St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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DR. JOHN McLAUGIILIN, on assignment for the Office of Naval Research, looks down on Phosphorescent Bay from his mountainside workshop, the Marine Institute at La Paguera, Puerto Rico.

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p 4 p 4 1 IT ' 1 - mm — K - m i igr g 1 A m p « jf S w m 4 H K 4 i 4 r 4 f Jm 1 ■ ' F! 1 I MB BROTHER ANTHELM, Librarian volumes added and fines paid Tn 1962 the Library acquired a record 3000 new books, bringing the total number of vol¬ umes to some 33,000. These additions and greater demands upon the staff by the larger student body necessitated the employment of two new librarians, Mr. Ayer and Miss Riley. Current projects of importance now in process include the transferal of all back periodicals on file to microfilm. As Brother Anthelm looks over his jammed quarters at Butler Street the impending prob¬ lems of a complete transferal of the Library to Remsen Street this year rest heavy upon him. New quarters will have a capacity for 68,000 volumes. Further plans include a lower level for all periodicals and microfilm. The first floor with a 70 seat auditorium will hold 16 tape recorders and 4 record players, and it will be used exclusively as a “listening library.” The Mezzanine will contain the reference room while the main reading room on the third floor will seat over 120 students. This will bring the total seating capacity at the envisioned Library to some 300. Here then for the last time, the 1962 Fran¬ ciscan records for posterity one of those tradi¬ tional, hectic moments at the Butler Street Library. “RUSH HOUR” in the Library between 12 and 1 o’clock. 25

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AT THE BROOKIIAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORIES, Dr. Metz works with the Atomic Energy Commission. research afield by scientists T he Division of Natural Science and Mathematics engaged in research work well beyond the walls of St. Francis College. At Haskins Laboratory, Pro¬ fessor John Burke, Division Chairman, labored at developing artificial media for marine protozoa. Backed up with a grant from the National Science Foundation, Mr. John Marchisotto and students, Tom McCormack and Harry Kranepool, tackled the same problem; this group used facilities of our own labs. Aquatic environs of tropical Bimini saw Dr. John McLaughlin in oceanic probings for the Office of Naval Research. Problems of polymer chemistry were the specialty of Dr. Charles Ang, affiliated with the Gaylord Laboratories of Newark. At the Brook¬ lyn Botanical Gardens, Dr. Edgar Taschdjian strug¬ gled to discover a process for rendering wood prod¬ ucts resistant to rot and harmful insects. Finally, St. POLYMER CHEMISTRY EXPERT, Dr. Ang, carries on research at Newark’s Gaylord Laboratories.