AIEE personalities: Nominated for institute president

W. J. Barrett (M ´36, F ´50), transmission maintenance engineer, New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, has been nominated for the office of 1957–58 President of the AIEE. Mr. Barrett was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 10, 1899. He received the E.E. degree cum laude from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1920. Since graduation, he has been employed continuously in engineering work in the Bell System. At first, he was in the operation and engineering department of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company; later, with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company; and, since 1930, with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. The greater part of his work has been in the field of co-ordination of power and communication system.