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LUCK!

GOOD

YOU WILL NEED IT, WE THINK;
EXAMS COMMENCE NEXT WEEK

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

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Delta Tau Delta Heads Fraterni
ties with 1.688 ; Beta Sigma
Omicron Has Highest
Sorority Record
GENERAL AVERAGE IS 1.392
Kappa Delta Pi Tops Jlonorary
List with 2.513; Alpha
Chi Is Next

Is Final Issue
Kernel Staff Closes Work of
Current Year
This issue will conclude the publication of The Kernel for the
school year 1925-2It is the custom in Kernel circles to cease publication one week before exams begin in order thnt the stnff may not
be handicapped in prcpnring for
their tests.
The Kernel will resume publication in September with the fall semester. The staff thanks the faculty and student body for their
splendid and encouraging cooperation during the past year. To the
To
seniors we bid you goodbye.
the rest we say that we are looking
forwnrd to rejoining you at old
Kentucky in the fnll and to a successful year in 1926-2-

In the final compiling of grades for
the last semester the women students
of the university were found to be
leading the men students by .33.1, the
standing of the women being 1.G19
while the boys had 1.280. The general
college average was 1.392 The soror- -'
ity women with standing of l.GGG led
women by .4; while
the
the fraternity men with a standing of
1.347 led the non fraternity men by
.61.
The Beta Sigma Omricon sorority
led the girls social organizations with
a standing of 2.1 while the Delta Tau Is Elected President
Governing Body ; W.
Delta fraternity led the fraternities

BENNETT WILL
HEAD COUNCIL

with a standing of 1.G88.
Following is a list of the general
of the men and women of
. standings
the university, and of the various
sororities and fraternities, social, honorary and professional as given from
the office of Dean Melcher, dean of
', men:
1.392
, General College Average
1.286
All Men Students
1.619
t All Women Students
1.347
Men
f FraternityWomen
1.666
T Sorority
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Both Men Are

of Men's
E. Sher-

Vice-Preside-

INSTALLATION

Juniors
IS

MAY

24

William Arch Bennett, of Hender
son, junior in the College of Arts and
president of
Sciences, was elected
Men's Student Council of the uni
versity last Friday, at an election
held by the men students of the university. Installation will take place
May 24.
1.285
Men
William Earl Sherwood, of Ewing,
'
J. 602
Women
junior in the Engineering College was
Class repre(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE) elected
sentatives on the council will be elected next fall .by members of their re

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FIELD DAY WILL
BE HELD MAY

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I R.O.T.C. Units To Have Annual
Exercises; Lieut. Gov. Den-hardt Will Address

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PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED
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" Wednesday,

May 26, is Military
Field Day at the university, at which
time the announcement of the winners
for the awards in the R.O.T.C. unit
will be
for the school year 1925-2made. There are eight cups which
are to be offered to the students of
Military Science and Tactics, these
being: University cup and streamer
for the company having the highest
standing throughout the year; (2)
Colonel Freeman cup and streamer
for the best drilled company; (3) the
General Williams cup for the member
of the senior class having the highest
standing in minor tactics; (4) Phoenix
Hotel cup for the highest standing in
the senior class; (5) Lafayette Hotel
cup for the highest standing in military science in the junior class; (6)
Lexington Herald cup for the highest
standing in military science in the
sophomore class; (7) Lexington Leader cup for the highest standing in
military science in the freshman class,

spective classes, to serve during the
chool year.
The student council is a body concerned with the various problems of
student government, and it works in
cooperation with C. R. Melcher, dean
of men at the university. It is composed of 14 members: two members
from the senior class, elected from the
student body at large to serve as pres
of the or
ident and
ganization; five representatives of the
senior class; three members of the
of the
junior class ;two members
junior class; two members of the soph- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE)

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Arthur

Morris

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Edit Corbin Newspaper
Retiring Managing Editor of
Kernel Takes Position with
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Engineering College To Be Host
To Visiting Experts May 26-27-28

American Society of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers
Will Convene at University of Kentucky
PINE

Dean Anderson

PROGRAM PLANNED

More than GOO engineers, promi
nent in one of the great engineering
organizations of America, the American Society of Hcnting nnd Ventilat
ing Engineers, will meet in Lexing'
seml-nton for their
d
thirty-secon-

EXERCISES TO BE
HELD ON MAY 3

June

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Third hour

3

Fourth hour

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Fifth

classes.

Friday,

June

hour

classes.

Saturday,

June

Sixth hour

fi

classes.

PLAN BUILDINGS

semi-annu-

FOR ART CENTER
As dean of the College of Engineer
ing and First
of the
American Society of Heating and Ven
tilating engineers, Dean Anderson is
in charge of the arrangements for the
engineers' convention next week.

the public the other side
of "this window ventilation story,"
said Dean Anderson, in a letter of
special invitation to the members.
A great many University of Ken
tucky graduates have become promi- will give

Two New Frame Structures Will
Be Erected This Summer for
Music and Dramatic Departments on Winslow Street
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REPLACE

ROMANY

Plans are now under way for the
construction of two frame buildings on
Winslow street to house the music and
dramatic departments of the Univers
ity of Kentucky, according to an an
nouncement received from the department of buildings nnd grounds. The
buildings will be erected this sum-

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The music department will occupy
a one story frame building east of
the Art Center buildings, and the
dramatic department will be located in
the rear of the Art Center, and will
include a theater with the seating capacity of 250 to replace the Romany.
The rear of the theater will front
Adams street, and the stage entrance
New Buildings for Chemistry and Art Departments, and will open on the thoroughfare.
The new music building will have
Dormitory for Women Are Among the Greatest
3,000 square feet floor space, and the
Advances; Law School Gets New Home;
dramatic building will require 2,300
Student Enrollment Increasing
square feet. At the completion of these
The university year ending in June Law School, quite well arranged and buildings the three departments de
voted exclusively to art will be group
has been one of considerable nrocress adequate for the needs of the school. ed together.
Some improvements have taken place
and some disappointments.
The present quarters of the music
In the matter of construction the on the grounds in the way of addition
new Chemistry b":ying was complet- al roads and walks, grading and plant- department on the third floor of White
ed and occupied, very materially in- ing. The results under the direction
creasing the floor area to be used for of the new gardener will soon be ap- (CONTINUED ON PAG1" TWELVE)
The dormitory parent.
work in Chemistry.
Appropriation Is Small
for women was completed in Septem
Club
The university suffered a consider- ber in time for occupancy by students
Officers
entering in the fall. The quarters of able disappointment in the failure of Chooses
the art department were transferred the Legislature to make adequate
White Hall to the new building propriations for the erection of very John R. Bullock, Former Secre
tary, Named President for
on Winslow street, giving the depart- much needed buildings. The Inheri
ment a better arranged series of tance Tax was modified so as to give
Ensuing Year
of the proceeds
In the university
rooms for instruction purposes.
February the Stock Judging Pavilion from that tax. This law has been
At the last regular meeting of the
was destroyed by fire and plans have attacked in the courts and the results Patterson Literary Society held in
been made and construction now start- that may come from the suit are White Hall Thursday night, May 13,
ed to erect a somewhat larger build- awaited with a good deal of anxiety. the following officers were elected for
ing and to build it of brick so that it The proposed bond issue was only the next year; John R. Bullock, presiwill be more enduring. The old chem- half heartedly suggested and in 'the dent;" L. II. Stevens,
istry building, formerly occupied by long run the university probably is H. H. Davis, secretary-treasureR.
the department of chemistry is being
The re
M. Menth, Sargeant-at-armremodeled and will be used by the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE) tiring officers are J. B. Johnson,
John
dent; Bob Moss,

University Progress During Year
Is Discussed by President McVey

Patterson Literary

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Times-Tribun- e,

YEARLY AWARDS Engineers
Dinner
MADE BY W.A.A.

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Night

Times-Tribun-

twenty-secon-

Inquiring Reporter Seeks To Find

Out What Has Happened During the
School Year; Many

Phi

Alpha Elects

Debating

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Registrar Announces Dates
for Final Tests

classes.
Thurhday, June

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cations are that this
meeting will be the most notable in
the society's history.
The men who have been shaping the
destinies of the science of heating
and ventilating in this country for
many years are members of this, so
ciety, and the professional sessions
from 10 o'clock in the morning until
2 o'clock in the afternoon of each day
of the meeting include papers never
surpassed in importance in the annals of the society, according to those
in charge of the program.
The discussions, especially that of
the paper "Rational Ventilation," presented by Dr. J. E. Rush, head of the
department of hygiene of the Univer
sity of Kentucky, who was an engineer
before taking up work as a physician,

C0MMECEMENT

classes.
Wednesday,

nual convention on May 26, 27 and 28
The College of Engineering of the
University of Kentucky, of which
Denn F. Paul Anderson, first vice- president of the society, is head, will
be host to the guests.
This is the first time this organiza
tion has met outside of a great city
such ns New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlantic City, Buffalo,
Kansas City nnd Montreal. The indi-

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Exams Scheduled

The schedule for final examinations for second semester, according to the registrar's stntemcnt, is
ns follows:
Thursdny, May 27 Chemistry
and Hygiene; nftcrnoon
First
yenr French nnd Spanish.
Friday, May 28
First hour
classes.
1
Tuesday, June
Second hour

Arthur Morris, recently retired
managing editor of The Kernel, and
former member of the staff of The
Lexington Herald, who will be graduated from the university on May 31,
has accepted a position as editor of
at Corbin,
The Corbin
Ky., if the plans of Herndon Evans,
university and owner
alumni of the
and publisher of The Pineville Sun,
at Pineville, Ky., mature favorably.
Mr. Evans is now negotiating for the
Give
ownership of the Corbin paper and,
Tomorrow
'rvwr-TWlTrcfYM PARE TWELVE) in case the deal goes through satisfactorily, has engaged Mr. Morris to
take full charge of its publication
Elaborate Program for Twenty-secon- d
ATTENTION SENIORS!
immediately upon his graduation.
Annual Affair Is
Paper Published Weekly
Arranged
There will be a meeting, of the senTown Girls and S. B. U. Tie for
e
is the
The Corbin
ior class Wednesday morning, May 26,
Silver Trophy Offered for
d
The
annual dinner of
at 10 o'clock, in room 301, W(hite hall. only newspaper in that city and is
First Place in Track
is important that all members of published weekly. Mr. Morris will also
It
the faculty of the College of EngineerMeet
the class be present.
ing and the members of the senior
Elmore Vossmeyer, class president. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE) MABEL HILL IS WINNER
class of this college, will be given tomorrow night at Beaumont Inn. This
The Women's Athletic Association
:
of the university held its first annual banquet, one of the important events
banquet Tuesday evening nt G:30 at of the year for students of engineerthe Calvary Baptist church. During ing, affords an opportunity for stutlie banquet, awards were made to
and
Given the outstanding girl athlete and the dents and faculty to'get together The
Views
enjoy an evening of pleasure.
athorganization leading in women's
letics at the university during the programs are in the form of souvenirs
of the occasion, having on them in- garden out of it. Nooo figures the year.
OGDEN)
(By FLORENCE
most important thing that's happened
Miss Elizabeth Heft'ernan, president
Kernel for
As the last issue of The
That of .the association, was the presiding (CONTINUED ON PAOE TWELVE)
is LeRoy's passing hygiene.
The guests of honor
this year goes to press today, it is was all I could. reap in the office, so 1 toastmistress.
necessary for some of the dumber
were the advisory board of the organ- Mu
I found
out in- - the hall.
members of the staff to write a resu- wandered
Everyone Billy Blanton sitting on the steps, so (CONTINUED ON PAGB TWELVE)
me of the year's work.
O dicers for Ensuing Year Chosknows The Kernel hasn't done any- I stopped to ask him my little quesen, Freeman Voted President
thing, and the rest of the school hasn't tion. "What's the most useful InnoTeam Chosen
doiw much, at least I couldn't think vation we've experienced this year?"
Phi Mu Alpha, men's national
of anything. It being a dull after"Well, he says, "the shrubbery on
musical fraternity, held its annoon around the office, I couldn't find the campus is nice, and the evolution Meet Is Scheduled With Ausnual election of officers at its last
tralian University
anyone who really knew anything bill was a nice, only it didn't pass, but
meeting, Tuesday evening, in White
around the place, but I did the best I I think the nicest thing that has hapWilliam Hnnratty, John Bullock, W. hull. The following men were chosen
could with the material at hand.
pened this year was the intrduction of
First one I questioned was Kyle fraternity house mothers for next B. Graham, J. W. Jones, T. E. Skin- for the ensuing year: Lawrence FreeWhitehead. He didn't have a bit of year." I noticed a kind of wild look ner and W. R. Ferguson were selected man, president; R. L. Plutts,
Niel Plummet', secretary-treasuretrouble telling me. "The most impor- about his eyes right then, so I hastily ns members of next year's debating
Dixon Rupp, historian, and
which wero held
tant that has happened in the univer- passed on into Miss Murgie's room. team at the
sity," he said, "is the raising of the I asked her and Mae what they Tuesday night by Prof. W. II. Suther- Frank Brown, warden.
The retiring officers are Mux Freestandards of the journalism depart- thought wus the most important thing land, instructor of public speaking.
Phillips
The outstanding debate already man, president; George
ment." I didn't understand him but that happened this year, but they got
Lawrence Freelater the cub told mo Kyle was going In an argument over whether it was scheduled for next year is with the Young,
H. B. Moore,
Australia, man, secretary-treasureto teach in the journalism department the Red Letter or the Theta Sig issue University of Sydney,
next year.
of The Kernel, and I never did find out sometime in December. This team is historian, and Lovcll Underwood,
LeKoy Passes Hygiene
to make a tour of the Unitcdi States, warden. Previous to the election of
for sure.
teams officers, Sgt. J. J. Kennedy, director
prominent
Hoover says he wants to register ;.
There weren't any more people debating with
'violent protest against the ruining of down here, so I went and got a calen- - throughout the land. Arrangements of the university R.O.T.C. band, was
ure being made through Wittenberg initiated into the fraternity as au
H good sink hole out back of the
honorary member.
by making u blooming flower (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE) College, Springfield, Ohio.
.

THE KERNEL WISHES ALL STUDENTS A PLEASANT VACATION

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

VOL. XVI

GIRLS LEAD BOYS

GOODBYE!

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Degrees Will Ro Conferred, and
Honors Announced by President McVey, after Address by Dr. Barton
ALUMNI DAY IS SATURDAY
Annual Military Field Day Will
Be Held on Wednesday,
May 20
The

annual commence
of the University of
Kentucky will take place May 31, at
the university gymnasium, at 10 a.m.
when the members of the graduating
class of 192G will receive their degrees
and honors. The commencement
will be delivered by Doctor William Eleazer Barton, noted lecturer,
writer, editor, and clergyman, of Oak
Park, Illinois. Following the address,
there will be the conferring of degrees
and the announcement of honors by
President McVey.
Members of the graduating class,
the President, the Board of Trustees,
the deans, professors of the various
colleges, the speaker, and the officiat
ing ministers will make up the commencement procession which will as
semble in front of President McVey's
residence.
Markers for the procession
will indicate the position for assembly
of each group, in the order in which
they are to march, and to enter the
The marshall's aides will
rostrum.
arrange the individuals in each group
of seniors.
Starts With Field Day
Commencement
Week will start
with Military Field Day, which is on
fifty-nint- h

ment exorcises

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STROLLERS GIVE

ANNUAL PLAY
'Icebound" Is Presented by
University Dramatists ; Mary
Lair and Addison Yea-ma- n
Take Leads
IS

EIGHTEENTH

PLAY

"Icebound," popular three act drama
of Owen Davis, was ably presented
by Strollers, dramatic club of the uni
versity, last night at Woodland auditorium. In presenting "Icebound" as

their eighteenth annual production,
Strollers scored one of the greatest
triumphs they have ever achieved, ac
cording to many who witnessed the
performance last night.
The play itself is bubbling over
with dramatic and
situations, and under the capable di- ection of Al Wieman, star of last
years .Stroller otlermg "1
the cast presented it in a manner
which brought repeated rounds of np
plafle from the audience.
Miss Mary Lair as Jane Crosby, a
poor girl who inherited her employer's
money and the Herculean task ot re- iev deceased employer's son,
quickly won her way into the hearts
of the audience and took the difficult
g

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Bullock, secretary-treasure- r.
The Patterson Literary Society vas
formed during the time of President (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE)
Patterson's administration at the uni
versity and for forty years enjoyed a
ATTENTION FRESHMEN
cort.n lous success. Abo"t "ne years
ago the society was disbanded and no
There will be an important meeting
attempts at reorganization were at of the freshmen class, Tuesday, May
reorgan25, at Dicker Hall at 3:30 o'clock. This
tempted until last fall when
ization took place and J. W. Jones was meeting is for the purpose of electing
the two class members to the student
elected president.
The society is richly endowed and council.
FINLEY DAVIS,
President freshman' class.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE)

Smith Covers Kentucky Classic For
Kernel; Opines Bubbling Over Won
Modestly; McDowell's Nag Also Ran
(By LeROY SMITH)
Seems like every time the ladies aid
society gets hold of a publication,
they've got to come out and expose
Last week
me on the front page.
they run out of red Ink, so they come
over and borrowed The Kernel so as
to dispose of any stray gossip that
failed to get in the Red Letter.
Well, last Friday after readin' in
Flossie Ogden's column about how
worthless me and my cigarettes and
my stories was, I figured I'd better
go down to Louisville to see the Derby
so as I could recuperate. Accordin'ly,
I trails home after my tooth brush
nnd McDowell. I run Into our cartoonist, Parham Baker, who told me
he was leavin' town for a number of
reasons, so we all climbed into a
caboose at the bus station,

and the customers piled out to start
I had
tournament.
i
just won two straight hands, when
up come the spare covered wagon
which looked like the . ark on four
penny-pitchi-

wheels, and I figured we would probably have to wrangle some horses before we got very far.
I had so many coppers in my pocket
that I had to limp, nnd Ted sat down
on me when the bus started, and printed Lincolns and Indians all over my
lap. Parham took us out to his hacienda when we come to Louisville,
where wo bandaged up after tho bus
ride. I don't mind bouncin' through
the top of a car every once in so
often, but when my chin hooked over
the bow and-- I just hung there in the
breeze, I was kind of annoyed.
After a most profitable raid on tho

Baker pantry and the Baker garage,
around all tho corners in
and started.
the village of Louisville.
It was dark
After gettinn' far enough out of and cloudy, and a fine night for n murtown that we wouldn't walk buck, this der or a date, so wo went up to seo
here chariot sneezed kind of mourn- a damsel who wouldn't let me smoke
ful, and quit. The pilot of the rig
went over to phone for reinforcements, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE)
wo skidded

* KENTUCKY

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ALUMNI PAGE
Edilor W. C. Wilson, Alumni Secretary
Assistant Editor, Helen J. Osborne

CALENDAR
Lexington, Mny 29
Reunion
of
Alumni in Art Department, 9:00 to
10:00 n.m.
Lexington, Mny 29 CInss Dny Exercises, 10:00 to 11:00 n.m.
Lexington, Mny 29 Annunl Alumni
Business Meeting
Little Thcnter,
11:15 n. m.
Lexington, Mny 29 Alumni trip to
Dix River dnm, 2:00 p.m.

Lexington, Mny 29 Alumni Banquet Slinkcrtown Inn, (1:00 p.m.
Lexington, May 30 Dnccaulaureate
Sermon

New Gymnasium,

3:30 p.m.

Lexington, Mny 31 Commencement
10:00
Exercises New Gymnnsium,
n.m.
Louisville,

June 5 (First Saturday
Regular) luncheon nt 1:15, Elk's

Club.

Philadelphia, June 5 (First SnturRegular) luncheon nt 1:15, Engineers Club, 1317 Spruce street.
N

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KENTUCKY ALUMNI ARE PROMINENT
Nearly thirty years ago the young graduate from the University of
Kentucky found a very interesting and lucrative field for the exercise of
his talents and energy in that comparatively new world of the engineer's work
known as heating and ventilating engineering.
It has been said many times that there are more graduates from the
University of Kentucky occupying prominent positions in the heating and
ventilating profession than from any other technical school of America.
The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers meet in
32 annual convention
next week for the first time away from the great
centers of production and the University of Kentucky is very proud indeed to
hnve so many of her alumni in this particular work in engineering return for
a few days of combined business and relaxation nbout the old campus and
haunts of student days.
Here are a few of the men who are prominently identified with heating
and ventilating engineering:
J. I. Lyle, General Manager and Treasurer, Carrier Engineering Corpor
ation, Newark, N. J.; L. Logaiv Lewis, Chief Enginueer and Secretary, Car
rier Engineering Corporation, Newark; R. R. Taliaferro, Tobacco Air Conditioning Engineer, Carrier Engineering Corgoration, Philadelphia; R. W.
Waterfill, Research Engineer, Carrier Engineering Corporation, Newark;
and Manager of New York and Boston Offices,
E. T. Lyle,
Carrier Engineering Corporation; Joseph II. Bailey, Theatre Ventilating
Expert, Carrier Engineering Corporation, Chicago; J. Ray Duncan, Rubber
and Leather Drying Expert, Carrier Engineering Corporation, Newark;
M. S. Smith, Production Manager, Carrier Engineering Corporation, Newark;
R. L. Jones, Production Engineer, Carrier Engineering Corporation, Newark
A number of young Kentucky graduates are in the process of making with
the Carrier Engineering Corporation.
A. Thornton Lewis, President and General Manager, York Heating and
Ventilating Corporation, Philadelphia.
B. W. Bennett, General Manager, Charles Hartmann Company, Brooklyn
New York.
O. K. Dyer, Gilbert Frankel, R. T. Thornton, E. E. Johnson, have places
of large responsibility with the Buffalo Forge Company, Buffalo, New York
L. C. Davidson is with Lewis, Robinson and Grant, Consulting Engineers
Philadelphia.
H. E. Barth is sales manager of the Detroit District of the American
Blower Company, Detroit.
Perry West is consulting engineer at Newark, N. J.
B. B. Russell is chief engineer, Drying Systems, Inc., Chicago, HI.
J. E. Boiling, Heating and Ventilating Advertising Engineer, Chicago
F.. W. Milbourn, President, Coe Manufacturing Company, Painesville
Ohio, manufacturers of veneer drying machinery.
A. J. Vance, General Manager, Coe Manufacturing Company.
II. R. Masters, Drying Expert, Coe Manufacturing Company.
Edwin C. Evans, Head of the Pittsburgh Office of the Reed Engineering
Company, Pittsburgh.
II. R. Moore. Head, Pittsburgh office, Buffalo Forge Company.
Miss Margaret Ingels, Research Engineer, Laboratory of the American
Societv of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
IB. Helburn, Research Engineer, Reed Engineering Company, Louis
ville, Ky.

Here's to the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, a

SALUTATION AND GREETING
GREHAN)
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, in national
session convened in Lexington, the University of Kentucky and
crh it the commonwealth,
salutes you.
organization, that is rendering
It is fitting that your forward-lookinto
so vital service to the country through the medium of men consecrated
through your labor and research, and a flame with a passion
human
for develonment. should conduct its deliberations in Lexington.
Here is located the University of Kentucky, chief educational institution
of the state, and here too its engineering college, for more than a quarter of a
century an outstanding institution in America devoted to the training of
engineering prou
men for the handling of the manifold and
lems that confront the Western world.
chairman of council, and
This College, headed by the first
chairman of your executive committee, of the great organization you
represent, a borrowed product of the good state of Indiana, whom Kentucky
adopted with as positive a fondness as she has ever shown to a foster son
has long since taken its merited place among the great engineering colleges
of America
To this institution came Paul Anderson, in every sense as much a
pioneer in his chosen field as was our own courageous Boone in his, an
intrepid spirit that longed to test the span of eager wing in the wide
atmosphere of big endeavor, aflame with that which amounted to a passion
to point out the way of usefulness to the youthful manhood of Kentucky,
aggressive, energetic, albeit a dreamer of dreams From his young manhood
as a teacher to this good hour, when he folds the lofty position in which his
worth in your body has assigned him, has been very far. But years have
dealt kindlv with him because his spirit has maintained its changeless pur
pose to remain forever young through contact with youth, and through the
abiding reflection that he has served and led it well.
You honor Kentuckians therefore, by your electing to meet here in
his home city, because Kentuckians feel that you have thus honored him who
has given his life to the leading of their sons and daughters into paths of
usefulness in the commonwealth and ni tho nation. The writer of this, long
his friend, always his admirer, seeks in no sense here to pay him tribute,
preferring rather that the "work of his hands" shull speak his praise in the
realized dream of his life, as the years bear him gently with their fruitful
memories toward its twilight and its evening hour.
But what this salutation started out to reflect was that Kentuckians,
especially Lexingtonians feel added pride in this opportunity to act as bouts
for their friend to so distinguished a body of men as yours.
Although you have segregated yourselves into a division of men given
over to development of and research in the great problems of heating; and
ventilation, it cannot be forgotten that you belong also to the great American
fruternity of Engineers. '
Your hosts think of you as men who have borne the brunt of real service,
because, he who adds to human living even a modicum of comfort, exa.ts
labor and dignifies its purpose; nor can wc forget that when civilization was
moving toward the mightiest cataclysm that hud threatened it since Christ
hung upon the Cross, and the engineering ski!', of the old world had marshalled its evil cohorts to complete the disaster, it was to the ranks of the
engineers of our country and its allied powers that we turned-tdevise the
machinery that was to urrest its flaming progress. Courage, brains, pariot- (Bv ENOCH

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sm from your ranks nil responded. From blazing forgo and mill and mine,
led by trained men came nil forms of tho enginery of war. Your factories
that hnd been devoted to the promotion of pence begun to belch forth devices
not only to destroy life hut to save life. Soon n host of two million men were
hurrying toward the battle fields of France. Their martial trend shook the
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round earth. They carried tho weapons and munitions you provided.
wore emissaries of the Master's scheme of pence in the vnngunrd of Western
civilization who had learned tho sanguinary lesson that Christ sought to
teach when he said, "I came not to bring pence but n sword." It was snvngc
against savage. It wns the jungle crying out against the jungle; but nt the
end of the bloody march lny civilization rescued from death. You performed
Immeasurable service in the devine cause of its snlvatlon. You helped to
keep n flag that had never touched the dust forever in the sky. You and
your comrads wrought to the end that victory at last was made to break
into smiles of jubilee on glory's bloody face.
But this still is not what the more or less erratic and humble comnilcr
of this expression of welcome to you Engineers set out to say. Want above
all it should reflect is that while we are proud that you permit us to be your
host, you have chosen wisely by selecting for your plncc of deliberation a
community that feels that it can offer you restful, attractive, even historic
environment, far from the din, the confusion, the mingled voices, where com
mercial strife and unrest may not enter and divert.
Ours is n pnstornl land, a land of contentment, of self satisfaction if
you please n "land of corn and wine," albeit the pestiferous Mr. Volstead
has wrought such havoc to the latter enterprise that wo now are reduced to
the humiliating necessity of falling back for your liquid cheer upon the
dwindling residue of a state gone mad with the heat of pitiless drought, or of
filling the hospitable cup with that doubtful brew, the handiwork of outlanders
who work out their salvation with stealth under the fading light of the pale
and sympathetic moon.
Nevertheless a hospitable citizenery extends a hand hand of welcome
uncqualed in warmth elsewhere in the round world to a land of fadeless
beauty, of stillwatcr3 beside which fat cattle roam, of fructifying fields, the
blood of whose grass is as blue as the blood of its stock is red. WJb cite
you to a land whose people are kindly and plain and sincere, wholesome in,
a hospitality that has bestowed upon them a pleasing soubriquet that poets
haw tried but failed to enshrine in song and orators sought in vain to
eulogize.
But above rll we feel that we do invite you into the company of rare
spirits who have embellished the history of our' race, and who, though some
have passed out beyond the "purple West," still live in their immortal deeds
still rule us from their urns. Some sleep here in our own soil. Some rest

elsewhere in'massoleum or beneath costly monument that proclaim their
worth as part of the elemental wealth of n common American fame. And
if the comforting belief have basis in fact, that the dead return to fore
gather in spirit where their kind assemble, then may we not indulge the
pleasing fancy that they participate this hour in your deliberations; because
the true Kentuckian has never failed to revere manly men, men like you who
do things, and like you, who serve humanity as they sought to serve ?
If the occasion were not so imperative, modesty would forbid the calling
of a role that brings back in radiant personnel, to brood over your sessions,
such rare Kentuckians