Morris Beitman
Author, Publisher and Radio Instructor (1911-1980)
Morris N. Beitman was born in December 1911 in Cook County, Illinois. Started as an engineer with the US Army Signal Corps, he used his experience and abilities to form two career paths. He became a teacher in the Chicago public schools high school system as a radio instructor. Soon after he got into technical publishing as Supreme Publications. As publisher his goal was to support the radio and television servicing industry with easy to understand reference materials. He was married to Rose Rissman.
Early years
Morris Beitman received his BS in mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology and later served in the military as an engineer with the US Army Signal Corps. He later became an associate member with the Institute of Radio Engineers (now called Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE). His known pre- and post-military career was a teacher in the Chicago public high schools as radio instructor.
The founding of Supreme Publications
By the mid-1930s the growth in ownership of radio receivers in the United States spun off other business opportunities.
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