Moreland Herrin Professor Emeritus Moreland Herrin, former CEE faculty member, died July 6, 2015, in Urbana, Ill. He was 92. Born Nov. 14, 1922, in Morris, Okla., Herrin attended Oklahoma State University (OSU), majoring in civil engineering. He served in WWII as an intelligence officer with the 8th Air Force in Wycombe, England. After the war, he remained in the Air Force Reserve, eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He continued his schooling at OSU, focusing on weather and civil engineering. He received his B.S. in 1947 and his M.S. in 1949. After some time with a consulting firm, he entered Purdue University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1954. He taught first at OSU and in 1958 accepted a position at the University of Illinois, where he served on the faculty for more than 30 years. Herrin taught transportation courses and researched asphalt and asphalt-aggregate materials, asphaltsoil stabilization and related environmental measures for highways and airfields. His research drew national attention. He was an assistant materi-
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Bartosz J. Czernikiewicz (BS 10) died May 25. He worked as a mining engineer for Kiewit Corporation.
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als engineer on the famous American Association of State Highway Officials road test; assisted the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) with advice on stability of pavements with various asphaltic compositions, and for many years was director of Illinois’ cooperative transportation program between IDOT and the U of I. He began the Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference. Nationally, Herrin was for some time chairman of the Bituminous Division of the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences. He was sought widely as a consultant. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; two daughters, Jeannie Plondke and Gwen Herrin; one son, Stanley; a brother; four grandchildren; one step-grandchild; and six great-grandchildren. —W. J. Hall
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Arthur Feldman (MS 54, PhD 60) died January 4. He taught at the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor. He worked at Martin Marietta for 36 years, retiring in 1999. His work included designing and building the lunar drill stems used during the Apollo moon missions for the NASA space program. John W. Hutchinson (BS 51, MS 54, PhD 61) died September 8. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1954-1964, when he joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. He retired in 1989. Michael J. Mathews (MS 67) died May 5. He retired from the Army Reserves Corp of Engineers as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was a long time employee of the City of Fort Worth, where he worked as Chief of Architectural and Design Services.
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John E. Baerwald, former CEE faculty member and noted transportation engineer, died April 27. He was 89. Baerwald taught for 28 years on the CEE faculty. He served as president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers and on numerous Transportation Research Board standing committees. He authored more than 100 articles and papers in professional journals.