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

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se C ZZ u '4 H.920 EMF .... Canada seems to be pretty well represented in our class. John W. Steven- son came from Chatham, Ontario. “Steve’’ had been working with his father in the hardware business. Not being very enthusiastic over handling every- thing from nails to thrashing machines, but being interested in farm lighting plants and electricity in general, he decided to come to the S. O. E. Unlike a lot of fellows one meets, Steve feels that he can use all the education he can get. While here he has been employed afternoons by the Phoenix Light- ing Company, assembling fixtures. Another of our class who hails from the “wild and woolly” west is Leslie Holder. Having been lucky enough to receive a small sum of money from his “dry ranch” at Joliet. Mont., he decided to take a course in electricity. This had long been his ambition, for a lack of knowledge of this subject had been a drawback to him when working at his trade of automobile mechanic. Hence we find Leslie at the S. O. E., plugging away and getting more inter- ested every minute. He has been employed, while here, as moving picture operator at the Lyric theater. One of the last to enter the class, and one who has made an excellent show- ing, was George E. Phelps, from Oakfield, Wis. George had been employed by Uncle Sam as a rural mail carrier before an S. O. E. advertisement came to his notice. He was taken with the idea that he could earn his way through school, and enrolled in the electrician department in 1917. After six months in that department he joined the Tank Corps of the U. S. Army. Released from service in January, 1919, he again entered the S. O. E. as an Electro- technician. George is an energetic student and an active class man. He has been employed in the drafting room of the Phoenix-Richardson Company during his spare time. During the early part of 1917, R. Maicr was employed by the Cutler- Hammer Company, testing switchboards, and finished out the year by attend- ing Washington High School. We next find him with the A. O. Smith Cor- poration doing electric welding on aero bombs. In January, 1919, he entered the Electrotechnician department of the S. O. E. He has spent part of his spare time while attending school with the Milwaukee Worsted Mills, learn- ing the business. Mr. Maier’s hobby is raising homing pigeons, and he is an active member in one or two pigeon clubs. DONT’S Don't contradict Mr. Racth. Don’t try to argue with Oscar. Don’t try to get into Mr. Kelly’s class after the bell rings. Don’t blame your tardiness to the street car service. Don’t fail to laugh when Mr. Raeth cracks a joke. Don’t go to the wrong window to get laboratory apparatus from Mr. Hughes. Don’t ask Mr. Schuster the same question twice. VALUES INCREASING “Do you know that I feel just like 30 cents?” said Eckhardt. Then Doris sweetly smiled and commented: “Well, well, everything seems to have gone up since the war.” Page One Hundred Eighty-five

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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

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