Amed. Forces Named
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Farthest-North Collegian, Vol. 21, No. 08 (May 1943) Item Type Journal Publisher The University of Alaska Download date 11/10/2021 04:21:53 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4299 ;A TERRITORIAL LOCATED 64” 51' 21" I INSTITUTION NORTH LATITUDE MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA tUME XXI. •COLLEGE, ALASKA, MAY 1. 1943 w . , , . 'Pres. Bunnell Bramhalls Dr. J, C. Ryan lumni Notes Speaks To “Travels In Mineral To Deliver recently in Fairbanks, Alas* Student Body Transferred Afghanistan” Report To j Sergeant and Mis. David Tew- Address n, their first child. Ser- Wash., D.C. Described Be Published Tewkesbury is a member of .of 1937 and at present is ted Students on April 28, Presl- Dr. James C. 1 After 8 and 10 years residence in ■ A second report on strategic min i Mr. and Mis. John B. Bunnell delivered an inspiring tie Interior respectively, Dr. and eral occurrences in-Interior Alaskc daughter, their first child ess to students, faculty, and ad-1 tion of the MacMillan Company will soon be published by fixe Ter Mrs. Ervin H. Bramhall are leaving catalog of, pew spring, books, appears psmed Chloe Ann. The Dorshes ministration members. ritorial Department of Mines, ac Drl Bunnell, introduced by Don for Washington, D. C. soon. Dr. a page description of “Travels Bramhall is to assume his new du Afghanistan” by Ernest P. ;Fox. 1 cording to Henry R. Joesting, in Wilcox, gave his interpretation of charge of the College office of that ties with the Carnegie Institute’s pus residents; He was Professoi Freedoms.” “Freedom of organization. This report will sup Ionospheric research work as soon Educations and head- of 'the Speech” and “Freedom of Rellgioh” plement a similar one published in earned freedoms; earned by the as transportation can be arranged. 1942. partment of Education Until J Mrs. Bramhall, then Mary Jo nary, 1941, when he resigned to 1 .'idual himself and by those who In addition to describing a m ieph T. Flakne, ’34, now acting s before Kim. Right to Walker, came , to the University in the fall of 1933 as instructor In His- ber of mineral deposits that v director- for the territory, Speech belongs to all who consider , lither prospecting, the well before speaking; right thinking ind English. She also was host- the Sir Is’ dormitory, liter port contains up to date informa neans right doing. — — nner in which various “Freedom from Fear” should read Dean of Women. She had degrees i Loftus, ’28, government agencies are aiding in ‘Freedom For Courage,” as the for- Whitman College; and Wash the managei the development of, the strategic ner carries a certain negative im ington State College. Placers, Inc., , succeeding mineral resources of Alaska. An- plication; ‘ “Freedom From Want’’ Bramhall was appointed Pro- I G. Levis. For the past 8 should read “Freedom to Prosper." Mr. Loftus has been superta- of the report are received for Dr. Bunnell, a resident of Alaska mt of U. S. Mining and Smelt- distribution. since 1900, outlined the development ., operating, on Cleary Creek. During the coming -field Season the Territory, from the early Rus the college office of the Department ibert Mize, ’31, assayer and clerk sian explorers; through the hectic, Khyber F Sf, Mines will continue the detailed fe Pirst National Bank days, until today. He survey of tungsten deposits in the gi&duate of Northwester] B since 1936, recently resigned stressed the important strategic lo-l Fairbanks district, which was start- shers College <Oklahon earliest r< the M.A, and D. Ed. fi in of the Tettltory, in war as 1 last year, and will make a re- as in peace, stressing that this verslty of ^Oklahoma. He fi innaissance survey of strategic the University in l929, ineral deposits in the area between tanas Ek, ’35, now Lt. Ek of ts, has made the world rj spend a year in Afghanistan iwtooth Mountains and. Roughtop nval Reserves writes that importance.' Alaska, yill emerge searching for ofl and minerals. H< ountain, in the Hot Springs jbeen in the Naval Reserve : out of the war with a greatly im crossed ahd recrossed the country let. Examinations will also be .. pi-obtained his basic training proved communication system, res car, flew over it by. blane, i ’ individual strategic mineral pros- Mnceton and was a member of .inevitable development icts that are situated favorably aU td’ be graduated from th£ eg On horseback and on foot With respect to transportation. tas school. Following complc : interior mountain districts, ny of which had never been ting will be assisted by .edhy.a Westerner, and which would Kenneth Wier, senior in Mining Newspaper Amed. Forces appiiitea a fete stfofcy ; Geology and the University of AddMining Eng. geous explorer, , . sill ’Join the sfkil of Named The llDorsh ToCurriculum tells ’what the villages Department of Mines itpon^iis gr “Oomiak” his Degree people look like, he describes the Jay, The various pro] tuning engineering is now add< Mrs. ^ramhall HBfcy with -a geologist's ey courses offered at institutions aj an eye, also, f& its' beauty and Bureau of Mine Wie Collegian was ready to I Massachusetts V'institute of giandeur. He writes easily,'wit Ep, Professor Wilcox, head proved by the armed forces to edi ;te Army and Navy personnel iaiid'v was , granted a; h with excellent descriptive s nf , prospects that aj fehool of Mines, received H H | Cambridge University, fitting for the brgah of the1 Alaska' Wtom John B. Dorsh, '34. This tecbnlc&l subjects. The American Institute of Mining >f which he encountered examinations. branch of the Coast Guard. The Oomiak, frequently spelled Umiak, and Metallurgical Engineers defines >n Byrd Expedition perattag conditions), and wi Wonal degree, Engine* geophysicist/on .the second' Mining Engineering as follows for philosophy of ids' Own! His Dinner Guests ■ the large open Eskimo boat, as tails purpose (From “Mining Byrd Antarctic Expedition, special fascinating refcord of Afghanistan stlnguished from the. covered Metalurgy, April, 1943); ising] in th^ study of cosmic rays. Dr/ ■jjit- is today—a critical; synjpt Of Pres. Bunnell tyak and bidarka. Among many caught physics until May human report on a people and stern Eskimo groups the oomiak gives basic engineering training' H assume^, direction of -is almost exclusively a family. boat, r and equal to that of all othd the Carnegie Institute £^ojec,t to.f have On that colorful and t staff of the t) frequently somewhat scornfully call- engineering courses; It Include ionospheric research "at f e Unlver- sr guests of President BunneU on April 13. whanlcal and electrical en The Bramhalls were | married at nest F. Pox, a graduate of The girls-of Club Dormitory wer dangerous whale hunting, before glneering; and. In addition, it ix |&eau on June?0, 1936. Following py of Illinois and Harvard, wooden whale-boats were wailable. i applied geology in its et rtheir marriage Mrs. Bramhall re*i slate Professor of Geology from ome of Dr. Bunnell, April 14. v Even today it Is used by. daring na ting ton, D, C. He is known tc m o t i o n . oh;: the faculty, vigators, like the King Islanders on number of people in the tc Engineer, therefore, is qualified ill is the. co-author, their annual trip to Nome. Modern as instructor in mining e :rs as captain last year. training to solve a wide variety of e Professor Puller, of Ernest Patty Jr. ios frequently used an outboard jto, having served in that cap problems important to modem war- ng their' home in Fairbanks. Second Lieutenant ■ with the oomiak. One way of- , subh as excavating dfaHkincls;] Captain Fox is with the Alaska De selection of terrain; 'mapping; gptological research carried of .explosives; and the proper ; Frick Laboratories of handling of noxious gases. Special Museum of Natural I rnnt in trie Army Air Forces aft :ulum titles, such as Petroleum 'fuller residence on the Campus. ll. 0. T.C. Review • : training period with a bomb Production Engineering, and others! They >bothlike Alaska and regret to apply to variations or modifications their many friends/-Mt‘ feel Held April 29 the Mining Engineering curri- they ought to be where they are On Campus JSt, son of. Dean Patty/fora lining Extension iun, which do not alter its effect- ,d of the School of Mines, at ATlnual inspection of the R.O.T.C. of the College, grew up on tl derson is now giving i as held April 28 to 30 on the cam- gg extension course at the Griffin Visits is. He became one of tJie be usV Inspecting officer was Lt. Col. uid skiers in AJaska, and wi ue near Nome. He may glv From British ainuel Gibson of the Infantry. The course in the town later. interested, in aviation,^ haying ear] Columbia ;view was held April 29 with Mar e&a private p'ilot’s license before ei .. Burley is now giving RECEIVES WINGS jor Ned Qlenn, Professor of Mili- EdwinBrenner, former student, at the naval base at Sitka, iry Science and Tactics, in charge, Lieutenant Pat^ also attended tl xt course will be at Exc :. J* Griffin, author and news ue to ihQ war. conditions the. re- olorado School of Mines. lieutenant’s commission and paperman from New Westminister, iew of the R^T^C, was less spec- been assigned to the Air Transport British Columbia. Mr. Grtffta came over the Alcan Highway from, Francis O’Neill mani Brenner had attained junior aboriginal usage.' Some authorities standing in the School of Mines Second Lt. Par-rival of white people when he joined the armed fc | Captain Ed Hildre ’ Francis O'Neill, ’42, received, the bno area.