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Donald S. Berry
Donald S. Berry
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A consummate transportation engineer, Professor Berry helped create transportation engineering programs at three universities and was responsible for pioneering interdisciplinary graduate studies in transportation engineering at Northwestern. Don was born on January 1, 1911, in the middle of a blizzard on a ranch near Vale, South Dakota.
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He was a teacher who made every academic concept real and established bridges linking research to practice. He built cooperative education programs connecting the university to key public agencies, allowing students to finance and broaden their education by working at these agencies and conducting research as a part of their work.
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Matson Memorial Award from ITE and the James Laurie Prize in Transportation from ASCE. Five years later, in 1977, he was given the College of Engineering Professional Achievement Citation from Iowa State University.
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He was an active member of Saint Matthews Episcopal Church in Evanston, Illinois. After his retirement, he joined the North Shore Senior Center, where he taught classes in defensive driving for ten years.
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