Walfrid Been Collection, Circa 1917-Circa 1931.

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Walfrid Been Collection, Circa 1917-Circa 1931.

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Collection, circa 1917-circa 1931, compiled by Walfrid Been, a Michigan Technological University alumni and professor. Includes unidentified photographs, probably of early students at Michigan College of Mining and Technology as well as a menu and dinner program from the Houghton Club in 1931. Also includes a 1917 fund raising letter in support of the equipment of a metallurgical testing laboratory and financial report for the George Koenig Endowment Fund (George Koenig, who passed away in 1913 is generally considered to be the father of chemical education at Michigan Technological University).

0.18 cubic feet; 1/2 manuscript box (letter size)

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Houghton Club

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Michigan College of Mining and Technology

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Arthur V. Sittler was hired by the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in September of 1949 as an assistant professor of German. As was the practice, this appointment began with a probationary period with final confirmation resting with the Board of Control. At the time of his employment it was known that two years before the United States entered World War II he had renounced his American citizenship and became a German citizen. During the war he was active in the German war effort. Howev...

Been, Walfrid.

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The late Walfrid (Wally) Been received a BS in Mining Engineering from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in 1928. During his college years, he was involved in Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Rho Fraternity, Student Council, Inter-Fraternity Council, and the Mining Club, and was also president of his senior class. Wally started his diverse career in 1928 when he went to work for the Copper Range Company in Painesdale, MI as an efficiency engineer. In 1931, he worked for Calumet & ...

Koenig, George Augustus, 1844-1913

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George A. Koenig delivered a paper "On the composition of Schorlomite" before the National Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia in November 1875, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In this notebook, Koenig mentions delivering a paper to the Academy September 5, 1876. From the description of On the oxyds of s[c]horlomite, current notes of the investigation : manuscript, 1875-1878. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155904578 ...