Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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CARNEGIE INSTITUTE

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Mr. McComvav is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, and lias served on numerous public commissions, notably the Commission on Filtered Water. He has also served on the Hoard of Trustees of St. Margaret's Hospital, and i a member of the Art Society, and one of the backers of the Pittsburgh Orchestra, lie has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute for a number of years, and when Mr. Carnegie turned the development of the Technical schools over to that board. Mr. McComvay was named on the Committee on Plan and Scope, ami became chairman of that committee. They made an extensive study of the subject, calling on many educators for information and ideas, and finally prepared an exhaustive report, which was very satisfactory to the Board of Trustees. And now who was lietter qualified to carry on the work than these same men who had been studying and thinking about technical education? So. the same men constituted the Committee on Technical Schools, with Mr. McComvay again at their head. After they had selected a director, much of the work was turned over to him. However, Director Ilamerschlag acknowledges that tile schools owe much of their wonderful growth and development to the steadfast loyalty and quiet encouragement given him by Mr. McComvay. Personally. Mr. McComvay is a quiet and unassuming man. reticent and extremely modest, so modest, in fact, that although he is practically head of our institution, but few of the students know exactly what relation lie liears to us. and many arc not even familiar with the name. I le prefers to act rather than talk, which makes his sendees in demand for all kinds of enterprises, public and private. I le is not satisfied by helping a deserving enterprise financially, but usually is willing to give his lalior and time, putting the same care and energy into the public enterprise as go into his own private business. Among his colleagues. Mr. McComvay is known as a man who never neglects a public trust, even at a private sacrifice. He is a lover of literature, an omnivorous reader, and the wonder is how he can devote so much of his time to public enterprise without injuring his own extensive private interests. The keystone of this well-rounded character is a reputation for honesty and integrity that is as solid and immovable as the rugged hills of his ancestors. S. M. I... ’o8 A. S. '5

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Suarii nf enuitrrn of lljf (faruruir Jnatitutr ALBERT J. BARR HOWARD M. BIGELOW WIM.IAM BRAND JOHN A. BRASIIKA R HON, JOSEPH BUFFINGTON JOHN CALDWELL SAMUEL II. CHURCH OKOROK H. CLAIM’ HON. JOSIAII COHEN W. N. FREW l . L. GILLESPIE HON. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE W. N. FREW. President ROBERT PITCAIRN. Vic President S. II. CHURCH. Secretary HON. J. II. REED. Treasurer SARA E. WEIR. Assistant Treasurer DURBIN HORNE JAMES F. HUDSON JOHN B. JACKSON REV. A. A. LAMBING GEORGE A. MACBETH HON. JAMES R. MACFARLANE T. A. MAN ION- WILLIAM McCONWAV ANDREW W. MELLON C. C. M El.LOR WILLIAM METCALF. JR DR. M E. O'BRIEN GEORGE T. OLIVER ROBERT PITCAIRN HON. HENRY K. PORTER HON. JAMES II. REED W. L. SCAIFE HON. JOHN I). SHAFER CHARLES L. TAYLOR JOHN WERNER A. BRYAN WALL DR. E. R. WALTERS J. C. WASSON JOSEPH R. WOODWELL (Cnnumttrr mt errhuiral rlumlr. WILLIAM McCONWAY. Chairman WILLIAM BRAND WILLIAM N. FREW JOHN A. BRASHKAR WILLIAM METCALF. JR HON. JOSEPH BUFFINGTON W. LUCIBN SCAIFE CHARLES L TAYLOR DIRECTOR ARTHUR A. IIAMERSCIILAG