On 15 August, Kees d'Angremond, a hydraulic engineer at heart, passed away.
His career was every civil engineer's dream. After graduating, he got a job at the Hydraulic Laboratory. There, he worked on Dutch, but through Nedeco, also on foreign problems. I found his footsteps along the Bay of Cambay in India. During a site-visit, we paid a courtesy call on the old Maharajah of Valiibipur with an official from the Ministry of Water Resources. The old monarch immediately asked: ''Do you know Kieees?'' It turned out he meant Kees. Enthusiastically, his servant retrieved a square Bokma bottle and a pair of clogs from the attic. The local library also held a green leather-bound Nedeco report on the irrigation project he studied there at Saurastra.
Later, at dredging director at Adriaan Volker, a common career move in those days. This is also how he got involved in the construction of the Oosterschelde barrier. He then became director of the Municipal Port Authority of Amsterdam and, finally, in 1989, professor of coastal hydraulic engineering at TU Delft.
This also made him chairman of the Construction and Hydraulic Engineering Section of KIVI, as required by the statutes at the time. There, he founded the Hydraulic Engineering Day together with CUR. As chairman of the Section, but especially as founder of the Hydraulic Engineering Day, Kees meant a lot to KIVI.
After his retirement from TU, I succeeded him, first as chairman of the Section and then as chairman of the Hydraulic Engineering Day.
Em. Prof. Han Vrijling,
former president KIVI Construction and Hydraulic Engineering Section
