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transferred to Chicago as Division Plant Engineer, and three years 

 later, moved to Omaha, Nebraska as District Plant Superintendent. He 

 was transferred to the Personnel Department in New York in 1945 as 

 General Supervisor of Wages and Working Practices. In 1949 he returned 

 to the Plant Department as General Construction Supervisor, and in 

 1951 became Engineer of Outside Plant. In 1953 he was appointed 

 Assistant General Manager — Special Projects; in this capacity he 

 helped direct construction of the transatlantic submarine telephone 

 cable. Mr. Jack is a licensed professional engineer in Nebraska. 



M. J. Kelly, B.S., Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1914; 

 M.S., Univ. of Kentucky, 1915; Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1918; honorary 

 degrees — D.Eng., Univ. of Missouri, 1936; D.Sc. Univ. of Kentucky, 

 1946; LL.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1954; D.Eng., New York Univ., 

 1955; D.Eng., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1955. Western Electric 

 Company, 1918-25. Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1925-. Dr. Kelly 

 became Director of Vacuum Tube Development in 1928; Development 

 Director of Transmission Instruments and Electronics, 1934; Director 

 of Research, 1936; Executive Vice President, 1944; President, 1951. 

 He was awarded the Presidential Certificate of Merit in recognition of 

 his contributions in World War II and now serves on several advisory 

 boards in the Department of Defense and the Department of Com- 

 merce. Dr. Kelly is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the 

 Acoustical Society of America, I.R.E., and A.I.E.E. He is a Foreign 

 Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and a member of 

 the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, 

 Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He is a Life Member of 

 the M.I.T. Corporation and a Trustee of Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology. His honors include the Air Force Association Trophy in 1953; 

 the Industrial Research Institute Medal in 1954; and the Christophei 

 Columbus International Communication Prize in 1955. 



R. Kelly, Associate of Royal College of Science, Ireland 1925; B.Sc. 

 University College, Dublin 1937. After four years experience on power 

 work for the Dublin United Tramways, he joined the power section of 

 Standard Telephones and Cables in 1925. Following ten years of labo- 

 ratory and field experience on carrier telephone and VF telegraph 

 equipment, he took charge in 1936 of power development for trans- 

 mission equipments. 



Harold A. Lamb joined the Western Electric Company Installation 

 Department in 1920, where he became engaged in installation and 



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