American Institute of Laundering - Annual Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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plant production course For fifty percent extraction, this ma- chine takes about twelve minutes running time. T WAS in early November when we began this, our second course in the American Institute School of Laundry Management. A few of the old guard set forth to make their fortunes in the wide, wide world and several new seekers for knowledge of laundering registered with the same frightened look and strange appearance that we had had just two months ago. We soon found out that this course was divided, like Gaul, into three main parts. Laundry Management sneaked in along with the main part of the course, Production, and was lectured on by Walt several hours each week. Many were the hours we slaved bent over our drawing boards making a fewclines, many erasures and smudges on that piece of paper which was to become the perfect laundry. At the very beginning Walt tried to scare us by hinting about the Problem, As old hands we scoffed at him, thinking that we could take this mighty work in our stride. Walt said to us many times, HD., old boy, you'll be burning the midnight oil before you are through with me. . . .and how right he was! A After studying in class about good laundry production and bad, we set out one fine morn- ing to pass judgment on methods as prac- ticed by some of the Chicago plants. When the bus arrived in Chicago we began very enthusiastically to criticize point after point in the laundries whose managers welcomed us so hospitably fin very quiet whispers, of course, so as not to disturb the operators, or arouse the ire of the managers, or show our ignorance. . .for ignorant we werej. As the day wore on and, we walked and walked through laundry after laundry and saw meth- You could use a 48 x 54 wash wheel -instead of that one and get a better flow of work. ' Page Eight

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vt- va: 'Rl' 5' . - - -i Lrg-1 '- .. 3.. f.-ug, r.-.Q I .-1 ' . 1-f' wg . ,'.m1q j?5.'-f if .f- MM- 1 ' ' - Y :V -- ' '-5.1. jY.'m'eS5z'f?f4',15g 3-I -' X . ' . . ' ' . 1' K ' - -- K -f 2 'f 4.z':2'. 513: J ,. 3iUl.51'.:1:-I.-' -. G '- '-'- Y - FRONT ROW' Cleft to rightj-Maurice Papp, I. Ralph Hill, David Grier Perkins, Avon Karp, Lawrence C. Deibold, John Barlow, Ir., Irwin Harris, Leonard Arkiss, Warren T. Davies. SECOND ROVV Cleft to right?-P. Edward Jefferis, Ben S. Pollock, Henry Robeck, Presley A. Martin, Alfred I. Rawlinson, Edward James Blois, NVilliam B. Tench. Conrad A. Miller. BACK ROW Cleft to rightb-C. H. Lanham CDirector of Schooll. Earl Aikin Gross, Gordon Pigott, Albert C. Menk, Robert Henry Stoer, Lawrence C. Kline, Preben Becker, O. C. Harris, Walter Reinhard CManager, Engineering Departmentj. the big places. We were jet black, all of us, when the job was done, and it was a full week before any of us were really clean agin. The boiler test was extremely interesting. We tested the power plant for several hours at periods of fifteen minutes, recording such things as the temperature of the boiler feed water, kilowatts consumed each hour, tons of coal consumed, and other such vital factors. It was unquestionably one of the highlights of the course. The climax of the course came with our trip to the annual convention of laundryown- ers, however. What a swell time we had. Getting around to the various exhibits and meeting the laundrymen from back home was great stuff. It was the convention that showed that Hank Robeck is a real man's man. It was quite a time he had. The convention was followed. . .almost im- mediately, by Jeff's tummy-ache. Could there have been any connection between conven- tion and ache? Upon our return home, we had a week of study for our final exams. Cec., realizing well the limitations of us mere mortals, took it easy on us, but Walt, villain to the last, gave us a beauty of an exam. Only Willie Tench thought it too easy. And so the first course. . .Power. . .passed into history. Page Seven '1 --Aff-'H .as -r-?f.n-gp .UV .1 .2f +w'.f1'v - Hefwffw - 1' . A L ..

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ljj- FRONT ROW Cleft to rightl-Bernard S. Gerskovitz, Avon Karp, David Grier Perkins, Lawrence C. Dei- bold, Lawrence C. Kline, Paul VV. Badger, Stanley M. Hansen, VVilliam B. Tench, Ralph W. French, Ben S. Pollock. SECOND ROW Cleft to rightj-Hilton Watts, P. Edward Iefferis, Thomas. Charles Camp- b ll Leonard Arki s Henr R be k Wari H Griffi jam G Ma kechnie Ir Ir in Harri Alfrel e , s , y o c , f . n, es . c , ., w s, c Rawlinson, O. C. Harris. BACK ROW Cleft to rightj-Walter Reinhard CManager, Engineering Depart- mentl, C. H. Lanham CDirect0r of Schoolb, Earl Aiken Gross, Gordon Pigott, Preben Becker, Albert C. Menk, Jr., Robert Henry Stoer, Presley A. Martin, Edward James Blois, George johnson CGeneral Managerj. Members not in photograph-Paul McCoy, Maurice Papp. od after method, our fires burned lower and lower until as a very tired crew we hopped in the bus to be whisked Jolietward. Then came the advent of the chart of Fac- tors Influencing Production. Sure we memo- rized it. . .after a while. . .but it took a long time for us to see how valuable it is in inte- grating the entire problem of efficient work. For our social debut, one cold evening, we of the class and several of the staff, gathered at the Armory for a skating party. The side- line sitters were both amazed and amused as the evening wore on. Shortly after mid- night we found our way homeward and grate- fully dropped our weary and battered bodies into bed. It was during the Production course that the now famous Sudsmen came into being. Basketball suddenly became a veryfpopular sport and quite a few of the boys went down to the Y in the afternoons for practice. The first Y basketball league of the season was organized, in which the Sudsmen partici- pated with some success. Student Laundry came every afternoon, but we soon got into the swing of it and worked willingly and with great accuracy, attempting to get good production and better quality. We did! It was during the early part of the course that Ed Blois, who was on the receiv- ing side of the Flatwork Ironer, said to Pete Becker, who was feeding, Never mind, Pete, I'll fold it after it comes through. This sort of work was the exception rather than the rule and we did some mighty fine work, even if that does seem to be bragging somewhat. After wsorking day and night we finally finished our Problems, took final exams and left Joliet for the Christmas holidays. Page Nine I sz' :-I 'ef' .vzffvff-'.--. -K. ff. --rr ef' '. ' 1-we-,.e!..,..-,rr .L 1 a 'f V , .. ,,,. --fi . -.,-4, - o, 'f ' Q 1 -1 . . 1 ' Yr ,f ,l,,f'3,:, 'wp-ogI,.1':fi :Q r- 3:24.