QCESC

47th Annual National Engineers Week Banquet

Engineers Week

If you need further assistance or have questions regarding registering, send an e-mail to president@qcesc.org or call Pat Barnes at 309-748-1333
 

This years National Engineers Week Banquet is a joint event with the Henry Farnam dinner celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Completion of the Locks and Dam 15 at Rock Island.

Dr. John O. Anfinson is the historian and cultural resources program manager for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRRA), a unit of the National Park Service. He worked as a historian for the St. Paul District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1980 to 2000. John is a founding board member of Friends of the Mississippi River, an organization that focuses on the environmental health of the Mississippi in the Twin Cities area. He is also on the Minnesota Marine Art Museum board. John holds a PhD in American History from the University of Minnesota.

John has been researching, writing and speaking about the upper Mississippi River for over 25 years. He is the author of The River We Have Wrought: a History of the Upper Mississippi (2003) and River of History: a Historic Resources Study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (2003).