Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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In our third year, Codings, Converse, and Barna had become reliable regulars with the basketball team. Norm Martin, Art Neid, Harry Mankey, and Mai Horton were playing varsity soccer, while Frank Sherman, George Barna, and Sumner Herman were once again with the spring track team. Hal Schmucki, Paul May, Bob Campbell, and Don Thompson returned to the baseball diamond, while Hill Bowen was now our sole delegate to the swimming team. There comes a time in the life of most every Tech man when he feels much more personally associated with the well-known phrase, “They can’t flunk Seniors.” As we of ’50 prepare to commence, we pause one last time to display our record of achievement. To lead our class during our Senior year we elected Jack Briefly to his fourth consecutive term as class president. Other officers chosen were Paid Brown, Vice-President; Les Reynolds, Secretary; Phil Wild, Treasurer; and John Cocker and Walt Keyl, Tech Council Representatives. Once again finding ourselves without an Historian, (Phil Stanier just couldn’t get the strength he needed to survive) a desperate class elected Dick McMahan to this job. A list of our classmates on Tech Teams would be just about the same as that of the Junior year, with the valuable addition of two inheritances from the Class of ’49—Big Ed Carpenter of football fame, and pitcher Red Shattuck, a mainstay of the baseball team. Early this year Tati Beta Pi elected John Burgarella, Heikki Elo, Dick McMahan, Marty Nisenoff, John Percival, Walt Scanlon, and Ken Stewart, while Skull tapped Paul Brown, John Cocker, Dick McMahan, and Jim Meiklejohn. Pi Delta Epsilon elected to membership Paul Brown, Joe Burgarella, Dud DeCarli, Fran Kearney, Leo Lynch, and Dick McMahan. Sigma Xi’s ini¬ tiates totalled nineteen, including Cocker, Danielson, Engman, Ewing, Friedman, Jureidini, Partridge, K. Stewart, Coe, Jurczak, Percival, Romano, Wilber, Dodge, Joyce, Toegemann, Elo, Rossi and Waldo. The past year satv the beginnings of a group of Senior and Junior E.E.’s who soon expect to receive a charter from Eta Kappa Nu, national honorary Electrical Engineering fraternity. Senior members of this group are Barna, Beschle, John Burgarella, Cocker, Danielson, Engman, Ewing, Friedman, Jureidini, O’Connor, McAllan, McGraw, McNamara, McMahan, Partridge, Pieper, Scanlon, and K. Stewart.

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different. There, a strong freshman team was held scoreless, while Chun and Ozbas each tallied with one, to give the Class of ’50 a 2-0 victory. While we met with near-victory in the paddle rush, the Tech Carnival was again ours. This time a semi-subtle parody on life at Hypothetical Tech, entitled School Spirit, gave us an undisputed triumph over the freshman attempt at wit. Stu Leonard, as Commodore Jupiter-Pluvius, led the cast to victory. Still without a post-war victory, Tech’s football team this year scored for the first time since 1944. Participating in this gradual comeback were Bob Lanphear and Ray Girard. On the soccer squad were Melnnet Oray, Dick Connell, Mehmet Ozbas, John Margo, Don Thompson, V. K. Chun, and Jim Meiklejohn. Playing Varsity basketball were George Barna, John Converse, and Bill Codings, with George Edwards on the J.V. squad. Bill Bowen and Bill Brown represented us on the swimming team, while Ross Chapin, Paul May, and Don Thompson were the Fifty-ites playing varsity baseball. Frank Sherman, George Barna, Sumner Herman, Bart Hastings, and Bill Brown were on the spring track team. September, 1948. Two hundred twenty-nine of us, and all strangely unimpressed with the fact that at last we were upperclassmen. For, while the frivolities of the Goat’s Head competition were now left to the spirited classes behind 11s, we faced IT—the formidable Junior Year we had heard so much about. It was just that for many, accounting for thirty-two de¬ partures. However, in spite of the pace we were able to keep our heads suffi¬ ciently above the H 2 0 to throw a highly successful stag party, and later to present a wonderful Junior Prom. Owing to the work of Neil Crowley and John Cocker, who headed the Prom committee, this dance, featuring the music of Bobby Byrne, was an outstanding social success. Re-elected to class officers were Jack Brierly, Paul Brown, Bruce Bailey, and Paul May. Walt Keyl and George Barna were elected as our Tech Council Representatives. When Hank Baker was forced to leave school because of illness, Phi! Stanier was elected to take over the job of Historian. During the first term Tau Beta Pi elected Stan Friedman, Mai Horton, and Les Reynolds to membership. Their second-term initiates included George Barna, John Cocker, Dave Danielson, Don Dodge, George Engman, Frank Jurczak, Walt Keyl, and Jim O’Connor. Pi Delta Epsilon elected George Barna, Tej Chaddha, Neil Crowley, Walt Dennen, Stan Friedman, and Subbiah Muthiah, while Skull tapped George Barna, Jack Brierly, Neil Crowley, Stan Friedman, Mai Horton, Ken Muccino, and Harold Schmucki.

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Part 3—Postlude Eighty-three M.E.’s, fifty-three E.E.’s, thirty-two Chem. Engineers, nine¬ teen Civils, five Physicists, four Chemists—all Seniors. Only dim memories of “Skvare und add!”, “System!”, and “I can see it from here.” The fish- chowder strike all but forgotten. Many faces, familiar even a few short months ago, no longer in evidence. . . . We have seen and been instrumental in Tech’s “return to normalcy” after the war years. We watched Tech football teams, in successive years, break into the playing, scoring, and winning columns. We saw this re-birth of prowess and sp irit in all sports—all over campus. We saw the return of the rope pull, paddle rush, Goat’s Head competition, hazing. . . . We were present on the hill to work and put in long hours, but we were also able to watch the reincarnation of an esprit de corps which was, frankly, just about dead. We witnessed the many little and big events that made it possible for Tech men, past and present, to once again raise their heads. We, the Class of 1950, witnessed these things—but not merely as bystanders or lookers-on. We submit that we may take a measure of justi¬ fiable pride in the fact that we did our part to help Worcester Tech regain the stature she deserves.