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I propose now to review this NEMA section membership as it was when I became a member:

[[underline]] Westinghouse Electric [[/underline]] : Westinghouse was very active in the mining and industrial electric locomotive business. They bought the mechanical portions from Baldwin and assembled the united at East Pittsburgh. Their senior representative in the section was [[underline]] Art Manson [[/underline]], an electrification expert and author of a well known reference book on the subject. Being still a relatively young squirt, I felt quite over-awed to find Mr. Manson a member of the group but soon discovered that he was a very unassuming and regular guy and a lot of fun to be with. Art was a contemporary of Henry Guy and nearing retirement. Unlike Henry, Art was a fine engineer and made numerous contributions of an engineering nature to the function of the section. W's junior representative was [[underline]] Ken Shaw [[/underline]] whose age and job roughly paralleled mine. Ken and I became good friends as well a fierce competitors, particularly in the mining locomotive end of things. Also our wives became friendly and we have maintained this relationship over these many years, getting together frequently in Hawaii on winter vacations. The Shaws are now retired and living in Altadena near Los Angeles. I should imagine that Art Manson has been dead some time.

[[underline]] Jeffrey Mfg. Co. [[/underline]]: Jeffrey, located in Columbus, Ohio, was and still is, I presume, one of the top mining machinery manufacturers of the country, making practically everything for underground mining. They were in the section because of their participation in the mining locomotive business but it was merely one of their many lines, which included cutters, loaders, shuttle cars, conveyors, continuous mining machines and so on. The senior member here was "[[underline]] Andy" Anderson [[/underline] whose first name I think was Arvid, a good Scandinavian and an excellent engineer. Everyone called him Andy and that's why I can't recall his first name. Andy enjoyed a bit of tippling and he and Henry Guy were bosom pals in this department whenever the gang got together. The junior member was [[underline]] Jack Fulford [[/underline]], who was the sales vice president at the time and went on to become the Jeffrey president a few years later. There is no doubt that Jack, who died very recently, was one of the finest and most charming gentlemen I've ever known. Back in the 40s Jack was afflicted with severe stomach ulcer trouble which would have caused many a lesser man to throw in the sponge but Jack struggled through it and finally had a very delicate piece of neurosurgery performed to combat the trouble. Jack was a native of the Pennsylvania mining country, where he'd grown up. He was tall and slim and handsome and a whiz of a golfer. And his most attractive wife, Beck, was just as charming as he was. The last time I heard of Jack