Ode To The Chem'Es in '56
The Chem'E students in 1956 were a motley crew,
as for adulthood, some were old and some were new.
The majority were kids, some too young to shave,
the others were veterans, having served so brave.
Everyone could tell who was in the Engineering School,
because each was decked out with his new slide rule.
They wore them proudly, on their right hips,
and as they strutted across campus, they had smug lips.
They felt superior to the students in BusAd,
and to have a friend in the Cow College was a little sad.
So they took their math, physics and chemistry,
and a few moved on up to Stoichiometry.
In Stokie we hit our first really rough stuff,
earlier courses had been difficult, but Stokie was extremely tough.
Yet our saving grace was the professor, Dr. Mack Tyner,
if you researched all college professors, none would be finer.
In his quiet, methodical, and patient way,
he taught us how chemical balances come into play.
And to solve interrelated functions which have more than one
unknown,
requires the same number of equations be analytically shown.
Next came Engineering Economics, taught by Dr. Schweyer,
every student who passed his course became a much wiser buyer.
And to profitably market an engineering product, one had to see,
how the relationships of output versus cost and profit came to be.
Our most varied course was Dr. Huckaba's Unit Ops,
there we designed fractionating columns from bottoms to tops.
And there our trusty slide rules really came into play,
to determine the necessary number of plates, there was no other way.
In the UnitOps lab, Dr. Huckaba's teachings were put to the test,
and all quickly learned Credo's reports were always the best.
And if you thought you knew what the rest results should be,
but your test data were different, then a 'dry lab' report was the
best recipe.
Probably our 'most unsung' professor was Frank May.
He made complex and troublesome experiments seem like play.
One such test involved liquid/solids separation using the Humphrey
Spiral,
following his directions, it worked perfectly the very first trial.
Strength of Materials Professor Neff ate his peanuts and called us
"You Chemicals,"
his test problems were killers, having stemmed from his whimsicals.
The walk from the Hangar to Leigh Hall was almost a mile,
and a prize was offered to anyone who had ever seen Dr. Beisler
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U of F Chem'Es in 1956
Agee, Robert B.
Baldwin, Douglas, Jr.
Bosworth, Robert T.
Brown, Gilbert M
Cabina, Rudolph J.
Campbell, Joe L.
Clement, John L.
Foster, Roland B.
Geddes, James C., Jr.
Green, Robert H.
Habbaba, Saadallah
Hall, Kenneth W.
Hall, Maurice
Hall, Wendell L.
Leybourne, Allen E.,III
Martinez, John L.
Morris, Joseph D.
Potter, Arthur E.
Riel, Gordon K.
Schwab, Credo
Shankin, Marvin Y.
Speed, George B. H.
Stein, Charles A.
Stewart, John T., Jr.
Sumner, Wallace B.
Whitmore, Harold B., Jr.
Wilson, Walker V., III
Windham, Donald M. |
