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Open house

THE nineteenth annual cele-bration of St . Patrick's day by engineerswas to open with a bang, Wednesday,March 16 with the engineers' show atthe Sooner theater, featuring the screenplay Prestige, with Ann Harding. Fortyfive minutes of vaudeville were to befollowed with Lloyd Holtson as masterof ceremonies, assisted by TommyBurns, comedian .The most important event of the eve-

ning by far, was to be the introductionof the engineers' queen, Miss Marion

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Mills, to the student body . A panto-mime featuring E. Van Heflin was to begiven, while the four Hills brothers wereto give an interpretation of the Millsbrothers of radio fame. Dance acts andorchestra music by the Boomers were tocomplete the evening.

Erin Go Braugh was to be adequatelydepicted in the parade which was heldat 10 o'clock Friday morning, March 18 .Queen Marion Mills was to parade

with her escort of twenty green shirtedengineer attendants . St . Pat, having lo-cated the Blarney stone was to return tothe engineering building where he wasto place the crown upon the head ofQueen Marion, who was to kiss theBlarney stone, swearing allegiance to theengineers.

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Above-leftto right: Frank Ittner, Jay Rob-ison, Morris Frank, MissBessie Kniseley, Charles Lud-wick, J. L. Forbis, WilmerRagsdale and Bill Barlow

Left to right : Ken-neth Gillespie, Sam Hogan, DrCecil Langford, professor of chemical engineering, Wyatt Hendricks,-Red- Lynch, -Doc- Smith

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Above-leftto right : Ray Will, HylageneRobberson, Jack Frederick-son, Bernard Doud, JimmieLisk, -Hank- Johnson, BobFeemster, Cecil Armstrongand Vic Torres

Included in thesegroups are sons of St . Patrick,mechanical, electrical, civil and pe-troleum engineers . The right groupincludes S . Hogan, H . Johnson,Baxter, Andrews, Taylor, Fredrick-son, W. Bradshaw, J. Stephens,B. Lisk, Lynch, Hughes and Forbis .In the center are Wyatt Hendricks,Albert Taylor, Jerry Andrews andWilliard Bradshaw . The group tothe left is Professor Page's E. E.274 class including King, Callahan,Barrett, Kanouse, Strassberger, Mil-ler, Reid Brown, Watson, Grisso,Arnett, J. Lisk and Hughes

The fanfare of the afternoon was toopen with many visitors being conduct-ed through the open house, held in bothengineering buildings for display ofevery sort of electrical entertainment.

St . Pat's dance

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When an engineer says "Miss Sororitywould you like to attend the engineers'dance with me" she will quickly say,"I would be thrilled to death." Thisis one time in the year when an engineerhas no trouble getting a date . Girlshave been known to even break otherengagements for this part of the cele-bration. The dance was to be held Fri-day, March 18 .When you see the extraordinary light-

ing effects and the neat programs, com-bined with the soft and gay music, youwill swear by St . Patrick that you havenever attended a more colorful affair .The decorations will consist primarily

of different colored lights, arrangedabout the room in reflectors and con-nected so that no color will be shown

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twice during the entire evening. Every-one is warned not to forget that he isat a dance when the moon makes itsnightly call .The programs will be passed out dur-

ing the grand march, to be led by St .Patrick and the Queen, and followed bymembers of the engineering college.

Shortly before midnight the orchestrawill strike up the final number, "Boom-er Sooner," which will terminate thegala occasion . By this time the flash-ing lights from various colored fireworkswill have illuminated the sky. Every-one will gather at the north side of theengineering building to view the inter-esting spectacle and hear the reportsfrom the deep and roaring throat of"Old Trusty."

The banquet

St . Patrick and the Queen will leadthe engineers and their guests into thedining room of the First Christianchurch promptly at 6 :30 o'clock Satur-(TURN TO PAGE 221. PLEASE

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Engineer's open house

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Few schools offer the realism ofactual life like the school of petroleum engineering .At the immediate right we see the Slater Brothersturnbuckle derrick model, twelve feet high, withRobert W. Lisk, '32, who was to be in charge ofthe production display during St . Pat's celebration ;and at the extreme right is the rotary tubular derrick,122 feet high, with Chester B . Anderson, '33 eng .,who designed and built the model . Below is theSullivan Diamond core drilling machine with RobertR . Lindsly, member of the St . Pat's council

Campus drilling

BY C. B. ANDERSON, '33

BEGINNING with this se-mester, geology students and petroleumengineers have an opportunity of learning first-hand knowledge of core-drill-ing. A Sullivan Diamond Core-drillingmachine has been added to the equip-ment of geology and petroleum engineer-ing schools according to Dr Victor E.Monnett, director of the school of ge-ological engineering, and Professor H.C. George, director of the school of pe-troleum engineering .The service of this machine is being

donated by George, David and John St .Clair, senior geology students at theuniversity . These three students havehad valuable experience in core-drillingin Canada, United States, and Mexico,and will be in charge of the drillingoperations . The cores that are obtainedwill be studied and the underlying bedscorrelated by the geology students .The Garber sandstone foundation

which underlies the campus will be ofparticular interest . It is approximately600 feet below the surface.The petroleum engineering school now

has two models of drilling equipment.A standard cable rig has been donatedby the Slater Brothers Derrick Company.This rig is a model eighty-four-footturnbuckle wooden derrick and machin-ery built to scale . The entire rig istwelve feet high . The first semester of1932 a model rotary-tool rig was builtfor the university by Chester B. Ander-son, a senior petroleum engineer . Thederrick is a model of L. C Moore tu-bular steel, 122-foot derrick built to one-tenth scale. The draw-works have been

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added and the entire drilling operationsmay be performed. Both models are inthe laboratories of the petroleum en-gineering school .

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day, March 19 for the final and mostcolorful event of the annual celebration .Mr George V. Metzel, secretary of the

Y. M. C. A., will pronounce the invo-cation . During the dinner hour theRamblers orchestra will play . Decora-tions will consist of green and whitestreamers of crepe paper with tables pro-vided with large bouquets of green andwhite carnations .Mr J. F. Owens, president of the O.

G. & E. and of the N. E. L. A., andprominent in many other activities willpreside as toastmaster . Talks will bemade by Dean Felgar and President Biz-zell .The principal address will be made by

Dr A. H. Compton, professor of physicsof the University of Chicago. DoctorCompton has many honors to his credit .He was elected to the American Acade-my of Science in 1927, received their goldmedal award, received the Nobel Prizefor the year 1927 . He has made many re-search contributions to science includingthe change in wave-length of X-rayswhich is known as the "Compton Ef-fect ." His subject for the address at thebanquet is "Marco Polo-1932 ." DoctorCompton, who was to be brought hereby the Oklahoma school of religion will

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spend time with the physics studentsalso .Musical numbers include a vocal solo

by Miss Gladys Perdue, whistling byMorris Frack accompanied by MissLoree White and a special feature num-ber which will be a surprise to all .The banquet will close with the

knighting ceremony in which graduat-ing engineers who are in good standingwith the Engineers' club will be dub-bed Knights of Saint Patrick by QueenMills and presented their St . Pat's di-ploma by St . Pat. CECIL ARMSTRONG .

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