THT. OLD - DOMII\ION ST]RVE,YOR VOLUME NO. I JANUARY, 1965 AD]YIIRAL H. ARI\IOTD I(ARO IO ADDRESS t|AS CO1.llJEt'lTIO1,l Rear Admiral H. Arnold Karo, Director of the U. S. Coast ping, Vice President of the American Shore and Beach and Geodetic Survey, will be the principal speaker at the Preservation Association, Department of Commerce mem- forthcoming VAS Convention at Natural Bridge in January. ber of the Federal Council's Interagency Committee on Oceanography and U. S. member of Consultative Committee This well known Govern- to Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, LINESCO. ment administrator, engineer, As the Coast and Geodetic Survey member of the Missis- scientist, author and lecturer sippi River Commission, Admiral Karo plays an important has guided the Coast Survey part in furthering the National program of developing and programs in support of com- improving one of the great waterways of the world. He is merce, business and industry also a registered professional engineer in the District of since 1955. Columbia. Admiral Karo served for more than five years as Chair- man of the Committee of Car- Natural Bridge Selected tography, National Research Council, National Academy of H, Arnold Karo Sciences, which advised the For VAS Convention Department in matters concerning international cartography. The new Natural Bridge Hotel, in the Shenandoah Valley, He sen'ed as Chairman of the United States Delegation to has been selected as the site of the 77th Annual V.A.S. the Second United Nations Regional Cartographic Confer- Meeting. ence for Asia and the Far East held in Tokyo in 1958, and also headed the U. S. delegation to the Third United Na- Completed in the Fall of 1964, this outstanding hotel tions Cartographic Conference held in Bangkok in 1961 . will offer its entire facilities and over 100 rooms to VAS He represented the United States at the British Common- members and guests. wealth Survey Officers Conference at Cambridge, England held. respectively in 1951, August 1959, and the latter part Arrangements have been made to set up some 20 exhibits of Juli' 1963. He participated, in September 1959, oS a in the larger ball roorn, while the auditorium will be used member of the American Congress on Surveying and Map- for evening entertainment and the annual dance. ping delegation at the Cracow, Poland, conference of the International Federatio4 of Surveyors. In February 1963, In addition to this spacious and modern hotel, visitors may also he served as the United States representative for geodesy enjoy Rockbridge Center which contains a cafeteria, and mapping at the United Nations Conference on the Ap- soda fountain, gift shop and a large yeabaround completely tiled heated plication of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the indoor swimming pool. Less Developed Areas, at Geneva, Switzerland. In the early part of July 1963, he served as Chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations Regional Carto- graphic conference for Africa at Nairobi, Kenya. Admiral Karo served as the 1957 National President of _G Society of American Military Engrneers. He is also past- d President of the American Congress on Surveying and Map- The Old Dominion Surveyor Directors Adopt Certificate "The "Old Dominion Surveyor" is the official publication of the Of Recognition Virginia Association of Surveyors and is published quarterly for the mernbership and for the betterment of the Surveying profession. At the Directors' meeting of VAS. held at Natural Bridge=rr Hotel, Natural Bridge, Virginia, on October 77 , 1964, the C. Bucr MelcoLM, President Certificate of Recognition, in its final form \\'as adopted. C. A. TsonpE,, JR., Editor decided would be right and just that the Address all articles to The Old Dominion Surveyor, P. O. Box It was that it 278, Falls Church, Virginia. flgure of George Washington, engaged in the practice of placed the front of the Virgmia Association This publication is not copyrighted and articles may be reprinted surveying, be on with due credit. of Surveyors Certif,cate of Recognition, It was from the College of William and Mury, chartered in 1693 and housed in the famous Wren Building in 1695, that George Wash- VAS Approves in$on, in the year 17 49 received his first public office-a license to engage in the practice of surveying. Professional Publication The College was at that time the Surve-vor General of At the last meeting of the Board of Directors which was the Colony of Virginia, and its faculty entmsted with the held aL Naturai tsridge, Virginia, October 17, 1964, it was duty of examining and licensing surveyors. decided that the Virginia Association of Surveyors would The relationship of the College to surveying in the Col- publish publication, whose masthead a newspaper. This onies was a particularl,v close one. In this connection, the would read "The Old Dominion Surveyor" u,ill become the , directors felt it prudent to emphasize not on11, the important official publication of the Virginia Association of Surveyors role of Witliam and Mary in Colonial times, but also its published and and is to be quarterly for the membership f,rst licensed surveyor and the historical legacy which he for the betterment of the surveyirrg profession. left to the surveying profession of todal-. publishing place Associa- The of this newspaper shall our On the reverse side of the seal embossed on the certificate pedestal professional tion on an equal with any other survey- we have seen fit to use the map of the Commonwealth, on ing group throughout the United States. We have long since which the official seal of the VAS has been superimposed. had what is considered to be, by many, the most outstanding This is the same arl- la-vout rrhich $-e use on the VAS Di- directory, and now, with your help, that of the members of rectory; by so doing, we further identify the Certificate of* your Chapter, the Old Dominion Surveyor can also become Recognition with the Association. -V one of the most outstanding publications of its type. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA GovenHoc's OFFIcE RICHMOND con,rn'"N)ffiffiARetNt+ ..:1';':;; ,. ffi' hq -"n.Y-1,ffi ) ^LBERTE',*EoNJi ffiffipy' *"iJ-:";'* REGrsr'ArroN ' PRoFEssroNAL ^*"Iill?lit*^L L96c Novemrcer 25, Editor ThorPe' Jr" Mr' clifford Dear Mr. Thorpe: ;-. -i, _::--i.: ::.1 qi: : : l:---, _ +: = i*.i:rixi*ffi :;\::;1";t'"I"',[ -,..:. _q_a_:_ :" "". r1-.orsh1p of ydr cn"ttn' virsanra ==1I-: -:--,- :: --:Ld:] j.Of. i"irI" = = " 3i3" ;i': io':"'; --J i:' ii;. irT :i :? $: "' ---L:!'=a=;:;-ri:.;::---;;_:+-1' r{i t;] at:or t.=, t*=.',rr,., ="== a :<:rr "*,il:n1ililiear ror trra ru;on the eve* r kr'c$ c::'c = -:. who seel " 'h'i L--- :_ j:rr_ r..; nore often --1" +' Lhose - *_;= ;; ;-r=*acat€ Pr osre s s *"' j*:t :t:' :-:-:,:^"1'J li.''iliin -" ;:-:il:':l:' other group Y"".]*:.- i t. professron _ ::* _-! standaros = :---= :a-T:-: !'zz :! ;:-=:ja, ard The old ettticat ':i .-*--." :- --l* ,1s" our state' to qrgT::e -:= ,;-:1-j-=-t:--._.-.:-="... errl cedL- --e wil L De use,l ::::-. =-:' =- -_: ::-: :: * bOrnn pUbl!- publication'-ct:'"l:Jtll=;Ii-.tio' r feel this *"^u" 319 il"?t"In Lr !s i''; ti'::,lli.'"?"|". :5"'.".;'" vlu "r'Ip r:rr:.- j:--- cclrlon. am i"lEiir ., ;--: ;t.I-1]; ;i-:ft:r r serve as ":"i;;; suveylng' tecnr of latest ' - -'<rrrt " ;:": " ili:h l<i:li reSaris, I a- f-1 1--1;;. ,= .,.j-lt:-aj::= ----, --:e tL ,oFinlcD " i?" J '''l'":i?i "? --:r--_.1_-==:,- *" *r*.' ;':'..i : :'"' i: .i _lff=_z i:f, tug! of thj's Pro(=ffi ""':"' ::r._'- ----, =::-"rd.on8t ctmonuealttt' sincerely y'ourr,- :-- g=:f: .: f ;::.;: ;"=:!"flffi r- +li< wenture' _.:-::__ -:: __{ success =,- =;:-; ! s_:r_s tre.seryes. 1 wish You everY .:: --i '----:-: -., :: E : E:1 /erY truiy Yours' 4: f- ,. .r-..jj'rl'f -'=' sEy egah, tuKI#F <J+"'---+'' Direc tor Editor The 01d Dominion SurveYor 308 South Washington Street Fa1ls Church, Virginia ,fdi l$+rhri lE ^?: -E*- .:=-- +a=-E ,---T-J#*1t'- kF.tu pf --&lD.c \- The Old Dominion SurveYor State Certifies Twenty Shenandoah Chapter Disturbed Mr. Cecil J. Cross, Alexandria, Virginia, Chairman of the Over Moving Of Historical Marker Land Surveying Section of the Virginia State Board for the \_-.-_ a letter addressed to Mr. Ray Schaffner, Chief Park Examination and Certification of Architects, Professional En- In Naturalist the Shenandoah National Park, the VAS - qineers and Land Surveyors, announces that the following of through its Shenandoah Chapter expressed their disturbance persons were certifled as Land Surveyors as a result of having about the removal of a limestone post from the Fairfax Line. passed an examination given at The John Marshall Hotel, The two century old limestone marker post marked the Richmond, Virginia, on November 30, and December 7, Southern boundary of Thomas, Lord Fairfax's vast estate of 19 61: more than 5% million acres in the l',{orthern neck of Virginia. Glenn C. Ball, Jr., 8016 Slidell Lane, Springfield, Va. Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson, Denny L. Bowman, Route 2, Meherrin, Va. helped with the original survey which was made in 17 46. Allan L. Carpenter, 336 E. McGinnis Circle, Norfolk, Va. As a young man George Washington also did surveying Joseph J. Chavez, 537 Thayer Ave., Silver Spring, Md. for Lord Fairfax, but was not believed to be connected with L. P. Crocker, Jr., 111 Tremont St., Manassas, Va. the earliest boundary survey. Douglas M. Detwiler, 164 Anne Place, Fairfax, Va. The ancient limestone marker was given to the National Charles Evans Metcalf, Rt. l, Box 45 A, Big Stone Gap, Park as an appropriate historical object for the park museum by Frank Hilliard and Virgil Dovel, whose properties adjoin John Charles Morefield, Box 97 , Glade Spring, Va.