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

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Second Year E.E.-Top-G. Weiss, M. Yanowitcb, T. Trott, J. Lynch, J. Wolff, J. Poliksa. Bottom-M. Panzer J Herrera N Bernstein, A. E. Kelman, A. Hornung, H. Levenstein, D. Santigrossi. It is our fondest hope that, when we have acquired sufficient knowledge of the principles we are being taught to warrant our practicing them in the engineering field, we shall always be able to maintain with Civil, Mech- anical and Chemical Engineers such ideal relations as have been described. JUNIORS After a summer's absence, we returned to this our third year at C. U. with renewed hopes and ambitions. The havoc of June exams was evinced by the absence of several familiar faces and the addition of several new ones to the class. The partnership of Schachat and Hirsch was broken up, and the Goldin twins separated, with Julian Hirsch and Sam Goldin sticking with us. ' 'Faced with a light schedule, our hopes for an eight hour night fof sleepj were soon darkened, as the complexities of Differential Equations, A.C. Circuits, Mechanics of Materials, Heat Power and D.C. Machines began to penetrate our rusty brains. Never did we feel the depths of our ignorance more than when Professor Miller explained an uelementary problem in Diff. Eq., or when Professor Brumfield queried us on the matter of stresses and strains. And then there was E.81lVl.-again! It was with sadness that we discovered that a summer of aging had done little toward improving the mildness of lVlr. Tallman's problems, Heading the list of our class's'brighter luminaries, we find the name of Ed Herszkorn. Ed may customarily be located by spotting a group of vociferously arguing students. Generally Herszkorn will be in the center surrounded by and in vocal competition with Soroka, Halabi, or Grad. 7 1

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it r 1 1 Z -: ! 7'- if 1 731 uv' .2 ,ii a -4 fiff 4 -f .4 3 .41 W4 wi The sophomore Electrical Engineering class consists of an average of about twenty students, the very flower of last yearis one hundred Fresh- men. An average membership of students, rather than a precise one, is given by reason of the somewhat discomforting fact that some of us flowers have yet to master sundry first year profundities, the mastery of which is pre- requisite to our full bloom as regular sophomores. And thus it happens that as the section migrates from class to class its numerical magnitude varies, for the second year subject waiteth, giving place to the first year one. How- ever, on the basis of the fact that we breathe the same air as the regulars, and speak the same language, and have taken many of the same courses fsometimes more than oncej, and are all members of the human race, we feel we are all of the same group. Except for our unquestionable intellectual superiority, our lightning wits, and magnetic personalities, we of the sophomore Electrical Engineering section are pretty much the same kind of students as are those of the other sophomore sections. As a matter of fact, several of our lectures are attended by various other sections in full force, and we think our section is to be congratulated upon its consistently humane conduct toward these lesser beings. It is our practice never to discuss any of the more involved problems of Electrical Engineering in the presence of these pitiable fellows, and we have always been careful to pretend interest in their pathetic little affairs. ln return for our magnanimity, we ask of them only that we be shown the respect that is naturally due us. And so, largely as a result of these efforts on the part of our section, there exists a complete harmony and remarkable unity throughout the entire sophomore student body.

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Top- A Adverse, J. Rozolis, G. Weiner, M. Coe. Bottom-B. Cole, B. Soroko, M. Minneman, H. Grad, J. Hirsch Most famous of the Hflerszkorn questions was when Mr. Shelton explained that a synchronous condenser was an over-excited synchronous motor, our Ed inquired, HBut do they really put condensers on those motors?,' Harold Grad, incidently, is the mathematical genius and all around brain of our section. Among his more minor achievements is the formula- tion of a differential equation for stress in a concrete cylinder that even Prof. Miller couldn't solve. Then there is our big business man, Milton J. Minneman, financial wizard of that journalistic misdemeanor, The Pioneer, generally accompanied by Byron M. Cole, who is another factor in the production of our school rag. This brings us inevitably to that great reporter, paragon of fsupposedj wit and worldly wisdom, Gil Weiner. ln addition to his many other activi- ties, Gil joined this year with John Rozolis and Mike Coe to form a junior M.A.O.-object, the advancement of learning among said members. For class cynic, we elect that sharp tongued young man-about-town, R. O. Williams. We understand that R. 0. is quite a blade with the Women, but he has yet, unlike Aaron Leder, to prove his talent. Leder appeared at Mr. Churchill's Social Study Group gallantly escorting a beautiful blonde. The lecture that week was on marriage! Of course, no reference to a third year class can be complete without some mention of our Electrical Machines lab., forever to be allied with memories of sleepless nights spent suffering over a lab report. Here were revealed unsuspected talents of Henry Schwiebert and Frank Wil- liams, under whose able supervision many a difiicult experiment was car- ried to a successful conclusion. It was here too that Minneman demon-