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\"Civil Engineer\" Waldo E Smith Hand Written Letter Dated 1973:
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Up for sale "Civil Engineer" Waldo E Smith Hand Written Letter Dated 1973. 

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Waldo E. Smith was born on August 20, 1900, in

New Hampton, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa, graduating with

Bachelor’s (1923) and Master’s (1924) degrees in engineering. Hydrology and

civil engineering were his specialties. In the 1920s and 1930s, Smith worked as

a professional engineer on hydraulic projects throughout the Midwest and taught

on the faculties of the University of Illinois, North Dakota State College, and

Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. He joined the American Geophysical Union in

1936, affiliating with the Hydrology Section. A position with the U.S. Soil Conservation

Service brought Smith to Washington, D.C., in 1940. In the early 1940s the

administrative duties of running AGU were still handled largely through

volunteer labor. John A. Fleming, director of the Carnegie Institution of

Washington’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, had served as General

Secretary since 1925 and had contributed long hours in correspondence, editing,

and organizing meetings, with only a clerical assistant or two. With 2200

members by its 25th anniversary in 1944, however, the organization had grown

too large to continue to manage without a full-time professional staff. In

September of that year, Smith accepted an offer from Fleming to become the

first Executive Secretary (and later, Executive Director) of the Union. For the

next 26 years, he was omnipresent in AGU’s activities. Smith’s business acumen,

energy, and organizational skills well suited him for his executive

responsibilities. He excelled as a consensus builder. Under his stewardship,

AGU launched new scientific journals and monograph series and initiated its

foreign translation program. Smith personally edited the Transactions for many

years. He strove to advance the stature of the Union at home and abroad and

served as Secretary of the U.S. National Committee for the International Union

of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Contemporaries of Smith recall his phenomenal

memory, especially his ability to recognize nearly all AGU members by name and

face. He was genuinely interested in people and, through lectures at colleges

and universities across the United States, helped guide the careers of many

young geophysicists. By the time he retired in 1970, Smith directed a staff of

40 people, serving a growing organization of more than 10,000 members. In 1982,

recognizing that “there is more to doing science than doing science,” the AGU

council created an international award in Smith’s name. Appropriately, the

Waldo E. Smith Award is given for dedicated and extraordinary service to

geophysics. The following year, the Executive Director Emeritus became the

first recipient of his namesake medal. Smith’s professional legacy was summed

up in his citation: “for over a quarter of a century AGU, American geophysics,

and Waldo E. Smith were synonymous.” Waldo Smith died at his residence in

Washington on August 12, 1994.

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