The Montana' School of Mines
AMPLIFIE VOL. IV.
Published by the Associated Students of . the Montana School of Mines
NO.1.
Coffee Shop Opened
McGlashan Consultant
Summer in Cuba
Donald W. McGlashan, Research Professor and Head of the Mineral' With the arrival of the new coffee accompanied urn, the MSM Coffee Shop is pres- Dressing Department, ently established. Making their by his family, spent the summer in OWn change, students use the honor Cuba as consulting engineer. The system in buying coffee and rolls. McGlashans visited a rayon plant in It is probably the only. place in Matanzas and viewed many places Butte where a cup of coffee costs a nickel. . The honor system is of historical interest. Working well, except for a few dead-beats. Petroleum Department The Coffee Shop is a project of the Student Council. Among other Hits New High things, the council plans to install Professor and Mrs. Gustav Stolz, two more sinks to comply with city health ordinances and to utilize the j r., are parents of triplets, two boys adjacent room to the right of the and a girl, born October 1 in Colostairs. Plans have also been made ~ado Springs. The Stolzes are also to install one or two skill pool the parents of twin girls, aged 7. tables. Besides being a professor in the Petroleum Engineering school, Mr. Anderson-Carlisle Stolz is president of the Jaycees, promoting a bigger and better Activities The Anderson - Carlisle Society Butte. held the first meeting for this School year on Thursday, October Debate Team Attends 10, in the Petroleum Building. Mr. Clifford J. Hicks of the Anaconda Cem State Jamboree Company spoke of the advantages Thursday afternoon, October 24, of becoming a student associate the debate team departed from the member of the AIME. Coffee and School of Mines to. travel all the donuts were served. . way to Pocatello, Idaho. This was On Tuesday, October 1.5, a the first contest of the year. After special meeting was held to diSCUSS fighting off the flu bug and pracplans for E-Day. The following men ticing faithfully in the afternoons, Were appointed as heads of the com- the debaters were ready to face the mittee from the major departments: teams, in Idaho. Jan Sullivan, Jim Ted Burch, metallurgy; Ross Wa;y- Connell, Dick Vincelette, and Don mont, mining; Don Zipperian, mm- Roberts went as debaters on the eral dressing; Pete Sweeney, ge- question "Should compulsory memology; and Pat Butler, petroleum. bership in a labor union as a conThe committee will plan the actrvi- dition of employment be illegal?" ties of their respective departments. Maribeth Sullivan prepared for A meeting is planned for the first extemporaneous speeches, D i c k Week in November to make further Osterman for interpretative reading, plans and appoint committees from and Helen Duke for oration. There the minor departments. All mem- were two practice sessions for the bers and interested students are' debaters at Western in Dillon and urged to attend. Bozeman. Our next issue will carry the results of the debate in PocaE-Day stands for Engineering Day which is tentatively planned to tello. be held in the last week of May. The purpose of E-Day is to acquaint People with the activities and progress of the school. The first EAnyone interested in intramural Day was held last year, and it is hoped that it will become an an- sports had better get ready, for the nUal affair. ' season is upon us. Basketball: Intramural basketball leagues will be formed and tournaStudent Wives Meet the The Student Wives had their first ments will be held throughout meeting Wednesday, October. 9. year. • . The entertainment and decorations Table Tennis: The table IS set up fOllowed a Hawaiian theme. and waiting to be used. TournaMrs. Laura Ripley, president of The table the AIME Auxiliary, was guest ments will be staged. speaker. Other guests included tennis room is on the third floor Mrs. Koehler Stout. The meeting above the gym. was well attended. Handball: Handball is already in The Student Wives is a social full swing with a number of boys club for wives of MSM students. playing every day. Tournaments Business meetings are held the are planned. . second Wednesday of every month. Boxing, W restling, and ~ eight:Mrs. Walter T. Scott holds class~s lifting: These events are still being In bridge for the wives on Monday planned. If enough students are eVenings and Mrs. Edwin G. Koch interested, thes~ sports Will become teaches ceramics on Wednesday a part of the In~ramural ~rogram. e\'enings. Coach Simonich IS an able instructThe officers are: president, Jerry or and a perfect specimen of what Wylie; vice-president, L?is Butler; P.E. can do for a person. He can secretary Natalie Hendncks; treas- teach even the best .of them a fe:v Urer, J ea~ Davis; corresponding sec- things on the mat, so be careful If ~etary, Auarey Darlington; histor- you are tempted to tryout f<?r Ian, Barbara Schweitzer; supply of- wrestling. The room for these. IS ficer, Carol Rathke. hlch on the third floor of the gym :v is now being repaired and pam ted. If you are interested in the above ~ineral Club Sponsors sports, let Ed know. . . Field Trips Swimming: The pool IS now beThe Mineral Club got the 1957-58 ing repaired but the coach pla.ns to s.eason off to a good. start with two have racing and other events If the held trips. On the first trip the pool is finished in time. No dates have as yet been set for clubbers went to Brown's Gulch in s~arch of sapphires but found the the intramural program, but when Pickings pretty slim. On the next they are, they will be posted on the bulletin poard in the Gym. w~ekend they visited the Berkeley lt surrounding prospect holes. YPheirandefforts were rewarded by a gOOdly haul of chrysocolla, chalCOPYrite, and other copper ores. To' occupy the long, dreary winter months, the Club has a supply of rhOdonite and psilomelane which November 1may be cut and polished. This year Continental Oil Co., Pet. & Geol. the Club has established a Research November 6and Planning Committee to better California Co., Pet. & Geol. coordinate the activities. A detailed 11 rCecordwill be kept of all future November Ingersoll-Rand Co., Min. lub projects. November 18 Officers of the club are Dave ~asmussen, President; and Roger Phillips Petroleum Co., Pet. & Geol. .e\'ans, Secretary. Dr. Earll is the November 20 ad\'isor. Pan American Petro1., Pet. & Geo!.
Intramural
Sports
Interviews for November
NOVEMBER 7,1957
Fee Boost Recommenl~ . By Mines Student Councll~ " HALL COUNCIL FORMED 1"
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At the invitation of Dr. KocH, and with the <-o'Dperation of the ASSM,
Yopps, Dave Johnson, Don Corson, Bill Lees, and Jim Connell. The students approved the prothe dorm students formed a student posed constitution' and bylaws at governmental \wdy which will be a meeting on Monday, October 21, known as the HaJl.Council. A con- by an overwhelmning vote of 91 to stitutioncomrnittee .ras formed con- 19. Dean McAuliffe presided over sisting of six represelI~iY"e~ elected the meeting. by the independent stu~,11ts a,.,-l"""PAt the present time, petitions for pointees of the two fraternities. :.l.)e nominations as· prescribed by the committee, under co-chairmen Gor- new Hall Council Constitution are don Parker and Dick Roberts, as- being circulated and signed by the sembled and organized the ideas of residents. The election is schedthe Hall Council Constitution and uled for Tuesday, October 29. bylaws. Members of the constituThe purpose of the Hall Council tion committee also included Wei- is to foster the well-being of all the hsuan Chiang, Don Roberts, Jerry' students who live in the dorm.
Class Officers Elected
The Four Corners
Class officers were elected at the first meeting of classes early this fall. Seniors chose Jon Langfeldt, Donald Hendricks, and Donald Schweitzer to represent their class. Prexy Jon is a Metallurgical major from Great Falls, Montana. Veep Don from Des Moines, Iowa, and Secretary-Treasurer Don Schweitzer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are Mining majors. The senior faculty advisor is Professor F. H. Kselly, Donald Corson from Bigfork;. Montana, was elected junior class His major is geology. President. Vice-president is George Maxwel I from Warm Springs, Montana. Metallurgy i~ George's major. Day-hop Albert Rule is the secretary-treasurer. His maior is . minera 1 d ressing. Professor " J. G. McCaslin is the faculty advisor. Sophomores voted John Templin, a Butte general student, president. Their veep is Wesley Podolske, an engineering student from Rochester, Minnesota. Helen Duke, a general student from Charlenoi, Pennsylvania, is secretary-treasurer. Class advisor is Professor D. E. Pinckney. The Frosh began their college days with Edward C. Murphy, Deer Lodge, Montana, engineering activities. Jan Sullivan, veep, will assist him. She is a general student residing in Butte. Secretary-treasurer j acquie Trythall is an engineering student fro m Cody, Wyoming. Force Baney, Jr., engineering student from Great Falls, Montana, was chosen convocation representaMrs. L. L. McBride is the tive. freshmen advisor.
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Approximately two-thirds of the students at Montana School of Mines have come from within the State according to figures on geographical distribution of the student body recently released by W. M. Brown, Registrar. Within Montana those communities with the greatest representation are Anaconda.'; Billings, Butte, Cut Bank, Deer Lodge, Fairview, Great Falls, Kalispell, Libby, Missoula, Roundup and Whitehall. Thirty-, four other communities have at least one student in attendance. California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, ew York, Pennsylvania, and W as h ington h ave t h e largest out-of-state attendance with twelve other states represented. Foreign countries are also well represente d' at. M ontana S c h 00 I 0f Mines this year: Hipolito Zevallos, Alfonso Arauco,' and Miguel Carrizales of, Lima, Peru; Peter Morton, Walter Morton, and Jose Estay Almonte of Chiquicamata, Chile; Erwin R. Schnell of Santiago, Chile; John Chellew of Antofagasta, Chile; Dario Caldera of Maracay, Venezuela; Ricardo Azocar of San Juan, Argentina; Au Ngoc Lieu of Saigon, Viet Nam; Wei-hsuan Chiang of Szenchuan, China; Dej Tewtong of Bangkok, Thailand; Mohamed S.' Mohsin of Kuwait, Arabia; Esfandias Saeed of Tajrish, Tehran, Iran; and P. M. Deshpandeof Nagpur, India. ' From South Africa there, is Jo~ hannes P. Dreyer.of Kamieskroon, Gordon R. Parker of Rosebank, and Werner Van Vuuren of Naboomspruit. The delegation from Canada inc1udes Alexander Chaky of New Westminister, British Columbia; Ronald Fletcher of Airdrie, Alberta; John Hunter and Michael Maddocks of Calgary, Alberta; Terrance J ames of Magrath, Alberta, Stanley Mikuse of Coleman, Alberta; and William Lees of Kimberly, British Columbia.
This year Montana School of Mines boasts of four sons of alumni. They are Milton J. Barnett, son of George M. Barnett, who graduated in 1954 with a Bachelor ofl Science Degree in Mining; George A. McCracken, Jr., son of George A. McCracken, Sr., who graduated in 1935 The bi-monthly newspaper, which with a Bachelor of Science Degree began as a mimographed sheet in in Metallurgy; Stephen R. Postle, 1954, will now go to press. son of Gordon L. Postle, who gradBegun by Andy Mular and other uated in 1933 with a Bachelor of interested students, the Amplifier became established as the official Science Degree in Geology; and school newspaper and is being pubDave P. Cadwell, son of Edward P. Iished by the journalism class and Cadwell.!.J'.i.:ho . grad,uated in 1932, financed, by ASS.M. with a 8.'if~~ 'YJ.qA:lSti'enc'~eg'!;)~\ T Ral1~<bIt:f~el<:, ~<Itlor~~1955 in M:ining and receive'd His 'M'a"sfer" --arfd'i~19S''6I, ln~'lsedf.~~t~ ation of Science Degree in Metallurgy ~ J\f"i.n' he added the' srditrl' ews 1937., yo~ ~n't read anywhere else."
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Funds Needed To Meet Increased Costs At a meeting held on October 8, the Student Council approved a tentative student activity fee increase and the question will be presented to the student body at the next convocation: It was mentioned that students in other Montana schools pay from five to ten dollars a year more than M.S.M. students for student activities, and prices, have risen since the last fee increase, 8 years ago.' In addition the general fund is extremely low and many worthwhile activities have been curtailed. Before the fee in-' crease is put into effect, it must be approved by two-thirds of the students and passed by the State Board of Education. The Student Council met with a downtown insurance agent on Monday, October 13, to discuss a plan for student hospitalization insurance. The proposed insurance would cover hospital and medical expenses incurred by accident or illness and would cost the student about ten dollars a semester. The student body will receive information concerning this plan about the end of November. The members of the Council are elected in the spring as part· of the "M", Day - activities. Officers for this year are Gene Lanier, President; Pat Butler, Vice-President; . Duane Diekman, Secretary- Treasurer; Tom Martin and Robert Wylie, Delegates; and Leonard' Darsow, Student Manager.
I'nternational
Club
The International Club was organized during the second semester of the 1956-57 school ~ear. The purpose of this student organization is to promote international relations. All students both foreign and American are encouraged to join. ' Officers of the club are Miguel Carrizales, pre sid e n t; Esfandiar Saeed, vice-president; Elaine .Gilman, secretary ; John Chellew, treasurer; and faculty advisor Professor Ralph 1. Smith .. In observance of Rotary Inter- ' national Relations Week, the local Rotary invited the student members to a luncheon at the Finlen Hotel, Thursday noon. Student members Hernando Arauco of Peru, Esfandiar (Sam) Saeed of Iran, Mohammed Mahtab of Pakistan, John Chellew of Chile and Mohame<\ (Moe) Mqhsin of Arabia gave brief talks concerning their respective countries. Arrangements for the lunoheon were made by Professor Donald W. McGlashan, faculty member of the Rotary. Plans for the future include a convocation here and public social to acquaint the community with the organization. Students are again urged to join this rapidly growing organization. Membership fee is a dollar and dues are a dollar monthIy.
Big W'eek End A combination picnic~pep rally, a football' game, and a dance were packed into the week end of November 2 and 3. The rally was held Saturday before the Mines vs. Western game at .Naranche Stadium. At the rally, the copper guards served a picnic lunch with the help of the Coeds. A dance, sponsored by the Freshman class, was held Sunday night and was well attended.