PAGE 'WO DR. KENT FORSTER receives tho Second Annual President's Await' for superior teaching from President Eric A. Walker at commencement ecerci,es Saturday. Special Safety Rules Aid Atomic Workers Dr. Edward S. Kenney, University health physicist, is responsible for the health and safety of those working with the University's Nuclear Reactor, located on the eastern edge of campus, and any other people working with radioactive materials. To insure safety, Dr New Methods Studied for Oil Recovery Studies relating to newer meth-1 ods of oil recovery are being con ducted by the department ofi petroleum and natural gas at the, Univeisity Particular emphasis is being placed on the school alcohol slug process and the combustion drive recovery method. The alcohol slug process has, been studied theoretically by ap-: plication of the mass transfer and; displacement theories. Experi-. ments have been conducted using, cores of different lengths made) of packed glass beads and packed crushed Berea sandstone. A 100 foot core has been assembled to study the alcohol slug process un der "pilot plant" conditions more nearly resembling actual field conditions. The aim of this research is to understand how the oil is con tamed in oil-bearing sandstone and how it can best be displaced towards the producing well. The mechanism of fluid flow and dis placement of oil from porous media have been studied through use of a microscope technique. , These studies are supported by . grants from the Pennsylvania , Glade Crude Oil Association, South Penn Oil Company and the. State Special Petroleum Fund.,' The research is under the direc tion of Dr. R. L. Slobod, profes-1 sor and head of the department of petroleum and natural gas en gineering. P I Z Z A "We can't make all the pizza, so we only make the best." Joe's Pizza Shoppe 131 N. Atherton St. AD 8.2441 Kenney has provided that film badges be issued to everyone, who goes into the Reactor build ing. They consist of a metal back-' ing with a metal frame on front, that allows the film or negative' enclosed in it to register any beta or gamma rays that the wearer', may c')me in contact with. Periodically the films are re moved from the badges and sent to a lab for developing which brings out any rays that may be registered on them. So far no film badge has shown any undue amount of radiation in fact, the Reactor has an excellent safety record. The monitoring system begins right on the bridge from which the reactor is suspended. If the amount of radiation coming from the surface of the pool should mount above the continuous tol eiance level for which it is set, the monitor detector, which is connected to the monitoring sys tem, will automatically shut off the reactor. It will also signal a loud horn for people to evacuate the building, and actuate an alarm 'on the University switchboard. Kenney has the responsibility for keeping check on the var ious laboratories of the Univer sity where radioactive materials (Continued on page eight) SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Turf Grass Program Continues • More than $20,000 has been poured into a University re search program to develop superior turf grasses for use on golf courses, parks and lawns, and to improve cultivation and maintenance methods The project, under the direction of H. Burton Musser, professor of agronomy, has been supported since 1947 by the Greens Section Committee of the United States Golf Association. One of the problems being vvoi ked on this year is the de velopment of a non-creeping type of bent grass. According to Mus ser, creeping bent grass has plagued turf management direc tors for years, since it gradually spreads and takes over the fine grasses with which it is mixed. Bent grass is useful in mixtures because of its density and quality, he said, and non-creeping types would contribute a great deal to improvement of turf. Albert Dudeck, graduate stu dent from West Hazleton, is pres ently conducting research on the inheritance pattern of the creep ing habits of Colonial Bent grass His studies are carried on under a Golf Association fellowship. Five other graduate students have been aided by this fund during the last 11 years. The University offers a regular 2-year course in turf manage ment as one of the winter courses in agriculture. Composed of two periods of 16 weeks each, its ob jective is to train persons to meet the shortage of men qualified for turf maintenance work. Golf courses, public parks, high way departments and other insti tutions have all felt a need for personnel trained in this field. Twenty-two students completed the course in April, and a new class will be enrolled in the fall Miller Named Asst At Nuclear Center Dr. Warren W. Miller, professor of chemistry, has been named an assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Nuclear Center, established by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission at the Uni versity of Puerto Rico, for the 1959-60 academic year. He has been given a year's leave of absence by the Univer sity to accept this position. Dr. Miller will be an assistant to Dr. Carlos Bonilla, professor of chemical engineering at Co lumbia University, who is in charge of the Center. The Penn State professor will operate the nuclear science and engineering part of the Center's program. Part-Time Teacher Murphy Travels Riding Boxcars By JEFF POLLACK George E. Murphy, professor of education, loves to travel—and he doesn't care how. Boxcar, tramp steamer—they're all the same to the man who has been periodically on the go since 1932. Murphy said his travels began when he was 25. He "rode the rods" from North Dakota in a big sweeping arc through the southwest to Los Angeles. Then he headed on to Seattle, Wash., and back to North Dakota According fo the man who met the King of the Hoboes, he had saved $5O when he started the trip. Only $35 was spent in the two months he was on the move. Murphy said most of the travel was by freight train—he took only one bus ride and did very little hitch-hiking. He said he made the trip partly as a challenge to the theory that a teacher couldn't get along out side the class room for 10 sec onds and was completely inef fective in life. His other reason was to prove' some of the information in a book, on hoboes and to gather some data of his own. He is still work-! ing on it. , And he got more of a chance to meet them than he expected. Murphy was arrested in Los: Angeles as a vagrant and spen t: two days in the lock-up. During' his stay he interviewed 65 others ) in the "tank" with him. 1 He has taken many other trips since his first. Most of them have been sandwiched between semes- 3 ters and on sabbatical. Last year he went around the world on freighters. On this trip, unlike some of his earlier, he took his wife along. I . Murphy has been in 49 states so far. He says he has to get to. Alaska soon. He visited Hawaii before it was a state but said he didn't want to quibble. "There are too many things in the world still to see," he said. He also plans to visit South • America as soon as possible. Originally he had hoped to go last summer, but he said there was a conflict of dates which prevented the trip, During the summer of 1960, Murphy hopes to head for the South Seas. 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