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Caption: Dedication - Beckman Institute
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ow did a curious boy in a small Illinois town come to fashion a life so filled with success and personal fulfillment? The answers come from the principles by which he has lived all his life: creativity, uncompromising quality, integrity; and the pursuit of leadership. As he has often said, "There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence" Sharing his life for over 60 years, Mabel Meinzcr Beck man has witnessed her husband's unstinting attention to detail, coupled with his genuine humility and loyalty He and Mabel became acquainted in 1918 while he was serving in the Marine Corps at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They corresponded for the next six years, until 1924, when Arnold left after one year of study at Caltech and moved to New York, where he landed a job with Bell Laboratories and became acquainted with electronics. He also had an opportunity to court Mabel, and in June 1925 they were married. The following year they moved to California, and he completed his doctoral work at Caltech in 1928. With his appointment to the faculty of Caltech, Beckman began a successful career in teaching. He and Mabel bought a small home and had two children - a daughter, Patty, and a son, Arnold S. It was in 1939 that Beckman made his most important personal and professional decision, when he reluctantly give up his post at Caltech, Beckman says, "1 had to mate the decision as to whether I'd be prostituting my scientific train- H Dr. Arnold (). and Mrs. Mabel M. Beckman
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