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JOHN A. LOGAN
1908-1987
BY ABE SILVERSTEIN
OHN A. LOGY, a noted educator and internationally known
environmental engineer, died February 16, 19S9, at age seventy-
eight. He served as president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech-
nology from 1962 until 1976, guiding the private engineering
and science college through a period of significant renovation
and academic restructuring during his fourteen-year tenure.
Logan earned a B.Sc. and B.Eng. from the University of
Saskatchewan in 1929 and 1934, respectively, and an M.Sc. in
1935 and a D.Sc. (environmental engineering) in 1942 from
Harvard University. He also received honorary doctorate de-
grees from Wabash and Franklin Colleges, the University of
Evansville, Indiana University, and Indiana State University.
After serving as a major in the U.S. Army, Logan was employed
for eight years in Europe by the International Health Division of
the Rockefeller Foundation. He was named chairman of the
Department of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University in
1954, and served there until he was named president of Rose
Polytechnic Institute, as Rose-Hulman was known in 1962.
Logan served for nearly forty years as a consultant and mem-
ber of several committees of the World Health Organization. In
addition, he was a consultant to the government of Guatamala
on waste disposal and food production and to the Epidemiolog-
ical Board of Waste Disposal in Alaska.
Before assuming the presidency of Rose-Hulman, Logan had
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
been involved in several international environmental engineer-
ing projects for which he won praise from the United States,
Italy, and Brazil. As superintendent of Ente Regionale Lotts
Antianofelica en Sardegna, he was in charge of one of the largest
experiments ever carried out in the field of malaria and mosqui-
to eradication en cl reclamation. The problem was to determine
whether developed technology in the eradication of an invading
malaria vector (Gambia) in Brazil could be used against an
indigenous species (Labranchiae) in the island of Sardinia.
Malaria was successfully eradicated, new technology was devel-
oped, the mosquito population was reduced to the vanishing
point but not eradicated, en cl land was reclaimed and made
habitable. The techniques, administrative and logistical proce-
dures, and engineering innovations developed by Logan were
adoptecl and had a major impact on the Worlcl Health Organi-
zation's international project for the worldwide eradication of
malaria.
As chief engineer of the Amazon Valley Project while an
officer in the U.S. Army Core of Sanitary Engineers (Office of
Inter-American Affairs) from 1943 to 1946, he successfully dem-
onstrated the widespread application of sanitary engineering
programs (malaria control, water supply, waste disposal, health
centers, and hospitals) to public health and area development.
This large engineering program contributed greatly to the Point
Four philosophy later adopted by President Truman, and Logan
was honored by the American and Brazilian governments for
bringing sanitation to the Amazon basin.
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engi-
neering in 1968 en cl was one of only six Americans with a
membership in the British Institution of Civil Engineers, the
oiliest engineering society in the world.
Honors also included membership in Tan Beta Pi. He was a
fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member
of Sigma Xi, the American Society ofProfessional Engineers, the
American Public Works Association, and the American Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 1974 Logan was selected
the Indiana Engineer of the Year. He served as president of the
Association of Independent Engineering Colleges, Associated
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Colleges of Indiana, and the Indiana Conference on Higher
Education.
Logan and his first wife, who was killed in an automobile
accident, had three sons, Douglas, lack, en cl CarIo. In 1972
Logan married Norma Adclison Schlenz.
The special interest of John Logan was in the development of
a rational approach to the conservation and control of Man's
environment. His overseas assignments for the United States
Army, RockefellerFoundation, and U.S. State Departmenthelped
him to develop an appreciation of the interrelationships be-
tween man and his environment, and a firm conviction that civil
engineers, with a broad understanding of their professional
responsibilities, could provide leadership in making the world a
more attractive, convenient, and healthy place to live.
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