JThe'Montana School of Mines \
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Volume 6, No. 12
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BY THE ASSOCIATED
STUDENTS
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April 21, 1960
Dr. Un-de'rwood To Speak, Here New Faces on Hall Council Two freshmen, James A. Mazza of Chicopee, Mass., and Raymond Kotow of Crossfield, Alberta, Canada were ~lected to serve on the han' council. They were chosen to A 1 replace Dan Rovig and Bob pp egate as members of the hall councII after many hours of counseltation between the members of the council. After a few attempts, the hall council received the right to appoint a student to the faculty discipline committee. Don Roberts was the final choice of the hall council to this position. Don is a non-voting representative of the students, from the dormitory, on the discipline committee. , Now that the council has two. new members, and a student on the discipline committee, the hall council should be maintaining a high degree of efficiency, as ~epresentatives of the students m the residence ball.
Sigma Rho Plans Picnic,
Geologists Go Und,erground Dr. Earll's mming geologists started their underground studies before the Easter holidays by taking trips to. the Badger and Steward mines to learn sampling procedures. During the course a total of five underground tours will be made to study the various aspects of mining geol9gy, geological mapping procedures, and mine sampling. Today the second trip of the course will be made to the Badger and Steward mines to study mining geology. techniques. This trip will be followed later in the semester by several geologic mapp'ing trips .during which portions of the Steward and Badger mines will mapped. Students participating in this course are J: Chelini, S.. DenHartog, K. Erickson, K. Fox, J. Kirch-ner, A. Lindquist, D. Rasmussen, and R. Utter .. Geology Department professors assisting in this course are Mr. W. E. Cox and Mr. W. B. Hall. -
On April ,6 the Sigma Rho held a meeting for the purpose of electing delegates for the student council. A campaign committee was also appointed. Plans -for a picnic were discussed and then a committee was chosen for the purpose of carrying out the plans. ,
Dr. Arthur L. Underwood, Jr., < Associate Professor of Chemistry at Emory University, Georgia, will speak at Montana' School of Mines on, "Infrared Spectrophotometry of Inorganic Anions" on Monday, April 25 at 7 :30 p.m. in room 216 Metallurgy Building. . I \ He was born in Rochester, New York in 1924, and attended the Rochester public schools. He graduated from.the University of Rochester with a B. S. degree in chemistry in .i944, and then served in the U.S. Navy for 2·years. In 1946, he returned to the University of Rochester as a Research Associate on the Atomic Energy Project, and began working toward the Ph. D. degree in biochemistry. During this period, Underwood also worked on analytical problems encountered in studies of the toxicology of beryllium. He received the r
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• Ph. D. in 1951. In' 1948, UnderN90d married Elizabeth Emery, a cello'w graduate student at Rozhester, and they now have' 3 .hildren, .
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3' Miners With AED of PPC Information compiled this weeks . . . th t 421 technical employ- and Queens Uruversity of Belfast, I revea s a Ireland ees of P.hillip~ pet~o~e~~ ~~~p~~:. Of the 421 degree-holding techAtomic Energy DIV:~~rsities and ;}ical employees, 101 have degrees grees from 115 ~ . the field of chemical engineercolleg~s. The t~tall:CgrIU::: :~dd~~ ~~g; six at the Ph.D level, 17 at the torates, 68 mas ers e masters level. and 78 bachelors. bachelor degrees. The field of chemistry is second Idaho State College and Mon- with 9'2 employees comprising 21 tana State College head the list doctorates, 20 masters and 51 with each school providing 26' de- bachelors degrees. Physics' is a gree graduates. The Univer.sity of close. third with a total of 87 deUtah is a close second with 215,.grees that includes !.9 doctorates, The Univefsity of Idaho has ~9 20 masters, and 3:9 bachelors dealumni representatives, the Uni- grees. M~chanical engineering is versity of Washington has 1<6and the field of 56 employees with one the University of Colorado- 14. at the masters level and the remaining 55 with bachelor, degrees. Utah State University and OreThe electrical engineering' employgon State· College are tied with :12 three at the masters le~el. graduates each. The University of three at the mastrs level. Oklahoma has ,11 alumni, and the Six employees have degrees in University of Wyoming has 110. Six metallurgical engineering, one different schools have eight gra~- each at t~e doctorate and masters uates each-Brigham Young Uni- level, an'd four with bachelor deversity, North Dakota Agricul.tur.al grees. Seventeen employees have College, The University of Illmol~, degrees in mathmatics and statisthe University of Kansas, the Uru- tics which include two doctorates, versity oft Nebraska, and Rice In- one masters degree and t14 bachestitute. Rice Alumni include 7 Ph. lor degrees. Metallurgical engiDs and one bachelor degree holder. neering is the, field of six degree Washington State I College has employees which includes one docprovided 6 graduates, MCiltana torate, one masters and four bachSchool of Mines has 3, the College elor degrees. Nu1:lear Engineering masters deof Great Falls (Montana) has 2, claims four men-two , and Northewestern Nazarene Col- grees and two bachelors. Other fields that are represented lege of Nampa (Idaho) also has two. Foreign universities include by at least one degree include air and refrigeration, McGill University of Montreal conditioning engineering, archi(Quebec Province), Techniche aeronautical (Col)-tinued on page 4) Hochschule of Aachen, Germany,
Coming, Events (
APRIL21-Student Wives Bridge, CoedRoom, 8:30. ;3-AAU Weight Lifting Meet, Northwest Division. 24-BasebaIl, Mines at Western. MAY-
l-Senior Tea. 2-AIME Meeting, Phy-Lect Room, Petroleum Bldg. 2-BasebaU, Carroll at Mines. 2-Faculty Women's Club, Main Hall, 18:00p:m.
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Mr. F. N. Ramseier, a graduate student in Geology, recently gave an interestnig seminar entitled "The Causes of Earthquakes." Mr. Ramseier discussed several of the modern theories of _earthquake causes and their relationship to present earthquake areas.
Interview Schedule for April, 1960: April 2,6, 27-Anaconda Company (Salt Lak~ City, Utah) Interviewer; Mr. John F. Dugan, Representative; Prof. Vine, in charge of interview; 20B-B, Eng. Bldg. ' \
All interested juniors, seniors, and graduates. This Interview plete the interview schedule for the year 1959-6'0.
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Magma Goes To Press
Prof. McCaslin Scholar-shipped
Everyone can relax now-that ,s-everyone who has been working on the MAGMA Staff for ~he past month. The first draft has been sent to the printers, and only the proofreading and a few minor adjustments remain. The MAGMA Staff' has put every effort· toward the book to make it a success. Close cooperation between staff members and the advisors was ever:'present( quring 'the work, and c06tributed heavily toward the completion of the MAGMA. Lew Fischer, editor, headed the staff, with John' Bennett 'serving as assistant editor and John Ruf fatto, business manager. Considerable art work for the MAGMA was done by Werner Raab and Jean Sigurdson. The remaining part of the 'staff consisted of fifteen students who were assigned to various sections of the MAGMA. This year's MAGMA will be bound with a padded leather cover, picturing a prospector panning gold along a stream. It also contains colorful division pqges that separate the various sections. Although student cooperation with the MAG~A Staff was very
John G. McCaslin, assistant professor /of' physIcs at Montana School of Mines, has been award'ed a month-long scholarship at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute,' Troy, New York. He will attend a summer insti-
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tue on analog and digital computers' which will begin on June 19th and conclude on July 15th. Profess_?r McCaslin will be one of a class of twenty to attend the institute from colleges across the United States. \ The cOdrse will consist not only of the'theory of computers but will involve actual experience in solving problems with the computers. good, many students failed to have their pic!ures taken. It is hoped that a larger percentage of students will have their pictures taken next year. I ( Students are urged to refrain from crowding the publications room to catcn a' glimpse of the first draft of the MAGMA. P>. notice will be issued the moment the MAGMA arrives on the Campus. A' time schedtfle will be set up so that all stUdents may fulfill their desires to look at the MAGMA.
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In 1952, Underwood did postdoctorail work in analytical chemistry at MIT. He then joined the Department of Chemistry at Emory Univ~rsity, where he now holds the' rank of Associate Professor. He' is ( currently on sabbatical leave from Emory working with yv. D. Cooke at Cornell University. Dr. Underwood has published a series of papers in analytical journals including work on photometric titrations with EDTA, titrations of 'metal chelate compounds in non-', aqueous solvents, and infrared spectrophotometry of inorganic ions. He is the co-author of a recent test and laboratory manual in quantitative analysis. He belongs to' the American Chemical Society, the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science, the American Association of University Professors, and the Society , of the Sigma Xi. Infrared spectrophotometry has been largely neglected by analytical chemists in deailing with inorganic systems. The alkali halide pressed disk' technique makes possible the development of infrared methods for a large variety of inorganic substances, and. its applicability is readily extended to samples presented as aqueous. solutions by combining it with lyophilization (freeze-drying): The freeze-drying in turn,' provides. a good way of ' handling column elubriates, and, thus preliminary chromatographic separation and concentration steps can be combined' -with infrared spectrophotometry for handling a / variety of inorganic samples. Since .most of the modern optica'l. and electrochemical techniques provide improved methods for determining metallic elements, it is, inte'resting that the 'infrared approach seems most useful 'in determining anion;:;. The infrared spectra of a number of inorganic anions, alone and in . mixtures, are shown and discussed in this lecture, and the techniques are described by which the spectra are obtained. Applications of these methods to pra;ctical analytical problems ar,e then considered. The infrared determination of nitrate' 'nitrite, and sulfatae in water"sam~ pIes fol1lowing an ion exchange separation serves as a good example of what can be done. The determination of traces of contaminant anions in reagent chemical is another example. Finally, the infrared ,€'xamination of analytical precipitates Dor coprecipitated anions is an outstanding application. Of the. various instrumental methods that can be used to find the equivalence points of titrations photometric onesi are p~rhaps th~ most obvious, because ordinary visual titrations with colored in- . dicators are in a sense 'photometric. ay replacing white light with monoohromatic light and the human eye with a p'hotoelectric detector, we often obtain advantages in (Contin.ue~ on page 4),
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