/~w <-x THE Published Weekly by Students of the Georgia Institute of Technology X-lll—Vol. XXXIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 4949 No. 16 Blake Van Leer Begins Sixth Year of Leadership Attention Veterans List of Achievements All veteran students under Pub­ lic Law 346 or Public Law 16 who plan to be graduated, transfer to Shows Unusual Record another school, withdraw from On July 1, 1944, a little over five years ago, Dr. Blake Ragsdale Van school, or go to work under the Leer was inaugurated as the fifth president of the Georgia Institute of co-op system as of the end of this Technology. The first engineer to head this institution, Dr. Van Leer term, September 10, 1949, are brought to his new position a wealth of experience and knowledged gained urged to secure the offcial with­ in private practice, education, community activities, and military ser­ drawal papers now from Room vice. 102 Knowles Building, and get Since his predecessors in this posi­ them executed as of September Tech Student Killed tion, had built up such fine records 10, 1949. of accomplishment during their terms 1. Co-operative students will of office, it was quite a challenge to The monument recently erected in Peters Park commemorates the execute interruption papers from Dr. Van Leer and his abilities. How­ gift of the park property to Tech by Richard Peters, "Pioneer Citizen, the period September 10, 1949 ever, with the cooperation of the Civil Engineer, and Benefactor." until January 3, 1950. faculty and alumni and the Board of The Tech Athletic Association erected the stone just before the 2. Students to be graduated will Regents, he has produced a list of ac­ end of the Spring Quarter. _ Photo by Bill Cheeley fill out discontinuance forms. complishments which is the pride of 3. Students transferring to an­ the people of Georgia and the institu­ other school o»* to on-the-job tion he represents. training will also fill out discon­ Campus Expanded Plans Almost Completed tinuance forms.- 4. Students planning to drop The campus of Georgia Tech out for one term and return to has increased from approximately 44 For '49FlashcardSection Georgia Tech will fill out inter­ acres to more than 130 acres. ruption forms. The student body inflated from a The flash card section is growing up, but simplicity is the keynote. These papers, having been ex­ pre-war high of 2,910 to 8,556 in Following the formation last quarter of the White and Gold Club, plans for ecuted by the students now, will 1948; the faculty correspondingly in­ the 1949 flash card section are virtually complete. A great amount of work be reported to the Veterans Ad­ creased from 150 to 400. remains to be done, but Fred Wolf, White and Gold president, anticipates ministration from day to day, so And, despite an unprecedented en­ a smoother working outfit than the very cooperative backing of the Ath­ that there will be no delay in the rollment, the quality of education of­ untried group of last season. letic Association, this year's effort Veterans Administration Office fered by Georgia Tech was improved The same cards will be used this promises to be a big step toward receiving due notification. to such an extent that today there year, but a 1% inch hole will he cut perfection. Constructive suggestions are offered doctorate degrees in in the center of the card to allow Fred W. Ajax, Morris Davis Keesee, a Me­ are welcomed and should be directed several of the sciences. section members to better align the Coordinator of Veterans Affairs. chanical Engineering Senior of to Fred Wolf via The Technique. More courses have been accredited cards. Lexington, Kentucky, was killed at Georgia Tech than ever before in The trick will not be executed in an automobile accident on June its history, thereby testifying further during the periods of play, except per­ 11, 1949, at Dalton, Georgia. He to the quality of education offered. haps during time out periods. Pri­ Cruise Schedule Is Announced was returning to his home at the Material Changes marily, the tricks will be run off at time of the accident. the beginning and end of the half The institute has also experienced For Tech's NROTC Midshipmen During the war he served with material changes which have added and at the end of the first and third the Air Corps as a First Lieuten­ quarters. By Bill Shepherd immensely to its worth as a school. ant. He was shot down over Ger­ Tech has constructed or acquired al­ The trick numbers which were glued Over 150 midshipmen enrolled in Tech's NROTC program will complete many and spent a year in a to the cards last year are to be re­ most $10,000,000 worth of buildings summer training cruises by September 21, it was announced recently. These prisoner of war camp. He also and other property, including: placed with 3x5 cards bearing the held a captains commission in the cruises, of three to seven weeks duration, will,take Tech men to such widely Three new dormitories to house numbers of the tricks to be executed reserves. renowned ports of call as Cherbourg, France; Balboa, Canal Zone; and 1,000 ifiore students; at each game. These cards will be Guantanamo, Cuba. Fifty-two col­ given out with the flash cards at the ginning of football practice. The Executive Committee has Eight new apartment house units leges and universities throughout the decided to present him the degree on the campus for 222 families; gates before game time each Satur­ Group Goes To France United States participate in the pro­ of Bachelor of Mechanical Engi An apartment project at Chamblee, day. Special tricks planned will be Cruising with the midshipmen from gram. neering, class of 1949, posthum­ Ga.; posted on the bulletin board in the the US Naval Academy will be 41 Pacific Cruise Slated ously. The degree was presented A $1,500,000 campus at the Naval Administration Building prior to each rising seniors and 48 rising sopho­ Six members of the rising senior to his mother this week. Air Station; game. v mores, who will report to Norfolk, class are scheduled to take the Pacific A new textile building, with in­ Some 900 upperclassmen signed up Virginia, on August 2, and return on cruise, which will depart from San stalled equipment; to be in the section last quarter, leav­ Francisco on August 2. They are September 21. Their cruise wil take I. E. Institute Plans An extension to the stadium in ing the rest of the 1600 seats to be J. E. Andrews, Jr., J. L. Brooks, and them to Cherbourg, France, and Grant Field; filled during registration week. Upper­ C. D. Bobo, who will be aboard the Guantanamo, Cuba. Giving Soph Award classmen will have priority, and all USS Wiltsie; and J. M. Carter, E. f. Sixteen rising seniors, contract stu­ An A.C. Network calculator; seats not filled will be assigned to Dickert, Jr., and P. C. Gaertner, Jr., dents, embarked on June 22 for a At its regular luncheon business And, improvements to existing freshmen. One row of frosh will hold aboard the USS Ozbourn. These men three-week cruise to Cristobal, Canal meeting on July 5, the Georgia Tech buildings and additions to the dining double length cards to cover the aisle will proceed to Balboa, Canal Zone, Zone. They are aboard a CVE, the chapter of the American Institute of hall. across the middle of the section. Industrial Engineers approved a plan via the Galapagos Islands, arriving USS Sicily, and five destroyers, the Research Encouraged Cooperation is essential and de­ Putnam, Henley, W. Keith, J. C. to present an annual Honor's Award on August 16. After a six-day stay, Research has been encouraged much manded by the White and Gold. Men Owens, and the Stromes. to the outstanding industrial engi­ they will head for San Diego, arriv­ to the benefit of faculty and stu­ who continually make mistakes or in ing on August 31. On September 1 neering sophomore. Juniors Go To Pensacola dents, and increased in number and any other way are not conscientious, and 2 they will be engaged in sub­ The award will be called The AIIE On July 2, 49 rising juniors report­ scope of projects to such an extent will be removed from the section and marine training off San Diego, in Scholarship Award for the Outstand­ ed to Little Creek,Virginia, for am­ that the annual budget for this one assigned seats in their respective which six or seven subs will parti­ ing Industrial Engineering Sopho­ phibious training. On July 17, they activity at Georgia Tech is almost class areas. cipate in diving and other operations. more. The purpose of the award is to will proceed to Pensacola, where they one million dollars. Committees have been formed, and On the following day the cruise ships promote interest in and to give will receive aviation training, includ­ New school and departments have some preliminary work was completed return to Long Beach, California, for recognition for outstanding scholastic ing carrier training. They are sched­ been established at Georgia Tech to before the end of last quarter. Ralph three days, after which they will achievement. uled to return from Pensacola on meet the requirements of rapidly ex­ Day is in charge of the committee engage in gunnery exercises off Long To be eligible for the award, I.E. panding southern industry. Further, Beach September 6-9. On September August 27. Tech's Lieutenant Com­ to handle the microphones and control sophomores must be among the three 13 the cruise ships return to San mander M.