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FILE NAME: CERAMICS (CER) DATE: 1934 June DOC#: CER048 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Bulletin of the ACS - Obituary of Edward Orton, Jr. Vol. 13 THE BULLETIN of the American Ceramic Society A Monthly Publication Devoted to Proceeding of the Society and Promotion of CoSperatire Research of Technical, Scientific, and Art Question. JUNE, 1934 THE EDWARD ORTON, JR., CERAMIC FOUNDATION On February 10, 1932, General Edward Orton, Jr., founder of collegiate ceramic education in America and organizer of the American Ceramic Society, passed from life unto immortality. N o table while living for his achievements in many activities, the working monuments which he left quahty and mort a c t accuracy that i, commercial* feasible at a reasonable price. The second and subsidiarr purpose of this trust is to provide a Research Organization for the prosecution of studies and researches for overcomhJ technical and manufacturing difficulties, and for th^s advamnng the ceramic arts and industr ies of the United will continue to add to his renown. Collegiate ceramic schools, the American Ceramic Society, the Ohio Geological Survey, the Ohio State Engineering Experiment Station, the National Defense Act, the Reserve Officers Association the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Camp Mary Orton for under-developed children, and the Orton Geological Library are some of these work ing monuments. Mt. Orton stands in Estes Park as mute testimony of the wide range of General Orton s activities. One other working monument he left to ceramic postenty, The Edward Orton, Jr., Ceramic Foundation. The purposes of the Foundation are p (1).t0 continue the production of Standard yrometric Cones of maximum dependability as a means of measuring ceramic ware heat treat ment, and (2) to prosecute researches of impor th i manuilcture and f Pyrometric cones With the purpose of performing a definite and needed sery.ee to the ceramic industries: (1) by enabling them to better control the firing of their products, which is the weakest point of the manufacturing process; (2) by facilitating die freer exchange of exact information con- a n ^ f l ' b*t Ween ceramjc manufacturers; r r l f f V S Uai>S a beU tr " d more cooperative relationship among them, and thus making greater scientific and industrial progress probable. In this enter prise, while manufacturing profit is essential to permi.ts continuance, it has. from the first, been my purpose to' make financial profit incidental to the principal idea of furnishing to ceramic manufacturers a mode of controlling or regulating the firing process of theii ware with the highest attainable degree of dependability at the lowest reasonab'e cost. Having been successful in obtaining f " W lC tu re rs f TM ic products in myself that the manCuf0a0c"tu'rinilg Uestmabylisdh"mler'nt towhic"hureI have built up shall continue to fulfill this same useful tance to the ceramic arts and sciences. The broad- P S 05*; UPn the ^ g h P i * , and with the same gage manner in which he planned for this Ceramic ideals of public service after my death. Foundation was set forth in the memorial editorial m the March, 1932, issue of The Bulletin. th e obtaining an d holding of the highest S %Stanf ard " quality of Pyrom etric L e s and f "Positions, shapes, methods of processing them so that they will aost accurately measure ceramic-ware heat eatment were his first considerations. General ccmmi^researches were to him of secondary im- General Orton passed away while he was financ ing these several monumental projects including the new Standard Pyrometric Cone Laboratory. It has taken his administrators and the Probate Court two years to work out the financing of the several projects which General Orton started. The Court instructed Mrs. Orton and her coadmimstrator to continue the Standard Pyro metric Cone Company under their own direction his own words: until final arrangements for these several projects were made. On January 1, 1934, by court & t a n d Pl"P? SeS f r Wtich th" *TM*` " created. otT T f V 0' ***"** ^P endi* .a P PWp0Se U to Prov!dt bl and ^ a c manufacture le of Standard Pyrometric Cones of the highest authorization, the Standard Pyrometric Cone Company was transferred to the Trustees of the Edward Orton Ceramic Foundation to adminis t e r as prescribed in General Orton's will 145 ' 170 ACTIVITIES OF T H E SOCIETY m so-called cultural subjects including economics, but no! at the expense of science subjects. (3) W c have in creased the total credits in m athem atics, physics, and chem istry. (4) V e believe m athem atics should be taught u} m ath em atics specialists w h eth er engineers or not, and our stu d en ts are so ta u g h t (5) Y e believe chcm istr; should be taught by chem istry specialists and our students are so tau g h t. Y e are u n alterably opposed to instructors in such departm ents as ceram ics teaching anything but their own specialty and have successfully fought other departm ents here that attem pt to do it. (6) W e do not look on "'Occurrence and P roperties of C lay s" or as we cal] it, "C eram ic M aterials," because we try to broaden the field, as a geology subject Geologists, even of the Ries type, can not teach this course because I w ant to m ake it fundam ental to all other courses in this departm ent. Properly taught one can lay the foundation for aU o th er ceram ic courses W e devote only three credits to it an d it follows an d ties in w ith the first course in geology One other com m ent M y idea of the function of a col lege agrees w ith t h a t of R oberts M y one aim is to stu d e n ts to th in k a n d to be self-reliant, I work a t it fr0rJ] the tim e th e y e n te r as freshm en I t 's a tough mb w,,TM some, probably the m ajority, simply because I contact 'h em so little d u ring their four years here and there are too m any instructors who teach on the "m em ory" theor, who constantly tear down as I build up. * I have co nsistently attem p ted to sta y clear of so-called practical courses a n d from teaching "practice " I do very often a tte m p t to show the application of theory to practice. Like you, I believe the teaching of "practical- courses lowers college instruction to a trade-school level M y experience has shown me, however, th a t you must teach a certain am o u n t of "applied science" in order t 0 m ake the pure science of value to an engineer. M ay 29, 1934. A. F. G reaves-Walker' 1 Professor of Ceram ic Engineering, N o r th Ca-o''- State College of Agriculture an d Engineering 0 ; {'" vers.ty of N o rth Caro lina, Raleigh, N . C CORPORATIONS RECEIVE TEE TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF TEE AMI RICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY FOR THE MINIMUM FEE OF ONLY S25.00 A e e E ngineering Co A C Spare P lvc Co A kron P orcelain Co. A.merjcan E ncaustic T iltnc C o A merican G as A ssociation A merican L ava C orp. A m erican P otash &. Ch em ic a l C orp A merican R ollinc M u x Co A merican S tove Co. Am sler-M orton Co A tlantic T erra C otta Co B abcock & W ilcox C o. 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Verreries Souchon N euvesel Vesuvius Crucible Co Vitreous E namelinc Co. Vitro M anufacturing Co. VOLLRATH CO. W altham G rinding Wh eel Co. W eber E lectric Co. W est G as I mprovement Co . W estern E lectric Co. W estinghouse E lectric Sc M fg. Co. Wheeling Steel Corp. W hitall-Tatum Co NECROLOGY ARTHUR D. FORST Founder and, for forty years, president of the Robt.-_=oa Art Tile Co., Trenton, X. J., A rthur D. Forst passed awiy on April 2. Mr. Forst received his early education h Trenton, and at the age of eleven wen! to Xew York to attend the Columbia Grammar School. He late> euiercd Princeton University and was graduated with the <*' of 1888. In 1890 he became associated with the Roberuoa Art Tile Co. and later became its president. For some years he was president of the Xew Jersey State Hospital. Trenton, a director of the Y.M.C.A., a member of ike board of managers of McKinley Hospital, and treasurer of the State Board of Park Commissioners. NOTES AND NEWS Ed w a r d o r t o n , j r ., c e r a m ic f o u n d a t io n ina u g u ra tes r e se a r c h On January 1, 1934, the Standard Pyrometric Cone Co. Rnd the Orton Memorial Laboratories were turned over to the Board of Trustees of the Edward Orton, Jr., Ceramic Foundation, but on request of the Probate Court, manage ment was not assumed until May 1. The Board of Trustees intends to maintain the high duality product associated with the Orton name for thirty-five years and to improve the product in keeping with recent theory and practice. On M ay 1 the Trustees appointed G. A. Bole, ceramic research professor of Ohio State University, as manager and research di--ctor, with Myril C. Shaw as his assistant. With the available facilities and personnel of Ohio State University, the trustees have inaugurated studies with a view to improving the pyrometric cones and main taining their quality. r.The personnel of the Board of Trustees and the ap pointment of Dr. Bole and Dr. Shaw guarantee a thorough search for all possible improvements in the quality of the Orton Standard Pyromtrie Cones. George W. Rightmire, President of Ohio State Uni versity. is president of the Board. Other members are E. A. Hitchcock, Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station of Ohio State University; Arthur S. W atts. Chairman of the Department of Ceramic Engineering ol Ohio State Uui-