Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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My experience with this question- naire has confirmed my faith in the relia- bility of democratic processes in judging matters of human concern. It is a striking fact that the same points of merit were presented with closely the same degree of relative frequency by men active in widely different areas. The groups to which I refer were: (1) The men of the Interim Committee, in dividuals con- cerned with human problems in their broad- est terms and accustomed to accepting the responsibility for major decisions, (2) the mechanics in our shops who were working long hours in fabricating the bomb. When it comes to questions of value associated with human life, judgments are from the heart. During your lifetime you will have to make many decisions. Some of them will be based on facts, many will be judgments from the heart . You will be influenced by unprecedented channels of communica- tion — newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs with coast to coast net- works. But it will still be up to you to make up your mind and act accordingly. You are members of a select group — the five or six students out of one hundred who are undergoing advanced education. It will be your privilege and duty to accept more than your share of responsibilities. Some of your decisions may well have far reaching effects — not only for yourself and your family, but for the country as a whole. It is my earnest hope that in your associations with your schools, your church and your community, you are building a strong sense of values and reliable stand- ards by which to judge them. 3 Carold iS. JQrcxun Principal THE S. A. C. President ' s It has been my privilege to fill the position of President of the Students ' Ad- ministrative Council for the final year of the Lakehead Technical Institute. As you all know the new college will be called the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. We wish our suc- cessors the best of luck in the new institu- tion with the elaborate name. But I know that we who have gone to the Lakehead Technical Institute will never forget the old building and the great little room known as the Common Room where the accumulated wisdom of the ages has been unveiled. We have tried to present an adequate social programme to a very lively student body. In this we have been able to profit by experience of the previous years. Inform- al parties and stags at the beginning of the S MESSAGE year have helped to acquaint the students with each other and hence the student body early became a unit. Technical, Arts and Applied Science Students have all joined to make a very interesting and enjoyable year. The Council and I wish to thank everyone for their co-operation. We also wish to thank Dr. Miller, our adviser, and Mr. Braun, our Principal, for their advice and help. I would like to thank my fellow mem- bers of the Council, the Athletic Society and the Year Book Staff for the great work which they have done. We of the Council hope that every- one ' s dream materializes and wish you all the luck in the world. WALTER MALCHUK President 11

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THE ' Principal ' s message To the Graduates: It is a privilege to extend sincere con- gratulations and every good wish to the graduating class. In all probability you will be the last class to graduate from the con- verted army barracks on Cumberland Street. On many occasions, I am sure, thoughts of one year too soon must have been common. There is one characteristic, however, which has been common to all graduating classes. Either because of, or in spite of, our inadequate quarters each class has formed a very close knit and intensely loyal grou p. There has been a sense of pioneering. It is my earnest hope that some of your spirit will be carried over into our new Lakehead College. During the past week I read Atomic Quest by Arthur Holly Compton. I should like to make reference to two quotations. The first quotation results from conver- sation between Lieut. General Leslie Groves who was the man in charge of the military aspects of the atomic energy program in the United States and Dr. Compton who was the chief scientific leader in the pro- gram. The two men were just leaving a meeting of scientists who were in charge of one of the experimental investigations. Differences of opinion were expressed free- ly and the meeting was a stormy one. General Groves makes the following statement. You scientists don ' t have any discipline. You don ' t know how to take and give orders. And Dr. Compton replies: You are right General. We don ' t know how to take and give orders. But a scientist, if he is a responsible man, has a different kind of discipline. It is not possible for any one to tell a scientist what he must do, for his proper course of action is determined by the facts as he finds them for himself. Then he needs a different kind of discipline. He needs to be able to make himself do what he sees should be done without having any- one tell him to do it. Early in 1945 it was evident to those who were closely associated with the project that an atomic bomb could be built and used in the war against Japan. It was equal- ly evident that if such a bomb were dropped on a Japanese city the number of casualties would exceed any previous figures. The question was Should the Bomb be used against Japan? It was evident that strong differences of opinion existed. A questionnaire was circulated among the group in the Metal- lurgical Laboratory at Chicago. There were a few who preferred not to use the bomb at all, but 87 per cent voted for its military use, at least if other means were tried and this was found necessary to bring surrend- er. Dr. Compton goes on to say: The italics are mine. H.S.B. 10

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C. J. Campbell was appointed to the L.T.I. Faculty in 1948 to initiate the courses in Technical Forestry and Forestry Engin - eering. A dedicated teacher, nothing could persuade John Campbell to desert the pro- fession and the school, — nothing, that is, but money, and plenty of it. Since August, 1956, he has been operating his own com- pany, The Denver Timber Company Ltd., That is THE DENVER TIMBER COM- PANY, LTD.,— Peeled poplar, from con- tented trees. Douglas R. Lindsay has been appointed Head of the Departments of Biological Sciences and Organic Chemistry. Mr. Lindsay was born in Port Arthur in 1921 and graduated from the Port Arthur Collegiate in 1939. He enlisted in the RCAF and served from 1941 to 1946. After discharge he entered Queen ' s Uni- versity where he specialized in biology, graduating with an Honours B.A. in 1949. He then went on to the University of Wisconsin where he specialized in plant ecology, graduating in 1951 with an M.Sc. Following his University work, Mr. Lindsay was for seven years a research botanist with the Canadian Department of Agriculture Science Service at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Mr. Lindsay brings with him a varied experience in many fields of research which should prove very valuable to the courses given at the Lakehead Technical Institute. Mrs. B. Viegandt has been appointed Assistant Librairian at the L.T.I. Mrs. Vie- gandt has had four years experience in the Fort William Public Library. 12