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

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oo { ' { ’ ? u’ te Throughout its history Shawinigan Chemicals Limited has been helping Canadian industry to greater heights and better things. Whenever the application of industrial chemicals promised an easier, better way of doing things in Canada. Shawinigan” was there. “Shawinigan’s” many valuable chemicals are in use everywhere today — in industrial oxyacetylene welding techniques ... in the manufacture of fabrics, furnishings and lacquers ... in the tires of great transports which carry Canadian products from coast to coast ... in the vital field of agriculture . . . in places of business and places of entertain- ment. In nearly every sphere of our daily living, “Shawinigan” is there. Research at “Shawinigan” is never-ending. In its laboratories, new chemicals and new uses for existing ones are constantly being developed. Thus, whenever and wherever the use of fine organic chemicals will help industry in Canada to grow and prosper . . . “Shawinigan” will be there! THINK FIRST OF SHAWINIGAN FOR A CAREER IN CHEMISTRY Acetaldehyde Acetic Acid Acetic Anhydride Acetylene Black Butyl Acetate Caustic Soda Carbide Chlorine Muriatic Acid Dibutyl Phthalate Ethyl Acetate Isopropyl Acetate Monochloroacetic Acid N Butyl Alcohol Sulphuric Acid Vinyl Acetal Resins Vinyl Acetate SHAWINIGAN CHEMICALS LIMITED Plants: Shawinigan, Que., Canada Head Office: Shawinigan Building, Montreal, Que., Canada MOLONEY SfrecCaliAfo itt TRANSFORMERS 8 MOLONEY ELECTRIC COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED 213-219 STERLING ROAD, TORONTO, ONTARIO REGIONAL OFFICES: MONTREAL, CALGARY, VANCOUVER

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A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT Men of Skule: In reflecting upon our life at Skule several thoughts have crossed my mind. One can hardly think of Skule without making allusion to our dear Red Skulehouse. For years this old edifice has been treasured as the home of the engineers in this University. But now the Skulehouse is in its twilight days. It used to be said that if the termites in the rafters stopped holding hands the place would collapse. But, as Professor Dunbar has wisely noted, a coat of paint is added here and there every summer and this keeps the building up for another year. The day is fast approaching when there will be no more coats of paint; there will be no more Skulehouse either. But there will be engineers here just the same. The memories of our Skulehouse days will be stored away in the archives, there to remain in storied retrospect ad infinitum. To those of us who have managed to make it as far as fourth year one thing is strikingly evident. That is, how fast the years have gone. They were good years, so good that college life often seems somewhat unreal. Winnifred Letts expresses the feeling very well in a poem, The Spires of Oxford, as follows: The years go fast at Oxford, The golden years and gay. The hoary colleges look down, On careless boys at play. We are not Oxford men, we are Skulemen, but the thought is still the same. And then, we speak of our Alma Mater. Translated from the classics an Alma Mater means a loving mother . Perhaps not many of us have thought of Skule as being a loving mother. In fact, when exams come around and the thought of failure steals in, it would seem to be just the opposite. And yet our Skule is a loving mother just the same. We come to Skule as freshmen, knowing little and largely confused. In four years many things transpire. We struggle through these years and slowly a change takes place. We cannot leave exactly as we came. Something has been added. And in the end we graduate, proud and secure, each man wearing his iron ring. All the while the Skule provides security, friendship, and strength without our knowing it. We can feel it in the permanence of these ivy covered walls, we can see it in the laughing faces of our school- mates, and in the understanding hearts of our much abused professors. Yes, our Skule is truly an Alma Mater, and we are proud to be its sons. FRANK COLLINS, President. 7

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