Institute activities: Message to posterity is enclosed in cornerstone of new United Engineering Center

The text of an address by former US President Herbert Hoover to posterity was enclosed in the cornerstone vault of the new US$12 million United Engineering Center in New York on the afternoon of June 16 at the setting of the cornerstone. Mayor Robert Wagner, who delivered the principal address at the ceremony, said that New York is "proud and fortunate to be known as the country\´s center of engineering activities." About 450 persons were present when the cornerstone was laid for the 20-story structure of steel and glass between 47th and 48th Streets at United Nations Plaza.