Laurens E. Whittemore [Biography]

Laurens E. Whittemore (Vice-Preseident of the Institute, 1928) was born in Topeka, Kansas, August 20, 1892. He was educated at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas (A.B. degree in 1914) and University of Kansas from which he received the M.A. degree in 1915. Mr. Whittemore was an instructor in the Department of Physies of the University of Kansas from 1915 to 1917. He left the University to join the Radio Laboratory Staff of the U. S. Bureau of Standards where he remained until 1923. From 1923 to 1924 he was Secretary of the Inter- Departmental Radio Advisory Commission of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Since 1925 Mr. Whittemore has been an engineer in the Department of Development and Research of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York City. Mr. Whittemore was appointed to the Board of Direction of the Institute in 1926 and has served as Chairman of the Committee on Standardization of the Institute from 1926 to date. He is a Fellow in the Institute. He is the author of several Bureau of Standards publications and was the joint author of the "Lefax Radio Handbook."