The Metropolitan Section Junior Branch distributed notice cards for its meetings held in the ASCE Board Room in the Engineering Societies Building.

First dedicated to public speaking courses for young engineers, the Junior Branch blossomed as an active forum for young men to meet twice a month for an enviable program of speakers—over in the old ASCE Board Room in the Engineering Societies Building at 33 West 39th Street in Manhattan. The Junior Branch spawned ideas, germinated activity, and grew young engineers.

In 1959, M.D. Morris became the first Junior ever on a Section Nominating Committee. That resulted in Brother Austin Barry's becoming the first Junior to be elected to Section’s Board of Directors. Another Junior, Robert K. Lockwood was on the staff of Civil Engineering magazine. He founded and published the first Metropolitan Section newsletter in October 1953.

In 1966, the Metropolitan Section's Associate Member Forum sponsored two field trips to the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Pennsylvania on May 13th and 26th. A total of 270 people participated.

Perhaps the most significant change in the corpus of ASCE was brought about by Joseph Simeon Ward, who later served as Section President in 1964 and National President in 1980. He felt "Junior" was not a title sufficiently professional for young graduate CE's. Sucessfully he moved ASCE to add the rank of Fellow, shifting the other grades, changing "Junior" to "Associate", "Associate" to "Member", and "Member" to "Fellow". This doubtless encouraged more graduates to join ASCE. The Junior Member Forum was renamed as the Associate Member Forum in 1961-1962.

A few Juniors from separate firms got involved with sharing their specialty: Vernon Smoots, Stephen Olko, Martin S. Kapp, and M.D. Morris, later joined by J.P. Gould and E.A. Richards started the Soil Mechanics Seminars. That was taken over by the elders and became Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division in 1962-1963, the first of the existing technical groups that now provide the basis for many of the Section's current activities.

In its turn the Associate Member Forum set up continuing education courses for P.E. review, computer orientation, structural and foundation innovations, field trips, and work for the Office of Civil Defense. The Associate Member Forum was renamed as the Younger Member Forum in 1992.

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