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IIT, together with the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago
Technical Societies will once again sponsor the second annual
career conferences for high school students on December 27-29
to be held on campus. Aimed at the goal of providing the future

leaders of industry and society with
details of their chosen careers, the
conferences will begin with an in-
troductory and welcome by Presi-
dent Henry T. Heald, who will in—
troduce Mayor Martin H. Ken—
nelly.

Over 2500 students will hear
talks about 70 various fields by

 

 

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AIEE Fowler group, 11 a. m. 0NU and.
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Chess club. 4 p. m.. SU lounggO
Deans coffee cletch. 4 p. .mT, Exec.

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VC AH conf. room
Polish 501121;? 711 .214C
Wintgnarl Whirl dance. 8 p. m.. Sherman

SilTlJRDAY, DECEMBER 17

Weissman luncheon. 11 a.m.. NU

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leaders in their respective voca-I

tions. The more Well~known speak-
ers will be Rogers Hornsby, Bob
Elson, Pat Flanagan and Gene
Kessler on sports; Irving Pflaum of
the Sun—Times and Nelson Algren,
author of “The Man with the
Golden Arm,” on writing and jour—
nalism; Senator Scott Lucas, Alder—
man Robert Merriam and Everett
Dir-keen on politics; Keith Andes of
“Kiss Me Kate” and George Kuy-
per, manager of the Chicago” Symn
phony, on music; Karl Nagler vice—
president of the Peoples Gas Light
and Coke company, on gas technol-
ogy; Dr. Gustav Egloif, president
of the Western Society of Engi-
neers, on chemistry; and several
popular teachers on IIT’s campus
will add their services.

Students attending: the confer-
ences will write essays about their
chosen careers. The six best essays

stance is stress
gar Narrated?

Three separate petitions pre-
sented to the January ’50 senior
class officers brought about a re-
consideration of the type of dress
for the Senior Farewell. These
petitions requested a change from
optional to semi—formal dress, and
representatives presenting the peti«
tions explained that the major
reason was to eliminate embarass—
ment to girls who might attend in
street-length dresses.

In order to avoid misunder~
standing, the following definim
tion of semiuformal for this
affair was set up by the senior
class officers and class repre—
sentatives: Women are to wear
dinner dresses or formula; men
are to be in business suits or
tuxedos.

The Senior Farewell will be a
dinner dance on Thursday, Janu-
ary 26, in the Gold room of the
Congress Hotel. The initial price of
a bid is $10, payable to class rep~
resentatives at a booth to be opened
in the NU lobby after the Christ-

 

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trip to Washington, D. 0., during
the spring vacation.

as rebates to those attending the
Farewell.

 

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TMEfiDAY, JANUARY 3

Delta1 Zeta. 1 pm. 202MC

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Model Airpnlanesclub,1 p.m..102C

Senior class placement 1 13.111. 108MC
WEDNEfiDMY. JANUARY 4

Mechanics Colloquium, 8 am..115CB

AR]? cho orus. 12 noon. NU cud.

SA M movies. 2-4. 4~6 p..,m 131 MC
THquDAY, JANUARY 5

Co-op c.1ub 11mm. IOBMC
AB, 1 pm 15
SAM meetihg, l p..m.101MC

Flulad ill/Pen 4 p.m..101M

SAM movies, (HI. 8-10 p. m. 131MC
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Chess club, 4 p m. SU lounge

Deans coffee clctch, 5 p. 111., AH cont-

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The reaction of methanol with
carbon monoxide leads to acetic acid,
which is a well—known industrial
chemical. By the same synthesis but
substituting ethanol for methanol,
propionic acid is obtained. From it
come the “Mycoban” sodium and
calcium propionates that retard
mold and rope in bakery products.

Synthesis in the Future

Today Du Pont manufactures some
120 different items that are partly
or wholly dependent upon elevated

 

Final Thesis Deadline: Jon. l3
Preliminary Deadline: Dec. 30

 

Call now and avoid rushl

as a E it labels a “fill Ettt theatre to latch-pressure synthesis, it new leads a assist lite

To the man on the street, carbon
monoxide is just a poisonous gas that
sometimes causes tragic deaths when

You’d hardly associate carbon mon-
oxide with anti-freeze. But at tern»
peretures from 300 to 450°C. and.

 

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INCLUDING it escapes from the exhaust of an under pressures of 1500 to 15,000
automobile or from a poorly tended. pounds per square inch, carbon mon-

EQUATIONS furnace. oxide and hydrogen unite to form
DRAWINQS Outside of the chemical field, few methanol-«a colorless liquid from
CHARTS people are aware that, properly used, which is made "Zerone” anti—rust

 

it is a very real friend of man. In the
last 25 years, during which catalytic

anti-freeze for automobiles. From
methanol and carbon monoxide as
raw materials, ethylene glycol for
“Zerex” anti-freeze is produced.

 

A. J. Hill Jr , Ph. D. Org. ., Yule ’44 and F. F.
Holub, Ph. D. Org” Duke ’49 carrying out an
experiment on a new method for puri/jying
carbon monoxide. The large furnace in this
apparatus operates at 1200°C.

Campus Representative:
J. J. Heuptil -- Ert. 309’
or phone

WHltehall 4—7586

Plastics and Ami—Freeze

Methanol is used also to make a
large number of compounds such as
formaldehyde and methyl metha-
crylate. The former goes into urea-
and phenol—tomaldehyde plastics for
light fixtures, radio cabinets, hard—
ware, utensils, and electrical equip—
ment. The latter is the basic mate-
rial for “Lucite” acrylic resin with
its many uses.

pressures. However, the possibilities
have by no means been exhausted.
Just recently, for example, chemists
have been learning how to use car»
bon monoxide in “up—grading” cer~
tain petroleum hydrocarbons to give
interesting alcohols. One of these,
3,5,5-trimethylhexanol, is prepared
from diisobutylene by reaction with
carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

College-trained men and women
interested in working in this field at
Du Pont may share in discoveries as
outstanding as any yet achieved.

Because of the Wide scope of
Du Pont’s activities, young graduates
in many different fields have oppor—
tunities to select the careers that
prove to suit them best as their abili-
ties and interests develop.

 

 

 

 

 

     

  
  

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M J. Roedel, Ph. D. Org” Michigan ’40 in-
specting a high-pressure batch reactor taken.
from the shaker tube assembly after a run to
make 3,5,5—trimethylhcxanol.

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and high-pressure chemical tech—
niques have been highly developed,
carbon monoxide has become a key—
stone of industrial synthesis.
Scientists have found that under
the proper conditions of high press-
ure and temperature, carbon mon-
oxide, in combination with other
substances, can be converted to a
variety of useful products. These or
their derivatives range from an acid 12-
ussel in tanning hides to the spar-
kling plastics in milady’s boudoir.

 

BE'l'l‘ER THBNGS FOR BETTER UVlNQ
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5.. Sleuths, B.S. Ch.E., Yale '49 and
H. Peterson, B.S. Ch..,E Northeastern Univ.
’42 checking a multi~stage carbon monoxide
compressor used in semi—works operations.

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