New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1923, Page 11

ENGINEERS PLIN OV RERGANIZATON Machine Shop Practice Division to Enlarge Its Field New York, Aug 20.-—Reopganization of the mnchfipe shop practice division to foster mechanical industry is planned by the American Society of | Mechanicdl Engineers, it was announ- ced at the national headquarters of the society here today. Under the new scheme, the activities of the division, of which J". O, Hpagland of Bridgeport, Conn,, is chairman, and which are intimately associated wth }. the activites of the bg manufacturng plants of Hartford, New Britain and other Connecticut cities, will be di- rected toward gromoting the art of machine shop practice throughout the United States. A tfour-day Machine Tool Exhibit, it was also announced, will be held in the Mason Labratory of Mechanical Engineering, New Haven, Conn, be- ginning September 18, under the auspices of the New Haven Section of thetA. 8. M, E.. the Mechanical En- gineering Department of Yale Univer- sity and the New Haven Chamber of Commerge. New Britain to Exhibit Hartford and New Britain plants 'will be among the exhibitors, the number of which is expected to be about 150, “This exhibit,” says the Bociety’s announcement, ‘is a co-op- erative effort to . démonstrate the latest' and most significant develop- Z VN [ W\\\\\\‘ i ments in machine-tool parctice and i equipment for the benefit of industry, engineers, engineering students and the publie.” Definite alms of the ' society’s Machine Shop Practice Division are the encouragement of original re- search in the machine shop field and of education in machine shop practice, and the advancement of standards of machine shop practice as well as its exact knowledge. Educational insti- tutions will be asked to adopt wider programs of instruction in this sphere: Ten years of organized effort have been mapped out by a Special Com- mittee on Plan and Scope. Coopera- tion is contemplated between = the Division and Loeal Sections and branches in' sixty-two industrial cen- ters, thus enlisting the actlve sup- port of the society's entire range of membership, now over 17,000. In each of these centers, which include Hartford, New Haven, New Britaln, Meriden, Bridgeport and Waterbury, AIN DALY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 80, 1923. the Division will name one or more representatives who will act as liaison officers. Thenew organization of the Divi- slon comprehends an executive com- mittee, and sub-committees on meet- ings. and papers, publicity, member- ship, and planning. To assist the executive committee | of the Division in organizing repre- sentative committee of the Local Sections, a group of leaders in ma- chine shop practice, headed by K. H. Condit of New York, has been select- ed. Associated with Mr. Condit are: A. L. DeLeeuw, Erik Oberg and Fred- erick Franz New York; J. J. Rey- nolds, Easton, Pa.; Earle Bucking- ham, Hartford, Conn.; Wilbur J. Petts, Elizabethport, N. J. Organization in Conn. Announcement is also made by the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers that ' the six Connecticut branches of the soclety located in Hartford, Bridgeport, New 'Haven, Waterbury, New Britain and Meriden, and previously constituting the Con- necticut Section, have been reorgan- ized into six independent Sections. The development of the society's work in Connecticut parallels the pro- gress of organized engineering throughout the country. In. 1909 meetings of the soclety were organ- ized in New Haven, which later de- veloped in the New Haven Section. This progress, to a marked degree, was due to the backing of the mem- hership of the faculty at Yale Uni- versity and the many facilities offered to the Section at the Usidversity which afforded an opportunity to conduct meetings of unusual interest. ‘When the members in Bridgeport, Meriden and Hartford desired to hold meetings in their respective cities, it was found desirable to organize what became the Connecticut State Section. Waterbury and New Britain soon made the six branches, the chairmen of which were the Executive Commit- tee of the state. In this way nothing was done by any branch which af- fected state matters unless it had the approval of the chairmen of all the other branches, Six years' experience has served to (levelgp an understanding which now makes it desirable to grant separate charters to each of the branches, thereby constituting them as individ- ual Sections. W. C. Beekley of the Whitlock Coil Pipe Company has been elected chair- man of the executive committee of the new Hartford section. Thomas G. Shaffer of the Shaffer-Marsh com- pany has been chosen secretary. Other members are: R. C. Atherton of Reeds & Thorpe, Stillman Shaw of- the Johns-Pratt company, and W. D. Halsey of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance company. B. 8. Lewis of the Stanley Works has been named chairman of & ex- ecutive committee of the New Britain section, The secretary is A. L. Stow- ell of the Stanley Rule and Level company. Their committee associates are: C, T. Hewitt of the Fafnir Bear- ing company, C. H. Norris of the American Hardware corporation, A. H. Scott of the New Britain Gas Light company and 8. T. Goss of the Goss- DeLieuw Co. % N! 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