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

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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

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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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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