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Friday, April 2, 1950

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 NO. 23

 VOL. LXX

 By ALEX DANZBERIGER

This week the spotlight focuses on Dr. Edward L. Moreland, the Executive Vice-President of the Institute.

Dr. Moreland is retiring at the end of this term after twenty-one years at Tech.

Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1885, Dr. Moreland received the degree of B.A. in mathematics and physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1905. He attended M.I.T. at its former Boylston Street location and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1908.

In 1916, he became a partner in the engineering firm of Jackson and Moreland. D. C. Jackson, his partner, was at that time head of the E. E. Department at Technology.

When the First World War came along, Dr. Moreland served in the A.E.F. as a technical advisor in the field of power engineering.

After the war, the firm of Jackson and Moreland again started functioning.

In 1929, Mr. Jackson retired and Dr. Moreland was asked to take his place as head of the E. E. Department at Tech. After nine years in this capacity, he became Dean of Engineering of the Institute when Dr. Vannevar Bush retired to become President of Carnegie Tech.

With the outbreak of the Second World War Dr. Moreland worked with the National Defense Research Committee which was responsible for many of our war-time inventions including radar, the proximity fuse, and the amphibious duck. He then served in a civilian capacity on General MacArthur's staff in the Philippines as scientific and technical adviser.

After the war, he remained in Japan to survey Japanese scientific and technical advances for a period of three months.

Dr. Moreland returned to the Institute and became Executive Vice-President in 1946. In this capacity, Dr. Moreland heads several committees, among them are: Pattern Management, Stabilization, Building, and Research.

After retiring he will devote full time to his engineering business. In former days, Dr. Moreland liked to play tennis and to ski. Now he prefers to leave these sports to younger men. When in search for relaxation, sailing and fishing claim his time at his summer place at Falmouth on the Cape. But Dr. Moreland is one who finds pleasure and relaxation in his work; for he said with a broad smile as he looked back on a long career, that he had had more fun in his work than most people be knew.