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M.D. Morris, Past President of Met Section, Dies at 87 |
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M. Dan Morris, P.E., F.ASCE, who served as President of the Met Section in 1972-1973 and Secretary from 1964-1970, died on November 9, 2009 in Ithaca, NY. Born in New York City in 1922, he attended Stuyvesant High School and entered Cornell University in the fall of 1941, sharing a table in freshman drafting with Robert Olmsted, Chair of the Met Section's History & Heritage Committee. Dan served with the Army Corps of Engineers during and after World War II in Okinawa, Japan, and China. Before starting his own soil testing firm and returning to New York City, Morris worked a number of infrastructure projects in South America and the Caribbean.
In the mid-1960s, Dan decided to devote most of his time to technical writing and editing. He was the author of over 500 published works including articles, technical papers, and books, and also edited hundreds of books including a series of 91 practical construction guides published by John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill. Morris was the founding Editor of the ASCE Construction Division Journal, served as Chairman of the Construction Division, and was the recipient of the Peurifoy Construction Research Award from ASCE in 2001. He also taught more than 700 technical writing courses to thousands of engineers over a span of four decades.
Although he became a longtime resident of Ithaca and later served as president of the ASCE Ithaca Section, Dan regularly kept in touch with the Met Section officers and often visited the New York City area, keeping up to date on local ASCE activities in the metropolitan area.
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