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Show 9 'Bright Boys' Give Accounting Return After 10 Year$ to Tell of Work Since Talk With Edison. NEW YORK. Nine young men kept a solemn covenant W'th Thomas Thom-as A. Edison a promise they uttered ut-tered as "America's brightest boys" when they knelt 10 years ago at the feet of the great inventor and told him they would make of themselves useful servants of American science. sci-ence. A decade ago they were amonif 49 high school lads picked painstakingly painstaking-ly by every state and the District of Columbia to submit themselves to Edison's scrutinizing quest for the nation's brightest potential scientist. sci-entist. Nine of them averaging 27 in age showed up as guests of Thomas A. Edison industries In observance of the 1930 eomnrtitinns And their visit with the late inventor. The others were too busy with their Jobs or were too far away to come. Including In-cluding the winner of Edison's 1930 scholarship Arthur O. Williams Jr., a professor of physics at the University Uni-versity of Maine. Accounting Is Given. What the nine had done during the decade and what the years have brought them was summed up in this collective account of themselves: them-selves: Pursued scientific courses and obtained ob-tained degrees from the nation's best colleges and universities. Without exception obtained responsible re-sponsible employment in their chosen cho-sen Meld immediately upon graduation. gradua-tion. Entered the decade bewildered at world events particularly the world economic depression. Left , the decade bewildered at world events the war and Us ramifications. rami-fications. Within an average of 3 years out of school, earned an average income of $2,535. Three married and one of them became a father. Came to realize their importance as scientists to the nation's defense. Hope to Aid Defense. One hopes to contribute to national nation-al defense through research work on automatically controlled, pilot-less pilot-less airplanes, while the others hope to help contribute to national scientific scien-tific achievements through general research. At a luncheon at the New York World's fair, Eugene C. Reed, assistant as-sistant vice president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., of West Orange, N. J greeted the scientists as "gentlemen "gentle-men who have made good." He presented pre-sented each with a medal for upholding up-holding Edison's ideals of service to science. Earlier, Charles Edison, son of the inventor, greeted the young men at the West Orange plant mir. l.ft .1. Tfr-t r e icii uie west uriiuge competitions com-petitions 10 years ago dazed by world events," said Gordon K. Burns of Westfleld, N. J., a physicist physi-cist with the Western Electric company. com-pany. "We were In a fog then. I hope now that we have dispelled the fog of our youth and are -making contributions to science." |