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Laurence Monroe Klauber

1883-01-01 – 1968-01-01

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Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches) Title: Pacific service magazine Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rogram that served to attract.The Public Relations session, for instance,brought out a number of speakers who dis-cussed this most important problem fromvarious angles, with the result that the ses-sion was of real value to the electrical in- dustry, particularly from the public utilitystandpoint. Another session of great valuewas the Public Service Conference, whichtook the place of the Western DevelopmentConference that was the leading feature oflast years convention and at which the sub-jects discussed ranged over the entire fieldof the public service in its personal andpolitical relations. Last, but not least, forthe first time in the history of the industrythe women guests of the convention weregiven a session all their own which provedquite a feature in itself and is due for regu-lar recognition from this time on as a partof the convention program. More than fiftywomen attended and displayed keen interestin the affairs of the association and in theelectrical industry as a whole. Text Appearing After Image: L. M. Klauber, retiring president of the Pacific Coast Electrical Association, Pacific Service Magazine 11 President Klauber opened the business ofthe convention with an address in which heemphasized the great benefit to the industryas a whole from gatherings like the present,at which not only the men of the publicutilities but, also, their brethren engaged inother branches of the industry were givenan opportunity to meet and exchange ideas.He advised closer co-operation between thePacific Coast Electrical Association andsister organizations, such as the Northwest-ern Light and Power Association and thePacific Coast Gas Association. He sug-gested that representatives from each ofthese be present at the several conventions.This latter suggestion is along up-to-datelines and looks worthy of acceptance uponthe theory that in the public service there isa community of interest between the variousindustries engaged. The report of the Public Policy Commit-tee, always an attractive feature of t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Credit: Internet Archive Book Images

Life & Legacy

Laurence Monroe Klauber (December 21, 1883, in San Diego, California – May 8, 1968, in San Diego), was an American herpetologist and the foremost authority on rattlesnakes. He was the first curator of reptiles and amphibians at the San Diego Natural History Museum and Consulting Curator of Reptiles for the San Diego Zoo. He was also a businessman, inventor, and contributed to mathematics in his study of the distribution of prime numbers.

Occupation & Career

zoologist, herpetologist, curator, inventor

Education

Stanford University

Legacy Highlights

Education & Institutions

Stanford University

Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q3218919 — wikidata View source

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