Cleveland, and the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company, Lorain, Ohio, from 1896 to 1809. 
He was assistant to Robert Logan, naval architect, from 1899 to 1901; assistant superin- 
tendent of the Buffalo Dry Dock Company from 1901 to 1902, and superintendent of 
that company from 1902 to 1904. 
Following the above extensive period of practical experience, he engaged in the busi- 
ness of naval architect and surveyor from 1904 to 1918 at Buffalo, Chicago, San Francisco 
and Seattle. From 1918 to 1920 he was employed as superintendent of ship construc- 
tion, Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company, and at the time of his death as hull constructor, 
Pensacola Shipbuilding Company, Pensacola, Fla. 
Mr. Nevins died April 29, 1920. 
GUSTAV ZENO PROCHAZKA 
MEMBER 
Gustav Zeno Prochazka was born February 12, 1875, at Dolni, Bobrova, Moravia. 
He graduated from the high school in Prague in 1892 and the School of Technology, 
M.E., in 1897. From 1898 to 1903 he was a naval constructor in the Austro-Hungarian 
Navy and thereafter from 1904 to 1910 heheld various responsible technical positions in 
his native country. In 1915 he came to this country, and until 1915 he held the posi- 
tion of assistant engineer with the Hon. Gustav Lindenthal. From 1915 to 1918 he 
was employed as hull draughtsman at the Fore River Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding 
Company, and from 1918 until his death, November 19, 1919, he was employed as chief 
hull draughtsman by the Foundation Company at New Orleans, La. 
ALVIN A. WINSHIP 
MEMBER 
Alvin A. Winship was born September 8, 1873, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and was 
educated in the schools of Brooklyn and San Francisco. 
He served an apprenticeship of four years, from 1889 to 1893, at Davidson Pump 
Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., and was thereafter employed on naval trial trips for four years; 
foreman of the ship machinists’ department in the shipyard at Sparrows Point for eigh- 
teen years. He had a chief engineer’s license for ocean steamships for sixteen years and 
for four years was superintendent of machinery at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora- 
tion, Sparrows Point, Md., which position he held at the time of his death. 
Mr. Winship died October 2, 1920. 
