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

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PLANT PRODUCTION CLASS Front Row fleft to rightl: Barbara Robertson, Joseph Robertson. George Corey, Jr., William Kerr. Walter Hondeville, Thomas Goad, Edward Zinkow, Homer Knouse, John R. Clover, James Given. Second row: Dale Vertz, George Atwater. Raymond Martin, Robert S. Mazlish, Charles Brock, Joe O'Dell, Emanuel Tubis, Philip Harden. Third Row: Walter A. Reinhard flVlanager, Engineering Departmentl, Robert Burchard, William Clark, Jim Normington, Frank Bolek, Jack F. Tibbs, Alvin Henningsen, Robert Fromhold, William Penny, Cecil H. Lanham fDirector. School of Laundry Managementl. Back Row: George Johnson fGeneral Manager, American institute of Launderingl. Robert Calhoon, G. Kennith Friberg, Frank Schadt, James Stormont, Raymond Birren, Franklin Myers, Leslie Roe, Alffed MUmi0Id. Edward Hooper. Les Roe does, he acted the part of referee most of the time. Student Laundry, under Superintendent Ceo Lanham became our regular afternoon duty. From the smiling faces of all the students it was evident that they really relished this delightful task. It was found that quantity by far exceeded quality, but since we were being taught to be Production Minded this proved that we were really taking our lessons seriously Qespecially if we had a chance to finish a little earlierl. And no one ever did find out where Pop Schadt spent his afternoons, except one fOfOfOfofofofofoj. We made two field trips this course, one to East Moline to find out how laundry machinery is made and one to Chicago to see how it is put to use in the best productive manner. The two biggest jokes of the course happened at the Chief Laundry on the field trip to Chicago. The first was when the engineer of the plant told Walt, thinking he was a student, that he was a bright boy, and must have been studying his lessons. The second, when the Super asked .Walt if he could tell him anything about the point system. Evidently he had never read Reinhard's Bible ' Although none of us were sorry to see the Christmas holidays start, we all had to admit that the production course was a darn swell one. Page Eight 'f 'F'4 -'!2'! ?Y1'uLm v': -- , - ' ' ' 'I ' -. 1 - 11 4' '. -. . f r- . wr- 'w-M-Hf---.-.-,.,1V...,'.... , , , . ... .,. , . .N vu. c - ..- .5 ...Lili-!S.i.,,,-5,f'.i,5?,V:,Tl H sy: V ,ip ...T ,., , 1, . . , . .

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plant production course A rose between two ----? H RODUCTIONN-the word in itself was an inspiration. It had to beg how else could we have mastered this allfimportant subject. in seven short weeks. fWe still don't know how we did it, or, better still, if we did it.j When Walt took over and started the ball rolling he said there would be some little work ahead, and it didn't take us very long to find out that he wasn't kidding. The addition of charming Mrs. J. flndian joel Robertson to the class had everybody, including Walt, worried for a while. We all thought Walt would be practically tongueftied, but even under such tremendous difficulties ,as having a female in the class he really did a swell job, and without too many slips of the tongue at that. None of us will ever forget the many weary, backf breaking hours spent over our drawing boards doing our best to put that dream plant on paper, or those nights fand early mornings, too,j we spent cramming stacks of paper full of endless figures trying to def termine everything from the size of the building down to, as Tiny Myers puts it, the size of the night watchman's shoes. Did anybody ever find out if Bud Hooper got that Sftfafafafcfh Cookah he was looking for? Torn Goad suggested using NofDoz to stay awake nights. Ed Zinkow tried someg it kept him awake at night all right, but Walt had to keep bouncing erasers off his head to keep h-im alive in the daytime. About the second day out Mose Tubis and Walt locked horns and stayed that way all through the course. We don't know who finally won-maybe Production or quality-that was the question in Student Laundry. Page Seven

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'TEM textile and washroom course The secret of my new short formula is purely BASIC -says Normington. HEN came the Washroom Course with Scien' tist Anderson at the helm and Iron Man Morton his able aide.l We were privileged this course in having George Johnson, A that well known textile expert and General Manager of the Institute, for the textile instruction. Lee Johnston was also admitted to the staff in this course and was known to all the fellows as' a swell guy. Upon our return after Christmas, we found out that Sailor Reinhard had given up his teaching career to take p over the management of the commercial laundry. We wish Walt all the luck in an the world in his new position. Morton showed up about an hour late on the morning of February 12, stuck his head in the class room door with a smile from ear to ear and uttered I'm a father. We got by easy for the rest of the course in chemistry. It was rumored that Morton could not sleep well nights-to say nothing of grading exams-then came the cigars, and all the sick A.I.L. QMENU. Morton also boasted of how he would have to stand on his doorstep in seventeen years and beat the students away with clubs. The Texans kept the humor going in class and most of Joliet-Curly would recite poetry to Mother Harding-such as six times seven is fortyftwo and I don't care if I go crazy and many others. Curly was also the cause of all the transoms being barred at the Private Reed lifted the mortgage on all the pool tables. Hildebrand, the Sudsmen's All Star guard, had more fluid capacity than anyone while presiding at a- board meeting. Everyone thought Zinkow was an evening patient out at Silver Cross. Batholomew was contemplating buying up Normington's short washing formula, but the deal is still unsettled. The Sudsmen came through after losing their first basketball game of the season 5345 to win the second The sudsmen started off with a 55-5 score but won the second round championship. Page Nine