Michigan Technological University - Keweenawan Yearbook (Houghton, MI)

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Professor Thomas N. Smifh became head of The DeparTmenT of Engineer- ing AdminisTraTion in 1951. He re- ceived The 13.5. degree from .luaniTa College, and The Masfer of EducaTion degree from The UniversiTy of PiTTs- burgh. He has owned and operaTed reTail esTablishmenTs. His educaTional experience includes several years of Teaching aT Michigan Tech before becoming deparTmenT head, and sev- eral years of secondary school in- sTrucTing. He was a Red Cross re- gional direcfor in charge of opera- Tions in NorTh lTaly and Corsica during World War II, and from 1949 To 1951 was sTaTe supervisor of business edu- caTion for The WesT Virginia sTaTe board of vocafional educafion. VVALFRID BEEN Mining Engineering THOMAS N. SMITH Engineering AdminisTraTion Walfrid Been ioined The sTaff of Michigan College of Mining and Tech- nology in December, 1955, as head of The Mining Engineering Deparf- menT. A graduafe of M. C. M.84T., class of 1929, he worked successively in The Michigan copper mines, The Bolivian Tin fields and for fiffeen years on The Mesabi Iron Range. He succeeded J. Murray Riddell who re- Tired as head of The deparTmenT afTer eleven years of service in ThaT posT. x ,

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U. J. NOBLET Forestry Professor Manderfield, B.S., Michi- gan College of Mines, 1921, and Met.Engr., 1925, 1923-24, research engineer for Anaconda Copper Com- pany, Associate Professor of Metal- lurgy and Ore Dressing, Michigan Tech, 1925, professor and the head of the department since 1935. Mem- ber of Engineering Education, and Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Associations, Lake States Mining In- stitute. Author of Low Grade Ore of Michigan Iron District , Native Copper Ore Dressing , and co-author with Messrs. Tolonen and Jasberg, Concentration Characteristics of the Low Grade Iron Ores of Mchigan. Professor U. J. Noblet organized the Department of Forestry in 1936. A graduate of Michigan State Col- lege, he completed post-graduate work at Michigan State and the Uni- versities of Minnesota and Michigan. He was in charge of land and timber appraisal work when assigned to the U. S. Engineers at Rock Island, llinois, instructor in mathematics and physical education at high schools in Cadillac and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Head of the Department of Athletics, at Michigan Tech, 1929. Professor Nob- let is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the American Forestry Association. He is also a member of Kappa Delta Psi Fraternity and is a faculty advisor of the Forestry Club. NICHOLAS H. MANDERFIELD Mineral Dressing

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WILFRID C. POLKINGHORNE Civil Engineering Professor George W. Swenson, head of the Electrical Engineering De- partment, graduated from the Uni- versipty of Minnesota in l9i7, received his M.S.E.E. in i921 and was Assistant Professor there until i928 when he organized and became head of the Department at Michigan Tech. Fellow and Life Member, A.l.E.E., member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Eta Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi, all honor- ary fraternities. Among professional fraternities, he belongs to Eta Kappa Nu anal the Service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Professor Swenson is listed in Who's Who in America , Who's Who in Engineering , Who's Who in American Education , and American Men of Science . Professor Wilfrid C. Polkinghorne was appointed Head of The Depart- ment of Civil Engineering in the fall of i945. He holds the degrees of B.S. and E.M. from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology and M.S. from Yale University. A member of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers, Professor Polkinghorne is a member of the State Registration Board for Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors and has served as chairman of that board. He also holds memberships in structural and engineering organizations, Theta Tau Fraternity, the Yale Club of Michigan, and the Masonic order. Professor Pollcinghorne's biography appears in VVho's Who in America , and Who's Who in Engineering . GEORGE W. SWENSON Electrical Engineering 9