Walter Melvin Enger

March 11, 1914 (age 89)

Urbana, Illinois, United States

Junior engineer, assistant engineer, Bureau Reclamation, Denver Junior engineer, assistant engineer, Parker Dam, also Shasta Dam, California, 1935-1941; commissioned Lieutenant (junior grade), Civil Engineers Corps, United States Navy, 1941; advanced through grades to rear admiral, Civil Engineers Corps, United States Navy, 1965; officer charge construction civil works contracts on West Coast, 1941-1944; Executive officer, 59th, 72d Naval Construction Bns., Guam and Japan, 1944-1945; officer charge, 72d, 31st Naval Construction Bns., Japan, 1945-1946; deputy district public works officer, 8th Naval District, New Orleans, 1946-1948; instructor marine engineering, United States Naval Academy, 1948-1951; public works officers, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton and Twenty-nine Palms, California, 1951-1953; detail officer, Civil Engineer Corps, Bureau Naval Personnel, 1953-1956; deputy chief staff, Naval Construction Forces Pacific, Pearl Harbor, 1956-1959; public works officer, Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California, 1959-1961; assistant chief military readiness, Bureau Yards and Docks, 1961-1964; director, Chesapeake Division Bureau Yards and Docks, 1964-1965; vice commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, 1965-1969; commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command chief of civil engineers of, Navy, 1969-1973; retired, 1973; vice president, DeLeuw, Cather & Company (Engineers), Washington, 1973-1976; engineering consultant, since 1976. Chairman Engineers Joint Council Commision on Engineering Information, 1973-1976.