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HAROLD BENEDICT GOTAAS
1906-1977
BY BURGESS H. JENNINGS
AND DONALD S. BERRY
H Is MANY FRIENDS, colleagues, and engineering associates were
greatly saddened at the untimely passing of Harold Gotaas on
August 24, 1977, in Evanston, Illinois. At the time of his death, he
was active on many committees and projects of public interest,
serving from the office he continued to maintain at Northwestern
University. In 1969, he had retired as Dean of Engineering. This
position he had held for the prior twelve years, where under his
leadership the Technological Institute had developed an outstand-
ing graduate and research program to complement the under-
graduate program, which he also directed with diligence. He
relinquished all his academic responsibilities in 1975 to assume
emeritus status as Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering
and Dean of Engineering.
Harold Benedict Gotaas was born September 3,1906, in Melette,
South Dakota. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil
engineering from the University of South Dakota in 1928 and his
Master of Science degree in civil engineering from Iowa State
College in 1930. After two years of service as a structural engineer
he joined the faculty of the University of South Dakota. Having
developed a strong interest in sanitary engineering, he resigned in
1936 to attend Harvard Graduate School, receiving his Master of
Science degree in 1937. He then became Assistant Professor in the
Graduate School of Public Health at the University of North
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Carolina, becoming a full Professor in 1941, and receiving a Doctor
of Science degree in engineering from Harvard in 1942.
Gotaas entered the army during Worlc1 W:;tr IT working in the
Institute of Inter-American Affairs. He succeeded Nelson Rocke-
feller as President of that corporation until his resignation from
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active duty in 1946 after reaching the rank of colonel. He then
joined the University of California (Berkeley) as Professor of
Sanitary Engineering, in 1949 becoming Chairman of the Civil
Engineering Division and Head of the Sanitary Research Labora-
tory. In 1957 he resigned to accept his final academic assignment as
Dean of Engineering of the Technological Institute of Northwest-
ern University.
He served on many committees, boards, and panels, notably
membership on the Great Lakes Commission, Northeastern Illinois
Planning Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and
Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineering. Many signifi-
cant activities were also carried on through the professional
societies in which he took an active part.
Awards and decorations came to him in many areas, of which the
following are most significant: Legion of Merit, United States;
Order of Condor of the Andes, Bolivia; Order of Merit, Chile;
Cross of Boyaca, Colombia; Order of Honor and Merit, Haiti;
Harrison P. Eddy Medal, Water Pollution Control Federation;
Kenneth Allen Award, Water Pollution Control Federation; Gor-
don Maskew Fair Medal, Water Pollution Control Federation;
James R. Croes Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers;
Rudolph Hering Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers;
Marston Medal Award, Iowa State University; Chicago Civil En-
gineer of the Year, 1974, ASCE; Engineer of the Year, 1961, Illinois;
Honorary Member, ASCE; Honorary Member, Western Society of
Engineers; National Honorary Member, Triangle Fraternity; D.Sc.
(Honorary), University of South Dakota; D.Eng. (Honorary),
Rose-Hulman Polytechnic Institute; Distinguished Service Recog-
nition, Great Lakes Commission; National Academy of Engineer-
ing, 1967.
Dr. Gotaas participated actively in committee work and on as-
signments for the National Academy of Engineering, serving with:
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NAE Project Committee 1968-1974 (Member), Subcommittee on
Human Welfare 1968-1970 (Chairman); NAE 1970 Annual
Meeting Panel on World Population (Member); NAE Committee
on International Activities 1970-1973 (Member); NAE Project
Committee, Panel on Environment 197~1974 (Chairman); NAE
Committee on Membership—Civil Engineering Peer Group—
197~1975 (Member); NAE Committee on Membership—Foreign
Associates Search Task Group—1977 (Member).
He also served on a number of National Research Council
committees and panels.
Although continuously busy, Harold B. Gotaas found time to
write one book and more than one hundred research papers
covering the environment, water, waste treatment and control,
engineering education, and economic development problems. Best
known as a sanitary engineer, his many-faceted career enabled him
to contribute significantly in many other areas, in particular to
engineering education. He is gone, but his work lives on and he will
long be remembered by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
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