The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-02
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Leading in Every Department
of Practical Life.
The Success Of the Graduates in Life. A
Magnificent Tribute to State Tech
nica School.

WHAT THE ALUMNI ARE DOING 6hcpo
If apy one has doubts as to the great
work there is for the A. and M. College
to do, and the earnest way it is doing it,
a glance at the positions filled by its
graduates will remove these doubts. In
every department of practical working
life, they are taking a busy successful
part. The appended list, while not pre-
idea of the kind of work graduates from
the A. & M. College do.
The college has supplied architects as
follows: To Wilmington, H. E. Bonitz;
to Raleigh and Mobile, Chas. Pearson;
to Durham, F. M. Foy; to Charlotte,
Frank Sawyer.
To chemical industry these workers
S. E. Asbusy, c. B. Williams, c. D. Har-
ris. f. G. Lamb are analytical chemists
in the State Chemists office; j. A. Bizzell
is an assistant analytical chemist in the
State Experiment Station; W. A. Syme is
instructor in chemistry in the college.
The following graduates have positions
as chemists r. G. Mewborne, with Ken
lucky Tobacco Product Company E. L.
Parker, assistant chemist Virginia Caro-
lima Chemical Company; H. w. Primrose,
chemist for Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company; G. R. Harrell, chemist Eliza
beth Mining Company; S. A. Vest, with
Navassa Guano Company; Garland Jones,
chemist for Armour Packing Company;
Paul Collins, chemist for Caraleigh Phos-
phate and Fertilizer Company; B. N.
Sullivan with Winston Salem Gas Com
pany; Chas. Watson, dyer for Odell Cot
ton Mills.
Among the civil engineers are the fol-
lowing: G. B. Kendall of the State Geolo-
gical Survey; l.. R. Whitfield. designing
engineer Norfolk Navy Yard; T. Sug-
ishita, Imperial Railway, China; G. F.
Syme, C. & o. Railway; c. l.. Mann as
sstant engineer Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way; w. d. Faucette, constructing en-
gineer Seaboard Air Line: F. H. Barn
hardt, draughtsman Phoenix Bridge Com
pany; W. l.. Craven, draughtsman, Ameri-
can Bridge Company ]. E. Porter and
O'Kelly Myers, railroad engineers; l.. T.
Marlborough, assistant to State engineer.
To the cotton milling industry the col
lege has already made good contributions.
p S. Boyd is Superintendent of the
Mooresville Cotton Mills; w. K. Davis is
superintendent of the Salem Southside
Mills w. j. McLendon is superintendent
of the Wadesboro Cotton Mills; David
Clark is general manager of the Ada
Mills in Charlotte; w. A. Clark is man
ager of the Eugenia Cotton Mills j. NJ.
Wilson is with the Spartanburg mills as
engineer and G. d. Sellars has a similar
losition with the Altamaha mills; Moore
Parker is instructor in carding and spin
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lege w. II. Harriss is editor OF the Tex
tile Excelsior at Charlotte.
Farmers are represented in part as
follows: w. A. Bullock is superintendent
of large tobacco farm ip Georgia; F. T.
Meacham is superintendent of the farm
connected with the State Deaf and Dumb
Institute; A. H. oliver is superintendent
of farm in Louisiana; G.. p. Gray is
manager of a farm in Florida l.. B.
Emmett, w. A. Darden. j. E. Highsmith
and many others are living on their own
farms.
Among electrical workers are the fol-
lowing: c. g. Marlborough is with the
Westinghouse Electric Company; T. ].
Smithwick and I. w. Barber are electri-
cal machinists in the United States SER
vice at Port Royal; A. D. Lyon is cleo
trician for the Weldon Light plant; N.
r. Stancil is taking advanced work at
Cornell University; B. j. Brown is with
the General Electric Company.
In mechanical engineering, mechanical
draughting and machine work the college
is doing unusually well. In the great
ship yards at Newport News, there is
little colony of A. & NJ boys, and they
are making their mark there They are
as follows: d. F. Asbury, S. H. Beck, s..
G. Kennedy A. r. Kennedy, L. l.. Allen,
r. F. Richardson and R. M. Wagstaff.
others are as follows: ]. l. Blount is
designing engineer for Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company; c. NJ Pritchett and
Lea Watson are designers and draughts-
men for D. A. Tompkins Company S. c..
McKeown is superintendent of machine
shop; w. ]. Mathews, engineer for State
Hospital at Goldsboro; E. M. Gibbon, N.
l.. Gibbon, M. C. Patterson are with
manufacturing companies; M. j. Green is
foreman of machine company; A. p.
Steele is associated with ]. c. Steele &
Sons Machine Company; J. H. Saunders
is a locomotive engineer; w. H. Sanders
is engineer of Raleigh Electric Company;
B. c. Fennell, draughtsman for D. A.
Tompkins; L. G. Berry designer for
American Bridge Company.