Abstract :
John V.L. Hogan was born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 14, 1890. He attended Sheffield Scientific School, taking an electrical engineering course. In 1906-1907 he was a laboratory assistant to Lee de Forest in experimental radio telephone work. In 1908-1909 Mr. Hogan was engaged in experimental work at Sheffield Scientific School Graduate Research Laboratory. He joined the staff of the National Electric Signalling Company as telegraph engineer in December, 1909, where he was associated with Professor R.A. Fessenden in a number of research projects. Early in 1912 Mr. Hogan supervised the erection of the Bush Terminal Station in New York City. He had charge of the test operations between the Navy´s first high power station at Arlington, VA and the USS Salem in 1913. His connection with the Institute dates back to his cooperation in the consolidation of the Institute of Wireless Telegraphy and the Wireless Institute, in 1912. He has been a member of the Board of Direction of the Institute continuously since 1913. He served as vice president of the Institute during the period 1916-1919 and was elected president in 1920. Mr. Hogan has been chairman of a number of the Committees of the Institute in the past, including Membership, Publeity, and Standardization. He was elected to full membership in the Institute in 1912, and was transferred to the Fellow grade in 1915.
