John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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.Slip fi few EDITOR-IN-CI-IIEF I anet Hild ASSOCIATE EDITOR Corinne Correnti COMPOSING EDITOR Irene Pentaleri ASSOCIATE COMPOSING EDITORS Barbara Laudman Helen Kestenbaum BUSINESS MANAGER Grace Karl LITERARY Marilyn Bond Yvonne Bugdonis Patricia Butler Mary Connolly Selma German Lillian Grannas Audrey Mittman Paul Ostrowski William Pearce Monica Scimeca Elizabeth Steiield Pearl Stock Donald Visco SERVICE David Bellan Dorothy Maylath Carole Hahn Myrna Rivera Elsie Martens Claire Seburger Valerie Solimene STAFF ARTISTS Thomas Abrams Cara Cohen William Devaney Marion Finch Iune Keller Kenneth McCormack Iohn Phillips Ruth Stringham Margaret Wilford Ronald Stank Pablo Rivera PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF Aaron Griika Edward Krauss Iohn Garrity Marion Finch Gerald Trafiicanda TYPISTS Norma Kathan Margaret Koebele Renee Mercandetti LITERARY AND BUSINESS Edward I. Clarke PHOTOGRAPHY ART Richard Blazej Rob-ert Steed JOAN .!46!6Ll'l'l5 rkhgl, 5zf,,,,,f

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THIS IS an age of wonders. Dreams of skyscrapers, airplanes and steam- ships have become realities since the tum of the century. The mysterious force of electricity has been harnessed, its behavior analyzed, its services offered to the entire world. Like an in- finitely versatile servant, it drives the wheels of industry. helps the housewife, and brings the entertainment of masters into the very privacy of a living room. Many men have made great contri- butions in the field of electricity, men like Franklin, Faraday, Maxwell, Edi- son, and Thompson. In the tirst rank of this distinguished group of men stands a truly great American, Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Steinmetz was born in Breslau, Ger- many, on April 9, 1865. But unlike other children, he was born a hopeless crip- ple, a hunchback. He was destined never to grow taller than 4 feet 3 inches. Little did anyone realize that this hunchbacked gnome was someday to become one of the world's greatest mental giants. Charles' early life was uneventful. Because of his crippled condition he was unable to play with other children and, consequently, spent a great deal of time alone. He did not distinguish himself at tirst in school, but perhaps it was because. rather than in spite of, mis deformity that Steinmetz studied :rd and soon became a leader in all f his classes. But young Charles de- lloped other interests too, interests rt were to alter profoundly the path his life. ermany was ruled at the time by tl 'on Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck. Bi 'rck was a dictator, and Steinmetz no ly disagreed with his policies but let feelings be known. The police sought Steinmetz and he fled at the age of twenty-three to America, the Land of Opportunity. The engineering world did not have long to wait to hear of Steinmetz. His first discoveries in the fields of mag- netism and alt-ernating current estab- lished his reputation. Today Steinmetz's principles in these fields are used in the manufacture of every type of electrical motor from sewing machine to hydro- electric generators. In 1893 Charles Steinmetz became an American citizen. From this point until the end of his life, Charles Steinmetz gave unreserv-edly of himself as he pro- pounded new theories. His truly was a life devoted to science and humanity. He gave liberally of his time to lecture and to teach young students. He took an active interest in civic affairs, and at the same time he devoted long, hard hours to his laboratory, a laboratory from which was to come man-made lightning and hundreds of other ideas and applications that were to revolu- tionize -electrical engineering and eam him the title of The Supreme Court of Electronics. On October 26. 1923, the end came to Charles Steinmetz as he died in his sleep. He had made his contribution to mankind as an improver, not an in- ventor, as a patent helper, not as a hard-bitten man of science. as a friend of the underdog, not as a self-satisfied man of fame. Even after nearly three decades, it is impossible to evaluate adequately Steinmetz's contributions to mankind. He was one-half a man in physical stature and twice a man in heart and ambition. This is the story of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, great scientist, engineer, and, above all, A Great American. 7 'N '11 nn 1 M S azyd my 1116.49 'Jauugm fb 1 -. H 3 3 he w : C' : 1 Cl: ra fb Q EE' : UQ C1 o : R fb 04 ln Nr NOSDYIIS .LHTIHOH F Q Q. E 90 2. Wh W