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

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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

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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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1941 TEXTILE AND WASHROOM PROCEDURE CLASS Front Row fleft to rightl: Oscar Reed, William Kerr, Edward Zinlcow, Rob t lVl l' h, Ch l B er az is ar es roclc, Preston Hildebrand, Lowell Kislia, James Given, Jr. Second Row: Lee Johnston flnstructorl, Edward Kluender, Kenneth Khuans, Stanley Wolf, Raymond Martin, Franlc Bolelc, Thomas G. Goad, Walter Hondeville, Robert Fromhold. Third Row: Joseph Robertson, Carlyle Morton flnstructorl, William Penny, James Stormont, Jim Normington, Jaclc Tibbs, Albert Harding, Bryce Beard, Raymond Birren, Cecil H. Lanham fDirector. School of Laundry Managementl. Back Row: J. Burton Patton. L, Ray Bartholomew, Leslie Roe, Allred Mumford, Franlclin Myers, 'Fred gielselmxnli Edward Hooper, George Johnson fGeneral Manager, American lnstitute of Launderingl. t . r ur n erson flVlanager, Textile and Research Departmentl. Members of Class Absent: Robert Hammond, Melvin Oswald. half-it sure is a good thing those other teams did not show up half of the time. Cieselman could not wait to get back to Canada where it was sixty below zero. Goad shivered to death at this remark. Interesting field trips were made to the Club Elgin and Calumet City led by Lochinvar Wolf. Those spots on the chem. laboratory ceiling are dedicated to Birren and Stormont in remembrance of where they would be if those experiments had worked. Tibbs was almost quarantined for two' weeks be' cause the little ones had the measles. A party at Little Jack's wound up the social side of the Washroom Course. The partings were sad and hopes of seeing each other again were unanimous. A new crop of chemical engineers was then thrown into the laundry field with titration, pH and many other chemical terms in their vocabulary. Page Ten 'r :fa --V-YH r .rf -'..ff.,,:-f.L,k -f-ww L 2 4 ,. , N ' T , b- 'r ' J a !L .J i,' 3i:1 ' -- iff f' fi Q A -1-vu:-gul 9-