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Address of the Retiring President. By A. T. Dusenbury

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MEMBERSHIP LIST...........

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MINUTES OF MEETINGS AND BUSINESS OF THE SOCIETY.

ANNUAL REPORTS.

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EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENT

Our New President. At the annual meeting of the Society,
held January 12, 1918, Mr. John Klorer was elected President.
Mr. Klorer was born in New Orleans, November 25, 1874, and
received his secondary school education in the Tulane High
School, which was then operated as a part of Tulane University
for the preparation of students for its higher courses. His engi-
neering education was received at the College of Technology of
Tulane University, from which he graduated in 1895 with the
degree of B. E. in Civil Engineering.

Mr. Klorer's first practical experience was obtained with the United States Engineer Department, whose service he entered immediately upon leaving college, acting in the capacity of rodman, computer, inspector and surveyor until 1901. In 1901 he entered the employ of J. P. McDonald & Co., Engineers and Contractors, of New York, and was engaged upon examinations and surveys for a proposed graving dry dock in Vera Cruz harbor. He also did some work upon the sewerage and water system of the City of Tampico. For a portion of the year 1902 he was in the service of the Mexican Government, running surveys for the improvement of the Panuco River. While engaged upon this work he was forced to return to the States on account of illness.

Re-entering the service of the United States Engineer Department as Junior Engineer in the latter part of 1902, Mr. Klorer was assigned to the duty of making purchases of engineering supplies and was also placed in local charge of the improvement of the smaller streams in Louisiana. From 1907 to 1912 he was assigned to levee construction in the Fourth Mississippi River District, during which period he introduced the use of the re-inforced concrete levee revetment as a 'means of protecting embankments from wave-wash and of reducing seepage.

In October, 1912, Mr. Klorer was appointed by Governor Hall as a Member of the Board of State Engineers and placed. in charge of the Lafourche, Lake Borgne, Buras and Grand Prairie Levee Districts. He was reappointed to this same office in 1917 by Governor Pleasant. It was through the efforts of Mr. Klorer that the Lafourche Levee Board was induced to purchase a levee building machine, the operation of which was placed under his charge. The use of this machine has demonstrated that with it levees can be constructed at a great saving in cost over the older methods.

Mr. Klorer has been a member of the Louisiana Engineering Society since its foundation in 1898 and has always taken an active interest in its affairs. He was appointed Treasurer in 1916 to take the place of Mr. Hunter Coleman, who had enlisted in the Washington Artillery and been sent to the Mexican Border. He was elected a Director for 1917, and this was followed