Abstract :
Through the generous interest of the Western Air Express and the Richfield Oil Companies, two chairs of aviation education are being established at the University of Southern California, the Harris M. Hanshue Chair of Commercial Aviation, filled by Earl W. Hill, lecturer in the College of Commerce and Business Administration of S. C, and the James A. Talbot Chair of Aeronautical Engineering, filled by James M. Shoemaker, an aeronautical engineer of wide experience newly-appointed professor in the College of Engineering of S. C, assisted by Captain Douglas Keeney.