THE CARDINAL UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXV
Annual Engineers' Day
Is Scheduled Tomorrow
Departmental Exhibits On Program
By JOHN MdiNTYRE
Speed Scientific School will present its twenty-fourth Annual
Engineers' Day tomorrow afternoon and evening. Produced under
the direction of the students, the celebration is designed to intro­duce
the community of Louisville to Speed School and its many
facilities.
All types of engineering equip­ment
will be exhibited; included
will be exhibits from industry as
well as those usually found at
Speed School.
Festivities will begin officially
at noon, when high school seniors
in the Louisville area will be
guests of the School. They will be
taken on a guided tour following
a luncheon in their honor.
At 2 pm, the doors will be open­ed
to the general public. Printed
programs, guided tours, and signs
will direct visitors to th~ dis­plays
and demonstrations. Each
exhibit will be explained or dis­played
by a Speed student. There
will be ample opportunity for the
public to view the many facilities
of the school and to meet the
Speed School faculty.
Each department of the Engi­neering
School will compete for
a trophy for the best departmental
exhibits. Awarded annually by
Sigma Tau, national honorary en­gineering
fraternity, the trophy is
currently held by the Electrical
Engineering Department, winner
of last year's competition.
The program will officially end
at 10 pm.
General Chairman of Engineers'
Day is Irvin Herman, and pro­grams
and routing are under the
direction of Bernie Voor.
A tentative listing of the de­partmental
exhibits include:
Chemical Engineering
Department
Thomas Cooper, Chairman of
the Ch.E. activities, reports that
among the exhibits of that depart­ment
are: an atomic reactor model,
a neoprene exhibit, a centrifuge
operation, a rotary drier, and an
oil hydrogenator. ·
Civil Engineering Department .
The Civil Engineering Depart­ment,
under the Chairmanship of
Wally Sanders, will display vari­ous
material testing machines.
Students will demonstrate their
utilization in the testing of con­crete,
wood, and steel specimens.
Also displayed will be surveying
equipment.
Another feature is the architec­tural
display with emphasis on
contemporary design. The De­partment
promised the public
would have an opportuniliy to de­termine
or discover its Architec­tural
T.Q. (Talent Quotient).
Drawing Department
Under the direction of Gary
Caufield, this department will ex­hibit
samples of students' accom­plishments
in the various phases
of engineering drawing. Also ex­hibited
will be the equipment
used by the department and sev­eral
dealers' displays of drawing
supplies.
Electrical Engineering
Department
Co-chairman Theodore Elbert
and Dick Stone of the E.E. De­partment
will feature practical ap­plications
of electronic equipment.
These will include TV and radio
equipment, a B-29 gun turret, a
thermex dialectric heater, and a
tin can motor.
(Continued on page 10)
SEVERAL University students lake their lives in their own bands.
and aUempi a mad dash across Shipp Street near ihe SK house..
A group weni to ihe beef session last Monday night le request a
traffic light there. The beefers were told thai the problem
would be cleared up when the Eastern Parkway overpass is com­pleted.
THURSDAY. MARCH 4. 1954
RALPH FLANAGAN and his Or­chestra
will furnish the music for
the Navy Ball in April. See story
on page 4.
Finks Develop
New Alphabet
Nw-s tm fr-11 gd mn t-cm+­ld
-f thr entry, -r prhps Jhn 1 vs
Mry is easier.
What gives? l'ts just Briefhand,
the simplified alphabet short and
worked out by U of L psychologist
Dr. John Fink and his wife, Car­olyn
Judge Fink. It's in pamphlet .
form at the U of L now.
A strictly alphabetic shorthand
(with hyphens), the system was
developed by the Fink husband­wife
team to cut down learning
time of more complex shorthand
forms and to give busy students,
professional men and others a
short cut to speedier notetaking.
"Popular demand" was one of
the reasons given by Dr. Fink in
announcing the publication of the
pamphlet, titled briefly, " Bri~f­hand
. . . t'he simplified alphabet
shorthand."
Consisting of 12 short lessons
with accompanying exercises (an­swers
in the back of the book), the
pamphlet is ·designed for indivi­dual
study or group study in
12 half-hour periods
(And it really works. The first
paragraph of ·this story is the re­sult
of a few minutes on the first
two chapters of "Briefhand ....
the simplified alphabet • short­hand.")
J)r. Schlesinger's
Office Is Moved
To facilitate work on Gardiner
Hall the Test Bureau and the of­fice
of the co-ordinator of in­formation
for scholarships and fel­lowships
had to be moved to the
basement. The new office is now
ready. The new office is in room
3 of the old Physics Building. The
regular office hours of Dr. Ed­mond
Schlesinger will be Monday
and Wednesday from 4 :00 to 6:00
p.m. Some students found it diffi­cult
to come to the office between
3:00 and 5:00, therefore the new
hours. The secretary will be in
the office on Monday and Wednes­day
from 2:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.,
on Tuesday and Thursday .irom
9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and ·on Friday
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The ex­tension
will again be 220.
In order to compensate for the
time lost through the 'nterruption,
Dr. Schlesinger will be present on
Tuesday and Thursday, March 9
and 11 from 4 to 5 p.m. besides the
regular office hours on Monday
and Wednesday.
NO. 19
Barber Shop Quartet
Contest Set. Tonight
Sponsored By USC And SPEBSQSA
The sixth annual Barber Shop Quartet Contest will be held
tonight at 8 o'clock in the Playhouse. Thirteen quartets, five male
and eight female, representing twelve campus social organizations
will be on hand to vie for top honors in their respective divisions.
In addition to the student sing-ers,
several quartets of the Louis- the SPEBSQSA's show in Mid­ville
branch of the Society for the dletown on March 19.
Preservation and Encouragement 12 To Compete
of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in Last year'·s victor in the men's
America will perform along with division, Phi Kappa Tau, along
the SPEBSQSA Chorus. wi<th Delta Upsilon, Tau Kappa
SPEBSOSA To Judge · Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha. and
The Barber Shop Quarter Con- Pi Kappa Phi are entered this
test is sponsored yearly by the year.
University Student Council with
the aid and backing of the SPEB.
SQSA Chorus. Five members of
the latter organization will serve
as contest judges. First and second
place trophies will be awarded to
the two best male and the two
best female quartets.
Sam Stumbo Memorial
This year, and in the years to
come, the names of the first place
winners will be inscribed on the
Sam Stumbo Memorial Plaque
dedicated by Lambda Chi Alpha
Fraternity. Sam Stumbo was one
of the promoters of the first Bar­ber
Shop Quartet Contest and was
killed last year in Korea.
The two contest winners will
receive, in addition to the other
awards, an invitation to sing in
European Job
Possibilities
Are Told USC
At the last meeting of the Uni­versity
Student Council, Dr. Geo­rge
Brodschi, executive director
of the International Center, spoke
on the possibilities of U of L stu­dent
travel abroad this summer.
He stated that there are jobs open
in Europe for technically-trained
students (engineering, chemistry,
or physics majors) and that other
students may go to England.
There are openings f0r about
twenty students, and they should
be able to speak either French or
German if they want to go tq
Europe. The International Center
is in the west end of Otter Hall.
Elections for at-large posts on
USC for next year will be held
April 23, and petitions must be in
by April 1. Officers for the com­ing
year will be elected at the
regular meeting on April 1.
The Student Chest Va~ety
Show will be held Wednesday
night, April 24, a1: 8 o'clock in the
Playhouse.
USC appro~ed a resolution sent
to the <;ouncil by the Panhellenic
Council for organizational houses
to remain open an hour later in
the afternoon and for houses to be
open from 8:00-10:00 on Wednes­day
nights as long as a member
of the faculty, alumni, or parent
is present.
A motion was passed by the
Council to appropriate $130 to the
cheerleaders to defray their · ex­penses
on the NIT trip to New
York.
The seven quartets entered in
the women's division are: Pi Beta
Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Zeta, Zeta
Tau Alpha, Kappa Delta, Inde­pendent
Women, and last year's
winner, Sigma Kappa.
No admission will be charged.
Below Concerts
March 10 And 12
Robert Below, senior at the
School of Music and student of
Dean Dwight Anderson will play
two concerts in Kentucky and
Ohio the first patr of March.
Bob will give the first pro­gram
at Morehead State College
on March 10, and included on the
program · will be selections by
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Cop­land
and Ravel.
From Morehead, Bob will
travel to Cincinnati where he
will give a program on March 12
with Dean Anderson, who win ..
speak on South America from his
experience as musical ambassa­dor
to our Southern neighbor last
July through October. •
Bob's program in Cincinnati
will be the Variations by Aaron
Copland, which he is playing at
· Morehead, and Three Argentine ,
Dances composed by Ginastera,
South American composer, in
1937. These dances, namely: (1)
The Dance of the Cowherd, (2)
The Dance of the Maiden. and
(3) The Dance of the Gaucho,
were played for the composer by
Bob when he .toured South
America with the Dean.
Theologian Holds
. Religious Semi11ar
At Baptist Center
Dr. Eric C. Rust, English phy­sicist
and theologian, held a sem­inar
on religious problems last
Monday night at the Baptist Stu­dent
Center. Most of the discus­sion
dealt with the question of
immortality for non-Christians
and Christians.
During World War II, Dr. Rust
was engaged as an atomic research
physicist for the British govern­ment.
He has lectured widely and
is the author of several books.
After serving as pastor for several
British Baptist churches he came
to Louisville where he is at pre­sent
Professor of Christian Apolo­getics
at the Southern Baptist
Seminary.
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