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

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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

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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 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