Honored as Engineer

With the chief executives of fourteen utility companies at the head table and some 400 delegates present, Prof. Morton O. Withey '04, dean emeritus of the University of Wisconsin college of engineering, was honored at a dinner of the Wisconsin Utilities Association in November when he received the association's annual citation for outstanding achievements in the engineering field.

The citation follows:

"Wisconsin Utilities Association awards this Citation of Merit to Morton Owen Withey, engineer, scientist, educator and counselor, who has served the State of Wisconsin and its University and the engineering profession actively for almost one half a century; whose researches in the application of materials for construction have influenced the progress of our times; whose many technical writings have been widely accepted and applied in the engineering profession; whose wise leadership as Dean of the College of Engineering has established the University of Wisconsin among the world's leaders in respect to professional education, research, and plant facilities; whose intellectual attainments, good counsel, and patient guidance have aided many students and young engineers; and whose kindly understanding, frankness and charm have inspired lasting friendships."

Dean Withey, who was graduated from Thayer School in 1905 and taught there the following year, was cited in 1951 by the Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers, and in 1947 received the Turner Medal from the American Concrete Institute for forty years of work on reinforced concrete.

Dean Withey (l) receiving his citation from G. W. Van Derzee, head of Wisconsin Electric Power Co.