Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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The appearance of the senior M.E. at Tech bears a direct relationship to the curriculum he follows. It can be shown how these characteristics develop through the years. The Freshman and Sophomore years started the de¬ velopment by giving their eyes that strained look. Many hours s|)ent in the drawing rooms watching the maze of lines being put on the board by Professors Wellman and Whenman led to a booming business for the local optical companies. It’s funny ' how the above mentioned persons always managed to make something out of those puzzling spiderwebs. Some people believe that they have a pair of 3-D glasses that automatically pick out the correct lines. The seniors have a tendency to wear clothes that are as comfortable as possible. This trait developed in the Junior year from wearing dirty clothes to machine shop and foundry sessions. This was a necessity even though Professors Zepp and Dows did not have to follow this practice. It is funny how they could stay so clean and how they could repair in five minutes what it took some student several hours to foul up. Professor Zepp’s fingers must have had some special glue on them that made the sand stick together when the mold was assembled. It was always a good practice to find something for a shield when Professor Dows revved up one of those lathes. The chips used to fly around like shrapnel. Thermo lab brought about that look of infinite wisdom Mechanical Engineering Sitting, left to right: F. S. Finlayson, G. H. MacCullough, head of dept.: J. A. Bjork, F. A. Ander¬ son, C. W. Staples, B. L. Wellman, W. B. Zepp. Standing: H. S. Corey, C. G. Johnson, F. N. Web¬ ster, R. P. Kolb, K. G. Merriman, K. E. Scott, D. G. Downing, M. L. Price, J. H. Whenman, K. W. Fowler, H. W. Dows.

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Sitting, left to right: A. J. Knight, A. H. Holt, head of dept. Standing: C. F. Meyer, F, J. Sanger, C. H. Koontz. And who’s this staring from behind one of his three sets of spectacles? Looks like Fred Sanger, the man who is more British than the “Tower of London”. How often it happened that Fred would give the students writer’s cramp from two hours of lecturing only to summarize by saying, “This stuff is now outdated and practically worthless.” Remember the Geology trip when the “Brit¬ isher” toured the wrong side of Shrewsbury Street trying to test the compressive strength of his fender? The “Lon¬ don Limey” is another man of whom much will be said at class reunions. The newest member of the Civil Staff is the guy with the joke; the guy with the I-beam brain; the refugee from Ill inois, Carl Koontz. We’ll also recall the Geodesy sum¬ mer course when he tried his hardest to fudge a good closure; and those boards filled with figures on beam design were enough to demoralize the best of us. Midst all the kidding, these erudite gentlemen have been great. The thanks we can give them is the satisfac¬ tion of knowing that we are stepping out into industry well-fortified with the tools of our trade . . . our knowl¬ edge gained at Tech. four o’clock

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on the face of the students in the Junior year. All of the reports proved that more energy could be gotten out of something than was put in. Professor Kolb and the gen¬ eral energy equation still say that it can’t be done. He is planning to rip down the steam orifice to see if someone hasn’t rigged it in some way. The students with that amazed look on their faces are the juniors just coming from strength lab. Professor Mac- Cullough lets them go on believing that it is their own strength that is breaking all those specimens. None of them can figure out how he got all those pretty colors on the wall in the photoelasticity experiment. All of the seniors seem to be running around with red noses that are due to bad colds. Professor Finlayson water, water everywhere and . . . . We’ll try and salvage it. pened he just lit his pipe and sang, “Up in the air, Junior Birdmen.” All the seniors bear an intense feeling of gratitude toward Professor Downing for arranging the schedules so that there wouldn’t be too many preps to be done in any one night. The students appreciated his special insight which unscrambled many of the complicated derivations in the textbook. These are the features that will all be remembered by the graduates throughout the years; that will serve as a reminder of all the good times that went along with the seeming overabundance of work. In moments of reverie they will bring back the many happy hours spent within the wall of Higgins. should have stressed the fact that rubbers should be worn at the Alden Hydraulics Laboratory. He must have been taking some sort of preventative medicine since he never had any trouble with the illness. Another characteristic of the seniors is their mode of transportation. Most of them travel around in souped up hotrods that they worked up with the good advice of Professor ' ebster. The local police are trying to find some way to make him confine his conversations to the theoretical. They haven’t caught any of the seniors lately. The aeros insist, however, in propelling themselves about with a pair of homemade wings. These were the idea of Professor Merriam after one of the boys landed the Link Trainer forty feet underground. When it hap-