Asme commemorates 75th anniversary of the society´s founding in 1880

The first of a series of meetings this year to commemorate the founding of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was held February 16. Theme of the meeting was “The Engineer and the World of Communications.” The commemorative session was held in the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company auditorium. The ASME was founded 75 years ago, in the office of American Machinist, now a McGraw-Hill publication. In the afternoon, a panel, “The Engineer and His Communications,” was held at the Engineering Societies Building and was followed by a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Various honors were conferred at the dinner. General society meetings during the remainder of the year at Stevens Institute of Technology and in the cities of Baltimore, Boston, and Chicago will be devoted to various facets of the broad theme “The Engineer in Our World” and his relation to education, government, science, and the world of commerce and industry.