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Show ft pt t ts L. ARMSTRONG ' ASGE bestows honor on Armstrong, Cedar City native Ellis L. Armstrong of Cedar City recently received Honorary Honor-ary Membership In the American Ameri-can Society of Civil Engineers. He received the Society's highest high-est honor at the Annual National Na-tional Envirnomental Engineering Engineer-ing Meeting held this past week in New York City. Mr. Armstrong received this honor for his distinguished achievements in engineering and management of reclamation, reclama-tion, irrigation and drainage, highway, and broad scope construction con-struction projects. Armstrong attended Branch Agricultural College, now Southern South-ern Utah State College. He received re-ceived a BS degree in civil engineering en-gineering from Utah State University. Uni-versity. He was awarded a Doctor Doc-tor of Science Degree, Honoris Causa, from SUSC in 1971 and has a Doctor of Engineering Degree from Newark College of Engineering in New Jersey. A corporate vice president of UHS Systems Corporation, is one of six new Honorary Members Mem-bers of ASCE. Until just recently, re-cently, he headed the Interior Departmtnt's Bureau of Reclamation Re-clamation as commissioner. He is chairman of the U. S. Committee of the World Energy Conference, the Federal Inter-agency Inter-agency Committee on Excavation Excava-tion Technology, and the Tunneling Tun-neling and Underground Con-I Con-I struction Committee of ASCE. |
