Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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front row , left to right: F. W. Rovs, G. R. Rugg, A. B. Bronwell, B. B. Schoonover, T. K . Van Arsdale, Jr. Second row, left to right: A. J. Knight, R. P. Rochette, W. W. Locke, D. G.Downing, D. E. Lloyd, W. B. Zepp, A. J. Ruksnaitis, B. L. Wellman, E. W. Hollows. Administration The efficient operation of our school is the result of our hard-working Administration. It is primarily through their effort that the Institute maintains its high rank as an engineering school. Their responsibilities range from selection and admission of men, proper maintenance and development of facilities, and public relations to the coordination of depart¬ mental policies. A great deal of credit belongs to the officers for their fine work in supervising the affairs of the Institute. Because of the promptness and efficiency with which they perform their tasks, we are scarcely awaie of the administrations existence. 29

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Board of Trustees The administration of the Institute is entrusted to a Corporation consisting of twenty-nine members. In the past year this Corporation established a development and fund-raising program at Worcester Tech under the direction of Dr. Van Arsdale, Vice President. The object of the development program is to improve the facilities at Tech through the constructing of a new dormitory and dining center, central library, field bouse, physics laboratory and classroom building, and the re¬ modeling of Salisbury and Atwater Kent laboratories. In conjunction with this, a fund-raising program was launched which, it is hoped, will facilitate the achievement of these objectives over a two-year period. The trustees are Philip M. Morgan, Chairman; Albert J. Gifford, Treasurer; Paris Fletcher, Secretary; Sidney W. Farns¬ worth, George F. Fuller, Maurice W. Heinritz, Milton P. Higgins, Archibald B. Hossack, Helge S. Johnson, Wayne E. Keith, Leonard M. Krull. Burton W. Marsh, Howard A. Mayo, Warren W. Parks, George I. Rockwood, Robert W. Stoddard, Samuel M. Stone, George A. Walker, James C. Walker, F. Harold Daniels, Phillip R. Delphos, Peter W. Brouwers, Earl C. Hughes, and Dwight E. Jones. The Ex-Officio members are Arthur B. Bronwell. Honorable James D. O’Brien, Reverend Oliver Powell, Francis W. Roys, Reverend Dr. Wallace W. Robbins, and Reverend George M. Torgensen. During this ear, the Trustees have initiated the Development Program which has objectives totaling five arid a half million dollars. In Februar . announcement of a gift of 250.000 from the George I. Alden Trust made possible realization of the first objective, a new dormitory and dining facility for 192 students. In March, announcement was made of a gift of 1,229.000 from the Olin Foundation, for construction and equipping of a new Physics Building to be located on West Street. [ 28 ]

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First row, left to right: Prof. B. L. Wellman, Prof. L. J. Hooper, Prof. M. L. Price, Prof. K. G. Merriam, Prof J H Wh enman. Second row: Prof. H. W. Dows, Prof. H. S. Corey, Prof. C. W. Staples, Prof. K. E. Scott, Mr. W. A. Kistler, Prof. F. A. Anderson, Mr. R. J. Hall, Mr. A. T. Roys, Prof. F. N. Webster. Third row: Prof. R. F. Bourgault Prof. F. S. Finlayson, Mr. R. R. Hagglund, Mr. C. D. Morgan, Jr., Mr. R. F. Bernado, Mr. T. T. S. Wang. Mechanical Engineering Something passes you in the corridor of Higgins; the slide rule, triangles, and “T” square draped from his belt jangle, as he ambles by with simple harmonic motion. That something is the germ of a young Mechanical Engineer - W.P.I.’s contribution to mechanized society. Let’s go into the factory and see the men who mold, twist, integrate the “masses” that enter the front and leave as functioning, directed mechanical enthusiasts four years later. Heading up the department that undertakes this seemingly superhuman task without the aid of automation, is Professor M. Lawrence Price, a man well versed in Mechanical Engineering know-how, a man respected and admired by all concerned. His is the job of coordinating and directing the complex operation of this pseudo factory. The raw material enters the front door in individual “mass units” and immediately arrives at Professor Wellman’s sta¬ tion where he and his aides, Professors Whenman, Corey, and Staples, try to obtain certain responses from the “mass” through the media of drafting and descriptive geometry. By now much of the “mass” has transferred to other departments more suited to their individual objectives, but they cannot forget Higgins, and they journey back on occasional trips in the fol¬ lowing vears. D j Well it goes, doesn ' t it?