The Arthur Casagrande fund was established on February 14, 1983 with $5,000 from the Geotechnical Group Lecture Series Reserve Fund. In fiscal year 1984, various Boston firms contributed an additional $4,400 to the fund. In fiscal year 1985, the $2,603 profit derived from the Tufts Geotechnical Engineering Practice Conference was transferred to the fund. The fund is to be used to support a lecture given every other year by an eminent engineer with longstanding achievements in practice, teaching, and/or research in geotechnical engineering. |
