Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Charles Metcalf Allen Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Frederic Raymond Butler Professor of Chemistry Edward Choate Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics Harold Joseph Gay Professor of Mathematics Harold Edward Graves Professor of Chemical Engineering ' §|g§ Stanley Herbert Fillion Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering 15

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IF AC HD HUY Suddenly he is seized by two masked figures and whisked into a waiting car. What is this—kidnapping? a raid? No, as the two seizers unmask they seem to be friendly and . . . shhh, one of them is speaking: “Er, ah, urn, WELCOME TO WORCESTER TECH! ah, er ...” That was Ripper, and his companion in hospitality appears to be Leight, Elmer’s freshman advisor. The tendency of a body at rest to remain so nearly snaps the necks off the trio as their car starts off with a teriffic burst of speed. ‘‘HEY,—you at the wheel, slow down.” Oh, it’s Sam— well, never mind—what? No, of course I don’t expect you to spoil your tradition, but . . . Thirty seconds later our car slams to a stop in front of Sanford Riley Hall and our new freshman is whisked into the dorm to meet face to face with Daddy, who in turn presents him to Gordie, faculty proctor in the dorm. After a good night’s sleep, Elmer strides bright and early to his first college class—a physics lecture in Kinnicut Hall. As the lecture starts, Elmer hears announcements alpha and beta Francis Joseph Adams Professor of Electrical Engineering Donald Graham Downing Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harold Winthrop Dows Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering 14 Harry Benjamin Feldman Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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concerning campus parking rules. Then comes the traditional “Gut morning, chentelmen,” and Physics A, Dutchy at the helm, is off. His second class takes him via Cosine Avenue to B 19 for math where Happy and his inseparable stick start work on trig. 10.00 a.m. finds him sleepily settled in one of Pop’s English classes and at 11.00 his schedule shows a chem lecture with Doc and Hiram in charge. During the course of the lecture he er, ah learns that er, um sodium chloride er, AH!—the bell. And thus passes into history Elmer’s first combat with the ways of the Institute. His freshman year grinds on, as does Elmer, until June rolls around and introduces to him summer shop. Days of sand pounding in the foundry—Rosie supervising ably; terror and frustration on Washburn’s second floor amid whirring saws and spinning lathes. Daisy and his unfailing eye to make (or break) his work. And as the heat of summer settles down in earnest, a last few days with Carl and his crystal struc¬ tures and welds. Finally, with a last farewell glimpse of Boynton Hill and an adieu to fellow students, Elmer leaves Worcester for summer vacation. No send-off party sees him go, but he departs wiser in the ways of an engineer by one year. Willard Elliott Lawton Assistant Professor of Physics Edwin Higginbottom Assistant Professor of English 16 William Willard Locke, Jr. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering