Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Seated: Second row: Senior Class Officers Dave Johnson John Biddle Jerry Gibbs John Vale Norton Remmer Dick Gess Bill Aitken Treasurer President Vice President Tech Senate Historian Secretary Tech Senate 19

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND CHEMISTRY Professor Wilmer LeRoy Kranich Head of Department The future of the department of Chemical En- gineering and Chemistry at Tech looks even brighter than its colorful past. A campaign to raise six hundred thousand dollars from private and industrial sources for a complete remodeling of the interior of Salisbury Hall is well under way. Although work has been slow, due to the impossibility to make extensive repairs during classes, it should pick up speed this summer. No longer will a junior chemist find ceiling plas- ter added to his yield every time Hiram Phillips dem- onstrates to a freshman lecture the rapid reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; and never again will a senior Chemical Engineer be asphyxiated by excess hydrogen sulfide overflowing quietly from a soph- omore qualitative lab, whose chief means of ventila- tion are the lungs of the long suffering sophomores. The Department looks forward to an increase in opportunities on the graduate level to say nothing of the field of research. With sizeable grants for re- search given to Drs. Todd and Plumb, Worcester Tech cannot help but to gain stature as a promoter of basic chemical research. 21