Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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SINF, CCDSINF AND TANGENT NGINEERS-the second largest group enrolled in any one course in Highland .Junior College-have a language all their own. t'Sine, cosine, tangent, differential, integral, focus, quan- tum, these words and many others they speak sound to outsiders like Hottentot gibberish. Miss Culbertson is the only woman who can attempt to understand them tthere are no women engineers, you knowj and even she cannot understand somle of the engineers' crack-brained theories. The engineers' course consists primarily of math, chem, math, physics, math, and math. From this, one logically deduces that many of our mathematical geniuses emerge l'rom the engineering de- partment. It has often been said that an engin- eer has a one-track mind, that he thinks only in concrete terms, of mass, length, velocity, energy-in short, only in terms of engineering. The '39 Engineers of H. J. C. have irrefutably proved that their in- terests are many and diversified. Let us consider for a moment the hypothetical situation of H. J. C. without engineers. Think of the Highlander and the Trail Blazer without Loyd, the quartet without Parsons, a play without Mully, a basket- ball game without its quoto of Engineers. What. would a party, a darkroom session, thc Camera Club, the Men's room cushions, the Y. W. room, or the bowling alley be without engineers? Our engineers are en- gaged in every line of activity in the col- lege. Without our engineers, travel would suffer a serious decline, for twith due deference to the journalism departmentj some of our most noted hitch-hikers are engineers. From Texas to North Dakota, from Illinois to California, the gently in- sistent thumbs of our engineers have made their way. One common characteristic betrays every engineer. It distinguishes him from all others, it is a mark of gentility by which one may always know him. He is always broke. No matter when, no mat- ter where, no matter how happy, he is broke. Why? Because he is an engineer. Every engineer has two ambitions: one, to finish his formal education at Kansas State, two, to attend the Open House at Manhattan when he is a sopho- more here. Fate nor :fortune may not al- ways permit, but always he strives to satisfy these ambitions. This year on Senior Day, the Engin- eers of H. J. C. held their own miniature 'tOpen House. Visiting seniors were treat- ed to demonstrations of everything from the accidental receiving of an electric shock to the mysteries of a photo-elec- tric cell. They will ever carry on their search for the solution of mysteries. Seventeen

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Engineers Howard Fralin QSu1nme1'fieldJ. Raymond Wagner fTroy5. Howard Batchelder KHiawathaJ. Wai-ren Sechler lLeonaJ. John Gilmore lHighlandJ. A physics lab. Going my way? Eugene Loyd iHia- wathab. Harold Gilmore CHigh1andJ and 'Warren Corbet fHighlandJ. Julian Nelson fTroyJ. David Batchelder CHiawathay. Alvin Ackei' LHighlandJ. They'1'e in the navy now. Warreli Schwab CBendenaJ.

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C:OI'TlI'Tl6l'CS Helen Richards CI-Iighlandl. Marie Mooreliead CHighlanrlJ. Jabez Sparks fSparksJ. Dorothy Neibling QI-Iighlandl. Billy Bauer fHighlandJ. Leah Fern Douglas fRobinsonl. Virginia and Charles Marsh QT1'oyJ. Lawrence Wagner fTroyl. Louise Davis iHigl1landJ. Boats or boots? Verna Parker fHighlandJ. A typing class. Romney Ketterman CWhite Clouclj. Audrey McCormick and Helen Ukena fLeonaJ.