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Show Honors banquet set Alan Firmage, Utah's Outstanding Engineer for 1980, will be the guest speaker Friday at a Southern Utah State College banquet being held in conjunction with National Engineering Week. Firmage, a professor of civil engineering at Brigham Young University, is chairman of the National Bridge Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and has . lectured on the subject in 12 different countries, including the People's Republic of China. "The public is invited to attend the banquet, to hear Professor Fir-mage's Fir-mage's speech 'Bridges Around the World,'" said Richard N. Kimball, associate professor of for. half price, Kimball said. "Engineers Opportunity Op-portunity equal Progress" is the theme for National Engineering Week which is being celebrated through, Saturday. "George Washington may not have chopped down his father's cherry tree," Kimball said, "but at the age of 19 he helped tackle the giant task of measuring and describing a vast new country as the official surveyor for Culpepper County, Virginia." "In honor of Washington's engineering engine-ering status and accomplishments, ac-complishments, National Engineering Week is always celebrated during the week of his birth " Kimball said. engineering at SUSC. "Our. guest speaker recently served as International In-ternational Contact Director for the American Society of Civil Engineers and his long list of accomplishments includes the writing of three text books." The banquet will begin at 7 p.m. at the Town and Country Restaurant. Tickets are $7 each and may be obtained by contacting Dr. Kimball at 586-4411, extension 417. Reservations must be made by noon Thursday. Special guests at the banquet will be Marcel Bluth, . SUSC's Outstanding Out-standing Engineering Student for 1981, and the winners in SUSC's annual bridge building contest. All other students in the contest will be admitted |