Raymond A. Heising - Member Board of Direction, 1929

Raymond A. Heising was born August 10, 1888 at Albert Lea, MN, USA. He received the EE degree from the University of North Dakota in 1912, and the MS degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1914. Since 1914 he has been a member of the technical staff of the Engineering Department of the Western Electric Company and of its successor, Bell Telephone Laboratories, specializing in radio telephony. He was at the transmitting end of the historical radio telephone experimental transmission between Arlington and Paris, Honolulu and Darien in 1915. During the war he worked on numerous war-time radio projects, and acted as instructor to technical men assigned by the War Department to the Western Electric Company laboratories. He has taken part in practically all of the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) Company's recent radio projects. He has published numerous papers in this and other journals, and holds over fifty patents applying to practical radio development. The Institute awarded Mr. Heising the Morrts Liebmann Memorial Prize for 1921, and elected him a member of the Board of Direction in 1926. He is a Fellow of the Institute, has been Chairman of its Committee on Admissions, and a member of other of its Committees.