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AMPLIFIER Published
by the Associated
Students
of the Montana
School of Mines
BUTTE,
Vol. IX, No.3
[International Inddent
(onway Wins S(holarship
MONTANA
Tuesday,
November
26, 1963
NINE SENIOR MEN RANK
Last Friday, November 15, G. P. Prudential the Donor Ramulu, from Hyderabad, India, Nine senior students from Montana School of Mines have been selected for inclusion in the brought his country to Amenca 111 a program presented to a large 1964 edition of Who's Who Among American College Students in American Universities and crowd of students, faculty members, Colleges. and the people of Butte. The program began with an inThe students who expect to graduate in ,}une are Kenneth G. Arne, Prairie City, Oregon; troductory speech, in which Ra~ulu Lancaster, California; Charles O. Gale, Butte; explained the history and. ancI~nt James T. Conway, Butte; F. Conrad Englehardt, culture of his country, diSCUSS111gRobert B. Hill, Butte; Walter Nellis, Pittsburg, California; David B. Rovig, Kalispell; Lee W. the historical development and the three major periods : Hindu, Mos- Saperstein, Elmhurst, New York; Calvin J. Strobel, Terry, Montana. lem and British. The selections are based upon four qualities-excellence and sincerity in scholarship, fuAfter this explanatory b a c kground, he talked about modern In- ture promise in his field and to society, integrity and fair dealing with associates, and leadership. dia after its independence. Especially noted w~s In~ia's g?od relaArne, a senior in mining engitionships WIth Its nelgh):>onng COUl~neering, has been a member of the tries. The different political organ!college's glee club and the Residence zations among the states and their Hall Council. He has served as STUDY FIELD PROBLEMS political setups were explained; too, president and vice-president of the the languages in these states. Newman Club, as secretary-treasRamulu then pointed out that urer of the student chapter AIME, small-scale industries play a more and' has been active in Theta Tau 11 k important part in the economy than Fraternity. He has been on the colJames T. Conway, a we - nown do the larger-scale industries, an lege's honor roll for three semesters. senior in mineral dressing at Mon- economy which helps avoid the unHe has been successively employed tana School of Mines, h~s been bl did Fed- employment pro em an ea s to during summers by the U. S. Forest awarded the $1,000 Prudential h goo d distribution of economic Service, the Hecla Mining Comera I Savings FellowshIp t I.S year. f establishments throughout the counpany, the Spokane National Mining Conway is now vice-president 0 try. The speaker then explained Company and the Lucky Friday the Student Council and ~as served that agriculture plays a VItal role Mine in Mullan, Idaho. as regent and correspondmg sec~e- in economy and life, and that 80% tary of the Theta Tau Fraterl11ty of the population is agricultural. Conway, a senior in mineraland secretary-treasurer of the MAfter giving this background of dressing engineering, has been on Club He is a member of the New- his country, he then showed the the honor roll seven times and was man' Club, the M-Club, ~nd the audiences two films: "Silent Revothe recipient of the Butte Rotary AIME the American Society for lution" which dealt with the deClub Scholarship, the American Metals' the Copper Guards, a.nd velopm:ent of agriculture and rural Smelting and Refining Company has p~rticipated in both varsity economy in India. The second film Scholarship, and the Prudential basketball and baseball. He IS. a was entitled "Shontiniketan-Abode Federal Savings Fellowship. He is graduate of Christian Brothers .HI~ of Peace, the University of Rabinnow vice-president of the Student School, where he was active I~ I dranath Tagore", which teaches Council and has served as Regent tramural sports and was a SCIence the fine arts-music, painting, daneand Corresponding Secretary of Theta Tau Fraternity and SecreFair winner. M tana I ing languages, and philosophy .. Since he has been at on The audience the n que r led tary- Treasurer of the M-路Club. He is School of Mines, Conway. has b ee~ Ramulu on aspects of the poltics, Roughnecks make connection at Kiyo No. lA as Profs. Stolz and Man- a member of theN ewman Club, the on the honor roll seven times, t~l~ language history, and geography of non, and students Busenius, Stowe, Vincelette, Wachtler, Rife, and M-Club, the AIME, the American Hruska look on. Society for Metals, the Copper was a recipient of the Bu~te ~~erfhis nativ~ land. The progran~ ended Guards, and has participated in both Club ScholarshIp and. t e m an with the singing of the Indian na-------------------~---------------can Smelting and Refining Co P Y tional anthem, after which refreshvarsity basketball and baseball. ConOn November 3, the Petroleum Department, under the supervision Scholarship. I1e has ments were served: . . of Professors Stolz and Mannon, went on a field trip to Glacier National way has worked during summers with the American Smelting and During the summers S If g Ramulu is a senior 111Meta llurgiPark. The students, departing in individual cars, arrived in Browning at Refining Company, the Ralph M. i.th the American worked m~ar\ cal Engineering. He. has already and Refining Company, the ; been to college in India, where he 10 :00. Since it was snowing, the scene created was a very colorful one. Parsons Construction Company, the Yellowstone Park Company and as M. Parsons ConstructIOn Compa~l.rd received his Bachelor's degree in Derricks were dominant figures set against the snowcapped mountains. The first derrick to be visited was the Kiyo No. I-A well. The group a laborer and janitor at Montana the Yellowstone Park CompanY't geology He has had the opporDrilling School of Mines. d j it r at Mon ana . f . . I was welcomed by a Phillips engineer, Eel. Arnold, Brinkerhoff as a laborer ~n Ja1110 tunity to speak be or7 vanous SOCIa Company foreman, who. showed and explamed the history of drilling in School of Mmes.. . id t and religious' groups in Butte before, that area, which began 111July, 1962. Englehardt is also majoring in Mr Robert Amrine, vIce-pres I and during his stay at the School mining engineering. He is a memand I~anager of t~el NFordtheltSa~= of Mines. ' vision for Pruden t1a e 7ra Lost-Circulation Problems ber of AIME, Sigma Rho Fraternity, . .d "We were dehghted to ANDERSON-CARLISLE the Montana Pilot's Association and mgs, sal , h' t Montana The Phillips Company encoun- has been on the honor roll five seestablish this fellows Ip a PRESENTS SPEAKER tered severe problems at the very mesters. A graduate of Antelope School of Mines and we are verr Mr. David Hoenshell, a member start. Principally, the problem was Valley High School in Lancaster Pleased to have it awarded tOdsu~ 11 of the State Board of Registration maintaining a sufficient amount of . California, he is a life member of an outstand111g s t u dellt '. Pru entIad of Professional Engineers, was the drilling mud, which is necessary in the California Scholarship Federa-. Savings always has been 1I1teres~e main speaker at an open meeting of the drilling of wells. . . tion. During summers he has served 111 the deve Iopmen t and expanSIOn f 1 the Anderson-Carlisle Society on of our local college, for we ee a One of the major problems en- as an engineering aide at Edwards November 6. The meeting was at-路 AFB, and has worked at both the particular closeness to the comtended by an overflow crowd of stu- countered was the presence of large Badger and Leonard mines in Butte. caverns, which made munities in which our offH(S ar dents and faculty members in the underground located. It give.s us a feealbl~ ~o Gale, <;l metallurgical-engineering physics lecture room, many of whom it difficult to maintain a sufficient servIce to be . Pleasurable took part in a very lively and in- circulation of drilling mud. In one student, IS a member of the Ameri. 19 pelassist some deservmg yO~lI I . teresting question-and-answer peri- instance a drilling bit fell 110 feet can Society for Metals, the AIME son on the way to a stlmu atlng touching anything. The Sigma Rho Fraternity. He has bee~ ud following Mr. Hoenshell's talk without future." rk sports at the on "Engineers in Training Tests drill. foreman explained how all con- active in intramural Conway has already begun wo ventlOnal methods. had been ex- college as well as Circle K. Gale and Professional Registration." . on his thesis, "Electric:!:1 C?n~J~~ During the evening the impor- hausted to restore clrculatl?n. They twice received the Anaconda Comtivity of Asphalt Em~lslOns. d in h~d resorted to measures hke drop- pany Scholarship awarded annuall tance of professional registration preparation of a theSIS embo .g and the role of the EIT test in at- pmg burlap bags, small trees, bal~s to children of the company's Mor~ investigatory and research w?r lIS He has been emtaining this distinction were dis- of hay, sacks of mud and cement, 111 tana employees. a requirement for a degree 111. t le cussed, along with many other fac- a.n attempt to plug off the forma- ployed by. the B A & P Railwa g Department of Mineral DMssm ' ~,lOn. Professor Mannon sta~ed that the Anaconda Company and Anr~ ets of professional registration. d Conway is the son of 115'0 a Th;y had gathered eve~yth1l1g they conda Aluminum. 1I,f "ntana School of Mines' Dr. G. P. RAMULU Mrs. Thomas L. Conway, . Adami, who is also a member of dldn t need and stuffed It down the Granite, Butte. "'''-111芦11 state board, was a hole." Eventually they plugged the Hill is majoring also in metalgreat help in answering many ques- hole and moved to another location lurgical engineering. At Montana there encountering no difficulties. ' uons, as were Professors Stoltz, School of Mines he is a member of Stout, Young, and Van Matre. the American Society for Metals, The Anderson-路Carlisle plans to and Circle K. He has been awarded . 'Percival Tours Visitors' bring speakers on various topics to the Cobb Foundation ScholarShip Students were given a tour of and the American Smelting and ReThe annual conventiO!l. of t~e the campus through the school year. equipment and then proceeded to Hill Northwest Mining. Assocl~tlon WIll As with this first meeting, all in- Browning, where they lunched as fining Company Scholarship. persons are invited to athas participated in intramural basSix Montana School of Mines stueet in Spokane tn the fIrst week terested guests of the Montana Power Comtend. ketball. During recent summers he dents and 31 Montana State College n'f December. This branch of t~e pany. Thence, they proceeded to has been employed by the U. S. Mining <;:ongress WIll students attend~d the. M0'll~71~ American No. 1-11 Two Medicine Unit where Forest Service. Power Company s Bustness hold a two-day sessl(;)I1, at whIch THANKSGIVING DANCE the'y were conducted on a tour by agement Clinic, held in T~utt~li~i~ technical papers t:>ertment to the The sophomore class will spon- Don Percival, a Mines alumnus. N ellis has received an advanced 'neral industry w!11 be read. November 14 and 15. e ts Dance, to be Some students climbed to the top Scholarship, . '11 b sor the Thanksgiving the Billings AIME afforded an opportunity for stu~elits mlAt this yearly cot:JventlOn :VI. e held Tuesday, November 26. Since of the rig to get a birds-eye view to view a large bustness a Scholarship and the AIME Woma contingent of senIOrs a.nd JunIOrs the theme will be the Harvest Moon, of the operation. various operations. Montana kowef fr0111 the School ?f M!I~es. The the Sub will be decorated in apAmong the visiting students en's Auxiliary Award. He is a memofficers described the wor d'o .' - school seI110rsI WIll h depart propriate fall colors. Chairmen of were John Callahan, Walter Buse- ber of AIME and both Theta Tau various departments; student IS- m1l1tng a day early, in or~er t lat t ey f!1ay the various committees are as fol- nius, Kishore Parekh Dave Rife and Kappa Delta Rho fraternities: cussions followed. f the visit the laboratOries. of the UllIted 10ws: Kay Chambers. refreshments; Bill Halvorson, Rudy Wachtler' Those in attendance rom A petroleum - engineering student, States Bureau c;>fMmes: Here the Doris Ranney and Don Anderson, Dan Stowe, Mansoor Awan Ed School of Mines were gradR~t~ s~~ rospective engme.ers wI~1 se7 sev- decorations; Joe Fordice, clean-up; Forsling, Jim Vincelette, Joe 'Kan- N ellis worked during the summer dents Pete Gross, John IC a: r~ ~ral Mines alum111 workmg I? tl~e Lynn Estey, invitations; and John del, Don Hruska, Pat Marx, Dick of 1963 for the California Oil Com" and Orlando Olivera; and ~enlO d research projects, among whIch IS Crowley, publicity. The R- J Trio Roberts, Rod Ylitalo and Keith Ty- pany as a petroleum engineer. John Callahan, Walter N eIlts, an the support of underground mll1es. will provide the music for the dance . .ner. Conrad Englehardt. (Continued on Page 3)
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