Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Well, he went forth and entered all the races he could qualify for. And did all the stunts the law allowed. Got arrested seven times the first season. But was never fined. The police enjoyed the unique car so much they couldn’t bear to fine him. He took three prizes in races—there are lots of speedways around there. He raced in Arizona, New Mexico and California. He had one accident—in a road race. Threw one man over the fence and the car turned turtle. Nobody hurt. The Electrical Experimenter and various other magazines have written the car up and printed pictures of it. Speedway Gleim thinks of that car every day as he studies away out East here, and of his care-free career, and of his car waiting his long summer vacation, out there in cactus land. It goes as high .as seventy-eight miles an hour—fast as possible for a car so small. Gleim has traveled 102 miles an hour in a big racer. Page Four Hundred Forty-eight

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Kint Bt Extra— pwittuag i p?rial SPEED FIEND DISCOVERED, AT LAST MOMENT, IN OUR CHIEF CAROONIST! Wc were talking over tlie last items of the E. M. F. About everything was in. Somehow or other the conversation drifted to the subject of speed- ways. Quietly there came into the conversation the voice of L. E. Glcim, and we made a discovery. He is a real speed fiend. He knows all about the leading speedways of the nation—Indianapolis, Chicago, New York, Omaha and Los Angeles; makes a point of taking in the great events of the motor races; knows lots of the big racers; and has a speed car of his own make out in his home in Phoenix. Arizona. It’s a gem. The story of it read like a Xmas story. Now, Glcim is a genius. Out there in Phoenix they show his art work- around town to all the leading citizens. Modest little Glcim doesn’t do it. but his father borrows the pictures and takes them down town. Well, once upon a time he made a picture—an oil painting—of the kind of a car he would like to own. He kept showing it to his father and say- ing. “There, Dad, is the car to own.” It had many features taken from the best racers, was a racy orange color and had one of those inflated backs that run out behind like Bob Burman’s or Dario Resta’s or De Palma’s machines. One day his father borrowed the picture to show it to his friends down- town (?). It remained away from home till Speedway Gleim began to wonder what had happened to it. Christmas came and Gleim was dissap- pointed at breakfast to find no present from Dad on his plate. But after breakfast they went out to the garage and threw wide the doors. Dad and he had a date to go hunting that day. The family already had three machines. There, in the midst of the group, stood Speedway Glcim’s yellow car. true to the picture in every detail. Yes, his father had sent that painting on to Detroit to the Dodge firm and had a special car made exactly like it—the nicest, niftiest little racer you ever saw. Miniature—only eighty-one inches wheel-base—just large enough for Gleim and a mechanician to sit side by side. A beautiful orange in color, a roar when on the road like a mixed calli- ope. fog horn and hurricane. Glcim’s heart went up in the air and hasn’t yet reached earth. Page Four Hundred Forty-seven

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 CO-OPERATIVE EARN-WHILE-YOU-LEARN SYSTEM. The co-operative earn-while-you-learn system of education has been de- veloped to a high degree of perfection at the School of Engineering of Mil- waukee. This system is now in operation at the school, practically all the courses being so arranged as to permit students to avail themselves of the privileges of part-time employment. While part-time employment is not compulsory, it is strongly recommended in the case of all students as a valuable feature of the educational facilities offered here, and greatly en- hances the value of the training. The primary purpose of this system is to give students immediately practical experience in the industrial world so that upon graduation they will not go forth from school as “green graduates”, but rather as men who have at least had some experience and are somewhat familiar with industrial and commercial practices as found in the foremost industries. It “cuts” what has been figuratively spoken of as the “raw” edge of the college grad- uate, and gives him an immediately practical value in the eyes and organ- ization of the man to whom he must necessarily go for his start in the industries. 'file courses are so arranged that a student can spend half of his time in industrial employment. The time so spent is either divided into half days, or alternate weeks. Under either arrangement, students are grouped in pairs—one going to school while the other works, and changing about at stipulated intervals. This permits their outside work to be carried on with- out interruption and to the satisfaction of the employer, and enables them to pursue their studies in school while not working. Unless students have had previous experience in electrical or drafting work, they cannot at once be placed in positions that offer them the same kind of employment they are studying for. Consequently, men are placed at first in positions for which their previous training and natural abilities best fit them. However, as they progress in their studies and are sufficiently far advanced to permit it. they arc transferred to electrical or drafting work. It is the aim of the employment department to advance boys to this stage with the utmost rapidity possible, in order that their experience may have a direct bearing on the work being taken up in school. The Employment Department is absolutely the intermediary between student and employer, and it has been the special mission of this department to see that the work the student does contributes directly and to the fullest extent possible to the technical education of the man, as well as to look out 1 P b Page Four Hundred Forty-nine