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

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Standing: Edward Barlow, Secretaryg John Charl- ton, Treasurer, Frank Himmer, Vice-President. Seated: John Rozolis, President. Everett Birmingham-the fellow who spends his weekends in Flushing, and is so much more tired on Mondays than on Fri- days. Daniel Borsiczky - Plainfield's contribution to Cooper Union. He always complains that no trains run out to Plainfield between 12 midnight and 6 A.M. Tough luck old boy. Pelt Van Brower-our swing enthusiast who uses his little sister's bicycle since his car broke down. George Everson-who showed his bravery when faced with an emergency by using the fire extin- guisher to put out a fire in the Organic Lab. P.S. He nearly missed. Hortley Fields-who is the custodian of our cherished football, William Keary-also known as Bill the Killer. His activities while playing football on our campus seriously re- duced the number of healthy seniors for next year. But Bill helped his victims to pass Organic Chemistry which he certainly knows. Fred Kohler-also known as Einstein Kohler, whose theories even get the professors in a dither .... Perhaps this year's quota of Chemical Engineers could be more appropriately entitled Cornical Engineers, for such they surely are. Even so serious a subject as Social Philosophy Col- loquium assumes a lighter air when the Senior Chems are in Top: C. Krulewitz, J. Friedman, A. Dworkowitz, J. Goldberg, L. Shapiro, H. Zuchino, S. Bernstein. Bottom: H. Sonberg, E. Zinberg, J. Zalinsky, S. Rabinowitz, G. Brown, G. Quinn, L. Wizemann. 26

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Having survived the ordeals of the second year, we shall now delve further into the intricacies of Chemical Engineering as 3rd year Ch.E.,s. As the section is not too large, greater intimacy and cooperation than otherwise is possible among its members. If there is anything outstanding about us, then it is the fairly even division of ability in the section. This is quite frankly recognized by us and probably is a factor mak- ing for greater friendship. However, the class is fortunate enough in that many of its meni- bers are pretty good in specific subjects and so are able to contribute to those whose ability lies in some other topics. VVe have learned how important and eH'ective mutual assistance can be and believe that this is an important lesson to take along with us. Now that only one more year of work separates us from graduation fwe hopej, we look back upon three tough years and can hardly believe that the same fellows who, three years ago on a hot day of August went through the entrance exam, may graduate a year from now. As yet we have not passed the final hurdles, but we are still going strong, and before we know it, we,ll be there. The third year Ch.E. class consisted of the following members: Top Row: J. Friedman, H. Bouma, J. Rothmayer, G. Ferrigni, P. Horsting, R. Costa. Middle Row: E. Quinn, F. Schaefer, M. Slutsky, E. Von Storch, I. Machlin, H. Ruopp. Bottom Row: F. Quattlander, l. Rappaport, D. Muhl- meister, J. Weixel, B. McLaren. ,KV-A fir Zi , . A

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Top: E. Fitzgerald, A. Teller, F. Medon, C. Merz, J. Schmitt, John Atkins. Bottom: S. Schaffer, S. Gordon, M. Klamkin, L. Weintraub, G. Miller, L. Cluckman, G. Tauth. session, what with their rapid-fire witticisms and brilliant ex- amples. Foremost among these, we will long remember the immortal words of one classmate, who, while attempting to illus- trate the meaning of Potted Thinking fChapter 6 in Stebbing- Dear Old Stebbingwj came out with the concoction, '4Beryllium for Better Bridges. However, even this failed to awaken the five lVl.E. students who sit in with us-these men serving merely to help fill up the otherwise unoccupied rear of the room. One thing definitely missing this year is the production of explosive gas mixtures fHe pronounces it gezzl by one of our diminutive members. This cook-book chemist was good for at least one catastrophe per week in preceding years. Long will we remember his part in spilling a bottle of Sodium Peroxide down the sink-with such violent results that pieces of glass were found over by the Hewitt Building. lt is stuff such as this that makes life the uncertain thing it is. Here it is, the third year, and all those nice young men who thought that they had been admitted to the Cooper Union are beginning to wonder if they do not belong to the Cuckoo Union. The way in which the work has been coming and the time going, Top Row: Paul Scherbner, Treasurerg George T Smith, Vice-President. Seated: George A. Mazzi- telli, President. ' . ,- 27