- HASELL WILSON BALDWIN. H. W. Baldwin is located in Corning, N. Y., being vice-president of the T. H. Symington Company. He was married June 11, 1901, to Miss Margaret Pollock McCleery, of Milton, Pa., and they have one child, Mary Shaw Baldwin, born June 28, 1902. In the way of work, he has divided his time as follows: One year surveying on C. and M. Railway; one year apprentice at Altoona shops of Pennsylvania Railroad; three and one-half years as mechanical engineer with Carroll-Porter Boiler and Tank Company, Pittsburg, Pa.; one and one-half years, mechanical engineer for American Car and Foundry Company, Milton, Pa., and since May 1, 1904, with the T. H. Symington Company, of Baltimore, Md. He is a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity and belongs to the Corning Club of Corning, and the Engineers' Club, New York.
An account of himself in his own words is herewith appended:
Corning, N. Y.
Just seven years ago Sammy wrote us all for a letter, but he failed to make clear that it was to be published, and caught me napping. But this time we are on to his game. The story of my life for the last seven years might be entitled "The Revenge of Thor." In my former letter I made the remark that I had been "Bumping thunder at so much per day." Well, our friend, Thor, took offense at this remark, and has since been "Bumping Hookie;" thus the above title. During the breathing spells of this transition period, or in other words, between bumps, I have landed in Pittsburg, Wellsville, Ohio, Milton, Pa., Baltimore, and finally, thank fortune, in what can surely be called "God's country," the Southern part of Western New York— Corning, about 15,000 (small, but progressive), not prohibition, and you do not have to be a camel and go without drinking for a week. It has also been my good fortune to become associated in business with, among some others, three good Lehigh men, the Symington boys; our business being the manufacture and sale of certain "railway specialties," at present the Symington Journal Box and the Baltimore Ball Center and Side Bearings. The manufacturing end, which I am directly with, being a foundry proposition, is located here at Corning. Having moved around some, I cannot help feeling sorry for my fellow classmates, unfortunate enough to be located in such places as New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago, where you can't go to work before nine and have to quit at five. Here we can start at seven, work until six, and have lots of good, fresh air right at our elbow when we are through. Well, as this is not to be a sermon, and I never could write orations (having bought the one I got off three times in succession in college), it is up to me to quit. Although I have not in a business and financial sense been as fortunate as many of my illustrious classmates, I am sure there are lots of you who will agree with me, that if we have plenty of work and do our duty in remembering the future of our country, by bearing in mind President Roosevelt's advice on race suicide, life is still worth living. Here is to hoping we all meet in 1921.
HASELL W. BALDWIN.
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