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RICHARD N. WHITE
Pages 358-363

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From page 359...
... Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, died on October 3, 2009. Dick was born on December 21, 1933, in Chetek, Wisconsin, and grew up on several different dairy farms.
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From page 360...
... He was soon recognized as an exceptional teacher, winning the engineering college's Outstanding Teacher Award in 1965 -- a promise to be confirmed in later years by the same award in 1996 and as a three-time winner of civil engineering's Chi Epsilon Award. He was also the lead author of the White, Gergely, and Sexsmith three-volume set of textbooks Structural Engineering (New York: Wiley, 1972)
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... In the course of his career he advised dozens of organizations -- structural engineering firms, manufacturers, national laboratories, government agencies, universities, and publishers -- on a variety of topics, such as structural analysis design and research, project evaluation, and editorial policy. In 1988, Dick was named James A
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From page 362...
... ; granddaughter, Natalie Apseloff; grandson, Nicholas Apseloff; son, David Charles White (fiancee, Soeung Brenda Oeun) and children, Kuyheang Sok, Layheang Sok, Mary Sok, Andy Sok, and Michael Daniel Oeun (of Ithaca, New York)
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