New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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At the right hand of the Dean is his Executive Assistant, Commodore Robert E. Robinson, Jr. lUSN, Retiredl. Mainly concerned with the overall administration of the college, Commodore Robinson's work only infre- quently brings him into contact with its students. A graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, he retired in July, 1949, when he came to the Heights. harold k. work robert e. robmson gr Liaison officer between the college and lndustry and government, Dr. Harold K. Work holds the position Director of Research. Dr. Work came to the college 1949 from a career in industry where he had risen become director of research for Jones 8. Laughlin. 1923 he received his degree from Columbia. Two of in to In years later he was awarded a Ch.E. degree. In January, 1946, Mr. John A. Hill, a graduate of the NYU College of Engineering, 1939, was appointed to serve as the Director of Student Personnel and Admis- sions. Mr. Hill's duties on campus include handling the admissions to both the day and evening sessions, acting and veteran coordinator, and directing freshman guidance, a program initiated this year. iohn andrew hill A graduate of the Heights, Assistant Dean Harold Torgersen has been with the school for the past twenty years. Now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engi- neering, he also serves as Director of the Evening Divi- sion. Dean Torgersen did post-graduate work at Wis- consin, Columbia, MIT, and received his Master's Degree from Harvard. harold torgersen

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mario carl giannini henry james masson On a leave of absence during the first semester because of illness, Mario Carl Giannini was once again busy at his desk in South Hall when the spring term began. A Heights graduate, Dean Gian- nini took a B.S. in Mechanical Engineer- ing in 1923, and a Master's three years later. Since then the dean has been actively engaged in various positions of service with the College of Engineer- ing, and he holds an associate profes- sorship in the Mechanical Engineering department. Professor Giannini also rose rapidly in the field of administration, serving until 1949 as Executive Assist- ant, and now is the Assistant Dean in charge of the Day Session. In this posi- tion he supervises all academic matters concerning students of the college. ln his long career of service to the Col- lege of Engineering, beginning when he came here from Columbia College in 1917 as a graduate assistant, Pro- fessor Henry James Masson has pio- neered in the advancement of the school. Among his achievements are the founding of the Chemical Engineering department, initiation of a Graduate Division, and responsibility for bringing the two honoraries, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, to the campus. ln addition to his work as Assistant Dean in charge of the Graduate Division, Professor Masson teaches two graduate courses, Management of Research and Develop- ment and Principles of Research Pro- cedures. Until several years ago, he was in charge of the department which he was instrumental in establishing.

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..-f Peace was a year old when the Class of 1950 began to study at University Heights, and crises were already developing. While men studied within the separated area of forty-three semirural acres, the world they were to live in was being changed. Sus- picion replaced cooperation and doubt be- came the successor to belief in progress. The K Classics Department Chairman-Professor Albert Billheimer: rx, fllllli, liflili, 'i'Ii.x, ll:-lf, .vlfila Gettysburg College, A.B. 1906, Princeton, A.M. 1910, Ph.D, 1918. last year of the first half of the twentieth century saw an increase in the frequency of disturbances, and that an allusion to a Geiger counter could be drawn to describe this situation, indicates the most important fear and problem facing the country. C lt was an unusual year in many ways. There was the weather, which got itself confused, bringing dry Thursdays and colds. Less universal instances of uneasiness were the song revivals and the return to the Twenties for women's fashions, investigations and ac- cusations, the large play given to the extra- marital life of Hollywood stars, rising un- employment and restricted hiring in several fields, a dull year on Broadway, indications of growing religious interest, and extremes in various aspects of social life. 0 Almost everyone had received a lesson in the chem- istry of death. The hydrogen bomb was widely discussed, and although it was de- nounced as a weapon of destruction with unknown possibilities, the world was still building into two armed camps. The future was unexpectedly cloudy, and doubts and fears grew. Not yet a lost generation and determined to live in peace and accustomed