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

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Art Landsberg, Fred Grant, John Cowan, Jim Thomson (Sports Editor), George Tabisz (Editor), Ozzie Schmidt (Business Manager), James Bacon III, George White, Bob Manning, Ian Middleton. Absent: Jock Lyons, Amy Konchewski. TOIKE OIKE STAFF We major in PACE 6l STEELE Package Engineering ARCHITECTS 72 ST. CLAIR AVENUE W., Our specialty is a science, too: TORONTO, ONT. the design and production of corrugated Forsey Pace, f.r.a.i.c., f.r.i.b.a., a.r.c.a. packaging. Someday, perhaps the Harland Steele, b.arch., f.r.a.i.c. Melville Boyce, b.arch., m.r.a.i.c. product you engineer will be Derek Buck, m.r.a.i.c., a.r.i.b.a. Claude Jarrett, m.r.a.i.c., a.r.i.b.a. shipped in a Hinde Dauch box. Six HINDE DAUCH rj AUTHORITY ON PACKAGING • TORONTO 3, ONTARIO 27

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THE NEW SKULE BUILDING 82 years ago, construction was begun on a modest three storey brick building on the southeastern edge of the front campus. Christened the School of Practical Science, it has become better known to thousands of engineers and engineering students as the beloved little red Skulehouse. In its lecture rooms and laboratories have laboured men who are now esteemed professors, nationally-known indus- trialists, and members of a lesser known throng who through their knowledge and experience, keep our nation ' s wheels of industry turning. Through its dingy halls and passages have passed young men from every part of Canada and from many regions of the world. It is steeped in tradition. Many times its shiny brass plaques have been borrowed by fun-seeking students. Occasionally open warfare has broken out between its inmates and those of other faculties, usually Medicine. Last winter, for example, students from Victoria College stole from one of its offices a five hundred pound safe thinking that it contained the famed Engineers ' Cannon. In the early part of the spring term, the Cannon was stolen by Medsmen when it had been removed from the safety of the walls of S.P.S. to be used for promotion of the annual Blood Campaign. Such are the memories connected with our little red Skulehouse, a warm, friendly, old building which the Engineers call home. But nothing lasts forever. More than a decade ago, it became apparent to even the casual observer that the Skulehouse was fast becoming too small for the needs of the rapidly growing Faculty of Engineering and that by the 1960 ' s it would be hopelessly inadequate for the number of students expected to enroll. Over the past several years, much serious thought has been given to the problem of constructing a new and larger Engineering Building. After long periods of discussion and debate, the teaching staff of the Faculty determined the amount of space that would be required for lecture rooms, offices and laboratories. The architectural firm of Page and Steele translated this data into working plans for a new structure. After careful examination, the Board of Governors accepted these plans. Meanwhile, a big moving job was in progress on the western side of the campus. The Forestry Building was being moved at the rate of several inches per day from its original site, a few hundred yards north of the Wallberg Building, to its present location. The new Engineering Building will occupy the void between the Wallberg and the Forestry Buildings and will be connected to the western end of the Physics Building. This new structure will contain modern lecture rooms, offices, labs, and seminar rooms in sufficient numbers and of sufficient sizes to comfortably accommodate students for the next decade. In addition, with the completion of the new Physics Building, the old one will be made part of the Engineering Building. Such a project is expensive. In fact, the construction of the Engineering Building alone will cost seven million dollars. Even with the rise of a new home, the Engineers will not immediately lose their red Skulehouse. During the past semester and summer, repairs were made on the weathered brick walls and some badly-needed redecorating and painting were done on the interior. The facilities of this building will be used for the overflow of students from the new structure. Thus, Tradition will march hand in hand with progress. Within the next few years, the new Engineering Building will develop its own traditions. Will one of these be that students will refer to it as the new Skulehouse? And in the more distant future, when the Engineering Building is destroyed, will the new one replace the warmth and ancient dignity that caused us to look upon our little red Skulehouse as our Engineering home? 26

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GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS REQUIRED BY CANADIAN ARMY PPLICATIONS for commissions are being accepted now by the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, and the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from graduate engineers and registered professional engineers. Applicants must be 18 to 30 and meet Army enrolment standards. Here is an excellent opportunity to combine an engineering career with the prestige and benefits of a career as an officer. Apply to Army Recruiting Station, 507 College Street, Toronto, Ontario Telephone: EM. 6-8341 - Local Number 277 28