Resources
Dayton Innovation Legacy is a Foundation sponsored website documenting the stories of Dayton’s innovators and engineers in their own words and pictures.
External Links
A Pictorial History of the Great Dayton Flood
Sources for further reference
Dayton Metro Library Local History Room Online
Lutzenberger and Montgomery Picture Files
Edward Roach – NPS/Dayton Aviation Htg. National Historical Park – prepared the application to list the Club building on the National Register of Historic Places.
Engineers Club of Dayton Members
Thanks to the officers and trustees of the Foundation for their cooperation and support. Thanks also to these Club members for their assistance with this online history:
- Tom Crouch – Senior Curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, Aviation Historian
- Curt Dalton – Engineers Club Historian and Visual Resources Manager at Dayton History
- Jack & Betty Darst – Betty was Media Director for Springfield City Schools and is a current adjunct professor at Wright State & Wittenberg. Jack, a retired GM engineer, currently chairs the Dayton GM Heritage Group which preserves artifacts and history.
- Ben Graham – Former Club president and head of The Ben Graham Corporation
- Ann Honius – Chief, Education & Resources Management, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park; Board of Governors, Engineers Club of Dayton
- Nancy Horlacher, Local History Specialist, Dayton Metro Library
- Rich & Mary Ann Johnson – Mary Ann has written numerous books about local aviation history. Rich is Professor Emeritus of the Air Force Institute of Technology.
- Al Leland – Former President of Bank One Dayton, past board member of the Engineers Club, and past Trustee of the Foundation.
- Bill Ritchie – Second-
generation Club enthusiast who has written and presented talks about Deeds - Leatha Stewart – Trustee, Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation
Staff – Serving for over 25 years, Receptionist/Secretary Brenda McQueen has witnessed much of the club’s history.
Club Library – Open to members
The Engineers Club retains a fascinating history of itself in newsletters, scrapbooks, member directories and other records, thanks to the former presence of a club Librarian.
Newsletters from the earliest issues are in the scrapbooks (below). The Dayton Metro
Library contains bound volumes of Engineers Club newsletters from the mid-
Amazingly, most newsletters survive from the dawn of the club up through the present.
Notices of speakers, dinners, picnics and other events reveal a group with style
and panache who had a lot of serious, first-
Scrapbooks contain newsletters, club correspondence, speaker notices and misc. literature from club origin through early 1940s. This nearly overlaps newsletters at Dayton Metro Library.
Printed Member Directories covering different decades can be found in the club library and at the Dayton Metro Library.