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Harza Engineering Alumni

Incomplete List of Harza Alumni who are known to be Deceased as of July 8, 2020.

7/8/2020

 
 
This is a very incomplete list.  If you know of any errors or omissions or have a link to a bio or obit, please let us know.

Dr. Peter L. Ames -- 2018
Andy Angelos -- 2007 
​Brian Anthony -- 2017
​Dick Aten -- 2018  Obit
John Baggesen -- 2011 - Legacy.com
William John Bauer -- 2004 - Chicago Trib
Earl J. Beck -- 2015 - Legacy.com
Allen Behring -- 2011 - Legacy.com
Jim Bennett (James E. Bennett) -- 2013 - Legacy.com
Marcel Bitoun -- 2008
Alex Borges -- 2020 - Obit

Bill Bristow -- 2017 -- Legacy.com
Olga Bon -- 2019
Bill Bussey -- Deceased
Helen Bussey, widow of Bill Bussey - 2011 - Legacy.com
Y.C. Eugene (Gene) Chang -- 2020 - Obit
Ed Cikanek -- Deceased
Bonnie Freeman Cipar -- 2012 - Legacy.com
Lerma Coronado -- 2018 -- Obit
Kim De Ruberits -- 2019 -- Obit
​Peter Dickson -- 2020 -- Obit
​Pete (Angelus) Duros -- 2017 - Legacy.com
Andrew Eberhardt -- 2000 - Chicago Trib
David "Clancy" Frey -- 2019
Carlyle Esser -- 1989
Quigley Fletcher -- 2014 -Obit
​Gene C. Foszcz -- 2002 - Chicago Trib
Ed Fucik -- 2010 - obit
Robert (Bud) Gardner -- Deceased
Jim Hagan (James Joseph Hagen) - 2017 - Legacy.com
Jerry Hahn -- Deceased
Richard D. Harza -- Obit

Hans Hasen -- 2016 -- Legacy.com
Sean Hastings -- 2015 - obit
Arthur C. Hauswald -- 2004 - Chicago Trib
Jeff Hendrich -- 2020 - Obit
Albert J.R. Houston -- 1995 - Chicago Trib
Robert C. Hundley -- 1999 - Chicago Trib 
​Bob Hunter --  Obit
Jack C. Jones -- 2015 - Legacy.com
James B. Jones -- 2013 - obit
Al P. Keblinskas -- 2012 - Legacy.com
Paul Landgraff -- 2017 - landgraff_obit.docx

​Bill Larson -- Deceased
BK (Andy) Lee -- Deceased
​Ken Leonardson -- 2020 - Obit
Dr. Jim Lindell -- 2020
​Art Linden -- 2017 - Obit
​Walt Linzing -- 2018  Legacy.com    
Val Llereza -- 2010 - Obit
Fred Lussky -- 2003
Herand (Harry) Madroosian -- 2012
​Phil Matejcyk -- 2018  Obit  
​Farruk Mazhar -- 2018
Roland Mesa -- 2012 - note
Edgar (Ed) T. Moore, Jr. -- 2014 - Legacy.com
Hubert W. Nieman -- 2003 - Chicago Trib
Jim Nikolas -- 2020 -Obit
Virgil Norkus -- 2015 - Memorial
​Tom Parrish -- 2012
Ed Paulius -- 2020
Mohsin Qureshi -- 2009
Jack Quinn -- 2006
John J. Quinn -- 2006 - Chicago Trib
Lydia Reca -- 2020
​Jim Ringenoldus -- 2010
Donald Roberts -- 2016 - obit
Rev. Jack Fay Robinson -- 2005 - Chicago Trib 
Russell Roddy -- Deceased
Pat Saletta -- 2007
Don Sandell -- 2020 - Obit
Ramon Sargon -- Deceased
Al Schluter -- Deceased
Michael Saunders -- 2014 - Obit
​Roger Schiller -- 2012 - Obit
Alan Schultz -- 2019 - Obit 
John A. Scoville -- 1996 - Chicago Trib, Chicago Trib 2
Heinz Sedath -- 2017 - Condolences via Legacy.com
Kenneth Sorenson -- 1990 - Chicago Trib
Robert (Bob) H. Staplin -- 2009
Ken Stocking -- 2004 - Obit
Jaroslav Strutynsky -- 1999 - Chicago Trib
B. Subbakrishna -- Deceased
James Trawinski -- 2017 - Legacy.com
Jan Veltrop -- 2007 - Chicago Trib
Lee Wang -- 2018
​Chuck Welker -- 2009   
Eric Will -- Deceased
​Charles Yang -- August 2019 -- obit
Leonard E. Zak -- 2013 - obit
Arvids Zagars -- 2015 - Legacy.com
Marjorie Zamora -- 2012 - 
Legacy.com

Leonard E. Zak

3/3/2013

 
Leonard E. Zak

Retired Law Partner, General Counsel

 Leonard Zak, 83, a resident of Evanston, Illinois since 1956, died February 23rd in his home.  In addition to Bonnie, his wife of 58 years, he is survived by his four children: Peter, David, Megan Sanders (Reginald Sanders), Ursula (David Randall), two grandchildren Josephine and Zak Randall and his faithful companion Echo. 

He was born in Chicago and graduated from Lake View High School in 1947, a graduate of Carleton College in 1951 and he received his law degree from Northwestern University Law School in 1954. 

An army veteran, he served as a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Salzburg, Austria and Baltimore.  After his military service he returned to Chicago and in 1956 began practicing law at McBride & Baker which has since merged with Holland & Knight.

He became Vice President and General Counsel of Harza Engineering Company and its’ foreign affiliates in 1980 and retired in 1993. Harza Companies have since merged with Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH).

He also served in Chicago as a special assistant to the US Attorney General in 1967-68 as a hearing officer for conscientious objectors’ appeals.  Following his retirement in 1993, he served as an arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois from 1988 to 2010.  He served as vice president and director of the Mark Morton Memorial Fund, a Chicago based private charitable entity. He also volunteered in the natural areas section to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.  He was a long time member of the Tower Club in  Chicago.

Through his life he played squash, racquetball and tennis.  From 1957 he was one of the earliest members of the Net Seekers Tennis Association of Evanston.

A memorial service will be held at St.  John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1235 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL on March 16th at 2:00.

James B. Jones III, age 82

2/25/2011

 
We recently received this note from Dell Jones:

Hello,I wanted to pass on my fathers information for the alumni of Harza Engineering.  As a 10 year old boy I was able to live in Kandahar Afghanistan while my father worked for Harza.

I am following to some degree the his work in electrification as a professional in the solar industry and hold in high regard his work for Harza in 1967 to 1969.  
His Obituary follows:

James B. Jones III, remembered as a “man of the world,” died (date of death). He was 82.
 
Born January 15, 1931, better known as Jim ;  grew up in the sea coast town of Brunswick, GA. After graduating Glynn Academy high school in 1949, Jim  attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, earning a degree in Electrical Engineering.  While attending his beloved Georgia Tech, he was in the marching band and ROTC.  Jim  graduated in 1955 and went on to serve his 8 years of active duty and retired as Captain and Company Commander serving our country proudly.  He later attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ and earned a MBA. in 1977.    
 
It was during his years at Georgia Tech, he met a nursing student named Angelyne Brumbelow; the two married in September, 1953.
 
A passionate traveler and adventure seeker, Jim  and his wife traversed the globe.  Jim's career included working for FPL in Florida, Harza Engineering in Kandahar Afghanistan, TMSI in Tehran, Iran, ConEd in New York City, SECO and Aramco in Saudi Arabia.  Their homes were in Hawaii, Afghanistan, New Jersey. Iran and Saudi Arabia and traveled in too may countries to list before retiring to Fort Myers.  Jim liked to say this was his second tour of duty in Fort Myers (1958-1966 and 1989-2013).
 
Jim is survived by his wife Angie, their three sons Keith, Dell and David, and seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. 

E. Montford Fucik

4/22/2010

 
Note 8/1/2016 - This text was copied from the MWH website because MWH has recently been bought out by Stantec and the previous link to the MWH website might stop working.
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E. Montford Fucik, former Chairman and President of Harza Engineering, dies April 2010 
Broomfield, Colo., April 22, 2010 – E. Montford (Ed) Fucik, former Chairman and President of Harza Engineering Company, died April 6, 2010, in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Fucik joined Harza Engineering – a Chicago-based energy, water and infrastructure company- in 1938 as an engineer before serving in World War II.  He retired from the United States Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander after serving in the Panama Canal Zone.   Following his service, he rejoined Harza, ultimately serving as president and chairman of the organization from 1963  through 1979.

Fucik first met Leroy Harza in 1936, while he was a graduate student at Harvard University. They first worked together in on the Santee-Cooper project near Charleston, South Carolina.  Following World War II, they formed a partnership, written by hand on a single page of paper, that would become the Harza Engineering Company.  It was also the start of their joint life-long commitment to the private practice of civil engineering. Fucik was proud that the top management at Harza were also its principle technical consultants, in addition to being its managers and administrators.

Throughout his career, Fucik was an esteemed member of the engineering industry, actively engaged in the National Academy of Engineering, the Society of Military Engineers (SAME), a past national director of the America Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  He was honored as Chairman Emeritus by the National Academy of Engineering in 1974 for leadership in the development of soil mechanics, water resources and hydroelectric engineering.  He was also awarded the prestigious Goethals Medal from SAME for pre-eminence in engineering, design or construction. He also was a winner of the ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize and the Rickey Medal.  He was also awarded the Chicago Civil Engineer of the Year and belonged to the Western Society of Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Consulting Engineers Council and the United States Committee on Large Dams.

Fucik and Harza Engineering worked on some of the United States’ and the world’s largest and most important dam, hydropower and water resource projects:  Bath County in Virginia; Wanapum, Priest Rapids and Mossyrock in Washington State.  The Guri in Venezuela and the Tarbela/ Mangla Spillway in Pakistan.  Other water management projects included Chicago’s Deep Tunnel and Reservoir and the Rayburn Outlet Works and Powerhouse for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In 2001, Harza Engineering merged with engineering firm Montgomery Watson.  The name was changed to Montgomery Watson Harza, and ultimately shortened to MWH.
“Ed’s dedication and leadership led to Harza Engineering becoming one of the preeminent engineering firms in the world,” said Bob Uhler, MWH chairman and chief executive officer.  “His legacy lives on in some of the largest, most complex wet infrastructure projects in the world and this loss is felt by the entire engineering community. “

Born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 25, 1914, Ed Fucik is survived by his wife of 67 years, Margaret Reinig Fucik and a family that includes three children, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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He was proud of being a Professional Engineer.  “It’s one thing to have a good idea; it’s another thing to make it work.  Engineers have to do both – think and act.”

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