Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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Page 9 SEPTEMBER 1938-39 JUNE CONTENTS PRESIDENT WILLIAMS ...,.....4..,.,.....,... 10 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS ,.,,. .,,. 1 1 SECRETARIES ..., .... 1 2 DEANS 4..... , -',. 13 COLLEGES Engineering ,,,. . . . 14 Law ....... ...- 1 6 Pharmacy ,.,,.. . . . - 13 Liberal Arts .... . . . 20 CLASSES Senior ,,... . . . 23 Junior ...,... . . . 31 Sophomore ...,, . . . 39 Freshman ,,.. . . . 45 ACTIVITY LIFE ..... 50 ATHLETIC LIFE Football ...,. . . 96 Basketball. .,., , , . 104 Track .,,., . . . 109 Tennis .,.. . . . 110 Fencing .... , ... 110 Baseball ...,. . . . 112 Intramurals ...... ... 113 Women's Sports.. . ... 115 FRATERNITY LIFE .,,. . . . 122 SORORITY LIFE ........ 144 OTHER DEPARTMENTS Letters to the Editors ......,.... . . S Speaking of Pictures: Hill Tower .,.... . 7 Dedication: Benjamin F. Fairless ..,.. . 8 NORTHERN Goes to a Play ....,.,..... ... 58 NORTHERN Holds a Beauty Contest ...... . .. 88 Boiler Test ............,..,.,....,.,. . . . 90 Leisure Moments: Ed and Coed ..... ... 149 Coed Houses ....., . . , 150 Campus Buildings. ..,. . . , 152 Pictures to the Editors ..... . . . 154 NORTHERN'S COVER. A photograph ol' Hill Building taken by Wilbur Shannon. BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS Continued Vacationing at Chandler, Arizona. Lrgfi fo Right: Patrick H. Joyce, Trustee, Chicago Great West- ern Railroad Company, Blaine T. Fairless, son ol' B. F. Fair- lessg and B. F, Fairless. Playing golf at White Sulphur Springs. Lcff fo Right: Harry M. Moses, President, H. C. Frick Coke Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.g Frank R. Yvalton, President, Union Supply Company, Pittsbnrgli, Pa.g Thomas Moses, Vice Presi- dent, United States Steel fbrporation of Delaware, Pittsburgh Pa.: Il. F. Fairless. ll Q Left to R-fglzt: Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Chairman ofthe Board, United States Steel Corporation: Myron C. Taylor, former filllllflllklll of the Board, Vnitecl States Steel Corporationg B. F. Fairless, President, United States Steel Corporation.

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Page 8 THE IJEIJICATIUN BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS President L nzfed States Steel f'0rp0ration. of Delaware President lj Iliff!! States' Steel Corporation of New Jersey 1 o Benjamin F. Fairless, a trustee of the University and a loyal supporter of our institution. His name commands admiration and respect in the steel in- dustry. After completing school at Justin, Ohio, he taught school for two years, saving money therefrom to en- roll at IVooster College. I-Ie later trans- ferred to Ohio Northern University, where he was graduated with a civil engineering degree. His business career began in June 1913 a civil engineer for the VVheeling and Lake Erie Rail- road. In August of the same year he became a civil engineer for the Central Steel Company of lVIassillon. In rapid order. he advanced in the company, be- coming in turn mill superintendent, general superintendent, and vice presi- dent in charge of operations. Wlhen the United Alloy Steel Corporation and Central merged in September, 1926, Fairless was made vice president and general manager of the United Alloy Steel. a position he occupied until April, 1928. At that time he became president and general manager of the company. Two years later, in April 1930. when his company was one of the several united in the formation ofthe Republic 1'fm1f-immfm bu Imfmwn Steel Corporation, he went into the new organization Executive Vice Presi- dent. WVhen the newly created Car- negie-Illinois Steel Corporation was formed in 1935 from the Carnegie Steel and Illinois Steel Companies, Fairless was offered, and accepted, the position of president, completing the transition in just QQ years, from a raw young surveyor in the field, just out of college, to the chief executive position in the largest single steel producing concern in the world. On January 1, 1938, he became president of the United States Steel Corporation. In recognition of Benjamin F. Fairless, son of a coal miner, a Northern graduate, a poised, mentally alert, maker of steel, the NORTHERN does itself honor in dedicating this volume to him.

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PICTURES T0 THE EDITORS Continued IN DOUBT Sirs: In t.he view section of the 1938 was :L photograph of Hill Buildingwith the caption, Hill at hiidnightf' This looks like a fishy picture to me, in other words a fraud. I was always under the impression that in order to take a picture it was necessary to have some light, and there surely wouldnit he any at night with the sun out China's way. HUGO N. FRY Lima, Oh io Q The picture to which you refer was taken with an ordinary camera, exposure of 20 minutes, aperture of F18 using super sensitive panchromatic film. Most persons are unfamiliar with the fact that pictures may be taken wherever there is the least amount of light, providing the exposure is made over a long enough period of time. If Reader Fry will look closely at the building in question some night, he will see that some light is cast on the building by the row of lights along the front of the campus. hiloreover, if Reader Fry is still unconvinced, he should notice the pictures of the fraternity and sorority houses on their respective pages-night photography.-ED. Sirs: ln reference to your article on the staff working in the Sugar Bowl, as an eye witness, I think your lack of geographical knowledge of Ada is deplorable. If you will recall there is a place near the Sugar Bowl well known by all and sundry for its fountain of ideas, and I would like the readers to know it is there that occurred the revised episode so glibly related. I have definite photographic proof to show that these events occurred Midway between the railroad tracks and the popcorn stand. IONA PARE Shanghai, China Sirs: I imagine by this time you have received the proofs of the engravings in question. Everything was shipped out night before last, which to our knowledge completed all the work for you this year. Hoping that the final windup will soon take place and that you will be able to relax in a big way after a hard year. F. N. ROPKEY, Indianapolis Engraving Company, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana Page ID ROBERT WILLIAMS President Robert VVi1liams has been president of Ohio Northern University since 1929. For one to mention only the demonstrated remarkable ability of Dr. VVilliams as an educator would be to present but one phase of his varied personality. On and off the campus we find our president always intensely human, possessing a great breadth of interest. He is a sports enthusiast, and is thoroughly at home in the Helds of philosophy, religion, and foreign affairs.