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George John Schroepfer
Pages 304-309

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From page 305...
... In November 1933 he accepted the position as assistant chief engineer for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Sanitary District (now the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission)
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... Beginning in 1947 with the William D Hatfield Award, he received almost every award and medal of the Water Pollution Control Federation, including the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award in 1955; the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal (1956~; the Radebaugh Award of Central States Water Pollution
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From page 307...
... treatment systems were unique; he truly "bridged the gap" between research and practice. The sanitary engineer, through the introduction of safe public drinking water supplies and wastewater treatment facilities, has clone more (luring the past 150 years to raise life expectancy worIclwide than any other professional.
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... student at the University of Minnesota. Those who were privileged to know George Schroepfer quickly recognized a man of resolution, cletermination, and independence; a commanding figure and natural leacler attributes that certainly helped him toward success in his long professional career.
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