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E. B. Meyer (A´05, F´27, and president) chief engineer, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Newark, N. J., has been appointed chairman of the Institute´s executive committee for the year 1935–36. Mr. Meyer, who was born at Newark in 1882, is a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., completing the electrical engineering course in 1903. In that year he entered the employ of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey as engineering assistant, and was promoted through successive positions to become assistant chief engineer in 1919. Three years later he was appointed chief engineer of the Public Service Production Company at its formation, and in 1929 was made a vice president. With the merger the following year of this company and United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Mr. Meyer was appointed a vice president of the latter in the capacity of executive and engineering head of the Newark office. Recently he was appointed chief engineer of the Public Service Electric and Gas Company. Mr. Meyer has served on many Institute committees in the past, and was a director 1928–31, and a vice president 1932–34. He is now a member of the Edison medal committee, and is Institute representative on the American Engineering Council and the Charles A. Coffin fellowship and research fund committee. Other societies of which he is a member include The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the New York Electrical Society, Inc., and the American Transit Association. Mr. Meyer is the author of a number of technical articles, and the book “Underground Transmission and Distribution.”