Dean Kimball of Cornell retires

The retirement, this year, of Dexter S. Kimball, dean of engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., recently was announced. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, October 21, 1865, and graduated from Stanford University in 1896. He went to Cornell in 1899, remaining until 1901 when he became works manager for the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company. He returned to Cornell in 1904, and in 1920 he became the first dean of the combined colleges of engineering.