1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930tion of Governor Craig, a period oftwenty-five years. While on the boardhe was instrumental in the enactmentof laws pertaining to sanitation andsewerage throughout the state.He was president of the board oftrade in this city from 1910 to 1918.He organized and directed the movementfor the consolidation of Winstonand Salem, which occurred in 1913,and took the lead in the movement forimproving streets, and educationalfacilities.During the World War he was connectedwith the cantonment divisionof the U. S. Army as supervising engineerin the construction of Camp Greenat Charlotte. He later served assupervising sanitary engineer of theU. S. Shipping Board with directsupervision over the health and sanitaryconditions of the thirty shipyardson the South Atlantic and Gulf seaboards.He was recognized as one of theeminent engineers of the nation in1924-25 and selected as a member ofthe Engineering Board of Review ofthe Sanitary District of Chicago.This organization was created to reporton the problems in controversyinvolving state and the United Statesand Canada between the demands forwater for domestic and sanitary purposeson the part of the Chicago Districtand the opposition of other communitiesand states to the lowering ofthe level of the Great Lakes due tosuch diversion.Colonel Ludlow was the recipient ofmany honors, beginning in 1890 withthe degree of master of science. Hewas the only lay member of the NorthCarolina Medical Society. He waspast potentate of Oasis Temple of theShrine and was active in Masoniccircles.Other organizations of which hewas a member are Rotary Club, CosmosClub, Knights Templar, AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers, AmericanInstitute of Consulting Engineers,American Public Health Association,[60]American Water Works Associationand other organizations.He served as chairman of the sanitaryengineering section of the AmericanPublic Health Association, presidentof the North Carolina section ofthe American Water Works Association,director of the American Associationfor the Study and Preventionof Tuberculosis, director of the NorthCarolina Tuberculosis Association, nationalcouncilor of the Chamber ofCommerce of the United States andwas town and city consulting engineerfor numerous towns and citiesthroughout the country.Since 1920 he had devoted most ofhis energies to the direction of LudlowEngineers, engaged in general engineeringpractice.• * •Dr. William Suddards Franklin, Kansas,'87Dr. William Suddards Franklin,Kansas, '87, former professor ofphysics at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, whose reputation asan electrical engineer and authorityon alternating electrical currents, wasnational in its scope, died in Wilmington,North Carolina, June 6,1930, frominjuries he suffered in an automobileaccident near Wilmington.Dr. Franklin was motoring from hiswinter home in Winter Park, Florida,to his residence in Washington, Connecticut.His wife, Mrs. Hattie TitusFranklin, who was with him, was uninjuredwhen their car skidded fromthe road and crashed.With a long record of teaching infive colleges and a list of importanttechnical writings to his credit. Dr.Franklin retired last year from hischair at M.I.T. He was an officer ofmany scientific societies and a consultingengineer for the General ElectricCompany. He was sixty-six years old.Dr. Franklin was born at GearyCity, Kansas, and received his bachelorof science degree at the Universityof Kansas in 1887 and was made a