Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Albert 8. Richey, E.E., Pi ' ofessor of Electric Railu ' ay Erjgineering. Professor Kichey was born in jMnncie, Ind.. April lOth, 1874. After irradnating from the iMnncie High School in 1890, he took np the electri¬ cal engineering course at Pnrdne Uni¬ versity, from w ' hich he was gradnated in 1894, and from which he received the degree of Electrical Engineer in 1908. He is a member of the Phi Del¬ ta Theta Fraternitv, and was elected to the honorary society of Tan Beta Pi before graduation. In 1896 Professor Richey entered the employ of the Citi¬ zens’ Street Railwav Co. at Mnn- t. ' cie, and in 1898 he was made chief electrician of that company. In April, 1899, he went to Marion, Ind., as chief electrician of the IMarion City Rail¬ way Company. This company having been absorbed bv the Union Trac- ft tion Company of Indiana, Professor Richey was made chief electrician of the latter in September, 1899, and in IMarch, 1901, he was made their electrical engineer. After the completion of the construction of the Indianapolis Xorthern Traction Company, this company was merged with the Union Traction Company, and Professor Richey was made their electrical engineer, in 1905 being made chief engineer. In October, 1905, he resigned that position in order to accept the position of Assistant Professor of Electrical Railway Engineering in June, 1907. Professor Richev is a fnll member of the American Institute of Elec- ft trical Engineers, a member of Sigma Xi Society, Xew England Street Raihvav Clnb, and associate member of the American Street Internrban Railway Association. During the past three years he has been retained as consulting engineer for several electric railway companies in Massa- chnsetts. He is also a regnlar contributor to the editorial columns of the Street Railwav Journal. ft

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J. O. Phelon, M.M.E., Professor of Klectrical Rngineerbig. Professor Phelon was born in jira dilated from Worcester Polytech¬ nic Institute in 1887, with the degree of S.B. in Mechanical Engineering, and was appointed after graduating as assistant in physics. In 1890 he received the degree of S.B. in Elec¬ trical Engineering. Having received the appointment as Fellow in Electri¬ cal Engineering, he spent the year 1900-01 at Sibley College, Cornell Fniversity, and received the degree of I r.M.E. from there in June, 1901. When the Electrical Department was formed at Worcester Polytechnic In¬ stitute in 1896, Professor Phelon be¬ came instructor in electricity, receiv¬ ing his appointment as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1901, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1907 Cherry Valley, New York. He was 21

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Carleton A. Read, S.B., Professor of Steam Pnguieeritig. Professor Read graduated from the IMassacliiisetts Institute of Tech¬ nology with the Class of 1891, and immediately returned as instructor in mechanical engineering, which posi¬ tion he held until 1899. lie was then appointed to the chair of Professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Hampshire State College at Durham, N. II. Upon the retirement of Pro¬ fessor Rockwood at the end of last year, Professor Read was appointed Professor of Steam Engineering at the Institute. Outside of his work at Tech, he has charge of the instruc¬ tion in steam engineering at the Franklin Union in Boston. Much of Professor Read’s time has been spent in laying out heating and ventilating systems and in making tests of pow¬ er-plants. He is a member of the American Society of IMechanical En- « gineers. Arthur W. Ewell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. Doctor Ewell is a graduate of Yale College and has also taken ex¬ tensive graduate work at Johns Hop¬ kins University. In 1901 he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute t. as instructor in physics, and has more recently lieen appointed Assistant Professor of Phvsics. Besides his « training in this country, he has also spent some time abroad studying under eminent German physicists. He has perfected an electrical method for ])i oducing ozmie, which has l)een adopted in a number of industries. Doctor Ewell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and % Sciences, and a member of the Amer¬ ican Physical Societ ' . • t