Found on the Internet - Caryl Holton

Recently I participated in a webinar about online libraries. While listening, I experimented by doing a search using Grandpa's name. I often use "Caryl Holton" for test searches because it is a fairly unique name. Imagine my surprise when this was in the search results. 

Grandpa's thesis from the University of Illinois - He was in the Class of 1913 and majored in civil engineering. You can download the entire thesis from several sites including Internet Archive. Here you can have a copy made from a print on demand service; cost just $10+

What a time we live in. A few key strokes brings up our grandfather's college thesis which we can then download, for free, and have on our computers or print ourselves. Or - we can use a print on demand service, which appears to be owned by someone in Delhi, India to get a hardback copy of the thesis - for about $10. I wonder where it's printed. Amazing!

Here's Grandpa's senior photo from the University of Illinois Yearbook