Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Henry Sturgis Drinker, E.M., LL.D. President Emeritus of the University Merion Station, Pa. E.M., Lehigh University, ' 71; LL. D., Lafayette College, ' 05; Franklin and Marshall College, ' 10; University of Pennsylvania, ' 11; Princeton University, ' 18; Moravian College, ' 22; Lehigh University, ' 22. Secretary of the Alumni Association, ' 76, and President, ' 79; Alumni Trustee, ' 77- ' 79; ' 89- ' 95; elected member of Board of Trustees, ' 93, and held office as Trustee until ' 05; elected President of Lehigh University, June 14, 1905, installed October 12, 1905, retired December 31, 1920. Admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania, ' 77; Pennsylvania Supreme Court, ' 80; Courts of New York State, ' 99. General Solicitor for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, ' 85- ' 05. Published: Treatise on Tunnelling, Explosive Compounds, and Rock Drills, 78; Treatise on Explosive Compounds and Rock Drills, ' 82; an enlarged edition of Ball ' s Railroad and Telegraph Laws of Pennsylvania, ' 84. Author of various papers read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Past Manager and now Honorary Member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and one of the founders of the Institute in 1871. Member, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Honorary member of Tau Beta Pi. President of the American Forestry Association, ' 12- ' 15, and member of the Executive Committee, ' 15- ' 19. President of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association; member, Pennsylvania State Forest Commission. Vice-President and Member of the Executive Committee of the National Conservation Congress, President of the Society of the National Reseiwe Corps of the United States, ' 13- ' 14, ' 14- ' 15; Chairman of the Gov- erning Committee of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States, ' 15- ' 19, and now Honorary President; Secretary of the Advisory Board of University Presidents on Summer Military Instruction Camps. Member of the Executive Com- mittee of the League to Enforce Peace and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Branch. President of the Association of College Presidents of Pennsylvania, 1917. Member of Pennsylvania State Board for Registration of Engineers and of Land Surveyors, Club, Philadelphia; Engineers ' Club, Philadelphia. Director of Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company. 25

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m m Charles Russ Richards, B.M.E., M.E., M.M.E., D. Eng. President of the University University Park Born March 23, 1871, at Clarkshill, Indiana; Bachelor of Mechanical Engineer- ing, 1890; Mechanical Engineer, 1891, Purdue University; Master Mechanical Engi- neering, 1895, Cornell University; Doctor of Engineering, 1920, University of Ne- braska; Instructor Mechanical Engineering, 1891-2, Colorado Agricultural College; Adjunct Professor of Manual Training, 1892-4, Professor Practical Mechanics 1894-8, Professor Mechanical Engineering 1898-1911, Associate Dean of Industrial College 1907, Dean of College of Engineering 1909-11, University of Nebraska; Professor of Mechanical Engineering 1911-20, Acting Dean College of Engineering 1913-15, Dean of College of Engineering 1917-22, University of Illinois; President of Lehigh Uni- versity 1922 — . Consulting Engineer American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Western Society of Engineers; Society for Promotion of Engineering Education. Sig- ma Xi; Sigma Tau; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Chi. 12!

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Natt Morrill Emery, M.A., Litt.D. Vice-President and Comptroller 41 East Market Street A.B., Dartmouth College, ' 95 ; M.A., Lehigh Uni- versity, ' 99 ; Litt.D., Ursinus College, ' 16 ; In- structor, Tilton Seminary, Tilton, New Hamp- shire, ' 95- ' 96; Assistant in English, ' 96- ' 97; In- structor in English, ' 97- ' 02; Registrar, ' 99- ' 12; Assistant to the President, ' 07- ' 10; Vice-Presi- dent, ' 10 — ; in executive charge Jan. 1, 1921- Sept. 1, 1922 ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Phi Gamma Delta. Charles Maxwell McConn, A.M. Dean of the University 1425 Lenox Avenue A.B., University of Minnesota, ' 03; A.M., Uni- versity of Minnesota, ' 04; Instructor of English, Academy of the University of Illinois, ' 04- ' 06 ; Principal of the Academy of the University of Illinois, ' 06- ' 10; Registrar, University of Illinois, ' 10- ' 20; Secretary of the Board of Trustees, ' 10- ' 14; Assistant to the President, ' 20- ' 21 and ' 22- ' 23; Graduate Student at Harvard University, ' 21- ' 22; Dean of Lehigh University, ' 23 — ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Charles Lewis Thornburg, C.E., Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy and Head of the Department of Mathematics 238 East Market Street Graduate of Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va., ' 76; B.S., ' 81, B.E., ' 82, C.E., ' 83, Ph.D., ' 84, Vanderbilt University; Fellow in Mathematics, ' 81- ' 82; Graduate Fellow, ' 82- ' 84; Instructor in Engineering Department, ' 84- ' 86 ; Assistant Pro- fessor of Engineering and Astronomy, ' 86- ' 95, Vanderbilt University; Professor of Mathematics and Astronomv, ' 95 — ; Secretary of the Faculty, ' 99- ' 00, ' 01- ' 22. 26