The Knowledge Bank at The Ohio State University Ohio State Engineer Title: Issue Date: Publisher: Front Matter Dec-1939 Ohio State University, College of Engineering Citation: Ohio State Engineer, vol. 23, no. 2 (December, 1939), 1-2. URI: Appears in Collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/35654 Ohio State Engineer: Volume 23, no. 2 (December, 1939)
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The OHIO STATE ENGINEER VoL XXIII DECEMBER, 1939 No, 2 The Engineer Staff Editor Helmuth W. Engelman Associate Editor Perry Borchers Departmental Editor Donald E. Postlewaite Humor Editor Donald S. Arnold Editorial Assistants Charles Bangert James Cameron John Essel Joseph E. Fenwick Charles Hansen Roland Lynch Bill Parker Raymond Schmitt Joseph Selby Gordon Shisler Jack M. Shulman Ellsworth Shriver Norman Wittwer Jack Zimmerman Business Manager Gerhardt F. Rechtin Advertising Manager Ivan W. Spraitzar Advertising Staff E. Clifford Argue Seymour Browne Howard M. Dickason Clinton Mohler Ernie Oehling Harry Thoben Robert Thoben Circulation Manager Robert Hawthorne Circulation Staff James Rickey Ted Smart Ken Flanders Bill Wagner Carl Rench Robert Waldvogel Jack Lockwood Bob Porter Jim Welsh Production Manager Stephen D. Viers Production Staff Louis E. Evans Harlan Benoy Dick Snyder Donald Moulin Andrew Beeson Don Clark Dick Ferren Next Month A BIG ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS Car Radio '40 Style 3 By Jack Shulman Coeds on the Quadrangle 4 By William "Billy Boy" Parker The Engineer's Bookshelf 6 By W. R. Dumble Road Construction 7 By Raymond G. Schmitt Methuselah Goes Modern 8... Glass in a New Form By Roland H. Lynch The Heart of the Ship 9 By Charles Bangert, Jr. Departments and Societies 11 The Motor World for 1940 12 By Donald Postlewaite, Joseph Selby, Gordon Shisler The E. C. M. A. Convention 16 By G. F. Rechtin, H. W. Engelman Facts 17 By Raymond G. Schmitt, '41 Two Cents from the Editor 24 Members of the Engineering College Magazines Associated National Chairman: Tom Rogers 2-144 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Michigan Arkansas Engineer Colorado Engineer Cornell Engineer Iowa Engineer U. of Iowa Transit Kansas Engineer Kansas State Engineer The Marquette Engineer Michigan Technic HELMUTH W. ENGELMAN, Editor Minnesota Techno-Log Nebraska Blue Print New York University Quadrangle North Dakota State Engineer The Ohio State Engineer Oregon State Technical Record Pennsylvania Triangle The Purdue Engineer Rose Technic Tech Engineering News Illinois Technograph Villanova Engineer Washington State Engineer Wayne Engineer Wisconsin Engineer GERHARDT F. RECHTIN, Bus. Mgr. Published in the months of November, December, February, March, April, May, and June by the students in the College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Subscription price, 97 cents (tax 3 cents) per year for seven copies; Single copies, 15 cents, each. Make checks and money orders payable to THE OHIO STATE ENGI- NEER. Entered as second-class matter May 15, 1912, at the post office at Golumbus, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized December 8, 1922. Page 2 "Please Patronize Our Advertisers" THE OHIO STATE ENGINEER