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RAYMOND J. HODGE
1922-1990
BY WILSON V. BINGER
RYMOND ~ HODGE retired partner in the engineering, archi-
tectural, and planning firm of Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Strat-
ton (TAMS) heaclquartered in New York, diect on October 27,
1990, at the age of sixty-eight.
Hodge was born in New York City on May 15, 1922, and
received a B.C.E. from Manhattan College in 1944. He entered
the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served as an engineering officer with
the 105th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion, working on mili-
tary airfields, roacis, and waterfront facilities in New Guinea, the
Philippines, and North China. From 1946 to 1951 he was at
Cornell University in Ithaca, NewYork, first as a graduate student
earning an M.C.E. in 194S, then as an assistant professor of
engineering. More recently he became a member of the Board
of Advisors of Cornell's College of Engineering.
During the Korean War, Ray Hodge served from 1951 to 1953
as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, with responsibility
for developing a U.S. Navy Master Jet Base in Brunswick, Maine.
In 1953 Hodge joined TAMS, where he remained until his
retirement in 1988. During his thirty-five years with the firm,
twenty of them as a partner, he traveled widely, was in residence
in several overseas locations, and became an internationally
recognizes! expert in airport planning and design. He managed
the planning, design, and construction supervision of the Dal-
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
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carport in Texas. He also directed the planning
and design of airports in Amman, Jordan; Lisbon, Portugal;
Seoul, Korea; Bangkok, Thailand; and Tehran, Iran.
Ray's experience was not limited to airports, however. He was
in charge of the Mount Newman iron ore project in northwest-
ern Australia, which included planning and design for a 285-
mile railroad, two towns, and port and harbor facilities. He also
oversaw highway and port projects in Southeast Asia and in
Central America. Most recently, in charge of TAMS's South
Atlantic office in Washington, D.C., he oversaw the firm's servic-
es for the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation and
the rehabilitation of Union Station.
Hodge held professional licenses in eleven states, the District
of Columbia, andAustralia. He was a member of Chi Epsilon and
Tau Beta Pi. His professional society affiliations included the
American Society of Civil Engineers; the Society of American
Military Engineers; the American Consulting Engineers Coun-
cil; the American Institute of Mining Engineers; the National
Society of Professional Engineers; the American Academy of
Environmental Engineers; and the Institution of Engineers,
Australia. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineer-
ing in 1983. He chaired and spoke at many meetings in the
United States and overseas and was active in committee work of
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several organizations.
Many professional honors came to Ray Hodge during his
career. He received the Past Presidents Award from the Arneri-
can Consulting Engineers Council, the Guy Kelcey Award from
the American Road and Transportation Builders Association,
and the lames Laurie Prize from the American Society of Civil
Engineers. In addition, he received awards from Engineering
News Record and Civil Engineering magazines for his work on the
Dallas/FortWorth Airport. He authored a number of articles on
airports for technical and professional publications.
Ray is remembered by his associates as a warm, caring individ-
ual with an outstanding personality. He liked people generally
and did not forget his friends, of whom he had a great many
throughout the world. He was almost always cheerful, despite
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suffering for more than twenty years from rheumatoid arthritis,
complications from which led to his death.
Ray is survived by his wife, Lorraine; two daughters, Susan and
Patricia; two sons, Christopher and Raymond; and two grancl-
children.
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