UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE’S
CARDINAL Sixth Annual
Speed Scientific
School Supplement
Sixth Annual
Speed Scientific
School Supplement
VOL. 9 LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1941 NO. 25
Speed School’s New Unit Nears Completion
The new $200,000 Speed Scien-tific
School building at Third and
Eastern Parkway is now nearing
completion and should be ready
for occupancy by the beginning
of the Summer Quarter. The new
building is a memorial to the late
James B. Speed, father of Mr.
William S. Speed and Mrs.
Frederic M. Sackett. Two gifts of
$65,000 each from Mr. Speed and
Mrs. Sackett and a $54,000 grant
from the W. P. A. financed the
structure.
This is the firs. Belknap Cam-pus
building outside the triangle
formed by Third, Shipp and the
Parkway. The new building,
needed because of overcrowded
conditions due to steadily increas-ing
enrollment, is the second
erected in accordance with the
Larsen plan of university expan-sion.
A leave of absence granted to
an engineer and member of the
Speed School faculty, Mr. W. R.
Mclntosh enabled him to serve as
resident engineer of the W. P. A.
and supervise construction.
The building will accommodate
500 students and will house the
school’s administrative offices,
the Speed library, large enough
for 92 students at one time, class-rooms
for mathematics, English,
drawing and chemical engineer-ing.
It will also include an audi-torium
seating 239 and specially
adapted for motion pictures,
chemistry laboratories, a student
lounge and locker rooms.
Because of an agreement made
in 1929 when the University
granted a portion of its campus
for construction of Eastern Park-way,
the city of Louisville is
meeting costs of construction of
the two underpasses. One under-pass
will carry the power lines
while the other will serve pedes-trians.
,
Although the new building is
expected to be sufficient for an-ticipated
growth in the depart-ments
using it, there is still a
great need for additional build-ings
for the departments of me-chanical,
electrical and civil en-gineering.
These departments are
now severly overcrowded and
need more space than will be
available in the old buildings
even after the change has been
completed.
—(Photo by Seaton Hunter.
Mechanical Engineers
Attend Annual A.S.M.E.
Student Meeting
St. Patrick was a helluva engi-neer,
he was, he was, but the
Speed A. S. M. E. boys who “cut”
their way to Atlanta for the
annual student meeting of the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, March 31-April 2,
were just *plain “rambling wrecKS
from Georgia Tech “after three
days of “sutheen sugah” such as:
“Did yo all say peach, Blos-som?”
“Why yes, honey, ah said—”
Er joying all this were eleven
M. E. students who marched
through Georgia looking for the
cotton (?) Sherman didn't get,
Bob Gray, B. J. Bonn, Jack
Whitehead, Leonard Wener,
George Altman, Linn Nicholson,
Bill Klarer, John Rathburn, Bill
Hoeing, Joe Horning, and Carl
Merritt, plus the honorary chair-man,
Professor H. H. Fenwick.
Not that anyone was bored by
the social side, but there were a
few other events on the program.
Registration was held on the
Georgia Tech campus Sunday
afternoon for the early comers
who were afterwards taken on a
sight seeing tour of Atlanta.
Registration was completed Mon-day
morning before the luncheon
in Tech’s dining hall and the stu-dent
technical speeches, which
were started Monday afternoon
and completed the next morning.
Another luncheon was held at the
Biltmore Hotel Tuesday and a
banquet was given that night at
Jimmy James Plays
Engineers’ Ball April 22
[N RE JAMES
Ed. Nole: The following
poetic effort, very effective,
we |ofl, was handed to us in
mute but expressive silence
by N. N. Cribbage. Mr.
Cribbage, of Oyster Hum-mock,
D. C., is, we have it
Dn good authority, the
brother-in-law of W. W.
Krubish, well known news
analyst.
Ode to Jimmy James
The boy blows ’em high,
The boy blows ’em low,
But always sweet does he
blow, blow, blow.
The Art Of Being
An Engineer
By TOM COLEMAN
The engineer, just like anyone
else, if he hopes to impress the
public, must know how to act
the part.
For instance, do you often see
a law student who isn’t carrying
three or four huge volumes in one
arm and waving the other arm
about “thu damn statues of the
commonwealth of Kentucky”?
And how many football players
do you see about campus who
aren’t wearing their “L” sweater,
even though the temperature is
105 degrees in the shade, and gen-erally
pushing their way through
little groups with very much of a
strong arm technique. What does
this mean? Does it mean the law
students actually know what’s in
those big books? No, when you
pin them down about what’s be-tween
the covers, they begin to
sweat and start talking vaguely
about torts and plaintiffs and the
Sacco-Vanzetti case. And the pig-skin
punters, are they the muscu-lar
devils they pretend to be? No,
most of them couldn’t throw a
duck in a pond or twist the leaf
off a mulberry bush. In other
words they are just good actors.
Engineers are good actors too.
Give the 92nd ranking junior in
the civil engineering class a kakhi
shirt, a pair of riding pants, some
tall boots, and a pipe, and for all
the rest of the world knows he
might be Ferdinand De Lesseps.
Or give a freshman a slide rule
and a set of logarithmic tables,
and in no time at all he’ll per-suade
Mother that he should take
Electrical Engineers
Attend Conference
A delegation composed of Bob
Ellwanger, Jim Dutli, Zeke Reil-ing,
John Jungermann, and Coun-try
Callahan, accompanied by
Professor Jean M. Roberts and
family, attended the convention
of the Southern District of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers on April 2,3, and 4, at
the University of Alabama at
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The stu-dents
inspected Wilson Dam and
the Muscle Shoals project of the
Tennessee Valley Authority
while en route. They were the
guests of the Alabama Chapter of
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and
were entertained at a smoker by
the local chapter of Tau Beta Phi.
J. W. Dutli and F. R. Ellwanger,
of Speed School, won one of the
first three prizes with a paper on
the “Tech”, a compact apparatus
for demonstrating transformer
equivalent circuits of harmonics
in a much more convenient man-ner
than has been before avail-able.
The chief value of the
“Tech” to Electrical Engineering
is educational, since a student can
learn more about transformers
with an hour’s work with the
“Tech” than he could in 40 hours
using the usual apparatus. F. R.
Ellwanger, Jr., presented the
paper at the convention.
Dean Wilkinson
Convalesces
Speed School’s Dean F. L. Wil-kinson,
Jr., is recuperating from
an operation performed at Norton
Infirmary on Thursday April 3rd.
He is doing well and expects to
return home in a few days.
Engineers’ Day
Plans Cancelled
Because of an already over-crowded
time schedule covering
the next few months there will
be no Engineers’ Day this year, it
was made known Thursday
morning by Dean Ford L. Wilkin-son
of Speed School.
The decision was made upon
the recommendation of the Speed
Student Council after several
faculty members expressed the
opinion that since the regular day
school, the regular night school,
the night shop courses, the special
defense courses, and the C. A. A.
courses were all running concur-rently
the capacity of both the
equipment and the personnel of
the school has reached its limit.
It was felt on all quarters that
rather than scale down the Engi-neers’
Day and decrease its effec-tiveness
or have the usual Engi-neers’
Day at the expense of more
important activities the Day
should be foregone. This will be
the first year since 1938 that
Speed School has not given the
the annual open house exhibition
affair.
Surveying Camp
Held By Civil
Department
The annual Speed School Sur-vey
Camp was held from April
5 to 12 at Otter Creek Nat’l. Bank.
The camp was in charge of a tech-nical
staff of four senior Civil
Engineering students: Herb Goh-mann,
chief engineer; Bob Han-cock,
assistant chief engineer;
Lewis Birkel, geodetic engineer;
and Kenneth Haynes, topographic
engineer. Thirty-five students at-tended
camp this year including
a non-technical staff made up of
senior mechanicals and electricals.
The students arrived at Camp
Saturday afternoon and spent the
rest of the day getting settled in
the cabins.
Sunday morning eight of the
more religious of the boys went
to church at Fort Knox in one po’
’ole car. The rear bumper fell off
and they lost the spare tire, but
they brought back some palm to
prove they got there. Sunday
afternoon was open house (espec-ially
for the campers, since only
Bob Gray and Linn Nicholson
had girls visit them.)
Monday morning everyone had
a midnight breakfast at 6:00 a.m.
and started right in with the field
work. The fact that there are now
ten triangulation stations located
and surveyed, instead of only
four located, attests to the suc-cess
of this year’s field work.
The location of these additional
stations was accomplished only
under the most trying field con-ditions.
The base line has been
measured and a meridian has
been established by an observa-tion
on Polaris. Field work was
accomplished under the able su-pervision
of Professors Wendt
and McIntosh.
By popular vote, the following
men were elected to the Camp
Honor Society, on the basis of
leadership, personality, and ef-fort:
Herb Gohmann, Bob Hancock,
Louis Birkel, Ken Haynes, B. J.
Bonn, Bob Gray, Geo. Allman,
Geo. Reiling, John Jungerman,
Earl Schaaf, Ed. Von Onf, Linn
Nicholson.
These men received the honor
award.
A cup was given to George
Worley who was high point man
in camp activity. Others who re-ceived
awards are Jack Bland,
ping pong; Geo. Worley and Nick
Johnson, horse shoes; Otho Tapp
and Joe Campbell, shuffle board;
and Tapp, Campbell, Plock,
Thompson, Kleier, and Heer, the
winning volley ball team.
The High Point Party selected
from the best freshman, sopho-more,
junior, and section chief,
on a basis of field work, are:
Jack Coady Sect. Chief
Bob Doeker Instrument Man
James Munich Recorder
Bill Sprigg Rodman
Chemical Engineers Inspect City Plants
The Senior class of the Chem-ical
Engineering Department of
Speed School visited four of the
local industrial establishments on
Wednesday, April 8. The plants
inspected were: The Buckeye
Cotton Oil Cos., a soy bean pro-cessing
plant; The Brown Wil-liamson
Tobacco Cos., a cigarette
factory; Standard Sanitary and
American Radiator Corp., a
plumbing fixtures plant; and
Peaslee Gaulbert Paints and Var-nishes
Corp., a protective finishes
plant.
The three day inspection tour
thru the Cincinnati Milling Ma-chine
Cos. and other plants in
Cincinnati, the Ashland Oil and
Refining Cos., and other plants in
Ashland, Kentucky, which was
originally scheduled for this time
was postponed indefinitely be-cause
of restrictive regulations
prohibiting visitors in these in-dustries.
The ban on visitors is
attributible to the National De-
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