University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE 1033 OWL ARTHUR M. GOLDBERG EDITOR WAYNE O. WEAVER BUS MGR

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George Hubbard Clapp An invisible reality, an ideal of human welfare, which we can not analyze or understand, touches the common life at the University. It says: You are not enough. Be great of soul. Feel, think, live intensely the present moment. In simplicity and sincerity be yourself. That is good. With pleasure we dedicate The Owl of 1933 to the man whose personality is the source of much of that spirit, George Hubbard Clapp. Mr. Clapp is descended from Roger Clapp, who arrived at Nantucket in 1630. His mother, Delia Deming Hubbard, was descended from George Hubbard, who came to Massachusetts in 1633. He was graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1877; worked for two years in the Penn Cotton Mill, then in the Black Diamond Steel Works. With the late Alfred E. Hunt he organized the firm of Hunt and Clapp, Chemists, which later became the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory. These two men engaged themselves, in 1888, in the problem of manufacturing aluminum. In this connection they organized the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which later became the Aluminum Company of America. In addition to a busy life as chemical engineer, Mr. Clapp developed two hobbies: first, he made himself the leading amateur conchologist of the United States; second, he collected United States pennies. He is an authority on the coins of the country. A book entitled The Pennies of 1798, written by himself, grew out of this interest. For thirty-one years Mr. Clapp has been a trustee of the University; for twenty-six years president of the board of trustees. He has worked unsparingly and has given money liberally, but his great gift to the University is the simplicity and the nobility of his way of life. He has lived the ideal of human welfare which pervades the very walls of the University. A TJ N