Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ARTHUR ARTOX IIAMERSOHLAC Director

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To Arthur Arton Hamerschlag whose unceasing energy and untiring zeal has moulded the policies and shaped the destinies of the Carnegie Technical Schools since their foundation This Book Is Respectfully Dedicated

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ARTHUR ARTON HAMERSCHLAG, Sc.D. ARTHUR ARTON HAMERSCHLAG. Director of the Carnegie Technical Schools, was born in Nebraska in 1867. Doctor Hamcrschlag assumed the Directorship of the Schools at the time of their foundation in 1903. coining from St. George’s Evening Trade School in New York, of which he had been superintendent for eleven years. From 1892 he was occupied as consulting engineer and instructor at the New York Trade School, the Bethany Mission School, Phillips Memorial School, the Boys’ Preparatory Trade School, New York, and Highland Falls (X. Y.) Evening Trade School, etc., until 1904, when he began to devote his entire time to the upbuilding and organization of the Carnegie Technical Schools. In addition to his work as instructor, he carried on in New York an independent practice as consulting electrical and mechanical engineer for numerous corporations and industries. From 1888 until 1892 he served in field work in Cuba, Mexico and various parts of the United States. Doctor Hamcrschlag is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Pittsburgh Board of Trade. He is also a member of the following clubs: Duquesne, Crucible, Pittsburg Press, Junta and the Pittsburg Country. Director Hamcrschlag is the author of numerous scientific pamphlets and magazine articles, and has also written several valuable text books which are very widely used. 11 is early training was had in the public schools of Omaha and New York, and his advanced education under various tutors and at Lehigh University. The honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater and-the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1907 One of the most important events in the life of the man was his marriage, in December, 1901, to Miss Elizabeth Ann Tollast, of New York. To his broadminded, sympathetic, keen-sighted, intellectual helpmeet, Director Hamcrschlag owes much of his success. With her unerring intuition she has reached the solution of problems, which, at first glance, required much of a man’s judgment and discernment, and to her ready sympathy and womanliness, the girls of the Margaret Morrison School are indebted for many of their privileges and opportunities. Perhaps the most striking feature of the man as well as the most characteristic, is his immense amount of mental and physical energy. His ability to stand the hardest and most difficult work for the longest number of hours is phenomenal, and this, coupled with his ability to concentrate his mind upon the immediate task,