Missouri S&T Magazine, January-February 1959

A Touch of Winter Hits Campus

lee-laden tree branches, and a blanket of snow add beauty to an already picturesque scene at the steps just east of Parker Hall. In the distance, beyond the lamppost, is the Old Metallurgy Building which houses the Alumni Association offices.

Volume 33

January-February 1959

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Last yea r your Alumni Association decided to try a new syst em to encourage a more widespread participation in the Associatio n's a ffairs . It was felt t hat the officers a nd directors must be too ge neral a nd a ll inclusive in writing the normal " dunning" letters to the overall membership for they ' ha d t o sla nt their remarks to men of a ll age g roups and thus could not conveni ently resort to specific req ues ts.

After careful stud y of compa rat ive results reported by the a lumni associations of other colleges and universiti es . it was decided that the needs of yo ur associa tion could best be met through the a doption of a Class Age nt P lan . It was felt that a member of each cl ass could put the whole question of pa rti c ipation in ac tivities o f the Associati on on a very personal basis with each of his classma tes . In add ition he wo uld be in a position t o judge ve ry accurately the extent of the participation of each of his group both financially a nd in expenditure of e ff o rt. Ma k e no mistake- the office rs a nd directors we re seek ing ways and mean s to in crease the effi ciency of solicitation eff orts-solicitation for your support financially a nd p hysically.

The C lass Agent is close enough to members of his class to know if each is bearing his proportionate sha re of the monetary cost of maintaining the activities of the Association . He ca n a lso acc urately measure t he time a nd eff ort expended in behalf o f the Association by each of his classmates a nd d et ermine if that expenditure is commensura te with each person's ac hievement- such achievem ent being at lea st par tiall y a ttributable to MSM .

Your Association is d edicated to the enhancement of MSM, its students, its alumni, and the relative position of each in the rega rd a nd est eem of our fellow men . To be eff ective, it must be YOUR Association in fact as well as name. This it cannot be unless YOU are a n active part of it. If YOU are a pa rt of it , wouldn 't it be a point of a dditional pride to realize that eve ry living membe r of yo ur class is a lso a part o f it ?

Which will be the first class to be 100 0/0 co ntributory to the 1958-59 ANNUAL ALUMNI FUND? A compl et e lis t of Class Agents is chronicled elsewhere in this issue of the 2

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OFFICERS President.. ....... .. ........................... ... Melvin E . N ickel '38 .

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E xec utive Secreta ry ..................... Francis C. E dwa rd s ................. M SM Alumn i Association Editor , " M SM Alumnus" Old M eta ll urgy Bu ildi ng Ro lla, Misso uri DIRECTORS AT LARGE ...... 463 West Stree t , N ew Yo rk 14 , N ew York.

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MSM ALUMNUS. If he has contacted you, send him a check a nd an offer of your personal assistance immediately.

If he hasn' t contacted you (I don't beli eve it), send him a check, an offer of yo ur personal assistance, and ge t on his back for not having contacted you . In either case, sit down right now and drop a note to every classmate you know, bat the breeze a little , and urge each to ge t a check in the mail to your Class Age nt. While you a re at it , you can begin getting a group together to meet (Continued on Page 3, Co l. 1)

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The development of special interest in the Electrical Engineering Department is the construction of the new Electrical Engi neering Building. This outstanding structure located northeast of Jackling Gym will provide adequate facilities for the department for many years.

The three-story building is of reinforced concrete column and beam construction. The long exterior north and south elevations of the building are of panel wall construction with aluminum sash. At the east and west ends the building is terminated with brick masses contain ing stairways, Much of the brickwork of the west end of the building has been completed as well as the brickwork of the south side of the first or ground fl oor. Also on this ground floor most of the partitions , electrical wiring ducts and trenches, and plumbing have been installed.

In a few more days of favorable weather the finish roofi ng material will be installed.

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With just a little such activityYOUR class will be the first which is 100 % contributory to the 1958-59 ANNUAL ALUMNI FUND. You know that it feels great to be an integral part of a successful, expanding company. The MSM Alumni Association is successful and is expanding and it feels great to be an integral part of it-TRY IT! By the way-REMEMBER: (1) Your financial contribution is deductible from your Federal Income Tax Return. (2) Each contributor to the 195859 Alumni Fund will receive a copy of the new 1959 Alumni Directory published this fall. "Welcome aboard, sir."

P. T . Dowling '40 Executive Vice President MSM Alumni Association Guest Columnist January February 1959

graphic laboratory, network analyzer room, work shop, instrument room, and several research rooms. The middle floor includes eight large class-rooms, conference room , ten offices for staff members, and main department office. The upper floor includes eight electronic type laboratories such as for electronic circuits, electrical measurements, radiation and antennas, digital and analog computers, advanced networks. This floor also includes three large classrooms and six office or research rooms as well as instrument room and repair shop.

It is expected that the building will be completed in the summer of 1959 so that present equipment may be moved to the laboratories in time for the fall semester starting in September. The facilities of this building will be adequate to provide space for estimated enrollments during the next ten years. While much of the present equipment of the department will be used in the new building, it is expected that funds will be available in the appropriation for a considerable amount of new equipment which will be needed on account of increased enrollment.

Every effort is made to develop the curriculum in Electrical Engineering so that it will make possible outstandincr training for the profession of electrical engineering. Frequent revisions in the curriculum and in the content of various courses are made so as to make possible the inclusion of many recently developed topics such as computer circuits, solid state devices, modern circuit analysis, and servomechanisms. At the present time a committee is working on further revisions of the curriculum which will be announced after they have been approved. Through the selection of elective courses in the senior year the electrical engineering student may include in his program several courses of study open only to graduate students in many engineering colleges.

The teaching staff in Electrical Engineering includes nineteen full-time members having a wide variety of training and experience. Because of the very broad field of electrical engineering all staff members can not be experts in all field s. Thus there are certain divisions of the profession in which certain staff members or groups of staff members

have special interests. These divisions are as follows: courses in fundamental principles; courses related to electric power systems and electrical machines ; network analysis and synthesis; electronic circuits, transistors and vacuum tubes; servomechanisms and computers, electromagnetics, radiation and high frequency techniques.

At the present time thE: Electrical Engineering Department is carrying on research in the field of Antennas and Radiation that will lead towards the Master's Degree. One of the projects consists of the design of a flat antenna that will operate on metal cylinders such as the bod ies of missiles. The requirements of such an antenna in order to withstand heat and vibration , and to be of allowable size, are quite rigorous and impose a difficult problem in design .

Another project involves the design of an X-band dark room for studying radiation at frequencies of 10,000 megacycles and higher. The results of this research will then be used actually to construct such a dark room in our new building for use in our EE 380 laboratory course.

Another project consists of the design of an antenna turn table for use in tests of antenna radiation. The . 1m table and its associated equipmenc will be constructed on top of the new Electrical Engineering building for the purpose of studying radiation patterns and to use in connection with research projects and in our EE 37 5 course.

Kelly Named Chairman of Bell Laboratories Board; Receioes NSIA Award Dr. Mervin J. Kelly '14, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He has served as president of the Laboratories since 1951.

Dr. Kelly has been named by the National Security Industrial Association to receive its 1958 James Forrestal Memorial Award. Mr. Kelly deli,vered the address at the NSIA Forrestal Dinner, January 29 at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D. C. He received a gold medal and citation. In World War II, Bell Telephone Laboratories was converted almost completely to military research and development and carried out more than 1200 projects for the Armed Forces.

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U. of Missouri Ranks Seventeenth in Enrollment A mong All U. S. Colleges and Universities T he U ni ve rsity of M issouri ranks seventeenth amo ng all colleges a nd uni ve rsities in the U nited States in the number of full-tim e resident students enrolled the fall semester , according to statistics released by D r. Ray mond Wa lters, p resident emeritus of Cincinna ti U niversity and recognized authority on college enrollments. T his is his thirty -ninth a nnual enrollment survey covering 944 acc redited universities , fo ur yea r colleges a nd technolog ical schools. H e lists the U ni ve rsity of M isso uri as having 12,612 students in a ll divisions. Actually , the U niversity now has 13, 12 2 resident students enrolled , with 10,196 on the Columb ia campus a nd 2,926 in MSM a t Rolla.

T he six teen institutions shown with enrollments la rger tha n the University of M isso ur i a re: U ni versity of Californi a , State U ni versity of New Yo rk , College of the City of New Yo rk , U niversity of M innesota , U ni ve rsity of M ichiga n, U ni versity of Illinois, U niversity of Texas , Uni versity of Wisconsin , Ohio Sta te Uni ve rsity, M ichigan Sta te U ni ve rsity, Pennsyl va nia Sta te Un ive rsity , U niversity of Indiana , New Yo rk U ni ve rsity , P urdue U ni ve rsity, Un iversity of Washington, and H arva rd U niversity.

D r. Wa lte rs' report reveals there is a 4. 1 pe r cent increase over the fall semester of 1957 a nd a newall-time high .

H e a lso repo rts a "shocking" drop in th e num be r of freshm en enroll ed in engineering th ro ughout the country. He notes a n " un expectedly high rise" of 7.1 pe rcent in the number of full-tim e fres hm en ove r 195 7, but a t the same time a decrease of 7.6 per cent in the nu mbe r of freshmen enginee rs.

T here is a substa nti al increase in the number of full-tim e stude nts enrolling in publi c uni ve rsities , where there is a sli ght decrease in those in p riva te in stitutions . T hi s bears out the predicti on made by many a uthorities a year or two ago that the high costs of education will be forcing more a nd more students to seek enrollment in sta te insti tuti ons, thus increasing the p robl ems of administra tion in these schools whi ch must rely on public fin ancial s upport.

Dr. Walters points out tha t thi s fall 's increases have been in the face of such dete rrents as the exp ira tion of Vete ran

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Administra tion scholarship entitlements of more than 50,000 Korea veterans, the economic recession , "still lingering at college registration time," and June high school gradua ting classes in many instances only slightl y larger than in June , 1957 .

Of the 127 institutions teaching engineering , seven out of ten report fulltime freshmen losses, uniformly spread geogra phically . The decrease will doubtless supply the spark for a fresh campaign to a ttrac t additiona l qualified young Americans into the vital fi eld of engineering.

D r. Walters points out the current college population was born when the na tional birth ra tes were low a nd the upswing in the la te 1940's and therea fter " foretells very large increases (ass uming no extrao rdina ry fac tors) in a pplicants for admission to college in the 1960 's ." " Then the quanda ry as to qualified teachers will be a grave one, as will be the problem of adequa te phy sical facilities ," he wa rn s. Higher education already is supplementing full-t ime teaching sta ffs by more tha n 76,000 pa rt -time teachers, he repo rts .

2,640 Enrolled at MSM For Second Semester There was a 1% increase in the

second semester enrollr:1ent a t MSM compa red with a simil a r period in 19 58.

The enrollment is 2640 stud ents. T he la rgest department on the campus is again the Mechanica l E nginee ring Department with a tota l of 632 students enrolled , followed by Electrical E nginee ring with 54 5 st udents, and then the Civil E nginee ring with 495 students.

Chemi cal E ngineering has 236 enrollees; Metall urgical E ngineering has 222 ; M inin g E ngineering, 206 ; Science P hysics major, 130; Science Geology ma jor, 68 ; Ce ramic E nginee ring, 40; Science Chemi stry , 21 ; E ngineeri ng not classifi ed , 28; a nd Unclassifi ed a nd Special, 3 1.

By classes there a re 702 freshmen, 589 sophomores, 784 ju niors, 409 seniors, 154 grad ua te stude nts, a nd 18 special and unclassified. Sixteen of these s tude nts are d ually enroll ed .

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A total of 163 completed requirements for their degrees in January of this year compa red with 121 last year, a n increase of 35 %.

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Second Science Institute To Be Held This Summer T he U niversity of M issouri has received grants totaling $23 1,100 from the Nationa l Science F ounda tion for support of three summer institutes for high sc hool teachers whi ch the University will conduct during the coming summer on the campuses a t Columbia and R olla .

T he School of M ines will receive $9 1,700 of this gra nt for a sc ience and mathema tics institute for teachers of chemistry , physics a nd mathematics.

T he grant provides for substantial fellowships allowing travel a nd subsistence pay for the teachers. A teacher whose applica tion is accepted for an Insti t ute Fell owshi p will be given a stipend of $ 7 5.00 a week plus a n additional allowa nce for each direct dependent up to a ma ximum of four , and travel a llowa nce fo r one trip from his home to the Institute a nd return up to a limit of $80 .00 .

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T he Institute will be of eight weeks' d ura tion, beginning June 8, a t M SM. The grant will provide for approximately 75 teachers to enroll a t the School of l\/I ines. This is the second year for the Institute a t M SM with 52 teachers a ttending las t yea r, and Dr. H a rold Q F uller, Cha irman of the P hysics Depa rtm ent , will aga in direct tht tra ining.

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Chemical Department Sets Up New laboratory Course in Industrial Instrumentation T o meet the need of the Chem ical E ngineer fo r familiarity with t. he operating characte ristics, limitation and applications of industrial control instruments and systems, the Depa rtm ent of Chemical Engineering has instituted a laboratory co urse in Industrial Instrumentation . T he new course is designed to accompa ny the lectu re course which ha s been a part of the electi ve curri cula for the past seven years, and will be made available to graduate and undergraduate students for the first time in the spring semester , 1959. The labora tory is equipped with se rviceable used instruments donated by interested a nd cooperative industrial orga niza tions , augmented by departmental equipment.

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H e is now supervising the construction of a prototype liquid-liquid extraction a nd solvent recovery system for the separation of nuclea r reaction products being in stalled in the Chemical E ngineering Laboratory as a part of a n A. E. C. grant for nuclear engineering in stru ction. The design , installation and operation of this equipment is a part of the graduate program of the depa rtment and is the subject material for three Master's theses now in preparation.

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Professor Lay joined the staff of the Department of Chemical E ngineering as a n Instructor in 195 1 and became an Assistant Professor in 1957. H e received his B . S. in 1932 and his M . S. in 1954 , both degrees in Chemical E ngineering and from MSM. H e is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Sigma Xi. H e has been engaged in a resea rch program sponsored by the A. E. C. in association with Dr. Martin E. Straumanis a nd Dr. William ]. J ames, concerned with the corrosion of nuclea r metals in mineral acids.

Professor Lay is also supervising a cooperative resea rch program with the U. S. Bureau of Mines.

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an intensive three-week course in industrial instrumentation a t the M inneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Compa ny 's Brown Center in Philadelphia last summer. The Brown Education Center is one of the oldest custom er service schools of this type and offers comprehensive training in the operation , maintenance, characteristics a nd applica tion of electronic and pneumatic control and indicating instruments along with their accompanying sensing devices .

It is Professor Lay's intent to offer instruction in control methods , modes

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The School of Mines has received a grant of $ 1,841.00 from the Research Corporation of Chicago for continued support of a research project titled , " A Search for New Particles in Cosmic Rays Ionizing Less Than the Minimum Ionization of the Electrons."

Dr. James L. Kassner, Jr. , assistant professor of physics, is the director of the project which was initiated in September 1957. The present grant period ending September, 1959 , makes a total of $3,137.5 0 awarded to the project by the Research Corporation .

D r. Kassner is being assisted by Joseph Hughes, who is working for his master's degree and two undergradu-

ates, James Hornkohl and Millard Underwood. Two alumni of MSM , Clarence Mettenburg ' 58, of China Lake, Cali forn ia, and Donald Rinker '58, of C. P. Clare & Co., Chicago , Ill. , compl eted their master 's degree requirements while assisting Dr. Kassner with the project. Mettenburg constructed the major part of a special cloud chamber and investigated its operating characteristics. Rinker made improvements in the cloud chamber and studied the ca uses of a nd means of red ucing background . Such backgrou nd , usually caused by evaporated drops and unwan ted light, red uces the amo unt of information which may be obtai ned from the trails left by cosmic ray particles when they pass throug h the cloud chamber. " When a charged particle is incident upon a gas vapor mixture under suitable conditions," Dr. Kassner explained , " local ion ization of the gas occurs alon a the trajectory of the in cid ent charged particle. By carefully controlling the vapor content in the chamber and the temperature of the gas vapor mixture by expand ing, visible droplets may be caused to form on the ions. The visible trails of the droplets along the trajectories of cha rged pa rticles a re called tracks."

Motion picture of the cloud chamber phenomena is the means used to determine which of the lightly ionizing tra ils frequently observed are likely to be those of cosmic ray particles with low ioniza tion a nd which are caused by poor cloud chamber conditions or operationa l difficulties . Dr. Kassner sai d they are attempting to take as many as 22 exposures of a single cloud chamber expa nsion . The sensitive time , the time during a n expansion when the chamber is sensitive to newly -formed trails, is at best only about three seconds. A special 3D movie camera has been designed to take the photographs.

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W. B. Fletcher Is New Alumni Area Director W. B. Fletcher '34, was one of the four Area Directors that was elected by the Alumni Association at the annual election late last summer. Biographical information and his picture were not available at the time the November-December issue of the MSM ALUMNUS went to press, and we do want the alumni to become acquainted with the Association 's officers, therefore we are belatedly introducing you to Bill Fletcher, Director, Area No.9.

Bill was a native of Missouri and received his B. S. in Mechanical Engineering a t MSM. After graduation he

Bill takes time out to participate in avocational activities and admits he is an avid salt water fisherman and has as hobbies, railroading, movies and sound reproduction .

The Fletchers live at 12081 Smallwood, Downey, California.

Schneeberger President Of Picker X-Ray Company Fred C. Schneeberger '25, has been elected to the presidency of Picker XRay, Mississippi Valley, Inc. Fred has been in the x-ray business since 1925 , when he entered the employ of Engeln Electric Company as a salesman. He advanced to district manager in 1927.

Engeln was absorbed by Westinghouse in 1930 and in 1931 , Mr. Schneeberger was transferred to Philadelphia as district manager of Westinghouse X-Ray Division. In 1942 , he was transferred to New York, N. Y., as general sales manager, Westinghouse X -Ray Division. In 1942, he reiurned to St. Louis as southwest district manager, Westinghouse XRay Division.Picker X -Ray was established in 1946 and Fred was chosen as executive vice-president in charge of the Mississippi Valley area.

During his student days, he was very active in campus activities. He was a member of the Dynamiters, Pipe and Bowl, Theta Tau , Square and Compass, Mining and Metallurgical Society, Quo Vadis, Rollamo Board, MSM Players, Boxing Team 1923-25, President - Junior Class, President - Vocates Associa-

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accep ted a position with the Missouri State Highway Department. A year later he went with the U . S. Department of Agriculture and remained with this agency until 1943. He then was employed by the Valley Bridge & Iron Compa ny, a nd it was in 1946 that he became affilia ted with the Va por Engineering Corpo ration , the firm with which he is now the chief engineer of their industrial systems. His company is located at 5615 Leeds Street, South Gate, California.

Mr. Fletcher is a registered engineer in Indiana , M issouri and California.

Mrs. Fletcher is the former Mayme S. Stout and there a re three chi ldren in the Fletcher family, David , Donna and Anthony . David is followin g in his father's footsteps and is a freshman at MSM.

tion , Business Manager - Athletic Association and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Fred is one of the school's most ardent alumni . His alma mater has always received his great interest and concern. He has been active in alumni activities and served as president of the Association in 1945-46 , and was instrumental in organizing and incorporating the Association in 1946, which was the beginning of the organization as it is today. At one time he was Editor of the MSM ALUMNUS. He is a member of the Engineers' Club of St. Louis, AI ME, and a trustee of the Ladue Chapel, in Ladue , Missouri, the community in which he lives at No. 1 Briar Oak.

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Telecommunications Award Is Named for Dr. Kelly An award for achievement In the field of telecommunications, to be known as the Mervin]. Kelly Award , has been established by the Bell Telephone Laboratories and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

The award, named in honor of the former President of the Laboratories, now Chairman of the Board, will be made annually by the AlEE to an individual who had made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the art of telecommunication. The first award will be made in 1960.

Dr. Mervin]. Kelly received his B. S. degree in Science at MSM in 1914.

In 1939 , his alma mater awarded him an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree.

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Albert L. Frederickson who received his B. S. degree in Electrical Engineering at MSM , Janua ry 27, was accidentally killed February 8, by a tree that fell a nd cr ushed him while cutting wood. He was spending a brief vacation with relatives in Cuba, Missouri, before reporting for work at the Convair Aircraft Corporation , Fort Worth , Texas. The family 's furniture had been shipped to Fort Worth where Albert, his wife a nd son were going to make their new home . Other survivors are his fa ther and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. Frederickson, of Cuba, and eleven brothers a nd sisters.

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ecutive Committee in 1945 . At the conclusion of World War II , he investigated the German steel industry for the Foreign Economic Administra tion .

Ralph C. Graham '31, has been elected president of the Tennessee Gas and Oil Company, a major operating division which handles the oil and gas exploration and production business of Tennessee Gas Transmission Company of Houston, Texas. Tennessee Gas is operator of one of the nation's largest gas pipelines systems.

Mr. Graham was born in East St. Louis , Ill. , but was reared in Jefferson City, Mo ., which he considers his home town . He received his degree in petroleum engineering at MSM .

Gill Chief Executive of Vanadium-Alloys Steel

Professionally, besides the ASM, Mr. Gill is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers , American Society for Testing Materials, American Standards Association , American Society of Testing Engineers , American Society of Tool Engineers, British Iron and Steel Institute , American Iron and Steel Institue , Tau Beta Pi , Pi Kappa Alpha and Theta Tau .

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The Vanadium-Alloys chief executive is a widely known metallurgist and authority on tool steels. He has written several books and more than 40 articles on the subject. He also delivered over 200 different lectures on metallurgical subjects and was the ASM Campbell Memorial Lecturer in 1936.

As an inventor, Mr. Gill holds 10 patents on compositions and heat treatment of special steels.

He received his Bachelor degree in 1918 and the following year received his Master's degree in Metallurgical Engineering. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering at MSM in 1946.

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James P. Gill '18 , has been elected to the position of chairman of the board and president of Vanadium - Alloys Steel Company, Latrobe, Pa. 1\1r. Gill has served as president of the tool and special steels company since 1953 . As board chairman, he will fill a vacancy created by the death of Roy C. McKenna last July .

Ralph C. Graham After employment with an engineering firm and two major oil companies, Graham joined Tennessee Gas Transmission Company in 1945 as chief geologist, a position he held until January 1, 1949. From 1949 through 1954, he was vice president of. various oil and gas subsidiaries of Tennessee Gas. On October 9, 1950, Graham was named vice president of Tennessee Gas, and on December 16, 1954, he was elected senior vice president. Four years later, on December 16, 1958 , he was designated president of Tennessee Gas and Oil Company, upon its creation as a major operating division of Tennessee Gas Transmission Company.

Ralph and his wife, Mary , live at 3655 Wickersham , Houston, Texas , with their sons, David and Robert.

Ralph is a member of a number of pro-

January February 1959

Charles Freeman Appointed Division Head Charles A. Freeman '28 , has been appointed Manager, Western Division of Harbison-Walker Refractories with headquarters at San Francisco, California. Harbison-Walker set up this new Division after the purchase of new properties on the west coast.

Mr. Freeman has been the head of the Harbison-Walker Refractories plant at 'canon City , Colorado, since their purchase of this unit from him two years ago. Charlie has been in the refractory business since his graduation from MSM . H e plans to move to San Fra ncisco in the nea r future .

In addition to his executive position , he is also a Director of VanadiumAlloys Steel Company , Chairman of the Board of Vanadium-Alloys Steel Canada Limited and Director of Va nadium-Alloys Steel Societa Italiana per Azioni and Societe Commentryenne des Acier Fins Vanadium-Alloys.

One of Euery Fiue Students On Campus Is Married Marriage has become an important factor in student life at MSM. And many of today's students, in planning a semester budget , must include the cost of baby sitters along with books , laboratory fees and rent.

About one out of every five students on the MSM campus is married or 21 percent have famil y obligations. The familiar campus expression that a wife " was working her husband 's way through college" isn't a joke, to most of the 602 married students at MSM. Today the GI student is rapidly fading from the campus picture as benefits have expired for all except a few of the Korean veterans and yet the number of married students continues to increase the last few years .

Dr. Grawe President of Geology Teachers Ass'n At the November meetings of the Geological Society of America and Associated Societies, Dr. O. R. Grawe of the Geology Depa rtment, was elected President of the Central Section of the Association of Geology T eachers and was appointed as one of the three members of the Program Committee by the Council of M ineralogical Society of America to serve that organization until 1960.

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Norbert Neumann to Receive AIME Medal D r. Norbert F . Neumann ' 52 , now employed by the U ranium Division of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, Weldon Sp rings, Mo. , has been selected to receive the Robert La nsing H ardy Gold Medal of the AI ME for 1959. The awa rd recognizes special promise ra ther than achievement in the field of metallurgy, a nd is given to a metallurgist who has not reached his 30th birthday be fore the end of the calenda r year d uring which selection of the recipient is made.

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by Arthur C. H a rd y of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a memoria l to his

tora l disserta tion was recently published in the t ra nsactions of the Metallurgical Society of AI ME.

AFCA to Make Award to Outstanding ROTC Cadet

Dr. Neuma nn 's present duties as rese-'l rch supe rvisor place him in cha rge of the fund amental studies of the thermite reaction used to produce uranium metal a nd the development of new mettallurgical processes of the products of this metal a nd its alloys.

T he Armed Forces Chemical Associa tion has rece ntly a dded the M issouri School of l\/I ines to the li st of instituti ons a uthorized to select a n outsta nding R OTC cade t to receive the AF CA ROT C Awa rd. The stu den t will receive a medal and a yea r's membe rshi p in the Armed Fo rces Chem ical Associa tion, which incl udes a year 's subscri ption to the AFCA J ournal.

Dr. Teumann is the third recipient of the H ard y Gold Medal since its esta blishm ent. H e is married , li ves in St. Louis, and is an a rdent ama teur photographer a nd hi-fi addict.

Conference on Better Concrete Held at MSM A conference on better concrete was held on the MSM campus, Februa ry 26 and 27. The conference was sponso red by the D epartment of Civil Engineering, Professor E . W . Carlton, Chairman , a nd the Po rtland Cement Association.

The conference dealt with the subject of ready mixed concrete from a contractor 's angle a nd from an architect's a ngle ; the necessity of plant contro,! ; the p roportioning, mixing a nd placing light-weight concrete ; form construction ; testing of concrete ; cold weather and hot weather concrete ; complete casting a nd pre-casting a nd precast concrete panels and surfaces.

D r. N orbert F. Neumann son. It is planned that the St. Louis Section of the AI ME will make the presentation of the medal to D r. Neumann at the May meeting in St. Louis on the occasion of the a nnual AI ME Presidential visit.

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by Ma llinckrodt since gradua ti on, Dr. Neuma nn received his B. S. in Metallurgical E ngineering from the M issouri School of M ines a nd Metallurgy in 1952. He was then appointed to the Union Carbid e Fellowshi p in Meta llurgical Engineering and worked towa rd his Doctor 's Degree which was received in 195 5. A paper entitled "T he E ffect of Additions on the Exchange of Chlorine between Calcium Chl oride and M eta l Oxides" which was based on his doc-

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Those who pa rticipa ted in the conference were: P rofessor Carlton , D ean Curtis L. Wilson and Professor Leon Hershkowitz, of M SM; George Ga rrett , president , Stewart Sand and Gravel Co. ; Cla rence Ax, Clarence Ax Construction Co. , St. Louis, Mo. ; Angus McCallum of Ki vitt , Myers a nd McCullum , Archi tects, Kansas City , Mo. ; W . E. P ugsley , engineer, Portla nd Cement Association, Springfi eld , Mo. ; Robert W. Couch, sen ior engineer, M issouri Sta te Highway D epa rtm ent, J ef ferson City , Mo .; Carl J. Chappell , district engineer, Portland Cement Association ; Major Genera l Thomas A. La ne, commanding general, F ort Leonard Wood, Mo.; J ohn H eagler, associate professo r Civil E ngineering, MSM ; R .

C. Bla nkenshi p, construction specialist , Portla nd Cement Association ; Blake Roberts, ma nage r, Robert W. Hu nt Co. , St. Louis, Mo. ; a nd A. J . K ocha nski , ma terials engineer, Corps of E ngin eers, St. Louis, Mo.

T he Awa rd will be ma de a nnually in the spri ng semester to the outsta nding advanced ROTC student excelling in Chemi stry, Chemi ca l E nginee ring or a n allied science. T he cadet selected will be one whose qua lifications refl ect broad general t ra ining, a nd who has shown leadershi p ability a nd init iative , ra ther than one who has de monstrated stri ctly scholastic atta inment.

Dean Curtis L. Wilson has designa ted the followi ng facu lty membe rs to serve on a special committee to recommend the recipient of the a wa rd: Colonel Lloyd L. Rail , Cha irma n, Dr. Dudley Thompson and D ea n Noel Hubba rd .

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Tau Beta Pi Chapter Officer Goes to NAM Meet Lela nd L. Long '59 , vice president of Missouri Beta , winner of the 1957-58 outsta ndi ng Chapter Awa rd in T au Beta Pi, wa s sen t to the a nnua l meeting of the Na tional Associa tion of M<!nufac turers in New Yo rk , New York , ea rl y in D ecember.

T his was the second yea r in whi ch T au Beta Pi was invited to send an official stude nt representative to the N .

A.M. Congress. T he purpose of the invita tion is to enable a few selected stud en ts of high ra nk to obta in the viewpoin t of ind ustry on q uesti ons of importa nce in Am eri ca today . A feature of the N.A.M . Congress this year was a symposium on the subjec t " Ameri can E du cation-T oday a nd T omorrow," in which the student representa tives participa ted.

Leland , a n a rm y vetera n, gradua ted in E lectrical E ngineering, is married a nd the fa ther of two da ughters, a nd he served as presid ent of his E ta Kappa N u chapter, a n Electrical E ngineering honor fra terni ty, as well as V. P. of Missou ri Bea t , of Tau Beta Pi.

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Prof. lee Gets Training In Numerical Analysis Professor R. E. Lee, of the Mathematics Department, MSM, has been appointed to the training program sponsored by the National Bureau of Standards and the National Science Foundation Training Program in Numerical Analysis for senior university staff for the spring of 1959.

Professor Lee has been granted a leave of absence by the Board of Curators to attend this program.

The training program is conducted at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D . C.

The purpose of the program is to give regular university staff training in numerical analysis which will enable them to direct the operation of a University

Lawrence A. Roe '39, has been named director of development and International Minerals and Chemical Corporation 's Research, Engineering and Development Division , Skokie, Illinois.

Mr. Roe came to IMC from Bjorksten Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin. He started as a beneficiation engineer, later became manager of process engineering, and was named director of central engineering in 1957.

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Professor Lee is the chairman of the Computers Center Committee of the faculty at MSM and is also a member of the University of Missouri Computer Committee. He has been teaching courses in numerical analysis for the past two years in the Mathematics Department at MSM .

With his wife and three children he lives at 712 Moffett Road, Lake Bluff, Illinois.

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Computer Center and to organize training and research in numerical analysis on their return to their own institutions.

The program will occupy the whole of the second semester of the academic year 1958-59 and will be conducted by mathematicians of international reputation . It will consist of instruction in the mathematics applied to the programming of high speed electronic computors and the solution of problems on a large electronic computer, the IBM 704.

In order that individual attention can be given to the students, the number of participants has been limited to 12.

Selection was nation-wide and has been made on the basis of the qualifications of the individual and of the computational program of his institution.

January February 1959

Directs Electronics Laboratory Of Space Technology Firm Dr. George E. Mueller '39, has been elected a Vice President of Space Technology Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles, California. He was appointed director uf STL's Electronic Laboratory in April 1958 , served as project director for the recent space probe series conducted by the Space Technology Laboratories in behalf of the U. S. Air Force's Ballistic Missile Division for the National Aeronautics a nd Space Administration. STL is the Southern California firm which has technical di rection and systems engineering responsibilities for the Air Force 's large ballistic missiles and related space progra ms.

Announcement of Dr. Mueller's election was made following the January meeting of the company's board of directors , chairmahned by General J. H. Doolittle. Dr. Mueller will continue to serve as the Director of STL's Electronic Laboratory.

Dr. Mueller received his B. S. degree dt MSM in Electrical Engineering. His Master 's degree at Purdue University.

H e obtained his Ph. D . degree in Physics at Ohio State University.

Dr. Mueller has had 19 years of technical experience. He was Research Fellow at Purdue University. He conducted television and microwave research at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

For more than 10 years he served as professor in electrical engineering at Ohio State University.

The author of five technical publications, Dr. Mueller also has six patents in fields of electron tubes and antennas . He is affiliated with the Institute of Radio Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers a nd the American Physical Society .

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Honorary Metallurgical Fraternity Gets Charter

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Front Row, left to right: Prof . .4. L egsdill, Prof . D. Pro}. A. TV: ~ c ftl ec ht e n, Prof. T. M . Morris, Proj. W . A. Frad.

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Alpha Sigma Mu Chapter Organized on Campus

Class Agents Appointed to Assist in Promoting Alumni Activities; More Volunteers Needed

The first charter of Alpha Sigma Mu , the Nationa l :Metallurgical Honorary frat ernity , to be granted since this organization has been sponsored by the American Society for Metals, was presented to the group at MSM , December 3, 195 8.

The presentation was made by Dr. R . H . Aborn , National Treasurer of ASM a nd of Alpha Sigma Mu and Director of the Bain Laboratories for Fundamental Resea rch of the U. S. Steel Co rporation , at a banquet attended by the active and honorary members.

The cha rter was received by Charles Washburn , president of the new chapter and a reply was mad e by Dean Curtis L. Wilson.

Alpha Sigma M u was founded in 1932 at Michigan College of Mining and Technology for the purpose of honoring metallurgy students of high scholastic standing a nd alumni who have done ou tstanding work in the field of Metallurgy . At present there are chapters located at Michigan Mines , University of Tllinois, Virginia Poly technical Institute and MSM.

Class Agents have been appointed to assist the Alumni Association in coordinating and promoting alumni activities. The Class Agent Plan was adopted last year by tne Association. Individuals from each class are chosen to serve as Class Agent. We have not been successful in securing a Class Agent for each class as yet but a very large percentage of the classes ace represented and the Class Agents did a fine piece of work in the 1958 Alumni Fund campaign and they are continuing to get fine results for the 1959 Alumni Fund .

The Class Agents who have been active for the followin g classes are: Classes from 1911 to 1918, Dr. Mervin J. Kelly; Classes from 1919 to 1922 , Barney Nuell; Classes from 192 3 to 1925 , H. S. Pence; Class of 1926 , Daniel Kennedy; Class of 1927, A. E. Barnard; Class of 1928 , W. K. Schweickhardt ; Class of 1929, C. J . Potter; Class of 1930, S. A. Stone ; Class of 1931 , R. T. Wade; Class of 1932 , R. H . Weithop ; Class of 1933 , Vernon Asher ;

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Class of 1934 , W. B . Fletcher; Class of 1935, James J. Murphy; Class of 1936 , Neil P lu mmer; Class of 1937 , Frank C. Appleyard ; Class of 1938 , N . L. Peukert: Class of 1939 , J. R . Post ; Class of 1940 , C. C. Palmer ; Cbss of 1941 , E. C. Strawhun ; Class of 1943, R. O. Kasten ; Class of 1944 , E. C. Goetema nn ; Class of 1945 , Robert Rankin ; Class of 1947 , J. W. Stephens; Class of 1949 , Don Riley ; Class of 195 1, W. M .

Baldwin; Class of 1952 , T. F. Newkirk ; Class of 1953 , R. P . Abendroth; Class of 1954 , Conrad Neal ; Class of 1955 , John Miles.

YOll will note there are a few classes that we haven 't been able to get some one in the class to com mit themselves to assist in the Class Agent Plan. It isn 't there is no one in the class that will do it, but we haven 't contacted the right one. If you a re a member of one of the classes that does not have a Class Agent appointed and you are willing to assist in the plan , we would appreciate you volunteering your services by contacting the Alumni office.

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Professor's Daughter Chosen Outstanding MS M Freshman Russell Cochra n, president of the MSM Chapter of Tau Beta Pi a nd one of the first freshmen to receive the MSM Alumni Association's Scholarships in 1955-56 and 1956-57 , presented the Outstanding Freshman Award to Miss Barbara Lay , daughter of Professor O. K. Lay '32 , and M rs. Lay. Barbara was chosen the Outstanding Freshman out of 763 freshmen enrolling in September 1957. She is majoring in Science-Chem istry , a nd has a g rade point average of 3.8 5 out of a possibl e 4.00.

Russell 's other ach ievements have been: Curators Awa rd 1955 -56; Sigma Pi Sigma Outstandin g Physics Student Award ; President , MSM Chapter, Sigma Pi Sigma; Phi Kappa Phi ; Who's Who in American Coll eges a nd Un iversities; Phi Kappa Phi Book Plate Award (all semesters ); P hi Kappa Phi Gold Key Awa rds; Dean 's H onor List (all semesters ). f ive of his grades have been " S." The remainde r of hi s grades have been " E 's, " with a grade point ave rage of 3.9 1.

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Lehigh U. Seniors Start Class Insurance Program Lehigh University seniors in December started a campaign to raise $ 150,000 through class in surance. The plan calls for each senior to take out a 20year endowment life insurance policy for $3 00.00 at the a nnual cost of $ 14.00 .

The fund is to be turned ove r to the university at the 20th reunion of the class for a project to be determined by the class in 1979 . Lehigh's last 10 classes have subscribed $983 ,400 under the class insurance pla n.

The policy is a combined life insurance and endowment policy. In the event of non-pay ment of premiums, a class fund will be used as long as it lasts to make such payments in order to keep all the poli cies in force .

In the event of the death of the insured at a ny time during the 20 yea rs, the $3 00.00 value of the policy is paid at once, and such proceeds will be held in a special fund by the university for inclusion in the memorial gift in 1979.

The class insurance program at Lehigh was first adopted by the Class of 1929. The next cla ss to use this type of memorial gift was that of 1938.

January February 1959

Starting last June , there will be an uninterrupted fl ow of class gifts as t he result of the annual class insurance program s adopted since 1938 .

28 Graduating Seniors Receive Commissions Twenty-eight seniors who completed their requirements for graduation in J a nuary were commissioned Rese rve Second Lieutenants in the Army of the United States in a ceremony held in the Auditorium of Parker H a ll in January 17 . These you ng men, in addition to meeting the requirements for gradua tion have succ iss full y completed the four years of milita ry training offered by the MSM Military Department.

Dean Curtis L. Wilson gave a short address in which he reminded the new officers of the gra ve responsibilities which they will assume as officers in the Army of the U.S. Dean Wilson was introduced by Colonel Lloyd L. Rail , P rofessor of M ilita ry Scien ce and Tactics . Following the talk by Dean Wilson , Colonel Rail administered the Oath of Office to the new appointees , a nd Dean Wilson presented them with their commissions.

Dr. Clark Enrolls for Stress Wave Meeting D r. George B. Cla rk. Chairman of the Departm ent of M ining Engin ee rin g, a t M SM , is a mong the engin eers a nd scientists fr om ma ny parts of the world who have enroll ed in The Pennsy lvan ia State U ni versity 's International Sy mposium on Stress Wave Propagation in Ma teri als, to be held in U niversity Park , Pennsyl va ni a , June 30 to Jul y 3 .

Dr. N orman D av is, professor of engineer in g mecha ni cs a t Penn Sta te a nd chairma n of the event sa id discussion topics wi ll inclu de dy nami c photo-elasticity with special emphasis on th e stress-op tic law, revi ew of progress in the measurement of dynam ic elas ti c propert ies, and others of interest to those engaged in the field of research .

Dates of t he symposium coincide with a meeting of the Eastern Section of th e American Seismological Society, also to be held at Pen n Sta te . The sy mposiu m will be staffed by a number of scientists with b road experi ence in th e field of stress wave propaga ti on.

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Alumni Section

News National Capital Section T he Nationa l Capita l Section met F ebr uary 13 (regard less of it being Friday the 13th ) in the Veto Room of the Congressional Hotel , Washington, D. C. Thirtee n membe rs and their wives and a guest attended the dinner. Again they defied the superstition of bad luck associa ted with the 13th .

The alumni present were: C. A. Burdick ' 10, W. E. Davis '30, S. L. Davis '32 , R. L. Fisher '36, T. A. Hughes '42 , C. H. Jennings '30, C. C. Juhre '30 , C. H. McDo na ld '35 , J. J. McGrath '32 , R. F. McCrae '09 , L. A. Turnbull '22 , R. Ryd strom '32 , a nd J. P. Zedalis ' 52.

S. L. " Stu" Davis gave a talk on some of the highlights of living in Paris , Fra nce while on a tour of duty with the Air Force. Stu has returned to Washington a nd now has an assignment in the Pen tago n.

The dinner was also highlighted by the 13th being Loui s Turnbull 's birthday a nd that Rowe McCrae will be retmng fr om government service on Marc h 3 1. T he next meeting will be at the home of one of the members and will probably be sched ul ed the latter part of May.

New York Section MSM alumn i in the New Yo rk a rea held their second monthly luncheon on December 4 , with 14 a lumni present.

Those present were Charles H.Lambur '33 , C. C. Whittelsey '24 , Joe Reid '27 , Enoch R. N eed les '14 , AI Straub '40 , Bi ll Waag '47 , Ken M eyer '43, Jay Locher '47 , George Easley '09 , Bob Couch '41 , E . S. T ompkins ' 16 , C. L. Kemper '24 , Jim Hoelscher '48 and J. Craig E llis '38 .

These monthl y meetings are held a t the Mining Club , 33 Broadway , 5th fl oor. And a ll alumni who ha ppen to be in New York are welcome. T heir meeting da tes are hoped to be the first Thursday of each month. J. C raig E llis '38, may be contacted at Worth 2-15 84, in Ne w York , for particulars .

Philadelphia Area Section The Philadelphia Sec tion met February 20 , at the E ngi neer 's Club in P hiladelphia, Pa ., and thirteen alumni were p resent for this bi-monthly meeting . J. Craig E llis '3 8, Area Director , Area No. 1, met wit h the gro up. Four members of the J anuary '59 class were present at thi s meet ing . And seven of the a lumn i present a re with the Radio Co rporat ion of America in Cam den, N. J. In attendance were: G. V. Bradshaw '42 , H. J. Mingo '59. fred Borgino '59 , Jim Maddox '50, B. D. Pewitt '42 , H . E. Chap ma n '50, J. G. Taylor ' 59 , K. Arnesen ' 57 , R . F. Schmidt '45 , E. N .

Scobee ' 59 , Cmd r. Don Short '43 , a nd Roy Williamson ' 50.

Cmdr. Short expects to be transferred from the Philadelphia area soon to Norfolk , Va. This secti on will have a greate r alumni potential if left to the efforts of Geo rge V. Bradshaw who is with R.C.A. George was on the c3 mpus in February recruiting seniors for employment with hi s compa ny. The Section has bi-monthIy meetings.

St. Louis Section The St. Louis Section met December 9, at Slay's Steak H ouse, St. Louis , and had as their guest and after dinner speaker, Dean C urtis L. Wilson , who related to the a lumni the national recognition given MSM by top companies, almost all of which is brought abo ut by outsta nding performance of alumni. He complimented a lumni on their loyalty a nd success in their endeavors. T he scholarship program soon to be undertaken by the St. Louis Section was praised as were all scholars hi p activities.

Bruce Tarantola ' 51, president of the St. Louis Section presided at the meeting. Amo ng the alumni p resent were: Joe Reiss '49 , Paul Dowling '40, Ken Hanson '36 , Al Barna rd '27 , Ed Degenhart ' 58 , Harry Pence '23, Ern ie We inel '44 , Bob Weinel '51, Dick Roemernab ' 51 , Steve B urke ' 23 , Arthur Schwarz '32 , Joe Williamson '29 , Pete Palm er '40, Jack Welch '40 , Henry Meyer '32 , Pete Pattei '37, Bill Hartman '48, Joe Quinn '39 , Tom Herrmann ' 50, Joe Strubert '49 , Don Spackler ' 50, Don Johnson ' 55 , Don Mat hews '48 , J . G. Jolley ' 54 , Ted Reeves ' 50, and Joe M ooney '39 .

On J a nuary 22 , the St. Louis Section had the depa rtment and admini strative

heads, at MSM , as their guests at a dinner at the Co ronado Hotel before the ann ual " Rolla ight," sponsored by the E ngineers' Club of St. Louis. Due to t he inclement weather many of the guests were not present but abo ut fifteen from the camp us at Rolla were present for the occasion. Officers of the Engineers' Club were also gues ts of the Section.

Ark-La-Tex Section The Ar k-La-Tex Section held their winter meeting December 6. President Robert Ra nkin '45 , opened the meeting a nd introduced J ames Forgotson 's so n a nd wife who were vi sitors . He also introduced to the group M r. and Mrs. Guy Heinrich ' 56 , and Mr. and M rs.

Bub lVloore ' 57 , who were a ttend ing their first Section meeting. The minutes of the last minutes were read . fiv e members of the Sectio n a ttend ed Homecoming at MSM. J. C. " Fish " Sa lmon '22 , gave a n interesting and complete report ')11 the Homecoming a nd Bob Rankin spoke to the group in behalf of the Alumni Fund and the go:tl s for 1959 .

An election of officers was held afte r a lengthy discussion pertaining to methods of nom ina ti ons. The group appl'Oved the method of the p resident appointing a nominating comm ittee in September, for future elections, to be presented at the December meetin fJ â&#x20AC;˘ T he officers chosen for the ensuing yea r were: \Y. H . Bruening '34 , P resident ; C. E. McGaughey ' 50, Vice President; G uy Heinrich ' 56 , Sec 'y T reas. Gerald Roberts '2 8, commended Bob Rankin on the fine job he did 3S the Section 's p reside nt.

A ba rbecue s upper was enjoyed by the thirty-five members, wives and guests.

Southern Louisiana Section The Southern Loui iana Section of the Alumn i Association celebrated its first anniver ary on January 24 , at the E ngineer's Club in the De Soto Hotel in ew Orleans. Through J. J. Krebs ' 16 , association wi th the Club the Section was able to use the Club 's facilities . T his Section was form ed a year ago with the help of the Ark-La-Tex Section and under the a ble direction of J. c. Salmon , Jr. '22 .

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Ike Edwards, the Association's Executive Secretary, was present from Rolla, and showed films of the 1957 Homecoming and slides of buildnigs and new construction on the campus.

He also talked on the activities of the Alumni Association and the MSM campus.

George Decker '39, the outgoing President, presided at the meeting.

Those in attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. George J. Decker '39 j Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Krebs '16, Mr. and Mrs. Carl F . Schwab '42; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Murphy '57; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Carpenter '56; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tankersley '52; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kinder '57; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hickman '33 ; Edward Chernoff '42; Ned Peet '58 and guest , and Nick Nicola '42.

Southern California Section The Southern California Section enjoyed one of the finest and most stimulating meetings in a long time on Thursday evening, February 12. There was an enthusiastic turnout of Miners to welcome and honor Dean and Mrs. Curtis L. Wilson, our Secretary-Treasurer, Leon Hershkowitz '41, and our Executive Secretary, Ike Edwards. The meeting was held at the Nickabob Restaurant in very pleasant surroundings.

Ike Edwards showed some interesting colored slides portraying the progress of the building activity on the campus, and Dean Wilson gave one of his usual masterful addresses, with a wonderful mixture of humor and seriousness, on the responsibilities of citizenship and the contribution which engineers are making to the stability of our society and the security of the world.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Karl A. Allebach '28, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. "Red" Brown '37, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Coaske '12, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Elliott '41, Mrs. Eva Hirdler Greene '11, Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Halasey '28, January February 1959

Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Harsell, Jr., '39, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Harman '28, Bud Hoppler '53, Mr. and Mrs. Don Huseman '43 , Mr. and Mrs. Don Jaenecke '38 , Mr . and Mrs. Nathan D . Jaffe '41, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Nuell '21, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Monroe '32 , Mr. and Mrs Rene Rasmussen '43, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Schamel '34, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Sheckler '37 , Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith '41 , Mr. and Mrs. Hubert R. Smith '48 , Jack Stadelhofer '49 , Ron Swayze '20, Fred Todd '48 , Tom Weir '22, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Youngs '49, and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schmitz '49 .

Meetings of Alunlni Sections New York, New York-Mining Club, 33 Broadway, 5th Floor, at noon, first Thursday of each month. Contact: J. Craig Ellis '38-Ph. Worth 2-1584.

Denver, Colorado-Navarre Restau rant, 1725 Tremont, at noon , first Monday of each month. Contact: John R .

Post '39 , 215 Mile High Center Bldg.

St. Louis , Missouri-Surf and Sirloin-Forest Park Hotel, West Pine and Euclid, at noon, third Friday of each month. Contact: Ken Hanson '36 , Ph.-Mission 7-4350.

Miner Cagers on Short End Of Close Games but Sturm Leads MIAA Scoring The Miner cage season opened against the strong Lincoln University team of Jefferson City, Mo., and the visiting Wildcats were victorious by a score of 79 to 55.

In their second game of the season, the Miners gained their first victory by defeating Blackburn College, Carlinville, Ill., 90 to 74 . John Sturm, 6' 8" all-conference center of the Miners rolled up a 38 point total in this game.

The next opponent was the aggregation from Southern Illinois U., and they proved to be better than the Miners by a 94 to 72 tally. On December 12 ; Greenville College met the Miners in Jackling Gym and they were routed by a 96-to-67 Miner victory with Sturm scoring 50 points, and the following night, still fervent with victory, the Miners met and conquered the Harris Teachers College, St. Louis, round-ball-

ers by a comfortable score of 73 to 63.

This was an upset for the previously undefeated Teachers.

Sturm has now piled up 131 points in five games to lead the conference scoring.

The Westminster College Blue Jays were our next opponents and their brand of basketball brought an 84-to-41 defeat to the Miners.

The University of Tennessee, Martin Branch, came to Rolla and nosed out the Miners by a 79-to-74 score. Two days later the Miners went to St. Louis to test their skill against Washington U. , and it was insufficient to bring them victory and the Bears had the 60 oi the 60-53 score.

After the holidays the Miners again met the Lincoln U. team in Jefferson City, and they still wouldn 't permit us to win and coveted the large number in the 98-to-81 score.

After all of these non-conference games, the Miners began their conference competition with Central Missouri State College (Warrensburg) here. This was a game! Lynn Rockwell broke a last-second tie for a Miner 68-to-66 victory.

Conference game No.2, was with Southwest Missouri State Teachers College (Springfield) , on their court. And the unbeaten Bears made the Miners their twelfth victim by an 85-to-57 decision .

Next, Washington U. were the Miners' guest at Rolla. Miner center, John Sturm, was heavily guarded and held to six points, all free throws. The Miners lost control in the final seconds of play to give the Bears a victory in the 52-to-51 contest.

The Miners then went on the road seeking a victory. Their journey took them to Northwest Missouri State College (Maryville) where they were given the smaller end of a 73-to-49 score.

Like treatment was given them when they met Northeast Missouri State College (Kirksville) the following night in Kirksville's gym. Score 71 to 88.

The Springfield Bears invaded the Miners' holdings February 4, and they looked like the No. 1 team of the conference by taking the game 89 to 51 .

As we close the summary of the season thus far with five more conference games to play, the Miners have a 4 loss and 1 win record , but John Sturm continues to lead the MIAA conference scoring with an average of 22 .64 per game for 14 games.

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BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Dan W . Martin '52, announce the ar rival of their second child , a boy , Paul Willi am. Dan is with Mykobar M ining Compa ny , Mykonos, Greece. Dan would appreciate hearing f rom a ny of his old classmates .

Mr. and M rs. Edward MacMaster '51, have their third child , Mary Jo, born September 22 , 1958, at Hackensack Ho pita!. She joins John , age 4 a nd Patri cia, age 3. Ed is with Bendi x Aviation orp. , as project engineer.

T hei r home add ress is 432 Lukmann Drive, New Mi lford , N. J. Mr. a nd Mrs . Charles J. McCoy '56, have a son, M ichael Monroe McCoy, born Decembe r 20, 1958. Cha rles is technical as istant to the production hemical Co. , superv isor, Monsanto Colum bia, Tennessee . His add ress is 11 2 P leasant Dr., Columbia.

Mr. and Mr . Ge rald N. Kell er ' 51 , have a iter for their son Kenneth. She a rrived Octobe r 24, 1958 a nd was named Kathryn Rae. T he Kellers a re now in their new home at 11013 Apache N. E. Albuquerq ue, New Mexico. Gerald is with Sunray M id-Co ntinent Oil Company .

Mr. a nd M rs. Donald E. Jones '5 2, proudly a nnounce the birth of their son, Tomothy E ugene, on September 14, 1958. They li ve in Wheelwright, Kentucky. Don is a n assistant coal preparation enGin eer.

Mr. a nd Mrs. Robert A. Horine ' 54 , have their first child , a daughter, Susan Kay , born D ecember 13, 1958. T he Horine's live at 5737 Fyler, St. Louis 9, Mo. Bob is with Union Electri c in their turbine maintena nce division.

Mr. a nd Mrs. Henry C. Ha rris '51 , are the parent of Terry Suza nne who a rrived August 12 , 1958. I n October the Harris' were transferred from Lawrence, Kan as to Barium P roducts, Ltd ., Modesto, California, where Henry is process superin tendent. T heir new home is at 2009 La Vi lla Rose Ct. , Modesto.

Mr. a nd Mrs. J. T . Gerwert '57 , have their first daughter, E lizabeth Anne, born November 23 , 1958. The father is resid ent engineer with Vickers, Inc. , Joplin , Mo. T heir address is 280 1 East 13th, Joplin .

Mr. a nd Mrs . Ronald G. Frakes wish to ma ke a belated announcement of the arrival of their daughter, Dawn Gail , January 25, 1958. Ron is at the General Motors Proving Ground, Experimental 14

E ngineering Dep't., Milford , Michigan .

The home add ress is 1938 D uck Lake Road, Mi lford .

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. F itzwater '55 a nnounce the a rrival of their first child , Arthur Paul , born October 8, 1958. T he father is with Cooper Development Corp., Monrodia, Calif. Address 1680 Hillandale, LaHabra , Calif.

Mr. a nd M rs. Donald J. Dowling, Jr. '5 1, added daughter No.4 to their fine fa mily, on September 22, 1958. Mary T heresa is the newest. The other three a re Peggy, Sally and Ann . Don is still with Buckeye Cellulose Co rp. , as quality control superintendent, C and S d ivision. T he Dowlings' Memphis, Tennessee add ress is 5169 Rich Road.

Mr. and M rs. Donald Dieringer '50, have a sister for their two children, Donald 7 a nd J ill , 5 years. The new sister has been named Lou E llen , and she is living at 246 Demarest Ave., Closter, N. J. T he father is in the electrical construction business at 155 East 44th St. , New York, N. Y. Mr. a nd Mrs. Joh1l R. Chappell '5 1 now have their second son, J ames Logan born October 8, 1958. They live at 128 Grigsby, Sullivan, Mo., and Bob is a n inspector engineer for the M issouri State Highway Department.

Mr. a nd Mrs . Ralph Boze '5 5 started their fa mily with the a rrival of Diane, Feb ruary 21 , 1958. They a re stilllocated at Lottie, La. , and Ralph is with T he Texas Co. Mailing add ress P .O. Box 72 , Lottie, La. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin C. Zeid have the third add ition to their family , Janua ry 8,¡ 1959, a boy, Randall William.

This fifth member of the household makes quite a full house, Marvin reports. Marvin is a petroleum engineer with Texas Gulf Producing Co., Houston, Texas. The home add ress is 4502 Kingfisher, Houston.

Mr. a nd M rs. Donald H. Beasley '53 now have Kevin Lee born November 15 , 1958. H is two brothers, Keith, 13 years a nd Leslie, 3 years, welcomed him. T heir father is now area manager for Lane Wells Company , Cushing, Okla. Th e Beasleys' address is 729 E. Oak, Cushing.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd M. Drummond '52, now have a whole handful of children with the fifth arriving December 6, 1958. They are: John , Marty , Robbie Beverly and Shelda. They live in Huntsville, Alabama, 4206 Choctaw Drive,

where F loyd is employed at the Redstone Arsenal.

Mr. and M rs. J. Walter Wallace '48, became parents for the fourth time on September 27 , 1958 a nd the new daughter's name is Nancy Lynn. Betty and Walter now have two boys , ages 12 and 9 yea rs a nd the two girls, age 5, and the new arrival. Walter is with America n Brake Shoe and the Wallaces live a t 18455 Sted hall , H omewood, III. Mr. a nd Mrs . Gerald W . Hoffstetter '56, announce the a rrival of Kathryn Ann , December 2, 1958. Their other child is M ichael, age 30 years. Gerald is still a chemi cal engineer in the coating a rea of the Olin Mathieson cellophane plant at Covington, Indiana.

Their address is Route 5, Danville, III. M r. a nd Mrs. Joel N. Cooksey, Jr. announce the a rrival of Gregory Joel, November 26 , 1958, at their home 13 East Lawn Drive, Taylorville, Illinois.

He has a brother, J ohn Philip, age 3, a nd a sister, J a na Leigh , one year old .

M r. a nd Mrs. Robert Ponder '50 were presented with twins, Catherine and Carolyn , December 7, 1958. This gives them :1 total of five tax deductions.

The others a re: Cha rlotte 8, James 4 a nd Thomas 2.

M r. a nd Mrs. Donald R. Hart '58, a nnounce the birth of Barbara Lynn born December I , 1958. Donald is working as a designer in the Surveys and Pla ns Section of the Missouri State Highway Dep't a t H a nnibal, Missouri.

Their ma iling address is P .O. Box 653 , Hannibal.

M r. and Mrs. William F. Hubbard , Jr. , '49 , have their second boy, Scott Kendall, born January 5, 1959, St. Joseph's Hospital, Burbank , California.

Bill is a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy a nd his assignment is the USS Princeton (CVS-37) c/ o F PO, San Francisco, Calif. His residence address is 8066 Laurel Grove Ave ., North Hollywood , Calif.

MARRIAGES Victor L. Koirtyohann '55 and Miss Shirley Lambert, of Wichita , Kansas, were married in March, 1957. Victor is a research engineer with Boeing Aircraft Co. The Koi rtyohanns' address is 2731 Wilma, Wichita.

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Roy B. Johanboeke '56 and Miss Joan B. Young, of Tucson, Arizona, were married July 12, 1958. Mrs. Johanboeke is a former student of the University of Arizona. Roy is employed with the U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station as an electronic Engineer.

Their address is 801 8th Place, U. S. NOTS, China Lake, California.

born in Barbados, West Indies and came to the United States to attend school. The early part of his career was spent as a mining engineer in various parts of the U. S. and Mexico. In 1926, he became associated with the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co., as a petroleum engineer and geologist. He retired in the middle of the 1940's. He is survived by a son, Charles T. Greenidge, Columbus, Ohio, three grandchildren, a great grandson, a brother and a sister.

DEATHS

James M. Wilson

John S. Stewart

James Mortimer Wilson '21, died January 3, 1959, in the Memorial Hospital, Springfield, Illinois. He had been in ill health since September. He was born in New London, Mo., and he was an employee of the Illinois State Highway Department.

Surviving are his wife, Marie, one son, James, at home; a brother, George H. Wilson, of Arvada, Colorado; a sister, Mrs. Cleo Campbell of Hannibal, Mo; three nephews and a niece.

John S. Stewart '10, died in the New York hospital, October 14, 1958 after a brief illness at the age of 69 years. He started his career with the American Smelting and Refining Co., but much of his work was in foreign countries; Russia, (not the Soviet) Canada, Belgian Congo and on the design of the Trepca lead smelter in Yugoslavia. In 1948, he developed the Stewart Inverted-bosh Blast Furnace. He has had many publications in the Engineering and Mining Journal. He was a consulting metallurgical engineer, 325 East 72 St., New York, N. Y., Surviving are his widow, Wealth a Ramsey Stewart, a son, Dr. John Sloan Stewart and three grandchildren.

Harry H. Nowlan Harry H. Nowlan '13, oil industry consultant and president of NowlanDodson Engineering firm, died November 30, 1958, in his apartment at 636 Sunset Ave. , Evansville, Indiana, at the age of 69.

His firm did geological and engineering studies for the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company's underground gas storage field . Mr. Nowlan was a native of Cheyenne, Wyo. , and after graduation from MSM he went into the oil business in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was affiliated with the Darby Petrol Corp. He was a veteran of World War I , and an instructor in engineering at the Evansville shipyards in World War II. He went to Evansville in 1940 as president of the North Central Oil Corp. He established his own firm in 1943. Surviving are his wife, Jessie, a daughter, Mrs. H. W. Vanatta, in Japan, and one sister, Mrs. C. C. Rowse , Casper, Wyo.

Samuel M. Greenidge Samuel M. Greenidge '02, died January 5, 1959 in Ft. Worth, Texas, after several weeks illness. Mr. Greenidge was January February 1959

Alumni Personals 1901 W. H. Powell has been ill for four years and confined to bed 2Y2 years except for sitting up 2 or 3 hours a day. He would like to have some of his old friends visit him. He lives in St. James, Missouri.

1 908 James D. Fowler announces that Adam K. Grafe has joined the firm of Koch and Fowler and it was incorporated and the name is now Koch, Fowler and Grafe, Inc. They are still at the same address, 3900 Lemmon Ave., Dallas, Texas.

1910 Monroe Farrar, a retired engineer, is farming and raised 22,080 bushels of corn this year on 200 acres of land.

His farm is on R. R. 4, Mattoon, Ill. Jos. C. Finagin, Jr., is retired and living at 21.39 E. Osborn Rd., Phoenix Ariz.

William H. Metzger William H. Metzger '22, died January 30, 1959, at his home 121 Borky Dells, Collinsville, Ill., following a heart attack. He was 59 years old. He operated the Concrete Union Step Co., and was manager of the Home Sales Co., a builder of Alton subdivisions .

Surviving are his wife, a son, William J. of Collinsville, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Shover, Grosse Point, Mich.

Kirk V. Cammack Kirk V. Cammack '26, 2230 Fairfax St., Denver, Colo. , died December 26, 1958. Kirk was a mining engineer with the U. S. Geological Survey. He also had held positions with the Union Pacific Coal Co., Schuler Coal Company, Des Moines, Iowa, Belle and Zoller Coal Co., Zeigler, Ill., and Princeton Mining Co., Princeton, Ind. He served as Vocational Instructor and Regional Supervisor for Vocational Instruction for the State of Indiana 1938 to 1942 . He served as mining consultant for the S. C. A. P. in Tokyo, Japan , during 1945 and 1946.

Mr. Cammack was author of Mine Gases and Ventilation, 1940 and Questions and Answers on Mine Safety 1940, and many scientific articles.

He is survived by his wife, Edith; a son Dr. Kirk D. Jr. of Flint, Michigan; a daughter, Patricia Jane Loest, of Denver, Colorado, and a brother.

Joseph Finagin's jour generations.

Back : Dr. M . C. Steninger, son-in-law; Mrs. Kent B. Finagin and great grandchild; Kent B. Finagin, grandson; Eloise, Mr. Finagin's daughter and great grandchild.

191 2 Paul E. Coaske is co-owner of Superior Products Co., 5321-23 Sheila St., Los Angeles 22, Calif. They are manufacturers and distributors of Supco Waterless Soap and dispensers, and suppliers to the oil industry, industrials, utilities, etc., in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

1914 John N. Webster, 2523 W. Kingshighway, San Antonio, T exas, wishes that some of the old timers would c.ome

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down his way for a hello . He even has an extra set of clubs for a round of golf. if they are so inclined.

1 9 1 6 Harold A. Neustaedter, though retired from National Lead Company since 1957 , is retained by them as a technical consultant and he is also serving as consultant for other companies. His address is 5635 Eichelberger, St. Louis 9, Mo. Gunnard E. J ohnson is spending the winter a t 30100 Amherst, Orlando, Florida. After May 1, 1959, he will return to R . R . 2, Hemlock Hollow.

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zona , recently returned from northern Arizona , where he reorganized a uranium mine and put it on a paying basis.

Ed is a Management Consultant.

Degan Boyd writes that his company has recently purchased the Quality Excelsior Coal Company and started operation loading about 600 tons of coal daily . The coal is in a 30-inch seam and they are trying mechanical means of mining coal with an auger type miner. He failed to make Homecoming due to an operation. He hopes to make it next year. His address is P. O. Box 668 , Ft. Smith, Arkansas .

1 9 2 7 M. J. Paul is chief engineer, Natural Gas Pipeline Co., and his mailing address is Box 22, Lombard , III.

Alfred 's address IS 802 E. Monroe , Mexico.

J . N . Conley, formerly chief geologist , Western Area, Seaboard Oil Co. , is now exploration manager, Rocky Mountain Area , Kilroy Company of Texas, Inc. , 2150 First National Bank Bldg., Denver, Colo.

1932

Arthur C. Kroll is general foreman , rolling mill at U. S. Steel's plant, 3426 E. 89 th , Chicago, II!. Arthur's address is 9749 So. Ellis, Chicago .

Elmer M. T omlinson has been promoted to civil engineer with the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., corn and 1 920 soyhean processors. H e will supervise the civil engineering section of the enEdwin A. Slover has been named gengineering department. H e has been with eral manager of the Kennecott Copper 1928 the Staley Compa ny for 13 yea rs. Prior Corporation's Chino Mines Division, Phil J. Boyer at the Kennecott Re- employment was with Sangamon oun Hurley, N. M. Mr. Slover has been with Kennecott since 1922 , a t their Mc- search Center, Salt Lake City , Utah , ty Highway Department, U. S. Corps Gill, Nevada , installation and he played advises Bill Schweickhardt '28, of of Engineers, Illinois State Highway a leading part in establishing smelting Walsh Refractories, was on a business D epartment and he served three years trip in Utah in November and visited in the U. S. avy construction ba tthere . a few of his classmates in Salt Lake talion . At MSM , Elmer was a Little All 192 1 City between business calls.

American football player. H e was cenJ oseph H. Rohloff , head of Science, ter on the football team for three years.

1929 Warwick , Rhode Island , Veteran MeMajor W. A. Gallemore is state-side Joe Williamson, Jr. , is owner a nd morial High School , was also the Naprincipal engineer, Williamson Assoaaain and his address is : Hq. 8th Air tional Science Foundation Consultant ciates, 6731 Manchester Ave., St. Louis Force (SAC) D-E., Westover AFB , in Chemistry at Brown U ., the sumMass. mer of 1958 and N. S. F . coordinator 10, Mo .

WiIliam L. Drake is president of Air Harold L. Cha mberlai n is in sunn y in physics at Brown U . He also serves as metalluroy consultant for the jewelry Temperature, Inc ., Carrier distributors, Californi a. His add ress is 512 W. H untindustry in Rhode Island and vicinity. Memphis, Tennessee. His firm is locat- ington, Arcadia.

1 935 H is add ress is 2 Palm Blvd ., Warwick . ed at 283 Poplar St. Dr. Charles J. Potter, president of W. F. Netzeband is with the AmeriGi ll Montgomery , 2300 Illinois Ave. , can Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co., JoP- the Rochester Pittsburgh Coal Co. , E ldorado , II!. , in the flu orspar mining Indiana, Pa., was elected for a three- a nd milling division of Minerva Oil lin , Mo . year term as Director of the American Company, reports he remains well pre192 2 served and busy and is always looking Cha rles L. Smith is with the Illinois Mining Congress.

1930 Division of Highways a nd he is living for buyers of fluorspar.

A. C. Shearer, after two years retireDonnell W . Dutton is on leave of aba t 1202 Chautauqua St. , Carbondale , ment in DeLand, Florida, has now re- sence for thjs academic year from the III . turned to North Carolina as Vice Presi- Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, at 1924 Philip L. Blake, Mechanical Super- dent of Hugh G. Strickland, Inc., gen- Georgia Tech , and is a grad uate student intendent, Western Regional Research eral contractor. A. C. was formerly in a t Stanford University , Palo Alto, Calif.

Laboratory , U . S. Department of Agri- the road business and sold out in 1955 . He says he experi ences quite a change culture, Albany, California , informs us His address is Box 51 8, Chapel Hill , bei ng on the other side of the fence aN.C. ga in. His Palo Alto address is 2306 that his daughter, Patricia, ma tricula ted Colonel Ha rry F. Kirkpatrick is now Ross Road. at the University of Washington in Rudolph J . Knoll now has his family Aeronautical Engineeri ng. Phil 's ad- back in the States and his new assigndress is 597 The Alameda, Berkeley , ment and add ress is Headquarters, Fort with him and they are residing at 1610 Leonard Wood , Mo. Ashlawn Drive, Bridgeville, Pa. Rud y Calif.

1931 has been with United E ngineering and 1 926 Alfred L. Mitchell is chief classi fi- Foundry Co., since August 1958, as Harold S. Thomas is a consulting geological engineer in Tucson , Arizona . cation engineer, A. P. Green Fire Brick applica tion engineer. He formerly was H e would like to hear from other Co. , Mexico, Mo . His son, Merle Al- in St. Louis , Mo. , but he wi ll freq uent members of the class of ' 26. His ad- fred Mitchell , who was a freshman at the St. Louis area in the future in sales MSM in 1957-58, was killed in a car engineering work. U. E . and F . Co. are dress is 2101 E . Water St. Edwa rd M . Lindena u, T hund erb ird accident which occurred on U. S. 40 builders of rolling mills and metal proRa nch, Rt. 5, Box 740, Tucson , Ari- near Columbia, Mo ., February 28 , 1958 . cessing equipment.

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1937 Marshall W. Taylor, II , is Executive Vice President of West Canadian Oil and Gas Limited, 505 Eighth Ave. , S. W. , Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Richard G. Prough, resident manager and chief geologist of Socony-Vaccum Oil Company's producing operations in Calcutta, India, reports he hasn't seen many old grads out there except one running a restaurant in Calcutta. Dick's address is P. O. Box 10207 , Calcutta, 19.

Fletcher McCrae is a mining engineer with Midland Electric Coal Corp. , Farmington , Ill. The McCraes have three future alumni looking ahead to t.heir day . Fletcher attended the 20th reunion and anniversary last fall on the campus. He was expecting more of his classmates to be present. His Farmington address is 476 East Fulton .

1939 A. E. Rhodes, 307 Wellesley S. E., Albuquerque, N. M. , is manager of power production with P. S. Co. of N. M. , that is now completing a new unit at Reeves Station to be ready by March

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Donald D. Burris, 519 W. Beech Tree Lane, Wayne , Pa., is manager of the built-up roofing sales, Certain-Teed Products Corp., Ardmore, Pa. Joseph W. Mooney has been chosen as one of "The 40 Men of the Year," a group of life underwriters in St. Louis who were outstanding life insurance men for 1958. Joe represents the New York Life Insurance Co. , and he lives at 7245 Northmoor Drive, University City 5, Missouri.

George F. Mueller , formerly located at Worthington, Ohio, has moved to Pacific Palisades, California. His address there is 1250 Villa Woods Dr. Dr. Howard I. Young, the outgoing January February 1959

president of the American Mining Congress, has served as its chief executive for 25 years. Dr. Young is president of the American , Zinc and Smelting Co., St. Louis, Mo., and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree

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Huey Summers, Thomasville, Alabama, is resident engineer in the Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.

Steven S. Braun has 'been transferred to the Shell Oil Company refinery at Houston , Texas, after two years in the company's home office in New York City. His Houston mailing address is P. O. Box 2527.

Major Paul F. Ross is completing his third year as an instructor of A. F . R. O. T. C. at the University of Idaho.

Lt. Col. Ernest L. Perry is now attending the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk , Va. His address is in care of the Student Detachment. He was formerly assigned to the District Engineers Office in St. Louis, Mo. Ivan M. Niedling is district sales representative for Porter-Cable Machine Co. , Syracuse, N. Y. He is living in Birmingham, Alabama at 4433 Dolly Ridge Rd. Rolland W . McFarland, of the McFarland Francis Chevrolet Co., Quincy, Ill. , advises his son is a junior in high school, plays varsity football and talks of studying engineering after graduation. He is interested in design work.

Herbert O. Kimmel , senior interpreter, geological, Imperial Oil of Canada, was on the campus last summer and was impressed with the new construction.

Herbert's address is 2431 lIth Ave ., Regina, Sask, Canada .

Lt. Col. Harley W. Ladd currently is attending the Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

The course will end May 1, 1959. His permanent address' is 1054 Paxton St. Alexandria, Va .

J. H. Werner has a new address, 1128 Whittlesay Lane, Rocky River 16, O.

1 941 DeMarquis D. Wyatt is in Washington , D. C. as Technical Assistant to Director, Space Flight Development.

He is with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration. His address is 8407 Westmont Terrace, Bethesda, Maryland.

1942 Leonard C. Wolff, CDR, U. S. N. is presently assigned as Shipbuilding

Superintendent for construction of the USS Independence which will be completed and join the fleet in May, 1959.

His address is 4030 Avoca Ave. , Bethpage, L. I. New York.

Robert Billings, sales engineer, Potash Co. , of America , has been transferred from production engineer in the company's mines and refinery in Carlsbad, N . M., to technical service and sales responsible to the midwest sales office in Peoria, Ill. He lives in Ames, Iowa, 2116 McCarthy Road , and travels in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska , Kansas , Oklahoma and Colorado.

C. R . Trotter has a private practice as consulting engineer in Dexter, -:\-10.

He is also Stoddard County's surveyor and drainage engineer.

1 943 James Glover is Assistant Manager , Engineering, Shell Oil Company refinery at Norco , Louisiana , residing at 24 Shell Village .

R. Kent Comann is plant manager of the only gypsum wall board plant in Colorado, the plant of Fibreboard Paper Products Corp., Florence, Colorado.

James C. Johnson has been appointed an assistant director of manufacturing for Monsanto Chemical Company 's Inorganic Chemicals Division of St. Louis , Mo. , after serving as a manufacturing superintendent at the company's Monsanto , Illinois plant.

194 7 Robert L. Ray, partner in the Pyromet Company, South San Francisco, California, is serving this year as Chairman of the Golden Gate Chapter, American Society for Metals.

Elvin A. Henke has been transferred from the head office of Shell Oil Co., in New York, N. Y. , to the Anacortes , Washington , refinery to assume the new position as Manager, Engineering Services. His residence there is 1811 Island View Place.

Elmer W. Belew, chief engineer and estimator for the Samuel Kraus Co. , St. Louis, Mo. , also has an avocation as alderman for the city of Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. This is his second term in this office. He served as mayor for six months on one occasion. His residence address is 1200 Garwood Dr. 37 , St. Louis , Missouri.

George H. Davis is Chief, Ni-Havd & Ni-Resist Section, D&R Division, The International Nickel Co., New York , N. Y. He has residence at 611 Carleton Road , Westfield , N . J .

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1948 James R. " Dick" Whanger, 3535 Glenmore , Houston 23 , Texas, is staff metallurgist for Hughes Tool Co. The W hangers have three children , Susan age 9 : Ken , 5 years ; and Chris 3. They have been in Houston since Dick 's gradua tion except for five months spent in Belfast , North Ireland , where Dick was assisting in the installation of a heat treatment department for Hughes.

Ray E. Pickett is manager of warehouse sales for Builders Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo . His residence arldress is 2540 W . 90th , Kansas City 15. ~I. A. Hagan is in charge of ceramic research and development for North Am eri can Avia tion. The Hagans live a t 5515 Eau Claire Dr. , Rolling Hills: Calif. They have two children , Melorie 30 years and Kent 1 1/ 2 years. They all are enjoying California very much .

W. F. Stoecher is associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U. of Illinois. His latest professional activity is the publication of a book , " Refrigeration and Air Conditioning" .

Gerardo E. Joffe is in San Francisco, California , residing at 3 11 California St. John F. Rankin is with Champlin Oil Co., Sydney, N ebraska.

Warren F. Harter has a new address .

12418 Ballas Meadow Dr., Des Peres; Kirkwood 22 , ~Io. Warren is assistant engineer, Illinois Terminal R. E. Co. , and also city engineer of Oakland, Mo. Wa rren and June have three children; Ellen, age 7, Mark, age 5, and Martha , age 1.

1 949 Murry Schmidt is with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Sales, Inc., as a sales engineer in the chemicals division.

Their main product is basic refractories , and his territory is the central part of the Pacific coast with regional offices in Oakland , California. The Schmidts live at 3353 Mildred Lane , Lafayette, California. Murray and Betty havE two fine boys, Robbie 3 and Jimmy 2.

Ray H. Russell has formed a partnership to practice sanitary engineering under the firm name of Smith, Russell and Grayson , consulting engineers, Stuttgart, Arkansas , the Rice and Duck Capital of the World. His residence address is 212 W. Lynn St. Robert L. Martin is with Fred E. Wood and Associates, Denver, Colorado who are primarily engaged in the secondary recovery of petroleum. Bob's 18

address is 8915 W. 4th Place, Lakewood 15, Colo.

William H. Lenox is state sales manager for the State of Nebraska, Armco Drainage and Metal Products, Inc. , and is living at 3721 Ernest St., Omaha Nebraska. Bill was formerly sales engineer in Wichita, Kansas.

John W. Gosen , with the U. S. G. S. is working on topographic maps in Northeast Missouri.

Charles P. Daniels, 2136 Prairie Lane, Springfield , Mo. , is with McLean Construction Co. , and has the position of general superintendent. \Vard P. Carter is missile engineering section head , Product Engineering Department Missile Systems Division , Raytheon Mfg. Co., Bristol , Conn.

Robert R. Parsons is chief of operations, U. S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, Mo ., 420 Locust St. He resides at 35 South 87th St., Belleville, III. Ralph W. May is now on the west coast residing at 640 San Felena Way , Los Altos, California.

William C. Teas has been admitted as a partner in the firm of Teas and Steinbrenner, 125 Church St., Malverne , N. Y. The announcement was made by Ernest Steinbrenner and Howard J. Teas.

Dr. Andrew Fletcher, president of St. Joseph Lead Co. , has been named one of the vice presidents of the American Mining Congress. Dr. Fletcher was awarded a Doctor of Engineering Degree , Honoris Causa, by MSM. 1950 Charles K. Daetz for the past two years has been district manager of the Buffalo office of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co., and he expects to be transferred this Spring to the New York District Office as head underwriter. Presently he is living at 79 Howard Lane, Tonawanda, N. Y. Donald H. Timmer is head of the structural design department for Shaffer-Parrett and Associates. He is now living in Mansfield, Ohio, at 1800 Washington South Road.

R. C. Settgas has been promoted to the position of equipment evaluation engineer for the Carter Carburetor Division of A. C. F. Industries. He lives at 950 Quanal Ct. , Kirkwood 22, Mo. W. F. Netzeband , Jr., is now associated with Pacific Mercury , at Joplin, Mo. His home address is 2901 East 15th St. , Joplin.

Charles O. Kinz is a sales engineer

with Olin Mathieson for their roll bond products. His address is 239 Oakley Place, East Alton , Ill. John W . Knappert is assistant superintendent, Donner-Hanna Coke Corp., Buffalo , N. Y. The Knapperts' two children are Diane, age 4 and David age 1 year. All MSM alumni are welcome who pass through Hamberg , New York, at their residence 190 Euclid Avenue.

Peter B. Kelly left the Orr Engineering Co., of Minneapolis, Minn. , in August and accepted employment in the civil and highway section of Sverdrup and Parcel in St. Louis , Mo ., and is living at 10639 Thayer Drive, St. Louis 23 , Mo. Alden Hutchison has been promoted to sales engineer of Custom Head , Inc .. liquid transport trailer manufacturers.

In 1958 they built 140 semitrailers for the hauling of various liquids. Alden 's company and his home is in Springfield, Mo. The address is 1212 W. Stanford.

J. Richard Hunt was promoted to Vice President, Empire Geophysical Inc. , Seismic Division , Denver, Colo.

In Denver hi s address is 181 Yates.

Edwin A. Davidson is a partner in a photogrammetric engineering firm , M. J. Harden , Associates, 1115 E. Armour , Kansas City 9, Mo . His residence address is 4616 Harrison , Kansas City.

Jack R. Babbitt is now working in the Shell Pipe Line Corporation 's head office, Technical Services Department, Houston, Texas, as instrumentation Engineer. His home address is 1438 Chamboard Lane , Houston 18.

Ralph A. Andreasen is assistant to the president at Barber-Greene Co. , in Aurora, Ill., manufacturers of asphalt paving and mixing equipment and bulk material handling equipment. His home is at 1312 Winona Ave ., Aurora.

Charles H . Church just received a Ph .D. degree in Physics from the University of Michigan. Charles is with the Central Research Lab. , Crucible Steel Co ., of America, Pittsburgh, Pa. His residence address is 15 " B" Marion Ave. , Forest Hills, Pittsburgh 21.

Roy Hall is now employed by Hughes Aircraft Ground Systems at Fullerton, California and is living at 900 North Magnolia, Anaheim, Calif. There are six children in the Hall family; Rex 10, Wayne 9, Glenn 8, Lynne Dianne 7, Leslie 5, and Gerold 4. Roy was formerly with General Electric Co. , in Ithaca , N. Y. MSM Alumnus

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Milton A. Allmeyer is with McCarthy Bros. Construction Co., St. Louis, Mo. His home address is 7024 Berkridge Drive, Hazelwood, Mo. Jack Dowell's address is Box 1386, Oil Center Station Lafayette, Louisiana.

Jack was married recently .

Joe E. Gray is now in Tampa, Florida , 6806 N. Gleim .

Lt. Ronald C. Rex was a campus visitor in January . Ron is being transferred to the Canal Zone where his address will be: 937 Eng. Avn . Co., Ft. Kobbe, Canal Zone.

Gordon French's new address is c/ o Solvay Processing Div., Box 137, Prairie deRocher , Ill. ,

Joseph P. Varanouskas is field engineer with Merritt-Chapman-Scott on the intake section of the Niagara Power Project. His address is 448 9th St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. Denver S. Patton, Jr., 110 Ardmore Ave., Shreveport, La., has our sincere condolences for the death of his son, Denver S. Patton, III, on December 24, 1958.

William P. Kimker, Jr., with General Electric Co., as application engineer in the receiving tube department, has a new home at 731 Canterbury, Owensboro, Ky. Bill and Grace have a three year old daughter, Margotyann. They have been in Owensboro since March 1953 .

Wallace Ferguson, 826 E. Victoria, South Bend 14, Indiana, is employed

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S. Dean Shoper, General Superintendent. Mexico Refractories Co., has a new ' address, 1313 Pollock Road , Mexico, Mo. Henry A. Sheeley is turn foreman with U. S. Steel Co., Dravosburg, Pa. The Sheeleys' children are Henry A. , Jr. 20 years and Sarigene Lynn who was born August 5, 1958. Their Dravosburg address is 1711 Morton Ave. Donald D. Norwood is a chemical engineer with the Phillips Petroleum Co., in their research and development department. His address is 47·56 Cornell, Bartlesville, Okla.

Dan McGovern, sales engineer, Johnson Service Co., St. Louis, Mo., has a new residence address 2801 Ridgeview Dr., Bel-nor 21 , Mo .

Judson M, Lattin is assistant superintendent, Mason Department, International Harvester Co., Wisconsin Steel Division , Chicago, Ill. His address is 14644 S. Edbrooke Ave., Dolton, Ill. Charles R. Kline has been promoted to project engineer in the detection systems section, advanced development engineering, air arm division , Westinghouse Electric Corp., Baltimore, Maryland. His address there is 4504 Manordene Rd. Walter G. Garyotis is employed by Alcoa construction division for construction of a power plant and aluminum inurn smelter in Surinam, South America. The first phase completion date is December 1965. The project consists of road construction, dam construction, hydro power plant, transmission line of approximately 45 miles and smelter.

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Mailing address Box 3931 , Connelly and Patty have two daughters, Cindy, age two years and Becky, age 3 months.

Vahram Varjabeian (formerly Ogretmenoglu) is a project engineer with the Bendix Aviation Corp., Eclipse-Pioneer Division, Teterboro, N. J. His address is 801 Edgewood Lane, Palisade, N. J. Rufus W. Hamman is married and is living at 7157 Patricia Lane , Houston 12 , Texas.

John E. Gardner, Jr., has moved from Texas to La Mesa, California. 5393 Mary Fellows Ave. .

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Robert Dye is presently doing preliminary surveying for a new research center at Merwin, Pa., for the Aluminum Company of America. His address is 1424 Pacific Ave., Apt. D103, Natrona Heights, Pa. Dirck B. Stickle's new address is c/ o Esso Std. Turkey, Inc. , Posta Kutusu 243 ., Iskendrun, Turkey.

Radius T. Henslee is now in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, address, 1955 Birch.

80 to 90 degrees with hunting and fishing very good. His address is Box 218, Suralco Construction, Paramaraibo, Surinam, South America.

Paul A. Freuler has been transferred to the engineering department at the home office of the Purex Corp., South Gate, California and now has residence at 9944 Rutland, Whittier, Calif.

Otis A. Borns is an electrical engineer with Kermas Nuclear Fuels in the uranium field. His address is 728 Austin Grants, New Mexico.

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George M. Deutman has been named mine superintendent at the Prieta Mine , Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. This is a property of the American Smelting and Refining Co. His address is Cia, Minera ASARCO, S. A., Apartado 85 , Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Thomas H . Whitfield, Jr. is a structural engineer, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., Savannah, Georgia. Residential address 210 Oxford Dr., Kensington Park, Savannah, Ga. W. A. Spencer is with the Los Alamos Research and Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. His address there is 3137 Woodland .

Linus J. Renner's new address is: Spaulding Fibre Co., Inc ., 1500 Big . 17 , M o. d St. L OUlS Ben d BI v., 1 95 1

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David E. Nothsti ne is employed as a mechanical engineer at McDonnell Aircraft, St. Louis, Mo. , and his residence address is 1245 Del Rey Dr., Florissant.

Marlin F . Krieg is in oil field research engineering in Evansville, Indiana , and his address is 5300 Sherbrooke Rd. Lt. (JG) T . L. Godsey presently is located at Pearl Harbor , T. H. He expects to be released from active duty in August this year and will return to work for Magnolia Petroleum Co. His mailing address is NAVC ONSTF ORTPAC, Navy No. 128, c/ o FPO, San Francisco , California.

Lester Brockmann is a production engineer for the Texas Petroleum Co. , at Velasquez , Palogua Field in Colombia, South America. His mailing address is T expet, Apartad o Aereo 3622 , Bogota , Colombia, South America.

T . A. Corcoran , Jr. , is mine foreman , Neptun e Gold Mining Company, Apartado 612 , Managua , D. N . Nicarag ua , C. A. Leonard J. Keller has been promoted by the Virginia -Caroli na Chemical Corp., to the position of general superintende nt, Tennessee Mining Dep't. He previou sly was plant engineer at their Arrow Mines plant. His mailing address is P. O. Box 9, Mt. Pleasan t, Tenn .

J ames B. Millar 's address is 302 Anthon Drive, Penn Hills, Pittsbu rgh 35 , Pa. Joseph G. Buschko is resident engineer, M issouri State Highway Depart ment , Kirkwood , Mo. The Buschkos have a three-y ear-old son and an 8 months old daughte r. They live at 1319 McCausland , St. Louis 17 , Mo. 1 9 5 6 F. W. Schuller who is with the Public Service Compa ny of Oklahoma , living .:.f_ II _.I_(I_ I I_ I_ I_I_ ~ I_

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E. Paul Remmers received his M . Sc. degree from University of Birmingham, Englan d in July 1958 after particip ating in the 1956-57 Fulbrig ht Program .

He is now with General Motors Corp., research laborat ory, Detroit , Mich. His address is 1116 Lakepo int, Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Victor M . Morales has been promoted from production supervisor, Parral Unit ,路 American Smelting and Refining Co. , Parral , Chih ., to General Mine Foreman , Plomosas Unit, Cia Minera Nationa l , S. A., Estacion Picachos, Chihua hua, Mexico.

Buford E. Gallaher, 2809 Newby Road , S. W. , Huntsville, Alabama , is with the Army Ballistic Missile Agency as aeronau tical research engineer.

C. R. Barnard , Jr. , returne d in July from a two-year tour in Liberia , West Africa and is now with B. F . Goodrich Co., Akron , Ohio, as a civil engineer.

John R . Hammo nd, 306 S. 13th St. , Chester ton, Ind., is with the Gary Sheet & Tin Mill , Gary , Ind. C. R. Custer has a new address: 420 3rd St. N., Clairton , Pa.

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George O. Gratz is with the government's General Services Administration as construction Engineer. George and Miss Virginia Lee Blanken ship were married August 24, 1957 . They have one son, Michael George, born October 11, 1958. George is taking graduat e work for a Master 's in Engi-

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Charles R. Baker has the position of Associate Engineer in the process engineering group, pilot lines dept., Thickel Chemical Corp., Huntsville, Alabama. His mailing address is R. R. 4, Box 199, Huntsv ille, Alabama.

Ensign Patrick S. Couch and Mrs. Couch, formerly Peggy Light , of Rolla , are located at Mare Island for duty in the Shipyar d's Public Works Dept.

The Couchs ' address is 135 Cunningham, Vallejo , Calif.

Robert L. Wright is an instruct or in the Metallurgical En6ineering department MSM and working on his Master' s degree . He lives at 1109 Spring.

A. E. Segelhorst is now leader of a maintenance team of field engineers and technicians. The team's assignments are to rove about the central states supplying technical assistance and instruction in maintai ning Fire Control Systems in all weather fighterinterceptors. He is with Hughes Aircraft Company, Silver City , Calif.

1958 William B. Dye is employed by the traffic engineering departm ent of the California Division of Highways and his mailing address is 1314 " E " Street, Eureka , Calif.

Wm . J. Williams after completing a training program with Cutler- Hamme r, Inc. , in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , has been transfer red to Tulsa, Oklahoma as a sales engineer. He , his wife and son are living at 1338 E . 36th St., Tulsa .

Wayne T . Andreas has joined the Esso Research and Engineering Company, a central scientific affilia te of the Standar d Oil Co., N . J. He is living in Parkwa y Village , Cranford , N. J. Kerry Withro w is at Ft. Belvoir , Va., on six months active duty.

Frank W. Hill has accepted a position with Rickett and Reaves , civil enginee rs of Bakersfield, California and his new address is Circle Park, Hwy. 99 and Airport Dr., Bakersfield .

Bruce N. Lewis has been employed by a civil engineering and surveying firm in Kennet t, Mo . He formerly was on the engineering staff of General Motors Corp., Detroit , Mich. His mailing address is P. O. Box 62 , Kennett.

Lester A. Unnerstall , who is with Mallinc krodt Chemical Works, Uranium Div., has been transfer red to the Chicago area from St. Louis, Mo. His address is 1137 116th St., Whiting , Ind. MSM Alumnu s