Obituaries

Harry Stephen Bueche (AM ´33, M ´47), associate professor of electrical engineering, University of Delaware, died recently at the age of 59. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Mr. Bueche received a B.S. degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1920, a bachelor´s degree in E.E. from Villanova College in 1922, and an E.E. degree from Villanova in 1925, and an M.S. degree in E.E. from Iowa State College in 1930. He was employed by Consolidated Edison Corporation of New York and Follansbee Brothers Steel Company before he entered the field of teaching. He joined the faculty of Kansas State College in 1925 as an instructor, later becoming assistant professor. From 1933 to 1947, he was professor and head of the electrical engineering department at Villanova College. He taught at Drexel Institute of Technology and Temple University during the summers of the years 1941 through 1948. He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 1947. Mr. Bueche also was consultant to several engineering firms in the Newark, Del., area. He was a member of Sigma Tau, Tau Beta Pi, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, the American Association of University Professors, and the Institute of Radio Engineers. Mr. Bueche was a trustee of the Delaware Bay Section of the AIEE, and had served as counselor of several AIEE Student Branches.