Publisher's Synopsis
Inspiring Legacy "Ask Not..."
Engineer Simie G. Wold, who was destined for the priesthood and later educated at "The Eton of Africa," traded dreams of joining the Air Force for a civil engineering career that became "almost a battlefield." He had to deal with intimidation, sabotage, and frame-ups, but President Kennedy's "Ask Not..." legacy and Emperor Haile Selassie's outstanding leadership in modernizing his country from the ashes of WWII inspired him to achieve extraordinary feats such as:
- The first and only successful "underpinning" technology for a high-risk historical masonry building,
- The first and only Ethiopian-made, cost-effective refractory incinerator,
- Introduced Ethiopia's first multi-story parking garage, and so on.
A strict and uncompromising professional, he nonetheless retains a great sense of humor, revealed in his memoir by the colorful way he depicts his challenges and adversaries. This compelling memoir, filled with renowned personalities, brilliant engineering solutions, sly embezzlers, and millions of dollars in cost savings, reveals how one individual's determination to serve his country with unswerving loyalty achieved significant results and set an example to fellow countrymen.
