Obituary

GEORGE FITCH BROWN (M´18) manager generator and converter division, central station department, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., died November 26, 1934. He was born at Geneva, Neb., May 2, 1880. In 1904 he graduated from the University of Nebraska with the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineering and, until he entered the General Electric Company in 1905, worked as an estimator for an electrical contractor. He became a designing engineer in the a-c department in 1907, and remained in this work until 1915, when he became an engineer with the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Philadelphia. Pa. Two years later he returned to the General Electric Company as an engineer in the central station engineering department, and was placed in charge of the apparatus section in 1928. He became manager of the generator and converter division when it was formed in 1933.