PAGE 'Nig Engi -: 44; • • • -1111ir " ‘;. • • , • Z. 1":" • • t • 11‘'•;:3§44,01';',, , „ iNKsCll•''"'?;- .:,;,2.4';'kkl:4tlZA 21". • • ' , r.• 414* • " •‘••'", ‘• • ; k",?;'):F.;-;F 3-4 • ; Walker Eric A. Welcome to the Engineering school of The Pennsylvania State College. Congratulations on tak ing your first step to joining an honorable and ancient profes sion. The road to professional status is a long and difficult one. Only those who are willing to work long and hard and who are gifted with the ability to think logically and clearly can ever reach that goal. But the goal once reached is well worth while. The satisfaction of creat ing machines and structures which the human race wants and -needs is, in itself, a great reward. . In some ways, it is fortunate • that there is today a tremendous demand for engineers. It has been estimated that the country can employ 44,000 new engineers every year. This number is needed to meet the demands of our .expanding economy .and to replace those who are retiring from the profession. We are not graduating that many new engi neers each year. Even with the swollen enrollments which fol lowed World War 11, we hardly reached this figure and now the ;number is" steadily declining. It will be many years before the trend can be reversed and supply will equal deinand. All of this means that the pro- fession. needs you. It has long - 'been recognized the world over that America has reached its po sition of preeminence in material things because of the work of its engineers. We have always known how to make better ma chines and more of them than the other nations of the world. Unfortunately, we have not al ways been first in new ideas and new inventions. For years we have had to look to the Euro pean nations for this kind of leadership. Today, however, that leadership is no longer virulent. We in America must try to as sume it. It is my hope that among this class will be some of the scientists who will provide tech nical leadership for the years to come. ERIC A. WALKER, Dean LaVie Pictures Campus life, Senior Class LaVie, recognized by those with a smattering of French as "the life," is the name given the Col lege yearbook. LaVie attempts to liVe up to its name by portray ing campus life, leaders, and stu dents with emphasis on graduat ing seniors. The annual, distributed late in May, is given only to seniors. Cost of a LaVie, now $l4 per person, is paid in installments by the individual as part of his fees, beginning his second semester. There is no advertising in the yearbook. Because the staff decided stu dents would rather look at pic tures, ;the amount of copy was reduced in favor of more photog raphy in last May's issue. Pictures of seniors, arranged according to school, are accom panied by short summaries of activities. Sections of LaVie recog nize senior . personalities, campus queens, activities, organizations and campus leaders. Candidates for LaVie begin work in their junior year. At the end of the year, the senior board is chosen by the outgoing staff. Herman Golomb, seventh se mester animal husbandry major, is 1954 LaVie Mineral Industries ',Y . :, , 1 1 14 44 •14 - rdi-,-!?.:;; ; ,., , , •I . '' v ••er'4 , ' ~,',,, z t ~'i • ~- •nf 1, , ~,,,, ; ;;;,,1 ';,.: ,',';', " 1 7:,;,.. '. ,1,- )•`: - - 'f ';';i'' ' ,'S ..' ,;:4.,..0 .c,',,:. , ~..,:,.,, ~,,...-'- „, .. -' , ;')'::,...1 . „,,',E.. 40 , 4 : ~. •-, •••.• ..,... , ;•rxt.0....*::: ,- -'•• 4! '..t.c...7.,7, , , ' • :,::::;';',..', I - "•:-. 4 1,- :',;;:;''''•::::::'''''', l ': 0 •••;i.. 1 1. , i4; . :,' , :• !, .'„; - - , :;: - '''q : ...• .52 - P;:, : ;2:::.!:,4 . :;;la ! . , 4, c4::, , ,,,' ,. -:::',,;.*:—.4 44, - ,,,,4,-.41.,. •,,,,,,:, • . •• ,:. • . 0e,,,,,, , ,,....,,,,, :‹ . , • • ~ e 5 , 0.4., -' • .--•-- ' ~-,,,,..• • v.- . • * : ”' ~, ~ ''vl-'-''';',.sFl '- 'i % . : '; Jii4 , iiiik " : 4; ,l ' , c . A.:: • .' • ' " .<:<•:M"lrtst•..-' , 7- r.: 4 2I:IIfZP -4, 5 , -, . - --- - -‘ , '