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

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textiles and waslmroom practice The potentiometer indicates a pH of 5.3 in this sample from the last rinse. HE opening day of this course was an eventful one in that new students were greeted and the rest of us retold the happenings of the just recent holiday vaca- tion. A feminine touch was added to the class with the enrollment of our one female stu- dent, Margaret Schwartz. It was shortly after that she became known as A+ Marga- ret. Paul McCoy continued to be late for class. This time, however, he had excuses. He used the one about the governor on his new Plymouth. , - The school saw fit to purchase new uni- forms for the Sudsmen. Very nice, too. They finished the first round play-off in a tie for iirst place, but in the second round our Sudsmen tied for second. The season ended with a better than .500 average for the team. Snow fell by the bucketfull until it reached almost a foot in depth and enforced a most welcome holiday, for it was impossible to drive through the streets and walking was treacherous. A few hardy students who did make it on foot to the Institute, helped out in the commercial plant. O. C. Harris and Tommy Campbell making an ideal two girl shirt unit. Some of the students who did not have their snowshoes with them were content to stay in the Y and make model airplanes. It seems that Ben Pollock and Dick Impson made more and better planes than the rest of the group. D. Tergent did not consider his life worth a plugged nickel in the gym, with model planes zooming around his head, so to bed to catch up on sleep. ' On a Saturday afternoon the sporting event of the season took place. The staff defeated the student team in a bowling match. Art Anderson proved to be the mainstay for the staff with his high game of 214, which also helped. The match ended with the staff leading by a slim margin of 31 pins. Everything went along fine in the student laundry with the exception of one event. It seems that a Mr. Gershkovitz, better known as O'Brien, tried a new method of classifi- cation. Green sweat shirts are now to be washed with the white work. Note: this leaves a slight greenish hue in white shirts. The movie, The Lost World, was shown So, if you control the temperature, mechanical action, and pH, there' will be no felting. Page Ten

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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.

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FRONT ROW Cleft to rightj-Maurice L. Papp, P. Edward Jefferis, David Grier Perkins, Jr., Bernard S. Gerskovitz, Avon Karp, Margaret F. Schwartz, Leonard Arkiss, Ben S. Pollock, Ralph VV. French, VVarren Thomas Davies, Carlyle Morton CInstructorJ. SECOND ROW Cleft to rightj-Paul McCoy, Thomas Charles Campbell, James E. Potts, Henry Robeck, Lawrence C. Deibold, Richard T. Impson, John Barlow, Ir., Alfred J. Rawlinson, Stanley M. Hansen. THIRD ROW Cleft to rightj-C. H. Lanham CDirector of Schoolj, Gordon Pigott, Walton E. Richwine, Alfred T. Batchelder, Ir., Preben Becker, james G. Mac- keclinie, Jr., Presley A. Martin, O. C. Harris. BACK ROW Cleft to rightj-Arthur I. Anderson CManager, Research and Textiles Departmentl, Hugh F. Carroll Clnstructorj, Robert Henry Stoer, Paul Dorris, Albert C. Menk, Irwin Harris, Henry Mar. one evening in the Institute cafeteria for the students and staff. Refreshments were served later in the evening. Through this get- together we became better acquainted with each other and with the staff. It was truly a delightful event. We gave a bang-up party for ourselves in the early part of February at the Trojan Hall. Pappy kept his record perfect with one of his famous fade-outs. Those that did not feel like dancing spent their time viewing the river from the back porch. Your friend, D. Tergent, wonders if anyone did see the river? We boarded a bus early one morning and were off to Decatur to visit the Staley Starch plant. Upon our arrival there We were wel- comed and immediately set out on a tour of the administration building. At the end of this tour we were the guests of the Staley Company for luncheon in the office cafeteria. After lunch, special guides from the labora- tory took the class through the huge starch plants in detail. The flu epidemic hit the A.I.L. just as it did practically everywhere else. Many stu- dents Were ill, as were some of the instruc- tors. Art Anderson was the hardest hit, but came out of it in time to climb on his soap box and tell of the evils of smoking. The last Week of the course proved to be rather quiet. I do not think this quiet was caused by final exams as much as it was by the realization of the group that many stu- dents were leaving to take up duties in their home plants. Page Eleven ':.f f'I'3'S 4 f' K! Of 'FIN .dl 5' - -,,,, .,1 ,k,:.wv,,:-:. I! 1 'r sv .' '- ,' . -'rf ' .,-an 'A.w'1.f, 'K' 7' 5 45' 2 2 fl:9Ylf?Tf.l2 .355 'ni-,f-2T n'5'ff'-' . 'TJ L F W fflgffiagifiiirf-'ziinf' ' cv ,, -. .,. .EM-EEK? 'W' ,V J I . ..,--M