Figure 1. Left John F. Wallace served as ASCE President in 1900 and was the first Engineer-in-Chief of the Panama Canal (from Jackson, 1911). Middle: John F. Stevens succeeded Wallace in 1905, and served as ASCE President in 1927 (from Jackson, 1911). Right: Colonel George Washington Goethals, who took charge of the project in March 1907, seeing it through to completion in August 1914 (National Archives).