Evening star., 1935-05-18
ARCHITECT POST
TO Be CONTESTED
S. r. Voorhees, and c. D.
Maginnis to Seek |nstl.
tute Presidency.

Stephen F. Voorhees, OF New YORK,
chairman of the Construction Code
Authority, and Charles D. Maginnis
of Boston. noted as a designer OF
ecclesiastical and collegiate buildings,
will compete for the presidency OF
the American Institute of Architects,
according to an announcement here.
The election will be held in con-
nection with the sixty-seventh con-
yention of the institute in Milwaukee,
Wis. May q to 81. The winner will
succeed Ernest J. Russell of st. Louis,
who has served two terms.
Mr.. Voorhees, and Mr.. Maginnis
were nominated by petitions of the
institute chapters located throughout
the country. Nominees for other in
stitute Offices are:
First vice president, Louis La
Beaume of st. Louis; second vice
president, M. H. Furbringer of Mem
phis, Tenn, and Francis P. Sullivan
of Washington, D. c.; secretary,
Harry F. Cunningham of Washing
ton, D. c., and Charles T. Ingham of
Pittsburgh; treasurer. Edwin Berg
strom of Los Angeles; regional direc-
tor for the Middle Atlantic division,
William G. Noting of Baltimore;
regional director of the great lakes
division. Walter" R. Mccormack Of
Cleveland.
Nominating Chapters.
Mr.. Maginnis was placed in nomi-
nation by members of the following
chapters: Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit,
Maine, Nebraska, New Jersey, New
York, Northern California, oregon,
Philadelphia, Rhode Island, st. Louis,
South Texas, Tennessee, Washington,
D. c.
Mr.. Voorhees, was nominated by
members of these chapters: Balti-
more, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
Central Illinois, Central New York,
Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Della
ware. Detroit, Eastern Ohio, Florida
North, Florida South, Georgia, Grand
Rapids, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, New Jersey, New York
Northern California, Oregon, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island
Scranton Wilkes Barre, Virginia
Washington, D. c., West Texas.
Mr.. Voorhees, is a member of the
Durable Goods Industries Committee
of the Executive Committee Of the
Construction League of the United
States and of the Housing Advisory
Council of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration. He is d member of the
firm of Voorhees,, Gmelin & Walker,
New York, which has designed many
notable buildings, including the New
York Telephone Building, the West
ern Union Telegraph Building, the
Wall Street Building and the
HEADQUARTERS Building for the New
Jersey Telephone Co., Newark, N. j.
Architect at Princeton.
Mr.. Voorhees, is the supervising
architect of Princeton University. He
is now director of the institute for
the New York division, chairman OF
the Advisory Board on vocational
and industrial education of the Board
of Education, New York, and presi-
dent of the Apprenticeship Commits
sion of the New York Building Con-
gress.
Mr.. Voorhees, was born in Rocky
Hill, N. j., in 1873. He attended the
State Model School at Trenton, and
graduated in civil engineering from
Princeton in 1900. He served in the
Spanish-American War as corporal,
and was captain and major in the
Sanitary Corps Of the United States
Army from 1917 to 1919.
He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the Amer
fcan Society Of Mechanical Engineers,
the Princeton Architectural AsSocia-
ton, the Princeton Engineering Asso-
citation and the Architectural League
of New York.
Mr.. Maginnis is a member Of the
Boston architectural firm of Maginnis
and Walsh. designers of the Boston
college group; st. GATHERINGS Church,
Boston; Trinity College Chapel and
National Shrine, Washington, D. c.;
Sulpician Seminary. Baltimore; Car
melite Convent, Santa Clara, Calf
Novitiate buildings at Weston, Mass,
and at Wernersville. Pa: seminary
at Ossining, N. Y; churches at East
and South Orange, N. j.; Immaculate
Conception Church at Waterbury
Conn.,, and church at Chevy Chase,
Md Maginnis and Walsh are en-
gagged in the completion of the Cathe-
dral of st. Paul, MINI.
Mr.. Maginnis was born in London