Lewis S. Neeb
ABT 1890 - 1957
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyTeacher in High 'School in 1921, '25. Head of the Industrial Arts Department at Arizona State Teachers College/Arizona State College, 1930-1957.In 1936 was a mechanical engineer.He came to Arizona in 1919, and moved to Tempe, c1930. He was an industrial arts teacher at Phoenix Junior College, 1926-1930, before he came to ASTC.
Was a driving force behind the creation of both the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
About 1938 his students built his house at 204 E. 6th Street. He also converted the Kloss house at Forest and E. 6th Street into apartments during the late 1930s. He also taught manual training at Tempe High School.
President of the Tempe Chamber of Commerce.
Neeb Hall on ASU campus was named in his honor.
He lived at 105 E. 9th Street (c1920, 1921, '25), and later at
204 E. 6th Street (1938, 1940).
Old Settlers Collection, THM
BIO-Neeb
HPS-108; HPS-153
Tempe CD, 1920, 21, -'25, '32, '36, '38
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1940
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, pp. 217, 281
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