Oscar Sutermeister
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Oscar Sutermeister (* January 29, 1912 in Kansas City, Missouri; † August 16, 1988 in Grand Marais, Minnesota) was an American urban planner and pole vaulter.
Sutermeister studied at Harvard University from 1929,[1] where he was a member of the Honor society Phi Beta Kappa.[2] In 1930 he successfully represented his university in the pole vault at the university championships. In 1932 he completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard University.[3] With a scholarship dedicated to Lionel de Jersey Harvard, he was able to study at University of Cambridge in England in the academic year 1932/1933.[2] Back at Harvard University, he earned a master's degree in regional planning.[3] On February 23, 1935, he took part in the National Athletics Indoor Championships of the Amateur Athletic Union in Madison Square Garden, sharing the pole vault first place with Ray Lowry und Eldon Stutzman.[4][5]
He taught at Harvard University for five years until the outbreak of war. During World War II, Sutermeister served with the United States Navy in the Pacific.[6] After the end of the war he worked on the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, which at times involved more than 1,000 officers, troops and civilians.[7] After his military service ended, he continued as a civilian employee in the Navy, working on urban planning, housing, and transportation projects.[6] In the mid-1950s he was involved in plans for the evacuation of Milwaukee and Washington DC in the event of a nuclear attack.[7] Because of the large zones of destruction by hydrogen bombs, he recommended the dispersal of compact settlement cores over larger territories. This could happen through urban planning interventions by no longer granting new building permits in core zones of endangered cities. These ideas - as far as published - did not meet with approval. A columnist from Racine, affected as a Milwaukee suburb, noted that Sutermeister's plans would "destroy cities of America before they attack," "hydrogen bomb or no".[8] He continued his work as a city planner for the United States Public Health Service.[6] He then worked for the National Commission on Urban Problems,[6] established by President Johnson in early 1967.[9] From 1967 he worked as a civil servant ("legislative specialist") at theUS Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington DC.[6]
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- ↑ Society. In: The Kansas City Star, 19 September 1929, p. 4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Award Scholarships to Eight Men for 1932-33. In: The Harvard Crimson, ISSN 1932-4219, 21 June 1932.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oscar Sutermeister, 76, Dies. In: The Washington Post. 23 August 1988.
- ↑ Owens Shatters 2 World Records In National Meet. In: The Lantern. Ohio State University, 25. Februar 1935, p. 3.
- ↑ Associated press: Team crown goal in I.C.4 A Saturday. In: Evening Star Sports, Washington D.C., 25 February 1935, p. 5.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Oscar Sutermeister, 76, Dies. In: The Washington Post. 23 August 1988.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Master Plan for Survival Being Drafted for Capital. In: Frederick News-Post, 6 January 1956, p. 12.
- ↑ Defense Planner Offers Highly Impractical Ideas. In: Racine Journal Times (Wisconsin), 22 Mai 1954, p. 6.
- ↑ Recommendations of the National Commission on Urban Poblems. Special report, Commerce Clearing House, 16. Dezember 1968.
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