JAMES H. CANFIKLD
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November 2ist, 1901,
Dear Sir:
Under date of November fourteenth, you wrote our Mr. Keppel
asking if we can recommend to you a thoroughly competent young man to take
charge of organizing and equipping your school of Mechanic Arts. , You
stated that you are now erecting a building, and wish a man at least early
in the spring in order that he may superintend the installing of the plant.
I think I have found exactly the man for you,in the person of
Mr. Rpbert Haywood Fernald, now a graduate student with us. Mr. Fernald
was born in Orono, Maine, in December 1371—-and is therefore just thirty
years of age. His temporary address (for telegraph or for letters) is
296 Manhattan Avenue, in this city.
He was prepared for college in the high school at Orono, and took
a four years course in the Maine state College at that place, being graduated
in 1892. The next year was spent in study at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Boston.
From 1393 to 1900 he taught mathematics,mechanics and mechanical
engineering (not all at one time) in the Case School of Applied Science,
Cleveland, Ohio: an institution as you know of high grade, wh^re he was
very successful.
He has taken several prizes for high scholarship, and was a
fellow here during the last academic year. He received the degree of
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Maine State College, the degree
of Mechanical Engineer at the Cass School of Applied Science, and the degree
of M. A. from this University at our last Commencement.
