Obituary

John Lee Curtis, Electrical Engineer, Schenectady, New York, died December 2, at Clifton Springs, New York, after an extended illness. Mr. Curtis became an Associate of the Institute in 1906. He was born at Fishkill-on-Hudson March 13, 1879 and was graduated from the Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie in 1897. He also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with a degree of S. B. in Electrical Engineering in 1902. Entering the Testing Department of the General Electric Company October 1902, he remained there until 1905, when he left the Testing Department, first going into the Drafting Room and later working on experimental telephone research. Ultimately he joined the company´s Foreign Department at Schenectady, as Commercial Engineer, where he remained until he was taken ill.