Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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SemLmicro experiment in quantitative analysis Operating a chemical balancer But life is riot gloom y for us. There is the thrill of accomplishment upon the successful completion of a long and hard analysis; There is the deep satisfaction of an “A” grade on a difficult test conceived by our wily instructors; There is our tremendous relief when we learn that our psychology term-paper isn’t due for another week after we thought it was; The thrill that comes in trumping our opponent’s ace in our moments of leisure in the card room, commonly known as the Eastman Lounge. Slowly, out of the multitude of experiences that we have with faulty readings, miscalculations, and incorrect measure- ments, we learn to recognize the inner feeling of a set ol qualities that says, You are now an industrial chemist,” It doesn’t seem to have much to do with stains or holes in our aprons, with the facility that we have achieved with the slide rule, or the number of valences and equations that we have committed to memory. This feeling grows, instead, out of the first time we heard a discussion that we did not immediately understand and vve traced it down in the text or a chemical periodical. It grows, also, out of the surprise and disgust we felt when we considered faking a calculation because we were in a hurry. Suddenly the slowly flaring light flamed, and we felt ourselves to be chemists. We wanted to be as precise and accurate as vve could, but it didn’t stop at gram measure- ments; it seemed to permeate our other activities and at- titudes. We wanted to be honest and trustworthy, because wc felt a deep interest in chemistry and its integrity as a science; we wanted to keep learning and expanding by seeing—sometimes for the first time—what lay about us, in life and in books. We suddenly wanted to make the world better through chemistry as a science and a technology and through our lives as honest and interested scientists and people. Step up to see how many of us would trade this rough- tough old life for another! Operating a vacuum evaporator Drawing supplies from chemistry stockroom Conducting filtrations in quantitative analysis Twenty

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Ralph L. Van Pcursem Barbara Parker Raymond Bichler Robert Paine Edwin Hen nick Herbert Ulrich Homer Imes James Wilson Jr. ■'Who took my test tube holders? “Who turned off the little centrifuge?1’ These are cries that you hear in any of the many labor- atories where we chemistry students work. Problems plague the chemist— The bitter frustration which results when a long-sought- after precipitate fails to form in our qualitative analysis classes; The confused looks on our faces when Mr. Bichler runs through some very abstract equations in our differential and integral calculus class; The pride we take in our engineering drawings until some- one comes along and spills ink on them; The yellow-stained fingers which result from careless use of HNO in the lab the day before; The adjustments to be made when we go out and come back from our work blocks in the chemical industry. Filtering a precipitate in Measuring chemicals Instrumental methods of analysis quantitative analysts Nineteen

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ELECTRICAL