Auburn Engineering<\/em>, he felt that it was misidentified, and wanted to set the record straight. The Montgomery resident called us, explaining that the photo was taken in 1946, and that he was leaning over a plane table with fellow student Howard Losey standing behind him.<\/p>\nLooking back more than five decades can sometimes make identifications such as this one difficult \u2013 another alum had also thought himself to be in that photo. However, following investigative work with a number of old Glomeratas, it appears in fact that it is Harold Meeks in the photo. As he pointed out as well, the photo was \u201cflipped\u201d at some point, making it appear as if he is left-handed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI began a career with the Highway Department, as they called it back in those days, moving from junior engineer to associate engineer over a period of seven years,\u201d Meeks recalls. \u201cWhen I was transferred to a job in the Department of Materials and Testing in Birmingham, my work took me to the local office of Choctaw, Inc., a Memphis-based pipe fabricator \u2013 and I agreed to join the firm to run its Birmingham operation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meeks eventually went on to become a city engineer for Gadsden and Dothan, and Montgomery county engineer, but returned to Choctaw as a sales engineer. When he looks back on his multifaceted career in civil engineering, he points with pride to his accomplishments, noting that \u201cI enjoyed every minute of it . . . particularly when I was involved in bridge engineering and precast work.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says he did not know he was being photographed at the time, and was surprised to see his photo in the junior class section of the \u201946 Glomerata, then again later in Auburn Engineering<\/em> \u2013 but he says he knows that he was probably running a highway end curve exercise at the time, in an area bounded by Samford, Ross Hall and the old Alumni Gym. It was, he says, a normal civil engineering project repeated many times before and since.<\/p>\nFollowing his career in civil engineering, and raising three children, Meeks retired in 1995. He now lives in Montgomery.<\/p>\n
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