Ing. Jorge Luis Quijano

The engineer Quijano was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama and began his studies at the Colegio Javier. He completed his secondary education in Yokohama, Japan and Penang, Malaysia. He graduated in Industrial Engineering in 1973 and Master of Engineering with specialization in Industrial Engineering and Management at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1974 He has also conducted professional Updates Advanced Executive Management, both at the Federal Institute Executives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

His first professional experience was with Texaco Oil Refinery Panama Inc., where he worked as a Process Engineer, Production Forecasts and Programming International Shipping.

His career in the Panama Canal began in 1975 and was advancing in different positions to fill the position of Director of Maritime Operations in 1999, a position he held for more than seven years. The Operations Department is the largest in the organization of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and is directly responsible for the operation and maintenance of infrastructure and the most critical equipment of the waterway. There he was responsible for overseeing five different divisions, whose functions accident investigation found, scheduling vessel transits, inspection of ships, tonnage and piloting, the lockage of vessels in the Canal, tugs, launches and Raceways , inventory management and motor transport and handling of emergencies and contingencies, including industrial firefighting and response to hazardous material incidents and oil spills.

The engineer has taught Quijano Ports and Channels Management at the Faculty of Law of the University of Panama. He has also given many lectures on the Panama Canal, maintenance and modernization programs at national and international level.

Since 2006, the engineer took the responsibility Quijano Expansion Program of the Panama Canal. To this end, in 2007, was named Executive Vice President of the Department of Engineering and Program Management. In this new appointment, he led a group of nearly 500 professionals responsible for managing the implementation of all components of the Expansion Program. The department is specifically in charge of preparing designs and specifications to bid, negotiate and oversee the execution of contracts for the expansion, including: the contract for Design and Construction of the New Locks; dredging of the Canal entrances both on the Pacific and the Atlantic; five works of various dry excavation, and other support under contracts; and the execution of the dredging of the Gatun Lake level to increase the maximum operating level, which are performed by personnel Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The department works in conjunction with an integrated external programs manager, hired by the ACP specifically to oversee the implementation of all the Expansion Program team. The department also integrates a dedicated group of construction risk analysis and hiring legal counsel.

During extraordinary meeting on March 8, 2012, the Board of Directors of the ACP Quijano engineer appointed as new administrator of the Panama Canal, replacing engineer Alberto Alemán Zubieta, from September 4, 2012.

According to the organic law of the ACP, the engineer Quijano administrator shall hold office for a period of seven years and may be reelected by the Board for an additional period.

Alberto Alemán Zubieta

The engineer Alberto Alemán Zubieta served as Administrator of the Panama Canal from 1996 to 2012 During his tenure, the waterway faced important moments like the transition of its operation and management from the government of the United States of America to the Panama and the start of expansion project, the largest project of modernizing the Canal since its opening in 1914. 

Before work in the Panama Canal, Alemán Zubieta began his career very young in the field of construction. For many years he served as president of one of the largest construction companies in the Republic of Panama. 

From 1996-1999, he served as Administrator of the former Panama Canal Commission - federal government agency of the United States, which was responsible for the administration and operation of the Panama Canal until December 31, 1999. 

In 1998, two years after his appointment as Administrator of the Commission of the Panama Canal, was appointed as Administrator of the ACP, the autonomous agency of the Panamanian government that manages the Panama Canal, from the time of their transfer to noon December 31, 1999 During the following years, he served concurrently as Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission and the ACP, thus ensuring that decisions taken under the Commission would have continuity under the new Canal Authority. 

Under his administration, the ACP implemented the vision of transforming the Canal into a world leader in services to the maritime industry, the cornerstone of the global transportation system, and a model of excellence, integrity and transparency. 

In Panama, the German engineer Zubieta was instrumental in promoting a sense of pride among Panamanian Canal. Internationally, the maritime industry has recognized his leadership in transforming the waterway in a successful model of operation. For these reasons, it is requested to participate in various forums to present and share your thoughts and best practices. 

For their accomplishments and contributions to maritime, German industry as Zubieta received several awards Canal administrator, including the "William Ross Medal" award, presented in 1992 by the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (CAPAC); the "Honorary Fellow" in 1997 and "Federal Engineer of the Year" in 1998 awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers; the "Florencio Icaza Award" granted by the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects (SPIA), on merit and outstanding performance as a professional engineer and public figure; the "Maritime Personality 2001" award from Seatrade; "The Executive of the Year 2002" by the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE); and "Order of Rio Branco", awarded in 2003 by the Government of Brazil; "Public Employee of the Year" award from Financial Capital; and the "Outstanding International Alumnus Award from the University of Texas A & M" award in December 2003. 

The German engineer Zubieta is a member of various international and local organizations such as the International Advisory Board of the University of Texas A & M, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, "Chief Executives Organization" (CEO), the Panamanian Chamber of Construction, the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects (SPIA), among others. 

A native of Panama City, Republic of Panama, the German engineer Zubieta is a graduate of the School of Civil and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas A & M. He lives in Panama with his wife, Ana Matilde and her three children.

GILBERTO GUARDIA FABREGA

Gilberto Guardia was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama, on 13 February 1930 His parents were Thomas and Licia Guardia Fabrega. He married Maria Teresa Garcia de Paredes in 1949 In 1950, he graduated Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Santa Clara, California in the United States.

From 1950 to 1951 he worked as an estimator for the Ministry of Public Works in the City of Panama and worked from 1951 to 1952 as a Civil Engineer in the Panama Canal Company.

Guard was President and CEO of Wayne Enterprises and Guardia, SA; Architecture and Engineering, Construction Management and General Steel Light Manufacturing 1952-1990.

Mr. Guardia was also a member of the Board of Industrial Development Bank; Panama Trust Bank and Bancshares Incorporated Dadeland in Miami, Florida. He was also Director of the National Council of Private Enterprise, the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives and the Panamanian Chamber of Construction.

Mr. Guardia was appointed Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission on September 20, 1990 and served in this position until 17 August 1996 and was the first Panamanian administrator of the Panama Canal.

The tenure of office of Director Mr. Guardia excelled due to various maintenance programs and improvements made ​​to the Canal, focused on the widening of the Pacific entrance where more than 7 million cubic yards of material was removed; widening and straightening the area eight miles narrow Gaillard Cut Canal increasing the minimum width of 500 to 630 feet; installing a new defense system of locks, the construction of a new station signal in the Atlantic sector and the installation of a ship handling simulator for training pilots Canal.

During his administration, the 1st. October 1992, was also increased for the sixth time in history, Canal tolls. In 1994 the Universal Measurement System Panama Canal (PC / UMS), which established the formula for measuring tonnage of vessels implemented.

Guard officially announced his resignation on October 7, 1995, but continued to serve until the appointment of a new administrator.

DENNIS P. McAULIFFE

Dennis P. McAuliffe was born on April 8, 1922 in New York City. His parents were Michael and Mary Ryan McAuliffe. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States and was appointed second lieutenant of Field Artillery on June 6, 1944 He was assigned to the Eighty Nueveava Infantry Division as an officer in Battery; he worked in the Division of Wartime Deployment in late 1944 In 1946 he married Kathleen Bolton.

From 1946 to 1948 he was assigned to the Military Government of the United States Army in South Korea stood in for the role of advisor. He earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1950; in June 1950, he joined the Board No. 1 Field of the Armed Forces of the Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina for two years and was the official test with the new artillery radar and electronic equipment; in 1952 he participated in the total operational effort and preparatory to shoot the first nuclear bomb artillery.

After attending the Artillery Advance Course at Fort Sill (1953-54), he joined the Field of Six Hundred Sixty Thirteenth Artillery at Fort Bragg as an operations officer; From 1955 to 1956 he worked as a battalion operations officer in Okinawa; in 1957 he was appointed as Secretary of the General Staff in the Operations Headquarters Army of the United States in the Ryukyu Islands; from 1958 to 1959 he was a student at the Army Command of the United States and the College of General Staff at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

McAuliffe attended from 1963-1964 at the National War College and then worked for thirteen months in Korea as Assistant Commander of the First Corps Artillery; was appointed Chief of the Army in 1966; in 1967 he was appointed Chief Executive of the President of Heads of States sets; in 1969 he joined the First Infantry Division.

McAuliffe was appointed Deputy Director of Age in the Third Corps Military Region until 1970; he returned to Europe and in 1973 was sent to Fort Leavenworth as Deputy Commanding General until 1974; 1o. October 1979 was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the first manager of the new Commission of the Panama Canal, position created by the new Canal treaties Panama signed in 1977, and provided that McAuliffe retired American Army .

The tenure of office administrator McAuliffe from 1979 to 1989 was marked by many challenges and changes shepherding the newly organized agency Canal through its first decade of existence. During his administration Canal tolls were increased three times: in 1979, 1983 and 1989 In 1983 the permanent transit reservation system was implemented; the channel deepening project in 3 feet of the Canal was completed in 1985; construction of a water station at Rio Piedras in Madden Reserve in 1985; and widening project was completed Hut in 1989.

Dennis McAuliffe died on July 31, 2012 in Ft. Belvoir Virginia. His work during the first ten years of the transition process to Panama Canal was widely recognized. In the Panama Canal, a tug bears his name and those members of the workforce who worked with him remember him for his affable nature and mediator.

HAROLD PARFITT

Harold Parfitt was born in Coaldale, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1921 His parents were William Parfitt and Elizabeth Patterson Parfitt. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1943; in 1948, he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in 1955, he graduated from the College of Command and General Staff; in 1962, he graduated from the Canadian College of National Defense; in 1967, he graduated from Advances in Management Programs at Harvard. He married Patricia Rose Scully on June 4, 1955.

Parfitt was appointed Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1943 He rose to the rank of Major General in the year 1971 he worked as General Commander of the Center for Engineering Command of the Army of the United States at Fort Belvoir, Virginia in the latter part de1973 until March 1975.

From August 1962 to May 1965 and later was Deputy District Engineer Division of Engineers South Atlantic in Jacksonville, Florida. In June 1965, did Lieutenant Governor of the Canal Zone and Vice-President of the Panama Canal Company, where he worked until September 1968.

From December 1969 to August 1973, he was Division Engineer Engineers Southwest, Dallas, Texas. From 1968-1969 Parfitt was Commanding Officer of the twentieth Engineer Brigade in Vietnam.

Parfitt was appointed as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone on 1o. April 1975 and served in that position until 30 September 1979 Under his administration, the General Parfitt, was more aware, more than any other administrator Canal, the realities and sensitivities arising from the operation of the Canal Panama in Panama. Was given more support apprenticeship program as a vital phase of the Company agencies / government. Completion of the separate school for Latin American students were recommended and regulation of housing was changed to consolidate housing formerly assigned separately to citizens and non citizens of the United States. Under his rule, in 1976, the Canal had its second increase in the rate of tolls, and the United States and Panama signed the new Panama Canal treaty on September 7, 1977.

Parfitt was the last of the Governors of the Panama Canal.

DAVID STUART PARKER

David Stuart Parker was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona on March 22, 1919 His parents were Roscoe Stewart Blossom and Margarite Parker. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1940; He graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of California in 1949; and the Army War College in 1957 He married Betty Hamilton on May 2, 1942.

Parker was promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Army of the United States in 1940, and was promoted to the ranks to reach the Major General in 1967 In 1945, he was appointed to the administrative staff of Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur. From 1945 to 1945, he was Chief of the Construction Division of the Office of the Chief Engineer in Tokyo, Japan. From 1949 to 1952 he was an instructor and later professor of military topography and graphics at the Military Academy at West Point United States. From 1954 to 1956 he was Assistant to the USACE District Engineer in Portland, Oregon; 1957 to 1960 he was Head of the Strategic Planning Group of the Office of the Chief Engineer.

Parker was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1963 to 1965 From 1968 to 1969, Parker was Engineer Troop Commander in Vietnam. On 3 March 1971 he was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and worked in this position until March 23, 1975.

As Governor, Parker, he was directly involved in frequent changes and improvements, among which were the leader and the leadership necessary to develop the basis and presentations of the first toll increases in History Channel. A further change was the center of a new Marine Traffic Control, located in La Boca officially unveiled at the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Canal. Under his tenure, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Federal Women's Program was established.

Among his innovations in the field of personnel and organization are: assigning a Foreign Service Officer in the administration of the Canal; the appointment of a Coast Guard Officer to the Navy Office; creating a new Security Division; the creation of an educational advisory council; and a greater effort to use the Civic Council of the Canal Zone with substantial contributions in the process of decision making. Parker died on 9 May 1990.

WALTER P. LEBER

Leber P. Walter, son of Walter and Bonnie Vera Leber was born in St. Louis Missouri on September 12, 1918 He graduated from the Missouri School of Mines in 1940; and in 1951 he earned his Master's degree in Business Administration from George Washington University, and also graduated from the College of Command and General Staff in 1956 In 1950 he married Bernice Jean Palus.

Leber 1940-1941 worked as a petroleum engineer in the company Stranolind Oil Gas; in 1941 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States; rose to the rank of Major General in 1967 I was assigned to the Office of the Chief Engineer and was promoted to Secretary of the Communication Area Theater of Operations in Europe from 1942 to 1946.

He was appointed to the office of the Manhattan Engineer District in Oak Ridge from 1946 to 1947 was appointed Head of the Technical Division with us Links Military Command from 1947 to 1949; 1949 to 1950 he was assistant district engineer Officer Executivo in Seattle and Walla Walla District; from 1951 to 1955 he was assigned Staff General Logistics Department of the Army; from 1956 to 1957 he was engineer of the Eighth United States Army in Korea.

He was appointed Chief Executive of the Chief Engineer of the Army of the United States from 1958 to 1961 Leber was Lieutenant Governor of the Panama Canal Company in the period from 1961 to 1963; was assigned to the Division of Engineering Division of Engineers United States Army in the Ohio River from 1963 to 1966; engineers was director of the Office of the Chief of Engineers of the Army of the United States in Washington from 1966 to 1967.

In 1963, Leber was promoted to Brigadier General and then was appointed Governor of the Canal Zone to Panama on 21 February 1967 served in that position until March 2, 1971 He was the only governor the Panama Canal Zone who did not graduate from the Military Academy at West Point.

Under his tenure studies of Interoceanic Canal for the purpose of determining the feasibility of building a sea-level canal began in 1970; program completion Gaillard Cut widening in 1970 marked the end of a great improvement project designed to provide a safer transit through the Canal. After his term of office as Governor, Leber traveled to Washington, DC to work in the Security Anti-Missile System bales America.

Leber was awarded the medal of the two clusters of oak leaf of the Legion of Merit medal Bronze Star, the medal of a cluster of oak leaf Army Commendation, the Order of the British Empire, and The order of King Leopold II (Belgium.)

ROBERT J. FLEMING

Robert J. Fleming was born at Fort Robinson, Nebraska on January 13, 1907 Son of Robert John and Augusta Fleming. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1928 and earned his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1931 and graduated from the School of Engineers of the Army of the United States in 1935 In 1936, he married Eleanor Marion Canby.

At the beginning of World War II, he worked in the area of ​​the Central Pacific. Fleming was supervisor of the construction program of the Army of Occupation of the United States when the war ended. From 1947 to 1950 he worked in the Office of the Chief Engineer in Washington, first as Chief, Division of Organization and Training of Engineers and later as Chief Engineer of Military Operations Assistant.

From 1950 to 1951 Fleming was a student of the National War College in Washington from 1951 to 1954 and was Engineer of the Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia. During 1954 he was District Engineer in Philadelphia, then served until April 1954 as Divisional Engineer in the Division of New England before returning for a period of three years from France.

Fleming was appointed by President Kennedy, Governor of the Canal Zone to Panama on January 4, 1962, where he worked until January 31, 1967 when he retired, then worked as Executive Vice President of the company Anderson Nichols, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Governor Fleming was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation of the Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia), officer Legion of Honor (France), and the Grand Cross of Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Panama).

As Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, Fleming had to confront one of the most sensitive aspects of relations between the United States and Panama; the events of January 9, 1964, when Panamanian students tried to hoist the flag of Panama in Balboa High School, producing more than 24 dead. Under his tenure, the Thatcher Bridge was inaugurated on October 12, 1962; Channel the first newspaper was published on June 20, 1962 and 1964, Isthmian Canal studies were initiated with the purpose of increasing the capacity of the Canal. Fleming died on July 14, 1984.

WILLIAM A. CARTER

William A. Carter was born in Corsocana, Texas on June 27, 1907, the son of William Arnold and Susan Young Carter. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States; Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California in 1933; marries Katherine Munson in July 1934; was promoted to second lieutenant of the Army of the United States in 1930 and progressed through the ranks to major general in 1953.

Carter was assigned to a professor of the School of Engineering at Fort Belvoir, Virginia from 1933 to 1934; he worked as an officer of the Second Engineer District New Orleans from 1936 to 1937 He was head of the Department of General Affairs from 1941 to 1942; he worked in the II Corps of the Army of the United States stationed in Tunisia from 1942 to 1945; was CEO of Laboratories and Research Development Engineering from 1945 to 1948 Carter was later promoted to Chief Engineer of the Third Regiment of the Army of the United States from 1948 to 1951 was a combat engineer in World War II and Head of Engineers Army second body in the Mediterranean under the command of General Omar Bradley and first chief engineer of the Army during the invasion of Normandy during the European campaign of world War II.

On July 3, 1960 Carter was promoted to Governor of the Canal Zone to Panama and worked in that position until January 1962 Carter served for a year and a half and during that time, he executed a series of programs that had started their predecessors. The expansion project of the Panama Canal continued building the bridge Americas took shape, the arrival of the first new towing locomotives, three new tugs were ordered and plans were made to convert the Marine Traffic Control Channel in electronically.

Under his rule, new methods of maintaining the locks were studied to reduce time lost while the cameras were drained. A very visible leader, Carter traveled throughout Panama seeking to improve relations with the United States and Panamanian leaders. A group of Panamanians came to honor him with a gold medal with the title of "Friend of Panama."

Carter earned his country the Distinguished Service Medal. Following his retirement from active service, he was director of engineering of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC Carter died on May 18, 1996.

WILLIAM E. POTTER

William E. Potter was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 17, 1905 Son of William and Arlie Potter. Graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1928 and that same year he was promoted to second lieutenant of the Army of the United States. He graduated in civil engineering from MIT in 1933 Potter married Ruth Elizabeth Turner in 1936.

From 1929 to 1932, Potter was assigned to research a canal in Nicaragua; he taught tactics and military-grade science at Ohio State University from 1937 to 1940; appointed Officer of 25 Engineer Regiment Group Armed and Engineering 1138 Armada 1940-1943; assistant plans and operations of the ETO and Communication Zone from 1943 to 1945; District Engineer of Kansas City from 1945 to 1948; and Assistant Chief of Engineers for Civil Works Department of the Army in Washington, from 1949 to 1951; Engineer in charge of the Division of the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska until 1953.

Potter was advancing in grades up to Major General in 1956, that year was promoted to Governor of the Panama Canal Zone which was marked by the completion of a large number of projects until 1960 when his term ended. Some of his accomplishments as governor were the initiation of the project to build the Bridge of the Americas, initially called Thatcher Bridge, at a cost of $ 20 million; plans to expand the channel to cause a minimum of 500 feet; Corte Culebra lighting to allow transit operations 24 hours a day; and community improvements such as the creation of special education programs for disabled children.

Under the terms of the 1955 treaty with the Republic of Panama, Potter also oversaw the introduction of a wage system should not discriminate nationalities and transfer to Panama of $ 28 million in property, including the Washington Hotel in Colon. Additionally, Potter oversaw the closure of all facilities that were offering supplies and services and since then could be provided by Panama.

Potter Governor rejected the construction project for a new governor's residence, noting that the existing house be restored to be preserved for its historical value. Almost all the material for this restoration was obtained in Panama. Ms.. Potter a gardening enthusiast, led much of the work of the gardens of the residence.

Potter In 1968 the family moved to Orlando, Florida, where the governor stood out for its contribution to the infrastructure of Disney World. Potter died on December 5, 1988.

JOHN S. SEYBOLD

John S. Seybold was born in Topeka, Kansas, on July 2, 1897, son of John Henry and Emma Seybold States. He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1920 and was later promoted to second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. Seybold was transferred to the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the United States (USACE) on September 4, 1920, and graduated from the School of Engineering of the Academy of the United States in 1921 and Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Institute in 1922, the same year he married Mary C. Christman.

Seybold was assigned to Panama from 1922 to 1925 in order to conduct military research. From 1928 to 1933 he was Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. He becomes Chief of the Engineering Division of the Army. During World War II, from 1938 to 1943 Seybold was promoted to Chief of the Procurement Division of the Office of the Chief of Engineers and was responsible for the acquisitions of engineering and construction supplies to all areas of operations. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Supplies engineering operations to North Africa and Europe from 1943 to 1945.

At the end of 1945 Seybold was appointed District Engineer, USACE in Syracuse, New York, in charge of work control of the upper Susquehanna and New York Central floods until 1946 then was appointed as District Engineer in Baltimore, Maryland, manager improvement of rivers and harbors of Chesapeake Bay, including the Bay of Baltimore and flood control works on the Susquehanna Riviera from 1946-1947.

Seyblod was also District Engineer in Garrison, District of Bismark, North Dakota, where he was responsible for the construction of the Garrison Dam and hydroelectric plant, which was the world's largest dam from 1947 to 1950 he was promoted to Division Engineer of the Pacific Division in San Francisco, California, in charge of the improvements of rivers and harbors of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Hawaii, and supervising the work of flood control in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, all this alongside the work of supervising military construction and Aéras Army bases in these states from 1950-1951.

John Seybold returns to the Office of the Chief of Engineers USACE in Washington DC in 1951 and 1952 he was Assistant Chief of Staff of Engineers. The May 27, 1952 is promoted as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and worked in that position until 1956 As Governor, Seybold completed the stabilization program of the slope of Contractors Hill in the Gaillard Cut, thereby reducing the danger of landslides in the Canal; completed a plan that made possible the operation of a double duct Canal locks during maintenance work; completed the Canal comversion the electrical system 25 to 60 cycles. Seybold retired as a Major General in 1955, died on February 28, 1984.

Francis K. Newcomer

Francis Kosier Newcomber Francis, son of Henry Clay and Rebecca Newcomer, was born in Byron, Illinois, on September 14, 1889 In 1909 he was appointed a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. In June 1913 he received the degree of B. S. and he was appointed as a second lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers of the United States. Or she married Mary B. Roberts in 1914.

His initial work in the army was the First Engineer Battalion Barracks in Washington, DC From there he entered the School of Engineering of the United States in that city, where he graduated in 1916 he was promoted to captain in the same year. It was consecutively assigned to the Second and the Fourth Corps of Engineers, located in Vancouver, Washington, and Camp Greene, North Carolina respectively.

When the United States joined the Allied Forces in World War II, Newcomer traveled to France to participate in the Aisne-Marne offensive and defensive Serre and Vesle. From August 1918 to February 1919 he served as assistant commander of the Engineering School at Langres, France, and later summarized his obligations to the Fourth of Engineers. In the fall of 1919 he returned to the United States under the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel.

The next five years, from 1919 to 1924, was associate professor of mathematics Newcomer at the Military Academy at West Point United States teacher. Then in July 1924, he was appointed district engineer of the Southeast Division in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was in charge of the fortifications and river, as well as work on the dock. In 1928, he was assigned to Fort Belvoir in Virginia as an instructor in the School of Engineering.

Having been promoted to the permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1939, the same year Newcomer entered the War College at Fort Humphreys, Washington, DC, where officers received special training and command positions range war. He graduated in June 1940, and was appointed assistant to the president of the Mississippi River Commission and the division engineer of the Division of the Lower Mississippi Valley in Vicksburg, Misissippi.

In May 1944, he was named maintenance engineer of the Panama Canal, then part of the Caribbean Defense Command. That same year he received the rank of Brigadier General. Newcomer served as assistant chief of the Governor of the Panama Canal, Major General Joseph Mehaffey. After four years of service, Brigadier General Newcomer was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone in May 1948 for a period of four years until the end of 1952.

During his tenure, the questions of increasing the toll charge for private vessels using the channel and channel conversion route from lake to sea level canal were considered. Also for the first time in the history of the Canal, began to charge tolls on ships operated or leased by the government of the United States. In 1951, during his tenure the name of the Panama Canal changed Canal Company Panama, and the terms "Silver" and "Gold roll" to describe the wage standards were abolished on November 21, 1948. in October 1949, Newcomer resigned to active duty in the Army but continued to work as governor of the Panama Canal. Newcomer died on August 16, 1967.

JOSEPH C. MEHAFFEY

Joseph Mehaffey, son of William Robert and May Mehaffe Brooks, was born in Lima, Ohio on November 20, 1889 After completing his secondary education, he entered the Military Academy at West Point United States. He graduated and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in June 1911.

The first assignments were Mehaffey it in the office of the district engineer in Rock Island, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana between June and November 1911 In the fall of 1911 was first sent to the Zone Panama Canal where he remained until June 1912, when he entered the office of the district engineer in Pittsburgh.

Mehaffey took their second courses in the United States Army School of Engineers in Barracks Washington in the District of Columbia where he entered in 1912 and graduated in October 1913 reaching the rank of lieutenant. In May 1914 he was appointed assistant engineer in the Western Department; in 1915 he worked on the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners.

From October 1917 to May 1919 Mehaffey was offered his services again in the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington. After World War I he worked in St. Nazaire, France, and in London as an assistant engineer officer purchases. In July he was promoted to the rank of Major.

Mehaffey In 1922 he was appointed professor of practical military engineering at West Point. He returned to the Panama Canal Zone in December 1929 as an assistant engineer. He left for the United States to take a few courses at the Command and General Staff at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; He graduated in June 1935; then a third time, was named in the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, DC

In September 1941 Mehaffey was again assigned to the Canal Zone of Panama as Maintenance Engineer, working in this position until 1941 was made a Brigadier General in June 1942 and appointed Governor of the Canal Zone on 15 May 1944. in 1945, Congress provided a million and a half dollars and he was commissioned to report Mehaffey what changes were needed to modernize the operation of the Canal.

In December 1947, Mehaffey recommended the construction of a sea level canal, using approximately the same route this. This matter was still under discussion in May 1948 when Mehaffey completed his four years as governor.

Mehaffey retired on November 30, 1949 and died on 18 February 1963.

GLEN E. EDGERTON

Glen E. Edgerton was born in Parkerville, Kansas on April 17, 1887, to John Edgar and Alice Edgerton. He graduated from Kansas State College in 1904; He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1908; He also graduated from the School of Engineering of the United States Army in 1910; rose in rank until 1942 when Major General. In 1914 he married Cordelia I. Hessin.

Edgerton was assistant engineer of the Panama Canal from 1908 to 1909, then was appointed Chief Engineer of Alaska Road 1910-1915; was later made ​​Director of Sales War 1921-1923; Later he was appointed Head of the Power of the Federal Communication 1925-1929; finally, in 1930 he was appointed Assistant Professor of the School of Engineering of the United States AcademiaMilitar.

Return to Panama as Maintenance Engineer of the Panama Canal from 1936 to 1940 is then appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone on July 11, 1940, occupying this position until 1944.

During his tenure, there were several administrative changes such as: the organization formerly known as the Bureau of Clubs and Playgrounds was appointed as the club house of the Panama Canal; special construction division and special engineering division were consolidated under the title of special engineering division.

During his administration also road and road bridge in front of the existing Canal Miraflores locks, were officially opened to traffic in 1942 Thus provided the first connection of permanent bridge between east and west banks of the Canal from the opening in 1914; excavation project of the third set of locks is also initiated.

Edgerton retired on April 30, 1949 and died in 1956.

CLARENCE S. RIDLEY

Son of Judge and Mrs. William Ridley., Clarence S. Ridley was born on June 22, 1883 in Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana. Following initial studies in his native state, entered the West Point Military Academy on July 11, 1901 He graduated with high honors, ranking fourth in his class of 114 cadets and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Corps Engineers of the United States on June 13, 1905.

After making their service trips to Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, during 1905 and 1906, he was sent to Cuba in February 1907 for about four months. On his return he was promoted to Lieutenant on 9 June of that year. The following year he graduated from the Engineering School at Washington Barracks. From 1909 to 1912 he served with the troops on the islands of Hawaii and the Philippines, as well as at Fort Leavenworth.

In October 1912, at the age of twenty-nine, he reached the rank of Captain and was assigned to work of river and harbor in North Carolina where he was responsible for the construction of two sets of locks and dams, and then around the work of both river and dock at the Washington district of North Carolina. In 1915 he married Edna E. Taft.

In 1916 he was assigned to the office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, DC, where he led the development of Engineers Officer Corps Reservists. He was promoted to Major in 1917, and in August of that year he was temporarily appointed to the office of Lieutenant Colonel. In October 1917, he was appointed Colonel and Adjutant Major Military Age of President Wilson, and also supervised the care of public buildings and grounds in Washington, DC His duties included the construction of Arlington Cemetery in Arlington Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park. He also served as executive officer of the National Commission of Fine Arts, and a member of the First Committee of the District of Columbia area.

While still serving as Adjutant of the President, was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold by the late King Albert of Belgium at the White House on October 30, 1919.

He reached the isthmus in May 1921 to assume his duties as Assistant Maintenance Engineer. Ridley had the opportunity to address many of the departments of the Canal in time when the organization was entering a period of established operations and maintenance. Ridley was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone on August 27, 1936, a position he held until 1940 Under his tenure, the application of the laws of the United States of measurement of the vessels as a factor in the Panama Canal tolls boat was abolished on August 24, 1937, and the rules of the Panama Canal was established as the only means of measurement to determine the Panama Canal tolls for boats. The Pacific entrance of the Canal was made more profound and complete, digging more than eleven million cubic yards from the Miraflores Locks up sea buoys, including the Inner Harbor Balboa.

Ridley retired on June 30, 1947 and died on July 26, 1969 in Carmel, California.

JULIAN L. SCHLEY

Julian L. Schley was born in Savannah, Georgia, on February 23, 1880. His parents were Julian Larcombe Schley and Eliza. In 1898, he graduated from the Lawrenceville School (NJ), and in 1903, the Military Academy at West Point United States. He graduated in 1908 from the Academy of States, of the School of Engineering. In 1903 he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers of the United States; was promoted in rank to climb the October 17, 1926 the Lieutenant Colonel. From 1909 to 1912 he was an instructor at the Military Academy of the United States. From 1912 to 1913 he was assistant engineer Commissioner DC; from 1917 to 1918 he was commander of the fourteenth Sieteavo Engineering Regiment and later, during World War II, the Fifth Corps of the Army Corps of Engineers; from 1919 to 1921, he was director of purchasing and member of the War Claims Department; from 1916 to 1917 he was in charge of river and harbor improvements in the vicinity of New Orleans; from 1928 to 1932 he was a maintenance engineer in the Panama Canal. In 1931 he married Denise Vary.

Schley was appointed as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone in 1932 From 1916 to 1928 he was in charge of important works on rivers and harbors in Nashville and Galveston and had great knowledge and experience in applied hydraulics. Under his tenure, he began and completed construction of the Madden Dam, which created a reserve of additional water to the Canal which would provide for future expansions traffic.

Governor Schley, like Governor Walker, was a quiet man whose interest in the Canal and its progress absorbed him completely. He spent long hours at his desk, whether early or late, solving problems, answering each question on development and improvements to its last detail. He not only looked the material needs of the Panama Canal, but also the human side of forward progress.

Schley had anticipated the need to build and maintain a workforce of the highest quality as well as maintained the highest standards in materials and equipment Canal. To this end, he brought more trained to work organizations Canal and instituted a training program to prepare young men in skills and abilities and thus serve as potential future male workers.

As Morrow, Schley faced the bitter task of reorganization. A reduction in force was necessary in view of the worldwide depression and the consequent lowering of tolls in respect of navigation. He fulfilled this task judiciously, cutting here and there, yet at the same time, never desmejorando or impairing the efficient organization of the Canal. This was a job that required care and judgment.

During his tenure as Governor, and the Thatcher Ferry Road were inaugurated on 1. September 1932; the Canal Zone College was inaugurated on September 25, 1933, Christopher High School was completed in 1933; plans for a new neighborhood in Gatun was approved; President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the isthmus on July 11, 1934 and October 16, 1935 A three-cent stamp Goethals went on sale August 15, 1935 Schley retired on 30 September 1941 died on March 29, 1965.

HARRY BURGESS

Harry Burgess was born in Starkville, Mississippi, on February 22, 1872, his parents were James and Susan Foster Burgess. He was a student of the School of Mechanical and Agriculture of Mississippi from 1888 to 1891, then graduated from the Military Academy of the United States West Point in 1895.Fue instructor in engineering from the Academy at West Point from 1898-1900, then worked in the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army with the rank of colonel in July 1 1920.Burgess was in charge of studies and project design development energy Muscle Shoals, Alabama and maintenance engineer Channel Panama from 1924 to 1928 in 1912 he married Mary Lillington Mckoy.

Burgess was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone in October 1928, and served in that post until 1932 During his tenure, the channel traffic volume increased rapidly and steadily until it reached the limit in 1929 This emphasized the need identified by Walker, to provide an efficient service for a great future traffic and much of the Governor Burgess efforts were directed toward that goal.

Burgess saw the need for preliminary work in order to increase channel capacity with the construction of a dam for water storage needed for channel operation, and maintenance of the water level in Lake Gatun.

Governor Burgess was a very gentle man, and always maintained great sympathy among people under his command. He was affable and really understand the needs and problems of employees. He took great interest in the lives of the people doing the work of operation and maintenance of the canal, and identified closely with workers more than they could imagine themselves.

As an example, he worked very hard, (and much instructed in this), for the rights of the Retirement Act of the Canal Zone, which favorably affected every employee of the waterway. Burgess also planned the construction of school buildings, rooms for singles and nurses and established a public library and the College of the Canal Zone. Unlike his predecessor, Burgess was leaning all the details and saw that all problems should be addressed to him well studied and carefully analyzed and then make quick decisions and good judgment. His term as Governor of the Canal Zone ended in 1932, and the news of his death on March 18, 1933, was received with deep regret among workers Channel.

MERIWETHER L. WALKER

Meriwether Lewis Walker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, September 30, 1869 His parents were Thomas and Catherine Lidsay Dabney Walker. He graduated in 1893 from the Military Academy of the United States West Point in 1896 and graduated from the School of Military Engineering of the United States. He was director from 1912 to 1914 the School of Army Field Engineering and professor of practical military engineering at West Point from 1914 to 1916 He married Edith B. Carey in 1904.

Walker was appointed chief engineer for Expeditions Punitive to Mexico from 1916 to 1917 he traveled to France as chief engineer of the American Expeditionary Forces from August 1918 to August 1919, then continued as an instructor at the War College Army 1919-1920. he was promoted to colonel on July 1, 1920.

Walker was chief engineer of the Panama Canal from 1921-1924 before serving as Governor of the Canal Zone on October 16, 1924 He worked in that position until 1928.

Of all the governors Walker Channel was probably the most stayed away. It was a quiet, rather reserved, but completely absorbed in his work man. For this reason probably was not as close to their workers as Morrow and Goethals, but his men regarded him as an absolutely fair and just person in all things, acting as the case without hesitation. It was a man "all business," said his men. As Goethals, was a man of prodigious memory, his mind retained the smallest details, those easily forgotten.

Canal traffic volume grew during his tenure, and he foresaw the need for future expansion. His was the foresight to see the need for additional reserve somewhere in the hills of Alto Chagres. In fact, in 1925 he led Illinois Congressman Martin B. Madden to the jungles of Alhajuela and indicated the possible sites for the construction of the dam, where he later built one, which was named in his honor by the support you gave to the project.

Meanwhile Walker worked in the deepening of the sea in the Balboa Pier and watched for municipal operations will continue in accordance with the growing population of employees and their families and the growth of the terminal cities of Panama and Colon, initial steps were taken to control flooding of the Chagres River and an auxiliary power plant was built in Miraflores. The cleanup program in Gaillard Cut dredges provided handling growing traffic. Walker died on July 29, 1947.

Chester Harding

Chester Harding was born in the town of Enterprise in Mississippi on December 31, 1866 His early education was made in private schools and of course taking the engineering, he attended the University of Alabama, where he graduated with a degree in engineering 1884. 
Then he was selected for the Military Academy at West Point United States, and after his graduation June 12, 1889, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Additional Army Corps of Engineers of the United States. On 12 August 1890 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant of Engineers on 26 January 1895 he was promoted to Lieutenant, and July 5, 1898 received the ascent of Captain. Harding was appointed division engineer of the Division of Gatun Locks in 1907, then was promoted to Maintenance Engineer of the Panama Canal in 1915, He served as Governor of the Canal Zone January 1917-1921. 
As an engineer of the Panama Canal, Harding was responsible for many construction projects including terminal facilities; operations of the division of buildings including the continuation of the group of buildings Ancon Hospital; the garbage incinerator in Balboa and industrial background to the Panama Railroad; construction dock in Cristobal No.6; and intermittent dredging work in the Culebra and Cucaracha Court because of landslides, removing more than five million cubic yards of soil in five years. 
Major Harding married Flora Krum on July 15, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. They had three children: Horace, Krum Chester and Katherine. Harding died on November 11, 1936.

JAY JOHNSON MORROW

Jay Johnson Morrow was born in Fairview, Virginia on February 20, 1870 He graduated from the Military Academy at West Point United States in 1891, where he received his assignment in the Corps. He graduated from the School of Engineering Applied en1894. He married Harriet M. Butler in 1895 and had no children (she died in 1935 and his ashes were scattered in the Chagres River). The next three years in the service were spent as an instructor of military engineering practices in West Point, then in 1898, he was sent to the Philippines where he served as military governor of the Province of Zambona 1901 to 1902 he worked as Commissioner of Engineering in the District of Columbia from 1907-1909.

Morrow served as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1921 to 1924 President Harding appointed him to fill the vacancy that resulted following the resignation of Colonel Chester Harding.

In his first mission to the Panama Canal Zone I came appointed as a maintenance engineer from 1916 to 1917, and served as Acting Governor. This work was interrupted when the United States entered the First World War. Morrow arrived in France on May 12, 1918, head of the First American Army Engineer and Deputy Chief Engineer being of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).

The June 26, 1916 he was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General and in December of the same year returned to the United States to deal with AA Field Humphreys, Virginia.

In June 1919, Morrow returned the Panama Canal maintenance engineer working in that capacity until March 1921, when he became Governor. It found confronted with the task of reorganization, a job that involved difficult and unpleasant task of reducing the labor force used in the Channel during the time of war.

Morrow was an ardent lover of opera and moved to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York since the early nineties as far away as the Canal Zone and Tacna-Arica, Chile, where he was a member from 1925 to 1929 the Special Commission that arbitrated boundary disputes between Chile and Bolivia.

In the Panama Canal, Morrow reorganized and reduced its number, workforce Canal Zone because of the war. I was interested in getting a large supply of reserve waters of Lake Gatun, an artificial body of water that supply the Canal, and conducted surveys on the Chagres River to build additional reserves. He also oversaw many improvements to the Canal.

Morrow also oversaw the construction of a special dock that gave the system navigable river dredgers, a high degree of efficiency and expanded the most dangerous part of the transit curve around the Gaillard Cut. Both Pedro Miguel Locks and Miraflores, were improved during his term as Governor.

George W. Goethals

George Washington Goethals, son of John and Marie Baron Goethals was born in Brooklyn New York on 29 June 1858 received training as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers of the United States and attended the Military Academy in the United States West Point where he graduated in 1880 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of the Army of the United States on June 12, 1880 in the eighties he served as instructor in civil and military engineering at the military Academy. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1882 and captain on 14 December 1891 In 1884 he married Effie Rodman. 

During the Spanish-American War he served under the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Engineer in the Volunteer Army. He was later put in charge of the Muscle Shoals canal construction in the Tennessee River and Colbert Shoals, Alabama. 

On March 4, 1907, Goethals was appointed by President Roosevelt, President of the Board and Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission (LCC). He worked in this position until the completion of the construction of the Canal in 1914, then as the Governor of the Panama Canal following until his resignation on January 17, 1917. 

As Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission had to face many daunting tasks. Apart from the task of eliminating diseases, Goethals also had to face several unique problems, each of which represented a tremendous job itself. The first of these was lowered to a lower level several good sized mountains located near the center of the isthmus to minimize the elevation of the same channel. 

The second, the powerful feat of making powerful and erratic with Chagres River Gatun Dam and formation of Lake Gatun dam. The third was the construction of huge concrete locks with filling and discharge systems and large steel gates to open and close the device. Often the same plans and chief engineer spent sleepless nights working on the complicated calculations were changed. But finally completed work, and in 1915 the General Goethals received the thanks of the Congress of the United States "for distinguished service in the construction of the Panama Canal." 

Goethals name go down in history as the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of engineering and construction since the Egyptians ended the pyramids - the construction of the Panama Canal. 

From April to July 1917, Goethals served as General Manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and December 18, 1917, he was again called to active duty and appointed Acting Quartermaster General of the American Army. He was Head of the Division of Purchase, Storage and Traffic of the United States Army from 1918 to 1919 Goethals was released from active duty with the Army, at his own request, in March 1919. 

Goethals was President George W. Goethals and Company, a firm of engineers, and was also a director and consultant to the Port Authority of New York from 1919-1928. 

Goethals died on January 21, 1928 in New York City. Many distinguished persons and many tributes paid to Goethals. Among them, the following is the most representative about the man and his achievements consensus. 

"Colonel Goethals proved to be the man of all others, who performed the work. It would be impossible to overstate what he did. It is the greatest task of any kind that any man held in the world during the years when Goethals worked. It is the largest company of its kind held in the world. Colonel Goethals succeeded in inspiring men in charge of a spirit which elsewhere can only be found in a few victorious armies "