Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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BERNARD ALBERT ECKHART The Vice-President and Treasurer of the trustees is a red-blooded Amer- ican, born in France of German stock. Can you beat it for a powerful com- bination? He came from Alsace when he was a baby, grew up in Wisconsin, and became a miller, lie remains a miller, one of the greatest in the world, and was the first man to he chosen president of the Millers ' National Federa- tion. Incidentally he is a director of half a dozen banks, and has been one of the builders of the new Chicago. Speak of parks and park commissions and Mr. Eckhart ' s name is the first name remembered. He has been deeply interested in Lewis Institute since the day of its opening, and many a poor boy owes his chance in life to the Eckhart scholarships. He has been a trustee since 1904, when he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of former Mayor John A. Roche. In April of that year he was appointed a committee of one to look after the investments belonging to the Institute. He looked after them. That committee of one i- still active, and Mr. Mowat says that for the last seventeen years no bond has been bought or sold, no real estate mortgage granted or payment extended, no important lease executed and no valuable equipment purchased without Mr. Eckhart ' s personal attention. Even so. And now the Annual has the honor to announce that Mr. Eckhart will be the Commencement Speaker this year, on the evening of June twenty-second. Srri ' n

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