Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Leslie James Hooper Assistant Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Gleason Harvey MacCullough Professor of Engineering Mechanics Arthur Julius Knight Professor of Civil Engineering Carl Gunnard Johnson Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harold Arthur Maxfield Professor of Electrical Engineering Karl Wilhelm Meissner Assistant Professor of Physics

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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

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Summer passes—quietly, uneventfully. September 23 and the dawn of a new year’s learning for Elmer A. Having elected the M.E. course, his sophomore year brings him face to face with a new line of personalities among the faculty. Doc with his booming German course; the Chief, and later little Moose, for surveying—or, as the civils would have it, for civil engineering. A new English course—public speaking, criticisms by Frenchie: “. . . two minutes undertime.” And on through descript, with Jack and Stan. Physics B (B) to worry about, and the whole physics department to worry him. No Dutchy, but a host of others pitching—Sis, Sam, and newcomers Gus and Samp. Cal¬ culus rears its ugly head during E.A.’s sophomore year but Ricey, Doc, Brownie, and Wild Bill do their share to dispel its gloom. Higgie, sly and subtle, trains him in the ways of logical writing, and Scheif takes over the reins of his German instruction. Into the new M.E. building goes Elmer to tackle statics with dapper Black Mac, while his classmate Chem. Engines matches wits with Tombstone in the Quant, course. And so, on and on, in a maddening whirl, ever increasing in pace, weave the strands of his education. As Elmer goes through his junior year, real engineering train¬ ing takes the place of the leadup subjects of his previous years. Continued on page 132 Kenneth Gerald Merriam Professor of Mechanical Engineering 18 Samuel James Plimpton Professor of Physics