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

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Walter S Gifford I-lrlru Root .lr Cano Dunn, electrical engineer, was born in New York and graduated from City College in 1889 and Columbia University in 1891 He has been the re crpient of many honorary degrees and medals is trustee and director of a number of industrial, scren tific and educational corporations and institutions, and ls well distinguished for hrs publlc serrrce l 1924 he became a Trustee of the Cooper Lnron and succeeded to the Presidency in 1930 He has always been keenly dey oted to the Institution has gulded its destinv through difficult years and rs now contributing generously to the shaping of its future deyelopment J Pierpont Morgan our senior Trustee was born and bred lll New York graduated from Har vard in 1889, and rs the holder of many honorary de grees He 15 1 banker by profession and is a member of many boards of trustees of art galleries and hos pitals Since 1912 he has brought to the Board of Trustees of The Cooper Union a rich and unique back ground of busine s experience and artistic apprecra tion and an unmeasured devotion It was through Mr Morgan s father that our Museum acquired a world famous collection of medleval textiles Vlfalter S Gifford, businessman and chief execu tive of the world s greatest communications svstem, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was born in Salem Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 190.3 His ayocatronal rrrterests are centered in institutions deyoted to education and hu adyice and counsel rn the e fields He became a Trustee in 1931 Elrhu Root Jr a lawyer graduated from Ham ilton College rn 1903 At Hamilton, Mr Root was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and he has been honored with an LL D at Hrrxard He lb the son of a drstrn gurshed lawyer and statesman director of many com parries and trustee of many educational institutions Art education ls hrs principal interest He became a Trustee in 1909 Barklre Henry our youngest Trustee was grad uated cum laude from Harx ard College in 1924 and hrs earlv career was deyoted to the publi hrng busr ness rn Boston He has since become one of New York s most drstrngur hed younger citizens rn his sery ice to the community and as a leader rn the field of hospital and welfare administration Probably no volunteer worker in the Crty of Yew York studies more thoroughly the projects with which he is con nected than does Mr Henry Cooper Umon has been fortunate rn receiving rts share of this remarkable man s time and energy Y v M x, ' . , . . . g . . M I .S . .S .N . M y. . n , , T - Y V . . , . . J V S, . . . V . . Y ' 7 T 9 v , . Q. z ' Q S: . . . . . ,-. 4 l s 4 v J. f 7' ' ' ' Q 9 LM 71 a ' ' ' ' '. f ' ' ' 5 : ' K man welfare, and he brings to us a wealth of helpful V ' 3 ' s 4 - ' 9 -S 1 if 9 I I 1 ' . I I 1 , S x 1 v Y T xx 7 ' 1 1 ' . Ya 1 9 7 T i ' u 1 y ' . A A 7 . J.- , i .N . .Vs Y . . N . . v A 1 . 3 , . , '- , .

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trustees Y Cano Dunn, President J. P. Morgan Barklie Henry

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