Bossed Princeton Library Job

From the columns of the PrincetonAlumni Weekly comes a tribute to a Dartmouth man, Howard A. Schroedel '25, project superintendent on the construction of the new six-million-dollar Harvey S. Firestone Princeton Memorial Library.

"Complete master of the building situation throughout" is architect Robert O'Connor's description of Schroedel on the job which was begun by the Philadelphia office of the Turner Construction Company in February, 1946.

In the recent "Library Issue" of the Princeton magazine, O'Connor writes: "No opportunity to push the job along was overlooked and no inferior workmanship was tolerated. Not the least of his qualifications, however, was his pervading good humor."

If, as in O'Connor's words, "Dutch Schroedel can look back with pride on the quality of the building which he had such a large part in producing," Dutch can also review his entire construction career with equal pride. He has been with Turner Construction since he received his degree in Civil Engineering from Thayer School, superintending many large industrial building projects. In 1938, he was busy at the World's Fair putting up the Du Pont Building. His next item was a $13,000,000 hospital in Wilmington, Del.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor he was there constructing Naval air bases, being absorbed in this activity from May 1941 to August 1943. For his effort in

Hawaii he was given the Meritorious Civilian Award for outstanding performance in the construction field over and beyond the line of duty.

Leaving the Pacific, he went to Mobile as General Superintendent of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company to build large T-2 Tankers for the Maritime Commission through the fall of 1945.

Now that Princeton has a new library, Dutch, what will be next?

"DUTCH" SCHROEDEL '25