Excerpts 1959 part 2

in a top-notch football season the dirty 30 Iowa State Cyclones had their best conference record in ten years and the team also had their best win-loss record since nineteen forty four special credit for the Cyclones outstanding season goes to the dirty 30 coaching staff headed by clay Stapleton who was voted one of the outstanding coaches of the year by the American Football Coaches Association number 16 captain Dwight Nichols elected the cyclone first all-american football award since 1950 with the help of his teammates the hard-running senior was voted big a first team back for the third straight season hitting hard to the left side 164 pounds goes for 14 yards here Watkins runs to the right and breaks away from vicious defense for another first in dem displaying his brilliant passing ability Nichols completes one to end on web and the block by senior Bob Anderson fries wept run for a 45-yard touchdown the nuclear reactor put into operation in mid-october will be an invaluable facility to the nuclear engineering program at Iowa State the actual reactor will develop 10,000 watts of power since it was built for instruction this power will not be utilized dr. George our town Dean of engineering presided over the dedication ceremonies speaking on behalf of the University was president Hilton representing the state of Iowa was governor Hershel loveless governor loveless officially put the reactor into operation under its own power the new reactor was built to a nuclear engineering graduate students and study and research as part of the nuclear engineering program developed by dr. glenn murphy chairman of the nuclear engineering committee engineers will study essential reactions involved in the release of nuclear energy after the ceremony guests and visitors toward the reactor facilities less than two weeks later a new high-speed computer called cyclone was dedicated in the presence of the state legislative interim committee president hilton pointed out the necessity of a high-speed computing center if iowa state university is to continue the excellence of its research program provost jensen also spoke at the dedication by building the cyclone themselves Iowa State engineers gained experience in construction and design and were able to incorporate last-minute advances dr. h/o Hartley who heads the numerical analysis group said the new digital machine can perform 600,000 additions or subtractions in one minute engineer in charge dr. Robert Stewart explained how the high speed digital computer saves time in solving lengthy and complicated mathematical problems he stressed that cyclone does not think but merely carries off the operators instructions while demonstrating the computer he emphasized that in addition to the new computing facilities the machine will be useful in teaching design use and operation the computer is located in a new addition to the electrical engineering building over 1000 student members of band chorus orchestra singers and dancers participated in the annual christmas festival of music the Christmas story by contemporary composer ron nelson was featured at this year's festival in addition to the traditional selection the festival is often referred to as the music departments greeting to the people of Iowa you