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| BRYANT MATHER, a member of ASTM for over 55 years and president
of the Society from 1975 to 1976, retired from his position as
director of the Structures Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer
Research and Development Center’s Waterways Experiment Station
in Vicksburg, Miss. Mather is shown here speaking at his retirement
ceremony, which was held in February. He now serves in the prestigious
position of director emeritus of the Structures Laboratory where
he will continue to participate in technical societies and write
technical papers on behalf of the ERDC. A Corps employee since
1941, Mather first worked as a geologist and later as an engineer.
Throughout his career, he specialized in concrete research. His
first assignment was with the Central Concrete Laboratory at the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. As one of the nation’s
foremost experts on concrete, Mather has received numerous government
and professional organization awards. His awards include the Meritorious
Civilian Service Award and the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian
Service (twice). President Carter made him a charter member of
the government’s Senior Executive Service in 1979. The Society
has honored Mather with its Award of Merit, the Sanford E. Thompson
Award, the William T. Cavanaugh Award, the Frank E. Richart Award,
the Charles B. Dudley Award, and Honorary Membership. Among numerous
other organizational memberships and awards, Mather is an amateur
entomologist and an Honorary Life Member of the American Museum
of Natural History; seven species of insects have been named “matheri”
in his honor. //
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