Obituary

MR. ODDGEIR STEPHENSEN, electrical engineer with the Wagner Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., and Secretary of the St. Louis Section of the A.I.E.E., died in St, Luke´s Hospital, St. Louis, on Wednesday morning, February 1, 1911, of a complication of diseases. Mr. Stephensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on February 9, 1880. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen with the degree of B.A. in 1899. His first employment was as apprentice to Ludvig Lund, of Copenhagen, manufacturer of dynamos, motors, and electrical apparatus and instruments. He left Copenhagen in 1902 and came to the United States, entering the cable testing department of the Western Electric Company at Chieago, with which company he was connected until November, 1904, when he became field draftsman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Early in 1906 he went with the Wagner Electric Manufacturing Company as electrical engineer. Mr. Stephensen represented the Institute at the Congress of International Association for Testing Materials held in Copenhagen in September 1909. He was also active in connection with the work of the Institute´s local organizations, having been associated with the Urbana Section, and later as Secretary of the St. Louis Section. He was elected an Associate on April 27, 1906.