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Thomas Duane Larson
Pages 168-171

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... From 1954 to 1957, he served in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineers Corps, where he was officer-in-charge of construction at Grand Turk and Nantucket, Rhode Island, and public works officer at Camp Lejune, North Carolina.
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... ; a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (1989) ; distinguished alumnus of Pennsylvania State University (1990)
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... ; chairman of the National Governors Association Task Force on New Federal Transportation Regulation; chairman of the National Research Council Transportation Research Board; and chairman of the Strategic Highway Research Program Executive Committee. In 1993, when he completed his term at FHWA, he returned to his home in State College, Pennsylvania, where he remained active as a consultant on government and management issues.
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