Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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J. C. Duff. We’ll leave it to you, is this man good looking? Then find him a girl who likes housework and cooking. P. O. Lathrop. He is the one who came to school To learn to run a long slide-rule. J. H. Eckhardt. A very small man with lots to say, But must always have each thing his way. G. E. Phelps. If ever with Phelps a lady you see. Please report this fact immedi- ately. L. Holder. Holder the lad with face so fair. But please take notice he's losing his hair. W. Rankin. Waldo with the football name. At S. O. E. he won his fame. J. W. Stevenson. Here is a man who is honest and square, But he’s fond of dates, jazz music and air. A. F. Nash, Jr. Nash comes to classes quite punc- tual and neat; He’s a bear on Physics, Joules Constant and heat. J. A. Ross. All the way from Canada came, To win for himself a prizefighters name. Page Two Hundred Fifteen

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 If i -THE 1192(0» EltftF ' ' ——- £—rfc——— ' tEbrtrntprljnirian OUajsjs 12A In a far western Canadian province lived a young man who liked to do things. He liked physics and electricity. High school did not seem to offer the practical things that interested him most. He dreamed of great hydro- electric plants in the mountains to the west, which abounded in lakes and waterfalls; and electric railways on the plains below, so much needed for the transportation of vast quantities of grain and dairy products. This young man was John A. Ross, of Nanton, Alberta. And John was more than a dreamer. Leaving high school in the early part of January, 1918, he entered the Electrotechnician department of the S. O. E. He virtually worked his way through school by part time employment with the Journal Publishing Company. What could be more natural than for a young man who was reared in Milwaukee to take to a sailor’s life on the Great Lakes. That is just what Aldcn F. Nash did. While employed as steamship pilot, Mr. Nash had plenty of time to carefully consider just what he would like to take up as his life work. Having carefully noted the possibilities in the electrical field, he decided to enter the S. O. E. Mr. Nash is a clean-cut, enterprising young man. To know him is to like him. He has been very energetic in class work and R. O. T. C. While attending school, he has been employed the greater part of the time as a sub-station operator by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company. Between squints through a surveyors transit and driving stakes (some- where in Missouri) James C. Duff got the idea that an electrical engineer’s job was the proper thing for him. And we find that he was right. Duff takes to electricity for the same reason that a duck takes to water, because it is the most natural thing in the world to do. At his home in Lincoln, 111., he was a popular basketball player; and has been quite active in athletics and class work in the S. O. E. No road seems too long nor distance too far for the man who has made up his mind to get an education. Such a man is Waldo Rankin, “Radio Bug’’ and all-around athlete. During the war, Waldo was employed in a shell factory in Greenville, Tenn. After the armistice had been signed he found himself looking for something to do. Few things appealed to him like electricity and that radio idea, so we find Waldo working his way through the S. O. E., and taking an active part in track meets, football, wrestling and boxing. A little taste of that mysterious fluid (?) called electricity only seems to wet some people’s appetite for more. John H. Eckhardt of Hastings, Nebr., got his taste with the Guarantee Electric Company of that city. As a result we find him at the S. O. E. wrestling with those elusive Amps and Ohms. He has taken great interest in class work, and, being a lover of sports, has been active in football, basketball and wrestling. He has been employed during his spare time by the Journal Publishing Company. Philip O. Lathrop was one of the boys in khaki before entering the S. O. E., being a musician in the U. S. Army. Previous to that he had been attending high school in his home town of Jackson, Mich. While in the service he heard of the reputation of the S. O. E. and decided it was just the place for him. Philip divides his spare time between learning to run a slide-rule and playing jazz on his saxaphone. Page Two Hundred Sixteen