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into central Oklahoma. K iW2
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TIME RUNNING OUT Challenge Grant Gifts Behind Schedule!
Contributions to the Charles Perry Challenge Grant for 1977-78 are behind the schedule based on gifts last year. Contributions for the first three quarters of the grant period (October 1, 1977 through June 30, 1978) totaled approximately $5000, which is only half of the amount needed to meet Charles Perry's offer to match up to $10,000 in personal gifts to OkChE during the one year period ending September 30, 1978.
As you know from the last OkChE magazine, last year's Perry Challenge Grant was a bona fide success. Over $20,000 went into the OkChE account by contributions from individuals, matching funds by Charles Perry, and company matching funds. With the approval of the OkChE Board of Directors, these funds are being used for improving our undergraduate laboratory, for undergraduate scholarships, for special student activities, such as student technical meeting trips and Engineering Open House Projects, as well as the continuing effort, through media such as this magazine, to maintain good communications between CEMS and alumni.
Remember that your contribution to OkChE is tax deductible, that such contributions are matched by many employers and that the Charles Perry Grant will match your contribution made before October 1, 1978.
CONTENTS Fall 1978
2 UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM 4 NEW CEMS PROGRAM REVIEWED 5 1978 GRADS 5 JOB OFFERS SUMMARIZED 6 IN CELEBRATION OF KEN
10 SECOND ANNUAL FACULTY ROAST 12 AWARDS BANQUET 12 CEMS GRADS 1913 to 1945
UNDERGRADS INVOLVED IN SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Dr. Carl Locke's summer researchers are examining polymer concrete samples. Left to right are Arthur Shirley, Matt Immel, Daude Ismaila, and Craig Lepak.
Three of our professors had Craig Lepak wrote the following groups of undergraduates involved report on the work conducted by in research projects this summer. Lockets group. Drs. Carl Locke, Kenneth Starling, "David Ismaila and I are and Sam Sofer directed various developing a procedure for areas of inquiry in their laboratories impregnating bridge decks with a and in the field. monomer (methylmethacrylate) and
There are many ways to beat the then polymerizing the monomer in Oklahoma heat, but Dr. Carl the slab. Basically the procedure Lockets group of undergraduate involves drying the slab with researchers can testify that patching heaters, applying the monomer, bridges under the midday sun is letting it soak in and then initiating definitely not the way to do it. This polymerization with the heaters. hardy group consisted of: Arthur "This process will make bridge Shirley, senior from Norman; Craig decks impermeable to water and the Lepak, junior from Oklahoma City; corrosive elements found in de-icing David Ismaila, senior from Nigeria; salts. This will prevent scaling of and Matt Immel, senior from Del the surface, rusting of the City. Along with Locke, they re-enforcing bars beneath the worked with highway crews in surface, and thus lower order to initiate field studies of maintenance and repair costs. Locke's three-year investigation of "Recently, we have done drying concrete-polymer composites for the studies on 5 feet by 4 feet slabs to Oklahoma Department of determine maximum heating rates Transportation. In the polymer for concrete and the amount of concrete portion of the project, energy consumed. We are currently Immel and Shirley have completed scaling up to 7 feet by 12 feet slabs most of the cure time vs. with further drying studies followed temperature and compressive by impregnation. Hopefully, in the strength work, along with near future we will impregnate an developing patching techniques and actual bridge deck." materials. Plans for this fall center Eight undergraduate researchers around the refining of existing have spent a busy summer under patching procedures and the writing the direction of Dr. Sam Sofer. of specifications for polymer Their investigations into concrete materials for the Oklahoma synthesizing new compounds using Department of Transportation. enzymes are reported as follows:
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Hemant Goradia, sophomore from India, studied the enzymic oxidation of ethylmorphine and its effects on oxygen dissolved in human blood plasma. Working on a related project is Hazel Thomas, a premedical student from Oklahoma City. She worked on developing an assay to determine concentrations of ethylmorphine dichloride in human blood.
The permeability of various drugs and compounds through a cuprophane membrane was analyzed by Will Kasten, a junior from Oklahoma City.
Mike Caldwell worked on the kinetics of enzymic reactions involving monomine pure oxidase and microsomal mixed function oxidase. He is a senior from Tulsa.
Rob Byrd, senior from New Mexico, studied the absorption of bacterial lipopolysaccharides onto activated charcoal using Hc labeled lipopolysaccharides on a tracer.
The development of a chemical assay to measure the concentration of arylarnine hydroxides synthesized by enzymic reactions was Carol Cox's area of investigation. She is a junior from Sand Springs.
Carlos Suarez, senior from Caracas, Venezuela, worked on ways to produce optimum yields from enzymic reactions by immobilizing or attaching enzymes to nonporous glass beads.
Sam Penrod, senior from Ada, measured yields from enzymic reactions involving various carcenogenic and psycoactual components.
Four members of Dr. Kenneth Starling's undergraduate research group reported on their summer's work:
Pat Plumb, Tulsa Senior: "Viscosity and thermal
conductivity are properties of fluids needed for power plant design. Isobutane and isopentane are presently being used or considered for use as working fluids in geothermal and waste heat binary
Using the ultraviolet monitor are Kim Members of- Dr. Starling's summer Rifling and Sam Penrod. research group are Ed Hitchcock, Ken
Brunsman, Pat Plumb and luan Espinosa.
cycles. For this reason the viscosity Starling in conjunction with and thermal conductivity of these multipara meter conformal-solution two compounds have been theory in a van der Waals one-fluid correlated using experimental data corresponding states framework, and the transport property which is a computer program correlation developed by Professors prepared for the Gas Research K. E. Starling and G. H. TWU. The Institute and American Gas correlation is presently being Association. This approach has extended in an attempt to predict proved to be successful with several the transport properties of the coal chemicals of industrial products obtained from coal importance, such as benzene, liquefaction and gasification toluene, o-xylene, phenol, o-cresol, processes." naphthalene, tetralin, and
anthracene. Average absolute Juan Espinosa, Mexico City deviations of vapor pressure and
senior: enthlpy departures for these "The prediction of compounds have ranged from 0.6 to
thermodynamic properties for 5.2%. Now the prediction of the P ~ ~ Y ~ Y ~ ~ ~ ~ in thermodynamic properties of a long certain coal-processing applications list of p o ~ y c y c ~ ~ c aromatic is being investigated. The study is hydrocarbons is underway. ~h~ conducted using the modified principal researchers in this project Benedict-Webb-Rubin (BWR) are Dr. K. Starling, Dr. L. Lee and equation of state by Han and Mile Brule'."
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Carol Cox and Carlos Suarex are operating a p ~ k a g r q h as part of their work c~~ith Dr. Sofer's summer research group.
Ken Brunsman, Norman senior: "The designated tasks were the documentation of geothermal binary power cycle simulator, GE04, and construction of a computerized data bank for thermodynamic and transport properties.
"The documentation of GE04 has been done along the lines previously used for the thermodynamic properties program, "HSGC," developed at OU by K. E. Starling and L. Fish. All variables are categorized according to input, output and intermediate. The system hierarchy is described, and algorithm is presented, and a step-by-step procedure is provided for ease of use. This documentation will be published in late August.
"The construction of a data base was started in January of 1978. It was found that all the data incorporated in the various projects could be best used if it was available to all project personnel in a consistent format. This job consists of putting all data into a standardized format and loading this onto a tape. To date, data from about 65 investigators has been put into the data bank. This is an ongoing job with no target date for completion."
Charles G. Galeas, Jr., research assistant to Dr. Starling:
"The following topics and problems have been initiated in this my first semester at the University of Oklahoma: familiarization with both the OU computer system and basic plotting devices and routines; introduction to basic thermodynamic concepts of Mollier diagrams, equations of state and the correlation between the two; and most extensively, the interfacing between an existing computational program and plotting facilities available at OU. The latter prob!ems involved Fortran processing of non-corresponding variables and the intricacy of high resolution as the material produced will be used for publication purposes. Future work includes the finishing of this project and the beginning of a new computational program. Also under consideration will be the optimization of existing plotting techniques."
NEW CEMS PROGRAM REVISED Students are tuning in a new
CEMS schedule which premiered this fall at 202 West Boyd in the Carson Engineering Center. They FIRST YEAR: THIRD YEAR: now need 131 cre&t hours to
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graduate with a Bachelor of Science First Semester in chemical engineering. This is an Math 1812, Anal. Geometry increase of three hours over last Math 1823, Calculus I season's schedule, but it is still far Engl 1113, Composition below the 158 hours needed back in Chem 1314, General the "good ole days." Engr 1113, Intro to Engr
Some of the highlights of the new curriculum are:
No longer must chemical engineers learn how to draw straight lines and orthographic projections of their calculators.
Fortran programming will be taught to freshman engineering students - the computer programming was too easy for sophomores!
The Unit Operations Lab is back! It is alive and well and causing havoc with the students - only two credit hours for all those experiments and reports?
ChE 3333?? What kind of course is that? Separations Processes, of course. his one should be a big hit since it replaces undergraduate Rate Operations, which always did very poorly in the ratings .
Three new one hour technical writing workshops are in the fall lineup. At least CEMS graduates will learn the correct method of writing "fudged" lab reports!
These curriculum changes are in keeping with alterations that have recently been made in the core courses in the College of Engineering. They are also a sign of the chemical engineering department's increased emphasis on process design and laboratory experience for undergraduates.
The schedule being presented on your local CEMS station for the next four years is shown at right.
Total Credit Hours - 15
Second Semester Math 2423, Calcdus II Engl 1213, Composition Chem 1515, General Hist 1483 or 1493, U.S. Pol Sci 1113, U.S. G o l t
Total Credit Hours - 17
SECOND YEAR:
First Semester Math 2434, Calculus 111 ChE 2033, Chem Engr Fund Engl3011, Comp Review Chem 3053, Organic I Engr 3213, Thermodynamics Phy 2514, General
Total Credit Hours - 18
Second Semester Math 3114, Engr Math Chem 3153, Organic Chem 3152, Organic Lab Engr 3223, Fluid Mechanics Phy 2524, General
Total Credit Hours - 16
First Semester ChE 3473, Chem Engr Thermo ChE 3123, Heat & Mass Transfer Engr 2113, Rigid Body Mechanics Chem 3423, Physical Chem I Chem 3421, Physical Chem Lab Ennr 2613, Electrical Science nil 3011, Comp Review
Total Credit Hours - 17
Second Semester ChE 3333, Sepn Processes ChE 3432, Unit Ops Lab Chem 3523, Physical Chem II Chem 3521, Physical Chem Lab Engr 2153, Strength of Mat Humanities - 3 credit hours Engl3011, Comp Review
Total Credit Hours - 16
FOURTH YEAR:
First Semester ChE 4473, Kinetics ChE 4253, Chem Engr Design I ChE 4261, Process Design Lab Engr 3313, Struct & Prop of
Second Semester ChE 4273, Adv Process Design ChE 4281, Process Design Lab ChE Elective - 3 credit hours Tech Elective - 3 credit hours Humanities - 6 credit hours
Total Credit Hours - 16
GRADUATES OF 1978 Amiri, Mohammed
Adams, David Warren Gas Liquids Box 361, Roswell, N.M. 88201
Batson, Billy C. Celanese Technical Dept. Rockhill, S. Carolina
Payne, Marc Timothy Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Plasticizer Div. St. Louis, Missouri
Plumb, Patrick D. Graduate School University of Oklahoma
Purgason, Robert S. Perry Gas Processors Odessa, Texas
Rakovan, Daniel M. Atlantic Richfield Tyler 4103 Blain Rd. Shawnee, Ok. 74801
Raybourn, Steven S. Superior Oil Company P.O. Box 71 Conroe, Texas 77301
Stone, Terry Paul Dupont; Biochemical Dept. Exp. Station Bldg. 324 Wilmington, Del. 19898
Stuckey, Sheila Rae Dow Chemical Texas Div. Freeport, Texas
Voeller, Roger W. Procter and Gamble 1112 Lynne Terrace Cincinnati, Ohio
Zoller, Steven D. Procter & Gamble 1610 Center Hill Rd. Cincinnati, Ohio
JOB OFFERS AND ACCEPTANCES SUMMARIZED Job offers along with acceptances and salaries for students who graduated with their Bachelor of
Science in Chemical Engineering in May, 1978, are summarized below. Two students will go on to graduate school, and one was undecided at the end of the semester.
OFFERS Oil Chemical Misc. Total Number 33 20 1 54 Avg. Monthly
The starting salaries show an increase of about $100 over the 1976-77 figures. There has been a slight increase in the number of graduates accepting jobs with the chemical industry, which has been somewhat aggressive in its recruiting.
Next year's graduating class should be the largest in many years. The enrollments in process design and kinetics are about 48 each. It is hoped that these graduates will find a favorable job market when they are ready to enter the field.
The official reason given for Starling's appointment to this most prestigious professorship was "his outstanding work in his field of research involving equation of state development and prediction of thermodynamic and phase behavior, equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular theory of fluids, correlation of transport properties, and process stimulation." But the unofficial reason can be summed up in one word - dedication.
Ken Starling is dedicated to his profession, his department and the University. According to CEMS
The CEMS Striders have received no small amount of kidding for their relatively late-in-life venture into the world of sports. Along with Ken "Tweety Bird" Starling, the members of this speedy group are Sam "Soupy" Sofer, Carl "Furbelly" Locke, Larry "Catfish" Fish (in 1976) and John "Jay" Radovich (since 1977). When they first won the AIChE national four mile relay title in 1976, they made a pledge that the trophy would ". . . with OU CEMS forever stay, till blisters, aching muscles and age snatch it away."
Starling is considered a "tough" professor. His thoroughness and high standards have earned for him the respect and sometimes awe of his students. Ken Brunsman, a CEMS senior, considers Starling to be one of the best professors he has had at OU. "He brings his industrial experience into the classroom and gives practical applications to theories," says Brunsman. "And working with Starling on a research project is definitely a learning experience. He gives me something to do, then lets me do it my own way."
this period of his life taught him discipline and objectivity. And even more than that, it made him anxious to discover his potential and to get on with fulfilling it.
Often a burner of the midnight oil, Starling has never been afraid of long hours or hard work. He is one of those individuals who are happiest when a challenge is to be faced. And with Starling, the tougher the challenge, the greater his excitement.
This excitement has carried over into another phase of Starling's life. He is a serious runner and a member of the now famous CEMS Striders, the department's relay team which for the past three years has won the national championship in the four mile relay of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
chairman; Sam ~ofe; Starling "exemplifies what we are trying to do. The strength and quality he - adds to CEMS are invaluable. He is a pace setter in the best department
C on this campus."
The road that took Kenneth
A 7 nt Starling from his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas to I -s.
distinguished professor at OU has 4 been a long one. He entered the 1 ki work force at age twelve, delivering newspapers and working summers in a laundry. He spent time as an L, oil field roughneck and worked 15 . months as a pipeline laborer.
Such job experiences may seem unrelated to Starling's future career . as an academician, however he feels
Running has not only served to turn the Striders and other CEMS runners into exemplary examples of Oklahoma manhood, but it has developed a spirit of camaraderie that occupies an important place in their lives and has carried over into their professional relationships.
Starling's nickname of "Tweety Bird" is not the only appellation he has collected during his tenure with OU's CEMS. The fact that he is an attractive man has not gone unnoticed by female students and staff members. His good looks and greying temples have earned him the nickname of "The Silver Fox," as well as a special award at this year's CEMS Faculty Roast. And Starling has received no small amount of good-natured teasing from his colleagues over a Ming Room waitress's designation of him as "that good looking grey-haired fellow."
Starling has also collected some off-campus titles during his years in Norman. He has been Sunday school superintendent at University Lutheran Church. And to some fourth and fifth grade football players he has been "Coach."
A devoted family man, Starling enjoys being involved in his children's activities. He speaks with pride of his wife Barbara and her recently completed degree from OU in fashion arts.
However, it is not his record as a football coach, or his good looks, or his prowess as a runner, or even his success in the classroom that has brought Starling the title of George Lynn Cross Research Professor. Just as the title implies, it is conferred to honor a professor's achievements in research, and Kenneth Starling's
credentials in research are impressive. It is his dedication to extending the frontiers of human knowledge that has placed his name on the role of distinguished professors at the University of Oklahoma.
Starling's professional dedication to research began in 1958 when he entered graduate school at the Illinois Institute of Technology after completing a bachelor's degree in chemistry and one in chemical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Industrial University. His master's research was in the measurement of viscosity of ethane, propane and normal butane in the vicinity of the critical point. His Ph.D. research involved experimental and theoretical studies of the viscosity of dense fluids.
During his graduate school career, Starling was made a fellow of the Institute of Gas Technology where he worked with Drs. Rex T. Ellington and Bert Eakin. Six publications resulted from this graduate research and it was regarded as significant due to the highly' accurate viscosity measurements of lasting value which were obtained and the development of semiempirical correlations of viscosity which have been used extensively by the natural gas industry for more than a decade.
His appetite for molecular theory was whetted by theoretical studies done during his graduate research, so in 1963 Starling sought and obtained a Welch Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for a year of study with Professor Zevi W. Salsburg in the Chemistry Department at Rice University. Intensive studies of the molecular theories of thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids were carried out during this year. These studies were intended to develop a stronger theoretical background, rather than to develop immediately publishable research results. Starling feels that over the years, his postdoctoral studies have proved valuable in his research and have contributed directly to
1 publications on the rigid sphere
equation of state, the exponential virial equation and the use of cell model for liquids diffusion theory.
Starling turned to industrial research in 1964 when he joined Esso Production Research Company, an affiliate of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. His research during this period resulted in a published study which was the first instance in which multicomponent vapor-liquid equilibrium data had been used in equation of state development. This research set the course for Starling's future endeavors.
Starling with senior Ken Brunsman look- ing over thermodynamic property diagrams.
In 1966 Starling joined the faculty at OU as a professor of chemical engineering. He immediately became involved in proving the feasibility of simultaneously using data for several fluid properties in equation of state development as an improvement over the traditional use of density data alone. This technique, which is now referred to as a multiproperty analysis, was proven feasible for simultaneous use of density and phase equilibrium data in late 1966; density and enthalpy data for pure fluids in 1967 and for mixtures in 1968; density, enthalpy, vapor pressure and mixture phase equilibrium data in 1969. This research was supported by the
University of Oklahoma and the National Science Foundation.
The significance of this four year research program was two-fold. First, thermodynamic consistency was greatly enhanced when equations of state were developed using multiproperty analysis. Also, accurate equations of state were developed for numerous fluids. The development of a generalized equation of state which will apply to wide classes of pure fluids and fluid mixtures is a current project of Starling's. Starling has published more than a dozen papers related to multiproperty analysis and presentations on results of its use have also been published. A related book, Fluid Thermodynamic Properties for Light Petroleum Systems was written by Starling and published by Gulf Publishing Company in 1973.
During the 1972-73 academic year, Starling was a guest professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium where he worked with Professor Wim Van Dael and presented a course titled "Multiproperty Analysis of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties." His research during this year suggested to him the feasibility, on theoretical grounds, of simultaneously correlating the thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids in a self-consistent manner. From 1974 to 1977, the American Gas Association and subsequently the Gas Research Institute supported a project in this area, "Self-Consistent Correlation of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties." This work, performed with Drs. Kingtse C. Mo, Lloyd L. Lee and C. H. Twu, proved the practical value of the method for light hydrocarbon systems of interest to the gas industry. Recent efforts have demonstrated that the correlation used in this work can be used for prediction of the thermophysical properties of coal derived liquids. A
vroiect under National Science . ? m I I
Foundation support has been initiated to develop a multiparameter corresponding states correlation for the transport properties of polar fluid;. A &rin Starling
.g his was
tenure able to
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um, first
hand t6e impact that limited energy resources have on a country. He began to really understand the importance of energy related research to the future of mankind. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1973 the oil embargo and resultant energy crisis provided further fuel
m to his interest in energy research, and he began to study the problem in earnest.
Starling spent the summer of 1974 at the Electric Power Research Institute as a consultant to develop EPRI's five year plan for solar and geothermal research. As a result of this, research on ocean thermal energy with Dr. David W. Johnson and geothermal energy conversion with Larry Fish and Dr. Harry H. West has been performed, under Department of Energy contracts. Emphasis in these projects has been on maximizing conversion efficiency. The novel use of mixtures as working fluids in Rankine cycles was suggested by these studies and has been shown to yield improved efficiencies over the use of pure fluids.
Other contributions Starling and his co-workers (including many students) have made to the energy conversion industry have included the development of cycle working fluid thermophysical properties information and the development of cycle simulation computer programs which can be used for design and cost estimation for ocean thermal, geothermal, solar and waste cycles.
Since 1976, Starling has been a member of a Department of Energy committee which is writing a handbook for the developing energy industry on geothermal energy conversion.
In categorizing his research career, Starling feels it can best be described as "one which has attempted to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the area of thermodynamics." It is a role that has occupied the talents and energy of Starling for the past twenty years and one he would like to play for the next twenty.
It is a long road from oil field roughneck to honored professor but Kenneth Starling is the kind of individual who rarely looks back. He looks to tomorrow . . . and the next mile to run, the next project to tackle, the next discovery on the horizon.
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Starling with his wife, Barbara.
I SECOND ANNUAL CEMS FACULTY ROAST
pizza appetizers, were eager and ready. With well over 100 unruly students in attendance, it became evident that some kind of rules
Opening his 'kift, " presented by Kathy Moore on behalf o f generations o f grateful CEMS students, is Dr. Locke.
would have to be drawn up to I protect the faculty. It was decided that the longest any roast could last
1 was 10 minutes. In the interest of I fair play, professors were to be
given time for rebuttal - 10 seconds.
Dr. Arthur Aldag was the first roastee. Roaster Phil Lewis had begged for weeks for the chance to roast this master of flag waving. Phil spoke of Aldag's lecture notes, in particular of their antiquity. Phil, working one summer as an archeologist in the Middle East, came upon some of Aldag's lost class notes in the form of a Dead Sea Scroll. These were returned to Aldag only on the promise that this - new material not be covered on the
- - - final. Next in line for his roast was Dr.
Carl Locke, a polymer scientist. Roasting Locke was one of his loyal (???) research assistants, Kathy Moore. According to Kathy, her job is to find a polymer to keep Locke's hair on his head, notln his hair brush. (It seems Dr. Locke is getting thin on top.) Next year the chemical engineering fundamentals class will not be using the same book used by generations of CEMS students at OU. For that reason, Kathy thought Locke should have a rather special copy of the fundamentals text.
As the 1978 spring semester drew to a close, two things were foremost in all CEMS seniors' minds - graduation and a chance to retaliate against the CEMS faculty. This retaliation took the form of the second annual CEMS Faculty Roast.
The students, made "hungry" by
~ & n ~ the enterprising research assistant she is, Kathy encased her text in a clear polymer and presented this to Locke. Out of the crowd, a student called out, "Let's see him assign problems out of that book!"
Senior CEMS women (alias "Pentachicks ") roasting Dr. Sofer.
Our illustrious department chairman, Dr. Sam Sofer, was the next poor soul to be fried. After listening to Sofer's lectures on "The Secrets of Life," (or "How to Become Rich and Contribute to the CEMS Scholarship Fund"), one of his senior design classes decided the roast presented an excellent opportunity to give Sofer his due. A group of five senior women known as "Pentachicks" presented Sofer with a few novel gifts. (Who else but Sofer would be roasted by five women?) Their first presentation was a dress shirt which had the front carefully sewn closed. Sofer, being very fashion conscious, likes to dress in the latest European fashions. This usually means his shirt is unbuttoned from collar to belt. The Pentachicks felt the new shirt would prevent Sofer from catching cold. Sofer's thirst for knowledge was quenched when he was presented the newest book in the field of enzymes, "Enzymes for Fun and Profit," by noted author Michael T. Microsome.
Following Sofer to the roasting block was Dr. Ken Starling, better known to the CEMS female students and department secretaries as "The Silver Fox." According to these young women, Starling is a neat looking guy with just enough grey hair to be really attractive. But rumor had it that he was looking a little more grey than usual after teaching thermo to this year's senio~ class. (According to Starling, there were some "real characters" in the class.) The new senior class felt bad about causing this poor professor to age more rapidly than normal and wished to remedy the situation. A bottle of Grecian Formula 14 was presented to Starling in the hopes that it would help him get those distinguished greying temples back in shape. At the time of this writing, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of this thoughtful gift.
The best was saved for last. Dr. John Michael Radovich, better known as the proprietor of the J. M.
R. Dog and Pony Show was the last roastee. All semester Radovich had been quick with eraser and slow to pick up a usable piece of chalk. To insure that J. M. R. would never again be slow on the draw, he was presented a holster, complete with chalk bullets and a pistol grip eraser. From now on there will be no excuse for using a piece of chalk above and beyond its call of duty. The next day in class, Radovich wore his "gun" to class explaining, "I always wanted to be a cowboy but my mother wouldn't let me." Near the back of class, an . anonymous voice offered, "Isn't it reassuring to know you're loved and needed?"
The professorial roast concluded, but the party went on thanks to an ample supply of refreshments. Before the evening was over, even the keg was roasted.
As the party wound down, an eraser-toting Radovich with his "gun" hand poised above his holster was heard to say to Sofer, "Sam, this campus isn't big enough for the two of us. I'm gonna rub you out!' A fast-talking Sofer convinced Radovich to wait until he had been granted tenure before they had a "showdown." The last thing seen by departing revelers was Cowboy Radovich practicing his quick-draw as he headed for the distant horizon.
Dr. Starling with his Grecian formula. Ready to exhibit his quick draw is Cowboy Radovich.
AWARDS BANQUET
This year's CEMS Awards Banquet was held April 27, in the Commons Restaurant at the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education. The purpose of this banquet is to honor outstanding students in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
The fourth annual Harry G. Fair Memorial Lecture was presented at the banquet by Raymond D. Lowe, a 1941 chemical engineering graduate of OU. He is currently vice-president of the Elastomer Chemicals Department of DuPont. Lowe's topic was "The Chemical Engineer's Role in Chemical Industry."
The guest of honor for the event was Mrs. R. L. Huntington, widow of George Lynn Cross Research Professor Richard L. Huntington who for many years served as chairman of the School of Chemical Engineering.
The Departmental Awards given to the Oustanding Chemical Engineers are as follows: Mark Cooper, Celanese Award for Outstanding Freshman in Chemical Engineering. Bryan Dale Dotson, CEMS Award for the Outstanding Sophomore in Chemical Engineering. Arthur Shirley, Phillips Petroleum Company Award for Outstanding Junior-Senior in Chemical Engineering. Robert Scott Purgason, Pamela Pesek Johnson Award for Outstanding Senior in Chemical Engineering Design. William R. Coleman, Frank Maginnis Award for Outstanding Student in Metallurgical Engineering. Mark Robert Hollrah, ASM-AIME Award for the Outstanding Student in Metallurgical Engineering.
As promised in the last issue of OkChE, we are publishing a list of all CEMS graduates through 1945. In January of 1979, we will publish a register of our alumni for the years 1946 to 1962. And in the summer of 1979, we will publish the names of the graduates from 1963 to 1978.
CEMS GRADS 1913 to 1945
Albert E. Gartside 924 Wild Cherry Lane St. Louis, M O 63130
Roy Clyde Mitchell
John 0. Donaldson
Harold H. Francis
Robert S. Gordon 10 Rochambeau Road Scarsdale. NY 10583
Frank Keller RFD 1, Box 42 Collins, M O 64738
Omar R. Lyon 490 N. Sixth Wood River, IL 62095
Clifford T. Woods 2113 Patton Ave. San Pedro, CA 90732
Ludwig Schmidt
Harold W. Shaner 201 Redglea Dr . Midland, TX 79701
William Henderson
Paul L. Laws
Carl E. Reistle, Jr . 3196 Chevy Chase Houston, TX 77019
Howard P. Bonebrake William P. Gage Route 1, Box 68A Post Office Box 1763 Islamorada, FL 33036 Rancho Santa Fe, C A 92067
coy G. Horn Hubert H . Thompson 8327 Croydon Avenue 8108 Dicenza Lane Los Angeles, C A 90045 San Diego, C A 92119
Horace S. Wilson 1929
Eugene J. Smith Box 1802 Ponca City, O K 74601
Harold M. Thorne Box 621 Laramie, WY 82070
Cecil S. Cary 9142 Howard Houston, TX 77017
Charles H. Higgins 1462 N. Gulf Ave. Wilmington, C A 90744
Glenn Purcell 4118 Grennoch Houston, TX 77025
Ralph W. Hippen 1930 2344 Sunset Houston, TX 77005 Donald S. Campbell
355 S. Thompson I . Stewart Hume Vinita, O K 74301 6521 Golden Horseshoe Seminole, FL 33542 Daniel L. Mayer, Jr.
3416 Wildwood Court 1926 Bartlesville, O K 74003
Lewis M. Brodnax Charles T. 0' Malley Route 2, Box 145 1521 Sherwin Eutaw, AL 35462 Chicago, IL 60626
Dana G. Hefley 1931 RR 3, Box 146 Cleveland, OK 74020 John R. Cooper
813 S. Race Bryan D. Wells El Dorado, KS 67042
1927 Donald P. Denny East Central State University
Abbas Alimadadion Ada, O K 74820 Arya-Mehr P .O. 3406 Tehran, Iran Robert Kutz
2504 NW 38 James S. Entriken Oklahoma City, OK 73112 5749 Stonegate lioad Dallas, TX 75209 Frank B. Lachle
Ernest L. Garton
Marvin C. Leach Edward N. Washburn Sydney S. Chazanow George J . Coddard RR #I32 4765 Cornell Dr . 255-02 75th Ave. 1916 Turnea Dr . Woodville, TX 75979 Bartlesville, O K 74003 Floral Park, NY 11004 Midwest City, O K 73110
1932 John A. Watters Carl Major Cooper Raymond D. Harrison Box 43 Akasaka Box 57 I'ost Office Box 401
Melville C. Hackles Tokyo, Japan East Lansing, MI 48823 San Dimas, C A 91773 930 Elizabeth St. New Braunfels, TX 78130 1935 Hampton G. Cornell Delbert L. Haynes
21 Robin Hood Road Route 2, Box 218 Charles M. Hewett Lawrence G. Boyts Summit, NJ 07901 Sandpoint, ID 83864 290 Bloomsbury Ave. #C3 Catonsville, M D 21228 J . Maxey Brooke Donald Hood Cowan Jonathan Lankford
912 Old Ocean Ave. Forrest Estel Love Sweeney, TX 77480 William C. Hewitt Lt. Col. J. H . McCord Piazza Stef Jacini 26 333 NW 5th S t . , Apt . 1701 Rome, Italy Thurman J. Dupy F. Carl Hirdler, Jr. Oklahoma City, O K 73102
3736 Corey Road 710 S.. St. Andrews Place John Amos Mann Toledo, O H 43615 Los Angeles, CA 90005 Ralph B. Moorhead
201 N. 7th St. Howard J. Pixley Earl D . Flickinger Zothal Z. Hunter Sinclair, WY 82334 1 1 Durham Dr. 3780 Park S . Circle, 123 John St., #3 Conroe, TX 77301 Apt . 208 Seattle, WA 98109 William Copland Moyer
Topeka, KS 66609 Star Route 2, Box l 2 l R Ludwig A. Webber Charles E. Jennings Hemphill, TX 75948 318 Austin Arlan B. Hale 9839 Richeon Borger, TX 79007 Downey, CA 90240 Harold T. Quigg
William H. Justice 2095 S. Osage
1933 2805 Hunnicut Road Charles C. Loveless, Jr. Bartlcsville, O K 74003 Dallas, TX 75228 1508 W. 8th
Ernest Cotton Roswell, NM 88201 Laurance S. Reid
3501 Forrest Edge Dr. 2 Robert A. King 601 Broadlane Silver Spring, M D 20906 3701 Kirby Dr. Ste. 630 Hugh E. Luffman Norman, O K 73069
Houston, TX 77006 509 W. Green Meadows
Charles M. Hewett Columbia, MO 65201 Carleton G . Shead
201 East Chestnut Robert H. Kyle Chicago, IL 60657 Box 3267 Joseph L. Maher Donald J. Stover
Odessa, TX 79760 409 Swinging Spear Robert A. Ratliff Curren C. Sperling Roswell, NM 88201
234 Beauregard William C. Patterson 1219 8th St. NW Lake Charles, LA 70601 2112 Amberly Cour t Winter Haven, FL 33880 Irene W . Tanner
Houston, TX 77063 I'ost Office Box 446
William R. White John H. Weiland, Jr. Alva, O K 73717 Frederick Reimers Clinton Corners
Woodrow W. Williams 837 Fairacres Ave. New York 12514 1938 Westfield, NJ 07090
1934 1937 Colon V. Bickford
Albert R. Schaefer 2405 Bon Aire William H. Barnes
Virgil Daniel Victoria, TX 77901 ,2213 Skyline Dr. Robert F. Scivally 6202 Glenhill
2864 E. 35th Place Louisville, KY 40222 Bartlesville, OK 74003 Leo L . Baker
Tulsa, O K 74105 5928 Glendora Emanuel G. Bolene
Merrill Endicott Dallas, TX 75230 Max D. Sturm 1762 Fortuna Billie B. Burke Robert V. Gerner Frank S. Bell Sarasota, FL 33579 721 Buckingham 1371 Quail Dr. 41 Kingston House S. # I
Houston, TX 77024 Bartlesville, OK 74003 London SW 7, England
1936 Maurice R. Dean Erancis D. Henry G. Morgan Bell
H. D. Armitage 1216 Grandview 2940 E. 56th Place 41 Kingston House S. #1 6207 Briar Rose Bartlesville, OK 74003
Tulsa, OK 74105 London SW 7, England Houston, TX 77002 Nicholas S. Dunten
Jas Sommerfrucht Henry H . Bible J. R. Barsalou, Jr. 818 Thomason St. 21 Clermont Lane
Dave H. Stormont 5003 Tamarach Barnesville, GA 30204 St. Louis, M O 63124 Route 2, Box 79A-3 Baytown, TX 77520 Spavinaw, OK 74366
James H. Cheek 3115 Georgetown Houston, TX 77005
Melvin A. Witte 2624 NW 31 Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Maurice S. Wilson 3628 N. Land Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73112
J. Barker Killgore 966 Monterrey Blvd. Baton Rouge, LA 70815
William Alto Crabb 6 N . Adarns Phillips, TX 79071
James C. Word, Jr. 3308 Eddy #I58 Amarillo, TX 79109
John A. Marshall Post Office Box 262 Wood River, IL 62095 Bert L. Bratton
1914 Capt. Shreve Dr. Shreveport, LA 71105 William J. Feldman
767 Branson Lane Highland Park, IL 60035
Louis E. Matthews Post Office Box 602 Sallisaw. OK 74955 George G. Breen
Post Office Box 304 Fritch, TX 79036
Claude Patrick Allen 108 W. Tishominge Madill, OK 73446 Francis P. Frascati
Post Office Box 109 Fishkill, NY 12524
G. Navarrete
Lt. Col. Geral Couch 5209 Country Lane San Jose, CA 95129
Joe Y. Allen, Jr. William P. Orr 137 Canne Brook Parkway Summit, NJ 07901 Hurshel V. Hendrix
Route 1, Box 79A Ochelata, OK 74057
Henry M. Black 107 Cambridge Dr. Wilmington, DE 19803 Harry Grant Fair Lee Christy Parker
2300 Wignell Port Arthur, TX 77640 C. R. Houssiere, Jr.
Post Office Box 880 Jennings, LA 70546
Gerald M. Hechter 306 College St. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Clyde N. Bradley 2539 W. Morris Fresno, CA 93705 James Hoge Richards
5624 Holt Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90056 Sidney Kaplow
56140 E. Harnpton Blvd. Bayside, NY 11373
Bert L. Bratton 1914 Capt. Shreve Dr. Shreveport, LA 71105