Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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better electricians are produced, the Institute ▼▼ will produce them.” This has been an axiom since the inception of the class sixteen years ago, long before the advent of the Artists, the Aeros., the Dressmakers and the General Shopites. The class for ’38 is well supporting the traditions of the past. It is true that, for the first time in years, the Electrics failed to carry the slate of officers of the Students’ Association for the opening term. They gracefully retired before a battery of skirted legislators, as man has done from the childhood of time, and will probably continue to do unto the end- It was, perhaps, as well, as the shop work has been much heavier than in any previous year, both in respect to quantity and complexity. The jobs already completed have run into the second hundred, ranging from multi-horsepower machines to the one microbe- power motor of the electric razor. It is to the joint credit of Mr. Nelson and his boys that these appliances are successfully turning the wheels of industry and shaving the chins of the people. Mr. Browning and his crew of second-year Steinmetzs have kept the electrical equipment of the Institute functioning. This is no small job, as it includes over 60 miles of wire, SO motors, 10 generators, 30 heaters, 600 lights, ventilation, projection, air conditioning, electric clocks, bells, batteries, buzzers, saws, ' sewing machines and synchroscopes. The Radio Group, under the able guidance of Mr. Fleming, has also made itself heard. By the co-operation of its members the whispers of the dainty lady secretaries of the Students’ Association have been amplified until their swelling cadence has penetrated the remotest corners of the Assembly Hall- And now the short-wave transmitter built by these “Sound engineers” is ready to carry the voice of the Institute to the uttermost corners of the earth. From past students reports have drifted in from many lands which should encourage those who are about to leave us. One reports that he is figuring on a $10,000 installation; another has just returned from completing work for a Canadian company in San Salvador; a third is working on the electrifica¬ tion of the Hudson Railway. Two have been installing hydro¬ electric equipment in France, and three others are working on the hydro plant at Island Falls. These are only a few; but wheresoever there are wires, wheresoever the current hisses and cracks on the “high line”—in the jungle or in the driving blizzard of the North—there you will find the electricians of the Tech, working in safety belts or with meters, with “heaky” or tee-square, installing or maintaining the sinews of civilization. In student activities, such as the banquet, athletics, dramatics and dances, the Electrical students either co-operate or lead. In the years to come, when the boys now with us have joined the thousands who have passed on and who are scattered from the Arctic to Panama, they may well take pride in saying, “I belong to the Tech. Electric Class of ’38.” F- N. RHODES, Chief Instructor.

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Sea 5i 18. C. A. SORTOME. Kimberley, B.C. 20. J. R. TAIT. Calgary, Alta. SllisiS 22. C. W. TRIMBLE. 30. E. BROOKS. Fort St. John, B.C. ppOsSsS 31