Missouri S&T Magazine, July-August 1959

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Volume 33

July-August 1959

Number 4

President's Column of another fiscal yea r's opera tion of the Alumni Associa ti on and this time seems appropri a te to discuss a fe w of those things which have been accomplished and those which are yet to be done.

On the plus side is the fac t that more Alumni have contributed to the Associa tion's operating fund this year than ever befo re in its history , and yet at this writi ng we still have appro xima tely 400 con tributions tha t need to be forthcoming if we are to meet our 19 59 goal.

T he Alumni Directory is being printed fo r all of those who are current contri butors to the Alumni Fund . Schola rshi ps have been provided for worthy students . Good coordination has been effected with the MSM a nd University a dmi nistra tion in order to achieve most effectively those goals which a re in the best interest of MSM and the Alumni Association.

W hile we a re thinking about these things as achievements, what about the debit side of the ledger? What has been our individual contribution other than perhaps a check or a letter concerning advice on some particular subject or problem? It seems to me that a basic premise of our alumni association is that the Alumni Association is only as strong as the Sections of which it is composed. It's wha t we put into the organization as individuals and the deg ree to which we coordinate our efforts whi ch determine the ultimate success of this or any other organization.

F inances are a most necessary part of the operation , but active participation along with proper financing is equally as important.

I think all too ma ny times we are prone to take the a ttitude of " What will I get for my money if I make a contribution to the Alumni Association ?" This is no different from the question which a lot of us may ask abou t the Chamber of Commerce, the Ro ta ry Club and lots of other organizatio ns to which we belong. Rarely ever do we turn the question around and ask " What can I do to make this organization to which I belong successful in a ttaining the goals which have been set ?"

T hese p receding thoughts have been written only from the standpoint that they may have stimulated some thinking on the subject. When we consider we are approaching the end of another

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fiscal yea r 's operation it also mea ns that we are rapidly nearing the date for Homecoming. Plans are about complete for thi s year's Homecoming and I know tha t you will want to be making plans to be in Rolla on November 6 and 7.

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Hershkowitz New Assistant Dean; Has Been on Fifty Degrees Awarded Faculty Since 1945, Prominent in Alumni Affairs To Summer Graduates EON HERSHKOWITZ '41 , Professor of Civil Engineering at MSM has been named Assistant Dean of the Faculty at the Missouri School of M ines and Metallurgy, replacing Vernon A. C. Gevecker , who will return to teaching duties as Professor of Civil Engineering.

The appointment is effective September 1, 1959 . Hershkowi tz has been Professor of Civil Engineering at MSM since 1957 , and has been on the teaching staff since 1945.

Born in lola , Kansas, on November 13, 1903, Hershkowitz received his Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Civil Engineering from MSM. He received his first degree in 1941 and the second one in 1948. He also received his professional degree of Civil Engineer in 1949 for the School.

From 1926 to 1939 he had considerable practical experience with the Frisco Railroad and the Illinois Highway Department, and from 1941 to 1946 he served as an officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. He retired from the U. S. Army Reserve in N ovember 1958 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 33 years of commissioned service.

Along with his teaching schedule Professor Hershkowitz has served on many faculty committees and for a number of years he has been chairman of the Commencement Committee. He is the immediate past president of the Mid -Missouri Section-American Society of Civil Engineers. Since 1953 , he has been the Secretary-Treasurer of the Missouri School of Mines Alumni Association and at present he is Chairman

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will be well worth your time to plan to come back this fall.

I sincerely hope that each of us will take a new lease on the life of the Association and encourage those who are not taking an active part financially and personally to do so. This is OUR organization and OUR school and we should make it so.

James W. Stephens '48 Vice President, Areas 4, 5, 6 MSM Alumni Association July August 1959

of the Rolla U. S. O. Professor Gevecker, who is returning to his teaching duties, joined the staff at MSM in 1938 , and was named assistant dean in 1953. He received his B. S. in Civil Engineering in 1931 from MSM, and his Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1937. He was awarded a professional of Civil Engineer from MSM in 1950.

Astons Form Mineral Engineering Service Robert Lee-Aston '50 , mining engineer and geologist of Chattanooga, Tennessee , has joined with Charles Aston , prominen t petroleum geologist of Beverly Hills, California, and James Aston, metallurgist , and a former AIME Hunt gold medalist, of Pittsburgh , Pa. , to form the Aston Mineral Engineering Service. James Aston will have a limited association with this new consulting association.

The consulting firm maintains offices in Long Beach and Beverly Hills, California, Pittsburgh, Pa. , Chattanooga, Tenn. , and Tate, Ga. R. Lee Aston, of the Chattanooga and Tate offices has been appointed southeastern representative for the Anton Smit & Co., manufacturer of diamond drill bits and tools.

The Tate office of Aston Mineral Engineering is operating a sericite property at Waleska, Georgia, for the Georgia Talc Co. The explorational mappiping and drilling was done in the fall of 1958 , and shaft sinking started in April 1959. By July the shaft was down only 150 feet deep, but drifting in two directions was progressing at the 100-foot level. The sericite is being sold to the Georgia Talc Co. for grinding at its Chatsworth plant, and to the Alabama Talc Co. Aston is currently core drilling and carrying out an evaluation program for a quartzite body in Fannin County, Ga ., for the Georgia Sand & Silica Co. Market prospects for this material are in the high-purity silica for use in making silicon metal, ceramics and ferrosilicon.

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EGREES WERE CONFERRED upon 50 members of the summer graduating class on August 1. The commencement speaker was Dr. D aniel Kennedy, Regional Engineer , U . S. Geological Survey, with headquarters in Rolla, Mo.

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Dr. Kennedy spoke to the graduates on the employer's viewpoint of the employee, the change that has taken place in the last ten years and the introduction of the Engineer-in-Training Program , that accelerates the promotion to a full engineer rating. These programs are established to meet the terrific challenge engineers and scientists will face during the next decade .

Colonel Kennedy related to the graduates the result of a research survey conducted by the Professional Engineers' Conference Board of Industry in cooperation with the National Society of Professional Engineers. The facts concerned the marital status, salary , longevity with company , managerial status, activity in professional and civic affairs , avocations and the managerial ability of engineers.

Following the graduation exercises , Dean Curtis L. Wilson guided President Elmer Ellis, of the University of Missouri, on a tour of the new buildings on the campus.

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o. J. Horrom '25 , has been appointed assistant general sales manager of the Montana Power Co. He became affiliated with Montana Power in 1931 and he has been commercial sales supervisor since 1953.

Mr. Horrom went to Montana from Denver, Colorado at the time natural gas was being brought to that section and he has had considerable experience in the sales and engineering aspects of both electricity and natural gas for commercial, residential and industrial uses since going to Montana.

Mr. and Mrs. Horrom have two daughters , Mrs. Mark (Susan) Hampton , of Belgrade, Montana, and Mrs. Jack (Patricia) Davis, of Great Falls , Montana. The Horroms' address is 616 W . Quartz, Butte, Montana.

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First Nuclear Degrees Awarded

Two Recipients Held Fellowships from AEC Among the graduates receiving their Master's degrees at the Summer Commencement, August 1, were two who received the degree of Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering which were the first degrees of thir kind to be granted in the state of Missouri , and result from the emphasis being given at MSM to Nuclear Engineering which has been supported by sizable grants from the Atomic Energy Commission. A nuclear reactor of the swimming-pool type is now under construction.

Left to right: Edward Robert Schmidt, Kirkwood, Missouri ; Dean Curtis L. Wilson; Dale Wesley Harris, Hannibal, Missouri.

Mervin Kelly Receives Doctorate Degrees From Princeton and Case; Other Honors Four new honors for his continuing contributions to man's knowledge have been conferred on Dr. Mervin J. Kelly ' 14, consultant to the president of International Business Machines.

An honorary doctorate of engineering was awarded by Princeton University on June 16, and the Case Institute of Technology, at Cleveland, Ohio , awarded him an honorary doctorate in science on June 4, when he was convocation speaker.

Dr. Kelly also received the Alumni Medal of the University of Chicago, on June 13 , for his distinguished service, and in May he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The honorary degrees brought to ten the number of doctorates conferred on Dr. Kelly by American and European universities in recognition of his contributions to science and defense.

Dr. Kelly is internationally respected as one of the world 's leading scientists and research administrators. H e joined IBM last February after retirement as chairman of the board and form er president of Bell Telephone Laboratories.

During his 41 years with the Bell Telephone System he played a large part in the advancement of telecommunications.

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His citation from Princeton declares: " .. . a fighting frontiersman on the ever-widening frontiers of man 's knowledge and man 's power , he ha s led hi s vast and inspired entourage with the courage and the remarkable foresi ght of a true pioneer. Having chosen Princeton , Missouri, as his birthplace 65 years ago, he is now proudly chosen by another Princeton for an honor befitting his well-earned eminence as administrator, scientist, engineer."

Dr. Kelly addressed the American Society for Engineering Education at Pittsburgh, Pa. on " The N eed for Change in Engineering Education. "

Sites Being Tested for More New Buildings With the four new buildings on the campus well on their way to completion , bid s have been let to the Layne-Western Company of Kansas City, Missouri , to make soil borings and tests on the sites of the proposed new nucl ear reactor building and the new class room building.

T he proposed sites for these buildings a re: for the nuclear reactor, just east of Fulton Hall in the sunken garden a rea a nd the classroom building site is at the southwest corner of 14th and Pin e in the sunken ga rden area .

The students receiving the degrees were Dale Wesley Harris, son of M r. and Mrs. Clay C. Harri s, Jr. , 628 Union Street, Hannibal , M issouri , and Edward Robert Schmidt, son of M r. and Mrs. E. R . Schmidt, No.6 H awbrook Lane, Kirkwood , Missouri , both of whom had fellowships from the Atomi c E nergy Commission . Both men have accepted positions with the staff of General E lectric Company , Cincinnati , Ohio.

Prof. Grimm Spends Summer Working on AlEE Affairs Professor C. James Grimm '30, is spending the summer working on the student bra nch organizati on and related a ffairs of the American Institu te of E lectrica l E ngineers. H e was in Seattle, Wash. , for the summer general meeting of the Institute, a nd in New York , N . Y ., the rem ainder of the summer working at the Insti tute's headquarters with resid ence a t the Engineers' Club.

Professor Grimm is concluding two years service as Chairm an of AlEE's Student Branches Commi ttee but will continue as a n advisory member of tha t committee . H e has also been a ppointed

by P resid ent H a rold J. Foote, of AlEE, as a member-at-Ia rge of the I nsti t ute's General Administra tion Depa rtment for the com ing year.

Spring semester activities in connection with his AlEE wo rk inch.:ded trips to District 4 and 13 combined meeting at Atla nta , Georgia, a nd to the D istrict 11 meeting in Akron , Ohio. Professor Grimm met several alum ni a t the various meetings, including Pat Broaddus, Jr. ' 55, in Atlanta, Leroy Smi th '39 an d J oe Ri ttenhouse '49 , in Akron, an d Gene E ll is '54 in Sea ttle.

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Four Summer Courses in Paint Chemistry Conducted on MSM Campus by Dr. Bosch MSM was host this sum me r to a di fferent type of students who atte nded four special paint and polymer sho rt courses cond ucted by the Department of Chemical E ngi neering, From J une 8 to 12, a Maintena nce Coatings Short Course was held in which twenty- five pa inting co nt ractors from sixteen different states we re enrolled. In add ition twen ty civi lian and military perso nnel from the U , S. Air Force were also registered in the course.

The latter converged upon R olla from th irteen differe nt sta tes, whereas one student came from Iceland .

All courses we re under the directi on of Dr. Wo uter Bosch , P rofessor of Paint Chemistry, who joined the sta ff at MSM last September, having come from Fa rgo, N. D. , where he had been cha irma n of the D epa rtment of Paints, Varnishes and Lacquers fo r the pas t eleven yea rs.

The next course was conducted for High School Chemistry teachers and was sponsored by the Federa tion of Paint and Va rnish Production Clubs of P hiladelphia, Pa. Since pain t manufacture has changed fr om an a rt to a science, the paint industry needs chemists to develop the new type coa tings tha t appear on the market almost daily . In this course twenty-th ree teachers from fifteen diffe rent states were enrolled and i t was the p urpose of the course to acq uain t High School Chemistry teachers with the need for paint chemists in the pain t industry . The president of the F ederation of Paint and Varnish Prod uction Clubs, Mr. H oward G. Sholl ; the Executive Director of the Pain t Research Institute, Dr. J. Scott Lo ng; the Chairman of the E duca tional Committee of the F ederation, M r. H a rold E. Spitze r, and a guest lecturer fr om the E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co " I nc., Mr. R alph E. P ike, assis ted Dr. Bosch in conducting the cou rse , In addition to listening to lectures in the morning the teachers worked in the paint la boratory in the afternoon a nd performed experiments on pa ints a nd varnishes .

F rom July 6 to 17, a P aint Short Course for Beginners was conducted in which thi rty studen ts from eighteen different states were enrolled. This course was ta ught in its entirety by Dr. Bosch in the mornings and students worked

in the pa in ts labo rato ry in the afternoons. I n the evenings, fifteen in dust rial films were shown on topics related to the coatings and raw ma terials industries.

The series of short courses concluded with an Adva nced Pa int and Polymer Ref resher Course , cond ucted the las t two weeks in J ul y . T he fi fty -six s tudents registered in this course came fr om twenty-five different states a nd Ca nada , I n the teac hing of thi s course D r. Bosch was assisted by fifteen guest lectu rers, all expe rts in their respec ti ve fiel ds. T he fact tha t all courses we re fill ed to capacity proves that MSM has made a wise decision in p romoting this special type of ed uca ti on.

Molten Brazing Solde rs" He is presently engaged in resea rch with the Bell Telephone Laboratories in lVlurray Hill , N , J. Mr. McKinnis has collaborated on a paper which he calls " The Glassmelting P rocess : II , Glass Structure and E ffects of ' Melting History ' on Glass P roperties." His article is a contin uation of Part I , which appeared in the April issue of the J ourna!. After leaving MSM , McK innis ob ta ined his P h.

D . deg ree from Ohio State U, in 195 4 .

Pu bli cation of a paper by T he American Ceramic Society in either of its two technical magazines, the B ulletin or the J ournal, is a ma rk of recogn ition for its a uthor since the society 's p ubli cations are the principal America n so urces of tec hnical in fo rmation in the nonmeta ll ic minerals field.

Argenti nian Atom ic Open Pit Mining Association Holds Annual Meeting at MSM Scientist Is V isitor The fifteenth a nnual meeting of the Open P it M ining Associa tion, E lectrical D ivision, was held on t he IVI SM campus June 19-21 whi ch att rac ted a bout 200 offi cials and wi ves , T he meetings a re held annually on the campuses of major engineering colleges, The 1958 mee ting was held at P urdue U ni ve rsity , The principal speaker for the meeting was George A. Bowie, au thor , lectu re r and p ubli c relations counselor of the F irestone Tire and Rubber Co ., Akro n , Ohio.

New offi cers we re elected and Vernon H endrickson , the incumbent vice president, was eleva ted to the preside ncy and Mr. and M rs. E lmer D avis, of Ca rrier M ills, Illinois, were elected join tl y to the vice presidency . L. E. Brisco , secretary -treasurer, was named to a nother term .

Alumni Have Articles In Ceramic Journal J ohn C. Williams 'SO, and Cha rl es L. McKinnis '47 , who received their B . S. a nd Master's degrees from IVI SM have contri buted papers a ppearing in the May iss ue of "The J ournal of the American Ceramic Society, " M r. W illi ams is co-a uthor of an a rticle entitled " W etting of O riginal and Meta lli zed H igh Alu mi na Surfaces by

Dr. J orge A, Sabato , d irector of the Metallurgy D ivision of the Atomic E nergy Commission of Argentina , lectured on the MSM campus this summer. The series of lectures is sponsored by Temple Uni ve rsity Visiting Foreign Staff P roject for Summer Institutes supported by the Na tion al Science F ounda tion, Dr. Saba to lectured before the science and mathematics teachers who a re members of the Summer I nstit ute on the l\fSM campus, Hi s subj ects we re : "Atoms for Peace," "Edu ca tion of Sci ence T eachers in Argentina ," a nd " Approach to Science T eaching."

Dr. Sa ba to is now the Argentina Correspondent Member to the Council of the Institute of Meta ls (Londo n ). H e is also a member of the adviso ry boa rd of " The J ournal of Ato mic :Ma terials," and the a uthor of " I ntroduction a la Fisica ," a tex tbook of high school physics.

Dr. Sabato ca me to MSM fr om St. Louis Uni ve rsity, St. Louis, Mo" and is going to William J ewell College , L iberty, Mo. SEND THE MSM ALUMNUS YOU R NEWS ITEMS

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REINHARDT SCHUHM ANN, Jr. , '33, became head of Purdue Unive rsi ty 's new school of Metallurgical E ngineering on Jul y 1, after the Un iversity 's board of trustees approved a plan to divid e the School of Chemical a nd Metall urgical Engineering into two separate schools. P urdue has offered courses of stud y leading to the B. S ., M. S. and Ph . D . degrees in metallurgical engineering since 1942 , so tha t this division rep resents a further step in the development of the Un ive rsity 's metallurgica l prog ra m .

After gradua ting from MSM a nd receiving a M . S. from Monta na School of Mines, Dr. Schu hm a nn received the Sc. D. degree from M . I. T. in 1938 . H e remained at M. I. T. as a staf f mem ber, first for several yea rs as a teacher and researcher in minera l dressing a nd then later in speciali zing in chem ica l a nd process metallurgy , especially in application of physical chemi stry a nd thermodyna m ics to metallurgical systems.

He is the a uthor of a textbook , " M etallurgical E nginee ring," a nd of various technical pa pers. During the wa r years he was associ a te d i recto r of a M anha ttan D istri ct (later AEC) project at M . 1. T. which developed processes now used to p roduce ura nium from Africa n ores . In 19 S4 he went to

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Active both in the American Society for Metals a nd in the American Insti tute for M ining, Metallurgical, a nd Petroleum Engin ee r, he is currently chairman-elect of the P urdue Chapte r of ASl\f a nd chairma n-elect of the ext raactive meta llurgy division of the Metallurgica l Society of AIME. In Feb ru a ry 1959, he a nd William A. Krivsky were awarded the Gold Meda l of the extractive metallurgy di vision of the IVletallurgical Society for their paper on " Thermodynamics of the Copper - Iron - Sul phur System a t Smelting Temperatures " Dr. Schuhman n is also a member of the ed ucation a nd accred itation com mittee of the E ngineers Council for Professional Development.

Military Department Has Active Summer The M ilita ry Department at MSM continued its training of officers this summ er. lVlost of the cadets were sweating at summ er camp , eleven cadets six sophomores and five juniors, kept the class rooms ali ve on the campus.

Th e cadets were co-op program stu dents who had to catch up with their classma tes . They de ri ved greater class parti cipa ti on a nd perso nal a ttention fr om the in structors.

On August 1, a t the Summer Commencem ent, four of the regular cadets received t heir commi ssions as 2n d Lieu tenants in the Co rps of Engineers. On July 3 1, at Fort Leona rd Wood , Mo. , 20 seniors were sworn into the Army as Corps of Engineers officers. These cadets had completed their milita ry a nd academ ic requirements for a com mi ssion , as well as a degree , but had not previously been to a summer camp.

Besides the ones who were com miss ioned , there we re 85 other cadets who completed their summer ca mp tra ining but who will be back in school this fall. Si multa neously, four more cadets took their oa th of offi ce at the ROTC camp at F t. Belvoir, Va. Ten more received their summer ca mp training at Ft. Gordo n, Ga ., with the Signal Corps . At Ft. Lee there were four trained with the Transpo rta tion Corps and a t Ft. Riley , Ka nsas, two were with the Ch emica l Corps and one received his comm ission in the Chemica l Co rps.

T he Military D epartment at MSM has for seve ral yea rs been the la rgest Engineer ROTC unit in the U . S. The in dica t ion s a re tha t it will co ntinu e to be and is certa inly a year-a roun d opera tion. The sta ff not only p rovid es ins tr uction for s tudents d uring a ll school session s, but members are sent to the various camps to supervise their students' fi eld training . T he present PM ST is Colon el Lloy d L. Rail , who has bee n head of th e department since August , 1957.

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The summ er meeting of the Ark-LaTex Secti on wa held at the Westerner Res taurant in Shreveport, Lo ui siana, June 27 . Twenty-o ne in dividuals were in attendance to enjoy this din nermeting. Those present were : Mr. a nd irs. J ohn H. Livings ton '39, 1\1r. and 1\1rs. J. O . Ferrell '40 , 1\1r. a nd 1\ Irs. J. C. a lm on '22 , 1\Ir. and !\Irs. George v\. Pryor ' 19, Mr. a nd 1\Irs. C. E . McGaughey ' SO, Mr. a nd Mrs. William H .

McCartney '16, Mr. a nd Mrs . J. J. Krebs ' 16, W alte r H . Bruening '3 4, Mr. and Mrs. G . W. H einri ch '56, Mr. a nd Mrs . David J. Flesh '23, a nd Mr. a nd Mrs. F. H . Conley.

The most discussed subject was the proposed revision of the H omecoming sched ule of which the Ark-La-Tex Section is in full support.

The next meeting will be in E I Dorado, Arkansas, on Sep tember 26.

Any a lumnus in the Ark-La -Tex area who is not on the Secti on's ma iling li st is urged to send in his name , address and telephone number to Guy W. H einrich , P . O. Box 7177 , Shreveport, Loui siana , in order that the Secti on ma y send you the details of its next meeting.

NIr. a nd Mrs. Dona ld LePere '44 , Paul Nel on '42 , Jim Neus taedte r '43, 1r. a nd Mrs. Thomas Pering '49 , Joseph Schmitt '42 , El mer Tra utwei n '40, Harold Whit on ' 51 and Mr. a nd Mrs. Dona ld W unn enberg '50.

National Capital Section The National Cap ita l Section held a meet in g at th e home of Mr. and Mrs. C harles J en nings on the evening of Jun e 19. Dinner boxes were brought in fr om a nea rby Hot Shoppe. An extra salad , pie and coffee were prepared by 1\ Irs. J ennings a nd her mother , Mrs. \\" hitlock . The J ennings' hospita lity made thi s an outs ta nding meeting a nd the Sec ti on extend s its apprec iat ion to Pa ulin e and C huck for sha rin g their h ome for the meeting .

Members and guests present were: 1\lr. a nd 1\1rs . J. A. Pollack '32, M r. a nd Mrs. R. E . Flo re ' 52, M r. a nd Mrs. R. F. M cC rae '09 , lVIr. and Mrs. L. A. Turnb ull '22, Mr. a nd Mrs. J. P . Zeda li s ' 52 , Mr . and M rs. C. A. Jennings '30, Mr. a nd M rs . C. C. Juhre '30, !\Ir. a nd Mrs . T. A. Hughes '42 , Mr. and Mrs. R. L. F isher '36 , Mrs . J ennings' mother , Mrs. Whitlock, a nd the M cCraes' daughter, Mrs . Mary Black.

An elec ti on of officers was held for the 1959- 1960 yea r and C ha rles C .

J uh re was chosen as the next presid ent and Thomas A . Hughes, Sec retary treasurer. No vice-pres ident was elected at thi s meeting .

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Pittsburgh Section The Pittsburo-h Section held a mee ting June 5, at the Pittsb urgher Hotel.

A socia l hour p receding the di nner gave everyo ne an opportunity to become acquainted , compare notes and rem ini sce of those good 01' days a t 1\ISM. Foll owing the dinner, a business meeting was held and re ulted in definite plans fo r orga ni za tion of the Pittsburgh Section .

Temporarily , a n executive committee was selected from which officers will be chosen to direct the activiti es of the Section. The general opi ni on by those present was for a month ly luncheon whi ch we hope will sta rt this fall.

The following were present a t the meeling: Mr. and 1\1rs. William Ben nett '56, Warren Danforth '35, Mr. and 1\Irs. Leland Grafft '3 7, 1\1r. and !\Irs. Ollie Kamper '35, 1\1r. and Mrs. Rudy Knoll '35, Edward Lasko ' SO ,

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T he St. Loui s Section gathered on June 11 t h fo r its a nnua l summer party a nd in sta lla tion of the Section 's new offi cers . This grand occasion wa s held on the la wn of J ames " Stretch " and Em ily Murp hys ' lovely home on Chi pper Road In F rontenac, St. Loui s Coun ty .

Approxima tely 200 alumni and guests were present a t the meeting. Three past pres id ents : Ca rl G. Stifel '16 , F .

Sch neeberge r '25 and H. S. Pence '23, were among those p resent as well as 1\1. E. N ickel '38 , the present president of the Al umni Associatio n . D ean and Mrs. C urti s L . Wilson and Mr. and Mrs . Ike Edwa rd s came from the Rolla campus .

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The respon se to thi s meeti ng wa s beyond the Section's expectation and the las t minute rush for reservations nearly

exceeded the faciliti es of the catering servi ce. We wou ld li ke to list the entire Ii t of a lumni present but unfortuna tel y a ll their names were not secured. It was a ga la affair and a ll a lum ni wi ll be looking forward to a repeat of this s umm er ga thering if they are planned in fu ture years .

The Section's new officers are: Peter F. Mattei '3 7, President ; Richard H. Bauer ' 52 , Vice Pres id ent; J ack Eason '53 , Sec reta ry , and Joseph J. Rei ss '49 , Treas urer.

Sierra-Mohaue Section On Jul y 30, the MSM Alu mni at the U . S. Nava l Ordnance Tes t Stat ion , Chi ila La ke, Ca lifornia , which compose the Sierra-Mojave Section, held its annu al Bar-Be-C ue and Swim Pa rty .

(S urpri se 1 Even the dese rt has swimming pools. It is rea lly a " lu sh emera ld paradi se ." ) A tota l of SO a lumni a nd wives were present. Attenda nce a lso in cluded such summer celebrities as Dr. Conrad, pipefitter from t he workhouse, and one who hi s d iscarded his dea r old a lm a-m ater to wor k in the so uthern Illi nois area , comm on ly referred to as J ohn Mi les ' 55. Sco fi eld and his wife enj oyed the bar -be-cue faciliti es by a ll owing thei r meat to be well done in prefe rence to the ra re ones which were ea ten by others; ri ght Bill McC ulley. By the way, where were yo u (Gab riel)?

By just gazing a round a nd listeni ng to all the comments which were aired , it co uld be de ri ved t hat everyone had a good tim e. Exhibits we re pu t on by some of our at hleti c a lumni in the form s of full ga iners- a lm ost ha lf ga iners.

Re tiring officers left the sce ne with a fin a l blast by ra ilroading a group of unsuspecting a lum ni into their past posts. New officers elec ted were Cla rence Mattenburg '58, P resident ; Ben H older ' 56 , Vice P resident, and Bob Ra nd '58 , Sec retary .

Afte r the meeting settled down to a du ll roa r, there was a di scuss ion concernin g another outing before the end of the summ er. P lans were formulated for a picnic in the mounta ins in August.

For th ose who might be interes ted in kn owing the a lumni who are emp loyed at NOTS , the foll owing list is given: Raymond Bauer ' 58 , J ohn Burmeister '59, John Crecelius '59, Gary D avis '5 7, Russell Davis ' 54 , Willi a m Dona ldson '3 1, Melvin Dull ' 58 , Joe Feem 7

ster '56, Delbert Grantham '57, Tom Herrick '58, Ben Holder '56, Joe Holman '58, Roy Johanboeke '56, Melvin McCubbin '59, William McCulley '58, Clarence Mettenburg '58, Conrad Neal '54, Harold Nuffer '57, Robert Rand '58, Walter Roehrs '58, Phil Roper '58, Joe Seibold '57, E lmer Slates '57, Richard Slates '54, Max Smith '59, William Smith '58 , Lyman Van Buskirk '52, Ronald Vetter '58 , James Weimholt '59, Robert Whitaker ' 58 , James Yates '59, Jack Yeakey '59 and Robert Young '58.

Kansas City Section The Kansas City Section held a quarterly meeting April 3, 1959 at the Old P lantation on Highway 40 , east of Kansas City. After a pleasant social hour a n excellent dinner was served and enjoyed by all . The following members and their wives were present: Walter E. Case '22 , E. Taylor Campbell '23, J. P. Bryan ' 23.5 , James W. Stephens '47, Paul Gebhardt '47 , Loren H. Selleck '47 , Joe Gunther '48, J. J. Sponske '50, Randal L. Garten '52 and George W. Parish '55.

Following the meal, the business meeting was called to order by the retiring president, George Parish. The minutes of the last meeting and financial report were presented by Paul Gebha rdt, the retiring secretary-treasurer.

The Nominating Committee presented a slate of officers and they were elected by a unanimous vote . The new officers are: Lovall Lukrofka '50, President; Paul Gebhardt '47 , Vice President; J. P. "Barney" Bryan '23. 5, SecretaryTreasurer. The newly elected president was not able to attend because of unavoidable circumstances. The eloquence of acceptance speeches was upheld by the new vice president and secretarytreasurer, lauding past leadership and promising increased effort during the coming year. Jim Stephens presented a plan for some changes in the 1959 Homecoming. The membership who have attended Homecoming in recent years urged that all who possibly could should take advantage of this most enjoyable occasion on the MSM campus November 6 and 7. A picnic was favored as the next event of the Section's program.

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Arizona Section The Summer Meeting of the Arizona Section was held at Merzville (near Heber , on the Mogollon Rim) at the hom e of Alvis and Marie Denison.

(For the benefit of you tenderfeet, this area is right in the heart of the Zane Grey cou ntry , in the cool, tall pinecovered White Mountains.) The allday outing was thoroughly enjoyed by the Miners a nd their families. The program consisted of a short business meeting followed by an outdoor picnic barbecue with Alvis Denison acting as chief chef. After lunch there was a guided tour of the interesting, and very efficient, manganese open-pit mine and mill owned and operated by the Denisons. Bridge was enjoyed by the ladies who did not join the tour of the mine property.

Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dreste '43 , Mr. and Mrs. John Brixius '47, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pennington '50, Mr. and Mrs. John T. " Cy" Young ' 17, Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Tragitt '23, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Winkle '42 , Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grigsby '48 , Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon '28, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walter '47, and the host and hostess the Alvis Denisons '22 .

The C. M . Brownings '48, were detained at home caring for a new arrival at their home , Donald Marshall, who they say will be in the MSM Class of '7 6.

The father is the Section's Secretary.

Twins at Hillhouse Home Join 6-Year-O/d Triplets Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hillhouse '51 have established some sort of a record.

We are confident that it is a first among Miner families and no doubt it ranks near the top in all others.

Six years ago, David and Mary became the parents of triplets, three fine boys Mickey, Charlie and Timothy, all of whom are hale and hearty . This was six years ago and the parents have recovered from that shock.

On July 16, twins, a boy and a girl, Joel James, weighing 8 pounds , and Karen Sue, 7 pounds, came to live with David and Mary and their three brothers. This, no doubt, threw the household into another turmoil. On the other hand , perhaps since the household is geared to multiple births, things progressed in a normal manner.

New Invention Keeps Space Craft level Robert P. Haviland '39, a satellite engineer with the General Electric Co., has invented an apparatus to keep a vehicle from rolling over as it moves through space.

In very thin air or a vacuum, the usual type rudders, flaps and fins cannot take hold to guide it. A patent for an "attitude control" was issued to Mr. Haviland , who is assigned to the Missile and Space Vehicle Department of General Electric Co. , in Philadelphia, Pa. The equipment which has been called a liquid flywheel includes several endless pipes, arranged hoop fashion at various a ngles and containing a liquid. This liquid may be mercury or other metals that are fluid at ordinary temperatures, or even water. Inside the hoops the liquid is pumped around so as to offset any tendency of the craft to tip, roll or swing its nose to one side.

The patent illustrates three hoops, but the number may be varied and their shape may be modified to fit the craft.

The system may also be combined with the water supply or fuel storage.

Mr. Haviland provides instruments to detect any turning movement of the space craft and to start the liquid flowing automatically. If the liquid is metal, a pump may be used , combining magnetic forces sent through the pipes from one side and an electric current sent through the stream of metal. Such pumps have been developed for metalcooled atomic reactors.

The system which is intended for large space ships for the future, has been built only in model form .

The inventor was one of the first naval officers to be assigned to guided missiles and space vehicles. After leaving the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 1947, he joined the General Electric Co., and directed the Bumper rocket program. The Bumper according to the company, was America's first two-stage rocket and was the first rocket to get into space.

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Study of Redevelopment of New York's East River Docks Is Made by R. W. Abbett's Firm The firm Trippets-Abbett-McCarthyStratton , Engineers and Architects, of which Robert W. Abbett '27, is a partner, has completed a study on the Redevelopment of the East River Docks for the City of New York. This is one of the largest port planning jobs ever undertaken and is presented in a 65 page report which is somewhat of a text book on the subject of port development, and on a subject of which there is very little literature available.

The mile and three-quarter waterfront on the East River has been devoted continuously to shipping for more than three centuries and for many years served as the main shipping center of the Port.

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suited for a program of marine terminal redevelopment and the redevelopment of the East River piers fo r maritime commerce is consistent with current planning for the urban redevelopment of lower Manhattan.

This $40,000 ,000 redevelopment is proposed to provide fully modern efficient marine terminals to serve the waterborne commerce of the City and sites for a marina and a heliport. These improvements will accommodate about 2,000,000 tons of oceanborne cargo per year.

Two alternative plans have been presented in the redevelopment program.

Mr. Abbett received his professional degree , Civil Engineer, from MSM in 1933; his M. S, degree from Yale in

193 2 and in 1953, Gettysburg College conferred upon him an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree. Dr. Abbett was an instructor at MSM and also at Yale, and a professor Civil Engineerin(1 a t Union College , Schenectady, N. Y~ From 1941 to 1945 , he served as a Lieutenant Commander , technical specialist on waterfront structures, Corps of Engineers, U. S. N. R. He has had varied experiences as a civil engineer.

As an a uthor he has contributed to ~he engineering profession, "Engineerlllg Contracts and Specifications" which was published in 1954, and us~d as a textbook at MSM. He is the editor-in-chief of the three-volume set "American Civil Engineering Practices ,; tha t is widely used. He is a memb~r of ASCE, American Institute of Consulting Engineers and Sigma Xi. This redevelopment stu dy is characteristic of the type practi ce that is undertaken by Mr. Abbett 's fir m.

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National President Of Purchasing Agents T. O. E nglish '29, general purchasing agent for the Aluminum Company of America, was elected president of the National Association of P urchasing Agents for the year 1959-60 at the Association's Forty-fourth Annual International Convention at the WaldorfAstoria in New York, held in July. Mr. English is past president and national director of the P urchasing Agents Asso-

of his company in 1944 and assumed his present position in May 1959.

Mr. E nglish is married to the former Mildred Holliday of East St. Louis, Illinois. They have a daughter, Jeanine, who is the wife of Dr. R. W . Abel of Franklin, Pa., and a son, Thomas O. E nglish, J r., who is a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Letterman Army H ospital in San Francisco, California.

Dr. T. M. Morris Leaoes MSM Faculty for Unioersity of Arizona Dr. Thomas M. Morris who has been on the staff of the Department of Metall urgical Engineering since 1947, and has been a Professor in that departmen t since 1955, has accepted a position at the University of Arizona, at Tucson.

Dr. Morris will be Chairman of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy.

Dr. J. D. Forrester, former Chairman of the Department of Mining Engineering at MSM, is Dean of the College of Mining at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Morris received his Bachleor and Master's degrees at Columbia University and he was awarded his Ph. D. in 1950, from the University of Missouri.

New Induction Heater Installed on Campus The Mechanical Engineering Department two years ago received a $20,000 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission for laboratory equipment to instruct advanced students in high density conductive heat transfer. The equipment was installed last June consisting of a 30,000 k .w. high frequency induction heater, a product of Westinghouse Electric Corp. The unit is a motor generator set capable of producing 100,000 B. T. U. per hour from single phase 10,000 cycle electrical energy. The heat flux produced by the machine is comparable in density and in many other respects to the heat flux produced in a nuclear reactor. It is possible for the student to observe through glass the surface liberating the heat and to make all measurements pertaining to this phenomena. The unit is of special interest to graduate students of nuclear energy and to advanced students in Mechanical Engineering and other engineering fields interested in heat transfer.

This is perhaps the first application of induction heating to teaching and study of convective heat transfer .

This unit was used by one of the first two graduate students to receive his Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from MSM.

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A native of Texas, Mr. English has more than 22 years' experience as a member of Alcoa's purchasing department. He was transferred from the company's East St. Louis, Illinois, works where he served as works electrical engineer, to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1936 as the purchasing department's senior electrical engineering buyer. A registered engineer in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Mr. English was promoted to assistant general purchasing agent 10

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Bruce M. Bramfitt '60 is one of many MSM students who is employed by industry during this past summer.

Bruce is a metallurgical engineering student at MSM and was employed at the Watervliet Arsenal, Ordnance Corps, USA, Watervliet, New York. As a participant in the installation 's summer Student Engineering Trainee Program, he was assigned to the Industrial July August 1959

Lyle M. Barker ' 17, manager of the Morenci Branch of the Phelps Dodge Corporation retired from that post July 1, 1959 . Mr. Barker has been manager since January 1946.

Processes Branch, and is shown here with a plastic moulding machine in the investment casting foundry , which has responsibility for all Ordnance Corps cannon research , design and production programs.

At MSM Bramfitt is a member of the American Society of Metals, American Foundry Society, AIME, American Rocket Society and the Shamrock Club.

Mr. Barker has been in the mmmg industry since 1916, when he became associated with the Kennecott Co. Later he went with the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., as a research chemist. He was in World War I from 1917 to 1919.

Since 1935 he has been with the Phelps Dodge Corp. He was highly regarded by western mining men and he knows well all the facets of the industry .

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1959 Homecoming Progranl FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

1959 Grid Prospects Bright for Miners The Miners are preparing for the 1959 football season a nd the prospects look very bright. The 1958 team completed the season in second place in the Conference and only four seniors were on that squad. With the prospective freshmen assisting the veterans, it appears that Gale Bullman and his sta ff will come up with a group of M iners who will be contenders for the top berth in the conference. The lettermen who will again play with the M iners are: Ron Ave ry, E ldon Finley and Mitchell Hillmeyer, centers; Morris Bo ren, Tom Cooper, Ted Deranja and Pat O'Mealy, halfbacks ; Robert Booth, Allen Earley and Bob Rose, ends ; Joe Gay, Chas. McCaw, Dean Moss, Lou is Meisenheimer a nd Robert Pettibon, tackles; James Marble, Craig Mei1' , guards; Henry Peterson, f ullback; Bill Wheeler, quarterback.

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Kick-off-Welcoming Buffet Dinner- Alumni and Guests- College Inn, Hotel Edwin Long

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Registration- Parker Hall Annual Meeting of the Alumni Associa tion a nd ConvocationAuditorium , Parker Hall

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Class Reunion Lun cheons- Classes of 1914 - 1919 - 1924 - 1929 1934 - 1939 - 1944 - 1949.- St. Louis Section's Open House Football Game- Miners vs Springfi eld Bears

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Since last Homecoming the City of Rolla has acquired the former Vichy Air Base, 12 miles north of Rolla on Highway 63 , and the airport has been renamed the Rolla National Airport.

T he two runways are 5050 feet and 5500 feet of asphalt construction . While there are no scheduled flights in or out of the airport there a re facilities for private planes. F.F.A. communications are maintained, fuel of 80 and 100 octa ne rating is available, all night beacon, courtesy car service to Rolla, tie-down ha ngars, open 24 hours, phone service a nd has a Kansas City chart.

We know there are alumni who have indicated that they would a ttend Homecoming if there was an airport in Rolla to accommoda te private pla nes. This hindrance has now been eliminated and perhaps by next Homecoming there may be sched uled fli ghts into Rolla that will aid those who could only attend if there was air se rvice avai la ble.

Annual Alumni Banquet- Rayl Hall Reception- ollege I nn , Hotel Edwin Long Homecominc:r Dance- J ackling Gymna ium

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Louis Brent "Rube" Benton '19, 61year-old independent oil operator and long-time Fort Worth , Texas, resident , died May 7, 1959, after suffering a heart attack, while talking with a gardener at the Benton home, 3857 Bellaire Circle. He was a pioneer in East Texas oil pr,oduction . Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Corinne Benton ; three sons , Brent, Jr. , Billy and Eddie ; and a sister, Mrs . W. W . Harvey , all of Fort Worth.

Paul P . Fullop '48, a Denver, Colorado, oil man , disappeared on a flight in a private plane the latter part of May . The wreckage and his body were found in a mountain pine thicket near Howard , Colorado, July 5th. He was en route to New Mexico to get some parts for an oil rig. Mr. Fullop was an outstanding football back at MSM. He was captain of the Miner team as well as being named on the alI-conference team.

Frank Lewis Leonard Wilson '08 , died July 7, 1959, in Wheaton , Illinois.

1 9 1 1 Benjamin H. Cody and Mrs. Cody were on the campus in July. This was Ben's second visit since graduation, the first being in 1912 . The Codys were on their way to Wisconsin to visit their son and perhaps to escape the plus 100 degree temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, where they make their home at 9902 Buena Vista Drive.

191 5 Abe Kaplan has a new address . He is .now at 4615 Monoco Road , Memphis, Tennessee.

1 926 Mrs. John Kenney returned in July from a trip around the world , going via Hawaii where she attended the convention of the American Federation of Women's Clubs.

1929 John H . Hahn's new address is Crested Butte, Colorado, where he has opened a mine in the Ruby Mining District.

MARRIAGES

kee, Wisconsin, were married February 28, 1959. Jack is stationed in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. His mailing address is 580th Engineer Co. , A. P. O. 252 , New York, N. Y.

Bredesen-BeVier Karsten A. Bredesen, Jr. , '52 and Miss Helen Louise BeVier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. BeVier, Springfield, Mo ., were married at the Westminster Presbyterian Church on July 12, 1959.

Miss BeVier attended Southwest Missouri State College and is employed by the Frisco Transportation Co. The bridegroom is Plans Designer IV, Missouri State Highway Department in the Springfield office. T heir residence is at 1128 S. Stewart, Springfield.

Davis-Rose Gedale D. Davis '52, and Dorothy C. Rose of Calgary, Alberta, Candada, were married in Spokane, Washington, June 6, 1959. The newlyweds are residing at South 621 McDonald Road, Spokane 66. Gedale is with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. Trentwood Works.

Coffey-Latki Frank J. Coffey '58 and Miss Gertrud Latki of Ludwigsburg, Germany, were married June 30, 1959. Frank is a lieutenant in the U. S. Army serving in Germany.

Sweeney-Lebesch 2nd Lt. John F . Sweeney, Jr. , ' 58 and Miss Joan W. Lebesch, of M ilwauJuly August 1959

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs . Larry L. Murphy '57 are proud parents of another son , Mark Douglas, born April 6, 1959. The father is a field engineer with Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., Golden Meadow, La. The Golden Meadow location services the rigs off-shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The Murphys' address is P. O. Box 312, Galliano, La. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Schneider '59, announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Charlene Yvonn , May 28,1959. The father is employed at the Boeing Airplane Company and the mother plans to complete the requirements for a B. S. degree in Physics at the University of Wichita. Their address is 2731 Greenwood, Wichita 9.

Mr. and Mrs . Charles A. Beckman '51, also have another "first," on June 20, 1959, who was named Charles Russell. They are living at 10780 16th Ave., S. E. , Minneapolis 14, Minn . The new father is at his old job working for the Mines Experiment Station, University of Minnesota.

1932 R. F . Hippler who is with ColumbiaSouthern Chemical Corp. , has moved from San Jose, California, to Pittsburgh , Pa., and his address there is 849 Towercrest Drive, Pittsburgh 28.

Lt. Col. Arthur J. Hoeman , 2319 Ala Wai Blvd., Apt. 302, Honolulu 15, Hawaii , is chief of maintenance and supply division for Ordnance at H q ., U . S. Army, Pacific; after just finishing over a year in a similar job for the Eighth Army in Korea. Also he became a grandfather for the first time, October 21 , 1958. His grandchild is J uIia Elizabeth Hough.

1933 Warwick L. Doll, his wife, Ellen Woodman Doll , and son , Warwick Woodman Doll, were visiting in Rolla in July . Warwick is District Engineer, U. S. Geological Survey, Charleston, West Virginia .

Milton L. Herzog has been transferred to the New York office of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. , as General Manager of Operations of Metals D ivision. His residence address is 45 Popham Road, Apt. 5B, Scarsdale, N . Y.

1934 Edward C. Kozeny was a campus visitor with his family on August 11. Ed is a Match Engineer with the Universal Match Corp., Ferguson , Mo . His son Edward, Jr., is preparing to enter MSM as a freshman next fall. David, who is 10 years old, will enter at a later date.

1935 Donnell W. Dutton, Director, Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at Georgia Tech., has returned to his duties after a year of graduate study at Stanford U., Palo Alto, Calif.

1 936 George O. Nations has left Pittsburgh, Pa., and his mailing address now is Box 597 , Ojai, California.

J. Clay Turk is engineering supervisor, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. , and resides at 150 Seneca Parkway, Rochester 13.

1 9 .3 7 John H. Shephard was on the campus in June. John is assistant chief engineer with the Cerro de Pasco Corp., Santiago, Chile. He made preparations for his son , John , Jr. , to enroll in MSM this fall.

1 938 Raymond H. Rogers was an alumni office visitor in August while on his annual vacation. H e is with the Corps of Engineers in Dallas, T exas.

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1939 Lewis J. Graber has been promoted to the enaineer section head for electronic eq~ipment in the Active Systems Engineering Department of the Countermeasures Division, Sperry Gyroscope Company, Great Neck, L. I. , N. Y. His new responsibilities include the design , development , and prototypeproduction of several subsets. for the ANI ALQ-2 7 airborne electrol1lc countermeasures subsystem. Graber began his career with the Sperry Company in 1948, and was assigned to work on the ai rborne missile-guidance radar system .

He became project engineer in 1948 and in August 1956 he was promoted to senior engineer.

Herbert F. Crecelius retired August 1, from the U. S. Army and his address is 3505 Toledo Street, Coral Gables 34, Florida.

John H . Livingston was on the campus attending the Paint Short Course as a rep resentative of the Barksdale A. F. B., Louisiana. John is with the Po~t Enaineer 's office at Barksdale. HIS wif~ and family accompanied him to Rolla.

1940 Clyde L. Cowan is a professor at the Catholic University, Washington, D. C. His home address is 5812 Johnson Avenue , Bethesda, Maryland.

Guy Brown , Jr. , has spent most of this year in southern Louisiana, where his firm is operating two inland water drilling barges and one land rig. He frequently sees seve ral members of the class of 1940: Frank Priebe who is production superintendent for Cities Service Oil Co., Rex Alford who is assistant to the Vice President of Continental Oil Co. CATC operations, and Bob Ridley , reservoir engineer with Butler Miller and Lentz in Houston , Texas. Guy's address is 10822 Roaring Brook Lane, Houston, Texas.

1 9 4 1 Washinaton Adams has moved from Cedar R~pids, Iowa, to Richardson , Texas. His address there is 713 Parkview Lane .

1942 Thomas R . Beveridge has been reappointed Missouri State Geologist by Governor James T . Blair for a term ending July 1, 1963 . Tom is also he.ad of the Missouri Geological Survey, WIth offices in Rolla, and he is an ex-officio member of the Missouri State Highway Commission.

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Alexander Lawrence Stewart has changed his residence since bein~ promoted by Allis- Chalmers to engll1eerin-charge of crushing and mining machinery and ore agglameration. Alex and family have a new address: 8422 Jackson Park Blvd., Milwaukee 13 , Wi sconsin .

1 943 Donald H . Short, LCDR USN , has a new assignment and his address now is 2015 Inlet Point Road , Norfolk 3, Va. His duties are on a naval repair ship, a floating dry dock.

W. A. Haley is mining representative, sales division , Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Ill. His home address is 2113 W . Orlando Drive, Peoria.

Dr. Kemal Ozkal and Mrs. Ozkal visited the campus in June . Business brought him back to the United States and this was his first visit to the MSM campus since graduation. The Ozkals have three children and Dr. Ozkal expressed the hope of sending his son to MSM. Ozkal is General Manager , A. K. 1. Coal Mines, Eregli, Karadeniz, Turkey.

Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., is plant manager - toilet articles - Colgate Palmolive Co., in Jersey City, N. J. He has a change of address to 462 Ellis Place, Wyckoff, N. Y. Bob was expecting a visit from Major Bill Clark, a Pi K. A. who attended MSM for several years and received an appointment to West Point and graduated there in 1945.

1944 A. P. Ploesser has returned to the Philippine Islands after a four months vacation in the United States. AI has been made General Superintendent of the copper properties of his company in Southern Balatoc of the Philippine Islands and is moving there in the near future. His home address is Balatoc Baguio, Philippine Islands.

1945 Robert E. Murray is with Laclede Gas Co., St. Louis, Mo. He also has his law degree and a member of the bar with offices at 4032 W. Florissant, Suite 201, St. Louis 7, Mo. 1 946 Burnette Henry, formerly works manager, U. S. Gypsum Co., at Empire, Nevada has been named works manager of' the company's plant at Galena Park. Mr. Henry has had 13 year,s service with the company, all in the opera tions department.

194 7 Albert T. Thorwegen is now in St. Louis, Missouri, residing at 1919 S. Grand , Apt. 607. He formerly was in Memphis , Tennessee.

1948 I. D. Robbins is with C. A. Morrison-Knudsen del Paraguay, Cassila Correo 1110 , Ascuncion, Paraguay.

R. Allen Crosby is senior metallurgical engineer with Consolidated Western Steel Div. , U. S. Steel , Maywood , Calif.

He resides at 5201 Pasco del Pavon, Torrance, Calif.

Elliott F. Dressner has moved from Winnetka, Illinois, to 40 Rambline Road, Greegton, Texas. Mrs. Dressner, Mary Ellen, was also of the class of '48, receiving her degree in Geology.

Michael J. Delaney has moved from Moberly , Mo., to St. Louis, Mo. , and is residing at 10514 Ewell Drive, St. Louis 37.

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Julius L. Sarzin was a campus visitor in July on his way to a new assignment at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where he is in charge of field operations for the Ford Instrument Co. , a division of the Sperry Rand Corp.

Richard M. Otto is in the electrical contracting business in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Ottos' children are ages 4, 6, 8 and 10. Their address is 431 8 Whittier Place, Indianapolis, 26 .

Charles Peek and his wife suffered the loss of their four-year- old son , John, June 12, when he accidentally choked to death on a toy balloon in a store where his mother was shopping.

The Peeks have three other children.

The youngest, Susan Elizabeth, was born April 1. Their address is RFD 2, Box 1113 , Midland, Texas.

James B. McGrath is project manager on the St. Louis Plaza Apartment project in downtown St. Louis, Mo. The Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company are the contractors.

1950 William W . Collins has a new address: 716 Russell Place, Plainfield, New Jersey. He formerly was in Tulsa , Okla.

Walter A. Chapuk plans to tour Europe this fall from September 19 to October 10. Walter is with Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Sunnydale, Calif., and MSM Alumnus

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Theo. H. Gosen, Jr. , resides at 2734 Yea rling St. , Lakewood , Calif. , with his wife and two children , Mary Cecelia, 4 yea rs; and Timothy , 2 years.

Theodore recently completed 8 years in the employ of Richfield Oil Corporation.

W illiam P. Hughes is with the engineering division of the Standa rd Oi l Co ., Sugar Creek , Mo. Donald E. Ma rshall who recently accepted a position as Public Health Engineer with the Pennsylvania State U . has been named to oversee campus safety. Donald is also taking courses in the graduate school. His home address is 150 West Lytle Ave., Sta te College, Pa .

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Charles Warren Keller received his M. S. degree this year at MSM and has accepted a position with H awthorn Finishing Co. , New Haven , Mo ., as section head in their research and engineering department. He will reside at 704 S. MacArthur Ave ., Washington , Mo. E. F . Kolb , 628 Woodbine Ave. , Towson 4, Maryland , is to be married September 26, 1959 .

Thomas E. Walsh , for the past four years, has been employed by Socony in Venezuela and Intercol in Colombia.

P resently he is on vaca tion in the States until about October 16, 1959 , after which he willI return to Bogota. Tom is married and has three children. His add ress will be International Petroleum (Colombia), Apartado Aereo 3533, Bogota, Colombia.

R. S. Gabrielse, 11 30 Logan, Sheboygan , Wisconsin , is chief engineerconstruction of mechanical components of water and sewage treatment plants of The Stiles Company.

Ray Roller is a sales engineer with Reliance Electric & Engr. Co., Cleveland , Ohio, and lives at 3661 Glengary Ave., Cincinnati 36, Ohio . The Rollers' two daughters are Becky 7, and Cheryl 3.

Richard J. Roemerman , 7319 Damor Lane , St. Louis 23, Mo., is in the electrical contrac ting business doing industrial, commercial and residential work .

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1952 C. Kipp Ferns has been transferred by his employer, Cities Service Oil Co., from Billings, Montana, to Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Allan A. Cole is looking forward to a vacation at the yea r's end at which ti me he will return briefly to the States and get married. Alan is with Andes Copper M ining Co., Potrerillos, Chil e, South America . He has a domestic ad d ress of 2 L ippi ncott Road , Little Si lver, N . J. M. W . Steadman is an engin eer for the V. C. Benderoff Constru ction Co ., Des Moines , Iowa. The Steadman fam ily of five daughters and a son live at 2405 40th, Des Moines. The son a rrived at the Stead man house March 3, 1959.

Jo hn G. Bartel is general superintendent of basic refractories and seawater magnesia of the H . K. Po rter Co. , Inc. , Pascogo ula , Mississippi. T his pla nt just recently began operations. The Bartels have two children , a gi rl 6, and a boy, 4. The address is 104 E I Bonita , D r. , Ocean Springs, Miss.

Ray mond P. Heilich , formerly of Brazil , Ind ia na , is now at 3632E Ed ga r Road , Box E3 , St. Louis 21, ·Mo. 1953 William J. Weber is with the domestic p rod uction department of T he Texas Company and his add ress is 602 Ave nu e " J ," E I Campo, Texa5.

Robert E. Rasche is employed by the Sperry Gy roscope Co ., Great Neck, N . Y ., with reside nce a t 26 \Varren Place , P lainview, L. 1., N. Y. Dundar Saim Orer is chi ef co ntrol enginee r, C. E. Nafia Vekaleli, Yapl ve 1. 1. , iVl erkez Kontrol Buros u, Ankara , Turkey.

William E. " Gene" Bennett is with

the J. B. McCarthy Plumbing and Heating Co., Springfi eld , Mo . T heir Springfi eld add ress is 634 S. Wilda n, a nd Gene would like to hear from his 01' MSM buddies. The Bennett family consists of two daughters.

D r. F ran k M . Alm eter received his Ph . D . degree in Enginee ring (Metallurgy) , Feb rua ry 4, 1959 , from the U ni ve rsity of London , England. He is now employed as a research metallurgist with Co nva ir , D iv . of General Dynam ics Corporal ion , Pomona, Calif. His resea rch wo rk was done at the Imperial Coll ege of Science and Technology , London . His add ress is 694 N . Park Ave., Apt. 105, Pomona.

George Clodfelter, Jr. , who join ed U nion E lectric after grad uatio n has been promoted to Engineer in the Venice , III. , plant of the Un ion E lectric Co .

1 954 vVilliam H. Feldm ill er has resigned from T he Texas Co. , and joined the oil and gas branch of the U. S. Geological Survey . His address is 1215 E. Wa lnut , Roswell , New Mexico.

1 955 Robe rt J. Martin has a cha nge of address to 610 S. 17th St., Lincoln , Nebr.

Ralph R. Roesler has joined the engineering depar tment of Monsanto Chem ical Company's Inorganic Chemicals Divi sion at St. Louis, Missouri , afte r se rving wi th the \\1. R . Bendy Company there.

Louis J. Reitsma , Jr. , received his Ph. D. in Meta llurgy from the Un ive rsity of Misso uri on June 9th, a nd is now employed in M il wa ukee, Wisconsin , at Allis-Cha lm ers as a resea rch metallurgist. Hi s address is 111 9 N. Marshall St. , Milwaukee 2.

1 956 Larry N. F ussell is with Sinclair Resea rch La bs., Harvey , Ill. , a nd has resi-

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dence at 8320 Kennedy Ave., Highland , Ind. Rudy Resnick was recently promoted to LTJG, CEC, USN, and augmented into the ReO'ular Navy. His assignment now is in N~ples, Italy, and his mailing address is NAVSUPPACT, Navy 510, Box 23, FPO, New York, N. Y. Harry Wainwright, Jr., is pastor of the First Methodist Church , Bayonne, N. Y. address 690 Avenue C, Bayonne.

Ott~ L. "Buck" Burleson is residing at 6711 W. 76th, Overland Park, Kansas, and is general sales manager for the George W. Johnson Mfg. Co., Kansas City, Mo. David L. Ketcham is with the U. S. Public Health Service and is attending M. 1. T. graduate school on a scholarship. His address is 107 Wellington Rd. , Lancaster, Pa. George P. Merk is teaching at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado.

Cha rles L. Boyd is with Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co., a nd his present address is 2105 Spruce, Duncan, Okla.

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Howard D. Correll is now on the west coast. His Portland, Oregon , address is 740 Morgan Building, 720 S. W. Washington St. Delbert E. Day visited the campus this summer. He finished his Master's degree this summer at Pennsylvania State College and plans to remain and study for his Ph. D. He is in the College of Mineral Industries , Department of Ceramic T echnology. His address is 219 South Sparks Street, State College, Pa. Edward R. Degenhart is with Monsanto Chemical Co., in their Inorganic Chemicals Division, at Monsanto, Ten nessee , after serving as an engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for one year.

Arch L. Burk has been transferred for Works No. 10, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., at Henryetta, Oklahoma, as assistant plant engineer. Arch, his wife and three children live at 209 N. lOth , Henryetta.

Lary Miller is now General Manager 1957 Donald Kolb is married and in the of Miller Mining Co., Mexico, Mo., and Army . His present assignment is in residing at 2129 South Clark. The MillF rankfort, Germany. He expects to ers have two children, Diana Lynn, 3 years, and Eric Benjamin, 9 months. return to the U. S. in February, 1960.

Gerald C. Godzwon who has been on Mrs. Miller is the former Sandra Snelactive duty with the U. S. Army at Ft. son of Rolla.

Leonard Wood, Mo. , is returning to Lt. Kenneth R. Schultz is stationed MSM this fall for graduate work. at Ft. McClellan , Alabama, and he is a Don R. Greenwalt, formerly of Rob- radiological center team director. His inson, II!. , has a new address: P. O. address is 35 12 B Morton Rd ., Ft. McBox 603 , Victoria, Texas.

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George T . Miller, with the U. S. Gypsum Company has been transferred from Roanoke, Virginia, to Oakfield, N. Y. , residing at 3 Maple Ave .

1 959 James H. Hahn is with Westinghouse a t their Education Center, Ardmore Blvd ., Pittsburgh 21 , Pa. Gerald R. Robinson has accepted a position in the thermodynamics group of the Systems Department of Airplane Engineering of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis, Mo. His address is 12 Howard Drive, Ballwin, Mo. C. C. Corey is working in the ground equipment section of Missiles and Space Systems Engineering, Douglas Ai rcraft Co., Inc., Santa Monica, California . His address is 10010 Pacific St., Santa Monica , Calif.

Capt. Victor F. Spruill is with the U. S. Army Security Agency and his address is HQ , US ASA PAC (]), APO 343 , San Francisco, Ca lifornia .

Wi lliam E. Hord, 261-17 Langston Ave ., Glen Oak, N. Y. , is with the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Floyd J. Sherwood is employed as an instrumentman on t he eastern division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and his address is 113 Sun Valley D rive, Jefferson City , Mo. John M. Matheus has completed his six months tour of duty at Ft. Sam Houston. Texas, and is now employed wi th Emerson Electric in St. Louis.

David C. Ford has joined the Granite City Steel Co., and is residing at 1125 Main St. , Alton, Ill. Klaus M. Kohler is working as a t rainee for the Auergesellschaft in Berlin, which was originally famous for the production of gas mantles and rare earths, now produce mainly safety equipment. He expects to work on his doctorate a t the Technical University in Berlin this winter. His add ress is Zimmermann Strasse 20, Berlin-Steglitz, Germany.

Walter Lee Swander is with D-X Sunray Oil Co., and his address is 306A W. Easton Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Francis R . Saupe left for his home in France and his address will be 17 Rue de la Patric, Schiltigheim, BasR hen , France. He expects to be married in January and join the Engineer Corps to complete his military training.

Max R. Smith accepted a position with the Naval Ordnance Test Station a t China Lake, California. His address there is 313 Searles St.

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