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Sumwalt Re ForFifteentl The completed program of the fifteenth annual meeting of the Southeastern Section and Research Branch of the American Society for Engineering Education April 7-9 was announced recently. The program was released by Dean R. L. Sumwalt of the school of engineering, chairman of the general committee on arrange ments. Several hundred persons from 23 educational institutions in ten sou thern states are expected to attend the meeting. The opening session will be held Thursday morning by the Research Branch with Dr. W. G. Van Note of N. C. State Col lege, Raleigh, N. C., chairman, pre siding. Addresses of welcome will be given by President Norman M. Smith and Mayor Frank C. Owens of Columbia, after which the fol lowing will speak: Sam Tour, president of Sam Tour & Com pany, Inc., of New York on "En gineering Schools and Sponsored LOANS MA Across o PAL LIBERTY A 414 MAI] GR Your Headqua e Sp C d Ic Ja Crosby q GR Y Dist tive 47 M sel bro MEN'S SHOP STREET FLOOR leases Comp1 1Engineerini Research-A Viewpoint from the Commercial Laboratories"; Dr. Russell S. Poor, chpirmaqn, Uni versity Relations Division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, on "Engineering Schools and Spon sored Research-A Viewpoint from the Schools"; John C. Green, di rector, Office of Technical Services, Department of Commerce, on "En gineering Schools and Sponsored Research-A Viewpoint from a Federal Sponsor." Discussion will follow these talks. Dr. J. Harold Lampe, dean of engineering at N. C. State College, will preside at a luncheon at which Dr. J. W. Barker, president of Re search Corporation, New York, will be the speaker. Thursday afternoon speakers will be Dr. J. M. DallaValle of Georgia Institute of Technology on "Research in Fine Particle Tech nology"; Dr. E. M. Schoenborn, Jr., head of the department of chemical engineering, N. C. State College, on "Thermal Properties of ON ANYTHING alue KETTO THEATRE LUGGAGE CO. 9S T SON'S rs For Sports ear Coats igans icks Shirts u Shoes SO Men's Wear AIN ST. e have ARROW wl Co 'n quick a action o ow hi adcloths . ..i 1N C!L ete Program ;Convention Plastics"; and E. Donald Kennedy of the University of, Florida on "Weather and Electronic Re search." Dr. James Shelby Thomas, edu cator and economist, will speak at a dinner Thursday evening on "Re search, Culture, and the Dinner Bell." The Section meeting will be open ed Friday morning by Dean Joshua E. Hannum; chairman, of Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina will head the list of speakers for this program. Others speakers will be Dr. Joseph Weil, dean of engineering, University of Florida, on "Faculty Personnel Factors and Promo tions"; Prof. W. W. Rankin, di rector of the Institute for Teach ers of Mathematics, Duke Univer sity, on "A Platform for Teachers of Mathematics"; Prof. Edward K. Kraybill of Duke University on "An Engineering Educator Ex amines Teaching Techniques." F. C. Smith, editor of Southern Power and Industry, Atlanta, Ga., will speak at a luncheon. His sub ject will be "The Engineer-His Own Press Agent." Afterward the visitors will be taken on an inspec tion trip to Lake Murray, a large hydroelectric power development near here. Dr. S. S. Steinberg, dean of en gineering, University of Maryland, will'be the dinner speaker Friday. His subject will be "Recent Trip Through Latin America." Saturday's program will begin with a dean's breakfast. Speakers at the morning session Saturday will include Dr. Lampe, L. W. Bishop and Dr. H. H. Armsby. A business session will follow these speeches, and a luncheon will conclude the program. Entertainment also is planned for women visitors, including a coffee hour, a tea, and a scenic tour of Columbia. IA L lAe shirts for Easi -- take your pick fron' les in oxford cloths collar styles' liMRIA IT' I I Awa)ds Day For Horsesh4 Awards Day is scheduled f held on the horneshoe, John k activities, announced this wei Classes will be shortened a 10:30. The band will furnish University Choir Plans Only Local Trips This Term The university glee club, under the direction of Prof. Robert Van Doren, will not go on tour this Spring. The chorus will make sev eral one-day trips away from the campus, but will not go on its an nual three-day tour. Petformances are scheduled for Sumter and Flor ence. The reason the chorus cannot go on tour is financial difficulties. The chorus is buying new robes and will not have enough money left to conduct a tour. Road Engineering Positions Offered In New Jersey The New Jersey state highway department is offering permanent positions to qualified men in many fields and an opportunity to become affiliated with and take part in the most forward looking highway program in America ,according to an announcement received by the university school of engineering. Positions open to qualified men are senior bridge designers, land scape architects, bridge inspectors, highway, laboratory and state aids project engineers, asphalt plant in spector, laboratory technician, ma terials inspector and engineer aide. Salaries range from $1560 to $5400 per annum plus employment benefits. Correspondence for application blanks and information should be addressed to A. Lee Grover, secre tary N. J. state highway depart ment, Trenton, N. J. eth Wolfe edr our and' Scheduled upe May 12 r May 12 with exercises to be on, chairman of Awards Day ~k. rnd the. exercises will begin at music for the occasion. Many awards will be presented at this time. The most coveted is the Sullivan's Award, presented to the men and women students from the graduating class and to one non-student who has bee-voted the outstanding contributors to their fellow students. Some of the other awards to be presented at the same time are: Departmental Awards for out standing students in each depart ment; ODK Scholarship Cup; In tramural Award; Literary Society Awards, three awards presented to the best declaimer, orator, and de bater in each of the male societies; Gonzales Medal for Oratory, open to the entire student body for the best orator; James Patterson Award to the member who is most representative of the Euphradian literary society; United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Medal; Kiwanis Club Cup, presented to the N.R.O.T.C. Unit accomplishing "Excellency in Drill"; and the John J. Hemphill Medal for de bating. Iowa University Provides $9,000 In Graduate Aid Thirty assistantships in the field of mass communications are avail able to graduate students for the 1949-50 academic year at the School of Journalism at the State University of Iowa, according to an announcement received this week. Approximately $9,000 is avail able for these assistantships, with the monthly payments varying ac cording to the duties involved. In addition, the student is exempt from all graduate college tuition and fees ($130 a year for Iowans, $2.0 for non-residents). Several assistantships involve di rect activity and responsibility, in research. Currently the school is carrying on extensive studies in readability, using split rufi tech niques in a controlled distribution experientai newspaper. Research work is also being carried on in adverLising, radio audience charac teristics and measurement, public relations, pictorial journalism, newspaper costs, and many other fields. Most of the openings, however, involve some work more closely con. nected with teaching or with lab oratory activity, including the News Workshops and work on the Daily Iowan, the photography lab oratory, the newspaper production laboratory, radio stations WSUI and KSUI, the typographic labora tory, and work in advertising. A few positions may also be available for the 1949 summer ses sion. Interested students are asked to write to Professor Leslie G. Moel ler, Director, School of Journalism, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa for details. Student Engineers Meeting Postponed For Two Weeks The student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers April 6 meeting will be postponed until April 20, John H. Parson, publicity committee mem ber announced. Postponement of the meeting was made because of the ASME regional convention will be held in Birmingham, Ala., April 4-5. The ASME new constitution was read and adopted at a meeting March 23. "The Shrimp Industry along the Coast of South Carolina" was the subject of a talk by Paul Palmer, mechanical engineering student. COLU BIA DAITIES - LK IC EAM 91 Main treet COL MmIA Cn University Announce Fun, Festivities ' Campus Cleanup University Day has been te All classes will be excused foi except 11100 o'clock classes, taken. Purpose of required a class is. to get students on the and faculty membeirs to beco lectures will give way to bull Engineer Head Honored Here ByAIEE Group Prof. S. A. Ferguson, head of the electrical engineering depart ment, was presented an engraved knife by menbers of the student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at a sur prise dinner in his honor Thurs day evening at the varsity grill. The knife was presented bS L. P. Thompson, program chairman. It was given as a token of appi% ciation for Prof. Ferguson's con tributions to the electrical en gineering department. Present at the meeting was Mrs. S. A. Ferguson, several electrical engineering professors and mem bers of the AIEE. Professor Ferguson was sales manager of the Westinghouse elec tric corporation before coming to the university. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineer ing from Clemson college and his M.A. from Tulane university. HeV served five years in the signal corps during World War II and was discharged as lieutenant colonel. Literary Contest Provides $1200 Prize To Winner Students who have been working on a novel have an opportunity to compete for the Dodd, Mead Inter collegiate Literary Fellowship, Dean J. E. Norwood, of the college of arts and science this week. The winner of the $1200 award for the term of one year will be expected to complete his novel in that time. The yeqr begins July 1, 1949. All applications and proj ects must be sent to the pub,isher by April 15, 1949. Candidates must have at least two years college work and must be a candidate for a,bachelor's de gree or graduate students in resid ence who are candidates for a mas ter's degree. The fellowship was established to aid students who wish to become professional authors. It is designed to give undergraduates an oppor tunity to take advantage of faculty advice and instruction while plan ning and writing a novel and to enable themi to work toward its completion for one year after graduation. Students may obtain further in formation from room 121, Maxcy. In 1929, when fraternities were only a year old on the campus, it was discovered that fraternity members were the best students. This was a great success for the fraternity system here. OX'S B. T IN D 5 PC Priva D' For Smnal Partie Try ur ME and 3 RINK an Day Plans dforMay5 "o K&ynote Annual , Social Program ntatively scheduled for May 5. the annual clean-up campaign at which time roll call will be Itendance at the 11:00 o'clock campus and to enable students me better acquainted. Regular sessions at this hour. A tentative schedule of the day's activities includes: 8:00 to 10:30-Clean-up Period (music on campus). 10:30 to 11:00--Open House (sororities, fraternities and the first floor of dormitories will be open to public inspection). 11:00-Regular class meeting (roll call and bull session). 12:00-Student-faculty lunch on the horseshoe. 12:30 to 1:15--University Band, Concert. 1:30-Naval Review on Melton Field. 2:15-Inter-faculty s o ft ball game on- Melton Field. 5:00-Coronation of May Queen on McKissick Library steps. 8:00-Coronation Ball in the Naval Armory with music by Woody Woodward. University Day is given under the joint sponsorship of KSK and AKG, campus service fraternities. Further information will be made available later. International Photo Contest Ends April 30 College photographers have un til April 30 to meet the deadline for the fourth annual Kappa Alpha Mu International Collegiate Pho tography Contest. Any student en rolled in an accredited college or university is eligible to compete. Prints must be 8 x 10 or larger; they must be mounted on standard 16 x 20 photomounts. Major prizes will be awarded in five classes: News, Sports, Fea ture, Pictorial, and Industrial. The best picture in the entire show will be awarded the grand prlu. Prizes will be announced later. Prominent news photographers will judge the contest during Jour nalism Week at the University of Missouri, May 3-7, 1949. Ten prints in each division will be selected for a traveling exhibit knowni as "The Kappa Alpha Mu 50-print Show." This show will appear at colleges and camera clubs throughout the nation. Entry blanks and rules may be secured by writing to XV. J. 13ell, secretary, Kappa Alpha Mu, 18 Walter Wil liams Hall, Columbia, Missouri. In 1928, a Pennsylvania man mistook The Gamecock for poultry magazine and wrote requesting a subscription and information about his chickens. Watches -amionds B. B. H MON0 'Je er | W ock and Jewe " pairing Te 4-1522 2024 De iePit Col mbi .iv PC. t Clocks Jewelry ARBE E RlV IN 6. ing Room leetings and to Sixty Lu hes VEGE LES I DESSER