Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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CHAPTER ONE ADMINISTRATION is a ticklish and difficult job from any viewpoint. ii The problems confronting executives call not only for intelligence and knowledge, but for initiative, wisdom and common sense as well. To handle the manifold and complex situations which arise in the administration of our modern University, Lehigh ' s Board of Trustees elected Clement Clarence Williams to the position of President when Charles Russ Richards retired from that office in 1935. President Williams, seventh president of Lehigh, began his engineering career when he graduated with a B.S. in C.E. from the University of Illinois in 1907. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Colo- rado until 19 14, and for the next 21 years was associated with similar insti- tutions. He received a LL. D. degree from Lafayette in 1935, and was given Eng. D. degrees by Northwestern and Bucknell in the two years following. Besides his educative activities, President Williams served as a supervising engineer for the War Department during World War I, and has written books and articles on civil engineering and college education. Through his businesslike office in the Alumni Memorial building pass the manifold prob- lems of University direction and supervision. The final authority for all administrative decisions rests, of course, in Lehigh ' s Board of Trustees, of which Eugene Gifford Grace, E.E. ' 99, is the president. Mr. Grace ' s generous gift of $300,000 has made possible the President CLEMENT CLARENCE WILLIAiMS