University of Toronto Engineering Society - Skule Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Skule 5T7 activities -.-14 clubs 23 athletics ... 65

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editor . . . . jack ellis associate . . . ron carroll business . . . henry noble athletics . . . eric schiller photography - - - paul kyselka rex inglis art - - - - - - bill cooper Christie smith assistants - - - - bob brimbecom dave rist george mackay typists - - - - - rose shelley faye carroll, linda sayers di hallamore, gay rainey dave keenleyside to skulemen: our Canada has a great need for tech- nically proficient manpower, she has an even greater need for leaders, it is up to us to fill both needs.

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ENGINEERING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1957 EXECUTIVE John Stewart, President Charles Mayer, John Rumble, Secretary Dave Shannon, Civil Rep. Joe Walker, Mechanical Rep. Dennis Champ, Chemical Rep. Vice-President Tom Thomson, Treasurer Joe Bourgeois, M M Rep. Ted Grayson, Eng. Phys. Rep Bill McMill, Electrical Rep. The common bond of warm memories of School days has proved to be a strong one over the years. But graduate engineers first realized the benefit that could accrue to themselves and to their Alma Mater through organizing a formal alumni group at the Victory Reunion in Octo- ber 1919. The first constitution and bylaws were adopted at a meeting of the Engineering Alumni Council held in Toronto on November 27th, 1920 and were approved at the Reunion of School Men held that year. At the present time the Council of the Association is elected to office for a two year term. Honorary Patron of the Association is Dean Emeritus C. R. Young and Dean Roly Mc- Laughlin is Honorary President. John R. White ' 31, is President for the term July 1 56 to July 1 58. The remaining officers include three vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, and ten Councillors, each of whom usually chairs a specific committee. In addition, the immediate Past President, the Engineering members of the U. of T. Senate and the Board of Governors, the president of the undergraduate Engineering Society, and the fourth year president are all ex-officio members of the Council. The Association recently formed an Ad- visory Board, an honorary body of august En- gineering graduates to whom the Council can turn for any type of advice, coucil, or service. The work of the Association covers a wide field. Endeavouring to foster and sustain the school spirit, it sponsors the Triennial Re- unions, when for three days the Royal York Hotel rocks to the lilting strains of Toike- Oike . In each of the two years between re- unions an Alumni Fall Dinner brings graduate Schoolmen together again. To promote its work in another direction, the Association has formed the Engineering Education Committee which has undertaken with inspiring success some of the most valu- able work of the Association. As one of its primary functions, this com- mittee acts as agent for the collection and dis- tribution of financial aid given by graduates to the Faculty and its undergraduates. At the present time ten bursaries of $500 each are awarded to high school graduates wishing to enter the University to study en- gineering. Each applicant is interviewed by his high school Counsellor, one of a large group of such Counsellors appointed by the Association to give advice to high school students on matters of engineering training. Reports from the Counsellor and from the principal of the applicant ' s high school are attached to the application. A Selection Com- mittee studies thoroughly all applications then decides, on the basis of the applicant ' s finan- cial need, scholastic ability, and character, to whom the bursaries are to be awarded. In addition to the bursaries, a loan fund of $7500 is maintained from which loans are granted to undergraduates in need of financial assistance, the ioans being repayable, in most cases, after graduation. The vigour of the Engineering Alumni As- sociation and the enthusiasm of its Council are running high. The Association speaks with sincerity in the following words of its immedi- ate Past President, C. A. Morrison, The En- gineering Alumni Association has, by proving that our graduates are interested in the Uni- versity, attracted the attention and gained the respect of the Dean, the President, and Chair- man of the Board of Governors of the Uni- versity. The surface has merely been scratch- ed. Any graduate who will permit himself to sample this type of endeavor will surely be- come engrossed in it and by so doing can pleasantly do our country, which is so much in need of scientific and technical knowledge, a tremendous service . 10