The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22


tine society, will be the chief speaker.
I Dunlap is on-a coast-to-cOast tour,
undressing local sections of the aocfety,
(which will end in San Francisco,
swhere the national meeting of the
ssociety will be held October 4 to 8,
(which will be attended by engineers
sfrom all over the United States
Luncheon at University Club.
Dunlap was in st. Louis Thursday,
ennd will speak in Kansas City tonight,
sand will arrive in Topeka Saturday in
ktiIne to be the guest of local members
sof the Sigma M fraternity, who will
kgiYe a luncheon for him at the Uni
sversity club at noon Saturday.
l.. e. Conrad, professor of civil en-
fgineering at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college, is president of the Kan
tsas section of the society, and will
Areside at the dinner and meeting
Saturday night. Con NJ. Buck, of To-
fpeka, division engineer for the Santa
kl'e, is the vice president of the sec
Hion and f. w. Epps state bridge en-
5gineer. is secretary and treasurer.
! p. II. Everhard, of Wichita. with
the Missouri Valley Bridge company,
will make an address, and Lloyd b.
Smith. Of the Topeka Bridge and Iron
company is also on the list of speakers
bat the meeting.
( Dunlap will outline to the Kansas
engineers the national program of the
8lwell upon the growing participation
20 the engineer in American life, and
rhis influence in public, affairs. The
aplans for this falls convention in san
francisco will be described.
4 Organized Seventy Years Ago.
I The American Society of Civil En-
gineers was organized seventy years
Ago'f and is the oldest organization of
fhe sort in the United States. The
Ntate section is only year old, and
Professor Conrad is it's first presi-
Hent. There are fifteen members of
StRe- organization in Topeka.
The following engineers of the
state, members of the society, have
slgnified their intention of attending
the dinner and meeting Saturday
night: L. e. Conrad, president of
the state section, professor of civil
engineering at the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college, Manhattan; Con M.
42nck, division engineer for the Santa
", vice president of the Kansas sec
Ton. Topeka; #. w. Epps. state bridge
figineer secretary and treasurer of
.the Kansas section, Topeka; F. +.
1Tazier, of the faculty of the civil en-
elneering department Of the State
AGRICULTURAL college at Manhattan; G.
a. Forter, Wichita, formerly assistant
city engineer at Topeka; p. II. Ever
Aards of the Missouri Valley Bridge
company Wichita Lloyd 3. Smith,
Tppekas Bridge e Iron Works, To-
Relka; ". c. McNown, of the faculty
"a the civil engineering department
~ the state university at Lawrence;
N. w. Z Watson, state highway en-
gineer, Topeka; r. w. Spencer, of the
tIrm OF r. NJ. Spencer & Sons, of To-
peka: Jack Singleton, of the Topeka
Eoundry & Iron Works; H. b. Walker,
former1y state drainage engineer, now
Itofessor of rural engineering at the
kansas State Agricultural college at
Manhattan; r. H Penhartz, resident
engineer in shawnee county for the
state highway commission.
reservations from other members
efthe society are expected to be made.
k5John H Dunlap, who will address
the Kansas engineers. graduated from
dartmouth college in 1905 and re-
ceived the degree of civil engineer
from the Thayer School of Civil En-
S5neering7 in 1908. From that time
sisiti1 hes assumed the duties of secre-
lary OF the society recently, he was a
member of the engineering faculty of
the University of Iowa, resigning with
the rank of Sprofessor of hydraulics
and sanitary engineering