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Wendell Herman Nedderman, Ph.D, was born October 31, 1921, near Lovilia (Monroe County), Iowa. He served as president of The University of Texas at Arlington for nearly 20 years, first as acting president (November 1972 - February 1974), then as president, leaving that post in July 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kcu08 )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://library.uta.edu/mavvets/interview.php?id=8 )〕 He began his 33 years of full-time service at UT Arlington in 1959 as the founding dean of engineering. This was followed by four years as vice president for academic affairs, and then 20 years as president. A campus engineering building was named Nedderman Hall in 1991 by the UT System board of regents. Campus Street and a portion of Monroe Street were combined and named Nedderman Drive by the City of Arlington in 1992. He was named president emeritus in 1992, and received the Mirabeau B. Lamar Award for Leadership in Learning from the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities. He was awarded the Anson Marston Medal for Achievement in the Field of Engineering in 2000 from Iowa State University.〔''UT Arlington Magazine'', Vol. XXIX, No. 3, spring/summer 2007, p. 20.〕 == Early Life & Education == Nedderman attended a one-room school house as a boy, and graduated from Lovilia High School in 1939. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from Iowa State University in 1943. As a Navy V-7 reservist, he was sent to the Naval Academy at Annapolis for a period of training, after which he was commissioned an ensign and assigned to the Destroyer USS Patterson (DD392). By 1946, he had earned the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with six stars and the Philippine Liberation ribbon with two stars. These awards were the result of campaigns in the Marianas, Philippines (Leyte and Luzon), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. He served in the navy from May 1943 to May 1946.〔Saxon, Gerald D. ''Transitions, A Centennial History of The University of Texas at Arlington''. The UTA Press, 1995, p. 120.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wendell Nedderman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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