VOlume V,
BUTTE, MONTANA,
OCTOBER 28,1927
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1
Lecture Series Started New Courses at Mines SERIES OP FORTY-TWO LECTURES '1'0 BE GIVEN BY E.,'G'ERns IN THEI MINING PIELD
NEW COlJRSES INCLUDE FIRST YEAH, COLLEGE AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SUBJECTS For many year:s it has been the desire of the faculty and the civic community of Butte," to broaden the field of courses at the School of Mines. This Fall has witnessed the first steps in the attainment of this object, i. e., to transform this school
into the bigger and 'better institution which it deserves to be. This aim has been partially realized by the service. Mr. Daly said One of the most unique, of the telligence introduction of a new course in Geo~w advantages for the students of that several of the smaller departlogical Engineering, and a General i e Montana State School of Mines, ments work in conjunotion with the Freshman Course. and 'metallurgical departt8 a series of 42 lectures to be given mining The School 'of Mines is most eO them and the public at the school (Continued on Page 4) ideally located for the study of ge,,"ery alternate Wednesday night by ology, being situated in the heart darlous experts in the mining inof the Rocky Mountains, and in" one cUstry. Practically every subject of the greatest mining districts of aonne.cted with mining, milling, the world. " w~eltlng, geology and adrniruatraticn Professor E. S. Perry, head of the w~1 ,be gone into in detail by men department ,orfGeology, has prepared tb 0 .have spent many years among a schedule of the necessary subjects c e mtricaetes of the subject disl"OUR NEW MEl\IBERS ARE ADDED '1'0\ THE TEACHING STAFF O]~ for the geology course varying little a'lSsed. Many eastern colleges, yes, THE SCHOOL OF MINES from the mining and metallurgical t nd western ones too" may well look cour ses for the first two years. In i~ Butte with envious eyes, for here the Junior year, however, the trend S ha worth-while addition .to the In order to keep [step with the innaturally he still hopes to strike it is more towar-d geological路 subjects, cool's curriculum. crease in courses and attendance at rich sorne day. 'Mr. Gilbert .is mar- while the Senior year is almost路 ene .Mr. George W. Craven, wh.o con- the Montana State School of Mines, ried and has one boy in school. tirely confined to geological. subhelved the idea of the curse, met and ,also to replace instructors who Mr. John McConmaek claims Illin- jects. Mr. Perry states that the t earty response wherever he went hade left the school, it 'has been ois as his native state. After ob- course is composed of app r oxtmately t~ enlist the services olf leaders in floun d necessary to add fou:r new taining his degree at the University one-third Chemistry, one-third Mint' e mining field. It is gratifying names to the personnel of the facul- of Chicago, lIe attended the Armour ing, Mathematics, Surveying, English e~ know that all were Liberal mind- ty. Professor F. C. Gilbert will in- Jmstttute of the same city. Follow- and Economics, and one-third Geolti enough to pass out the informa- .struct the various classes of Mtal lu r- in g this he had three years of grad- ogy and related subjects. These Iatl' on obtained through many .;hard gy handled last year by Mr. G. A. .ua.te work at his Alma Mater. He tel' include the study of rocks and ~ars .ot erperience to students who Rousch who is at present at Beth- has done considerable wor-k for the minerals, of rosstrs, of petroleum and ay In time crowd the profession. lehem, P"ennsylvania. Mr. John Me- Geolo gicat Survey of the state of mining geology, and the interpretaThis is not his first work tion of geological maps. " Ie Mr. W. B. Daly gave the first Cormack will take ' charge of the Illinois. Mr: Perry states that "The new 1 ctnre; one on the organization of work handled by Mr. W. B. Car- as an instructor as he has had classes In addition to taking for two years at the University of course consiets of four years of work narge mining companies. It served roll last year. Ieading to the degree of Bachelor of i~t Only in an erpansive way as an over the Geology and Mineralogy Chicago. Butte is furnishing Mr. A. O. Science in Geological Engineering. t troduction, or outline, for lec- Classes, Mr. McCormack is assisting Mr. A. O. Dingman for the faculty of the Graduates of this course will be comqures to follow, but further, it went Dr. Koenig in Chemistry. in school. Mr. Dingman obtained his petent and qualified to hold any pot eep into the details ,of the struc- Dingman is at present instrurtor at Lawrence, Kansas, in sition in the field 01: geology such as aUt:eof modern large ,mining COl'po,r- the llo,wer subjects of mathematics, a degree post held last year by Mr. Alexander 1910. The war found him in the involves work in mining geo!oo-gy,peIOns. Maslow, at present at the University army and at. the expil"ation of his troleum geology, State and G.overn()f Mr. Daly likened the organization of Nebrruska. Mr. H. C. Johnson will service therein he had the rank o.f mental surveys, .and instruction. We e ruining firms to other business help Mr. Scott in his classes in Eng- captaiin. Mr. Dingmal~ now ~s one plan and hope to be able to introduce nnterprises; the largest of them the lish and History. of the officers of the local post of a course in Pet.roleum Engineering thlllted States Government. Just as He has been next Fa.I!, and onQ in Ceramical EnMr. F. C. Gilbert comes to us from the American Legion. Ii e fUnctioning of the government in the Boy Scout move~ gineering in the near future." These the sunshine of New MexiCio. He interested s 1 e . with ,the executive, judicial and is a graduate Bellorre com- proposed courses woud require an of the Massachusettts ment for a long time. llegl~lative 'bodies, large mining com- Institute of Technology, '98. After ing to the school, Mr. Ding'man was increase in the teaching staff of 'the t anles operate thro'Ugh the adminis- spending several years about the Purchasing Agent f.or the East Butte Ischool. . ()tative. branch, the board of direct- lead smelters of Pueblo, <Colo., he Copper Mining ,Company. Mr. DingThe school museUjm,. with its ten ts, and the stockholders. thousand specimens of rocks, minwent to Durango, Mexico, la district man married a Butte Girl. Il Or great interest to everybody ap- where people in their Mr. H. C. Johnson, instructor in erals and fossilS, and the complete quest after ~arently, was the ramnification of silver' tra;vel narrow guage r,ailroads, English and History, comes from petrographic 'and mineralo,gical labtiilDar'tments under the ad-miIListra- being Isubject to the hazard lolffloods Minneapolis although ,being born. in oratories, comprise, in part,' the ex~ II"e branch. Among these various in thEl summer, and snow slides in Kalion, Iowa. (No pun i~tended). ceptional equipment of t.he Departnits are departments in mining, the winter. He admits swallowing He received his B. A. 'at the Univer- ment of Geology. feOIogy, mining engineering, metal- arsenic a,t Denver for two years, but sity of Minne,sota and his M. A. at At present, quite a number /Of stu/l'gy, Ihedhanics, electricity, safety- denies ever hsing it. Last year Mr. the University of Chicago. Mr. dents are enrolled for this new st "Ir , accounting, purchasing, sal- Gilbert had much work in selective Johnson is also an ex-service man course and it is expected that many age Ia , rock drill equipment, research, flotation-lead and zinc. He likes being in the navy during the war.' new students will be induced to at, Cj b?r, selling, transportation, trafC,ic Butte fine but wants to know who He was stationed on Vlariou:s ships, tend the school. them the new 13attleship: A bo'on and boost along the paths st'aIIl'],S,coal, lumber, tax, land, a,b- forgot to turn on the heat. Being among ract, law, rental, publicity and in- a prustime prospector at intervals, Maine. (Continued on Page 5)
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