Engineer to Lehigh

So impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October 1.

No stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known some of the older faculty members since he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 years ago. A graduate of Southern Iowa Normal School, he turned to teaching before the War, quit to supervise a government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday School class for Iowa freshmen. Lehigh's beer-loving students should appreciate his excellent stock of stories.

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