New York Times,
Thursday, October 16, 1958

PING Y. LOO, 65,
OF SEARS, ROEBUCK
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Methods Engineer Since '53
Is Dead--Aided Post-War
Reconstruction in China
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Ping Y. Loo of 1150 Park
Avenue, methods engineer of
Sears, Roebuck & Co. since
1953, died Monday of a heart
attack near his office, 350 West
Thirty-first Street. His age was
65.

Mr. Loo, who was born in
Canton, China, was brought to
the United States as a child.
He graduated from Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology in
1916.

He was assistant engineer at
the Winchester Repeating Arms
Company from 1916 to 1918,
engineer with the Allied Ma-
chinery Company of America
for the next five years, manager
of the American Machinery and
Export Company, Tientsin,
China, from 1923 to 1927, and
president of the China Engi-
neering Construction Company,
Shanghai, from 1927 to 1944.

In 1946, Mr. Loo returned to
the United States and was an
organizer of Wha, Ning and
Walsh Construction Company,
with headquarters in Shanghai,
founded to undertake recon-
struction projects in China. The
concern had to abandon activi-
ties in 1948, after the Com-
munists had assumed power.

Mr. Loo was a member of the
Chinese Society of Mechanical
Engineers, the American So-
ciety of Mechanical Engineers,
the Society of Heating and Ven-
tilating Engineers, the Rotary
Club and the Chinese Red Cross.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Alice Chang Loo; a son, M. K.
Loo; two daughters, Mrs. I. M.
Pei and Mrs. Ernest Yen and
a brother, Ping Tien Loo of
Hong Kong.