Electronics School

Mr. Philippe LeCorbeiller is known at Electronics School mainly as the man can take anything and make it into alone wave, but he is a man of wide experience with a fascinating history, if of it could be told. He has served as officer in the French Army in two world Wars. A man of great energy, been perception, and ready French wit, carries on his fight against the Axis his work here at Harvard.

Dr. LeCorbeiller is Parisian horn; his bright neckties are a reminder of the colorful gaiety of the old left bank. He however, an adopted Cambridgian Sipco he has lived here longer than in other city.

Served in French Army

He served in the French Army from October 1910 until March 1919, and this period includes two years at l'Ecole Polytechnique. In the first World War LeCorbeiller was advanced to the rank of Captain in the French Signal Corps. He is reluctant to speak of his experiences in the last war except to say that he was liaison officer between the French and our own Major General Edgar Russel, chief signal officer of the American Expeditionary Force. (You fellows from Menmouth will remember Russel Hall, named after him.) Dr. LeCorbeiller recalls with pleasure the grand and glorious times he had with the American Signal Officers at the end of the first World War.

The Professor dabbled later in various kinds of abstruse mathematics, stuff too staggering for our battered brains. But if you like that sort of thing, just try to catch him on a fine point. He was also a prominent member of the technical staff of the French Government Radio up to the beginning of the present War. He enjoys American broadcasting, but he says he can't listen to a program without imagining the headaches of the harried program director who is running the show.

Tuned in on World War II

At the beginning of World War II, LaCorbeiller was recommissioned as a Major in the French Signal Corps. He served for a while as radio officer G.H.Q., but he was glad to get into more active service when he was sent to be radio officer for the fighting French Army of the Alps. Dr. LeCorbeiller speaks with Pearle of the unshakeable courage and devotion of this French Army which held the German and Italian forces at bay while the rest of the lines crumbled. They would not surrender until they were entered to, and then they were disappointed that they could not escape to Africa and fight again. These hopes were blasted by the signing of the Armistice and the establishment of the new Vichy Government.

Dr. LeCorbeiller returned to be Broad-costing Director for Vichy, but collaboration with the Axis was not to his taste, at the earliest opportunity he took "French" leave. He blow over to this country with his wife, who is a native our Windy City.

The LeCorbeillers have a sixteen year son who goes to the Cambridge High School. Dr. LeCorbeiller is a true Camreligion now with an important place in community. We are proud to have him here, and he says that he looks back with pleasure over his own work here on the first class of Engineering 270 the most recent one.

Columnist's note: We can thank MaFay and Ensign Bailey for digging out and writing up the facts of a very investing story.)

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PASSING PARADE

We hear their happy boyish "reins." We hear their sad disgruntled quips, and when they leave us every month, We feel like "Goodbye Mr. Chps." Yooman Hrill.