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THE MAN OF THE MONTH
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tions and reports; draw up detailed designs and specifications; supervise construction.
And to the science of the consult' ing engineer, they add the artistry of the architect! Out in Johnson County, Kansas, at Belinder and State Park Road, is a two-story brick Colonial house, with garage attached, standing in perfect harmony among the other Colonial homes of the neighborhood. But who lives there? Nobody! The house is a camouflaged waste disposal pumping station. But it is so "real," door to door salesmen continually leave samples of breakfast food, soap coupons and circulars at the front door. Tom Veatch gives credit to Edward Tanner, who assisted the architects of his organisation in the design of the structure.
That's Tom Veatch.
In Lincoln, Nebraska, the water supply (underflow of the Platte River) was unsatisfactory because of two undesirable minerals: "the iron and manganese content caused notice able discoloration and appreciable deposition." (It left stains on the wash bowls and clogged up the pipes.) Veatch's engineers constructed a fil' tration plant designed to eliminate the manganese and iron, and permit lime softening to be added. Now Lincoln gets 20 million gallons of fine water daily, transmitted to the city through a 28 mile transmission main. "The processes employed were chlorination at the wells for crenothrix control followed by aeration through enclosed coke tray aerators, chlorination, high rate upward flow contact filters, sedimentation and rapid sand filtration."
Whew!
Put this down for certain: A pc table water supply in adequate quantity with satisfactory pressure to com' bat fire makes possible modern Ameri' can civilization and urban development. To find the water, to develop the water supply and process it for distribution is part (but only part) of the vast engineering service rendered by Tom Veatch and his associates. Water-system construction alone calls for six kinds of engineering skills: geologic, hydraulic, electrical, mechanical, chemical and structural.
Federal government engagements constitute a large part of the firm's work. During World War I, they engineered Camp Pike, Camp Doniphan and Camp Cody. In World War II, Camp Chaffee, Ft. Knox, Ft. Sill, Camp Forrest, Camp Hale and Camp Robinson. They designed and built all of the utilities at the great Navy Air Base at Olathe, Kansas. At Los Alamos, for the Atomic Energy Commission, they lifted water 2,000 feet from river valley wells to the city which they designed — utilities, water system, sewers and streets. At this moment, engineers at Black 6? Veatch offices are working quietly and secretly on another vast government project of city-building magnitude.
AND this fellow Veatch, who directs all this — what's he like? He's a big man: tall in stature, big in ideas, big in friendship. He's hearty, inspiring, human, lovable. His friends all comment on his loyalty, his comradeship, his enthusiasm, his trustworthiness, his very exacting professional standards and the intense moral