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

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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

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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

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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