William Alfred Dundas

Kenneth Shattock wrote:


 * General Superintendent William Alfred Dundas, born in Ashland, Wisconsin, in 1893. He attended Northern State Normal College and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He served in the chemical warfare division of the United States Army in World War I and was employed by the District in 1919 as an assistant mechanical engineer. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer and Engineer of Mechanical Design in 1930 — the start of the period during which he helped invent the flash-drying process. He became head of maintenance and operations in 1941 and was appointed General Superintendent in 1947. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Governor's Committee on Metropolitan Water and Sanitation, the Adventurers Club, the Union League Club, and the American Legion.  Bill Dundas eventually became the General Superintendent of the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District.


 * Bill was an avid live steamer and close friend of fellow live steamer David Mackie.