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Herbert Hoover: Engineering
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Long before Herbert Hoover became involved in politics he was an engineer. He was trained as a mining engineer and had a full and very sucessful career in a variety of international engineering projects. At the time Mr. Hoover practiced engineering, most areas of engineering were Civil Engineering. Mr. Hoover's own field of mining engineering is certainly very closely aligned with Civil Engineering even today. Here is what Mr. Hoover said about the profession of engineering.
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The conservation movement advanced under Hoover. Some 2 million additional acres of forest-land became national preserves, and the area of national parks increased by 40 percent. But some of the recommendations of Hoover's Commission on the Conservation and Administration of the Public Domain had an ambiguous character. It suggested, for example, that the surface rights to lands useful only for grazing should be returned to the states. Hoover liked the notion of shrinking federal controls and had a naïve idea of state conservation goals. He made plans for building Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River but vetoed a proposal by Senator George Norris of Nebraska to develop the Tennessee River valley, objecting to its socialist character and labeling it "degeneration."
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By this time many Hoover traditions were well established. Football games were a community event; the end of the season match-up with San Diego High drew thousands. Due to the size of the San Diego area, football games away involved travel to Santa Ana, Santa Barbara and later even El Centro and Yuma. In November Hoover's football team traveled to Los Angeles to beat Loyola for the Southern California championship. Clubs of all interest areas were well represented at Hoover: California Scholarship Federation, Debate Club, Hi-Y, Girl Reserves, Boy's and Girl's Glee Clubs, Orchestra, Drama Club, Quill and Scroll, Ballyhoo Club and others.
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After graduating in 1895, Hoover took his first job as a laborer in the goldfields of Nevada. In 1896 he went to San Francisco, where he was hired by a firm of mining engineers. He started as an office boy, but in less than a year he was assistant to the superintendent of one of the company's mines.
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After Hoover got a job for engineering, Bewick Moreing ( Hoover's boss) sent him over to Australia to work as a miner. Next Bewick sent Hoover over to China to manage the mines over there.
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Prior to Hoover's death in 1964, he reflected on the Institution and its accomplishments, scope, importance, and purpose. He submitted a statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University in 1959 in which he stated:
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