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Volume X - Issue X - October 2008
In Tribute
Project Management leaders and pioneers who pass away leave a vacuum in a space they have long filled for the profession. In Tribute is an opportunity to pay tribute to those leaders - and to their lives and contributions to the world of project management.
John Fondahl
PMI Fellow, Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
1924 - 2008
John Fondahl, PMI Fellow, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has passed away on 13 September 2008 in California. One of the early pioneers of modern project management, John Fondahl was an active participant in the startup and early days of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the construction management profession in the United States.
According to the official obituary published in Los Altos, California:
“John Walker Fondahl passed away S e p t e m b e r 13, 2008 from melanoma cancer at home with his family at age 83. John was born on November 4, 1924 in Washington D.C. He met his future wife, Doris-Jane Plishker, in 1939 at McKinley Tech. He graduated valedictorian in 1941. He entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After Pearl Harbor, John joined the US Marine Corps, serving in the Pacific Theater in the Fifth Amphibious Corps. Both he, a sergeant, and his father, a Lt. Colonel in a different outfit, were Iwo-Jima survivors. Upon returning from the Pacific, John received a scholarship to Dartmouth College. He married Doris in 1946. John received his MS in civil engineering from Dartmouth in 1947.
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