Lyman Dwight Wilbur
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Lyman Dwight Wilbur (April 26, 1900 – 2001) was a civil engineer and an executive at Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc.
Lyman was born in Los Angeles. His father, Curtis D. Wilbur, was a California Supreme Court Justice and served as Secretary of the Navy during the Coolidge Administration. Lyman received a civil engineering degree from Stanford University, where his uncle, Ray Lyman Wilbur, was university president. In 1932, Harry Morrison offered Lyman a job in Los Angeles, working on irrigation projects throughout that state. That started a 39-year career for Wilbur, moving up to the positions of vice president of engineering and president of M-K’s International Engineering Company subsidiary; positions he held at the same time. He retired from M-K in 1970, In 1952, when M-K was digging the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco, Wilbur designed a system to hold back slipping earth on Russian Hill. Also in the 1960s, he managed the deepest pier construction ever for the Tagus River Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal (270 feet below water at high tide). When the U.S. embarked upon a major commitment of American ground troops to Vietnam in 1965, it implemented a huge construction program to support U.S. forces. The Defense Department selected a four-company joint venture to carry out the construction program. Wilbur, vice president of Morrison Knudsen’s foreign operations, was chosen to lead the massive crash program. Within ten months, the workforce swelled to 1,600 Americans and 24,500 Vietnamese laborers. By 1966, 400 projects at 30 sites—ports, airfields, bases and supply depots—were either finished or underway. Wilbur organized a structure to manage the rapidly growing colossus, while forging a 9,000-mile-long logistics pipeline. In 1966, Engineering News-Record named him Construction’s Man of the Year for managing war-time construction in Vietnam for the U.S. He also received the John Fritz Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1972.
References[edit]
Engineering News-Record, “Construction’s Man of the Year.” February 17, 1966, page 99. EmKayan, “Emkayan Profile: Lyman Wilbur: A Construction Leader of the 20th Century.” Morrison-Knudsen Company Inc. January 1992, page 5. Engineering News-Record, “ENR Marks 50 Years of Excellence,” April 20, 2015 page 42.
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