Obituary

George A. Plank of the Engineering Department of the General Electric Company, Chicago, Illinois, and an Associate of the Institute since 1927, died February 17 as the result of accident. He was born February 9, 1901, at Independence, Mo., where he went through grade and high schools; he also attended the Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas. During the summer vacation of 1923, he did work for the Kansas City Power & Light Company as cable tester, and in 1925 joined the General Electric Company for work in its Testing Department. On December 29, 1926 he was transferred to the Contract Service Department as Field Engineer on Carrier Current Telephone work. This was his connection at the time of his death.