Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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AIRE. ' I ' HE Quadrani;le characterized the ac- tivity of the American Institute of Elec- trical Engineers as resurgent these past two semesters, and the word seems well taken. From a standstill, the Senior and Junior Elec- trical Engineering students tramped through the turmoil of reorganization and came up, hardly even winded, with a neatly balanced schedule. To start the uphill march, the Seniors elected Tom Keene, president, and Tom Dosch, secretary; the Juniors elected Ray Cooney, ' ice-president, and Jim McGreevy, treasurer. Then, during the fall, the chapter was ad- dressed by members of such companies as Bell Telephone and Consolidated Edison. The fall work was capped by a visit to a meeting of the AIEE New York section, downtown in the Engineering Societies build- ing. There the president of a local competi- tor-school, Brooklyn Poly, and a top person- nel man from the General Electric Company, spoke. The last named, Mr. Boring, was of definite orientation value, imparting to the chapter members information not ordinarily available in the classroom, thereby helping the members to bridge the gap between class- room and industry. 194

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The Manhattan Engineers ' T ' HE Manhattan Engineers, running neck- - • and-neck with the Commerce Club in the race for unification and accompHshment, came out easy winner, in tlieir own words; but stand in unportance only as a ehicle for political campus maneu ers, if arts or businessmen are to be believed. In its ninth year of life, most probably neither of these extremes are true. The mem- bers look upon their organization as home, and one in which undergraduates of the School of Engineering can hold social and professional meetings. As a matter of fact, the closeness of the group has been demon- strated time and again; the Annual Engineers Ball and the Communion Breakfast are peren- nial sellouts. Getting into the Engineers ' Ball assumes the proportions of buying tick- ets for an opening night of a Broadway musical, though the club usually has the use of the largest dance floor in the city: The main ballroom of the Hotel Commodore. The Communion Breakfast boasts of the same enthusiasm — a matter of pride of this organization. And to further demonstrate their alue to the campus, the officers see to it that substantial contributions to the coffers of charity are made, the Brother Benilde Patrick Scholarship Fund and the Vincentians being two engineer favorites. The society deserves recognition for hav- ing built up an organization which brings much credit to the college, particularly off the campus. 193

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rHE Manhattan College Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, like the other engineering student chapters men- tioned in this book, is to acquaint the student with the commercial, the every-day, the actual aspects of the professional held they ha e chosen. The acquaintance is mostly academic as one might suspect. Movies are shown, and visiting lecturers expound tried and true methods of design and construction. The society, in the collegiate aspect, serves as a funnel, channeling the personnel into the proper organization which befits their field. On the campus, this group has been heard referred to as the civils, a phrase used lightly by the Electrical Department. It is the Civil Engineers who change the face of the earth most drastically. Witness the Manhattan skyline, with the Empire AS.CE. State at the center of focus. True enough, without electric lights, elevators, and venti- lation a skyscraper would be useless. But everything is held up by steel and concrete, meticulously designed, no doubt, by a mem- ber of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers. 191