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For twenty years a partner and principal of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas of New York, he directed the design of many notable bridges, including the Newport suspension bridge in Rhode Island and the Fremont Bridge at Portland, Oregon, as well as New iersey's Garden State Parkway. Alfred Hedefine was born in Newport News, Virginia, on March 9, 1906.
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His paper on the design of the Trylon and Perisphere earned the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1942. While with Waddell & Hardesty, he taught in the evening school at New York University and continued his own education with special studies at Columbia University in the then new discipline of soil mechanics, and at New York University in aviation engineering.
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The Fremont Bridge design received awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction and the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. Among Mr.
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For twenty years he was an active member of the Committee on Steel Structures of the American Railway Engineering Association and participated in the development of their standard specifications for fixed and movable bridges. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, serving in various offices from 1942 to 1954, and of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers.
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He is survived by his wife, the former Julia Ann Fullagar, and a son, Alfred II, and three grandchildren, as well as by a generation of civil engineers who grew under his guidance, benefited from his wise counsel and from his personal and professional uniqueness.
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