Strips or wedges

[Newton Hunt]

Hi Michael,

Merle Mason indexed the entire set of Journals from since God was a pup
until his real retirement.  He and I got together and decided which indexing
format to you, how to break up the categories, sub headings and sub sub
headings, etc. etc.  After that first brain storming we ended up adding only
more category and only a very few sub sub headings.

When Merle was asked to work on "Nomenclature" a committee was appointed
upon which I was a member.  Merle, Roger Weisensteiner, one other person and
I got together in MA and spend the weekend thrashing out concepts, words
names and pieces.  The real debate centered around whether it should be
:"wippen" or "whippen".  It went on and on until I said, "It is and will
ever more be 'wippen'."  End of debate.

Before that meeting Merle gathered all the pictures, drawings and
nomenclature he could, service manuals, catalogs and other listings and sent
copies to each committee member.  After the meeting Merle and I wrote and
spoke often until his manuscript was submitted to the board which promptly
published it.

That was a big project, but nothing compared to indexing the entire set of
Journal and Technicians which Merle had to read, page by page and make out
IBM computer cards at the same time.  Now THAT is a major undertaking.

There is an immense amount of history and people in our industry and very
little of it has been or will be recorded or preserved, unfortunately.

There have been great tuners like Bill Hupfer but also great contributors to
our current knowledge like Merle Mason, great administrators, inventors and
innovators, many who remain unsung to this day.

We did not spring forth fully knowledgeable technicians, there have been
hundreds of years of history and contributions to our knowledge base by
thousands of people.

Just a little of that history.  End of serrman.

                    Newton

Michael Jorgensen wrote:

> Newton Hunt wrote:
>  >brace space.
>
>   This term isn't in the Mason Book, but I'll bet you're atleast as good
> a source.
>
> Thanks
> -Mike Jorgensen RPT,
>   At it almost twenty years and still learning nomenclature!