Abstract :
On November 23, Brigadier-General R. I. Rees, assistant vice president, American Telephone and Telegraph Company died in Detroit, Mich., while on a field trip for Engineers´ Council for Professional Development, of which organization he was vice-chairman. General Rees was one of the organizers of ECPD and one of its most active proponents. He was chairman of the ECPD committee on professional training continuously since council was organized, and was also chairman of its committee on ways and means. He was scheduled to retire from the telephone company on December 1, 1936, and thereafter to devote full time to ECPD.
