. l., and Tor The Green Vale School oT Roslyn, L. I. Edward L. Rehm was elecTed SecreTary in i926 aTTer he had been assisTanT Secre- Tary Tor eighT years. His oTTice is really re- sponsible Tor lceeping The machinery oi The school running smooThly. UIHEETUH T DR. EDWIN SHARPE BURDELL V ' ATTer one Tull year oT ouTsTanding adminisTraTion our direcTor may well look back upon his TirsT address which he made aT his lnsTallaTion. Cooper Union looks back upon a single Tounder. lTs mosT precious heriTage is The charTer which Tor sevenTy-nine years has susTained iTs amazing viTaliTy, and which in This groping world remains a classic declaraTion oT social iusTice. When arTisTs and engineers collaboraTe, Then The design engineers, mechanical and elecTrical, are quickened inTo an arTisTic consciousness. STudenTs' liTe here aT Cooper Union is relaTively unorganized. There is a limiTed parTicipaTion in sTudenT acTiviTies and aThleTics. l conclude by invoking eTernal vigilance in behalT oT The principle oT social iusTice proclaimed by PeTer Cooper eighTy years ago. Thus The sTudenT oT our insTiTuTion has come Tully To undersTand The issue which is so gloriously Cooper Union's and our DirecTor has Tallen in line wiTh The basic ideas and has become parT oT The school as The school has become parT oT him. The DirecTor brings a long and varied experience To his work aT Cooper Union. Born in Columbus, Ohio, over TorTy years ago, The son oT a banker, he received a liberal educaTion. ATTer his preliminary Training Dr. Burdell aTTended The Mass- achuseTTs lnsTiTuTe oT Technology. His work was inTerrupTed by The war during which he served as second lieuTenanT oT inTanTry. l-le conTinued his sTudies aT The GraduaTe School oT Business AdminisTraTion aT l-larvard. ln i929 he received his MA. from Ohio STaTe UniversiTy and Tive years laTer his Ph.D. Trom The same school. Dr. Burdell TaughT aT Tv1.I.T. in The DeparTmenT oT English and l-lisTory. He became inTeresTed in The problem oT urban dwellers and made exTensive sTudies in ciTy planning and housing, criminology and penology. ln I937 Dr. Burdell was chosen Dean oT The l'lumaniTies aT lvl.l.T. IT is Trom This laTTer posiTion ThaT Cooper Union received Dr. Burdell. From his one year oT service To The school The sTudenTs and TaculTy alike realise ThaT They can be proud oT Their new direcTor. DEA A D UFPIIIE i , l6EORGE FREDERICK BATEMAN George Eredericlc BaTeman was appoinTed To The Teaching sTaTT oT The Cooper Union Day and NighT Schools in I907. l-le successively served as an insTrucTor in ElemenTary Physics, ElecTrical Measure- menTs, Advanced Physics, DC. and PMC. Dynamo, and Thermo- dynamic LaboraTories. DisconTinuing This worlq aT The Time oT his naval service in The GreaT War, he reTurnecl To The Cooper Union in I9I9 as AssT. ProTessor oT Mechanical Engineering. In l925, he was eppoinTed ProTessor oT Mechanical Engineering and placed in charge oT The deparTmenT. From l92I-I925 he was chairman oT The Oral CommiTTee in The enTrance examinaTions, and Trom I922-I93l chairman oT The STudenT RelaTions CommiTTee. ln l93I he was enTrusTed by The laTe Dean l-larTrnann wiTh negoTiaTions which led To The oTTicial regisTraTion oT The 6 year NighT Course by The New Yorlc STaTe DeparTmenT OT EducaTion. ln April, l93I, Two days aTTer The unTimely dea+h oT The laTe Dean l-larTmann, he was honored by The TrusTees in being appoinTed AcTing Dean, and again in May I93? by being made Dean oT The Schools oT Engineering. To his regreT, pro- moTion and subseguenT reor- ganizaTion have denied Dean BaTeman ThaT inTimaTe conTacT wiTh The general sTudenT body which he enioyed so greaTIy when chairman oT The STudenT RelaTions CommiTTee. l'le sTill Teels, however, his happiesT momenTs are Those spenT in ad- visory service wiTh The many sTudenTs who due To various ad- verse circumsTances Tound Theme selves in diTTiculTies, scholasTic The oFFice aT Times is a bee hive of acTiviTy. and OTl1erWiSG. ENGINEEHI E FAC LTY A nighf sfudenf was heard fo remark, The firsf few hours I couldn'f undersfand his Scofch accenf-during fhe resf of fhe fime if was iusf fhe lecfures I couldn'f undersfandf' Prof. Coull's infriguing accenf is nof fhe only facfor which makes his classes unique. His subfly direcf sense of humor and driving power has nof only made fhe winning of A. I. Ch. E. confesf problems a Cooper Union fradifion buf has also calmed his wife during fhe Marfian ferrorizafion of New Jersey. Jimmie's sfrong sense of family dufy land docfor's ordersl have recenfly forced him fo abandon cigars, and he now causes cork-fipped cigar- effes fo give up fheir free energy wifh fheir more genfle glowing and fuming. This happened shorfly affer he discovered fhaf The colloidal parficles of fhe laffer's smoke lend fhemselves more readily fo fhe sfudy of Brownian movemenf. His closesf associafe is Prof. Hope, who wifh malice aforefhoughf, causes fhe chem seniors fo roam fhrough reams of German in search of complex compounds. Prof. Hope's course i Quanfifafive Analysis is fhe bugaboo of fhe second year chemical engineers. The sfandard joke abouf flunking Quanf and sfill having Hope has been revised since fhe advenf of Mr. Cunningham. He has fhe repufafion of being fhe besf bowler in fhe Chem Deparfmenf as well as ifs mosf silenf member. Doc Sherman, alfhough a reg'lar fella', is a keen sfudenf of sfudenfs' minds. He has offen remarked fhaf fhe mind is like an affic-if can hold so many facfs and fhen no more: iusf so many fhings can be sfuffed info if-and fhen some musf leave before ofhers can be forced in. Paradoxically enough, he feaches Organic Chem- isfry-fhe greaf conglomerafion of facfs and rules and laws, buf mosfly facfs. The memorable associafion of Dr. Sherman and Mr. Kunz lwhich included fhe beering of many unforgeffing seniorsl has been somewhaf diminished by fhe expansion of fhe Ch. E. Depf. Mr. Kunz now reigns in Unif Ops. Lab. in fhe basemenf. Many of fhe uninifiafed refer fo fhe lab as a Rube Goldberg sef-up, buf fhe sfeady influx of new, modern cosfly eguipmenf puf fhe lie fo fhaf. New fo Cooper Union is Prof. Radasch who was appoinfed head of fhe Chemical Engineering Deparfmenf lafe in fhe presenf school year. The seniors have nof had fhe pleasure of confacf in class wifh Prof. Radasch who looks and acfs fhe parf of a fypical engineer. STudenTs geTTing a TaculTy complex. The amazing phenomena produced by The unpredicTable ProT. all have caused many Treshman classes To break ouT in open applause. l-lis demonsTraTion and ex- posiTion oT waTer boiling so rapidly ThaT iT Treezes should gualiTy him as a sporTs announcer. l-lis lecTure experimenT on The composiTion and properTies oT lighT almosT hypnoTically demonsTraTe The sTaTemenT which may soon become The Cooper Union moTTo-The beauTiTul Things are The useTul Things, and The useTul Things are The beauTiTul Things. No sTudenT will TorgeT The Ball and BosserT Trick oT drawing a sTraighT line by snapping a chalked rope againsT The blackboard. ProT. Ball is also a masTer aT being sTern-This has been demonsTraTed To many rowdy Treshmen and To many an unprepared senior Trying To predicT when we will be called upon To reciTe. The lasT minuTe characTerisTic is also puT To very good advanTage by his cos worker, ProT. IvlerriTT, whose keen memory has embarrassed many a pair oT sTudenTs- never could They share honors by puTTing one reporT in Two books. Well-known To The Treshmen are Mr. Halsey and Mr. Schauss oT The Physics DeparTmenT. Their causTic and somewhaT cynical commenTs have spoiled many an oTherwise aTTracTive reporT book. True To The broad and energeTic liTe he lives, ProT. Roemmle is a leading exponenT oT The aclvanTages oT exTra-curricular acTiviTies. l-lis comradeship endears him To The lVl.E.'s and gives Them solace Tor Their ever increasing Tasks. Even in The days when Cooper Union sTudenTs were noT blessed by a Social Philosophy deparTmenT, They were in conTacT wiTh The philosophies OT minds oTher Than Their own. Perhaps The mosT inTrusive upon small minds oT embryo engineers is Mr. VopaT who, like The Typically picTured philosopher, exalTs in commenTing very dryly upon The enioymenT oT liTe, even beyond The scope oT his beloved power planTs. Cooper Union has many experTs aT The demonsTraTion oT shorT cuTs Through all- nighT problems, yeT The M.E.'s poinT wiTh pride To The noT really a TaskmasTer, Mr. Salma oT The ready quips and very blond hair. l-leading The E.E.'s is ProT. Towle who like oTher experT insTrucTors pracTices The Tine arT oT pulling TeeTh, ThaT is, asking perTinenT quesTions oT a sTudenT who is all Too willing To siT down and shuT up. OT course, This pracTice someTimes leads a sTudenT To answer his own guesTion-which is somewhaT admirable. I4 ProT. STarr, The circuiT's man is an appreciaTed lecTurer on The relaTion oT sTu- denT abiliTy To eTforT. Many hypoTheTical dollars and lives, endangered by hypo- TheTical carelessness, have been saved by The always cauTioning Mr. Fairburn Through- ouT The D.C. world and The E.E. labs. A.J.B. Tells oT The elecTrosTaTic volTmeTer which was senT To BosTon so many Times Tor repairs ThaT iT can make The Trip, alone! The SecreTary oT The Engineering EaculTy and ProTessor EmeriTus oT Civil Engin- eering is ProT. Foss who, despiTe his age, leads an acTive life which abounds wiTh Travel, color phoTography, and improvemenTs on his Maine home. l-leading The C.E. DeparTmenT is ProT. Brumfield who was chairman oT The CommiTTee on EXTra-Curricular AcTiviTies. l-le regales his men wiTh The remark, l-low now, broTher scholars, and well They need regaling Tor his TorTe is sTaTically indeTerminaTe sTrucTures. The non-C.E.'s are inTroduced To This subiecT by Mr. Van Buren who has an excellenT collecTion oT perTinenT anecdoTes. This alumnus has a sTack oT exam papers This Thick when he graduaTed-way back when The C.E.'s goT less Mech OT MaT. Than The nighT Ch.E.'s geT now, and +ha+ is Ii++Ie enough. His sTouT hearT was sTung by The unscrupulous and oTherwise ignoranT ouT-world, and so he came back To Tell The currenT crop abouT his own innocenT errors. The champion symbologisT oT Cooper Union is noT a maThemaTics or physics pedagogue, buT Mr. J. P. J. Williams, The philosopher oT The C.E. deparTmenT. One oT his books brisTles so wiTh symbols ThaT iT requires six pages OT symbol deTiniTions. The lanky Mr. Perez will Tor someTime be Tamous Tor his laboraTory comparisons oT The NaTional and American League balls. ln The class room he was quiTe conTenT To be a champion chalk-caTcher. Perhaps The mosT Tamiliar Tigure in The supporTing courses is Dr. ManTz who is Tar Trom being as presumpTuous as TirsT impressions indicaTe, Tor his broadmindedness is greaTly admired by his economics sTudenTs. His relaTives included greaT men- an uncle TasTed The earTh in The sarcophagus of Ramses ll, his grandTaTher leTT him ouT oT his will and Thus induced Dr. ManTz To become a Teacher. I5 BIRTH l-lE decade beTore The Tounding oT The Cooper Union in I859 was a momenTous one . F in The hisTory oT our counTry's growTh. From Mexico, we had iusT acquired 800,000 square miles oT new TerriTory whose developmenT was acceleraTed by The Tremendous inTlux oT popula- Tion due To The discovery oT gold in CaliTornia in l848. From less Than six Thousand miles oT railway, over ThirTy Thousand miles were laid by l86O. The counTry grew and prospered by leaps and bounds: America was TirsT beginning To Tap iTs enormous wealTh. From sea To sea and Trom The Rio Grande To The GreaT Lakes, people were engaged in Tishing, Tarming, i is ' '-i . mining, manuTacTuring and commerce. Accompanying The general developmenT OT The counTry, New York CiTy began To asserT iTselT as an indusTrial and culTural cenTer. STraTegically locaTed, This growing meTropolis aTTracTed people Trom all parTs oT The world. And iT was during This period, ThaT The TulTillmenT oT a liTeTime dream oT PeTer Cooper supplied The very necessary need oT a means oT educaTion To The working people oT This ciTy. l-lis own sTruggle Tor an educaTion made him acTually aware oT The culTural needs oT The indusTrial worker. l-le knew ThaT There was no adequaTe provision Tor This in The New York CiTy educaTional sysTem oT his Time. The Tounding oT The Cooper Union resulTed Trom his TervenT desire To aid oThers who were experiencing The same diTTiculTies he had encounTered. ln characTer and aTTiTude PeTer Cooper may besT be compared wiTh his greaT conTemporary Abraham Lincoln. BoTh were men who had aTTained Their sTanding in socieTy by Their own eTTorTs: boTh had a desire To obliTeraTe some oT The suTTerings oT Their Tellowmem Two greaT liberal minds similarly developed wiTh similar belieTs. From his own varied experimenTs in selT-educaTion, he organized his plans Tor This new polyfechnic insTiTuTe. ln his youTh he had learned much Trom a collecTion oT curiosiTies known as Scudder's museum. Thus he ThOughT ThaT a similar museum would serve in raising The culTural sTandards OT his sTudenT body. He had even gone To The pains OT pur- chasing Tor The proposed collecTion a huge whale which had driTTed ashore in Long Island. However he was prevailed upon by his advisers TO modiTy This idea, and The whale was presenTed To The Museum OT NaTural HisTory where iT remained in The Oceanic Hall unTil I935. While some OT his plans were impracTical The general idea and purpose OT The insTiTuTiOn gradually Took shape. Thus, The cornersTOne OT The Cooper Union was laid in The early parT OT l854. The Type OT consTrucTion ThaT was planned was novel aT ThaT Time: iT was To be The TirsT TireprooT building uTilizing wroughT iron beams. BeTore Then, TireproOT buildings were consTrucTed OT heavy sTone which Took up much space and gave The inTerior a Torbidding appearance. The adverTisemenT This new Type OT consTrucTiOn received induced Colonel James Harper, whose publishing house had iusT burned down, TO order similar ones Tor The new Harper Building To be puT up aT CliTT STreeT and Franklin Square. The consTrucTiOn OT Cooper Union was delayed in Order ThaT The Tirm OT Cooper and HewiTT could roll beams Tor Colonel Harper. However, by ChrisTmas OT I856, The building was almosT cOmpleTed. The ToTal cosT was S630,000 and The Tounder gave an addiTional 530,000 Tor equipment As an example OT The vision and pracTical make-up OT PeTer Cooper, he leTT room in The building Tor an elevaTor, despiTe The TacT ThaT no really workable elevaTor had yeT been invenTed. This biT OT ToresighT which occurred Three-quarTers OT a cenTury ago is Typical OT The heriTage OT our insTiTuTiOn. lTs curriculum and iTs organ- izaTion ThroughOuT The many years OT exisTence has been conTinuOusly changing To meeT The requiremenT OT indusTry and Thereupon is iTs success as a pioneer educaTional insTiTuTion. The acT passed by The sTaTe legislaTure in Albany on February I7, I857 was To enable PeTer Cooper To Tound a ScienTiTic lnsTiTuTiOn in The CiTy OT New York. An amendmenT passed in l859 seT up six TrusTees To hold oTTice Tor liTe and To be selT- perpeTuaTing. The six were PeTer Cooper, Edward Cooper, Abram S. HewiTT, Daniel F. Tiemann, John E. Parsons and Wilson G. HunT. The TrusTees in laying down The principles upon which The school was To be operaTed expressed The Tollowing in The FirsT Annual ReporT: FirsT, ThaT The deTails OT The lnsTiTuTiOn in all The DeparTmenTs should be arranged wiTh especial reTerence To The inTellecTual wanTs and imprOvemenTs OT The working classes. And: second ThaT as Tar as mighT be consisTenT wiTh The TirsT principle, all in reTerence wiTh The plans or ObiecTs OT OTher exisTing insTiTuTiOns in This ciTy should be avoided. In a leTTer accompanying The deed OT TrusT To The TrusTees, PeTer Cooper expressed ThaT IT is my desire ThaT The sTudenTs shall have The use OT one OT The large rooms Tor The purpose OT useTul debaTe. The DebaTes were mainly To concern Themselves wiTh The causes ThaT OperaTe around and wiThin us, and The means necessary and mosT appropriaTe To remove The physical and moral evils ThaT aTTecT our ciTy, our cOunTry, and humaniTy. ln The Fall OT I859, classes were opened Tor enrOllmenT, and PeTer Cooper's dream Took shape. I 7 ABT UTHETITUH GUY GAYLOR CLARK The educaTion oT The ArT sTudenT is never compleTed, so remarked Guy Gaylor Clark upon assuming The direcTorship oT The Cooper Union ArT Schools. The New DirecTor has held Two Cornell scholarships and has done noTable work in The Tield oT adverTising design. DirecTor Clark would like To see closer cooper- aTion beTween The specialized phases OT arT and The adverTising and design world. BoTh True arT and The general sTyle oT commercial arT could beneTiT by such an associaTion. To be successTul in The com- mercial world, The arTisT musT have The views and criTicism oT his public consTanTly in mind. This does noT inTimaTe ThaT The arTisT should bow To The whims and Tancies oT The greaT masses buT should aTTempT To lead and educaTe These masses. The arTisT in The commercial world does noT have To obey The dic- TaTes oT The general public buT musT keep in mind The TacT ThaT his arT is meanT To be appreciaTed and does noT end wiTh The lasT sTroke oT The brush. The evoluTion OT The modern sTreamlined auTomobile has Tollowed The reguiremenTs and wishes OT The general public as well as The dicTaTes oT The engin- eer, neverTheless, The arTisT has exerTed his will all along The developmenT To produce a modern prod- ucT which is indeed arT and sTill saTisTies The uTiliTar- ian demands oT an advanced civilizaTion. I8 MR. ESMOND SHAW Nighl supervisor During The lasT years The arT world has made sTrides Tor The expression of Treedom and liberalism. IT is noT only righT ThaT This has carried inTo The meThod oT Teaching of The arT TaculTy, buT was a necessiTy Tor The ever- demanding sTudenT. To Those who Take This field as Their profession, only The besT musT exisT and only The besT will survive. ThereTore The insTrucTors are direcTly responsible Tor The welfare oT These sTudenTs and Tor Their success in The Tielcl. Our insTrucTors are capable and Their sTudenTs have proven Themselves The same in This presenT-day world. THE ADVISORY COUNCIL Mrs. Ludlow S. Bull Mr. Thomas Craven Mr. J. Andre Fouilhoux Mrs. Sherman P. l-laighT Mrs. John Kean Mrs. WalTer S. Maclc Mrs. D. Percy Morgan, Jr. Mrs. l'larTord W. Powel Mrs. JohnsTon L. Redmond Mrs. Schuyler SchieTlelin Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan Miss EdiTh WeTmore Mr. John F. WharTon Mrs. Lucius Wilmerding, Jr. THE DAY AND NIGHT ART SCHOOLS INSTRUCTORS Deco rafive Desiq n ArchiIecIuraI Design a nd Consfru cfion Archiiecfu ral Pradice Archifecfu ral Technics ArchiIecI'uraI I-Iisfory Drawing and Painfing Plasfic Design ScuIp+ure Graphic Design IIIus+raIIon Hand-Lefferinq Cosfurne Desiq n Fashion IIIus+ra'rion Cuffing and Draping Adverfisinq Design The Office CAROL HARRISON ADDISON LAMAR HENRIETTA SCHUTZ ANNA W. FRANKE ESMOND SHAW WILLIAM T. PRIESTLEY, Jr. CLARENCE W. DUNHAM C. DALE BADGELEY MICHAEL L. RADOSLOVICH BRUCE RABENOLD RICHARD G. BELCHER SAMUEL ENTWISTLE CORNELIUS M. FLYNN PAUL ZUCKER ERNEST FIENE STUART ELDREDGE BYRON THOMAS ALAN TOMPKINS SIDNEY DELAVANTE TULLY FILMUS PAUL FEELEY LILA ULRICH DIKRAN DINGILIAN CHARLES RUDY HOWARD WILLARD GEORG SALTER ESMOND SHAW JOHN PAUL TURNER CHARLES BRACKETT EDMUND MAREIN RUTH H UTTON ELIZABETH BONNER WALTER WESTERVELT RAYMOND DOWDEN ISABEL MCNEELEY VIRGINIA RIBLET RUZA MAGLOFF EHYST LLIZATIU N November of l859 abouf 2000 pupils were enrolled in Cooper Union. Then, as now, fhe demand far exceeded fhe possible number of vacancies. The school was divided info fhe fol- lowing deparfmenfs: School of Design for Wo- men, or in fhe language of fhe founder, a school for fhe insfrucfion of respecfable females in fhe a rfs of design , lvlafhemafics, Chemisfry, Mechanical Philosophy, Archifecfural Drawing, and Vocal Music and Vocal Physiology. All in- sfrucfion, wifh fhe excepfion of fhe School of Design for Women, began af 7:30 p.m. and ended af 9 p.m. The courses were nof foo rigorous: no fesfs were given and cerfificafes denofing proficiency were awarded mainly on fhe basis of affend- ance. Af fhe close of fhe firsf year over l000 pupils remained, and Il67 enrolled af fhe beginning of fhe second year. If was nof unfil I866 fhaf insfrucfion was sysfemafized and examinafions were required. The easy-going fhree year fechnological course developed info a five year course which de- manded more of fhe sfudenfs. Early in I860, fhere appeared in fhe Greaf Hall of Cooper Union a man whose name was fasf making ifself known fo fhe people of fhe counfry, Abraham Lincoln. Presenf af fhaf Cooper Union meefing were William Cullen Bryanf, l-lorace Greeley, Pefer Cooper, and Abram S. l-lewiff. ln fhaf crowded hall Abraham Lincoln spoke fo fhe mosf disfinguished body of men as yef assembled in New York. And fhroughouf fhe Civil War, during which fhe firm of Cooper and l-lewiff acfively supplied fhe governmenf wifh maferials, fhe Greaf Hall was used for meefings and discussion purposes. The reporf of fhe U.S. Com- missioner of Educafion in l87l fo fhe Forfy-second Unifed Sfafes Congress sfafed fhaf The Greaf Hall was a gafhering place in fhe lasf greaf crisis in our hisforyf' The reporf also said of fhe school fhaf fhe insfifufion was highly popular-fhe demands always in excess of fhe resources. If was a good school of science from ifs very incepfion, according fo fhe Commissioner. The meefings af Cooper Union were nof wifhouf fheir lighfer side. ln April, l863, D. Colfon gave an exhibifion of 'ilaughing gas, which was pre- ceded by a brillianf concerf in fhe Greaf l-lall. The free Safurday evening lecfures which shorfly became a feafure of 2 I Cooper Union were TrequenTly aTTended by PeTer Cooper. His appearance on The plaTTorm, air cushion in hand, was always The occasion OT hearTy applause. OTTen, he would add a Tew remarks aT The close OT The lecTure, iT iT so meriTed. One OT The earliesT sTudenTs aT Cooper Union was AugusTus SainT-Gaudens. He was The son OT a French cobbler on Third Avenue and his work was brOughT To The aTTenTiOn OT Abram S. HewiTT. DespiTe The TacT ThaT he was only ThirTeen years old aT The Time ll86ll SainT-Gaudens was admiTTed To The lnsTiTuTe because OT his excepTiOnal TalenT. His sTaTue OT PeTer Cooper is sTanding in TronT OT Cooper Union Today. PeTer Cooper was always disappoinTed in The lack OT supporT Trom his wealThy colleagues in his insTiTuTe. He once said TO The sTudenTs in an address, l cannoT shuT my eyes To The TacT ThaT The producTion OT wealTh is noT The work OT one man and The acquisiTiOn OT greaT TOrTunes is noT possible wiThouT The cOOperaTiOn OT mulTiTudes OT men. ThereTOre, The individuals who are worThy should never lose sighT OT The TacT ThaT They hold wealTh only by The will OT socieTy . . . ThereTore They should adminisTer wealTh as TrusTees OT socieTy. The lack OT popular supporT necessiTaTed The renTing OT The TirsT Two Tloors To commercial esTablishmenTs Tor purposes OT revenue. IT was only unTil The Turn OT The cenTury in I9OO ThaT conTribuTions Tor The supporT OT The school were no longer needed Trom The Cooper-HewiTT Tamily. However, Though Tinancial supporT was lacking, The people OT New York deeply appreciaTed The mOTives behind The Tounding OT The lnsTiTuTe and The place iT occupied in The ciTy's educaTiOnal sysTem. This senTimenT can besT be exempliTied by The Tollowing Taken Trom The Annual ReporT presenTed by The SecreTary, Abram S. HewiTT, aT The CommencemenT in The C5reaT Hall on May 27, l864. Ten years have elapsed since The cornersTOne OT This lnsTiTuTe was laid, and TonighT is compleTed The TiTTh academic year OT iTs exisTence. Founded by The liberaliTy OT a single individual Tor The express purpose OT improving The working classes, Trom whose ranks he has Torced his way To wealTh and inTluence: conveyed To six TrusTees, selecTed Trom among his relaTives and personal Triends in Order To insure harmony OT acTiOng managed by Them wiThouT appeals'TOr popular aid or applause, buT under The mOsT solemn sense OT The respOnsibiliTy OT The greaT TrusT which had been conTided To Them-The Cooper Union Tor The AdvancemenT OT Science and ArT has aT lengTh reached a pOsiTiOn in which iTs aims are perTecTly deTined, and iTs resulTs begin To be OT a magniTude TO inTeresT all classes in The communiTy. The working classes OT This ciTy cannOT be elevaTed and improved wiThouT a direcT beneTiT To all oTher classes: and iT is one OT The mosT graTiTying TeaTures OT The public recepTions and exhibiTions OT This lnsTiTuTe, ThaT here all classes meeT and mingle TogeTher On Terms OT perTecT equaliTy and wiTh muTual respecT and conTidence. The TrusTees have endeavored To culTivaTe This relaTion in all parTs OT Their Organiza- Tion, and They adverT To iT upon This Occasion, because in The name OT Union, selecTed by The Tounder OT The lnsTiTuTion as iTs cOrporaTe TiTle, iT was designed To inculcaTe The greaT social lesson OT muTual dependence and inseparable inTeresTs which bind TogeTher all classes in organized cOmmuniTies, and which should produce uniTed good will and sTeady eTTorTs Tor The general progress and welTare. 22 SENIURS EH DU TES Typical oT The Ch,E's is Ted Berlin, ouTsTanding in many Tields. Ted has been Senior class, A.I.Ch.E. and sTudenT council presidenT, MAO Chancellor, Pioneer associaTe ediTor, and a PriesTley Tech. member. DespiTe his inTeresT in many exTra-curricular acTiviTies as well as in a cerTain member oT The arT school, his school work has remained disTincTive, TesTiTied To by his Tirm grip on a Schwein- burg scholarship. His sTerling abiIiTy in maThemaTics has neTTed him numerous maTh prizes and The graTiTude oT less giTTed classmaTes. M Charles BIiTz is PhoTo EdiTor oT The Pioneer. His imposing size belies his warm and good-naTured Triendliness. Charles was vice-presidenT oT The A.I.Ch.E. and a member of The MaTh and Camera Clubs. He admires good music, and can give you, oTThand, The TiTIe and hisTory of aImosT any classical Tune you hum. He spends his idle momenTs going To The concerT or To The movies, or indulging in amaTeur cookery. Slim John BraTT presenTs The unusual combinaTion oT poeT, acTor, and engineer. Smiling and good-naTured, John has The abiIiTy To make Things go righT. His excellence in sTudies earned him prizes in his Treshman and sophomore years, and MAO membership in senior year. He has worked as a chemical analysT during vacaTions. John was made lcnown To Cooper Through his acTing in The Freshman RecepTion and Through his well- wriTTen, usually humorous poeTry in The Pioneer. if Alfonse Capo- dieci, The good-looking Tellow Trom DeWiTT CIinTon, has played on The inTra- mural soTTball Team: and enioys swimming, baseball and especially golT. An acTive member of The A.I.Ch.E. and The Dancing Club, Cappy sTill has Time Tor phoTography, classical music, and girls. No oTher dancer has his unique sTyle. Nor can anyone imiTaTe his Triendly manner enhanced by his small Tall: and big smile. His ambiTion is To become a consulTanT engineer. if Harold Feder will long be remembered Tor his impersonaTion oT Groucho Marx aT The A.l.Ch.E. Freshman RecepTion. Harold has ediTed The new Freshman Bible: and is acTive in The A.I.Ch.E., The MaTh Club, The BlanIceT Fee CommiTTee and The Pioneer. In I937, he was a member oT The Peace Day CommiTTee, which organized a meeTing in The GreaT Hall. He was also presidenT oT The PriesTley Tech. SocieTy. Harold possesses a waggish and impressible sense oT humor, which permeaTes all his worlc and delighTs his acquainTances. 2 Frank J. Fihgerald devoTed his lasT Two years aImosT enTirely To anagrams played in class, whenever lecTures became boring. FiTz has served as vicee presidenT and Treasurer of The Camera Club. He has also parTicipaTed in The A.I.Ch.E., The MaTh Club and The PriesTley Technical SocieTy. ln his leisurely journey Through Cooper, he has Tound Time Tor machine shop work and model- making. His summers are spenT in PhyTopaThological research aT The Boyce Thompson lnsTiTuTe. QE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING I3 UU TES Charles Fooclim is one oT The Tew sTudenTs who did noT Take ChemisTry in high school. DespiTe This he blossomed ouT as a chemical engineer. The abilify To surmounT The hurdles placed in his way is Typical of The big handbook salesman and elecTrolyTic experT. IT is This abiliTy which has won him Two Louis I-I. Landay scholarships. Charley has been Treasurer oT The A.I.Ch.E. and is chair- man oT The Ring and Pin CommiTTee. George Geier has always had his work done, passes all exams by a comTorTabIe margin, and aT all Times sTands high in class lisTsg and all This wiThouT Tuss or any exTraordinary expen- diTure oT energy. Member oT class baskeTball and baseball Teams Tor Three years, wiTh award OT class numerals in The laTTer, aTTesT To This. Again he has demonsTraTed This TraiT by Tinding employmenT Tor The pasT Two summers, and in boTh cases in indusTries Typical oT engineering and chemisTry. 2 Roberf Herzog uTiIizes his limiTless capaciTy Tor serious ThoughT. Bob Herzog has carried OTT abouT every honor Cooper can conTer. Bob has held Schwein- burg scholarship Tor Tour years, has won The I-lerberT Baldwin prize in excellence in Chemical Engineering, is a member oT The MAO and pursuer oT an honors course in Organic ChemisTry. Bob has been a member OT The A.I.Ch.E., MaTh Club, Chess Club la game in which he excelsl, The Camera Club, and on The sTaTT oT The Pioneer. For relaxaTion he likes drama and symphony music. my For Those who claim engineers can noT be mysTics ExhibiT A in The Techmens' deTense would be Jack Kramer, Ch.E. ATTendanTs aT Jack's seances are enThralled by The vision oT liquids ThaT change color wiTh each hard look, bewildered by soluTions ThaT wiggle as They crysTallize, and enamoured OT beakers ThaT bounce. In his more serious momenTs he is a member oT The MaTh Club and The PriesTley Technical SocieTy. STamp-collecTing is his chieT vice. M Theodore Krauf is a philosophically minded, good naTured Tellow who in spiTe oT his naTural reTicence is an able speaker. I-lis abiliTy To lead in inTer- esTing discussions was broughT ouT in The newly insTiTuTed Social Philosophy Colloquium. A member oT The A.I.Ch.E. and The PriesTley Technical SocieTy, his presence insures iovial and inTeresTing gaTherings. Ted is The advocaTe general oT STuarT Chases' book, The Tyranny oT Words, and will debaTe all comers on iTs meriTs. A An aThleTe in Cooper Union is a rare bird. Abraham LevenThaI is The Senior chems' only aThleTic conTribuTion To The dodo collecTion. Abe played on The VarsiTy baskeTball Team Tor one year and was awarded a C Tor his eTTorTs. I-lis presence on The class basketball and soTTball Teams was insTrumenTal in leading Them To The inTramural championship. Abe belongs To The PriesTley Technical SocieTy and The MaTh Club. For enTer- TainmenT he seeks The movies, The TheaTre. W INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EH UUATES GenTIeman is The word Tor James Loiacono characrerized in all his acTions by The modesT, courTeous demeanor. Jimmy joined The presenT chem class in Their Junior year. His exTra-curricular acTiviTies have been secreTary oT The Newman Club, The A.I.Ch.E, and The PriesTley Technical SocieTy. Jim is unusual among his classmaTes in ThaT he has already had indusTriaI experience .... Spending Two inTeresTing summers wiTh The U,S. STeel Corp. engaged in meTalIurgicaI research. sa James MaI1adeen's unTailing neaTness and beauTiTul handwriTing is The envy oT all oTher Ch.E.'s His reporTs in physical chemisTry or UniT OperaTions make oThers look like hen scraTchings. Possessed oT a wiry aThIeTic build, Jim was an ouTsTanding member OT The RiTIe Club: he won his numerals in baseball in I937. He is a member OT The A.I.Ch.E., The MaTh Club and The Chess Club: Tor diversion, he likes To read or go abouT snapping picTures. R Popular among The Ch.E.'s is VincenT MaTuri. Be- sides being an acTive member oT A.I.Ch.E., MaTh Club, PriesTley Technical So- cieTy, Annual Dance Comn-1iTTee, Ex PosT FacTo, and Dancing Club, he is also Treasurer oT The Newman Club and Day EdiTor oT The Cable. He likes To Talk oT his summer experiences: as inspecTor in American SaTeTy Razor Co., as chemisT preparing Cholesferol DerivaTives1 and oT his senior Thesis wherein he prepared SUIT-pyridine. He is well known among The TacuITy and sTudenT body, having spoken beTore Them Tormally on occasions. Enviable is his abiliTy To make his Lab squad members wanT To work. ,ng Harry Messinger in common wiTh The resT oT The senior chems has exhibiTed a gradual Trend Toward a sTaTe oT maximum enTropy. Harry, aTTecTionaTeIy called Mess by his Tellow class- maTes, is a mainsTay of The class soTTbalI and baskeTbalI Teams. He is a member oT The A.I.Ch.E. and has parTicipaTed acTively in The PriesTley Technical SocieTy since iTs ToundaTion. Harry is youngesT QT The Ch.E.'s. if As Treshmen, The class was sTarTled To hear a sound which deTies all aTTempTs aT descripTion. This sound, emanaTing Trom Eugene Peizer, was a peculiar haunTing, animal-like grunT, mosT nearly expressed as Huh??II None The less Peizer possesses a keen analyTicaI mind. He examines everyThing criTically, and woe beTide anyone uTTering an illogical sTaTemenT. This abiliTy has made him an excelIenT chess player and a leading MaTh Club member. fi Mich- ael Puchir is in The habiT oT asking his overworked classmaTes who are looking Tor shorT soluTions To problems WhaTI don'T you wanT To do any work? He never eases Their embarrassmenT by Telling Them ThaT iT's iusT a joke. Mike relaxes by playing baseball linTercIass championship IQ36-7l and baskeTbaII. He has parTicipaTed in The A.I.Ch.E. and MaTh Club. His Tine qualiTy oT doing hard buT neaT work makes him a desirable IaboraTory parTner. GE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EH DU TES BrooklyniTe Harry Robbins is acknowledged by his classmaTes To be a man wiTh a hair-Trigger wiT and a really aTTable personaliTy. Small buT well-builT, and older Than he looks, Harry perTorms The work OT Three men. NoT only has he done well in school buT he is also a Tree-lance phoTographer and a guiTar player wiTh several dance bands. He has also served on The sTaTT OT The Pioneer and in various class oTTices. 56 Royes Salmon showed amaz- ing abiliTy in The UniT OperaTions Lab. One oT his simple accompIishmenTs was To simulTaneously Take care oT Three manomeTers and six co-eds who had wandered in Trom The adioining arT rooms. His high scholasTic record, which he mainTains wiTh no apparenT eTTorT earned him membership in The MAO. He has also shown TalenT in Tencing, boxing, dancing, and chess, parTicipaTing acTiveIy in These aTTairs, Royes is an avid hockey Tan as well as an enThusiasTic model airplane builder. M Karl Scheller combines a miqh+y Trame wiTh a mighTy brain. His Trame is used Tor bouTs wiTh his Teuding lab parTner, Harry Messingerq his brain is used in achieving scholarships loT which he has held Twol. Karl was elecTed To membership in The MAO in his senior year. He was copy ediTor oT The Freshman Bible as well as a sTaTT member OT The Cable. He has also parTicipaTed in The A.I.Ch.E., The PriesTley Technical SocieTy, The Music Club and The Dancing Club. GE One oT our principal memories oT Phil Tobias is ThaT oT him aT his besT-dispersing some well-chosen wise-cracks, which serve To enliven an oTherwise dull lecTure. He is well known Tor his parTnership wiTh Harry Robbins. This parTnership has passed Through numerous lab courses and sessions of working ouT problems wiThouT losing Their characTerisTic sense oT humor, His acTiviTies include The A.I.Ch.E., The Music Club, The PriesTley Technical SocieTy and The Dancing Club. R Small and busTling Murray WeinTraub is one oT Cooper's conspicuous poliTicians. He has been business manager and assisTanT ediTor oT The Pioneer, Treasurer OT The BlankeT Fee CommiTTee, and business manager oT The Freshman Bible. DespiTe The press oT These posiTions, he Tound Time To belong To The A.I.Ch.E., Lambda Tau, The PriesTley Technical SocieTy, and The MaTh Club, In his earlier years aT Cooper Union, Murray held a Schweinburg lwhich he laTer relinquishedl and a STaTe scholarship. Joe Black is an M.E. who can Take To The Teachers like a college presidenT-and make Them like iT. He is recognized as our ambassador aT large. He is an experT on I93O Fords: and his reserved exTerior To The conTrary, he can beaT ouT one oT The meanesT hoT pianos in school. He has paid his way Through college by playing ouT nighTs, and has made our pasT ChrisTmas dinners inTo a TesTival oT song and Floy-Floy. ing INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES' 'T T AIphabeTicaIly second, buT TirsT in popuIariTy among The IvI.E.'s is Charlie Caccamo. His clever mimicry is a reIieT Trom dull IecTures. His abiIiTy To memorize characTerisTics makes him one oT The schooI's hoT'iazz experTs. His dancing however is sTilI oT The smooTh vinTage oT ISOO. Charlie, a STaTe scholarship man, is noTed Tor his clever and coordinaTed reporTs. In one oT his serious momenTs he engineered The M.E. ChrisTmas dinner and bowled The boys righT inTo The guTTers. gk Jack Farmer is The shrimp oT The class in weighT buf will Take on any six-TooTer muscling in on his women. He's sTricTIy an ouTdoor man, Tinding hiking and advenTuring his TavoriTe hobbies: having a special Technique oT quibbling over minor poinTs and Then showing Them imporTanT by referring To Am. M. 8: F. He probably is one oT The besT cusTomers oT lv1cSorIey's Ale House and The oTher local Taverns. Fencing appeals To him IaTeIy, Thar is, since The admission oT The Treshman ArT School Iassies. 5925 Howie KuT1eIman is The eTTiciency experT oT The class. He has The knack oT Turning ouT a second draTT The TirsT Time and The Tinished producT is concise, accuraTe and neaT. His quieT and eTTecTive abiIiTy enabled him To serve as manager oT The Inferclass BaskeTbaIl TournamenT. His inTeresTs varied Trom phoTography in his early years To music and roller skafing in his IaTer years. Howie is an acTive member OT The Newman Club. 59 The TiTle oT The youngesT person in The class goes To Ed LichTenI::erg. He is easy-going, pracTicaI, and level-headed, buT geTs burned up when he has To sTay up until IO:3O p.m. doing homework. IT seems he preTers sharpie girls aIThough he can neiTher shag a lick nor lick a shag himseIT. ECI is a good hand wiTh a car. He is The mosT erraTic bowler This side oT Hell GaTe, wearing Tive guTTers aT Radio CiTy in a one nighT sTand-show ThaT medal, Ed. 3 Brain TrusTer of The M.E.'s is Dan Russ. He is The sTandard bearer oT The class, seTTing The pace Tor The resT oT The Tellows. His Tine schoIasTic record is shown by The TacT That he has held The Emil Schweinburg scholarship Tor Tour years as well as a STaTe scholarship. In his junior year he was Treasurer oT The A.S.M.E. sTudenT branch and was unanimously eIecTed chairman in This IasT year. OuTside oT school Danny swings iT on The accordion. 3 Full OT energy and good humor is WaI+ Vignini who always speaks in The vernacular. WaIT does noT allow school To inTerTere wiTh exTra-curricular acTiviTies. He is manager oT The RiTIe Club and a member oT The Newman Club, The Fencing Club, The Camera Club and The A.S.M.E. He likes TasT music and can hold his own wiTh The sharpiesT oT The iiTTer-bugs. M INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE Ii AD ATE5 James M. Allaire has been vice-presidenT oT The A.S.C.E., assisTanT manager oT The baskeTball squad, and has obTained an enviable record in class. Jim has Tound Time Tor occasional excursions inTo The realm oT big land, allegedly, somewhaT shadyl business. IT is Teared, however, ThaT owing To lasT year's operaTions in The second hand book markeT conducTed aT The expense oT cerTain Junior C.E.'s, his repuTaTion may sTand in The way oT any sweeping success in business. A When iT comes To personal eTTiciency There are Tew ThaT can compare wiTh Johnny Fiala. For insTance, iT has long been his habiT To Take a couple oT nighTs OTT every week and sTill geT as much done as everyone else. In Cooper The 53-54' TraTerniTy, The Newman Club and The A.S.C.E. have all proTiTed by his abiliTy To boTh lead and cooperaTe. His scholarship won him membership in The MAO. 59 KeiTh Halliday has proved himselT To be TorernosT oT The presenT C.E.'s by reason oT The speed and neaTness which is characTerisTic oT his work. Away Trom school, his inTeresTs are diversiTied. He has spenT some oT his spare Time building ship models and indulging in soccer. His secreT ambiTion is To play The bagpipe, and in preparaTion Tor This he is pracTicing on some weird wind insTrurnenT which is probably easier To play Than To describe. GE Seymour LesTer possesses a shock oT curly hair and The knack OT beaTing The arm oT his chair as if he were pounding on an imaginary drum. He is exacT and puncTual wiTh his homework and cooperaTive Seymour, a bushy Tellow, used To play Tennis during The summer in The Alps unTil his arm-chair calisThenics during The winTer exhausTed is To own a yachT. R Due To The TacT ThaT To a high degree. him. His ambiTion PeTer Sagonas spenT much Time on exTra-curricular acTiviTies, being presidenT oT The A.A. and on The Annual Dance CommiTTee, he became capable oT inking a sTrucTural design pIaTe beTween gulps oT a sandwich and wriTing an E.E. reporT, while bringing his plaTe up To The insTrucTor. To Top iT all, he organized 'The Camera Club and obTained The dark room. Needless To say, he Took picTures oT The preTTy arT school lassies, while waiTing Tor The curves lThe reporT's oT coursel To dry. if Meyer SIoTkin was usually The only Tellow in The class To compleTe The Social Philosophy assignmenTs. This was because The nighT before he had had To read someThing while waiTing To O.K. prooT as pro- ducTion manager oT The Pioneer. He was also secreTary oT The lDay Techl Senior Class, and Treasurer oT The DramaTic Club. He enioys a show on SaTurday nighT, The radio when wriTing reporTs, and phoTography. His ambiTion is To work as engineer amid The beauTylsl oT Honolulu, M OF TECHNOLOGY - CIVIL ENGINEERING GRADUATES A graduaTing Civil Engineer, Sol Tannenbaum is ideally equipped To enTer inTo his chosen profession. As business manager oT The Pioneer, despiTe The meagre Tunds aIIoTTed him by The BIankeT Fee CommiTTee, he has managed To Turn ouT a Tine newspaper. This may noT sound very diTTicuIT, acTuaIly iT requires noT only managerial abiliTy, buT Tor some oT The economies, such as cuTTing The aIloTTed supper-money oT The sTaTT, iT requires Tearlessness as well. SoI's hobbies are blondes, bruneTTes, and redheads. H Saul Aronow is conspicu- ous Through his maThemaTicaI abiIiTy. IT was a sighT never To be TorgoTTen, To see Saul insTrucT The enTire IvIaTh DeparTmenT in VecTor Analysis, The Topic oT his Honors Course. He is ediTor-in-chieT of The Pioneer, presidenT oT The Iv1aTh Club, and vice-presidenT of The A.I.E.E. Saul is always accompanied by a big, blank, mysTerious Trunk, which he calls a brieT-case. ITs conTenTs are a mysTery even To Saul. One expIoraTory Trip Through iT was Toiled by The lack oT Time, A John Gruol is a devoTee oT ThaT Type oT degeneraTe cacophony called swing. Johnny Takes exTreme deIighT in discovering anoTher person's misTakes. He siTs quieTly, giving no exTernaI evidence oT his menTaI alerTness, buT aT The TirsT slip, Mr. Gruol ineviTabIy discovers The error. Johnny is one of Those Tellows wiTh The abiliTy To break down a problem To iTs TundamenTaIs. He can even explain The meaning oT some swing Tune TiTIes. Cropper WhiTney Holland, commonly known as C.W., is The class Ambassador oT Good Will. His ready smile and Tacile wiT smooThIy eliminaTe any inTer-sTudenT TricTion. He is aTTecTionaTeIy aTTached To a black Tedora, a parTicuIarIy evil- smelling brand OT cough drops, and The A,I.E.E. over which he presides. C.W. also lives in New Jersey. He has occupied The same easy chair in Dr. PeTerson's philosophy class aT every session unTil, now, his righTs To iT are undispuTed. R Ruben Kazarian has The good TorTune To live wiThin walking disTance of Cooper Union. For This reason he always makes his classes by The skin oT his TeeTh. Kazen, as he was originally and permanenTIy chrisTened by ProTessor Ball, has exceIIenT laboraTory Technique. His peT peeve is The varying value oT The Edison D.C. volTage, wiTh which his neighborhood is supplied. He will TrequenTIy measure The lab volTage and say, Oh, my gosh, look aT THAT OVERVCLTAG-E. 59 MiITon A. LipTon has Three main inTeresTs in IiTe: people, music, and generaTing sTaTions. The TirsT keeps him busy inTerview- ing people Tor The Pioneer. He engages Them in Triendly conversaTion and analyzes Their characTer. Is There a person in Cooper who has noT heard him whisTle BeeThoven's FiTTh Symphony compIeTe? The very walls anTicipaTe his morning concerTs, daily, excepT Sunday, when he is in a nasTy mood. According To Lippy, Diesels are Tops as prime movers in small generaTing sTaTions. ing INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - ELECTRICAL E NGINEERING TEH UU TES Every class has iTs genius, and Bernard D. Loughlin answers The roll call for The E.E.'s. Barney is The unquesfioned and undispufed auThoriTy on radio and Tele- vision in all of Cooper. Barney answers all quesfions in These fields. Barney is righT proud of The Television receiver he designed and builT enTirely by himself. He also builT, and now operafes a governmenT licensed radio sTaTion. Barney is always quieT, and generally answers a quesTion by asking anofher. QB Frank Nisfico is The golden voiced Tenor from STaTen island. NisTy is pos- sessed oT fine rich ernofions ThaT find ouTleT in deep grudges ThaT don'T lasT long. He will remain aT a Task unfil iT is finished. Then he sTarTs his long pilgrimage horne via subway, ferry, locomofive, Trolley, efc. He once had To Take The same ferry righT back again in order To be in school on Time. ln spiTe of all This, he never looks Tired. 5925 Bernard OlcoTT is The sea-faring member of The class. There is no person in The class To whom he has noT Told The full sTory of his Trip around in a Tramp sfeamer. Ships have always inTrigued him. In his iunior year, he designed The mofor for a DieselfElecTric Terry boaT. He is head of The Fencing Group, and capTain of The Rifle Team. Dead-Eye OlcoTT is high scorer of The Rifle Club. fig Frederick Gluck is a disfinguished hard working man hailing from Easf Orange, New Jersey. He has proved himself a silenT sTudenT who does Things slowly buT accurafely. Always ready To Take up an argumenT on ElecTrical Engineering, you will find him lisTening in a group of E.E.'s. Gluck always does his home- work on Time. He is The lasT of The Day School. Joseph Barker is The pacer of The QE. class. NoT only is he always called upon firsT in class buf he is always The firsT To have his assignmenTs complefed. Joe is a residenT of Ridgewood and is always willing To devofe Ten minuTes of his Time explaining how To geT There. In business experience Joe has gained considerable knowledge abouT insurance and can show you how To maferially reduce your premiums buT noT your insurance. Melvin R. Hufchins, one of The foremosT cifizens of The Bronx is always cleploring The facT ThaT he meefs girls from Bayonne, Peoria, or some such place. And one of The peculiar incidenfs ThaT happened To him This Term, says Mel, is ThaT he meT a girl from The Bronx and whaT a girl. Melvin, as an officer of The A.S.C.E. has assisTed in The wrifing of iTs consTiTuTion and has kepT his classmafes well informed on all iTs ramificafions. INST OF TECH.-ELECT. ENG. - NIGHT SCHOOL-CIVIL ENG. EH UUATES To Harry Kessler goes The honor oT compIeTing his senior year spasmodically, since his posiTion wiTh The Fire DeparTmenT made iT necessary Tor him To miss numerous classes. Guessing wheTher he would appear The nexT nighT or noT became The TavoriTe indoor sporT oT his cIassmaTes. l-Iarrys special accomplish- menT was The wriTing oT The shorTesT reporTs in Cooper Union hisTory buT They musT have been long enough since They were invariably accepTed. John J. King managed To come Through Cooper Union wiThouT losing his broad grin and sense oT humor. The only Time These asseTs Tail him is when someone menTions ThaT The Brooklyn Dodgers are noT in TirsT place, Tor John is one oT The mosT rabid Tans oT The FIaTbush Farmers. John is a member oT The Phi Sigma Omega FraTerniTy and whaT Time is noT spenT There or aT school is spenT aT The beTTer plays wiTh a cerTain person Trom The Bronx, WiThouT Johnny's TaIenT The nighT school would noT have won The baseball championship oT Cooper Union. Leo Tobias, The Tashion pIaTe oT The class, is anoTher commuTer Trom The Bronx. Leo is employed in The manuTacTure oT cameras and can be classified as an experT in The Theory oT proiecTion. When- ever his class has a Tew minuTes To spare, Leo will sTep To The board and ex- pound on The quaIiTy oT any camera menTioned. There is no doubT ThaT Leo will be a success Tor he has The abiIiTy oT doing The mosT diTTicuIT problem and making you believe iT is easy. Frank Vanek is The ouTsTanding sTudenT in exTra-curricular aTTairs oT The senior class. AT The beginning oT The Term, he was The only one in school who already possessed a silver C. I-Ie has held posTs on The Cable, Pioneer, BIankeT Fee, STudenT Council and oT his class, as well as being on numerous con-imiTTees during his exTra-curricular career. Frank has also been acTively parTicipaTing in The aTTairs oT his TraTerniTy, Phi Sigma Omega, and was eIecTed Grand MasTer This year. I-low he manages To geT good grades is a secreT buT he says This play reTreshes The mind. Frank R. Garner is anoTher OT The benedicTs oT The Chemical Engineering class, When noT sTudying Thermodynamics Frank can be Tound aT The FelTon Chemical Company experimenTing in perTumes-or on Their baseball diamond playing a mean second base. Frank has a swell sense oT humor and can Trade wise cracks wiTh The besT oT Them, I-Iis reTorTs To The commenTs abouT ThaT odor oT perTume usually sTop his hecklers cold. RoberT Goldberg is The scholar of The senior class. Rube, as he is known To his cIassmaTes, This year won The I-Ienri D. Dickinson Fund Prize oT SI25 Tor The besT record in The graduaTing class. Besides being a scholar, Rube is quiTe an aThleTe. I-Te was The sTar piTcher on The NighT School baseball Team and aided quiTe a biT in Their winning The inTramuraI championship This year. NIGHT SCHOOL-CIVIL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING NIGHT S GRADUATES Ralph Koliner lalso called champl is The auThor oT ThaT bibliography on sulphur dyes ThaT Dr. Hope uses To TrighTen The sTudenTs oT his LiTeraTure Researches classes. In his Third year, Ralph received The prize Tor The besT record in chem- isTry. He has been acTive in The alrliairs of The nighT branch oT The A.I.Ch.E. since iTs inducTion Three years ago and has served on many commiTTees as well as being eIecTed presidenT. Jerome Kuzmick is The class punsTer. His puns have TrequenTly made iT necessary Tor oTher members oT The class To explain Their grinning aT a IecTure on chemisTry. Jerry is a deparTmenT head aT The IvIanhaTTan Chemical Company and already has a paTenT To his crediT. He is a lover of classical music and is an accomplished vioIinisT. Jerry's hobby seems To be coIIecTing new cars-his IaTesT, a '39 Buick, is a beauT. Herberf I. MiTcheII is The Thrush oT The class. He has sTudied singing Tor a number oT years and sings dramaTic Tenor. Herb will sing any operaTic aria aT The sIigh+es+ provocaTion aT any Time or any place. Herb originally sTarTed in The day school and was presidenT oT his Treshman class buT upon his TransTer To The nighT school Tound he could noT devoTe any Time To exTra-curricular acTiviTies, aIThough his advice was always soughT. HerberT A. Bahrenberg, Herb To his Triends, is The principal member of The engineering sTaTI: oT E. R. Squibb and Sons, and will discuss To greaT IengTh The engineering Teal oT manuTacTuring an aspirin Table-T. In The TirsT Tive years Herb could always be Tound down aT The Phi Sigma Omega FraTerniTy sTudying wiTh The oTher boys. In The IasT year, however, his sTudy was conducTed in Queens, The principal sTudy having blonde highIighTs. Herb was always acTive in exTra-curricular acTiviTies, being represenTaTive oT his class Tor Tour years, secreTary and vice- presidenT oT The A.I.Ch.E. and ediToriaI assisTanT on The Pioneer. Charles S. Barrows will Take ouT a cigareTTe and discuss anyThing or anybody Tor hours on end. Charley has The makings of a poIiTician in noT only being able To Talk buT also in being an organizer oT no mean abiliTy. Charley has had experience in machining and many oTher engineering indusTries., He'Il explain any oT Them To you on The sIighTesT provocaTion wiTh abiIiTy. John F. Bafeman is iusT abouT Tops in ambiTion. ATTer 'Finishing The Cooper Union course in EIecTrical Engineering in I932, Jack Took a year's resT and Then bounced righT back To Tackle The chemical course. Jack also goes in Tor badminTon and during The baskeTbaII season Tinds Time To scrimmage wiTh The Cooper varsiTy. He is a member oT P.S.O. FraTerrniTy. Jack is married, has a family and holds a responsible posiTion wiTh The N. Y. Telephone Co. CHOOL-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EH UUATES MarTin M. Brown is one oT The Goldberg-Brown duo. Whenever one appears The oTher is sure To be nearby. All The members oT The class Take advanTage of MarTin because he Tinds iT diTficuIT To reTuse any Tavor asked oT him. MarTin assisTed in The producTion oT The Pioneer and on The Senior Key CommiTTee. Symphony music, The TheaTre, movies, and bowling are The enTerTainmenTs pre- Terred by MarTin. William J. Fifzpahick is The TirsT haIT oT The inseparable O.D.P. duo and is considered as The Tashion pIaTe oT The Chemical Engineers. Bill is a member oT The Omega DeITa Phi FraTerniTy, A.I.Ch.E., and Newman Club and iT is parTIy Through his diIigenT eTforTs ThaT These organizaTions sTand where They are. IT seems ThaT The only Thing ThaT inTeresTs Bill, ouTside his sTudies, are The quaIiTies oT various members oT The oTher sex. Edmund Roszkowski has The repuTaTion oT being The sTrong man oT The Chemicals. He is never happier Than when wresTling wiTh a Tew pipes in The chemical engineering laboraTory. BUT Ed is righT There Too, when iT comes To chemical Theory: and he and Ralph Koliner Tormed The speecIiesT laboraTory pair in The class. Ed is planning To go To The UniversiTy oT Michigan Tor his masTer's degree. ATTer spelling ThaT name so Iong, Cooper was easy. BenoiT J. Sirois is The Tamily man of The senior class having The largesT number of children. He has a posiTion as producTion manager oT The Phelps Dodge Copper ProducTs CorporaTion and iTs seems ThaT everyThing he learns can be applied To The Copper Process. Benny's name causes The insTrucTors considerable Trouble since, The TirsT Time They pronounce iT, IT sounds Iike sirosis or a disease oT some kind, buT his cIassmaTes never have any Trouble wiTh iT. Harry G. Taylor is The second haIT oT The O.D.P. duo and a runner up as The class Tashion plaTe. Harry is deeply inTeresTed in his work as a research chemisT aT The RockeTelIer InsTiTuTe oT Medical Research and is always willing To explain iT To anyone. Harry has already aTTended several colleges and upon graduaTion plans To aTTend The UniversiTy oT Michigan To geT his masTer's degree. WiTh his perseverance and knowledge he will soon earn his docTor's degree. Edward H. Turner is ThaT TaII lanky Tellow who siTs in The lasT row wiTh his legs draped over The seaT nexT To him. Ed doesn'T Take Things seriously and his wise cracks helped To keep The class awake during some oT Those boring IecTures. He is a chemical analysT during The day and enioys discussing The various meThods of anaIyTicaI chemisTry. His philosophy seems To be iT's a Tough IiTe buT I guess There's noThing we can do abouT iT. NIGHT SCHOOL-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES RoberT Wiesenclanger is Tollowing in The TooTsTeps oT his broTher, Alexander, who graduaTed in I934. Bob has plenfy oT Time To sTudy since he musT Travel down Trom Yonkers every day. His cIassmaTes have received a course in soil research Trom him Tor he is quiTe an experT on This subiecT. One oT his TavoriTe Topics, in periods oT reIaxaTion, is The conquesTs he has made over The previous weekend and The class Tinds These quiTe inTeresTing, aIThough aT Times doubTTuI. Herman N. Woebcke is noT only The youngesT member oT The class, buT also one of The smarTesT and Tallesf. IT was probably The second OT These quaIiTies ThaT landed him The posiTion oT IaboraTory assisTanT wiTh The Rockefeller InsTiTuTe oT Medical Research. Herman is a member oT The Phi Sigma Omega FraTerniTy and can always be seen aT Their dances and parTies wiTh a cerTain DoroThy, and Herm and DoT sure show The boys how To sTep. WiTh a liTTle encouragement he will discourse on The various medical exp-erimenTs aT The RockeTeIIer InsTiTuTe, HerberT Allison lan EIecT. Engl, or Herby To his classmaTes, is an imporTaTion Trom Jersey who Travels every day To The Bell Labs To design vacuum Tubes. Herby never says much, buT whenever There is a dance he manages To Turn up wiTh some new beauTy in his arms which bears ouT The saying STiII waTers run deep. Herby is also a bowler oT no mean abilify and if you give him a chance he will Tell you oT The Time ThaT he bowled I97. EIIio'I' Berman being one oT The smarTer members of our group will, on The sIighTesT preTexT, hold opinion wiTh anyone on any subiecT. Working aT The Neo Gravure PrinTing Co., he is responsible Tor The roTogravure secTion in your TavoriTe newspaper. IT you ever wanT a game oT ping pong iusT call on EIIioT who spends his summer vacaTions beaTing all The local cham- pions. His spare Time in The winTer is generally spenT in TurThering The inTeresTs oT The A.I.E.E., oT which he was vice-presidenT in his senior year. Hugo Bricchi was The ouTsTanding scholar oT The E.E. class and easily won The prize in AITernaTing CurrenTs II and III. Whenever The answer To a problem was needed, Hugo always had iT. Besides his engineering abiliTy, Hugo is an arTisT and Those who have seen his painTings say They are good. Hugo's spare Time is generally spenT IisTening To Verdi or Tixing radios so ThaT The MeTro- poIiTan Opera programs come in beTTer. LasT buT noT IeasT, as many can aTTesT, he is a wine maker oT no mean abiliTy. Frank Del Papa is The Beau Brummel oT The E.E. class. Whenever There is a class Turn-ouT, Del would be There suiTably equipped wiTh a charming Teminine companion. As an exponenT oT modern dancing, Del was wiThouT an equal and if allowed, would demonsTraTe his abiliTy aT any occasion. Del is working aT The NaTionaI Sugar Refining Co. oT N. J. as an operaTor in The conTrol room, which probably ac- counTs Tor his sweeT disposiTion. NIGHT SCHOOL - CHEM. ENGINEERING. ELECT. ENGINEERING GRADUATES KenneTI1 Feldman works as a designer during The day and This is reTlecTed in his school work. Whenever There were any drawings To do, Ken would always have Them in on Time and looking like whaTever They were supposed To represenT. Ken is a Traveler, having inspecTed The Teminine populaTion oT The U.S., he had To go To Canada To Tind a really saTisTacTory companion. OuTside of school, Ken likes To spend his Time eiTher playing ping pong or bowling, sporTs aT which he excels. William Joseph is The laTesT benedicT oT The E.E. class, having been Taken ouT oT circulaTion early This year. By The way in which he wenT Through his school work, iT would seem ThaT married liTe agreed wiTh him. Working as an engineering draTTsman, Willie had a good grasp oT pracTical engineering problems and would oTTen corner an insTrucTor wiTh some oT Them, William Klein is The mosT popular man in The secTion. I-Iailing Trom The Bronx, he had all The Teminine hearTs TluTTering in ThaT borough. EveryThing was well wiTh Bill unTil he came To Brooklyn. When he did, The Bronx loST iTs mosT eligible bachelor. Working Tor The ConsolidaTed Telegraph 8: ElecTricaI Subway Co., Bill may generally be Tound peering down a hole in The sTreeT Trying To locaTe a missing cable. AcTive in exTra-curricular acTiviTies, Bill was SecreTary and PresidenT oT The A.l.E.E. and also class represenTaTive. Bernard STauss is one of The more sedaTe members of The class, being a married man. Working Tor The Bell Telephone Company, STauss could generally be depended upon To answer The mosT inTricaTe quesTions abouT radio circuiTs. During The Tew hours which he had To spare Trom his sTudies, STauss liked To relax by playing chess. I-Iis TavoriTe hobby is ThaT oT philaTely and he possesses a large collecTion. William F. Websfer has noT only acquired all The essenTials oT a good elecTrical engineer buT has also learned how To enjoy himselT. Week-ends These lasT Tew years have noT been spenT solely in learning where alTernaTing currenTs go, buT also in learning where New York playboys go. Bill has been acTive in P.S.O. TraTerniTy Tor The pasT Tive years: and his exTra-curricular acTiviTies include Three years as a class oTTicer, and oTTicer of The A.I.E.E. Bill goes in Tor swimming, horseback riding, dancing and anyThing else you can menTion. He's ready To Tackle anyThing. Joseph Weichbrod is one OT The mosT sTudious members of The class and This is shown by The marks he receives. Joe has been a member oT The A.I.E.E. Tor The pasT Three years and has served as Cable represenTaTive and on The Cap and Gown CommiTTee. In his spare Time, Joe dabbles in phoTography, and aT your requesT will assisT you in any of your phoTographic problems. NIGHT SCHOOL- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES Henry W. Wenson was The quieTesT member OT The class, buT always had a ready answer Tor anyone who needed assisTance in Their work. Working as a meTer TesTer during The day, Henry could always poinT ouT The various ways To sTop your eIecTric meTer recording and why These various meThods would noT be eTTecTive in reducing your eIecTric bill. James V. Brady la Mech. Eng.I is The besT liked member oT The class. His inTecTious grin aTTecTs everyone in The immediaTe viciniTy. Jim has held numerous posTs in school acTiviTies. He has received his gold C Tor his eTTorTs as class oTTicer Tor Three years, once as presidenT, and on The BIankeT Fee CommiTTee, This year as Chairman. His TraTerniTy, Omega DeITa Phi, has gained much Trom his member- ship. In order To have more Time Tor sTudies and school aTTairs, Jim lives aT The Y.M.C.A. on The nighTs he aTTends school. AIberT A. Budde has devoTed much Time To The TurThering oT The aims oT The A.S.M.E. He has been secreTary Tor Two years and This year was eIecTed chairman. AI proved he had whaT iT Takes by winning The Wilson G. HunT Fund Prize Tor The besT work in mechanical drawing in his Third year. For The pasT six years AI has been employed by The Bell Telephone LaboraTory in The TesTing and developing OT The Telephone wire and in designing apparaTus Tor conducTing These TesTs. Max Gordon-A high Torehead may be considered a sign oT inTelli- gence buT when iT geTs ThaT Tar back iT also shows The eTTecT oT burning midnighT oil over calculus and mechanics and M.E. reporTs, eTc. AlThough Max always seemed To be The sIowesT in doing problems, he always comes ouT wiTh The righT answer IThe lucky dogl. He has a greaT inTeresT in The opera, The TheaTre, women, and The poIiTicaI siTuaTion. One oT The besT liked Tellows was ArThur MarTone. The only Thing his classmaTes didn'T like abouT him was ThaT he always made The class average high. He likes To shag and aTTend opera. lWhere's The connecTion?I AIThough ArT was always in his glory solving prob- lems on The blackboard, he was sublime on The dance Tloor Ihaving had Three or more beersi. One Thing he will always enjoy abouT Cooper Union is The TacT ThaT he graduaTed. To show his school spiriT he wears his Cooper Medal when he goes swimming. ArT is now earning his keep Trom The ManhaTTan Rubber Co. One oT The besT bowlers in The class was James J. McAIeer buT The Machine Design course always bowled him over. Jim was always in Tavor oT pIenTy oT sTucIy and homework and beer aTTer class. This is one individual who never Tell asleep in class. He was a Tull Tledged sTudenT member oT The A.S.M.E. He was a GianT Fan up unTil his lasT year and Then he grew a musTache. Jim was The golTer oT The class. NIGHT SCHOOL - ELECT. ENGINEERING, MECH. ENGINEERING EH UUATES MaTThew Frank O'Brien is a noT very Tall, slender, blond lrisher wiTh a pleasing smile. When you don'T find him home go To The nearesf bar. He was old man experience of The class having had abouf Three years Training in Fosfer-Wheeler. A greaf golfer is he, being able To go around in abouf 80 sTrokes T9 holesl. IT seemed as Though his favorife pasfime was sTealing a snooze in The lecTure classes. Maff was a member of The A.S.M.E. for The pasT Three years and always inTended To give a lecTure To his fellow members. Anfonio N. Savacchio holds The record as The wriTer of noTes in class buT The peculiar parf is ThaT he can remember To whaT The nofes refer. They probably referred To phoTography since Tony was an addicT of This indoor and oufdoor sporT. Tony is an A.S.M.E. member and is also one of The beTTer draffsmen employed by The Navy To design ifs baTTlewagons. In his spare Time he is fond Jr. is a Tall, hand To his of The class of lisTening To music, if iT is good. H. Paul Weber, Thin, unassuming fellow who is always willing To lend a helping classmafes. Paul sfands high scholasfically among The members and had The honor of being selecfed as salufaforian of The senior class. He is proud of his work wiTh The Haloid Co. and will discourse aT greaT lengfh upon Their producTs, phofographic paper and machines. Paul has given several lec- Tures aT meeTings of his sociefy, The A.S.M.E. Wilhelm Wolysza always has his assignmenTs in on Time much To his inTimaTes' surprise. Will always spends his weekends on The baskeTball courfs, Throwing baskefs from all angles and holding up his end of The game. Will also holds his own when The grades are posfed since his marks have consisTenTly been beTTer Than average. Will, who has been a member of The A.S.M.E. for The pasT Three years, can usually be found in The day Time af The planT of The Aufh Elecfric Co. where he has been employed for The pasf Three years. GE Mildred Leschke of The Nighr Arf painTing class seems Tres sad on leaving Cooper affer spending four of The happiesf years lso farl painfing To her hearT's delighf. Gold Cs, presidencies and such haven'T invaded Mildred's life buT her enioymenf of painTing and abiliTy To produce resulfs have been a poinT of pride for The curriculum of The Arf School. zsilg Abe Kaplan is mosf likely To succeed in The business world and iT has been said Thaf he carries a level head on a healfhy body. He may also be considered as one of The besf dressed men of The Chapfer, possessing a wardrobe of considerable variefy. Of all The subiecTs Abe Kaplan has sfudied in Cooper Union, esfimafing, speciTicaTion, and The wrifing of Confracf Documenfs seem To be his nafural inclinafions. M NIGHT SCHOOL-MECHANICAL ENGI NEERING GRAD ATE3 Rufh Barbarow, who has radical hair, is always seen wifh a cigareffe in hand, evading all issues, hurrying To her hobbies of ship model making, pisfols, and symphonic concerfs via radio. If you've ever wondered whaf her feelings were abouf various subiecfs if may enlighfen you fo know she dislikes Gable, Loreffa Young and many minor defails of fhe cinema world which we've held of liffle imporfance fo dafe. Rufh really is a hound for fhe arfs, fho, her fackling of bofh painfing and sculpfure affesfing fo fhaf. Anofher of fhaf srrong silenf fype is handsome John Browning, who comes fo us from way down Soufh Carolina way. This soufhern genfleman has a quainf philosophy, and fhaf is he likes doing nofhing, buf he doesn'f kid us. Few people, if any, know fhis abouf Johnnie: and fha? is, fhaf before coming fo Cooper, he sfudied pre- med for fwo years af Wake Foresf College. ln spiie of his quainf philosophy, he is one indusfrious fellow and has been doing some nice work in adverfising, besides geffing in on a liffle inferclass baskefball . . . and preferrin' bruneH'esl M Mary Cahill. Mary is a very affracfive and wiffy fashion sfudenf who didn'+ enioy archifecfure lbuf who did?l, yef is so affracfed fo painfing fhaf she sfudied if af nighf fhis lasf year. Her developmenf has been greaf and combined wifh her fashion work should give her an inferesfing career. Then fhere is her ambifion fo fake in all The nighf clubs in Greenwich Village. Could if be fhe Bohemian afmosphere? No, Mary iusf likes fo dance! Gerfrude Davidson has probably been fhe busiesf person of her class during her four year soiourn here. Thrice elecfed presidenf of her class and 'lhree years service as member and secrefary of fhe Sfudenf Council, Gerf has been a guiding liqhr for The class of '39. Parficularly inferesfed in aesfhefic dancing, foreign films and painfing, she is always on fhe go. Her painf-covered smock is indisfinguishable from surrounding canvases, and if is also from her flying hair, fhaf we recognize Goifie. A Edith Goulfine enioys working in fhe design laborafory, where'she will do anyfhing perfaining fo color and dyes. She likes fhe fhings we all like, and a few more, namely ham acfing and giddy fifs. She has received menfions for her designs and is a falenfed person. 2593 Madelene Hendrickson also has radical hair and a conservafive nafure. She dislikes fhe slighfesf hinf of osfenfafion, and considers living prefenfious. She is easily influenced, which explains why she sfill lives, in spife of her affifude foward life. There is also her craving for double rich malfed milks, movies, wrifing leffers, Grefa Garbo and walking in fhe rain. B95 COOPER UNION - ART S CHOOL EH UUATES -,xg , W Y W COOPE Ann Hysa personaliTy dabbles in being only horse-back may righTly be called a Bohemian. Frank, ouTspoken, an ingraTiaTing she is ever on her Toes. Always on The alerT Tor new Things, she almosT everyThing. Music, phoTography, dressmaking and designing, a Tew oT her numerous hobbies. She used To spend a loT oT Time riding on The TlaTs oT Long Island, buT since acquiring a car has leTT The horses To The wagons. Oh yes, she likes The drummer man in The band! 3 Wolfgang Hugo Kassner can be found behind The eighT ball or meaT ball, according To The season. He is The execuTive Type, bossing some- Thing or somebody aT some Time or oTher. BuT we're noT kidding. WolTie has held many responsible posiTions in school and ouT, and now . . , behold!! . . . our illusTrious ediTor-in-chief! A versaTile person, he has also been a member of various commiTTees and clubs. His enTerTainmenT can be liquid, solid, or gaseous, and occasionally absTracT. Possessing a sense oT humor ThaT runs To The pracTical ioke, WolT is a righT guy. H Neva Kornfeld special- izes in novelTy. She wears The craziesT doo-dads in her hair, on her lapels, shoes, haT, everywhere. She makes all These gimcracks as well as cloThes and a swell iob she does. She iusT loves Berard, Picasso, MaTisse and magenTa in everyThing. EWZ5 Sylvia Kushner, oT The surprised look and unique coiTTeur, is a shining example oT indusTriousness and a gal wiTh a delighTTul sense oT humor. A Tour year honor sTudenT, her real TorTe is dress designing and draping, in which her originaliTy and creaTiveness have been successTul in acquiring saTisTied cusTomers. Besides her work, Sylvia has had one oTher TacTor on her mind These pasT Tour years . . . buT why Tell Tales ouTside oT class? QQ Josephine Lazzaro can be compared To a Tawn in genTleness and appearance. She has a delicious, delicaTe sense oT humor, which crops up in amusing poems and leTTers, illusTraTed wiTh quainT sTick Tigure drawings. Josie maiored in graphic design and should be The answer To publishers prayer. In direcT conTrasT To her genTle appearance, she explodes on a canvas. One would never believe her To be The auThor oT such robusT, Tlowing Tigures. Her sunny, pleasanT disposiTion has won her many Triends. K Madelene Leddy is a Tashion maior and a good one, her winning oT T'irsT prize Tor an evening gown design in lasT year's Tashion show giving ample proof. IT is said she is a good cook and acTually eaTs her producTs which should mean quiTe someThing. I-ler Time ouTside oT school is spenT in The Newman Club, seeing Toreign Tilms, aTTending dance club sessions, swimming and crocheTing, ,MH R UNION - ART SCHOOL GH UU TES Herberf Lubalin is anofher shining lighl of lhe class of '39. His wil and creafiveness are, unforrunalely, olren censored. Baseball, ping pong, baske?- ball, and penny-anre have been Herb's exlra-curricular acfiviries af Cooper, nor fo menrion his grearesf falenr, fall sloriesf' In I937 Herb received lhe medal given for general excellence in all subiecrs and hasn'+ lel up fhe leas+ bif in upholding This disfincfion. Las? summer Herbie ran a day camp 'for children in his nalive Far Rockaway. He has an especial affinily for kids, kilrens, kelchup, olher such senlimenlalilies beginning wilh HK. A Jane McCaffrey puls our good work and likes amareur rheafricals on 'rhe side. She was one of ihe secrelaries of our classes and a member of +he Dramalic Club. As a fesfamenf To her abilily, fake nolice of her design in The fashion show which look rhird prize. 'H Bernard Meyerson could righrly be called rhe Senior mascof buf we won'r. Whar would we have done wilhour Berice ? He's kepl' us laughing for four years and would for more if we all weren'f leaving. Vofed lhe mosr popular fellow in his firsl' year, Bernie sorf of gol' around: arf edilor of 'rhe Cable, numerous offices in lhe classes, chairman of fhe Pioneer reorganizafion commilfee, and, scholasrically, a scholarship man. Ah, yes, how could we forgel, a connoisseur on Thar dilificulr insirumenl, 'lhe guifar, parficiparion in inrerclass baskerball and a recipienf of class numerals in recognilion as a member of fhe championship Arr School baseball 'leam of '36, gag Pincus Miller has been Teaching arf To ihe Pioneer Readers in his Lusr for Arr column. Pinkie collecrs children's painrings, indulges in bookbinding, boxing, healed arguing followed by more boxing, and has several long, cornplicafed lheories of arf and life, nearly wrifien in red ink, conlaining an answer To praclically every opinion and a few new ones. W Golden haired Florence Nafelson has an unsuspecfed side. While in school she works indusrriously unlil four-lhirly, lhen like a shol, our goes Florry lo rhumba, rango, and shag in cabarels . . . colleci srarnps . . . visir museums and lake in The movies. One summer she go? as far as Poland. Bur maybe you suspecled lhis all along. QR' Herman Olinsky, of lhe rosy cheeks and candid camera, comes 'lo us from Hempslead, L. l. every day. Few people know lhar Herman once infended lo go lo M.l.T. and slill wonders abou? his choice, or rhal he plays 'the saxophone, reads deleciive slories and does well in his painling and adverrising classes. We all know rhal his favorire color is blue and 'rhaf he fakes a keen inferesl' in evenls raking place around him. M COOPER UNION - ART S CHOOL S' g f E Q N T M, E , E ii in f rg, A- fi A sw H- T -- fs. , LL,A 3. 1 W -- 'k . ri ' rsii s o in COOPE Louise Orchard oT The sculpTure class is anoTher oT Those persons who is en- wrapped in her work. An honor sTudenT Tor Tour years, Lou's enioymenT lies in The illusTraTion OT children's books. She Teels guilTy and acknowledges iT a peculiar idiosyncrasy ThaT she has a compleTe disinTeresT in exTra-curricular acTiviTies. We will always Think oT her Tor her charming drawings and clay sTudies oT children. QQ Mariorie PaTTen is a conservaTive New Eng- lander Trom Fall River, Mass. She is ThaT rare kind oT person who is quieT, unassuming, yeT energeTic and hardworking. Serious, sober, calm, you'd never suspecT ThaT she delighTs in pranks such as sewing up people's cloThes. gig A gypsy Trom Poughkeepsie, MilTon Pedolsky is one oT The mosT popular Tellows oT The senior class. T-lis prowess as an aThleTe includes piTching Tor The championship baseball Team, inTerclass baskeTball, and smooTh dancing. SecreTary oT The Senior Class, member oT The Pioneer Board oT ConTrol, associaTe arT ediTor oT The Cable, MilT, in spiTe oT exTra-curricular Tom-Toolery, has re- ceived Two scholarships. T-le has maiored in graphic design, is an excellenT painTer and punsTer, delighTs in swing music, and preTers blondes-so he musT be a genTlemanl A Frederick Joseph Quirin. Fred was presidenT oT our Treshman class, This probably driving him To become a machine gunner in The SevenTh RegimenT oT The New York NaTional Guard. NoT conTenT wiTh This, he's become almosT as proTicienT wiTh The Toil and gloves as wiTh his clay and modeling Tool. Fred has a conTidenTial way oT Telling liTTle sTories which probably makes all This armamenT necessary. EQ25 Dark haired, dark eyed RuTh Rankin is one oT The mosT aTTracTive young ladies in The senior class. Always smiling, gay, cheerTul, one doesn'T have To guess ThaT she enioys liTe. IT is evidenT in her work: ThaT liquid Tlowing line, Those brillianT liTTle color spoTs and delighTTul caricaTures ThaT always cluTTer up her desk. RuThie expecTs To sing well someday ldoes nowi, and has been pracTicing wiThouT resTrainT ever since her TirsT year. She enioys unusual cloThes and gadgeTs and is going To do greaT Things in The Tashion world. A ln her TirsT year Naomi Ransom was voTed The preTTiesT and mosT popular girl in The class. The nexT year she again received This disTincTion. ATTer This The oThers gave up, They saw They didn'T have a chance. Naomi likes horses and moTor boaTs, also row boaTs and Tunny people. She has held various posiTions, namely, posing Tor Tamous arTisTs, working in Macy's, counsellor in camp. During her TirsT year, we were all given a Terrific shock when a chandelier Tell beTween her and l-lelmuT Riehl. M R UNION - ART SCHOOL BRAD ATES HelmuT Riehlg however noThing shocks This young Tellow. One would never suspecT ThaT inside of This boyish, enThusiasTic, exuberanT, devilish exTerior, There is The sTuTT ThaT won The Cooper Union annual prize Tor archiTecTure, TirsT prize in The Sachs FoundaTion InTerior DecoraTion conTesT. l-le Tells us ThaT There are Indians and oTher wild liTe in his naTive New Jersey. We can easily see The influence iT has had on him. l-lelmuT has an aT'liniTy Tor beer, blondes, bruneTTes, and Things beginning wiTh B. E95 Norma Selliken, who wepT biTTer Tears in sympaThy wiTh Maine and VermonT when Landon losT The elecTion. You see, sunTlowers were always her TavoriTe Tlower. A lover of books, Norma copies down passages ThaT appeal To her. She insisTs ThaT she is very sTubborn7 well, we won'T deny iT. Anyone who likes The business world should be. ,ng Animals and Arfhur Singer sTarT wiTh The same leTTer. This probably doesn'T, however, accounT Tor The TacT ThaT ArTie can depicT a lion wiTh buT a line. He is almosT uncanny, buT Then iT isn'T so surprising in view oT The TacT ThaT he is conTinually drawing ThaT isn'T all he does. and probably has one and sTudying animals as well as birds and Tishes. BuT Besides doing beauTiTul work, ArT is a swing worshipper oT The TinesT collecTion oT swing records in The ciTy. A good porTion of These records include works of Cab Calloway and Duke Elling- Ton Tor whom ArT has done quiTe a biT oT arT work lno pun inTendedl. R Melvin Tapley is a joy and a woe To all who know him, because Mel is a connoisseur oT ThaT animal known as a pun. ShuTTling back and TorTh every day Trom Peekskill, he is usually The TirsT one in school in The morning-and The TirsT To leave in The evening! Aside Trom being an unusually TalenTed arTisT, Mel has a very handsome bariTony and Tickles The ivories TuneTully. if For Tour years VicTor Turner has been hiding The TacT ThaT he's a Republican. When he isn'T drawing rniliTary subiecTs he chases parades and doormen wiTh his candid camera, Takes very long walks, and enTers arT conTesTs. l-le works aT nighT and manages To spend a loT of Time on his chosen meTier, as The resulTs signify. SES MargareT Wager is a girl you don'T TorgeT. One reason is ThaT rioT of blond hair: anoTher, her resemblance To a Tamous non- speaking Tilm comedian lnoT ThaT Margie doesn'T say anyThingll. We don'T have To menTion her smiling counTenance, pleasanT personaliTy, and wondering eyes. lBuT we willll Mix These wiTh a Talenfed young lady and you have a popular sTudenT and a success-To-be arTisT. Margie goT around, exTra-curricu- larly, serving on various commiTTees, as class oTTicer, and winding up as phoTo ediTor of The Cable. 3.1K COOPER UNION - ART S CHOOL COOPE GH UU!-XTES Pearl Wolfson has a genuine enThusiasm Tor liTe. She delighTs in waTching The diTTerenT kinds oT people living and working around her. She sings while she works, and she is usually working. Her designs have earned her several honor- able menTions. lnTensive arguing, good movies, music, inTeresTing Triends, and The old and new masTers of painTing are her TirsT loves. SES' Howard R. Abish is one guy in The class who always brings his drawing equipmenT, which is very convenienf Tor The resT oT us. He is parTicularly adapTed 'To figuring sTresses, sTrains, and grunTs oT sTeel beams. His Tun-loving and helpTul naTure has filled The class wiTh sunshine These long winTer evenings. R DanTe V. Bagnasco, The MighTy ATom, ThaT likeable Tellow wiTh The cheerTul and amiable disposiTion, wiTh all The qualiTicaTions To be successful in life. In The engineering class DanTe excels, Tor his main ambiTion is To geT his enginee-r's degree. He is of The emoTional Type and becomes melancholic aT The slighTesT mishap buT when gay he is a rip. IT is whispered ThaT one OT his 'favoriTe pas- Times is Wine, Women and Song. ua Holly ChesTer is The inimi- Table young painTing devoTee who divides her inTeresTs To Cooper in acTing as presidenT oT This TourTh year nighT class wiTh her oTher aTTracTions of The balleT, symphonic music and To les aTTaires du coeur lromance, To you Frenchmenl. Since she has been in school learning To become a Tull-Tledged arTisT, oTTice work wiTh a leading company has made her appreciaTe The evening's reIaxaTion wiTh The brush and paleTTe. H1 Louis Dorfsman leTT Day School in The middle of his Third year To go To work in The commercial arT field. STarTing aT The Trans-Lux TheaTres, he is now designing exhibiTion booThs and window displays Tor The Display Guild. A Tall guy wiTh one of Those grins ThaT The gals eaT up la bruneTTe anyway?l. Shlep, as he is quainTly called by his chums, is an ace drummer and managed To keep busy beTween club daTes and iusT daTes. H John F. Hordechuck, possessing a ringing voice ThaT sTill echoes Trom every nook and corner oT The TirsT floor, TempesTuous and 'full OT gesTure, a rioT oT Tun or a rioT of TighT as circumsTance demands. Truly a powerTul voice which will evenTually aTTain The perTecTion desired and if predicTions mean anyThing, a voice ThaT may achieve greaT populariTy. IT only some oT ThaT dynamic qualiTy were inhirrged in his archiTecTural work, buT iT seems ThaT opera will geT The bigger share oT iT. The man who dared To openly expose his works as The very besT in The class, sTrips Cooper almosT dry oT TanTasTic originaliTy. R UNION - ART SCHOOL 1 i-4 E-4 ELI EL S5 0171939 AT abouT 8:00 p.m. on June 8Th, scores oT men, women and children accouTred in Their besT cloThes, were assembling in The GreaT HisToric Hall. ThaT pleasanTly warm nighT was CommencemenT when proud parenT and close Triend came To see Their GraduaTe. ln Room Zl, one could hear greaT noise and exciTemenT as each Engineer paid his Tee, donned his black robes and morTar-board caps. Then he quickly rushed ouT To The main Library on The Third Tloor To assemble in an order al- ready deTermined in The rehearsal several days ago. AT This Time The Engin- eers TirsT saw The inhabiTanTs oT The ArT Schools clad in Their maroon caps and gowns like so many heaThen devils. However, mosT OT The Engineers ThoughT They were good-looking devils. Then began The procession, solemnly ouT oT The Library down The rear sTairway To The rear oT The building, around The wesT side and inTo The TronT door ThaT bares open The GreaT HisToric Hall. As The procession advanced, headed by prominenT school oTTicials, a dense crowd drew up. Peddlers were selling Cooper Union banners, and children were Trying To pull The black Tlapping Togas oT The elafed engineers made sober by The solemniTy oT The occasion. Finally inTo The crowded Hall and down converging aisles in Time To The Berlioz Rakociy March They de- scended amid The waving hands oT parenTs and Triends To Take Their places in pre-planned order nexT To The sTage. The commencemenT began wiTh a prayer by Charles A. W. Brocklebank, M.A., RecTor, ST. Marks Church in The Bowerie. Henry Paul Weber, Jr. oT The NighT Engineering School gave The saluTaTorian address and spoke oT The needs OT Engineers To geT along wiTh employers and oTher employees. He sTaTed ThaT such a need is noT direcTly TaughT in school. ln addiTion, he spoke oT The problem oT specializaTion as applied To The GraduaTing En- gineer. True To The NighT School, he menTioned The advanTage oT Those obTaining six years oT pracTical experience in The day and Their educaTion aT nighT. Louise H. Orchard OT The ArT School delivered a splendid address ThaT showed her superioriTy in speaking, aT leasT, oT The ArT School. NOT only was she gracious, eloquenT, and amusing, buT she showed such energy and earnesTness ThaT everyone saT up To lisTen. She compared The girl who learns arT in vogue in Two years, To The girl who learns The Theory oT ArT in Tour years. The TirsT girl cannoT meeT The siTuaTion oT a changing vogue which 45 occurs TreguenTly: buT The girl wiTh The Theory is cerTainly prepared. She hoped ThaT Cooper Union will expand vocaTionally and aT The same Time keep her Fine ArT Course. MOST people recognize The need Tor arT as They do Tor exercise: and do very liTTle abouT iT. Then, aTTer a musical inTerlude, Edwin S. Burdell gave his inspir- ing speech oT which every graduaTe should have a copy. Like a TaTher, he gave The graduaTing sTudenTs an idea oT whaT To expecT aTTer graduaTion- a socieTy oT conTusion in which human beings are very irraTional. This lends To confusion and mismanagemenT aT iTs worsT and inordinaTe aTTecTion aT iTs besT. He also menTioned ThaT To be happy one musT engage in alTruisTic underTalcings wheTher iT be chariTy or such a concreTe Thing as esTablishing a Tamilyf' LaTer he compared our liberal educaTion To The molded educaTion in many European counTries. Following This, Cropper WhiTney Holland gave The valedicTorian address. He spolce oT UTopia and an ideal, sTressing The laTTer's necessiTy by comparing iT To an engineer's Tormula. A Tormula is The ideal siTuaTion maThemaTically expressed which guides The engineer, alThough he lcnows ThaT Things will noT come ouT exacTly as The Tor- mula predicTs. Then degrees were conTerred by PresidenT Gano Dunn, who upon recommendaTion oT The respecTive heads oT The schools in Cooper Union, awarded ProTessional, BaccalaureaTe degrees, and diplomas. As degrees or diplomas were conTerred on one parTicular group, each one in ThaT group arose and TilTed his Tassels To his leTT side simulTaneously. PresidenT Dunn shoolc hands wiTh every gradu- aTe when They received Their cerTiTicaTes. Finally, PresidenT Dunn spolce. He compared The Engineer wirh The BaccalaureaTe degree as molded anchor, sTamped wiTh The seal oT Cooper Union. -The engineers wiTh Professional degrees are TesTed anchors. NOT every anchor will wiThsTand The TesT oT severe sTorms. Then The graduaTes and prominenT oTFicials in processional Torm reTraced Their sTeps sTaTely in Time To Sousa's The STars and STripes Forever, ouTside, around The wesT side oT The lnsTiTuTion To The main Library where provisions were arranged Tor each graduaTe To meeT his Tamily and Triends. ATTer many congraTulaTions and inTroducTions oT insTrucTors To Tamilies, The graduaTes leTT wiTh a new deTerminaTion To begin, and begin correcTly, Their new TuTure work. STEEL BTNDTNBS l.Tl-IOUGI-T The people oT New York greaTly appreciaTed The place Cooper Union occu- pied in The educaTional progress oT The ciTy, Ti- nancial supporT was very slighT. The Cooper and l-lewiTT Tamilies, aT This Time, bore mosT oT The brunT oT This supporT. The lack oT supporT was TurTher inTensiTied by The acceleraTing growTh oT The Union in reg- isTraTion and in conTenT oT courses. The curricu- lum was consTanTly changed To keep iT useTul To The sTudenTs who sTudied iT. The greaTesT diTTiculTy encounTered was The inabiliTy oT The school To expand ouTside The sfeel bindings oT The physical size oT The building. The school was Tinancially dependenT upon The income received Trom The renTal of The TirsT Two Tloors oT The building as sTores and oTTices and could noT encroach upon ThaT space. There was no added income To make possible The purchase or renTal oT anoTher siTe Tor expansion. FurThermore, each year's expendiTures creaTed an annual deTiciT oT Ten To TiTTeen Thousand dollars which had To be meT by The Tounder or his Tamily. DespiTe This, PeTer Cooper sTill dreamed oT exTending The school To make room Tor all who wished To aTTend. ln I869, a plan Tor amalgamaTion wiTh Co- lumbia UniversiTy almosT succeeded. BuT The Tounder could noT sTand To see his beloved Cooper Union lose iTs idenTiTy. ln I895, Abram S. l-lewiTT conTemplaTed buying some buildings on Madison Avenue which had iusT been vacaTed by Columbia Tor iTs new Morningside l-leighTs quarTers. The necessary Three million dollars Tor such expansion was noT TorThcoming and The proiecT Tell Through. lT was noT unTil Tive years laTer, in l900, ThaT The esTablishmenT oT a Technological school was made possible Through cerTain endowmenTs. BuT somehow The insTiTuTe conTinued To serve The communiTy, aided by The never Tailing resources oT PeTer Cooper and his Tamily. Popular educaTion in The GreaT l'lall was one oT PeTer Cooper's TondesT dreams. The lecTures There be- came very popular and were well aTTended. ln l872, John Tyndall, recenTly arrived Trom England, delivered a series oT lecTures on lighT which he laTer published in book Torm l!873l. LecTures oT equal excellence, concerning all Types oT subiecTs, sociological, scienTiTic, liTerary, musical, eTc., were delivered by such prominenT people as SeTh Low, ex-mayor oT New York and PresidenT oT Columbia UniversiTyg Jacob A. Riisq Sidney Webb, The economisTg ProTessor E. R. Van NardroTTg W. E. B. Du Bois, negro wriTer3 Louis D. Brandeis, now reTired member oT The Supreme CourT. For many years a series oT symphony concerTs were conducTed by Franz X. Arens in The GreaT 47 Hall: The Peoples' Choral Union, direcTed by Frank Damrosch, also sang There. The GreaT Hall was one oT The ciTy's main cul+uraI cenTers. The library and reading room aT Cooper Union was also a boon To The poor buT culTurally minded people oT The ciTy. IT was one oT The Tew reading rooms available beTore The esTablishmenT oT The New York Public Library. lTs visiTors reached a daily Tigure exceeding Two Thousand. Michael Pupin, The invenTor, expressed The viewpoinT oT iTs visiTors when he praised The library as The source oT his educaTion and inspiraTion. l-le had emigraTed Trom Serbia in I874 and wiTh The use of The library and several courses aT Cooper Union made a name Tor himselT in The annals oT American science. The TaciliTies Tor popular educaTion were TurTher exTended when in May I895, a museum Tor decoraTive arTs was esTablished by l'lewiTT's Three daughTers, Nelly, Sally and Amy. PeTer Cooper had designaTed one Tloor To be used as a museum, and The TrusTees were willing, ThereTore, To assisT in The creaTion oT one. No oTher museum oT The kind exisTed in New York aT ThaT Time. The collecTion was rapidly builT up as con- TribuTions oT some oT The besT examples oT decoraTive arT kepT pouring in Trom Triends oT The young women. The ArT School was organized on a Tirm basis by The English-born painTer, T. A. Richards, who served as secreTary oT The NaTional Academy OT Design Tor TorTy years. l-lis successor, Wm. Rimmer, was head oT The ArT School Trom T866 To I87O. AT The beginning oT The '9O's The Cooper-l'lewiTT Tamily Turnished 550,000 To en- large The ArT School To accommodaTe 250 addiTional women sTudenTs lThe ArT School aT ThaT Time was exclusively Tor womenl. Preceding This endowmenT an addiTional sTory had been added To The building, in order To remedy The lack oT space: buT This did liTTle To loosen The sTeel bindings. The principal, Mrs. Susan A. CarTer, urged The esTablishmenT oT a small TuiTion Tee To deTray some oT The expense, buT l-lewiTT overruled The idea immediaTely and Cooper Union remained a Tree insTiTuTion. OTher courses were oTTered To women in order To aid Them in securing a place in indusTry and business. From I865 The lisT reads someThing like This- l865, Course in Coloring oT PhoTographs: I866, series OT lecTures on The Culi- nary ArT 7 T869-70, course To Teach women Telegraphy lThis course was conTinued unTil years laTer when men began To Take The place oT women in The Telegraphy Tieldlg I88I, course in shorThand and Typing inauguraTed shorTly aTTer The invenTion oT The Type- wriTer. ExTernally The building did noT change much. ln l878, The Third Avenue ElevaTed was opened. Cyrus W. Field, PresidenT oT The ElevaTed, and Tormer business associaTe oT Cooper and l-lewiTT in laying oT The ATlanTic Cable, prompTly received a bill Tor S540 which was Tor The cosTs enTailed in TransTerring reciTaTion rooms To The FourTh Avenue side oT The building. ln I880, The building was closed Tor a Time while The ToundaTion was sTrengThened and a Tew years laTer, as already noTed, an addiTional sTory was erecTed. The closing oT Cooper Union To sTrengThen iTs ToundaTions was an inTeresTing phenomenon considering The care ThaT had been Taken in The planning oT The building. The plans were all righT as Tar as They wenT, buT aT TirsT iT was ThoughT ThaT Cooper 48 Union was To be a school. No one ever dreamed ThaT The Tramping oT sTudenTs To Their classes could arouse such vibraTions in The building ThaT huge cracks appeared in The walls! Well iT wasn'T The Tramping oT sTudenTs To Their classes ThaT shook The very ToundaTions oT Cooper Union, iT was The presses oT The American Bank NoTe Company, clanking away high in The building in The space renTed To Them by PeTer Cooper. Even in Those days lor--because oT Tewer niceTies in design-especially in Those daysl prinTing presses were huge aTTairs, and Their periodic moTions induced cerTain oscillaTory moTions in The walls of The building ThaT leTT permanenT marks on The ausTere ToundaTions. Even Today, The braces on The upper Tloors are sTill visible, and sTill in place supporTing The rooT againsT The vagaries oT wind or hurricane and The weighT OT snow, rain or hail. Hence The Tinances were more complicaTed Than ever beTore. The slighT income derived Trom The renTal To The prinTing company was greaTly depleTed by The cosT oT reinTorcing The building: The possibiliTy oT ousTing The TenanTs and using more oT The building Tor Teaching was made more remoTe. The apparenT conTradicTion beTween The acTual value oT Cooper Union To The inTellecTual liTe oT The ciTy and The lack OT Tunds Tor exTending The Union was growing more and more inTense wiTh The passage oT The years. Donors had To be convinced over and over again beTore They even considered making a conTribuTion. IT Took many years before The hisTory oT Cooper Union iTselT was cerTain prooT oT iTs value, buT evenTually ThaT clay did come. E SuTTice iT To say ThaT somehow The essence ThaT is Cooper Union passed Through The Tire ThaT hardened iTs Torm in Those days. The diTTiculTies oT Those days have been lessons Trom which subsequenT adminisTraTors could paTTern Their deeds: The errors oT Those days were never repeaTecl: The TorTiTude oT The Founder and oT The TrusTees during These perilous Times has been over and over again The source OT inspiraTion Tor comparable TorTiTude in subsequenT periods. PeTer Cooper's vision-Cooper Union, his deTerminaTion To make ThaT vision a realiTy, and his deTerminaTion To see ThaT once his dream became sTone and meTal iT would never perish, all These Things have lived Through The years encased in ThaT sTone and sTeel, in The sTeps we walk upon, in The walls ThaT reecho The learning oT The ages. ln The epiTome ThaT is Cooper Union Torever is preserved The undying Tame oT iTs Tar seeing Tounder, The Triendly old man wiTh The Triendly counTenance, PeTer Cooper. The sTeel bindings were iusT as TighT, The Tinances iusT as sTringenT, despiTe all oT Cooper Union's conTribuTions To The culTure oT The ciTy, when in ISS3 The beloved Tounder, PeTer Cooper, died, and even in his lasT acT on This earTh, remembered Cooper Union. l'le bequeaThed Sl55,35O To The school, To which his son, Edward Cooper, and Mr. and Mrs. l'lewiTT This daughTer and son-in-lawl added SIO0,000. This was noT enough To make The school independenT oT iTs oTher means oT supporT or To esTablish a compleTe Technological school as PeTer Cooper had dreamed iT. lT was noT unTil I7 years laTer ThaT The sTeel bindings were Tinally broken when cerTain endowmenTs made The esTablishmenT oT a Technological school possible. 49 THE INSTALLATION IN PICTURES CLASSES DAY TEIIH '42 OFFICERS R. KING PresidenT T. SOMMER Vice-PresidenT R. WILHELM Treasurer B. DIENER Secrerrary M. SACKSON PubliciTy Manager On a cerTain morning in SepTember, l938, one hundred poTenTial engineers were inviTed, Trom The six hundred applicanTs, To become The Freshman Class aT Cooper Union. Discouraged by The severiTy oT The enTrance examinaTion, six sTu- denTs wiThdrew. The remaining nineTy-Tour were TurTher discouraged when DocTor Burdell, in his speech oT welcome, warned Them ThaT Trom The one hundred accepTed, only ThirTy-Tive To TorTy would graduaTe in Tour years and ThaT only approxirnaTely sevenTy-Tive would graduaTe aT all. The Freshman Class was noT discouraged long. They rolled up Their sleeves, hiTched up Their belTs, sharpened Their pencils, and prepared Tor a long seige upon The walled ciTy oT educaTiong nor were Their eTTorTs TuTile. BeTore The Term was over They could almosT swear ThaT The ideal gas had no connecTion whaTsoever wiTh The air expelled by The lecTurers. Also, pierce poinTs were noT wounds suTTered by The members oT The Tencing Team. They learned ThaT in Engineering Drawing no Tree- hand work was To be allowed, a pencil musT be used, and T-Square is noT a secTion oT New Yorlc CiTy. ATTer acquainTing ourselves wiTh The schedule oT our classes, we soon began To acquire Triends. Then, realizing ThaT a body oT men cannoT hope To succeed unless They are organized, we casT balloTs To elecT class represenTaTives. SecTion One endorsed John Del TorTo and Bernard Diener as Their represenTaTives. SecTion Two selecTed Lewis Gleelcman and Reno King. Erank Rudbarg and Murray Saclcson were chosen by SecTion Three, while SecTion Eour empowered Theodore Sommer and RoberT Wilhelm To represenT Them. These eighT augusT selecTmen meT and Trom Their number chose Reno King, President Ted Sommer, Vice-President and Bernard Diener, SecreTary. Even during classes The spiriT oT Tun prevailed. Ed EiTzgerald was an ardenT 52 swing enThusiasT and would break ouT inTo Old Man Mose ls Dead upon The slighTesT provocaTion. Even The Physics Teachers were surprised when John CharleTon decoraTed his Physics ReporT Books wiTh crayons. Bob llvlercuryl ATkins was noTed Tor his speed in TransiT To The Physics LecTure Room in order To secure a good seaT. Joe Barlow claims ThaT if he ever Tound Tive Thousand dollars in a roll, he would reTurn The rubber band. Morris Basuk is an experT on Toreign languages. l-lerb ColTin can be seen in Engineering Drawing Lab any Wednesday aTTer- noon Trying To convince Mr. Ayres ThaT his TilleTs are noT hens' Tracks. l-larvey BalTer designed a machine when he was Toreman oT shop in Tech ThaT had no earThly use. l-le is sTill Talking abouT iT. Fred Ceely claims ThaT he sTudies so hard ThaT he has gained TiTTeen pounds. lncidenTally he is an experT in calorimeTry and l.aissez Faire. ln SecTion Two one will Tind The gamuT oT inTelligence in Cooper Union, Trom Phil Kass, The child prodigy oT The Freshman Class oT '42, '43, and '44, all The way down To Arrowhead GoldsTein, a mad man in ScoTTron Yard where he slices his way across a drawing wiTh a 6-l-l pencil. We recall The sad pun Told by STan Gordon abouT The resemblance oT a dog in iail To a righT angle-iT was a perp-in-di- cular. IT was hearTbreaking To waTch Bernie Goldberg sTruggle Through his TirsT year's work, while all The Time he had his hearT aT Annapolis. SecTion Two's represenTaTive To The lvlaTh Club, lvlurry Klarnkin, was always To be seen aT The boards solving problems which made analyTic geomeTry and ad- vanced algebra seem like ariThmeTic. Derganc, Torced To leave Cooper lasT year, sure wenT To Town in all his subiecTs. AnoTher apple-a-dayer Trom SecTion Two was Bill l-lanzsleck. ThaT's The secreT oT his rosy cheeks. OT SecTion Three, Frank Love, The GreaT Necker, had his privaTe hole in The l Top row: Sherman, Kramek, Jankunis, Kirschbaum, Himmer, Einig. BoTTom row: King, l-lanzalek, Feinsilver, Coe, Basuk, Ceely, Ascione. 53 Tloor oT The sevenTh Tloor oT The FoundaTion Building, Through which he dropped chalk and spied upon The arTisTs oT The Tloor beneaTh. The Merz ETTecT, TormulaTed by The Brain TrusT of The Chem DeparTmenT, Charles Merz, Tilled The Freshman Body wi+h wonder. The anTics oT Frank lBudl Medon and Frank lGreaT Neckerl Love, who belTed each oTher wiTh a roar-Fox in The Bush-every Time They saw a bearded man, had The class in an uproar. IncidenTally These Two March Hares were Sea ScouTs and were always arguing which belonged To The beTTer organizaTion. IT Took quiTe a biT oT explanaTion by Mr. Cumberland To prove To Georg LivingsTon ThaT The Angles were a race oT men insTead OT The space included beTween Two inTersecTion lines. Our haTs are OTT To The inerranT eye oT Herbie Resnicow, who Took so greaT delighT in dueling wiTh Frank Rudbarg wiTh lead shoT Taken Trom The Physics Lab. George Miller can be TrequenTly seen wiTh his candid camera Taking snap-shoTs oT The ProTs. in informal poses. Sam Mehlman, John Renskers, and Bob McGraw are The ShorT Wave Hams oT SecTion Three. Bob Tried ouT Tor his TickeT recenTly and is all on edge waiTing Tor The resulTs. During lunch hours in The Fall, The Fresh- man AssociaTion FooTball Team, consisTing oT Frank Love, Georg LivingsTon, Howard Novak, Frank Medon, Frank Rudbarg, Charles Merz, and Murray Sackson over- powered a picked ArT School Team. The highlighT oT The game was The superb pass by Frank Love, around The corner oT The building To The arms oT Bud Medon. Top row: Harold Schneider, Frank Williams, SiegberT PlauT, John Renskers, Frank Meclon, Geprg LivingsTon, Frank Szarewicz, Karl Weber, CliTTord STalls, Harold Marks, Harold Muller, Howard Novak. NexT row: Edward Slewinsky, John SchmidT, Bernard Diener, Roberl' Wilhelm, Aaron Teller, Samuel Mehlman, Frank Love, Charles Merz, Abraham Ruvin, Murray Sackson, PaTrick Orlando, Lewis Thaisz, John Rozalis. NexT row: RoberT O'Rourke, HerberT Resnicow, KenneTh Robinson, Sidney Lieber, David Zernowsky, Warren Thomas, John MaTcoviTch, Sanford HirschTield, Sidney Sharnis, Lawrence WeinTraub. BoTTom row: Frank Rudbarg, Ralph Williams, Ted Sommer, AlberT Weisskopf, Herman Singer, George Miller, WalTer Sildar, Werner SchaTz, Malcolm Rieder, RoberT McGraw. 54 IT you could be lucky enough To open The door oT The sevenTh Tloor classroom occupied by SecTion Four beTween classes some day wiThouT being Tloored by a perTecTly aimed eraser, Then you aT leasT may geT an idea oT whaT This moTley crew looks like. Dodging Trom blackboard To blackboard, WalTer Silder is TranTically decoraTing each one wiTh The inscripTion l-loimin in Voimin. WalTer is a likeable lad whose chieT inTeresT is The air. During The summer he can usually be Tound ouT aT RoosevelT Field where he is sporTing Trom The ground up. Lou Thaisz, a gangling counTry lad Trom WoodsTock, N.Y., is Telling abouT a specTacular golT shoT he made up in ThaT land. John SchmiTT is Telling Ralph Williams abouT The Bronnex. IT is rumored ThaT SchmiTT is The one who gave Dewey all The dirT abouT Bronx poliTics. Ralph, however, is noT lisTening, Tor he is conTemplaTing his nexT weekend down in Keansburg, New Joisey. Warren Thomas is Trom PorT WashingTon, L. I., and was a member oT ThaT Town's naTional champion high school band. The momenTary lull in aTTairs is suddenly inTerrupTed by an ouTbursT Trorn Bob Wilhelm, original Cowboy Trom Brooklyn, who has sTarTed breaking chairs and crushing innocenT bones wiTh his Herculean TeaTs oT sTrengTh. Now aT The close oT our TirsT year aT Cooper, we wish To Thank The deserving TaculTy Tor The pains They had Taken To improve our minds and The assisTance They so ably have given To us. We hope ThaT someTime in The TuTure, aTTer we graduaTe we do as much honor To Cooper Union as we are honored by aTTending. The firsT Ten years are The hardest AsTonishing and perplexing. 55 U Y TECH '41 OFFICERS GEORGE CLARK Presidenf ARTH UR SWENSON Vice-Presidenf We iumped ouf of bed on Regisfrafion day, afe breakfasf, and rushed fo Cooper Union. Affer regisfering, and greefing friends, we refurned home happy. The nexf day. we ioyously proceeded fo school fo affend fhe firsf classes of fhe year. Af fhe end of fhe day, affer receiving assignmenfs which fhreafened fo keep us in fhe house for days fo come, we refurned home sappyl Trade and Accounfing appeared a pleasanf prospecf, for Mr. lvlulhern prom- ised fo give us shorfer homework problems fhan fhe previous year's class. We lafer found fhese Shorfer problems fook six and seven hours fo do each. Affer wondering why a board eraser would break a window pane insfead of floaf upon fhe skull of an unsuspecfing sfudenf we were informed by Professor lvler- riff in his General Mechanics Lecfures fhaf if was fhe resulfanf of all fhe forces acfing on fhe eraser which caused if fo seek fhe nearesf way ouf. If if were nof for Mr. Bell's Maferials of Engineering Lecfures we would forever have been ignoranf of fhe imporfance of magme and hydrofhermal solufions in fhe engineering world. The sophs awaifed fhese lecfures wifh bafed breafh and would hiss anyone so bold as fo show some infelligence in answering Mr. BeII's quesfions. ln Fuels and Combusfion Laborafory, Mr. Cunningham would discourse for hours in answering our quesfions concerning fhe experimenfs. l-le would never fail fo sef us on fhe righf frack whenever we were sfuck. Mr. Lehman, as expecfed, iibed up fo expecfafions in Calculus Class. Sfill missing was fhe flashy bow fie which lasf year helped relieve fhe monofony of analyfic. l-le realized fhe abilify of fhe average Cooper Sfudenf and he said fhaf compared fo ofher college sfudenfs we were Hof Sfufff' German, wifh Dr. Manfz, was a new experience fo many of us. Besides being faughf a new language, we developed our fhumbs fo an abnormal degree when we 56 4 had To Thumb our way Through The vocabulary in Teverish hasTe lesT we be called upon To TranslaTe. The Tiery Tigure oT Dr. ManTz will be indelibly impressed upon our minds as he uTTered These TaTal words, Please repeaT six Times. The mosT well-liked subiecT was The ProTessional AspecTs hour. No assign- menTs, good moving picTures, and a chance To enioy a good lunch were The beneTiTs oT This hour. WiTh The eliminaTion oT This course in The second semesTer indignaTion ran rampanT among The sophs. OT course, we had individuals who were ouTsTanding in each secTion. Among The elecTrical engineers There were The Tour zanies Morris Goldman, Harvey Sachs, Edward Lewis, and John l-lallden. Mr. Goldman, wishing To clean up TasT in Tuels lab, poured some waTer on sodium peroxide. The resulTanT Tlame reminded Morris oT old Chicago and he wished he were There when The insTrucTor approached him wiTh glaring eyes. l-larvey Sachs, The pie-eyed piper, gave ProTessor Miller a musical TreaT on his Tife as a ChrisTmas presenT. Mr. Lewis had The amazing abiliTy To do any simple problem The hard way. l-lis hard way oT solving calculus problems puT ProTessor Miller To shame. Mr. Hallden showed his vasT knowledge oT law when he inTormed us ThaT if a man were To commiT murder he would be charged wiTh- elecTriciTy. The bad boy oT Mr. Bell's class was innocenT John Caswell. The slighTesT whisper would bring TorTh a quieT Caswell. The mechanical engineers had The disTincTion oT having Three ouT oT Tour class officers in Their midsT. George Clarlc, presidenT oT The class and sporTs ediTor oT The Cable and Pioneer, was one oT The oTTicers, ArThur Swenson, vice-presidenT and manager oT The baslceTball Team, was anoTher and Alex Kwasiborslci, secreTary, was The Third. RoberT Bayuk, lcnown as brown suiT Bayulc so as To disTinguish him Trom his Twin broTher who wore a gray suiT and was called gray suiT Bayulc, mended his ways and no longer cuT classes To go down To The arT school. The Two soph geniuses, STan Manson and Benny Lax, aided in raising The inTellecTual level oT The ME secTion above ThaT oT The resT oT The class. The Chem. Lab where The humor o'FTen is very gaseous. 57 MarTy Grayman, like Samson, believed ThaT his sTrengTh lay in his hair. When- ever MarTy goT a haircuT, The ME's would declare a class holiday. Emil Pansky, also known as Ski-PanTs, was The slugger oT The soph class. lT was many a hiT oT his ThaT saved The day Tor The soph baseball Team. Good naTured Joe lSpurTsl Sperrozza would never Tail To lend a desperaTe sTudenT The day's homework. Sam YaTroTsky came To The Pioneer OTTice To conTribuTe arTicles buT his real inTenTion, we believe, was To converse wiTh The Tairer members oT The sTaTT. PoeT LaureaTe oT The class was Benny Miller. The ME's will never TorgeT The Time Benny came inTo a class aT The end oT The period and upon seeing The ProTessor, sTreak ouT as if The devil were aT his heels. George Clark was The exTra-curricular man of The soph class. From Warming The Bench so long, George, who wroTe a Pioneer Column oT ThaT name, Tinally burned a hole in his panTs. STan l'lurwiTz oT The Civil Engineers unwiTTingly became enmeshed in The Toils oT The Pioneer and rapidly became The man behind The PA sTory. Irving ScheinbarT and William Keary represenTed The sophs on The varsiTy baskeTball Team as did Sidney Weniger on The riTle Team. The smell ouTside of quanT lab was due To The sophomore chemical engineers Trying To geT Their required poinTs To pass. EvereT Birmingham Took Time ouT Trom quanT To dabble in phoTography and play on The soph baskeTball Team. Dan Borscisky, disliking The lab sucTion pipe because iT would noT TiT his rubber Tubing, decided To use The gas ieT. The resulTanT bubbling surprised him no end. Van PelT Brower was Kay Kyser conscious, Dr, Van was a True auThoriTy on The species JiTTer Bug and his peT TeaT was To spouT The names oT Ten band leaders, Top row: Swenson, Weiner, Walsh, Zdan, WuTTanen. Middle row: Weniger, Grayman, BalinT, ScheinbarT, DanowiTz, Franklin, Bayuk. BoTTom row: Clark, Sperraga, BeTTinger. 58 O. 1 whose names Tormed The colors oT The rain- bow, in Ten seconds. Big l-larTley Field was anoTher aThleTe of The soph class. l-le was high scorer in many oT The soph basl4eTball games. Bruiser Sam Yesselson could swim like a Tish and played ping pong like a whiz. As manager of our waTer polo Team, Sam promised To bring home The bacon. The Pioneer grabbed anoTher vicTim in The guise oT Herman Naclc. l-le was The man who gave us The sTudenT council sTories. We did noT lack in school spiriT, Tor we Chemim are made here . . . wholehearTedly voTed Tor The supporT oT The BlanlceT Fee. Many oT us ioined The NaTional Engineering SocieTies such as The AIEE, ASME, AlChE and ASCE. The ME's enioyed a sTudenT convenTion and ChrisTmas dinner sponsored by The ASME and The CE's visiTed The Lincoln Tunnel and oTher recenT consTrucTion proiecTs. The Term now draws To a close and Though many years may pass we will always remember our sophomore year as one more rung in The ladder oT our ambiTion To become successful engineers. We will also never TorgeT The lcnowledge and Triend- liness exTenAded To us by our insTrucTors and The Dean. LasTly we wish To exTend our besT wishes Tor a very pleasanT reign To our new DirecTor, Dr. Edwin Sharpe Burdell, and wish him many more happy years in This insTiTuTion. Top row: l-lauclc, Borscislcy, Olesen, Saloway, Lippman, Goldman, Lewis. Middle row: Fulleylove, Field, Brower, Caswell, Rendler, ZeTT, Joule, Pappamarcos. BoTTom row: Cohen, Ludwig, TauTh, STamler, Kohler, CenTer, Yesselson, TaranTo, Naclc. 59 U Y TECH '40 OFFICERS I-IORSTUNG P. Vice-PresidenT R. GORDON Treasurer M. BREITMAN , ,, Se-creTary In a Tew monThs The Juniors will have compleTed Three years oT sTudy aT Cooper Union. AT This wriTing real progress has been made, which is The narural resulT oT The accumuIaTion oT new knowledge, and The deveIopmenT oT orderly, eTTicienT Thinking. TexTbook readings and assigned problems require less Time Than equally long assign- menTs oT previous years. ReciTaTions and analysis on new problems is much easier. Less reliance is placed upon The memory. Thus The Junior is well on his way To acquiring clear concepTs oT TacTual TundamenTals, and oT meThods. , The C.E. secTion oT sevenTeen is probably The IargesT in recenT hisTory. FirsT in order: Paul Bobay hailing Trom Yonkers, a blond square-iawed and square-headed boy. Then Murray Falkin is a Dodger Tan-regreTTuIly. NexT Joe Fegan is IRISH. We Think he is Irish, he looks Irish, and if he isn'T, he should be. George Fox is Tall: buT Then again who is To say who is Tall. Ask a pygmy, ask a gianT-ah nuTsI Irving Guralmick can do a real Trick: cheer wiTh his Tongue beTween his lips. lHe says he learned iT in The Bronxl. Walrer KoresheTz is quieT-iusT like a hospiTal. Horace Linsky exisTs primarily To play The piano and The saxaphone. This year he organized an OrchesTra. Charlie SchaTTner plays baskeTbalI Tor Cooper Union. He sTudies Too. AT any raTe he says he sTudies. Ah! BuT whaT does he sTudy? OUT wiTh iT Charlie. Sam WeiTz can make loud noises. So can Harry Balough, announcer aT The Garden. The Garden seaTs 20,000 people, mosTIy men. One Thing more, Harry Balough geTs paid Tor hollering. This is To inTroduce The Third Year E.E.'s. NaTuralIy, The TirsT iTem is our esTeemed presidenT-weary Julius PorT, news ediTor oT The Pioneer. AnoTher prominenT genTle- man Trom The deep No'Th Suh, is AI Rosen, The baskeTbaIl manager. NexT, invariably, is ThaT jolly bird Irving QuarT who expands in The sTeamy aTmosphere oT heaT power. AlTred SaranT possesses one OT Those agile minds, which combined wiTh his highly- keyed nervous sysTem, makes him The pride and despair oT his colleagues and insTruc- 60 Top row: K. RoThe, N. Richmond, D. MuhlmeisTer. Middle row: H. LacoTT, M. BreiTman, J. Nicholson, P. HorsTing, R. Gordon, C. GoldsTein. BoTTom row: l-l. Donnelly, E. Kondraiian, S. STark, D. L. l-lorowiTz, I. RappaporT, B. Wendrow. Tors, respecTively. Joe Spindler will spend any lengTh OT Time you name in proving ThaT we cannoT possibly carry our over-laden program successliully. YeT he is one oT The Tew who consisTenTly geTs all his work in and on Time. Ralph Medaislcy shows The wear and Tear oT a Too liberal dose oT soccer and engineering. Sam Spool, The diminuTive sporTs wriTer Trom ST. Albans, can cerTainly play The violin. Far be iT Trom us To separaTe Two loyal TraT broThers, John Harring- Ton and LoThair Rowley. Ray BendeTT, The nonchalanT curly-head, is anoTher ham and chieT class exasperaTion. Ed Homburger and Jimmy PeTTiT share in a common mysTery. Joe Carrol is a Truly amiable Tellow whose avocaTion is grinding Telescope mirrors. ArTie GoTTTried is anoTher quieT chap and is secreTary oT The A.l.E.E. MilTon Tenzer is The scion oT Tenzer's Dep'T STore, Long Beach. l-le and Eddie Tanner are loyal mem- bers oT The Friday Morning Always Chummy Club. Fred Kozmilc is a Russian, and has a True racial knack Tor enjoying grim humor. Paul KauTman is The Third radio operaTor, and a sTaunch advocaTe oT slow and careTul work in The LaboraTory. The Ch.E. Juniors enTered The Third year wiTh a cerTain nonchalance bred oT long Tamil- iariTy, Thinking They had done someThing in successfully conquering The TirsT Two years. Anyone accomplishing This oughT To have no diTTiculTy in hurTling The lasT years. Alas. This sTaTe oT sublime bliss and happiness was soon More lecfures. 6 I r Some of our proud fhird year nighi men. dispelled, ihe Juniors being jolied back io iheir senses by The iniricacies of Organic and Physical Chemislry. The Third year found The M.E.'s sfill going sirong: Ariie Holmes io rhe Dancing club, Joe Eloviiz io +he movies, Sid Slrark +o 'rhe dogs, and Dave Horowiiz io see Margie. The miracle occurred when Ed Kondraiian caughi Long frying To wriie up an E.E. repori-on Jrhe Thursday before. Boo 'ro you Mr. Long. Whai is Monday nighi for? An orchid To John Belilcowifz for Jrhe beauiiful way he bloclced our Winloniak in 'rhe Annual feud game wiih 'rhe C.E.'s. Whaiever goes up musl come down, including Brei+man's scores in bowling. We hear he has swilched +o duclc pins-ihe sissy. When lasi seen B. Bayuk +he Big Bruiser was irying io gei his coal off 'rhe ceiling in IOS H. H. Lacori is slrill laughing. V-. , The annual Freshman Receprion was a roaring success. Since 'rhe Seniors were pro- ducing Jrhe enierlainmeni, if was only filling Jrhalr ihe Juniors 'rake some parl in ihe aliair. So fhey were delegaled 'ro dispense The re- Treshmenrs and 'ro clean up. Therein lay The only diliiiculiy of The affair. li seems Jrhal 'rhere was a shoriage of doughnuis allhough 40 dozen were provided. H' was a sfriking co- incidence, bui ihere was a confagious our- brealc of siomach pains amongsl fhe Junior class laier-could Dave Kurfrnan have had somefhing To do wiih This? Affer work comes more work. Engineering musi be in our blood because we enjoy ihe grind and hard work. Bloodshoi and unshaven we siill loolc wiih aniicipalion +o our senior year. 62 IEHT ENEINEEHI G '44 O F F I C E RS F. O. PETELENZ , Presidenf J. F. REY Vice-Presidenf S. LANSNER Secrefa ry-Treasu rer If is 'rhe cusfom lafe in Augusf for a crowd of anxious, eager looking men land occasionally a womanl fo gafher in fhe Greaf Hall of Cooper Union and submif fo a perspirafion-provoking ordeal known as fhe Enfrance Examinafions fo Cooper Union. Ouf of fhis mofley crowd a few assorfed individuals are selecfed and informed fhaf fhey have made fhe grade and can now enfer fhe Nigh+ School of Engineering. Weeks lafer fhe few chosen ones gafher again in fhe field of baffle fo be con- grafulafed on fheir accepfance and fo be given preliminary insfrucfions for fheir be- havior and habifs for fhe nexf six years. Gef a Iiffle healfhful exercise in fhe fresh air fhey are fold. Many wonder why fhey are fold fhis buf nof for long. When fhey begin fo affend classes, when work begins fo pile up, when enfire week-ends are consumed in working ouf one drawing plafe, fhe freshmen no longer wonder af fhe advice fhey received. They only wonder how fhey could ever follow fhaf advice. Af fhe end of fhe firsf year we look back af fhe ferrific obsfacles we have hurdled since fhe enfrance exams and realize fhaf fhe exam was fhe firsf low hurdle in a long course of suddenly growing hurdles. We remember our firsf week's surprise when we fried fo do all fhe homework and found insufficienf fimef we remember fhe unique schemes we used fo rofafe fhe work-one week doing homework in one subiecf, one week in anofherp we remember fhe innumerable fimes when we were called upon fo recife in fhe Chemisfry class and we had only prepared Mafh, or vice versa: and we dig up our reporf cards and look in amazemenf af fhe marks. l Iow did I ever pass Ihaf subiecf? 63 YeT we have learned much. We have learned The meaning oT hard work. We have learned how To draw a sTraighT line. We have learned The meaning oT Pierce PoinTs, and innumerable uses Tor This device. We have learned oT ChemisTry and oT Physics, oT lvlaThemaTics, oT Engineering Drawing. And we have learned ThaT our sTruggle Tor exisTence has only begun. We know how greaT The morTaliTy raTe is. As we parTicipaTed in our nighTly climb To The upper regions oT Cooper Union we meT our classmaTes and engaged in discussions abouT The new visTa opening beTore us-The visTa oT The Engineer. Previously we had had some lcnowledge abouT engineering-some oT us even worked in engineering esTablishmenTs-buT mosT of us had been more aware oT The romanTic aspecTs oT The Tield raTher Than The pracTical perspiraTory eTTorTs ThaT every engineer musT make. The engineer builds bridges, lays ouT new planTs, invenTs new producTs. IT is The engineer ThaT is creaTing a new modern world Tor The lowly layman. Yes, no doubT The engineer does all This. BuT we have learned ThaT The engineer engages in laborious deTailed work. Every liTTle deTail-every liTTle meTal member of a bridge, every liTTle TeaTure oT a chemical process-musT be calculaTed and re-calculaTed, experimenTs musT be perTormed over and over. Engineering School presenTed during iTs TirsT days a varieTy oT impressions oT which The memorable concerned The deparTure oi ThirTy Tive dollars Tor boolcs and Sundries Trom our coTTers. Before we had goTTen over The awe oT our TirsT experiences around The building, we were conTronTed by a cadaver and plunged inTo a labyrinTh oT maThemaTics by ProTessor McDonald, alias The ProT lirom which many oT us have noT yeT escapedl. Top row: Niznanslcy, CuTler, Churlco, Morrison, Horodec, Beener, BerkenTeld, Winimer, Craig, AThens, Edsich. Middle row: Arena, TanenzaTT, BoniTz, BernsTein, Brolcer, Ellenson, Kaufman, BanilcioTes, LuboTslcy, WesT, Boronow, Bergeman. BoTTom row: Barron, Anderson, Young, AnTonazzio, Hamer, Cohen, KaTz, l-lepp, l-flarrig, Buszlco. 64 Top row: Olenick, Madson, Zmachinsky, Scoll, A. C. Scoll, Sirnler, Sigmann, Grylzell, Hary, Riley, Pallarini. Middle row: Nozdrovilzky, Ranish, Sliller, Lansner, Rupp, Wiel, Schmiedel, Diamond, Nalhanson, Rabinovilz, l-luberl, l-loniser, Rousch, Sacher. Bollom row: Shapiro, Zerkin, Weissman, Prosbilsky, Rey, Pelelenz, Sanlangelo, Greene, Erickson, Greenwald, Neben. l-lowever, lrom lime lo lime, one could hear lhe lainl snoring and heavy brealhing ol our good lriend Schmiedel, while lhe resl ol lhe sludenls were galhering wilh lhe various inlerclass aclivilies. A cerlain bil ol social recrealion was permilled lhe embryo engineer. By early November, our courses had lake-n lull swing. We were now lhrown inlo lhe leverish excilemenl ol our class eleclions during which a greal deal ol good nalured rivalry was exhibiled by lhe various parlies, all ol whom displayed a colorlul porlion ol eleclioneering and polilical inlriguing worlhy ol lhe greal nalional parlies. Chrislmas recess broughl aboul various small galherings by sludenls in order lo break up lhe monolony ol lhe Freshman rouline. Cerlain remarks lrom lime lo lime spiced our various classes. ol which lhe mosl nolable are- I. ls your lell arm paralyzed? 2. Go home and lell your lalher-l 3. Who's gol a cold? 4. Under lhe sink wilh lhe resl ol lhe iunk. Among our brain lruslers were our lailh- lul ollicers J. F. Rey, F. O. Pelelenz and S. Lansner. To illuslrale lhe genlle Freshman opinion ol Cooper Union, we quole some lypical lhoughls aboul lhe school in lhe lollowing in- coherenl slyle- Well, how do we gel oul ol here?- lvlaybe when I reach lhe old age pension , l Even Freshmen find il dilficull al limes. 65 , i ua ' , . y 'i ,gs V , Y 'T'-,J , ' 'f u'?Z5?'i A I :-'2 Y hK' ' , T u Q ' ll I - it za . '-, , . More experimenTs . . . and more Iecfures. 66 They'll leT me ride on The elevaTor-They say The TirsT six years are The hardesT-I undersTand-l.eT's go To Hue sev- enTh Tloor and look Through Hue skylighTs-Try To hiT ThaT cop wiuh This piece oT chalk-They Tell us we are going To be engineers-Wonder when Cooper sTarTed Hue course in slumming-Don'T Tind iT in The Bible. Are you going To The Annual-l can'T dance- GeT drunk-The Bible says we should be physically well- Nice bunch oT Tellows, maybe They know whaT he is Talk- ing abouT-Sure I can do iT-BuT l don'T undersTand how I do iT. H ATTer The TirsT Tew weeks oT school, some oT These guesTions were answered and we goT To know each oTher beTTer. The ChemisTry LaboraTory course carries no end oT possibiliTies. One nighT Tound Niznansky making Tire- works by Tossing grains oT aluminum inTo his bunsen burner. AnoTher nighT Miss Cohen, The conTribuTion out The class oT '44 To The TemininiTy of The NighT Tech School, broughT in a cake, and we all made coTTee in our beakers and had a nice coTTee and cake parTy. A bunch oT TourTh year chems almosT TainTed when They saw us drinking Trom The same beakers in which we had recenTly precipiTaTed arsenic buT we managed To live Through iT. The nexT Time we came inTo lab There was a big sign posTed: No eaTing permiTTed in The laboraTory. KaTz, The class opTimisT, can always be depended upon for a good sTory, or a good Talk in STudenT Council. Among our classmaTes are such personaliTies as CuTler, Churko, Morrison, Buszko, Zmachinsky, ProsbiTsky, and NozdroviTsky. Members out our class have disTinguished Themselves by having The mosT complicaTed names in The hisTory oT Cooper Union. Paul Angelmo was raised in The shadow oT PeTer Cooper's glue TacTory in The GreenpoinT secTion oT Brooklyn, where GreenpoinT is GreenpoinT and hoT dogs are hoT diggiTy dogs. Fred PeTelenz oT The ElmhursT PeTelenz's is The pride OT his old home Town. And Hepp and l-lerold, boTh Trom Ridgewood, never leT us TorgeT ThaT secTion of This meTropoliTan buzz-buzz. Meanwhile we Tace a sTrenuous six years and hope To compleTe our courses diligenTly. We sincerely hope ThaT we can be proud oT having aTTended, and ThaT some day we shall bring as much honor To Cooper Union as iT has been To us aTTending here. IGHT TECH '43 Second year Nighf has more officers Than The Peruvian fleef. One year aT Cooper Union Over, a depleTed class conTinued wiTh iTs second year in engineering. New mysTeries were unTOlded, new subie-cTs covered. Week-ends wiTh a drawing board, and Tive hundred word composiTiOns were Over, buT insTead we had Van Der Wall's equaTions, Red GianTs, and normal equaTions To masTer. And insTead OT The Time being spenT on Engineering Drawing The same Time was occupied in wriTing physics laboraTory reporTs. We realized Thar The TirsT Tive leTTers OT laboraTory is labor. I Early in The year The class organized again, elecTing OTTicers and discussing The problems OT exTra-curricular acTiviTies aT The school. Again diplOmaTic John Falk was elecTed presidenT and led The class Through a successTul year. The Teachers were a grand bunch OT Tellows, always ready TO help us when The wind sTarTed To blow, buT also making sure ThaT The wind never sTopped blowing. ProTessor Ball-a Teacher OT rare human insighT and whose abiliTy as an insTrucTor and a showman, makes easy The appreciaTion OT physics. Herman STemper-knows all The shorTcuTs The sTudenTs aTTempT in physics experimenTs. Hugh Halsey Takes sTudenTs' sTupidiTy very seriously and is annoyed aT The lighTness wiTh which They TreaT such maTTers. He would spend enTire periods enlighTening an unenlighTened sTudenT. Mr. Tanzola who knows his maThemaTics and can puT iT over by reason OT his maTchless abiliTy To bulldoze sTudenTs. Mr. Faralla-small: buT aspiring physicisTs look up To him and admire his common sense approach To everyday maTTers. Dr. Hope-whose maTchless eTTorTs led To The enrichmenT OT The laboraTory OT The Cooper Union. Aided and abeTTed by These sTerling members OT The TaculTy, The sTudenTs wenT abOuT absorbing more knowledge and doing Their parT in The exTra-curricular acTiviTies OT The school. Norman Gardner conTribuTed more or less regularly his purloined col- umn in The Pioneer. AI BoTOinick and his chess playing became a much Talked abouT subiecT beTOre and aTTer classes. George Gauel messed around wiTh The TraTerniTies. 67 Top row: ChleTsos, Youngblood, l-ledelund, Lindenlelser, SwaTko, Trier, Sweeney, Schumm, Schreier, Weiss, SaliT, Corin. Middle row: RinaTo, Mandelbaum. SmiTherson. WaTrous, Mulligan, Meyer, Michealson, l-lenn, T-lake, Jacobson, Grohlman. BoTTom row: Frank, Seiler, Nedvalsky, Eberhard, Ravenbauer, DernaTTeis, Scherbner, GuTh, Thompson, Levee. Rudy Bleecher enTerTained The class wiTh TrequenT discussions abouT The pumps his Tirm was making. Alvin Michaelson seemed To know iT all buT rumor has iT ThaT an ancesTor had someThing To do wiTh This knowledge. G. Lieska always kepT quieT when he had his car sTanding ouTside while someone was asking Tor a liTT. Our class hailed Trom all over New York and New Jersey, and we knew iT. Frank Youngblood oT The FlaTbush bluebloods worried abouT The amounT oT homework. His homework kepT him away Trom The hoT diggiTy hamburgers ThaT abundanTly per- Tumed Sheepshead Bay. Bill Henn Trom Richmond Hill where men are men and l-Tenn are also men. Bill J. J. Klein oT AsToria never leT The boys know ThaT The J. J. sTood Tor Joseph John. Now will They call him- Bill, Joe, or John? Call him anyThing, he says, excepT laTe Tor dinner. Don l-ledelund always leT us know abouT how delicious The Coney Island hoT dogs were. OTher highlighTs: fXrT Farley and his body- guard: Ches Rein and The garden spoT oT The world-Garden CiTy, L. l.: James Doyle and his raves abouT The Jersey CiTy dames. Yes we Tormed Tine Triendships during These lasT Two years. PiTy They have To be , broken now. BuT in Cooper no one has much Time Tor anyone ouTside his class. We learned Some Take if serious. 68 fhaf in our fwo year slay here. Hence we know we shall nof see each ofher very offen if we sfudy differenf branches of engineering. Yef we hope fhrough class affairs fo rekindle The spirif of friendship fhaf may fall fo a fainf glimmer in The nexf few years. Occasionally every college is cursed wifh an inacfive and uncooperafive class. Our class is decidedly nof one of fhese alfhough we never gof our Cable wrife-up in. Food and drink being necessary and vifal parfs of life and we young bloods being anxious fo parfake of life, our craffy minds concocfed a scandalous scheme-in shorf, a rendezvous wifh Pilsner. The affendance was overwhelming--well, nof foo over- whelming. The amber necfar flowed and The dainfy morsels called sandwiches dis- appeared wifh alarming rapidify. Looking back, refrospecfively, memories flash before fhe mind-if were as Though we were focusing a spoflighf info fhe dim region of fime fhaf has passed. The spoflighf shiffs fhis way and fhaf-lighfing hidden visfas of fwo years' memories -here bringing info bold relief a familiar face-revivifying a picfure of a long for- goffen name-casfing shadows of reflecfion-drawing delicafe silhoueffes for fufure reminiscences. The spoflighf shows all-fhe men who crammed-The men who cribbed-fhe men who survived and fhose fhaf are sfill going sfrong. As a group, we have mel, conquered our difficulfies, and have enfered info all fields of exfra-curricular acfivifies, and have done credifable work. Wifh frue pride we can say fhaf we leave a brighf and pleasanf fwo years behind us. Before us lies fhe fufure which we hope will be even brighfer. Alfhough inevifably There will be leff behind amid fhe fangle of gears and wheels fhe unlucky few for whom fhe process was ineffecfual and of no avail. Whefher we succeed af Cooper Union or nof, fhe friend- Have you heard fhe one aboufu-even humor exisfs during lecfure periods. 69 5 1 4. i Top row: Klein, Upfon, Larlcin, lvlazzefelli, Dimefroupolous, Ramer, McManus, Gardner Cohen, l-lall, Chiplcin, Kaplan. Middle row: Fifzpafriclc, Lislce, Navoruclc, Gross, Falls, Dimm, Meyer, Kurdelca, Alfer, Tunderman, Doyle. Boffom row: Killian, Cimler, Balanslcy, Chameides Aymar, Kaplan, Barrow, Bleecher. ships we formed and fhe inferminable succession of fhings we fried fo learn will enfer info and form an infegral parf of a very happy period of our lives. Burning fhe midnighf oil, invesfigafing fhe infricacies of mafhemafics and science, fhe second class buried ifself in sfudies, aided nof a liffle by fhe good-nafured advice of fhe insfrucfors and fhe experience from fhe freshman year. The subiecfs af firsf appeared difficulf buf in a few days we became used fo fhe roufine and merrily fraversed fhe hall, and climbed fhe sfairs--seasoned veferans. We wafched wifh open moufh when Professor Ball froze and boiled wafer af fhe same fime. We lisfened wifh apprehension when Professor Coull placed one of his gas law derivafions on fhe board. The Chrisfmas holidays were upon us and fhen suddenly gone. Wifh fheir passing came fhe examinafions. Buf fhen four monfhs were Ieff of fhe school year. By fhis fime, however, we were under beffer condifions fo cope wifh fhe difficulfies confronf- ing us. As for fhe sfudenfs who did nof pass, fhey are af liberfy fo disregard fhe fribufe and every one which is paid fo fhe insfrucfors of subiecfs which has leff fhem lfhe sfudenfsl, wifh a malignanf memory. As fhe ferm draws fo a close we second-year men feel fhaf we have acfually be- gun fo gef accusfomed fo Cooper Union. We believe fhaf we are almosf full-fledged engineers now, for fhe nexf four years will be easy. We had fhe same belief af fhe be- ginning of fhis year, buf fhaf was a long fime ago. Affer all, we will soon be enfering our fhird year af Cooper Union, fhaf is fhose of us who are nof halfed in our mad rush onward fo fhe goal of all frue Cooperifes-An engineering degree and iob and al' leasf eighf hours sleep each nighf. 70 TIGHT TECH '42 O FFICE RS W. STEPHENS PresidenT R. STEWART Vice-PresidenT l-l. AGLIETTI Treasurer B. RADZKA SecreTary The class OT I942, aTTer many vicissiTudes, is now approaching The close OT iTs Third year OT academic liTe behind The cloisTered walls OT Cooper Union. The heavy cares OT mainTaining The high scholasTic sTanding OT our predecessors has made This an unusually rigorous year. Then Too, The Third year occupies a unique posiTiOn in The career OT The NighT Engineering STudenT. lT marks The real enTrance inTo The parTicular Tield OT Technology in which each sTudenT ThereaTTer expecTs To devoTe his wisdom and energy in The hope OT surging Thru The boundaries esTablished by ignorance. lT is ThaT Tield in which he will sTrive To make his living. We regreT The unTimely passing Trom our midsT OT some OT our mosT congenial and well-lilced assOciaTes. We hope The Time spenT in Cooper will have been an aid in The TurTherance OT Their liTe's worlc. We shudder when we realize ThaT iT mighT have been us and we hope ThaT The end of This year will see IOOTX, success in This genTle indoor sporT OT sTaying in school. One OT The leasT pleasanT TeaTures OT The Third year is The almosT universal severing OT close Triendships. During The TirsT Two years, The sTudenTs had been segregaTed inTo alphabeTical secTions. ln The Third year The cards are reshuiciled and The Tour suiTs laid ouT according To Civil, ElecTrical, Mechanical, and Chemical En- gineering. AT The beginning OT The Term we Tound Ourselves faced once more by The Taslc OT learning TO recognize our neighbors, and, in mosT cases, The maioriTy OT our classmaTes. l-lowever, as The years go by The class geTs smaller and There is a correspondingly greaTer inTimacy noTed. The elecTiOn OT oTTicers was held early in The school year. Wesley STephens was elecTed PresidenT. RoberT STewarT was made Vice-PresidenT. The SecreTary chosen was Ben Radzlca and as a represenTaTive in The realm OT special sTudenTs we poinT To The one who is able To obTain a perTecT marlc in a Calculus exam., or a 99 in The Mechanics TesT, or some oTher almosT impossible TeaT. Members OT The class acTiv'e in oTher Than scholasTic proiecTs are: KenneTh New- man, chairman OT The Annual Dance CommiTTee and Managing EdiTOr OT The I939 CABLE: Fred KiTTy, Copy EdiTor OT The PIONEER: Wes STevens, our class represenTa- 7 I five fo fhe Sfudenfs' Council? and l-lerberf Niedhammer, member of fhe Blanlcef Fee Commiffee. l-lighlighfs in our sfudenf life fhroughouf fhe year: Elecfion Day lfirsf holidayl-Thanksgiving Day lwhaf were we fhanlcful for? A day spenf in wrifing reporfs and solving scads of problems.l-Chrisfmas Holidays, wifh fhe grand finale on New Year's Eve.-Spring vacafion-end of finals-Lab. Deposifs refurned--Summer vacafion-ef al. Low Lighfs: Beginning of school-Refurn of our habifual lefhargy-Firsf heavy assignmenf-Second heavy assignmenf-Unexpecfed and idisasfrous quizzes-mid year exams-cram sessions-Marks. In fhe fhird year however, a growing sense of pride in one's branch of Engineer- ing, as evidenced by fhe professional sociefy pins adorning fhe clofhing of fheir proud possessors and fhe common possession of engineering periodicals spurred on a friendly harassing and rivalry befween fhe various engineering branches. If was nof an uncommon occurrence fo wifness former sfeadfasf companions now separafed by fheir chosen fields of specializafion openly chiding each ofher as fo fhe relafive merifs of fheir chosen fields. To fhe lceen observer, fhis growing pride and confidence was fhe firsf budding sign of fhe budding professional engineer. The sfudenf sociefy organizafions nof only served for fhis purpose buf fhey also arranged and provided facilifies for fhe presenfafions of sfudenf papers, inferesfing lecfures by prominenf engineers and guided inspecfion fours of indusfrial planfs. The A.S.M.E. held ifs firsf Mefropolifan Sfudenf Convenfion af Sfevens lnsfifufe af which sfudenf chapfers of all fhe local engineering schools were represenfed. The offen repeafed sfory of Sainf Pafriclcs claim of having been fhe firsf mechanical engineer due fo his invenfion of fhe snalce drive was fold by fhe A.S.lvl.E. presidenf, Top row: Goldman, l-leun, Messerschmidf, Chorney, Millman, Siellce, Siogren, Schulfz, Siegel. Middle row: Sloan, Marra, Brinlcmann, Malchenson, Coffey, l-lagedorn, Sedaf, Rogge, Pofalci. Boffom row: Gleifsman, Smifh, Cooper, Aglieffi, Neuman, Laslce, Barreff, Baron. 72 Harry N. Davis. aT The dinner preceding The inspecTion Tour oT The school and Towing Tank. ln spiTe oT our sad experience we Turn our oTher cheek and look Torward wiTh new and increased enThusiasm To whaT anoTher year holds in sTore Tor us. We Teel ThaT iTs Trials and TribulaTions will be more Than made up Tor by The knowledge which we will receive Trom our insTrucTors. And now wiTh The approach OT The end oT The year we are graTeTul Tor The opporTuniTy oT expressing our Thanks To The lnsTiTuTe and iTs FaculTy, and To The CABLE, Pioneer, and oTher acTiviTies connecTed wiTh The school. NoTwiThsTanding iTs heavy program, The Third Year Class has made many conTribuTions To The success oT The School Year, and Trom iTs ranks have come a considerable porTion oT The energies and enThusiasms which are essenTial To The TuncTioning oT all The school pursuiTs. This class has earned The repuTaTion oT being The shrewdesT group oT sTudenTs ever To enTer Cooper. They have an unequaled TaculTy Tor dodging exams. The only way in which The ProTs. can deTermine The abiliTy oT The sTudenTs is To spring surprise quizzes-announced exams are always veToed in advance. Now ThaT The Class has compleTed Three years oT The Six Year Course, wiTh The approach oT The second halT oT The course, They lean back and Think oT The pasT wiTh envy, and oT The TuTure wiTh apprehension. However, we know ThaT we will make a success oT iT. 73 TIHHT TECH '41 To mosT oT us who had managed To survive The rigors oT The Third year, and halTway mark, unscaThed, reTurn To school in SepTember was marked wiTh a iubilanT Teeling akin To ThaT oT a skier who has long plodded To reach his elevaTed Take-oTT posiTion and now proudly sTands and surveys his surrounding beTore descending. Li++Ie does he know, or did we realize aT ThaT Time, whaT unToreseen obsTacles and dangers will presenT Themselves during The journey To The iniTial sTarTing poinT. WhaT iubilance or humor made enTry wiTh us in SepTember quickly evaporaTed under The pressure oT work ThaT immediaTely made iTselT evidenT. Whereas our previous Three years had been Taken up wiTh subiecTs oT preparaTory or broadening naTure specialized subiecTs such as Advanced Surveying and Physical MeTallurgy Tor The Civil Engineers: ElecTrical MeasuremenTs and DirecT CurrenT Machines Tor The ElecTrical Engineers: Applied Thermo-dynamics and Machine Design Tor The Mechanical Engineers: QuanTiTaTive Analysis and Euels and CombusTion Tor The Chemical Engineers immediaTely indicaTed ThaT we were aT lasT working on Tangible engineering problems and +ha+ liTe This year would noT be so pleasanT aTTer all. In addiTion, l-lydraulics, Mechanics oT MaTerials and DiTTerenTial EguaTions, noT To menTion German, The peT oT The Chemical Engineers, added To our woes. The year was noT only memorable as a Turning poinT in our ouTlook-buT also Tor several innovaTions wiThin The school iTselT. On November 3rd, in The presence oT prominenT educaTors, college presidenTs, oTTicial delegaTes OT The naTion's univer- siTies and men and women who have long been idenTiTied wiTh The progress oT The Union, Dr. Edwin Sharpe Burdell, Tormer Dean oT l-lumaniTies aT MassachuseTTs lnsTiTuTe oT Technology, was insTalled as DirecTor oT The Cooper Union. For The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT The Union, a graduaTe course The Analysis OT STaTically lndeTerminaTe STrucTures by Means oT Transmission CoeTTicienTs was 74 Top row: Greene, Black, Donald, Higgins, Collier, Skorski, Doe, SmyThe. Middle row: Ocane, Gordon, SmiTh, Schumacher, Jones, O'l.eary, Dishchuck, Weiss, Yarnpolsky. BoTTom row: Bern- sTein, Nagoshiner, Moody, SchwarTz, SchaTTer, Keene, Kodolsky, Selman. venTured under The TuTelage OT The Civil Engineering DeparTmenT. IT is hoped ThaT in Time graduaTe work oT varied naTure will become a realiTy in Cooper Union. An announcemenT which caused a good deal oT TrivoliTy and back-slapping among The Civils and provoked envy in all oT The oTher branches oT engineering sTaTed ThaT sTarTing This year summer camp courses will be a regular parT OT The Civil Engineering curriculum and ThaT The school will pay all expenses such as TuiTion, board and possibly TransporTaTion To These camps. Summer camps oT oTher prom- inenT engineering schools will be uTilized Tor This purpose: The nighT school men will spend Two weeks Tor Two consecuTive summers aT The New York UniversiTy summer camp locaTed aT l-lugenoT, N.Y., wi+h a Temporary schedule oT Tull camp acTivi- Ty. lT is hardly possible in The limiTed space available To record The evenTs incidenTal To The rouTine oT college life which will be Torever reTained in our memories. How many oT us will TorgeT ProTessor JeTTrey's NegoTiable lnsTru- menT class and his Tamous Lexical Com- miTTee. IT ever There was need Tor represenTaTion by populaTion iT was here 75 where The Tive sTaunch Civil Engineers headed by Their repeaTedly nominaTed Lexical CommiTTee Chairman, Bob Mulligan, probably saw more oT The mysTeries oT The phoneTics oT The OxTord and CenTury dicTionaries Than all oT The oTher engineering secTiorms combined. Or ThaT Tamous Tuesday during The mid-year examinaTions when a boisTerous congregaTion oT well Trained Truck drivers gaThered in The small sTreeT behind The l-lewiTT Building and proceeded To divulge Their worldly knowledge in mosT emphaTic Terms. And To add To The din, a sudden increase in The heaTing sysTem boiler pressure, probably aTTer a banked condiTion, developed a periodic waTerhammer which did noT abaTe Tor some Time. l-low a good percenTage oT The sTudenTs Taking examinaTions in rooms on The easTern side oT The l'lewiTT Building were able To concenTraTe long enough To pass Their exams successTully is sTill a mysTery. Or ThaT oTher occasion a Tew days beTore The ChrisTmas vacaTion period when a conTroversial subiecT divided and broughT The class To an unusual sTaTe oT exciTe- menT. And Then a sudden pause, as if planned, and The sweeT sTrains oT a ChrisTmas Carol were heard Trom The LuTheran Church across The sTreeT. Music haTh charms- even on exciTed engineers. The TourTh chapTer OT The memoirs oT The nighT school class oT I94I would be indeed lacking wiThouT reTerence To our mosT noble TaculTy whose Task iT was lindeed iT wasl To develop some oT our inherenT buT well hidden capabiliTies, Mr. Van Buren-a regular Tellow who Thinks noThing oT sTaying long aTTer class To clariTy diTTiculT poinTs. Mr. Perez--a naTural, well liked wiT whose knowledge and explana- Tion oT hydraulics and sTrengTh oT maTerials are such ThaT he can Teach even us. Mr. Puller-our pracTical machine designer who Tempers TheoreTical meThods wiTh pracTical consideraTions. WiTh a sigh we close anoTher memorable chapTer in our hisTory aT The Cooper Union. Four years gone-buT Two To go. AmbiTions are slowly being TulTilled: lasT- ing Triendships have developed. For whaT more can we ask? 76 IGHT TEEH '40 OFFICERS M. T. AQUINO PresidenT R. E. RANKEL Vice-PresidenT F. McGlNNlS Treasurer The NighT Tech class of '40, long disTinguished Tor iTs reTusal To supporT The BlanlceT Fee, sTarTed iTs TiT+h year aT Cooper Union by conTinuing ThaT reTusal. Before The expiraTion of The year The news ThaT The BlanlceT Fee would no longer be compul- sory and ThaT a new AcTiviTies Plan would Torce no one unable To pay To supporT iT was greeTed wiTh greaT enThusiasm by The class oT '40, The long TighT was won-our TighTing had noT been in vain. A class oT less Than halT a hundred TosTers a greaTer inTimacy and camaraderie Than oTherwise possible. And aTTer Tour years oT close associaTion wiTh The same people The spiriT oT Triendship is greaTly aided. Hence The class oT '40 is well-known ThroughouT The school Tor The greaT cooperaTion ThaT exisTs beTween The members oT The class. The worlc oT The year was Tound more inTeresTing Than ThaT oT any oT The previous Tour, buT as usual The same cry OT being overworked persisTsg and iT is noT enTirely ex- aggeraTed whaT wiTh EE. lab, dynamo design, AC circuiTs, Tor The EE.: Organic Fluid dynamics and Phys. Chem Tor The Ch.E.g meTallography Tor The M.E.3 all oT which conTribuTed To busy week-ends and holidays. The Mechanical Engineering LaboraTory was very inTeresTing. Here The boys aTTained Their hearTs' desire, namely, playing around wiTh machinery. Many happy hours were spenT around The boilers in The comTorTable heaT during The SepTember cool, buT iT would have been even more comTorTable during December. Various en- gines, gauges and insTrumenTs were TesTed and many Tuels analyzed. ReporTs, oT course, were wriTTen-reporTs ThaT easily removed all pleasure and all Time Tor leisure Trom a week-end. A very imporTanT subiecT To This group oT engineers was l-leaT Power. Nozzles, blades, and velociTy diagrams were sTudied in greaT deTail, especially iusT beTore exams. 77 The real mysTery To The M.E.'s This year was meTallOgraphy. IT Toolc abOuT six weelcs To Tind OuT whaT iT was all abouT, and The oTher nine weeks To caTch up on The work. MeTallography labOraTory was also a headache Tor mosT OT The boys. Speci- mens OT meTals and alloys were polished and eTched and examined under The micro- scope. The idea was To be able TO see sOmeThing in The Tield OT view ThaT gave you inTormaTiOn abOuT The alloy or meTal. ThaT was The idea buT somehow we couldn'T Tell anyThing Trom whaT we saw. LeT iT be accidenTally Told ThaT you are a member OT The TiTTh year C.E.'s and your lisTeners exclaim: WhaT? Are you one OT Those? Such an expression OT awe cannOT Tail TO be slighTly TlaTTering inasmuch as iT exhibiTs lceen appreciaTiOn OT The Tremendous diTTiculTies ThaT musT be Overcome beTore a person can aTTain The ranlc OT TiTTh year CE. UndoubTedly There come peTulanT cries Trom Those in oTher branches OT sTudy ThaT Their parTicular courses are diTTiculT beyond belieT buT The TacT remains ThaT They are sTill sTaid and earTh bound and Tar Trom The high and exalTed posiTion The C.E.'s hold in The esTeem OT The lower classmen. lEd. NOTe: ls iT because The C.E.'s aTTend a summer camp??f7l TO which The Ch.E.'s respond: We challenge you To sTOp copying reporTs Tor a Tew minuTes and Try learning a Tew pages OT organic or physical chemisTry. These Two subiecTs are The highesT hurdles Tor The chems buT Doc. Sherman and Doc. STOlzenbach do a good iob OT adding inTeresT To Their lecTures by inTerspersing inTeresTing anecdOTes and homespun philosophy beTween The bare TacTs OT Their subiecTs. As a welcome change Trom The many lecTure courses The Chems make merry in The cOnTines OT The organic lab. Besides dodging Their Own chemicals The class have To waTch ouT Tor Those dazzling expone-nTs OT aT leasT one experimenT a nighT. 'Tis a Tar cry Trom ThaT nighT in AugusT many years ago when a much larger group 78 l YY, oT people sweaTed TogeTher piTTing Their knowledge and TalenTs againsT The enTrance examinaTions. 'Tis a long way now Trom ThaT TirsT Thrill when we were noTiTied ThaT we had come Through wiTh raTing suTTicienTly high To be considered worThy oT enTrance To Cooper Union. Yes, we have gone a long and arduous way. Somehow or oTher Those oT us ThaT are sTill here have managed To sTruggle along Through The years. The class has Tew meeTings and no social TuncTions oT any kind. We have neiTher The energy nor The Time Tor anyThing excepT our jobs and Cooper Union. When we meeT Tor supper we swap inTormaTion on how To solve Those homework prob- lems. Girl Triends-we have none, or only Those ThaT can help us in our work aT school, TypisTs, reporT wriTers, eTc. Our Tamilies wonder who ThaT sTrange man is ThaT They see Tor breakTasT every morning and who ThaT boarder is ThaT spends his week-ends in his room. SomeTimes even we wonder who we are. And someTimes we wonder wheTher iT is worTh iT: The long years oT loneliness ancl concenTraTion on iusT The one goal-graduaTing Trom Cooper Union: The long hours OT sTudy ThaT leave us red eyed and weary Tor The nexT day's work: bolTed, insuTTicienT meals in greasy resTauranTs while we do ThaT evening's homework: weeks spenT in agonizing sTudy memorizing TacTs Tor The Tinal exam: weeks of suspense while we waiT Tor The resulTs: weeks of sTudy during The sum- mer monThs preparing Tor a condiTion exam ldid anyone menTion a summer vacaTion?l, hours spenT Tossing in bed, Too Tired To sleep, worrying abouT ThaT problem in Tluid dynamics. PAUL COLLETTI, deceased 79 U YAHT i l l OFFICERS N. HARRIS Presidenf J. ROBERTSON Vice-Presidenf F. JACOBI Secrefary P. THAYER Treasurer Freshman Class-Day Arf: The fumbrils deposifed fheir cargo of vicfims in fronf of fhe C. U. guillofine. Wifh crossed fingers we frembled solemnly over fhe fhreshold -The drums rolled-fhe guillofine flashed down-The slaughferhouse of exams had begun. Like good liffle arisfocrafs, we showed off our lack of arfisfic falenf wifh an air of aplomb fhaf would have frozen fhaf nonchalanf of nonchalanfers, Noel Coward. And so, ouf fo a hasfy lunch fhaf gallowed down our feverish fhroafs. Nonchalanfly we lif a Rifzbuilf and sfrolled back fo indulge in some highly edifying gymnasfics affempfing fo draw a young girl sprawled in her favorife chair reading Gable Talk Turkey wifh a pouf on her preffy puss. Then we designed a home for ourselves for fhe archifecfural quesfion and wound up wifh a gummy fry af com- bining our feeble knowledge of spheres, cubes and cones info a niffy composifion wifh fhe aid of our beloved plasficine. Along abouf fhe firsf day we apprehensively inquired of upper classmen fhe roufes fo various rooms. We had been informed via fhe grapevine fhaf fhese hairy chesfed brufes did nof hesifafe fo dine on half baked' freshmen. Thaf's how we mef Adolf, fhe guardian of our ancienf express elevafor, and Cooper's landmark and monumenf of fame and disfincfion. Affer discovering Adolf, our prowess as ad- venfurers has become so formidable fhaf now we know all fhere is fo know-pracfically. Comes now one of fhe high spofs on any man's college calendar, fhe elecfion of class officers. Freshmen high, Freshmen low, Freshmen prized, Freshmen ofherwise huddled and affer a painfully shorf fime came up wifh a casf fhaf would make one or fwo of our more imporfanf legif' sfage performers blush af fheir infanfile inepfifude. The class of '42 presenfs The C. U. Follies sfarring Norman Harris as F. D. R., 80 Jean RoberTson as Eleanor, Frank Jacoby as Gregg and PiTman and Priscilla Thayer as RoThschild. ATTer having duly overwhelmed The local criTics wiTh a gala opening nighT perTormance, The Follies seTTled down To a conTinuous run which The producers promise will lasT Till The end oT May I939 aT The very leasT. Living up To our class moTTo oT never a dull momenT, iT we can help iT, we en- livened many a boring momenT juggling sTools inTo a semblance oT The leaning Tower oT Pisa, in The plasTics room-a locale peculiarly suiTed To The encouragemenT oT such inTanTile delinquency--wiTh iTs weird cubisT composiTions ThaT looked as iT They had been slapped TogeTher by some peTulanT inTanT. Those oT us wiTh more hirsuTe adornmenT Took To The Davey O'Brien school oT physical developmenT known as associaTion, uTilizing our minuTe campus Till such Time as The long arm oT The law poliTely Told us To peddle our papers elsewhere. The Bob Considine of The Pioneer SporT STaTT in our own liTTle Eddy JasTram, who Skolskies pr'ominenT sporTs Tigures in his weekly column. Among The sporTs lum- inaries we have l-lerb KarpoTT, The boy who'll make Flank LuiseTTe look punk on his good days. SpoT lighTers Too are Maiola QuaTrocchi, Lillian Capra and Cora WisoTT, all of whom garnered a biT oT anaTomical daTa Trom ThaT eminenT auThoriTy, G. B. Bridg- man. Jean RoberTson, The girl who piled up The highesT mark in The enTrance exam, sTudied under The Thomas BenTon. Top row: V. Rohrig, J. Simonye, L. ArTale, R. Krenkel, J. l-lunT, J. WhiTTon, l-l. Johnson, E. Nafel, l-T. KarpoT, L. Schenkelbach, W. Chin. Second row: M. QuaTTrochi, R. Van Dyke, J. RoberTson, F. Jacobi, A. PeTrizzo, F. Casarella, H. Oliver, l-l. Ackerman, J. Wainio, R. AncoTT, F. JasTrom, N. Harris, Fl. LeichTer, M. Landauer, P. C-oldsTein. SiTTing: M. OpaciTy, A. Mendelsohn, B. Rosenberg, R. BirnsTein, B. Alden, F. Devine, l. Nyski, N. SmiTh, J. Wong, C. James, H. Shapiro, L. Capra. BoTTorn row: D. Soshensky, V. Shapiro, P. Thayer, C, MazzamuTo, L. Miller, G. DeBaThe, A. Poleman, L. STein, M. Laboyda, R. Pierce, C. Wissoicf, T. McGlynn. l 8 I , , Embryo arTisTs aT play. The year, alas, is nearly done. l-lere's To our Sophomore year-when we'll be bigger and beTTer dan eber. Sophomore class-Day ArT: V!-e're back again-no blaTanT brass bands To greeT us lspecial numbers, however, experTly rendered wiTh sTyle and gusTo by our own TalenT on requesT, or aT The drop of a haTl. No Tossing of in AppreciaTion bou- quefs, noT even a welcome banner Traversed The Threshold of The Time mellowed and familiar GreaT Hall: buT did I say familiar? ObliTeraTing The expanse of hazy mirror aT The rear of The sTage was a curTain of Hood-looking Monks cloThg and a dandy new painT iob complimenTed The new modernism, To say noThing of The facT ThaT we were inTroduced To Dr. Burdell and Mr. Clark who, flanked by The faculTy, were seaTed amid The reiuvenaTed resplendence. And did all This keep us down? NOT us! Surrounded by upper classmen on one side and The new frosh on The oTher, we, The inimiTable freshmen of '38, having iusT enfered Took iT all in our sTride. Affer a biT of preliminary warming up during which summer souvenirs were exchanged, iT was learned ThaT camera fiend Carl Pefer- son wiled away The sulTry days aT Willoughby's selling cameras and sTuff. Andy lFlaT FooT Floogiel Ross was apprenTice for a shorr Time To a fashion illusTraTor and Jay Brice, our child prodigy, goT some real experience in a commercial arT sTudio. Dan DramaTic Club Shapiro acTually ioined and labored wiTh a W.P.A. gang. l-lal Collins amused summer resorT guesfs wiTh his never-fail humor and Those Three con- Temporaries, Aaron Erlich, Sid Gordin, and Les Fried painTed sTage seTs. Our foreign member, Lisa Wolfson lThe home Town's Denverl, spenT a monTh wiTh The folks and Then joined The happy Throng of iob holders in New York again. DOT Bloomfield garnered some pracTical experience being a governess for The idle rich and nearly was washed away when The hurricane came. Marge Williams painTed boaTs and sailed up and down The ST. Lawrence. Mr. Shaw informed us wiTh proper sTyle and appropriaTe gesTures ThaT The Sophomore class would be The chosen few, privileged To revel in The exTreme disTinc- Tion of doing The redesigning of The GreaT Hall sTage so ThaT iT would be more suiTable for dramaTic performances. 82 OFFICERS T-LCOLLINS PresidenT C. PETERSON Vice-Presideni' J. BRICE Treasurer J. WONG SecreTary We leTT Tor The wars! Well, anyway, we seT ouT To measure The GreaT Hall so we could draw, TirsT oT all, a nice eighTh inch plan oT iT. Amply girThed wiTh good humor and armed To The TeeTh wiTh Tape measures and pencils, we seT abouT The iob looking like The dileTTanTs we were. Hig' school educaTed brains were racked desper- aTely Tor The parT ThaT remembered anyThing aT all abouT how To Tind The diameTer oT The columns, and The meriTs oT various Techniques were Tiercely deTended. BrillianT suggesTions Tor geTTing The ceiling heighT, like having Andy shinny up a column and hold one end of The Tape, while Carl on The Tloor caughT The oTher, were boisTerously disposed oT along wiTh The ingenious suggesTors. BuT we did iT, genTle reader. ATTer several days OT precarious perching on ill- goTTen ladders and sTooIs, along wiTh resTricTions and admoniTions Trom The boys in The boiler room, we emerged wiTh sheeTs oT none Too decipherable dope. BuT This was noT The worsT yeT! Oh no: iT was only The beginning, as They say. As soon as The plans were all drawn down To The lasT piece oT chewing gum under a seaT, we seT To work devising new plans and Then on To consTrucTing a model oT The resulTing brainchild. Weeks oT cuTTing ouT pieces and pieces oT cardboard, oT gluing and sanding, oT heaTed discussions and sTolen measuremenTs Tollowed, before we Tinally were able To unveil The careTully coddled masTerpieces wiTh modesT proTesTaTions oT Oh, iT really wasn'T so much! Our TirsT plunge inTo The social whirlg The skaTing parTy. IT was a swell idea and plenTy oT people seemed raring To go, buT when iT came To really signing up Tor a TickeT, iT was Tound ThaT a number oT disTinguished personages including Ted l-lealy's sTooges and a Mr. A. Lincoln had deigned To become The largesT parT oT our parTy. While granTing ThaT we would have been delighTed To accommodaTe as guesTs These rare individuals, we neverTheless did noT see our way clear To do This. The oTTicial 83 aTTair was called oTT buf a goodly number oT people ice sl4aTed one nighT during ThaT weelc using The discounT Ticl4eTs ThaT had been obTained. IT was made known ThaT all had a good Time. Wanamalcer's was wreaThed and garlanded in The TradiTional holly and Tir, The lamp posTs on FiTTh Avenue were again encircled by greaT red bows, The Tree aT WashingTon Square once more pierced The TrosTy slcy wiTh iTs lighT sTrung Tip, genTly snow Tell over snug New England rooTs iusT as over Cooper campus, and The Soph ChrisTmas ParTy approached. The greaT day Tinally arrivedg The commiTTee sTormed and sweaTed, alTernaTely and in combinaTion, buT The really grand resulTs were produced by Andy Ross, Aaron Erlich and Doris RubenTeld who were well appreciaTed. You danced To The music oT ArTie Shaw, Larry ClinTon and anybody else who is good. We had Them all lThrough The medium oT a phonograph and dancing club records, oT coursel noT To menTion The hoT rhyThm oT our own C.U. band aT Their oTTicial debuT. The guiTar secTion oT The aToremenTioned was really in The groove. In TacT, even while They were only rendering selecTions people goT up and danced wherever There were over Three square TeeT oT Tree Tloor space. STill if all This did noT overwhelm you, The enTerTainmenT musT have. ATTer The game, lal dancing under The cord wiThouT Touching, which was won by Andy and parTner To The consTernaTion oT nobody, lbl The broom dance wherein Hal Collins disTinguished himselT Tor meri- Torious service The danced wiTh The broom oTTenesTl, The big show was presenTed. When The remains oT The ham and cheese on rye had been washed down wiTh Coca Cola and allowed To resT peaceTully in saTisTied sTomachs, you grabbed you- Top row: Paul Lubell, Daniel Shapiro, Ron Erlich, Carl PeTerson, John Brice. Middle row: Myra Kempson, ElizabeTh WolTson, RoberT Simpson, Philip Grushlcin, Mariorie Williams, Eleanor Eller, DoroThy BloomTield, Sidney Weiner, GilberT Levy. BoTTom row: Jean Yee Wong, l-lenrieTTa Bauman, Barbara Snyder, Shirley Zweifach, Virginia Chudleigh, Andrew Ross, Lydia Czapelc, Donelda Fazalcas, Harold Collins. 84 self a chair and goT cornTorTabIe while wiTnessing The anTics oT I'IaI, who, by The way, wroTe and direcTed The sIciT involving The IiTe sTory and campaign Tor dicTaTorship oT AdoIT. Aiding and abeTTing were, oT course, Sid Gordin, Aaron Ehrlich and Andy Ross, The Ia++er Two being Two Thirds oT The Team oT The Tamous bemousTached and beIcerchieTed mad Russians. The boys did Their acT IaTer in The evening, Andy Ioolcing quiTe genuine inside his pillow sTuTTed smoclc and exhibiTing The possibiliTies oT a big blaclc mousTache, ancl Hal doing a demure TaIseTTo in his parT in The Teminine inTeresT. Now The gray ciTy snow has disappeared: spring and a young man's Tancy and May exhibiTion week are currenT Topics as The Time draws nigh To bid adieu To our second year aT Cooper. Being sophomores has had iTs advanTages: we've had IoTs ol good Times and our enriched minds have been more deeply sTeeped in The com- prehension and appreciaTion oT our educaTion as we conTemplaTe saying goodbye. Freshman Class-NighT ArT School: IT mighT be IaTe buT noT more Than pracTical To inTroduce our class oT NighT ArT Freshmen To oTher Cooper Union sTu- denTs. Our TiTle, however, implies in words only and noT in meaning, Tor we per- sonally ranlc ourselves wiTh upper classmen in scholarship and experience, and aT presenT are preparing To greeT The incoming Freshman class. We can readily boasT The IargesT BIanIceT Fee Membership in The NighT ArT school hisTory. Our class officers Tor The pasT year included Miss Birdie Brooks oT secTion ID as PresidenTg Roy Engargola oT secTion IA as Vice-PresidenT: SaIvaTore Coniglio oT secTion IE as Treasurer: Miss GerTrude FensTer oT secTion IB as SecreTary: and ChrisTopher Colombo ol secTion IC as BlanlceT Fee RepresenTaTive. SecTion ID inTroduced a novel idea in Their painTing class. In order To induce each oTher To do beTTer worlc, The class had Two compeTiTions during The semesTer. One penny was paid by each member oT The class as an enTrance Tee and whoever produced The besT piece oT work, in The period ol one evening, was rewarded wiTh a cash prize which consisTed of The enTire conTribuTion oT The sTudenTs. VicTor LeTTieri and William Meyericlcs shared The honors in The Two compeTiTions. Many of us are going To use our one year oT Cooper schooling as an aid To geT iobs in our respecTive Tields oT sTudy during The summer, and expecT To reTurn To school Tully prepared To carry on in The ioyTuI ways ThaT have made our TirsT year one ThaT we will surely remember Tor a long Time. 85 TU Y GUES TU EUUPETI A SHORT STORY AnThony Pasquali Spumoni pulled aT The shaggy hair aT The back oT his neck and decided-he would go To Cooper Union. Yes, he had heard abouT The diTTiculT en- Trance exams, buf Tony was never one To shy away Trom diTTiculTy. Hey, Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTherine, Josie, he called To his Tour sisTers, come here. Once assembled in The old Tashioned liTTle parlor, which sTill conTained a manTel piece oT The early I900's and sTuTTed chairs ThaT had been shaped inTo The conTour oT heavy bodies, Tony rose beTore his Tamily and cleared his ThroaT as if To make a speech. My sisTers, Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTherine and Josie, I have made a grave de- cision. I have ThoughT careTuIly abouT myseIT and my iob. You my sisTers have a righT To know my ThoughTs and To ioin in my decisions. I-Iere is The problem . . . When I work Tor Mr. Marconi-l Tix his machines-Mr. Marconi always asks me why I don'T go To school. 'Tony,' he says 'you are a brighT boy--you Tix machines very well. Why don'T you go To school and learn To design machines. WiTh your knowledge oT The indusTry and a IiTTle Technical knowledge you can revoluTionize The enTire sew- ing machine Tield.' Mr. Marconi is a very smarT machinisT and he knows whaT he is Talking abouT. So one day I Tell him, 'Mr. Marconi, sure l'd like To go To school and learn To design machines: buT I don'T have enough money To pay Tor ThaT educaTion. You know, I have Tour sisTers To supporT, Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTherine and Josie.' RighT away, Mr. Marconi Thinks I am asking him Tor a raise. I-le hrnms a while and Then he says, 'Now, Tony, you don'T need money if you are a smarT boy. There is a school, Cooper Union, ThaT has a Tree NighT School oT Engineering. IT you are smarT enough To pass The enTrance exams you can learn all you wanT To know abouT Machine Design.' Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTherine and Josie, all agreed ThaT iT was a good idea Tor Tony To go To Cooper Union. Tony cuT ouT a perToraTed card in a caTalog They senT him and Tilled iT ouT. Some Time lafer he received a card To come Tor an examinaTion. ThaT is, The card was mailed To him. Josie always made iT a pracTice To be The TirsT To The mail box aTTer The mailman leTT. Josie was The youngesT, and did noT go To school yeT, and ThereTore iT was simple Tor her To waiT downsTairs unTil The mailman came in The morning, aTTernoon and IaTe aTTernoon deliveries, and Take The mail direcTly Trom him. She would Then oTTen keep The mail Tor days beTore leaving iT ouT in public view where The member oT The Tamily To whom iT was addressed could see iT. When The posTcard Trom Cooper Union came, Josie goT iT and hid iT under The rug in The parlor. ThaT nighT Tony was very exciTed when he goT home. Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTh- erine, Josie, he said aT The supper Table beTween long swallows oT spagheTTi, Mike goT a card Trom Cooper Union Today Telling him To come Tor a preliminary examina- Tion. I should geT a card soon Too. 86 Weeks passed, buf no card came. Tony was geffing worried. Josie was iubilanf, aT lasT her liTTle playing was making These adulTs feel somefhing. She, Josie, was causing all This suffering To her elder brofher. lT made her feel imporTanT and she confinued To conceal The card. H One evening Tony came home dishearfened. Tomorrow nigh+ Mike is going for The exam, and l haven'T received a card yeT. I guess The aufhorifies aT Cooper Union didn'T Think me worThy even of Taking The exam. Are you worried? Josie asked. Yes. Do you feel very bad? Yes, My one chance To geT ahead has been refused me. Marie wafched Josie closely. There was somefhing behind This quesfioning. She saw Josie regisTer safisfacfion, and go in The back room and hug herself. Ah ha, Marie said To- herself someThing is up. She followed Josie info The back room. Come here, Josie, she said, Come here and siT on my lap. Tell me, Josie, you like Tony, don'T you? Yes, l like Tony, Josie replied in a monofone. You wouldn'T do anyfhing To hurT Tony, would you? Josie looked away from her sisTer's observing eyes. No, she said. You know, Josie, Tony has been a very good brofher To us. He has worked hard To supporf his four young sisfers, and we should do all we can To help him gef ahead. You see, when Tony geTs ahead iT is as if we geT ahead ourselves. If Tony makes more money we will have more money To eaT wifh and To buy you presenfs. l-low would you like a nice big doll ThaT says 'Mama' and closes iTs eyes? Boy, l would like ThaT! Well if you Tell me whaf you did wiTh Tony's posfcard from Cooper Union l'll gef you a doll like ThaT. Josie sTarTed To cry. I don'T know nofhing abouT no posfcard, honesT l don'T. Marie Turned up Josie's face and dried her eyes. There, There, don'T cry. l know you wouldn'T conceal anyThing from our fine hard working brofher. If ThaT card appears Tomorrow morning before Tony leaves for work l will geT you Thar doll. ThaT nighT. Midnighf. All was quieT in The Spumoni household. Josie opened one eye, Then The oTher. Yes, They all were asleep. Marie, Kafherine and AnToineTTe were all breafhing heavily, curled up in comforfable posifions in The bed They shared. Slowly Josie wriggled ouT of The covers and Tipfoed info The parlor. Carefully she Iiffed The corner of The rug and slid her hand under. Here is where The card should be. She TelT around. No. lT couldn'T be. She folded over The corner of The rug buT only The bare floor appeared. The card was gone! Josie saT down on The floor and quiefly cried. She saT There unTil The old fashioned clock on The manTel piece sTruck a single noTe-one o'clock. Then slowly her childish brain recovered iTs equilibrium. She wanTed The doll. She didn'T wanT To hurf her brofher any more. And besides, Marie knew ThaT she had hidden The card. Everyfhing would come ouf if she didn'T have ThaT card by morning. The whole family would know she had befrayed Them. 87 She musT Tind ThaT card. Someone musT have swepT under The rug, and swepT ouT The card wiTh The rub- bish. Ah, KaTherine. She was The one who did The sweeping. She would know. Pre- cise, exacT KaTherine noTiced and remembered everyThing. She would remember if she had swepT ouT The card. KaTherine was only in The TirsT grade grammar school and could noT read well. She probably did noT recognize The card. Josie wrung her hands. WhaT should she do now? Should she awake KaTherine and ask her? KaTherine would Tell everyone abouT Josie's beTrayaI. There was only one Thing To do. Josie wenT over To The Madonna sTanding in The cenTer oT The manTel piece and kneeled beTore her. Virgin MoTher, she prayed, please Tind The card and puT iT on The manTel piece beTore Tomorrow morning. Please have mercy on me. I did noT know whaT I was doing. I will never Touch anoTher IeTTer again. Please, Holy IvIoTher, do This liTTle Tavor Tor me and I shall never sin again. Josie TipToed back To bed and wenT To sleep, conTidenT ThaT she would noT be Torsaken. Marie, KaTherine, AnToineTTe, Josie, look, here is The card Trom Cooper Union. I am To appear Tor a preliminary examinaTion TonighT. IT was here in The manTel piece all The Time! Why didn'T some one Tell me? Marie, AnToineTTe, KaTherine and Josie all ran ouT and cheered loudly. They Tormed a circle and danced around Tony singing loudly. WaiT, Tony said, I have noT passed The examinaTions yeT. They are diTTicuIT and perhaps I will noT pass Them. You musT pass Them, Marie said. How can you noT pass Them? AnToineTTe said. You will pass Them, KaTherine said. BUT liTTle Josie was sTaring aT The Madonna in siIenT Thanks. A Tew weeks IaTer anoTher posTcard arrived: buT This Time Josie delivered iT di- rec+Iy To Tony The momenT he came home Trom work. You have passed The prelim- inary examinaTion and are eligible To Take The enTrance examinaTions, iT said. A shorT Time IaTer The house OT Spumoni was shaken wiTh IaughTer and ioy. A greaT parTy was held To ceIebraTe Tony's enTrance inTo Cooper Union. I have passed! I have passed! Tony shouTed all evening under The spell OT The red, dry wine. I will go To Cooper Union and become a greaT engineer. Hooray, shouTed Josie and KaTherine. BuT The Two older sisTers were in a corner Talking. We musT waTch Josie, An- ToineTTe said To Marie, she has a habiT oT hiding The mail on us. How did you know? One nighT, over a monTh ago, I heard some noise in The parlor I goT up and saw Josie puTTing her hand under The carpeT. I wenT back To bed and waiTecI unTiI Josie wenT To sleep. Then I goT up and looked. I had To roll up The enTire carpeT, buT There in The middle oT The Tloor was Tony's IeTTer Trom Cooper Union. I puT iT back on The manTel piece so ThaT Josie would noT know who Tound her ouT. 88 ACTIVITIES T UE U ST NO CD EUU ETL In The earlier parT oT This scholasTic semesTer The porTals oT The l-lewiTT Building were opened, and in sTreamed The STudenT Council members To elecT Their PresidenT and oTTicers. Ted Berlin was elecTed, TirsT on a Trial period, and Then permanenTly3 Gerlr Davidson, SecreTary, and Reno King, Treasurer Theirs was noT an easy Taslc. They had To chose and elecT officers Tor The various acTiviTies and voTe on currenT issues in The school liTe. lT sounds like an easy doing buT many a headache was caused and many a word baTTle ToughT. For The TirsT Tew weelcs suggesTions were made and resoluTions passed upon. Many survived buT also many were Thrown ouT oT The window. This year marlcs a milesTone in The Cooper Union STudenT Government namely, a consTiTuTion was Mr. Tannenbaum voices his opinions, and The Council has To lisfen. i ATTenTive and good lisTeners. drawn and The BlanlceT Fee was given iTs proper AuThoriTy in The eyes oT The sTudenT body. OuTside aTTairs were also voTed pro or con alThough They have no proper place in The acTiviTy program oT This organizaTion. And so The general STudenTs' Council aT This daTe has sTill a biT To accomplish buT leave To The incoming To decide Their own TuTure. PresidenT Berlin in opening a meeT- ing will warble in his sweeT bass voice The business aT hand and The aTTendance. Here one could always Tind a bedlam. lv1osT members were noT presenT and some had as many as Three proxys aT one meeTing. In The lasT Tew rows a number oT non members usually saT and lisTened and oTTen voTed on The QT. The mosT imporTanT TuncTions oT The STudenTs' Council were made clear This year, mainly, ThaT The Council is a represenTaTive body chosen by The sTudenTs To adminisTer The proper auThoriTy inTo The proper hands and see ThaT The various acTiviTies TuncTion in Their besT capaciTy. AThough aT Times This was noT Tul- Tilled To The leTTer a raTher well done year was neverTheless accomplished, and The Tollowing group will Tind The same diTTiculTies and will also be able To cope wiTh The arising siTuaTions. The absence and Tardiness OT council members is one oT The biggesT problems ThaT musT be Taced by The STudenTs' Council. lT is Traceable baclc To more Than mere laziness or laclc oT Time on The parT oT STudenT Council members boTh oT which excuses are inexcusable in an inTelligenTly elecTed councilman. The problem is wiTh The sTudenTs who are unaware oT whaT The council is doing: or, if They are aware oT The acTiviTies oT The council, The sTudenTs do noT realize ThaT iT is To Their inTeresT To see ThaT Their represenTaTive is a represenTaTive and does noT spend The council meeTing asleep in his chair. There should be no chasm beTween The sTudenT council and The individual sTudenT. Every sTudenT should aTTend aT leasT one council meeTing. IT he Tinds iT boring he will realize ThaT someThing is wrong. Perhaps he will realize whaT is wrong-ThaT he has elecTed a dead head who does noThing in council buT Thermodynamics homework. Then perhaps he will remember aT The nexT elecTion and voTe more careTully Tor a man oT his real choice. 9 I THEEABLEF LD LJJ LD Who is ThaT Tall handsome chap prosTraTed on ThaT soTa? Why he is The EdiTor-in-ChieT oT The T939 Cable. The reason Tor his prosTraTion'? Now ThaT is a long sTory, so draw up your chair, lighT up your pipe and lisTen. JusT beTore The school year ended in I938, The STudenT Council meT To appoinT The ediTorial sTaTT oT The I939 Cable. To make a long sTory longer, The Council chose VxfolTgang Kassner, EdiTor-in-ChieTg NaT Richmond, Business Manager: DoroThy Bloom- Tield and Marvin Weiss, AssociaTe EdiTors. Work began immediaTely, The dummy was laid ouT, The Type Taces selecTed and The qualiTy oT The paper was chosen. The cover design was Tabled unTil The Tall. Upon The arrival oT Tall and The beginning oT a new school year, work was resumed. The aToresaid Four Horsemen scouTed down The back alleys, waylaying innocenT CooperiTes To Till ediTorial posTs and To acT as conTribuTors. AlThough V'IncenT MaTuri worked under The TiTle oT Day Tech EdiTor, he was given conTrol oT ail The Engineering School copy. IT was his Task To assign, collecT and compose arTicles Trom The rough noTes handed in by class represenTaTives. These arTicles noT only con- cerned scholasTic buT also exTra-curricular acTiviTies. DoroThy BloomTield, in addiTion To being AssociaTe EdiTor, had charge oT The ArT School wriTe ups. Her work paralleled ThaT oT VincenT MaTuri, being diTTerenT only in The Tield oT her wriTing. In The capaciTy oT AssociaTe EdiTor, DoTTy helped compose The dummy and assisTed in The layouT oT each page. By and large The mosT imporTanT and inTluenTial characTer on The Cable sTaTT was The EdiTor-in-ChieT, WolTgang Kassner. lT was Through his eTTorTs ThaT The Cable is now whaT iT is. When everyThing seemed To go wrong and liTe presenTed iTs bleakesT momenTs, WolT's cheerTulness and sTamina gave new courage and purpose To his co-ediTors. As like any oTher business organizaTion, The Cable had To have a Tinancier. The man Tor This posiTion was NaT Richmond. AlThough The money alloTTed To The Cable by The BlankeT Fee seemed huge in one lump sum, iT was insuTTicienT. To NaT Tell The Task oT raising more oT The necessary commodiTy oT exchange by selling adverTising space in The year book. IT was also his duTy To conserve The Tunds as much as possible by Torbidding excessive expendiTures. A year book can be a preTTy drab aTTair if iT only conTained prinTed maTTer. The Task oT brighTening up This year's Cable Tell To Bernard Meyerson, ArT EdiTor. Any Friday nighT oT The school year, Bernie could be seen in The Cable OTTice drawing one design aTTer anoTher, backing oTT a Tew TeeT, cocking his head on one side or anoTher, 92 zzlozfanlva In Knfmfe THE I939 CABLE STAFF asking Tor commenTs and Tinally discarding The skeTch and sTarTing on anoTher. This process was repeaTed Time and again unTil he obTained whaT he TelT The besT design available. The PhoTography EdiTor, MargareT Wager, also helped To decoraTe The Cable. She selecTed The phoTographers, ArThur STudios, and arranged Tor The class, club, and graduaTe picTures To be Taken. Then selecTing The besT shoTs, she arTisTically arranged and pasTed Them on sheeTs oT papers ThaT were senT To The engravers. IT was rumored ThaT her blond hair acTually Turned a shade lighTer because oT her worries. ATTer The class and acTiviTies wriTe ups had been compleTed, iT was passed on To The Copy EdiTor, Bud Medon. Here iT was TypewriTTen, prooT read, and s+reTched or shorTs nd To TiT The alIo++ed space. Many a splendid long arTicle came To Bud only To be slashed unm'erciTully. On The oTher hand, There were many piTiTully shorT arTicles ThaT were remarkably TaTTened. The mysTery man oT The sTaTT was George Clark, SporTs EdiTor. Very Tew oT The sTaTT ever acTu'ally saw him and only one or Two knew him aT all. AlThough never seen around The Cable officc. beorge zealously worked aT home and submiTTed his arTicles TaiThTully beTore The deadline. Marvin Weiss, The AssociaTe EdiTor, also Turned auThor. To him is aTTribuTed The TaculTy and TrusTees copy. l-le also is responsible Tor all special arTicles, especially Tor The Theme. Meanwhile MargareT Wager could be seen Traveling 'iTher and yon wiTh a phoTographer Trom ArThur STudies under her wing, supervising The class picTures. From nowhere she secured The services oT Two sTudenTs, George Klein and Carl PeTerson. Thieserwch ,ps supplied The Cable amply wiTh undigniTied candid shoTs oT The,dign'iTi-ed TaculTy and sTudenT:. body. ln a Tar OTF corner DoroThy Bloomfield was composing her noTes Tor The graduaTe copy. She was ably assisTed by Eleanore Eller. ln an opposiTe corner VincenT MaTuri was ioTTing' down his senior noTes bejween The sTeps oT The big apple which he was pracTising.' ,il-le was assisTed by MiiT Pedolsky lin wriTing noTes l meanl. One nighT while ,doing a word counT, CliTT Olesen Tired of geTTing The producT OT The lengTh and widThioT a page and a Type TacTor To secure The number oT words ThaT page could hold. His pro- liTic mind solved The diTTiculTy by invenTing a charT conTaining The size oT all Type blocks. One had merely To look aT The charT To obTain The word counT Tor ThaT block. While The prinTed maTTer was being wriTTen,f a conTesT was held in school To obTain an idea, Tor an appropriaTe cover design. AlThough There were several very excellenT enTries, none were obTained ThaT suiTed The Theme. Thus The problem oT a cover design was sTill unsolved. This was evenTually solved by The D. J. Molloy Company which presenTed several sample covers. The ediTorial sTaTT closeTed iTselT wiTh These samples-and emerged wiTh The ideal cover. AnoTher problem solved. NOT all of The experiences of Those connecfed wiTh The Cable have been in Room 27 of The Foundafion Building. One of The mosT enjoyable feafures of being on The sTaTf was The Friday nighT dinners lcharged up To The Cablel which all of The all- nighT workers aTTended. AT This Time a quief and exfremely pleasanT hour and a half was spenf away from The cares and worries of The TaskmasTer, ThaT darned book. l-lere insTead of Talking abouf galley proofs, engraver's proofs, more copy, deadlines, eTc., conversaTion of any ofher subiecf was ToleraTed. Any individual wiTh The Temerify To speak abouf dufies aT This Time would be preTTy foolish, for such maTTers were noT handled delicafely and like as noT said individual would find him, her or iTself bodily eiecTed. Finally when school was over, and The Cable nearly ready To go To press, acTiviTies were moved over To The prinfer, The Comef F' :ss, where The sfaff could have closer supervision on The prinTing of Their book Here The odds and ends were cleaned up. The work was done sysfemaficaily, noT one lc,.T mo'I'ion. IT The book had To be begun all over again, whaT a difference iT would be. IT The sfaff buzzed wiTh acTiviTy before, iT roared wifh iT now. Finally when The firsT book came off The press, The sTaTf fever- ishly read every single word. Then wiThouT TurTher ado, eafrh and every one collapsed wiTh exhausTion. And so my Trierd ThaT is The reason for The coma The EdiTor-in-Chief has. AfTer bearing The burden of an ediTorship on The Cable he is now enjoying a much needed resT. You don'T Think ThaT we would wanT a posifion like Tl1aT nexf year? There you are wrong. l-l and every member oi' The sfaff would gladly do iT again, even Though The work were Twice as much. There were good Times and hard Times, and a loT of work. 95 PIU EER Volume I, number I oT The Pioneer appeared in Cooper Union on January 28, I92l wiTh an expressed purpose To produce a means whereby The sTudenTs, TacuITy, and alumni oT The Cooper Union can discuss The maTTers which would promoTe The general weITare oT The insTiTuTion and iTs members. This publicaTion will sTrive To eIevaTe The school sTaTus, To promoTe school spiriT, To inspire our aThIeTic Team . . . To insTiII cooperaTive Tendencies wiThin Those who Tend To isolaTe Themselves Trom The Union .... These aims The Pioneer has Tollowed Tor eighTeen years, Through low waTer and high waTer, Through pages IOV2 inches wide by I4 long To pages I7 by 22 and back again. Prom The daTe OT iTs TormaTion, To abouT I929, The Pioneer headlines recorded The Triumph oT many Cooper Union Teams. For example, Trom I925 To I929 The Pioneer reporTed vicTories oT an unbeaTen Track Team. WiTh The decline oT Cooper vicTories The Pioneer s+iII mainTained, wiTh some success, iTs eTTorTs To inspire our aThIeTic Teams, and To The renewed Pioneer aTTacIc on lagging sTu- denT inTeresT can be crediTed much oT The recenT successes oT our Teams. The Pioneer was also greaTIy insTrumenTal in The insTiTuTion oT The BlanlceT Pee Plan, which has given all Cooper exTra-curricular acTiviTy a new lease on IiTe. The Pioneer has consTanTly ToughT wiThouT regard Tor anyThing buT sTudenT opinion, Tor Those issues which iT ThoughT The sTudenT body wanTed. Thus, in The school year oT I932-33, when Professor BaTeman, The presenT Dean, had iusT been appoinTed acTing Dean, The Pioneer carried an uninTimidaTed series oT ediToriaIs commenT- ing on his qualiTicaTions Tor The posiTion oT permanenT Dean. ThaT year's series oT denunciaTory, yeT consTrucTive ediToriaIs, ended wiTh an issue known as The Pi-and-Beer. This scarleT issue in The Pioneer's hisTory was undoubTedly Tunny, buT even iTs mosT generous criTic could noT describe iT as being in good TasTe. ATTer The issuance oT The Pi-and-Beer, The Pioneer was suspended Tor a period oT one year. The nexT year lI934l wiTnessed The reorganizaTion oT The Pioneer wiTh pracTically a new sTaTT and a new seT oT rules and regulaTions. These rules included The esTab- lishmenT OT a Board oT ConTrol, consisTing oT Two members appoinTed by The STudenT Council, The ediTor and business manager oT The Pioneer, and one TaculTy member. Under The eyes oT This Board, The Pioneer grew, buT iT was noT unTil The appoinTmenT oT Dr. Burdell as DirecTor oT The Cooper Union and The subseguenT revamping oT The Pioneer regulaTions, ThaT The Pioneer once again Tound iTselT as The driving Torce Tor The inTelligenT discussion and as The cenTer oT inTeresT Tor a large parT oT The sTudenT body. ' Along wiTh iTs renewed ediTorial Treedom, The Pioneer Tound new physical sTrengTh wiTh an enlarged sTaTT and new and permanenT quarTers. Every Friday The clan would gaTher in The Pioneer oTTice, Room I4-c on The TirsT Tloor oT The l:oundaTion Building, To puT ouT The Pioneer. AT abouT 3:30 The ediTor would come in and sweep ouT The oTTice. AT 4:00 The TypisTs lTemalel and Their admirers lmalel would come in and be seT To work on The news sTories ThaT had accumulaTed during The week. AT 4:l5 The news ediTor would assign reporTers To cover The many evenTs ThaT happen in school on The lasT day oT The week. AT 4:30 The ediTor would assign The associaTe ediTor and news ediTor To go up To The ArT School To round up The reporTer, who, Tor some reason, always ended up aT The Dancing Club. AT 6:00 The copy ediTor would send someone To round up The ediTor and The ediTorial board, which had somehow disappeared in The direcTion oT The STudenT Council meeTing. By 8:00 P.lvl. abouT one-Third oT The paper had been wriTTen, Though by whom, no one would ever know. By 8:30 The ediTor would decide he was suTTicienTly hungry, so mosT oT The sTaTT would adjourn To The sTreeT and sTarT To argue as To whaT eaTing place To paTronize. By 9:00 The sTaTT would be exhausTed, so The ediTor would pick iT up and carry iT To The Sagamore. Back by l0:00, The sTaTT would geT To work in earnesT. The ediTor would Take his ruler To The backs oT The minuTe-men, The lads who wriTe sTories aT The raTe oT a word a minuTe, and ThreaTen Them wiTh dire punishmenT unless They had Their sTories in prompTly. Headlines would be assigned and TwenTy men would go crazy aTTempTing To Tind a 97 Two-leTTer word signiTying Cooper Loses. By ll:30 The associaTe ediTor would have The paper laid ouT and would hand ouT sTories To be cuT To TiT The space avail- able. IT The sTaTT had been eTTicienT, The paper was Tinished by l:00 A.M., oTher- wise, by 2:00 or 2:30. Thereupon The sTaTT would adiourn To a nearby caTeTeria Tor coTTee and poliTics, and Then home . . . excepT Tor The unlucky Tellow who was assigned To carry The copy up To The prinTer ThaT morning. BuT The paper is noT yeT ouT. - Monday, righT aTTer school, The producTion manager and one or Two assisT- anTs rush up To The prinTer's To read prooT, see ThaT sTories are placed in The righT posiTion in The paper, sTreTch and cuT sTories which were noT oT The righT size Tor The space alloTTed, and even, perchance, wriTe new sTories when copy Tor which space had been alloTTed Tails To arrive. Tuesday morning, The Pioneer arrives and is Taken under The wing oT The circu- laTion managers who disTribuTe Them To The class represenTaTives and Thence To The sTudenT body. Heading The sTaTT This year was Saul Aronow, EdiTor-in-ChieT. Mr. Aronow reached his posiTion aTTer serving on The Pioneer Tor Three years. Aronow was as- sisTed in his job oT supervising The producTion oT The paper by Ted Berlin and Murray WeinTraub, AssociaTe EdiTors, NaT Richmond, Managing FdiTor, and Julius PorT, News EdiTor, The man who made sure ThaT There was copy To Till The Pioneer. Handling The business managemenT oT The Pioneer, was Sol Tanenbaum. lsidore Berger was The man oT all work, spending mosT oT his Time and The Pioneer Tunds commuTing beTween The oTTice and The prinTer. The under-oversees oT The slaves included STan HurwiTz, Day News EdiTor, John Koslowslci, NighT News EdiTor, Sid Gordin, ArT FdiTor, George Clark and Sam Spool, EdiTor and AssisTanT EdiTor oT The SporTs DeparTmenT, respecTively, lrv Machlin, FeaTure EdiTor, Hal Feder, Copy EdiTor, and lrv QuarT, AssisTanT Copy EdiTor, and George Kline and Charles BliTz, PhoTographers. AssisTing These ediTors were a group oT reporTers, conTribuTors, and TeaTure wriTers, including MilT LipTon, Herman Nack, Sam YarTroTsky, Norman Gardner, Norman KoreTz, Abe Margolin, Edwin JasTram, Cora WisoTT, Hal Collins, Phyllis - , ,.. GoldsTein, LesTer Fried, Paul KauT- man, Alice Pearlman, Seymour Adler, Zana MoTT, NaTalie Zimmer and Fred KiTTy. Meyer SloTlcin was in charge oT The mechanical producTion oT The Pioneer every Monday nighT aT The prinTing shop where is iT published, and alThough rarely seen was iusT abouT The lcey man in geTTing The paper ouT. BuT The paper is noT ouT yeT. 98 MATH CLUB The MaThemaTics Club OT The Day Tech, Tounded in The academic year I92O-2I under The guidance oT ProTessors H. W. Reddick and J. J. Tanzola, is proud To an- nounce ThaT The acTiviTies oT This socieTy are no longer local in characTer, buT have Tinally embraced Toreign Tields oT endeavor. The organizaTion has broken precedenT by sponsoring a group oT selecTed sTudenTs in The inTercollegiaTe compeTiTion. Such a group composed oT Saul Aronow, Ted Berlin, Bob Gordon, Benjamin Lax, Fred Pohle, Abraham Rosen, and Marvin Weiss, represenTing Cooper Union as a Team were successTul in capTuring boTh The Team prize and The individual prize aT The annual lvleTropoliTan lnTercollegiaTe MaThemaTics CompeTiTion conducTed in May I938 by The Brooklyn ChapTer oT The Pi Mu Epsilon SocieTy aT Brooklyn College. Top honors wenT To Ted Berlin Tor his remarkable individual score which surpassed Those oT all The oTher conTesTanTs. In I939 The club will sponsor a Team oT Three members and oThers as individual conTesTanTs in The Thomas Lowell PuTman lnTer- collegiaTe ConTesT which has parTicipanTs Trom The universiTies and colleges oT The UniTed STaTes and Canada. These acTiviTies are supplemenTed by The normal acTiviTies oT The club, which consisT oT lecTures delivered aT iTs meeTings. The TirsT lecTure oT The year TeaTured Harold Feder. The Topic oT This Talk was The indispensable slide rule. This was Tollowed by an unusual lecTure on The Theory oT Prime Numbers by Murray Klam- kin. The highlighT oT These series, however, was The enTerTaining and enlighTening lecTure on The ApplicaTion OT MaThemaTics To Physics by ProTessor J. K. L. MacDon- ald. ProTessor MacDonald explained The use oT maThemaTics as applied To school physics. He Then described The maThemaTical Tool as employed by The pracTical engineer. Finally he explained iTs use in TheoreTical physics. STudenTs also submiT original papers on maThemaTics or maThemaTical physics To The oTTicers OT The club. The reward Tor The besT works comes in The Torm OT a lecTure delivered by The sTudenT upon The Topic covered by his paper. This is The only local conTesT sponsored by The MaTh Club. There are, however, oTher prizes awarded Tor excellence in maThemaTics. The Freshman Slide Rule was awarded To Samuel S. Manson Tor ouTsTanding work in The FirsT Year MaThemaTics. The award given To The man who disTinguishes himselT as The besT sTudenT in The calculus course, made in The Torm oT a medal, wenT To Philip HarsTing. The success oT The MaThemaTics Club was made possible in large parT by The willing cooperaTion and supporT oT The MaThemaTics DeparTmenT and The well chosen advice and hearTy encouragemenT given by The TaculTy adviser, ProTessor F. H. Miller. 99 L. ANNUAL I A N E E COMMITTEE KENNETH NEUMAN, Chairman MEMBERS LOUIS DORFSMAN VINCENT MATURI CHARLES EOODIM CHARLES GREENE ' PAUL KAUEMAN WOLFGAN6 KASSNER JQHN CASCQ STEWARD MASQN Dancers and more dancers PETER SAGONAS Af fhe end of fhe school year if has been fhe cusfom of Cooper Union undergraduafes, alumni, and fheir friends fo climax fheir year's acfivify by holding an annual dance. The Annual Dance held fhis year was a huge success socially if nof financially. The affair was sfaged af fhe grand ball room of fhe I-lofel Riverside Plaza. The dancers began arriving abouf 9:30 and were welcomed by fhe pleasing sfrains of Joe Allen's Sociefy Orchesfraf' Lef us look af fhe annual fhrough lhe eyes of a young couple affending fhe dance. Hours before fhe fime, Gene geffing dressed. I-le calls for Jean iusf in fime fo fake her fo fhe affair. When he arrives af her house, she is geffing dressed, consequenfly fhey arrive hours lafe. Upon fheir arrival af fhe ballroom fhey are greefed by a kaleidoscopic paffern of dancers, shag- ging, lindy hopping, and iusf dancing. They quickly gef info fhe roufine and meef Al Dunn, handsome as h--l in a fuxedo, who seemed fo be having a mosf exfraordinary fime. As usual, Bob Gordon broughf a book lon sfafisficsl insfead of a girl. I undersfand fhaf Ihe beaufiful bruneffe wifh whom you were dancing and having such a swell fime, Beffy Rufmar, came wifh some ofher fellow. Chiselerl Bruiser Bayuk ar- rived lafe buf soon made up for fhe losf fime. Fancy Sfeppingu looks so well in fails fhaf he should wear fhem all fhe fime, or maybe I had one foo much. l-lello, whaf is going on over fhere. Can if be? Yes, if is nearly fhe whole sixfh year nighf ME. class wifh a few sfrangers fhrown in, including fhe Cable Edifor, Wolf Kassner, wifh a ravishing bruneffe in a pink dress. Al Budde was in fhe company of a very familiar face, Emmabelle Cook fhe I938 Phofo Edifor of fhe Cable. Even Vincenf Marfone, James McAleer, and Maf Obrien were dazzled by all fhe swells, or was if fhe Teacher's I-lighlander. IOO Fancy STepping looks so well in Tails and whal' a girl. Imagine a ballroom so crowded we could barely move. In The cenTer a spin The boTTle game was going sTrong, which was The crowning evenT oT The evening. AlThough one's Triends were plenTiTul, iT was much Too many oT anyone To Tind anyone. I suggesT They Take Randall's Island STadium nexT , year. I A very remarkable TacT was ThaT noT one Chair- man was slighTIy under The weaTher alThough his associaTes were nearly ouT one way or anoTher. AT Times KenneTh Neuman's carnaTion wanTed To go one way while he wanTed To go anoTher-buT They goT There jusT The same: wherever iT was. Bud lvledon one oT our mosT promising young Treshmen seemed To have The dickens oT a Time. I wonder wheTher ThaT was his girl? IT iT wasn'T-shame. The Pioneer seemed To be well represenTed and were reeling OTT a Tew also. The girls musT have had an enjoyable evening here aT The dance. The large ballroom was dimly liT lplus our sTudenTsl, The music sooThing, The scenT oT The Tlowers s-o-o-o-o heav- enly, and Their dancing parTners so gay. Laughing voices, TluTTering gowns, exciTemenT, waving hello To everyone and old Triends, all in The True Triendly manner oT The good old Cooper spiriT. Taking The TraTernaI side oT The picTure, we meeT KurT Zell in a whiTe dinner iackeT guzzling a scoTch and soda-move over boys and make room Tor one more. WhaT is Jack Groul running over The hall Tor? Oh, They are spinning The boTTle again. I'II beT Jack sTarTed iT. Look, VincenT lvlaTuri looks more enThusiasTic abouT iT when he is noT kissing his own girl. Can you beaT ThaT. There is Jack kissing George Swerson and They're piled up on The Tloor. Golly I need a drink bad-Oh, waiTer one shorT beer please. WhaT happened To pledgee Ludwig? You say UTah Rowley losT The key To his car, and Ludy had To go and Tix iT. I-Iope he didn'T lose The key To Eleanor's hearT. I-low you ever goT The prize oT The dancing club anyway, is beyond me, aTTer all I Tried, Too. I see ChicoTsky didn'T succeed in Taking Johl's lovely away from him. I-Ie didn'T even geT a dance. I-lere iT is Ten ThirTy and The crowd has noT all arrived as yeT buT mosT OT Them IOI were iusf in fime fo cafch fhe presenfafion of fhe awards. The bar was fhe easier place fo find. Waifer, anofher shorf beer. I followed fhe crowd also- see. Look af fhose fellows filfing fhe boffoms, and affer four cockfails, six Ioeers, fwo Hennessys and a shorf visif fo no man's land, Mr. average sfudenf floafed on fo fhe dance floor once more-Say bud-hick-did you see IT? When lvlr. Average emerged once more from fhe bar fhe floor was noficeably cleared, some fellows were rasslin' wifh fhe piano, as fhey played and sang, You Canlf Gef To I-leaven On Roller Skafesf' Isnlf fhaf Frank Vanek and fhe whole bloody P.S.O. sfaggering down sfairs? Wonder where fhey are headed for? Who is fhaf oufcasf? Serves him righf he would drink milk. Now l guess we can all leave fo desfinafions unknown, mosfly more places and fhings. l guess l'll run over fo Childls Spanish Gardens. Quife a large group here, fhe second year day arf, our good friends Kassner, Budde, lvlarfone, Salmon, and Riehl wifh fheir girls. Oh looy, whaf a rackef fhey are raising, no wonder fhe waifer fook all fhe silverware away. Anofher group sfaggered in, if seemed fo be fhe suggesfion of lvlax. Judging from fheir looks fhey seemed like hungry wolves, and affer having a few bifes and a few under fheir collar, fhey parfed shedding fears. The lining of fheir pockefs were looked fhrough and, alasl fhere was silver, and on fhe mad caravan wenf fo new glory and headaches. Oh waifer, anofher Tom Collins! Yep, l'm feeling rafher gay now and hope fhaf my weary bones will carry me home safely. Good nighf gang, I gof a dafe wifh fhe milkman-never mind, llm going home. Guess I can'f puf all fhaf l feel info words buf if is a mosf elevafing feel- ing fo be in fhe midsf of all fhe fun and fo acfually help fo creafe if. Af fhe same fime one wonders if if's possible fhaf he or she is really here and how soon, foo soon, if will be all pasf. Thaf is how l felf when l finally had fo le've and fhink. l was righf-if did all end foo soon. The bar was fhe easiesf place fo find. IOZ HU IQIIEIA ARES ANNUAL DANCE COMMITTEE Kennelh Newman Louis Dorfsman Vincenl Maluri Charles Foodim Charles Greene Paul Kaufman Wolfgang Kassner John Casco Sleward Mason Refer Sagonas SILVER C Saul Aronow Theodore Berlin Murray Weinfhraulo Marvin Weiss GOLD C James Brady George Clark Gerlrude Davidson I-Iarold Feder Sid Gordin Nalhan Richmond Peler Sagonas Carl Sheller Wolfgang Kassner Vincenl Maluri Bernard Meyerson Kennelh Newman Julius Porf Sol Tanenbaum Margarel Wager Benjamin Zapolsk LAMDA TAU Saul Aronow Theodore Berlin George Clark I-Iarold Feder Na+ Richmond Meyer Slolkin Murray Wein+hrauI:u Sid Gordin Slanley I'IurwiIz John Kozlowski Irvin Machlin Julius Porl Sol Tanenloaum EX POST FACTO Dorolhy Bloomfield Wolfgang Kassner Vince-n+ F. Maluri Frank Medon Bernard Meyerson Nalhan Richmond Margarel Wager Marvin Weiss OF FICE RS 5.6-ORDIN PresidenT I-I. COLLINS Vice-PresidenT M. SLOTKIN Treasurer A. KELLMAN SecreTary L. FRIED STage Manager UHZTMATIES DramaTics aT Cooper Union lived a prosperous liTe This year because The acTiviTies oT The group were greaTly broadened by a large increase in membership and inTeresT as a whole. Two TaculTy advisers were added To The rosTer, Mr. Rob- bins oT The Civil Engineering DeparTmenT, and Miss Ulrich, insTrucTor OT PlasTics in The ArT DeparTmenT. Mr. Robbins has had considerable experience in dramaTics as acTor, direcTor and has proven compeTenT and valuable Tor The club's ambiTious underTaIcings. Miss Ulrich acTed as adviser To The group on maTTers oT sTage design, lending her good TasTe To This deparTmenT. Mrs. Kroll direcTed The exTremeIy cliTTiculT and highly dramaTic Ibsen play Pillars oT SocieTy and her guidance added considerably To The qualiTy oT The perTormance. Leading The DramaTic Club This year was Sid Gordin, a Day ArT School sTudenT, who Tilled The leading role oT Consul Berniclc in The complex developmenTs in The progress oT The group. Recording The minuTes Tor The dramaTisTs was secreTary, AnneTTe Kellman, and Tuehrer OT The Tinances was Day Tech sTudenT Meyer SloTI4in. As Treasurer, Meyer was given many headaches by The club's ChieT ExecuTive's TrequenT peTTy requesTs. Among The Tiner perTormers oT The organizaTion was Dan Shapiro. AparT Trom being closely connecTed he acTed in grand sTyle While on The Topic gave To The perTurbed peculiariTies To a Tew in a greaTer range Tor his The Temale quoTa T and Vivian Shapiro, in n showed a greaT deal oT wiTh ThaT Trio oT Troubadours, Shapiro, Collins, and Ehrlich, on numerous occasions. oT humorisTs and Their habiTs, This year's dramaTic club also world, Max STraus. NOT being conTenT wiTh exhibiTing his dividuals. Max Toolc To The sTage which we realized opened TalenTs. haT adorned The meeTing rooms oT The Thespians were I-lelen o way relaTed To each oTher or Dan, boTh Tine acTresses who inTeresT in The organizaTion. The club has a greaT deal Tor which To Thank such sTudenTs as Cora WisoTT, RuTh Cohen, Paul KauTman, John Kozlowslci, Mary OpaciTy and oThers who perTormed Their roles TaiThTully and helped malce Tor a successful season. IO4 ANEING EL B O F F I C E R S DOROTHY BLOOMFIELD PresidenT ELEANOR ELLER Secrejrary ANDREW ROSS PubliciTy Manager We're hep To The iive and we're solid TonighT7 we're righT in The groove and doin' alrighT. This year's enThusiasTic group oT Terpsichorean arTisTs in The modern manner sure swang iT. New and very able oTTicers were elecTed This year by popular and unanimous approval: DoroThy BloomTield, President Eleanor Eller, Vice-PresidenT: and Andrew Ross, PubliciTy Manager: all oT The Sophomore class oT The Day ArT School. The beginners received experT insTrucTion and a greaT many sTudes can Thank Their insTrucTors Tor Their swell Time aT The annual. For several weeks The sTudenTs oT The Dance Club received a lesson each week in The various sTeps oT The peabody Trom l-larold Guerci, nighT engineering sTudenT. The laTesT oT popular records were boughT as They came ouT Tor public consumpTion. As Tor The diTTerenT personaliTies oT The club, Eleanor iusT loves To kick her heels and swing. Andy is The leader oT The swingsTers who likes To shuTTle To Larry ClinTon's STudy in Brown and even Chubby Lubell enjoys shagging, buT iT Took Tour weeks Tor him To learn The dip. AT 6:30, The sixTh Tloor reechoes The lasT sTrains oT The Tinal orchesTraTion as The TunsTers make a bee line Tor The elevaTor. lO5 HTIST5' FF IHS Frosh Tramp ConvenTion: Finding Cooper Union an ideal layouT Tor Their annual shindig, a gang OT hoodlums oT Freshie Hobo Town, egged on by honorable mayor Bo Harris, hopped The TirsT TasT TreighT and poured inTo yard number 69. ATTer being duly searched and passed aT The yard gaTe by The sTrong arm squad, we grabbed our complimenTary breadline TickeTs and ambled in. To our immense graTiTicaTion a bevy oT noT Too slanderour caricaTures OT each oT us graced The painT spaTTered walls: Then aTTer a shorT period oT chesT Thumping and back slapping we ioined hands and wenT boogie-woogie aided and abeTTed by The hoTTesT iive ouTTiTs ever To kick a buckeT. Then Time ouT Tor reTreshmenTs which inTroduced a dunking conTesT won by Virginia Jimmie Rohrig by a Toe. Jimmie, who had never heard oT Sigmund Freud and inhibiTions, Took oTT her shoe, clasped a doughnuT in her dainTy whiTe Toes, dunked and preTzeled The resulT inTo her eager mouTh. Roy Crenkel, no less abashed, played his Tace inTo cup, reTrieved The mixTure and devoured iT gaining The runner up award. A musical chair conTesT won by an unknown engineer convlused The specTaTors as shagger aTTer shagger hopped TearTully Trom chair To chair, Tried To linger, were pushed Trom behind, and when The music sTopped, dove Tor The nearesT chair. Ed Casserella cosTumed as Groucho Marx cracked a Tew diaphragms wiTh his impersonaTion oT a would-be painTer. Mary O'PaciTy pavlowed The crowd wiTh a gor- geous exhibiTion oT balleT. The BalleT Russe unTorTunaTely had no TalenT scouT on hand so They missed a greaT opporTuniTy. Page Mr. T-lurok! And so aTTer an evening oT peTTy larceny, misdemeanor and Telony, us re- specTable bums hiT The rods once more Tor home. Amen. LeT's pay The Third year painTing classes a visiT and see whaT goes on There. FasT Turious painTers rush abouT Twice a week borrowing whaTever is loose and - suTTering agony whenever The model resTs lmpersonallons ol' well ' ' ' Tor a Tew momenTs. The oTher Three days we noTice a biT OT slackening in The painTing pace. Now, we won'T keep you guessing-we undersTand ThaT The presence oT IO6 fhe insfrucfor spurs all on wifh greafer inspirafion, fhaf's all. How abouf fhe adverfising class? Ah, fhere real falenf comes fo lighf. There is a huddle of fourfh year sfudenfs in a corner cracking iokes and whiling away fhe hours, and who is fhe cenfer of affracfion? A mosf ambifious young lady nofes loh, pardon us, fhaf's whisfling Jim's inspirafion houri and soon we have a chorus, buf in fhe meanfime pencils fly and ideas come and go. Did you ever hear one of Julius' lafesf puns? Why Milfon Tanzer fhinks fhey're wonderful. When nobody undersfands fhem, Herman is sfill a friend. Arfhur and Tony grin and bear if, while Gerland mimics his favorife radio comedians. The fourfh year gals in fhe back as a group seem very quief and unassuming on fhe surface. Maybe we're wrong! Someday we'll have fo lisfen in while fhaf group whoop if up near fhe air compressor. Come on along fo fhe illusfrafion class now. New desks in an old room. This almosf appears like a bachelor's quarfers, buf don'f be fooled, fhere's feminine falenf presenf foo, iusf wafch Lina. Our animal arfisf is making greaf sfrides in fhese quarfers. Carry on Milf, Ralph, Bernie, and Melvin. The fashion class is in a world of ifs own. Always busy, chaffy, and creafive. The models are enough fo inspire class and dress fasfe. Draping class is mosf in- spiring wifh ifs dummies lwe're nof being sarcasficl, scissors, pins, maferials, and sew on, and sew on. Did you realize whaf a sporfy bunch we Arfisfs are? The gym and swimming pool ceikainly have had plenfy of use. K Did anyone affend fhe ice skafing parfy? lf seems half of Cooper fook over fhe Gay Blades Palace, and did fhey have fun! lrving and Murray we hear were fhe fops. Did you see Shirley? She gof along iusf fine fhe whole evening, nof a bang in a carload, when whoops, iusf as she sfopped fo falk wifh' a classmafe, down she wenf wifh a bang and a crash. ' ' Alfhough fhe Dramafic club isn'f direcfly con- necfed wifh fhe Sixfh Floor, fhe arfisfs dabbled in dramahh rafher seriously wifh Sid Gordin, Helen Shapiro, Dan Shapiro and Virginia Rohrig playing lead- ing roles. From fhe onlooker's poinf of view, fhe fwo producfions were quife superb buf now geffing down fo fhe falk fhaf inferesfs we sfudenfs, fhe sfar perform- er was his honorable highness of fhe domain of fhe Greaf Hall, Mr. Caf. Af fhe precise momenf when Louis Laub and Sid Gordin were having a heafed discussion, fhe caf walked very ceremoniously across fhe darkened parf of fhe sfage and wifh back arched and fail oufsfrefched, walked around Louis's legs and moved all his fleas lfhe caf'sl over anofher inch and all fhis occurred under fhe spoflighf foo. Sid deserves much credif for keeping his same serious counfenance buf Laub lef a shade of a smile cross his face. Wifh all fhe excifemenf of fhe preparafion and lasf minufe rushes, and Hal Collins nearly running on sfage wifh one sideburn missing and panfs on fhe way upppppllll, fhe producfion was well appreciafed by fhe discriminafing audience of C.U. infellecfuals lsfudesl. IO7 UPE HU SE A Once a year, early in lvlay, when sTudenTs seem To be gripped by The well-known spring plague, The apparaTus is careTully polished and maThemaTically placed in exacT posiTion, drawings are hung on The walls: and The so-called masTerpieces become prob- lems oT special relaTionship. The guesTs are greeTed by The dean and TaculTy, and ushered inlo The various laboraTories and exhibiTs. To These visiTors, These places of magic wonder seem To conTain many marvelous and inTricaTe devices. Knowing The guides who are sTudenTs assigned To This enjoyable Task They are more Teverishly inTeresTed in These exhibiTs. OTTen more Than TaTher, moTher, and liTTle Lulu, who wanTs To know wheTher ThaT big boiler eiecTs cusTard, or whaT have you. The diTTerenT deparTmenTs offer simple explanaTions and simple experirnenTs which mighT be oT help To clear The beTuddled mind oT many a promising scienTisT. MOST inTeresTing is The show in The l-lydraulics Lab where one can see a conTinu- ous sTream oT waTer issuing TorTh Trom a nozzle, inTo a crevice in The Tloor. The Open l-louse had The exTreme privilege of opening up The Chem. Engineering Lab To The public illusTraTing UniT OperaTions on a small scale. Thus, every year The sTudenTs and parenTs can enioy The beneTiTs Their sons and daughTers can derive Trom an insTiTuTion so adeguaTely equipped. The annual arT exhibiT on The sixTh Tloor Took quiTe a change Tor The beTTer This year. Upon leaving The elevaTor, a sTone sTaTue greeTed The visiTors' eyes. The walls were covered wiTh colored muslins and The sTudenTs' work sTapled on. The hand leTTer- ing, adverTising and books and illusi'raTions occupied The hall wiTh a secTion OTT To The righT Tor TexTile design and Tashion illusTraTior. The adverTising class displayed posTers, T Time and machine. HT E HIBIT redesigned packages, Trade marks and a Tew Three dimensional display cases. Because oT lack oT space only a Tew rugs were shown. The rugs, needlepoinTs, and screen sig- niTied The arTisTs' applicaTion oT These symbolic designs To pracTical applicaTion. The weaving and TexTile design received many Tavorable commenTs. The Tashion show gave iTs preview showing To The TrusTees on The aTTernoon oT May 24, buT was publicly opened ThaT evening when The young ladies displayed Their Tigures in coaTs, dresses, ensembles and more Teminine gowns as Tor evening aTTire and Tor The hosTess. The Tashion show is always a big evenT oT The exhibiT wiTh many viewing The design and craTTsmanship oT These TuTure Tashion arTisTs. NexT To be seen in The visiTors' Travels was The Tine arT secTor oT painTings and drawings oT such sub- iecTs as balleT dancers, circus perTormers, illusTraTive scenes, nudes and sTill liTes. The sculpTuring exhibiT, consisTed oT sTone carving, plaques, and a charming green porce- lain hippopoTamus. One oT The neaTesT pieces oT workmanship was The model oT an arT school consTrucTed by l'l. Riehl and W. Kassner. The archiTecTure as usual was a superb exhibiT wiTh inTeresTing subiecTs displayed. Railroad sTaTion designs, a reTreaT Tor a wriTer, a workshop Tor a sTage designer, redesigned C5reaT l-lall sTage, TourisT camp and liTTle houses were The subiecTs shown and admired along wiTh consTrucTion plaTes and deTails needed Tor Their consTrucTion. The buTTon pushing room wiTh all iTs novelTies aTTracTed much aTTenTion. The plasTic deparTmenT showed experimenTs in paper, sTraw and modern TurniTure designed Tor beauTy and uTiliTy. Upon leaving This year, The exhibiTion leTT a saTisTying Teeling in e,'erybody's mind or aT leasT we've been given To undersTand ThaT1 l Models, painTings, plasTics l or whaT have you . . . BLA EET FEE STanding L Picone, E. SchaTTer, S. Gordin, l-l. Feder, T-l. Neidhammer, B. J. Zapolslci. SiTTing: M WeinTraub, Mr. l.. Perez, J. Brady. This pasT year was The TourTh successive year in which all acTiviTies aT Cooper Union were Tinanced Through The BlanlceT Fee Plan. To This plan There were IZIO Tull paid subscribers each oT whom paid Tour dol- lars To malce a ToTal OT S4840 To be speni' on acTiviTies during The school year oT 1938-39. There was a sum oT S200 leTT over Trom The previous year which was available To acTiviTies This year. This money was spenT according To The i938-39 BlanlceT Fee Plan as approved by The sTudenT body in The spring oT I938. Since The money available was more Than The required sum by The blanlceT Tee plan, There were surplus Tunds To be disTribuTed. Since mosT oT The acTiviTies oT This plan had To accomodaTe more sTudenTs Than were expecTed, The esTimaTed sum rose, and The surplus had To be disTribuTed accordingly To The various acTiviTies. The Fencing Club, which was noT a blanlceT Tee acTiviTy, was given Tinancial supporT ouT oT These surplus Tunds. AT one Time There was a movemenT under way To use This money in supporT oT a sTudenT BoaT Ride, buT a poll showed ThaT noT enough inTeresT exisTed and ThereTore iT was noT reconsidered. The commiTTee chosen Tor This large Task oT handling The sTudenTs' Tunds was wisely picked Trom a selecT group, and mosT oT These com- miTTeemen were in Their senior year. The worlc OT The commiTTee consisTed mainly OT Three problems, namely, The raising OT The Tunds, The cOIIecTing OT These Tunds and The spending OT The same. The IasT was The easiesT. Like all oTher acTiviTies The acTiOns OT The B.I:.C. were subiecTecI To The approval OT The TacuITy, which IcepT a very close waTch on These commiTTee members and especially The Treasurer. As TO The raising OT These Tunds The commiTTee had To go ouT and geT subscrip- Tions To The B.F. Plan, and in This manner They received quiTe a biT OT assisTance Trom various sources. The B.F. POII COmmiTTee had already raised considerable supporT in The clay schools and in The nighT school TO carry This plan Through buT sTill considerable campaigning was necessary To geT a subsTanTiaI supporT and every Icnown meThod OT inducemenT was used. Those who reTused To sign were subiecT TO The I'IOT Air BIasT OT high pressure salesmanship. Many a sTudenT, groggy Trom exams, was seduced inTO signing up. The coIIecTing OT The money was quiTe an exTensive iob. A considerable sum OT money was cOIIecTed Trom The sTudenT body aT The various regisTraTiOns, buT This was only a small parT OT whaT was To be goTTen. The Tollowing is an approxirnaTe disTribuTion OT The bIanIceT Tee membership among The various schools. NighT Engineering 700 Day 'Engineering 370 Day ArT School IO0 NighT ArT School 40 ToTal Membership IZIO The spending OT The money was noT as easy as one would Thinlc. Each acTiviTy was required To submiT a budgeT OT Their anTicipaTed expenses Tor The year. The B.F. commiTTee aT iTs meeTings considered These budgeTs. A represenTaTive OT The acTiviTy was on hand To explain The need Tor The sum required. SOmeTimes many changes had To be made beTore The commiTTee would acT upon iT and iT was approved by The FacuITy, and The STudenT Council. In passing on These budgeTs The bIanIceT Tee com- miTTee TuncTionecI Trom The spring OT I938 To The spring OT I939. Unlike mosT com- miTTees all members carried on The worlc and iT was noT IeTT in The hands OT a Tew. M E M B E R S JAMES V. BRADY, Chairman MURRAY WEINTRAUB, Treasurer HERBERT NIEDHAMMER SID GORDIN EDWIN SCHAFFER BENJAMIN ZAPOLSKI HAROLD FEDER GERTRUDE DAVIDSON AMER CLUB CAMERA ELUB MEETING Tlllll-XY GEORGE KLINE PresiclenT PETER SAGONAS Vice PresidenT FRANK FITZGERALD Treasurer CYRUS ZEFE Se-creTary The Camera Club oT The Cooper Union has been a realiTy during The lasT school year and promises To become one oT The mosT imporTanT clubs in The school. There is a long Tale behind This. For Three years The club sTrug- gled along wiTh no assisTance or oTTicial recogniTion Trom The TaculTy. How- ever, The increasing acTiviTy oT many oT The members and The expansion oT The club puT iT in a posiTion where iT had To be and Tinally was recognized by The EaculTy CommiTTee on ExTra-Curricular AcTiviTies and was included in The BlankeT Fee Plan. For The TirsT Tew weeks oT The TirsT Term The membership was small, mainly consisTing oT camera Tans oT previous years, buT as news oT The club TilTered ouT via The Pioneer and The BulleTin board The acTive parTicipaTion grew by leaps and bounds. By The end oT The Term There were more Than TwenTy members very much alive To The possibiliTies oT The club. OT TirsT imporTance, oT course, was The elecTion oT oTTicers and This was Taken care oT early in The year by elecTing: PresidenT, George Kline: Vice- PresidenT, PeTer Sagonasg Treasurer, Erank EiTzgeraldg SecreTary, Cyrus ZeTT. WiTh This ouT oT The way iT was The unanimous opinion oT The club ThaT a darkroom should be made available To Them. The TaculTy advised The club ThaT all The dark rooms in The school were in consTanT use buT ThaT if The club could Tind a suiTable siTe Tor one The consTrucTion would be underTalcen by The school. Several selecTions were made buT Tinally The ideal place was Tound. A large closeT on The second Tloor oT The l'lewiTT Building, which was Tormerly a locker Tor supplies, was empTied and Tormed a UTopia Tor The Camera Club. Shelves were builT and The room was made compleTely lighT-TighT. A venTilaT- ing Tan was insTalled and The room was given a coaT oT acid prooT painT. II2 N EW- AN EL B OFFICERS JOI-IN I-IARRING-TON PresidenT WILLIAM KEARY Vice-PresidenT WALTER KOROSI-IETZ Treasurer BOB RANKEL Corresponding SecreTary CHARLES CICI-IOSKI Recording SecreTary The Newman Clubs were Tounded To aid The CaTholic sTudenT by oTTer- ing a program oT religious, educaTional, and social acTiviTies. Thus as The sTu- denT's knowledge gained Trom his sTudies grows, The opporTuniTies aTTorded him by The Newman Clubs and similar groups insure a balanced inTellecTual growTh in Those imporTanT Tields noT nurTured by Technical knowledge only. The Newman Club idea is almosT TiTTy years old, The TirsT club having been Tormed aT The UniversiTy oT Pennsylvania. Today There are over Two hundred and TiTTy such clubs ThroughouT The UniTed STaTes, Canada, PuerTo Rico, and I-lawaii. These are joined TogTher by The Newman Club FederaTion. This FederaTion Through local provinces seeks To have The member clubs co- operaTe wiTh each oTher To sTrengThen Themselves and TurTher The Newman Club ideal oT Training good members oT socieTy. The club aT Cooper Union was Tounded in l923 and has TuncTioned con- Tinuously since Then. Members oT The club are drawn Trom members oT all The schools and aids ma+eriaIIy in giving The club members a broader knowledge oT The school iTselT. The club TuncTions mosT acTively during The school year iTselT and during The summer monThs mainTains conTacT among club members by inTormal gaTherings. The meeTings Trom SepTember To May are held each monTh wiTh subiecTs designed To assure a program rounded in social, religious, and educaTional phases. WiThin The lasT year Typical meeTings have been a skaring TesTival, a CorporaTe Communion Tollowed by an inTormal discussion on labor unions, a IvIonTe Carlo parTy, a Talk by a French priesT on The JocisT organizaTions lYouTh lvIovemenTsl in France, and a winTer sporTs ouTing To Greenwood Lake. The TirsT meeTing oT The school year is always social in characTer To acguainT The prospecTive members wiTh The purposes oT The club and mosT imporTanT wiTh The presenT members. For The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT The club, iT has been recognized by The school. WiTh This addiTional aid The Newman club members are cerTain ThaT The club will have an imporTanT parT in providing an opporTuniTy Tor The sTudenT oT useTul exTra-curricular acTiviTy. EXPANSIU l-lE lasT few decades of The nineTeenTh cenfury found The growfh of The Technological school greafly refarded by lack of space and money. l-lowever, under The guidance of George W. Plympfon, A.M., C.E., quife an imposing faculTy was acquired. OuTsTanding among The faculfy were Professor AnThony, pioneer in The new Elec- Trical field: Raphael Pumpelly and Dr. Rossifer W. Raymond, American mining experTs. l-lewiTT was presidenT of The American lnsTiTuTe of Mining Engineers in I876 and l89O. AbouT This Time many sTudenT acTiviTies were being organized. ln I888, The Cooper Union Alumni Associafion was formed by graduafes of The scienTific class, wiTh Henry D. Williams, PresidenT. ln lB94, The Cooper Union Chemical SocieTy was formed. The ArchiTecTural Alumni Associafion of Cooper Union was reorganized in I898 and The Alumni and STudenTs' Associafion of The Women's ArT School was formed in l902. ln l89I, The degree of B.S. was firsT awarded by The school. The degrees of C.E. and lvl.E. were given To Those graduaTes who wanfed Them and were able To pass a board of experfs appoinTed by The Trusfees. The excellence of The school was generally sensed even in Those embryonic days. A graduafe of Cooper Union in I898, a Mr. Fusailci Fukui, by means of his Cooper educafion was able To qualify for The posifion of engineer in The employ of The Japanese governmenT, superinfending The consTrucTion of The shops of The Japanese Navy Deparfmenf. ln December, I899, a conTribuTion of Andrew Carnegie made possible The esfablishmenf of Day Classes similar To The NighT Courses. ln I900, The follow- ing schedule was in effecT- Free Day School of Technical Science-C.E., MF., EE. Chemical and Physical Laborafories Advanced Day Course in DecoraTive ArT Free NighT School of Science Special Nighf Courses in Physics and ElecTriciTy Physical Laborafory Special NighT Courses in Chemical Analysis Free NighT School of ArT Free ArT School for Women 1 li . .I A: fi . Free Class in Sfenography and Typewrifing Free Class in Telegraphy Free Class in Elocufion Free Class in OraTory and DebaTe. FurTher conTribuTions in l9Ol and l902 by Andrew Carnegie and H. H. Rogers, and The Cooper-HewiTT Tamilies swelled The endowmenTs and enabled TurTher expansion oT The Technological school. ln l904, The Free NighT School oT Science was divided inTo Tive disTincT deparTmenTs oTTering courses in- General Science T5 yrsl lwhich laTer developed inTo C.E. and M.E.l ChemisTry T5 yrsl Physics ElecTriciTy T3 yrs-laTer 5 yrsl Naval ArchiTecTure llaTer a 3 yr course in Mechanical Drawingl Many men acTively connecTed wiTh Cooper Union Today were Tormerly sTudenTs here. ln l903, iT is recorded ThaT a graduaTing sTudenT by The name oT Karl HaupT- mann received a scholarship oT SIOO. The laTe Francis M. HarTmann, Tormer Dean and ProTessor oT ElecTrical Engineering, graduaTed Trom Cooper Union in l895 and did posT-graduaTe work here unTil l903. ProTessor Henry C. Enders was a graduaTe in l906, and in his sTudenT days he even sTooped To wriTing poeTry Tor The Chemical SocieTy publicaTion. Dean BaTeman was one oT The ouTsTanding graduaTes OT l907. LisTed among The lab assisTanTs oT l903 is Edward Cannon who was in The chemical sTockroom un+il his deaTh This year. ln l905 William E. BosserT was an insTrucTor in Physics. The deaTh oT Abram S. HewiTT in l903 was a severe blow To The adminisTraTion oT The school. He, as much as anyone, was responsible Tor The developmenT oT The school along progressive educaTional lines. IT musT have been parTicuIarIy graTiTying Tor him To see The insTiTuTe on iTs own TeeT Tinancially, and To wiTness The esTablishmenT oT The Day School oT Technology, a goal Toward which he sTrove since The Tounding in l859. ln l904, a group oT prominenT ciTizens in recogniTion oT The services oT Abram S. HewiTT as mayor oT The ciTy and in recogniTion oT his achievemenTs in The Tield oT educaTion, Tounded The HewiTT Memorial Fund. lT was desired To raise Tunds by popu- lar subscripTion To erecT a building in his honor, and aT The same Time To enlarge The TaciliTies oT The school he had TaiThTully served Tor The greaTer parT oT his liTeTime. ln l908, The properTy on which a deserTed Armory sTood was acquired wiTh a 99 year lease and The righT To a renewal oT 99 years more, aT an annual renT oT SIOO. This was called The HewiTT addiTion To Cooper Union. ln l9l2 The building was compleTed aT a cosT oT S403,866.77. lT consisTed oT a basemenT and Two sTories and was known as The HewiTT Memorial Building. The plans originally called Tor six sTories, buT approximaTely 5450.000 more was needed To compleTe The building and an increase in The endowmenT Tund oT S900,000 was needed To operaTe The larger building. The enlargemenT oT The physical TaciliTies oT The building, and The esTablishmenT oT The many scienTiTic and engineering laboraTories in iT enabled The Technological school To keep up wiTh The advances in The engineering Tields. So, aTTer 53 years The dream OT PeTer Cooper was Tinally concreTized and broughT To acTual TulTillmenT. The Cooper Union was a Tully equipped Technological insTiTuTe in addiTion To iTs many services To The public in oTher Tields. ll5 AT This Time when The dream oT PeTer Cooper was realized and Cooper Union was able To become a well equipped Technological insTiTuTe, imporTanT Things were happening in The world abouT iT. The populaTion oT The UniTed STaTes was increasing: This was The age oT immi- graTion. Russia under The Tsar, Germany under The Kaiser, were preparing Tor war. When The Time came To be conscripTed inTo The army young men came To America where There was no conscripTion. They worked in The TacTories and in The mills, 72 hours a week living Their enTire lives on The job buf sTill reveling in Their new Tound Treedom Trom miliTary service. They wenT To The Tarms oT CaliTornia, The TacTories oT New York and The mines oT Pennsylvania, These immigranTs, invariably meeTing some old Triend Trom The old counTry wiTh whom They seTTled down and married. lvlosT oT Them became ciTizens and also lincidenTallyl became The TaThers oT young men and women who someTime laTer lin l939l were To aTTend Cooper Union-ThaT Technological or arT insTiTuTe in downTown lvlanhaTTan. William H. TaTT was PresidenT oT The UniTed STaTes having beaTen The GreaT Commoner William J. Bryan by a slim million voTes. RabindranaTh Tagore received The Nobel prize Tor liTeraTure. The world was near The end oT The Age oT Big Business, as hisTorians Termed This era. The chieT TeaTures oT This age were The Tinancing and organizaTion oT in- dusTry Through The mulTiplicaTion oT ioinT sTock companies, The rise oT The corporaTion, oT TrusTs, carTels, syndicaTes, The banks acTing in an indusTrial role: The accumulaTion oT capiTal naTurally occurred during This period. The home markeTs were progressively resTricTed Tor invesTmenT. The more one invesTed The more one had To invesT and so aTTer The home markeTs were exhausTed The spread oT overseas invesTmenTs occurred. ConsequenTly a new class oT big indusTrialisTs arose Trom This progressive sysTem oT invesTmenT. Men who had earned Their TirsT Tew dollars by labor, and Then insTead oT spending The money invesTed iT. lnvesTmenT Tollowed invesTmenT. Small holdings became large holdings as The unsaTiable markeT drank up all The produce oT These various invesTmenTs. The business man now became a big business man and sTarTed To dominaTe oTher business men wiTh his superior capiTal sTrengTh. A rapid Technical advance ran parallel wiTh The growTh oT big business enTer- prises. Advances in The mining and disTribuTion oT coal. The peTroleum indusTry rose To Turnish a new source oT power. Fuel oil was Tound To be cheaper Than coal on ocean liners. LocomoTives and submarines Tollowed The new Trend and adopTed oil as a Tuel. Gasoline engines were invenTed and perTecTed. Incredible improvemenTs in power machines Tollowed. Expansion meThods Tor sTeam engines were improved: inTernal combusTion engines developed-The gasoline engine. ElecTric moTors were being used more and more, Tinally even Tor sewing machines. The uTilizaTion OT hydroelecTric power was perTecTed. The chemical indusTries were discovering and uTilizing new maTerials: oil, rubber, niTraTes. IT is in This period ThaT epiTomized The realizaTion oT PeTer Cooper's TondesT dreams ThaT his dream OT a Technological insTiTuTe was realized. II6 ATHLETICS THLETIE SSUEI TTU O F F I C E R S PETER SAG-ONAS Presidenf ANTHONY VESCUSO Vice-Presidenf VICTOR ANTAKI Treasurer CHARLES SCI-IAFFNER Secrefary PETER SAGONAS, Presidenf A sound mind and a sound body 3 fhis is a familiar and no doubf a well mean- ing and imporfanf expression. If is somefhing for all fo sfrive for: yes, even in Cooper Union sfudenfs. If can be safely said fhaf a Cooper sfudenf possesses a sound mind. I-low abouf fhe sound body? Thaf is a quesfionl The sound body, like fhe sound mind, can be de- veloped. To fhis end 'rhe Afhlefic Associafion of Cooper Union offers an opporfunify 'ro ifs sfudenfs 'ro parficipafe in sporfs and fhus keep in good physical condifion. This Afhlefic Associafion direcfs all sporfs, day and nighf schools. The acfivifies coming under ifs scope include Varsify Baskefball, Rifle, Fencing, lnferclass Soffball, Baskefball, Swimming and Waferpolo. The officers are elecfed in fhe previous spring, so fhaf fhey may arrange for fhe leasing of facilifies for fhe Varsify feams, for fhe infra-mural sporfs, and for fhe home games and dances. The gymnasium of fhe Grace Chapel is used by fhe Baskefball Varsify fwice a week for pracfice sessions. The facilifies of fhe Chrisfadora I-louse which includes gym and pool, afford fhe sfudenf members an opporfunify for workoufs. The boys have ifs use fwo nighfs a week, while fhe girls of fhe Arf Schools have if once a week. The waferpolo fournamenfs are held af fhis place. The soffball fournamenf is run off af a large cify ball field, which is reserved for fhe Cooper Sfudenfs' exclusive use. If was af fhis ball field fhaf The faculfy feam was once again 'rrounced by an all sfar sfudenf feam, in fhe annual Sfudenf-Faculfy game. This year, fhe unforfunafe Juniors, lasf year's fournamenf winners in bofh soff- ball and baskefball playoffs, losf ouf in bofh of fhese sporfs. A fighfing Freshman feam nosed fhem ouf of fhe Championship in fhe baskefball playoff before fhree hundred sfudenfs af a home baskefball game and dance. The nighf soffball feam, led by su- perb pifching, frimmed fhe Juniors neafly fo walk away wifh fhe Championship. Un- forfunafely fhis year fhere wasn'f sufficienf supporf and fime fo schedule an infer- school soffball game: as was done for fhe firsf fime lasf year when a Cooper All !I8 STars nine beaT The C.C.N.Y. Tech. Team. IT is hoped ThaT The A.A. oTTicers oT The years To come will noT TorgeT This innovaTion. The waTerpolo TournamenT was easily won by The ArT School Team. The Fencing Club and Team esTablished Three years ago has provided anoTher sporT Through which more sTudenTs lmale and Temalel can secure much needed exer- cise and recreaTion. UnTil This year, iT has had The unique and graTiTying privilege oT acTually pracTicing and holding maTches in The school iTselT: and as a resulT has become very Tirmly implanTed in The aThleTic program here aT Cooper Union. LasT year, one OT The innovaTions was The long planned Tor l3aslceTball Game and Dance g and alThough only one such game was held, iT was evidenT Trom iTs success ThaT They had To conTinue iT. As a resulT The A.A. This year sponsored Three oT These aTTairs which were aTTended by an average crowd oT 450 sporT Tans and JiTTerbugs. The A.A. oTTicers This year are proud To say ThaT They have Tinally drawn up a consTiTuTion which was boTh saTisTacTory and accepTable by The school. Many consTi- TuTions have been presenTed in The pasT, buT unTil This year none was accepTed. The consTiTuTion was pracTically necessary Tor The proper adminisTraTion and worlcing order oT The school's aThleTic program, whereas in previous years The A.A. was subsidized and Tinanced by The BlankeT Fee Plan, beginning nexT year iT will be com- pIeTeIy Tinanced by The school iTselT. l-lowever, There will be no change in The policy oT having sTudenT oTTicers and Team managers To direcT The sporTs, boTh varsiTy and inTra-mural. WiTh This new aThleTic plan going inTo eTTecT nexT year, which includes beTTer coaching TaciliTies Tor The BaslceTball Teams and Tor The TirsT Time coaching TaciliTies Tor The RiTle and Fencing Teams, There is no reason To believe ThaT sporTs will deTiniTely become a more acTive and imporTanT parT oT The sTudenTs' curriculum here aT Cooper Union. VICTOR ANTAKI, Treasurer CHARLES SCT-TAFFNER. SecreTary IIC? B S l2O BETH LL The BaslceTball varsiTy looked very promising aT The beginning of The season, whaT wiTh Tive veferans remaining from The previous year's success- ful Team. WiTh These five men, Kennedy, Long, Mahoney, 5chaTfner, and Skorslci, and a large number of candidaTes who Turned ouT for The TirsT prac- Tice session on Ocfober lITh, The re-hired coach, PeTer Ripps, had some fine maTerial To work wiTh. In facT, wiTh lasT year's Team as a nucleus, in- cluding subsTiTuTes ScheinbarT and Baum, and some promising newcomers such as Karpoff, PiclceTT and Ungerer, all freshmen, Cooper Union really expecTed one of The finesT Teams in iTs baskefball hisTory. Then Things began To happen. SchaTfner and Kennedy, sTandouT veT- erans of lasT year's squad, and abouT Tour oThers were declared ineligible one weelc before The schedule sTarTed. This disasTrous announcemenT necessiTaTed a complefe revision of The varsiTy lineup and The reserve lisT. As a resulT, The Team which lined up To sTarT The firsT game on Nov. 26, againsT The Columbia College oT Pharmacy had pracTicecl TogeTher only once. The eTfecT oT The eligibiliTy ruling was easily visible ThroughouT The game in The laclc of organizaTion in Cooper's aTTacl4 and defense. The lack of good reserve maTerial resulTed in The Teams' being compleTely worn ouT before halT Time. The final score was 39-3l wiTh Cooper on The shorT end. ThaT The Team made as fine a showing as iT did, is a TribuTe To The spiriT displayed by each and every man on iT. The second game being on a Friday nighT, The Team played PraTT wiTh Two of iTs regulars, Slcorslci and Mahoney, boTh nighT men, missing from The lineup. Thus The Team was composed almosT wholly of subs wiTh only Two reserves. There were more Than 400 enThusiasTic PraTT fans wiTh six uniformed cheerleaders To add To The odds againsT Cooper Union. ln spiTe oT This, The guarfer ended wiTh Cooper in fronT 8-5. WiTh beauTiful playing by The veTeran Long, and The newcomers Baum and KarpoTT, The halT ended wiTh Cooper exhausTed buT ahead I7-l5. The Third quarTer was a nighTmare. Cooper was sim- ply exhausTed and all The eTforTs of Long and Baum couldn'T sTem The Tide. The game ended wiTh PraTT scoring a Tofal of 33 poinTs in The second half To Cooper's 8 poinTs: The final score being 48-25 in PraTT's favor. The very nexT evening, Cooper Traveled over To Jersey CiTy To play Hudson College for iTs Third game in one weelc. The Team suTfered iTs Third and worsT deTeaT 62-35. ln The TirsT quarTer Cooper was righT in The ball game wiTh Skorski, Long, and Baum conTribuTing To The oTTense and Mahoney handling The deTense. UnTorTunaTely, Cooper had no one To handle The reTeree. The quarTer ended wiTh Hudson ahead I2-I I and Mahoney and Long wiTh Three personals each. They were wiThdrawn Tor The second quarTer and as a resulT, The halT ended wiTh I'ludson ahead 33-I5. Mahoney and Long were bounced ouT on personal Touls in The Third quarTer and all ThaT remains To be said is ThaT The Tinal score was 62-35 in Tavor oT I-Iudson. The Two ineligible veTerans, Kennedy and SchaTTner. Through The good grace oT Dr. Burdell, were puT back on The Team. In view oT The TacT ThaT These men were iusT barely ineligible and were geTTing good marks in Their courses, Dr. Burdell made ex- cepTions oT The rule in Their cases on The condiTion ThaT They kepT up Their good marks. A capaciTy crowd oT 350 Tilling The ChrisT Church gymnasium on 5aTurday, Dec. I0, saw Cooper puT down a TourTh quarTer rally by a TighTing ST. John's Pharmacy Team To win iTs TirsT game and The TirsT home game oT The season 35-3I. For The TirsT Time, Cooper was able To puT Two sTrong Teams on The courT, Thus providing a needed resT Tor many oT The players. NexT, a Tough game was Ios+ To a superior Rider College Team, 46-3I. AlThough Rider really played a very good game, our Team goT whaT we have resignedly come To call a Typical Jersey rooking where The reTeree was concerned. I I personal Touls were called againsT Cooper while only Three were called againsT Rider. Trailing by I0 poinTs in The middle oT The Third quarTer, Cooper snapped ouT oT a scoring slump To hold The Pace Team To 9 poinTs and go on To win 46-37, Tor Their second vicTory in seven sTarTs. ATTer an inTermission Tor school exams, The Team Traveled To 5TaTen Island on Sunday, Jan. 29 To play ThaT division oT ManhaTTan. Cooper was simply oTT Torm when The TirsT haIT ended 33-8 in Tavor oT ManhaTTan. ThereaTTer even ball was played and ManhaTTan won 58-33. A sTrong Panzer Team, having won I3 games and IosT only one To L.I.U. by 6 poinTs, was Too much Tor Cooper as The IaTTer suTTered one oT The worsT deTeaTs in iTs hisTory, wiTh a score oT 75-23. ATTer a poor showing in The TirsT halT The Cooper Team ouTpIayed and ouTscored Newark College in The second halT buT remained on The shorT end OT The 53-38 Tinal score. This loss was Tollowed by anoTher To Bronx Union Y.M.C.A., in which a Tar superior Team ouTscored Cooper 36-I9, alThough The TinesT playing oT The year was shown by our boys. The Tollowing week saw Cooper lose iTs TenTh game in I2 sTarTs To The Savage School oT Physical EducaTion 50-32. The Tinal game oT The raTher disappoinTing season was wiTh Brooklyn College oT Pharmacy on SaTurday evening March 4, when a crowd oT more Than 400 wiTnessed The Team lose by The score oT 38-3I on The occasion oT The second home game and dance held aT The ChrisT Church gymnasium. The poor showing oT The Team, in spiTe oT iTs greaT expecTaTions, can be aTTribuTed mosTly To The lack oT suiTable coaching TaciIiTies in The absence oT coach PeTer Ripps during The season. I2I T TEREL SS SPORTS INTRAMURAL BASEBALL On one Thursday, The Juniors removed one more obsTacle in Their paTh To reTain- ing The soTTball crown, by Trouncing The Sophs 8-I. The Sophs, impressed by The valu- able TalenT The Juniors were parading, decided To have a ball Throwing conTesT, while The Juniors pracTiced base running. One Thing can be said Tor The Sophs, They have greaT arms, even iT Throwing To no one in parTicular. Caswell goT Two oT his Team's Tive hiTs To excel. ResusciTaTion musT have awakened DynamiTe Dunn, Junior ball receiver, who lashed ouT a mighTy Triple, which, inTerlaced wiTh Two singles, Toolc baTTing honors. HanTT, Junior hurler also geTTing his usual Tine supporT, goT a slighT warm-up lThe Sophs wenT down on Three piTched balls in one inningl Tor The Crucial game wiTh The NighT men. DespiTe The machinaTions oT JupiTer Pluvius, The rampaging Juniors managed To add Two vicTories To Their scalp belT deTeaTing The game Frosh and The previously un- beaTen Sophs. OUR MERMEN AbouT six o'clock every Thursday evening The enTire school aquaTic sTars combine Their eTTorT in Triendly meeTs aT The ChrisTodora House pool. WaTerpolo games, races, such as Tour and Two lengTh Tree sTyle, plunge Tor disTance, medley relays, candle races, eTc., were on The evening programs. The waTer churned consTanTly buT The Day Tech seemed To have The beTTer oT all These evenTs. FENCING Because oT a new group, Fencing again has losT iTs proper sTanding among The school sporTs. The TurnouTs, alThough graTiTying, showed very liTTle resulTs due To The laclc oT proper insTrucTion and coaching. IT seems ThaT wiTh The deparTure oT Dale Rob- inson, The Fencing Team is iusT a recreaTion socieTy and noT The Team iT could be. So leT's hope ThaT in The nexT Tew years our younger members will Turn ouT, parTicipaTe, learn, and insTrucT Themselves by diligenT pracTice inTo excellenT Toilsmen. l22 RIFLE TEAM l O F F I CE RS BERNARD OLCOTT PresidenT WESLEY STEPHENS Vice-RresidenT BERNARD OLCOTT CapTain WALTER VIGNINI SecreTary-Manager When Bernard OlcoTT indignanfly sTaTed ThaT This year The Rifle Club would have a convenienT home range, he wasn'T Trifling. LasT year The STu- denT Council assured him ThaT he would receive The necessary financial back- ing To hire a convenienT rifle range. l-le sTarTed his Task early in The summer and complefed his arrangemenTs before The beginning of The school year in SepTember. However when school sfarfed, The STudenT Council informed him ThaT lasT year's STudenT Council records were losT and hence The rifle range could noT be financed. AfTer some adiusfrnenfs, however, The Team finally received money for a range. The sTudenT TurnouT on The newly acquired range was very grafifying. The group of new men-of which many never Touched a rifle before- showed infense inTeresT in The sporT. Bernard OlcoTT and STephens remained from lasT year. When The rifle season opened, Cooper Union enTered The lnfercollegiafe rifle TournamenTs wiTh The besT Team ThaT iT had in The pasT five years. As a member of The lvleTropoliTan las well as The Nafrionall Rifle AssociaTion, The Team encounTered ST. John's, STevens lnsTiTuTe, Broolclyn College, l-lofsTra, PolyTechnic NiTe and Day. UnforTunaTely The final ouTcome only Tofalled one vicTory-Broolclyn College and a very close defeaf To The Brooklyn PolyTechnic rifle of day school. This undoubfedly was due To The experience of The new men and Buck Fever. However in The ST. John's lnviTaTion lvieef, The Team was again mafched againsT The same Teams and This Time a vicTory over bofh Broolclyn College and STevens resulTed wiTh a Team of one veferan and four new men. 123 AT The mid season marlc, The Cooper Union club held iTs own club championship maTch. Bernard OlcoTT Toolc Top honors and received a medal Trom The NaTional RiTle AssociaTion. The man ThaT is mosT responsible Tor The smooTh TuncTioning oT The club is SecreTary-Manager WalT Vignini. He execuTed his long and Tiring duTies very eTTec- Tively and The club wishes To Talce This opporTuniTy To announce This graTiTude. Bernard OlcoTT has been very acTive Tor The pasT Three years in advancing riTle shooTing as a major sporT in Cooper Union. He was rewarded Tor his eTTorTs when The club elecTed him presidenT oT The club and capTain oT The Team. Under his leadership The club has made remarkable progress and his inTluence will long remain. Among The new men, RoberT Brandeis obTained The highesT honors. Brandeis, Tormerly oT Lincoln High School, was once chosen as a member oT The honorary CiTy High School Team aloouT six years ago. His greaTesT Triumph This year was The capTure oT The Third place in The IvIeTropoliTan lnTercollegiaTe RiTle TournamenT. Wes STephens, a Tormer miliTary school man, was elecTed vice-presidenT oT The club. His consisTenT good shooTing Tor The pasT Two years has made him a Tine asseT To boTh The Team and The club. OTher new men who have shown excellenT meriT are Weniger, Coe, STone and Klein. Much meriT goes To Weniger, Coe and STone lwho had never Touched a riTle beTore This yearl Tor The remarlcable progress ThaT They have made. These men will receive aThleTic awards Tor Team parT'.ipaTion, and iT is hoped ThaT This will be an incenTive Tor new men To Try ouT Tor The Team nexT year. The highlighT evenT oT The season was The parTicipaTion in The NaTional lnTer- collegiaTe RiTle TournamenT aT The U. S. Naval Academy aT Annapolis, Ivld. AlThough our Team did noT do well againsT The greaT universiTy Teams oT The easT, Two resulTs were accomplished-our new men obTained valuable experience by compeTing againsT crack-iaclc riTlemen and Cooper Union was publicized as having an aThleTic Team ThaT could compeTe wiTh The Teams oT The greaT universiTies oT The easT, The academy ex- Tended many social privileges To our Team: and our Team goT a TasTe oT whaT Cooper Union sadly laclcs-camp liTe. GraduaTion will rob The club oT Two oT iTs mosT eTTicienT men. Bernard Flash Ol- coTT and WalTer Vignini. However These men Teel ThaT nexT year's Team will progress Tur- Ther Than iT ever did in The hisTory oT The C.U. RiTle Clubs. M E M BE RS WALTER VIGNINI, Manager BERNARD OLCOTT MYRON COE WESLEY STEPHENS WILLIAM STONE ROBERT BRANDEIS HENRY WIITANEN MARTIN KLEIN MARTIN SACI-IS SYDNEY WENIGER ANTI-IONY VESCUSO I24 HDS T LETIC AWAHUEU DU. SCI-IAFENER KENNEDY LONG MATIONY SCORSKI OLCOTT AWAHDEU MMDB E BAUM SCHEINHART KEARY ROSEN VIGNINI STEPHENS BRANDEIS KLEIN AWAHUEU MINUH HC BROOKS NAOSI-IENER MULLIGAN SORENSEN KARPOEF OUART SPOOL WENIG-ER COE STONE WIITANEN SAC!-IS VESCUSO WUHLD EH US I-IE Archdulce Francis Ferdinand, heir Io Ihe Auslrian Ihrone, was assassinaled on June 28, I9I4 aI Sarajevo. MosI of Ihe sIudenIs aI Cooper Union wenl abouf Iheir worlc uncon- cerned. When German officers and men invaded Ihe Grand Duchy of Luxemburg on Augusl 2, and Cooper s+udenIs began Io Ialce nolice, perhaps, buf Ihey probably also said, WhaI do we care whal happens in Europe, we are sale here in , 1 I' 4. I fl when Ihey invaded Belgium on Augusl 4, Ihe ni ji ' America, aI Cooper Union. Yes, Ihey were safe. BuI in April of I9I7 America enfered Ihe war. We mus'r avenge Ihe dealh of innocenl' women and children, somebody said, and America, New England, Florida, California, and Cooper Union, enfered info Ihe world chaos. Of Ihe 627 individuals from Cooper Union whose records are available, I9 gave Iheir lives and 27 sulslered casualliesg 509 were enrolled in Ihe Army and II4 in 'rhe Navy including 'rhe Marine Corps. In addilion one individual enlisled in Ihe French Army, Iwo in Ihe Canadian, and one fellow saw service in Ihe Canadian, Brilish and IIaIian Armies. Those enrolled in Ihe army were disfribuled as follows: Engineers ,aa,,a aa,,aaa,aaa, ,,,aaa,,a, I 2 4 Medical Corps ..a... I5 Infdnlry .,,,,,,, ,,,,,, 95 SaniIary Corps .,,,.,.,,. 7 Field Arlillery .,,,,, ,,,,,, 4 O Chemical Warfare ,,,,,s, ,,,, I 3 Coasl ArIiIIery ,,,,,,, , 40 Machine Gun Ballalion 6 Air Force ..,,,,a,,, ,,,,,, 7 9 Sfalll Office ,, ,,,.,,.a,,.,,......,..,a,,,a,, 7 3 Signal Corps ,,,, ,,,,,s 3 7 Coasf Guard, Coasf Defense, Molor Supplies .a,s,as ,,s,,, 4 4 Transport Camouflage, Cavalry I each OT Those enrolled, 225 saw service abroad, I34 saw service aT The TronT, II7 were engaged in baTTle. In The army, I45 oT The 509 were oTFicers including I colonel, 5 majors, I5 capTains, 34 lieuTenanTs, and 65 second looies. In The navy, The school was represenTed by I commander, 5 IieuTenanTs and I9 ensigns. Among Those decoraTed Tor bravery, 3 received The French Croix de Guerre, I The American DisTinguished Service Medal, 3 were in regimenTs ciTed in General Orders, and 2 were in companies wiTh Croix de Guerre. The PeTer Cooper PosT of The American Legion was organized in January I92O, buT a charTer was noT obTained unTil several monThs elapsed and The legion invesTi- gaTed The names appearing on The applicaTion Tor charTer. Several meeTings were held during The Spring oT '20 and a Temporary organiza- Tion Tormed. IT was inTended To have every Cooper man who had seen service in The war, enTer This posT as a charTer member. In The Spring oT '2I, The Cooper Union PosT No. 878 was Tormed and a permanenT organizaTion worlced ouT. IT disbanded on January I I, I927. The school enTered direcTly inTo The war game. Un+iI December 7, I9I8, The Day Tech School Toolc parT in a counTry wide movemenT enrolling sTudenTs as members oT The STudenTs Army Training Corps. A uniT oT I25 members was organized and conducTed unTil disbanded by order oT The War DeparTmenT. The curriculum oT The uniT was mainTained according To The regulaTions of The Commission on EducaTion and Special Training, and The meThods oT insTrucTion were carried ouT in conTormaTion oT The same sTandards. During This period The men were quarTered in The Mills I-loTel on Bleelcer STreeT, an arrangemenT which had many advanTages Tor The young soldiers and The insTiTuTion. UnTil The armisTice was signed, The severe applicaTion demanded by The pre- scribed courses was admirably mainTained and a saTisTacTory sTandard oT performance achieved. The PosT-War period was one oT sTudenT parTicipaTion in anoTher Tield, exTra- curricular acTiviTies. In The liTerary Tield, a lighT magazine lcnown as The Cooper Courier was published Trom I9I8 To I92I, reTlecTing The new, more Tranlc, PosT-War spiriT. According To This auThoriTy, ThaT rare species, The JerseyiTe, was known in Cooper Union even in l9I7. And a girl, DoroThy Wimple, was in The Frosh engineer- ing class. In The year I92O-2l, The Pioneer was begun and passed Through a hecTic career unTil iT was suspended some years ago wiTh The publicaTion oT The Pi-and-Beer. IT has been reinsTaTed and now is blossoming ouT To a Tuller maTuriTy. The presenT Cable replaced The Cooper Courier in I922, alfhough There is a rumor ThaT The Courier snealced in an issue in l937. The Tield oT sporT was well organized. There were acTive Teams playing TooTball, baseball and baslceTbalI7 There were regular boxing, wresTling, Traclc, swimming, Tennis, and Tencing Teams. A Typical school semesTer as I92O-2I showed The Teams playing such represenTaTive schools as ManhaTTan, Fordham, Upsala, Broolclyn PolyTech, PraTT, I27 C.C.N.Y., Columbia, ST. Francis, SeTon Hall, N.Y.U., ST. John's, STevens, PrinceTon, and N. Y. Aggies. The DramaTic Club was also quiTe acTive during This period. The Chess Club was organized December 2, l92O and joined The lvleTropOliTan Chess League in l92l. FraTerniTies also Tlourished. l9l7 saw The beginning OT Alpha Mu Sigma and Sigma Tau Rho. Lambda Sigma Kappa was organized in l92I, and Omega DelTa Phi in l922. The Board OT RegenTs OT The UniversiTy OT The STaTe OT New Yorlc approved The curriculum OT The lnsTiTuTe OT Technology, Tor a baccalaureaTe degree in engineering. IT was especially graTiTying To Those who had planned The course ThaT no changes or addiTions were required To gain regisTraTion OT The degree. Thus we come up To The presenT Time, The philosophy and The pracTice OT The Cooper Union becoming Tirmer and Tirmer, more and more concreTe, The courses becoming diTTiculT perhaps buT The pedagogy becoming more and more modern, The curriculum more sTreamlined, in conTenT more whaT is needed To malce good in The arT and engineering Tields. Here and There, There are Things wrong. An oTTicial who is more concerned abouT his picTure in a boolc Than wiTh The sTudenTs he deals wiTh: exorbiTanT prices being charged here and There: poor conveniences Tor The sTudenTs' personal needs: all liTTle cleTails ThaT musT be sTraighTened ouT and ThaT will be sTraighTened ouT when They geT To iT. Meanwhile Touched by The TradiTions OT The eighTy years behind Cooper Union, The years OT sTruggle and hardship, The modern Cooper sTudenT Teels ThaT There is more To This building Than iusT a pile OT sTones, more TO The people inside Than iusT Tlesh and blood-There is a benevolence oT PeTer Cooper's smile, preserved, noT only on The bas relief OT him in The main hall OT The FoundaTion Building, buT on every sTone, on every sTep OT every sTairway, Trom every exTra sTruT reinTorcing The building, Trom every column and pillar, smiles This mysTerious smile. And iT says To The impaTienT sTudenT enraged aT The abuses he undergoes- Young man, iT will Talce me Time To righT These wrongs . . . buT They shall be righTed. Meanwhile sTudy and learn. Learn The TruTh so ThaT you may be Tree Trom The dangers OT ignorance . . . I28 SUEIETIES EX PUST FAIITU WOLFGANG H. KASSNER Chairman MEMBERS NAT RICHMOND MARVIN D. WEISS DOROTHY W. BLOOMEIELD VINCENT MATURI MARGARET WAGER FRANCIS MEDON BERNARD MEYERSON PHILIP HAGERTY BERNARD MEYERSON II was Ihe originaI inIenIion of Ihe Iounders of Ihe SocieIy Io have Ihe wearers of Ihe Ex Posr Eacro Iceys advise and guide Iheir successors in Ihe producfion of Iurure CabIes. This procedure has seldom been IoIIowed in Ihe pas+, buI fhe increas- ing diIIicuIIies of The schoIasIic curricuIa wiII no doubI make such a sysiem quiIe necessary in Ihe producfion of subsequern Cables. The smaII Icey serves as a visibIe reminder Io oIher slrudenrs IhaI Ihe wearer was Ihus commended for his Iong hours of pafienr and persisrenlr eI3IorIs Io produce a CabIe of which Ihe Cooper Union mighf be proud. I3O LAMUA TA SAUL ARONOW Chancellor One evening in I934, several oT The mosT acTive members oT The Pioneer sTaTT decided ThaT whaT The newly renovaTed Pioneer needed To operaTe in iTs besT and mosT eTTicienT manner was an organizaTion oT iTs own devoTed To The promoTion oT cooperaTion and Triendship beTween The sTaTT members. The resulT oT This decision was The TormaTion oT The Lambda Tau. ln order To make Lambda Tau mosT eTTecTive in The improvemenT oT The Pioneer, iTs membership was resTricTed To Those whose service on The sTaTT was oT The higLesT calibre and who had served in an ediTorial capaciTy Tor aT leasT Ten issues. RecenT developmenTs in The hisTory oT Lambda Tau includes The use oT a riTual in The iniTiaTion oT new members designed To TesT The candidaTe's abiliTy To disTin- guish beTween TruTh and TalsiTy, and To TesT his abiliTy To observe The usually unob- servable. QuesTions included are such as, Did you ever see The liTTle man who wasn'T There? Do you lcnow The Pioneer Sphinx? Have you ever seen a raT wiTh Two legs? Membership in Lambda Tau consisTs oT Two classes, acTive and honorary. The Tormer consisT oT members acTively involved in The producTion oT The Pioneer. The laTTer consisT oT men and women who aT one Time were acTive, buT are now no longer serving on The sTaTT. OTTicers oT The socieTy are elecTed aT The TirsT meeTing oT each year. CTTicers Tor The year I938-1939 are Saul Aronow, Chancellor: Theodore Berlin, Vice-Chancel- lor: Murray WeinTraub, Recorder: Sol Tanenbaum, Exchequer. Members oT Lambda Tau are awarded a small gold pin, upon whose Tace is a quill pen rampanT upon a scroll. l3l LPH UMTIIRU T THEODORE BERLIN, Chancellor JOHN BRATT, Scrinever SAUL ARONOW, Bursar MEMBERS BOB GORDON JOHN SKIBA FREDERICK POHLE MORRIS SLUTSKY ABE ROSEN JOSEPH SPINDLER ROBERT HERZOG KARL SCHELLER RoYEs sfiivow Mu Alpha Omicron, The honor socieTy oT The Day School oT Technology, was Tounded in I926. lTs members are selecTed noT only Tor ouTsTanding scholarship, buT also Tor such characTer and breadTh oT vision as will command The respecT oT oThers. TradiTionally, The M.A.O. has been a small inacTive group. The raTher severe gualiTicaTions necessary Tor membership limiTed iTs size. AT The beginning oT This year, The socieTy conTained only Two members, Ted Berlin and Saul Aronow. Five seniors, John BraTT, RoberT Herzog, Royes Salmon, Karl Scheller, and John Fiala were elecTed inTo The lvi.A.O. near The close oT The TirsT semesTer. This enlarged group drew up plans Tor The remainder oT The school year. DeparTing Trom The cusTomary inerTia, The lvlu Alpha Omicron adopTed a Tour poinT program oT service To The school as parT oT a drive Towards a more acTive parTicipaTion in school aT'Tairs. The new policy acTiviTies aT Cooper Union: To TosTer acTiviTies designed To lead To greaTer cooperaTion beTween sTudenTs oT diTTerenT classes and beTween sTudenTs and TaculTyg To TuTor sTudenTs deTicienT in Their sTudies and To cooperaTe wiTh The sTudenT personnel oTTice in giving Talks on engineering in near-by high schools. WiTh This ambiTious program To guide iT, The group swung inTo acTion. The problem oT uniTying and coordinaTing diverse exTra-curricular acTiviTies was The TirsT concern oT The lvl. A. O. lT had been suggesTed ThaT an old oTTice building, now in disuse, locaTed convenienTly near The Cooper Union could be converTed inTo a recreaTion cenTer Tor sTudenTs. Space was To be alloTTed in The building Tor The various sTudenT acTiviTies. A commiTTee composed oT M.A.O. men inspecTed The building and announced ThaT iT was noT suiTable Tor The inTended purposes. The plan was Then abandoned by The school. FurTher acTion lalong such lines as seems desirable To The school adminisTraTionl on The problem oT supplying addiTional TaciliTies Tor sTudenT recreaTion is conTemplaTed by The socieTy. lT is hoped ThaT oTher more suc- cessTul plans will be proposed. I32 To encourage a higher sTandard oT scholarship, and To help deTicienT sTudenTs, The M.A.O. insTiTuTed a TuToring service. STudenTs, especially Treshmen, inTeresTed in obTaining help in subiecTs giving Them Trouble were inviTed To conTacT members OT The M.A.O. and arrange Tor TuToring sessions aTTer school. ln order To minimize The diTTiculTy OT arranging Tor These sessions, a IisT oT M.A.O. members TogeTher wiTh The Times aT which They were available was leTT wiTh PrOT. WaTson OT The sTudenT personnel oTTice. Few sTudenTs availed Themselves OT This privilege This pasT year. The socieTy hopes ThaT The scheme will prosper as The sTudenTs become Tamiliar wiTh iT and develop inTo an inTegral parT OT sTudenT liTe. AnoTher imporTanT underTalcing OT The Mu Alpha Omicron, The promoTion OT a beTTer undersTanding beTween TaculTy and sTudenTs, was seT under way by a meeTing beTween The socieTy and several inviTed members OT The FaculTy. This group discussed The TuncTion OT The M.A.C. in school aTTairs. Many valuable sug- gesTiOns regarding The TuTure policies OT The socieTy were made by The T:aculTy. Plans were made Tor TuTure meeTings beTween FaculTy members and selecTed groups Trom The general sTudenT body. The lasT and one OT The mosT imporTanT acTs OT The M.A.O. was The elecTion OT new members To The socieTy. They were To be charged wiTh The diTTiculT Taslc OT carrying ouT a maior porTion OT The broad program OT The Mu Alpha Omicron. Six juniors, Bob Gordon, Frederich Pohle, Abe Rosen, John Slciba, Morris SluTslcy, and Joseph Spindler were iudged worThy OT The honor oT membership in The M.A.O. and capable OT iTs duTies. The deparTing members Teel ThaT under Their guidance The Mu Alpha Omicron may conTinue on iTs new course To achieve a worThy haven and a secure place in sTudenT liTe. ' 1 :L A75 SeaTed: John BraTT, Scrivenerg Theodore Berlin, Chancellor: Saul Anonow, Bursar. Middle Row: Karl Scheller, RoberT Gordon, John Slciba, Joseph Spindler. Top row: Abe Rosen, RoberT Herzog, Fred Pohle, Morris SluTslcy, Royes Salmon. I33 PRIESTLEY SUCIETY During The school year oT T937-38 a group oT engineering sTudenTs Trom The Day School oT Technology organized The PriesTley Technical SocieTy. The Tounders oT The organizaTion were impelled by The desire To supplemenT The Tormal Technical Training received aT The Cooper Union. They TelT ThaT There was a need Tor greaTer social acTiviTy on The parT oT The Tech sTudenT, They realized ThaT The engineer musT aid in The soluTion oT The common problem conTronTing all socieTy, The problem oT mainTaining democracy. The P.T.S. grew rapidly and applied Tor recogniTion aT The beginning oT The presenT semesTer which was granTed Tor This year. The programs presenTed are boTh inTeresTing and sTimulaTing. The socieTy oTTers sTudenTs inTeresTed in broadening Their social viewpoinT a progressive program. Dur- ing The presenT school year iT has been co-sponsor oT an AnTi-Nazi rally: iT has heard Tallcs by DirecTor Burdell on governmenT housing and by an American Labor ParTy candidaTe Tor Congressman on poliTics. In TurThering iTs plan Tor broadening The social and naTural liTe oT The Cooper sTudenT, The P.T.S. presenTed a series oT Tilms and musicales. The Tilms, which were open To Th. enTire school, were oT boTh a commercial and a documenTary Type. The musicales consisTed oT classical music. A TheaTre parTy was held in mid-winTer by The PriesTley Tech. During The spring recess, a hike was arranged Tor. The PriesTley Technical SocieTy plans many oTher social aTTairs Tor The coming school year. Talks, Tilms and musicales will be TeaTured aT meeTings oT The socieTy. Plans Tor parTies are being considered aT This Time. Y L 9 .., ' Top row: P, Sagonas, S. Tanenbaum, F. Fhzaerald, l. CenTer, E. Peizer, G. Fox, M. SloTlcin, J. DanowiTz, K. Scheller, Middle row: V. Mnlufi, i-T. Feder, S. Aranow, J. Loiacano, A. l.evenThal, T. Berlin, R. Herzog, T-l. Messinger, S. Lippman, M. WeinTraub. B'nTTom row: I-l. Naclc, J, Tar- anTo, S. Lieber, K. RoberTson, l.. STammler, S, Spool, J. Kohler, A. Kaolan. I34 .S.E.E. PROFESSOR R, C. BRUN FaculTy Adviser BERNARD M. CER PresidenT JAMES ALLAIRE Vice-PresidenT HY SIGMAN SecreTary JOHN SKIBA Treasu rer Following The TradiTion oT previous years, The C. U. STudenT ChapTer oT The A.S.C.E. has carried on acTiviTy To bring The C.E. sTudenT oT Cooper Union closer To The civil engineering proTession. The increase in membership oT The chapTer This year was due primarily To The ChapTer's inTeresTing program. The work OT The class represenTaTives under guidance oT ProT. BrurnTield also helped This cause. Formal addresses on public works, such as Municipa. SaniTaTion, CircumTerenTial highways and on The STressomeTer were delivered by prominenT speakers in These Tields. Field Trips To Ward's Island Sewage Works and various oTher consTrucTion proiecTs around The ciTy were also held. One oT The highlighfs This year was Mr. Miles l-l. Van Beuren's address on belT conveyers on The Grand Coulee Dam. Mr. Van Beuren is a member oT The C.E. DeparTmenT. This meeTing was held joinTly wiTh The A.S.M.E. and was aTTended by sevenTy sTudenTs. The Talk was supplemenTed wiTh movies on The meThod used conveying dirT To clear The siTe oT The dam. The lasT ChapTer meeTing oT The year was The presenTaTion oT a Tilm on The consTrucTion oT The Lincoln Tunnel and The George WashingTon Bridge. The Tunnel Tilm illusTraTed very well The meThod oT compressed air shield Tunneling. Each year The meTropoliTan STudenT ConTerence hold annual meeTings. For The year T938-I939 ManhaTTan College was The hosT oT The ConTerence. The ouT- sTanding parT OT The conference was The discussion on UnionizaTion Tor engineers. The case Tor unionizaTion was presenTed by Mr. Lewis A. Berne, lnTernaTional PresidenT oT The FederaTion oT ArchiTecTs, Engineers, ChemisTs and Technicians. ln his delivery he poinTed ouT ThaT The growing engineer Today is no longer an independenT in- dividual L. ie To The eThics oT his proTession. The ProTessional Engineer's Answer was presenTed by C. B. STeinman, a proTessional engineer. His soluTion was To educaTe The employer To respecT The sTaTus oT The engineer. QuesTions by The sTudenTs presenT were made To boTh speakers and The discufsic-n proved very educaTional. The C. U. STudenT ChapTer looks Tri-ward To The year T939-T940 when iT will be The hosT To The MeTropoliTan STudenT 'Qfcr:Terence. lTs plans Tor The nexT year are more and beTTer acTiviTies and IOOTVO mernbership oT The C.E. sTudenT body. 135 ASM. . - DAY CHAPTER DAN RUSS BERNARD SWENSON This year saw an imporTanT change in The A. S. M. E. organizaTion. AT The very ouTseT, The need oT a separaTe nighT and day group was recognized by The execuTive commiTTee and The honorary chairman, Mr. Salma. As a direcT resulT oT This change The sophomore M. E. were allowed The privilege oT joining The A. S. M. E. To have a parT in iTs duTies and acTiviTies. The TuTure advanTages oT A. S. M. E. membership noT being wholly evidenT, aT presenT, membership has been aTTracTed and held by The acTiviTies oT The organi- zaTion. The TundamenTal acTiviTy is The periodical meeTing and paper presenTaTions. A number oT members have indeed been graTiTied aT The shorT lengTh oT Time required Tor business discussions, and The diTTerenT Topics chosen Tor paper presenTaTion has mainTained a sTeady aTTendance: iT is hoped such procedure will be conTinued. Papers presenTed To daTe: Design oT The Foclce l-leliocopTer-Mr. D. l-lorowiTz The Ford Model A -Mr. l-l. KuTzelman The Theory and Design oT l lydromeTers-Dr. D. Russ On December 2, T939 The enTire C. U. branch parTool4 in a meTropoliTan con- venTion oT sTudenT A. S. M. E. branch aT STevens lnsT. oT Tech and boasTed oT having The largesT aTTendance presenT. lnspecTion oT The grounds and laboraTories included observaTion OT The Towing and Tanlc and Knock Engine in use and a visiT To Their museum. MoTion picTures and demonsTraTion oT sTage Technic concluded an im- porTanT episode oT The year's acTiviTies. lmporTanT changes being in order during The year, The yearly ChrisTmas Dinner evenT saw The inauguraTion oT a combinaTion day and nighT branch evenT so as noT To sever compleTely The relaTionship beTween schools. MoTion picTures and a chalk I36 A.S.lVl.E. NIGHT QHAPTEH PHIL. HAGERTY Chairman Talk and a gab TesT concluded acTiviTies aT The Lawrence CoTTee l-louse aT which Time a number oT The men moved on To local bowling alleys. IT was during This space oT Time ThaT ProT. Young esfablished his prowess in Tields oTher Than Those recognized in schools. WiTh membership growing in The socieTy, iT may be predicTed ThaT The A. S. lvl. E. sTudenT branch will soon esTablish iTselT as one oT The leading chapTers in The meTropoliTan area and Thaf iTs presTige will grow To TiT iTs name. For The TirsT Time since iTs organizaTion in l92O, The A.S.M.E. sTudenT branch has been spliT inTo Two separaTe divisions, and, in The nighT branch, membership has begun in The Third year insTead oT in The TourTh as hereToTore. The enrollmenT has been large: well over 9070 oT The sTudenTs having ioined. NighT sTudenTs are, oT course, handicapped by a lack oT Time, buT in spiTe oT This, inTeresT has been lceen. The year's acTiviTies have included Tour sTudenT papers, The TirsT annual nighT school Chrisjrmas dinner, moTion picTures oT The building oT The San Francisco Golden C5aTe Bridge, and a ioinT meeTing wiTh The A.S.C.E. sTudenT branch. The sTudenT papers were presenTed by Phil l-lagerTy, who spolce on Powder MeTallurgyg by Sam Guyyardi, who described The boiler used in The STeam Engine Lab., by Al Budde, who discussed gauges and gauging: and by S. Bingman, who described meThods oT calculaTing bends in press and sheeT meTal. The day school has held an annual ChrisTmas dinner Tor a number oT years buT, when a nighT school dinner was iniTiaTed, The day men requesTed ThaT The aTTair be held ioinTly. The excellenT cooperaTion ThaT Tollowed resulTed in a very successTul aTTair, which was aTTended by more Than 70 people. The program included a humor- ous chalk Tallc, movies, and a bull session in which halT oT The members presenT sang To The accompanimenT oT Joe Blacks piano playing while The oTher halT wenT bowling. The dinner commiTTee included nighT men Phil l-lagerTy, The chairman: Al DuFlon, who supplied The movies, and Carlo lvlisTron and Ernie Luclcen. Mr. VopaT rendered invaluable assisTance in The absence oT our honorary chairman. AT The ioinT meeTing wiTh The A.S.C.E. Mr. Van Buren exhibiTed and explained moTion picTures oT The conveyor sysTems used in building The Grand Coulee Dam. I37 .I.I3I1.E. DAY EHAPTER T TED BERLIN I K PresidenT CHARLES BLITZ Vice-PresidenT IRVING NESHIN Treasurer PHILIP HORSTING SecreTary The Cooper sTudenT who has compIeTed his TirsT year has presumably decided To become an engineer, TaculTy willing. Thus, aT This poinT in his career, iT becomes expedienT Tor him To meeT upperclassmen and engineers inTeresTed in his chosen branch oT engineering. The main TuncTion OT The STudenT Branches oT Engineering is The arranging oT These meeTings. The A.I.Ch.E. STudenT ChapTers provide These conTacTs Tor prospecTive chemical engineers. The conclusion oT The TwelTTh year oT iTs acTiviTy Tinds The Day ChapTer wiTh over TiTTy members. The inTeresTing program oT The ChapTer has aTTracTed many new members This year. InTormal meeTings are now held every Two weelcs insTead oT once a monTh as Tormerly. Usually a guesT spealcer, a pracTising engineer, is aslced To speak aT These gaTherings. AT Times, a member gives a paper on some phase oT chemisTry in which he is parTicularIy inTeresTed. Business meeTings are held whenever There is a surplus in The Treasury. This occurs abouT Tour Times a year. Following a Time-honored cusTom, The Treasure was careTully guarded Tor several monThs beTore ChrisTmas7 Tor, on The day beTore ChrisTmas, The ChapTer's mosT imporTanT social evenT Talces place. IT is disguised by The name Freshman Recep- Tion. In realiTy, iT is The evenT aT which all The chemical engineering sTudenTs and TaculTy, aided by many oTher CooperiTes, among Them several ArT School girls, TorgeT abouT chemisTry, maThemaTics, and physics and proceed To enioy Themselves. For once, The ChemisTry LecTure Room is Tilled wiTh an inTeresTed audience. Here The seniors sTage a drama which deserves To rank wiTh Shalcespeare's l'IamIeT lor is iT Barnum and Bailey's Circus?l. The TaculTy joins in The Tun, some oT which is aT Their expense. ATTer The show, reTreshmenTs are served. While The ChapTer enjoys periods oT relaxaTion such as The RecepTion-aT var- ious Times ThroughouT The year, mosT oT iTs gaTherings are direcTed Toward increasing The members' knowledge oT chemical engineering. PlanT Trips are held whenever possible. This year The ChapTer decided To give an award Tor The besT sTudenTs' paper presenTed aT iTs meeTings. Members are aided and encouraged in every way possible, and Tor This reason, every prospecTive chemical engineer in Cooper Union should be a ChapTer member. I38 .I.Ch.E. NIGHT CHAPTER A new spirif of acfivify marlced fhe fenfh year of fhe American lnsfifufe of Chemical Engineers in Cooper Union. For fhe firsf fime in fhe hisfory of fhe school fhree Nighf sfudenfs submiffed solufions fo fhe Nafional A.l.Ch.E. confesf, and fhe solufion by Roberf Goldberg was submiffed by fhe Chemisfry Deparfmenf of Cooper Union as one of fhe fwo enfries from fhis school. Founded in I928, fhe A.l.Ch.E. branch af Cooper Union has led a precarious and diversified life. In I932 fhe single branch which had confained bofh Nighf and Day sfudenfs splif up info fwo branches. The Nighf Branch was disconfinued in I932. buf increased inferesf of fhe sfudenfs led fo ifs re-esfablishmenf in IQ36. This year several ioinf meefings of fhe Nighf and Day Chapfers were held feafur- ing falks from Professor Radasch, fhe new head of fhe Chemical Engineering Deparf- menf and Mr. Anderson, of Easfern Equipmenf Company. Af fhe ofher monfhly meefings of fhe Nighf Branch colored moving picfures falcen by Jerome Kusmiclc, a Cooper Union sfudenf, during his four of fhe Unifed Sfafes lasf summer, and a falls by Ed Grohse, famous hundred-geffer, were presenfed. Cooper Union Nighf sfudenfs in Chemical Engineering who are in fhe fhird year or above are invifed fo become members of fhe Nigh+ Chapfer of fhe A.l.Ch.E. Year by year fhe program is increasing in inferesf and sfudenfs can find ouf a greaf deal aloouf fhe field fhey are abouf fo enfer by joining fhe Chapfer. l39 TEE. A DAY CHAPTER C. WHITNEY HOLLAND PresidenT SAUL ARONOW Vice4PresidenT MILTON TANZER Treasurer ARTHUR G-OTTFRIED SecreTary The American lnsTiTuTe oT ElecTrical Engineers is The naTional proTessional en- gineering socieTy Tor ElecTrical Engineers. The leaders oT This group are well aware oT The diTTiculTies conTronTing a man when he leaves college and enTers The Tield oT engineering. l-le will, Trom his academic Training alone, lcnow almosT noThing oT The manner in which pracTicing engineers aTTack engineering problems: equally handicapping is The TacT ThaT in all probabiliTy he will have had no experience in organizing maTerial and presenTing oral reporTs in a clear, concise Torm. lT is Tor The purpose oT aiding The men during This TransiTion ThaT The naTional socieTy TosTers The developmenT OT STudenT Branches in Colleges oT ElecTrical En- gineering. The sTudenT members oT The naTional socieTy receive The magazine ElecTrical Engineering, The journal of The lnsTiTuTe, and are accorded all The privileges oT graduaTe members. The sTudenT branches TeaTure sTudenT speakers and inspecTion Trips oT general inTeresT To ElecTrical Engineering sTudenTs of The Third and TourTh years. ln addiTion To The individual Branch acTiviTies, The convenTion oT The STudenT Branches of The lVleTropoliTan Area is held near The lasT oT April every year. This is aTTended by some Three hundred branch members from nine local schools oT engineering. The Day Division oT The Cooper Union STudenT Branch was hosT oT The I939 ConvenTion which was held on April 27. The plans drawn up by The convenTion commiTTees Tor The enTerTainmenT oT The delegaTes were as Tollows: The day was sTarTed wiTh a Tour OT inspecTion of The Cooper Union LaboraTories aTTer which The men all gaThered in The GreaT Hall Tor The Technical Session. Here sTudenTs represenTing each college compeTed in The presenTaTion oT papers reporTing on original invesTigaTions and researches Tor an award donaTed by The ParenT SocieTy. ATTer a group luncheon, The delegaTes spliT inTo several groups, each oT which visiTed an indusTrial planT oT inTeresT To ElecTrical Engineers. The ConvenTion was concluded wiTh a bangueT aT which The delegaTes heard speakers prominenT in The proTession oT ElecTrical Engineering. The local members did noT devoTe all Their Time To planning Tor The ConvenTion, Tor several Tine papers were presenTed during The year. Among Them was Mr. Kazarian's paper on ElecTric Railway Signalling. T40 .I.E.E. NIGHT CHAPTER W. KLEIN PresidenT E. BERMAN Vice-PresidenT O. KUMMER SecreTary C. GREBERT Treasurer For Tour years The nighT chapTer OT The sTudenTs branch oT The A.I.E.E. in The nighT school. has been in exisTence. During This Time iT has Tully served The purpose Tor which iT sTands. In room ZIOH, Their meeTing room, many an inTeresTing discussion was held. Mr. GreberT OT The TiTTh year class gave a Talk on special purpose radio circuiTs, and modern devices used on rnodern receivers. OTher subiecTs covered were, auTomaTic noise, bias, noise and Trequency conTrol, mysTery and auTomaTic Tuning, and many oTher modern TeaTures prominenT in The news. The sTudenTs oT The nighT school oT engineering have very liTTle spare Time Tor anyThing ouTside oT regular college work. They acquire a large amounT OT TheoreTical knowledge in Their courses, buT They cannoT supplemenT This by pracTical knowledge and discussion because oT Their arduous sTudy programs. Membership in The NighT Division STudenT Branch OT The American lnsTiTuTe oT ElecTrical Engineers helps The EE. sTudenTs To accomplish This necessary Task. Through Their aTTendance aT The meeTings, They are kepT in close conTacT wiTh new developmenTs and pracTical prob- Iems in The modern elecTrical engineering pracTice. The greaTesT mark oT a successTul man is The abiliTy To express his ideas inTelli- genTly To his Tellow-men. The class room provides enough opporTuniTies To secure These ideas while The sTudenT branch oT The engineering socieTies-in This case, The American lnsTiTuTe oT ElecTrical Engineers-enables The sTudenTs To obTain much experience in The presenTaTion and discussion oT individual viewpoinTs. Membership in The lnsTiTuTe also Turnishes many openings Tor obTaining a broader undersTanding oT The elecTrical engineering proTession Through Tield Trips, Talks by insTrucTors and oTher men oT prominence in Their line, and moTion picTures and slides oT The indusTries. Recognizing all These TacTors, The adminisTraTion has placed The A.l.E.E. meeTing prominenTly in The schedule, enabling a larger percenTage oT sTudenTs To aTTend Than in previous years. This year is The elevenTh ThaT The lnsTiTuTe exisTs in Cooper Union. BoTh a day chapTer and nighT chapTer were organized in I926, buT in I932 The nighT chapTer was disconTinued. increased inTeresT on The parT oT The nighT sTudenTs led To a re-esTablishmenT oT The nighT chapTer in I936 so ThaT aT The presenT Time, There are Two chapTers in The school. I4l 2 51 ' 'ai X F 1 N' - L Q ff 14- ix x .ge fimmg JYFMA S1 iff 3 A T' x X i --' X li A' 4 is V Qv Chapfers ALPHA Cooper Union BETA Newark College GAMMA New York Universily Fraires Honorares John J. Currey Edward A. Miller William T. Pelersen Charles O. Rolh, Jr. Joseph J. Tanzola Allan L. Tarr Miles H. Van Buren Chrislian T. Weaver I42 PHI STEM UMEUA Fralres in Collegio Frederick P. 'Drechsler Edward J. Walsh Frank Vanek John J. King Anlhony Ancona Herberl A. Bahrenlourg Charles Greberf Charles A. Hauck Joseph Larkin Edward J. Jehle George P. Quinn Pefer Poveromo Edward C. Krukiel William Neary Joseph larussi George Zaharakis Herman J. Decker George Gucker James Trier George Mazzilelli Allan Higbee Herman N. Woebcke Roberr F. Sfewarl Frank Visenlin William F. Websler Fred C. l-lamel Anlhony C'Lenick Joseph Chovanec William A. Walker Slephen Alessi Edward H. Hofmann Slanley Schuberf Roberf Lulz Top row: Anfhony O'Lenick, Joseph Chovanec, William A. Walker, Sfephen Alessi, Edward H. Hofmann, Sfanley Schubert Roberl' Luli. Middle row: George Gucker, James Trier, George Mazzifelli, Allan Higloee, Herman N. Woebcke, Roberf F. Slewarr, Frank Visenfin, William F. Websfer, Fred C. Hamel. Boflom row: George P. Quinn, Pefer Poveromo, Edward C. Krukiel, William Neary, Joseph larussi, George Zaharakis, Herman J. Decker. Fronl' row: Frederick P. Drechsler, Edward J. Walsh, Frank Vanek, John J, King. Rear row: Anfhony Ancona, Herberf A. Bahrenburg, Charles Greberl, Charles A. Hauck, Joseph Larkin, Edward J. Jehle. l I43 'ff . L -'B raises ,fu L, r 'B-eff gc, 3 5, 'fsxi-5' Chapfers ALPHA Cooper Union Nighr BETA Brooklyn Polyiech GAMMA N.Y.U. Commerce DELTA Cooper Union Tech EPSILON Brooklyn College Fraires in Faculfafe Prof. H. C. Enders Prof. Karl Haupimann Oiio C. Puller C. George Kreuger R. J. Kunz Kenneih E. Lofgren Frafres in Collegio Cliff Olesen Hugo Agliefii Richard C. Barrefr Jame U. Brady Gregory Brooks Edward H. Burger Leonard R. Capuio John Coffey William P. Cole Lucien H. Cook Ernesi Thalman John Nicholson Jack Meng Ernesi Juhl I44 John Barrel Alfred Smiih Karl Roihe Howard Fensierer William J. Firzpairick Bernard A. Fleck Thomas J. Erascella T. Nelson Gills-err Frank Medon Oscar Kummer George Misson Carl Misiron William D. Moore Herberi Neidhammer Charles E. Olson William G. Pfann Charles Merz Lawrence Picone Vincenl' J. Reale Eugene R. Rosenberg Ered W. Schmiiz Guslrave W. Sedai Edward G. Walsh James M. Allaire Roberi Brown Casimir V. Cichaski Augusi W. Dege Alberf L. Dunn George A. Everson Joseph C. Fegan John J. Eiala John W. Gruol John V. Harringion Charles R. Kenny Edward Kondraiian Waller T. Koroshefz Bernard E. McLaren S. Ludwig Jack Meng S. Eugene Michaels William S. Moore Lolhair H. Rowley Charles E. Schafiner Harry G. Taylor Charles Ross UMEE DELTA PHT . ALPHA CHAPTER s Top row: l-lerberT Niedhammer, Richard BarreT, John Barre-T. Middle row: John Lasco, Carl Mis- Tron, John CoTTey, Oscar Kummer, William Moore, Charles Olson. BoTTom row: Andrew Rosenberg, AlTred SmiTh, Lawrence Piscone, William FiTzpaTrick. AT The Turn oT The cenTury Omega DelTa Phi FraTerniTy was Tounded. A group oT High School sTudenTs aT Cooper Union moTivaTed by The desire To sTrengThen The Triendships made aT school were The nucleaers oT The organizaTion. ATTer Tive years, Their success being realized, an Alumni body was esTablished so ThaT They may devoTe Their Time in TurThering The cause and allow The undergraduaTe members a Treer hand in chapTer managemenT. ln I9I3 The ArTicles oT lncorporaTion were granTed To The broTherhood by The STaTe oT New York. Two years laTer The original NighT School body was granTed a charTer as The Alpha ChapTer oT Omega DelTa Phi lncorporaTed. During The same year aT Brooklyn PolyTechnic lnsTiTuTe The BeTa ChapTer OT Omega DelTa Phi was Tormed and granTed a charTer. STudenTs Trom The school oT Commerce oT New York UniversiTy applied Tor and were granTed a charTer as The Gamma ChapTer in l925. WiTh The inducTion oT The lnsTiTuTe oT Technology aT Cooper Union iT was beTiTTing ThaT Omega DelTa Phi should aid in sTudenT developmenT, so in T928 The day school received a charTer as The DelTa ChapTer. The lasT charTer was granTed in I935 To a group OT sTudenTs aT Brooklyn College as The Epsilon ChapTer. Preliminary To The granTing oT a charTer, The ZeTa Club was Tormed Three years ago by a group oT sTudenTs aT ST. John's UniversiTy. In I936 a group oT Alumni members Tormed The New York club, a branch oT The Alumni AssociaTion. The ideals and purpose oT The Tounders have been adhered To, and iT is upon These principles ThaT The sTrengTh oT The organizaTion is builT. The older members assisT in guiding The newer members Through The maze oT piT- Talls ThaT beseT The young sTudenT on his endeavor Toward a successTul proTession. I45 Needless fo say fhis assisfance is given in professional, scholasfic and social essays. On fhe faculfy of Cooper Union are several nofable members, namely: Professor Karl l-laupfmann of fhe Physics Deparfmenf, one of fhe founders, a man willing fo aid all, who is characferized by his perpefual smile. Professor H. C. Enders, of fhe Chemical Engineering Deparfmenf, a fhorough genfleman, nofed by his abilify fo dramafize a lecfure and his consisfency in befriending undergraduafes. Mr. Raymond E. Kunz of fhe Chemical Engineering Deparfmenf, whose counsel and comradely spirif have made him fhe hero of flie Chemical Engineering Deparfmenf and un- guesfionably one of fhe besf liked insfrucfors af Cooper Union. Mr. Offo Puller of fhe Machine Design Deparfmenf, a rabid advcitafe of faculfy sfudenf feamwork, as againsf fhe l-lolier fhan fhou affifude. Mr. Kennefh Lofgren of fhe Machine Design Deparfmenf, who guides haunfed freshmen from fhe cave of Descripfive Oeomefry, and counsels upper classmen in fhe mare infricafe phases. Jovial Mr. Szymanowifz known fo fhe sfudenf of nighf school as a camera fiend, friend, and graphife experf. All of fhose men are graduafes of Cooper Union and are mosf undersfanding in fhe needs and circumsfances of fhe sfudenfs. A sfudenf embarking upon an engineering course finds liffle fime for oufside acfivifies. This fends fo make him a social infroverf. One of fhe funcfions of fhe frafernify is fhe assisfance given in spanning fhe breach. Af fhe beginning of fhe school year, Open House is held on several occa- sions, for The incoming freshmen. The purpose of fhese recepfions is fo alleviafe any uncerfainfy and fo sef fhe men af ease. Eaculfy guesfs, alumni and upperclass- Top row: Frank Love, Ernesf Thalman, John Nicholson, James Allaire, Lofhair Rowley, George Everson, Charles Schaffner, Karl Rofhe. Second row: Louis Thaisz, William Moore, Clifford Ole- sen, Alberf Dunn, Jack Meng, Erriesf Juhl, Ted Sommers. Third row: John Schrniff, Roberf Brown, Charles Cichoski, Bernard McLaren, John Gruol, John Eiala, Roberf Wilhelm. Boflorn row: Ralph Ascione, Charles Merz, Edward Sliwinski, Ralph Williams, Frank Medon, Warren Thomas. 146 men aid by inspiring Talks and inTormal associaTion. The men are paired aT bridge, chess, pool, checkers, piano TeaTs, vocal rendiTions, gab sessions, eTc., climaxed by a mild lunch. Thus are barriers lowered and The newcomers made To Teel aT home. On SaTurday nighTs inTormal parTies are held aT The FraTerniTy House aT which dancing predominaTes. Ivlasquerades are held on Halloween and New Year's Eve and STag smokers on Thanksgiving Eve and ChrisTmas Eve. A dinner is held by The alumni group, and parTicipaTed in by undergraduaTe members during mid-season. The social season is climaxed by The annua. convenTion held lasT year aT BriarcliTT Lodge, aT which The TraTers par? :ipaTe in baskeTball, golT, Tennis, swimming, indoor games, a business meeTing aT which The naTional oTTicers are elecTed, and an all chapTer dinner. The more serious aspecTs of FraTernal OrganizaTion are conducred aT The monThly meeTing. The Managerial posiTions on The FraTerniTy give one an insighT inTo execu- Tive adminisTraTion. much needed in connecTion wiTh The Engineering ProTession. ThroughouT The school year valuable aid is given To sTudenTs by Their broThers in ironing ouT scholasTic diTTiculTies. The spacious FraTerniTy House is locaTed aT 4 ST. Marks Place, one halT block easT oT The FoundaTion building. Here is Tound a large recreaTion room wiTh library, radio, piano, desks, and easy chairs: a gaming roorn, in which is included a billiard Table: a special room wiTh blackboard, Tor The preparaTion oT sTudies, and Everson's Blue Room where Engineers cogiTaTe. STudenTs are pledged Tor one year, buT cannoT be considered For membership unless They have successTully compleTed Their TirsT year's work aT Cooper Union. This, in coniuncTion wiTh The high sTandards oT Cooper Union, brings men oT high sTandards and similar purposes TogeTher. New men are urged To consider FraTerniTy aTTiliaTions. ' , I47 l 4 ALUMNI , ASSUIII TTU CHRISTIAN WEAVER PresidenT C. JELLINEK Vice-Presidem' LEONARD LU KANITSCI-I SecreTary PHILIP S. ANTI-IES I Treasurer During The TirsT decade OT This cenTury several alumni socieTies Tlourished aT Cooper Union, each deparTmenT bOasTing OT iTs own OrganizaTiOn. These alumni socieTies apparenTly had no inTeresTs in common Tor They all pulled in diTTerenT direcTiOns, each one culTivaTing iTs own speciTic hobby, be iT Engineering, ChemisTry, ArchiTecTure, eTc.: The members OT one group noT knowing Or caring whaT members OT The OTher groups were doing. To remedy This unhealThy cOndiTion iT was suggesTed ThaT The various deparTmenTal alumni organizaTiOns end Their exisTence and combine To Torm one greaT Alumni AssociaTion, recruiTing iTs members Trom all deparTmenTs OT Cooper Union. This revOluTiOnary idea meT wiTh only scanT supporT and ThereTOre had To be abandoned. IT was however generally recognized ThaT There were alumni acTiviTies ThaT concerned graduaTes OT all deparTmenTs and which required Tor Their execuTiOn an OrganizaTiOn broader in scope Than any one OT The deparTmenTal alumni. To meeT This siTuaTion The Alumni FecleraTion of Cooper Union was creaTed. The relaTiOnship beTween The EederaTion and The deparTmenTal alumni socieTies resembled The relaTiOnship beTween The U.S. Federal GOvernmenT and The STaTes in The Union. The Alumni EederaTiOn consisTed OT Tour represenTaTives Trom each school or deparTmenT OT Cooper Union, Two OT which were appoinTed To hold OTTice per- manenTly, The oTher Two were elecTed annually by Their respecTive groups. All acTiviTies requiring The uniTed acTiOn OT all graduaTes, such as The celebraTion OT Founder's Day, were engineered by The Alumni FederaTiOn. However, This Torm OT OrganizaTion proved in The long run To be unsaTisTacTOry To a maiOriTy OT The grad- uaTes and Thus, The Old propOsiTion OT disbanding The smaller alumni socieTies and uniTing Their members inTO one large Alumni AssociaTion was revived. ATTer Thorough deliberaTion and much hard worlc, The Tinal resulT came abouT aT The general meeT- ing, held on lvlay IITh, I936, when a new cOnfTiTuTiOn was accepTed, new OTTicers elecTed, and The presenT Cooper Union Alumni AssociaTion born. The Aims of The Cooper Union Alumni AssociaTion are: TO COorclinaTe The Alma MaTer acTiviTies OT all alumni and Tor new sTudenTs OT Cooper Union: To TosTer a spiriT OT good Tellowship among The members: To cOoperaTe wiTh The TrusTees and TaculTy I48 oT Cooper Union in all ways possible To increase The TaciliTies oT The lnsTiTuTe and iTs power Tor good in The communiTy7 To Thus advance The ideals oT The Tounder, PETER COOPER. The members of The Alumni AssociaTion are graduaTes or Tormer sTudenTs Trom any deparTmenT oT Cooper Union. The membership is divided inTo ChapTers, each deparTmenT in Cooper Union being represenTed by a ChapTer. The AdminisTraTion is enTrusTed To The elecTed oTTicers and a board oT governors, The membership oT which is made up oT Two represenTaTives Trom each oT The ChapTers. For The beneTiT oT iTs members, The Alumni mainTains a Tully equipped and Turnished oTTice in The FoundaTion Building, Room l4A. Among The year's more imporTanT acTiviTies may be menTioried: PublicaTion: The Cooper Union Alumni News published monThly ThroughouT The school year. EmploymenT: A bureau mainTained Tor bo+h graduaTes and undergraduaTes oT Cooper Union. Library Privileges: Alumni members enioy borrower's privileges in boTh The STudenTs' and Main Library oT Cooper Union. General MeeTings: Four social and educaTional meeTings held aT speciTic inTervals which included an Engineering Colloquium and Panel Discussion wiTh addresses by Dr. Edwin S. Burdell, Dean George F. BaTeman, Tech '07, and Mr. C. E. Giraud, Tech 'O8: and The lecTure, AsTronomy Tor Engineers by Mr. Meyer Meadows, Chem 'I8. STudy Groups: Round Table discussions oT inTeresT To The members which included: Applied Psychology conducTed by Miss Mildred A. Zadelc, M.A.: Modern Gas Planr Design, by Dr. C. STolzenbach, Tech '3lg OperaTional Calculus by Mr. AlberT Nerlren, Chem '33: ElecTronics by Mr. A. J. WohlgemuTh, E.E. '3l. The ouTsTanding social evenT oT The year was The Gala Dinner-Dance held aT The GreaT NorThern l-loTel on February ll, in celebrafion OT Eounder's Day. Among The celebriTies presenT were Dr. Edwin S. Burdell, Mr. Charles J. Reidel, 6.5. '98, Dr. l'lousTon PeTerson, ProT. ArThur l-l. Radasch, and Mr. Guy Gaylor Clark. Founder's Day was TurTher commemoraTed by The placing oT wreaThs on The busT of PeTer Cooper in The l-lall oT Fame aT New Yorlc UniversiTy and also aT ST. Gaudens' STaTue aT Cooper Square. The Alumni AssociaTion loolcs wiTh lceen saTisTacTion upon This year's accomplish- menTs which included, among oTher Things, a 40 per cenT increase in iTs membership as well as a reawalcening oT ThaT cooperaTive spiriT which so characTerizes our be- loved Alma MaTer, Cooper Union. I49 A U TUMUHHUW LL The way To here we wave Tollowed The TacTual hisTory oT Cooper Union Trom when PeTer Cooper TirsT ThoughT oT iT unTil The Pioneer blossomed ouT. l.eT us go a sTep Torward. Aided only by a mere imaginaTion leT us go Torward To The Cooper Union oT Tomorrow. WhaT shall we Tind if we reTurn To Cooper Union, a successTul arTisT and engineer and Transverse iTs spacious, memory-Tilled halls? Ah! There we are aT Cooper Union on The Square. The EI has been Taken down years ago and separaTing The Tive buildings oT The Union is a lea oT green crossed by many paThs. WhaT has happened To Fisher? We grasp a busTling Cooper sTudenT by The arm. WhaT, we ask him, has happened To The Tall building ThaT sTood There wiTh a clock ThaT always read 'Three minuTes To Twelve? The sTudenT gradually comes ouT oT his coma. A building? There? Oh yes, he replies, we Threw iT down when we builT The new chemisTry building. He dashes OTT relapsing back inTo his daze. We gaze aT The handsome Tive sTory gymnasium wiTh rooms Tor meeTings oT sTudenT socieTies, game rooms, swimming pool, riTle range, and hundreds oT oTher TeaTures ThaT we never had Time To invesTigaTe. We ride up in one oT The roomy elevaTors wiTh a courTeous operaTor. FiTTh Tloor, please. We had heard cerTain rumors-I guesTion The operaTor abouT Them. Say, l say, who runs This school? The sTudenTs, he says, impaTienT wiTh my ignorance. WhaT do The TaculTy do? They Teach, he said, buT The sTudenTs have Their own commiTTees To adminisTer The school, Their own commfTTees see ThaT discipline is main- Tainedf' No doubT There is a Tacuiiy mf-mber on each commiTTee, I said, Think- ing oT my own day. No, buT There is a sTudenT on every Tacuiy commiTTee. Why? To see ThaT The TaculTy do noT exceed Their righTs. You see, he ex- plained, suspecTing me wiTh nol being able To see, The TaculTy members work here. They Teach Their subiecTs-They know Their subfecTs well. BuT They aren'T supposed To discipline The sTudenTs. The sTudenTs are grown up enough To discipline Themselves. This is no kindergarTen, he said, as we reached our Tloor, Th s is C'-coer Union. I goT OTT The eIevaTor wiTh a Teeling oT unbeIieT. A blonde sTenographer in a dark blue dress saT in a Ii++Ie anTeroom ThaT shuT The eIevaTor enTrance OTT Trom The resT oT The Tloor. WhaT can I do Tor you, sir? she said. I am an alumnus oT Cooper Union, I mumbled, s+iII noT sure oT myselT, can I see The ediTor oT The Cable? Do you have an appoinTmenT? No, I can make an appoinTmenT Tor you. WhaT do you wanT To see him abouT? Well . . . I'm an alumnus oT Cooper Union, and I wanTed To know whaT happened To The old school. You don'T wanT To see The ediTor, she said. l'II geT Mr. Black OT The DeparT- menT OT lnTormaTion, Tor you. Ivlr. Black was a young Tellow wiTh a Time worn Tace and yellow sweaTer. WhaT can I do Tor you? I Told him ThaT I was an alumnus and wanTed To know all abouT The school. I-Ie Told me. Cooper Union is much diTTerenT Trom The old days, he said. Yes, so I noTice. WhaT happened? NoThing much. We iusT kepT up wiTh The Times. You go To any college nowa- days and you will Tind The same Thing. CompleTe sTudenT governmenT. The TaculTy is iusT There To Teach and To advise-noT To govern The sTudenTs. Do you have any Trouble wiTh The Pioneer? WhaT do you mean? Well, if you give Those Tellows a Tree hand you can never Tell whaT They will prinT. BoshI WhaT do you Think we are? A bunch oT kids? The ediTor has a deTiniTe responsibiliTy To his readers. I-Ie has To see ThaT The paper pays or he won'T be paid. WhaTI The ediTor geTs paid! Yes, on a percenTage basis. He is paid ouT oT The proTiTs oT The paper. He works hard. I-Ie deserves To geT paid. The same goes Tor The sTaTl. The sTaTT is paid? Yes sir. Vile Tound ThaT The only way To puT ouT a good paper is To pay The people Tor puTTing iT ouT. OTherwise you geT a bunch OT cracked poliTicians who know noThing abou? The Technical aspecTs oT puTTing ouT a newspaper. The same goes Tor The Cable. Well, I said, hardly able To Talk, I am surprised. ThaT's whaT all you alumni say when you come back, he said. Well, he looked aT The calendar on his desk, l have an appoinTmenT in a Tew minuTes. IT you wanT any oTher inTormaTion drop around again. Goodbye. Goodbye I sTaggered o'.T oT The room, inTo The elevaTor. I was Too dazed To look around any more. Did I really see and hear whaT I ThoughT I heard? I never goT up enough nerve To go back again, buT some day I will go back and Tind ouT more abouT ThaT place. There's someThing Tishy There .... I5I SE Allaire, James ,Y,,,,,,7,, Allison, HerI::er+ ,,,,. .. Aronow, Saul ,,,Y,,,,, Bagnasco, Dan+e ,,...,, Barbarow, Ru+h ,,Y,,,,,, Barker, Joseph 7 ,,.. . Barrows, Charles.. . Berman, EIIio++ ,,4,,,,,7,, Black, Joseph ....,,,,,,,,, BIoom+ieId, Doro+hy Bra++, John ,,,7...,...,.,, Bricchi, Hugo .,,,....,.. Brody, James ,,,,7,,,. Browning, John .,,Y,, Budde, AIber+ ..,,7e,e Caccamo, Charles ,.7, Cahill, Mary ....,7,.s,,,,, Capodieci, AI+onse.. Ches+er, Holly ........... Davidson, Ger+rude.. Del Papa, Frank ....,,, . Dorfsman, Louis ..,,,, Edelman, Abraham. . Farmer, Jack .......,,,,,s Feder, Harold ....,,,,,,, Feldman, Kenne+h ,,u.,,,,, Fiala, John ..,..,....,,.,,,, Fi+zgeraId, Frank .,,,,,, Foodin, Charles .,,., Geier, George ..,,,,,,,, Gluck, Frederick ,,,,a,,, Gordon, Max ...,..,,, GouI+ine, Edifh ..,,,,,,, Gruoe, John ,.......,a, Halliday, Kei+h u..i...,,, Hendrickson, Madeline ,,,, Herzog, Rober+ ......v,c,.c,,,c Holland, C. Whi+ney ,,,,,,c,,,, Hordechuck, John c.c,c I52 IUHQHUSTEH . .,,,.........,,, 2265 84 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ........425 Hamil+on S+., Harrison, N. J. .. . ,..,.....,,s....,. 553 58 S+., Brooklyn, N. . .,.........IO42 Union S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Y Mills S+., Morris+own, N. J. ........6I-34 Woodbine S+., Ridgewood, N. Y. . ,.,,....., I56 Eas+ I78 S+., Bronx, N. Y. .........I5I7 WaI+on Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ,,,,, I955 Grand Concse., Bronx, N. Y. .........35-5O 72 S+., Jackson Heigh+s, L. I. .......l4I A+Ian+ic S+., Hackensack, N. J. . ......... ...... 6 3I Mead S+., Bronx, N. Y. .........398O Provos+ Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ........88 Four+h Ave., New York Ci+y ...............2548 Ma++hews Ave., Bronx, N. Y. . ..,...,..,..,.......,. 23I Eas+ I3 S+., New York Ci+y Cooper Union Ar+ School, New York Ci+y Paulding Ave., Bronx, N. Y. 42 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .........I589 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 64 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ..........586 Eas+ I79 S+., Bronx, N. Y. .........2I8 Wa+kins S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .........8I9 53 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .........865 Fas+ I72 S+., Bronx, N. Y. Fas+ I3 S+., New York Ci+y .........4IO Eas+ 84 S+., New York Ci+y Ravine Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. ..........44-O9 Edgemere Ave., Far Rockaway, N. Y. 37 Carmel Ave., S+a+en Island, N. Y. ......288 Main S+., Eas+ Orange, N. J. .............2Ol4 6l S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ..................IO2-I9 2l6 S+., Bellaire, L. I. . ,..,,,, 80-48 89 Ave., Woodhaven, N. Y. .........l42 Fas+ 52 S+., New York Ci+y .......I952 An+hony Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ...I I63 Presiden+ S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gray S+., Bogo+a, N. J. .......623 Eas+ 6 S+., New York Ci+y Hornung, W. J .....,... Hu+chins, Melvin... Hysa, Ann ,,,,,,V,,, Kaplan. Abe ., ,..... Kassner, Wol+ga ng ,,,,,,, Kazarian, Ruben ,,,,,,, King, John J ..,,... Klein, William ,...,... Koliner, Ralph ......,, ...W2346 Hermany Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ........336O Bailey Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ...........2249 97 S+., Eas+ Elmhurs+, L. I. .,.......345 Eas+ 55 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ........IO82 'I'in+on Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ..,....326 Third Ave., New York Ci+y .. ..Y..... 509 Eas+ 34 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .........284 Eas+ I72 S+., New York Ci+y ....57 Wes+ 84 S+., New York Ci+y Kornielcl. Neva... ............ I I54 Presiden+ S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Kramer. Jack ......... ........................ I 932 60 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Krau+, 'led ................. ......... 2 38 IVIon+icello Ave., Jersey Ci+y, N. J. Kushner, Sylvia .............. ................. 6 8I Howard Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Kuizelman, Howard ....,.,.. Kuzmick, Jerome ..,... Lazzaro, Josephine... Leddy, Madeleine.. I.es+er, Seymour ........ Leven+hal, Abe ......... Lich+enberg, Edward ....... l.ip+on, lvIil+on ............ Loiacono, James .,..... Loughlin, Bernard ......... Lubalin, Herber+ ...... Mahadeen, James ..., lVIa+uri, Vincen+ ....,,,,. lvIcAleer, James ..... lvIcCa++rey, Jane ...... Messinger, Harry .......... ...,....,......, lvleyerson, Bernard... Miller, Pincus ............ IvIi+chell, Herloer+ I ..,.... Moderacki, Alvin ...,., Nasa+, Benjamin ..... Na+elson, Florence... Newman, Kenne+h ..., Niemczynski, Ber. .... . Nis+ico, Frank .......,, O'Brien, M. F ......... Olco++, Bernard ......., Olinsky, Herman ..,,... Orchard, Louise ...,, ........I53I Wes+ches+er Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ..I3 Holden S+., Cli++on, N. J. I7O Eas+ I8 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .........32-38 76 S+., Jackson Heigh+s, N. Y. ............I5IO Carroll S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ...,.......2I73 Eas+ 5 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ........2069 An+hony Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ..............2402 85 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Pa+erson S+., Kearny, N. J. ........I85 Nor+h I7 S+., Eas+ Orange, N. J. 307 Beach 47 S+., Far Rockaway, L. I. ...W325 Wes+side Ave., Jersey Ci+y, N. J. ...........5OO Wes+ 42 S+., New York Ci+y N Y . ................ 332I Seymour Ave., Bronx, . . 98 Cha++er+on Pkway., Whi+e Plains, N. Y. I24I Bronx River Ave., Bronx, N. Y. . .............. I63l 55 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. ..........585 Eas+ I69 S+., Bronx, N. Y. ............87I Kelly S+., Bronx, N. Y. ...........6IO 46 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wes+ 85 S+., New York Ci+y ........84O La+aye++e Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Clin+on Pl., M+. Vernon, N. Y. ............I326 Grand Concse., Bronx, N. Y. .....23 Bedell Ave., To++enville, S. I., N. Y. ,........3l2O Wilkenson Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ........,.I38-I4 97 Ave., Jamaica, N. Y. Marvin Ave., Hemps+ead, L. l. ....,,..I7 Wes+er+on Rd., Bronxville, N. Y. I53 PaH'en, Mariorie ,...,,,,,, Pedolsky, Millon ....,, Pelzer, Eugene ...... Puchir, Michael .A,,..,, Ouirin, Fred ,7.,7,,,, Rankin, Rulh ,,.,...,, ......I93 Cypress Ave., Fall River, Mass. ...........l554 Walson Ave., Bronx, N. Y. IO7 Lebanon S+., Bronx, N. Y. ........35 Avenue A, New York Cily .........524 Wesl I62 SI., Bronx, N. Y. ...W35 Orange S+., Slamlord, Conn. Beechhursl, L. I. h Orange, N. J. Brooklyn, N. Y. Jamaica, N. Y. Ransom, Naomi ....... . .....,.. I54-II I2 Rd., Richmond, NaI'han ...... .,...........,,,,.,.,, I 35 Ouincy S+., Passaic, N. J. Riehl, Helmul ........... ......... 6 5 Monlrose Ave., Soul Robbins, Harry ............... ............ 2 l2I Weslbury C+., Roskowski, Edmund ........ ........ I 47-47 Ferndale Ave., Russ, Dan ,.,,.,........,.. ....................., 7 I9 Beck SI., Bronx Sagonas, Peler .o.......... Savacchio, Anrhony ..o.... Salomon, Royes .,.,... Scheller, Karl ...,.... Selliken, Norma ..,.... Singer, Arlrhur .....,,.. Sirois, Benoir J ........ ...........lOBI Simpson , N. Y. SI., Bronx, N. Y. .......447 Easr I I6 S+., New York Cily ........203 Sevenlh Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. ........I74 Peshin Ave., Newark, N. J. ........I75 68 S+., ........7OI Wesl I8O S+., ..........263 Orchard ST., Brooklyn, N. Y. New York Cily Elizabelh, N. J. Slolkin, Meyer ......... .................... 6 42 Fox SI., Bronx, N. Y. Srauss, Bernard ,,,,,,,. ..., ,.......... 4 B 7 Easl I44 SI., Bronx, N. Y. Tanenbaum, Sol .......... .......... 4 73 Elarbush Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Tapley, Melvin ..... ,.,........... . ..8 Charles S+., Peekskill, N. Y. Taylor, Harry ....... ........ 7 2 Waldo Ave., Bloomfield, N. J. Tobias, Leo ....... ............ I 53I Jesup Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Tobias, Philip ........... .......... 7 58 Hamillon SI., Harrison, N. J. Turner, Edward ........ .................. 9 25 72 SI., Brooklyn, N. Y. Turner, VicI'or ...... ....... 3 27 Wesl' 85 S+., New York Cily Vignini, Waller ........... ........................... I 3I Bay I3 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wager, Margarel ............. ......... I 7-53 Lockwood Ave., Far Rockaway, N. Y. Warringlon. Herberlr ........ ........................... I IIO Easl' I8O S+., Bronx, N. Y. Weber, Henry Paul ....... ............ 5 76 Wesr I83 S+., New York Cily Websler, William .......... ......... 2 59 Lafayelle Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Weichbrod, Joseph .......... Weinlraub, Murray .............. Wiesendanger, Roberl ...,..... .......57O Williams Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. ...............IO25 45 S+., Brooklyn, N. Y. .......294 Somerville PI., Yonkers, N. Y. Williams, Joseph ........... ...................... I 728 43 SI. Winson, Henry ........... .. , Brooklyn, N. Y. .......37I9 I2 SI., Long Island Cily, N. Y. Woleisio, Wilhelm ......... ....... I O-43 44 Dr., Long Island Cily, N. Y. Wollsohn, Pearl ......... Zapolski, Ben ....... l54 .......652 Wesl l89 S+., New York Cily .........2035 Creslon Ave., Bronx, N. Y. 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Corn Exchange Safe Deposil' Co. 86l,500.00 Sundry Securiiies .. .- ,..,,..ss,,..,,,. .,,,,s,,,,, ,,,..., . . 342,735.00 Secured Demand Loans.. ..,,,,..,,,,s,,,, ,..,,,, I 6,74-8,869.33 Secured Time Loans.. .,,e,,,s,., .. 2,8l7,042.86 Loans and Discounis Unsecured ,,,,..,,,,, 8,388,875.77 Firs+ Morfgages ,,,, .,,,,..,,.e., . .. ,,,,,,,,, .. I8,584,479.04 Cusfomers' Liabiliiy on Accepiances ,,,,.. l,282,443.82 Banking Houses Owned ,,e,.., . .. . ,,,.ev.,,, I l,805,l I8.92 O+her Real Esfafe Owned e.,,ee.,,,,,. 2,0I9,l37.28 Accrued Inferesf Receivable ,.,,,,s,,.s.. .. I,II3,l67.40 Oiher Assefs ,,,,...........A. ,,,,,,,,,es.,,,,..,,,,..,, ..,e,,, I 0 0,964.8I TOTAL TO MEET INDEBTEDNESS s,,,....,v.. S33l,722,240.I8 This leaves ,,s.,.,,,,..., ..e.,..,,...,,,,.,,s,, ,,,,, ,,,,,, . . 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