Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CARL STEPHENS ELL

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Carl tepbeng €U ( ail Stephens Ell, Dean of Northeastern College, Engineering- School, was born November 14. 1887, at Staunton, Indiana. He lived on a farm near the village of Staunton and attended the village schools until he was fourteen years old. He then enrolled in De Pauw Academy at (Ireencastle. Indiana. He completed the regular course in the Academy in three years and the scientific course in De Pauw University during the next three years. While at the University he was a member of the D club, for three years a member of the Varsity Basketball Team, an officer in the Y. M. C. A., on the staff of the University weekly, the staff of the year book and an active member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Upon graduating from DePauw University in 1909, Dean Ell came east to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was graduateil from the Institute in 1911 and received his master ' s degree in IQVl. While at the Institute and during the establishment of the Co-operative School of Engineering in Northeastern College, he had charge of the Civil Engineering work and was an instrumental factor in the organization, growth and development of the school from its modest beginning in 1909 to the present status. While at the Institute he also acted as Assistant Engineer to Earl B. Phelps, then Consulting Engineer of Boston and New York on the installation of purification works for public water supplies and sewerage disposal plants. Dean Ell was Assistant Inspecting Engineer for the New York State Department of Health during the summers of 1911 and 1914. During the summer of 1917 he was Assistant to the Deputy Com- missioner of Health of the New York State Department of Health, working on the administration and enforcement of the Sanitary Code. Dean Ell was in charge of the Civil Engineering Department of the Co-operative School from the time of establishment of the school until September 1917, at which time he was made Dean of the School. He was largely responsible for the formation of a sound foundation