Harvey W. Boyce's promotion from apprentice to electrician: photographic print

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Director of Power L.R.Douglass, of the Bureau of Reclamation's Boulder Canyon project, presents Harvey W. Boyce, his promotion from apprentice to journeyman electrician in a ceremony in the Nevada wing of the Hoover Dam Powerplant on April 16, 1951. A few moments earlier Mr. Boyce had received his certificateof Completion of Apprenticeship for Electrician from John H. Phillips, third from left. Mr. Phillips, an amature-winder at Hoover Dsam, is a member of teh apprenticeship committee of which M. H. Mitchell, Regional Personal Officer, second from left, is chairman. Mr. Boyce was the first Bureau of Reclamation employee to complete the apprenticeship course. The Boulder Canyon Project was the first throughout the Bureau to establish the apprenticeship training program. Left to right are Lloyd Hudlow, Assistant Director of Power, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Phillips, Steve Wenta, cabinet maker and finish carpenter and a member of the apprenticeship committee, Mr. Boyce, Mr. Douglass, and Morgan J. Sweeney, construction and maintenance Superintendent, Boulder Canyon Project.