Technical Club of Madison
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The Technical Club of Madison was founded in 1921 in Madison, Wisconsin
, as an association of persons sharing technical interests. In the 1920s and 1930s club meetings could draw hundreds of attendees. Speakers such as the industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and Mammoth Cave lecturer Alonzo W. Pond
came to Madison to address the club with attendance of over 200. Currently organized as a non-profit Wisconsin corporation, the club holds dinner meetings featuring lecturers on technical subjects or tours of plants or facilities, and attendenace is around 30 members and guests.
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
, as an association of persons sharing technical interests. In the 1920s and 1930s club meetings could draw hundreds of attendees. Speakers such as the industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and Mammoth Cave lecturer Alonzo W. Pond
Alonzo W. Pond
Alonzo W. Pond was assistant curator of the Logan Museum of Anthropology in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA, in 1924. Between 1925-1930 he conducted excavations of prehistoric sites in Northeastern Algeria...
came to Madison to address the club with attendance of over 200. Currently organized as a non-profit Wisconsin corporation, the club holds dinner meetings featuring lecturers on technical subjects or tours of plants or facilities, and attendenace is around 30 members and guests.
List of Technical Club Presidents
- Daniel W. MeadDaniel W. MeadDaniel W. Mead born in Fulton, New York. In 1904 he was made head of the Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin. In the early 1900s he established the consulting firm Mead and Seastone, forerunner to the Madison engineering firm of...
, 1920–1921; - C.L. McMullen, 1922
- Chas. I. Corp, 1923
- C.M Larson, 1924
- G.C. Neff, 1925
- Leon A. Smith, 1926
- C.M Baker, 1927
- L.J. Markwardt, 1928
- W.K. Millar, 1929
- O. W. Storey, 1930
- C.B. Hayden, 1931
- A.V. Millar, 1932
- T.A. Brown, 1933
- A.F. Gallistel, 1934
- Ben G. Elliott, 1935
- M.W. Hanks, 1936
- E.F. Bean, 1937
- George Steinmetz, 1938
- Arthur Koehler, 1939
- Charles A. Halbert, 1940
- M.O. Withey, 1941
- Edwin J. Kallevang, 1942
- R. McA. Keown, 1943
- Henry Loeprich, 1944
- L.V. Teesdale, 1945
- B.S. Reynolds, 1946
- Arno T. Lenz, 1947
- Delmar W. Nelson, 1948
- W.G. Kirchoffer, 1949
- Herbert O. Lord, 1950
- James G. Woodburn, 1951
- Henry J. Hunt, 1952
- George W. Washa, 1953
- W.S. Cottingham, 1954
- Wayne C. Lewis, 1955
- Edward R. Felber, 1956
- Joseph J. Weiler, 1957
- Page A. Johnson, 1958
- Waldemar J. Landwehr, 1959
- Ralph R. Benedict, 1960
- Lloyd Rader, 1961
- Ralph Brower, 1962
- Frank Nordeen, 1963
- Frederick D. Mackie, 1964
- Spencer M. Munson, 1965
- George W. Icke, 1966
- Henry M. Ford, 1967
- Gerald W. Lawton, 1968
- Fred E. Mohs, M.D., 1969
- Willard W. Warzyn, 1970
- Leo Brodzeller, 1971
- Merrill Millett, 1972
- Clarence Riederer, 1973
- Dean L. Hunzicker, 1974
- Jack Maxfield, 1975
- Lee Crandall, 1976
- Donald Mackie, 1977
- John Stiehl, 1978
- Wayne Johnson, 1979
- Leroy Purcell, 1980
- Larry Russell, 1981
- Joseph Spradling, 1982
- Larry Smith, 1983
- Frank Vondrasek, 1984
- Clifton Lawson, 1985
- Curtis Peters, 1986
- Gary A. Graham, 1987