Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Back Row-. Ian Hall, Bruce Flatt, Warren Wanson. Froni Row-. Bob Sills, Keith Srigley, Bob Bennett, Ron Venor. PRECAMBRIAN CLUB The Precambrian Club is an organization formed by and made up of the mining technology students of Lake- head College. The chief aims of the members are to gain more practical knowledge of the mining industry and to better acquaint industry with the value of mining technicians in the hope of strengthening their position. The club hopes to accomplish some of its objectives by showing films on mining and geology and by arranging field trips to mining properties which are either in opera- tion or under development. This part of the club ' s program is under the direction of the executive, with Mr. T. W. Page acting as advisor. From time to time throughout the year experts who are actually working in some phase of the mining in- dustry will be invited to come to the College and give an i nformal talk on their particular field of work and afterwards answer a few questions from the members. At present new ideas are being considered but they are only in the planning stage and will require further discussion. Since the Precambrian Club is affiliated with the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, mineral samples, maps, literature, and film can be obtained from anywhere in the world, thus enabling the club to sponsor an interesting and varied list of activities for the coming year. 22

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BRIDGE TOURNAMENT Every college and university usually has some out- standing social, scholastic or athletic trait peculiar to itself. Lakehead College, in spite of its size and com- paratively meagre resources has managed to win ac- claim and recognition for outstanding achievement in a game which requires of its pupil extreme mental alert- ness, determination, desire to win, and sheer physical and mental prowess. The game is contract bridge; a game which has entrenched its very deepest roots into the hearts and souls of the great majority of the college ' s students. To exhibit the high standard of play and to en- courage the game within the school, a Bridge Night is held each year. Bridge Night ' 61 was under the expert direction of ' a real pro ' , Mr. Philip Rickard. The common room was well filled with students seeking the rich prizes, the undying glory, and the master points that fall prey to the winners. The grand champions among the east-west groups were Armas West and Allan Carlson with 73 points. Runnersup were Lloyd Fucile and Brian Keenan with 70 points. In the north-south division Mike Helper and Bob McAlpine took top honours with an 83 point effort. Petro Janiuk and Patricia Shannon were close behind with 72 points. Bridge Night did not belong solely to the winners; all the competitors enjoyed the keen, advanced play (?) and this rather unusual but affirmed intellectual event was a great source of pride to each student of the col- lege. 21

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Back Row.- Barry Smith, Don Mcintosh, Maurice Price, Mr. Gale (faculty), Mr. MacKin- non (faculty). Front Row. Frank Murphy, Mr. McKenzie (faculty), Ron Paakanen, Sieg- fried Schraml, Bill Shannon, Leonard Reid, Ron Klemacki. ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS ' ASS. Late last spring at a social gathering of technolo- gists, the idea of an association for the engineering technologists was a topic of great interest. This year an association was formed with an initial membership of forty-six. The purpose of the formation of this body is to create a better understanding between industry and engineering technologists, and to educate employers to recognize the value of technologists in industry. One of the largest projects of the association is the publication of a brochure, which is to be distributed to industries across Canada. The brochure will contain course outlines and comments from employers who have in their employ, engineering technologists. Another important function of E.T.A. is the full-time, part-time and summer placement of members in employ- ment. This will be done in conjunction with Mr. Guy Robinson, the local university officer for the National Employment Service. An article commending the Engineering students on the formation of their organization appeared in the Heavy Construction News Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1 on January 6, 1 961 . 23