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RICHARD L. WOODWARD
1913-1981
BY GORDON G
. ROBECK
RICHARD L WOODWARD consulting engineer and a former Vice-
President of Camp, Dresser and McKee, Inc., of Boston, died at the
age of sixty-seven on March ~ 5, 1981. He had served for many years
as a highly effective leader of government environmental engineer-
ing research and as a private consultant throughout the world.
Because of his total dedication to knowledge and to its practical
application to solving water supply problems, his influence will con-
tinue for many years among researchers and designers.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 11, 1913, Dr.
Woodward received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from Wash-
ington University, St. Louis, in 1935; his M.S. degree in sanitary
engineering from Harvard University in 1948; and his Ph.D. in
nuclear physics from Ohio State University in 1952.
After working briefly with a consulting firm in St. Louis, Dr.
Woodward joined the U. S. Public Health Service in 1937, where he
served with distinction for twenty-six years. His assignments took
him to Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Cincinnati, and they usually
emphasized engineering problems associated with water quality and
resources. Analysis and interpretation of data plus the writing of
clear, concise reports were his strong points in these early days of his
career. The famous Ohio River Water Pollution Investigation Report is just
one example of a major contribution that he made to the under-
standing of stream sanitation. Later, in the 1950s, after he finished a
special study period in nuclear physics, he became a national leader
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
in the research designed to help form the scientific and technical
basis for the revised U.S. Drinking Water Standards. To accomplish
this he effectively developed a staff of researchers of various disci-
plines that worked harmoniously as a team mainly because of his
quiet devotion to knowledge and his openness to suggestions from all
staff members.
The revised Drinking Water Standards were issued in 1962, and
he then retired from the U.S. Public Health Service as a Sanitary
Engineer Director in 1963. After a few years as a Senior Research
Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, he joined the
consulting firm of Camp, Dresser and McKee in Boston for the next
fifteen years, spending much of the time as Vice-President of Inter-
national Affairs. While he was there, some of his most notable work
included the water treatment plant in Bangkok, one of the world's
largest; the advanced wastewater treatment plant for Greater Chi-
cago; a water supply and sewerage master plan for Alexandria,
Egypt; and water treatment plants for Taipei, Singapore, Manila,
Bogota, and Istanbul.
Dr. Woodward was an active member of nine professional soci-
eties and a dozen prominent technical committees. He became a
member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977. He
served as a Representative of the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Committee on
Federal Drinking Water Standards. He was a Diplomate of the
American Academy of Engineering. He served on the panel on
Public Water Supplies for the Committee on Water Quality Criteria
of the National Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the
Subcommittee on Water Supply of the Committee on Sanitary Engi-
neering of the National Research Council from 1955 to 1964.
The author of more than forty papers on water and wastewater in
professional journals, he received the Thomas R. Camp Medal of
the Water Pollution Control Federation, the Research Award of the
American Water Works Association, the Clemens Herschel Award of
Harvard University, and the Meritorious Service Medal of the U.S.
Public Health Service. Some of his prize-winning papers involved
unique treatment of water to control organic contaminants, algae,
viruses. and other pathogens. He and his team members enriched
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the literature on the subject of better public health through the
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application ot engineering principles to waste and water qua lty con-
trol.
Dr. Woodward was able to do this quietly because of a unique
ability to lead a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers
by the force of his intellect and knowledge rather than by virtue of
rank or position. He truly opened the gates for staff members to
contribute their own ideas and then arranged for their professional
involvement and growth outside the organization. The team spirit
was outstanding. Although occasionally ill in recent years, Dr.
Woodward continued his search for recent research findings and
their application into designs wherever it was practical throughout
the world.
Many of the suggestions he made for understanding and correct-
ing environmental problems are still being followed, so his pace
setting will remain of great influence in public health practice. No
person could be expected to do more: He served his country and
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profession wit n distinction.
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