HELLO BEAT AGAIN C'lllfJRNI' TECH WHITTIER CtlliffJrnitl Institlltl fJf TeclJnfJlfJlY Volume LI. ___~ ________________Thursday, October 6, 1949_____________________ _ No.1 FUTURE CE-ME BUILDING I Y Tea Dance Hosts Frosh, New Students, and Girls ----------------------0 "Music," Skit, and Beauty Contes---- t' Rally Slated Given as Entertainment For Mixer This year's Y-sponsored New Student Tea Dance was held Sunday, in Dabney Lounge. Girls were imported from Oxy, For Tomorrow MUIr, P.c.c. and South Pasadena Hi gh. Varsity Coach Bert La Bruch­ The dance slarteci off slowly due to reluctance on t he part of erie and "HusUi n' Hal" Mussel· the fresh to plunge into the seething mob of beautiful females. man are slated to be gU€.:>ts of 'When the new s tudents saw the upper class competition moving in honor at t he pep ra lly this ~""' ri­ t hey got clown La brass tacks with theil' new sLeps a nd olel lines. day. Rally Commissioner Bert \ fol'king Staff Snider a nd Head Yell Leader CO llsh-uction of a n ew Enginceri.ng Labol'atOl'Y on the Cnltech campus was l ' e(~ e nU y begun. Everyone on the Y s taff "Mert" Merten ha"'le scheduled Journalists ••• Cost of the building whc lI equilJl'ed will be 31)IH"Oximately $(;25,000. The building will house all worked for the dance in some the year's first rally for 11:00 i\ course in .J ournalis m is CIvil Engillcel'ing labs and offices as well as oth er enginel'l'iug facilities_ way or another, but Leo Bagger­ _ o'clock tomorrow n the pit be­ IIOW open to all intel'cst.cd. ly was the man who coordinated hind the optics lab. w lu:thcl' stafl' m om bm's 0 1' not. the effort. He and his three as­ Tanham Steps Merten and hi s two assistants, Fol' inJol'matio ll, S()C PI'Of. s istants , John Boppart, who took Chuck Miller and Leo Baggerly, I Mactninn, Humanit ies I)c pt. charge of receiving the guests, To will be there to lead the school eE's, ME's Phil Ol'ville, who handled the va­ Into New Post songs and yells, and, incidental- I FI·lm Classl·cs rious atTangements for the The appointment of George K. ly, to'teach the student body a dance. and Frank Ludwig, who few new ones. The rejuvenated En;oy New Lab Tanham to Mas ter of Student planned the enLertainme n t, initi­ Houses, ta'king over the duties Calteell Band, managed by Bill Begin Sunday ated work 011 the dance last Construction of the new Engineering Laboratory adjacent to Sampson, will also be on hand to of the late Colonel E. C. Golds- spring. the present Mechanical Engineering Building has been under way provide music between the yells. An interesling series of films Intermiss ion Pl'ogr a m since July with its completion .expected in about ten months. worthy, was announced by Presi­ dent DuBridge at Commence­ Confer e nce PI'OSp cCts chosen from the sea of old-timers Fl'a nk Ludwig was M. C. at The new, earthquake l'esistant,~ ment last June. Mr. Tanham, Coach LaBrucherie is expected promises to be the solution of the program held during the in­ r einfor~ed concrete structure Debate well-known to freshman students to give out the lowdown on what to do with Sunday and tennission of the dance. Much will have two basements and Team of European history and former-' Tech's conference prospects, so Monday nights fol' Techmen. of the talent for t his presenta­ three float's above ground, pro­ Iy American history students, everyone will know what to This is the chance to iJoth la ughs tion was from the frosh class. viding 34,000 square feet of space has been a n instructor in the watch for at the Whittier game, and culture the easy way. Chuck Benjamin, Ken Lunan, for the Institute's extensive En­ Prepares For history departmen t here since Saturday night. Last year the The series includes Anna and Mike Sellen played a num­ gineering section. 1947. In addition to his new du- Beavel's and Whittier fought .to Cristie, Thc Navigatol' and Ab. ber on two ukeleles and a violin. Rcsctll'ch Facilities ties, he will continue in his usual a 7-6 score in the first three pe- s'.I'actions, I van the ~ r e .... ible, Burger, Sentner, and Hyde made Besides housing the depart· post. I' iods, but the Poets went wild in The FOIlI' HOI'se mcn of the Apoc­ up a trombone trio. An accor­ Fall Contests the last quarter to win the game, a l .l,,.~e, S unrise and :\bsh'actions ment of Civil Engineering, the A native of Te nafly, N.J., Mr. dion number was then played by 27-6. in Syn t h etic Sound. new building will contain metal­ Cal tech scholars need not be Tanham graduated from Prince· Bill Smith. Vern Edwards, his tongue-tied scienLists if they get way to take advantage of lurgy faci lities such as Iabora­ ton in the class of '43. Immedi­ This year's 'l'echstel's will need The guitar and zombies, the zombies into the forensic program now th Is opportunity is to ::.how up LOries fol' powder metallurgy, ately thereafter, he began three your support to get their re· being Mike Sellen, Fred Wood, at Culbertson Hal! with a ticket. meiallography, x-ray metallogra­ sel up under the direction of years of d u ty in the Army, serv­ venge. and Bruce H edrick, gave a rendi­ C.oach LesLe r McCrery. Debate, Monday tickets are all sold out phy, spectrographic analysis, ing as an officer in the 7th AI'­ tion of " \Vhiskey and Wild, Wild a nci aboLlt 50 Sunday tickets are metals prepar'ations, and study oratory, discussion, impromptu mOl'eel Division's a rtillery, and Women." Another part of the Jeft. Cost to underg rads will be of ma terials thl'Ough radioactive and extempore speaking are all as a forward observer. He saw pl'Ogram was devoteel to a beau­ Alumni Talks 90c for this term only. The films isotopes. included. action with General Patton's ty contest, the winner of which will be shown on alternate week­ Facilities also are planned for This year the program sched­ Army t.hroughout FI'once, Bel­ was Joa nne Peterson from Muir e nds beginning this week-end. research in thermodynamics, in uled for Caltech students in­ gium, H oll and, Luxembourg and Scheduled J.e. The main parl of the pro­ Tickets are avai lable fl'om Miss gram was devoted to a skit which strength of materials, and in culdes trips to Stanford Univer· Germany. After gradu ation, then what? Pond in 119 Throop. was a parody on a radio pro­ earthquake and vibration investi­ sity, College of the Pacific, Santa What kind of a job to choose? After leaving the army, he gl'am. The Skit, "Cas ie's Cozy gations. There w ill be s pace for Barbara State Co ll ege, Univer­ Whether to go into large or smai! went to Stanford, where, in 1947, Cotlins" used the histrionic tal­ a pplied mechanics research , as sity of California at Los Angeles, indus tl'ies? How to get a job in he received an M.A. in h istory. e nts of Frank Ludwig, Bruce well as offices and classrooms . Peppel'dine College and Los An­ the field you're interested in? At present he is working toward ACS Honors Hedrick, Freel "Vooel, and Don Need ed Space geles City College. Also, Caltech How to choose a graduate school? a Ph.D. from Stanford. Ste\v<-lI'L After the frosh officers It is expected that the new will be host again this year to His fi e ld is "'£he Belgian Re- These and many more ques· were introduced, Manuel Silva building will not only consolidate an intercoll egiate debate tour­ Tech Chemists j sistance Movement, 1940-1944," tions that seniors and other un­ presicle;1t of the freshman class, the Civil and Mechanical Engi­ nament given to colleges in the Mr. Tanham, his charming wife dergl'arluates will fa ce when they Dr. Arie J a n Haagen-SmiL, pro­ gave a bl'ief s peech to the guests. neering facilities in one struc- western league. Throughout th e and their 17-month-old son now leave Caltech will be answered fesso]' of bio-organic chemistry "ture, but a lso provide needed year audience debates and ora­ reside in Arde n House. by the Alumni Placement Lec- in the biology division, and Dr. space for the institute's present torical events will also be sched­ Another new arrival to the tt' res, wh ich w ill begin October Verner F. H. Schoma ker, associ- research program. • uled. Student Houses is Harry ElLis, 11. ate professor of chetnistry, re- Y Session Will Mal-s h a H Plan Ricketts R.A. A nalive of Van. 'l'opics . I ceived ou tstanding honors at the Map '49 Policies According to McCrery, two couver , B.C.. , H a rry graduated TopICS for the Lectures, wh Ich I recent meeting of the American particularly vital a nd interesting from the University of British I a re to be g iven at as yet-unspeci- Chemical SOciety in Atlantic T hi s Sunday the Caltech Prof. Gilbert debate topics are offered this Col umbia in 1945 spent a short fied places and by a number ot City.