Fritz Lab Newspaper Articles, 1962-1966

The Bethlehem Globe-Times Monday, January 1, 1962 Jap Students Have First Baby of 1962 (Yuhshi Fukumoto, C.E. grad student), Newark Sunday News, Newark, N.J. March 11, 1962 Huge Device Tests Welds (picture of Baldwin testing machine included in article); sheet of paper with notation - Alumni Day Contest 1962 Test of an 8WF40 Steel Stub Column Failure Load = 700,000 lbs. Winners 1. Symanovich (7 02,000), 2. P.O. MacQueen (650,000), 3. Stuart Vogt II (650,000), 4. Mr. White (750,000), 5. D.T. Stevenson (750,000), 6. S.H. Vagt (650,000), 7. Jean Arndt (600,000), Simonelle (800,000), 8. R.V. Arndt (550,000), 9. ED. Schmantz (850,000), 10. Paul Stauffer (855,000) – (P.O. MacQueen, B.S.C.E. ‘07 would bequeath eventually to Lehigh an endowment of $15,000 for the civil engineering department’s library – the fund was named the P.O. MacQueen Fund); Morning Call Allentown, Pa. Feb 16 1963 University Advancing Pump Tests (unusual research program the nation’s largest dredge pump test); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Thursday, Feb. 28, 1963 Seminar Pupils Visit Lehigh’s Fritz Lab; K.R. Harpel Is Named For Exchange Award (Cited for Community Service, Harpel foreman of Fritz Lab, picture is included in article and the program of the Third Annual Golden Deeds Award Banquet Exchange Club of Bethlehem); sheet of paper with notation – Alumni Day Contest 1963 June 1, 1963 Test of a Rilco Laminated Timber Column 24 ½” x 12’-6” (Douglas Fir) Failure Log 820,000 lbs at a fast rate of loading Winners: 1. Arthur P. Goldenberg (675,000 lbs), 2. Elaine Diefenderfer (650,000 lbs), 3. Carson Diefenderfer (543,000 lbs), 4. Stanley H. Heffner (460,000 lbs), 5. L. Sharper (450,000 lbs), 6. John Billings (406,000 lbs), 7. Gary Gulden (402,000 lbs), 8. Meryl Silverbey (400,000 lbs), 9. Mrs. Stanley Heffner (380,000 lbs), 10. C. J. Flayhart (400,000 lbs). The Bethlehem Globe-Times Thursday, February 25, 1965 Research Prize Won By Lehigh Professor Dr. T.V. Galambos; The Bethlehem Globe-Times Thursday, March 18, 1965 Voice Of The People – Hysteria Attitude (opinion expressed by William J. Eney regarding the Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama marches of Dr. Martin L. King); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Friday, March 19, 1965 Voice Of The People – White Man’s Problem (a retort by William L. Harpel, a Lehigh University Student to William J. Eney’s opinion of March 18, 1965); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Monday, March 22, 1965 Voice Of The People – Not Reassured by David M. Green (Lehigh professor), What Eney Missed by Ferdinand P. Beer (Lehigh professor); Globe-Times November 24, 1965 Thanks From India by N.R. Nagaraja Rao (PhD C.E. ’65); The Brown and White Friday, March 11, 1966 Faculty News – Dr. George Driscoll and Dr. Lynn S. Beedle (honored as first annual Construction’s Man of the Year); The Brown and White Friday, March 11, 1966 Protesters March (article included picture of civil engineering student Gunnar Bagge (M.S.’66) protesting Viet Nam war); Globe-Times April 6, 1966 Nation’s Column Engineers Open 2-Day Parley at Lehigh/Column Engineers To Meet at Lehigh (article has picture of column in Baldwin testing machine, meeting of Column Research Council – (CRC was founded at Lehigh University in 1944 by Bruce G. Johnston) Lambert Tall, civil engineering professor served as coordinator of conference); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Friday, April 29, 1966 Lehigh Student Wins Award (David J. Fielding); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Friday, May 6, 1966 Lehigh Promotes 22 On Faculty And Staff (David Van Horn, to full professor and John Fisher to associate professor of civil engineering department among the 22); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Monday, May 9, 1966 Lehigh Staff Members Scheduled For Lectures (mentioned are John W. Fisher and Roger G. Slutter of civil engineering department); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Saturday, September 24, 1966 Lehigh Promotes Three To Assistant Professor (Roger G. Slutter promoted to research assistant professor of civil engineering); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Monday, October 10, 1966 Two Global Perils Cited At Lehigh Founder’s Day; The Bethlehem Globe-Times Thursday, October 13, 1966 Lehigh Professor Addresses Engineers (Dr. George C. Driscoll); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Tuesday, October 18, 1966 Lehigh Faculty Men Attend Conference (Drs. Lynn S. Beedle, Bung-Tseng Yen, Lambert Tall, John W. Fisher, John A. Mueller, Lee (Le)-Wu Lu, David A. VanHorn, John B. Herbich); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Wednesday, October 19, 1966 (picture of Baldwin testing machine with caption title “LAB WORK”); Lehigh University Brown and White Tuesday, October 25, 1966 Dr. Zettlemoyer Named Vice President, Research; The Brown and White Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1966 ‘Boat Race’ Runs Dry by Marty Marasco (article describes Fritz Lab ‘boat race’: Jane Arnold and Linda Pearce civil engineering secretaries in in ‘boat’ Miss Inertia, flag Fritz Lab Navy).