MAJOR ALBERT SOBEY - b. Hancock, Michigan, August 5, 1885. He received a degree in mechanical and electrical engineering in 1909 from Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) and later earned a Masters degree from that institution in 1930. Sobey worked as an engineer for the Michigan Power Company and W.H. Zimmerman of Lansing in 1909. In 1911 he was an instructor of physics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics at Michigan College of Mines at Houghton. During World War I he served in the army as assistant chief of the Radio Section of the Military Intelligence Division. After the war he came to Flint as director of education for the Industrial Fellowship League (later IMA). Subsequently the training school reorganized as the Flint Institute of Technology and he persuaded General Motors to assume control of the school in 1926, thus establishing the General Motors Institute of Technology. Sobey was named director of the institute and guided its growth until 1960 when he retired. d. Flint, Michigan, November 14, 1960.