Engineering Honor

A signal honor in the engineering world was bestowed upon Otis E. Hovey '85, NewYork consulting engineer, when he was installed as Honorary Member of the American Society of Engineers on January 19. At the formal ceremony of his installation hewas introduced to the president of the Society by his classmate, John P. Brooks '85. of Potsdam, N. Y., president emeritus of Clarkson College.

Mr. Hovey, who is an Overseer of theThayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, has been treasurer of the Society for the past 17 years and a member for 43 years, during the last eight of which he has. been classified as a life member. At thetime of his election to honorary membership, the highest honor which the Society can bestow, there were only 23 of 15,244 members holding this grade of membership, among them Herbert Hoover.

Mr. Hovey, one of America's leading engineers, is now serving as Director of The Engineering Foundation, in which executive position under, the Foundation Board he is heading the program of furthering scientific research in the various fields of engineering. He is a representative of the American Society of Civil En- gineers upon the board of trustees of the Foundation.

Mr. Hovey received the degree of Civil Engineer from the Thayer School in 1889, and in 1927 he was honored by Dartmouth with the honorary Doctorate of Engineering. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Clarkson College in 1933- His two-volume work on MovableBridges appeared in 1926-27, and in 1935 his book on Steel Dams was published.