Hugh Clendenin Carter

Background

Carter, Hugh Clendenin was born on December 7, 1925 in Polk, Nebraska, United States. Son of Daniel Burr and Ruth Clendenin (McGaffin) Carter.

Education

Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1949.

Career

Job engineer, Bechtel Corporation, Los Angeles, 1950-1953; senior mechanic estimator, Division Architecture, State of California, Los Angeles, 1953-1956; senior mechanic engineer, project engineer, Pereira & Luckman, Los Angeles, 1956-1957; Chairman of the Board, Hugh Carter Engineering Corporation division Lockwood Andrews and Newnam, San Diego, 1957-1985; retired, 1985. Instructor Los Angeles City College, Long Beach City College, 1957-1959, University of Southern California, 1956-1958. Chairman of the Board Cons.

Engineers Communications Foundation. Chairman, board appeals and advisors City of San Diego, since 1994. Consultant principal engineer Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall, 1990-1994.

Expert witness, 1990.

Achievements

• Hugh Clendenin Carter has been listed as a noteworthy Mechanical consulting engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Mechanical estimating: Volumes I and II

Membership

Chairman board overseers University of California, San Diego, board directors University of California, San Diego Foundation. Mem.Chancellor's Associations, University of California, San Diego. Board directors Natural History Museum, San Diego.

Chairman of the Board of appeals and advisors City of San Diego. Board directors Charles Lee Powell Foundation, also chairman grant committee. Member President's Round Table San Diego State College.

Chairman utilities and facilities Americans Cup '95. With United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945. Fellow American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Institute Engineers, American Cons.

Engineers Council (chairman Vision Committee, Committee Fellows). Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Cons. Engineers Association California (president 1964-1965), Aardvarks San Diego Zoological Society, Circumnavigators Club, Long Beach Yacht Club, San Diego Yacht Club, Cons.

Engineers Commission Foundation (Chairman, Board Of Directors, founder), La Playa Yacht Club (commodore), Chevaliers du Tastevin, International City Club, Faculty Club University of California-San Diego, San Diego Athletic Club, Rotary.

Connections

Married Patricia Moore, January 22, 1971. Children: Candice, Carolyn, Christine, Claudia, John, Dan, Jim, Lisabeth.

Father:

Daniel Burr Carter

Mother:

Ruth Clendenin (McGaffin) Carter

Spouse:

Patricia Moore

child:

John Carter

child:

Dan Carter

child:

Carolyn Carter

child:

Christine Carter

child:

Candice Carter

child:

Lisabeth Carter

child:

Claudia Carter

child:

Jim Carter