Carl
A. Egner, who
retired in 1947 after 33 years' service with the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, died on May 4, 1969. Commander Egner joined
the Survey in 1914 soon after he was graduated from Purdue
University, and was one of the original group of 119 Coast
and Geodetic Survey officers commissioned in 1917. He served
aboard a number of Survey ships on both coasts, in Alaska
and the Philippines. He was in command of the Ship RESEARCH
in the Philippines at the time the Japanese attacked, and
was interned by them in Santo Tomas from January 1942 until
March 1945.
Commander Egner was also assigned to several different field
parties prior to World War II, and was in charge of the New
York Field Station in 1936-1938. Following his return to the
United States after being released from Santo Tomas, he was
in charge of first-order triangulation parties. He has been
an Associate Professor of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at Purdue
University since 1947.
ESSA Corps Bulletin, 6/1/1969
