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. More recent visitors are: 4
Mr. A. L. Eimer, class of 1917, who stopped off on his way to New jersey ~
’ where he was going to take up work in a munitions plant. Mr. Eimer, since . *
graduation, has been with the American Steel Foundries at East St. Louis, Ill.
. Mr. john T. Faig, 1894, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University
of Cincinnati, stopped over at Mechanical Hall for a short visit. I ‘
son. ‘ Mr. \/Vallace Hoeing, class of 1902, is a frequent visitor at Mechanical Hall
and his old friends here are always glad to welcome him. Mr. Hoeing is manager l
of the Louisville office of the C. A. Dunham Company. l
lor, ‘ Mr. H. B. Shoemaker. class of 1912, spent a few days in the city. Mr. Shoe- [
1 maker resigned his position as Assistant Superintendent of the Experimental l
epot Department of the Detroit Steel Products company to accept the position of l
. engineer in thglDetroit Sales Ofiice of the Trussed Concrete Steel Company, of i
~ Youngstown, no. .
— Mr. and Mrs. R. L, jones, of Durham, North Carolina, were recent visitors  
 V at Mechanical Hall, enroute from Mr. jones' former home at \Nalton, to visit I
S at Mrs, jones’ relatives at Sharpsburg. Mr. jones is employed by the Carrier i
the ' Engineering Corporation of New York City and is at present in the Durham §
Lmcs plant of the American Tobacco Company, developing a process of curing l
_ tobacco with more rapidity and efficiency by means of air-conditioning equipment.  
.ub€ Mrs, jones was formerly Miss Mary Brown, of Sharpsburg, and has many friends  
h to here where she was lformerly a student. ' _ I · y
lim, Mr. A. T. Lewis, class of 1996, is another recent visitor. _Mr. Lewis is a g
. member of the firm of Lewis, Robinson and Gant, consulting engineers, of Phila- {
 . delphia. Mr. Lewis is employed as consulting engineer with the du Pont Powder . P
Ends . Company, and is directly in charge of all heating, Ventilating and drying in the =
has 4 production of smokeless powder. Mr. Lewis has perfected a machine that will
Thls  F dry powder in twenty-four hours while the old method required four months.
There are over fifty sets of these machines in operation in the mills of the
ilson ` du Pont Company, and during the last three years Mr. Lewis has designed ,_
Mr. and installed over three million dollars’ worth of machinery for this company.
rson Mr. j. E. Bolling, class of 1917, is directly concerned with the food conser-
_ vation problem that is so important a factor in the problem of the day. Mr. ,
iools Bolling was Chief Engineer of the Greef Engineering Company, of Newark,
` New jersey, and this firm has been associated with the VVenborne-Karpen Dryei `
, his Company, of Chicago, under the name of Drying Systems, Inc., located at Chi- `
itiou cago. This firm is manufacturing what is called the “Dryventor Equipment." L
This equipment extracts all moisture from vegetables and fruits, eliminating y
with waste and decay, and reducing space to such an extent that there is as much food l
ation . value in one barrel of the potatoes treated to this process as in twenty of the
natural product. I ‘
{ lll; information has reached here that Mr. Fred VVhitely, 1916, has accepted a  
I ll"` Dosition with the Eastern \’Visconsin Electric Company as Assistant Manager, at i
while Fopclélti Lge, Wfiscoigin. Mr. \Nhg)telybhas been with Sic YVestinghouse Electric l
~ U- · ant . annacturing ompany at itts urg, since gra uating.  
SMS . A letter from Mr. H. P. Parrigin, class of 1916. gives an enthusiastic account i
wher of his_work with the \Nest Tulsa Refinery Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr.  
_ MS Parrigin is- mechanical engineer for tlus company and his work consists of me- , i
hwg Charucal, civil, structural and efficiency engineering, , ·
A Miss Margaret Ingels, class of l()l(), has accepted a position with the Carrier  
as a Engineering Corporation, of New York City. Her work will be designing and i
[ {Oy- ‘ ffitimating. Ever since graduating, Miss Ingels has been with the Chicago Tele-  
t the Plone Company. ,
, Mr. S. N. Courtney, class of IQI§, has accepted a position as superintendent [
of one of the four McCandless factories of the VVcstinghouse Electric an'd Man-  
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