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.