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In 1936 Phil Hatch was in his mid-30s, I'd judge, two or three years older than I. I believe he was a native of Albany, N.Y. and although hazy about what college he attended, I'm inclined to M.I.T.^[[*]]  Phil had been very well brought up and was a thorough gentleman. He was very much on the meticulous side and this would annoy some of our boys on occasion but usually Phil had things pretty well reasoned out and was hard to dislodge from a position. Normally Phil was very mild-mannered and pleasant but once in awhile something would strike him as wholly unreasonable and he would blow his stack accompanied by full adequate railway profanity. Upon graduation from college, Phil had gone on GE Test but had soon left the Company for a job with the Cleveland Union Terminal Co. in the early 1920s, I believe, when electrification in Cleveland was in an early stage of incubation. I think Phil got into a hassle with Pinkerton with whom I collaborated on the AIEE paper and Phil quit and got a job with the New Haven. I'd had contact with Phil on my various New Haven assignments prior to 1936 but it wasn't until this job came along that I really got to know him well. Phil was about my size, losing his hair slowly, but clean-cut looking. In fact, this is probably as good a place as any to insert a photo of Phil and Ed Kelly with Jay Walker and me at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel in New York in the late 1930s.
^[[It was MIT 1921.]]

[[image: Photograph of 4 men seated at table captioned from left to right: "Phil Hatch, Forie Craton, Ed Kelly, Jay Walker]]