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Ketchum, Paul M. (ed.) / The Wisconsin engineer
Volume 42, Number 5 (February 1938)
Alumni notes, pp. 92-95
Page 92
ALUMNI NOTES Chemicals KELLETT, WILLIAM, '22, is mana- ger of the Lakeview and Badger-Globe Mills of the Kimberly Clark Corporation at Neenah, Wisconsin. EASTWOOD, PAUL, '29, is in the research department of Kimberly Clark at Kimberly, Wisconsin. CATLIN, JOHN, '30, a former prom king, is sales promotion engineer for Kim- berly Clark. ELLIS, P. G., '31, formerly a member of the teaching staff of the Chemical En- gineering Department is assistant rate engineer for the Wisconsin Public Ser- vice Corporation at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. DE VOS, WALLACE, RODERICK, HARRY, '36, is a radio engineer with Westinghouse engaged in ultra high frequency development. Ad- dress: 90 Waite Street, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. . Mechanicals ALLEN, LAWRENCE H., '34, for- merly with the American Can Company at St. Louis, has accepted a position as maintenance and production engineer with the Crown Can Company of Madi- son. HOLLAND, W. L., '34, who was with the American Radiator Company, is now employed by the F. 0. Glas Company of Milwaukee as sales engineer. '33, is engaged in research work for Kimberly Clark at Kimberly. B E R R Y, GRAFTON H., '34, now employed by D a n i e I s Manufacturing Company at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, is chemist in the printing ink depart- ment. MAX, A. M., '34, write3 that he is doing research work on electroplating for the Turnstedt Hardware Company of D e t r o i t, Michigan. KERCHER, JOSEPH G., od/, yS Tirplead Ruby Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. 0 Electricals SJOBLOM, AXEL T., '10, electric distribution engineer for the Public Util- ity Engineering and Service Corporation, died of a heart attack October 22 in Tucson, Arizona. From 1911 to 1916 Mr. Sjoblom was employed by the Isth- mian Canal- Commission in Panama, and during the war he served in Washington with the Emergency Fleet Corporation. After the war he worked for a time with the Fairbanks-Morse Company, and in 1926 was appointed electric distribution engineer of Public Utility Engineering and Service Corporation, a position held until death. STEWART, D. J., '21, manager of the Electrical Division of the Barber Cole- man Company, Rockford, Illinois, and Prof. D. W. Nelson of the Mechanical Engineering Department presented a pa- per before the American Society of Heat- ing and Ventilating Engineers, and the American Society of Refrigerating Engi- neers on "Air Distribution from Side Wall Outlets." Bascom Hall Looking Past Engineering Building CADWELL, JAMES J., '36, who did graduate work first semester, is now an instructor in the Mechanics Department at the University. . Miners and Metallurgists LAWSON, STEWART C., '17, is en- gaged in sales promotion for Ampco In- corporated, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. SCHOEN, JOHN E., M.S.'29, has re- cently been made chairman of the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University. GALLISTEL, ALBERT F., '35, M.S. '36, and Miss Elizabeth Ransom of Madi- son were married in Madison January 15. After a brief honeymoon in North- ern Wisconsin, Mr. and Mrs. Gallistel will make their home in Philadelphia where Mr. Gallistel is employed in the technical development division of Leeds- Northrup Company. NIEMAN, GILBERT O., '36, who is engaged in the fox fur industry at Hom- burg, Wisconsin, acted as groom's man at the Gallistel reunion wedding Janu- ary 15. CHRISTIANSON, EDWARD G., '37, has recently left his position in the min- ing department of United States Gypsum Corporation and has entered the pro- duction department of Shell Petroleum Corporation at Houston, Texas. 0 Civils KUNESH, JOSEPH F., '14, assistant chief engineer, Board of Water Supply, Honolulu, was elected president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association of Hawaii in November. He writes: "Wisconsin alumni, particularly engineers, are re- quested to toot their horn in passing through the Paradise of the Pacific. We h a v e dinners, Hawaiian music, and hula dancing for all Wisconsinites whose presence becomes known." LEFEVRE, WINFRED C., '34, visited the college on January 27. He is on a seven-months' leave from his duties as surveyman for the Angolo Diamond Com- pany of the Belgian Con- go, where, he says, condi- tions are more thrilling than even Devil's Lake. Cobras are frequent and lizards as big as crocodiles keep the surveyman on his toes. VAN HAUAN, CHAS. E., '36, was married on January 15 to Lorraine Hanchett of Rhinelander. BOGOST, MEYER S., '36, was ap- pointed, about the first of the year, Pub- lic Health Officer for Pierce County, Washington, with headquarters at Ta- coma. JOHNSON, ROBERT C., '17, has re- cently formed a partnership with Vern K. Boynton, industrial engineer of Mil- waukee, to offer professional engineer- ing services. EPPLER, JOHN F., '37, who is taking a training course with the Crane Com- pany of Chicago, writes: "Encourage any engineers who may come to Chicago and who would like to see manufacturing in the raw to come out and ask for me. I'd appreciate it." POLK, WILLIAM H., '37, now em- ployed by Joseph F. Ryerson and Son Incorporated, of Chicago, is in the Plate Works Order Department engaged in the fabrication and sale of iron and steel products. PALMER, VERNON, '33, is doing re- search work with the Soil Conservation Service in Georgia. gThe Wisconsin Engineer at,e 3
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