Brown and White Vol. 60 no. 1

              spilman traces industrial growth at design seminar the industrial revolution was the atomic bomb of the 18th century raymond spilman told members of the product design seminar at the third session wed nesday in packard laboratory spilman is co-director of the sec ond annual seminar conducted jointly by lehigh university and the society of industrial designers in tracing the development of industrial design from the days of the early egyptians and greeks spilman described the craftsman of the early civilizations and the development of the family units he told of the development of the guild system which followed the family units and how this group created financed manufactured and marketed their own products spilman also said that new de velopments in the field are fash ioning a new profession based upon former precepts and the knowledge that given a choice the buying public will purchase the better design if it has been speci fically developed for their needs and appreciation road and dr h s deck 95 for merly chief engineer and consul tant ordnance department before analysis could be started all available reports on bomb damage had to be located and collected for this immense task col c s reed u.s.a re tired was engaged and in two and a half years of searching accumu lated more than 4,000 reports for the project library volms one of the final report by the project consists of a complete bibliography of this library and of various indexes designed to facili tate locating reports in the library final compilation of this volume was completed under the direction of b m nead and r s graber instructors in english the broad scope of the projects is shown by the number of depart ments of the university from which specialists were drawn for various studies the relation be tween bombing and industrial production was studied by e c bratt professor of economics who in addition to his academic activi ties has served as economic and statistical consultant to bethlehem steel company and to several agencies of the united states gov ernment l c jurgensen instruc tor in accounting assisted profes sor bratt in this study physical damage to chemi cal installations was analyzed by a team which included prof t t holme head of the department of industrial engineering chairman mr j m beauchamp assistant professor industrial engineering and d e mack professor of chem ical engineering during the war prof holme as lt col u.s.a was executive officer maintenance division hq sos eto and later was officer-in-charge of engineer ing springfield armory professor beauchamp during the war was a lt usnr a statistical analysis of physical damage to industrial buildings was made by prof v v latshaw of the department of mathematics who from 1944-1946 was mathe matician national advisory com continued on page 4 col 1 volume 60 — number 1 registration . . . friday june 30 1950 discussion features workshops opening bethlehem pa dr robert a bream head of summer workshops shown on the right checks over registration ticket of mrs helen schaefer others are miss mary robinson mrs anna t dickinson miss margaret i bryson mrs lydia h strart and arthur f hartman june grads flood labor market making job placement tough in memory the brown and white ex tends its sympathy to the fami lies of david r thomas and thomas p nelson two students who met their death when the plane they were flying plunged into the south mountain on june 7 david thomas a junior ma joring in engineering-physics was the son of dr and mrs harold p thomas of bethle hem r.d 2 dr thomas is the head of the education depart ment thomas nelson was the step son of john a herlihy vice president of united airlines of denver colo nelson was a freshman majoring in mechan ical engineering smith receives hillman prize at year's end dr robert m smith head of the department of english was presented the r.r and e.c hill man award of more than 1,000 at the annual faculty dinner held at the close of the regular school year the award is given annually to a member of the faculty who is deemed to have done most toward advancing the interests of the uni versity george w kyte assistant pro fessor of history and rev george m bean were joint recipients of the alfred noble robinson award of 1,000 both kyte and bean re ceived 500 for the prize given by brig gen alfred r glancy at lanta ga alumnus and wartime deputy chief of army ordnance silver engraved trays with the inscription for loyal service to lehigh university followed by the recipient's name and term of ser vice were presented by dr e kenneth smiley vice president to five members of the staff who were retired june 30 they are frank c becker chairman of the depart ment of philosophy dean palmer harry g payrow associate pro fessor of sanitary engineering judson g smull associate profes sor of chemistry and horace w wright head of the department of latin lehigh's two summer workshops in curriculum revision and health education will wind up their initial week of activity today with ella siegfried executive director of the lehigh valley social service exchange serving as moderator of a panel in the health seminar on the topic what help is available to schools from local community agencies on thursday the health workshop heard j raymond hoffert chief engineer pennsylvania department of health and clarence h kon miller state sanitarian for northampton county discuss standards for health and sanitation harry c woods executive sec retary lehigh valley safety coun cil also spoke to the group on safety in school — the life you save may be your own and mr taylor of the pennsylvania power and light co gave a demonstra tion of electrical hazards forty persons have regis tered for the health workshop and 30 have signed up for the curricu lum workshop according to rob ert a bream associate professor of education and workshop co-or dinator extending over a period of five weeks the sixth annual curricu lum workshop is intended to help teachers nurses and administra tors to plan their work for the next year along lines recommend ed by the pennsylvania depart ment of public instruction miss tompsie baxter lang horne will act as director of the workshop and roger a dunning stroudsburg will act as associate director curriculum director in the langhorne-middletown school dis trict miss baxter has served on the staff at the university of flor ida workshop dunning is princi pal of the ram school in stroudsburg and is past president of the elementary teachers divi sion of the northeastern district of the pennsylvania state educa tion assn to enable elementary school teachers and nurses to meet health needs more effectively in their own schools and communities the health workshop will run from june 26 to july 14 this is the sec ond year for the workshop serving as director of the health continued on page 2 col 5 are provided job prospects are excellent in some occupations industries and areas but in others where war time and post war shortages have been rilled many graduates will ind it difficult to get jobs if the problem is so critical where does it leave those who have no jobs at present in teaching for example there is at once an acute shortage of personnel in the elementary schools and growing oversupply at the high school level for the cur rent school year only one elemen tary teacher was trained for every three who were needed doctors it is almost impossible to obtain continued on page 2 col 5 bomb damage project finished by chet andrews brown and white lehigh university with approximatly a half a million students flooding the labor 1 markets since june graduation the problem of job placement has be come acute employment agencies . loking at the job situation said it ould be the toughest since the rl93o's.r 19305 in a recent communique the u.s department of labor said f^that the outlook is cloiided by 1 three factors the large number of graduates who will be seeking jobs a moderate increase in the to tal number of unemployed persons the filling of war-created shortages of college graduates in some specialized fields by the *-„ large graduating classes of 1948 and 1949 basically the economy of the country is strong and there is a general consensus that production i and employment will remain high during 1950 the only problem which now confronts the nation's economy is that of constantly pro viding more goods and services and utilizing fully a labor force hat is growing at the rate of 600 joo to 700,000 workers a year most of the jobs taken by this year's college graduates are those which have been vacated by other i workers most of the openings will occur in the large industries and the areas where there are now the heaviest concentrations of employ fihent the fact that american industry is in a period of intense competi tion for markets will be the major v ason for success in finding em ployment industry responds to competition by pushing advertis ing and sales efforts and by cut production costs streamlining operations replacing obsolete equipment and redesigning pro ducts and plants the communique s explained because of this competitive ness opportunities for profession ally trained workers and for young people with sales ability or imagination in the advertising field the largest cooperative ef fort yet undertaken by the lehigh university institute of research has just been completed with the publication of a six-volume final report compiled by the bomb damage analysis project when on september 18 1946 the contract was officialy accepted for the university by dean h a neville director of the institute of research the staff consisted of professors c d jensen director and m o fuller of the civil en gineering department prof g d harmon head of the department of history and government and a group of engineers from the beth lehem steel company the staff was soon enlarged by the addition of professor g j christensen supervisor of techni cal writing in the department of english later associate director of the project and by three engineer ing graduates f o duforr 96 formerly chief engineer for stone and webster company of boston h t rights 95 retired bridge en gineer for the lehigh valley rail