Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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the organ of communication with the community, shall make quarterly reports to the Board of the progress of the various departments of instruction, and shall assist in the engaging of lecturers and instructors, and in the selection of appliances of instruction and improvement, shall assist in making the rules and regulations for the different departments. In these ways the Secretary with his assistants is in contact with the general public and with the students more than any other of the administrative oflicers. The Office of the Secretary is really responsible for keeping the machines of the school running smoothly. Robert I. Winthrop, general partner in the New York banking firm of Robert Winthrop Co., succeeds Percy R. Pyne, Ir. as Treasurer and trustee. Mr. Pyne, who had been Treasurer of the Cooper Union for 15 years, resigned becauseof ill health. Mr. Winthrop, a native of Boston, Mass., is a graduate of Harvard, class of 1926, and is director of several banks, realty companies and railroads. I. Pierrepont Morgan has been a trustee of the Cooper Union since 1912. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1889, and has been honored with an I..L.D. from Trinity College, 1918, from Cambridge University, 1919g from Harvard, 1923, and from Princeton University, 1929. Mr. Morgan has re- ceived also the degrees of D.C.S. from N.Y.U. in 1922 and of D.C.l... from Oxford University in 1930. He is head of I. P. Morgan and Company, Director ofthe United States Steel Co. of New York and the Aetna Insurance Company. Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., is also a trustee of Johns Hopkins University. A fellow A.1.E.E., he received his A.B. from Harvard in 1905, and has been twice honored with an LL.D., from Williams College in 1928 and from Colgate in 1929. He also received an honorary D.Sc. from Oberlin in 1929. Mr. Gifford's interests center in his home and gardens. He spends his weekends in his small Colonial farmhouse near Armonk, where he enjoys reading and gardening. Mr. Gifford is also an author. One of his recent books, published in 1930, is Can Pros- perity Be Managed?,' Barklie Henry, the freshman of the Cooper Union Board of Trustees, be- came a trustee in 1935, at the age of 32. He was elected to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Dunn's elevation from trustee to President. Mr. Henry also serves as a trustee for the St. Georges School, Newport, R. I., and the Green Vale School in Roslyn, L. I. He is an enthusiastic skier, and during the sum- mer he enjoys tennis and yachting. He is a director of the United States Trust Company of New York, Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., and Reynal and Hitchcock, Publishers. He is also a director of the Milbank Memorial Fund and President of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. For the past eleven years, Elihu Root, Ir. has been trustee of the Cooper Union. At Hamilton College, where he also earned his Phi Beta Kappa, he received his A.B. in 1903 and his A.M. in 1905. In 1906 he received the degree of LLB. from Harvard. Mr. Root is a trustee also of Hamilton College, his Alma Mater, and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to Phi Beta Kappa, he is a member of Sigma Phi and of the University, Harvard, Century and Knickerbocker Clubs.

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GANO DUNN TRUSTEES The Cooper Union is fortunate in having an exceptionally active and interested group of men in charge of its administration. The group includes: Cano Dunn, Presidentg Edward L. Rehm, Secretaryg Robert J. Winthrop, Treasurerg and the trustees, J. Pierrepont Morgan, Walter S. Gifford, Barklie Henry and Eliu Root, Jr. Since 1935 Cano Dunn has been President of Cooper Union. He is also a trustee of Barnard College. He received the degrees of B.S. from C.C.N.Y., E.E. from Columbia University and M.S. from C.C.N.Y. In addition he has received the honorary degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Science from Columbia University. He is president of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation. ln 1933 he received the Townsend Harris Medal of C.C.N.Y.g in 1937, the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers of which he was president f1911-19121, and in 1939, the Hoover Medal, a joint engineering society award. He was President of the New York Electrical Society 1900-1902, of the United Engineering Societies 1913-1916 and of the John Fritz Medal Board of Award 1914. ' Edward L. Rehm was elected Secretary in 1926 after he had been Assistant Secretary for eight years. According to the Code of By-Laws which was adopted at the first meeting of the Trustees of Cooper Union in 1859, the Secretary shall have the general oversight of the various departments of the Union, and manage its scholastic operations, shall be

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EDWIN SHARP BURDELL