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Herbert D. Vogel
Pages 338-345

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From page 339...
... Army Corps of Engineers, a former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and a former engineer adviser of the World Bank, ctied on August 26, 1984, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. General Vogel was born in Chelsea, Michigan, in 1900 and livect in Washington, D.C., at the time of his death.
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From page 340...
... also contributed to the facts in this memorial, adcling the following: As a result of his early initiative, Vog combined his intelligence, engineering knowledge, superiorjudgment, fierce loyalty to his profession, high professional standards, sensitivity, and humor to become one of the world's outstanding hydraulic engineers, respected by his host of friends and associates worldwide.
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From page 341...
... During this periocl, the capacity of the system was more than doubled; it was supplying electric energy to an area of over eighty thousand square miles. TVA is responsible for the unified development of natural resources over an area of forty-one thousand square miles and for the development of navigation and flood control of the Tennessee River System.
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From page 342...
... I worked directly with General Vogel during his term as chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority and later when each of us was serving as a member of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. As an engineering adviser to the World Bank from 1963 to 1967, General Vogel contributed greatly to the success of the bank, which relies largely on the successful engineering of its projects.
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From page 343...
... He was a member of both the Mississippi River Commission and the Boars! of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors anal served as chairman of the Arkansas-White-Rect River Basins Interagency Committee.
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... He left behind a loving wife and family and thousands of professional and personal friends. His funeral service at Arlington Cemetery was the occasion for a large assemblage of the most distinguished and famous crowd of professionals and high-ranking service personnel, friends, and West Point classmates, a crowning tribute to the selfless life of a great soldier, engineer, and public servant.
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