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

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GENTLEMEN, THE DEAN TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 5T7 You have now passed one of the more significant milestones in your career. You have every right to pause and gaze at it for a few moments in gratitude and satisfaction, reflecting with gratitude upon the help that many hands have offered you in achieving your immediate goal, and with proper satisfaction upon the fact that your own determination and efforts were the essential ingredient without which all the help you have received would have been of no avail. Couple reasonable pride in your achievement with the humility that true education in- evitably begets. The milestones that lie ahead of you will not be, paradoxically, evenly spaced, like the ones you have already passed; and often you will not recognize that you have passed one until sometime after the event. But we know that you will make steady and effective progress, and will play an essential and honourable part in the society you have been educated to serve. The education you have received places an obligation upon you; not an onerous, grinding obliga- tion, but one that you can cheerfully and joyously accept. The mere practice of your chosen profession will bring its own reward. When you leave in May you carry with you our highest aspirations and hopes for you, but you cannot escape. As any graduate will tell you, you will always be part and parcel of the “School” and of the University. 1 1 R. R. McLaughlin, Dean

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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

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JOHN RUMBLE CHARLES MAYER JACK STEVENS DAVE WATSON DAGNY VIDINSH MIKE LAUGHTON Dl HALLAMORE President First Vice-Pres. Second Vice-Pres. T reasurer Secretary IV S.A.C. Rep. III S.A.C. Rep. ENGINEERING SOCIETY HERE ' S TO SKULE Gentlemen of the Faculty of Applied Science: As you progress through the four years of Engineering you find a bond developing, that leaves you wishing that the end of your uni- versity life were not so close. To be finished with lectures and exams will be a victory, but nevertheless there is a feeling of regret when you see your time at Skule coming to an end. On that first day back in 1953 when I walked through the Skule Building entrance which was painted a musty green and looked like it suited a barn more than a building of the faculty, I was faced with dark dingy halls and rooms that looked as if they had been there since the beginning of time. How was I going to enjoy four years in surroundings like that? As our old barnyard philosopher Bob Hill 5T6 used to say, The beams in Skulehouse are so old, that if the termites stopped holding hands the whole building would fall down. However, after four years of Skule, I find myself hoping that the termites keep a firm hold for many years to come. Why do we feel this way at the thought of graduation? 5 The answer can be found in the Skule spirit that grows stronger in every one of us as we advance through the four years that most of us spend at S.P.S. A well-known figure at our university stated a short time ago, that what universities need today is more characters . . . Well, we ' ve got them. Skule spirit reigns supreme on the campus and for this very reason. We are a faculty full of characters . . . with character! One day you see a Skuleman proving his great abilities by diving off goalposts, amusing the throngs. Another day he is on the football field win- ning honours for Skule. One day a Skuleman in his beer-soiled tee- shirt is out winning the chariot race against the artsmen (to which the fear-ridden arts- men never turn up) . . . the next, he is a dapper Dan in Skule Nite, the outstanding show of the campus, if not in America. Al- DAVE SHANNON JOE BOURGEOIS DON GRANT TED WHITE TED GRAYSON PETER HARRIS RAY SMITH Civil Mining Met. Mechanical Eng. Business Eng. Physics Chemical Electrical