The hospital committee formed by the Manufacturers Association, under the leadership of Colonel Walter J. Riley included: Chairman, C.H. True, Vice-President of the Superheater Company; D.P. Thompson, Assistant to the President of Inland Steel; F.A. Lorenz, Jr., Works Manager of American Steel Foundries. A total of $465,000 was pledged from the following companies: American Steel Foundries - currently operating locally as ASF Keystone Calumet Foundry and Machine Company Champion Rivet Company Edward Valve and Manufacturing Company Gary Street Railways - currently operating locally as Gary Public Transportation General American Tank Car Corporation Grasselli Chemical Company Graver Corporation Green Engineering Company Harbison-Walker Refractories Company Hubbard Steel Foundry Company Hyman-Michaels Company Inland Steel Company - currently operating locally as ArcelorMittal International Lead Refining Company - currently operating locally as Hammond Group Interstate Iron and Steel Company O.F. Jordan Company Linde Air Products Company Metal and Thermit Corporation Northern Indiana Public Service Company - currently operating locally as NIPSCO Sinclair Refining Company Shore Line Motor Coach Company - currently operating locally as Greyhound Standard Forgings Company Standard Oil Company - currently operating locally as BP The Superheater Company Universal Portland Cement Company U.S.S. Lead Refinery, Inc. U.S. Reduction Company Yougstown Sheet & Tube Company - currently operating locally as ArcelorMittal