Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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HELEN HOLLISTER Received preliminary education at private schools, with later work at the University of New York, Columbia University and Teachers’ College. Be- fore coming to Pratt Institute was connected with Mechanics’ Institute, Rochester, for eight years, first as Assistant Superintendent and later as Superintendent of the Home Eco- nomics Department. General Super- visor of the School of Household Science and Arts since 1914, and at present is the Acting Director of that school. EDWARD FRANCIS STEVENS Born at Rangoon, Burma. B.A. from Colby. Graduate, Pratt Insti- tute School of Library Science. With Baker Taylor Co., New York, and Longmans, Green Co. Cataloguer in Yale University Library. Head of Applied Science Department, 1906- 1910. Library, 1910. Director of Pratt Institute School of Library Science since 1911. Home, Brooklyn. Mem- ber, A. L. A., Society Promotion Engi- neering Education, Society Promotion Industrial Education. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.

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WALTER SCOTT PERRY Director, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Pratt Institute; Lecturer on History of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting Student, Massachusetts = Normal Art Sehool; student of Architecture, Boston; Painting and Sculpture with Langerfeldt, Higgins and Pierre Mil- let; Supervisor of Drawing and Art Education, Public Schools, Fall River and Worcester, Mass.; studied and traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt, India, China and Japan. One of the organizers and lecturer, National Summer School of Methods, Saratoga, N. Y. Honorary degrees, M. A, Pratt Institute, 1899; M. A., Saint Lawrence University, 1905. Author of “Egypt, the Land of the Temple Builders,’ “In Egypt With Azir Girges,” and of textbooks on Art Education. Lecturer on the History of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Decoration, and Director, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Pratt In- stitute, since its organization. SAMUEL SUMNER EDMANDS Director of School of Science and Technology Graduate, 1899, Worcester Polytech- nic Institute, electrical engineering. Inspector American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Boston, Mass. and Providence, R. I., 1899-1900. Member of department of electrical engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1900-1901. Instructor, head of department of applied electricity, Pratt Institute, 1909-1911. Director of School of Science and Technology, Pratt Insti- tute, since 1911. 23

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JOHN WILFRED BURLEY Supervisor of Machine Construction. School of Science and Technology. Graduate of Mechanics Art High School of Springfield, Mass., 1900. Apprenticeship in American ‘Tool Co., F. E. Reed Co., Worcester, Mass., 1904. Business, manufacturing con- structural dies and punches, model and repair work, 1907. Instructor in Tech- nical High School, Springfield, Mass., 1904-1908. Instructor in machine and forge work, University of Kansas, 1909. Assistant engineer of machine tool installation at the Remington Arms Co., Bridgeport, Conn., 1915. Instructor in machine work, Summer session, ‘Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 1912-1914, | Assistant in- structor, machine work, 1908. Instruc- tor and head of Machine Department, Pratt Institute, since 1914. CHARLES MORSE ALLEN Supervisor of Industrial Chemical Engineering. School of Science and Technology. Karly life in Pine Tree State. Stu- dent at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and at University of Maine. Graduate of Wesleyan University, 1882. Instruc- tor in Natural Science, Wyoming Sem- inary, 1882-1889. Instructor in Chem- istry and Physics, Pratt Institute Technical High School and Science and Technology Department, 1889- 1897. Head of Chemistry Department, Pratt Institute, since 1897, Graduate student in Chemistry, Harvard Uni- versity, 1894; at Dresden and Zurich Polytechnic Institutes, 1896-1897. Year’s leave of absence, 1913-1914, spent in observatories in Germany, Italy and England. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, American Chemical, New York Chemistry Teachers’ Club, Author, Laboratory ‘Text in Descrip- tive Chemistry and a Quantitative Analysis.