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gotten way in the shape of the swimming pool which he, together with his partner, Mr. Aldred, gave to the Institute in memory of Mr. Fuller’s father, Dr. Homer T. Fuller. In December, 1925, President Earle gave a talk to the Tech Alumni at the Astor Hotel, New York City. He was feeling rather blue because there were many projects which seemed imperative for the happiness and welfare of the Institute which could not be affected without additional funds. He spoke at length upon this and as the President finished explaining the list, Mr. Fuller’s partner, Mr. Aldred, reached for it, took a pencil from his pocket and jotted something down returning the list to the President, who read, to his delight: “I will give $10,000.00, to any of these projects.” This was read by the President and Mr. Fuller immediately matched this sum. It was a very happy day for the Institute. Later the President, a classmate of Mr. Fuller’s, got in touch with him and suggested that he and Mr. Aldred build the swimming pool as that would cost in the neighborhood of $25,000.00. This they agreed to do and though it cost over $31,000.00, Mr. Fuller cheerfully stood the expense over and above Mr. Aldred’s $10,000.00. At an Alumni meeting early in 1928, Mr. Fuller conceived the idea of bringing old-time Yankee ingenuity to the fore, prompted perhaps by the appearance on the market of the remarkably handy steel flexible Farrand rapid rule, the product of an exceedingly ingenious New Hampshire man. His announcement of the “Yankee Ingenuity” scholarship, the most liberal fund offered by any college in the country, aroused widespread interest among leading engineers, and chal¬ lenged the industry of young men throughout New England. Thus Mr. Fuller has become in a little over 33 years from his graduation, at which time he was a young man without any prospects save the training and education he received here, one of the greatest benefactors of the Institute.
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HENRY JONES EULLER M r. fuller was born December 12, 1873, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont; a real New Englander, since bis ancestry dates back through a long line of notable men to Dr. Samuel Fuller of the historic Mayflower. Mr. Fuller’s connections with Worcester Tech began at the early age of nine, when his father. Dr. Homer T. Fuller, became President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1882, taking up his residence in Worcester in the same year. Henry Fuller’s secondary education was acquired at Worcester Academy from 1887 to 1891. Immediately after graduation from the Academy he entered Worcester Tech with the class of 1895, of which President Earle was a member. During his undergraduate days he was a participant in many campus activities, becoming president of the Tennis Club and of the Camera Club, and being proficient in other social activities. At graduation Mr. Fuller returned to his birthplace in Vermont as a drafts¬ man for the E. T. f airbanks Co., scale manufacturers. After working through the factory at St. Johnsbury, he entered the Sales Department of the Fairbanks Company and went to Montreal, first as salesman, subsequently becoming man¬ ager of the business established there under the name of the Canadian Fairbanks Morse Company, Ltd., of which company he is still chairman of the Board of Directors. The scales company grew immensely, and in 1913 he went to New York City as Vice President of Fairbanks, Morse Co., and remained in that position until 1921. In that year he became a partner of the banking firm of Aldred and Co., in which he is at present a partner, and director of the Canadian firm of the same name. The Bank of America, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the First National Bank of Boston, the Guarantee Company of North America, and the National Trust Company, Ltd., all claim him as a Director. His knowledge of business methods as applied to public utilities is called into play at the director’s meetings of the Shawinigan Water and Power Company, the Pennsylvania Water and Power Company, and the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and the Savage Arms Corporations which owns the Stevens Arms and Tool Company of Chicopee Falls, Mass. He is also a director of the Remington Rand, Inc., which owns the Noiseless Typewriter Company at Middletown, Conn., a director of the Greenfield Tap and Die Corpora¬ tion, chairman of the Board of the Gorham Company, chairman of the Board and president of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., as well as being a trustee of St. Johnsbury Academy and Vice President of St. Mark’s Hospital. Henry J. Fuller’s activities in connection with W. P. 1. may have been inspired by his observations of the results of his father’s regime, during which the Salis¬ bury Laboratories, the Mechanical Engineering Building, the Power Laboratories, and the President’s house were erected; the plant and land at Chaffins were acquired; the encumbrance of the name “Worcester County Free Institute of In¬ dustrial Science” was removed and the more suitable present name applied to the rapidly growing Polytechnic Institute. The name of Henry Fuller is engraved at the Institute in a never to be for- Page fourteen
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