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62 General Electric Men (Continued from Page 30) Stanford university in 1896 with the A. B. degree. In the following year he entered the employ of the Stanley Electric Mfg. Co., which in 1903 was bought by the General Electric GEORGE P. BALDWIN, RECENTLY ELECT- ED VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., WITH HEADQUARTERS AT.. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Co. At that time, Mr. Baldwin be- came vice president of the Blaisdell Co., Los Angeles, where he remained until March 16, 1910, when he was CHARLES E. PATTERSON, VICE PRESI- DENT OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., RECENTLY PLACED IN CHARGE OF ALL MERCHANDISING ACTIVITIES, WITH HEADQUARTERS IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. MARINE REVIEW made manager of the Pittsburgh of- fice of the General Electric Co. On Dec. 16, 1915, he was made manager of the Atlantic district with head- quarters in Philadelphia. When the merchandising department was created in 1923, he was made its first man- ager. Mr. Patterson is a native of New York City, born in April, 1866. He entered Princeton university with the class of 1886 but, because of the death of his father, his course was inter- rupted and he went to work. He se- cured a position in New York where he was able to continue his studies. Later he secured a position with the New York Central and, by crowding his work into three and one half days and many nights and spending the other two and one half days each week at Princeton, he secured his degree in 1901. At this time, he had risen in the ranks of the New York Central to assistant comptroller. On the day he received his diploma from college he was elected comptroller of the American Locomotive Co. After eight years with this company he be- came associated with the General Elec- tric Co. and in 19138, when R. E. Steele died, he was elected comp- troller, a position he held until Sept. 10, 1920, when he was elected a vice president of the company. J, W. Owens Appointed Director of Welding James W. Owens, the navy’s author- ity on welding, will become affiliated with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. on January 1, as their director of welding. Mr. Owens became associated with the welding committee of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in April, 1918, and in Septem- ber, 1918, received a special appoint- ment at the Norfolk yard as welding aide. He organized the first welding shop in the navy, trained a large number of welders, has conducted many fundamental researches in weld- ing and is the author of a book F'unda- mentals of Welding. Admiral David W. Taylor C. C., U. S. navy, retired, in a foreword to this work says: “It is due largely to his research and in- vestigation that today we make such liberal use of welding on naval vessels. Mr. Owens has gone far to reduce an art—an art of many obscurities and perplexities—to a science, so that the engineer can proceed with confidence to make appropriate use of the recent developments in the art of uniting materials by welding.” At the Newport News Shipyard, Mr. Owens will have responsible charge of January, 1926 all welding development. Mr. Homer L. Ferguson, the president of the company, has decided to extend the use of welding to all classes of work undertaken by his company in the future. Mr. Owens was one of the JAMES W. OWENS Director of Welding at News, S. B. & D. D. Co. Becomes Newport organizers of the American Welding society, is a former vice president of the society and a member of the Amer- ican Institute of Electrical Engineers. Coulby Elected President of Interlake S. 5. Co. HARRY COULBY Elected President of the Interlake Steamship Co.—To take office Jan. 1