University of Akron - Tel Buch Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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Men working in laboratory where rubber is made experimentally in small glass bottles. Note safety gloves and goggles, hood at right for ventilation, safety container for bottles and safety shield behind man in background. GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES The University holds full direction and management of the Government Synthetic Rubber Research Laboratories on Wil- beth Road next to Firestone. The primary purpose of these laboratories is to conduct experiments to improve the qual- ities of synthetic rubber. The University has directed this re- search for the government since T944, and this year was given an extension of control until at least the end of I956, at an annual cost to the government of S950,000. ,li X Y vw. ,, --.. -1 welll .ff lie , i 1 .T I oovfrennfnr iiaoniroiiisl OF THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION oremsn sv 97lellNlVENSlTY OF AKRON Today's scientists use electron microscopes in their studies of the molecular structure of natural and synthetic types of rubber. One battery of 5-gallon batch reactors used for making experi- mental ,-4 i rubber. .-A I -mn, ,E X, A., ,ll Y

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND SECRETARIAL SCIENCE Alert young men cmd women make up the classes in the business administration and secretarial science departments. Those in business learn more than what the textbook says by being sent into local firms to learn the operations first-hand. The secretarial curriculum combines technical training with broad, cultural education in order to better prepare the graduates. On the iob at a business firm goes hand-in-hand with textbook learning. Part of the work included in the secretarial curriculum. Secretarial Science faculty-Seated: Mrs. Audra Tucker, Miss Eldora Flint. Standing: Mrs. Lucy Self, and Howard M. Doutt iDepartment Headl. Mg, Industrial Management faculty-Thomas W. Shar- key and Dr. Frank I.. Simonetti iDepartment Headi. Accounting faculty-Miss Mary Slusher, Ossian Gruber, Miss Frances Clark. Missing is Dennis Gordon lHead of Departmenti.

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Dr. Corsaro aids a student in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory. A delicate operation in the balance room. CHEMISTRY The University of Akron is a municipal institution, so natu- rally it is the aim ofthe administration and faculty to prepare students for work in home-town industries. A great part of this preparation takes place in Knight Hall, the five-year-old chemistry building in which are housed laboratories and equipment of all descriptions. Lectures are accompanied hand-in-hand with practical experience in these laboratories. Using the electron microscope in rubber study. Knight Hall, busy hub of chemistry activity. ,nf X1 l sf, , ,II 4 . l l l ' L K - -415