Cornell Alumni News Volume 50, Number 7 December 1, 1947 Price 25 Cents
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Subscription priced a year. lurgical Engineering, who holds the Francis N. Bard '04 Endows Herbert Fiske Johnson Professorship endowed by Trustee Herbert F. Metallurgy Professorship Johnson, Jr. '22 and his family. "These men," the President said, IFT of a professorship of Metal- generation, it will have accomplished "typify the kind of leadership in G lurgical Engineering was , for- a worthwhile task. Let us hope it science and the humanities that makes mally made by Francis N. Bard '04 of will produce one every few years. We a university great. We need more of Chicago, 111., at a University dinner in can use them. But coupled with this their kind and we are deeply grateful Willard Straight Memorial Room, search for prepotent minds must go that tonight we may add Peter E. November 7. Approximately 100 in- the development of hundreds of Kyle to the roll. vited guests included alumni and finely-trained metallurgists capable of "The donor who invests in superior others from industry and members of serving industry and their country men," the President continued, "what- the University. well. ever his motives and however keen his vision, achieves more than he can Dean S. C. Hollister of the College "This great University has often foresee. How could anyone in the six- of Engineering, who presided, an- been referred to as unique in its foun- teenth or seventeenth centuries have nounced also that Professor Peter E. dation and operation. It has produced, imagined the effects of underwriting Kyle '33 had been appointed the first especially in its Engineering Schools, Matthew Arnold in literature, John incumbent of the Francis Norwood a great group of rugged individualists Ruskin in art, or Lord Rutherford in Bard Professorship of Metallurgical who are successful leaders in their physics? And when the donor links Engineering and that the School of fields. It is only natural, therefore, his name with that of a great Uni- Chemical Engineering is henceforth that I should wish that the University versity, he creates about the most en- named the School of Chemical and would maintain its tough moral and during memorial within the reach of Metallurgical Engineering. Under Pro- intellectual fibre, virility, and vigor t man. As J. DuPratt White '90, late fessor Kyle's direction are the foundry over the years." chairman of the Cornell Board of courses and other work with metals President Edmund E. Day, accept- formerly given in Sibley College, with Trustees, said nearly thirty years ago, ing the gift for the University, called a broadened five-year program in 'The universities of the world, and all it "especially significant because it which twenty-seven students., are al- names that are attached to them and provides for a permanent investment ready enrolled. to their parts as institutions, are as in men." He cited the distinguished imperishable as civilization.' Francis Family Interest in Metals leadership which other endowed chairs Norwood Bard has now built himself Bard, in presenting his gift of $250,- at the University had made possible, into Cornell and hence into the intel- 000 to the University to endow the and named the incumbents of en- lectual life of America, for all the new Professorship, said that knowl- dowed professorships, including Di- years to come." edge of metals "is one of the oldest rector Fred H. Rhodes, PhD '14, of Professor Kyle described "Cornell's forms of human industrial activity . the School of Chemical and Metal- New Program in Metallurgical Engi- Civilization only progressed as the knowledge of metallurgy increased, and apparently in direct proportion." He expressed the hope that his gift would make possible "the inspiration and development of keen, productive, and scientifically-minded men in the field of metallurgy" and "the under- taking and accomplishment of metal- lurgical research of the highest order." He referred to the new professorship as "a very human thing in its con- ception and operation," saying, "It is made possible by a man whose for- bears used engineering and metal tools; whose father was a self-made and successful rolling-mill man. The original conception and founding have gone as far as they can go. The future is in active and competent hands. The scene shifts from the pro- BARD >04 ENDOWS METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSORSHIP duction of resources and capital to At a University dinner in Willard Straight Memorial Room, speakers were Professor the academic and research field. If Peter E. Kyle '33, first holder of the new professorship; Dean S. C. Hollister, Engineering; this Professorship can produce one or Francis N. Bard '04, formally presenting his gift of $250,000; President Edmund E. Day, whom the photographer was unable to picture, behind the lectern; and at right, Director two outstandingly brilliant metal- Fred H. Rhodes, PhD Ί4, of the newly-named School of Chemical and Metallurgical lurgists of world-wide recognition a Engineering. Wesp-Buzzell neering." He cited the teachings of facturing Co., almost the sole maker All the letters, covering a period the late Director Robert H. Thurston of special flexible ball joints, gasoline between 1880 and 1895, were written and George Burr Upton '04 of Sibley percussion hammers, and similar de- to Thurston, a noted inventor and College and Professor Adelbert P. vices for railroads and industry, sold father of mechanical engineering edu- Mills, Civil Engineering, as evidence all over the world. As an avocation, cation in America. The 300 items are that i'metallurgy is not new at Cor- Bard operates a citrus ranch and some from such contemporaries of Thurston nell/' "It has long been the policy of 250,000 acres of range land in Arizona as Hiram Sibley, founder of the Wes- the Engineering College to base all where he has bred cattle suited to the tern Union Telegraph Co. and bene- curricula on the teaching of fundamen- climate and terrain, and a 440-acre factor of Sibley College; Thomas A. tals, with a minimum of instruction in grain, cattle, hog, and poultry farm at Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Lord specialized fields. The new Metallurgi- Crystal Lake, 111. He is also a big- Kelvin, President Andrew D. White, cal Engineering curriculum continues game hunter, has been a director of George Westinghouse, Jr., Sir Hiram this broad basic policy." He explained the National Association of Manu- Maxim, Nikola Tesla, and Andrew that the first two years are devoted facturers, is a member of Delta Tau Carnegie. essentially to basic mathematics, phy- Delta and of the Cornell Clubs of A letter from Sibley, written in sics, chemistry, drawing, English, his- Chicago and New York. 1886, warns Thurston against the tory, economics, and public speaking. Professor Kyle was appointed to University adding schools of divinity Except for a short introductory course the Chemical Engineering Faculty in and medicine, "which might be the in metallurgy and one in metallurgical January, 1946, as professor of Ap- destruction of Cornell." He urged raw materials, the professional courses plied Metallurgy, after twelve years at that the teaching of divinity would do not begin until the third year. In MIT, where he received the MS in "kill the efforts of the Founder and the last three years of the five-year ME in 1939. After receiving the ME the appropriation." One from Andrew course, besides technical courses in here in 1933, he spent the next year at Carnegie in 1888 concerned Carnegie's metals and metal processes, students Lehigh as holder of the James Ward nephew who wanted to study at Cor- are required to go further in physical Fellowship in Mechanical Engineer- nell. Included also is a petition from chemistry, mechanics, and basic elec- ing. During the war, he was consultant Thurston's students, April 7, 1894, trical engineering, and to study psy- on materials, production methods, and asking that he give informal talks on chology, library use and patents, cor- allied projects for the British Air Com- Engineering Reminiscences, "these to porate and industrial organization, ac- mission and was research supervisor include parts of your own varied counting, statistics, and quality con- for the US Metallurgy Committee.