Wentworth Institute of Technology - Tekton Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ASTME The American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers was founded in 1932. Today ASTME serves the professional needs of tool and manufacturing engineers throughout the free world as a nonprofit educational and scientific institution. Wentworth Institute offers students the oppormnity to join this organization and to benefit through active participation at our student chapter meetings. The main purpose of ASTME is to enhance the engineering student's education by reporting significant de- velopments in manufacturing engineering. This is accomplished at Wentworth through a variety of activities-films, literature, demonstrations and technical talks by local industrial representatives. This year the society has viewed a number of technical movies from Allegheny Ludlum Company, Bethlehem Steel Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Fellows Gear Shaper Company and National Tool, Die and Precision Machining Associa- tion. We have also heard informative talks by industrial representatives from the follow- ing companies: Blanchard Machine Company, New England Carbide Tool Company, Allou,Engineering, Inc., Starrett Tool Company, Boston Gear Company and United States Gypsum Company. Members of ASTME also receive copies of the Technical Journal-The Tool and Manufacturing Engineer. FRONT ROW: Theriault, Wiems, Treasurer, Levine, Secretaryg Tocci, Vice-Presidentg Boisvert, Presidentg Ledger, Bouchard, Mezzenga, Hawsn SECOND ROW: Mr. George Cushman, Faculty Advisorg Pelletier, Urbanus, Plant, Ives, Katz, Finocchiaro, MacRae, Bassett. THIRD ROW: Silvera, Lamson, DiCesare, Weishaupt, Waters, Glister, Emerson.

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FRONT ROW: Mr. J. G. Sylvia, Faculty Advisorg Rubel, Marshall, jurewich, Knight, Schuster. SECOND ROW: Pimental, Harriman, Tullie, Yanoff, Thompson. THIRD ROW: McLaughlin, LeClair, Finkel. AFS The student chapter of the American Foundrymen's So- ciety consists of a group of young men actively interested in one of the largest industries of today. The members are recognized by leaders in the cast metals field for being the type of men they want today. The AFS is a technical society confining itself to the development and dissemination of educational and scientific information of foundry methods, practices, processes, and metallurgy. The students have accomplished these objectives in many ways during the year. The society's official magazine, Modern Castings, is one source of information. In its monthly edition, break- throughs in technical techniques and studies are continually analyzed for the purpose of advancing the casting field to a more precise scientific industry. Quite often prominent men in industry take time from busy schedules to give lectures to the students. Among recent visitors to the club have been Mr. Robert Carpenter, chief metallurgist of Hanna Furnace Company, Buffalo, New York, Mr. james Lockhead a graduate from Went- worth Institute and now supervisor with the Draper Corporation, Hopedale, Massachusetts, Mr. Harold I. Dixion, president of Metallurgical Products Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, and MIT professor of the-U.S. Army Research Agency, Waltham, Massachusetts. Among the students' activities in school have been view- ing films of processes and metallurgical aspects of pro- duction in casting. Also projects in the foundry, such as 202 permanent molding with styrafoam, CO2 molding and wax, and plaster molding, have been made. Outside of school, the students have been very active. During the fall, a visitation was made to the Hersey Sparl- ing Company of Dedham. Here students saw one of the most highly mechanized non-ferrous foundries of today. Draper Corporation invited the students to their plant dur- ing Christmas vacation. The members thus were given the opportunity to see the operation of the nation's largest textile machine producer. American Brake Shoe Corpora- tion was another leader in industry that recognized the caliber of these young men. They gave some members free tour of three companies in New York and Pennsylvania. It proved to' be a whirlwind tour with a red carpet at every entrance. In the spring the students were formally recog- nized by the New England Chapter of American Foundry- men's Society by a Students Night. So concerned are these men in industry that they have set up scholarships to aid young men in completing their education in the cast metals field. Three students received scholarships from the Foundry Educational Foundation and one student received the Herbert H. Klein Scholarship award given by the New England Chapter of the AFS. This year's officers were: Mr. J. Gerin Sylvia, faculty ad- visor, Wesley C. J. Schuster, chairman, William Knight, vice-chairman, Elliot Thompson, secretary, and Ralph F. Harriman, treasurer.

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:ff --- -V 1-1:--a aa... Us -a , I H.. l it gms QW ,aisle f T'7l' SEATED: Nocher, Sprague, Merrill, Donahue, Zalanskas, Lurie, Janhola, Presidentg Bassell, White- hill, Piken, Banforo, Renaghan, Zurwell, Manchester, Barwiclci, Lambert, Potter, Lefebvre, Hayes, Kilgore, Bracci, Powell, Mr. William Tesson, Director. STANDING: Bissell, Failla, Watts, DeFelice, ifiyatt Lothrop, Fraccastoro, Caithness, Munroe, Faculty Advisors, Mr. Robert Earls, Mr. Harold ang. BAND This year's Wentworth Band, conducted by Mr. William Tesson of the New England Conservatory of Music and under the watchful eyes of its advisors, Mr. Harold Lang and Mr. Robert Earls, has strived to its utmost to give presentations of itself that could be appreciated and we hope remembered by the students long after graduation. The bancl's quality this past year was to be found in its tone, intonation, harmony and well-rounded instrumentation. Its full concert band sound and the enthusiasm, co-operation, and talent of the members themselves made for outstanding performances during the year. As usual we were under pressure from a lack of rehearsal time, which helped us more than hindered us for it brought out the best of our musical talent. We performed at the Presidents convocation, the Christmas convocation, the Open House, the Spring Musicale and at a meeting of the Quincy Women's Club, featuring highlights from Broadway musicals such as West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Gypsy by Jule Styne. For oiiicers this year we elected as president, Richard janhola, AET-lA, as librarian, Matt Sears, EE-2B.