Missouri S&T Magazine, January-February 1951

MSM ALUMNUS Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy ROLLA. MO .

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New Addition to Experiment Station Building

As enlarg ed by the new construction on the right, the Building now houses the lVletallurgy Department, as well as the CeralTIics Department. The remodelling will increase the floor space of the building by about 60 per cent.

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By James L. Head If on e engages in alumni activities ove r only <) brief period, one is quite likely to r ealize that there is someth ing more to being an alumnus than paying mod est dues, attending a n occ3.s ional r eunion , contributing news to th e alu mni publication or simply b y reminiscing ad l)auseam s bo u t the good old days and reserving the ri·ght to rail at the School Administration and the Association Board.

If you are un active member of a board, you may soon su spect that there are ways of trying to attain certain objectives other than by brute st r ength and awkardness, cajolery , subtp.rfuge , or as so gene rally happens, just beating your brains out against walls of indifference and opposition.

Your President, having long been aware of these several conditions and attitudes , recently welcomed the opportunity to observe just what a speciali zed and important affair alumni activity has become.

The occasion w as the annual confer e nce of Dis trict II of the American Alumni C ouncil, J anuary n13 at Atlantic City, N. J . About 150 represenic:tives from some ei'ghty school s register ed. The majority of them were paid workers of their association , something tha1 a l arge a ssocia tion i , able to afford.

T h e y w e re in m ost instances a ccompan:ed b y the:r counte rp a rt volunteer worke r s uch as th e pres· ident of their assoc iation or an alumni tru stee . It was a grand group, and I found th e contact with it a stimulati:1 g e xp erienc e .

The America n Alumni Council is an association of the m e n a nd women profe3sionally engaged in alumni work of some 500 solle ges and secondary schools of th e Uni te d States, Alaska and Canada. It has divided its membe rs geo'g raphically into nine districts . MSM is in D i strict VI which comprise s the states of Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba , Missou .. ri , Nebraska , North D akota, Oklahoma, South D a kota. D istrict II is made up of D el aware, Washington, D . C. , Maryland, N e w J ersey , N ew York Ontario , Pennsylvania , West

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The Council' s .obj e cts are to b e n e fit its members b y the interchange·

Alumni Board to Meet in St. Louis on Feb. 18 There will b e a Board M eeting of the MSM A lu mn i ASsociation a t th e J eff e rson Hotel Room No.7 , in St. Louis at 9:30 ~. m., February 18 , 1951. This date co incides with the a nnu al m eetin g w ee k of the AIlVIE a nd it is hope d that all officer s and b oard m e mbe rs who p lan to a tten d this mee tin g , or who a r e in t h e ge n e ral vicin :ty of St. Louis will m a k e an effort to b e prese nt at this Board M ee tin g.

of ide as on alumni and e ducational p r obl e ms; by the study- of practic es and policies o f organize d a lumni work; ;md by th e appraisal of a lu mni achievement. Its activities seem to f a ll rath e r naturally in to t h e three compartments with wh ich the work of the individual a lum ni associa tion is most concerned. T hese ar e - publications, funds and routine cond uct of an alumni office. The Council is so organize d as L l give much assistance to the individual association or alumni worker in e ach of these fiel ds.

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deta ils of the program at Atlantic City . Although having b e en cordia lly invite d to attend , I rathe r thought tha t MSM' s represe ntative m igh t b e somewha t out of place at a gathe ri n g of those from thE predominantly l iberal a rts schools of this area. Instead , I soon found myself v e ry much a t home and it might b e sa id j n p a ssing that I was invite d to be p r esent on th e dais at the annua l Ginn e r a nd to share the spotligh t with the presidents of six othe r a lu mni associations at a panel di sc u ss ion on th e subject: " Alumni Lead ers V ie w Alumni ' ;Vorke rs. " The preside n t of th e Council , Mr .

T. Hawle y Tapping of the UniversHy of Michigan, reporte d to me with ple asur e that h e h ad m e t Secre tary -Treasure r H a nley at the Dis trict VI Confere nc e in Kansas City early in D e ce mber. A repor t of "Ca p 's" experience at the meeting probably appears elsewhere in t his issue, a nd I will b e much surprised if he a id not come awa y from Kansa s City with as much enthusiasm for the work of th e Council as I did from m y e x perier:ce in Atlan: ic City.

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The American Institute of I! Mining a n d Metallurgical En- ' g ineers will hold its Ann u al Mee ti ng in St. Louis on Februar y 18-22, 1951. Many MSM a lumni a r e memb ers of the AIME and w ill a ttend this annual m eeting. Many h ave not I visited t h e MSM camp us for -I

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SOl me ~etalrs . fTO tl!tleS~ ~nd all , a lImnl Ie ac u Y JOIns me in extending a cordial invitaI' tion to come to R vlla before, I , durin g, or a fter th e AIME Annu a l Meeting to visit the campus, gree t old friends, and see so m ething of the work that is being done here.

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Issued bi-monthly in th e inlerest of the g radu a tes and former stu dents of th e School of Min es and MEta llu r gy .

Subscripti on price $1.50. included in Alumni Dues .

Entered a s s econd -cla ss m a tter Oct. 27. 1026 , at Post Office a t Rolla , Mo., und e r th e Act of March 3, 1879.

Officers of the Associ:ttioll James L. H ea d ' 16 ____ .... Pre s id ent A. E. Barnard ' 27 Ex e c. Vice -Po H. H. Clark ' 15 _. ___________ . Vice -Pres.

H. R. Hanley , ' 01 .

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Board of Directors Mervin J. Kelly, ' 14 Charles J. Potte r , ' 29 Melvin E . Ni c kel , ' 38 E. A . Crawford. ' 29 Gunnard E. Johnson ' 16 L. A . Turnbull, ' 22 W. P. Ru e mmler, '3 8 H. S. Penc e, ' 23 H. E. Zolle r , '23 J. V. Spalding, ' 39 D . P . Hale, Jr., ' 34 Barney Nu e ll , ' 21

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More Engineers Needed, Coal Executive Tells MSM Students at Institute Here

By Henry C. Woods* Chairman of the Board, Sahara Coal Company America n eeds more e ngineers and that m ea ns o ur colleges n eed more e ngineerin g student enrollments .

Last year's r e cord numbe r of 50,000 e n g in eering graduates hav e a ll found em ployme nt. But ther e r e main man y openings in a ll bra nch es of th e profession , so many th at the situat ion has b ee n lis ted as critical by the S ecr e tary of L a bor .

This year's classes sh ow 26 ,500 fr es hme n r egis te r ed for e n gineering courses, wh ic h is 27 'lo b e low t ha t of l as t year a nd 20 % below th fi g ure at th e b eginning of W orld W a r II. Of th ese 26,500 fr e shmen, 13 ,000 may b e e xpec t e d to graduate in 1954 whi ch is l ess than half the p eace-time requirements of th e n a tion . Civilian p eace-time needs a lone r quir e 25 ,000 g raduate engineers e v e ry yea r , and this numb er e asily increases to a minimum o j' 30 ,000 during p e rio ds of emep:5e nc y.

Many factors contribute to brin g a bout th is situation .

First, ou r colleges now are e n rollin g students w h o w er e born in 1 93 0 and 1931. These years, you will r ecall , were th e worst of th e d epression yea r s, when the birth rate was far bel ow norma l. Natura lly , tha t m ea n s that tod ay ther e a r e f ewer s tud e n ts f or a ll college courses, including e nginee ring.

S e cond , ri g ht after W orld W ar II th e Govern ment pa'd ex p enses u~ der th e GI Bill of R rg hts for stud e nts who were jus t emb a rkin g on th e ir college courses o r w e r ~ continui ng those dr eady sta r ted .

Many of these wer e outstandin g s' ud e nts and got bette r g r a d es than the general run of stud ents; some e nte r ed the e ngineeri n g fi e ld. Howcve r , most of th e G . 1. st udents ar c no l onger in school and th e 'r places have n ot b een taken in the classr ooms by anywhere near an e qual number of new stud e n ts. In Novem b e r , 1950, for exam ple, the enroll ment of veterans r eceiving hi g h e r C'c1 uca1iona l benefits und er t h e G. 1.

Bm of R ig hts was placed at 57 5, 000 "' C hairman, Vocatio nal Traini :l.<::¡ Education Committe e, National Coa I Association .

as compared with 856,000 the preceding yea r , a drop of 33 % .

Third, durin g the war the gove rnment drafted gradu a t e e nginee r s, removing th e m from th e fi e ld of research, an d a lso took students who h a dn ' t comple te d th e ir e n g inee rin g co urses. These conditions h elped to create furth er s h ortages in th e e n gineeri n g rank s.

Fina lly, an d a mor e r ecent cause f or l ess st ud e nt in ter es t in enginee rin g, th e B urea u of Labor Statistics r e leased a statement b efore l ast f a ll" s college en rollm en t to th e effect that the r e was an over-suppl y of e n g in e er s. Obviousl y, this h a d its effec t in the a ttitude of college engin eerin g st ud e n ts and in th e hi g h sc h ool s w i th stud e nts who were consider ing college engineerin g cou rses. The Burea u has r ece ntl y r eve rse d itseU and an n o un ces th at employers a r e now seeking ad¡ d itional enginee rs, after a b sorbing th e e ngin ee rin g sc hools' r ecord 1 95 0 g rad u ating class of 50 ,000 . D ef e nse work , t h e burea u sta t es, w ill co nti nue to add to th e normal peace-time d e mand.

All in a ll, t h e r e is an urgent a n d increasi ng demand for enginee r s,

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which m ea ns that e ducators at both high sc h ool and univ e rsity l evel s, m ay well b e serving th e nation 's, industry 's a nd the stud ent's best int er ests by e ncouraging yo u ng men to e nte r th e unde rmanned e n gineerin g fie ld , At the high s chool l e v e l , it is important to note that a cou r se in coal mining n eed not inte rfe r e with oth er subj ects, but may b e s ubstitute d for those of l ess value in preparing for em ployment in any industry. Coal mining r eq uires a knowle dge of Eng lish , mathematics and science. Those subj ec ts a r e basic in a lmost a ll modern i ndustr y, so th at studyin g the ir a pplication to coal minin g is u seful to a stude n t eve n thoug h h ~ n e ver e n ter s that busin ess.

Educators and stu dents conte mplating careers in mining are ur ged to acquaint th e ms elves with th :! facts of today co n cernin g coal mini ng.

Man y sc hools still use text book s that co nvey an e ntirel y e rr oneous des cription of coal m ini ng, b e cause the books have not b een r e vise d for year s. Statements in th ese text books ofte n r efer to condition s t h a t h ave b ee n obsole te for a gen e r a tion or longer.

Coal is e ntering i ts brig h test e r a and for that r easo n , offe r s a bright futur e fo r th e e n gineers who will b e responsib l e for p r oducin g and

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AT NATIONAL C OAL S S{) CIATION E DU C ATION M E ETING HERE : From left , front row - Ken n et h E. Ro se, Kansas U., Dean C. L. Wilson. H. C. Woods, Dr. J . D . Forrester, and Assistant Dean R. Z. Wil lia ms. Second row - George F. Kl ein, Mackie-Clemens Fuel Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Roland C . Luthe'r , Pee l'less Coal a nd Coke Co., Bluefield, W .

Va.; Davis Read , minin g co nsul ta nt, Madisonville, Ky.; L. I. Cothern.

Jewellridg'e Coal Corp,; Tazewell , Va.; Russel W. B ea mer . Ro chester and Pittsburg'h Coal Co., In ti iail.a, Pa. ; a nd M. D. C oope r, National Coal Associa tion, Pittsburgh. Pa. They are m c mbers of the Associat ion's e duca tion c omm itt ee.

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preparing it for the hundreds of thousands of uses to which coal is put today.

Here is what the coal mining in dus!ry offers young men today: An Ascending Industry. While the known reserves of gas and oil are e xpected to be exhausted in 35 years, we have enough coal to last far more than 2,000 years. New uses for coal are constantly being discovered (n y lon, for example , i;; just a few years old) ani from many laboratories are coming miracles of power and heat, too, as exomplified by the new type of locomotive, the improved coal burning stoves and furnaces and many other invent' ons empl~ying coal as a basic fuel.

The industry is in the midst of a transfer from wholly hand-operated methods to complete mechanization. Today in 90 '70 of the mines, all coal is loaded by large electrical machines. Coal is drilled by elec· trical drills rather than by hanel.

Coal is shot down by compressed a ' r (to avoid the danger of explosions or catastrophes) rather than by powder or dynamite . No lon3e. are mules used in the mines. In most mines where electrical engines were used to haul the coal to the bottom in small pitcars, today the modern mine3 are using belt or chain conveyors . Slope.s instead of vertical shafts are used in all new up-to-date properties. Electric lights are used below ground instead of Op211 flame lights. Steel hats and steel capped shoes are worn by the miners for safety reasons. Mines have spent millions in measures which have reduce d acci(lent rates to other comparable in· dustries such <.IS steel and automotive. Mines are so much more modern than they were 10 or 12 years ago that one hesitates what to expect in new methods in the future.

Bituminous Coal Research , founded about ten years ago, is financed by wide awake coal producers and it has spent millions of dollars in the development of modern appliances to use coal. It has studied air pollution, and t.he possible deriv.atives from coal such as oil, gas, o rugs , plastics, nylons and many others.

One of the ·greatest strides that has been made in the past 15 years is the development of equipment and "know-how" in getting the last' ounce out of the burning of coal for steam or electrical use. Witness the

fact that in 1920 it took 3.2 pounds of coal to produce one kilowatt of power; now it requires only 1.24 pounds for each kilowatt - almost a 60 '10 saving!

In coal mining, it is truly the heyday of the engineer .

Immediate Employment: With the current shortage of mining engineers for p eace -time pursuits, and the added n eeds for defense work, t.he young man should find no difficulty in obtaining emplo~­ ment upon graduation .

Good Compensation : The young coal mining engineer just out of school receives a starting salary of from $250 to $300 , which is better t.han the average of all industry; advancement is limited only by his own ambition and ability.

Employmen. t During Vacation Periods: In maGY cases, the seriousminded college student may make arrangements to work in a modern coal mine dur ing his summer vacations, thus ga1l1ll1g first -hand knowledge before graduation , of the work to which he is devoting his career.

So much for the opportunities and inducements offered the graduate mining engineer by the coal industry.

Now what, in return, does the industry expect of the young engineer? And in what manner may high schools a n d colleges cooperate in the best interests of all?

When an undergraduate has good basic instruction in the regular COl:rses deemed essential to a mining engineer's degree, he has the b a ckground that should be of most help to him . D e tails of the courses themselves are not too important, nor does the industry insist on the a dherence to a rigid course.

In this r espec t , the mine employer is in a g r e e ment with instructors ; 811 colleges do not have one set formula. or they would all be alike, w hich would certainly be undes irable r egimentation. Generally sp eaking the student who has comple'ed his 4-yea r m ' ning engineer· ing course 'at an accredited college , has rece ived just about the sam e kind and amount of instruction he ~ciuld have r eceived at a similar colle.ge.

What general studies - in addition to his major mining courses should the student be expected to take ? Obviously, these include a good knowledge of chemistry, mech;1l1ics , electricity , mathematics ,

English , physics, geology and surveying. Another subject the industry hopes h e will have opportunity to study, in the basis stages at least, is that of public relations . The growing importance of this subject is apparent, and mining executives with an understanding of this phase of modern industry , will be far better equipped to meet the problems that lie ahead .

R egular instructors do v e ry well in the general college courses, but when it comes to strictly mining subjects, the industry expe cts thE young mll1ll1g student will b e taught by men who have had actual experience in the mines and who keep fully abreast of current methods by summer work in the mine ~ or b y inspection tours that are in structive and thorough.

A young man learns - and should l earn - many things in college that are not part of the textbook curriculum and yet are perhaps as im portant for his devel opment as any study he might take. Team work , developed on the p laying fields 01 our high schools and colleges, will be called for again and agail: in the life of the young engineer.

Dependability, too, is a " must" , because where it is not present, all other good qualities are likely to be discounted. A young engineer may not have the Goethals' stamp of genius on his brow - indeed, h E may even be a plodder - but if h e always shows up at the right timE. ' and the rig ht place with the right equipment, he wins a place for himself on the team. He is always welcomed in the outfit, because he has earne d a reputation for dependability; where as an undependable man never gains a foothold.

The Mine Manager may well b e likened to a football coach. If a halfback dreams lip a n e w play h e tells the coach about it. Ofte n it may not work , sometimes it do es.

But the coach is always anxious to h ear about any new play that could , p ell victory for the team. The Mine Man a-ger, too , is anxious for id eas and constructive cr.:ticism H e and the engineer are on the same team, pulling for vic tory on a production chart.

Coupled with dependability is loyalty. All coaches, all mine man agers, e xpect that . And the loyal eng inee r is always on his to es, r eady to act constructively at all times in the interests of h;s or· ganization . His loyalty becomes (Continued on Pa-ge 10 )

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Gov. Smith Names 3 New M. U. Curators Three n e w m e mbe r s of th e Boa rd of Cura to r s h a v e b een a ppointe d

by Governor Forrest Smith. The se a r e L es te r E . Cox, an industriali st , of Springfield , Missouri, who succeeds Frank C . Mann of Springfi e ld ; Joseph S . Bush , Vice-Pres ide n t of the b an k of St. Louis, who r e pla ces Guy A. Thompson of St. Loui s and J . A. Daggs of M e mphis , Mi ssouri, a lives tock breed e r a nd fa rme r, who succeed s Alle n M cReynolds of Cartha-g e , Missouri.

All a ppointme nts are for a full term of s ix yea rs .

A luncheon was h eld on J a nuary 18 , 1951 at th e Noonday Club in St. Louis for the purp ose of affordi ng a n opp ::>rtunity of University Alumni to b ecome better acquainted with Mr. Jame s Bush a recently a ppoin t ed Curator for the Unive r sity of Missouri from this area. Mr. Bush , is Vice -president Bank of St. Louis.

The luncheon was attende d b y a bout twenty prominent St. Louis a lumni including Mr. Guy Thompson a r e t irin g Curator and Mr. George Willson, a former member of th e Board of Curators .

M.S.M . Alumni Association was r e presented by Carl Stifel '16 and Fred Schn eebe rger '25 .

Roscoe Anderson Dies, Head of M. U. Curators Ro s coe Ande r son , Preside nt of the Board of Curators of the Unive rsity of Missouri die d suddenly of ;l h e art attack in St. Loui s, Frid a y , Janu a r y 19, 1951. H e h a d bee n a m e mbe r of th e Boa rd of Curators sinc e 1943 and was serving his second six-year t e rm. The da y b efor e hi s d e a t h h e was in J eff e r son City with othe r Cura tors a nd Unive rs ity official s a ppe arin g b efor e th e Hou se Comm ittee on Appropriation s. At that time h e seeme d to De in good h e alth , and , his p assing is indeed a shock to his m a n y fri end s throu g hout Mi ssouri .

Mr. Ande rson w as a fr equ e n t vi sit or to th e MSM ca mpus . The l ast time he was in' Rolla was when the full Board m e t h e r e October 6, 1950 , a nd at that t ime , h e presided

John M. Hanley Promoted

by Utility in Omaha John M. Hanle y , son of Professor H. R. Hanle y , S e cretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Ass ociation , has b ee n name d Vice Preside nt in Charge of Gas Supply of Northe rn Natural Gas Compa ny , Omaha , N e braska . H e will handle all n ego-

JOHN 1\'1. HANLEY tiations for obtaining additional supplies of -g as a nd gas leases. He will also be r esponsible for drilling ga s wells and e xploration.

John joined Northern in 1933 at Otis, Kansas, as a Field Production Man . He was promote d to h e ad of the Production D e partme nt in 1942.

During World War II, h e served on a committee for the P e trol e um Administration of War. John atte nd e d MSM for one year b efor e h e attende d M assachuse tts In s titute of Technology wher e h e r e ceived a Bache lor of Scie nc e D e gree in Electrical Engin ee rin g and a Master of Scie nc e D egree in Busi n ess a nd Engin ee ring Admini stration. at th e d ed ic a ti o n of th e n ew dormi tory .

H e wa s a gradu a te of th e Univ er sity of Miss ouri L a w School of the class of 1906. An outs tandin. l a wye r , h e se rv e d as Preside nt of th e St. L oui s ~ll1d Missouri E a r A ssocia tion .

Fune r al se rv ices w e r e l'leld ih St. Louis Mond ay mornin g , J a nu a r y 22 , 1951.

Symposium Planned on Water Flooding The Missouri Shool of Mines and Metallurgy, under the sponsorship of its P e troleum En gineering faculty, is prese nting a sy mposium on Wate r Flooding. The program will b e h eld on th e Missouri School of Mines campus in Rolla , on Friday , F e bruary 23, following the A .I.M.E. meetin-g in St. Louis.

The p a rticipants in the symposium will includ e C. H. K e plinger, Consulting Engineer of th e firm of K e plinge r and Wannamaker , Tulsa , Oklahoma. H e will act as Mode r a tor. Professor H. H . Power, Head of the P e troleum Engineering D e partment a t the University of Texas, will present a pape r on the h istory of W a ter Flooding in the United States. Professor J . C. Calhoun, Head of th e Petroleum Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State C ollege, will speak on the th eoretical aspe cts of Water Flooding. R. C. Earlougher, Petrole um Consultan t of Tulsa, Oklahoma , will speak on technical valuation of properti es for Water Flooding.

H. S . Barger, Petroleum Consultant of Centra lia, Illinois, will talk on sources of water and water tr eatment. W. H. Davis, Engineer with th e Cen tralia Department of the Sohio P ~ troleum Company , Centralia, Illinois, will read a paper on case history of the Rosiclar e Flood, Patoka Field , Illinois ..

Dr. J. D. Forres ter, Chairman of the Mining Departme nt at Missouri School of Mines, is in charge of local arrangements.

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Foundry Engineering The sequence of courses in Foundry Engineering is entirely new.

The school had already planned instruction in various phases of foundry work, when we were approached by .:cpresentatives of the A.F.S. and other foundry organizations who poin ted ' out the crying need of trained metaHurgists in their busines3es. With this incentive, courses have been establishe d and we have a fine foundry laboratory largel:1 equipped with donations of appr,ratus and supplies from foundric :; in the St. Louis a rea.

Further impetus has been given the foundry program by the inclusion of M.S.M. in the Foundry Educational Foundation Program. This organization has provided a grant of $15000 for c. three year period t.o further interest in the foundry industry . Most of the money is used for scholarships to junior and senior students who have demonstrated an interest in foundry work.

Further support is given by the F.E.F. in finding summer jobs and permanent employment for our s tudents.

Faculty Members The faculty of the Metallurgy Department has grown in proportion to the increased enrollment and the greater number of courses. Professor Emeritus H. R . Hanley, much better known as Cap, no longer teaches classes , but he is at his office every day helping us with advice based on his many years of professional experience and working hard and long over the affairs of the Alumni Association.

Dave Walsh, with great thoroughness and care , introduces the students to the principles of metallurgy and teaches the courses in mechanical metallurgy, and radiography.

The work in physical metallurgy, ferrous metallurgy , and foundr y is either taught or supervised b y Dr. D. S. Eppelsheimer. Dan is a loyal son of Harvard and was at one time assistant to the famou i Albert Sauveur. He gained professional experience at the Union Carbide Corporation, at Metal Hydrides. and as Professor and Di-

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rector of the Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire before coming to M.S.M .

Dr. Eppelsheimer is assisted in physical metallurgy by Mr. John S. Winston, a graduate of Cornell College with a master's degree from the University of Chicago. Mr. Winston had wide teaching experience before coming to M.S.M. Assistance in foundry instruction has been given until this December by G e orge H. Wagner , M.S.M. ' 47 , who taught at Case before coming back to Rolla. The Army called George back to duty and we have obtained the services of Mr. Arthur LeClaire, a practical foundryman from St. Louis .

The stude nts are introduced to the mysteries of mineral dressing

by Professor A . L egsdin and Dr. T. M. Morris. " Legs", well known because h e insists upon the square root from two , is a graduate of the famous mining school at Freiberg and holds a master's degree from Columbia University in New York.

He has had industrial experience with various companies including Andes Copper.

Doctor Tom Morris is also from Columbia University with a B . S. and a M. S. in Mineral Dressing.

He worked as a research engineer with Anaconda and then came to M .S.M. to obtain a doctor's degree and join our faculty.

A relative n ew -comer to our faculty is Dr. M. E. Straumanis, Research Professor of Metallurgy. Dr .

Straumanis, formerly professor at the University of Latvia , is the author of almost innumfrable scientific pap ers; he supervises graduate 路 research in x-ray diffraction studies and th e corrosion of metals .

Graduate Program Within the past few years the 路graduate program has grown greatl y with from fjfteen to twenty graduate students in the department.

To train these men we have set up new cours es such as the Structure of Metals, Advanced Mill Design , Advanced Metallurgy , and others of equally high calibre . It has also gee' n ecessary to provide labora tori s and special equipment for the research programs . Graduate stipends have b een provided from schobl fund s a nd from industrial f ellowships provided by industrial firms and other organizations. The! results of the research have been of value to the school and department in providin g m a te rial for a goodly

Dr. Herold Inspects Brazilian Ceramics Dr. Paul G . Herold, Professor of Ceramic Engineering at the School of Mines and Metallurgy left Rolla December 21 for Belo Horizont, Brazil, where as consulting e n gineer he mad e an inspection of a Brazilian ceramic company , Magnesita , S. A .

The trip W3S suggested so tha t Dr. Herold could make preliminary report on methods for improving the quality of their product; methods for increasing their production capacity; and 3uggestions for layout of a qualified a nd control laboratory.

Dr. Herold is accompanied b y H elio P. Guimaraes, one of the engineers of the company. Guimaraes is acting as their representative in this coun try and is also a studen t at the School of Mines and Metal 1urgy studyin,'5 in the refractories field.

Dr . Herold 2nd Guimaraes flew to New York today for their passports and left there on the Pan American Airlines on the 22nd for Rio d e Janeir.) , arriving there on Deceri1ber 23. They started back to New York on New Year's da y and arrived in Rolla, January 3 number of articles appearing in the scientific press, and drawing attention to the fact that M.S.M. is doing its share of advanced work.

Space do e s not permit a listing of new equipment added to the d epartment such as x-ray machines , s pectrographic apparatus, vacuum furnaces and other specialized d evices. Some of t.hese have been purchased with school funds , others come from the generosity of the alumni and friends of the school Our plans for the futur e are based on the desire to constantly improve the instruction and facili ties available to the students. More specifically, w e plan to fill in certain gaps that now exist ; we have in mind a course on the microscopy of min eral dressing products and more instruction in mechanical metallurgy. ..A s the industry cha nges, we too must change if we are to maintain the enviable r e putation that M.S .M . holds in the fi eld of m e tallul'gical en g in eerin g.

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President Head Interviews

g ineer, trained at t h e U. S. Nava l Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Admiral Baldridge,

About that time, the word got aro und that a competitive examination for e ntrance to Annapolis was to be held at nearby W est Plains More to please Baldridge, S en ior , the future Admiral took th e examination, won hands down and entered the Academy in the fall 01 1898. To this day, h e credits hi o y e ar at M.S.M. fo r h ' s success in the examination.

Former MSM Student While attend in g the recent Homecoming, a chance conversation with a student brought out that a few days previously he h ad met a couple walking about the Campus who had engaged him in conversa · tion. The gentleman mentioned that he had b een a s tudent at the School oE Mines for the year 1897-98 and that this was his forst v:sit to Rolla si nce then. A card which the stu· d e nt turned over to me revealed that the writer was Rear Admiral Harry Alexand e r Baldridge, USN (Retired), M.S.M., ex-'Ol, and now D irector of the U.S N. Academy Muse um at Annapolis , Maryland .

When with my family I spent Thanksgiving at Annapolis with our son , a First Classman at the Academy, I took advantage of the opportun:ty to call on Admiral Baldridge. My reception was cordial beyond expectation. It lasted well over an hour, and in the salty language one might expect of a fledgling Miner turned Sea dog, the Admiral regaled me with details of his long career.

In the year 1887, a boy in Willow Spr ' ngs, Missouri, became much engrosse d in the news stories of a famous Mining En gineer, John Hays Hammo nd . This opened up visions of new frontiers for this Howe ll County boy. The Columbia School of Mines and the Michigan College of Min 2s were too far away a nd were prohibitively expensive.

Then h e found out that there was outstanding mining school at Rolla , a m e re 90 miles away. Fortified with an allowance of $ 15.00 a month, h e enrolled as a freshman in the fall of 1897. Board was then $ 10.00 a month , room rent $2.50 and laundry, $1.50. That did not leave much for incidentals , but he got by.

When he returned to Willow Springs in the summer of 1898, he was t oo young to enlist in th e Spanish-American War. But, a new hero ha d superceded th e mining engin ee r. The name Ensi·gn Richard Pearson Hobson, USN, was on everyone' s tongue because of his ga ll ant effort to bottle a Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago d e Cuba by sinking the Collier Merrimac. Much stress was l aid on the fact that Hobson , who was an en-

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Fifty -two yea r s passed b efo r e h ~ returned to Howell County. In tiE fall of 1950, the . West Plains Chamber of Commerce h e ld its Golden Jubilee a nd invited Baldridge to be th e ·gu est of honor and principal speaker at the banquet The impromptu and very brief visit to Rolla followed. It is r egrettable that h e did not have time to call o n Dean Wilson, or to learn that his erstwhil e classmates, Dr. " Cap" Hanley and Mr. R. T. Rolufs wera still in Rolla, a nd Mr. W. H. Powe ll in St. J ames.

Harry Baldridge was bo rn in Albany, New Yurk on F ebr uary 22, 1880. When his family moved west, it first settled in Kansas and the move to Willow Springs, Missouri came later . Following the year at Rolla, yo ung B aldridge entered the Naval Academy on September 13 , 1898 and was graduated with th e class of 1902 . September 13 , 1950 marked the completion of 52 years of N ava l servic e. Highli·g hts of this career include service as Commanding Officer of the USS Stock ton, USS Melville and USS RQchester. From 1924-27 h e se rved as head of the D epa rtment of S eamanship and Flight Tactic s, and Dir ector of Aviation at the Naval Academy .

Prior to his retirement in 1932 , upon completion of more than 30 years of active duty , the then Captain Baldridge was Director of Naval Inte lli gence in the Navy D e· partment. W <lshington , D . C. In April, 1950. he was advanced to t h e rank of R ear Admiral and he is today one of the Navy's oldest officers still o n activ e duty . The Naval Academy Museum was establis hed in 1937 for the benefit of the Midshipman and the officer-body at large. It has as its special mission, th e stimulation of Midshipman morale. As Director of the Museum, Rear Admiral Baldridge is personally responsible for the <lcq ui sition of many of t h e Mu-

Reports on Meeting of Alumni Council

By H. R. Hanley This conference, fIe ld at the Continental H otel in Kansas City, Mis· so uri, D ecember 3-6, 18·50 , was at· tended by tha Secre tary to seek information relative to modern methods of conducting the act ivi· ties of this office.

The uni v ersi ties represen ted we r e from th e following states.

Missouri, Nebra ska, K ansas, S . Da-' kota, and North D a kot a.

The Ameri<.:an Alumni Council is an Association of men and women profeo:s!onally engaged in a lumni work of colleges and seconda r y sc hools of the United S tates and C anada . Its objects are: interchange of ideas on a lumni and ed ucation a l problems; study of pr actices and policies of organized a lumni work; <lI1d the appr a isa l of a lumni ach ievement.

The conferences of the Councii are common meeting g round for diffusion of ideas and technique3 and for deriving inspiration from the mutual int e rests which characterize the organization.

District Conferences The territory of the Council has been divided into 9 districts, each in charge of a Distric t Chairman who reports ".0 the Director for Regional Conferences. The d istrict organization is fo r the purpose of enabling sma ller, more compact g roup s to discuss the varied phases of Alumni work.

Traveling e x h i bits are a v ai lable ::t t District Conferences showin g specimens of printed matter of all kinds related to the alumni office the alumni fund and the a lumni magazin e-many of these are in stru ctive for Alumni S ecretaries.

The conference was opened Sunday evening. D ecember 3, with an address by S tewart Harra l, Pres:.dent of the American College Rel ations and dire ctor of Public Rel ations at the University of Okla homa , followell by a n informal r eo ceptiOn and late r by the showing of a movie of the Su gar Bowl foo t· (Continued on N ex t P age)

se um's most interesting and valua ble collections.

M.S.M. can well place hi·gh up on the list of its so ns who haVE made good the name of Rear Admiral H arry Alexander Baldridge .

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The Miners, always an underdog in the MIAA Basketball Conference, have already turned in two conference victories, both at the exp ense of Cap e Girardeau. Two wins u sually a r e about par for a full s ea s on.

Formerly, a t eam could cou nt on comi ng close to winning any 'g ame in which it scored 65 points. Taking a look at recent scores at games played at Jackling court, it r equires close r to 80 points in this e ra of slam-bang, fire-truck tactics to c ome out on top, as follows : Jan. 13 - Cape 75; Mine rs 79.

J an. 19 - H arris 82 ; Miners 83.

Jan . 20 - Warrensburg 86; Min e rs 67 .

The n e w MSM coach , D ewey Allgo od. is having his troubles keep ing his players eligible, keeping them from enlist ing or b eing drafte d , keeping th em out of 5 o ' clocl~ classes, keeping them in sha p e just k ee ping them! Just one more con "ere nce victory, however, will tie the best season that Miners have e ver h a d in the MIAA .

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A N e wcomF!rs breakfa st on th e following morning promote d meeting of p eople with mutual interests.

Chief interest centere d in th e seminars in wh ich topics r el ated to secretarial aClivi ties were d iscussod.

Among the f:ubj e cts analyzed in clude: " Office Org3nizations" "W h y An Alumni Ma gazi ne and Editorial Comment" "An Expert Looks at th e A lumn i Magazine" .

"So You W anL to Sta r t a n A lum . 1 Fund " " S e rving the Alumnu s" Th o conten t of these s ubj e cts is too voluminous to discuss, but i t may b e stated that each of th ese were highly informative to secretaries.

The outstanding seminar on th e technique of Alumni Magazin es

Don Dowling, co-captain of the 1950 Miner football team with Dave Anderson, right, is shown here giving Dean Wilson the prize won by defeating Illinois Normal, 7-6, in a Thanksgiving post-season game. Coach Gale Bullman, left, looks on.

Spring Sports Schedule TRACK Mar. 24 Indoor M ee t at Co lumbia, 3 p.m.

Mar. 31 Harris T eac h ers at Rolla.

Apr. 7 - W es tminste r at Fulton.

Apr. 14 - Trian'g le at Cape Girard ea u with Washington U. Apr. 21- St. Louis U. at Rolla Apr. 28 - Springfield at Roll a.

May 5 Drury at Rolla.

May 11 & 12 - Ou tdoor Meet at C a p e G ir a rd eau.

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was conducted b y Logan Anderson of the Lakeside Press, Chicago. On his s ubj ect " An Expe rt Looks at the Alumni M agazine" , he s tressed the corre ct Format of th e magazin e , the quality of typ e and pape r , l ayout an d desi'gn, e tc. _ lthough the t echniqu e of ope r at ion of a lum ni secretaries offices is n t of special interest to ITle mb e::'s, it does pro v ide principles and de ta ils which secretaries can fol low to good advantage in th e ad ministration of th e ir offices, th ere for e a brief r es ume of th is Alumni Confe r e nce W :lS consider e d d es ir a ble .

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Apr. 14 - Cape at Cape Girardeau.

Apr. 21 - St. Louis U . at Rolla .

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F eb 3 Springfie ld at Springfield .

F eb . 5 W a rr e n sbur'g at W a r rensburg .

F e b. 10 - Kirksvill e at Rolla .

F e b. 17 - Springfie ld a t Roll a.

Feb . 20 Washington U . at Holla .

SWIMMING F eb . 3 In d ian a State , T e rrc H a u te at Rolla.

Feb . 10 - Bradley T ech , P eo ri a. at Rolla .

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F eb. 24 Illin oi s Norma l at Roll a.

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Engineers ( Con tin ued from Page 5) most apparen t in a crisis or wh e n the going is "to ugh".

Earli e r in thi s art icle I have s tr esse d th e v a lu e of at l east some g r oundwork in the matte r of public re l a ti ons. B y "p ubl ic r el ations" I mean the a bility to 'get a l ong with people pleasa n tly, to dea l agreeab ly with imm e di a te associates , whic h can g row in to pleasant relations hips w ith an entir e comm uni ty .

Employe rs tilr o ughout the country have found public r e lations so vita l in r ecent years that many hundreds of th e m h ave e nr olled their key m e n in sp ec ialized courses of thi s s tudy.

Employ er s .'); e more than ca sua ll y in le r este :l in the college r e cord of the g raduate e ngineer. What e xtra-curriculilr activities has b een partici pa ted in ? What did h e do over a n d above what was requir ed for graduation? How h as he help ed to pre pare himself for l eadership in a g r eat industry ? H as h e s u ccessfu ll y planned and worked a person al budge t ? It may be takei1 for br anted that a man who h as sat i s~actor ily cond ucted his own affa irs has in himself the qualities that cou ld l ead to assuming the la r ger r es pon s ;bil ities required by h 's indus try.

Th e abi lity and desire to grow mentally is another " mu st " for th e g raduate e ngin ee r. Indu stry quite naturally ass um es that by t h e time the yo un g man is r eady for his first job, h e is already mature , that he has put as ide childish things, and is r eady for r es ponsibil ities that may by assigned to him. Mental growth is refl ec ted in independent thinkin g and i ndustry expects t h at th e yo un g engineer will not blindiy accept whatever may be offered him but that l~ e w ill "think out" th e p r oble m at hand. For e xample, in t h e r eading of a report: I s the subject new or merely a descrip tion of an ol d method replaced by a superior method ? In his capacity to t hink things out, the yo un g enginee r shou l d like wise be ab le to accep t r es ults that have bee n ac hieve d by so und e xperience rath er than hold onto somethin g that might seem b e tter in theory .

If I h ave seemed to repeat in this article the importance of continued growth and "reachin g out" for greater knowledge on th e part of the grad u ate engin eer, it is delib-

e rate , because I feel th ey cannot b e over-emphasizej.

Th e grad u ate who, early -in hi s career , becomes a m e mber of A.I .M.E. indicates that h e ha s more than a local OUtlOOK and is intere:oted in his industry in its en tirely, and may look for encourage ment when he seeks to be come active in the affa irs ot the ir l ocal section.

In the work that lies ahead, th o grad u ate e n g in ee r must un de r sta n d the actua l con :! itions of work of those whom h ~ will b e called on ~o supervi se. And the only real way he can l earn of these conditions is to become a p a rt of the team tha t operates u nder them. Indu stry ex¡ p ec ts him to be willing to do this hard manual labor for a t ime at least in ord e r that h e may 'g ain confidence and respect for h is cowo rk ers and b e in a position to see that th e work is carr ied on safel y a nd effic ie ntl y.

It is poss'ble for th e und ergraduate to ga in some of t his expe r ience by working in th e mines dur o ing his sLimmer vacation , an activity that cannot fail to favorabl y impress a p r0 3p ective em ploye r .

America n eeds mor " engin eel'3 an d looks to the colleges of the na tion to p r ovid e them. The coal industry particularly offers a bright future to t h e g r aduate engi neer a nd are t remEndously pleaSed if the colle ges prov i de g r a duates who are well-foun de d in the courses studi ed, ar e dep e ndable , lo yal and capabl e of indepe nci e nt thinkin g Some da y to sLich men will b e en1rusted the leadersh :p of a g re at i ndu stry.

Simpkin Lit tle Miss Peggy LOll Little, daughte r of Mr. and Mrs. A . M. Little 01 Springfield. Mo. , became the bride of William E. Simpkin, ' 48, D ec .

10, 1950 at the G r ace Method ist Church in Springfie l d, Mo. While in school, the g room was a mem ber of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, A.S.M.E., a nd Sigma Ch i. At present, h e is a n instructor in the Mechan ical Departm e nt at MSM and is living a 'c 507 W est 11th St. , Rolla , Mo. A daughter , Diane Leigh, was born Dece mb e r 1. 1950 to Charles K. Daetz, ' 50 , and Mrs. Da etz. She weighed 6 po u nds 8 ounces. Charles is with American Can Company, Construction Divis ion, 104 S. Michiga n Blvd. , Chicago, Ill.

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Elmer Gammeter Heads Lab for Globe Steel Elmer Gamme ter , '26, has been appointed D:recior of Laboratories for th e G lobe Steel Tubes Co., as announced by W. C. Buchanan, Pres ident.

Elmer has been Chief Metall urgist at Globe since 1943.

Prior to his joining the Globe Steel Tubes Co. , he was manager

ELMER GAMMETER of the Stain less S teel Metallur'';:ical Bureau of Carnegie Illinois Steel Co. H e is a National Tru stee of the American Society for Metals, <1 member of th,~ Amer : can In stituteof Mining and Meta llurgical Engineers, a professional engin ee r , and is an active member on several tec hnica l conl.mittees of the American Society for T esting Mate rials a nd t h e American Iron and Steel Institute.

Clarence \"' oods, '04, Dies Clarence W oods, ' 04 died at his hom e in Los Ange les', C a lifornia , on November 6, 1950, of a h eart attac k. Mr. W oods was an outstanding authority on the devel opment of gol d minin g operations in ou t¡ of-the-way places, his outstandin:s ::lccomplis hl1l.e ;l.t b e ing the rehab ilitation of the Santo Domingo Mines in South eastern Peru w hi ch h e opera ted for some tim e. The property h as now b ee n taken over by his son, Cl are nc e L ee Woods, ' 27, a nd Andres T. D asso, '48. Andres is C larence Wood s' n e ph ew.

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Robert G. Livingston lists his new address as Ohio State University, Graduate Ce nter, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Dayto n , Ohio.

Stuart Dods receives mail at Memphis Gene ral D epot, M e mphis, Tenn .

Robert P . Diffenbach's address is 24629 D etroit Rd ., W estlake, Ohio.

Ruble E. Burns is living at 2122 Frisco Dr., D avenport, Iowa.

Theron R Alford ,g ives his addr ess as Apartado 45 , Barcelona, Venez .

Benj amin D e nnis , Jr. can b e reached by writing RD . 3, Canonsburg, Pa. James O . Farrell writes that his a ddress is 315 S. 3rd E , American Forks, Utah.

Leonard E. H e nson who is with Aluminum R esearch ' Laboratories, Box 497 , E. St. Louis , Ill. , can be reached by writing 725 N. 75th St., E. St. Louis, Ill. Ivan M. Niedling is with Cities Service Oil Co., 2012 Chestnut St. , Philadelphia 3, Pa. His home add r ess is 826 D erwyn Rd. , Drexel Hill, Pa. John S. Markley's home address is 1130 W. Seventh St. , G a ry, Ind.

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James S. Dod ge is living at 1776 Waverly St., Palo Alto , Calif.

Warren Loveridge gives his new address as 102 N. Tay lor, Kirkwood 22 , Mo .

Edwa rd C . F arrell is with the N a tional L ea d Co ., P. O. Box 358 , M a lve rn , Ark. His home address is 230 Park T errace, Hot Springs, Ark. Rob ert L. T opp er is with Ston e & Webster , 905 M & M Bldg. , Hou ston, T exas . H e is living at 3424 Blodgett, Houston , T exas.

Floyd P. S m ith is r esidin g at 161 5 Roslyn, Denver 7, Colo .

Harvey C. Stevens is with the Shell p ipe Lin e Corp ., P . O. Box 2648, Houston , Texas.

Arthur W. Brune is in the Mineral Eng ineer ing D ept. of P e n n, St.ate College, State College , P a .

His home address is box 215 , Rd. 1, B ellefonte, P a.

N. Nicola is with the Perry Coal Co. in O'Fallon, Ill. His ad dr ess is No.7, Hilda Ann Drive, B elleville, Illinoi s.

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Homer B. Stokes is living at 8138 Underhill, St. Louis , Missouri.

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1942 L eonard C. Wolff gives his address as 4022 Mt. View S t. , Bremerton, W as h .

K enneth Roffmann is n ow in the elec trical contracting bu siness. Hi s mailing address is 41 5 Rob ert Ave., F er gu son 21, Mo. D ell C. Wad e h as r ecen tl y been tra n sferred to Sta nolind Oil and Gas Company 's office in Corpus Christi, T exas. H e is a P etrol e um Eng ineer with Stanolind. His mailing ad dress is P . O . Box 1879 , Corpu s Christi, T exas.

Charles E. Z a nzie, who is with Sargen t & Lundy , Chicago, Ill. , is living at 54 E . D a ni el s, Palatin e, Ill. A. Lawre nce can b e reached at 502 Huntme r e Dr. , Bay Village, Ohio.

Albert T . Sind el, Jr. is with Bay Pet. Corp. His home a ddress is Box 216, Seminole, Texas .

Joseph T . Karbosky gives his address as 525 Osage Ave., Bartlesville. Okla. Joe is e mployed with Phillips P e troleum Co. , Bartlesville, Okla.

1943 Paul Osusky is living at 3307 E. G eor ge Hardmg Thomas is residing at 1663 6 j ersey St., Quincy , Mallorey Ave. , Cuhahy , Wisc .

Illinois.

Rob ert McMath is Assista nt Supply Officer of the 802nd E.A.B . in Okin a wa . Mail addressed to Hq., S02nd E.A .B ., APO 239 , c lo P.M ., Sa n Francisco , Calif., will reach him.

Willia m B assett gives his n ew address as Granite City Engineer D ep ot, Gra nite City, Illinois.

John H . Olsen is living at 3713 R obin a Ave ., B erkley, Mich.

O. R S elf is with W es tinghouse Electr ic Corporation , 309 S. W .

Sixth Ave. , Portland , Oregon .

L eo G. Spinner is with the 578th Combat En grs ., Ca mp Cooke, Calif.

1944 W a rr en L. L arson ¡gives hi s new add r ess as 1701 Noeske St. , Midland, Mich. .Toh.n Brodh ack er is with Comm e rcial Solvents Corp. His ho me address is 824 Popla r , T erre H a u te, Ind. Peter Mushovic can be reach ed b y writing 4249 Edi son S t., D ayto n , Ohio .

Robert W . Mellis gives his address as 7354 Country Club D r ., St. Louis, Mo .

1945 Robert F. Schmidt gives his address as 1016 W . W ay ne St. , F t .

W ayn e, Ind . H e is e mployed w ith H. Kramer Co ., 21st and Loomis Chicago, Ill .

1946 J ohn F . Coulthard receives his mail at 532 W ater St., Platteville, Wisc.

W a lter H . Kiburz is employed with A. P . Green Fire Brick Co .

His home add r ess is 33 Rock Springs Dr. , Mexico , Mo .

1947 Ca rl B on ebra k e D av is is liv ing at 10011/2 Vikin g Rr ., Coulee D a m , W ash .

Wilber t F . Wegener is e mployed with M exixco Refractories Co., and is living at 320 N . Cole St., Mexicp , Mo. James W . R anes is now studying at Fuller Theological Seminary preparing to enter the ministry.

His home a ddress is 1574 E. P a loma St. , Pasadena, Calif.

Cheste r M. P om er y gives his corrected address as Apt. G -2, Rohre r Apts ., Greensburg, P a .

Harold Vogt is with U . S . Gypsum, D e pt. 170-w, 300 W. Adams, Chicago , Ill . Harold lives at 18 S .

W aysella, Mt. Prospect, Ill. G e orge J. Miller, who is e m ployed with Sverdrup a nd Parcel , Inc. , Tulla ho mn , Tenn ., gives his a ddr ess as Rt. 3, Cumberland Springs Rd ., Tullahoma, T enn.

William C . Wunnicke has been promoted to the classification of p etroleum engin eer with Stanolind Oil a nd Gas Company's office in Lubbock , T exas. His mailing address is P. O. Box 268 , Lubbock, T exas.

Reo E. Goodwin is now a geolog ist with Stanolind Oil and Gas Com pany in Midland , T e x as , a nd can b e reach ed by writing P . O .

B ox 1540 , Midland, T exas.

1948 Don ald G. Lowder is liiv ng at 301 Maple St. , Rock Hill , Missouri.

B ern ard Cohen lists his address as 935 B onifani St. , Silver Spring, Md. I. D . Robbins' mailing address is Box 186 , Folsom, California .

Samu el E. Ma rtin gives his address as 2108 Summit, Alta de n a , Calif.

Ralph Emerson McKelvey 's new address is 312-32nd. N.W. , Canton, Oh io .

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