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The Structural Engineer, Volume 66, Issue 12, 1988
A conference was held on 12-13 May 1988, at Britannic House in London, to discuss the revised version of the report Soil-structure interaction. The report, by a most distinguished committee, was sponsored by the Institution in collaboration with ICE and IABSE. By coincidence the conference marked the 17th anniversary of the formation of the Informal Study Group set up to review the phenomenon. This group was responsible for the 1978 report, and the work of the second has followed an earlier conference at the same venue in 1984. 120 delegates attended, and there were 65 discussion contributions from the floor.
To have been invited to pay a tribute to Oleg Kerensky at this, the first Memorial Conference, is an honour indeed. It is an honour which I had no hesitation in accepting, save to the extent that I felt I might not be able to do full justice to it. Oleg Kerensky’s ability as an engineer in the great schemes in which he played a leading role was ever matched by a generous acknowledgement on his part of the roles and skills of others. The breadth of his perception of what was involved for him in service to his profession was matched by a facility to communicate his enthusiasm and sense of high purpose to those working with him and under him. Great forcefulness of character, taking pride in high achievement, was matched by a true humility. Professor M.R. Horne
As a one-time member of Oleg Kerensky’ staff and later one of his Partners (now retired), I was honoured and delighted by the invitation to provide the introduction to this conference. B.P. Wex