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| Title | Engineer |
| Subject | College year books
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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| Creator | South Dakota State School of Mines |
| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Type | Text |
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| Transcript | The $302, 000 Oharra Memorial building; it houses Geology classrooms and labs, administration offices, a library, and a world famous museum. During the late thirties, Dr. Connolly saw the need for another new building. The school was becoming too crowded as enrollment increased during the last days of the depression, and new Geology, administrative, and library facilities were badly needed. After a year of waiting and hoping, Governor Harlan J. Bushfield gave his approval to a bill which gave an appropriation of $120, 000 for a new building on February 28, 1941, and this money was added to a previously assured federal grant of $95, 000. The cornerstone was laid January 28, 1942 and the $300, 000 building was dedicated on September 3, 1942. The new structure was given the title "Oharra Memorial Building" in honor of the late Dr. C. C. Oharra. The museum was moved from the west end, ground floor of the Liberal Arts building (old Administrative building) to the second floor of the Oharra Memorial building. This building also gave adequate space for a modern library, classrooms, and offices for the administration. Ten months before the dedication of the Oharra Memorial, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese paid a visit to our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and left their mark of destruction upon it. The faculty knew that many of the Miners were getting ready to enlist to fight for their country. The faculty also knew that those boys could give a far better fight for their country if they continued with their studies and worked for their graduation as engineers and scientists. No Miner needed to feel that he was "chicken" for not enlisting; he was more valuable as a graduate engineer or scientist. The School of Mines offered an accelerated instructional program in 1942 to produce more engineers for industry. This program was inaugurated for the purpose of graduating the engineer much sooner than he would graduate under the normal program. The two semester with Summertime vacation system was changed to a four quarter system with no vacation. This permitted the course to be completed in thirty two months instead of the usual four years. In 1942, a new department of Chemistry was formed. Dr. Osterhoff became head of this new department and Dr. Karsten remained as head of the Chemical Engineering department, which had been offering degrees since the school year of 1922-23. According to the American Institute of Physics, in 1942, there were only about six thousand physicists in the United States, and ten thousand more were desperately needed for the war. The School of Mines announced that during the second semester of the 1942-1943 school year, a Physics curriculum would be offered and a degree would be awarded to those who completed the course. The title, South Dakota School of Mines, was changed to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in a bill approved by Governor Sharpe during February of 1943. This new title was to inform the |
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