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Melvin L. Baron
Pages 14-17

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... Mel Baron was fortunate to enter NewYork City College soon after World War II, when it was a major intellectual center, attracting students of the highest caliber to seek opportunity through free education. His intelligence and ambition brought him as a graduate student to Columbia University, then the nation's most prominent center for engineering mechanics, with a faculty that included Ray Mindlin, Hans Bleich, Fred Freudenthal, and Mario Salvadori, all of whom became members of the NAE.
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... Collaboration with Mario Salvadori on Numerical Methods in Engzneerang, an early classic textbook published in 1952, led to Mel's acquaintance with Paul Weidlinger, another future member of NAE, who had recently established a structural engineering consulting practice in New York. While a partner at Weidlinger Associates, Mel maintained connections with Columbia University, serving as adjunct professor and adviser.
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... Me} treated his family to a wide variety of entertainment and culture through the years by sharing with them his enthusiasm for attending the theatre, ballet, and an occasional opera. Mel developed lasting friendships among those who shared in the many spheres of his life, incluciing his neighbors in Riverdale, New York, where he lived for over thirty-f~ve years; his paddleball partners; his colleagues and students at Columbia University; fellow fans of Columbia Lions and New York Giants football teams; and fellow stamp collectors.
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