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H. B. DATES (A´98, F´32, member for life) professor and head of the department of electrical engineering, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, has been elected president of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Professor Dates was born July 15, 1869, at New Britain, Conn., and received the degrees of bachelor of science in electrical engineering and electrical engineer (honorary, 1908) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Case School of Applied Science, respectively. From 1894 until early in 1896 he worked as a laboratory tester and inspector for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company at Newark, N. J., and East Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1896 he received an appointment as professor of physics and electrical engineering at Clarkson School of Technology, where he organized the departments of physics and electrical engineering, planned the curricula, and equipped the laboratories. Professor Dates remained at Clarkson until 1903, when he became professor of electrical engineering and dean of the college of engineering at the University of Colorado. He has been head of the school of electrical engineering at the Case School of Applied Science since 1905, where, in addition to his regular teaching and administrative duties, he has served as a consulting engineer for the Cleveland Board of Education and for several commercial organizations. Professor Dates is a member of the Institute´s committee on production and application of light, and was the first chairman (1907–08) of the Cleveland Section. He is a past-vice-president of the Illuminating Engineering Society, a member of the United States National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination, and a member or former member of several committees of that society. Professor Dates is the author of many books and papers on illumination. He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.