Background
Rowland, Ralph Thomas was born on October 10, 1920 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas Aloysius and Anna Frances (McQuaid) Rowland.
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Ralph Thomas Rowland
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Student, Manhattan College, 1937-1938; student, Columbia University, 1945-1949.
Career
Architectural field supervisor, specifier, Voorhees Walker Foley & Smith, New York City, 1945-1950;
specifier, project manager, Sargent Webster Crenshaw & Folley, Watertown, New York, 1951-1953;
private practice, Hamden, Connecticut, 1958-1965;
field supervisor, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1954-1956;
project manager, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., 1957, 65-73;
associate, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., 1969-1973;
vice president, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., 1973-1981;
director architectural research, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., 1981-1985;
advisory county, Fletcher Thompson, Inc., 1994-1998. Chairman Connecticut Building Code Standards Committee, 1978-1982. Vice chairman Connecticut State Codes and Standards Committee, 1982-1986.
Consultant in field.
Achievements
Membership
Member Cheshire Planning Commission, 1966-1972, chairman, 1967-1968. President Hamden Chamber of Commerce, 1964, New England Building Code Association, 1989. Member Center Naugatuck Valley Regional Planning Agency, 1966-1974, chairman, 1969.
Member Cheshire Democratic Town Committee, 1960-1970, treasurer, 1963-1969. Member Connecticut Architectural School Task Force, 1987-1988. With United States Navy, 1942-1945.
Fellow American Institute of Architects. Member American Institute of Architects Connecticut (past president), AARP (president Cheshire chapter 1995-1997), Connecticut Building Officials Association, Cheshire Chamber of Commerce, Chesire Senior Center Association (vice chairman board directors, since 2002).
Connections
Married Bernice Barbara Cannizzo, September 7, 1946. Children: Glenn Thomas, Mark Louis, Roy Joseph, Lisa Rowland Majewski.
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Religion
Roman Catholic
Education
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1938
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1949