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

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pre- ngineering Give me some men, said Peter Cooper in 1859, who are stout-hearted men and I will return fifty percent of them as fully qualihed engineers. VVhether or not the founder of our school ever uttered those words cannot be proven. Nevertheless, the freshmen engineers are strong believers in the authenticity of the quotation. The saga of the Freshman Class begins on September 17, 1947 when the 108 embryonic engineers entered the hallowed halls of Cooper to register for classes. However, a more interesting and certainly more pleasant side of the Freshman Class exhibited itself at Green Engineering Camp a week earlier when the freshmen were introduced to some ol the faculty as well as to one another. At camp it was discovered that as long as the fellows were well fed and well supplied with sporting equipment, they were a surprisingly amiable group of young men. However, under the conditions of severe mental and physical strain en- countered at Cooper Square, the group underwent a metamorphosis unparalleled in the evolution of man. Gone are the grinning laces seen at camp, gone are the carefree attitudes and in their place are physics books, slide rules and haunted looks. .

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The group was divided into five sections, and the fellows got to know their own section pretty well. Suppose then, we look into the life and history of a few of these sections and see just what makes the Freshmen Engineers tick. IfVhen Registration Day arrived and all the freshmen joy- fully awaited the beginning of their first day of college life, an event took place that is destined to go down in history. The elite of the group, the mental and physical genii, demanded that they be put in one class. Thus, Section I was born. Variety is the spice of life may well be chosen as their motto, for a more widely contrasted group cannot be found any- where. Charles Tonsils Blaut does his best to prove that good things come in small packages. VVhen Charley whispers, the walls vibrate. Edward Arthurs, a 200-pound bruiser, is certain that the teachers are out to break him. Eddie is particularly wary of Prof. Hollinger and once said He won't get the best of me as they picked him up from the gym floor. Erwin F. Conrad, the Answer Man, delights no one as he rattles off the value of Pi to 32 decimal places or gives the atomic num- ber of every known element. Quite naturally, even a group of such high caliber as this one has a few recognized leaders. Richard Bemis, the drafting pro, promises to continue as the pace setter of the Engineering Drawing class and Paul Burri is likely to continue to astound Prof. Eastham with his mathematical ability. I-Iere we have just a few of the students who have spread the fame of Section I throughout the school. It is certain that they can be relied upon to continue their good work and make full use oftheir exceptional talent. ' lf it's talent you're looking for, you don't have to look any further. YVC have plenty of it here in Section II. Georgie I-Iolfner isn't a professional magician but he is always ready with a new card trick when things slow down. Our basketball quintet, Norman Feldman, Bill Goldstein, Morty Hausner, Bob Reece and Ed I-Iilzinger burn up the court during practice ses- sions so you can imagine how they would play in a real game. Bill Haflin, our star runner, flashed by the mile mark in 5:32. Flashbulbs Goodman always has his candid handy, insuring a perpetual smile from all our instructors. Art Frank and Rudy Hohenberg are the two draftsmen in the class. They can be always depended on to turn out masterpieces of the pencil- pusher's art. Sherlock Holmes Hallock is an ex-piano player. I-le can't play in school though, because he is used to having a glass of beer on the piano while he is playing-for the correct vibrations, of course. Bill Evers, Herb Davison, and Charley