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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1928)
2 THE BATTALION C. W. HEPPEN- STALL, JR. Contract Administrator Penn State *22 M. V. MAXWELL Design Engineer U. of Missouri ’23 R. R. SHEELY Design Engineer Ohio State *22 The -picture above shows workmen assembling one of the huge Conowingo stators in the Westmghouse Works at East Pittsburgh. The men in the picture will give an idea of the tremendous size of these generators. RENE BAUDRY Drafting Engineer Ecole Nationale d’Arts et Metiers d’Aix-en-Provence ’19 J.H. ASH BAUGH Design Engineer Bliss * 1 8 S. B. GRISCOM Trans m is s ion Engineer Cornell ’22 R. S. MARTHENS Design Engineer Carnegie Tech ’23 YOUNGER COLLEGE MEN ON RECENT WE STING HOUSE JOBS R. C. BERGVALL Central Station Engineer U. of Michigan *21 Where do young college men get in a large industrial organization? Have they opportunity to exercise creative talent? Is individual work recognized? 4 T Conowingo, not far from where the Susquehanna River flows into Chesapeake Bay, the Philadelphia Electric Company is erecting a huge dam Conowingo and power house. This hydro electric development, one of the largest in the world, has an initial capacity of 28 i ,000 kv-a. in seven units and an ultimate capacity of 440,000 kv-a. The generators, due to their very low operating speed of-81.8 r.p.m., are much larger physically than anything yet built, each machine being approximately 37 feet in diameter and weighing over one million pounds. Only an organization of the size and resources of Westing- house can undertake the building of such a large machine. Westing- house offers great attractions to young men of enterprise and genius because it daily provides facilities and opportunities which smaller companies cannot offer. Westinghouse AS THE PROF SEES IT I have been bawled out, bawled up, held up and held down; bull-dozed, black-jacked, walked on, cheated, squeezed and mooched; stuck for war- tax, excess-profits tax, per capita tax, state tax, auto tax, school tax, dog tax and syntax; Liberty Bonds, Baby “3 Bonds, and Bonds of Matrimony; Red A. and Y. W. C. A.; Good Roads Pro- Cross, green cross, and the double cross; asked to help the Church Bud get, Church Debt, Church Extension; Near East Relief, Foreign Missions, Student’s Center, Boy Scouts, Com munity Budget, American Legion, Chamber of Commerce, Old Ladies’ Home, Memorial Building, Y. M. C. gram, Ministers’ Pension Fund, Lodge Relief and Country Club; G. A. R., Women’s Relief Corps, men’s relief and stomach relief. I have worked like blazes and have been worked like blazes; have been drunk and gotten others drunk; lost all I had and part of my furniture; and because I won’t spend or lend all of the little I earn, and go beg, bor row or steal, I have been cussed and discussed, boycotted, talked to and talked about; lied to and lied about; held up, hung up, robbed and durn near ruined; and the only reason I am alive is because I am anxious to see what in the thunder will happen next.