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...Peter E. Pratt '35, Secretary of the Alumni Association, puts it: "There's getting to be less and less of the 'Bright College Days' stuff, thank...
With Class spirit no longer a strong selling point, alumni, fund raisers have had to find new appeals by which to build up their Class Gifts (which now amount to $250,000 by the time of the 25th Reunion). The result, as expressed by Pratt, is not the least significant change brought about by the alumni revolution...
...Horace Mansfield Homer, 52, became board chairman of United Aircraft Corp., succeeding the late Frederick B. Rentschler, who founded the company (TIME, May 7). In as president went William P. Gwinn, 48, who has been general manager of United's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer, who will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent...
...early days after World War I, when most airmen agreed that the skies belonged to liquid-cooled plane engines, Fred Rentschler said flatly that the future lay in air-cooled engines. He helped start Wright Aeronautical Corp., went on to found Pratt & Whitney, whose lightweight, air-cooled Wasp engine was the first big U.S. advance, brought the air age roaring in. To meet its requirements, Rentschler's United Aircraft put together United Airlines as the first coast-to-coast carrier, pioneering a new era of transportation. The Government made Rentschler give up his airline, but nothing could stop...
Ready he was. His driving genius won back the lead for United and the U.S. with Pratt & Whitney's burly J57 engine (more than 10,000 lbs. of thrust); it currently powers Air Force and Navy planes from supersonic Century fighters to B-52 bombers, is one of the big reasons why Douglas' DC-8 and Boeing's 707 transports are sewing up the commercial jet market. Several months ago Fred Rentschler's health began to fail. Last week, at 68, he died at his Boca Raton, Fla. home. Almost until the end, United...