CLEMENT ACTON GRISCOM 



ASSOCIATE 



Clement Acton Griscom was bom in Philadelphia, Pa., on June 20, 1868. 

 He was the eldest son of the first president of the Society of Naval Archi- 

 tects and Marine Engineers. 



Educated abroad and at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.B., 1887), 

 Mr. Griscom became supervisor and then manager of the International 

 Navigation Company, and general manager of the International Mercan- 

 tile Marine Company. In these positions he accomplished much for Ameri- 

 can shipping and marine development, being responsible for the organization 

 and for many of the improvements which at that time helped to place the 

 ships of the American and Red Star Lines in the forefront of the trans- 

 atlantic trade. 



He resigned this position in 1904 to devote his energies to the manage- 

 ment of The James Reilly Repair and Supply Company, of which he was 

 president. This company became later The Griscom-Spencer Company, and 

 finally the Griscom-Russell Company, designers and manufacturers of marine 

 auxiliaries which have become the standard of the American Navy and ship- 

 ping world. His wide knowledge of the industry enabled him; to foresee the 

 great marine expansion which now has become a reality. 



By selecting the best engineering talent he could find ; by large expendi- 

 ture of money, and, above all, by means of his own tireless energy, persever- 

 ance and faith, he was able to produce and perfect marine auxiliaries which, 

 during the great war, were largely used in vessels of the American Navy and 

 Shipping Board. 



Mr. Griscom died December 30, 1918. 



FIRST LIEUTENANT PARR HOOPER, R. A. F. 



JUNIOR 



Lieutenant Hooper was born in Baltimore, September 5, 1892, the son 

 of Mr. Herbert Hooper and a descendant of one of the old shipowning 

 familes of that port. After passing through the Baltimore Polytechnic In- 

 stitute and Sibley College, Cornell, as a mechanical engineer, he was for 

 some time with the Lanston Monotype Co. in Philadelphia, leaving that em- 



