Winston writes:

> A gentleman by the name of Paul Klipsch is a much more respected resident
>  of Hope, Arkansas than the notorious  "Commander in Chief" .
>
>  Paul designed, manufactured, marketed and sold High Fidelity Speaker
Systems
>  that were and probabally still are the standard of comparison for the
>  industry.
>  These were Exponential Folded Horns ('Klipschorn')  that could faithfully
>  reproduce
>  a pipe-organ at realistic volumes with a relativly small tube amplifier
(say
>  2 807s
>  in push-pull at 60 watts or so).

Lordy, who would have known?

Paul Klipsch was a graduate of New Mexico State's electrical engineering
department, the same department that I graduated from and later taught in for
about 10 years.

Many years after Klipsch graduated (which was long before I was born), and he
made his fortune, he donated such a substantial sum of money to the
university in the mid-1980's that they named the ECE department after him,
which just about the time that my affliation with the department was waning.
To be absolutely honest, I never have particularly cared for the name change.
Nonetheless, see:

     http://www.ece.nmsu.edu/klipsch/klipsch.html

Wirt Atmar