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installation engineering of telephone equipment. In 1923, he entered the 

 Engineer of Manufacture Organization at Hawthorne, where he be- 

 came concerned with relays, panel, step-by-step, and crossbar machine 

 switching apparatus. During this time, he attended the Lewis Institute 

 of Technology. In 1936 he was appointed a Department Chief on step- 

 by-step apparatus. During World War II, Mr. Lamb transferred to the 

 Passaic, New Jersey, Shops as Assistant Superintendent in the Western 

 Electric Radio Division. Here he was engaged in engineering the manu- 

 facture of submarine radar and radar bomb sights. Returning to the 

 Western Electric, Kearny, New Jersey, Works in 1947, he was concerned 

 principally with central office apparatus, including the card translator, 

 and in 1953 was placed in charge of the Hillside, New Jersey, Engineer- 

 ing and Inspection Organizations for building the flexible repeaters for 

 the transatlantic submarine telephone cable. He is at present Resident 

 Head of the Hillside Shops on flexible repeater manufacture. 



Andrew W. Lebert, B.S. in E.E., New York Univ., 1932; Cornell- 

 DubiHer Corporation, 1932-1936; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1936-. 

 For the first five years at the Laboratories, Mr. Lebert worked on trans- 

 mission engineering on open wire and cable carrier systems. He then was 

 concerned with fault location problems. During World War II, he turned 

 to mihtary communications on cable and open wire, and, following this 

 period, he spent eight years on coaxial cable systems development. 

 Since 1952 he has been connected with transatlantic telephone cable 

 development. He is a member of I.R.E., Tau Beta Pi and Psi Upsilon. 



Capt. W. H. Leech entered the British Post Office in 1920 as Third 

 Officer of H.M.T.S. Alert and was later promoted to the old H.M.T.S. 

 Monarch of which ship he became Chief Officer. Both of these ships were 

 subsequently lost by enemy action in World War II. After a year ashore 

 as Assistant Submarine Superintendent in 1938-39 he took command 

 of H.M.T.S. Aeriel and, in 1940, of H.M.T.S. Iris. In 1944 his ship was 

 engaged in laying cables to the Normandy Beach head, an operation for 

 which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1946 he be- 

 came Submarine Superintendent, in immediate charge of the Post 

 Office cable fleet and as such, directed the operations of H.INI.T.S. 

 Monarch during the lajdng of the transatlantic cables. He is an Officer 

 of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.). 



Herbert A. Lewis, E.E., Cornell Univ., 1926; Bell Telephone Labo- 

 ratories, 1926-. Before World War II Mr. Lewis worked on the design 



