Lewis H. Brown (Johns Manville) Lake Forest College Commencement speech, May 26, 1945: "Freedom or Planned Economy -- There is No Middle Road"
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Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), b. 1894
Johns-Manville Corporation
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New York based Lewis H. Brown received an honorary L.L.D. degree from Lake Forest College on May 26, 1945 and delivered the Commencement address to the graduates. His company had a major manufacturing facility for asbestos at Waukegan harbor and he advocated freedom from regulation vs. a controlled economy like that of Russia, then confronting the allies across the middle of Germany.
Lake Forest College had instituted with Johns Manville in 1942 a cooperative educaiton program allowing women to work for the company and also study for their degeress, with Lake Forest also introducing that year a night school. this saved the College from very likely ruin as all the men students left for the war.