The United Engineering Center - A job to be completed

The United Engineering Center, at the United Nations Plaza in New York, serves as the headquarters of IEEE and of 20 other engineering societies and joint engineering bodies. First occupied in 1961, this imposing and useful structure was built through the contributions of engineers and industry amounting to almost $8.5 million, and it has since served as a focus for the activities of over 365,000 members of the engineering professions. The funds initially raised were not sufficient to meet the full cost of construction, leaving a net deficit of $560,000. To raise the sum of $900,000, which will complete the Center and leave it free of debt, the Trustees have announced a fund raising campaign. The Ford Foundation has agreed to contribute one dollar to the fund for each two dollars raised within two years, to a maximum of $300,000. The remaining $600,000 is to be raised in a campaign headed by Dr. Mervin J. Kelly.