Putting a Face to the Name: The Other Magna Authors
A lot of us are familiar with the 10-part Woodworking Course that was first created in 1956, and helped users adopt the revolutionary Mark 5.
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We may also be familiar with the fact that it was penned by a San Jose State College Industrial Arts professor named Benjamin Spaulding. Did you ever wonder what Professor Spaulding looked like??
Well, thanks to the research of Facebook contributor, Stephen Draper, we have this page from the college’s 1941 yearbook:
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I zoomed in a little more closely, and noticed an adjacent picture of his department head, Dr. Heber Sotzin.
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Then I remembered having seen his name before as well:
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This is a rarely seen booklet from the Model 10-ER days, promoting the use of the Shopsmith for Industrial Arts education. The early Magna team clearly had a great deal of respect for the Industrial Arts program at San Jose State, and the people who ran it!
