Colorado School of Mines

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Contestants in Mines' traditional day beard contest are coaxing "Blaster."EVENTS FEATURED AT
1969 E-DAYS

Attractions at Mines’ 35th Annual Engineers’ Day included over 50 industrial and departmental exhibits.  Other events that highlighted the day are as follows:

A one-half scale Apollo space capsule to an automated display contributed by Panhandle Eastern Gas Co., showing the flow of gas from the well, through the refining process, to distribution in homes.

Tours of the campus and the nine departments—chemistry, mathematics, physics, geology, mining, petroleum engineering, metallurgy, chemical and petroleum refining, geophysics, and computer center.

Tours of the Colorado School of Mines research Foundation—this completely self-supported foundation employs 65 project engineers.

Keynote address was given by Charles F. Fogarty, E.M., 1942, and D.Sc., 1952, president of Texas Gulf Sulfur Corporation.

Kenneth E. Boulding, nationally prominent economist, spoke on the "Economics of the Space Ship Earth."

Dr. John W. Cox, manager, Science Sub-Systems and Experiment Integration, Planetary Systems, Martin Marietta Corp., Denver Division, spoke on "The 1973 Space Probe to Mars."

Awards to Students—including the winners of Engineers’ Day Scholarships (three Colorado high school students).

Contests between Mines’ students—mining contests, differential leveling, tug of war, pushball, and raft race.

These student-organized events give Coloradans a chance to see facilities at one of the foremost schools of mineral engineering and become acquainted with the vital role the mineral industry fulfills in both Colorado and in the nation.



From The Mines Magazine
February 1969


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