Clothier, of the Board of Trustees, made the address, among other things taking occasion to say that "when the history of this School comes to be written, two names will be associated side by side—the founder and the father, Isaiah V. Williamson; the organizer, the godfather, Edward Longstreth." Again President Shrigley reported the constantly increasing demand for the services of the graduates, a point particularly emphasized some years later at the tenth commencement, by John M. Dodge, president of the Link Belt Engineering Works, of Philadelphia, who said: "Our firm has employed in the past several graduates of the Williamson School, and about the only mistake in the transaction we can now discover is that we did not take more of them." This expressed the general attitude in trade circles. At that time, President Shrigley again reported that it was impossible to supply the demand for graduates; that the first hesitation to employ them had long since passed away, and for years the graduates had usually been engaged before they received their diplomas.
Many letters from graduates are on file,
