Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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HEADS Leland Leavitt Atwood Professor of Modern Languages and History Percy Robert Carpenter Professor of Physical Education Andrew Hall Holt Professor of Civil Engineering (Leave of Absence) Francis William Roys Professor of Mechanical Engineering Albert James Schwiecer Professor of Economics, Govern¬ ment, and Business Ernest Dana Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry 15

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DEPARTMENTAL The faculty holds a prominent place in any college’s traditions and achievements; this is especially true at Wor¬ cester Tech. The Class of 1943 is finally graduating and in appreciation and remembrance we dedicate this to the owners of the strong hands that guided us down the groove of higher education. Our story is written entirely in the spirit of fun and we hope it will be read in that light. Let it here be said that any faculty member who thinks he has grounds for a libel suit after reading this should just step around to the Peddler office. We haven’t a leg to stand on, and will gladly settle out of court. A student’s eye view of our faculty is not the best basis for forming an acquaintance—in too many cases it’s too much like a worm’s description of a robin. However, it is the only basis most of us have, and we must make the best of it. Let us remember that a robin is, after all, just a robin, and professors are really human.—We have it on good authority that some of them do not even beat their wives. For our four year glimpse of the chosen few who shaped our destiny, let us look through the eyes of the man who Charles Joseph Adams Professor of English Morton Masius Professor of Physics Theodore Harding Morgan Professor of Electrical Engineering (Leave of Absence) Raymond Kurtz Morley Professor of Mathematics 14

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began his career at Tech as Oscar Zilch. Oscar got ninety-five on his final exam in high school physics, and he was going to major in physics at Tech, and show the world a thing or two. His first contact is at the dorm, with Daddy, whom he can’t quite figure out. How can anyone be so hospitable, busi¬ nesslike, affable, and firm, all at once? Next he is introduced to Cosine, and de¬ cides at once,— He’s okay, but he’ll bear watching. I can’t have a proctor doing me out of my dessert, just because I don’t like to make beds.” Oscar’s third contact is a blind date provided by the same Cosine, and he promptly decides that desserts aren’t so important after all. But that is another story. The array of wise men facing the fresh- Francis Joseph Adams Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Acting Plead of Department Frederick Raymond Butler Professor of Chemistry Charles Metcalf Allen Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Edward Choate Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics Donald Graham Downing Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harold Winthrop Dowes Professor of Mechanical Engineering