Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Scheifley said nothing, confident that by morning they would be gone. In the morning the two cars had become four! But pranks never bothered the good-natured proc¬ tor as long as they were harmless, and original. He was so well liked by the students that he was given honorary membership in the Knights of the Road, a hitch-hiking group of out-of-town-game football fans instrumental in the building of Tech spirit. In 1935, he took his Master’s degree at Cornell—which complicates matters for him on the day of the annual Cornell vs. University of Pennsylvania football tilt. He then joined the faculty of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. (Established before the University of Miami of water-skiing fame.) After three years in Ohio, where he was known as a card shark at bridge, he returned to Worcester, where he has been one of the most dynamic forces in campus ac¬ tivities ever since. Before a boy even leaves high school he meets Profes¬ sor Scheifley as director of the Techniquest—that summer session when high school students get their first glimpse of Tech life. Freshmen have always known him as an advisor anxious to help any student who would but take the time to see him. He has been active in the Debating Club and Cosmopolitan Club, and for seven years. Chair¬ man of the President’s General Excellence Trophy Com¬ mittee. As Secretary, and now Chairman, of the Inter¬ fraternity Council, he has helped to coordinate and guide the nine Tech fraternities towards goals which make the community proud of them. He feels he has seen a change in students over the years he has been at Tech. ... a change towards more school spirit for one thing. The Tech man today is also more eager to be broad-minded, to learn about things which are not part of engineering. “And.” he says, “the student is more serious today than ever before—partly due to the effects of the depression, the world war, and the immi¬ nence of military service.” But he hopes young men won’t become too serious, because. “You’re only young once, you know.” That is why Professor Scheifley loves his work so much —he is among men who are young in spirit—like him¬ self. While Tech men go out and make machines to sh ape the world’s riches. Professor Scheifley, married to none save his work, will always be that part of Tech which molds the minds of those men who shape the fu¬ ture. To him this volume is respectfully dedicated. He left no stone unturned His interest was in the student Page Seven

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His door was always open DEVICA TION ... CLAUVE KNIGHT SCHEIFLEY Someone once said, “If you can ' t regain twenty—work with those who are twenty. This is also the thought of Professor Claude Knight Scheifley, and it is exactly what he has been doing since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. Everyone knows Professor Scheifley, because he is everywhere. It’s not that he is actually omnipresent, but he guides and participates in so many of the Institute functions that it is impossible to be a Tech student with¬ out knowing him somehow. It’s only natural to suspect that a man who is as active as he is in campus life as a faculty member must have had the same spirit for extra¬ curricular organization in his own college days. Looking through certain dusty, but not forgotten, volumes on the shelves of the professor’s library, one finds that he was editor of his high school yearbook, and in college, where he was a Latin major, an officer in the German Club, the honorary classical fraternity Eta Sigma Phi, and the Zelosophic society. He was also a member of the honorary German fraternity Delta Phi Delta and Phi Kappa Tau social fraternity. Upon graduation from the University, Professor Scheifley came to Worcester Tech to teach German. At that time there was no history taught here, but three hours a week of language for every student. The dorm was only one year old then, and he became the dorm proctor in the days when men were men. and one proctor did the work of today’s eight. Things used to happen to proctors in those days, loo—like the time the first floor of the dorm became the garage for two automobiles. Rather than order them out. patient and understanding proctor is History was alive Page Six

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