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JACKSON LELAND DURKEE
JACKSON LELAND DURKEE
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Leland Durkee, Jackson was born on September 20, 1922, in Tatanager, India, where his father was erecting bridges for Bethlehem Steel Company. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1941)
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On Durkee's recommendation, such cables were first used in 1968 on the suspension bridge over Narragansett Bay near Newport, Rhode Island, and on the suspension spans of the second Chesapeake Bay bridge near Annapolis, Maryland, completed in 1973. Their most extensive application was on suspension bridges in Japan, including the vast HonshuShikoku crossings and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge with the world's longest main span.
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The following were some of the many projects in the United States completed with Jackson's involvement: • Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1979–1981 • Hale Boggs Cable-Stayed Bridge, Luling, Louisiana, 1980–1983 • Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridge Evaluation and Rehabilitation, 1982–1988 • Tennessee River Girder Bridge Failure During Erection, 1999 • East Bay Suspension Bridge, San Francisco, 1999–2007 • Patton Island Girder Bridge, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 2002–2004 • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 2004–2007. Jackson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and was a regular participant in its annual meetings.
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His wife Marian died in March 2010. He is survived by three daughters: Janice and her husband Blake Tarry of New Hope, Pennsylvania; Judith and her husband Clay Burton of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Christine and her husband, Robert Simpson of Nazareth, Pennsylvania; seven grandchildren and a great-grandson.
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with her very own engineering hard hat and special shoes. Starting when Judith was 8, he took his little pupil out on weekend trips to inspect bridges and steel mills.
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In his later years, when his great-grandson would run in to visit, "GranDad" would stretch out on the floor to eagerly engage his newest protégé. Jackson's gifts to his family were his love of learning, his unlimited enthusiasm for adventure, and his photo albums that carefully recorded every detail of a full and accomplished life.
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