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

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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-

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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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sales and advertisin course Tslz-isle--the students were not the only ones who slept in class. ARCH 3.-Today, we again part with another c from our purses with promises by all instructors of a very enjoyable eight weeks from all concerned. And when I say from all concerned, I really mean we, the students. Having lost twelve students last course we have diminished in size, but with these incoming students, Howard Hastedt, Carl Super, Charles Bingley, Lee Westcott, and with the return of Barbara Robertson and Frank Schadt, we still number twentyfseven. Our sales instructor, Mrs. Grady, always arrived much earlier than the students in the morning. Each day she threatened to serve coffee in class but never did keep her word to the regret A of the students. Only once did she skip class and that happened on a very cold day so the students accepted her excuse. Little man Sales appeared before us many times on the screen. And with' Mrs. Grady's complete selling 8 s technique we are now able to approach any housewife, maid or whoever you are and sell ourselves as well as our product, clean laundry. The sales talks and demonstration went over with howling success. Our most popular housewife was, of course, the charming Barbara Robertson. She made the situation more or less the actual scene, although she ran into stiff competition from her husband, Joseph. Joe appeared before us with a very good housewife getup, even as far as having a troublesome child on hand. Frank Schadt the unlucky salesman, had his hands full doing his best to sell this housewife, but finally did get a trial bundle from her ffree of charge servicel. A1 Harding was called Mother Harding after his demonstrations. And as for the rest of the fellows, no one can say they didn't do their best. We Salesman Pop Schadt SOLD 'glamorous Ioe fsephinel Robertson a FREE laundry bundle. Page 'Eleven