Ti UNITID of NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE T111: TECHNICIAN STATE COLLEGE STATION, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 15, 1942 Offices: 10 and 1
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UNITID T111: TECHNICIAN of NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE STATE COLLEGE STATION, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 15, 1942 Offices: 10 and 11 Tompkins Hall DEAN VAN- LEER GOES TO ARMY DUTY TODAY O larry Hardin Says Leaves Engineering School Head Four Problems Face Called For Active Service New Student Louncil Will Go To Fort Bragg For Induction Prior New President Lists Ac- tivities, Legislature, Reor- To Being Stationed In Washington; ganization and Attitudes Recommends Three Man Board As Campus Obstacles To Assume His Duties “Four major problems face the Student Council," President Larry By BOB POMERANZ Hardin told a TECHNICIAN re- porter as he took over the reins of State College is loaning one of its most able teachers and Student Government last Week. administrators to the United States Army. “Student activities are bound to This morning, Blake Ragsdale Van Leer, Dean of the come under close scrutiny next year School of Engineering, reported to Fort Bragg for a physical by the council and by the admin- istration," Hardin said. “There examination. Monday he will be in Washington to assume have been statements that the the duties of an Army Major. on the staff of General Brehon . campus is over-organized, that stu- B. Somervell, head of the important supply section of the dents mess with too many insig- nificant matters. The activity point War Department. system is on trial, and the council Dean Van Leer assumed the leadership of the college’s will exercise stricter control." BLAKE R. VAN LEER OEngineering School in 1937, bring; Shown here are a part of the members of the finish under the new speed-up plan adopted “Nineteen hundred and forty- ing with him wide experience as a 53rd graduating class of State College as they earlier in the spring. The graduating exercises three brings a new State Legis- “Will Miss Him” Navy Office Busy As teacher and administrator in some sat in Frank Thompson Gymnasium and heard for the military seniors were carried out in lature," Hardin continued, “and the of the well-known engineering the Honorable Josephus Daniels make the final Riddick Stadium preceding the ceremony pic- Student Council will be expected to Col. J. W. Harrelson. dean schools of the nation. Under his address. The class of 1942 was the first one to tured here. tCourtesy News and Observer.) lead the drive for larger appropri- of administration, told The Students Apply For far-sighted guidance, the School ations for State College. As a tech- Technician last night: has been undergoing the greatest nical school, alarger appropriation "Dean Van Leer has done Reserve Commissions period of progress and expansion in for State will be of direct benefit an exceptionally fine job in its history. to the war effort. building the engineering 1 Three Men Picked First War Time Class In Council Reorganization school; he has improved the Complete" Facilities Now Three key men have been recom- equipment, staff and reorgan- Available for Entire Ex- mended by Dean Van Leer to take “Rumors have told of possible jzed the curricula. He is recog- amination; Stafl Has AI- over his duties while he is on mili- Student Council reorganizations. nized as an outstanding man ready Been Supplemented tary leave. Prof. H. B. Briggs of These rumors can be believed be- in the field of engineering ed- the mechanical engineering de- cause this administration will bend ucation, and has done much -to State College is-really doing its partment, head of the mechanical 25 Years Graduates 336 every effort to unify the council’s increase faculty interest in the drawing division, has been chosen activities with those of other technical engineering societies. share in supplying the navy with for a post as Assistant Dean, groups and lead them where He is being given a military officer material, according to the where he' will assume the admin- Dormitory Dance 'necessary. leave from college duties. We reports coming from the new office istrative duties of the office. Seniors Hear Daniels Citizenship lrophy “The fourth problem," Hardin will miss him greatly and hope of navy officer procurement now Prof. H. A. Fisher has been rec- In a nove move this week. concluded, “is one of student atti- that the war will not keep him located in Tompkins Hall. ommended for Dean Van Leer’s In Spirited Addréss the Social Functions Commit- Awarded lo Sedberry tudes. There seems to be a lack of away long. spot on the Faculty Council. Prof. tee approved the application of awareness on the campus of the The office, first of its kind in the Fisher has several times served as residents of Welch Hall to hold great waste of electric power, state, has been in operation for Dean Van Leer's alternate. And. Tells of Supreme Devotion a dormitory party. Receives Elder P. D. Gold paper, and student man-hours. Few only a week, but has been busy Prof. Greaves-Walker is slated to ti and Sacrifice Ahead -Before The event will be a dance at Medal for Best Exemplify- of us have adult thoughts about 110 Figure lomorrow during the entire time handling the be acting head of the Engineering AMembers Can Take Their the Woman’s Club, next Fri- ing Highest Qualities of our part in the war effort. Perhaps many applications from students at Experiment Station. The recom- Allotted Places day, May 22, and will serve as Citizenship the Student Council can do nothing At Soph Hop; Ticket mendations are tentative on ap- an experiment to show whether about these things, but it most cer- State, Wake Forest, Duke, and proval by Dean Harrelson, Presi- JR. or hot informal and inexpen- Reece Sedberry made it two top tainly will try." Carolina. It has been emphasized dent Graham and the Board of By C. A. UPCHURCH. sive dormitory parties are Sales For War Bonds that the office is not just for the State College’s class of 1942, its worth while. honors in a row during the gradu- convenience of the State students, Trustees. academic career shortened by the Dormitory President Bill ation program when he won the but all applications from surround- Major For 14 Years war, marched from the campus Allred appointed Banks Muse, coveted Elder P. D. Gold Citizen- Mial, '13, Will Head Freddie Johnson's Orches- ing schools must be handled New 48 years old, Dean Van this week with the sober realiza- C. F. Tarleton, Tom Stewart. tra and Harry Suttenfield through it. Leer has been a major in the Army tion that upon its sturdy shoulders Buck Sutton, John Carter, and ship medal given annually by the Will Play; Goodbye to Flags Reserve for fourteen years. weighed the responsibility for car- Teet Troxler as the committee Charles W. Gold family of Greens- Alumni Association Complete facilities have now been As an undergraduate at Purdue rying on the glorious tradition of in charge. boro to the State senior who, dur- As the finale of an active spring installed for medical examinations University, from which he grad- those other classes which left the ing his college career, exemplified and all necessary procedure in ex- uated as a mechanical engineer in college to shoulder arms in the last the highest characteristics of good Chosen At General Meeting social season, the Class of 1944 will amining applicants. 1915, Dean Van Leer was Lien- world conflict and the Spanish- citizenship. To Succeed “Dutch” Sei- present the annual Sophomore Hop Hartley Heads Staff tenant Colonel of the Cadet Corps, American War. Y Begins Relations The presentation was made at fert; Taylor Receives Meri- tomorrow night in Frank Thomp- The staff of the State College which resembled our present ROTC. Confidently accepting the burden the commencement exercises along torious Service Award son Gym. branch, which was opened May 11, In 1917, before the United States and glad of the chance to serve, the Institute in June with announcement of.other award Music for the event will be furn- under Lt. (j.g.) Lodwick Hartley, entered the World War in April. seniors completed the college’s 53rd winners and presentation of the T. K. Mial of New York, class of ished by Freddie Johnson's Orch- formerly head of the English de- he was commissioned a Second commencement program after honor lists. 1913, “has been elected to succeed estra, local band which has seen partment at State College, has Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps, hearing Josephus Daniels tell International Relations In- Sedberry previously had won the D. W. “Dutch" Seifert as president service at several other functions been flooded with applicants for of- and attached~ to the 316th Engi- them: stitute To Present Four honor of‘being judged the best of the State College General this year. Lead sax man with the ficer trainffig. The over worked neers, let Division. “I would insult your intelligence Outstanding Speakers, E. S. senior cadet in the ROTC regi- Alumni Association. crew is Harry Suttenfield, popular staff has already had several ’ad- His war service included five to picture the days ahead as con- King Announces ments. Immediately upon receiving Alumni Activities were conducted PiKA. ditions and now includes: Lt. major engagements in the front taining anything but supreme de- this award he was called to Fort as the final portion of the gradua- With all expenses for the dance Hartley, Lt. Vincent Biondo, at- lines, including action during the votion and supreme sacrifice with An Institute of International Re- Bragg for a physical examination tion exercises last week. Mial, who paid out of the class dues, Max tached to the Medical Corps of the famous Meuse-Argonne and St.