New Bedford Institute of Technology - Fabricator Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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THEFABRICATOR 1928 HISTORY OF THE CHEMISTRY CLASS TIME! ! beating out the March of minutes has kept mankind advancing, battling, conquering, or failing. Yes--three years have passed, it seems, in an instant. We have advanced; met that which was set before us to master and are now taking up a new advance, fully prepared to conquer the new ob- stacles which will confront us during life. Three years have changed us from bashful green freshmen to the dig- nified Chemistry Class of 1928. Let us go back and see what we have been doing -- besides that necessary routine of study. September 1925: Ten bashful freshmen crossed the threshold of The Lab and were captured by the instructors and assigned to hard study for three years. After a few days, one pupil, (it must have been Adelsohn) , was caught whispering so we finally dared to get acquainted with each other and many other things in or in the vicinity of The Lab. How quickly we learned — where the acid cellar was, where Rock ' s Variety Store was and what Murphy and Burt had boiling in the dye pans every day. On Blue Mondays, Red Lawrence and Heck Rocha would strike up I Never Knew and what a mean duet they would sing. Skull caps, large bow ties, the call of the paddle and we were either a Delta Kappa Phi or a Phi Psi fraternity man. Cold weather -- Textile called her sons out to do or die on the basketball court. Bob Brickley, our dyeing instructor, took over the coaching job and the final cut found George Schofield and Fred and Fran Tripp on the first team. In baseball, Ed Waring held up the honors for our class. September 1926: Back at dear old Tech again. Red Lawrence and Heck Rocha were not with us and how we did miss those two songbirds! Studies became harder this term but we conquered all that opposed us. The small Lab was now the scene of our battle for knowledge and also -- for our life. By this time we had learned that there was CjH.-,OH in gingerale that H2O was good to drink and that HC1 was not hydrolic acid. Borden ' s Cafe succeeded Murphy and Burt and how well Doc kept Sully from talking, Rad from swearing and Adelsohn from jarring the bottle off of the shelves. While Joe Norris was arguing with Professor Brickley about the various secret formulas, such as KuP, one of us would go out and see Rock. On the basketball floor Schofield and the Tripp Twins kept the Chemistry Class on the map. Ed Waring and Fran Tripp played on the Varsity base- ball nine and Sully played on the golf team. -4 24 %»

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19 2 8 THE FABRICATOR Present Building A number of changes which had been needed for a long time was made at this time. Locker and toilet rooms were provided on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. A shower bath room was connected with locker and toilet room on 3rd floor; a dra wing-in room was fitted up on 2nd floor; a cotton classing room with north- ern exposure and sky-light on 3rd floor. Also a small testing laboratory on 3rd floor. The original building contained 1 1 rooms with about 20,000 square feet of floor space. The present buildings contain 50 rooms with over 100,000 square feet of floor space. All departments are equipped with up-to-date machinery, especially designed for instruction purposes. The total value of the present equipment is over $275,000. About one half of the equipment has either been donated or loaned. The number of students attending the first year 1899- 1900 was: Day Students 11 Evening Students 183 The number of students 1927- 1928 was: Day Students 96 Attending 1576 -€(23 h-

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19 2 8 •» Bedford Tevtiu c u THE FABRICATOR September 1927: Dignified Seniors -- back at school again, rushing about, knocking instructors down and making Freshmen dissolve sulphur in HuO. We immediately took possession of the Small Lab and sold distilled water permits for ten cents. We were soon presented with many Technical Analyses and Mr. Busby took us down cellar to the Land of Gray, where we were soon taught what the difference was between a jig and a tenter frame. Oh, remember George chinned himself fourteen times. In the Lab, the Textile Goose strutted about making life miserable for anyone he stopped near. Social activities occupied all of our spare time, during our last half year; and here we are now at the close of our course and graduation day before us. Let us not forget all that Tech has done for us, our instructors who have labored so hard to teach us and all our fellow students. THE SENIORS FROM THE GENERAL SIDE ALL hail to the cap and gown. We find that after three years of crawling into that garment we are fast becoming experts in carrying our sex appeal as well as our personality while decked out in dear old Tech ' s C. G. This being our last year as students and the last for many of us as men of leisure??? We have tried to act as seriously as could be expected from a crowd of young men who have in their midst Turner, Peters, Soler, et al. The generals and designers have made several bids for fame during their three years here and the writer will endeavor to inform the world of some of the activities of the class members. However our class has been well represented in athletics, scholastic, and social activities with numerous side issues such as, -- well perhaps it would be best to let the rest go by default. We have been repre- sented on the Basketball court by Carlson and Brotherson, on the diamond by Brotherson, Carlson, Fawcett, Soler, and Blackmer, and on the Track team by Holmes, Potter, Carlson, and Brotherson. In the Freshman period of our existence Carlson managed to cop the Hatch Medal with Macia as runner-up. In our second year we were mainly interested in Athletics and Social events seeing that our class was not yet organized. In our Senior Year we blossomed out and went out for -- everything -- AND HOW. One of our number was elected President of the Class, that is Carlson, another was elected Treasurer, Brotherson. The General Class boosted Brotherson for Treasurer so that they could keep close tabs on the boys clothes and whether he took any long trips or smoked expensive cigars. ■4 25 fen-