PACE SIX
College Station Aids Expedition
Penn State’s L-adio station
W3YA-ALMA is in daily com
munication with six men now
sailing the South Pacific An a
raft.
The station, which is operated
under the direction of Gilbert L.
Crossley. assistant professor of
electrical engineering, was unable
to establish contact with the ex
pedition during its firdt five
weeks of operation, but finally
succeeded on June 3.
Messages are sent and received
daily at 3 a.m. CEDT). which was
found after a trial period to be
the best time for transmission.
Principal station of the three
designated to communicate with
the expedition on its scientific
journey. W3YA-ALMA is oper
ated around-the-clock by Cross
ley. with the assistance of 21 un
derguaduates and nine staff mem
bers.
Messages Belayed
Messages received locally are
relayed to a designated news
paper syndicate, the U.S. Weather
Bureau (if they contain weather
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pier . . . aoout his work in saving
lives than in the fields of destroy
ing life.”
“As he honored himself, he
honored us. And just as truly as
if he had died on a far-flung bat
tlefield, he was a casualty of this
war.”
Great Scholar, Chemist
Characterizing the dean as a
great scholar, a great student,
and a great chemist—“among the
greatest of our day” Frizzell
spoke, too, of his home life:
“He was a great lover of his
home and family, wherein and by
whom he was loved in a way that
is the privilege of few men. The
world may have another memory
o fhim, but the picture I cherish
is of our friend walking down Al
len street, a grandson at either
side, and all three of them hi
lariously licking away at ice
cream cones.
“He had as great a zest for life,
for simple things, as he did for
meeting life’s great problems.” _
Long recognized as a leader in
the field of chemistry, Dean Whit
more in 1945 was awarded the
Willard Gibbs Medal, the highest
chemical honor in the nation. He
was the 34th recipient of the a
ward. Seven years earlier he had
received the William H. Nichols
Medal for outstanding chemical
research. Last year he was one of
29 American scientists named to
the National Academy of Scien
ces and in 1938 he served as pre
sident cf the American Chemical
Society.
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Born in North Attleboro, lviass.,
Dean Whitmore attended Atlantic
City, N. J., high school and com
pleted his undergraduate and
graduate work at Harvard. . He
taught at Williams, at Rice Insti
tute, a nd the University of Minne
sota and headed the chemistry de
partment of Northwestern Uni
versity before e-mipe *r Penn
State.
During his year* .North
western University from 1920 to
1929, Dean Whitmore became a
world authority on organic com
pounds, especially in connection
with their use as drugs. His vol
ume on “Organic Compounds of
Mercury” was long the only
treatis e on this subject and still
is recognized as the most auth
oritative one.
On coming to Penn State, Dean
Whitmore changed his field of re-'
search interest into that of simple
aliphatic chemistry, a field con
taining the simplest compounds of
carbon.
Developed Electronics
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information), or to the expedition
headquarters at the Norwegian
Embassy in Washington. D. C.
The College station, which also
was the key station for the sec
ond and third Admiral Byrd ex
peditions ' to the South Pole, is
equipped with specially-designed
instruments and devices to carry
out its mission as the expedition’s
key radio station.
The raft carries radio trans
mission and receiving equipment,
the transmitter powered by a
hand-driven generator and the re
ceiver with dry batteries. For
broadcasting to key stations, the
raft has. a two-element beam and
for broadcasting over other fre
quencies. there is an antenna held
aloft by a balloon in calm weather
and by kite in stormy weather.
Operators Decorated
Both radio operators aboard the
raft were decorated for their ac
tivities with the Norwegian un
derground during the war.. One
provided information that led to
the destruction of German pro
duction and supply of “heavy
his direction reinvestigated the
facts behind intra-molecular re
arrangements. Later he developed
here his electronic conception of
intra - molecular rearrangements,
and related reactions. His “Or
ganic Chemistry,” written here,
became the first distinctly ad
vanced text in English on the
subject.
During World War . ll' Dean
Whitmore’s research activity was
varied but included aviation fuels,
lubricants, explosives, anti-mal
arials, synthetic rubber, penicil
lin, silicones, camouflages, and
other subjects. He also served as
consultant to industrial groups
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wa.er ’ m Norway, and the other
sent information that. resulted in
the bombing and sinking of the
Nazi battleship. Tirpitz,
The six scientists headed by
Thor Heyerdahl. 33-year-old Nor
wegian ethnologist, who during
World War II served as a radar
parachutist with U. S. forces in
Europe, set sail from Peru on
April 29 on a 15x3’0-ft. replioa of
a Pre-Incaic balsa raft. Their in
tent is to prove there was a racial
movement from South America
to the Polynesian Islands about
500 A.D.. and that inhabitants of
the islands did not migrate from
Asia as is commonly believed.
Propelled by Ocean
The raft is propelled by ocean
currents, the wind,’ and’ paddles.
The expedition is identifiable as
“Kon-Tiki.” which means “The
Son of the Sun” and represents a
symbol mutual to prelnoaic and
pre-Polynesian mythology.
Messages received at the Col
lege station are always signed:
“Six Men on a Raft.” •
and federal agencies, including
the War Production Board, War
Manpower Commission, National
Defense Research Committee, Of
fice of Production Research and
Development, and the Quarter
master General’s Office.
Born on Oct. 1, . 1887, Dean
Whitmore was a son of Frank
Hale and Lena Avilla- Thomas
Whitmore. In 1914 he married
Marion Gertrude of Cam
bridge, Mass., who survives with
four children: • Frank, Jr., of
Washington, D. C.; Mason,' Harry,
and Marion of State College. A
brother, Harold, of Fernandina,
Fla., also survives.
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