03-11-2019, 11:00 AM
Since I haven't mastered posting photos here, the text from the plaque is below. The border line runs right through his chair. On a side note, this solves a mystery that had been bothering me. Before this plaza was built, the statue sat outside the medical building for several years with no identification.
"Ira George Needles
1894 to 1986
Ira George Needles was instrumental in the establishment of the University of Waterloo and its Engineering School. Ira Needles Boulevard is named in his honour.
Here he is seen writing his 1956 speech, "Wanted: 150,000 Engineers - the Waterloo Plan". He sits straddling the Kitchener-Waterloo boundary owing to his vision for the community where he lived and worked as President of B.F. Goodrich Canada.
Take a moment to sit beside him and perhaps be photographed with this pioneer of engineering education at the now globally respected University of Waterloo"
"Ira George Needles
1894 to 1986
Ira George Needles was instrumental in the establishment of the University of Waterloo and its Engineering School. Ira Needles Boulevard is named in his honour.
Here he is seen writing his 1956 speech, "Wanted: 150,000 Engineers - the Waterloo Plan". He sits straddling the Kitchener-Waterloo boundary owing to his vision for the community where he lived and worked as President of B.F. Goodrich Canada.
Take a moment to sit beside him and perhaps be photographed with this pioneer of engineering education at the now globally respected University of Waterloo"