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

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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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power Live steam goes in here and makes that wheel go 'round like a button. ERY few of those who were there can forget that first day of school.. . .Miss House cheery and full of welcome, Walt peppy and friendly, and Cec reserved, but friendly, too. There we were all intro- duced, and it can be said that from that first moment we were as old buddies. What a bunch.. . .all types from all places! Drawly Gabe Martin from New Mexico, husky Larry Deibold from up New York wayg Short Stuff Pappyg Silent Hank from Chi- cagog and not so silent Arky from the same place. Shuffling Avon Karp left his gal in Syracuse, and Warren Davies left his in Co- lumbus. Benjy Pollock came from Arkansas, slide rule in hand. O. C. and Irwin Harris met and immediately called each other Pop and Son. Yes, sir. . .a great bunch. The course opened with a bang and main- tained a high state of interest all the Way Pa plant course through, although there were moments when Electricity had us feeling as low as a ground- hog.. . . Pete Becker excepted, of course. There were several highlights to be re- membered in the Power Course. Our terrific shellacking of the faculty in softball, a vic- tory made easier by Walt's errors in left field and Larry Deibold's hitting was one such high- light. Al Menk's late arrival was another. Then there were our trips to Chicago... always instructive. And, after all, what would the Power Course be without those two insults to clean- liness.. . .the cleaning of the Heat Reclaimer and the Exploration of the Boiler? The ar- rival of Becker to clean the former in his plus-four baggy pantaloons was a howl.. .. nothing more nor less. The sight of Ed Blois standing knee-deep in mud was an inspiration to any real working man fof which very few were presentj. The boiler job was a great one. Fellows like Pollock or Harris could get in every- where, but Blois and Gross could only make In the. case of a motor, the current goes mto the armature through these brushes. ge Six

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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