OT: Rudyard Kipling

<<Haultain wrote to Rudyard Kipling, who had made reference to the work
of engineers in some of his poems and writings. He asked Kipling for his assistance in developing a suitably dignified obligation and ceremony for its undertaking. Kipling was very enthusiastic in his response and shortly produced both an obligation and a ceremony formally entitled "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.">>

From: http://www.ironring.ca/

<<Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, where his father, John
Lockwood Kipling, was an arts and crafts teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art. His mother, the former Alice Macdonald, was a sister-in-law of the painter Edward Burne-Jones. India was at that time ruled by the British. Ruddy, as Kipling was affectionally called, was brought up by an ayah, who taught him Hidustani as his first language.>>

From: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kipling.htm Received on Fri Mar 05 22:39:00 2004