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56/ absence (being retained in Chicago by an earlier engagement) gave an excellent lecture about the work of his brother. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] My speech [[red underline]] Franklin Institute [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Then came my turn: [[/red underline]] I gave them the curriculum of my life: My beginnings in Flanders as a boy, then the University, my graduation as a D.Sc, then assistant professor, then professor in Bruges at the higher normal School for government teachers. - Then my medal as laureate among the Belgian ^[[Dr.]] graduates, including a travelling scholarship, which brought me to the U.S. How I got acquainted with Prof. Charles F. [[red underline]] Chandler [[/red underline]] of Columbia U. (New York) Introduction to A & HT. [[red underline]] Anthony [[/red underline]] & Co, largest manufacturers and sellers of photographic supplies. - My engagement as their chemist. - Then [[red underline]] Jacobi [[/red underline]] offering to back me finantially in forming the Nepera Chemical Co. in Yonkers where I manufactured, photo-supplies of which the paper [[red underline]] "Velox" [[/red underline]] of my invention was so successful, that [[strikethrough]] Geore [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] George Eastman of Kodak fame, [[/red underline]] bought us out, and made me financially independent. - How then I went to [[red underline]] study electrochemistry at the Polytechnic University [[/red underline]] near Berlin. Then returning to New York did work as a [[red underline]] consultent. [[/red underline]] - Was engaged by [[red underline]] Hooker, electrochemical Co [[/red underline]] in [[end page]] [[start page]] 57/ Niagara Falls, where at the [[red underline]] Hooker Chemical [[/red underline]] plant was put [[red underline]] in charge of construction and operation, working with Elmer Sperry and C.P. Townsend; while [[/red underline]] at the same time continuing my research work at my Yonkers laboratory. - Then my discovery of [[strikethrough]] Velox [[/strikethrough]] ^[[red underline]] ^[[Bakelite,]] [[/red underline]] in my laboratory in Yonkers [[red underline]] which made such a sensation [[/red underline]] after I had published my work, and the resulting endeavors [[strikethrough]] everyo [[/strikethrough]] and research in so many parts of the world in the study and further production of the plastics. X [[red underline]] See copy of my address on this subject [[/red underline]] [[vertical note in left margin in red]] One of the supreme moments of my life [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] My audience applauded me enthusiastically, and [[red underline]] it was one of the supreme moments of my life; when I saw dearest Celine [[/red underline]] listening to me surrounded by [[red underline]] Brooksie, George and his wife, Nina and her husband and Dickie and her husband. [[/red underline]] Many friends came to shake my hands, and remembered me from forther meetings where we met and their uses of Bakelite in their work. Took a short [[strikethrough]] mo [[/strikethrough]] nap, to prepare myself for the [[red underline]] festivities of the evening at the great dinner. [[/red underline]] - The latter was held in the [[red underline]] largest assembly room [[/red underline]] of the Franklin Institute: My family had been assigned to [[red underline]] the large central round table, covered with beautiful [[/red underline]] flowers.