1936 President Clarence Delbert Phillips
/Past President Phillips was a lawyer by trade and a member of a number of civic organizations. He served as president of the Portland City Club as well as GSOC.
Read More1941 President Kenneth Phillips
/Kenneth Phillips was born at Fairgrove, Kansas, on September 28, 1897. In 1915 he moved with his parents to Albany, Oregon. With one year's interruption by the First World War, he was graduated from Oregon State College in 1921 in the School of Engineering.
KENNETH PHILLIPS (Charter Member)
Upon graduation he began working with the United States Geological Survey, with offices in Portland, and he has continued with that branch of the service until the present time (1950). Most of his work has been within the State of Oregon, with the exception of five years during which he was stationed in Southern Oregon. He had one brief assignment in Washington for three months and one assignment of six weeks in Alaska. Since 1948, upon the retirement of George H. Canfield, Mr. Phillips has been District Engineer for the Geological Survey.
Kenneth Phillips is a charter member of the Geological Society of the Oregon Country and served one year as its president, as well as serving on various committees at different times.
In 1921 he was married to Miss Florence Hunter of Albany, Oregon. They have two daughters - Mrs. Merritt Cootes of Karachi, Pakistan, and Mrs. Peter Ford of Portland, Oregon - two granddaughters, Anne Carol and Bronwyn Ford, and one grandson, Marcus Ford.
Mr. Phillips is a member of the Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church, the Mazama Club, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Geological Society of the Oregon Country.
