Los Banos Rotary Club History

Pat Taylor, a personable young miss from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s public relations office in San Francisco, dipped deep into the realm of modern science to bring to member of the local Rotary and Lions Clubs Tuesday a talk and demonstration of one of the modern world's most astounding discoveries, the transistor—a miniature device that can control electric currents in many ways.

The transistor story, Miss Taylor said, began ten years ago, with the discovery of germanium, a remarkable metal that influences electrical currents passing through it. Subsequent development has resulted in its use for many of the jobs formerly done by vacuum tubes in the wide field of electronics.
Miss Taylor illustrated some of the transistor usages in audio equipment, and told of its superiorities and efficiencies in the world of today. One of its foremost uses, she said, will be for the telephone company in the new system of nationwide dialing, and in trans-ocean cable communication. It is also being widely used in the nuclear field and is a vital part of the Nike and Vangard missles now under development.

Miss Taylor was introduced at each of the club dinners by Leonard Clover, manager of the Telephone Company's Los Banos office.
At the Rotary luncheon President Ned Dickson welcomed to the club James Gomes, president of the high school student body, who will attend all Rotary functions through the remainder of the present school semester.

January 14, 1958

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