http://www.lorihogan.com/2007/04/19/for-the-new-sons-of-martha/ Mom, Wife, Engineer, Student, Volunteer, Techy, Grammar Nazi, Lazy Runner, Mild Neurotic Thu, 19 May 2011 16:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.lorihogan.com/2007/04/19/for-the-new-sons-of-martha/comment-page-1/#comment-6747 .. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:05:40 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/2007/04/19/for-the-new-sons-of-martha/#comment-6747 [...] I’ll start with getting my iron ring. Some friends have already written about this, so I’ll just briefly recap: around the beginning of the 20th Century, some important Canadian Engineers decided it would be A Good Idea to have some sort of ritual to impress upon new Engineers that they have huge responsibilities to society now. They enlisted the help of Rudyard Kipling to develop an appropriate ceremony, who came back with such a thing, and a symbol of that commitment: The Iron Ring. [...] [...] I’ll start with getting my iron ring. Some friends have already written about this, so I’ll just briefly recap: around the beginning of the 20th Century, some important Canadian Engineers decided it would be A Good Idea to have some sort of ritual to impress upon new Engineers that they have huge responsibilities to society now. They enlisted the help of Rudyard Kipling to develop an appropriate ceremony, who came back with such a thing, and a symbol of that commitment: The Iron Ring. [...]

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