Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Dedication • THIRTY-TWO years of loyal and outstanding service to LeKigK and Lenign men speak for themselves in this dedication of the 1Q48 Epitome to Professor Fred V. Larkin. Teacher, engineer, and writer. Professor Larkin will have completed his twenty-ninth year as Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering when his retirement from the University becomes effective on the first day of July. His accomplishments in his chosen held have been many and varied, ranging from private research, patents, and success in industry to out- standing work and recognition in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineer ' s Club of the Lehigh Valley, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, and a host of similar organizations. Under Professor Larkin s able guidance, the Mechanical Engineering Department has grown and flourished until it now boasts the largest enrollment of the engineering departments. Lehigh %vill long remember him, and along with this dedication by the Senior Class go the staff s sentiments of well done for the past, and Don voyage for the future.

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FopeKvord HE lines from one of Noan Weoster ' s more or less obscure volumes dealing witK definitions tells us tKat an epi- tome is a brief statement of the con- tents of a topic or work; a part wnicn represents typically a wnole. ' At Le- nign, however, an epitome is a book, and following tne pattern tnus indicated by its title, tbe 1948 Epitome Kas con- H 1 centrated its 400 pages on epitomiz ing tne past academic year on tne Lenign campus. What has happened this year, what the Sigs or the Delts did, or what happened in Taylor 3B; what Arcadia accomiplished and w here the Ski Club went for its winter trips . . . these are the things that the graduate of 48 wants to remember, and this is what he will read in the 48 Epitome. Consequently, a minimum of historical data has been included, and a maximum of current topics have been recorded. The events that have gone before and the events that are to follow are left to other Epitomes, Brown and Whites, Goblets, Bachelors, and the Univer- sity archives. This book tells the story of twelve months on the South side of Bethlehemi, of those who teach and those who learn on the Brown and W hite campus. The bits of levity you will find scattered here and there are an effort to make the 48 Epitome a book — not a collection of rare old photographs and mid- Victorian sonnets. A book to be read and enjoyed, not to be leafed through hurriedly and set aside to gather dust on the family bookshelf. So be not alarmed at the apparent departure from the narrow bounds of yearbook style; in the introductory sections we ha ve writ- ten lightheartedly, hoping that it will be taken in the spirit in which it is given, cum grano salts.