Ther MoN. June 23, 1924 Wea 



In 1911 he was called to Harvard' Uni- 

 versity and made Gordon McKay profes- 

 sor of sanitary engineering which position 

 ho held at the time of his death. Dur- 

 ing the period when the Harvard En- 

 gineering School and the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology were cooperating 

 he was also professor of sanitary en- 

 gineering at the Institute. 



Professor Whipple was one of the or- 

 ganizers of the .School of Public Helath of 

 Harvard University and the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology which was 

 founded in 013. and served as secretary of I 

 the school until it was discontinued In 

 1^22. 



He held the position of professor Of 

 water supply at the Brooklyn Polytechnic 

 Institute from 107-11. In 3 914 Professor 

 Whipple was appointed a member of tmj 

 public health council of the Massachusetts 

 Slate Board of Health, and was chairman 

 of the committee on sanitary engineering 

 until last year. He was also a member 

 of the Massachusetts Homestead Commis- 

 sion. 



From 1013 to 1916, he was a member of 

 the committee on building districts and 

 resolutions of New York city and from 

 1912^ to 1910, eha'rman of the Cambridge 



In 1917 he served as major and deputy 

 commissioner to Russia In the American 

 Red Cross. In 1920 he was appointed chief 

 of the department of sanitation In the 

 League of Red Cross Societies, Oeneva, 

 Switzerland, dovoting considerable time ot 

 the study of typhus fever in Roumanla, 

 From 1921 to 1923 he sorvod as chairman 

 o ft he sub-committee on plumbing of the 

 building code committee of the United 

 States Department of Commerce. Pro- 

 fessor Whipple was recently appointed a 

 member of the general directive board of 

 the committee on Industrial lighting of the 

 National Research Council. 



