The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-27
Three Engineers, Artist, Design
er and Attorney Are In
cIuded in List

ok new names nave DeeN dQQeQ Dy
Miss Bertha r. Palmer, state super
intendent of public instruction, to the
list of former North Dakotans who
make up North Dakotas Hall of
Fame"
The Hall of Fame" consists of dis
persons who received their
education in North Dakota public
schools and with the new additions
contains 81 names of men and women
whose achievements have been out
lined by Miss Palmer for use in Edu-
cational week programs Nov. to Is.
Miss Palmer Tuesday urged that
persons able to furnish other names
and data of prominent men and wo-
fen who should be listed in the Hall
of Fame" to communicate the infor-
nation to her. She desires to compile
a complete list of persons educated
in North Dakota schools and now
outstanding in their work.
The new names are:
Emile Walters, artist, born of Ice
landic parents in Winnipeg, Canada,
Jan. 81, 1893 He came to North Da-
kota in 1898 and grew up near Gardar
in Pembina county, where he herded
cattle when not in school. He was
especially fond Of reading and the
cattle were neglected at times. At IA
he first began to handle colors as ap-
prentice to house painter. Colors
and color effects fascinated him, and
the Art Institute in Chicago became
his ambition. After three years in
Chicago he went to New York city.
His paintings are classified as impress
sionistic in high key Of color and
light, and his canvases are found in
the greatest art collections in the
world. His studio is located at Al
Fifth avenue. New York city.
j. F. T. O'Connor, orator and law
yer, was born in Lanark, Ontario,
Nov. 10. 1884. He came to North Da-
Sota, attending the public schools, the
university, and received his B. A. in
1907, and his L. L. B. in 1908. In
1909 he received L. L. B. and M. A..
degrees from Yale, where he won the
Towsend oratorical contest that year.
He was instructor in law at Yale in
1902. He returned to Grand Forks,
where he was engaged in the practice
of law and farming for 10 years. He
left the state some years ago and
went to the Pacific coast, where until
recently he was a member of the law
firm of William G. McAdoo.
Richard G. Hutchinson. Herbert
Miller Hutchinson and Harold l..
Hutchinson. engineers, graduated from
LaMoure high school in 1906, 1912 and
1919. Herbert was born in Ohio, but
when two years old came to a farm
near Great Bend. His brothers were
born on a farm east of Dickey. All
three attended country schools. ALI
three studied engineering at the state
university, but Richard left to serve
oversease and upon graduation Her
bert went to France in aviation. The
three are with the Hutchinson Miller
Construction company, which in 1880
completed the $60O0,0O0 Bonnet Care
spillway 80 miles north of New Or
leans, built by the U. S. government
following the great Mississippi flood.
The project required excavating 160,-
900 cubic yards of dirt; setting three
quarters of a million square feet of
solid steel sheet piling; pouring 1885,
900 cubic yards of concrete into a
seamless block of synthetic stone a
mile and half long. Such a job in
volved days and nights of figuring
with slide rule and 1ogarithm table.
Before beginning the excavation 1t
was necessary to build small city
with graveled streets, light and power,
water and sewerage. general store, and
hospital with treatment. dental and
X-ray equipment. The story of build
ing the great spillway told by Maj.
Gen. Lyle Brown. chief of engineers
of the U. s. army, appeared in the
scientific monthly, June, 1880, and was
condensed in the July Readers Digest
The Hutchinson Miller Construction
company is now fulfilling contracts
in Louisiana and Florida.
Marguerite L. De Bruyn (Midge)
Hops, designer, was born at Michigan
City, June, 1903. She was graduated
from the model high school Of the
university in 1920 and from the uni
versity in 1924, and took one years