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The Montana School of Mines
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Published by the Associated Students the Montana School of Mines
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Seniors Have Highest Grade Average for First .Seme:sler Boyd and 'Smart Top The List With Straight The seniors, with a class grade index of 1.99, led the honor role for the first semester of 1957-58 according to recent information released by the office. Graduate students were second with an index of 1.97. The seniors also led numerically as 17 members of the class had, an average of 2.25 or higher. Leonard Boyd of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Doug Smart of Libby had a 3.00 index ?r a straight A average to take individual honors. In the next three places were John Hager of Big Timber, Dick Vincelette of Billings; and Doug Wadman of Cut Bank. As a group, the women students (including several part-time students) were on top with an index of 1.68, followed closely by the TI;eta Tau fraternity and the marned students. By departments, the Metallurgical engineers led' with seven students on the honor role, followed by six Petroleum majors, three Mineral Dressers, two' Geologists, and two Miners. , Twelve students from Butte won honors, including three general students. Great Falls ranked second with five and Billings was third with four. (Continued on page 4)
Tewtonq Captures Club Audience The special meeting of the International Club was held Monday evening, February 17,.in Museum Hall. The featured speaker was De) Tewtong from Bangkok, Thailand, a graduate student. Mr. Tewtong spoke about his native country, including its history, architecture, language, music and customs. The highlight of the talk was the displaying of silk scarfs and silver Jewelry. Another interesting point Mr. Tewtong brought out was that the music from "Around the World in Eighty Days" is patterned around his country's boat-rowing music. After the talk several members from various countries sang songs from their various countries in the native tongue. After the activities, refreshments were served. In the future the International Club plans to hold one meeting each 1110nth in the Museum Hall which will be open to the public.
Miners Plcn for E-Day On Wednesday, February 12, the mining, section of the Anderson~ar1isle Society met in the engineertng building. Vice-President Ross Wayment outlined several different Ideas of what the mining section Could do this year. Among the suggestions were setting up timber sets ~)oth ~outside and inside the buildIng, greater use of equipment displays, and the possible laying ,of about one hundred feet of rail over b'hich a compressed air motor would be run in £rol"'t of the engineering l!ilding. Dis..:arded by Professor Vl11e was the idea of holc1ing a tug8f-war between a slusher and the green horne(." The other student departments are urged to' l11eet and make their plans for E-Day. j
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FEBRUARY
27, 1958
Miner.s· Win Final Home Game 16·52 Hitting the basket with great accuracy .in the first half,' the Montana Mines defeated the Northern Lights of Havre. February 21, by a solid 76-52 score. In winning the second conference game of the season, the Orediggers compensated for a previous loss In Havre. The box: Mines (76) G M. Freebourn --.-. 5 ______________________ •.f. ____ Bennett 4 Rickman ...,...................... 10 J. Freebourn "--- .... _------._--- 1 Be.t,anger -------.-----------------2 The second half was rough, with Lueck ..-.-----_ ..--------- .. _-------- 0 2 both teams scoring in spurts. A to- King --------------------.------------. 2 tal of 63 personal fouls were called. Smart --------------.-------.-----''\0-. 1 For the first time, ten Miners Mahagin -----------------._--------1 broke into the scoring column. Cen- Coolidge ... _-_ .. _------------------. 0 ter Ron Rickman led with 21 points, McMillan _ ... _-------_----._._----0 including ten field goals. Following Roberts - .._ .... _._---were Mike Freebourn with 16 and Mel Bennett with ten. Grub topped Totals 28 the scoring for the Lights with 12. Northern (52) G The Orediggers showed great im- Murphy 3 Haines 5 provement from the first of the Rowe 1 season and, under the guidance of Warwick 3 Coach Ed Simonich, should be in Grub ~ 4 strong contention for the confer- Filler 0 ence ~tleL.n~xt year. The victory Karst 0 over t e ~ghts wdas due, in a large Little 0 f part, to a. tig ter e ense and great- F' er accuracy from the field. rreser , ~
The Miners started fast in the I second period, breaking into a 15point lead. Coach Simonich alternated reserves freely throughout the rest of the game. The score at halftime was 38-15.
LEONARD
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SEATS NEW MEMBERS At the close of nominations February 13, the Residence Hall ~ouncil declared the three men norninated as having been elected to serve as delegates. The new members of the governing body are Don. Bray, Gus Coolidge, and AI Walkup. Don Bray is a sophomore from Big Timber, looking to the future as a petroleum engineer. Don was here in 1955-56 as a .freshman before leaving to spend SIX months WIth the U. S. Army. Gus Coolidge, a junior in petroleum engineering, ,;:?mes 'from Sunburst. Gus is an actn:e man ?n campus; you have seen ~Im playing basketball with the Miners, and he IS the newly elected Regent of Theta Tau. .. b AI Walkup you will remem er .as the plunging fullback of the Or ediggers . last fall. AI cam~ to. MS.M from Philipsburg to major 111 mining and is a member of 'Sigma Rho fraternity. The new members joined Gordon Parker Richard Roberts, Dave Johllso'n and Dick Banghart in the regular ;nonthly meeting held February 18. With a dlsappomtmg nun:ber of students present, the Council discussed various hall problems. The students present agreed that the RH C should work for the early purchase of it television set. to supplement the limited rckreatlOnal facilities.
Diekman Elected Marshall A meeting of the senior class was held at 12:30 P.M. Thursday, February 20, to discuss the program for M-Day. Duane Diekman was elected marshall and is now making plans for a very elaborate day. Plans are also being made for the senior class to attend the A.I.M.E. meeting in Spokane, Washington, April 17, 18, 19. It was announced that special student rates will be available to those seniors attending the conference. There will be another meeting for further discussion of these projects.
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MSM Hosted Hoopsters In co-operation with the Butte Chamber of Commerce, Montana School of Mines was host to approxirnately 100 students who were iri Butte for the Class "C" Basketball TOUl:na~ent. The Chamber arranged WIth a caterer to furnish lunch for these visitors' on Saturday noon, February 22. After lunch, the Copper Guards escorted the visitors on a tour of the MSM campus which started at' 1 :30 P.M ..
THESPIANS THAMPI NG The play My Three Angels which is scheduled to be put on the 17th and 18th of March has its cast assigned and is in its third week of practice, The !=ast has developed' to a POI!~twhere I~ can practice without the :;tId of scnpts, and the play is shapl11g up with the aid of prompters and propmen. Play practice will be held every Monday, Tuesday, Wedn!!sday and Thursday at 4:00 p.M. I~ the LibrarY-Museum build- Don Mahagin tries for two while Light I11guntIl production. background are King and J. Freebourn.
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