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February 6, 2002 CIVIL ENGINEERS TO CELEBRATE ORGANIZATION’S ANNIVERSARY, ENGINEERS WEEK Civil engineers from the Boise area will celebrate the sesquicentennial of their national organization, The American Society Of Civil Engineers, later this month during National Engineers Week Feb. 17-23. The Southwest Idaho chapter of the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers and the Southern Idaho Section of the ASCE will hold an Engineers Week banquet on Friday, Feb. 15 at noon in the Crystal Ballroom, 802 W. Bannock, Suite 202, in downtown Boise. Gov. Dirk Kempthorne will be the keynote speaker. The ASCE was founded on Nov. 5, 1852, and the organization’s Southern Idaho Section has selected Feb. 15 as its day to celebrate the 150th anniversary of ASCE’s founding. At the banquet, the governor will sign and deliver a Civil Engineering Day proclamation for the state of Idaho for 2002 and all subsequent years, and will encourage all citizens of Idaho to recognize this observance. He will also declare Feb. 17-23 as Engineers Week in Idaho. Activities in honor of civil engineering will continue during Engineers Week on the Boise State University campus.
For more information or to register for the banquet, go to ispe@rmci.net on the Web or contact the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers at 426-0636. Contact: Media contact:
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