TheCodeBreakers
" The yearbook of his alma mater, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, had wondered "what would happen to Tech if 'Tau'
should accidently get to class on time in the morning."
A native of Brooklyn, Vernam was graduated from the Massachusetts
college, where he had been president of the Wkeless Association and had
been elected to Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honorary society, in 1914,
after having spent a year working. He immediately joined A. T. & T. and,
a year later, married a Brooklyn girl, Alline L. Eno. They had one child.
Vernam was a clever young man— one of the stories about him has him
stretched on his couch each evening wondering aloud, "What can I invent
now?" He had the rare type of mind that can visualize an electrical circuit
and put it down on paper without having to try it out with wires. He did
so well in the telegraph section that its head, Ralzemond D. Parker,
assigned him to a special secrecy project. And late though he may have
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