Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ei=t Seti et elite het rel i= = =I San anansananonenonen Peseta aaah noe aoe Class History of Industrial Mechanical Engineering—1920 The class of 1920, The ‘Boilermakers’ as they are com- monly known, stands out as one of the most spirited classes Pratt Institute has seen. Right at the start we learned that if one apple cost one cent, a basket full will cost as much as a pound of butter. Mr. Isenberg drilled these principles so thoroughly into our noble domes that we could soon see that a new problem was like the same girl, wearing a different dress. This fundamental mas- tered, the rest was easy. And that shop with all its mystifying tools! The day will stand long in our memory when Mr. Saylor sent Brookes to get the ‘‘putting-on tool” so that he could fix his work. Have you ever noticed how that Saylor retains his youth? Did you ever see him at a class dance? Say, doesn’t he shake a wicked knee? And while on the topic of dancing, we are reminded of our famous dancing leader, Anson W. Smith. The way that boy covers the floor would make Vernon Castle turn over in his grave with envy. Nor can we forget some of our more serious instructors like Mr. Davis who shuns the lights of the dance hall. He would rather have us sitting at home doing geometry problems in twenty (20) steps, which could be done in (3) steps “‘a-la-Kremy’”’. Among other instructors we recall Nicholas Heyman with his seventeen methods for making ellipses and two pens for making D's. With these instructors and a determination to make good the class started work in earnest after the disbanding of the S. A. T. C. early in January 1919. Basketball practice and tournament soon started and our team made the electricians breathe heavily before they catpured the championship. Afterward came a track meet with Stevens, and here M. E. showed its true calibre by scoring twenty-four points out of a total of thirty-six. Clark who scored eighteen, was an M. E. man. King, another M. E. man, rolled up the second highest score, with a total of six points to his credit. The end of the year was now approaching and a dance was given by the first and second year classes. Besides having a good time, we met many of our future instructors. Time flies so, that it was not long before we were back from our vacation and on the job, again. Our ranks were greatly strengthened by the return of our service men, who had left in 1917 to uphold the country’s cause. A meeting was held and officers elected: King, President; Thornton, Vice President; Sadler, Secretary; Foltermann, Fin. Secretary and Balthazar, Treasurer. Just about this time, we experienced a loss through the leaving of Mr. MacCoul, one of the most respected instructors of the Institute. As a remembrance, the class presented him with a bookcase and several books. And while thinking of our instructors, we cannot fail to mention Mr. Kottcamp. The day he stepped into the role of Beatrice Fairfex and gave us a lecture on the evils of early marriage will not soon be forgotten. To show the real value of the lecture, marriages fell off 62.8% the following month. Nor should we foregt Mr. Maloney, the only instructor who appreciates that the fellows have lots of work and gives them a chance to rest up. Then there is Mr. Haman, who magnetized us so much with eelctrical problems that we became affected with hysteresis and did none at all. Coming back to talk of school work and athletics, brings reflections of the basketball tournament. M. E. went through the season without losing a single game. We then easily beat the Architects in two straight games for the championship. To wrestling, M. E. has contributed practically the entire team, Sherman, the individual star, being most prominent. To basketball, we have contributed Hanau, Hutton, and Thornton. To track we have contributed “Ted Clark , King, and other good men. But it is not alone in athletics that I. M.E.’20 has sustained the ancient traditions of the class. On the staff of PRAT- TONIA we have: Hurtuk, Editor-in-Chief; Ayres, Assistant Editor-in-Chief; Macaulay, Business Manager; and Bullock, Cir- culation Manager. This shows the standing of our men with the other classes and schools of the Institute. As we enter upon these last few weeks of work it is with deepest gratitude to the school and its instructors that we look back upon “the Good old days’’ that have passed so quickly. Our appreciation can best be expressed by uphold- ing and, if possible, bettering the record of the Pratt men who have preceded us. In this we canont fail if we always keep before us the slogan which so often brought victory here at school: FIRST IN CLASS SPIRIT. eS aig eee Sei=tet =n tt i=i Stet i= tet rem =t aa