So impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October 1.
No stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known...
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