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Clarence H. Linder
Clarence H. Linder
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class of the aclvanced engineering course and later served as an instructor for these courses. Clarence had assignments throughout the Schenectady Works, which included serving as superintendent of the Searchlight Department, a rapidly growing en cl critical business at the start of World War II.
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He was a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He served on the executive committee of the Thomas Alva Edison Trustees and was active in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and at Harvard University, Vermont Academy, and Union College.
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a bridge over which nature and its forces pass to get into man's field of interest and service." Further in this remarkable speech, Clarence saicl; "About two thousand years ago Vitruvius, the Roman engineer, observed that the engineer 'should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the opinions of lawyers, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations. He should be fair-minclecI, loyal, and what is more important, without avarice, for no work can be done, truly done, without good faith and clean hands.
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